Sep 17, 2023; Arlington, Texas, USA; Dallas Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons (11) runs with the football after recovering a fumble in the third quarter against the New York Jets at AT&T Stadium. Dallas Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons (11) was ruled down by contact on the play. Mandatory Credit: Tim Heitman-USA TODAY Sports
It’s been a week since the last Eagles game, and we still have three more days before we get to see them on the field again. I’m not taking it well, but on the bright side, I have this blog to distract me from my constant misery, so let’s get started on the second edition of my power ranking rankings!
7. Sports Illustrated – The worst ranker of last week remains the worst of this week. SI stubbornly keeps us at 4 while leapfrogging the Cowboys over the Niners for blowing out a Jets team led by Zach Wilson. I’ll say right now that any list that has the Cowboys #1 will be punished severely.
6. Yahoo! Sports – That includes the list from Yahoo! Sports, which will also maintain their low position for boosting the Cowboys.
5. NBC Sports – The only thing the Peacock Pickers got right that the teams below them in this list didn’t is having the Ravens at 6 instead of the Bills. The fact of the matter is they’re 2-0, and the Bills not only lost, but lost to a horrible Jets team that Dallas manhandled this week. Buffalo blowing out a horrible Raiders team while Baltimore got a closer win against a talented Bengals team doesn’t change the reality that the Ravens simply look like a better team right now.
4. FOX Sports – Even though they didn’t rank Dallas first in this list, they did raise Dallas to 2 on their list at our expense. They also dropped the Chiefs 2 spots for winning? Against a good team? Make this make sense.
3. CBS Sports – Dallas rose three spots in this list, yet another “expert” overrating them for beating up on bad New York teams. The team formerly known as the Redskins are also eighth on this list, which is the highest ranking I’ve seen for them so far, and with wins that are far from impressive. They’ve been good about punishing winless teams like the Bengals compared to the other lists (SI proving themselves the WOAT ranker by having the Bengals eighth and the Chargers twelfth on their list) but they haven’t really done a good job of separating the contenders from the pretenders in our current crop of unbeatens
2. ESPN – The Mouse didn’t finish on top this time, but they got close. They made the same mistake as the lists below them by having the Cowboys over us, and they rewarded the Bills a little too much for winning this week and punished the Chiefs even more than Shannon Sharpe’s former home did. If you’re gonna have a great list like the one you had last week, there’s no point in shaking it up so much when we haven’t learned that much more about the teams this week.
- USA Today – Ranked fifth in last week’s list, USA Today has come all the way back to win the weekly crown of least bad power ranking. This was the only ranking out of all the ones I got from major publications to have us in the top 2, and we should be in the top 2, because we’re the reigning NFC champions, and we’re 2-0. The Bills at 5 when there are 17 teams below them that don’t have losses to the Jets makes me scratch my head, but I’ll forgive USA Today for it this one time because they stepped up when it mattered most.
Who will come out on top in the ranking of the power rankings next week? Idk. Maybe I’ll write a thing about it.
