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#14: 49ers vs. the field · NFL Power Rankings

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  Speaker 3: Welcome to the NFL Power Ranking Show, Week fourteen edition.
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  Speaker 3: how are you, sir, Great to see you.
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing well. We're a month from the playoffs.
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  Speaker 5: Got the uh, you know, the Christmas Ravens forty nine
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  Speaker 2: Are you that guy?
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  Speaker 2: Okay? Neither I have neither.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get the rankings out of the way.
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  Speaker 3: The San Francisco forty nine Ers, who went into Philadelphia
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  Speaker 3: and pushed the Eagles around, are the new number one.
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  Speaker 3: We thought that would happen. We knew that would happen.
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  Speaker 3: It did happen, followed by the Ravens and then the Eagles,
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  Speaker 3: and then their opponent this week, the Cowboys, and then
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  Speaker 3: the Dolphins who scrimmaged the Commanders, and then the Chiefs,
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  Speaker 3: the Lions, and the Jacksonville Jaguars. But let's make right
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  Speaker 3: out of the gate our team of the Week, presented
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  Speaker 3: by Truist, the San Francisco forty nine Ers. Eric we
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  Speaker 3: said last week that the winner of that game in
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  Speaker 3: Philadelphia would be the new number one team. So you're
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  Speaker 3: a man of your word. They are the number one team.
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  Speaker 3: Not surprising. I guess the question here is how much
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  Speaker 3: better are the forty nine ers then everybody? It's the
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  Speaker 3: Niners and the field. How big is the gap?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I think that's the way you have to frame it.
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  Speaker 5: Obviously, some people are still going to refer back to
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  Speaker 5: that three game losing streak, but look at the body
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  Speaker 5: of work. First of all, they could have won two
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  Speaker 5: of those games. And you know what brock Purty has done.
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  Speaker 5: By the way, we're now entering the one year anniversary
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  Speaker 5: of brock Purty taken over. It feels like it's been
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  Speaker 5: about three years since he had the elbows surgery even
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  Speaker 5: but you know, averaging almost ten yards per tempt, full
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  Speaker 5: healthy offense in place right now. You know Trent Williams
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  Speaker 5: leading the O line obviously, Deebo Samuels and Samuel what
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  Speaker 5: he can do, Christian McCaffrey, George Kittle, Brandon Ayuk. It's
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  Speaker 5: impossible to stop these guys when they're at full strength,
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  Speaker 5: I believe. And defensively they're getting after it too. And
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  Speaker 5: this was as big as statement victory as we've seen
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  Speaker 5: this year. So right now, having just beaten Eagles in
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  Speaker 5: their house, I don't care how many tough games they
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  Speaker 5: play lately. They put themselves a measurable distance ahead of
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  Speaker 5: the field.
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  Speaker 3: At this point, you mentioned that one year anniversary, pretty
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  Speaker 3: making his debut. His passer rating in that one year
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  Speaker 3: one fourteen, which is the best in football, And honestly,
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  Speaker 3: I was kind of sick of the forty nine ers
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  Speaker 3: griping and all this. We changed the quarterback rules and
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  Speaker 3: the offseason because the Niners mismanaged their roster last year,
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  Speaker 3: just full stop, right, That's why they didn't have quarterback
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  Speaker 3: in that NFC championship game. But they shut everyone up.
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  Speaker 3: To their credit, they went in there and shut every one,
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  Speaker 3: including the Eagles security director up. And they are the
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  Speaker 3: best team. I mean, I think if you take the
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  Speaker 3: rest of the NFC, whether it's the Eagles or the
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  Speaker 3: Cowboys or the Lions or whomever, they are simply in
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  Speaker 3: a different class.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 5: I mean you're talking about a team that scored forty
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  Speaker 5: two against Philly and Dallas and had five games on
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  Speaker 5: the road with thirty plus points.
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  Speaker 4: That's a good opening statement right there.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I'm a Browns fan. But if Jake
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  Speaker 3: Moody hits that field goal, it's different. Literally, he missed it.
