An injury-plagued Week 11 went basically as played.
Nine of the top-12 teams and eleven top-15 teams won, and the six worst teams in our power rankings last week all lost.
As we enter Turkey Day, the playoff picture continues to clear up.
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Once again, here's how we came up with them.
We took our rankings from last week and moved teams up and down based on the following criteria:
- A win: up 2 spots
- A loss: down 1 spot
- A loss by 10+ points: down 2 spots
- A win against a top-5 team from the week before: up 2 spots
- A win against a top-12 team from the week before (aka, a playoff team): up 1 spot
- Covering the point spread: up 1 spot
- A winning record: up 1 spot
- A losing record: down 1 spot
- No team with a winning record can be outside the top 16
1. Houston Texans (#1 last week): Beat the Jaguars
Record: 9-1
Biggest thing we learned this week: Andre Johnson is back. He had 14 catches for 273 yards and looked more energetic than he has in years.
2. Baltimore Ravens (#3 last week): Beat the Steelers
Record: 8-2
Biggest thing we learned this week: Joe Flacco is still a question mark, but they have skills players like Jacoby Jones who can bail them out with big plays, which they haven't had in recent years.
3. Atlanta Falcons (#2 last week): Beat the Cardinals
Record: 9-1
Biggest thing we learned this week: The defense is now good enough to win a game by itself. This is a huge step for an Atlanta team that needed to score and protect the ball to win in the past.
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