2017 NFL Power Rankings – Teams 25th-32nd, The “Bottom Feeders” of the NFL

2017 NFL Power Rankings – Teams 25th-32nd, The “Bottom Feeders” of the NFL: The 2017 NFL Football season has almost arrived and it’s time to put out our official preseason 2017 NFL Power Rankings for all 32 NFL teams as we ultimately see them finishing at the end of this season. Obviously there are always a handful of clubs that surprise or disappoint greatly from their preseason forecast, but for the most part, these rankings should be pretty close to what these teams will do when it’s all said and done in 2017. Today we look at the teams ranked at the bottom from 25th thru 32nd. We call these teams the NFL’s “Bottom Feeders”. Keep in mind, we are a professional sports handicapping service that makes our money betting against the vegas NFL odds so these rankings are purely based on expected overall straight up records and not each team’s record against the spread this season. If you are looking to make some money betting on the NFL this season and want our expert NFL picks and predictions to help you boost your bankroll, than please feel free and give us a shot to do just that this season. You won’t be disappointed and we will do our best to make this the best NFL betting year of your life.

2017 NFL Power Rankings – Teams 25th-32nd, The “Bottom Feeders” of the NFL

25. Jacksonville Jaguars(+10000 odds to win 2018 Super Bowl at Bovada) – The Jagurs have a new sheriff in town as Tom Coughlin is the new Executive VP of Football Operations and he is already making great moves to turn this franchise around. Coughlin hired former Buffalo Bills head coach Dough Marrone to be the Jaguars new head coach and his strict disciplined approach is exactly what the young Jaguars roster needs. The Jaguars won only 3 games last year and have won only 17 games in the last 5 years but their roster has some nice young talent to build around including this year’s first round pick, running back Leonard Fournette out of LSU. Fournette has the talent to be a game changer and is big enough to be a workhorse. The Jaguars will beed improvement out of quarterback Blake Bortles but the offense should be much improved over last year’s unit that finished 25th in the NFL in scoring at just 19.9 ppg. On the other side of the ball the Jaguars already have a solid defense as they finished 6th overall in the NFL last season and should be better this season after some nice veteran free agent pickups including cornerback A.J. Bouye from Houston.

26. Indianapolis Colts(+3300 odds to win 2018 Super Bowl at Bovada) – The Indianapolis Colts are supposed to be a legit challenger to win the AFC South according to the odds makers at Bovada but we simply don’t see it. In fact, we expect the Colts to be absolutely terrible on defense and be lucky to win more than 5 games. The Colts defense was atrocious last season finishing 30th in total defense and we don’t see them being much better at all in 2017. The defense is soft and not that talented. Other than cornerback Vontae Davis, we don’t see another player on defense that is much of a difference maker. Offensively, when is it time to call quarterback Andrew Luck overrated? This guy was the cat’s meow coming out of college and everyone(not us!) was forecasting him to be the next great thing but we are far from impressed. The guy is an interception machine and always seems to be hurt or nursing an injury the last two seasons. The odds makers apparently still feel he is a top shelf quarterback because there is simply no other reason to give the Colts +230 odds to win the AFC South. They are on the decline and will be a money burning machine for people foolish enough to be on these guys a lot this season.

27. Buffalo Bills(+10000 odds to win 2018 Super Bowl at Bovada) – The Buffalo Bills haven’t made the NFL Playoffs since 1999 and they won’t be making the playoffs this year to snap that embarrassing run. The Bills simply can’t seem to figure it out and are back to ground zero after wasting the past couple years with the buffoon Rex Ryan as head coach. Buffalo learned their lesson and made the right move to can fat Rex but now they will be starting from scratch again with a new head coach in Sean McDermott and new offensive and defensive systems. The Bills have a mediocre starting quarterback in Tyrod Taylor who shows flashes of greatness in one game and then seems to come back and show why he is a no name journeyman the next week. The Bills offense will be solid as they do have an outstanding running back in Lesean McCoy but the passing game is weak sister and their defense isn’t dominant enough to cover it all up. The Bills will once again be a middle of the pack team in 2017 that wins anywhere from 6-8 games at best.

