a broader look can tell a story

I tend to buy more into the analytics sites rankings vs. what a group of writers puts together. And no single one of these is accurate but when you look across multiple I think it does tell a fairly accurate story.

For example, in the NFC West.

Arizona
Football Outsiders- 3rd
PFF- 5th
FiveThirtyEight- 4th
TeamRankings.com- 4th
Pro Football Reference- 2nd

LA Rams
Football Outsiders- 5th
PFF- 2nd
FiveThirtyEight- 7th
TeamRankings.com- 10th
Pro Football Reference- 9th

San Francisco
Football Outsiders- 13th
PFF- 13th
FiveThirtyEight- 13th
TeamRankings.com- 15th
Pro Football Reference- 21st

Seattle
Football Outsiders- 11th
PFF- 20th
FiveThirtyEight- 11th
TeamRankings.com- 13th
Pro Football Reference- 16th

Are the Cardinals pretty clearly a top 5 team? Yeah. Right now they should be called that. You'd probably then say the Rams are a top 7-8 team and that Seattle and San Francisco are both in the top 15 overall. So all in all one very tough division. No also-rans in this group...