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Power Rankings #2: Chiefs & Chargers rise; Cowboys free fall; 49ers process · NFL Power Rankings

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  Speaker 1: And what's up everybody? It is Power Rankings presented by Energizer.
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  Speaker 1: I'm calling Wolf with Dan Hans is what is happening
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  Speaker 1: with your rankings? I mean, Dan coming in hot, Connie,
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  Speaker 1: it's week two. Accusatory right off the bat, I know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, I feel like we owe ourselves and
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  Speaker 1: congratulations at this point because we did make it through
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  Speaker 1: the first week of the season. We got through is good.
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  Speaker 1: That first Sunday it was looming large. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: it's a sort of time to to celebrate all the
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  Speaker 1: summertime narratives that we were also sick of talking about,
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  Speaker 1: and then last week we're sick of talking about how
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  Speaker 1: the summertime narratives are about to disappear. Now we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about reactions to Week one, and as it happens every year,
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  Speaker 1: Connie is on Power Rankings, what it looks like during
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  Speaker 1: week one looks very different. I think thirty of the
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  Speaker 1: thirty two teams moved in the first week, and people say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: bad job by you know, this is how it works.
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  Speaker 1: A season takes shape and takes form, and I'm along
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  Speaker 1: for the ride with everybody else. It must be really difficult, though,
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  Speaker 1: because my brain basically melted watching week one. So to
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  Speaker 1: not overreact, because we all overreact. We only have this
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  Speaker 1: to work off of, so of course it took an
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  Speaker 1: entire season of building up to this first week. But
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  Speaker 1: we're all guilty by the way. After I was so
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  Speaker 1: furious watching Nathaniel Hacking and Russell Wilson botched the end
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  Speaker 1: of the Monday Night game. My exact tweet. I am
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  Speaker 1: out on the Denver Broncos and it's like, well, you're
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  Speaker 1: the powering guy, so yeah, hanging there, dude, you have to.
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  Speaker 1: But I have doubts. Well, I feel like the power
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  Speaker 1: rankings guy. You can separate it from yourself. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: these are different people, different okay, so um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so many different things happened to feel like Mahomes is
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  Speaker 1: probably gonna be okay. Aaron Rodgers still kind of tb
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  Speaker 1: d the Giants. They're competitive. Gino Smith, he was dealing.
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  Speaker 1: That was crazy. Soldier Field was underwater, and your previous
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  Speaker 1: Niners ranking from week one also underwater. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: heat for this one. Niners fans checking in people all
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  Speaker 1: over the place. King Power, says Dan hansis, so does
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  Speaker 1: this make the Niners the new thirty two team or
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  Speaker 1: maybe the Bears and number three? Not how it works,
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  Speaker 1: King Power, not gonna lie. I don't understand why people
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  Speaker 1: don't understand that. You like people say, it's not the
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  Speaker 1: power standings, it's the power rankings, and very good job
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  Speaker 1: by the Bears. I don't want to take anything away
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  Speaker 1: from the Bears. And I understand if I was a
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  Speaker 1: Bears fan and some JIBRONI that does the Power rankings
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  Speaker 1: had them at last and they had the Niners at three,
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  Speaker 1: I'd probably be in their mentions too. So I'm not
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  Speaker 1: mad at it. I get it. But also, please, this
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  Speaker 1: is this is a perfect example not to overreact because
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  Speaker 1: the forty Niners. Yes, we knew this is gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a process with Trey Lance, and then
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  Speaker 1: you put him in on the road in a monsoon
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  Speaker 1: where the like you said, soldier fields underwater. How amouch
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  Speaker 1: you really supposed to take out of that game? What
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  Speaker 1: I took out of it was the Bears are ready
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  Speaker 1: and they made big plays in the second half, and
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  Speaker 1: I respect him for that, But if if you think
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get off the Niners bandwagon and get on
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  Speaker 1: the Bears bandwagon, because one game, I'm not there yet.
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  Speaker 1: But I did show respect to the Bears that moved
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  Speaker 1: him up. Obviously, this was a crazy game to watch,
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  Speaker 1: the fact that it was raining so hard the paint
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  Speaker 1: came off the field. I've never seen a game where
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  Speaker 1: the broadcast had to have the black line. And I
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  Speaker 1: did like the rain, you know. Obviously, it was miserable
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  Speaker 1: all during leading up to the game, raining during the game,
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  Speaker 1: and then it started to look like maybe it was
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  Speaker 1: drying out, and then the rain was like, hey, I
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  Speaker 1: just want to send one more message like I'm in
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  Speaker 1: charge here, I'm Mother Nature, and just destroyed the field
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  Speaker 1: in the last five minutes, which, oh, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: contributed as well, because by the end of that game,
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  Speaker 1: in the last half and fourth quarter, it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: It could have been Joe Montana and Jerry Rice. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: was scoring points on that field. It was just a
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  Speaker 1: wild game from start to finish. The Niners. It was sloppy.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the weather was sloppy, the play was sloppy,
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  Speaker 1: but the Niners, their penalties were so twelve or nine
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  Speaker 1: nine yards. I think the San Francisco defense they had
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  Speaker 1: three different penalties on third down, and that gave the
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  Speaker 1: Bears a fresh set of downs each time. And I
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  Speaker 1: believe they scored a touchdown on each one of those drives.
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  Speaker 1: So it was just kind of a mess. Deebo Samuel,
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  Speaker 1: he fumbled on the opening drive. But what did you think?
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  Speaker 1: First of all, we heard about Kyle Shannhan saying that
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  Speaker 1: they would listen to trade offers from Dallas for Jimmy
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  Speaker 1: g after week one. Obviously that changes now with the
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  Speaker 1: timetable shifting for Dak Prescott. And we'll get to the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys and their issues in a second, But thoughts just
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  Speaker 1: in general on trade lands. Can you take anything away
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  Speaker 1: from that based on how the gate, the conditions of
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  Speaker 1: the game ending out. Not really, but I will see say,
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  Speaker 1: like what we saw from Lance in week one was
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  Speaker 1: similar to what we saw in his limited duty uh
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  Speaker 1: in two thousand twenty one, which is his legs and
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  Speaker 1: his ability to move and scramble and pick up yards
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  Speaker 1: that way that that's already ready to go. He's fully formed,
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  Speaker 1: but he's a work in progress as a passer, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm just not prepared to like, make any judgment where
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  Speaker 1: he's at until we can get him on a dry turf.
