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Week 11 Power Rankings Roundup- Did The Bye Week Help The Eagles?
The Eagles come out of the bye week 8-1, the best record in the NFL. Hopefully, the bye week helped them get a bit healthier. We will see if it helped them in that way on Monday when they play the Chiefs. But what is most important is they go into week 11 in a great position in both their division and conference. They led the NFC East by 2 games, and the NFC by 1 game. They are the only 1 loss team in the entire NFL. Have there been issues? Sure. But every team has issues, the Eagles just win despite them.
In terms of the NFC Race, the bye week did nothing to help the Eagles. The Cowboys, 49ers, Lions, and Seahawks all won. And 3 of them looked pretty good in the process of doing so. Granted the Cowboys were playing the Giants who may just be the worst team in the NFL. But still, in terms of where they stand in the NFC, things got tighter.
Still, they are in a very good spot. And while their schedule gets harder, so does the schedule of most of their competition. The Cowboys don't get to play the Giants again. Instead, they eventually have games vs the Lions, Dolphins, and Bills, plus the Eagles. The 49ers still have to play the Ravens, the Seahawks twice, and the Eagles. And while the Eagles have a tough 5 game stretch, they finish out their year with two games vs the Giants and a game vs the Cardinals. The Lions are the only NFC team you could say has an easy schedule the rest of the way.
But are they still on top of the Power Rankings after the bye week? Or did having the week off make the National Media forget how good they are?
Here is where the Eagles fell in the Week 11 Power Rankings
ESPN- 1 (Previously 1)
This is true. But what it leaves out is after that game the Cowboys have Bills, Dolphins, and Lions, whereas Eagles have Seahawks, Giants, Cardinals, and then Giants again. Based solely on winning percentage, the Cowboys have a tougher schedule going forward. they just have it easier the next 3 weeks. But looking at the full picture, the Eagles have a lot of wiggle room.
NFL Network- 1 (Previously 1)
3-2 should be the goal. They did enough before this stretch that they dont need to be perfect. And their opponents have their own gauntlets coming up that should give them a couple of losses. If the Eagles go 3-2, then they will finish either 14-3 or 13-4. Either should be enough to win the NFC East and the Conference. The only team that could maybe do better are the Lions, who have a very soft schedule the rest of the way.
CBS Sports- 1 (Previously 1)
Eagles have been better against teams with winning records than almost any team in Football the past couple of seasons. In the regular season, he has not lost any games to teams with winning records in the past two seasons. if any team is built to survive a tough gauntlet like this, it is the Eagles and Jalen Hurts.
The Athletic -1 (Previously 2)
Nick Sirianni for some reason gets no love. No one has a better record than him these past two seasons. Yet he is never listed among the top coaches in the league. Is it because he just does the job of a head coach and doesn't insist on being the playcaller? If you want to say Kyle Shanahan is a better Offensive Coordinator, we can talk. But in terms of doing the stuff the Head Coach is supposed to do, Nick absolutely deserves to be listed among the best.
USA Today- 1 (Previously 2)
Good to see someone point it out. It feels like even when the Eagles are put at 1 on these rankings, it is still constant negativity. And there are valid critiques, but as the USA Today writer pointed out, they are well-equipped to overcome them. Even without Goedert they still have Brown, Smith, Swift, and a great O-Line.
Yahoo Sports- 1 (Previously 2)
Even if they only win 3 there should be no doubt. Because if they win 3 of these five, that would be 5-2 in what people called the gauntlet, leaving out the Commanders game. Saying they need to go undefeated in that stretch, which is what 5 wins would mean, to prove themselves is insane. No one else is held to that standard.
Pro Football Talk- 1 (Previously 1)
Just based on what they have done this year, it certainly seems like the most likely scenario. To this point, they are the teams that have taken care of their own business the most in both conferences. That doesn't mean they make it, but they are the two teams who should be favorites.
