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Speaker 2: on NFL dot Com. It's Eric at home. As we
Speaker 2: sit here, Eric in this really weird spot because we've
Speaker 2: been conditioned for years to say four games is the
Speaker 2: quarter poll. We're twenty five percent of the way through
Speaker 2: the season. However, technically we're not not until the first
Speaker 2: quarter is over at FedEx on Thursday night. We are
Speaker 2: still not a quarter of the way through the season,
Speaker 2: and we're coming off a week that had really seven blowouts.
Speaker 3: It was a surprising set of results too. We had,
Speaker 3: you know, favorites going down. We obviously had other teams
Speaker 3: kind of show out in big ways. So the scores
Speaker 3: last week did kind of dampen the excitement a little bit.
Speaker 3: But we learned a lot about these teams. He Andrew
Speaker 3: that this top eight is pretty good. Everything after that
Speaker 3: a lot of questions, at least.
Speaker 2: For me, all right, let's show you the top eight.
Speaker 2: The forty nine Ers are back at number one after
Speaker 2: surviving Christian McCaffrey going off and beating the Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 2: The forty nine ers are really, really good. They're number
Speaker 2: one now for the third time in five weeks. Kansas City,
Speaker 2: which had fallen to three, moves up to two by
Speaker 2: winning the Taylor Swift Concerts Sunday Night at MetLife. The
Speaker 2: Bills are up two after beating last week's number one
Speaker 2: and beating them badly. Buffalo is three. The Eagles are
Speaker 2: kind of just sort of treading water there at number four,
Speaker 2: but hey, they're one of two undefeated teams. Cowboys blow
Speaker 2: out the Patriots as one of the seven blowouts. They
Speaker 2: move up to number five.
Speaker 4: The Dolphin's plummet It's a dolphin that can't swim from
Speaker 4: one down to six, followed by the Lions who went
Speaker 4: at Lambeau on Thursday, and the Ravens who handled easily
Speaker 4: hand the Browns.
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Speaker 2: has charged up your number one team back at number
Speaker 2: one for the third time in five weeks. Now Eric
Speaker 2: at home, you have the San Francisco forty nine ers.
Speaker 2: Who I mean, they do look like the best team
Speaker 2: in football, and they do look like a team getting
Speaker 2: a playoff rematch, which is a playoff game at October,
Speaker 2: if you will, coming up this week with the Cowboys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this this weekend's game is gonna tell us a
Speaker 3: lot about both teams.
Speaker 5: But to this point the non quarter poll to use
Speaker 5: your turn there.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, they've scored thirty or more in every
Speaker 3: single game.
Speaker 5: They've only allowed twenty three points. That's the most.
Speaker 3: They've allowed under sixteen in the other three games. So
Speaker 3: they've been terrific defensively. They've been explosive offensively, and I
Speaker 3: thought the return of Brandon I you really made a
Speaker 3: difference last week too. Yeah, McCaffrey had the four touchdowns.
Speaker 3: But when you have Ayuk out there, when you have
Speaker 3: Debo out there, we have George Kittle and CMC.
Speaker 5: Who do you try to stop.
Speaker 3: That's really the biggest thing is that they have four
Speaker 3: potential game changers out there on offense.
Speaker 5: We know the defense is obviously capable of big things.
Speaker 3: Did give up a long drive ninety nine yards last week,
Speaker 3: but really hell for him after that didn't allow the
Speaker 3: Cardinals within a sniffing distance of the end zone after
Speaker 3: that point.
Speaker 2: So I mentioned it's a playoff freematch. Really, the last
Speaker 2: two years the forty nine Ers have knocked the Cowboys
Speaker 2: out of the postseason. Jerry Jones said this week that
Speaker 2: the road to the super Bowl in the NFC likely
Speaker 2: runs through San Francisco. They're the best team in the conference.
Speaker 2: I love how it look. Dak played well, and the
Speaker 2: big headline from that game on Sunday at AT and
Speaker 2: T was the Cowboys pasted Mac Jones and the Patriots.
