2021 Power Rankings: Week 9 - a podcast by LOC Films

Welcome Coaches! Glad you could join me for yet another foray into the fantastic world of Power Rankings. We may find ourselves in a slightly briefer version than normal, I am choosing to blame my busy weekend schedule, although it is also fair to assume that my personal 4 loss streak is starting to sap enthusiasm. At least I can still take some solace from writing about some notably better teams below. Speaking of which…

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12. U R Gould (2-6) Down 1

Okay, reverse rankings mean that I don’t actually start with the solace of notably better teams, but whatever. An outrageous performance from draftee turned trade acquisition, Carter, wasn’t enough to drag them above another ‘meh’ scoring week. You really must question how Baker Mayfield has managed to start so many games for them this season. OBJ did it, worked out for him.

10. Tom’s Tyrants (2-6) Down 1

The early season success of Murray has faded slightly, and the importance of that to this team is obvious. In a season that has more or less gotten a way now, they will look for some big performances from Deebo, Najee and Murray to try and pick up a few more wins.

11. Napolitans (2-6) Up 1

I have mentioned a couple of times that they probably didn’t deserve to be the bottom team still, well now they aren’t. It isn’t too late, and Jonathan Taylor looks like the top RB in the league since Henry’s injury, but they need to keep the forward momentum going.

9. Burdettinators (3-5) Up 1

Moving them up at this stage purely as a note of an easier route to the playoffs. But they still have work to do to make that route a realistic one, very much a ‘best of the rest’ sort of situation. The loss of Ridley, for the majority of the season seemingly, can’t be understated, but they have struggled to fill out other roster places consistently. Maybe OBJ will land somewhere lucky?

8. Patistan (4-4) Down 1

On the right side of an oddly Tampa-themed matchup, they showed there is still plenty of juice left in the tank. They only dropped because of the form of the team below them. The IR list seemed to grow each week as well, which is sort of fun, in a way. Combined with bye week necessity though, it has led to a Taysom Hill run out, and that is definitely always fun.

7. IKSAN (4-4) Down 1

Back to winning ways and sat in a very competitive position, they are looking in a reasonably good spot to hit the critical part of the regular season. James Conner’s expanding role has been key, and has given them a solid stable of RBs to build a roster from each week.

6. Bear Necessities (4-4) Down 3

Yeah, a week in the 50 point range tends not to go unnoticed in articles such as this one. I have no real reason to assume it might happen again, just a collectively unfortunate week, but still. More importantly, who would have thought we’d have gotten to the stage where dropping AD could look regrettable? 

5. Buccing The Trend (5-3) Up 3

Well, they started off as my dark horses, and, after a slow start, they have finally stormed out of the gates. They were comfortably the top scorers on the week and now, just like that, they are back atop the division and in the no. 3 seed. Things change so quickly in this league. They haven’t got too much depth to write home about, so they need the starters to stay hot.

4. FTMAL (4-4) Up 1

Wow, they were close to making the most of a good, and rare, opportunity presented by one of the LOC power couple (lol, interesting imagery). They haven’t lost too much ground in the divisional race, but need to get back to the larger scoring weeks they are capable of. Getting a now, theoretically, well-rested Adams back should help.

3. Gridiron Gang (4-4) Up 1

Unfortunate to come up against the only other team to score north of 100 points last week, but still plenty of positives to draw. I said that this team could cause problems when they got fully healthy again, they are more or less there, so time to make good on that potential.

2. Forge Flyers (7-1) No Change

We know how much their high octane offense has relied on Henry, so it will be interesting to see how that effects them going forward. They still won relatively comfortably, even with Henry leaving early, and they’ve sensibly picked up the two most likely beneficiaries. Oh, and the rest of the team is still great. Watch this space though.

1. The Dream Team (7-1) No Change

Pfft, snuck it. That was the definition of winning on a bad week and it would have probably been enough to drop them out of top spot were it not for the injury already talked about thoroughly enough in the previous blurb. The top seeds face off this week, so that will most likely make the decision for me next week.

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Well, that didn’t end up being too brief in the end. I’m just so dedicated to my art. Yeah, this is art, or at least it is as close to art as anything I do ever gets. Screw you for downplaying my creative abilities. Until next week.

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