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#9: Colts are complete and Movement in the middle! · NFL Power Rankings

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  Speaker 2: Uric I had asked you, Hey, did you watch the
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  Speaker 2: World Series game before we started recording. He said, no,
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  Speaker 2: Monday night was over. I get home and I immediately
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  Speaker 2: go to my inbox because I usually get a preview
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  Speaker 2: of what your rankings are going to be, and you
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  Speaker 2: would say, hey, like the game is over. I fell
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  Speaker 2: asleep on the couch and I don't want to get
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  Speaker 2: Tami here. Was that by design?
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  Speaker 3: Though?
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  Speaker 2: Like were you told to sleep on the couch.
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  Speaker 3: It happens more often than I probably should let it happen. Right,
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  Speaker 3: I'll start watching TV. I'll get into something interesting next thing,
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  Speaker 3: and I wake up. It's, you know, quarter to two
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  Speaker 3: in the morning, and I'm thinking I got to be
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  Speaker 3: up in about four hours. Here, this isn't very good,
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  Speaker 3: but the alert for the game came off right when
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  Speaker 3: I woke up, so I didn't realize quite how long
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  Speaker 3: had gone.
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  Speaker 2: We got off the set on Monday Night Football. On
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  Speaker 2: our postgame show, our researcher said, hey, it's in the
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  Speaker 2: tenth inning. It was a long one, I think for
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  Speaker 2: all sports fans. When I was reading our article, by
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  Speaker 2: the way, while the game was going on, I did
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  Speaker 2: notice that you called the rankings semi chalking, and I
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  Speaker 2: think that's maybe the best way to describe really the
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  Speaker 2: top here. Let's go through one through eight, and you
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  Speaker 2: got the Detroit Lions sitting at one, the Colts at two,
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  Speaker 2: and the Chiefs at three. So no change here. The
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  Speaker 2: Packers move up one spot to the fourth position. Philadelphia Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: We got the Rams at seven and Tampa Bay sitting
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  Speaker 2: at eight. Sitting at that six and two record, I
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  Speaker 2: think we should focus in on the Colts. They feel
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  Speaker 2: like a very, very complete team, and I guess it
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't surprise Well, maybe it surprises some people, but it
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't surprise us right now, considering how these pieces are
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  Speaker 2: all working together. Are we finally at a point where
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  Speaker 2: we just say, hey, like this is legit? And they
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  Speaker 2: had a real chance to get to the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I kind of slow played them a little bit, Mike.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it was just sort of holding back. I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to see a bigger body of work, maybe some
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  Speaker 3: better competition. But I've seen enough to say, hey, if
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  Speaker 3: this team stays relatively intact through the rest of the season,
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  Speaker 3: they are gonna be a problem. Okay, Daniel Jones has
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  Speaker 3: played very well. It didn't have a great first half Sunday,
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  Speaker 3: but eventually receivers came open, and they have so many
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  Speaker 3: guys they can throw to. And of course the backbone
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  Speaker 3: of that offense too, Jonathan Taylor, and really that offensive
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  Speaker 3: line too. I think we should mention them, Quenton Nelson,
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  Speaker 3: guys like Bernard Raymond Tanner, BORDERLINI getting out on these
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  Speaker 3: runs and these screens and everything. And boy, when you
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  Speaker 3: can take a punt in your territory and the other
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  Speaker 3: team's not going for it, what do you do? You
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  Speaker 3: hand off to Jonathan Taylor takes at eighty yards and
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  Speaker 3: that's just how explosive. They've been a little worried about
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  Speaker 3: the defense, Mike. I mean, they've given up some yards
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  Speaker 3: this year, there's no doubt, but that pass rush can
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  Speaker 3: cover some of it. And they're always seemingly playing with leads,
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  Speaker 3: which really helps. I think.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's gonna be a really interesting conversation about
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  Speaker 2: how to handle Daniel Jones and Anthony Richardson in this offseason.
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  Speaker 2: Got to imagine this team doesn't have much of choice.
