ESPN post-draft Power Rankings (Dallas 22nd)

[perrykemp]

Power Rankings are meaningless during the regular season so these can be considered even more meaningless, however, I know some people like Power Rankings... so here you go:

http://espn.go.com/nfl/powerrankings/_/year/2014/week/0

 

[DBOY3141]

Falcons and Matt Ryan sure do get some love from ESPN. I see a couple of "elite" teams and a couple of "terrible" teams, all the rest are "up for grabs". We are in the up for grabs bunch.

 

[jnday]

Falcons and Matt Ryan sure do get some love from ESPN. I see a couple of "elite" teams and a couple of "terrible" teams, all the rest are "up for grabs". We are in the up for grabs bunch.

I hate the current watered down NFL. Free agency has ruined the day of the great teams. Now there are some decent teams , but the dynasty era is over.

 

[Nova]

Philly is not that much better than us, if they are better than us at all.

 

[DBOY3141]

I hate the current watered down NFL. Free agency has ruined the day of the great teams. Now there are some decent teams , but the dynasty era is over.

Couldn't agree more. Free agency has killed that element of the game.

 

[btcutter]

There are 10 teams at least that look better than our Boys. Pretty much a fact. After that...it doesn't really matter. But games are won on the field...not by who's on your roster.

 

[cowboy_ron]

Well, I see even though they had multi round reaches in 2 of their first 3 draft picks, as well as cutting their only real deep threat the eagles are getting their annual teabagfest

 

[windward]

There are 10 teams at least that look better than our Boys. Pretty much a fact. After that...it doesn't really matter. But games are won on the field...not by who's on your roster.

That first sentence is pretty much the opposite of a fact.

 

[BAZ]

Opinions stated as facts are my favourite facts. Did you know there are at least eleven and a half teams that are better on paper, but games are played on pitches.

 

[dstovall5]

Philly is not that much better than us, if they are better than us at all.

They've gotten worse in their passing offense, that's for sure. They lost Jackson, and they'll have some regression at the QB position, no way Foles has a better year then last year (27TDs/2INTs). Though with that said, they've also gained Sproles this year and have a healthy Maclin back who's a solid #2 WR.

Our LBs better come to play against them is all I gotta say, Sproles and McCoy is gonna be such a nasty combo out of the backfield.

 

[Nova]

They've gotten worse in their passing offense, that's for sure. They lost Jackson, and they'll have some regression at the QB position, no way Foles has a better year then last year (27TDs/2INTs). Though with that said, they've also gained Sproles this year and have a healthy Maclin back who's a solid #2 WR.

Our LBs better come to play against them is all I gotta say, Sproles and McCoy is gonna be such a nasty combo out of the backfield.

I'm really not that sold on Sproles. He's gotten up there in age and is injury prone. Any carries he can take away from McCoy I'll be happy with.

Not to mention, their defense gave up more passing yards per game than ours did last year.

I just don't think they're that good of a team. They were one Kyle Orton fg drive away from missing the playoffs last year. Not sure how that translates to them being 13 spots better than Dallas

 

[dstovall5]

I'm really not that sold on Sproles. He's gotten up there in age and is injury prone. Any carries he can take away from McCoy I'll be happy with.

Not to mention, their defense gave up more passing yards per game than ours did last year.

I just don't think they're that good of a team. They were one Kyle Orton fg drive away from missing the playoffs last year. Not sure how that translates to them being 13 spots better than Dallas

Hype, hype, and more hype. People who actually follow them know they're not a top 10 team, heck like you said they're not much (if any) better then Dallas. I also like how they got ATL, NYG, STL, and DET ahead of us as well, hell, they almost even have Tampa (23rd) ranked ahead of us lol.

I'm not saying we're going to be great this year, but if our defense has any improvement this year, we're a much better team already. Last year we went 8-8 and should've been 10-6 had it not been for two epic melt downs in GB and DET. But that's how this team has always been I guess, few different bounces and yada yada. Watch this be the year (when everyone writes them off) they make a deep playoff run, that would be gold haha.

 

[zack]

Hype, hype, and more hype. People who actually follow them know they're not a top 10 team, heck like you said they're not much (if any) better then Dallas. I also like how they got ATL, NYG, STL, and DET ahead of us as well, hell, they almost even have Tampa (23rd) ranked ahead of us lol.

I'm not saying we're going to be great this year, but if our defense has any improvement this year, we're a much better team already. Last year we went 8-8 and should've been 10-6 had it not been for two epic melt downs in GB and DET. But that's how this team has always been I guess, few different bounces and yada yada. Watch this be the year (when everyone writes them off) they make a deep playoff run, that would be gold haha.

Agree. Eli threw 30 picks last year and the Giants are now better than us.

 

[mldardy]

Philly is not that much better than us, if they are better than us at all.

Agreed. I think we pretty much proved that last season. We shut them down the first game and they need everything to barely beat us at home with a back up QB and all kinds of problems on defense.

 

[burmafrd]

Seattle, Denver, Pats, SF, Carolina, NO I will say are clearly better then us. Arizona, GB, SD, CInci, Chi, Indy, KC are maybe a little better then us. Philthy, Detroit, Squeelers, Houston are right even with us. So put us right about half way.

 

[Gameover]

They've gotten worse in their passing offense, that's for sure. They lost Jackson, and they'll have some regression at the QB position, no way Foles has a better year then last year (27TDs/2INTs). Though with that said, they've also gained Sproles this year and have a healthy Maclin back who's a solid #2 WR.

Our LBs better come to play against them is all I gotta say, Sproles and McCoy is gonna be such a nasty combo out of the backfield.

Maclin sucks

 

[Wood]

Top 7 are powerhouses. I agree with others...no way Philly is 9 and Dallas is 22.

 

[coult44]

They should change the name of CZ to Cowboys Homers. We had the worst defense in the NFL, and we lost our best two defensive starters. To replace them we signed two hurt guys that could struggle to make it back, and another second teamer from the leagues worst team. These rankings mean nothing, but don't fool yourselves into thinking we are any better than the bottom third part of the NFL. We are set on offense, but we have to prove we are better on defense before anyone shows respect.

 

[Fla Cowpoke]

What is funny is that somehow we dropped 5 spots after a draft and UDFA period where we likely gained 3-4 starters and a couple solid contributors.

 

[Irvin88_4life]

Seattle, Denver, Pats, SF, Carolina, NO I will say are clearly better then us. Arizona, GB, SD, CInci, Chi, Indy, KC are maybe a little better then us. Philthy, Detroit, Squeelers, Houston are right even with us. So put us right about half way.

I disagree, Carolina has no receivers and they lost a ton of people, San Fran, Chicago, Cincy all have some kind of hole. NE drafted a bunch of injuried players and still not sold on them. Indy gets Wayne back but they are bi-polar. Denver doesn't scare me.

We have showed we can play with the best and lose to the worst. Seattle looked terrible until the super bowl, Tampa Bay was up by 21 at Seattle untill they gave it away.

I really believe we make they playoffs if we stay relatively healthy.