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#15: How far did Chiefs & Dolphins fall? · NFL Power Rankings

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  Speaker 2: Happy holidays to Eric at home. And you know what's happy? Eric?
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  Speaker 2: When you have four of the top seven and five
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  Speaker 2: of the top nine losing, your life must be miserable.
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  Speaker 4: It is.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't well, I guess it made it easier. I
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  Speaker 5: didn't move anyone down or up because I didn't know
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  Speaker 5: what to do with any of these teams.
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  Speaker 4: Are they for real? Are they contenders?
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  Speaker 3: What are they?
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  Speaker 4: We'll have to find out.
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  Speaker 3: I guess, Oh, man, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: NFL dot Com slash Power Rankings organ scanned the QR
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  Speaker 2: code where for the second consecutive week you're going to
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  Speaker 2: see the forty nine ers here as the number one team.
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  Speaker 3: They punched the Eagles in the mouth. They then came back.
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  Speaker 2: I had a little bit of a challenge early from
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  Speaker 2: the Seahawks, but they are the number one. And then
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  Speaker 2: you have the Ravens at number two, who needed over
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  Speaker 2: time to beat the Rams, but they are just fine.
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  Speaker 2: And then it kind of gets interesting. You got the
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys at three, the Eagles at four. That game was
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  Speaker 2: over in five minutes against Philadelphia on Sunday night, the Dolphin.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, everyone's hurting they lost it home to the Titans,
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  Speaker 2: but they don't move.
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  Speaker 3: I mean there's a dilemma because what do you do
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  Speaker 3: because the.
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  Speaker 2: Chiefs lost and they're still complaining and they're at six,
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  Speaker 2: and then the Lions lost like they should have lost
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  Speaker 2: to the Bears last time, and they're at seven, and
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  Speaker 2: then the fighting Joe Flacco's move up to eight. I mean, hey,
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  Speaker 2: where do we begin eric other than saying I think
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  Speaker 2: clearly the forty nine ers.
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  Speaker 3: Are one, and then it's kind of just thrown against
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  Speaker 3: the wall.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, the group of halves right now feels like one
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  Speaker 5: or maybe a very small group of teams, and the
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  Speaker 5: forty nine ers are definitely charter members of that right now.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, forget the three game losing streak. They've been great.
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  Speaker 4: They were great before it everything sees to me clicking.
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  Speaker 5: The interesting thing about Sunday Andrew is that it really
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  Speaker 5: wasn't consistent. They didn't get in the offensive flow till late.
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  Speaker 5: But when you have Deebo Samuel and Christian McCaffrey and
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  Speaker 5: Brandon Aiyuk and at George Kittle ripping off big plays
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  Speaker 5: the way they did. They got more than half their
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  Speaker 5: yard Sunday on eight plays. So it's a little bit
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  Speaker 5: hot and cold, but they find a way and they
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  Speaker 5: get pretty good health on defense. They were worried about
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  Speaker 5: Travaria's ward our grave. Both those guys seem to like
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  Speaker 5: they're okay long term. So the winners keep on winning.
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  Speaker 3: And they get Arizona this week.
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  Speaker 2: That game is in Arizona, then the Christmas night home
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  Speaker 2: game against the Ravens.
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  Speaker 3: But the forty nine Ers are the one seed.
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  Speaker 2: In the NFC, and they have the head to head,
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  Speaker 2: which is the most important thing, against both the Cowboys
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  Speaker 2: and the Eagles. They stomped on both of those teams,
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  Speaker 2: so they have a clear path to number one. With
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  Speaker 2: San Francisco still number one in our power rankings.
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  Speaker 3: The Ravens are number two.
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  Speaker 2: They needed over time, I mean again They've had some
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  Speaker 2: battles at home. They weren't able to win that game
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  Speaker 2: against the Browns a couple of weeks ago. That was
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  Speaker 2: a huge game at home. This one kind of felt
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  Speaker 2: the same. But this one, Eric they pulled out and
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  Speaker 2: with the Dolphins losing, get to them at a second,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Baltimore's got that clear path to number one.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it seems pretty clear right now, at least the
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  Speaker 5: way the Dolphins play. Weren't able to put the Titans away,
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  Speaker 5: suffered a huge setback. So this is Baltimore's game. You're right,
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  Speaker 5: it did take some effort there, but a lot of
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  Speaker 5: good things did come out of this game. I think
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  Speaker 5: Lamar Jackson in the downfield passing game to Obj to
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  Speaker 5: Isaiah likely to Jay Flowers who had the touchdown and
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  Speaker 5: the crucial two point conversion. They don't get that they
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  Speaker 5: don't win the game because the Rams did kick a field.