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna have to pay Daniel Jones just toased off
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  Speaker 2: of his performance this year, and Jonathan Taylor obviously has
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  Speaker 2: been rolling to number three. Right now, we got a
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  Speaker 2: Kansas City Chief squad that is all of a sudden
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  Speaker 2: looking like one of the most complete teams in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: They're one of two squads sitting in the top five
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  Speaker 2: of total offense and defense. I'll tell you who that
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  Speaker 2: other team is a little bit later when we talk
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  Speaker 2: about them. Are you like, we're not worried about that
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  Speaker 2: that O and two start, right Like, we're officially back
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  Speaker 2: with Kansas City being one of the premier teams in
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  Speaker 2: the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. The O and two starts certainly had me kind
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  Speaker 3: of pause in a little bit. The loss to Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody was sort of questioning, hey, is this sort of
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  Speaker 3: shades of what we saw last year coming to roost? Right?
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  Speaker 3: All those close games that they won, could have lost
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  Speaker 3: several This one, the Monday night game, I thought was
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  Speaker 3: a really interesting test. The Commanders brought everything they had,
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  Speaker 3: had more energy early. It was a tie game, and
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  Speaker 3: then what happened in the third quarter The Chiefs turned
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  Speaker 3: their lights out, and Mike again just kind of comparing
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  Speaker 3: it to the last couple of years worth the Chiefs teams.
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  Speaker 3: I know they're different, but the corps the same, Andy Reid,
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  Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes, Driving, Kelsey all the rest. They now have
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  Speaker 3: the explosiveness to turn your lights out fast. I don't
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  Speaker 3: think they had that as readily available to them the
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  Speaker 3: last couple of seasons. But now Rashi Rice is in
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  Speaker 3: the lineup, Xavier Worthy healthy, you still have Marquise Brown.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously Kelsey could have a big night. He had the
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  Speaker 3: drop to catch that win Ford interception. You know, those
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  Speaker 3: things happened. But the defense too, has really kind of
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  Speaker 3: turned it on the last few games. So look, they
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  Speaker 3: can play a poor half or so so half, come
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  Speaker 3: back and beat a team like the Commanders with ease,
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  Speaker 3: and I think that's a pretty good sign of their health.
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  Speaker 3: Right now.
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  Speaker 2: What do you make of this game on Sunday against Buffalo,
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  Speaker 2: Because this is that you know, before the season, you'd
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  Speaker 2: say mussy television. Now that we're in the season, I'm
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  Speaker 2: still saying it's mussy TV.
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  Speaker 3: It is right, And obviously you can kind of throw
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  Speaker 3: the records out a little bit or whoever's playing the
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  Speaker 3: best at the time, given that Buffalo has had a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more success in the regular season meetings. Obviously
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  Speaker 3: Kansas City more in the playoff meetings. So who knows
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  Speaker 3: right final season at high these teams pretty know each
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  Speaker 3: other pretty well. Bill's had a get right game last week,
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  Speaker 3: but this casey defense and what they're doing on offense
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  Speaker 3: could be tough to stop. Yeah, good to.
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  Speaker 2: See Buffalo sort of get their minds right. It was
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  Speaker 2: back to back losses by and then they handle business
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  Speaker 2: against the Carolina team that didn't have Bryce Young. But
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  Speaker 2: a win is a win all right, time for future champions.
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  Speaker 2: It is presented by fan Duel. Take a closer look
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  Speaker 2: at the NFC North odds to win. The Green Bay
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  Speaker 2: Packers sitting at minus one thirty, they are the favorite.
