First let’s deal with the elephant in the room on this week’s rankings. The Green Bay Packers are basically flat, and actually slightly down, despite an impressive win in Pittsburgh that has the league discussing Tucker Kraft as the best tight end in the game and Jordan Love as an MVP candidate. So how does that happen?

This is partially because according to CALCULATOR, the Packers were already good. So although winning did boost many of their underlying metrics – DVOA, EPA, PFF grade, point differential all improved – there’s not that much room for the Packers to move up. Plus, while all of their efficiency metrics improved, their odds of winning the Super Bowl actually went DOWN, from +700 to +750.

Now, why did that happen? Kansas City stayed flat as the odds-on favorite at +500, but D

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