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#22: Power Rankings Season Finale, Chiefs are #1, Jags jump, Jets and Giants needs, and Rams drop · 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: Power Rankings podcast presented by energizers Still going, Well, not true, Connie,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Dan Hansas, Colleen Will because we're not gonna be
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  Speaker 1: still going because this is the season finale of Power
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  Speaker 1: rank Anything is over and done. Now we've reached the
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  Speaker 1: NFL no now goes into a quiet, respectful hibernation until September.
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  Speaker 1: That's how this works, right, That's when we'll come back.
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  Speaker 1: You know. That is how not how the NFL machine works.
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  Speaker 1: But this podcast, which we thank everyone who is watched
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  Speaker 1: and listened along all season, is reaching its conclusion fittingly. Connie,
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  Speaker 1: after Super Bowl fifty seven, the old Zeuser, that's me.
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  Speaker 1: After I got off the plane, um, Roger Goodell personally
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  Speaker 1: shot me a text and said, son, I'm gonna need
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  Speaker 1: five thousand words on one through thirty two. Roger Adell
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  Speaker 1: as your dad in some ways he is. He's not
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  Speaker 1: my dad, and he's my daddy on some level. So
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  Speaker 1: I cranked it out. It's up on the website. You
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  Speaker 1: can check it out at NFL dot com, slash Power
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  Speaker 1: Rankings and now, Connie, we will talk about the final reveal.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously the Chiefs were triumphant in the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 1: fifty seven over your Philadelphia Eagles in a all time classic.
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  Speaker 1: I would put it in the top ten all time
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  Speaker 1: super Bowls. Not the Before we go through the top ten,
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  Speaker 1: I just want to top eight. I want to check
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  Speaker 1: in with you, Connie. Where are you at emotionally? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: things were going pretty well obviously for the Eagles, and
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  Speaker 1: then they weren't. Level of disappointment one at a ten
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  Speaker 1: and you can go up to his high seventy seven. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I wish I could give you a level, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: completely dead inside, so it's not really there's no reading
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  Speaker 1: on it at this point. Yeah, listen, I the fact
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  Speaker 1: that I'm here right now just a husk. My body
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  Speaker 1: is here physically, but I don't know where the rest
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  Speaker 1: of me is. It's not with us, No, it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: the the Eagles. They took a piece of me with
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  Speaker 1: that game, and I left it at State Farm Stadium.
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  Speaker 1: Can I ask you, in terms of most difficult Eagles losses,
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  Speaker 1: is it the toughest one? This was very disappointing because
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  Speaker 1: of the game flow and the way that the Eagles
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  Speaker 1: looked coming out of the game, and the entire first
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  Speaker 1: half they looked so great. And it was interesting because
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  Speaker 1: I sat in a section that was both Chiefs and
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  Speaker 1: Eagles fans, and everyone was pretty nice in the section,
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  Speaker 1: but it was a lot of disappointed Chiefs fans, a
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  Speaker 1: ton of Eagles fans just chirping and celebrating, and then
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  Speaker 1: the tide shifted and it was just so upsetting. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and I was going to say we were both in
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  Speaker 1: the stadium in different areas, but I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: probably a sixty five thirty five breakdown in terms of
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  Speaker 1: Eagles fans over Chiefs fans and the place there were
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  Speaker 1: moments in a Super Bowl game. It's gotten to the
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  Speaker 1: point in the Super Bowls that we've been to where
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  Speaker 1: really is an active, loud crowd on both ends when
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  Speaker 1: scores happened. But this game really did. Like the first
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  Speaker 1: the Pachenko touchdown in the third quarter, it actually got
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  Speaker 1: quiet and it was like, these are Eagles sas you
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  Speaker 1: could sense the tension of realizing that Mahomes was starting
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  Speaker 1: to Mahomes and things were slipping away. I'm sorry, but
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  Speaker 1: that needs to be done. I did text you guys
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  Speaker 1: you and Dan or you are Dan, Dan and Dan
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  Speaker 1: and then inside correct, I am telling the truth. I'm
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  Speaker 1: being completely tru I texted you guys in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of that game and I was like, no matter what happens,
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  Speaker 1: this isn't also Super Bowl. This game was so good
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  Speaker 1: and the Chiefs, they looked incredible in that second half.