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  Speaker 3: Cleveland deserved to win that game. But there's so many
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  Speaker 3: what ifs during the season, that certainly is one of them.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna skip over the Ravens. We'll get back to them,
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  Speaker 3: don't be mad, Baltimore. And we're gonna get to the
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  Speaker 3: Cowboys because this week it's the Eagles. And the Cowboys,
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  Speaker 3: this time in Dallas. The Cowboys come in well rested, obviously,
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  Speaker 3: but they had a close call against the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 2: You're still sitting there at number three.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I still believe in this team's ability
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  Speaker 5: to put up points. Stack Prescott is in the middle
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  Speaker 5: of an MVP campaign, I think, or at least, you know,
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  Speaker 5: to be one of the candidates for that award. Party
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  Speaker 5: certainly has to be in the mix as well. But
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  Speaker 5: you know, win over Eagle over the Eagles would go
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  Speaker 5: a long way towards helping Dak. Their offense isn't the
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  Speaker 5: issue right now, wasn't the issue the other night. Obviously,
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  Speaker 5: they came back and looks kind of comfortable doing it.
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  Speaker 5: But dron Bland after a tremendous season getting picked on
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  Speaker 5: mercilessly in that game, even with a pick. You have
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  Speaker 5: to say he had a rough night, and some of
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  Speaker 5: that second level of the Cowboys defense hasn't exactly tightened
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  Speaker 5: up around him at times. So you know, they didn't
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  Speaker 5: get anything from Mike until late. It required a lot
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  Speaker 5: of effort defensively, and look, I mean, this is a
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  Speaker 5: team that we were talking about being a great defensive club.
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  Speaker 5: Both they and Philly I think come into this game
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  Speaker 5: with defensive questions, no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 3: At this point. Yeah, considering the Eagles defensive issues, I
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  Speaker 3: think I would lean Dallas in this game and the
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  Speaker 3: rematch they could have would have won it in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 3: They blew the late game management stunning of course down
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  Speaker 3: the stretch in Philadelphia. But I still think the Cowboys
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  Speaker 3: are a bit here of the the NFCS Miami Dolphins.
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  Speaker 3: Show me a good win, show me consistent good wins.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't seen it yet. This would be that good
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  Speaker 3: win for them, and maybe they get it. All right,
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  Speaker 3: Let's get back to the Ravens. What a week they had.
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  Speaker 3: They got to sit at home, get healthy and watch
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  Speaker 3: the Chiefs, the Browns, the Steelers, and the Jaguars all lose.
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  Speaker 3: This one, though, is not easy. They get the upstart
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  Speaker 3: Rams this week. You have the Ravens as the best
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  Speaker 3: team in the AFC.
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  Speaker 4: I do yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I mean again, you could certainly sort of poke some
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  Speaker 5: holes in some you know, two close home losses to
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  Speaker 5: teams they probably should have beaten. Let some other teams
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  Speaker 5: hang around, like Pittsburgh and the Chargers and whatnot. But
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  Speaker 5: this is a pretty complete team right now. You and
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  Speaker 5: you made a great point right sitting at home watching
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  Speaker 5: this scenario one fol where it's it's gotten easier there
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  Speaker 5: for them to win the AFC North, it's gotten better
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  Speaker 5: for them to cruise to that number one draft or
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  Speaker 5: that number one.
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  Speaker 4: Slot in the AFC playoffs.
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  Speaker 5: So great set up late season by get your guys rested.
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  Speaker 5: Doesn't sound like they'll make any movements on the receiver
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  Speaker 5: tight end front. They like their guys, but they're asking,
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  Speaker 5: you know, more out of Zay Flowers and Obj and
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  Speaker 5: guys like that right now. So I'll be curious to
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  Speaker 5: see if that offense can still kind of hum the
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  Speaker 5: way we had seen it with Andrews at times. But
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  Speaker 5: you're right, this is a tough game. Teams aren't that
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  Speaker 5: familiar with each other. Rams come in hot. You know
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  Speaker 5: their offense is done work lately too, So you know, again,
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  Speaker 5: is this fall into the category of a Colts or
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  Speaker 5: Cleveland type of game or is this more of the
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  Speaker 5: Detroit Lions or Seattle type game where they dominate a
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  Speaker 5: very good Uppunnert at home.
