JACKSONVILLE – Senior writer John Oehser's Week 8 2019 NFL power rankings. And we all know how important these are:
Rank.Team (record) | Comment
1.New England Patriots (7-0) | 1 | It's not supposed to look this easy
2.New Orleans Saints (6-1) | 2 | Five and oh without Brees in the lineup
3.San Francisco 49ers (6-0) | 4 | No one's overlooking them anymore
4.Green Bay Packers (6-1) | 5 | Six of final nine games are on the road
5.Buffalo Bills (5-1) | 6 | Too good to be this overlooked
6.Kansas City Chiefs (5-2) | 7 | Can they stay in first place without Mahomes?
7.Minnesota Vikings (5-2) | 8 | Unbeaten at home with five home games remaining
8.Baltimore Ravens (5-2) | 12 | Feels like they already clinched the AFC North
9.Seattle Seahawks (5-2) | 3 | Suddenly two games behind in the loss column
10.Indianapolis Colts (4-2) | 15 | Andrew who? It's now a legitimate question
11.Carolina Panthers (4-2) | 11 | Three-and-oh on the road coming out of the bye
12.Los Angeles Rams (4-3) | 14 | Defending NFC champs already may be thinking wild card
13.Houston Texans (4-3) | 9 | Felt like they lost winnable game Sunday in Indy
14.Dallas Cowboys (4-3) | 16 | Your first-place Dallas Cowboys
15.Chicago Bears (3-3) | 10 | Questions about the quarterback getting louder
16.Detroit Lions (2-3-1) | 13 | Suddenly way behind in brutally tough division
17.Oakland Raiders (3-3) | 17 | A long way from out of a balanced AFC
18.Jacksonville Jaguars (3-4) | 21 | One "must-win" game down, a few more to go
19.Cleveland Browns (2-4) | 19 | Team of the Offseason must come out of bye hot
20.Arizona Cardinals (3-3-1) | 26 | Three-game winning streak … impressive stuff for young team
21.Philadelphia Eagles (3-4) | 18 | Eagles fighting to overcome slow start yet again
22.Tennessee Titans (3-4) | 24 | Somehow, someway …
23.Pittsburgh Steelers (2-4) | 23 | Never feels like they're out of it
24.Los Angeles Chargers (2-5) | 20 | A loss that crushing and weird will be tough to overcome
25.New York Giants (2-5) | 27 | Growing pains continue for young quarterback in Big Apple
26.Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2-4) | 25 | A team that could be better than expected after the bye
27.Denver Broncos (2-5) | 22 | Two-game surge ended Thursday in prime-time
28.New York Jets (1-5) | 28 | Jacksonville-bound
29.Washington Redskins (1-6) | 29 | Still no Dwayne Haskins … for now
30.Atlanta Falcons (1-6) | 30 | Still the NFL's most baffling story of 2019
31.Cincinnati Bengals (0-7) | 31 | Let a winnable one against Jaguars get away
32.Miami Dolphins (0-6) | 32 | Oof