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  Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, I thought that he was hurt at one point.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think that he was going to be able
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  Speaker 1: to finish the game. And that was something that I
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to see. I wanted both of these teams
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  Speaker 1: to be full strength, and they were and minus the consitions,
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  Speaker 1: and I know, I was like, I'm being the bigger person.
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  Speaker 1: I want these teams to be like at full strength.
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  Speaker 1: Yea was a terrible um. Let's now check the first
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  Speaker 1: eight teams in the final power rankings that are up
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  Speaker 1: again at NFL dot com. Yes, the Chiefs and Kyle
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  Speaker 1: Brandon has mentioned it last month and it is still
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  Speaker 1: in the back of my mind. My last power rankings ever,
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  Speaker 1: whenever that is, whenever Daddy deems it to be over
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  Speaker 1: in this job, or if I say I literally can't
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  Speaker 1: be yelled at on the internet any longer. I will
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  Speaker 1: put the winner of the Super Bowl number two in
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  Speaker 1: the power rankings. That that's how you go out, that's
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  Speaker 1: how you bring that's how you get that cloud. But
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  Speaker 1: not today. The Kansas City Chiefs are number one, and
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  Speaker 1: I we had where they were at the start of
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  Speaker 1: the regular season of the power rankings. So I, like
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  Speaker 1: many others, were sucked in by the a f C
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  Speaker 1: West and the idea that it was going to be
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  Speaker 1: this big division with teams just beating each other up
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  Speaker 1: and Tyreek Hill out the door. So but guess what
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  Speaker 1: the Chiefs figured out there at one The Eagles another
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  Speaker 1: team Connie is as as disappointing as it was back
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  Speaker 1: in early September. You weren't sure really what to make
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  Speaker 1: of them. I wasn't alone. I had them four team
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  Speaker 1: to start the season. They ended number two, the Bengals.
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  Speaker 1: I was highing them all year. They finished at number three, Niners,
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  Speaker 1: number four, Bills five, Cowboys six up. They finished at seven,
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  Speaker 1: and the Chargers eight ending the post Super Bowl power rankings.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get into little Chiefs now. I mean, I I
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  Speaker 1: think Connie um mahomes, what he was able to do
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  Speaker 1: in the game and the reason they won. I think
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  Speaker 1: was the greatest strength of the Eagles in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of ways was that pass rush that had seventy eight
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  Speaker 1: sacks and zero sacks in the Super Bowl. And once
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  Speaker 1: you took away that, it was like removing the kryptonite
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  Speaker 1: from that side of the ball, right And we knew
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  Speaker 1: that that was going to be the way for the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles to get a win, to beat Patrick Mahomes and
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  Speaker 1: this offense because Patrick Mahomes was dealing with that ankle,
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  Speaker 1: and then you saw that it was still very much
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  Speaker 1: an issue when he was hit again and it was reaggravated.
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  Speaker 1: But the pass rush on both sides, they just could
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  Speaker 1: not get their footing on the field, and you saw
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  Speaker 1: there was one I can't believe there was one play
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  Speaker 1: in particular where both Josh Sweat and Hassan Reddick felt
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  Speaker 1: like just slipped off on both ends and it happened
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  Speaker 1: almost in concert. It was almost synchronized. And even Frank
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  Speaker 1: Clark after the game said that the conditions were terrible,
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  Speaker 1: like both teams had to play on it, which it
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  Speaker 1: just it doesn't really make a ton of sense to me,
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  Speaker 1: but I think that that was played a huge factor
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  Speaker 1: in this game. And when you have the connection that
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes has with Travis Kelsey, it just you're going to
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  Speaker 1: be able to win, and you're going with Andy Reid
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  Speaker 1: scheming things up and being so creative and having all
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  Speaker 1: of the misdirection that they have to kind of confuse
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  Speaker 1: this Eagles defense. It was an unbelievable comeback for the Chiefs. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and down ten points at halftime. You know, they get
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  Speaker 1: the defensive score off the Hurts fumble in the first half,
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  Speaker 1: they kind of in the end kept them in the game.