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  Speaker 2: The Detroit Lions not far behind plus one twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: I think you make an argument Detroit's got one of
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  Speaker 2: the top two or three offenses in the league feel
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  Speaker 2: good about that defense when they're healthy. The Bears had
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  Speaker 2: a four game winning streak that got snapped. They're in
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  Speaker 2: that third position plus twenty two hundred and then a
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  Speaker 2: plus forty five hundred the Minnesota Vikings, who will be
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  Speaker 2: playing JJ McCarthy now that Carson Wentz is no longer healthy,
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  Speaker 2: although I think JJ was ready and he was going
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  Speaker 2: to get that job back, all right. The Packers sit
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  Speaker 2: at number four right now. You wrote on your article
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  Speaker 2: that's on NFL dot com with regard of these power rankings,
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  Speaker 2: Jordan Love, that's been game that you've seen. I actually
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  Speaker 2: think it's a really positive sign that in a big moment,
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  Speaker 2: you could say, hey, regular season, but it's big when
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  Speaker 2: it's Aaron Rodgers on the other side, like we it's
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  Speaker 2: his primetime game Sunday Night Football. He played his best
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  Speaker 2: game that you think you might have seen from him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I heard a lot of people talking about, oh,
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  Speaker 3: what a great second half he had. I thought he
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  Speaker 3: played a great four quarters, right that he couldn't really
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  Speaker 3: generate the kind of points they wanted early, and we've
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  Speaker 3: seen that from the Packers. Maybe a little bit slower
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  Speaker 3: starting or they have one good drive early and then
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  Speaker 3: kind of stall out, But you know, Love seemed to
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  Speaker 3: get better as the game went on. You found these
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  Speaker 3: plays with Kraft, who missed a chunk of this game
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  Speaker 3: with injury, but you know he did outstanding. Obviously, Watson
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  Speaker 3: back in the lineup that helps didn't really have much
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  Speaker 3: run game going, but never truly felt threatened. Even when
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  Speaker 3: they were down nineteen to fourteen. It felt like the
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  Speaker 3: momentum was on their side. Some of that you credit
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  Speaker 3: the Green Bay defense. Certainly, some of that you obviously
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  Speaker 3: credit the offense, but you're right as far as big
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  Speaker 3: moments go, playoff atmosphere. Pittsburgh team that's had some success
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  Speaker 3: this year, the specter of Rogers, whatever you want to say,
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  Speaker 3: Jordan Love, I thought outplayed them, not by a huge margin,
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  Speaker 3: but by enough to win the game. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: the Packers, this is probably one of their best games
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  Speaker 3: of the season outside of that that week one went
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  Speaker 3: over the Lions.
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  Speaker 2: They look like a more complete football team. And I'd
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  Speaker 2: say this, Michael Parsons six and a half sacks on
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  Speaker 2: the year, they sacked Rogers three times in this game,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe that's the difference here. The only other thing
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  Speaker 2: that I would add is you saw in that first
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  Speaker 2: half green Bay trying to go with those deep shots
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  Speaker 2: a whole lot. In that first half, they went to
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  Speaker 2: the quick game. In the second half, you saw twenty
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  Speaker 2: straight completions from Jordan Love. Maybe that's a recipe that
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  Speaker 2: we see duplicated over the coming weeks. Carolina on deck
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  Speaker 2: now for the Green Bay Packers once again move up
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  Speaker 2: one spot into that fourth position. The Eagles also move
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  Speaker 2: up one spot. They sit at number five. Look, I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to say get right game. I mean, look,
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  Speaker 2: they had an avenge what happened in week number six
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  Speaker 2: to the Giants, But they're heading into the buy are
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  Speaker 2: all things? Like Okay, I mean we've seen an explosive
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  Speaker 2: passing game. We've also now seen Sake want to get
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  Speaker 2: back on track with another monster game against the Giants.
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  Speaker 2: Like can we finally just say hey, Like, let's put
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  Speaker 2: the drama aside. They got a comfortable lead in this division.
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  Speaker 2: They're really good.
