
Last Thursday, we ranked the watchability of every game on the Week 3 slate. Today, we look back and re-rank the games based on what actually went down. At season's end, we'll tally up the pre- and post-game rankings from throughout the year to determine the league's most and least watchable squads -- and the 30 teams in between.
Tampa Bay 27, Chicago 24 OT [RECAP]
Pre-Ranking: 12
Post-Ranking: 1
Comment: We watched this in a sports bar (OK, fine, it was a Hooters) with every 1 p.m. game on a screen and kept finding our eyes settling on this one.
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N.Y. Giants 26, Cincinnati 23 OT [RECAP]
Pre-Ranking: 14
Post-Ranking: 2
Comment: Obviously, we underestimated the Bengals' feistiness. They could have pulled it out, too, had tney not botched clock management late in regulation.
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Buffalo 24, Oakland 23 [RECAP]
Pre-Ranking: 7
Post-Ranking: 3
Comment: Two fourth-quarter comebacks in a row for the Bills.
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Denver 34, New Orleans 32 [RECAP]
Pre-Ranking: 3
Post-Ranking: 4
Comment: Football fans from the video-game era loved this game. Football fans from the Steel Curtain era hated it.
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Jacksonville 23, Indianapolis 21 [RECAP]
Pre-Ranking: 11
Post-Ranking: 5
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Miami 38, New England 13 [RECAP]
Pre-Ranking: 13
Post-Ranking: 6
Comment: Too high for a blowout, you say? Obviously you don't enjoy watching Bill Belichick squirm as much as we do.
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Washington 24, Arizona 17 [RECAP]
Pre-Ranking: 6
Post-Ranking 7
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Philadelphia 15, Pittsburgh 6 [RECAP]
Pre-Ranking: 2
Post-Ranking: 8
Comment: See the Denver-New Orleans comment from above and reverse it.
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Dallas 27, Green Bay 16 [RECAP]
Pre-Ranking: 1
Post-Ranking: 9
Comment: Kind of wish this game was played later in the year. It just didn't live up to the (our?) billing.
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Minnesota 20, Carolina 10 [RECAP]
Pre-Ranking: 5
Post-Ranking: 10
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San Diego 49, N.Y. Jets 28 [RECAP]
Pre-Ranking: 4
Post-Ranking: 11
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Baltimore 28, Cleveland 10 [RECAP]
Pre-Ranking: 9
Post-Ranking: 12
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Tennessee 31, Houston 12 [RECAP]
Pre-Ranking: 8
Post-Ranking: 13
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San Francisco 31, Detroit 13 [RECAP]
Pre-Ranking: 10
Post-Ranking:14
Comment: Think Mike Martz enjoyed turning this into an unwatchable game against his former employer?
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Seattle 37, St. Louis 13 [RECAP]
Pre-Ranking: 15
Post-Ranking: 15
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Atlanta 38, Kansas City 14 [RECAP]
Pre-Ranking: 16
Post-Ranking: 16
Comment: Hopefully, you listened.


Adaora
Julie Henderson


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