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#5: Ravens free-falling · NFL Power Rankings

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  Speaker 1: NFL Power Rankings is a production of the NFL in
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to a brand new edition of NFL Power Rankings.
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  Speaker 2: Mike m. Eric at home with you, and as.
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  Speaker 3: Always, every single week, we take you through the top
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  Speaker 3: teams in the NFL. For a complete list of all
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  Speaker 3: thirty two teams and where they sit according to Eric,
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  Speaker 3: all you have to do is check out the article
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  Speaker 3: on NFL dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Before Eric, we get to the top teams.
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  Speaker 3: I do think it's worth repeating here because if you
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  Speaker 3: haven't heard, Tyreek Hill goes down with the dislocated knee
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  Speaker 3: on Monday Night Football. They get the win, and that's
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  Speaker 3: the positive from a Dolphins perspective, but they lose the
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  Speaker 3: best wide receiver on their team for the entire year.
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  Speaker 3: How different is this offense going to look without the Cheetah?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? I guess it's good that Darren Waller had the
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  Speaker 4: game he did in his return to the NFL two
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  Speaker 4: touchdowns and the on sites kick return to help kind
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  Speaker 4: of seal it there, But losing Tyreek Hill completely changes
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  Speaker 4: this team. We have Molak neighbors go down in New
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  Speaker 4: York too, So every week it seems like there's been
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  Speaker 4: a new position that's been attacked, and wide receiver certainly
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  Speaker 4: is one. So Miami's gotta find some solutions, jal Wadle,
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  Speaker 4: somebody else. It's got to come from within.
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  Speaker 3: I think we will find out exactly where the Miami
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  Speaker 3: Dolphins rank on your list.
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  Speaker 2: But let's get to the top teams right now in
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  Speaker 2: the league.
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  Speaker 3: And at number one with no drama at all, four
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  Speaker 3: and O the Philadelphia Eagles, the Buffalo Bills right behind them,
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  Speaker 3: followed by be the line, so no change in that
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  Speaker 3: top three. A nice move here from the Rams, who
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  Speaker 3: we'll talk about in just a moment, moving up six
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  Speaker 3: spots into the fourth position. Seattle, let's go moving up
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  Speaker 3: eight spots. The Packers hold firm at six with.
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  Speaker 2: A tie on Sunday Night Football.
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  Speaker 3: It's still weird to see two to one and one
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  Speaker 3: as a record for them against the Dallas Cowboys. That
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  Speaker 3: was entertaining until we didn't get closure on a winner.
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  Speaker 3: The Tampa Bay Buccaneers dropped two spots to seven, and
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  Speaker 3: then we got the Chargers falling four spots into that
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  Speaker 3: eighth position. All right, I think there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: teams that would love to have this type of drama
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  Speaker 3: be four and Zho coming off of a Super Bowl appearance.
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  Speaker 3: What am I supposed to make of these conversations with
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  Speaker 3: this offense and AJ Brown being upset and Jalen Hurts
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  Speaker 3: in some of these numbers in the first half versus
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  Speaker 3: the second half, they're still undefeated.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And you know, we had a lot of conversations
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  Speaker 4: like this about the Kansas City Chiefs last year, right,
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  Speaker 4: all the close wins, all the close shaves that they had,
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  Speaker 4: but they had this sort of late game grit. Now
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  Speaker 4: I understand the Eagles didn't play all that well in
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  Speaker 4: the second half of this game, didn't play well in
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  Speaker 4: the first half against the Rams. They've had this sort
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  Speaker 4: of bad habit of I don't want to say falling asleep,
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  Speaker 4: but you know, going into snooze mode if you will. Offensively,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, Jalen Hurts is still capable of making plays.
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  Speaker 4: We've seen more design runs, there were these little clever
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  Speaker 4: pitch plays. There was the fake Tush push. So they
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  Speaker 4: added more to this offense this week, but it just
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  Speaker 4: wasn't connecting consistently. They really haven't had a great sixty
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  Speaker 4: minute game yet. But with the defense playing as well,
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  Speaker 4: it is special teams as well. You know, the offense
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  Speaker 4: still getting good field positions, still making you know, a
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  Speaker 4: high point total. So right now it's good enough. Will
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  Speaker 4: it be good enough in October, November, December, we shall see.
