Some Perspective 2026 Power Rankings

Our SuperBowl team did not all of a sudden become an average team in the NFL. ESPN may over-rate us, but we should still be favored to be a playoff team. After all, if we are better than BUF, we will be in the playoffs.

Any AFC team would have been beaten badly by SEA.

I still think that we are among the best in the AFC, As with many teams, we have the resources to improve in 2026.

mgteich said:

://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47807175/nfl-way-too-early-power-rankings-poll-2026-offseason-three-words

Our SuperBowl team did not all of a sudden become an average team in the NFL. ESPN may over-rate us, but we should still be favored to be a playoff team. After all, if we are better than BUF, we will be in the playoffs.

Any AFC team would have been beaten badly by SEA.

I still think that we are among the best in the AFC, As with many teams, we have the resources to improve in 2026.

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Seems too early for power rankings. The draft nor FA has happened.

I agree with the bolded. Buffalo, Denver, Texans, Jags all would have been obliterated too.

NFL Mystique said:

Seems too early for power rankings. The draft nor FA has happened.

I agree with the bolded. Buffalo, Denver, Texans, Jags all would have been obliterated too.

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I agree that it too way early.
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My point was to respond to folks who has posted that we are a middle of the pack 8-9 team. I expect that we will be competing for the playoffs. Maybe we won't be favored. Maybe we will. Ditto for winning the division.
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Also, NOTE that the hated folks at ESPN who disrespected us so have us at #3. I suspect that this is MORE respect that most on this board would give. ESPN and the other media did NOT disrespect the patriots by picking us to lose. They simply recognized how good SEA was.

I read that earlier this morning and it is the laziest power rankings I’ve ever seen. It’s almost literally just the finishing position of the playoff teams this year lol