Welcome to the Week 11 NFL Power Rankings here at Touchdown Wire. Teams will rise, teams will fall, and everyone will be angry.
First, dear reader, is a glimpse at to how the weekly Touchdown Wire Power Rankings are made. A look inside the machine, as it were. Each week after pushing “Publish” on the rankings the process for the next week’s version begins. I list all 32 teams on a big whiteboard in my office, lowest to highest as outlined in the just-published version. Then, starting on Wednesday night, teams on bye weeks get their write-ups done. This continues through Thursday Night Football, and then once games kick off Sunday afternoon, it is a sprint until the end of Monday night’s game.
Stopping to eat along the way, every so often.
The last thing I do, however, is write this part. The introduction. Why? Because I know deep down this is the part that most readers probably skip. Let’s be honest, friends. Nobody clicks on a Power Rankings piece to see how the rankings are setup and introduced. I never did…and I write them now! So I know how it works.
It reminds me of an old “Saturday Night Live” skit titled “Hub’s Gyros.” Jason Alexander was hosting, and by the end of the skit the joke really became how long the skit was, with David Spade asking Rob Schneider, Adam Sandler and Chris Farley to basically end the skit:
Introductions to Power Rankings pieces are the “Hub’s Gyros” of football content. Let’s just get to the stuff we want to see.