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  Speaker 3: If if the Bills were dominant and they got tested
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  Speaker 3: against the seats, if they were dominant, would you have
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  Speaker 3: slid them into the top spot.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I considered it too with Detroit, you know, I
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  Speaker 4: mean Buffalo and Detroit, two teams that I thought about
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  Speaker 4: moving up into that top spot right now, the top quartile,
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  Speaker 4: the first eight teams. You can make an argument for
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  Speaker 4: a lot of different orders, other teams that I didn't
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  Speaker 4: even include in this list. So it's been hard to
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  Speaker 4: solidify the kind of the upper class right now.
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  Speaker 3: The Rams I think are in that mix, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: glad you moved them up as far as you did.
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  Speaker 2: They sit fourth in the rankings.
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  Speaker 3: They move up six spots, and I know a couple
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  Speaker 3: weeks ago they lost to this Philadelphia team in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm a believer in the Colts.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe I'm in the minority, I'm not exactly sure, but
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  Speaker 3: I think the Cults are a really good football team,
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  Speaker 3: and they got tested there make the case for the
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  Speaker 3: Rams and justify this fourth position for them.
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  Speaker 4: I'm with you. I think the Cults are a legitimate opponent.
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  Speaker 4: Granted they did shoot themselves in the foot, but and
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  Speaker 4: the Rams took advantage of it, right, I mean, I
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  Speaker 4: think they're an opportunistic football team. If Matthew Stafford stays healthy,
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  Speaker 4: they have a chance. The run game been a little
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  Speaker 4: hit or miss, but those two explosive receivers that in
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  Speaker 4: the pass rush makes for an next combination. If they
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  Speaker 4: can solidify the special teams, I think they'll have a
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  Speaker 4: you know, a squad that's very dangerous to face. So,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you think about kind of how they've they've
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  Speaker 4: gotten to this point. It's really a loss at Philly.
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  Speaker 4: They had a chance to win that game at the
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  Speaker 4: very end. That's the only thing keeping them from four
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  Speaker 4: to zero right now. So when you step back, you
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  Speaker 4: kind of look at their resume. Yes, some close shade wins,
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  Speaker 4: but still coming against some better teams. I think the
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  Speaker 4: Texans will be will end up looking like a better
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  Speaker 4: win in Week one and you know, just across the board,
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  Speaker 4: and they don't have any glaring weaknesses in my opinion.
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  Speaker 4: But the question is are they gonna stay healthy. Are
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  Speaker 4: they gonna stay viable for the whole season? Just think
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  Speaker 4: about how much better they look now, though then it
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  Speaker 4: starts the last two seasons one and four, three and six.
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  Speaker 4: That's that's been a huge improvement right there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well look at it because they've been healthy these
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  Speaker 3: last couple of years. You think about the starts of
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  Speaker 3: their seasons and revolving doors on their offensive line, star
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  Speaker 3: players going down. I just think if you're a Rams fan,
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  Speaker 3: you absolutely have to love the fact that Matthew Stafford
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  Speaker 3: looks healthy, because there was some real concern with that
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  Speaker 3: back injury heading into a week nowe one in the preseason,
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  Speaker 3: not really seeing them out there, So definitely a positive sign. Eric,
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  Speaker 3: you had the Rams moving up six spots, but they
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  Speaker 3: weren't the biggest mover of the week. The Seahawks they
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  Speaker 3: move up eight spots. That is a significant move. How
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  Speaker 3: bullish are you on this team?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I think there's a lot of that too it, Mike.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, like I said earlier, it's been a little
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  Speaker 4: bit tough to determine who are the best eight teams,
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  Speaker 4: who are the real cream of the crop. But as
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  Speaker 4: I kept looking more and more at Seattle, I thought,
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  Speaker 4: boy close loss in Week one, have made strides since then,
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  Speaker 4: have a big road at a road win at Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 4: short week road win at Arizona even if they had
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  Speaker 4: to hang on. So a lot of good things. And
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  Speaker 4: I guess I didn't know what to expect out of
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  Speaker 4: Sam Darnold coming into the season. I guess I didn't
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  Speaker 4: know whether Jackson Smith and Jigbo would be that wide
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  Speaker 4: receiver one without DK there so far those have been answered.
