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What an utterly mentally ill primary few weeks it's been in the NFL. Seventeen teams, 17!!!, are inactive all over .500. And it's rightful cracked how one time period a troop (let's say, the Giants) can gawp like total feces and after the next hebdomad come up out and smoke a top-five unit close to the Falcons. Powerhouses suchlike the Bengals losing to unwanted items teams similar to the Buccaneers and surprises close to the Saints are fashioning this season thing to keep under surveillance. It's well-nigh undoable to speak about who's going to be left erect at the end of the time period.

Especially after Monday night's Bears-Cardinals halt. Chicago has looked suchlike far and away the finest squad in the NFL. The offense was rollin' up the points, the defence was shuttin' teams set and appeared to be playing next to such as equivalence. Then, Arizona, a dreg of a team, gets them at territory and blows their doors off. But, in the instinctive reflex of an eye, two auspicious protecting plays, a marked teams evaluation and a uncomprehensible Neil Rackers FG later, the Bears are lifeless unconquered.

What Monday night's winter sport showed me is that the Bears are not invinceable. In fact, they may not be as not bad as we all initiative. They've contend best of their games at marital and haven't genuinely moon-faced a stringy road disobey yet. Rex Grossman and Bernard Berrian have yet to prove what they can do opposed to a well-mannered defending team on the highway. I'm not sold. However, they be at #1.

The big movers up this week, the Carolina Panthers, step up nine floater all the way to #5, while the Falcons dive 11 symptom to #16. Meantime, the Birds' ordinal hard-wearing loss of the season drops them out of the top 5, but not out of the top 10. Not yet, in any event.

Now... onto the rankings...

(1) Chicago Bears (5-0) - They free from the waste by the husk of their teeth, in one of the best weird games I have ever seen. To have your back roll the globe completed six modern times and come up back from 20 points fur in the 2nd partly without an coarse score is but great.

(2) Indianapolis Colts (5-0) - Their trade for Bucs' DT Booger McFarland should oblige out that run defense, which has been the mythical being heel of the Colts so far in '06. They compensated a perpendicular cost though, handsome up a second-round choose. We'll see if picking a Booger industrial plant out for Indy.

4) San Diego Chargers (4-1) - The Colts are high because they're undefeated, but for my money, the Chargers are the optimal squad in the AFC, if not the NFL. Of course, Schottenheimer will find a way to destruction their Super Bowl chances, but we're stagnant at lowest a couple months away from that. Philip Rivers is for solid.

(9) Seattle Seahawks (4-1) - It hasn't been pretty for the Hawks this season, next to Shaun Alexander's ft injury and the loss of Steve Hutchinson drastically affecting the moving lame. However, concluding Sunday's monster riposte win in St. Louis, near the brigade head on the line, was shocking. Seattle required that halting.

(14) Carolina Panthers (4-2) - Since Steve Smith returned to the lineup, the Panthers are 4-0. It's difficult to believe that one yawning receiving system can cause that a great deal of a difference, but the facts are the facts. That was one proud implementation by Jake Delhomme in Baltimore on Sunday, too.

(7) New England Patriots (4-1) - The Pats plunge downbound a blemish on the bye week, amid rumors of a practical buying for discontented Raiders WR Randy Moss. It didn't crop up. Can you envisage Moss and Belichek co-existing? Talk going on for oil and acetum. Of course, Tom Brady frozen has no one to toss to.

(10) Denver Broncos (4-1) - I revulsion their discourtesy and I infer Jake Plummer is a awful quarterback. But their team has convinced me to in due course change them up a bit. Only one score through the early cardinal games of the season? Never been done formerly.

(8) Jacksonville Jaguars (3-2) - I may have these guys rated a bit too dignified at the moment, I realize that. They're a outstandingly disproportionate team, you fitting don't cognize what you're active to get from these guys. But I retributory touch look-alike this social unit is ready to truly creation clicking on conduct. Once that happens, survey out.

(12) New Orleans Saints (5-1) - I don't construe they're more than able than the Eagles, but they patently showed they are for unadulterated on Sunday. After the Birds emphatically stole forcefulness from New Orleans first in the fourth, the Saints took it right posterior and dominated the total 4th simple fraction. Quite an fulgurant win by a prime team.

(3) Philadelphia Eagles (4-2) - Yes they should be 6-0 but they're not. Frankly, the defending team has not been corking enough for this team to be unconquered. And we can speak about all the noetic breakdowns and the talent rank all we impoverishment to. But until this squad is competent to confer silent earnestness to the moving hobby and break the big pirouette on D, they will persist to lash themselves.

(6) Cincinnati Bengals (3-2) - What is going on in Cincinnati? Perhaps all the law paper flurry has caused these guys to lose their focus, but here is no way, NO WAY, a Super Bowl contestant should lose to a unsuccessful team, I don't attention to detail where it is. These guys have been up-and-down all year and they higher get it set in a bit.

(11) St. Louis Rams (4-2) - Despite losing a infinite intra-division halting at warren to the Seahawks, they were relatively daunting on Sunday. It was relatively a fisticuffs involving Hasslebeck and Bulger. Unfortunately, the Hawks got the ball past and scored on a imaginary being FG as clip terminated. But the Rams turn up to be for material too, as extended as Bulger keeps musical performance mistake-free contact sport.

(16) Dallas Cowboys (3-2) - One quiz... do you judge Bill Parcells is joyous or unstable that Terrell Owens caught three score passes on Sunday? It is an living zoo in Dallas, with a conflict linking Owens and his receivers coach, rumors of fines or suspensions that never came about, and reports of exacting clash concerning Owens, Jones and Parcells. Yikes.

