Are we a top 10 team?

How do they have the Eagles over us... :bs:

Cause it's ESPN

How do they have the Eagles over us... :bs:

Trap ranking...

We are absolutely a "borderline" top ten team. If we are not 8-10 right now than who is? Baltimore, Arizona, Detroit, Minnesota, Giants, Bengals, or Miami? After that it is very obvious there is nobody that should be even considered as top ten. Too answer your question you only need to look at the aforementioned teams. We beat Baltimore, Minnesota, and the Giants so to say we are better than them is no stretch at all. We tied the Bengals.
So it boils down to are we better than Detroit, Arizona, or Miami. Detroit beat us last second in their house?
It is certainly no stretch to say we are 8-10 right now.
Philly is ranked ahead of us too and we beat them pretty handily. Atlanta is trending down. I say right now we are the seventh best team behind Pats, Dallas, Seattle, Oakland, Denver, and KC.
Sorry number 8 throw Pitt ahead of us too.
If you just go NFC we are clearly number three.

Since starting 0-2, we're 5-1-1.

Would you want to play us right now?

Since starting 0-2, we're 5-1-1.



Would you want to play us right now?



Can easily think of about 25 teams who would not.

Are we a Top 10 team this week? Yup.

Could we NOT be a Top 10 team next week? Yup (Hopefully not).

We are not a team that consistently plays well enough to be considered a Top 10 team on a week to week basis. The Patriots, Cowboys, Seahawks could all lose this week. If they do, no one would say they are no longer a Top 10 team. However, if we lose, and depending on who else wins, it would be very easy to objectively argue that we shouldn't be in the Top 10.

Right now, we are a team that could potentially beat anyone - even if we don't hit on all cylinders. Further, if we are playing a complete game, there are teams - Cleveland, Frisco, T-Bay - that could not beat us with their best game. However, we have not consistently played a complete game yet and, when we don't, any team in the league could beat us. So, we are pretty much a second tier team that, depending on how everyone is playing this week, has the potential to rise to the top of that grouping or sink into the general middle of the league.

If we beat GB, Dallas and then come out of the mini-by with a win in Arizona, I would put us solidly in the perennial 5-10 grouping. Right now, I see us more in the 8-16 grouping.

If we win our next three we are a top 5 team no doubt.

But I would say we're not, top 10 teams find ways to win winnable games, we haven't done that consistently

I definitely disagree with the last part, I would argue that the biggest reason this team is on track for the playoffs is because they have dug down and found ways to win the close ones. In our last 7 games we're 5-1-1, 4 of those wins were by a touchdown or less

Bottom line. If you name ten teams you think are better than us I guarantee we beat one of them. Only caveat would be if you think either Detroit or Houston is better than we are. Than you could have ten teams ahead of us of whom we have beat none of them. That said you are completely splitting hairs between us , Detroit, and Houston. So to say we are not top ten right now...again...is a very very tight squeeze.

Seems that some fans are still suffering from the loser mentality cultivated over much of the last 25 years.

It's a new team, we're trending up and only getting better. Get used to it.