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#20: No. Right. Ranking. · NFL Power Rankings

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  Speaker 1: NFL Power Rankings is a production of the NFL in
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  Speaker 1: partnership with I Heart Radio. Oh Hello, and welcome to
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  Speaker 1: another edition of the NFL Power Rankings podcast, presented by Energizer.
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  Speaker 1: I am Dan Hansas and joining me in the Chris
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  Speaker 1: Westling podcast studio is the wonderful Colleen. Thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Fresh off my trip from Buffalo, I'm here, I'm ready
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  Speaker 1: to rock. Let's do this vibes. Oh my god, fresh.
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  Speaker 1: I absolutely love a tailgate in Buffalo. I had only
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  Speaker 1: gone to my first one ever a week before Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: This one even better. I was showered with gifts and food,
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  Speaker 1: homemade cannolis. There was this one group that was doing
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  Speaker 1: a high end tailgate next to us, and they had
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  Speaker 1: lobsters and lamb skewers and camus with wine glasses. It
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  Speaker 1: was very classy. So, I mean, you can really go
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  Speaker 1: every end of the spectrum there. Yeah, I'm very happy
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  Speaker 1: for the people of Cincinnati, but you do feel for
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  Speaker 1: those fans in Buffalo. I think they were expecting a
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  Speaker 1: party and a coronation and got anything but And by
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  Speaker 1: the way, um, if now you're getting homemade cannoli's, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, it's like at some point, you're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to finish the film The Godfather, which has one of
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  Speaker 1: the most famous lines in cinema. Oh my god, Oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, Oh my god. I have an update for you.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't finished it yet. That's not the ever. Guess
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  Speaker 1: what on my flight from Buffalo to JFK where I
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  Speaker 1: was connecting, who was I sitting next to? Please say Apaco?
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  Speaker 1: I wish no, But have you watched the offer yet,
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  Speaker 1: which is about the making The Godfather? Well this is
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  Speaker 1: not going to be as great then, um next to
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  Speaker 1: the guy who played Mario Puzzo, who wrote The Godfather,
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  Speaker 1: and he was an irishman and he could not have
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  Speaker 1: been nicer. So, like, you know what, everything really came
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  Speaker 1: full circle. Well, now you gotta finish the movie. I uh.
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  Speaker 1: And the line is leave the gun. You got it?
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  Speaker 1: Got it? So let's get back to Power Rankings because
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  Speaker 1: this is the Power Rankings podcast presented by Energizer. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's a little unfair that I'm doing this still,
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  Speaker 1: I feel I am under contract with the NFL. Part
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  Speaker 1: of my contract is you will do Power Rankings throughout
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  Speaker 1: the season. You dragged me into this too, dragged you
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  Speaker 1: into this, and I apologize what god um or what
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  Speaker 1: NFL commissioner asks a man to rank these four teams.
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  Speaker 1: There's no right ranking, no idea, all four of these teams,
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  Speaker 1: and this is this is a reason to be one
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  Speaker 1: of the reasons to be excited for Championship weekend. Usually there's,
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  Speaker 1: you know, one team that's a little like you're not
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  Speaker 1: like the others, which sometimes adds a lore in its
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  Speaker 1: own right. But then you have a year like this
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't happen often. We're all four, the four kind
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  Speaker 1: of best teams all season. And check my power rankings.
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  Speaker 1: All these teams were hovering around the top for most
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  Speaker 1: of the season. Let's check out the final eight. That's
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  Speaker 1: all it is. Now, how about that? How about that?
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  Speaker 1: Up three spots to number one? I don't understand. Not
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  Speaker 1: the only team to jump three spots, your Philadelphia Eagles
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  Speaker 1: up three spots to number two. San Francisco forty Niners.
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  Speaker 1: They won twelve games in a row. This isn't right.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's in my contract, but there's a human
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  Speaker 1: rights of violation here. I have to drop the Niners
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  Speaker 1: on a twelve game winning streak. Two number three the Chiefs.