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  Speaker 1: And then what do they have to do to win
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  Speaker 1: by three points? They needed to score every time they
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  Speaker 1: had the ball in the second half, three touchdowns and
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  Speaker 1: the go ahead field goal. They take the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 1: and men and Mahomes. It's hard to believe, but he
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  Speaker 1: recently turned and he's not going anywhere. And as long
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  Speaker 1: as Mahomes is around a guy that is absolutely already
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  Speaker 1: in the competition as the best quarterback ever. Andy Reid
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  Speaker 1: now bumping into that conversation we talked about the greatest
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  Speaker 1: coaches ever, Chiefs aren't going anywhere. And I think it
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  Speaker 1: was a learning lesson for bozos like me and others
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  Speaker 1: who kept overlooking what was going on here that Mahomes.
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  Speaker 1: Even as recently as the last time we did this show,
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  Speaker 1: Connie and I had the Chiefs at number four, and
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  Speaker 1: I was all pumped up on Joe Burrow and the Bengals.
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  Speaker 1: This is their time and it was just like, that's
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  Speaker 1: why Kelsey screaming into the mic after the game, like,
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  Speaker 1: you guys thought our time had passed, We're in our prime. Still,
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  Speaker 1: this is their moment and they proved it. That was
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  Speaker 1: the huge thing in the off season. Has the a
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  Speaker 1: f C passed the Chiefs. Every team loaded up, they
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  Speaker 1: figured out pass rushes, they have playmakers, and it seemed
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  Speaker 1: like that division was going to be just such a
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  Speaker 1: massive problem for everyone. And at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: it was still the Chiefs that came out on top.
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  Speaker 1: All right, as we look at elsewhere on the top
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  Speaker 1: A what jumps out to you there, comell? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: obviously the Jags. The Jags up twenty two points was
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  Speaker 1: just I mean, when we we lost time. Now, by
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  Speaker 1: the way for power Moves presented by Energizer, they're a
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  Speaker 1: perfect team to talk about. The Jacks. Yes, and listen,
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  Speaker 1: you you talked about at the beginning of the year,
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  Speaker 1: so I feel like you had a big part in
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  Speaker 1: their come up. Well, like, congratulations to you. It's a
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  Speaker 1: good way to look at it. I will when we
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  Speaker 1: get to the lower tier, I'm gonna throw out my
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  Speaker 1: early prediction for who will be the Jaguars in the
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  Speaker 1: back quadrant of the power rankings. But yeah, they're a
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  Speaker 1: team that's set up obviously very well. I mean, your
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  Speaker 1: boy Doug Peterson, who has that Super Bowl trophy with
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles, has not obviously he's not my homes but
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  Speaker 1: he has a young quarterback who's not going anywhere, and
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  Speaker 1: they are still in that window where they could load
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  Speaker 1: up in terms of free agent spending because Lawrence is
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  Speaker 1: on an affordable contract. This is the window, and I
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  Speaker 1: think you're gonna see the Jaguars basically be presented come
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  Speaker 1: August as a heavy favorite in the out and getting
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  Speaker 1: some Super Bowl buzz depending on how their offseason goes well.
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  Speaker 1: They went on a five game win streak to finish
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  Speaker 1: out the season, and Doug Peterson, he just had this team.
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  Speaker 1: When you go from where they were before with Urban Meyer,
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  Speaker 1: and then you bring in an actual head coach that
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  Speaker 1: is a people person that cares about his staff, that
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  Speaker 1: cares about his players, Doug Peterson. I'm just such a
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  Speaker 1: big fan of him from having worked with him in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: This guy came in and is the perfect head coach
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  Speaker 1: to work with Trevor Lawrence help him develop. We saw
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  Speaker 1: him take those steps this year. We saw where his
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  Speaker 1: potential can be and where he can go. Its future
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  Speaker 1: is so bright. Of course, they have some defensive holes
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  Speaker 1: that they need to fix, but they are in such
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  Speaker 1: good shape going forward. And to just throw a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of rain on the parade, okay, as it were,
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  Speaker 1: I did write about Trayvon Walker. You know, he he
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  Speaker 1: didn't make the difference that they were hoping in year one.