Speaker 2: But afterwards, when Dak was asked, Hey, how did it
Speaker 2: feel to loose to the forty nine ers last year
Speaker 2: in the postseason, you could see the look on his
Speaker 2: face and he said, thank you for asking me that. No, no, no, really,
Speaker 2: thank you for asking me that, because that's his motivation
Speaker 2: for this week. Do you think the Niners are still
Speaker 2: number one next week?
Speaker 5: It's a big question.
Speaker 2: Ry.
Speaker 3: Can this Dallas defense do what it's done and really
Speaker 3: three of the four games and that's kind of take
Speaker 3: the opponent completely out of their game. As we said,
Speaker 3: with this forty nine Ers team and all the weapons
Speaker 3: they provide, it's gonna take a serious pass rush, though
Speaker 3: the offensive line might be the one unit where you
Speaker 3: might be able to get some to make some hay
Speaker 3: against the forty nine ers. So it's got to be Parsons,
Speaker 3: it's got to be Lawrence, It's got to be all
Speaker 3: these guys up front that I think make the difference.
Speaker 3: So that and and Dak taking care of the ball
Speaker 3: and continue to do what they did, you know, weeks one,
Speaker 3: two and four offensively.
Speaker 2: And tune in next week to see if the San
Speaker 2: Francisco forty nine ers are still number one, or for
Speaker 2: that matter, the Chiefs are still number two. You moved
Speaker 2: them up one. They were three. They went to MetLife
Speaker 2: and it wasn't their best game. Patrick Mahomes got picked
Speaker 2: a couple of times. He looked sloppy. People complained about
Speaker 2: the officiating, not sloppy, as if he wasn't prepared, just
Speaker 2: we don't expect to see him make bad throws. You still, though,
Speaker 2: have them as an imperfect number tw too.
Speaker 5: That's the best way to describe. I think they're flawed.
Speaker 3: They may not be better on paper than the team's blowing
Speaker 3: like the Bills, like the unbeaten Eagles, but I think
Speaker 3: when you have the best player in the game, and
Speaker 3: he's got to win with his fourth best pitch on
Speaker 3: the road against the pretty good defense. He's gonna do it,
Speaker 3: and he's gonna find a way. So his scrambling ability
Speaker 3: late in the game, maybe there was a holding call,
Speaker 3: Maybe there was. It certainly is what sets them apart.
Speaker 3: Defense bent a little bit there against Sack Wilson. They've
Speaker 3: been terrific to this point. That did kind of raise
Speaker 3: an eyebrower.
Speaker 5: Two for me.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I think we saw the Chiefs being able
Speaker 3: to win in different ways. That's what makes them so dangerous.
Speaker 3: They don't have to blow you out, they don't have
Speaker 3: to try to boat race you every single time. They
Speaker 3: can win in different ways. The Mahomes can do the
Speaker 3: same thing as well, So I still give them a
Speaker 3: ton of credit, even if other people may think, hey,
Speaker 3: there are other people pushing down the door and going
Speaker 3: ahead of them.
Speaker 5: Right now.
Speaker 2: Here's what I think of the holding call. I think
Speaker 2: it was a hold. Here's what I didn't like the
Speaker 2: fact that the flag didn't really come out until after
Speaker 2: the pick. If it was a hole, it was ten
Speaker 2: to fifteen yards upfield. So if you saw it, then
Speaker 2: throw it. Then but I do think it was a hold.
Speaker 2: He did impede his progress down the field. There have
Speaker 2: been other calls at the ends of games this year,
Speaker 2: like the two point conversion in Denver or the Joey
Speaker 2: Porter junior play on DPJ in which there wasn't a
Speaker 2: flag throat at the end. This one was regardless the
Speaker 2: Chiefs or number two. They go to Minnesota this week
Speaker 2: your team of the Week, you could have argued the
Speaker 2: Buffalo Bills or the number one team in football after
Speaker 2: what they did to the Dolphins. Team of the Week
Speaker 2: presented by truest Bag Josh Allen. I know he had
Speaker 2: a perfect passer rating. I think passer rating is overrated.
