2 of the 2018 NFL season is complete Youth Reshad Jones Jersey , which means it is time to review the action from this past weekend and start looking forward to the upcoming weekend’s slate of games. It also means it is time to update our 2018 NFL Power Rankings for Week 3. This week’s power rankings have some oddities in it, with losing teams gaining positions and winning teams losing positions. This comes as the pre-season/Week 1 rankings starting to move into what we are actually seeing on the field.This week’s rankings also see a new team move into the top spot, while a new teams slides into the 32nd position as well. How does it all shake out? Changes at the topThe defending Super Bowl champions relinquish the top spot this week as the Philadelphia Eagles fall from number one to number five following a loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. We also see the M innesota Vikings, who tied with the Green Bay Packers, fall one position and the New England Patriots move out of the top five, moving from three to six after a loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars.At the top now are the Los Angeles Rams, who dominated the Arizona Cardinals to move to 2-0 on the season and up three spots in the rankings. Just behind them, the Jacksonville Jaguars move from fifth up to the second position after beating the Patriots. The top ten continues after the sixth-place Patriots with he New Orleans Saints and Kansas City Chiefs, who remain in the seventh- and eighth-positions this week. New Orleans beat the Cleveland Browns this week, while the Chiefs beat the Pittsburgh Steelers. It feels like the Chiefs should see a jump up the rankings with that win, but it also feels like the teams ahead of them all deserve to be there. The Atlanta Falcons hold the ninth position, a one position move from last week’s tenth spot, after a win over the Carolina Panthers, while the Los Angeles Chargers are 12th. a two position climb, after a win over the Buffalo Bills. Miami DolphinsThe Dolphins jump from 15th to 11th in the rankings, the biggest jump we have seen thus far in the rankings, but not the biggest move of the week. The Dolphins beat the New York Jets on Sunday, moving to 2-0 on the year and starting to make people re-look the South Florida franchise. A win over the Oakland Raiders in Week 3 could push the Dolphins into a top ten team in these rankings.Biggest Gain of WeekThe Cincinnati Bengals jump from 26th to 17th this week, a nine position move as the team climbs to 2-0 on the season. They are probably still a little low for an undefeated team, especially when there is actually a team with no wins (Pittsburgh Steelers at 0-1-1) ahead of them, but they were low in the Week 1 rankings so they are making leaps up the board and should be up where they belong next week if they win again.Biggest Fall of WeekThe Houston Texans match the Bengals’ climb with a nine-position fall for themselves, going from 14th to 23rd. They just nudge out the Baltimore Ravens, who move from 13th to 21st on an eight-position slide. Houston lost to the Tennessee Titans this past week and are now 0-2 on the year, the first of the seven teams to lose both of their first two games on the year.The CellarThe bottom of nour rankings includes five of the seven teams sitting at 0-2 on the year. The Texans and Seattle Seahawks are the only 0-2 teams not in the bottom five, with he Oakland Raiders 28th, the New York Giants 29th, the Detroit Lions 30th http://www.thedolphinsfootballauthentic.com/akeem-spence-jersey-authentic , the Buffalo Bills 31st, and the Arizona Cardinals 32nd. The Lions are the weird team that lost and moved up two position, climbing out of the last place position with a 30-27 loss to the San Francisco 49ers - a loss that made them look a little better than they did in their Week 1 loss. The Bills are still floating just above that position, while the Cardinals’ 34-0 loss to the Rams pushes them down two spots, meaning that game featured the top and bottom team in the rankings.FloridaRandom fun fact: There are seven 2-0 teams in the league. All three Florida teams are included in that group.Undefeated teams1 - Los Angeles Rams (2-0)2 - Jacksonville Jaguars (2-0)3 - Minnesota Vikings (1-0-1)4 - Green Bay Packers (1-0-1) 8 - Kansas City Chiefs (2-0)11 - Miami Dolphins (2-0)13 - Denver Broncos (2-0)14 - Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2-0)17 - Cincinnati Bengals (2-0)2018 NFL Power Rankings Week 7RankTeamLWResultsChangeRankTeamLWResultsChange 9 of 66 DeVante Parker’s snaps in GIF form; he caught 6 of 9 targets.There’s a 69 joke somewhere in there.The TapeAnyone could’ve looked at the box score and told you Parker had a decent game. However, the first thing I went looking for in the tape is how did he look. Engaged? Prepared? Rusty? Aloof? It didn’t take long to see that DeVante was playing determined football. 