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  Speaker 4: I think both guys have played excellent. The defense has
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  Speaker 4: made some strides. The run game can put teams away.
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  Speaker 4: They have that two headed monster O Lion is kind
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  Speaker 4: of hell firm for now. Just more big plays defensively
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  Speaker 4: the last three games too, So I love the progress
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  Speaker 4: they've made. It look like a more surefooted team. Some
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  Speaker 4: doubt maybe are they truly that elite level contender. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know yet, but again, their resume looks pretty good
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  Speaker 4: and they're right up there with the Rams as one
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  Speaker 4: of the NFC West heavyweights, I.
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  Speaker 3: Think, and an opportunity to really solidify themselves and justify
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  Speaker 3: this ranking with Tampa Bay that's looming, and quite frankly,
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  Speaker 3: eric they win that football game I think there's more
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  Speaker 3: people who watch the show, listen to this podcast who
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  Speaker 3: will say, oh, okay, this makes sense. I feel like
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  Speaker 3: I jinx the Green Bay Packers. Coming off of Week two.
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing shows, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, on the NFL channel and hanging out with you, Eric,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm like, Yo, green Bay's got the best resume
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  Speaker 3: in the NFL. They I was buying it. I'm like, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: they're going to be a super Bowl team. Then they lose,
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  Speaker 3: and then they come up with a tie. How am
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  Speaker 3: I supposed to view this squad based off of the
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  Speaker 3: highs and some of the lows to the first few
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  Speaker 3: weeks of the season.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the team that looked like it was
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  Speaker 4: going to race out to a two touchdown lead all
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  Speaker 4: of a sudden had an extra point block that's a
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  Speaker 4: three point swing, started giving ground defensively, and we started
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  Speaker 4: asking ourselves, is this the same defensive group that we
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  Speaker 4: saw in the first three weeks of the season. Even
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  Speaker 4: as good as Dak Prescott is, and he was fantastic
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  Speaker 4: Sunday night, but still this defense kind of held itself
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  Speaker 4: to a higher standard, had kind of raised the bar,
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  Speaker 4: if you will, with their performance the first three weeks
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  Speaker 4: of the season, and it dropped. There's no question about it.
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  Speaker 4: I mean with that one game, all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 4: we're kind of left to question, Hey, what happens when
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  Speaker 4: they slow down the pass rush? Is that secondary going
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  Speaker 4: to be able to hold up? Look, Jordan Love is
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  Speaker 4: going to have a couple of quirky plays per game.
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  Speaker 4: You sort of baked that into the expectations. He's been
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  Speaker 4: more good than bad. You know. Josh Jacobs sort of
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  Speaker 4: cured some of their run game issues Sunday night, even
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  Speaker 4: if it did come against the Cowboys. But special teams
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  Speaker 4: remain a problem. That offensive line has injuries. Thankfully they're
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  Speaker 4: at the by and they can kind of sort some
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  Speaker 4: of those things out. But all of a sudden two
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  Speaker 4: one and one, I think we're we're questioning their credentials
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  Speaker 4: a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah we are.
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  Speaker 3: You know who are not questioning right now? Jackson Dark
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  Speaker 3: and the GMA. How about the Giants.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go I.
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  Speaker 3: Told you last week on the show, he's gonna he's
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  Speaker 3: gonna invigorate this team.
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  Speaker 2: I will say this, I didn't see this coming.
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  Speaker 3: And what I mean by that is I didn't see
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  Speaker 3: them beating the Chargers and really dominating most of that game.
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  Speaker 2: I'm almost willing.
