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NFL.com power rankings, #14, smh.

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SMH.. This is a damn joke. How the hell are the Falcons and Bills both ahead of us or hell even the 0-2 Seahawks for that matter?  I'm sorry, but we deserve top 10 easily at this point. Name for me right now 9 other teams that are clearly better than us

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000536440/article/nfl-power-rankings-cardinals-enter-top-three-eagles-plummet
 

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Well.... it could be worse.  B/R had us at #20 yesterday!

It's all to do with the perceived quality or lack thereof of our competition.

I'm not too worried about it.  Let the team continue to rack up the wins without the huge pressure of expectations.  I think we'll surprise people.  Team is coming together well.  There was very nice improvement from game 1 to game 2 in a number of areas. 

I admit I took a lot of joy in seeing JAX beat Miami... maybe they aren't quite the awful team everyone thinks.  I think we got lucky playing them in the season opener. 

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Well.... it could be worse.  B/R had us at #20 yesterday!

It's all to do with the perceived quality or lack thereof of our competition.

I'm not too worried about it.  Let the team continue to rack up the wins without the huge pressure of expectations.  I think we'll surprise people.  Team is coming together well.  There was very nice improvement from game 1 to game 2 in a number of areas. 

I admit I took a lot of joy in seeing JAX beat Miami... maybe they aren't quite the awful team everyone thinks.  I think we got lucky playing them in the season opener. 

That is the case usually with JAX.  They play really tough however never get over the hump and lose some close games, then they lose confidence, get blown out and have a "normal" JAX season.   I think the win over Miami is a big confidence builder and they are going to surprise a lot of teams this year.

Also it's funny, because of this years Colts team would have started the season with the same schedule and won both games , even with identical scores, they would have been considered Super Bowl contenders.

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Don't expect any respect until that hard stretch in the middle of our schedule after our bye.

We win a few in a row in that stretch and the narrative changes.

The good thing about these, is that we know from post game interviews and locker room speeches that these very ratings are indeed used as bulletin board material.

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SMH.. This is a damn joke. How the hell are the Falcons and Bills both ahead of us or hell even the 0-2 Seahawks for that matter?  I'm sorry, but we deserve top 10 easily at this point. Name for me right now 9 other teams that are clearly better than us

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000536440/article/nfl-power-rankings-cardinals-enter-top-three-eagles-plummet
 

why should this bother you ??

power rankings are useless early on.

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Let the team continue to rack up the wins without the huge pressure of expectations.

This.  It's just going to take a little longer than 2 games for the national media to give us much respect.  I'm fine with it.  Just keep winning against the teams on our schedule.  All we can do.

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#14 seems fair to me.  Need to continue to win games and we will go up.  There are still legitimate questions about how the offense will respond when the defense has an off day or when we play a team like Green Bay that is going to put up some points.

Power Rankings for the first few weeks always are skewed to the previous year's performance anyway.  #20 is too low for a 2-0 team IMO but whatever.  Power Rankings by their nature are extremely subjective.

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The little blurb they wrote about us is actually quite accurate

A wee bit too close for comfort at the end for Panthers fans. And how about Ryan Mallett impersonating Cam Newton's Superman touchdown celebration? That was lame. Could you imagine if Cam impersonated Aaron Rodgers' Discount Double Check? People would be all over him for it. I mean, if the towel draped over the head got people fired up about Newton not caring, what would happen if he pulled what Mallett did? #randomfootballthoughts

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