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  Speaker 1: It's just absurd and and they should They're wise not
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  Speaker 1: to move. Jimmy g I don't care what's going on
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  Speaker 1: with Dallas because it does. Like we said last week,
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  Speaker 1: give San Francisco and out in case Trey Lance cannot
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  Speaker 1: play the guitar. Yes, that is true. So the Niners,
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  Speaker 1: they are no longer in the top five. But let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about who made the top five new top five?
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  Speaker 1: We do everybody, and we got two new teams and
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  Speaker 1: maybe I don't know, we'll see. It's a work in progress.
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  Speaker 1: So the Bills they remain unchanged at number one. They
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  Speaker 1: nailed that. We all agree that I nailed having bills
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  Speaker 1: after what we saw on Thursday night. Really great job.
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  Speaker 1: You're not going to hear any flak from anyone on that.
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  Speaker 1: Then you have the Chiefs they enter the top five,
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  Speaker 1: chat from seven to two, so up five spots from
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  Speaker 1: last week. The Bucks they move up a spot from
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  Speaker 1: four to three. The Rams they fall back to after
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  Speaker 1: that loss to the Bills. And then here come the
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  Speaker 1: Chargers number five, up four from number nine last week.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to talk about them. But the Chiefs at
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  Speaker 1: number two, after everybody kind of was doubting this team
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  Speaker 1: talking about how difficult the division is, and Patrick Mahomes
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  Speaker 1: without Tyreek Kill and ken Andy Reid evolved this offense.
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  Speaker 1: We'll find out. Well. I mean, look, they did a
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  Speaker 1: great job against the Cardinals, that was dominant. The Cardinals
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  Speaker 1: got run out of their own building there, And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was really interesting how Mahomes almost to
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  Speaker 1: send a message to everyone you doubted me because Tyreek
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  Speaker 1: Hills in Miami. Through the five touchdown passes, four of
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  Speaker 1: those touchdown passes went to different receivers. Travis Kelsey was
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  Speaker 1: still the here of this attack with eight and a
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  Speaker 1: touch on nine targets. But I thought it was interesting,
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  Speaker 1: Connie and something to watch going forward. Clyde Edwards Hilaire,
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  Speaker 1: who was a first round pick the year or the
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  Speaker 1: spring after they won the Super Bowl a couple of
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  Speaker 1: years back, and then kind of disappointed, certainly disappointed fantasy
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  Speaker 1: owners in his first two seasons. First overall in their
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  Speaker 1: fantasy drafty I've been there. I took him in the
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  Speaker 1: back of the first round. I believe his rookie year
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  Speaker 1: because you heard the way he was explained coming out
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  Speaker 1: of college was this dude's can't miss. You put him
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  Speaker 1: in this offense, it's gonna be unfair, And I just
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  Speaker 1: it just makes you think that now that Andy Reid
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  Speaker 1: did go back to the lab and he's cooked up
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  Speaker 1: this new offense, maybe this gives Edwards Hilaire a whole
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  Speaker 1: new look. And I know his numbers don't like jump
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  Speaker 1: off the page in week one, but if you watch
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  Speaker 1: that game, you saw something different going on with Edwards Hilaire.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought the whole offense looked excellent. Jud Smith
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  Speaker 1: Schuster fit right in and they were an easy number
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  Speaker 1: two this week. It's really interesting that Maha Homes targeted
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  Speaker 1: nine different players in this game, and you think, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, maybe this potentially unlock something even more from
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes not having Tyree Kill there and having to spread
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  Speaker 1: the ball around all the different options that they have,
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  Speaker 1: because four different players had a touchdown pass and two
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  Speaker 1: two receiving touchdowns were from running back Clyde Edwards Hilaire,
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  Speaker 1: So like, you're right when you say that we saw
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  Speaker 1: something different from him. It was a super interesting, I
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  Speaker 1: think decision for the Cardinals to blitz Mahomes. So much
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  Speaker 1: like like, why what are what are we doing? I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what the Cardinals are doing? And well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if we're not really digging on the
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  Speaker 1: Cardinals right now. But they were not ready to play
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  Speaker 1: in that game. They were not ready for what the
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs were bringing. And uh, that should be a warning
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  Speaker 1: sign because Arizona, that's how they looked at the end
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  Speaker 1: of last year too against a superpower. Yeah so, uh,
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  Speaker 1: not great for the Cardinals. The Chiefs, though they are
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  Speaker 1: in the number two spots, bags is defense. It's showing
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  Speaker 1: up early this year. It usually takes a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of time to get ready. Um, so we'll have to
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  Speaker 1: see what happens there. But you know, case you didn't
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  Speaker 1: catch it, the Chiefs, they aren't the only a f
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  Speaker 1: C US team in the top five. The Chargers joined
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  Speaker 1: them at five. But some separation here with the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the division, because you had all four a f
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  Speaker 1: C West teams ranked in your top eleven last week,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to get to the Raiders and the
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  Speaker 1: Broncos soon, but the Chargers, they didn't. Charger and Khalil Mack,
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  Speaker 1: where have you been, hello, my friend? Yeah? Great? I
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  Speaker 1: mean that was as good as debut as they could
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  Speaker 1: have hoped for. They had six sacks and Derek Carr
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  Speaker 1: who always seems a little shook when he's against uh,
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  Speaker 1: the Chargers, and I think he's Joey Bosa last year
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  Speaker 1: who made some comments in the media they could tell like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's a guy that gets frazzled in the pocket,
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  Speaker 1: and what happened. Six sacks, Mac has three of them
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  Speaker 1: in general is a great It was a great star
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  Speaker 1: for the Chargers. And by the way, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if I'm getting ahead of any promotional materials you have planned, Connie,
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  Speaker 1: but Thursday night football is Chargers Chief Arrowhead, so this
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  Speaker 1: is gonna be a great test for the Bolts. But
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  Speaker 1: I thought, yeah, it was notable a that they got
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  Speaker 1: big debuts from several new players, obviously Mac, but also
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  Speaker 1: tighten Gerald Everett, who looked like a player in this offense.
