NFL Power Rankings: Packers at No. 6 Proves Joe Theismann's a Joke

How much does a loss at the tail end of a season otherwise filled with magic mean? If you are Joe Theismann, it means far too much. 

The former star quarterback and current color analyst for Thursday Night Football on the NFL Network released his current power rankings headed into Week 16 play. 

You can see the rankings here at NFL.com. They are placed alongside the rankings from Steve Wyche and Charles Davis, only Theismann's are far more hilarious. 

The former Washington Redskins quarterback seems to think that the team that has been kicking butt for 15 weeks is now not even a top-five squad.

Theismann has the Green Bay Packers as the sixth-best team in the NFL despite only accumulating one loss in the entire season. It sounds like something the BCS computers would have drummed up.

Standing above the Packers is a collective 17 losses while they have just one letdown buried under months of brilliant play. Most of their wins weren't even close, yet that one loss has, in Theismann's mind, decreased their value to less than the Patriots, Saints, Steelers, Ravens or 49ers.  

Well, Theismann has given a reason for his foolish rankings, and here it is. Taken from a column he wrote after Week 15 play. 

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Now, I understand why some of you might raise an eyebrow at seeing a one-loss team sitting behind a bunch of three- and four-loss squads. However, you need to understand one thing about how I put together my list: My power rankings are based upon where a team fits in the given week.

That's why we rank the teams on a week-to-week basis. If I wanted to put out a power rankings based on where I thought every team would be at the end of the season, I'd simply release two sets of rankings: one right before Week 1, and the other right after Week 17.

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Well, that's dumb. Theismann can do as he pleases, but most put rankings together based on a fluid changing of the NFL landscape. So the Packers might have received a bump that perhaps knocked them to No. 2, but not out of the group of elite teams. It just doesn't tell a proper tale of the NFL. 

I would wager that most NFL teams would state they would pick the Packers to play last, even with their injuries. 

There is then the obvious question on how a Ravens squad with four losses and a recent butt whooping from the Chargers is in the fifth spot. by Theismann's logic, the Ravens should be sitting somewhere in the basement of the rankings. 

Funny, I never figured Joe Theismann for being a comedian. 

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