Speaker 2: Here you could argue he played his best regular season
Speaker 2: game ever, but the defense Eric was the story in
Speaker 2: this one. Here as well. It was two sides of
Speaker 2: the ball for the Bills.
Speaker 3: Yeah, took him a couple drives to get used to
Speaker 3: that Miami speed. Right the right angles you need to
Speaker 3: take to defend this team. I thought Mike mcdaniell's play
Speaker 3: calling was good, kind of kept them off balanced, but
Speaker 3: after a certain point, the defense that we had seen
Speaker 3: from Buffalo all season long really came to play.
Speaker 5: It came out, you.
Speaker 3: Know, forced to it to some overthrows, exploited that offensive
Speaker 3: line that was missing its starting left tackle, starting center,
Speaker 3: really gave them problems and communications up front.
Speaker 5: I thought the Dolphins press to Andrew.
Speaker 3: I thought they kind of gotten that spot where they
Speaker 3: hadn't been all year. They've been kind of controlling the
Speaker 3: action and dictating the pace of play in every other
Speaker 3: game so far. Didn't happen on Sunday after those first
Speaker 3: few drives and they took a few punches.
Speaker 5: How they respond is going to be fascinating.
Speaker 3: But my analogy is this, I think they could beat
Speaker 3: almost anybody in the league. One team they haven't been
Speaker 3: able to show that they could beat right now, you know,
Speaker 3: ten to the last eleven games, the Buffalo Bills. That's
Speaker 3: the one that they have to figure out. And they've
Speaker 3: gotten until what Thanksgiving to figure that out. So look,
Speaker 3: I think they could win most of their games until
Speaker 3: that spot. That's going to be the next test to
Speaker 3: see how good a content they truly are.
Speaker 2: They've shown they can't win in Buffalo, which is the
Speaker 2: most important thing here. They lost twice last year in Buffalo.
Speaker 2: They lost obviously in Buffalo, as you can see on
Speaker 2: the screen here this past week, in week number four,
Speaker 2: the question is if these teams meet in January, where
Speaker 2: will that game be? And a lot is determined between
Speaker 2: now and their next meeting in November in Miami. That
Speaker 2: to me is the question. The other thing too about
Speaker 2: the Dolphins, the defense still has not shown it. I
Speaker 2: think they get healthy. Well, they pick things up this week.
Speaker 2: Let's put it that way, when they get the Giants
Speaker 2: at home in ninety degree weather on Sunday. With the
Speaker 2: Giants on a short week and as we saw, still
Speaker 2: quite banged up after what they did on Monday night,
Speaker 2: another blowout loss at home to the Seattle Seahawks. All right,
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Speaker 2: exclusive coming up on Sunday. Let's get back to the
Speaker 2: Cowboys here. Try to make sense of them, will you please?
Speaker 2: Because there's the team that you know felt good about itself.
Speaker 2: They're the best team, the best defense in football. Then
Speaker 2: go into Arizona, can't stop the run and get embarrassed.
Speaker 2: And then there's the team that comes home last week
Speaker 2: and does exactly the opposite, embarrasses the Patriots and hands
Speaker 2: Bill Belichick Eric his worst regular season loss in two
Speaker 2: and a half decades.
Speaker 3: Just a stunning performance, right, I mean, I think everybody
Speaker 3: thought this would be a closer game, maybe a defensive
Speaker 3: battle of sorts. But the Cowboys really were the aggressive
Speaker 3: team they came after. You know, they faked that two
Speaker 3: point conversion on the extra point try there, you know,
Speaker 3: they went for it down there towards the end zone.
Speaker 3: They were squatting on every Mac Jones pass, knowing that, look,
Speaker 3: we'll take a US that he throws deep, right, We're
Speaker 3: gonna challenge him a little bit. Dron Bland drops one
Speaker 3: potential pick six, then finally gets his pause on the
Speaker 3: second one, and of course the force fumble two that
Speaker 3: was run back.
Speaker 5: A dominant defensive performance. Unbelievable. It's the right mix, the
Speaker 5: super Bowl mix for this team.