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  Speaker 1: It helps in Justin Herbert's throwing the ball. DeAndre Carter
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  Speaker 1: stepped up when Keenan Allen went out with the hamstring. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: So you you take a step back and you're like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that was a game where they could have easily given
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  Speaker 1: it away, and they've done that. A hundred times in
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  Speaker 1: the PASTUS charges gunna charger. In this case, it didn't happen.
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  Speaker 1: Well j C. Jackson play on Thursday. I would love
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  Speaker 1: to see a full power Chargers go into Arrowhead and
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  Speaker 1: make a huge statement. That's such a good game. It's
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  Speaker 1: such a great match up this early. And Herbert, like Mahomes,
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  Speaker 1: he targeted nine different players. He looked dialed in. He
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  Speaker 1: had those three touchdowns. He really I mean, obviously he's
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  Speaker 1: my m VP pick and like I didn't see anything
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  Speaker 1: that game. Well, Mahomes is like you no, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: win MVP. That's how it came out of Week one.
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  Speaker 1: But her Herbert is just going to continue to the
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  Speaker 1: people that think he's somewhat of a media creation, because
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  Speaker 1: there's a segment of football Twitter that pushes back at
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  Speaker 1: certain people in football Twitter saying you need to pay attention.
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  Speaker 1: How specialist guy is just keep watching this year. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and Khalil Max his sacks came at crucial times as
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  Speaker 1: far as the defense goes, This was just like a
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  Speaker 1: really solid game for them and the other team that
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  Speaker 1: also plays at so far, the team that won the
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl. There but thoughts to the Bills to open
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  Speaker 1: the season this year, they are now at number four
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  Speaker 1: in the rankings. They couldn't run the ball. Matthew Stafford
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  Speaker 1: was just NonStop harassed in this game. He was sacked
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  Speaker 1: seven times with an elbow injury. That's already a concern
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  Speaker 1: at this point. So now you have offensive line shuffling
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  Speaker 1: going on with guys getting hurt. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 1: this is something I'm concerned about, but you not so much.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't really drop them too much. Yeah, I dropped
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  Speaker 1: them to spots and earlier on Monday when I'm going
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  Speaker 1: through the process, they were a little further down. And
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  Speaker 1: then I gave it some fine thought at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the night and I was just like, just relax.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the Rams are the Rams. They're gonna be fine.
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  Speaker 1: Week one Thursday night opener is funky. It was like, listen,
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  Speaker 1: we live in Los Angeles. Here in that building, it
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  Speaker 1: was horrific. It was it felt like it was twenty
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  Speaker 1: degrees at Sofi Stadium, and you could say, well, it
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  Speaker 1: didn't bother the Bills, and you're right. The Bills showed
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  Speaker 1: up ready to play and ready to make a statement themselves,
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  Speaker 1: and they absolutely did that. And Sean McVey after the
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  Speaker 1: game had said that he was humbled and we weren't
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  Speaker 1: ready to go, and all that's right, And all that
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  Speaker 1: really makes me think is that the Rams are too
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  Speaker 1: good not to learn from that, say, Okay, this is
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  Speaker 1: how a title defense starts. Oh oh, this is everybody's
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  Speaker 1: coming for us now. And I would not be surprised
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  Speaker 1: if you get a really good bounce back performance from
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles this week where they look great, look as
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  Speaker 1: good as they did look bad last Thursday. And okay,
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  Speaker 1: on the Rams are yeah, I mean Cooper Cop, he
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  Speaker 1: still was Cooper Cop. He's still had a great kid. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was like the literally the only thing Cooper Cup,
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  Speaker 1: Fantasy Owners, that's the only thing connected to the Rams
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  Speaker 1: that people are cool. And also Ozzy Osbourne sung at halftime,
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  Speaker 1: and they're like, Ozzie, all right, he's been through some stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Uh and listen, they lowered the lowered him into the
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  Speaker 1: stage and wheeled him off. So I don't know where
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  Speaker 1: he's at physically, but he sounded great. He did the
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  Speaker 1: rock was there. I do find rock physically is a specimen.
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  Speaker 1: That's another good thing that happened connected to the Rams, truly,
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  Speaker 1: But when you say that, you initially had the Rams lower,
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  Speaker 1: and then you kind of like, really, that's what I
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  Speaker 1: was just, don't that. Don't be that power rankings guy,
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  Speaker 1: b V. Power rankings guy, And that's that's what you are,
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  Speaker 1: the authority on the rankings. So the Rams hard. But hey,
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  Speaker 1: the Rams former offensive coordinator, the new head coach of
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings, Kevin O'Connell, he looked like he was making
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  Speaker 1: some power moves presented by energizer. Do you know that
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  Speaker 1: New York used to mercifully come after Alec Baldwin, who's
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  Speaker 1: a New York gossip staple for decades, and they would
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  Speaker 1: refer to him Capital T, Capital B, the blow viator. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you can call me that too. That's a really cool
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  Speaker 1: fun fact. I love that one. That was a nug
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  Speaker 1: for you. Okay, so here we go. We have the
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  Speaker 1: power moves of the week, and I got more nugs.
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  Speaker 1: I know you do, I know you do. The Vikings
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  Speaker 1: they were the biggest riser this week. They were up
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  Speaker 1: thirteen spots to seven. The Giants and Bears they both
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  Speaker 1: jumped seven spots to twenty one and twenty five, respectively,
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  Speaker 1: and then the Dolphins, Seahawks and Commanders moved up six
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  Speaker 1: spots to eighteen and twenty four. Let's stick in on
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  Speaker 1: the vikings. I love the vikings. Can I just say
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  Speaker 1: something Connie about that? If you if you see jumps
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  Speaker 1: like that, like plus thirteen or minus twelve, the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: had a major drop this week. We'll get to Um,
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  Speaker 1: that's okay early on in the power rankings, but if
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  Speaker 1: you see me having to do that once we get
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  Speaker 1: into the flow of the season, it means I'm doing
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  Speaker 1: something wrong. So this step happens only in the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of the year where you're really just trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: out the lay of the land. So big jumps, big
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  Speaker 1: drops don't typically happen unless the team suffers a catastrophic
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  Speaker 1: injury or something otherwise outrageous happens. You won't see this
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  Speaker 1: typically at what point in the season should that be concerned?