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  Speaker 1: They got out to win against the Jags. They dropped
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  Speaker 1: two spots to four, So that is my one through four,
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  Speaker 1: and you could guess based on that who I think
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  Speaker 1: is playing in the super Bowl. Number five, the Bills
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  Speaker 1: down to We talked about that a little bit off
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  Speaker 1: the top, kind of a bummer, but that's where they
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  Speaker 1: are right now. The Cowboys, who were like the ultimate
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  Speaker 1: number six team all year, like, they were never quite
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  Speaker 1: as good as the big Boys, and then that's exactly
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  Speaker 1: how things ended. They weren't quite as good as the
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  Speaker 1: nice job Dak hit a big spot number six, they
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  Speaker 1: stay there, Jags up one to seven, and the gim
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  Speaker 1: in your Eagles brought them down to earth. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure that was great a Saturday night party at the
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  Speaker 1: Gonzales Wolfhouse. So let's start with the Bengals, though, am
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  Speaker 1: I crazy? Explain how you got to this point? Well,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, let's get right out of the way.
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  Speaker 1: This is the power moves presented by energy. There the
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  Speaker 1: Bengals at number one because they're not gonna lose again.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the this is why even though I
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  Speaker 1: had the Niners at number one for weeks and weeks
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  Speaker 1: I think it was at least five weeks, maybe six,
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  Speaker 1: when old Zeuser sat down on his laptop and tug
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  Speaker 1: Boat looked at the Excel spreadsheet and the new old
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  Speaker 1: Blue Eyes had to make a decision like ten minutes
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  Speaker 1: before you had to file. Daddy Rich said, I cannot
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  Speaker 1: look past the point that of all the four teams
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  Speaker 1: that won this past weekend, the Bengals were the one
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  Speaker 1: that I was most impressed by, the one that seemed
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  Speaker 1: most destined for glory. Even after the Eagles mopped the
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  Speaker 1: floor with the Giant. You could say it's a little
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  Speaker 1: unfair again, Yes, what that I'm pissed off Angelo, You
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  Speaker 1: should be, but I gave him pop. I mean, look
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  Speaker 1: at it this way. I put the Eagles ahead of
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  Speaker 1: the Niners, who were number one. They both won. But
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  Speaker 1: let's stick to the Bengals for a second here, Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 1: This is what they did against Buffalo. And you were
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  Speaker 1: there in person. I know it. It was said after
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  Speaker 1: the game by Joe Burrow. It really was never close.
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  Speaker 1: It never felt like the Bills were going to come back.
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  Speaker 1: It felt like this game was over in the first
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  Speaker 1: And that's why you disappoint me. Why because you were there.
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  Speaker 1: You were there, you saw the party that was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be the celebration that was supposed to be. And
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati went there and said, we don't care about anything
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  Speaker 1: that's going on up here, like this special little team
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  Speaker 1: in this community of football fans, we like Tommy Lee
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  Speaker 1: Jones in the future, I don't care. And they went
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  Speaker 1: up there and they just beat their butts. And here's
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  Speaker 1: the thing. The defense. People have been sleeping on this defense.
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  Speaker 1: I've been sleeping on this defense that it's it's very,
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  Speaker 1: very good. Now they are coached up very well, and
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  Speaker 1: they're playing excellent. The offensive line, all those questions we
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  Speaker 1: had coming in, they played excellent. And then Burrow, you're
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  Speaker 1: telling me Joe Burrow is gonna lose again this season.
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  Speaker 1: Can you honestly take off the green giggle shades? You
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  Speaker 1: could tell me Joe Burrow is gonna walk off the
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  Speaker 1: field a loser in the next three weeks. I don't
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  Speaker 1: see it. These teams are all so good, so talented,
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  Speaker 1: They all do different things well, but they all can win.
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  Speaker 1: Like these are four squads that can all really realistically
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  Speaker 1: win a Super Bowl. I don't know if the goals
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  Speaker 1: are going to pull it off, because you know where
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  Speaker 1: I am in my heart of hearts but watching the
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  Speaker 1: way that the Bengals played that game, it kind of
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  Speaker 1: felt the same way. Uh. And that Monday night game
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  Speaker 1: when we were watching the Bills and the Bengals, the
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  Speaker 1: game that was never finished to suspended and then canceled,
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly how the Bengals looked. And this time they
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  Speaker 1: got to see it all the way through. And let
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  Speaker 1: me just tell you the party that was happening after
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  Speaker 1: the game, the music in the locker room, the cigar smoke,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, better get the refunds. Everything They're playing into
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  Speaker 1: this whole like underdog mentality. And I feel like every
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  Speaker 1: year a different team does this, or I guess they
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  Speaker 1: all do, usually not the reigning conference champion, but they've
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  Speaker 1: found their way to do it, tried to do it,
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  Speaker 1: and that was lame. We don't need to talk about
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  Speaker 1: the Patriots and where that's great, isn't it anyway? Um?
