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#3: Are Bills unstoppable? Eagles soaring; 49ers believing? · NFL Power Rankings

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  Speaker 1: power rankings, brought to you by energizer. I am Colleen Wolf,
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  Speaker 1: with Dan Hanss. What a week it was. Week two
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  Speaker 1: did not disappoint. Um. How you feeling right now after
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  Speaker 1: the rankings? Where are you up all night doing them,
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  Speaker 1: I have to say, colleen, and great to see you.
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  Speaker 1: Great to see you as well. I feel power in
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  Speaker 1: so there's an invincibility factor as I enter today's episode
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  Speaker 1: in terms of Bait, but for the listener, yes, I
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  Speaker 1: feel power. I think that's bad news for all of
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  Speaker 1: us here at NFL media, but for your children. Love
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  Speaker 1: think it's going to be good insight on the Third
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  Speaker 1: League of thirty two. Okay, so Dan is feeling good
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  Speaker 1: on this Tuesday. The tug boat is docked, ready to go,
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  Speaker 1: and let's take a look at your top five. This
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  Speaker 1: was a crazy, crazy week. Top Five here. Alright, Bill's
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  Speaker 1: number one still holding steady in that topic. God, like literally,
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  Speaker 1: they are unstoppable. Right now, hold on, we're gonna talk
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  Speaker 1: about that. Let me just get through this. Sure no
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  Speaker 1: one is going to knock them down all the spot.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to probably be there for the entire whatever year.
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  Speaker 1: So we got bill's chiefs, number two, Eagles. Eagles number
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  Speaker 1: three is okay, there it is that one. They are
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  Speaker 1: at four, down one spot, and then the packers at five,
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  Speaker 1: up three. So before we get to the eagles, and
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  Speaker 1: that's the only reason this podcast exists, is for you
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  Speaker 1: to celebrate this moment, which I understand, because this is
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  Speaker 1: exciting times in Philadelphia. I get it. Listen, I have
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  Speaker 1: told you time and time and again that the attention
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  Speaker 1: it's making me nervous. Um. But last night was a
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  Speaker 1: really good game, but also the bills played as well
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  Speaker 1: and they absolutely smacked the titans there in your number
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  Speaker 1: one spot, and it's not even close, I would assume. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's almost like the bills have reached the state of
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  Speaker 1: their own power and it's it's they're in their own category.
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  Speaker 1: They're in the power rankings of themselves. So it's weird
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  Speaker 1: to even put them because the difference between one and two,
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  Speaker 1: and the chiefs are a great team, it feels vast
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  Speaker 1: right now. That's how good the bills are playing through
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  Speaker 1: two weeks. You embarrass the defending champion Rams in the
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  Speaker 1: season opener. Okay, that can happen. UH, the first game
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  Speaker 1: of the year is always a little weird. It's like
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  Speaker 1: eighty degrees. It's so fi stadium. You know, weird things happen.
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  Speaker 1: But then to have the Monday night game against the titans,
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  Speaker 1: and we understand the titans, even though they were the
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  Speaker 1: number one seed last year, they've lost some players. They're
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  Speaker 1: not the same team. But to absolutely hang a forty
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  Speaker 1: one seven bomb on a Tennessee team that is typically
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  Speaker 1: well coached and hard nosed just shows that the bills are, just,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, in a class of their own. And
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  Speaker 1: the and with the titans as an example, you're trying
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  Speaker 1: to figure out where to drop the titans. I I
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  Speaker 1: dropped them, but not too far, because I don't think
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  Speaker 1: like what happened to the titans and the rams is
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  Speaker 1: very much different than that would happened with twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: other teams right now in the League. The bills are
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  Speaker 1: just playing at a different speed and the titans right now,
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  Speaker 1: you have them, you drop them three spots to twenty.
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  Speaker 1: But I just think that the fact that the bills
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  Speaker 1: are able to play this way and they're even down
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  Speaker 1: a couple of players without Davis, I mean they had
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  Speaker 1: some injuries on the defense. They still don't have tredavious white.
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  Speaker 1: They had the scary situation with their cornerback that had
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  Speaker 1: an ambulance come out on the field to take him off.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna be all right, thank God, Um, because that
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  Speaker 1: was that was really scary to watch. But this is
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  Speaker 1: a team that seems to be able to overcome anything
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  Speaker 1: and really nothing is going to slow them down. Well,
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  Speaker 1: this is where we get in trouble, though, Connie, because
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  Speaker 1: it is week two and there will be a time.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's impossible to see that now for any
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  Speaker 1: of us, there will be a time where they end
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  Speaker 1: up in a close game and they will have to
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  Speaker 1: show their ability to rise above a challenge. There could
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  Speaker 1: be more injuries. You don't know. It's not gonna be
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  Speaker 1: this easy, but the bills and their fans just enjoy it. Well,
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  Speaker 1: last because this is very rare to see a team
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  Speaker 1: that's just so clearly above their opponents and I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was, you know, interesting to see Josh Allen, who
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  Speaker 1: has a new offensive coordinator and play caller, and Ken
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  Speaker 1: Dorsey H and during the summer when we're trying to
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  Speaker 1: think of like, you know, potential issues for the bills
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  Speaker 1: like well, Brian Dables gone, so maybe there will be
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  Speaker 1: a learning curve that no, like we had to come
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  Speaker 1: up with potential issues, and that's the thing. And Stefan Diggs,
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  Speaker 1: and take this from a two thousand twenty one season
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  Speaker 1: Stefan diggs fantasy owner, he is such a better player
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  Speaker 1: through these two games that he ever was with Alan
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  Speaker 1: last year. He's much closer to the version of Diggs
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  Speaker 1: who was absolutely dominant the bills. And we're not even
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  Speaker 1: getting into their defense. It's an incredible the way they're
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  Speaker 1: playing all around. The Bills Defense has forced seven turnovers
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  Speaker 1: through two games. And then the offense. They've outscored their
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  Speaker 1: their opponents seventy two to seventeen. Seventy two to seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: and that was against the defending Super Bowl Champs and
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  Speaker 1: the number one seed from the A F C last year.