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  Speaker 1: Exactly week five am, perfect Eastern time. That will not
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  Speaker 1: happen anymore. All Right, the aforementioned vikings, let's talk about them.
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  Speaker 1: Head coach Kevin O'Connell, the biggest power mover. I thought that. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: he's uh, what's it? What are these? Um? When you
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  Speaker 1: go to the gym? Uh? Like the power Yeah, like
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  Speaker 1: the clean aren't they clean? There's like a cleaning one.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, Yeah, something clean, clean and jerk. Is
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  Speaker 1: that a thing? I don't know anyway, what O'Connell was
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  Speaker 1: doing it he called a really balanced game. K Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's what That's what producer Drew just mentioned in my
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  Speaker 1: ear so I think that's right. Um, So tell me
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  Speaker 1: about the Vikings. What you thought about them? Awesome, awesome performance.
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  Speaker 1: I saw in insane stat um this morning, which is
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  Speaker 1: that this is only the second game in Kirk cousins
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  Speaker 1: career and he's been playing a while. I think he
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  Speaker 1: was a fourth round pick in two thousand twelve. The
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  Speaker 1: second game in his career where the team he was
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  Speaker 1: playing on allowed seven points or less. Mac Jones has
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  Speaker 1: played one game and his to his second year in
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  Speaker 1: the league, and that's already happened four times to him
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  Speaker 1: and his rookie year, So it does get your mind racing.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: I know Cousins is a punching bag um in general,
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: but like maybe he's never actually been with a truly
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: all around team. And I'm not ready to say that's
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: who the Vikings are, because I think they did a
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: great job on defense. But Green Bay's working something out
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: things out. But if the Vikings do perform at a
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: high level on defense, this offense is really good. And
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: its centers, of course, on Justin Jefferson, who he gained
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: four yards of separation on average on his receptions uh
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: this week and in general looks like the best wide
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: receiver on the planet. With all due RESECTI Cooper Cup,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: but I think Jefferson has that Moss d n A
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: where he can just destroy a game at any time. Yeah,
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: the first half alone, he was six for two touchdowns. Like,
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: he absolutely lit it up. And when I was up
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: there at training camp and I talked to Justin Jefferson
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: a little bit, Oh my god, you've heard it's beautiful.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: I'm not, it's so nice. It's fran. But he absolutely
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: his whole face lit up when I asked him about
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: having for the first time ever in his career and
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: all offensive head coach and offensive head coach, and he
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: just like talked about what a difference it would make.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: And it's not an exaggeration when I say that that
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: team in general, when I was up there, like they
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: look lighter and looser and like they're having more fun,
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: and my god, you can see it on the field
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: as well. But I think that the Vikings defense. How
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: much of a difference do you think that will make
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: for this team in the long run, considering now that
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: they have Zadarius Smith who just like put it on. Yeah,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: I again, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna push pause
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: or hold on. Getting two pumped about the defensive But
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: it did look really good and their offense put them
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: in a in a good situation by getting ahead early
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: in that game. But they also on the very first
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: play of the game, Patrick Peterson got toasted for what
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: would have been a touchdown, but Watson dropped the ball,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: which is an issue for Green Bay UM. So maybe
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: the game is totally different. So let's I just want
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: to push pause on pause, I want to hit play.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: I want to bang that play button on this offense,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: and justin Jefferson, they are going to score a lot
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: of points. Into what you were saying, Kevin O'Connell. One
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: of the criticisms of Minnesota was their offensive game plan.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Despite the fact that they would put up big numbers
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: um with their core in place, it wasn't imaginative and
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: they were moving Jefferson all over the feel putting him
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: in motion and the Packers like, man, we don't know
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: how to handle this, and the Packers are one of
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: the better defenses in the league. I think that's gonna
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: be just the start of this. I think Jefferson could
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: I don't get crazy here, but in a game season,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: I think he could flirt with two thousand yards receiving.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: I think that's where we're at. Were you like entering
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: the m v P conversation with him. It's never happened
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: done receiver, but maybe if there was, Well, if it
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: wasn't Jerry Rice, it should never be anyone or Randy Moss,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: but Jefferson should get votes at the very least. So
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: we're gonna give an m v P to Kirk Cousins though,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: So this this feels like it's the situation in place,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: like you're gonna give the m v P to Joe
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Montana over Jerry Rice second time they've come up in
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: the show. But you're not going to give the m
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: v P to Kirk Cousins when you can give it
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: to Jokes alternate universe, though, how would kirk Cousins be
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: able to get it if there is one scenario that
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: he is being awarded the m v P at the
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: end of the season. What did he do fifty touchdowns?