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  Speaker 1: I know he was kind of touted as a highly
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  Speaker 1: talented but raw player. But then when Aidan Hutchinson has
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  Speaker 1: a big is the number two pick, and then Sauce
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  Speaker 1: Gardner goes first team All Pro at cornerback at the
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  Speaker 1: fourth pick to the Lions and Jets, respectively, you start
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  Speaker 1: to think to yourself, as a fan of the team, man,
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  Speaker 1: what do we got one of those dudes? So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there is that little element of it. You need Walker
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  Speaker 1: to kind of live up to his draft stock, to
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  Speaker 1: beef up that pass rush, which which is very necessary
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  Speaker 1: and will be expected quite frankly, Walker, Let's check out
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  Speaker 1: Tier two Lions. They are up sixteen spots from week
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  Speaker 1: one to number nine, the Vikings up ten spots to ten,
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  Speaker 1: the Ravens at eleven, Packers twelve. I don't know. This
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  Speaker 1: is where it's Sometimes the timing of the power rankings
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  Speaker 1: gets a little tricky. So how much was the rank
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  Speaker 1: the Packers when the quarterback Hall of Fame quarterback is
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  Speaker 1: literally in a retreat. Yeah, like isolation and solitary confinement.
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  Speaker 1: What so I just stuck him in twelve? And then
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  Speaker 1: will you know, let God sorted out for the darkness.
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  Speaker 1: God's um. I guess that's sure. Hell, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Steelers thirteen with a lot of promise. I felt that
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  Speaker 1: was a little too high obviously as they made the list,
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  Speaker 1: but they did finish the season well. The Giants at fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: up fourteen spots week one, the Dolphins at fifteen, and
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  Speaker 1: I got the Jets who opened the season for me
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  Speaker 1: at twenty six. I have them up ten spots at sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, you're like, oh, but Dan, like, they didn't
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  Speaker 1: get that quarterback yet. Yeah, so I can't really project that,
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  Speaker 1: but I can say they will get Elijah Bara Tucker back,
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  Speaker 1: They'll get Briefe hallback. This team is one decent quarterback
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  Speaker 1: away from being a contender in the a f C
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  Speaker 1: and they swept the Rookie honors Offensive Defensive Rookie of
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  Speaker 1: the Year. I mean, this team has great building blocks
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  Speaker 1: that feel like Joe Douglass did such a good job
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  Speaker 1: with these draft classes. So they just need to All
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  Speaker 1: they need to do is get a quarterback right. The
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  Speaker 1: only thing they didn't do right Zach Wilson at the
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  Speaker 1: number two. They'll pick and they're trying to address that.
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  Speaker 1: But I do I am not just because I am
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  Speaker 1: a Jets fan, but I do think they will come
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  Speaker 1: out of this when the dust clears, whether it is
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers my preferred guy that they get, or Derek
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  Speaker 1: Carr or Jimmy Garoppolo or well let's leave it there,
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  Speaker 1: I think they'll have one of those three guys, and
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  Speaker 1: no matter who it is, that will be a big
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  Speaker 1: upgrade of what they had last year. And when you
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  Speaker 1: factor in the team getting healthier and any other editions
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  Speaker 1: on the way, that's gonna make the Jets. I think
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  Speaker 1: absolutely team that should make the plays and if they
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  Speaker 1: don't people are getting fired ers. That's your number one
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  Speaker 1: to brace the cast. Brace the cast. What about the Giants?