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  Speaker 1: Who obviously don't look anything like a number one seed
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  Speaker 1: yet through two weeks. So the bills. They're up top
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  Speaker 1: at number one. But I want to get to the
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  Speaker 1: team that has got rocketed up the rankings. Where did
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  Speaker 1: they start the year? I want to say they were
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  Speaker 1: in the around fifteen. They got up to ten last week,
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  Speaker 1: so they were in the top ten entering week two.
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  Speaker 1: And now the eagles. Yes, they're at number three and yes,
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  Speaker 1: they absolutely earned it. That was one, okay, so fourteen
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  Speaker 1: to three and two weeks. That's obviously they're making a
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  Speaker 1: move here and they deserve it. A lot of it
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  Speaker 1: Um goes back to jalen hurts, who, the way he's
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  Speaker 1: looked in the pocket throwing the ball has been just unbelievable,
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  Speaker 1: the progression he's showing. I think that's surprised me and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people that he's looked this good passing
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  Speaker 1: the ball, because he's really impressive. Connie, and I want
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  Speaker 1: to hear your thoughts on this running the ball and
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  Speaker 1: how hard he runs, and it actually makes me a
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  Speaker 1: little nervous when he stays up to get those extra yards.
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  Speaker 1: But he's been so dominant from the pocket in the
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  Speaker 1: first two weeks it's been really UH special to watch.
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  Speaker 1: He's thrown for over three yards out a touchdown in
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  Speaker 1: that game on Monday night and in two scores. Like
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  Speaker 1: the question coming into the year about Jalen hurts and
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  Speaker 1: really the Eagles in general, was Ken Jalen Take that
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  Speaker 1: next step as a passer, sort of like we've talked
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  Speaker 1: about with Lamar Jackson, but we saw it in very
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  Speaker 1: small flashes Um last year as a passer. It was
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  Speaker 1: all about his legs. They really needed to get that,
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  Speaker 1: get that passing game going, and I think Howie Roseman
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  Speaker 1: did an excellent job in the off season bringing in
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  Speaker 1: a j brown. This week Davante Smith was way more
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  Speaker 1: involved than he was week one. And then when you
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  Speaker 1: have I just can't remember the last time that the
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  Speaker 1: eagles had a dominant number one wide receiver like this
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  Speaker 1: and a great cornerback like sleigh in the secondary, like
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  Speaker 1: on the same roster at the same time like that
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  Speaker 1: is something that I have to go way back, because
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  Speaker 1: I guess it would be t o as a wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver and maybe Assante Samuel. That's pretty good. That's a
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  Speaker 1: pretty good one too, right there. And that team went
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  Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl and hung tight, hung tough with
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  Speaker 1: the Patriots Dynasty. Um, and you're right. That is that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of a sneaky great combo that any big time
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  Speaker 1: team needs. You need that that number one wide receiver,
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  Speaker 1: which a J Brown is, and you need that playmaker
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  Speaker 1: in the back end of a defense that can negate
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  Speaker 1: a star player on the opposing offense, like Justin Jefferson,
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  Speaker 1: who was largely erased in this game. And you talked
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  Speaker 1: about it a lot, Connie, last week, both on this
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  Speaker 1: program and on around the NFL. You you you had
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  Speaker 1: an issue with Devonta Smith not being in the offense
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  Speaker 1: as much, and then I looked at the way Jalen
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  Speaker 1: hurt spread the ball around. Dallas Goddard, five catches, Smith, seven,
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  Speaker 1: Quez Watkins to uh in a touchdown, a j brown
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  Speaker 1: five for sixty nine. Um, you didn't know. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think it was a great game plan by Minnesota's defense,
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  Speaker 1: but that also I don't want to take away by
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  Speaker 1: how great this attack of Philadelphia can be with a
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  Speaker 1: dominant offensive line behind it. Yeah, it was. It was
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  Speaker 1: really interesting to see the eagles play this way, dominate
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  Speaker 1: the vikings in prime time at home against a team
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  Speaker 1: that last week week one, everybody was raving about Kevin O'CONNELL.
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  Speaker 1: They loved this new head coach and what he was
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  Speaker 1: able to do. And then, I mean, everything kind of
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  Speaker 1: fell apart for the Vikings. So this was this was was,
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  Speaker 1: but number three, number three in the rankings for the eagles.
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  Speaker 1: Was that difficult for you to put them up that high?
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  Speaker 1: Did you? You just the top ten? I don't have
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  Speaker 1: them right there. I don't have any issues with the eagles.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't have a dog in the fight
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  Speaker 1: in the NFC east as a fan, if that's what
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  Speaker 1: you're insinuating. So I am. I'm totally confident putting them
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  Speaker 1: at three. and Uh yeah, Kirk cousins was a disaster
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  Speaker 1: against that eagles pass rush which which is all over
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  Speaker 1: him and Darius slay. That's an all pro performance. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so we got let's go to the packers here at
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  Speaker 1: five and uh listen, I guess this guy is not falling,
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  Speaker 1: falling in Green Bay at this point. Well, that's why
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  Speaker 1: I kept them in the top ten last week and
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  Speaker 1: I was getting some heat from the twitter verse. Twitter,
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  Speaker 1: of course, is the playground of idiots, as we know,
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  Speaker 1: but we do love the idiots, because it's not just
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  Speaker 1: idiots on twitter's fine who we love on twitter, but
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  Speaker 1: let's stay focused. Um. The Green Bay packers obviously have
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  Speaker 1: work to do in terms of figuring out their offensive
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  Speaker 1: passing game, but I thought the game against the bears,
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  Speaker 1: although not an overwhelming effort, the win, just showed how
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  Speaker 1: we forget how good Aaron Jones is. We forget that
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  Speaker 1: a j dillon could be a starter on twenty five
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  Speaker 1: other teams potentially. and they're both behind Aaron Rodgers, in
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  Speaker 1: front of an offensive line that is starting to get healthy.