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  Speaker 3: I think we're almost there, if not there already. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, obviously the last couple of weeks have looked good,
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  Speaker 3: a lot better than we expected. You know, the questions
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  Speaker 3: about the offense, what was wrong with Saquon why wasn't
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  Speaker 3: Hurts being able to connect with his receivers and you know,
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  Speaker 3: a game with no Aj Brown, the offense looked great, right,
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  Speaker 3: Saquon Barkley was obviously a huge part of it. Hurts
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  Speaker 3: kept up with his four TD passes. They were very
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  Speaker 3: good in the red zone. You know, Barkley gets hurt
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the game, but they're on by
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't sound like a serious injury. So this was
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  Speaker 3: kind of the best of all worlds developing here. You
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  Speaker 3: vanquished the team that beat you earlier in the season,
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  Speaker 3: you develop Barkley, you get him going again, the injury
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  Speaker 3: isn't that serious, and the defense ends up taking care
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  Speaker 3: of business when it when it matters. So yeah, again,
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  Speaker 3: this is if you kind of look back to last
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  Speaker 3: year that first month of the season, Eagles were still
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  Speaker 3: kind of feeling themselves out loss of the Bucks, you know,
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  Speaker 3: low swin over the Saints in New Orleans and really
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  Speaker 3: turned it on after the bye. So I kind of wonder,
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  Speaker 3: even if it's a little later this season, is this
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  Speaker 3: the time where they kind of hit the turbo boosters
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  Speaker 3: and get back into that upper upper echelon where they
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  Speaker 3: were last year. By seasons in of.
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  Speaker 2: All the teams in the NFC, do they have the
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  Speaker 2: highest ceiling?
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  Speaker 3: They might, you know, obviously Green Bay is really interesting
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  Speaker 3: with if Love plays at his peak and Parsons start dominating,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, the Lions, if they get healthy defensively,
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  Speaker 3: you could certainly make a case for them. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: those are the teams that come to mind right away
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  Speaker 3: when you say that. Obviously the NFC West has a
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  Speaker 3: little something to say about it too, But you know,
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  Speaker 3: there's some teams that have some pretty high ceilings, and
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  Speaker 3: they've got to be one of the top ones.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I look at the talent that's on this roster,
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  Speaker 2: both offensive and defense, and I think if we remove
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  Speaker 2: some of the drama, they are one of the scariest teams.
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  Speaker 2: And it looks like their path Giants obviously banked Upskataboo
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  Speaker 2: goes down. We've seen what's happened now with the Commanders.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully Jayden can get back onto the football field. They
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  Speaker 2: got some problems and Daking Company. We know that there's
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  Speaker 2: some issues there too. One team that has been rolling
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  Speaker 2: doesn't feel like there's many issues. Bo Nicks. The defense
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  Speaker 2: has been balling out and he is delivering Haymaker after
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  Speaker 2: Haymaker won five straight games. Where do they sit on
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  Speaker 2: the rankings? The answer to that is coming up next.
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  Speaker 3: Still going.
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  Speaker 2: Hey back here on power rankings along with Derek at
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  Speaker 2: Holme Mike am with you. Teams nine through sixteen according
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  Speaker 2: to Eric, no change at nine, ten and eleven. It's
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  Speaker 2: the Bills, the Broncos, and the Patriots. I still can't
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  Speaker 2: believe we're talking about New England as a six and
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  Speaker 2: two football team. More on them in just a moment.
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  Speaker 2: The Chargers at twelve. The Niners drop a spot to thirteen.
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  Speaker 2: We have the Steelers also following one spot there. Four
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  Speaker 2: and three football team at fourteenth is their position. The
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  Speaker 2: Jacksonville Jaguars at fifteen, and the Houston Sexans that offense
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  Speaker 2: woke up, they move up five spots into the sixteenth position.
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  Speaker 2: All right. The Buffalo Bills, I think is sort of
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  Speaker 2: an interesting team to dissect here because I made reference
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  Speaker 2: to it. We had the two losses, one of them
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  Speaker 2: against a Patriots team where they've typically owned this entire division.