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  Speaker 4: Goal to tie it right after that.
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  Speaker 5: So you know, also the huge special teams play in overtime,
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  Speaker 5: typical Ravens play. They find the guy, the fifty third
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  Speaker 5: man on the roster, if you will, goes and wins
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  Speaker 5: it for him.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 5: Defensively, a little bit of concern. Kyle Hamilton gets banged up,
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  Speaker 5: it sounds like they avoided a mere injury with him though,
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  Speaker 5: so and look, Marlon Humphrey back struggle a little bit
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  Speaker 5: in this game.
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  Speaker 4: But to me, Andrew, if.
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  Speaker 5: You remember his first game back after missing the first
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  Speaker 5: four contests of the season, he struggled but then was
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  Speaker 5: good after that, so I assume this is just an
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  Speaker 5: acclamation period.
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  Speaker 2: The schedule though for the Ravens is brutal Karin Jacksonville
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  Speaker 2: on Sunday night, although the Jaguars aren't any good at home,
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  Speaker 2: they're two and four at home. Then they have to
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  Speaker 2: go to San Francisco as mentioned on Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: Night, then Miami.
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  Speaker 2: That game is in essence week seventeen for the number
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  Speaker 2: one overall seed, and then the Steelers at home Week eighteen.
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  Speaker 2: Who knows what the Steelers are fighting for, but the
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  Speaker 2: Ravens will likely have to win that game to hold
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  Speaker 2: on to number one. But they do have that clear
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  Speaker 2: path and they stay at number two. The Cowboys are
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  Speaker 2: up one. They are number three, and they are our
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  Speaker 2: team of the week presented by Truest. They got a
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  Speaker 2: good win, Eric congratulations to the Dallas Cowboys or a
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  Speaker 2: hitting a good win, a really really good win, and
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  Speaker 2: if they had not been stomped by the forty nine
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  Speaker 2: ers in Santa Clara a month ago, six weeks ago,
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  Speaker 2: whatever that was on that Sunday night, I guess you
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  Speaker 2: kind of might make an argument they have a claim at.
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  Speaker 4: Number one, right.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, that game is probably the difference right there.
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  Speaker 5: Arizona losing to them earlier in the season too, But still,
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  Speaker 5: I think you look at the momentum they've made and
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  Speaker 5: the progress they've had since, you know, really the last
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  Speaker 5: two months or so, and since that.
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  Speaker 4: San Francisco game. Dak Prescott's been terrific.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know that the other night was his finest performance,
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  Speaker 5: but outplay. Jalen Hurts had everything going in the first half,
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  Speaker 5: and how about a little clapper Mike McCarthy for a
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  Speaker 5: guy was on the operating table days before the game. Oh,
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  Speaker 5: she showed a lot of life play calling, got a
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  Speaker 5: TD reversed, and made a tough call on a couple
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  Speaker 5: of long field goals that worked out.
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  Speaker 4: So he was flipping aces all night.
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  Speaker 5: The first half was brilliant and it was a statement
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  Speaker 5: performance overall by Dallas.
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  Speaker 2: Dak is looking at an MVP here potentially he's playing
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  Speaker 2: lights out. They're working everyone into the offense. Tony Coller
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  Speaker 2: Recodowbdell was able to come back from injury. He showed
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  Speaker 2: great burst here as well. And you spoke of the
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  Speaker 2: appendix injury. Did you see they had Matt will Let's
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  Speaker 2: Go the offensive lineman standing near McCarthy the entire game. Honestly,
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  Speaker 2: he was there to protect Yeah, McCarthy if there was
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  Speaker 2: any sideline trapnel coming at the coach where he would
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  Speaker 2: have to get out of the way. Only a couple
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  Speaker 2: of days off the operating table, Matt will Let's Go
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  Speaker 2: was there.
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  Speaker 4: The block form.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, we'll do that down to the seier ball. I'll
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  Speaker 5: be your protection when you roam around on the sideline.