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  Speaker 1: And you you put it together and it's like yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the packers, especially playing in the NFC north, are gonna
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  Speaker 1: have time to figure out this passing game and you imagine,
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  Speaker 1: with one of the greatest quarterbacks ever, that they will
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  Speaker 1: get to a point of proficiency and then all you
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  Speaker 1: gotta do is combine that with an amazing run game
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  Speaker 1: and then a very good defense. The packers are going
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  Speaker 1: to be okay. I said it last week. Nothing changed
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  Speaker 1: about how I feel about them. I pump them up
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  Speaker 1: to the top five because their top five NFL team
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  Speaker 1: and they got the w feeling good about Green Bay.
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  Speaker 1: The running game look great for them. Four fumbles in
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  Speaker 1: two games is a little concern. I'm not too worried
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  Speaker 1: about that, but they do have the bucks coming up
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  Speaker 1: this week in week three Sunday, so that's something to
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  Speaker 1: keep an eye on. So that's the top five. But
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  Speaker 1: we still have not seen the dolphins. Where where might
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  Speaker 1: they land? And Dances is rankings? Find out when we
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  Speaker 1: come back. Now I want to take a look at
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  Speaker 1: your team's five through ten. Here you have the ram
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  Speaker 1: at six. They are down two spots. You got the
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  Speaker 1: chargers at seven, also down two spots. The dolphins shooting
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  Speaker 1: up five spots to the number eight. I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about them niners at nine and then the ravens
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  Speaker 1: at ten. So with the dolphins after that insane game,
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  Speaker 1: I mean Mike mcdaniel is doing all sorts of things.
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  Speaker 1: How could you not root for to uh? It's just
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  Speaker 1: seeing that offense actually work like this at such a
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  Speaker 1: high level. I mean the fact that they're at number
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  Speaker 1: eight in your rankings, up five spots the two. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: how could you not root for two people act like
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  Speaker 1: TWAS this huge underdog. He was number five overall pick
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  Speaker 1: everyone dunking on him. Since he's been in the Leagu
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  Speaker 1: so he's overcome some criticism from the outside in this
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  Speaker 1: game and, uh, that is a special moment for members
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  Speaker 1: of two and on Um, who were able to step
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  Speaker 1: out of the shadows of the dark web and celebrate
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  Speaker 1: what was an outrageous performance. I mean, they scored touchdowns
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  Speaker 1: on their last four drives of the game in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter, with two of throwing a touchdown pass in
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  Speaker 1: each of those and I think it's crazy. It's not
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  Speaker 1: always gonna work like this, but this is a situation
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  Speaker 1: with tyreek hill and Jalen waddle where, in a shootout,
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  Speaker 1: if your secondaries having issues like Baltimore was, you're you're done.
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  Speaker 1: If you have an accurate quarterback who's thrown well and
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  Speaker 1: getting protected, waddle and Hill are gonna keep getting open
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  Speaker 1: and the team's gonna keep scoring. So I think this
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  Speaker 1: was the proof of concept game for Mike mcdaniel and
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  Speaker 1: the dolphins offense and to a deserves absolutely although I
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  Speaker 1: don't think he's somebody that we need to cheer on
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  Speaker 1: like he's Rudy Ruddiger. UHBODY. I'm just saying. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: why do we need to make it more than what
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  Speaker 1: it is? He was under he's been a disappointing on balance. UH,
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  Speaker 1: first round pick who now had a huge game. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean now he's a superstar. I think there's this
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  Speaker 1: like I'm just just a little bit. It doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: now this is who too is either. Like he has
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  Speaker 1: been an up and down guy in his career. Let's
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  Speaker 1: see if he could stack some games. But that was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Is this in the A F C East biased? I
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  Speaker 1: mean I moved them up into the top ten. The
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  Speaker 1: dolphins are in the top ten. They're ahead of the
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  Speaker 1: forty niners there, ahead of let's see, who else is
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  Speaker 1: on here? There actually too. So your point. That shows that, Um,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a beacon of integrity, because I could have easily
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  Speaker 1: Pooh pooed it and kept the dolphins and the teens.
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  Speaker 1: But no, you need to respect what they've done. In
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  Speaker 1: Week one they shut down the UH defense offense of
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  Speaker 1: the Patriots, and maybe that wasn't such a big task.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason I had him in our twilight zone
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  Speaker 1: at number thirteen going into this week was because they
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  Speaker 1: only scored thirteen points against the Patriots in week one.
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  Speaker 1: So now they go and they blow up on offense.
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  Speaker 1: So we've seen the ceiling on both sides of the
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  Speaker 1: ball and it's very high, very interesting to see what
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  Speaker 1: happens uh in week three with the dolphins. This is
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  Speaker 1: such an interesting team. There's someone that could immediately wreck
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  Speaker 1: postseason plans. I think, just as a week to observation,
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  Speaker 1: way too early observation, just looking into what teams could
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  Speaker 1: really spice things up later if they continue on this path.
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  Speaker 1: But keep in mind they're playing the bills this week.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what I mean. This is this is they
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  Speaker 1: did a great job winning a shootout with Lamar, who
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  Speaker 1: was playing out of his mind himself in that game.
