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Pats, Texans among overrated, underrated in NFL power ranks

FPI's message to the ESPN Power Rankings panel is straight out of the Aaron Rodgers playbook: R-E-L-A-X.

While there are plenty of teams that the two systems agree on, when they differ, it is by and large because the voters are making much more aggressive moves off of this season's action than FPI is comfortable with.

Sixteen games is a small sample. Four is nothing. Sure, we've learned things in those games, but why throw out the vast quantity of information we had going into the season? That's not a good way to go about predicting what's coming next.