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Vikings go eighteen and oh in the regular season, even
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: though there's only seventeen perfect touchdown. So they're never going
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: to give Kark Cousins the m v P. Well, at
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: least right now, they can be happy with seven on
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: your power rank. Remember when he did the gender reveal
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: and he missed the target and it was like, that's
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: a quarterback. Leave Kirk alone. He had a great week.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: One you'll never but I'm excited for that. Offen your
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: teams from six to ten. We have the Ravens at six,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: the Vikings, like we just talked about at seven, Packers
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: at eight, Bengals at nine, and then Eagles at ten. Um,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: how you like that little Eagles? Hello a j looks
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: real nice. Um, But yeah, we defense, I don't know,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: but the offense looked awesome. Yeah, Nick Sirianni, great job
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: with that. Um. Maybe get Davante Smith involved. But that
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: was weird. That was a little strange. However, at least
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: scored thirty eight points, So yeah, Bakers can't be choosers. Fine,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: but I think one of the things that struck me
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: from week one is the most bizarro game, and the
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: most bizarro performance was in that division, and it was
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys. The Cowboys. We talked about the biggest risers
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: with the Vikings, but there was a lot of power
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: failures out there too, Dan, a lot of people's power
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: just going out. Um. And that's what happened in Dallas.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: The Cowboys at the top of the list, um down
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: twelve spots to number twenty seven after that disaster in Dallas. UM.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: So we'll we'll get to that in a second. But
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: the other teams that fell, you have the Niners and
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Broncos both falling eight spots down to eleven and sixteen, respectively.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: And then the Cardinals, Panthers, and your poor Jets stumbled
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: six spots each toe and thirty two. So the Cowboys
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: they fell the hardest from seven from fifteen. And I mean,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: I wasn't buying into the offseason hype because I was
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: worried about Ceedee Lamb being the number one guy. I
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: was worried about that offensive line and a lot of
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: different pieces, a lot of talent leaving the defense. But damn,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: that was miserable. It was miserable, Connie, and I think
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: you know I wasn't buying on the Cowboys entering the season,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: but I also was pushing back a little bit on
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: people not giving them a chance. So just to give
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: you an idea, I think I had them fifteen entering
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Week one. I did, and um, had Dak just got
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: out of that game frustrated instead of with a busted thumb,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: I probably would have had him around probably twenty two.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: They plummet now because even with the news of the
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: reports on Tuesday that he might be out for just
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: four weeks, that also feels maybe overly aggressively. So it
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: happened when you rushed back Russell Wilson last year from
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: his finger injury, and he was not the same guy.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I feel it's got Cowboys written all. Was just thinking
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: about that because I remember when Russell Wilson got hurt.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: That Thursday night came I think it was Pete Carroll
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: with someone on the team and they were like, Russell
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Wilson is one of the great healers in the game,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: And that was also said about Dak Prescott. He's a
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: really great healer. Like I don't know, is that something
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: that you're really good at healing? You don't want to
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: play quarterback in the NFL if your thumb is sev
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: your throwing hand. But yeah, this so the factor why
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: they plumb it twelve spots and are now in the
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: bottom six of the league. To me is yeah, Cooper
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Rush is now the quarterback. And all those problems before
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Dak hurt himself when the shack Barrett slapped his hand.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: They looked really bad before then, and they weren't the
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: type of problems like oh what the Rams, for instance,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: I could say bad week one, wash it out. No,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: it looked like Ceedee Lamb was struggling to be that
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: number one guy with all the attention. They didn't have
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: someone else that they could trust and throw the ball to.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: The running game wasn't really moving. The offensive line wasn't
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: doing their job. I just I, even at a four
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: week timetable, I think the Cowboys are in deep, deep
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: trouble and are going to be climbing uphill in your
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Eagles again, everything coming up Eagles right now. That division
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: is wide open for them right now. Let's not get like,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: you know, to just let's not pretend. Let's not pretend
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: because I know Eagles fans. You know, Wolf here, Shawn
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Kelly behind the glass your husband Gonza. Everyone's like, we
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: don't want to we don't want to talk about it.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Like they're not talking publicly, but behind the scenes, Eagle
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: fans are like, you, guys, this is amazing. Not only
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: are we the most talented team and we're probably gonna
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: win a bunch of games. Uh, the Cowboys are done,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: the Giants whatever, cute win bro on Sunday, But you're
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: the Giants and the Commanders have Carson Wentz. We walk
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: into the playoffs as the division champions. Like the Eagles
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: fans aren't telling you about this is Drew Christiansen, our producer.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Also yeah, but well okay, so the thing no more
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: and more about you are? We all are, and as
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: are the listeners. Um. But yeah, Cooper rushed for whether
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: it's four weeks, whether it's six week terrible, But it's
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: not gonna be his fault. Yeah, because he's Cooper rushed.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: And if if Dak Prescott is out for six weeks,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: that includes three division games and games against the Bengals
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: and the Rams. So it's not like the schedule is
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: helping them out in any way either. I think it
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: would be a minor what's the schedule. What are they gout?
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Let's go through it real quick, alright, so let me
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: pull it up. I know they have three division games
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: and they're hoping that Dak Prescott is back for I
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: think it is the tenth against the Eagles. But they
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: have the Giants, they have Washington, and they definitely have
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: the Bengals in the Rams. Yeah, I mean there'll be
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: if they can get through this at two and three,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: will be a miracle and then you could reset and
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: either come get the Eagles and the division or being
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: a wild card chase. But you have to be we
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: have to be honest here. There is a scenario here
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: where they're one and four, oh and five when Dad
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: gets back and then against the again things working out
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: for the Eagles. You get Dad super rusty with probably
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: far less than its just putting a lot on a
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: quarterback who's already got his back against the wall. Bad
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: times in Big D bad timing there. Um, and then
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: man talk about timing and clock management. We got to
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: go to the broncos Um. I mean now at and
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: oh my goodness, Nathaniel Hackett, you know I I was
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: watching his press conference and it just made my heart
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: sort of ache a little bit because I know that
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: he is going to just get crushed and he has
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: been getting This is why I tried to do this.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: And I grew up. I grew up in New York.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I grew up in a cold town. I grew up
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: listening sports talk radio where the idea of humanity behind
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: the athlete wasn't recognized. Typically, you're either a bum or
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: you're a god. So I'm trying to be better about
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: that as I get older. Okay, I'm a father, sure
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: of you and Nathaniel Hackett. I try to think about it,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: like I'm annoyed watching Nathaniel Hackett and the Broncos blow
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: that game. But I'm also thinking to myself that man, well,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: he does have film. He waited his whole life. He
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: was waiting all life for Monday night, okay, and he's
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: on the sideline and his entire world is watching and