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  Speaker 2: I think that was a wake up call. Then they
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  Speaker 2: lose the following week. Then it's a bye and then
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  Speaker 2: they beat a Carolina team without their starting quarterback in
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  Speaker 2: Bryce Young. Is it fair to say, like, hey, they're
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  Speaker 2: who we thought they were, especially because we saw from
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  Speaker 2: James Cook, you know, basically over two hundred yards on
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  Speaker 2: the ground. Or are you still a little hesitant to say, hey,
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna be able to handle business against that twos
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  Speaker 2: team on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Obviously they've had a good sort of regular season
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  Speaker 3: record against the Chiefs and they probably know how much
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  Speaker 3: this game means. And look forty to nine. You're never
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  Speaker 3: going to really complain with the final like that, especially
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  Speaker 3: when James Cook is finding this much green when you
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  Speaker 3: can't see another panther in the screen, usually a good
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  Speaker 3: sign for the running back. And you know, they kept
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  Speaker 3: giving them the ball. He could have had three hundred
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  Speaker 3: yards if it was a closer game. So that was
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  Speaker 3: a terrific development. The offensive line really kind of dominating
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  Speaker 3: up front. Still want to see a little bit more
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  Speaker 3: crisp execution offensively. It's you know it's going to come
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  Speaker 3: at some point. I suspect do they have the horses
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  Speaker 3: at receiver. I don't know. But the big question on
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  Speaker 3: defense for them now at Oliver's injury. I think that's
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  Speaker 3: the big one. His peck injury is going to be
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  Speaker 3: a concern. Don't know if he's out for the year,
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  Speaker 3: but it's certainly going to be out for a while.
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  Speaker 3: Stings too, just because you get Larry Ogunjobi back, you
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  Speaker 3: get Michael Hoyt back. He had a big game Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: It felt like that defensive line was really kind of
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  Speaker 3: coming together. Now all of a sudden they have one
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  Speaker 3: of their best players out, so still kind of pumping
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  Speaker 3: the brakes slightly, but a win over the Chiefs next
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  Speaker 3: week could obviously flip that pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 2: I cannot wait to see if because if that does happen,
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  Speaker 2: where you end up putting case and where you put
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  Speaker 2: Buffalo I think is going to be one of those interesting,
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  Speaker 2: oh yeah wories. I'll be reading it Monday night, super late,
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  Speaker 2: while you're sleeping on the couch. Sheet Again, it's time
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  Speaker 2: for her the Team of the Week. It's presented by
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  Speaker 2: Truest at number ten. It's a Broncos squad. You could
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  Speaker 2: say what you want. I love what this team does offensively,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I know there's been a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: some hiccups and some roller coaster moments for him. But
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  Speaker 2: I'll give them the benefit of the doubt that Bonnicks
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  Speaker 2: has got to figure it out, and we'll have it
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  Speaker 2: figured out the rest of the way. I think the
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  Speaker 2: most impressive thing that we saw from this win. I
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  Speaker 2: loved Dak and what this offense has been doing for
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  Speaker 2: the Cowboys erk like they shut them down now all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden, I take a step back and say,
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  Speaker 2: all right, I know Denvers lost a couple games, those
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  Speaker 2: are walk off field goals late could have gone the
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  Speaker 2: other way. This to me is one of the best
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  Speaker 2: teams in the NFL, and I'm almost surprised. I know
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  Speaker 2: you have them tenth, but I think there's an argument
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  Speaker 2: they could have even been a little bit higher.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean there are a lot of teams in
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  Speaker 3: this range, right, the Bills could certainly rise New England
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  Speaker 3: and Denver. I mean, obviously, we've, like you said, we've
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  Speaker 3: seen games where they've had some early hiccups. And when
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  Speaker 3: both threw that interception on the third play of the game,
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  Speaker 3: I went, oh, another slow start, but they quickly ended
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  Speaker 3: that talk. I mean, I think touchdowns and four of
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  Speaker 3: their next five drives, and you know, Nicks had his
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  Speaker 3: best game.
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  Speaker 2: RJ.
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  Speaker 3: Harvey had his best game. Had the touchdown receiving right there.