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  Speaker 1: Since we're in talking New York teams, I have them
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  Speaker 1: at fourteen after they want a playoff game. I was
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  Speaker 1: a little bit and we talked about it in the
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  Speaker 1: power Workings County. The run to the playoffs included beating
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings twice, who are kind of posers. Let's face it,
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  Speaker 1: you know they weren't a true elite team even though
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  Speaker 1: the records said they were, and then they got absolutely
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  Speaker 1: destroyed by your Eagles in the playoffs. So it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: some of that you it makes you think, is this
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  Speaker 1: team on the eyes or did they really take advantage
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  Speaker 1: of a soft schedule? But they got business to take
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  Speaker 1: care of first? With Daniel Jones and s Kwon Ball
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  Speaker 1: free agents, well, I think that they definitely performed above
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  Speaker 1: what people expected. This was supposed to be kind of
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  Speaker 1: a rebuilding year with Brian day Ball coming in. They
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  Speaker 1: it was basically a year where they just wanted to
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  Speaker 1: answer some big questions that they had with I almost
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  Speaker 1: called him Sae Kwon Jones with Daniel Jones and Seaguon Barkley,
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  Speaker 1: but I think they got their answers. I mean, se
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  Speaker 1: Kuan had an incredible year, so good for him. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what they're going to do, what their answer
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  Speaker 1: is there, but I think that they got so much
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  Speaker 1: out of Daniel Jones and that's a credit to Brian
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  Speaker 1: day Ball. And you know, I'm not I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I think that they need to work on their offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: They have a lot of work coming up in the draft.
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  Speaker 1: But I think that they were a surprise this year.
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  Speaker 1: For me. I didn't think that they would be as
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  Speaker 1: good as they were. Maybe it's schedule, maybe it's luck,
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  Speaker 1: maybe it's all of it. Yeah, and we got it.
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  Speaker 1: We should touch on the Lions before we our Lions. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: before we move on, because our Lions are hard knocks team.
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  Speaker 1: They they have our attention, they have the opponent's respect,
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  Speaker 1: they had a winning season. There's a lot there's going
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  Speaker 1: to be actual expectations this season. Had Jamal Williams was
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  Speaker 1: on the Around the NFL podcast at Media Row and
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  Speaker 1: he was a delight. I must say. I talked to
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  Speaker 1: him as well super Bowl Live. Oh my gosh, what
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  Speaker 1: a personality he has. And I actually talked to Jared
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  Speaker 1: Golf and Aidan Hutchinson at Honors and we talked about
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  Speaker 1: Jamal Williams and they were both like, yeah, that's how
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  Speaker 1: that dude is all of the time, Like it never
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  Speaker 1: turns off. He came out of that conversation thinking, how
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  Speaker 1: does this guy kind of do like day to day life.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it must be really entertaining to be his friend,
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  Speaker 1: like he legitimately he said, like, I don't do anything
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  Speaker 1: but like watch anime and play video games and answer
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  Speaker 1: the door for door dash And I said, and I
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: was like, yeah, like do you what about like do
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  Speaker 1: you have a house. He's like, no, I'm not I
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  Speaker 1: don't have a house. Like everything, it's just seems to
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  Speaker 1: be in this this window. But then he had seventeen touchdowns,
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  Speaker 1: so he's doing something right. He's got I mean, he
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  Speaker 1: hasn't figured out I'm pretty sure. And then have the
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  Speaker 1: lines figured out the quarterback situation. That's my big question
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  Speaker 1: I wrote about in power Ranking. Scoff will be back
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  Speaker 1: most likely. The offense is very good with him and
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  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson, though See is also back, but they also
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  Speaker 1: have two first round picks, including a sixth overall selection.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder that's tough. I wonder if they do take
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback. Welcome back to power rankings. Okay, so we
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  Speaker 1: have a quad three. Let's check this out. At seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: the Patriots up one spot from so you were. You
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  Speaker 1: pretty much nailed dot at the really post Brady, they're
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  Speaker 1: just kind of the middle of the road team are
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  Speaker 1: waiting to see which way they'll go. Yeah, it didn't
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  Speaker 1: go much at seventeen, only moved up one spot. But
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  Speaker 1: you have an eighteen the Seahawks. Then at nineteen the Panthers,
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  Speaker 1: who they have a lot of a lot of new
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  Speaker 1: things going on there that they have to figure out.