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  Speaker 3: I was at the game in La this past Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: Rams look good. Rams can run the football now, Kyron
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  Speaker 3: Williams makes that much of a difference in the Rams
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  Speaker 3: o line is playing fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to the Rams coming up at a second.
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  Speaker 3: But the Ravens schedule, you get the Rams, the Jaguars,
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  Speaker 3: the Niners, that's a Christmas Day game or night game,
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  Speaker 3: and then Miami. It is a tough stretch here for
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  Speaker 3: the Ravens to close it out, A much needed list
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  Speaker 3: of teams losing for them when they sat at home
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  Speaker 3: week thirteen. All Right, the Dolphins one week, it's Jalen Phillips,
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  Speaker 3: Now it's Jerome Baker. They've got a lot of injuries.
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  Speaker 3: Jalen Ramsey can't cover up all those defensive injuries.
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  Speaker 2: But again, it's.
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  Speaker 3: Another week in which they beat up on a team
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  Speaker 3: they're supposed to beat up.
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  Speaker 2: In this case it's the Commanders.
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  Speaker 3: You still think they're the fifth best team in the NFL.
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  Speaker 5: I think they have the fifth best resume, even with
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  Speaker 5: that obvious hole that you mentioned with Dallas. Right, show
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  Speaker 5: me the money, show me a good win, and that's
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  Speaker 5: ultimately the question with the Miami Dolphins. Now they'll get
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  Speaker 5: their chance late, right, They've got Dallas and Baltimore to
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  Speaker 5: close out the season. But We're gonna have to be
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  Speaker 5: patient here and take a couple of home games against
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  Speaker 5: teams that have kind of fallen out of the race,
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  Speaker 5: and the Titans and Jets. So you know, again it's
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  Speaker 5: they keep winning games against lesser opponents.
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  Speaker 4: It's a tough team to rank.
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  Speaker 5: But Devin ah Chan coming back and having a big
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  Speaker 5: second half and it was a good sign. Didn't look
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  Speaker 5: like he was on a pitch count Andrews. So you know,
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  Speaker 5: if they really have that run game at full strength
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  Speaker 5: and depends on the offensive line, Armstead and other guys
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  Speaker 5: getting hurt up front Sunday, that to me could separate
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  Speaker 5: them and that could really justify that that high ranking
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  Speaker 5: because when they run the ball well, they seem to
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  Speaker 5: be a very dangerous team and give opponents, whether they're
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  Speaker 5: or not, the most trouble.
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  Speaker 4: I think.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And after Tennessee and the Jets, they do get
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  Speaker 3: the Cowboys and then the Ravens, so they do go
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  Speaker 3: up in wait class and again the Bills Week eighteen.
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  Speaker 3: Who knows what that game is going to mean for
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  Speaker 3: Buffalo or for the Dolphins. Maybe they have a shot
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  Speaker 3: at number one. Maybe, Yeah, they still are sitting at
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  Speaker 3: number one right now. That game is going to mean
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  Speaker 3: something here, and it's going to be a good test
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  Speaker 3: for them in those final three games of the regular
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  Speaker 3: season to show that they can beat good teams before
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  Speaker 3: they get to.
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  Speaker 2: The postseason, before they get to January.
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  Speaker 3: The Chiefs went to Lambeau and I kind of sort
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  Speaker 3: of called it this week. I can't take credit I
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  Speaker 3: foreshadowed it.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't have the guts to say that the Packers
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  Speaker 3: would beat the Chiefs, but they ran into trouble there
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  Speaker 3: and Kansas City is now down to eric They are
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  Speaker 3: your sixth team in your power rankings.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and had Jacksonville one Monday night, right, had they
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  Speaker 5: not had a spate of injuries, maybe they would have
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  Speaker 5: jumped ahead of them.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean, it's a situation where we're used.
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  Speaker 5: To the Chiefs playing their best football late in the season,
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  Speaker 5: kind of streaking into the postseason, having that offense carry
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  Speaker 5: the weight, and we've gotten used to the idea of
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  Speaker 5: the defense being kind of their bedrock now and giving
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  Speaker 5: them that level of insurance, if you will. But that's
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  Speaker 5: two straight games now where the defense has put them
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  Speaker 5: in a two score deficit, right, that puts even more
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  Speaker 5: pressure on Patrick Mahomes to be perfect, and Andrew, I
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  Speaker 5: don't know about you, but watching at home, there were
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  Speaker 5: some funny looking passes that came out. Now, credit the
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  Speaker 5: packers for pressuring them and covering those receivers and tightening
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  Speaker 5: those windows and everything, but oh, it doesn't look pretty.