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  Speaker 3: Also had two rushing, one from a wow well kat
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  Speaker 3: and one just a clean forty yard run around the end,
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  Speaker 3: So you know they're finding more ways to get him involved.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Courtland Sutton did have the touchdown drop and
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  Speaker 3: he caught a beautiful one later. This was as close
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  Speaker 3: to perfect execution for this team this season, so great
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: on both sides of the ball. Big worry though with
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: Patrick Certan he missed half the game. He's going to
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: miss some time to with that peck injury. You see
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: him kind of flexing there right now. Riley Moss has
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: been picked on, there's no doubt about it, so that
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: pass rush and the other defenders on the field have
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: to really kind of do their job. Chris Abrams Drain
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: likely to take the starting job there, and you know
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: that's why they drafted Jade Baron in round one, just
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: to have more depth. I think on that side of
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: the ball, their defense was believed to be the unit
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: that was going to carry them while the offense kind
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: of matured and reached a peak performance.
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: The nixt touchdown is Sutton. I don't know if he
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: could have placed the ball better. What a beautiful ball
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: that bow Knicks was able to throw there. Nick's not
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: only their young quarterback having success at number eleven. Patriots
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: Drake may I keep hearing his name being sprinkled into
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: that MVP conversation. I don't know if I'm quite ready
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: to go there. He's having a great year. I mentioned
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: this before, with the Chiefs one of two teams in
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: the NFL top five offense, top five defense, it's this
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: Patriots team that's there as well. I couldn't help but
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: notice on your article on NFL dot com with regard
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: to these power rankings, you mentioning a softer schedule for
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: the Patriots. I know you're doing some schedule watching while
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: you're tracking with this team and what every team can
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: do in the league. How important is that is you
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: project out on where this team might finish this year.
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, early in the year we looked at the schedules
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: and the strength of schedule based on the projected wins,
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: not necessarily last year's win percentage, and he said, man,
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: the Patriots have some games they can win forty nine
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: ers two and it's holding up with New England. They
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: have a very very favorable schedule. Their nine remaining opponents
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: have a win percentage of three sixty two. No other
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: team is below four hundreds, So that tells you quite
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: a bit. Even with the Ravens on this schedule expected
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: to be much better than their record indicates. This is
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: a team the offense is humming. Yeah, le Garrett did
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: cause some problems four five sacks. They had six total
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: as a team. But the big pass plays May's legs,
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: He's really used them every single game, and the increased
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: improvement of the New England defense. Maybe not the three
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: best teams they faced the last three weeks since Buffalo,
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: but still you're seeing better execution on that side of
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: the ball, and uh, you know, I can't wait to
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: see how they match up with teams like Tampa Bay
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: and Baltimore, some of the better teams left on their schedule.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Only thing I'll throw out there with regard to this
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: Patriots team offensive line play Drake May. I feel like
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: he's been getting beat up a little bit. Just a
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: storyline to watch as the season progresses over the next
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: few weeks. Time for power Moves. It's presented by Energizer,
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: moving up five spots into the twelfth position. We got
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: a Chargers team. Do you want to talk Justin Herbert
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: on the football field or all the posts on social
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: media with his girlfriends at Madison Beer that's the girlfriend's name.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: I feel like they're everywhere, Lakers game, Halloween costumes. I
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: like this is a different side of Justin. I've known
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: him since he was out all It's kind of cool
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: to see like having some fun in real life. And
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: clearly when his team's healthy, you get to all back
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: into the lineup like this team's dangerous all of a
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: sudden again.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, And what I love about Justin is after a
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: win he'll use a little of that subtle sarcasm too,
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: he says, bright guy. You know you remember the Oregon
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: dais he was studying like molecular biology or whatever, but
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: now he's studying football. Three ozho one. It feels like
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: he's taking a big step this year, even with that
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: little lull and you know, taking some hits and making
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: some interceptions, but with Aronde Gatston really breaking out the
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: last couple of games, he looks like Antonio Gates. I
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: mean this is the second coming almost. He's been really impressive.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: We know, Lad McConkie can do it, you know. I
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: mean they have veteran receivers too. It was a really
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: smart performance from him and a really sharp one from
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: the offense. I mean, Camanie Vaidale helped obviously help move
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: the chains. Joe All coming back on the on the
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: offensive line was absolutely terrific, and you know, even if
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: it wasn't a perfect night for him, the execution overall
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: was much better. Herb had clean pockets and boy, when
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: he's like that, I mean, when they give him time
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: to operate, this is a really tough team. I am
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: worried about Derwin James Tarheb's still both injured on defense.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: That's probably the concern of the team. And it's too
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: bad because this last performance against the Vikings one of
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: their best of the season. So we'll see how they
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: hold up after that. I mean, no division games till
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: after the bye, so they got a little time to
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: kind of get right.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: I know, we got to get to Texans real quick.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Just give me one team name a Broncos, Chargers and
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: Chiefs right now in this division? Who takes it?
