Eagles power ranking roundup: Week 17

Are power rankings completely dumb and meaningless? Yes. Yes, they are. However, personally speaking, whenever I see them, I click. And now that I've sucked you in with promises of many power rankings, you'll read it and like it.

Here's where people around the country have the Eagles ranked after Week 16. Oh, and here's our version of these sellout rankings, too.

NFL.com: 4th

The Cowboys lost and the Eagles won, ending their three-game slide, so the bottom line is that it was a productive weekend. The division title moved closer to landing in Philadelphia, with two winnable games remaining (vs. Cardinals, at Giants). But Monday's victory over the Giants was fairly unimpressive on the whole. The Eagles nearly coughed up a 20-3 lead to a team that benched its quarterback midgame because the offense was struggling. Philly's special teams turnover was a bit fluky, and while Dallas Goedert fell down on Jalen Hurts' pick-six, Hurts was lucky he didn't throw an interception on the play just before it, too. The Eagles outgained the Giants by nearly 200 yards, but all the mistakes made it a close game that came down to the final play. They'll want to knock those off as much as possible before the playoffs, one could safely assume.

#JimmySays: I do suppose that most fans would sign up for the overall results of Week 16, especially if we're also including the 49ers' bad loss in that mix.

ESPN: ???

ESPN has not yet published power rankings this week.

#JimmySays: Maybe they still will? Maybe they won't? Maybe I'll add them in later if they do, maybe I won't. But I have to move on.

The Athletic: 7th

MVP: A.J. Brown
The Eagles haven’t been what they wanted to be on offense this season, but throwing the ball to Brown when all else fails has worked pretty well. Brown is fifth in the league in receiving yards per game (92.9). He’s been targeted at least nine times in Philadelphia’s last five games. On Monday, he got 11 targets and caught six passes for 80 yards against the Giants, and he’s under contract for three more years.

#JimmySays: Brown basically was the Eagles' offense during the first half of the season. However, over the last 7 games, he has 41 catches for 455 yards and 2 TDs. Those numbers are fine, but his torrid pace has subsided. He's still likely going to break the Eagles' single season receiving record, which he also broke last year, when he had 1496 receiving yards.

USA Today: 3rd

Take a collective breath, Philly fans. The NFC East leaders dominated everywhere but the scoreboard while defeating the Giants on Monday, when Jalen Hurts also set a single-season quarterback record with his 15th rushing TD. Yes, last year's team was probably better – but this season's squad still has a very reasonable chance to go further.

#JimmySays: I mean, they had a 10-point lead at halftime of the Super Bowl last year. If by "further" they mean, "win the Super Bowl," I'm not sure that that feels "very reasonable" at the moment. And yet, they're tied for the third-best odds to win the Super Bowl right now.

There's maybe an argument that Dallas is the better team and should be higher, but not as long as they're in position to be the 5 seed, which should be a far harder path to Vegas.

Yahoo: 6th

I'm not sure there have been more unsatisfying 11-4 teams than the Eagles. They refuse to do anything easy, and not being able to put away the Giants on Monday was another example.

#JimmySays: Last year the Eagles won 6 games by 3 scores or more. This year, none.

CBS: 5th

They just don't look right, even when they win a game like they did against the Giants. They seem to be laboring at times.

#JimmySays: CBS with the fire🔥 analysis as always.

Average power ranking of the six media outlets above

Week 1: 2.0
Week 2: 2.8 📉
Week 3: 2.7 📈
Week 4: 2.8 📉
Week 5: 2.7 📈
Week 6: 2.0 📈
Week 7: 4.3 📉
Week 8: 2.0 📈
Week 9: 1.0 📈 (clean sweep at 1) 🧹
Week 10: 1.5 📉
Week 11: 1.0 📈 (clean sweep at 1) 🧹
Week 12: 1.0 📈 (clean sweep at 1) 🧹
Week 13: 1.0 📈 (clean sweep at 1) 🧹
Week 14: 2.8 📉
Week 15: 4.0 📉
Week 16: 5.2 📉
Week 17: 5.0 📈

MORE: NFC Hierarchy/Obituary Week 17 edition

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