No, you read that right, all of it. “Week 7,” “Flower,” all that’s for real.
It’s easy and bland — but not vanilla, because vanilla is awesome — for any old columnist to round up the NFL’s good teams and bad teams on Monday night, spin them around a little to make your readers dizzy, then barf them up in a new provocative order for the next morning.
Screw that shortcut, let’s aim instead for a moving target: the near future.
Based on all teams’ recent form and their upcoming schedule, the Flower Rankings precisely predict which teams will bloom in the next four weeks, and which ones will wilt.