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  Speaker 5: And you're used to ugly plays.
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  Speaker 4: By Mahomes every now and then.
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  Speaker 5: Right doesn't always look right, but more and more it's
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  Speaker 5: becoming the norm, and it's just surprising to see them
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  Speaker 5: not be able to push the ball down the field
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  Speaker 5: more readily.
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  Speaker 3: And listen, I know Chiefs fans want to get upset
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  Speaker 3: about the lack of past interference. Absolutely, yep, one mbs. Certainly.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think there should have been one on the
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  Speaker 3: play in the end zone at the end, I mean
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  Speaker 3: that wasn't yet.
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  Speaker 2: Was it a push in the back, of course?
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  Speaker 3: Was it even close to some of the hail mary
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  Speaker 3: penalties we should have seen thrown in other games?
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  Speaker 2: No, not at all.
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  Speaker 3: But as you point out in your story here, Travis
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  Speaker 3: Kelcey was the only guy to catch a pass of
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  Speaker 3: longer than sixteen yards, and they do not still, even
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  Speaker 3: though she Rice has made some plays this year, have
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  Speaker 3: enough consistency other than Travis Kelcey. They are still the
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  Speaker 3: three seed in the AFC. Because let's get to the Jaguars.
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  Speaker 3: Jacksonville lost and they also lost their quarterback. If Jacksonville
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  Speaker 3: had pulled out the victory as all expected on Monday
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  Speaker 3: against Jake Browning and the Bengals, we would be sitting
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  Speaker 3: here today with the Jaguars as the one seed eric
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  Speaker 3: in the AFC. And even though it looks as if
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  Speaker 3: they've escaped the worst case scenario, it is merely a
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  Speaker 3: high ankle sprain. Doug Peterson says, I mean that could
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  Speaker 3: be a couple of weeks. Jacksonville is number eight in
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  Speaker 3: your rankings and now number four in the AFC.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, suddenly a team that we have some major doubts about.
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  Speaker 5: And obviously the injury situation with Kirk and the core muscle,
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  Speaker 5: as you pointed out also Lawrence, do you know, gives us.
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  Speaker 4: Some major doubt about them.
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  Speaker 5: But even before Trevor Lawrence got hurt, this defense was
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  Speaker 5: getting worked over, I think, too reliant on taking the
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  Speaker 5: football away from teams, and the only turnover they got
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  Speaker 5: Monday night was that gift of.
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  Speaker 4: An interception by Tyler Boyd.
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  Speaker 5: So you know, look, I mean, they've got to find
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  Speaker 5: some solutions on that side of the ball. They've got
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  Speaker 5: to find another playmaker to step up for CJ.
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  Speaker 4: Bethard.
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  Speaker 5: You would assume who had a pretty nice overtime. He looks,
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  Speaker 5: he looked, had some moments out there, had the one
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  Speaker 5: big play call back by a holding call that was
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  Speaker 5: really devastating. But you know, two and four at home,
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  Speaker 5: they're terrific outside of Jacksonville. No arguments there, but all
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  Speaker 5: of a sudden, a lot of questions for a team,
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  Speaker 5: as you pointed out, that could have been in that
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  Speaker 5: number one slot had the injuries not happened, had the
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  Speaker 5: wing gone the other way.
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy too and four at home.
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  Speaker 3: Doug Peterson actually cited home crowd noise as an issue
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  Speaker 3: where defensive communication issues. He didn't say there were issues,
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  Speaker 3: but then he got defensive instead of the crowd was loud,
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  Speaker 3: making noise as good fans to try to disrupt Jake
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  Speaker 3: Browning and the Bengals. They are six and zero away
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  Speaker 3: from their own building. Maybe they should be a wild
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  Speaker 3: card team. Maybe maybe there's a silver lining there are
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  Speaker 3: the Packers making the playoffs. Everybody funny how the pendulum
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  Speaker 3: swings the other way. Now for everyone that thought Jordan
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  Speaker 3: Love didn't have it. That's coming up next on the
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  Speaker 3: NFL Power Ranking Show presented by Energizer. But wait, there's
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  Speaker 3: The Houston Texans and it's just a wild game there
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  Speaker 3: go up to it's a number with yet another victory.