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  Speaker 1: But I think that going into this game, the offensive
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  Speaker 1: line was one thing that everyone could kind of use
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  Speaker 1: as an example of why the Bills were going to win,
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  Speaker 1: and it was us. Too much stock was put into that.
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  Speaker 1: It was something that kind of we saw obviously saw
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  Speaker 1: Joe Burrow deal with this in the past with an
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  Speaker 1: offensive line that didn't give him time. And if I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know that this offensive line was down three starters,
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  Speaker 1: I would have had no idea watching the game because
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  Speaker 1: it didn't look like an issue at all. Joe Burrow
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  Speaker 1: got the ball out so fast too stend the plays.
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  Speaker 1: It's just such a good team that that the Borrow
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  Speaker 1: getting the ball out quickly. I think on one of
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  Speaker 1: his key completions he got it out and a little
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  Speaker 1: over a second. It was just like kind of that
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  Speaker 1: that that will make up for a lot of things.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why a quarterback. I think a lot of
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  Speaker 1: times when people talk about if an offensive line is
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  Speaker 1: good or bad, not enough is put into well, what's
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback doing back there? What decisions is he making?
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  Speaker 1: How aware is he of what the time he has
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  Speaker 1: and how he adjusts? And that's another reason why Burrow
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  Speaker 1: is an assassin. So I feel really good about where
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  Speaker 1: the Bengals are. I think that one thing about the
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  Speaker 1: game was a little bit annoying from my perspective. You
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  Speaker 1: were in the press box, so I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you heard the call on TV, but they were like
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  Speaker 1: pointing out that, oh, this is so bad for Buffalo's defense.
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  Speaker 1: The footing on the field with the snow and it's slick.
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  Speaker 1: They can't play the defense they want to play. Well.
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  Speaker 1: I guess what. Cincinnati had the same field conditions on
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  Speaker 1: their side of the ball, and it didn't matter. They
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  Speaker 1: put that in that Buffalo attack in a phone box.
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  Speaker 1: So awesome job. I love the Bengals. I will not
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  Speaker 1: pick against the Bengals again. I'm good for you. So
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles, let's let's talk about three Eagles. I know
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  Speaker 1: what you're saying. So you're saying the Eagle, all right,
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  Speaker 1: let me tell me if I'm right about this. This
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  Speaker 1: is the Connie Fox logic. Eagles were the best team
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  Speaker 1: in football for much of the season. They were undefeated
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  Speaker 1: into what November, They won the number one seed in
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  Speaker 1: the NFC, They had the buy to get rested. The
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  Speaker 1: quarterback Jalen Hurts and Lane Johnson came back and they
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  Speaker 1: just blew out a giant team that people thought were
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  Speaker 1: actually good or maybe getting better than good. And after
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  Speaker 1: we see that, that's enough to give them the number
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  Speaker 1: one spot back and they should be number one this week. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they should be number one this week. Again, the logic
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  Speaker 1: checks out because you can make up case for any
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  Speaker 1: of these days beautiful night with an even more glorious
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  Speaker 1: outcome in this game. But Jalen hurts the shoulder. That
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  Speaker 1: was the thing that everyone was wondering about. He needed
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  Speaker 1: that time, He needed that by week, and he looked
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  Speaker 1: just fine, uncorking a beautiful pass to Davante. Corking is
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  Speaker 1: a funny word, you know, I like it unleashing uncorking.
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  Speaker 1: Corking is kind of silly, and I like where it
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  Speaker 1: comes from because I only think about a cork with wine,
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  Speaker 1: so and it's not like you know you when you
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  Speaker 1: uncork wine, you don't really uncork wine. What else, what
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  Speaker 1: do your champagne? Champagne? Drew um, But his shoulder looked
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  Speaker 1: just fine and they kept him clean. The tall fed
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  Speaker 1: line is so good. Jason Kelsey straight up put in
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  Speaker 1: his armpit and then took him for a ride. Brian
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  Speaker 1: Baldinger was gushing about this team. Is Brian Baldinger Baldy's
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  Speaker 1: dream that there they are trench monsters on both sides
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  Speaker 1: of the ball. They not only that they block like
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  Speaker 1: maniacs on offense, they get after you on the defensive
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  Speaker 1: line and the ball so well too. Yeah, they do
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  Speaker 1: it all two hixty eight rushing yards. Here's the thing,
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  Speaker 1: the only thing that maybe stop me again, it's just
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a barrow thing more than anything for me.
