BREAK DOWN YOUR NFC TIERING OF TEAMS

[Fritz]

Your ranking seems pretty well thought out. I don't know if the SeasChickens are ready to roll or not. I'd put GB and Sea about even.

Two teams that could shock like NO did a few years ago would be Tampa and SF. Both teams could flop, but if everything breaks right, they could shock ya. SF has some great players on D and Mike Martz could straighten Alex Smith out. Tampa is also real active on D also and has a shot to gel and do some damage.

(Had to edit. Couldn't spell "would" correctly. No, I didn't spell it "wood")

Sorry, KY, but here in Detroit everybody in the Lions organizations has thrown Martz under the bus - and driven it back and forth across him. EVERYTHING, it turns out, was his fault. No consistency in the play calling. Martz's lack of running the ball was why Tatum Bell sucked. He's why the offensive line sucked. He's even why the defense sucked - if they'd run the ball better the D wouldn't have to have been on the field all the time. He also, it turns out, was the reason they drafted Calvin Johnson instead of Joe Thomas or Adrian Peterson. I think it's also his fault that the mayor of Detroit is in so much trouble and the fishing has gone bad the last couple of years.

So to expect him to be able to fix Alex Smith...well, you can see that every bad thing that ever happened in Detroit was Martz's fault, so don't get your hopes up.