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  Speaker 3: The Cleveland Browns are ten with Joe Flacco not moving.
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  Speaker 3: Steelers have a quarterback injury. They are down two to eleven.
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  Speaker 3: The Bills, the Colts, the Packers, the Seahawks, and the
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  Speaker 3: Denver Broncos are sitting there at sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about the Houston Texans. Eric at home.
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  Speaker 3: They lose Tank Dell, which is a big deal, but
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  Speaker 3: they are still looking good even as the third team
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  Speaker 3: of the AFC South. If I had told you that
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  Speaker 3: the third team of the AFC South would be number
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  Speaker 3: nine on your power rankings heading into week fourteen, you
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  Speaker 3: would have said.
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  Speaker 5: What, Yeah, I couldn't have imagined it, right, And the
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  Speaker 5: Tennessee Titans weren't one of those those teams, right.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, obviously we've seen.
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  Speaker 5: The Colts kind of get off to a good start,
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  Speaker 5: struggle get back into it. You know, we've seen the
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  Speaker 5: Texans have a wild roller coaster ride this year and
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  Speaker 5: it's going to continue. With the Dell injury, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 5: that's a massive blow. As you pointed out, Ka Collins
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  Speaker 5: has stuffed up though that's good.
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  Speaker 4: I think they need.
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  Speaker 5: More on Adulton schultzide of Noah Brown, John Metchi, the third,
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  Speaker 5: whoever else. Somebody has to give CJ. Straud a weapon.
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  Speaker 5: But I'm impressed with him obviously, and also with the
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  Speaker 5: defense that made three huge interceptions the last, you know,
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  Speaker 5: sixteen minutes of the game.
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  Speaker 4: So they've got a formula.
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  Speaker 5: Losing last week at home that Jacksonville was tough, but
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  Speaker 5: Jacksonville now opens the doorback up with the.
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  Speaker 4: Lost Monday night.
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  Speaker 5: So you know, the divisions in play, and there's are
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  Speaker 5: all of a sudden, a lot of hope hitting into
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  Speaker 5: this game.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, here's how bonkers and here's how tightly packed
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  Speaker 3: everything is in both conferences, but especially here in the AFC.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, the Texans don't have a playoff spot. If
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  Speaker 3: the playoffs weren't to start today, they're right, they're the
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  Speaker 3: eight seed. You have them as the number nine overall
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  Speaker 3: team in football.
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  Speaker 4: It's America's team, baby.
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  Speaker 5: I mean everyone loves them, right, I think that, Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: they scare the heck out of people. They can go
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  Speaker 5: on the road and win games. They can beat Joe Burrow,
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: they can have those type by afternoons. They've also lost
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: to the Panthers, though they've had some losses that they've
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: let kind of slip to their fingers. So what we
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: know is that almost every game comes down to a
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: THRILLI and finish with them, and that alone makes them
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: a pretty interesting club.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Browns ten. They get the Browns in a
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: couple of weeks as well.
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  Speaker 3: Steelers Bills into the Colts at thirteen Texans and the
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: Colts in Indianapolis week eighteen likely means something. You know
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: that the Colts are tied for the longest active winning
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: streak right now in the NFL with.
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: Four right, yeah, three teams with four wins. They're one
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  Speaker 5: of them, baby. I mean, I thought they were completely
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: out of it at what three and five, I want
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: to say, And you know, it just looked like things
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: weren't working out with Gardner Minshew, but to his credit,
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: made a lot of place Sunday when the run game
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: was at work and Jonathan Taylor was out. Michael Pittman
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: keeps adding dollar signs to his name in the offseason.