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  Speaker 2: Steel because that's what I need. Obviously, I have to
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  Speaker 2: roll with security. I'm going to be in Alabama, so
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  Speaker 2: I need those two state troopers a la Nick Saban
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  Speaker 2: whenever I walk out onto the field with the big
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  Speaker 2: wide brim hats.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I approve.
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  Speaker 2: Let's do then Cowboys in Buffalo this Sunday, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be cold, like maybe in the high thirties,
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  Speaker 2: So we'll see how the Cowboys deal with that. After
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  Speaker 2: beating the Eagles, who are now down one. Let's talk
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  Speaker 2: about them. They are now number four in your power rankings,
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  Speaker 2: and they could have some weather as well.
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  Speaker 3: They have to go to Seattle, cold, rainy Monday night. Here.
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  Speaker 2: This is just another trip, another stop on a gauntlet
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  Speaker 2: of a schedule. But the Eagles have been beaten badly
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  Speaker 2: by the Niners, beaten badly by the Cowboys and consecutive weeks.
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  Speaker 5: Right, there's no shame in losing to these top five
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  Speaker 5: type teams or top ten teams, right, but it's the
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  Speaker 5: way they lost. And speaking of cold, I mean that
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  Speaker 5: defense has gone through the ringer recently. And ten straight
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  Speaker 5: possessions between the San Francisco game and what we saw
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  Speaker 5: Sunday night were they allowed a touchdown nine of excuse me,
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  Speaker 5: a score and nine of them were touchdowns. Now, the
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  Speaker 5: scoop and score did get them back in the game,
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  Speaker 5: and you felt like with Jalen Hurts and those guys,
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  Speaker 5: you have a chance. But Hurtz, DeVante Smith, AJ Brown,
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  Speaker 5: the big three, all of them put a fumble on
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  Speaker 5: the ground. Dallas recovered all three, you know, and where's
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  Speaker 5: DeAndre Swift on the last two games. It's kind of
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  Speaker 5: a curious one too. I mean, he's been getting that
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  Speaker 5: fifteen to twenty catch has really been a great spark
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  Speaker 5: for them, or fifteen to twenty touches, but the last
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  Speaker 5: two he's only had nineteen totals, So kind of curious
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  Speaker 5: about his usage and what they see going forward.
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  Speaker 2: Eagles, it's not that they lost, you make a great point,
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  Speaker 2: It is how they lost. And there are people panicking
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  Speaker 2: in Philadelphia. I don't think that's an exaggeration because they go, oh, well,
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  Speaker 2: we got ten wins, but yeah, the teams you've lost to,
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  Speaker 2: or the teams are gonna have to beat to get
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  Speaker 2: to Vegas, and those teams have beaten you badly, all right,
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  Speaker 2: speaking of getting beaten. And they didn't get beaten badly,
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  Speaker 2: but it was a bad, bad, bad loss.
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  Speaker 3: The Dolphins you don't have moving.
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  Speaker 2: They're at five, and partly because everyone else in the
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  Speaker 2: top eight or nine lost. But I don't know how
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  Speaker 2: you reconcile this year. Eric Tyreek Hill should have won
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  Speaker 2: the MVP on Monday Night because without him they're nothing.
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  Speaker 2: The offensive lines banged up, you got key pieces on
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  Speaker 2: defense out, Like what do you make of the Dolphins? Now?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, before I was forced to kind of rewrite my
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  Speaker 5: comment for this week's power rankings late in the game,
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  Speaker 5: you know.
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  Speaker 4: About three minutes left.
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  Speaker 5: I felt a bit pretty good about what I wrote.
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  Speaker 5: I said exactly what you did. I said, Hill's capstone
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  Speaker 5: for his MVP case this year should be the tape
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  Speaker 5: with him on the field and the tape without no
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's just a stark difference. And you could
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  Speaker 5: see the crowd and the team really energized when he
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  Speaker 5: came back out there, but they couldn't punch it in early.