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: ruining him on. And that's how the game ends, with
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: him essentially setting his team on fire within decision, and
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, who, by the way, he has been playing
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: the league for a long time, didn't give him any
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: help either. Um the Manning cast, I don't know if
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: you caught that pet Manning nearly had a stroke he
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: was trying to reach through the screen to call a
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: time out for the Broncos. So, yeah, you fumble twice
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: at the one yard line and lose both fumbles. You
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: fail on another red zone attempt, another red zone trip,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: and then you end the game with a ghastly clock
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: mis management to get to a sixty four yard field goal,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: which you missed twice, by the way, because one was
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: waved away by the time out. It couldn't be worse.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: It's a horrible start to the season for the Broncos,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: and I feel like I sucker Connie because I I
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: made the mistake owning up number eight was too generous
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: entering the season for Denver, right, I needed to see
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: it first, And then I see a coach who looked
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: in over his head and a quarterback who couldn't make
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: the big play when it counted. So that's why they
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: dropped to where they are down to sixteen, which is
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: a fringe playoff look just week two, but come on
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: the clock management of it all. Like I lived through
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Andy Reid in Philadelphia and that was a whole situation,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: so I've seen that. I've felt that pain before. But
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: that moment Week one with Russell Wilson, They're back in Seattle,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: and I mean, you're you're you're going to have him
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: watch from the sidelines and try to kick a sixty
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: four yard field goal. I mean, I just and then
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: he doubled down on it. Afterwards, Nathaniel Hacket did in
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: the postgame press felt like he had this is all new,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: like he he then had to face the music right
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: down to like calling time outs, um to stop the
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: clock in a kneel down situation. I think he at
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: that point was in the weeds a little bit and
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: just trying to work his way through it. A lot
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: of people I think went too far and said things
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: like Nathaniel Hackett had the choice for sixty four yard
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: field or to trust is seven trillion dollar new quarterbacks. Now, No,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's that. I think he got a
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: little bit, you know, like Derek Carr in the pocket.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: He got a little shook and he botched it. And
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: I hope he learns from it and the Broncos get
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: better in these in this capacity. But it was it
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: was not good. It was unfortunate. Um. So that is
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: how that Week one game went down. Listen, that's all
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: I do. I drowning in it, the emotions of it all. Um,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about your team's eleven through seventeen though, because
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: the Niners, as we already talked about at the top
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: of the show, they went from three last week to eleven.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: We have the Saints at twelve, Dolphins at thirteen, Raiders
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: at fourteen, the Colts at fifteen, Broncos sixteen, and then
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: the Titans at seventeen. So this was a you know,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: tough week for the a can it was nobody want
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: to gain? Can I do one more mia culpa? Because
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: I think I don't think I had the Brown slotted
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: or excuse me, the Bronco slotted in properly at eight
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: start the season because I went too much of a
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: projection there. Did the same thing with the Niners. In retrospect,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: I should have had them near the bottom of the
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: top ten, but I had him at three because I
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: was buying stock. I gotta try to avoid buying stock
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: market cur seeing anything. Yet that's what we're doing. So
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: where they are now the Niners is not a reflection
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: of me now doubting them dropping eight spots. It's more like,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: maybe this is kind of where they should have been
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: until we figure out what the trade Land situation is. Okay,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: that's fair, and everyone who added you on Twitter is
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: feeling pretty good right now. Cults and Titans, they are
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: the highest ranked in the division at fifteen and seventeen.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: But why did the Colts get the edge there over
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: the Titans. The Titans lost at home to the New
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: York Giants, so that's you gotta get dinged for that,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: and that this is about as far as it goes.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Derrick Henry didn't look like Derrick Henry and week one
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: it's again early. Ryan Tannehill didn't look like a guy
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: that had a number one wide receiver anymore with a J.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Brown in Philadelphia now, So their inability to close out
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: that game, it's not a reason for panic, but it's
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: a reminder that even last year when they were the
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: number one seed, this is at a dominant superpower. They're
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: well coached, good team with solid players on it, but
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: they can get picked off if they get sloppy and
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: don't execute the way they did late in that game
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: against the Giants. As for the Colts, this still feels
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: like and it's been this way for years now, like
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: a toss up division. It's between these two teams. I
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: still kind of think that's where we're at. And uh,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: you know, they're just very fortunate to get out a
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Week one with a tie with the Texans, so they
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: need Let's put it this way, the AFC South did
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: not cover itself with glory and week one no, And
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: I understand the Colts. They haven't won a season opener
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: since I tweeted that. It hasn't been since Jonathan Taylor
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: was an eighth grade. They always start slow, but I
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: thought maybe this time would be a little bit different
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: with all of the changes they made in the off
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: season and they were playing the Texans. But at least
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Matt Ryan and Michael Pittman they found that connection, So
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: that looks good. The offense just needs maybe a little
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: bit more time. They'll be better than they were with
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Carson Wentz. But people throw out the fact that they
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: won nine of twelve with Carson Wentz in the middle
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: of last season. And is Matt Ryan gonna be a
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: huge upgrade? I think one thing that I got an
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: upgrade though the kicker. Again, we're gonna the human side
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: of this, and we know we love Rodrigo blanket Ship's
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: ability to play legos and and all that. But uh,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: I don't trust that guy in. I trust his glasses,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: but maybe not his leg so maybe he needs He's
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: probably not the order you want to go in when
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: you're talking about an NFL place kicker, like amazing glasses.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: I trust your glasses, but your ability to kick it
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: through too, and his wheelie's too. Yeah, I know he's
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: got to see the uprights though, I get it. Um Okay,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Speaking of order, we got teams eighteen through two coming
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: in at eighteen Seahawks, nineteen Steelers, twenty Browns, twenty one Giants,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: and then twenty two you have the Cardinals. So we're
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: gonna take a quick time out. We'll talk about all
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: of this the second half of your list when we
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: come back. Moving through dances is week two power rankings.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Here we got twenty three through the Patriots coming in
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  Speaker 1: at twenty three. Their offense is still m I A
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: is four and oh lifetime against Belichick. Do you want
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: to got sign of the time. It's not the way
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: it used to be any more. Things have changed. Twenty
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: four you have the commanders taking command there the Bears
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: at five after the wild monsoon gain. You have at
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: twenty six the Lions, they just didn't have enough grid
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: the first week only two teams didn't move the lines
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: at one of us, just like, what do you want
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: me to do? Get to stop? And then the Cowboys
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: at seven we just outlined all of their issues. Um,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: so we got the Bears and the Giants both moving
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: on up after those upsets. So who had the more