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  Speaker 1: The bills are a whole other thing. Like all right, Connie,
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  Speaker 1: if the dolphins beat the bills yes week, oh my God,
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  Speaker 1: dolphins might be number one in the power ranking. Stop it,
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  Speaker 1: that's not happening. But I'm saying that is it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be very hard for anyone who does an exercise like this,
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  Speaker 1: and you know there is only one power rankings, it's
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  Speaker 1: these are and everybody else just stopped at a certain point,
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  Speaker 1: but they haven't yet um the dolphins it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't need to I wasn't going to say that,
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  Speaker 1: but it is adorable. It's adorable. I know, I love it.
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  Speaker 1: That's great, Um. You are the authority, though, and the
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  Speaker 1: authority hast doing it. Niners at nine, up two spots.
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy g running the show now. Are you optimistic that
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  Speaker 1: they're going to stay in the top ten? Now? Jimmy
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  Speaker 1: g running the show. Yes, I had him at number
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  Speaker 1: three to open the season and then that weird game
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  Speaker 1: in the rain in Chicago. You didn't know to make
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  Speaker 1: sense of him. Then it just you know, it's brutal
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  Speaker 1: what happened, obviously with Trey Lance, who deserved a chance
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  Speaker 1: to prove himself, and now he goes for ankle surgery.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna miss another year in the San Francisco is
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  Speaker 1: now in the place of Man. NEXT SUMMER WE'RE gonna
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  Speaker 1: be in the same situation again with this kid not
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  Speaker 1: having any idea whether or not he's a real, big
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  Speaker 1: time player. But that's for down the road. For now
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  Speaker 1: they're just extremely fortunate their season is not over. Like
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  Speaker 1: there is a there was at one point. There were
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  Speaker 1: interviews that Kyle Shannon was giving in July, like it
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  Speaker 1: was great having Jimmy G on this team. We went.
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  Speaker 1: We wish him the best. We're sorry it didn't work out,
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  Speaker 1: but it's gonna be great whatever happens next. And then
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  Speaker 1: he stays and everyone's like, oh, that's nice as a
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  Speaker 1: security blanket. And now in week three he is the
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  Speaker 1: leader of the offense again. And not for nothing, and
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  Speaker 1: this is something we've talked about Connie when he had
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  Speaker 1: that qb sneak for the touchdown on Sunday. Way those
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  Speaker 1: players reacted. They wanted Jimmy G in the lineup all
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  Speaker 1: along and you and you could say that's unfair to
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  Speaker 1: to tray lance or or the forts. We're not. We're
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  Speaker 1: ignoring the warning signs here. But this team, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like it's going to be a better, steadier group with
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy g leading it. And it's a bummer for Lance,
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  Speaker 1: but in terms of the niners chances of winning a
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: super bowl, I think they're the odds. Went up with it.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: They're so lucky that this worked out the way, the
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: way that the universe kind of it seemed like the
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: universe was con firing against them. They were way too open,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: even at the combine about their plans with moving Jimmy
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: G and moving on to tray lance while he was
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: still on the roster, and then he was like, this
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: is strange quarterback that was there just hanging out and
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: they didn't know what to do with the only reason
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: this happened is the timing of Jimmy g shoulder surgery
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: right led to his trademarket disappearing. Otherwise it's a rap
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: and it's a rap for San Francisco there in the
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: powering is right now. But but they're not. Instead, Jimmy
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: G is about to get his first practice reps with
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: the one since January. We were so happy watched that
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: replay again. How the offensive linemens or smacking him in
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: the helmet and laughing together. It was like old buddies,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: old war buddies, seeing each other again. Yeah, I'm excited
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: to see the game that they have coming up against
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: the broncos. Old Jimmy G and Russell Wilson on the
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: same field like that. I know we hate to see that,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: especially this early in the secene. Well, that's not what
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: you told me privately before the show, but okay, probably
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: into a microphone. Okay, eleven through fifteen, your teams for
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: week three. We got the Vikings falling four spots at eleven,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: the bengals falling three at twelve, the saints down one
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: at thirteen, the cardinals up eight spots at fourteen. We're
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: gonna talk about them, and then the raiders down one
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: at fifteen. So the cardinals. Um, it's a pretty big
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: jump for a team that didn't look great for most
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: of that game. This is again, like we talked about
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: last week, this time of season there's gonna be big
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: jumps and and big free falls as we kind of
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: figure out where these teams fit in. Because how could
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: you have the cardinals anywhere but in the twenties after
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: the way they played in week one against the chiefs?