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: I still go Chiefs. I think they're they're the favorites
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: until they're not.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: You know, it's trying to bait you a little bit.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: I just wanted to see if you would lean towards
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: in one of those still other squads. It's gonna be
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: a hell of a race down the stretch here all
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: of these teams, six and two, five and three, five
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: and three, for all of those squads. Meanwhile, the Texans,
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: they're at seventeen. I'm doing the pregame show game day
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: preview on Sunday. Steve White is telling me, Hey, like
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: this offense issues issues issues. Boy. I texted him a
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: couple of minutes into that game. I said, hey, I
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: think they heard you. Euston's offense looked normal against CJ.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Stroud looked like the guy that I saw a couple
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: of years ago. Can we say, like, hey, this is
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: a launching pad for what could still be for a
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: team that's got one of more dangerous defenses in the NFL.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, the first quarter of the season,
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: first third of the season, we're bemoaning the fact that
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: they have this amazing statistical defense right it ranks up
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: there amongst the best in the league. They might be
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: pound for pound the best defense, but when the offense
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: wasn't getting it done. It reflected in the record. Now
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: they're starting to win some games because the run game
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: is going, the offensive line is blocking better, the play
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: action game is open up, and Stroud has started to
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: play more like he did for the majority of his
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: rookie year. Then I would say that, you know, he
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: did for long stretches last year. It was a little disappointing.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: Things looked more disjointed, the play calling wasn't great. So
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: you know, everything is kind of coming together. I credit
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: Demiko Ryans for not letting this team get down when
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: the losses started piling out, because he knew he had
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: a good football team. And even and you know, with
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: some setbacks along the way, even the Seattle game comes
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: to mind, this team can hang with virtually anybody, especially
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: in the AFC side, where that defense can slow down
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: some of those great quarterbacks.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Find out if they're real. Against the Broncos. By the way,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: well done, because I haven't heard too many people talk
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: about Demiko, and I actually think it's a really good point.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: The way this season was playing, it almost felt like
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: it could spiral out of control. That was an important
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: win against a team that we feel is pretty good.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: In the San Francisco forty nine ers. There's one team
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: in particular that I think it's pretty good, but they
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: only got two wins on the season. Apparently they're still
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: the favorite to go and win the division. I swear
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: I'm not lying. Where the Ravens sit in the power
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: rankings is coming up next? Got here on power rankings,
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: we got team seventeen through twenty four. The Chicago Bears
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: dropped in three spots. They had one four straight games,
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: had some issues on Sunday. The Commander's falling two spots
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: at eighteen, the Ravens at nineteen, the Falcons what's going
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: on with that squad at twenty, Carolina twenty one, The
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Dallas Cowboy is stropping two spots to twenty two, the
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Vikings once again, Jaj McCarthy will get the start this week,
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: and we got the Arizona Cardinals sitting at twenty four.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: All Right, what am I supposed to make of what
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: I'm watching? Offensively from the Bears, I know you're in
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: that city. I'm sure talk radio is buzzing about this. Dude.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: It feels like a real rollercoaster.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Here, it does. Yeah, I mean, everyone wanted to know
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: how would Caleb Williams and Ben Johnson work together. And
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: that interception was obviously the kind of the backbreaker, if
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: you will, and you saw the reaction from Johnson didn't
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: love it. And you know, the reality is that Caleb
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: had a tough game. I mean, they didn't execute in
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: the red zone the first two drives. He had a
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: couple grounding calls in the first half. You know, there
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: were some big pass plays, but combine that with a
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: soso running game performance really kind of driven the team