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  Speaker 1: And that's just that he's the guy, he's the dude.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's gonna rule the NFL and we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: that's what we're gonna be talking about at the end
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  Speaker 1: of this year. But the Eagles certainly, certainly, and by
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  Speaker 1: having it at number two, I can tell you I
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  Speaker 1: think they're going to the Super Bowl. Um Uh, they
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  Speaker 1: will be a great test if those two teams ever meet. Now,
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  Speaker 1: first they have to get past the forty Niners, and
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  Speaker 1: I have them at number three, Connie, and god, they're
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  Speaker 1: so good too, They're really good and and and I
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  Speaker 1: think home field matters in this because you're going to
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  Speaker 1: the link obviously for this game. Um did you, as
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  Speaker 1: a Eagles fan, take anything positive out of that? Niners
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  Speaker 1: went over the Cowboys and how their offense with brock
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  Speaker 1: Purty looked much more down to earth against a big
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  Speaker 1: time defense. Well, especially in that first half, brock Purty
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  Speaker 1: did not look comfortable at all. But then Kyle Shanahan
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  Speaker 1: did what he always does, and he goes in and
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  Speaker 1: helps make brock Purty comfortable in everything that he does
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  Speaker 1: with Christian McCaffrey, with Deebo Samuel. But now Christian McCaffrey,
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  Speaker 1: he's got the calf contusion. He's going to play um.
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  Speaker 1: And you have Elijah Mitchell too, who has a groin
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  Speaker 1: issue at this point, so a little bank, I know,
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  Speaker 1: put him in carbonite and just restore their bodies somehow. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: well that'd be weird too. But I think with these
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  Speaker 1: two teams, both of their defenses are really good, and
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  Speaker 1: both have so much depth so they can rotate guys
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  Speaker 1: in and out, and they both have really good running
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  Speaker 1: games as well. But I think the Eagles, you have
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  Speaker 1: to give them the edge because of the quarterback position,
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  Speaker 1: and they have home field here, so that is those
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  Speaker 1: two things I think will really dictate the outcome of
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  Speaker 1: the game. And that's why Connie I dropped the Niners
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  Speaker 1: that extra spot to three. I agree with everything you said.
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  Speaker 1: I I just I think it's it's probably gonna be
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  Speaker 1: another you know, two teams may be scoring under twenty
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  Speaker 1: affair here unless unless and this is where if you're
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  Speaker 1: an Eagles fan, you've got to be pumped and why
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to second guess myself because that would
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  Speaker 1: be second guessing Joe Burrow. And I do not second
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  Speaker 1: guess Joe Burrow at this point unless the Eagles when
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  Speaker 1: they are healthy on both sides of the ball. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what we saw in the first you know, three
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  Speaker 1: months of the season are just better than everyone else
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  Speaker 1: and they just mall you. And come draft season and
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  Speaker 1: free agency, all the teams are gonna be like, oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, this is how you build a champion in
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  Speaker 1: the trenches. And we always hear that, but when a
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  Speaker 1: team is doing it at the level of the Eagles,
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  Speaker 1: don't be surprised when offensive linemen and big defensive tackles
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  Speaker 1: are flying off the draft board early. Very fun County,
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  Speaker 1: good times to be an Eagles fan, it is, and
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  Speaker 1: I will be traveling there in two days time. Look
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  Speaker 1: at you. Yeah, I'm all over the place again. It's great.
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  Speaker 1: That is beautiful living life around the NFL podcast. We
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  Speaker 1: go nowhere, mean you guys like to you know, we
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: hold it down at the old home fans always. You're
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: going places. That podcast I think has a future. And
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: you get on your private jet, you eat your wings.
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: What's what's it like hanging out with Kyle brand by
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  Speaker 1: the way, in Buffalo? Does he have a following in Buffalo?