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  Speaker 5: They only got those two gift touchdowns because the defensive
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  Speaker 5: plays and special teams play. So I'm really worried about
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  Speaker 5: this offense, and then the defense, which had carried them
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  Speaker 5: all night, you know, had their early touchdown, the only
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  Speaker 5: offensive TD until the final five minutes. But look, it
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  Speaker 5: was just those last two drives where they got soft
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  Speaker 5: and they got passive, and Tennessee moved down the field
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  Speaker 5: with will Levis and suddenly, and you made a great
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  Speaker 5: point earlier this morning we were talking offline the number
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  Speaker 5: of injuries that have piled up, not just Hill came back,
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  Speaker 5: Connor Williams the center, He's probably gone for a extended
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  Speaker 5: period and then the defense getting wrecked as well. So
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  Speaker 5: it's just they've been put through the meat ringer. All
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  Speaker 5: of a sudden, we grind her, I should say all
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  Speaker 5: of a sudden.
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  Speaker 3: I've heard it both ways.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Jalen Phillips and Jerome Baker, both of them are
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  Speaker 2: out obviously on the defensive side. Phillips isn't coming back.
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  Speaker 2: The offensive line is all banked up. Waddle left the game.
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  Speaker 2: Tyreek Hill obviously left the game, and they did not
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  Speaker 2: look the same. I thought it was interesting afterwards, Tyreek Hill,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Tua said, well, they're trying to put a
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  Speaker 2: top over our offense defensively, That's what the Titans are doing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, well, that's what you face every day. That's
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  Speaker 2: what Vic Fangio in practice.
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  Speaker 3: You know. Kind of got to get used to it.
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  Speaker 2: Here, and the Dolphins of a tough schedule, they get
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  Speaker 2: the Ravens, they get the Bills Week eighteen, fascinating, All right,
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  Speaker 2: the Chiefs, let's just get this out of the way
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  Speaker 2: right now.
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  Speaker 3: Canarius Tonio's offside? Full stop? End of conversation. The fly
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  Speaker 3: came out him mentally.
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  Speaker 2: There were far more egregious questionable calls, like a block
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  Speaker 2: in the back on the Tylan Wallace return. This was
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  Speaker 2: not one of them, guys, So quit your yappt. You
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  Speaker 2: have the Chiefs Eric at six, they're not moving.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, another example of a team that lost and I
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  Speaker 5: couldn't reward any of them by moving them up. There
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  Speaker 5: wasn't any really quality losses in that range, and you
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  Speaker 5: know the Chiefs are among that group. I just felt like,
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  Speaker 5: even though they were competitive in that game, so many
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  Speaker 5: missed opportunities. Another disappointing script where they fall behind by
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  Speaker 5: two scorers and expect a struggling offense to kind of
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  Speaker 5: bail them out of it. It's just not happening right
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  Speaker 5: now for Mahomes and company. Yes, that was a brilliant
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  Speaker 5: play they pulled off. Yes, had Kadarius Tony had his
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  Speaker 5: foot about three quarters of a yard backward, they probably
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  Speaker 5: let it slide.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm sorry, those are the rules.
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  Speaker 5: And I thought it was a bad look that their
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  Speaker 5: frustration talking about Andy Reid and.
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  Speaker 4: Mahomes boiled over.
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  Speaker 5: So they did come back to their credit and say, look, okay,
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  Speaker 5: I think I understand what the big picture is here,
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  Speaker 5: but you know, deflecting on these kind of issues when
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  Speaker 5: really it's been a chronic problem drop passes. You know,
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  Speaker 5: Matt missconnections on offense for some time now, and they've
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  Speaker 5: got to find a way to fix it. And that
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  Speaker 5: defense isn't carrying as much of the load as it
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  Speaker 5: was at one point in the season.
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  Speaker 2: I think was schreg or maybe it was Kyle Monday
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  Speaker 2: on gm IFF he made the point it seemed like
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot more coming out there from Mahomes. It
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  Speaker 2: wasn't just officiating. It was like, I've been babysitting this
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  Speaker 2: offense for three months now, can you guys get it together?
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  Speaker 2: Like Dad can't do this forever. Okay, you kids have
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  Speaker 2: to figure this out. It's not all Dad's fault. Like
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  Speaker 2: you guys have to take care of yourselves here right anyway,
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  Speaker 2: Moving on, the lines are at seven. They don't move
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  Speaker 2: despite losing to the Bears, and losing handily to the Bears,
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  Speaker 2: and then you had the fight in Joe Flacco's the
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  Speaker 2: Cleveland Browns who are up to eight. They're up from
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  Speaker 2: ten to eight, but they lose Jed Will's and to
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  Speaker 2: Wan Jones.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, having to work without your two offensive
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  Speaker 5: tackles not easy, but Joe's giving him a lift and
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  Speaker 5: I love how Brown's fans have embraced the one time enemy,
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  Speaker 5: the guy who beat him what eighteen out of twenty
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  Speaker 5: one starts in his career, All of a sudden, he's
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  Speaker 5: kind of the savior, even with a couple of mistakes
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  Speaker 5: per game.
