Green Bay Packers: Why ESPN Correctly Has Packers as NFL's No. 1 Team

Earlier today ESPN.com released the first 2011 NFL Power Rankings.

And the Super Bowl Champion Green Bay Packers were No. 1.

Now once the NFL lockout was lifted, there was a lot of maneuvering going on with quite a few already Super Bowl contending teams.

The New England Patriots for example, acquired WR Chad Ochocinco, DL Albert Haynesworth and DL Shaun Ellis.

They also said good-bye to DL Ty Warren, TE Alge Crumpler and long-time OT Nick Kaczur.

We then look at the Philadelphia Eagles, who have been labeled as the "Super Bowl or bust" team for 2011.

They signed former Titans QB Vince Young, former Miami RB Ronnie Brown, former Oakland CB Nmamdi Asomugha, former Denver OT Ryan Harris and drafted RB Noel Devine (West Virginia).

In addition, they traded away QB Kevin Kolb to the Arizona Cardinals for CB Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie.

And there were even more off-season moves, but so many that the details will be spared.

In any event, with all this going on, two questions that won't be confirmed until after the season loom in the NFL:

1. Why didn't the Green Bay Packers make a move to acquire a stud free agent? And,

2. Are the Green Bay Packers still the best team in the NFL?

Well for one, they were injured quite a bit throughout the 2010 season and weren't near full strength until the Super Bowl.

There they still had some injuries, and then even suffered some during pro football's most coveted game.

But guess what, they still won the Super Bowl (they don't call Green Bay Title-Town for nothing).

Now that the Cheese-heads are 100 percent, it should be a given that they possess the league's best franchise.

CB Charles Woodson (who got hurt in the Super Bowl) is healthy, and Aaron Rodgers (whose had concussion issues) can think even more clearly.

RB Ryan Grant should hit the ground running, after being out all of last season (he averaged over 1,100 yards per year though his first three seasons).

And when you think about it, the NFL lockout—in some sense—helped the Packers.

After all their injuries they had some extra time off to heal and are now full-fledged for the 2011 season.

Green Bay didn't make any moves because they didn't want to mess up what is now a great thing.

Other franchises needed to make significant moves, because they were extremely weak in one area or another.

That's not the case with the Packers.

As the saying goes, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."