Week 5 NFL power rankings: Cowboys rise Womens Zack Martin Jersey , b season and things are a little surprising with other teams. Who would have ever thought that the Tennessee Titans would be 3-1, for example? Big shout out to them for taking down the Philadelphia Eagles, by the way.That’s the nature of the National Football League every season, though. Teams surprise us, teams fail to live up to expectation, and in what feels like rare cases some teams just stay the same. Thankfully the always-accurate and never-ever-wrong metric of evaluation has arrived as we enter Week 5. It’s time for power rankings, baby. Here’s how the Cowboys stacked up across the landscape of the world.SB Nation: 24, previously 29The Cowboys were near the back of the bunch over at SB Nation last week. This isn’t Lost, we can never go back there. EVER. Onward.NFL.com: 22, previously 24I don’t know about you Womens Cole Beasley Jersey , but the Cowboys are obviously feeling 22 in more than one sense. This is true in terms of this ranking (maybe more, no spoilers here) and in terms of their record, 2-2.Back to reality, Dallas being 22nd is pretty fair a month in. They’re starting to show signs of life which is always a good thing when you need a turnaround.ESPN: 21, previously 22The worldwide leader has the Cowboys in the early 20s as well, and they also took it upon themselves to discuss how the snap-leading rookies on each team were doing. That’s Connor Williams for Dallas. USA Today: 22, previously 27Beating the Lions the way the Cowboys did was great but not the most impressive thing in the world. It seems USA Today feels similarly despite the five-spot jump.Sports Illustrated: 19, previously t-25SI is higher on the Cowboys than anybody else, and for what it’s worth one of their voters even put Dallas as high as 17th. When you alternate wins and losses you don’t inspire people to a great degree, the Cowboys are going to have to put together consecutive wins if they want more on the rest of this season.Bleacher Report: 22 Womens Tyron Smith Jersey , previously 27Aren’t you glad I didn’t spoil it? The Cowboys are viewed as the 22nd best team in the NFL by more than one, Bleacher Report has them slotted there as well.What do you think of the various power rankings? Are they fair? Is Dallas being at all slept on?The Cowboys play on Sunday Night Football this week so if they perform well the whole world will see it (not that this isn’t necessarily true for a non-primetime game, but you get it). They have an opportunity to kickstart the second quarter of the season. They’re going to need to if they don’t want to fall back into hot water.FanPulse: Cowboys fans are “somewhat confident” in team direction, think Week 1 victory is upon us Welcome to SB Nation FanPulse, a survey of fans across the NFL powered by SurveyMonkey. Each week, we send 32 polls to 100+ plugged in fans from each team. Cowboys fans, sign up HERE to join FanPulse.Will the Cowboys win or lose in Week 1?A lot has happened over the course of the offseason for the Cowboys, but there still remains an obvious sense of optimism. We’re talking about a team that is 22-10 over the last two seasons and while that’s obviously inflated by the 2016 season so is the Cowboys identity. Ezekiel Elliott is back for a full season and that means it’s time to feed him. A less-talented defense benefited from that greatly two years ago, and entering this season that side of the ball has strengthened dramatically. Dallas has the roster to compete and win comfortably if everything breaks right, so six points feels fair.How confident are you in the direction of the team?Very confident: 22 percentSomewhat confident: 62 percentMeh: 5 percentNot very confident: 9 percentNot confident at all: 1 percentConfidence in the Cowboys typically revolves around the players themselves; it’s hard to trust anything beyond that as these results show. Ask any general fan and they’ll hit you with the “Jerry Jones needs to get out of the way” trope Youth Anthony Brown Jersey , but those paying attention know things have been different for quite some time.The collective brain-trust of Stephen Jones, Jason Garrett, Will McClay, and yes, Jerry himself, have certainly earned the right to be trusted, but they’ve also done some suspect things. Releasing Dez Bryant and Dan Bailey are some of the bigger decisions they’ve made since the team last took the field, how the Cowboys perform now will move the needle in one direction or the other.What is the worst NFL rule?Think about this for a second. The helmet rule is actually so bad that the overwhelming majority of football fans everywhere think it’s atrocious. As Cowboys fans we might be a bit partial to the catch rule being the worst one to ever exist, but the helmet rule isn’t far behind. Hopefully the big deal of it was just for the preseason because if it ripples over into the regular season (WHICH WE ARE NOW AT!) things could get annoying fast.