2011 Playoff NFL Power Rankings:
Week 20 Top Fantasy Performers, Defenses

The reason the Niners are not number 2 is because they were not good last year.. That is the reasoning for Walt ranking them number 4 and for anyone else who thinks they arent good. While the niners were 5-1 they had beaten the teams with the most wins in the league. They cant help it if they get scheduled to play against the browns and redskins.

Born and bred Philadelphian you are indeed, Walt. How many losses will it take before you start ranking the perpetually underperforming Eagles lower? Every time that the Eagles manage a win, you join with every media prognosticator in rocketing the Eagles up the charts above their record, proclaiming that they've finally gotten it together. Then they lose again and they drop a spot or two- perhaps.

For God's sake, man- I'm a Bucs fan. I know what it is to love a team that constantly trips over itself and destroys your hopes. I know what it is to blind yourself to their faults. Think for a moment how much talent that Eagles squad of yours has, and reflect for a moment on how hideously incompetent my own squad has often appeared this year. Then reflect on the fact that despite all of that talent, the Eagles are 3-5, while the Bucs, the youngest team in the NFL who have played awful football for a great portion of the year, are 4-4.

The Eagles- despite the talent on their roster, despite their potential, despite your love for them, despite the rationale that surely soon they must deliver- are overrated. They aren't going to turn it around. The first step is acceptance.

How are the Bills above the Bengals? Cmon Walt, even the tards at ESPN know to put the Bengals in the top 10.

Drop Mike Williams TB for Jacoby Ford?

Cardinals still behind the Rams, huh? I guess that thing called "PLAYING THE GAME" doesn't mean anything anymore, does it? Might as well give the Eagles the Super Bowl then, since they've got the most talent on paper

The 49ers are good, and they'll obviously make the playoffs, but they're not a legitimate Super Bowl threat.

Alex Smith will still get raped by quality defenses, not to mention their only victories over +.500 teams this year were against the actually-not-that-good Lions and the not-as-good-as-their-record Bengals.

SF has a great defense, a solid O-Line, Frank Gore, and most importantly, a coach with a new playbook. They were also unbelievable against the Bucs. But they're not the #2 team in the league, nor will they be for the foreseeable future.

David likes when a well-endowed man sprays White Happy Juice all over his ugly face.

Confused is all butt hurt down there because the 49ers are ranked 4th. Who have they played? There quaterback hasn't once proven himself and there only offensive threat is Frank Gore. But hey, We will see on Thanksgiving who truly deserves that #2 spot.

Walt's jokes that are not funny anymore ... Matt Millen, Derek Anderson, Kevin Reiley, the fantasy draft thing (never was funny), and the spam email thing.

Walt's jokes that are always funny: Emmitt Smith, making fun of inept announcers.

Walter, I'm just saying, there are so many untapped NFL personalities to make fun of. How about Gruden, Ditka, Chris Carter ... the list goes on and on. I like the Chris Simms bit. Just try not to overdo it and use it every single day. Your Millen joke is seriously so old and overdone I can barely even stand this site anymore.

Blake Griffin, the overrated Clippers forward/rookie of the year somehow? Or are we talking about Robert Griffin? The shockingly talented grad student that'll skip NFL for law school more than likely. Because there's no way he can do both.

There are four people to blame for the Browns mess.

1. Mike Holmgren--Apparently instead of hiring the best candidate he had to hire the best candidate that had ties to him. You realize that we only interviewed three! people for this job? Perry Fewell was the token minority candidate and Mike Mularkey turned the Browns down after interviewing. Plus they fired Mangini who wasn't liked in Cleveland but you gotta admit that his teams were disciplined and prepared. I think he needed another year to turn this around.

2. Tom Heckert--For all of the above plus trading up for Hardesty.

3. Pat Shurmur--Really? How can the Browns hire every emotionless head coach with completely different front offices every time a change is made? He sucked as an OC for the Rams last year as Sam Bradford led the league in YPC. Now he doesn't even have an OC and is sucking at two jobs. We ran on 11 straight first downs on Sunday. How could anyone be that stupid when your starting running back is Chris Ogwhatever. Not looking for trick plays but we should be catering to the strengths of the players on the team instead of pounding the square peg into the round hole with our playbook that doesn't suit; the offensive line, the quarterback, the receivers, and the running backs.

4. Colt McCoy--He can't handle the blitz. Look what Alex Smith is doing at the blitz this year. If you burn a team when they blitz, guess what happens? They stop blitzing. If you keep getting knocked around making wayward passes when the defense blitz guess what happens? They blitz on every play. He doesn't check down to a pass when there is 10 people in the box! Now maybe that isn't his fault as maybe he isn't allowed. But don't you think maybe it's time to challenge some authority when you eat dirt on every play?

Holmgren is a hell of a coach but he was a god awful GM/Front Office Personnel Evaluator in Seattle who had the role taken away from him. Why in God's name did they give him all this power?

Niner hater!

the 49ers were up 19-3 with 4 minutes to go and let the Skins get a garbage TD. 19-3 in a game with two good defenses is a blowout. Think before you write

Against the Browns, we were up 17-3 with 6 minutes to go when Cribbs got a garbage TD. Again, think before you write.

I tried understanding why the kielbasa comment was so funny and I finally realized it was because you never hear of anyone eating kielbasa any more. It's always used in conversation when someone is shoving it up someone's nether regions. This is not a good thing if your livelihood is impacted by kielbasa sales.

That rant was that of a frustrated fan who doesn't understand Football on the business side. Everyone saw what Colt McCoy could do against first teamers when he had protection, it is painfully obvious that the Browns' offensive line has regressed every week since the preseason started.

Another problem is that there is no offensive coordinator and Pat Shurmer is spreading himself too thin, he needs to hire someone and not burn himself out.

"If you'll excuse me, I need to go to the store to buy some rope so I can hang myself."

I think Jerry Sandusky from your ala mater is saying the same thing right now.