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  Speaker 3: You get it.
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  Speaker 4: He was he was parked on his couch a few
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  Speaker 4: weeks ago. Bud.
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  Speaker 5: He's come in, added a layer of professionalism, added that
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  Speaker 5: downfield passing, touch and just ability that they really didn't
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  Speaker 5: unlock much before. It wasn't a consistent part of their game. So,
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  Speaker 5: you know, getting his receivers involved, getting David and Najoku involved,
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  Speaker 5: it's been a much different looking offense.
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  Speaker 4: And so you know, can they survive without these tackles.
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  Speaker 5: Well, they have so far, and you know they benefit
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  Speaker 5: from other people's losses. They've moved up because of the
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  Speaker 5: defense and what Flako has been able to bring.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, Kevin Stefanski is scheming up wide open
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  Speaker 2: touchdowns opening drive last year games wide open touchdowns. The
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  Speaker 2: David Bell thing was just a coverage bust and a
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  Speaker 2: guy fell down, But the fact that David Bell was
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  Speaker 2: running untouched fifty yards for a touchdown, I mean, write
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  Speaker 2: that into your.
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  Speaker 4: Sport and three too.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, all right, we're just getting rolling through the top eight.
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  Speaker 2: How about the team that went into Kansas City.
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  Speaker 3: And beat the Chiefs. We're all the World Bills there
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  Speaker 3: yet to be revealed, but we'll do that next.
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  Speaker 2: the left or go to NFL dot com to see
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  Speaker 2: the Jaguars down one to nine, followed by the Bills
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  Speaker 2: at ten, the Broncos at eleven. They're big mover, up five,
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  Speaker 2: the Texans at twelve, down three, the Bengals also up five,
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  Speaker 2: they're at thirteen, and then the Steelers, the Colts.
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  Speaker 3: And the Green Bay Hackers. All right at home.
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  Speaker 2: The Buffalo Bills. We said it last week. Just get
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  Speaker 2: him in. Find a way to get him in that
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  Speaker 2: game in Kansas City. After the article late in the
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  Speaker 2: week about Sean McDermott by tie Don, was a referendum
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  Speaker 2: on that staff and on that locker room and on
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  Speaker 2: that team. They voted across the board, yes, yes, yes, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean it was a.
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  Speaker 5: Rough week, no doubt about it coming. The Bills are
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  Speaker 5: already up against it in the football department. Then that
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  Speaker 5: story drops about something that happened four years ago, and
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  Speaker 5: then I'm not you know again, I'm not saying it
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  Speaker 5: was good nor bad. I'm just saying that occurred. And
• 15:14
  Speaker 5: then there was the von Miller stuff still lingering, and
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: you know, they went in and got off to an
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: early lead and held on for dear life. But we've
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: seen those MVP flashes from Josh Allen, We've seen the
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: defense at least make some plays, and yeah, I mean,
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: there's still plenty of work left Andrew, but you've seen
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: life in this team, and you know, in an upper
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: middle class right now, that feels like it's bereft of
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: that that challenger, that that team that can rise up
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: and go up against the forty nine ers in the
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: ravens of the world.
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: The Bills are that team in my opinion.
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: They're not perfect, they have lots of works, but they
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: have the firepower on their best days to go toe
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: to toe with teams like Philly and Kansas City. So
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: they maybe eleventh in the AFC power rankings, but they're
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: tenth in my overall power rankings, and that's reflective of
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: what I think they can do down the stretch, but
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: they still got to get in right now or not.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: They are one of six teams in the AFC six
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: at seven and six, and they have the best quarterback
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: situation of any of them.
