NFL Power Rankings 2011: 5 Teams That Should Worry After an Awful Preseason

The preseason means nothing and something at the exact same time.  At the end of the 2011-2012 season, no one will remember preseason success or failure because it doesn’t matter in the big picture of the year. 

What occurs in the preseason, though, can foreshadow meaningful play in the regular season.

Here are five teams that should worry about their poor performance the last few weeks.

5. Buffalo Bills

The Bills needed a good preseason to boost team morale going into a brutal division schedule where they'll face off against the Patriots and Jets twice each. 

Instead, they finished 1-3, but they had some solid individual performances from Ryan Fitzpatrick, C.J. Spiller and Brad Smith. 

Still, unless Buffalo is content with simply getting back to mediocrity, they’re going to have to show drastic improvement in the coming weeks.

4. Oakland Raiders

Oakland went winless in the preseason.  Sure, it’s just the preseason, but the Raiders offense averaged a pitiful 11 points per game. 

Going 0-4 after losing Nnamdi Asomugha and Zach Miller isn’t exactly the ideal way to enter the 2011 regular season

3. Kansas City Chiefs

The Chiefs offense looks electric on paper, but they had zero sparks during the preseason.  Their running game failed to get into the end zone once and no back averaged at even four yards a carry. 

New additions Steve Breaston and Jonathan Baldwin where supposed to transform Kansas City’s passing attack, but they only caught a combined seven footballs.

2. Seattle Seahawks

The Seahawks as a team went 2-2 and actually outscored their opponents by eight points. 

Their quarterback play is what they should worry about.

Pete Carroll can’t be confident in sending Tarvaris Jackson in under center with his 61.9 passer rating.

Charlie Whitehurst anyone?

1. San Francisco 49ers

Like the Seahawks, the quarterback position is what the 49ers should be terrified about.  They worked out Daunte Culpepper for a reason: They have no respectable passer.  

Alex Smith finished the preseason with an abysmal 48.1 passer rating.

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