NFL: Power Rankings at the quarter-mark of the 2018 NFL season

2. Kansas City Chiefs (4-0)

The Chiefs are the second undefeated team. I have them just behind the Rams because they are nowhere close defensively to what Wade Phillips’ troops bring to the table. However, I think this offense is even more explosive because of the once-in-a-generation type playmaker of Patrick Mahomes, whose game I analyzed recently, and all those weapons around him.

This offense keeps defenses guessing with jet sweeps, unique motions, fake screens and all that other stuff, but more importantly a young leader, who makes magic happen every week. Turning to the opposite side of the ball, the KC defense could not stop the Broncos' run game right up the gut, their tackling has been horrific and they let games, most notably against the Steelers and 49ers, get closer than they should have been because the defense could not shut the door.

With that being said, they are still expecting to get their best and most important defensive player in Eric Berry back, they have two book-ends in Justin Houston and Dee Ford, plus this is still a young group for the most part. All they need to do is keep opponents under 30 points going forward.

3. New Orleans Saints (3-1)

Yeah, this is a bit of an ugly 3-1, but it is a 3-1 nevertheless. The Saints lost their season opener at home to the Buccaneers giving up 48 points, then they were lucky in week two that the Browns' kicker at that point missed two field goals and PATs each to turn it around, they needed a late touchdown to send the Falcons game to overtime in week three and if not for that late Alvin Kamara touchdown run, the Giants might have come back on Sunday.

However, there’s a lot of things to get excited about here and why you would believe that this team will only get better. Alvin Kamara is becoming one of the league’s elite all-around running backs, Drew Brees is completing 75.8 percent of his passes for eight TDs and no picks and Michael Thomas has caught a ridiculous 42 of his 44 targets this season.

New Orleans’ defense worries me because, after an embarrassing showing in week one, Marshon Lattimore has been the only guy in the secondary, who has been able to cover anybody basically. Yet, Marcus Davenport who they traded up for in the first, is emerging to go with Cam Jordan and with Mark Ingram coming back, the power run game will take pressure off the defense.