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  Speaker 3: To give La the past here. We knew about Slater
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  Speaker 3: before the season started, gets some mega contract, he's not
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  Speaker 3: on that offensive line. Joel Alt gets hurt, Justin Herbert
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  Speaker 3: some uncharacteristic interceptions. This dude doesn't really make mistakes. I
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  Speaker 3: thank you and I on this show, we're talking about
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  Speaker 3: him as like an early MVP candidate. Are you with me, like,
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  Speaker 3: just say, hey, like a blip on the radar. Let's
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  Speaker 3: not panic right now. They didn't have Najee Harris. I
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  Speaker 3: think Amri and Hampton looked pretty good. Or are you
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  Speaker 3: legitimately concerned about this offensive line creating more problems, you know,
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  Speaker 3: than solutions over the next few weeks.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. One of the good things that came out of
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  Speaker 4: that game, one of the very few, let's make that clearer,
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  Speaker 4: was Omari and Hampton. I think him breaking out and
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  Speaker 4: you know, putting that fumble a couple of weeks ago,
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  Speaker 4: way behind him. Here. Each week he seems a little
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  Speaker 4: bit more comfortable. That's a good thing. It's important that
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  Speaker 4: he has a role. But losing Slater first in the
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  Speaker 4: preseason and losing all both your tackles, both high paid
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  Speaker 4: guys both expected to be huge parts of their equation.
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  Speaker 4: Really kind of having those two made them think maybe
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  Speaker 4: we don't need to add as much in the offseason
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  Speaker 4: to that group. Becton, you know, if they had all
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  Speaker 4: those guys together healthy, they might have one of the
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  Speaker 4: better offensive lines in the league. Now arguably one of
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  Speaker 4: the worst. So how are they going to find solutions
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  Speaker 4: to keeping Herbert upright protecting him? He's already sped things up,
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  Speaker 4: He's already done so much with so so passed protection.
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  Speaker 4: What's a good you know, what's gonna happen? The way
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  Speaker 4: we saw in that second half, the Giants just mauled
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  Speaker 4: and Austin Deculus had his hands full. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if there's a solution on the roster right now to
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  Speaker 4: help out.
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  Speaker 3: I will say this Giants defense, and I know this
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  Speaker 3: team has struggled this season. I mean, I just love
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  Speaker 3: seeing the emotion with Jackson Dard and Brian Dabell, But
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  Speaker 3: this defense is actually pretty good. So for as much
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  Speaker 3: as people want to say, like, oh, they should have
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  Speaker 3: lost this game, you have the injuries on this offensive line.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's a problem.
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  Speaker 3: The one positive and there's more than one, but one
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  Speaker 3: of the positives is the Chargers have one of the
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  Speaker 3: best wide receiver rooms and one of the best quarterback
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  Speaker 3: in the NFL. So I think that there's a credit Harbaugh.
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  Speaker 3: I believe in him, trust him. I think he'll be
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  Speaker 3: able to figure it out. But they do drop four
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  Speaker 3: spots in these rankings. There's another team that candidly like
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  Speaker 3: I actually thought we'd be talking a whole lot more
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  Speaker 3: about them, and it's been mostly negative. But I'll tell
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  Speaker 3: you what I think they're really on. The men's Xavier
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  Speaker 3: Worthy looked terrific. We'll examine the Chiefs and talk about
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  Speaker 3: some struggles and the Ravens. That's coming up next on
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  Speaker 3: NFL Power Rankings. Back here on Power Rankings, Mike ham
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  Speaker 3: along with Eric ed Holm, and you can take a
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  Speaker 3: closer look.
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  Speaker 2: At Eric's rankings. Teams nine through sixteen don't look now.
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  Speaker 3: Kansas City Chiefs look like they are back, moving up
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  Speaker 3: two spots to number nine. The Colts with that loss
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  Speaker 3: that Coose loss to the Rams drop a spot into
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  Speaker 3: that tenth position. The Commanders they cannot wait to get
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  Speaker 3: Jayden Daniels back into the line up. At eleven, the
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  Speaker 3: Broncos look good, move up two spots on Monday Night football.