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  Speaker 1: The Rams at twenty down eighteen spots. Huge disappointment this year.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get to them next. I want to talk about
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  Speaker 1: that for sure. Twenty one the Browns. Same kind of
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  Speaker 1: thing with the Patriots, only up one spot from where
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  Speaker 1: you initially. Yeah, the Titans at two down five spots
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  Speaker 1: after John Robinson had a lot of along the way
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  Speaker 1: I am to the Bucks at twenty three down nineteen spots,
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  Speaker 1: another big disappointment. And then the Raiders as well, they're
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: in that category to same bucket, down thirteen spots. That
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: was that was bad job by me and many other people.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: Who thought the Raiders with Davante Adams were going to
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: make a big leap and instead it was kind of
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: the same old Raiders with Josh McDaniels. But yeah, let's
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: talk the Rams, because I wouldn't say that's misleading because
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: our fine producer Drew doesn't mislead anyone with his info.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: They did have that huge fall year to year eighteen spots,
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: but they're also up seven spots since the final week
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: of the regular season, and that is because hell it's over.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Like that was a nightmare quote unquote title defense, one
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: of the worst ever. In fact, they had the worst
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: most amount of losses for any defending Super Bowl champion ever.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: But you get to hit the reset button and Matthew
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Stafford's already said he's back, Cooper Cup is going to
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: come back healthy. You're going to have on Aaron Donald
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: unless he retires, but I don't think he is. He'll
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: be back healthy, and I think almost most importantly, Sean
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: McVeigh is coming back. So where I have him now
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: is obviously a hedge because I have them in the
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: middle of the pack. And but at the same time,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: when it's surprised me if they were back in the
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: top ten come next September October. No, it wouldn't know.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: And I think after the Super Bowl last year, the
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: expectations are always high for whoever wins, but it was
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: just such a drop off from what we're used to
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: with this team. And when von Miller didn't come back,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: you thought, Okay, maybe the pass rush could be a
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: problem this year, but they'll figure it out. And it
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: just seemed to be doomed from the very beginning from
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: that Week one game and the Bills just crushed them.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: And I remember m J d was on our show
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: that day and he does the radio for the RAMS broadcast,
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: and he was talking so much before the show and
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: then he came down so I mean, he was wearing
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: his Super Bowl ring, he had the whole thing, and
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: then afterwards it was extremely deflating for him and of
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: course all Rams fans all over the place. The whole
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: season was but it felt like it was over halfway
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: through the season, Like I felt like their year ended
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: almost in October. It felt like yeah, and they once
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: again did try to move number one picks to get
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: a pass rusher during the season, and that trade actually
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: didn't happen. And it's like Okay, that's not the worst thing.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Can we just I know, I know. The whole part
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: of the less need Sean McVeigh thing has been just
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: keep on putting on the credit card, if you will.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: But at some point you're gonna have to start developing
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: players via the draft and getting some premium picks back
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: in that building or it's going to be a hard crash.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Maybe they could start doing it this year. Quad for
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: the last quad the season. Okay, we got the Commanders.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: They didn't take a ton of commands. Sierra up five
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: spots to say it's a twenty six, and they did,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: but they failed at twenty six. They have some quarterback
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: questions of their own that they need to answer this offseason.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: The Falcons at seven, up four spots. Once again, they
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: had so many of those like close games where they
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: just couldn't get it done. Broncos at eight. Everyone thought
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: the Broncos would be good Wholf Sean Payton. Maybe Sean
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Payton can do something with Russell Wilson. He is he
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: and Wilson will probably be their quarterback this year, but
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: if he stinks again, he is playing somewhere else, almost
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: certainly in Peyton will pick his guy. So this obviously
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: is a huge and the Broncos had started the season
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: at eight and they end the season at Cardinals at
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: nine down spots, and then you have the Texans down
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: three at thirties, so they stayed pretty consistent along with
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: the Bears up one spot thirty one, and then the
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Colts are the final team in the rankings did last
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: at thirty two. Actualation. Shane Stike in the new head
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: coach of the Cults, the former offensive coordinator. He goes