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: Alec Pierce stepped up with probably his best game of
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: the year, had a big catch there at the end,
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: had four big ones in the game. So, yeah, you're right,
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: they find ways, And I think special teams was a
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: huge reason why you had the Titans not had a
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: reason to fire their special teams coordinated to the next
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: day after the game. Maybe the Colts don't win this
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  Speaker 5: game and we might have more questions about their candidacy
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: as a playoff team. But again, Shane Steichen has done
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: a pretty masterful job handling all the twists and turns
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  Speaker 5: that have been thrown at him.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, he's in the running for coach of the Year.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: They are in Cincinnati this week for a fun and
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: now very relevant game against Jake Browning and the Cincinnati Bengals. Yeah,
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: time to make some power moves at home. They're presented
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: by Energizer. The Green Bay Packers are the biggest movers
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: of the week. They are up fourteen after.
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  Speaker 2: Beating the Chiefs. Where were they a couple of weeks ago?
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: Week eleven, Eric they were twenty sixth.
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean it feels like they've gone up
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: fourteen spots in the last two weeks.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: Right, it's pretty amazing.
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: But you got to put a lot of it on
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: Jordan Love, the guy who Brian Gudakutz the GM. When
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: he had his little mid season press conference, they said,
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: these games down the stretch are pretty big, and you
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: had people in Green Bay assuming that was.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: A shot across his bow. Well, Love has answered it, right.
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: Protection has been pretty good without David Baktiar. They haven't
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: had Aaron Jones the last couple of games. Christian Watson,
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: the relationship with him in Love on the field look
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: non existent for eight or nine weeks. Now, all of
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: a sudden, that is cooking the other young receivers, you know,
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: the tight ends have stepped up. So it's been tremendous
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: to watch and exciting certainly for Packers fans.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: But yeah, there were a lot of people who thought Loved.
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: During that interception streak he had and all the mispasses
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: and the missed opportunities, maybe it.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: Was going to be a one year guy.
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: Now I think these most recent games have shown us
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: that he can get him in the postseason this year.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and kind of cast the forward going forward.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: And listen, I'm not yet ready to crown him. But
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: he did play well. He has been playing well, and
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: it's another example of how patience is needed when judging
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: any quarterbacks development, even one that waited three years on
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: the bench. You know, the pendulum back and forth. September,
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, Jordan Love is the truth. The Packers
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: nailed it. And then mid season, wow, all right, they
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: got to move on. And now look, maybe he gets
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: them into the postseason. This week he battles Tommy da Vito,
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: and the New York Giant says DeVito is going to
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: get another start that game in Jersey. We have the
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: Seahawks at fifteen. Are the Seahawks in trouble at home?
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: You dropped them only one, but they gotta go the Yeah.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Cisco this week.
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  Speaker 5: Gave him credit for a good effort at Dallas, and
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: Gino looked a lot healthier. But I think every game at.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: This point feels pretty existential.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: They went into the by early in the season, everybody thought, wow,
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: this is a really interesting team all of a sudden,
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: and they just haven't found that offensive consistency. But I
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: give him a little hope in the rematch against San Francisco.
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: I remember they blasted him on Thanksgiving because Gino did.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: Look a lot healthier, a lot better.
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: But that defense, when they have one true stop against Dallas,
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: you can't have that against San Francisco. So if they
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: have any hope, they've got to win this one and
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: keep going from there.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe went out.
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  Speaker 2: At this point.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And the big thing against them is that they
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: got swept by the Rams, and the Rams won again
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: they get to six and six, So the Seahawks legitimately
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: have to win some and they have to do it now.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Coming up, I mentioned Jake Browning and the Bengals.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: They're a legit threat.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: Where does Ed Holme have the fighting Jake Brownings? That's
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: next for the NFL Power Ranking Show present by Energizer.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: Let's roll on here on the NFL Power Ranking Show
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: presented by Energizer. The Minnesota Vikings had to buy. They
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: fall in their by whatever to seventeen. The Cincinnati Bengals
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  Speaker 3: are up to what a performance they had on Monday night.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: Atlanta is nineteen and leading in a vision. The Rams
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  Speaker 3: are twenty and the Chargers, the Saints, the Buccaneers and
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: the Raiders checking in Eric at home at twenty five
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  Speaker 3: when I watched that game Monday night and Steve watch
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: and I did the NFL Game Day Final postgame show
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: on NFL Network, and I sat there and I said,
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: not only did the Bengals win and Jake Briding throw
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: for three fifty four, but that this team, if it
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: gets in. I know lou Anaromo's defense has given up
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: a lot of big plays downfield, but that Jake Browning
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: from what we saw Monday night, this team can win.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: I mean, this team can make a run even since six.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: I think I said on this show.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: Correct me if I'm wrong that I thought Zach Taylor
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: could run about eighty percent of the offense that he
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: did with Burrow. With Jake Browning, I'm convinced it's now
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: about ninety nine percent. Right, Maybe some of the movement
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: stuff is going to be there, But Browning even did
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: with his legs. He had that long scramble in the
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: second half, he had a goal line rushing touchdown. And oh,
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: by the way, he threw thirty seven passes, five of
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: them hit the ground and one of them was a
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: clear drop.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: So yeah, where has this been?