Speaker 3: I think where you have you know, just enough offense,
Speaker 3: consistent drives, running the football, play action seedee lamb, those
Speaker 3: tight ends are getting involved. We know Tony Pollard's had
Speaker 3: a really nice season, but it's that defense that I
Speaker 3: think sets the tone and can they take over this
Speaker 3: game against the Niners. That'll kind of tell us whether
Speaker 3: that Arizona game was an aberration or whether the Cowboys
Speaker 3: truly are in a weak group.
Speaker 2: Blam played great in that game. But we agree here.
Speaker 2: I know you know this. The Patriots don't have a
Speaker 2: lot of difference makers at the skill positions, especially on
Speaker 2: the perimeter here without Trayvon Diggs. I think we see that.
Speaker 2: I think we see how big that loss to Trayvon
Speaker 2: Diggs is this week against the Niners.
Speaker 3: I agree, Yeah, he was one of their special playmakers.
Speaker 3: That was a rutal blow for them. Obviously they have
Speaker 3: some defensive backs with experience, guys who played inside and outside,
Speaker 3: but Diggs was that playmaker, that difference maker back there
Speaker 3: who could get an interception and run it back and
Speaker 3: things like that. So that's what makes him so dangerous.
Speaker 3: They could score on you almost every week on defense,
Speaker 3: and one more weapon is now taken out of that
Speaker 3: secondary even with land showing up the way he did.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get to the Dolphins here. They are
Speaker 2: number six. We mentioned them earlier. Obviously, they're the other
Speaker 2: part of the equation. They're that big win for Buffalo
Speaker 2: this past Sunday in Orchard Park. But the Dolphins, if
Speaker 2: they do beat the Giants, Eric and you want to
Speaker 2: just say they beat the Giants, they will be four
Speaker 2: and one into it for the first time in twenty years.
Speaker 2: They're six this week, but they drop five, so big drop.
Speaker 2: But you still believe in them as a top ten
Speaker 2: team and one of the best teams in football. I do.
Speaker 3: And again, as I kind of hint it off the top,
Speaker 3: I really believe that this top quartile, right, these top
Speaker 3: eight teams are kind of separated by a bigger margin
Speaker 3: than just a few spots. Maybe Seattle jumps into this group,
Speaker 3: but I believe Miami belongs in this top group, no question.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to let a bad game against a
Speaker 3: really good football team up.
Speaker 5: In Buffalo skew my rankings too much.
Speaker 3: But this is about where they were the week before,
Speaker 3: and I jumped him up, maybe over promoted him, some
Speaker 3: people thought I did, But that offense as I said,
Speaker 3: has been pretty potent.
Speaker 5: For the most part, most teams not equipped to handle it.
Speaker 5: Buffalo is I don't think the Giants are.
Speaker 3: I don't think most of the remainder of the other
Speaker 3: what twenty nine teams can handle what Buffalo offers. So look,
Speaker 3: I think they're gonna get right, and it's all about
Speaker 3: getting right over these next six weeks or so until
Speaker 3: we get closer to Thanksgiving. In the rematch, they've got
Speaker 3: to get that offensive line together, and they've got to
Speaker 3: make more stops defensively in order to kind of stay
Speaker 3: in this group.
Speaker 2: Now they're gonna have to do it without left tackle
Speaker 2: Tron Armstead on the offensive side here, as Mike McDaniel said,
Speaker 2: his injury will keep him out a matter of weeks,
Speaker 2: not days. The Dolphins are your number six team. The
Speaker 2: Lions and Ravens are seven and eight. You mentioned the Seahawks.
