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Detroit Lions Week 10 NFL Power Rankings

Posted by Kevin Mack

November 6, 2007 |

  • NFL Power Rankings for Week 10

The Detroit Lions are in the Top 10 of all the Week 10 NFL Power Rankings by the entities that do the Weekly NFL Power Rankings. Your ‘Lion Eyes’ blogger is providing this NFL Power Rankings post as a regular weekly feature during the NFL Regular Season. I am using the same 5 NFL Power Rankings sites each week. The 5 are:

  1. Fox Sports NFL Power Rankings
  2. ESPN NFL Power Rankings
  3. Cold Hard Football Facts NFL Power Rankings
  4. CBS Sportsline Power Rankings
  5. Peter King Monday Morning QB - SI

Source: Fox Sports NFL Power Rankings

Peter Schrager moved the Lions up to 9th, a jump of 4 spots, this week from week 9 NFL Power Rankings. Schrager was impressed with the victory over the Broncos:

It was a dominant performance and arguably the best win of the Matt Millen era.  

Source: ESPN NFL Power Rankings

ESPN NFL Power rankings are developed by ESPN NFL staff writers John Clayton, Len Pasquarelli, Matt Mosley, Jeffri Chadiha and Mike Sando; Scouts Inc. Insider Jeremy Green; and ESPN.com NFL senior editor Mike McAllister.

The ESPN NFL Staff moved the Lions up to 8th this week a rise of 2 spots from 10th in the Week 9 NFL Power Rankings. 

Source: Cold Hard Football Facts NFL Power Rankings

Jonathon Comey moved the Lions up to 7th in the Week 10 NFL Power Rankings, for an improvement of 3 places. Jon reports the Lions are resorting to more offensive balance and this week’s game against Arizona is the Lions last easy one.

Source: CBS Sportsline Power Rankings

Pete Prisco moved the Lions up to 8th in the NFL Power Rankings this week up 2 spots from Week 9. He is very impressed with the Lions showing so far:

We see it every year, a surprise team or teams making playoff pushes. This year it’s Jon Kitna and Mike Martz in Detroit and Derek Anderson and Kellen Winslow in Cleveland.

In the next three weeks, the elite NFC teams will play each other. The Giants and Cowboys play this week. The Packers and Lions play on Thanksgiving and the Packers and Cowboys play the following week. In early December, the Cowboys and Lions play.

Pete forgot to mention that the Lions also play the New York Giants the Sunday before Thanksgiving. In fact the Lions have the Giants then the Packers at home, go to Minnesota and then come back home to meet the Cowboys in a 4 game stretch. Tough stint for the Detroiters.

Source: Peter King Monday Morning QB - SI

King has moved the Lions up to 8th in his Fine 15, up 5 spots from Week 9 Fine 15. King thinks the Lions and Packers are big surprises in the NFC. In fact King was so stunned by the Lions performance against the Broncos he called QB Jon Kitna after the game. Here is what he said after the discussion with Kitna:

The Lions are 6-2. “I don’t know how you guys do your jobs,” Jon Kitna said Sunday night. Sports writers, he meant. “How do you pick games, and how do you pick playoff teams before the season? I think it’s totally impossible.”

Right on. The Packers are 7-1, the Lions 6-2 and the Bears, who were supposed to be the best team in the division, are a legit 3-5 — and maybe a little lucky to have three wins. Detroit has recovered from 56-21 and 34-3 losses a month ago to Philly and Washington to win three in a row, allowing just 10 points a game to Tampa Bay, Chicago and Denver. The 44-7 rout of Denver was a stunner.

“It’s a return to the old back-and-blue-division style of football,” he said. “We’re running it more and being more physical than people would think of a Mike Martz offense.”

Whatever works. When’s the last time you really looked forward to a Lions’ Turkey Day game? We’ll be riveted this year: 12:30 p.m. Eastern, Thanksgiving Day, Green Bay at Detroit … maybe for the division lead.

Your ‘Lion Eyes’ blogger just can’t get it out of his head what King said just 1 month ago after the loss at Washington:  ‘the Lions are Frauds’. I will give King some forgiveness though because probably most of the Lion fans thought the same thing at the time. It is always interesting how different the callers to WDFN, in Detroit, are after wins compared to after the 2 road losses. Here is an example of what I mean:

  • Comments heard from callers after Denver win 
    • Lions are Super Bowl bound
    • Marinelli for Coach of the Year
    • Lions will get Home Field advantage for NFC Playoffs
    • Lions defense is awesome 
  • Comments heard from callers after Washington loss
    • Marinelli and his ‘Deer in the Headlights’ look on the sideline is overmatched
    • How did Marinelli ever get hired? what qualifications does he have to be NFL head coach?
    • I will never watch another Lions game
    • Another wasted Lions season with no hope for the future, 4-12 at best
    • That ‘Tampax Two’ defense is sure ragged

NFL Week 10 will take the Lions to Arizona to challenge the Arizona Cardinals. The Cardinals are led by Super Bowl XXXIV MVP and 2 time NFL MVP QB Kurt Warner. Kurt has a formidable wide receiver tandem of Larry Fitzgerald and Anquan Boldin that will give the Lions much difficulty. The game will be played in Glendale, Arizona at the site of Super Bowl XLII in University of Phoenix Stadium. Can the Lions possibly win 4 games in a row? Your ‘Lion Eyes’ blogger sure hopes so and the Lions come back to Detroit 7-2.

Cast your vote in this weeks Poll.

Which Team will Win the Game on Sunday November 11, 2007

  • Detroit Lions (85%, 46 Votes)
  • Arizona Cardinals (15%, 8 Votes)

Total Voters: 54

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