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: They just looked unprepared and frankly that's how they looked
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: for the first half of this game as well against
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: the raiders. But it was a reminder to people like
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: me and others who were like not out on Kyler Murray,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: but we're starting to think maybe that extension will the
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: cardinals live to regret it. And then you see what
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: he did in this game and he's just a singular
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: one of one talent and athlete at quarterback and it's
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: just like, okay, they need to be taken seriously because
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: he's on the field. Um, so as much as I
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: haven't liked what I saw in four quarters in week one,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: in the first two quarters, a week too, what happened
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: in the third, fourth and overtime. It made you sit
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: up and say, okay, keep the cardinals in the middle
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: of the pack, in the middle of power. They got,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: they have the talent right there, but they just can't
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: keep relying on these heroics to pull them out of
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: these situations. Maybe that's what the maybe that's what Kyler
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Murray team is. Maybe that makes it a fun, maybe
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: ultimately hollow experience, because that's maybe not how you win
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: super bowls. But they're always going to be entertaining because
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: they have him. It went healthy in the middle of things.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: He also has to stay healthy, which has been an
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: issue in the least couple of years. That's such a tease, though,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: if you're a cardinals fan, that's like, I can't say
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: the equivalent of what the term is that I'm thinking about,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: but it's someone, it's something boy like in your life
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: that you know is uh, he doesn't want to go,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: he doesn't want to commit Um, he just hang out
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: all the time. Right. The cardinals are kind of that,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: a fudge boy. Yeah, and if you're a cardinals man.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: It's like, okay, more inappropriate actually actually saying take that out.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: We cannot, it's too late. Um. Yeah, so I hate
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: the fact that we just said that. I mean, by
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: the way stuff. Can I also say this first round pick,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Isaiah Simmons, who has been not great um to step
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: up and force that fumble that led to the Byron
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Murphy Junior pick up and scoop and scoreing overtime. That's
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: big for his confidence. I thought it was an interesting
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: cliff kingsbury quote. After on Monday, I believe it was
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: he can be as good as he wants. It's commitment
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: to football all day, every day. We've seen the flashes.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Like it's very clear. They're like, Isaiah Simmons, you're not
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: working hard enough, just like Kyler Murray. In that bizarre
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: UH contract clause, like they need he's asking for buying
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: from another first round pick, which again tells you that
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: it's a little weird. It's still a wobbly house in Arizona.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: That's my thing. That seems like a culture thing. That
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: seems like a coaching thing. That seems like the guys
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: could be way better on the field, because the talent
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: is there but they're just not maybe applying themselves right
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: and also, you know, cliff using that moment to kind
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: of call him out and put that quote out there,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: although he's been pretty open about his frustrations with Simmons.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: But anyway, that's all negative stuff. For one week at least,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: the cardinals kind of got their house in order and Um,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: it was a fun game to watch. Another incredible comeback
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: on Sunday. What a week it was, honestly, and those
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Primetime Games showed up. Overcoming Twenty three to seven, I
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: mean that fourth quarter deficit to force over time with
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: two point conversion at Zeros and then like that was
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: just a crazy. The next Gen stats on the first
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: two point conversion, Murray had the first of two. They
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: needed a touchdown in two and a touchdown in the
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: two to force overtime. I think he ran close to
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: ninety yards according to next gen stats, before scampering in
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: with those, you know, little little scampering feet of Kyler
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: with the big old helmet. It is really amazing to
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: watch him run. His whole body kind of flails around,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: his arms and everything too. He puts it. I mean
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: that is a full body effort when he is running
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: and scrambling. It's all and it's a it's a magical thing. Okay,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: so there we have it. The cardinals right there, ranked
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: at fourteen. But when we come back we're going to
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: talk about the two top teams. You need some kyler
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: sounds like that runner, kind of a roadrunner thing like that.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Speaking of road runners. Well, that's good. Trouble Henry. Maybe
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: we're gonna talkhols in sight. It's going up. Hey, Dan dot,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: do a little power moves presented by energizer. I feel
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: like we're gonna do it either way. Here we go
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: from week two. The lions up ten spots at sixteen.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Look at them move. We got the cardinals up eight
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: spots at fourteen. The Eagles jumped seven up to the
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: number three spot in your power rankings, which is still
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: kind of crazy. Holy Healthy Eagles are at three. Uh.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Then the jets up seven and the cowboys up six
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: spots at one, with cooper rush manning the show. But
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: the Lions, okay, up ten spots at sixteen. I saw
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: a great stat over the weekend that the lions have
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: scored thirty five or more points in each of their
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: opening two games. For the first time since nineteen seven days,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: they're doing things and I love it. Yes, that that
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: nugget was included in the NFL dot com power rankings
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: by Old Zeuser U. I'm not saying that's where you
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: got it, but you could find that nugget there as well,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: and you know I plagiarize you, though. I should just
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: read and then I just stay silent and we're out
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: in twelve. Um, the lions. I almost looked at it
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: just now when you were just going down. Is that
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: overly generous? But now it's not. They deserved to be
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: viewed as a certified frisky team, the Lions, because we
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: saw how great the eagles looked in week two. Uh,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: the lions hung with them in their building and a
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: thirty five loss in week one and then just took
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: it to Washington. They had the commanders and they really
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: took it to the commanders. Um Unbelievable. Their ability to
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: just carve up Washington through the air and then also
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: do what they wanted on the ground. Owned it was
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: just a great offensive performance, and I don't think this
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: is flukey. I think if Jared Goff gets protected with
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: the weapons around him, our old friend, offensive coordinator, Ben Johnson. Yes,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: he deserves credit for what's going on here. Of course,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: due Staley, the assistant coach, that whole coaching stuff. So yes,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: maybe there's some residual hard knocks, love and adoration I
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: have for this team, but at the same time I
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: don't think this has been a team playing over its head.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: I think they're going to compete and win games this year.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Alman Raw St Brown what a game looks like a
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: potential number one wide receiver, and deandre swift had eighty
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: seven totally awards on a touchdown on seven touches in
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: this game. He is knocking on the door of the
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: superstar club. Yeah, so it was an offensive breakout for
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: the lions mentioned in the first half. It was another
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: great and they started out with two home games, which
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: is perfect because all those great lions fans, they just
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: want something to cheer for and then you get to
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: home games and two entertaining games in a W and
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: week two. So yes, they deserve to be up ten spots.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: I feel good about that ranking. I think that, let's see,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: cowboys fans are not going to be happy that the
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: lions are one to three, four, five spots but that's
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: exactly what I'm talking about. There's this idea that we
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: need to keep the Lions in there were losers bubble,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: and it's like, I think they're better. I think we're
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: seeing that they're better and that that's just the way
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: it is. Don't get don't look at the lions like
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: the two thousand eighteen lions, looking at them as the
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Dan Campbell Grit Warriors. I like the ear a lions. Ally,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: you are you're bringing them along in many ways. Um,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: that's what everybody says about Dan, but mostly the lions,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: the football team. Right. Okay, so they are sixteen in
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: your power rankings for this week. Let's go now to