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  Speaker 3: With a win against Cincinnati, they're in the twelfth spot.
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  Speaker 3: The Jags at their team, the Steel at fourteen. We'll
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  Speaker 3: talk about both those teams.
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  Speaker 2: At fifteen.
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  Speaker 3: It is the Niners who dropped three spots. Even had
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  Speaker 3: Rock Purty back in the line, I couldn't figure out
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  Speaker 3: a way to get it done. And the free fall
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  Speaker 3: for the Ravens continues. One in three they dropped nine spots.
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  Speaker 2: Eric I was looking at some of.
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  Speaker 3: The AFC West odds to go and win that division.
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  Speaker 3: The Chargers, despite that loss, are still in the driver
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  Speaker 3: See Kansas City got a win and they're still behind
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  Speaker 3: in terms of the odds from Los Angeles. Then it's
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  Speaker 3: Denver and the Raiders in that order. But let's focus
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  Speaker 3: in on this Kansas City Chiefs team. Xavier Worthy, if
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  Speaker 3: you would have said to me, like, hey, one guy
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  Speaker 3: makes a difference in this offense, of course, I think
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  Speaker 3: we all think about Patrick Mahomes in one to five.
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  Speaker 3: But how much better did they look with a healthy
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  Speaker 3: wide receiver out there?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it wasn't hard to see the difference. I'm sure
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  Speaker 4: anyone who's been watching the Chiefs for a while now,
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  Speaker 4: and certainly the beginning of the season. Just seeing him
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  Speaker 4: right away, the big play returning to the offense average
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  Speaker 4: seventeen plus points per touch, you know, thirty seven yard catch,
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  Speaker 4: thirty five yard run, twenty eight yard catch all the
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  Speaker 4: first thirty plus minutes of the game. That was the
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  Speaker 4: big difference right there. I've always said, when Patrick trusts
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  Speaker 4: his receivers, his targets, and his offensive line, this is
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  Speaker 4: a good offense. Right. We'll see if they're back to
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  Speaker 4: being that super Bowl type contender, but I think they
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  Speaker 4: have to feel a ton better about themselves with a
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  Speaker 4: dominant victory over Baltimore with these developments happening. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it just makes the home so much more dangerous. It
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  Speaker 4: takes a little office play as far as the scrambling
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  Speaker 4: is concerned. So it's fun to see them with mostly
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  Speaker 4: full compliment. Don't forget they still get Rashi Rice at
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  Speaker 4: some point this season, so you know, with him and
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  Speaker 4: Jalen Royals eventually too, when he's got his full arsenal weapons,
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  Speaker 4: I think the Chiefs are gonna absolutely be one of
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  Speaker 4: those teams you can't look past them at all. I Mean,
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  Speaker 4: we were ready to bury him, but they're still coming.
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  Speaker 3: Eric This is the first time this season I've watched
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  Speaker 3: this team and they look like A they were having
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  Speaker 3: fun and B they looked confident, and they were confident
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  Speaker 3: against the Ravens team that's had a lot of injuries.
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  Speaker 3: We'll talk about them in just a moment, but I
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  Speaker 3: don't think it matters. Team goes Hey, Lamar Jackson still
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  Speaker 3: on that side of the field. They still got some
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  Speaker 3: other guys and they handled them. So I think this
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  Speaker 3: is a big spot for Kansas City. To get Jacksonville
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  Speaker 3: on the road Monday night football, that's also a big
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  Speaker 3: spot for them. All right, Let's move on to the Colts,
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  Speaker 3: who sitt number ten on your rankings. Danny Dimes got
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  Speaker 3: a couple interceptions, looking a little human because that hadn't
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  Speaker 3: been the case to the first couple of weeks of
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  Speaker 3: the season. They're like, literally like a dropped touchdown from
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  Speaker 3: Edi Mitchell away from maybe having a different result against
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  Speaker 3: the Rams.
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  Speaker 2: There's a part of me, and I said this earlier when.
