The Defense and Kickers in a tier-system format without comment.

Listen, you need a cheat sheet for kickers and defense? I'll give you that. But I'm not going to be tranchant and analytical. I can barely be bothered to make a fart noise about Matt Prater. So, print and let's go.

Don't put this in order, but let's rock this out shall we?

DEFENSE

The Elite!
Pittsburgh
Minnesota

Solid Starters
San Diego
Baltimore
Green Bay
Chicago
New York Giants
Philadelphia

Marginal Starters
New York Jets
New England
Dallas
Tampa Bay
Tennessee
Arizona

Back-Ups/2nd Defense in a Committee
Indianapolis
Miami
Buffalo
Washington
Jacksonville
Seattle

One-Week Plug-In
Houston
Carolina
Oakland
Atlanta

Yeesh (to make an even 25)
Cleveland

KICKERS

The Elite
Stephen Gostkowski
Nate Kaeding
Mason Crosby
Jason Elam

The Solid
David Akers
Rob Bironas
Garrett Hartley
Ryan Longwell
Neil Rackers
Lawrence Tynes

Eh...
Kris Brown
Robbie Gould
Nick Folk
John Kasay
Jeff Reed
Rian Lindell
Joe Nedney

One-week Plug-in/Guys you'll pick up on waivers for the sucky guys above this tier.
Adam Vinateri
Shayne Graham
Josh Scobee
Josh Brown
Matt Prater
Mike Nugent
Phil Dawson
Steve Hauschka

Boom. Learned.