Dallas Magic Trick: New Cowboys NFL Power Rankings Make Criticism ‘Disappear!’
Are you up for a magic show? See me erase four whole months of Dallas Cowboys and NFL football history, including all of the victories, losses, celebrations, and despair in between!
After the conclusion of NFL Week 16, football fans are assessing who is who. Even while I’ve always preferred utilizing the “power rankings,” also known as the “NFL standings,” our colleagues at Pro Football Network do a very excellent job with the “power rankings,” which are now a weekly ritual all across the internet.
And guess where, after all of the blood and the sweat and the tears, the experts rank your Cowboys?
Exactly where almost all of us ranked them four months ago.
Here’s the PFN countdown, with their comments …
6) Dallas Cowboys – Dak Prescott played incredibly well (in a 22-20 loss at the Dolphins) … The Cowboys’ bending defense bent to a point of failure on the Dolphins’ final offensive drive, resulting in a hard-fought Cowboys loss.
5) Philadelphia Eagles – Putting up 33 points against the Giants (in a tight win) on Christmas Day was a start, but the Eagles’ defense still gave up 25 to a Giants team that benched its quarterback (Tommy DeVito) mid-game.
4) Buffalo Bills – The NFL is a funny place. … If there is one roster that the division winners (if Buffalo does not win the AFC East) don’t want to face in the Wild Card Round, it’s these Bills.
3) Miami Dolphins – We don’t often get to see two of the best teams in the league (Miami and Dallas) face off. It’s even rarer to see two of the most talented teams in the league play a game that lives up to the hype, even if it’s not quite the way we imagined it.
2) San Francisco 49ers – It’s difficult to move the 49ers down any further than No. 2 after losing to the Baltimore Ravens on Monday night. After all, the Ravens were our second-ranked team heading into Week 16 — there’s no shame in dropping a game to a club as talented as Baltimore.
1) Baltimore Ravens – Christmas evening’s Ravens-49ers game was supposed to be a Super Bowl preview, but the matchup hardly lived up to the hype. Lamar Jackson increased his MVP chances by averaging 7.2 yards per pass attempt while throwing two touchdowns and adding 45 yards on the ground. Purdy’s collapse on the other side of the field didn’t hurt Lamar’s odds, either.
See? After all this time, what has altered? The Ravens’ victory over San Francisco brings about a change. Not to mention, the Chiefs are no longer in the mix (9-6 division leaders with a devastating loss to the Raiders).
But generally speaking, particularly in the NFC? The order is still the same: the Niners, Eagles, Cowboys, and so on.
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