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  Speaker 3: We talked about Los Angeles, I think this Colts team
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  Speaker 3: is really legit, and you still having this top ten team,
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  Speaker 3: you must feel the same way I do.
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  Speaker 4: I watched that game closely on Sunday Live watch parts
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  Speaker 4: of it again later and I said, look, you know,
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  Speaker 4: if if Ady Mitchell doesn't you, you know, kindly said,
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  Speaker 4: drop right, cough it up, whatever you want to say,
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  Speaker 4: just shy the end zone out of the back. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: that's a turnover that's missing seven points right there. And
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  Speaker 4: then a holding call also on Jonathan Taylor's fifty three
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  Speaker 4: our touchdown return in the fourth quarter. You know, couldn't
• 14:03
  Speaker 4: have two more disastrous for a single player. Obviously he
• 14:07
  Speaker 4: becomes the go but the Colts really did do what
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: they hadn't done the first three games of the season,
• 14:12
  Speaker 4: and that shoot themselves in the foot these costly penalties
• 14:14
  Speaker 4: and mistakes that really hurt them because at the beginning
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: of the game and through different stretches throughout, they actually
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: look like, if not the equal team, so maybe even
• 14:22
  Speaker 4: the better one than the Rams at times. So I'm
• 14:24
  Speaker 4: with you. I think they're a legitimate team. I don't
• 14:26
  Speaker 4: think they're going to have games where Ady Mitchell or
• 14:29
  Speaker 4: one other player has this many terrible mistakes all at once.
• 14:33
  Speaker 4: But they've got to make sure they clean it up.
• 14:36
  Speaker 4: Their margin for air I don't think is quite as
• 14:38
  Speaker 4: big as some of the other contenders, but how efficient
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: they've been offensively this season, I don't think we can
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: look past them.
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they got the Raiders next up, and once again
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: you only drop them one spot. I could tell there's
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: a lot of respect that you have for that ball club.
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: The Jags move up four spots. At what point do
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: we say, oh, okay, Like, hey, maybe this is the
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: year that we thought we would get a couple of
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: years ago from this team, Like this looks pretty legit,
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: especially on the defensive side.
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: That's thirteen turnovers they forced this year. My let me
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: here's a little crazy stats. That's more than three teams
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: had all of last season. In one of those three teams,
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: the Jacksonville Jaguars, they had nine turnovers all of last year,
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: forced thirteen through three or through four games, excuse me,
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: three of them at least three in every single game.
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: That'll win you football games right there. Even if Trevor
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: Lawrence and Travis Hunter and Brian Thomas and those guys
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: are still kind of developing chemistry, even if the offense
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: has been a little bit hit or miss, you go
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: plus four in the turnover department against San Francisco and
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: you get a punt return touchdown. That's a game you
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: need to win, even with a missfield goal and some
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: other stuff they left out on the field. So look
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: the offensive formula. You know, Liam Cohene was brought in
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: to kind of fix this thing, get the big place coming.
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: We've seen Travis etn We've seen some moments where it
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: looks promising, but it really has been about the defense
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: and in most cases the special teams that have done
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: the heavy lifting. So you know, they haven't even theoretically
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: hit anything close to their offensive peak yet, and they're
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: vastly outperforming what they did defensively a year ago. So
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: I'm intrigued. You know, consider me fascinating where this team
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: could end up because you know, there's still so much
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: room to grow, and we'll see if they can kind
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: of threaten the Colts in that division and maybe even
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: make a playoff push.
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think one of those last points is a
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: legit one. They haven't even hit the ceiling right now
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: on the offensive side. Bucky Brooks, one of our colleagues
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: and NFL Media, actually works on that broadcast team for
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: the Jags.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: I remember talking to him a week ago about this.
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: He's like, hey, Brian Thomas doesn't even look like the
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: duty was last year, Like there's another gear for this
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: offense they haven't utilized. They're just not clicking right now
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: at full throttle. When that happens, they'll be scary. The Steelers.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: They go to Island, they get a win, they move
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: up a couple spots in your rankings. They sit at fourteenth.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: Are they the team to beat in the AFC North?