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  Speaker 1: At this point? He seems like he's really part of
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: that community. Everybody knows Kyle, Everybody wants a picture with Kyle.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone is giving Kyle gifts. Like I was just like
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  Speaker 1: it was nice for me to kind of get like
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  Speaker 1: the secondary the overflow and stuff, because like he had
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  Speaker 1: so many things, and I was like, take that if
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  Speaker 1: you don't want it, Like what do we what are
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  Speaker 1: we talking like blankets? Or there was a woman who
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: gave me her head warmer off of her head because
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  Speaker 1: I had complimented it and she had gotten it as
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  Speaker 1: a president from her sister. And I was like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to take your your sister's Christmas present to you,
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  Speaker 1: please no, And she insisted and then her sister came
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  Speaker 1: over and she was like, no, we want you to
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  Speaker 1: have They were Her name was Debbie, and I love
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: her and I love that head warmer out to Debbie, sweatshirts, everything,
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  Speaker 1: the whole family. Um, I have the chiefs at four
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  Speaker 1: this would have been Here's the question, Patrick Mahomes if
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  Speaker 1: he does not suffer that gnarly high ankle spraining against
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  Speaker 1: the Jags. Do I have them higher? No, I think
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  Speaker 1: I still would have had him at four. It would
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  Speaker 1: have been a tougher call. That's again, that's why this
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  Speaker 1: is gonna be a great weekend of football that the
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  Speaker 1: I think the Chiefs, you could end people on Twitter
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  Speaker 1: are not happy with me. Um, No one's going to
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  Speaker 1: be happy with You could literally flip these, You could
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  Speaker 1: flip these. You could have cheap one nine Ers, two Eagles,
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  Speaker 1: three in Bengals for it, and nobody's gonna say it's
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  Speaker 1: wrong or right because you can make a case for it.
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  Speaker 1: But I really I think the Chiefs um are going
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  Speaker 1: to be in a little bit of trouble obviously, because
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  Speaker 1: what part of what makes Mahomes brilliant and one of
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  Speaker 1: the best to ever play is what he can do
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  Speaker 1: off platform and rolling out of the pocket. And you're
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  Speaker 1: just not gonna have that. It sounds like unless there's
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  Speaker 1: some type of active god or medicine that allows it
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  Speaker 1: to happen. But other parts of the team reminded us
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  Speaker 1: that they're not just Mahomes and that's why they're even
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  Speaker 1: still playing right now. Right, I think the formula forward
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  Speaker 1: is just quick passes, get the ball out as fast
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  Speaker 1: as you can and then run Isaiah Pacheco. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: but check and that one angry run it was beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: So you could you can do that. And then you
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  Speaker 1: have Travis Kelsey who is absolutely automatic. He is always
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  Speaker 1: open under is that right? I think he had yards
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  Speaker 1: and two touchdowns. Yeah, seventeen targets, fourteen catches, yards, two touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, had the first touchdown of the and it
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  Speaker 1: didn't even matter with Chad Henny in there. He got
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  Speaker 1: a chat. That was Chad Henny's first postseason touchdown, was it? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: He saved their butts against the Browns a couple of
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  Speaker 1: years ago too, like this when every time in the postseason,
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  Speaker 1: Steve Spagnolo gets his due, and I think that happens again.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: Like Chris Jones was in the zone in this game.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: He looked incredible. The secondary they leveled up one thorn
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Hill was roman all over the place. Their rookie Jalen Watson,
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: he had that one handed interception. So they have a
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: lot of playmakers. Yeah. One thing that's gonna be interesting
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: to watch and we'll see in terms of Cincinnati's line
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: is guys get another week to heal, maybe they get
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: some of their starters back, But one of the things
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: that hurt the Bills was that didn't they didn't have
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Von Miller, and their pass rush just wasn't up to
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: snuff in the last six weeks of the season. Um,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Chris Jones the type of guy that the Bills really
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: needed in that game, and now here he is for
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs. Can you turn Joe Burrow into a rag
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: doll um by just blowing through that line, which again
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: is helped by Burrow's ability to get the ball out quickly.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: But this is the highest level of football. Now, it's
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: gonna be it's gonna be more difficult for Burrow to
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: find open receivers, you would think, or maybe not. Maybe
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Burrow just won't be stopped. I don't think for a reason.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: I think that he will absolutely win this week. Absolutely, Yeah.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: I almost want to lock it up. So you all right,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: let's as we talk about the Bills, do we have
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: to we did kind? Do you have anything to go ahead?