Speaker 2: Where are they or they have a top ten? And
Speaker 2: after that top eight, how does the middle of the
Speaker 2: pack sort out? And that's coming up next on NFL
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Speaker 2: top eight. Eric at Holme has the Seahawks at number nine,
Speaker 2: up three after they're resounding eleven sack performance on Monday
Speaker 2: Night and it went over the Giants. How about the Buccaneers,
Speaker 2: they're up ten, ten, they jump up to number ten
Speaker 2: after another victory to lead the NFC South Browns or
Speaker 2: down only two despite being an offensive no show with
Speaker 2: dtr against the Ravens Jaguars Chargers. The Packers dropped four
Speaker 2: after losing on TNF the Houston Texans. We'll get to
Speaker 2: them in a second. How about them move it up
Speaker 2: big as well. And the Tennessee Titans, who looked That's
Speaker 2: what I love Eric about, you know, early on in
Speaker 2: the season here who looked awful Week three. Get a
Speaker 2: win here against an a dead best Steelers team, and
Speaker 2: they move up five. Not not a Steelers team, but a
Speaker 2: big part in a Bengals team, and they move up five.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get to the Seahawks because they have
Speaker 2: a bye bye week start this week. By the way,
Speaker 2: with number five, four teams are on a vice. Seattle
Speaker 2: is one of them. I was. I'm so impressed with
Speaker 2: not only the defense, but be how they have fought
Speaker 2: through injuries, notably on the offensive line. No one was
Speaker 2: complaining about how banged up the Seahawks offensive line was
Speaker 2: Monday night. They just dominated the Giants.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not often you can go on the road,
Speaker 3: Andrew and play four different battery combinations, two centers and
Speaker 3: two quarterbacks and come out with a pretty easy win.
Speaker 3: I don't say easy, but certainly a win that they
Speaker 3: were able to put them away and the Giants had
Speaker 3: no real kind of counter punches.
Speaker 5: And you know, Drew.
Speaker 3: Locke comes in for an injured Gino Smith leads a
Speaker 3: touchdown drive that was terrific complimentary football. You mentioned the
Speaker 3: eleven sacks. How about Devin Witherspood, not just on his
Speaker 3: ninety seven yard pick six, but two sacks too.
Speaker 5: They've got him in that nickel role. He is terrorizing people.
Speaker 3: Not the biggest guy in the world, but he has
Speaker 3: been a fun player to watch off the edges. He's
Speaker 3: gotten in the lineup and kind of found a home there. So, yeah,
Speaker 3: the run game is working. He saw Pete Carroll whooping
Speaker 3: it up on the sideline. This team has some spirit,
Speaker 3: has some They have fun when they played football, and
Speaker 3: they've taken on all comers so far and played really
Speaker 3: competitively except for that week one gonna egg lay if
Speaker 3: you will, So I don't know. The momentum is on
Speaker 3: their side. They're playing great and they've got a big victory.
Speaker 3: I bumped him up three spots. I wasn't prepared to
Speaker 3: do that, but that's what my eyes tole me.
Speaker 2: They are clearly the number two team in the NFC West.
Speaker 2: That said that team, and you got to consider the
Speaker 2: opponent here, the fact that the Giants had been so bad.
Speaker 2: But that team that we saw on Monday night does
Speaker 2: look legit. Now they get a buy, a chance to
Speaker 2: maybe get healthy, and the Seahawks head into that buy
Speaker 2: at the somewhat quarter pole of the season here at
Speaker 2: three and one. The team behind him, also on a bye,
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Speaker 2: They're the fighting Baker Mayfield, the first place Tampa Bay Bucketeers. Eric,
Speaker 2: they go from twenty to ten. You were buying Baker,
Speaker 2: I am.
Speaker 5: I mean again, it's this early in the season.
Speaker 3: You know, one win is a massive thing, right, and
Speaker 3: they're all of a sudden kind of in the driver's
Speaker 3: seat a little bit, and you know, to go on
Speaker 3: the road and win a game as comfortably as they
Speaker 3: did against the division rival and a tough place to play.
Speaker 3: That's pretty impressive. Mike Evan's out for a big chunk
Speaker 3: of this game. You mentioned Mayfield, He's out there diving
Speaker 3: for first downs like he has been in past games.