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: impressive win in your opinion? Gonna know they're gonna get
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: mad at me again because I'm not trying to denigrate
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: what they accomplished. Doesn't care about what they think riot
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: I don't because it was stupid. The weather was stupid
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: in Chicago and that made that game totally bizarre and
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: strange and kind of fun to watch. So again, great
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: job by the offense and Justin Fields for taking care
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: of business in the second half, getting those scoring drives,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: taking advantage of the mistakes the Niners and Justin Fields
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: has elite playmaker ability. We see it. It's be starting
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: to become like a tradition now where he does that
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: crazy scramble move and throws across the field and he's
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: he's got it. It's just can you build around it,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: so they jump up to and the Bears fans that
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: think they should be number three now because they beat
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: the number three, You just you don't get it. So
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: just sit down, enjoy your football, have a brat wurst.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: The Giants had the more impressive win to me because
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: they were in Nashville. They were against the Titans team that,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: like I said, I don't think they are true superpower,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: but that's a good team. It's a well coached team.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: The Giants fell behind and it was like, Okay, this
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: is gonna be a typical Giants opener, and all my
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: buddies on my text thread from home, we're gonna just
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: speak complaining while I'm trying to work on Sunday. But no,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: like they came back. Sae Kwon Barkley looks like the
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: se kuanam which is a really exciting fund development for
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: football fans, but a Actuley Giants fans. And then yeah,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Brian Dable, listen, you have to understand, like I'm speaking
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: about w f a n earlier in the culture of
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: a sports fan in the Tri State area back east,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: the Joe Judge experience. The Giants fans are not about that.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: They were furious that this is how this Tiffany franchise
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: was being run. So to have Brian Dable enter the
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: building and then in the first game of his career,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: pull an anti Hackett and say, hey, guys, trust me,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: let's do this two point conversions, win this thing. And
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: then of course the football gods are gonna push uh
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: the big bone Randy Field go wide left because you
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: get rewarded for having onions in a spot like that.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Good job for the Giants, Brindable and their fans, which
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: have gone through a lot of band football in the
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: last Congrats to the Giants. You have a winning record
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: for the first time since It's just you know, the fan.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: It's not good enough to have a cake walk to
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: the NFC East title. It's not good enough to have
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: a loaded roster. It's not good enough to have a
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: dramatic Super Bowl win over Tom Brady like three years ago.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: You gotta stomp on the Giants. Yeah, you have a
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: prison underneath your football field. That was the vet, all right, whatever,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: and that was kind of amazing. Please, actually, let's go
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: to best of the rest through thirty two. Prison not
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: a jail, no no, no, it was people worked there.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: It was basically a court that they had down there. Oh,
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: how do you know, I don't know, tell us about
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: your teenage years. At twenty eight we got the Texans
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: and then the Baker Mayfield did not get his vengeance
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: on the Browns. At thirty we got the Falcons that yeah,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: I mean poor Falcons. Then the Jaguars and Doug Peterson
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: making his debut in Jacksonville at thirty one, and your
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: Jets coming in for landing at Ding. I mean, it's
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: great job. Can I say that I'm if for football? Dan,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: I'm warmed up now, I'm ready to go. Should we
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: start the show? Yeah? And the brand it's all good.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: I like that the our bottom quadrant thirty two of
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Power Rankings. All the teams either one outright or played
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: a really competitive game. And that's good. We don't want
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: a bunch of bottom feeders that are just getting blown up.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: The only team that really disappointed, uh their fan base
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: where the Jets, My team, the team I grew up
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: with that I got sentenced to life by a different
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: type of court to be a fan of. And uh,
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: I'm just frustrated because the offense. I know, Joe Flacco
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: is the quarterback in their limitations. But that's not how
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: we were being sold as fans heading into Week one.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: We're being sold that this is an improved team on
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: both sides of the ball, and the Jets were gonna
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: be competitive and frisky this year, and then you got again.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: People go into MetLife Stadium. My dad was one of those.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Have you talked? They got they got nothing, They got
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: a blowout loss and rained on for three and a
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: half hours. And then I have to listen to Robert Sala,
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: who I like the human side though the human side
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: recedes great, Robert, receipts great? How about results? Because this
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: isn't enough. I mean, it's enough, you know what. We
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: need to move on. We have thirty two teams we
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: to talk about. But receipts are fine, but results are better.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: It's true. That's it. That's that's my that's my response
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: to my team's head coach. Well, I think a fan
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: base that was equally as frustrated as Jets fans probably think, well,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: the Bengals were like that for a very long time. Yeah,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: I guess what they got results they did not talking
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: about receipts. We're not talking about practice, talking about results.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Dan let's put a minute on the clock. Do the
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: best of the rest. We're gonna start with the Bengals.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: They fall from five to nine, and um dan I
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: was told that the offensive line would be better. Yes,
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: it's a reminder to all of us that when a
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: team does spend a lot of money in free agency
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: or makes draft picks, and then you go through the
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: summer with your narratives in place, and oh, the offensive
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: line is fixed. No, none of the especially offensive line.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: You need to see it in motion. And that also
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: doesn't mean that they're they're cooked on their offensive line
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: and they're not better, but it is a work in
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: progress and it was not a great start. Burrow didn't
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: have a good game, but the line did not look
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: any better. That's concerning. Yeah, and next gen stats. They
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: pointed out that the Steelers got after Joe Burrow and
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: didn't even need extra rushers to do it. They pressured
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Burrow twenty times without blitzing for pressure rate of thirty
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: seven point. I mean, it was not good at all.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: A lot. Joe Burrow has a reconstructed knee from his
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: rookie season. When the offensive line couldn't protect him, he
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: limped off the field at the Super Bowl because he
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: didn't get protected their floor with disaster. If this is
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: gonna keep going on, I don't like it. I don't
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: like it at all. Um. I also don't like no
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: love for the Falcons. How they played a great three quarters.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: It was it was good for three full you know
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: what I see where you're coming from this. Yes, I
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: could have been a nice guy and giving them like
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: a pat on the head and moved them up a
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: few spots. But ultimately, Connie, that was a hideous collapse.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: They gotta win that game. They have to. They had
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: lead with less than thirteen minutes to play, and then
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: they surrender three straight scoring drives to Jamis Winston, who
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: had done nothing before that point. Marcus Mariotte had two
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: key fumbles in the second half, one deep in the
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: Saints territory and another at an opportunity very late in
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: the game where they could assaulted the game away and
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: kneel done. It was just like, I'm not bringing up
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: you know the game, you don't do it, don't do it.