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: teams sixteen through twenty. We got the lions passionate about
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: what actually matters to Dan. What what makes him tip? UH,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: the Detroit foot ball team in the NFL. That's it.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: That's the only thing that actually matters to me. He's
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: dead inside. The broncos at seventeen. They're down one spot.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: You got the Patriots up five, at eight, okay, and
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: then the two and o giants sitting at Nineteen in
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: the power rankings. They're up two spots and the titans
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: down three at twenty. The A F C South is
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Um a hot mess right now. So at this point,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: with the titans coming off that horrendous loss to the bills,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: how much of this ranking is sort of a factor
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: of past performants to kind of keep them up here
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: twenty a little bit? You know why? The reason I
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: didn't bury him after Monday night, which again it was ugly.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: They lost by thirty five points. I think the bills
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: scored Um five straight touchdowns after the game was tied.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: So yes, it wasn't it wasn't good, but I also
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: factor in the opponent and I don't think anybody was
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: going to buffalo in that setting on Monday night and
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: winning or even potentially competing. So it shows again that
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: the titans, even last year when they were the number
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: one seed, are not a superpower. But now they're a
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: team that is very clearly missing a j brown, their
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: former number one wide receiver. You see that on the
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: field and I thought it was telling that when this
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: team was down a lot of points, that kept on
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: giving it to Derrick Henry. Is If that's gonna do it,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: and we don't even know Derrick Henry is the same
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: guy right now. So per carry. I think you could
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: definitely make the case and come at me a little
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: bit and say you should have the titans lower based
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: on what they've done in the first two weeks. They
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: blew the game to the giants in week one, but
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: maybe there is just a residual amount of respect for
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: what they've been able to do. They still have the
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: head coach, they still have the quarterback, Henry is still
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: in the field. Maybe they get some things figured out,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: but it's been a bad start. So you're grading teams
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: sort of on a curve. Who Play the bills? Yeah,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: a little bit saying. There are many facts. I don't
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: share all the secret I'M gonna press out. But yes,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: if you're playing an absolute powerhouse and you're putting an
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: impossible let's face it, like the NFL scheduling. Gods don't
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: want me saying this, but you know I am the
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: bad boy of NFL media. They were sent there to
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: be slaughtered. It's been shifted officially. Um, it's shifts, it
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: moves around. They were sent to western New York to
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: be slaughtered. That was entertainment. That was some Roman colisseum stuff, uh,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: and that's what happened. So everybody got what they wanted,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: except for titans fans. Nobody what you want. Everybody want
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: all the bills. Oh, let's eat some wings, let's send
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: our viral videos out, let's let's enjoy what a great
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: team that says. Jim Kelly's on the field. It's a party.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of cooled to two like but let's not,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: let's not lose sight of the fact that the titans
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: were sent up there to be sent home. Nobody wants
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: to go on that trip. Nobody wants it's true. It's true.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: So zip him up and send him back to Tennessee,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: forty one to seven was not a great loss. Um,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: all right, we're just going to move on. Typically not. Okay,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: teams that fell. Uh, we're gonna call them the power failures.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: That's what these are here, um teams. So it's not
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: a power failure. They're all power failures. They're a failures
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: for some reason. That for one week. You know, this week.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: We gotta tell the Energizer, rubber stamp, that that seems
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: like a personal text. They're down eleven spots. I am very,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: very concerned about the colts. How could you not be?
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: I was on Good Morning Football today, as I am
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: every Tuesday morning, early wake up call for old Z user.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Tuesdays are tough and I do it about Tuesdays, uh,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: and they were giving me quite amount, quite an amount
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: of guff about how can the cults be anywhere else
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: but thirty two, and you could argue that that's how
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: bad and non competitive um the cults were. And getting
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: shut out by the Jaguars of all teams. After you know,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: I think the Texans are the worst team in football.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: I have him at thirty two in the rankings. Spoiler alert,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: and the fact that they couldn't beat the Texans in
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: week one, and I know the kicker that they got
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: rid of played a role in that. It's just the
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: team's lost and I think there are a couple of
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: things that play here. You don't have Shack Leonard, that's
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: the most important player in their defense, who not only
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: is a stabilizing force and a leader, but he is
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: no one's better at forcing turnovers at the linebacker position,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: which changes the game, shortens fields, puts Jonathan Taylor in
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: a better position, puts the offense in a better position.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: You're playing without Michael Pittman against Jacksonville and then if
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: you have Matt Ryan, that's cool. The idea of Matt
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Ryan as an upgrade makes sense, but only if the
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: offensive line is supposed is as great as we were
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: expecting it to be, and that hasn't been the case either.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: So it has been a power failure for the failures
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: in Indianapolis. But the reason I have him at twenty
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: six and not last in the League because, yeah, I
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: do like Frank Reich, I do like Ryan, I'd like
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: the offensive line. I Know Pittman and Leonard will come back. Um,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: so not willing to just completely bury them, but they
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: were at number twelve countie when the season started. This
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: is a team that was so, so, so high on.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: They have all. I know this is so embarrassing for you. Yes,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: it is a power failure. They're gonna they tie the Texans.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Why are you not on the list of power failures,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: because you know you should have put me on there.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: You puffed your chest, you were the authorities. I thought
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: you were the guy that does the team. I don't
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: see you leading with a MIA culpa. You're throwing it
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: to me. It's time for you to say you know what,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: I'm a power failure. It's I mean, when it comes
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: to the cults, absolutely, I will own up to it.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: I don't understand why they continually start so slow. I
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: don't know what happened. Carson wentz is probably loving this
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: right now. Can I well, yeah, but can I? Can
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: I say something that as bad as the cults look,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: would you be surprised I have a choice in this
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: or not? Really, would you be surprised if, in late
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: December they have some big game with the titans or
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: whatever and it's for the division title like that certainly
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: still feels like a possibility. We get, especially in this world,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: you kind of expect whatever it is right now to
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: be the way it is. I think they will figure
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: some things out, but it is heavily they just they
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: don't look prepared at all. It looks very sloppy. This
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: was not what I was sold in terms of the
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: offensive line working. Ultimately, we should have taken me into consideration.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: They should have let me know that this was going
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: to be a slower start so I didn't go out
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: there and hang some onions, which it did. Gus Bradley,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: his defense is just like not coming along yet. I
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: know that not having Shack Barrett is a huge deal.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: But they have the chiefs coming up on Sunday. That's
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: not going to work. Shack Leonard needs to get back.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: So they got the chiefs in week three. So I
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: don't know what that's gonna do. Speaking of the schedule,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Gods Connie, they they set things up for reason that
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: there's a reason. They gave them the Texans in week one.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: That that was because, you know, take care of business.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: We're gonna GIVE YOU A W you're gonna have a
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: tougher week two game and then you're gonna lose in
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: week that's the schedule makers. But when you start blowing
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: games that you should win, that's the recipe for Oh
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  Speaker 1: and three in disaster. So the Colts, they're at twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: Um and then, yeah, it's here. We have the schedule.