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: You were there? No, It's just like I just it's sad.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: It's sad. At this point they need to figure out
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: an offense that you know, doesn't just say Josh Allen
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: go win that that was what jumped out to me
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: a little bit. It seemed to be more and more
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: like that, and especially when you get at this level
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: of the season, that's not gonna work. When the teams
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: are at this level and you know, it's no surprise
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: they still couldn't run the ball, and you have to
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: be able to run the ball in the postseason and
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: you have to be able to do it in the snow. Yeah,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: I hear you on that. O Um, you want to
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: talk about the Cowboys. I think the Cowboys are the
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: most number six team is number six team has ever been.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I think Dak Prescott has a lot to answer to
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: for this performance. I think you're loving it. I think
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: the final play was really just chef's kiss. Yeah that
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: was I I wrote actually in the power rankings, which
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: everyone could check out at NFL dot com slash Power Rankings,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: that last year's last January is the playoff exit against
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: the Niners. It was at Jaral World. Was super frustrating
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: where they you know, he ran the QB draw slid down,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: they ran out of time, they were blaming the rafts.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: It was an ugly ending, very frustrating for the Cowboys.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: This ending was just sad. It's just kind of depressing,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: like that was the last play of this year that
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: once again, you know, all the hype and let me
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: just read a deck Twitter account went after him. What
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: do you think about that? I don't know. Listen, we
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: work for the NFL two and we'll we're we'll criticize,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: and we often do when when necessary. But when you're
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: the team Twitter account and you're kind of hanging the
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: quarterback out to dry, that's interesting. Here is a quote
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: from Dak Prescott after Sunday's game, and he had accountability
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: and that's a good dude by all counts. So this
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: isn't an attack of the man's character. He said, if
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I had the answers, then we would have won tonight.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Too early, too soon, And I promise you we will
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: though in my time playing on this team for this
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: organization will and one of these years, Connie, the Cowboys,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: whether it's Stack or whomever else, are gonna have to
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: back up the words words, but not enough action. Yeah,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: that's the issue. And now Ezekiel Elliott, what's his future
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: look like with the team now that Tony Pollard is
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: such a big part of the offense finally, and you
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: just have to wonder, like what what goes on? Because
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: the pressure And we've talked about that. I don't know
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: if we talked about it today, but maybe you guys
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: talked about it on the recap around the NFL pod.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: But the pressure on these quarterbacks now as they get
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: close and then they don't deliver like Josh Allen, like
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, especially for a team like the Cowboys and
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: an owner like Jerry Jones, It's only going to get
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: more difficult. And I would imagine they would they only
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: get more inside their own heads about it. Oh you
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: mean the Jerry Jones who went out on the field
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: during pregame warm ups to talk to his kicker after
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: you missed a couple of attempts. Is more monst Oh
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: my god? Do you know you think that jere might
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: be living with this team every snap, every second? You
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: think I've never seen that before, And we talked about
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: it on a ten dak before this game last week.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Watched his press conference from after last year's playoff loss,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: just to remind himself that he never wanted to be
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: there again, and then he has that game. Is it
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: possible that maybe part of the problem in Dallas is
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: the pressure that they put upon themselves in addition to
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: all the outside And I know you love it, Connie,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: all right, give me your number one through four. So
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: you're saying I got it wrong, what's right? Okay? I
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: think the four through one. Let's build up the drum
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: four through one. So Chiefs would absolutely put at four
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: and they'll probably win the Super Bowl. Now I know exactly,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: but the mahomes ankle and just the way that he
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: plays like that has me very concerned about them. Then
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: I think three is still the Niners. I'm rocking with
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: you there. It's really just the top two that just
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: flip that I would flip. Yeah, So I would go
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: to for the Bengals, one for the Eagles, so we
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: both have the same super Bowl pick. Speaking the super Bowl.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: After the Super Bowl, this is the last written Power
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Rankings article you'll get from zeus Er. After the Super Bowl,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: you and I will be back for one more show. Well,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: we'll bring back the entire list of thirty two uh
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: including Kyle Brand said on Good Morning Football this this
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: morning that he thinks my magnum opus should be and
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: maybe it would be my last Power rankings. Ever, is
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: the after Super Bowl power rankings? The number one team
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: isn't the team that won the Wow, you just go
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: out and maybe this is it. Maybe this will be
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: the episode. You don't know what the future is. I
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: don't know. Everyone's like, it's gonna go. We gotta get out.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: It's a good strategy because as anyway, so look for
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: that and um we we might be back before then
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: the video side of things, but that, yeah, fun. What
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: are we gonna talk about? I don't know. We'll rank
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: some stuff. I have a few ideas of things we
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: can rank. Two thousands hip hop. We're just listening to
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: it before the show. A lot of great songs best
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: hip hop. This is more your purview than mine, But
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I do have an answer. Can best hip hop song
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: two thousand to two thousand four? What that is like?
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: I can't just I can't. I cannot just rank number
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: one right now. They have to wait to wait until
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: next week. Hated or love it? No? Good man him,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: that's the correct answer. I should know. I'm the rap expert,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: all right till next week? He'd the call. How do
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: you not like that one? It's a banger? Absolutely not
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