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Week 14 NFC North Power Rankings

 
After taking a week off for Thanksgiving, the weekly NFC North Power Rankings are making it's triumphant return this week. Speaking of triumphant returns, the Minnesota Vikings have made one of their own to the top of the rankings with a huge win over the Chicago Bears Sunday night. Earlier that day, the Packers let one slip, and the Lions laid another stinker on Thanksgiving. Overall, 1-3 was all the North could muster this week.   1. Minnesota Vikings (7-5) What a two play sequence for the Vikes Sunday night. After stopping the Bears Matt Forte on a fourth-and-goal, quarterback Gus Frerotte found Bernard Berrian for a 99-yard touchdown pass that seemingly crushed Chicago. Could this be the sequence that the 2008 Vikings look back on and say "that's where it clicked"? Maybe, but let's not get ahead of ourselves quite yet. Just two days after taking sole lead of the North, the Vikings were slapped with the suspensions of both Kevin and Pat Williams—the anchors of Minnesota's ... (link)

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