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: But I'm just saying, like Falcons fans don't need anything
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: like this, especially against the Saints. They hate each other,
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: so that's just a bummer one. I wanted them to
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: win that game. That would have been a nice step,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: and they could not get it done. I don't know
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: what it is NFL research dropping this nugget that Atlanta
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: has blown three fifteen plus point lead since and the
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: rest of the league has blown to plus leads combined.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: That's are you counting? You know the thing? I'm not.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: We're not talking about that. We included in that stat
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: I gotta ask NFL research pros. It's included in the
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: stat Then you did bring up the thing not my name. Hey,
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: all right, I got one more question for you. Put
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: a minute up there. Hardest team to figure out after
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: Week one? We know it's not the Jets. Yeah, the Steelers.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: The Steelers. Steelers are the hardest team to figure out,
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: because yes, they got a dramatic win over Cincinnati in Cincinnati,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: a statement win, if you will, a bit of a
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: miracle because you needed a block Pa t at the
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: end of regulation and then another botch snap for Cincinnati
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: and overtime to make it happen. But you give him credit.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: Big win, huge win. They're dancing in the locker room.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: So it's Tomlin. It's fun. T J. Watt tears his pack.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: We don't know how serious, if he's done for the
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: year or just out for extended period. Terrible setback for
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: that defense. And then the offense less than three hundred
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: yards of total offense and it looked like an offense
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: being run by Mitch ter Biski. So while you have
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: a great start, that's a concern the offense and know what,
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: it could be devastating to them. Yeah, that's that's gonna
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: be tough to overcome. Another bad offensive. Patrick though he
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: did look good. Outstanding defensive performance, probably the best of
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: his career. So that was something to They won't go
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: in the tank on defense, but what makes them special?
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: That's true. Alright, So um, good stuff there, but thank you,
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: good stuff by you as well. That's my that's my
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: feedback to you. But I am not the only one
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: giving feedback that on some t shirts. Oh no we're not.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: It's time by the power. Um. We love hearing your tweets.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: Josh says, how could you put insert team here at
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: insert position here? You're such an insert insult to intelligence here,
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: Dan Josh Brank has got it right. That's typically it works,
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: and that's why people don't realize that as the years
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: go on, when I do this, the tweets and the
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: fire that comes at me, I'm more and more impervious
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: to it because I've seen it all. It's all kind
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: of one note to me. Be better. That's another one
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: when I get told to be better? How about you
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: be better? Insulters. I love that because I think it's
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: a challenge for everyone out there, like, maybe try and
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: be more creative. At some point, we are calloused to
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: what you have to say. We put up a protective layer. Um,
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: maybe this one will offend. Filthy Beast says that she
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: you should be number one. They were far more impressive
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: than the Bills. The Bills were incredible, are awesome. In
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: week one. You know you heard it earlier on today's episode,
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: Connie and I were chopping it up. But now the Bills,
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: who entered Power the Power Ranking season at number one,
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: went on the road and embarrassed the defending champions there.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: That was never a thought to put the Chiefs at
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: number one, But there was also never a thought to
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: put them anywhere else but number two. They're in a
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: really good spot right now, but they can always work
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: their way up to number one. Yeah, the Bills can
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: lose this week and the Chiefs can spank the Chargers
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: and that very likely would happen. So a long season,
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: filthy beasts. Okay, we got another one coming in Lord
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: zero from the Pat McAfee show. This looks a little
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: better for the Bears, ranking up seven points or spots
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: to I stick to my story. Yeah, I thought the
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: thirty two was fair to wear. Chicago was as a
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: team entering the season, and I think, yes, you get
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: a win. I don't care what's going on with mother Nature.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: That was a nice win and a great way to
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: start the season. And yes, Justin Fields, Yes, yes he
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: could be the dude. Give me the dude, Just give
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: him help. Okay, one more, one more fan checkout like
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: Justin Fields more and more. Um. Okay, so this comes
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: in from sad Texas sports fan at your take is dumb? Well,
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: Cowboys be above or below the Birmingham Stallions at thirty two. Yeah,
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: there is a reality where Dak and we don't want
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: this happen, has a setback and or they just realize
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: he needs more time because they're pushing this four week
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: thing because they're scared in desperate right now? Uh In
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: the Star where they are a number thirty two team
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: this season, like there are. I said this on Good
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: Morning Football Today, there are. You could smell a terrible
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: Cowboys season from I've gerald World's away, absolutely you It's
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: it starts early. It starts with a bad game in
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: prime time. It includes Jerry Jones either in his box
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: or walking down a tunnel looking upset, and just the
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: gaggle of his assistance and minions walking behind him looking stern.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: That was what happened a week one, and usually it
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: doesn't get better. Maybe they'll shockus, but I don't like
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: where the Cowboys are heading this year. I will say
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: in my power rankings of Twitter handles, your take is
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: dumb is probably in the number one spot. Immediately it's
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: you're getting aggressive and you're saying I don't even care
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: what you're saying. It's wrong, and I'm right. That's kind
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: of what Twitter is, as Noel Gallagher once said, the
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: playground of idiots. That's right. I think that that guy
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: is confident, and I love his confidence. I love your
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: confidence as well. Dan Well is going to have a
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: confidence week to his power rankings. You can check them
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: out online NFL dot com slash bloviator. No, is that it?
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Maybe King Power Rankings. We'll be back next week. Until then,
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