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: I mean, in twenty fifteen, When we first heard Jake
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: Browning's name on the national level as a college fresh
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: you know, all roads were open. They thought this guy
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: might be something truly special, a top ten pick kind
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: of guy.
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  Speaker 4: Didn't work out that way.
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  Speaker 5: But here he is, at age what twenty seven, now
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: getting his opportunity, andrew in an unusual circumstance with a
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: very talented team, and he made the most of it
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: in a brilliant performance.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what else you say.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: It was brilliant. That sums it up.
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  Speaker 3: Also only Zach Taylor's fifth victory ever as a head coach.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: Without Wow goll Burrow, Jake Browning did everyone good there
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: in Cincinnati. Time for our I can't believe I'm going
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: to say this future champions for his head of my
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: panduel and they're the Atlanta Falcons. Well not really, but
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: we're gonna put the NFC South up here. The Falcons
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: are at six and six at minus one ninety to
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: win the division, followed by the Bucks and the Saints.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: The Panthers are off the board because the Panthers on Sunday,
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: with their loss to the Buccaneers, became the first team eliminated.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: The Welkins Eric, someone's got to win the division.
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  Speaker 2: I guess.
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  Speaker 5: They could, but boy, I mean another listless performance offensively,
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: I mean under two hundred yards of offense. Really, I
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: mean all but two drives. They did nothing right.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: And the run game is still there. They still have
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: a defense.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: It's going to make you really earn your yards against them.
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: But winning thirteen to eight games in which you have
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: a three to zero edge in the turnover department doesn't
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: excite me that much. Man, I have to say, I'm
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: not feeling it right now. But you know, they still
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: have a formula that some teams could struggle with.
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: And you know what comes with a winning.
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: The division a home game. So who knows they're right now?
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: I guess the favorites with the Saints really falling.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Off me yep, And they play the Bucks week eighteen,
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: Maybe that game is for the division and the loser
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: gets relegated to the XFL. Dared three. The Rams are
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: number twenty. I hit on them earlier, Eric, They're up
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: two spots. I mean they're offensive line and that run
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: game huge against the Brown.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: Absolutely physical dominent.
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: Right yeah in the season, right, I mean, Sean McVay
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: is having a fine kind of new ways to winning.
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: Matthew Stafford got banged up receiver injuries with Cooper.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: Cup Well, they have that there. When Kyraen Williams came
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: back in the lineup, it was seamless.
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: They started running the ball. And oh, by the way,
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: Pooka Akua hasn't gone anywhere. He's still special. Great long
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: run and some several great catches in this game. Unbelievable
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: rookie season so far. So you know, you've got Kyron Williams,
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: You've got Pooka Nakua, You've got you know, DeMarcus Robinson
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: playing big role for a team that was, you know,
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: out of it two and five, not even looking good,
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: not even having a shot at the playoffs.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: So pretty amazing stuff.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: In our final couple of seconds, twenty five to thirty two, Bears, Titans, Jets, Giants, Cardinals,
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Commander's Patriots, Carol Aina, Panthers. Eric, will you commit right
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: now to giving everyone their money back if any of
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: these teams make the playoffs?
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: Absolutely guarantee you one hundred percent.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: I'll do that, Okay, the shows for free, by the way,
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: for the record, so Eric at home, thank you as
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: always for putting up with me. Everyone enjoy Week fourteen.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Andrew cciliano. Thanks for watching and listening
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  Speaker 2: to it.
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