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  Speaker 1: Gave you the Texans and Jaguars in the first two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: If you can't come out of there with a win, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna get real ugly. and Oh and to start
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  Speaker 1: is awful for them. So you got the cowboys at
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  Speaker 1: twenty one, up six spots, the browns at two, the
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  Speaker 1: steelers at twenty three, then the jets up seven spots
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  Speaker 1: to twenty five. Ahead of those colts who fell eleven
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  Speaker 1: spots the bloviator and Washington at seven. The bloviator is
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: not going to catch on. bloviators, not a thing. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's fitting. Thirty two, Jags at twenty nine, Falcons,
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  Speaker 1: thirty bears, thirty one, panthers, thirty two Texans. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: don't like the text. I don't like what I'm seeing
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  Speaker 1: in Houston, especially on offense. Just doesn't see it with
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  Speaker 1: a team with a ton of talent. Davis Mills hasn't played.
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  Speaker 1: You have more confidence in the panthers a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: How it's I mean, when you're talking at thirty one,
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  Speaker 1: thirty two, you're splitting hairs. But if this is where
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  Speaker 1: I would like to debate, if the panthers played the Texans,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think the panthers probably, with Christian McCaffrey,
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  Speaker 1: find a way. But now we're just now we're going
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: to talk about the best of the rest, Dan, and
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: that means we're gonna put thirty seconds on the clock.
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  Speaker 1: I have questions for you. We're gonna run through. So
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  Speaker 1: that's good. Let's bring let's wrap this. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to look like, you know, an idiot or anything anywhere
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  Speaker 1: out there this week. So I need to get this
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  Speaker 1: information from you right here, right now. which team could
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  Speaker 1: see a big jump in the rankings in the coming weeks?
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  Speaker 1: About I need to be plugged in on this. Doubt
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  Speaker 1: the J E T s and my homer maybe, but
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  Speaker 1: the jets were thirty two last week. The jets have
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  Speaker 1: a miracle, went over the browns and I understand they
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't won that game. The browns had to do six
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  Speaker 1: things wrong in a row to lose that game, but
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  Speaker 1: they did. So they move up five spots, um seven spots,
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  Speaker 1: and they get the Bengals who, not for nothing, have
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  Speaker 1: not looked good, but are also the defending a C champions.
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  Speaker 1: You beat the Bengals, the jets all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: are gonna slot in the teens in this exercise and
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  Speaker 1: they have not been there since I've been doing right.
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  Speaker 1: You're done. You're done. Time's up. Got It. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: to the Vikings. Will they be in the top ten
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  Speaker 1: when they hit their bye week, which is week seven?
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  Speaker 1: All right, who they got? They got lions, saints, Bears, Dolphins. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I think, uh yeah, I think they will be, because
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: I I was feeling great about him after week one.
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  Speaker 1: Weeks who went sideways, and the Kirk Cousins Primetime thing
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  Speaker 1: is not a media narrative. He struggles in that situation.
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  Speaker 1: But I think they're going to win games. I think
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna get out of that four game stretch with
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: two or three wins, and they get three, they'll be
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  Speaker 1: in right around the space they are now. Listen, they
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  Speaker 1: don't have to play the eagles every week, so no
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: big deal, everybody. How about this one? Is Super Bowl
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  Speaker 1: fifty six clouding your judgment of the Bengals? Yes, it is,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: because teams with they passed track record, especially early in
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: the season. That does stick with me and it makes
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: me think, okay, they need to figure some things out,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: and they certainly do. The offensive line is a major,
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: major issue for this team. Joe Burrow keeps getting hit
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: and in general, like people. One thing people forget this
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: offense was struggling before the playoffs started last year and
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: it was the defense and kicking game that got him
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  Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl. Pressure is on the head coach.
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  Speaker 1: Started on a twelve. Get beat by the jets and
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  Speaker 1: you might be twenty, okay, more impressive. In Week two,
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: the giants or the cowboys feel like. I know this and, sir,
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: I feel like you hate the giants. I don't hate
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: the giants, I know I'm a New York Guy, you
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: know it makes me think of home, and so I'm
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: fine with the giants. I also don't buy the giants
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  Speaker 1: at two and Oh. Um. Last year was the panthers,
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: you'll call recall. It started three and Oh and all
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: the panthers fans are like, how can they not be
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: a top ten team? Marching? Yeah, they were marching. That's
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  Speaker 1: how I feel about the giants. Even if they win
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  Speaker 1: this game, they're going to struggle to crack the top fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: For me, I'm not buying Nice win by the cowboys, really,
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  Speaker 1: like I saw from the quarterback there and a Phill
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  Speaker 1: in duty. Okay, how about this one? which team could
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: see super rush drop? It is everybody remember remember his name.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: He is that guy. which team coul see a big
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  Speaker 1: drop in the rankings coming up? Broncos. That's an easy one.