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: So just get them made.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: Another one of those teams the Denver Broncos, who keep
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: on winning and keep on moving up. Let's do future
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: champions here, presented by fan duel odds to win the
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: AFC West. The Chiefs are still the prohibitive favorite. Well,
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: the Broncos are now right on their heels. They're only
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: one back of the win column. They are plus nine
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: hundred and they have a huge game as mentioned on
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: NFL Network Saturday evening in Detroit, Eric, if they win
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: that one, I mean look out.
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: Vance Joseph assistant coach of the year.
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: After people in Denver were calling for him to be
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: fired this season, simply put, the most incredible in season
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: turnaround of any unit. We saw the evidence, and not
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: just the Miami game, right, it was other games prior
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: to that and even after where you thought, I don't
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: think this defense has a chance to be middle of
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: the pack, right, But they've now now entered into arguably
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: a top ten or twelve group. They're playing like a
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: top five group, at least they did on Sunday, Justin
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: Herbert knocked out of the game, probably their best all
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: around defensive performance, really clamped down. They took a part
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: a Chargers offensive line that was, at least entering the season,
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: one of their strengths. So yeah, this is a complete
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: performance defensively. Offensively, you know, the early turnover kind of
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: set him back, and there's still a lack of firepower.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: But when you've got.
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: Russell Wilson throwing to Courtland Sudden, it ends up at
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: some point inevitably in a touchdown.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: They've been great this year. Ten hookups in.
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: The end zone, so you know, they've got a formula
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: that seems to be working, even with moving parts and
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: different things they have to navigate. And like you said,
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: one game back of the Chiefs, what kind of odds
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: would you have gotten at zero to four.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: Unbelievable, Yeah, utterly ridiculous. Here you mentioned Courtland Sutton. He
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: has those ten touchdowns they've been in ten different games.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: He has one touchdown touchdowns in ten different games, so
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: he has meant that much week in week out, It's
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: not like a guy who scored four times in one
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: game but then has kind of been thrown them out.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: There no ten touchdowns in ten games. Another one of
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: those seven and sixteen. I'm not ready to count the
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Texans out yet. They are still twelve, but they dropped
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: three spots they're dealing with now.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: CJ.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Stroud a concussion protocol, No Dalton Schultz, no Tank Dell.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Last week, man, they they ran into a buzzsaw and
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Zach Wilson in the rain in New York.
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it looked like Nico Collins, Okay, he's gonna step
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: up and be the number one. He goes over a
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: thousand yards in the game and then gets hurt too,
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: So you're losing Dell and Collins and Schultz. You know,
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: there was only so many options that that Stroud had
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: to throw to, but it was also his worst game.
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: He missed some throws too, so prior to the concussion,
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: you can say, look, the Jets got in his head
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: a little bit, made it tough on him, and all
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: of a sudden, this feel good story. You know, it's
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: almost like they're getting ready to be graduated into offseason
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: darling story. Because right now after this loss, it feels
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: like they're up against it. They had no answers defensively
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: for Zach Wilson, you know who we didn't even think
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: might start this week given the hesitancy there. So, you know,
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: other than the fumble, I mean, it was a tough
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: night on that side of the ball.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: And they have a lot of soul searching and a
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: lot of healing to do in the next few days.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Look, they're not out of it.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: They go to Tennessee, right, the Titans, Yes, the Titans
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: one Monday night, right, but it's a shortat They got
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: to come back home. They're not exactly the world beaters.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: They're feeling good about themselves. But Houston can still very
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: much get in this. They are only the eighth seed.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: They're only you know, one spot out right now of
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: making the postseason. Let's make some Hower moves. They are
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: presented by Energizer. Yep, they did it again. Jake Browning
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: and the Bengals did it again. This time they beat
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: the Colts and they are up five spots this week
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: to thirteen. They're up seven spots in two weeks.
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the pride of fulsome right, I mean, he's come
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: in and with almost no expectations. Remember all the consternation
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: about who Burrows backup would be in August.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: Well, Jake Browning's in right now.
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: He's the starter, and he's playing like the five star
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: recruit he wasn't in high school, you know, the player
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: that a lot of people felt was destined for NFL
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: start him at that age. Well, it's finally come at
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: age twenty seven for him. So you can't be happier
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: for him. I mean, they're running his offense. Maybe not
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: as much as the Joe Burrow offense, that is not
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: as much of the shotgun stuff and everything Burrow does, but.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: It's pretty close.
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: And he's done a good job. He found nine different receivers.
