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Published on 10/07/2009 at Wed Oct 07 11:00.
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Around the Web: Week 4 Power Rankings

Posted Wed Oct 7th by

Our weekly perusal around the Interwebz for water cooler fodder.

ESPN: 8th
Mike Nolan’s defense has been stingy with points and is starting to get attention for a major turnaround.

BroncoTalk: 6th
Glaring Stat: Denver has six interceptions on the season — each pick by a different player.

CBS: 5th
Defense, defense and more defense. With that unit, does it matter that they don’t have Jay Cutler? They are the surprise of the first month.

FOX: 12th
WHAT A SURPRISE: Umm, well … how about just about everything? Are you kidding me? After arguably the worst offseason in NFL history (non-T.O. division), Denver’s defense has become the NFL’s stingiest a year after costing the team a division title (led by a guy named Elvis, no less) and Brandon Marshall has supposedly and belatedly bought what coach Josh McDaniels is selling his players.

NFL.com: 5th-10th
Eight panelists post their personal power rankings.

USA Today: 8th
Now Josh McDaniels has the chance to teach Bill Belichick something.

  • kerry

    anything about if Clady gave up a sack or not??

  • TheTroglodyte

    Thanks for putting that together and its about time we get some respect. Then again, not getting respect has paid off well for us so far so I can't complain.

    BTW has anyone checked out the discrepancy between Ortons DVOA ranking and Cutlers so far this year?

    (Orton #9) – just ahead of (J. Flacco #10), (P. Rivers #11) and (C. Palmer #18)

    (Cutler #26) – just behind (K.Collins #25), (B. Leftwich #23) and (S. Hill #22)

  • milehighs

    How about the Ryan Clady record?Did he brack no sack record?

  • TheTroglodyte

    Good lord don't you know how to use Google. Yes he did already.

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/267118-bronc…

  • http://broncotalk.net Kyle

    As far as credible news reporting goes, Bleacher Report falls somewhere between Wikipedia and the trash can.

    Sacks are a very touchy/tricky thing to grade, and are tracked by Stats Inc. I'm not sure if they've released Week 4 sack statistics, it usually takes 'em a few days. With all the sacks and pressure Orton had this week, it's possible Clady was attributed for a half sack or something, so we're waiting.

  • TheTroglodyte

    Half a sack doesn't count and he probably did. It has to be a full sack. He gave up a half sack last year.

  • IanHenson

    It's 2005 all over again, a QB no one really wants doing what he does, an immaculate defense and a good run game. Well, maybe not exactly like 2005, didn't we go 5 or 6 games without anyone scoring a TD on us?

  • Roy88

    Stats in has Clady with 0 sacks allowed through 4 games this year.

    http://hosted.stats.com/fb/playerstats.asp?id=8…

  • robtink242

    yeah no new on that at all

  • http://broncotalk.net Kyle

    Awesome, nice find, thanks! We'll get a post up this week about it.

  • herc_rock

    Yeah, Bleacher Report is awful. I've found more credible stuff in my stool.

  • rcsodak

    1/2 sacks don't count against him.