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: recent games. It's not going to add up, you know,
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: and the defense was short, some members weren't taking the
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: football away the way they have and a lot of
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: other wins and that's how you lose to you know,
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson is not out there, and you still find
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: a way to lose against a team that hadn't won
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: very much this year. So missed opportunity for Chicago after
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: the four wins. Highly disappointing, but you know, again they've
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: helped themselves throughout the course of the season. Now the
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: question is how does Caleb and Ben Johnson get back
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: on track.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Mentioned losing that game without a Lamar Jackson out on
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: the football field, Kudos to Tyler Huntley Snoop looked like
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: one of the better backups in the NFL. Didn't make
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: a whole lot of mistakes in that win. They move
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: up four spots in the power rankings. They're sitting at
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: two and five. FanDuel says, there's still the favorites in
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: that division. How much are you buying that a two
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: win football team at this point still could win this thing?
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, look, I understand. You know, maybe some Steelers fans
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: out there are denying that the Ravens could win the division,
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: and a couple of weeks ago it felt like Pittsburgh
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: had a hammer lock on that thing. But yeah, you
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: see the way they're playing much much, much better defensively
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: against the Rams, and then over the bye against the
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: Bears to Lamar Jackson, expected back Derek Henry had some
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: okay run Sunday. You're starting to re see the receiver's day.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Flowers get more involved, So the pieces are all there.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: Tyler Loop's been hitting field goals like crazy this year.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: So all three phases have promising qualities to them, and
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: you could see them with this schedule getting back to
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: five and five before November's at which is crazy to
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: say but it's the reality, and I think they're coming.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: I'm just pulling up the box score here as we
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: focus our attention on the Atlanta Falcons. I just wanted
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: to confirm this done carries for Jean Robinson. He had
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: three catches in this game. What in the world is
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: going on? Like it isn't shouldn't he just be the
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: focal player? I mean, Kirk Cousins was starting. I thought
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: there was going to be a monster game for the
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: running back.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: Absolutely I figured so too. I mean, if anybody figured
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: that the Miami Dolphins would outrush the Atlanta Falcons in
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Atlanta by almost one hundred yards, boy, kudos to you.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: I never could have predicted that in my life. But
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: it was like a reversal of fortune. The Dolphins went
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: out there and established a line of scrimmage, They moved
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: people off the line, they ran the ball and then
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: play action shots, and that very good Falcons defense was
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: beat up. On the other side, Bijon had the early fumble.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: They were stacking the box. They were daring Kirk Cousins
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: to beat them. He couldn't do it. And you know,
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: really disappointing game all around. If they already hopes for
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: Kirk to get traded or anything, but Falcons all of
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: a sudden, you know, back to kind of square one,
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: if you will. After that, Big Bills win. Yeah.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Now, match up on the road against the Patriots teams
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: twenty five through thirty two. Cincinnati, what happened there at
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: twenty five, the Dolphins at twenty six. The Giants drop
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: a spot. Nope, cam scad being the rest of the season,
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: most likely because they had dislocated ankle. We got the
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Browns at twenty eight, the Raiders at twenty nine, the
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Saints Tyler Schuck will get the starts, according to Ian Rappaport,
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: against the Rams, the Jets at thirty one, and the
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Titans at thirty two. Can we just love up real quick?
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Aaron Glenn, I mean, win number one. I just wanted
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: to see him dance.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: Nick Mangold's death was a shock to Jets community. Justin
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: Fields had the week from hell, and they went out
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: there and won an incredible game. Good for them and
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: good for them. Get off the the schneid.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: I would imagine it's Justin Fields the rest of the way.
• 25:03
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• 25:12
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