28. Los Angeles Rams(+15000 odds to win 2018 Super Bowl at Bovada) – The Rams have been one of the most disappointing teams in the NFL for a long time now and are coming off of another bad 4-12 season last year. The Rams thankfully smartened up and fired coach Jeff Fisher who was annually one of the biggest hacks and most overrated coaches in the NFL. He sucked. Period. The Rams hired the NFL’s youngest head coach in Sean McVay who is only 31 years old but it’s hard to fathom him being any worse than Fisher. The good news for Rams fans is they have arguably the best defensive player in the game in defensive tackle Aaron Donald. The guy is a flat out stud and gets easily overlooked amongst the NFL’s best defensive players because he plays on such a bad team. However, new defensive coordinator Wade Phillips will get the absolute maximum out of Donald’s abilities and it won’t surprise us at all if he makes a serious run at NFL Defensive Player of the Year this season. The bad news for Rams fans is the team’s 32nd ranked offense. That unit still has a ton of work to do. The Rams are still a work in progress but they should be improved in 2017.

29. Chicago Bears(+10000 odds to win 2018 Super Bowl at Bovada) – Does anyone know what the hell the Chicago Bears front office is doing? They go out in free agency and sign quarterback Mike Glennon to a big deal and then they turn around and trade up in the 2017 NFL Draft to select Mitch Trubisky with the 2nd overall pick in the draft. Why do both? Makes absolutely no sense. But, hey, that’s why the Bears continue to be the joke of the NFC North and have won a grand total of 14 games the last 3 seasons including a pitiful 3-13 season last year. Head coach John Fox has to be on the firing line as the guy is simply a ham and egger as a head coach when he doesn’t have Peyton Manning as his quarterback. He was mediocre in Carolina and he’s mediocre in Chicago. The Bears overall talent is one of the worst rosters in the NFL and we don’t expect them to win more than 4-5 games again this season. Not much else to say about this team to be honest.

30. Cleveland Browns(+20000 odds to win 2018 Super Bowl at Bovada) – The Cleveland Browns have been the laughing stock of the NFL or years now and were one overtime win against San Diego last season from finishing 0-16. The Browns are just 4-28 over the last two seasons and still have a ton of work to do before they start to see better days. The Browns front office has done a solid job of stockpiling draft picks and drafting quality players over the past two drafts in our opinion so that will begin to pay dividends at some point. However, the Browns still have a problem at quarterback as they head into the 2017 season with Cody Kessler, Brock Osweiler and 2nd round draft pick DeShone Kizer as it’s top three options. Unless Kizer surprises us and wins the job and plays at a high level, the Browns will continue to lose games this season because of inconsistent and terrible quarterback play. That’s the problem with teams who can’t seem to gain any traction in the NFL as poor quarterback play will hold any team down regardless of the overall talent. Expect another long year in Cleveland but the overall talent on the 53 man roster should be improved.

31. San Francisco 49ers(+20000 odds to win 2018 Super Bowl at Bovada) – The 49ers will give the Jets a run for their money as the worst NFL team in the league in 2017. The 49ers cleaned house after a terrible 2-14 year last season and brought in a new general manager in John Lynch and head coach in Kyle Shanahan. We like those hires and we really liked what Lynch was able to do in the 2017 NFL Draft as he was able to trade down and stockpile future picks plus he picked a couple of studs in the 1st round in defensive end Solomon Thomas out of Stanford and linebacker Reuben Foster out of Alabama. Lynch is used to playing on a team where the defense does the heavy lifting as his old Tampa Bay teams did just that so it was no surprise to see Lynch focus on defense with the top of his 1st draft as a GM. The 49ers defense was a horrendous 32nd in the NFL last season and needs a few great drafts before it rises to “elite” status in our opinion. The 49ers offense was just as bad last season finishing 31st and will most likely be amongst the worst again this season. Lynch and Shanahan have a lot of work to do but they are the right guys for the job.

32. New York Jets(+20000 odds to win 2018 Super Bowl at Bovada) – Say what you want about the New York Jets but they seem to be making no secret of the fact that they plan on tanking in 2017 to hopefully land the top pick in the 2018 NFL Draft to take USC quarterback Sam Darnold. Can you blame them? Absolutely not. The Jets have had to watch their top rival New England absolutely dominate the AFC East for the last 17 years while they have never been able to settle on a top quarterback to build around to dethrone New England some day. The Jets have been thru countless head coaches and quarterbacks thru the last decade and a half while New England has had the luxury of having arguably the best head coach and quarterback in NFL history over that time frame. The Jets are going to be absolutely terrible this season and winning more than 2 games will take a lot of luck. Hell, the Jets don’t even want to win more than that because they have their eye on the 2018 NFL Draft top selection.

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