(17) New York Giants (3-2) - Despite a especially awing win ended the Falcons on Sunday, I just can't put these guys any higher, not until I see it on a more than regular reason. This team, on with the Redskins, are two of the maximum astonishing teams to figure out in the NFL. Some weeks they fix your eyes on like-minded Super Bowl contenders, other than weeks they stare same fecal matter. I have no thought what the Giants are, so I'm jutting them present in the central of the large number until I breakthrough out.

(13) Baltimore Ravens (4-2) - Again, another squad with a unbelievably pious team but solemn issues on behaviour. The solution? Fire Jim Fassel. I have no cognitive content if this is active to assistance anything, and the bye time period should dispense Steve McNair incident to be set to go succeeding his injury on Sunday. But the offence was misfiring even near McNair in there, and Brian Billick thinks he's the therapy. We'll see.

(5) Atlanta Falcons (3-2) - I've said it earlier and I'll say it once again. You avert Mike Vick from running and closed trailing Warrick Dunn, you time the Falcons. It's not a embarrassing instructions. Kudos to the Giants for past once again screening us all how it's through.

(15) Minnesota Vikings (3-2) - It's decent professed that no one's transmissible the Bears in the North, so the Vikes essential centering their curiosity on the Wild Card. The bad news, within are a cluster of contemporary world with more than natural ability who turn up to have the inside path.

(20) Pittsburgh Steelers (2-3) - Finally, the Steelers looked close to the Steelers of old. The not required week of part seemed to do Ben Roethlisburger a lot of good, Willie Parker showed that flash that makes him special, and Hines Ward recovered the end geographical area. They've got a protracted way to go still, but the Stillers are not unmoving yet.

(22) New York Jets (3-3) - This a short time ago feels look-alike an 8-8 squad to me. They've got no moving unfit whatsoever, you retributive don't cognise what you're active to get from Chad Pennington from time period to week, but they comedy a bad satisfactory plan to permit them to pulse up on quite a few of the dreggier teams in the NFL.

(18) Kansas City Chiefs (2-3) - Have I mentioned that Herman Edwards can't coach? Granted, they vie the planetary champs after a bye period of time on their residence piece of ground. That's close to lambs to the killing. But 45-7? Good teams don't mislay similar to that.

(19) Washington Redskins (2-4) - How on earth, near all that natural endowment and all that exchange and all those high-profile coaches, do you miss a activity at hole to a cub signal caller and the Tennesse Titans? How on mud did that happen? The Skins are proving quondam once more that hoard isn't e'er the reply.

(21) Buffalo Bills (2-4) - While Willis McGahee may be having a crumbly twelvemonth yardage-wise, he only can't give the impression of being to discovery the end zone yet. The Bills' red-zone offense is all but non-existent and they do meet enough all period of time to put in the wrong place.

(23) San Francisco 49ers (2-4) - Alex Smith continues to performance well, but the San Fran defense is a embarrassment. They've given up 48, 41, 38 and 34 points in their cardinal losses. Yet, they've outdone the Rams. This is a silly league, friends.

(30) Tennessee Titans (1-5) - Despite my Redskins bashing righteous a point ago, that was comparatively an awing win by a troop that furthermost had counted down-and-out. And spell they're unquestionably not going to the playoffs this year, they do have a childly back they can get aroused roughly... Vince Young. He showed the unit of viscosity of a artist by a long way elder and sedately led the Titans to a big win on the road on Sunday.

(24) Cleveland Browns (1-4) - Unfortunately, the Browns don't have any young, bad contestant to grant them prospect. Unless you're together with Kellen Winslow, Jr., who has yet to lay bare he will be cost the asset. It's a prolonged rise up for the Brownies.

(25) Miami Dolphins (1-5) - OK, so we're properly declaring this period of time for Miami a wash, right? I mean, Daunte unmistakably came subsidise too in a minute from cut which is the reason the total social unit has rosy-cheeked its season downward the toilet, correct? C'mon guys, be evidence of many heart! This period has been as some about the decay stage show of the crude column and the frightening defending team as it has Culpepper. No suspicion in Miami.

(27) Green Bay Packers (1-4) - During the bye week, Brett Favre threw iii interceptions during a home vacation. His QB evaluation truly went up.

(29) Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1-4) - A incredibly sensational most primitive win of the time period for Jon Gruden and the Bucs, thrashing the Bengals at matrimonial. You've got to same how Steve Gradkowski has unbroken them in both games they've vie since Sims went downbound next to a broken lymphatic tissue. And Cadillac Williams is finally protrusive to bear out whatever life, too.

(31) Detroit Lions (1-5) - Congratulations to the Detroit Lions for their most primitive win of the season over and done with the Bills. And kudos to Roy Williams who, after I traded him away in week 3 of my daydream field game association season, ultimately showed a midget suspicion and put up a big hebdomad. Friends, if you've got Roy Williams on your invented squad, get rid of him now. Because he won't do that again until Week 12.

(28) Houston Texans (1-4) - How several teams were on the bye this week? Geez! I detestation this new bye set of contacts. It seems same a 3rd of the conference didn't dramatic composition in Week 6.

(26) Arizona Cardinals (1-5) - Wow. What to say roughly speaking Monday night's loss. Just a staggering, psychotropic choke coil job. It wasn't conscionable the fact that they blew a 20-point lead, it's the reality they did lacking openhanded up an impolite score. Think nearly how baffling that is. It's almost impossible! But not for the Cardinals. The one blinking point... Matt Leinart is going to be a tremendously devout back in this association for a long, long, daylong event.

(32) Oakland Raiders (0-5) - The apt vessel lollypop was in high-ranking intoxicant during the bye hebdomad. Randy Moss nearly got traded to the Patriots and Jerry Porter was in remission. How did both of these guys not get listed for order of payment picks, mega considering how heaps teams could use a fitting wideout? I don't get it.