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: They got the screen game going. That was a huge
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: part of the win. And you know, this isn't somebody
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: who's just forcing the ball to t Higgins and Jamar
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: Chase and keeping his fingers crossed.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: Now he looks confident delivering the ball.
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: And they pretty much demolished the Colts outside of that
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: one turnover late in the second quarter. You know, from
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: start to finish, they pretty much controlled that game.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Chase Brown's getting into it now, how about him? How
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: about that rookie there he has been electric, had the
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: long touchdown where he was the second fastest ball carrier
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: this year behind DK Metcalf. I mean, that is ridiculous.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: And they had the edge this week certainly as they
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: are at home yet again, and the Vikings were late
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: in Vegas and then.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: They got to fly on Friday.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: So that is coming up Saturday on ANFL network.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: Coming up next.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: However, on the Power ranking show here presented by Energizer,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: we haven't revealed yet the NFC South champion.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: We're a leader. We have to and plus the Rams
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: where they were.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Week fifteen NFL Power Rankings presented by Energizer. The Vikings
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: don't move. They're at seventeen. The Buccaneers are up five
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: to eighteen after beating the Falcons, followed by the Seahawks,
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: the Rams, Atlanta's at twenty one, New Orleans twenty two,
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: the Bears, and then the Titans at twenty three and
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: at twenty four.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: The Buccaneers now go to lambeau Field. Eric, we are.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Contractually obligated to talk about the NFC South. Their highest
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: team is eighteen.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: And eighteen was a stretch. I mean I moved them
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: up five spots.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: That's a lot for a pretty narrow victory against another
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: mediocre team in Atlanta.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: But like you said, someone's gonna win that division.
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: You know, the Falcons kind of shot themselves in the foot,
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: but give credit to the Bucks. Baker Mayfield was gretty
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: beautiful touchdown pass to Odden to win it.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: I mean, they battled in this game.
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: They got the two score lead and kind of played
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: from ahead and then had to come back. You know,
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: it's never pretty with them, but and they got away
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: with a possible fumble there late with Rashad White. But
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: White was better in the second half. You know, it's
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: it's just one of those things. It's hard to find
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: a ton of positives. But the defense did make a
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: couple of plays that kind of set the tone early.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: They give up yards, but they find a way to
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: make just enough place to kind of keep them in games.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Hey, the positive is the winner of that division is
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: gonna host the playoff game, maybe even against the Countlers.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: All Right, the Rams lost in Baltimore. They lost in
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: over time in the rain, but they don't move. You
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: have them at number twenty. They are still very much
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: in the playoff race here. Even though they are six
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: and seven.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: Thought about moving them up too, just like I thought,
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: I'm up moving the Vikings down after their win. I mean,
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: it's all subjective, I guess, but yeah, out of an
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: old school game from Stafford, he was out there slinging
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: a Cooper Cupp had his first big game in a while,
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: the coup of that amazing sliding grab. I mean, there
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: were so many elements for a victory here. Kyen Williams
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: great again, but defense giving up those those kind of
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: unfettered big plays down the field, those coverage busts just
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: can't happen, right, And so yeah, the coup a great
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: defense not so good. Yeah, I'd like to see him
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: tighten the screws a little bit on that side of
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: the ball. But boy, Sean McVay has shown everybody he
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: knows how to coach and scheme against good defenses, and
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: he did it Sunday, and.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: They were just a little bit short.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, we're a little bit short on time.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Let's get the last full screen here and go twenty
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: five down full screen TV term. The Jets are up two,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: they're twenty five. Then the Chargers Herbert's half of the year,
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: The Giants, Danny DeVito, Tommy DeVito, They're both magic. Then
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: the Raiders, the Cardinals, the Patriots, the Commanders, and the
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Carolina Panthers. Eric, you have fifteen seconds. Pick a team,
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: say something nice.
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna say something nice about my hometown team, the
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: Chicago Bears. Three out of four wins, look great, finished
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: off freight what they couldn't do before. Had tip to them, Eberflus,
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: Poles Fields. All three did themselves very well this week.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: They are number twenty three and they face the Browns
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: this week in Cleveland. So, Eric, at home, my name
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: is Andrews Silano.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: This is always We're gonna figure it out as we go,
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: but you know what, I think we had fun along everybody.
• 24:38
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