POWER INDEX
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OVERALL BOARD
N=32The Power Index rates how a team is actually performing in the playoff race. Scale is 20–95. All teams started near 50. Each week it updates from wins and losses, margin, opponent, division/conference games, scoring, points allowed, and later turnovers. 80 = playoff form. 50 = still alive. 30 = fading. Early weeks move more because the sample is small.
They keep losing bodies and they keep winning anyway. Purdy dragged them through Arizona 36–30 with Evans, Williams, and Greenlaw all leaving. It was messy. First place does not care.
Went into Miami and won 24–10 like a team that expected to. No drama, no last-second kick. That is why they look like the cleanest 3-0 on the board.
Maye had another turnover night and Jacksonville turned it into 35–6. This is the team that blew Cleveland out in Week 1, not the one that faded in Denver.
Jefferson went down, Murray looked lost for long stretches, and they still left Tampa 3-0. The defense is the whole identity right now.
Cousins threw three more touchdowns and the Saints could not stop turning it over late. Mendoza can keep watching. This 3-0 thing is starting to look real.
Five turnovers, Allen looking lost, and they still beat the Chargers 24–16. They had no business winning. They did. That is a 3-0 team.
Case Keenum started Monday night and Chicago beat Philadelphia 27–7. A week after scoring three points, they looked like the team that dropped 59 in Week 1.
Darnold came back, threw four scores, threw a pick-six, and the run game vanished in the rain. Washington stole it 33–31. First loss of the year.
Burrow was rolling until he was not. A late fumble, two special-teams disasters, and Pittsburgh walks out with a 30–27 division win.
Brazil, last play of the night, Loop from 56. Henry already has six touchdowns. They keep finding ways that should not work.
Gibbs scored three times and the Jets could not keep up. A home win, nothing fancy, and they are back on the right side of 50.
Came all the way back from 11 down in Rio and still lost on a walk-off kick. Same 1-2 start as the last two years. The fight is there. The finish is not.
Young moved the ball. The line could not run it when it mattered. A 21–18 loss in Cleveland after last week’s blowout in Atlanta.
Scoreless first half, down 16, then Nix and two Hufanga picks flipped it. They keep surviving their own starts. Sooner or later that runs out.
Warren ran for 127, Burrow put the ball on the ground, and Pittsburgh took a division game 30–27. Rodgers has two wins. That is enough for now.
Moved it all night, died in the red zone, and Stafford got picked on the last snap. They look like a good team until the game ends.
Seven points. On Monday night. Against Case Keenum. That is how you fall out of the 2-0 group in one week.
Winston, Dart out, 12–7 over Tennessee. It was ugly. It counted. They are 2-1 and nobody is quite sure how.
Geno threw for 321 and they still left Detroit with a seven-point loss. Close. Not good enough.
Shough had the place rocking until two late turnovers handed Las Vegas the game. Protection died when it mattered.
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Six points in Jacksonville. Maye’s turnovers again. The Maye-and-Brown hype just ran into a 35–6 wall.
Watson won it in the fourth for the second straight week. Graham has a sack in every game. First place in the North, somehow.
A 53-yarder as the clock died and they finally have a win. Houston is 0-3. That is the level they are beating right now.
Mariota, three takeaways, a pick-six, and they knocked off Seattle. Daniels is still hurt. For one afternoon it did not matter.
Robinson and London both went for 194 and Green Bay got run out of Lambeau 35–14. One Thursday night off the bottom.
Dead in the first half, alive in the second, still a 36–30 loss in San Francisco. They can score. They have not won two yet.
Mayfield got sacked six times, hurt his thumb, and went 2-of-17 on third down. Third loss. The offense looks broken.
Lost 19–17 in Indianapolis on a late kick. One-score games keep ending the same way. Still searching for win one.
Got punched in their own building by Atlanta. The “just survive September” plan is not going well.
Five three-and-outs and a late Ward interception. Seven points at the Giants. The offense is the problem, every week.
Forced five turnovers and still lost in Buffalo. Herbert does not look like Herbert. That is 0-3.
Ten points against Kansas City. Thirty-six for the season. Last place, and it is not a debate.
The Power Index rates how a team is actually performing in the playoff race. Scale is 20–95. All teams started near 50. Each week it updates from wins and losses, margin, opponent, division/conference games, scoring, points allowed, and later turnovers. 80 = playoff form. 50 = still alive. 30 = fading. Early weeks move more because the sample is small.