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: I have very soft sort of recommendation for that. Right now,
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: every team in the North is in the negative and
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: point in perragial, including the Steelers. They're minus two even
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: though they're three and one, so you know, I don't
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: want to give them too much credit, but I will
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: say they've taken care of business the last two games
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: a Patriots team that hadn't found its identity yet and
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: now a Vikings team that's struggling offensively. The three wins
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: they have are against flawed offenses, so I don't want
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: to put too much stock into what they've done. And
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: the big home loss of Seattle still kind of looms,
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: but we've at least seen progress. Aaron Rodgers looks pretty good.
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: I mean, look, I can't complain with a whole lot
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: of what he's done. DK Metcalf has been good too.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: Kenneth Gainwell stepped in and did a really good job
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: for Jalen Warren. You know, they're fixing some of these
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: little issues that kind of plagued them the first few
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: games of the season. But you know, is it the
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: most impressive three and one start of all time? No?
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: And I think you know, some Steelers fans wish they
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: wouldn't have punted there at the end of the game,
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: kind of keeping the door open, but doing the job
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: so far. And again, I think this is a team
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: that can get theoretically better than what we've seen so far.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: So the record helps him out quite a bit.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: I think one of the more disappointing teams this season
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: is inside that division. They dropped nine spots for you,
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: that's the Baltimore Ravens. By the time the game was
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: over with the Kansas City Chiefs, seven starters on this
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: defensive side either we're not playing because they got hurt
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: in the game or didn't even play in this matchup
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: because they were banged up. Then Lamar Jackson is out
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: late in that game because of a hamstring injury.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: They get Houston.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: What am I supposed to make of a one and
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: three football team that's got this much attrition.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's really hard to kind of gauge them right now.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: We're still kind of waiting to hear what Lamar's status
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: is and what he's gonna be. Is he going to
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: miss a game? Would they consider sitting him out? Is
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: it multiple games and zero? You know that uncertainty looms
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: over everything because he's the guy that can rescue the
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: Ravens from a bad game. He hasn't really done that
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: so far, but he has that capability. He's superhuman in
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: some regards. But when you have him banged up, not
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: as effective as a runner so far this season, and
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: tasked with cleaning up so many mistakes, all the injuries
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: on defense, how many points and drives they're giving up.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: The offense has had problems as well. You know, this
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: is where the breaking point, you know, the law of
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: diminishing returns kind of kicks in at this point. So, yeah,
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: you start thinking about Matta Bik out for the season.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: You know, the secondary really being chewed up Rokwan Smith
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: to you know, that's the heart of the Ravens defense
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: outside of Kyle Hamilton, and to lose that kind of
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: backbone that core, if you will. It's just absolutely gutting
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: right now with some tough games coming up Texans Rams
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: and hopefully they limp into the by At this point.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: They are a one to three football team. Eric, I
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: gotta talk to a research department.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: I got to imagine teams that start one to three
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: making the postseason like that's probably low single digit.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: Percent, pretty low.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: So yeah, this is this is gonna be an uphill
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: battle right now for this Ravens team. They got to
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: get healthy. Hopefully Lamar does not miss significant time. There's
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: a reason for smile for me though, because the New
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: York Giants handle a business getting their first win of
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: the season. Jackson Dart reinvigorating this ball club. What does
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: it mean for the g Men in their ranking. We'll
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: also check in on a division rival and the Cowboys,
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: who also showed some signs to life on the offensive side.
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: That's still become on Power rankings. Back here on Power Rankings,
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: Mike ym and Eric at home with you. Here's Eric's
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: teams seventeen through twenty four.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: The Vikings drop two spots with that loss against the
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: Steelers in Ireland. Don't look now, Chicago's starting to look
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: pretty good here Roma Douings and Kayleb Williams.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: That connection is looking pretty strong. They move up one.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Spot at nineteen. It's the Cardinals the Falcons. They might
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: be the biggest enigma in the NFL based off of
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: what we saw two weeks ago, and then win this
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: past week.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: They move up two spots. The Texans.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Good to see them get into the win column, also
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: moving up two spots to twenty one.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: The Dallas Cowboys a mover, up two spots.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: As well at twenty two, the Patriots at twenty three,
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: and the Cincinnati Bengals, Oh boy, drop four spots down
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: to twenty four. All right, the Cowboys explain this to me,
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: are are you a fan of ties?
