Philadelphia Eagles fans will love this Week 5 NFC East Power Ranking

The Cowboys took the Philadelphia Eagles’ last week’s spot.

If you watch the Dallas Cowboys week in and week out, there are many things that will stand out but not necessarily for good reasons. On one hand, they can score plenty of points. They are averaging 31.2 points per game. Here’s the bad news though. Opposing teams are still outscoring them by an average of five points per game. They’re currently dead last in the league in points allowed. That isn’t going to cut it, regardless of who this team is playing.

Say what you want about Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott, but he can still sling the football and gives ‘Jerry’s Boys’ a chance to keep up with any given team in a shootout. Some say that his numbers are a bit skewed, that he’s always trailing which forces him to air the ball out more while other teams concentrate on being more balanced, but he’s completed 137 passes for 1670 yards and nine touchdowns versus just three interceptions. That isn’t anything to sneeze at. It’s also proof that he isn’t the reason his team is losing.

Prescott has a wide receiver corps that makes his life easier, but we would bet he’d trade one of them in if it meant his team acquired some defensive talent (or a defensive coordinator that knew how to utilize these guys effectively). Wouldn’t it be something if Prescott ended the season as the NFL’s passing leader and the Cowboys still finished with a 6-10 record? At this pace, it isn’t farfetched that it could happen.

‘Big-D’ needs to do something if they want to avoid getting into weekly shootouts. Head coach Mike McCarthy was supposed to be the key ingredient that helped a team get over the hump that had underachieved in previous years. So far, that hasn’t happened and things may get worse than they did under their former head coach, Jason Garrett by the time the curtain closes.