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  Speaker 1: That was a ugly, ugly game in a lot of ways. Um,
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  Speaker 1: but they got the win because they were against the Texans.
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  Speaker 1: I think they lose to twenty nine other teams Um
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday and if they continue to play sloppy, uninspired
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  Speaker 1: football and get beat up by the forty nine is
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  Speaker 1: easily within the realm of possibility. You could see them
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  Speaker 1: take a eight to ten spot dip here. Well, I
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: love that you just brought up the Broncos, because, Dan,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: I have a little surprise for you here. Um, you've
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: been so busy just ranking all sorts of stuff. You've
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: been in ghost mode. It's like your power rankings vortex
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: that you go into. Now am the power rankings, as
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: we established at the top, your personality. Now it's who
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: it's you. Yeah, Dan is gone. The children have no father.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: They have as it. Well, I am plugging into the
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: power and wait, what is this? I am going to
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: rank myself. This is like a ring running and professional wrestling.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: That's right, all right, you know here to take over
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: and I'm going to rank some things here this week.
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  Speaker 1: I trust you here. I think you're a woman with
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: good takes in general. Well, we'll see. God be debatable
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  Speaker 1: on this one. These are my petty power rankings for
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: the week. I love all things petty. Can we clear
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: some Tom Petty Music for this segment going forward? I
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: doubt it. We don't have a budget. So Um, but
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: maybe we'll see our zero point zero zero budget will
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: not clear. Zero Point Zero Zero. You are just leading
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  Speaker 1: me right to my point here. You brought up the Broncos.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: You're brought up zero, zero zero. My favorite, one of
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: my favorite moments of the week, that's the broncos fans
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: counting down lay clock just to help out their offense
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: because the clock management has been so abysmal. This is
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: like Andy Reid in Philadelphia, type bad. That was what
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: he was known for, that was the thing that everybody
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: ripped him apart for. And now Nathaniel Hackett, first time
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: head coach, and you have Russell Wilson and you. You
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: should not be running into these issues. They were at
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: home and I believe they had to delay of game
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: penalty's and three called had a called time out with
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: some Um this organization. It's bad and at least, and
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: you Reid was a young, great head coach on the rise. Hackett,
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: so far as looked, in a little in over his head.
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  Speaker 1: I hope for his sake, because I keep being told
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: he's a really good guy. Um, but he is so nice.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: It's been tough and they're in prime time this week.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: So the spotlight is going to be Broncos niners. That's
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: gonna be a good one. Okay, I my next one
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: is at number two and I really hope that these
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: fans come from some type of money, because they were
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: absolutely burning it. I know that's what people do in
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: Vegas going on in this, but the raiders fans, when
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: they were up three to seven, just popping bottles of Champagne,
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: sprang it all over the place, and producer drew did
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: a little research on this. Those bottles cost, we inc
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: three thousand dollars a pop. So they are just burning that.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: And for the podcast science, it's the people like seated
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: behind the netting, behind the goal post, just spraying it onto,
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: I guess, the tunnel below, or maybe the fans below,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: maybe the field below. It's probably the photographers and me.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's a that's a really Um, proud and loyal
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: fan base. Well, there's that idiot that took a swung
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: at Kyler Murray, but otherwise great fans around the raiders
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: that have followed that team all around the west coast
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: and into the desert. Now I don't think those are
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: actually raiders fans. I think those are plants. Really I
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: think that has something to do with paid standing of Vegas,
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: and because how would you even get that into the building?
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: Because there's a menu, you can buy it and it
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: looks like it's the ace of spades Rose Magnum. So
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: that sells for three thousand of Pop. That's that's a disgrace.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: I don't get me started on this. Maybe their calm. Two, knows? Okay,
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: last one, number one in the petty rank. So much
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: roof fixed, the favorite thing. Listen, common man, rankings a're
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: going up in those. He's got a roof to fix. Everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Number One. Let's go to Philadelphia, where the Eagles fans
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: did this. So you're just hearing clapping right now. It's
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: it's truly but, um, the thing that was great about
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: this is, I don't know, maybe we could take that out.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: I thought it would be better the fans when, when
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: the camera panned to the stands, everyone was doing the
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: skull chant. But my favorite part about that is they
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: were actually doing a folds chant because the NFC championship game,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: that's what they did and Philly fans are always going
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: to Philly when given the opportunity. So a little foals
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: chant to send off the Vikings on a disaster this
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: Monday night. For them was what warmed my heart. So yeah,
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: and you guys are like booing Jalen Reagor because your
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: general manager made a bad draft pick. I didn't quite
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: follow that, but you guys have your own thing going on.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: It's fine, like, I don't know, I'm actually with you
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: on the reagor stuff. I kind of feel bad for him.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: It's not his fault that Howie Roseman thought that he
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: should be a first round pick. Like everybody kind of
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: like give him a break, but it was peak philly
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: that they viewed Jalen Reagor on a punt return. Philly
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: fans are they're like the the cool kid in the
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: back of the class. He's kind of a dirt bag, canceled,
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: but but you know, it's kind of cool because he
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: speaks his mind or she speaks her mind, but at
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: the same time it's like what's up his life? Probably
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: you know, it's tough too because like all the baggage,
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: because of that super bowl ring that they carry around
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: in the back of I'm happy for you, Colle and
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: I'm happy if your husband, Gonzo and Eagles fans just
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: be nice and by the way, you could close the
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: Oh with learning to fly by Tom Petty, and that
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: would tie in nicely with the Eagle that. Let's see
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: if we can clear that the budget. Zero, point zero.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: I know you're right on top of that. Thanks everybody
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: for listening. We'll be back next week for Dan's week four,
• 46:20
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