1st drive, Frank Gore makes an off-tackle run and you see Parker come screen right and collides with Justin Reid, then Parker goes and seeks him out again. Gore cuts behind him and picks up a few extra yards.Parker “rounds off” this in route, but there was so much space in the middle of the field and the cover guy gave enough cushion that it didn’t really matter in this “off-coverage” scenario. Sometimes rounding off the route ends up working to your benefit, as you see in this GIF, as I believe rounding off the route, if timed with the CB’s additional step into backpedal before changing direction, can take advantage of getting a better angle and separation towards the middle of the field. Long story short: not the most perfect in route technique-wise in a vacuum, but it works just fine on this play. The way Brock Osweiler whips his head around makes me think Parker was the #1 read in the progression, and DeVante had plenty of separation to boot. This is about as easy as pitch-and-catch gets in the NFL. If Jesse Davis could’ve gotten to the deep safety, there was a crease for a TD. As it stands, Adam Gase’s favorite play gets admirable results here. The blocking unfurls, giving Parker a nice pocket to get upfield. Danny Amendola and Jakeem Grant both block well here and the design and execution are both solid overall. Nuances are there: Parker driving upfield before coming back to the line of scrimmage, OL not getting too far upfield before Parker catches it (can’t be getting a stupid “ineligible man downfield” call), play called to the wide side of the field with more space for a screen to be effective, etc..Parker literally sits down in the zone, making the catch as he plops down on his derriere. It’s hard to tell what would’ve happened on this play, but if this ball hits him on the inside hash he might be scoring on this one, too. The safety, in my opinion, reacts a bit late and takes an aggressive angle - an on-target throw here capitalizes on this, possibly with 6 points. The ball is behind Youth Xavien Howard Jersey , he drops his momentum to make a sliding-ish catch, and the Dolphins settle for a nice 17-yard gain.The safety totally bites on Amendola, and Parker’s 9 route is open. In my opinion, illegal contact or defensive holding could’ve easily been called: before the pass, at the 47 yard line, Parker moves inside and the CB clearly uses his left arm/hand to slow him down. However, I don’t think it was enough to alter the outcome of the play - I believe it still would’ve been an incompletion. Woulda, shoulda, coulda.Osweiler looks to the wide side of the field, with the play design isolating him while all of the other skill position players were off to the right side of the line of scrimmage. He gets inside, and most importantly, he uses his size to create separation in short quarters. Osweiler fits it in a tight window and move the chains. DeVante wins this pseudo-jam by the CB, still within the legal contact window, he extends the left arm, almost like you might see a point guard in basketball do to a defender while getting an in-bounds pass.That space created by the extending left arm allows Parker to get his mitts on the ball first and not allow the CB to deflect the pass.Deep crossing route, Parker working behind the nickel LB. It’s a good ball by Osweiler. Parker is able to take the angle and get upfield for a few more yards. Too little, too late, but a great play nonetheless. This GIF doesn’t do the catch justice. The picture of this article captures the left-handed snag by Parker here. I feel like I’m nitpicking here, but this is a ball you want to see him come down with. It’s a corner route and you want to see him use his size to wall off the defense there. At the very least, you’re creating a situation that can garner a defensive penalty if the safety has to fight through your body to make a play on the ball. Instead of planting earlier and getting vertical, he continues to drift horizontally, and that allows the safety to have the angle to make a play on the ball.Usually these plays happen against the Dolphins, this time it’s in our favor. This fleeting glimpse of good luck, of course, would be swallowed by the impeding doom of a Houston butt-kicking. But as someone who soured on DeVante last year, I enjoyed digging into the tape and having something other than bitter flavors when discussing our former 1st round pick.