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: I love ties? Are you kidding me? I like unusual scores,
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: I like strange games, So yeah, I do, and it
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: messes everything up right when we get down a tiebreaker season,
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: This is going to be pretty fun. But who knows
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: if the Cowboys leaving being playoff canens, if they have
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: George Pickens making plays like this, maybe they will. Dak
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: Prescott was special too, you know, A very tough team
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: to rank given their defensive struggles, but I will say
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: they're playing hard and it's good to see Dak back
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: at an elite level. He was an MVP candidate a
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: couple of years ago, and boy, I hope he gets
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: a chance at a ring at some point. Again, I
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: don't know if it's this season, but you gotta love
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: the fight in this team, and they did put on
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: a show at least Sunday night.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, an emotional game for the Dallas Cowboys with Micah
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: back into the building and obviously Mike I had that
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: huge tackle late in that game really actually helped to
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: save it for him from that perspective, because it could
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: have been a loss for Green Bay Bengals.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: They dropped four spots.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: I got a friend who's actually a fan of Cincinnati
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: shot me at Texas morning and he's like, hey, like,
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: what are we supposed to do? Like this was really
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: tough on Monday night, and he's right about that. They
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: dropped the four spots. Do you make a trade for
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: a quarterback?
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Is it Russ? Is it? You know? Do you make
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: some calls for Jamis?
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: Like, I don't know what the solution is for this
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: team because Detroit is next, and I don't know how
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: they get that went.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: I mean, they're coming schedule is rough and what we
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: saw Monday night was not feasible. And this is not
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: how you employ your star wide receivers. You don't get
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: them the ball. That's certainly a problem. Jake Browning, it's
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: been bad. Maybe it is the solution you go for
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: a quarterback there are some options out there, or maybe
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: you go in the totally different direction and start fielding
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: calls on on t Higgins or Trey Hendrickson. I guess
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: it depends how the next three four games go and
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: if they're going to be out of it by the
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: trade deadline. If they are, that's what I would do.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: I would take the opposite approach. Look, you still want
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: to build around Burrow and Chase, that's fine. I get that,
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: But this was an all in type of season that's
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: going all out the window right now. So I don't
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: know if I can defend that quarterback option unless they
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: start winning some games.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: That's the problem they went in on this season. This
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: team is to build up right now. Got to figure
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: it out.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Personnel wise.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Rankings twenty five through thirty two. It's the Cleveland Browns,
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: the New York Giants, moving up.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Just four spots, Art, what are we doing here? The
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Panthers at twenty seven.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: At twenty eight, it's the Raiders, followed by the Dolphins,
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: who don't have Tyreek Hill for the rest of the season,
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: the Jets, still looking for their first one of the
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: year at thirty the Saints also winless, and then the
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Tennessee Titans at thirty two, dropping three spots by that
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: offense that it has just been tough sledding here the Giants. Dude,
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: why just four spots your biggest mover with the Seahawks.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: I candidly I thought it was going to be the
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: Giants moving inside the top twenty.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: If I'm being honest with.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: You, you gotta win some more games first, right, and you
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: lose Elik Neighbors. I mean, that's gonna take an effect too.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: But I love what Dart did. I mean they added
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: some wrinkles to the offense. You saw this little shovel
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: of THEO Johnson, you know, darts athleticism. He used it
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: better than Russell Wilson did. So I'm still excited. I
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: think they can manufacture some some yards, but not without
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: neighbors there. I don't know how much they're gonna be
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: able to do.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a tough go, but the defenses look good
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: and make signs.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Of life for that offense. Appreciate you guys. Watching.
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