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: from putting up thirty five points in almost four hundred
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: twenty yards in the Super Bowl to taking over a
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: team that really had devolved into a laughing stock of
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: the UH this past season. But there are some pieces there.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Now I'm going to share though, the team that I
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: think can make the jump. Do I think they'd make
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: the jump the way the Jags did into the like
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: top ten? I'm not there, but my pick is the
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. As you pointed out, there were seven and ten,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: and I know that's back to back losing seasons for
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Arthur Smith since he took over. But I believe that
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Smith has this team with limited talent, had them competitive.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: They won more games than anyone expected each of the
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: past two years. Tyler arld Geer is a running back
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: they could get behind Kyle Pitts obviously in Drake London
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: are a great one to punch. They just need a quarterback.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: And I'm working under the assumption that, like the Jets,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: they will come out of this with a veteran quarterback.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: I know there's some chatter that we believe in Desmond Ritter. Now,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I think Arthur Smith knows how the NFL works. You
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: get three years, no matter how bad the program is
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: when you take over, you're getting by that third year,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: if you haven't made the playoffs, you're in a lot
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: of trouble. He's not going to go down with Desen Ritter.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: That's my my thinking. They're gonna get a guy in.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Here's I'll thrown out there. And I feel good about
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: this because I threw it out there in Good Morning
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Football in Shrager. You know, shrag bombs all plugged in.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: He nodded his head and said, Wow, Okay, Ryan Tannehill,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Arthur Smith reunion, all those big years in Tennessee. He moves.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: I know the Tennessee Titans are looking potentially move forward
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: without Tannehill put him in Atlanta in that week NFC South.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: I'm feeling good about the Falcons win a nine or
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: ten games. I don't mind that. I'd actually like to
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: see that, you know what. I also want to go
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: through the league and look at the teams that have
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: questionable quarterback situations and rank those teams. All right, let's start,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: all right, but there are so many, and we just
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: passed out behind the glass. You could say, I mean,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: you have the Falcons, you have the Panthers, you have
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: the Saints, you have the Jets. I mean it's almost
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: like this time of or half the league sometimes feels
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: like quick, we're gonna do teams that don't have an
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: answer at quarterback in the top eight. Guess what. Every
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: team has an answer at quarterback in Tier two. Lions
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: got to figure that potential. The raven potentially the Ravens.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Ravens h No, Lions have a guy. Jared Daniel Jones
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: is probably still the guy. The Giants to us healthy.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: The Jets obviously that's one. The Patriots maybe they got. Maybe,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: the Panthers obviously need one, the Titans they might need one,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: The Bucks need one, the Raiders need one. And your
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: point is spot on Connie because then you go to
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: the fourth year the commander's name. The Saints need one,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: the Falcons need one, The Broncos might need one. The
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Cardinals need one for at least half the season most likely.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: The Texans Bears no Bears are okay, but they could
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: trade field. Colts need one. So the teams without quarterback stabilities,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: that's the league, that's what it's about. And um, the
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Lanta Falcons, they can go into it with Desmond Ritter,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: but I think they gonna be a much better team
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: if they get somebody that can has some sex, you know,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: real track record of success. Yeah, we have the thoughts.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Just what a year it's been. You know, I've on
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: it now. I am. I have never been involved this,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: involved in power rankings before. And I feel like I
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: took the ride. I took the ride with you, and
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: it was a roller coaster for sure. That's what it is.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: You know, you can't get too high like the team's
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: you know, you can't get too high and too low.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: You got to kind of keep a nice, steady take.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: My my dad, Keith was with you before the I
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: have a daddy, it okay that works on Park Avenue
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: and a dad. He's like, Colleen, you do Power Rankings
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: with Danny great, But you did do a great job college.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: There was a lot of fun than this road. Thank
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: you to Drew and everybody behind the glass for taking
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: us through this wild adventure, the road through each season
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: it is over. We'll catch you as Towy three season approaches.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Until then, you know what you gotta do. Heed the call.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go take a seven month napp. NFL Power
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