Speaker 3: This year, I liked that they got a little more
Speaker 3: aggressive offensively, Andrews started throwing on first downs, kind of
Speaker 3: keeping the Saints defense a very good defense too, keeping
Speaker 3: them on their toes, and so, you know, it was
Speaker 3: just a really nice game plan. They did have the
Speaker 3: red zone turnover, so you know, eleven penalties. There's still
Speaker 3: plenty of stuff to clean up run game, and there
Speaker 3: are other issues with this team, but I kind of
Speaker 3: stopped denying you know that this was a pretty competitive,
Speaker 3: good team and Baker's done nice things this year. Not great,
Speaker 3: but good, and that's why they're in the spot. But plus,
Speaker 3: kind of the middle class this year has been a
Speaker 3: little bit underwhelming. That's why they kind of moved to
Speaker 3: the front of the line.
Speaker 2: So speak, yeah, say this about Baker. He is the
Speaker 2: best quarterback in football on third down. Truly, statistically, he
Speaker 2: is the best quarterback in football on third down, which
Speaker 2: doesn't make a lot of sense because normally he's at
Speaker 2: his best when you're using play action. You can't normally
Speaker 2: lie on play action on third down. But regardless, he
Speaker 2: has been a machine and fourth down as well. As
Speaker 2: the Buccaneers move up ten and they are up to
Speaker 2: number ten. All right, let's get to the Green Bay Packers,
Speaker 2: who had time to think about now. They have a
Speaker 2: long week here before they get ready for a Monday
Speaker 2: night game. They go Thursday to Monday. They had an
Speaker 2: awful performance, awful eric on Thursday night to open up
Speaker 2: Week four at home in their loss to the Lions.
Speaker 2: You have them dropping, but you still have them at fourteen,
Speaker 2: which which kind of means you still think they're a
Speaker 2: playoff team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're right on that kind of playoff cusp, at
Speaker 3: least as far as my rankings are concerned. I put
Speaker 3: them at sixteen, thought that was a little too harsh,
Speaker 3: moved them to fifteen. Still felt like, you know, the
Speaker 3: way things shaked out, it's probably better to move them
Speaker 3: up one spot and assume that they were just caught
Speaker 3: off guard a little.
Speaker 5: Bit on Thursday night.
Speaker 3: I don't know that they expected the Lions to beat
Speaker 3: them physically as much as they did, and you had
Speaker 3: Matt Lafleura after the game all but calling out the
Speaker 3: toughness of this of his own team on both sides
Speaker 3: of the ball, offensive line, defensive line, and everybody else included.
Speaker 3: I am a little concerned about the kind of yin
Speaker 3: and yang every other week hot and cold performances from
Speaker 3: both Jordan Love and the remainder of the club. So
Speaker 3: there is a chaotic nature to this group. But I
Speaker 3: also believe that they're the second best team in the
Speaker 3: NFC North, and even with the Vikings, you know, getting
Speaker 3: in the win column, you know, I would still take
Speaker 3: them head to head and feel like they're gonna play
Speaker 3: a lot better the next time they get the Lions.
Speaker 5: And so so I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm not ready to punt on this team yet, and
Speaker 3: I think their schedule is going to help them.
Speaker 5: Out a little.
Speaker 2: Yeah, huge break here again a Thursday to a Monday,
Speaker 2: as the Packers will end Week five with a primetime
Speaker 2: game in Vegas against the Raiders. Let's get to one
Speaker 2: of my favorite team, a team that we might call
Speaker 2: a future champion presented by Fandalle. Let's look at the
Speaker 2: AFC South odds. That team is the Houston Texans, not
Speaker 2: the Jaguars who won, not the Titans who won, not
Speaker 2: the Colts who want to overtime, but the Houston Texans.
Speaker 2: Here as you look at the odds to win the
Speaker 2: AFC South, they are number fifteen. For you, Eric, they
Speaker 2: moved up eight after handling the Steelers. And you want
Speaker 2: to talk about rookie quarterbacks, because we saw dtr we
Speaker 2: saw Bryce Young, We've seen Anthony Richardson in CJ. Stroud,
Speaker 2: the Texans not only have the best rookie quarterback, you
Speaker 2: could argue they have a top ten quarterback in the
Speaker 2: league right now.
Speaker 3: It's early, but he looks poised, he looks in command,
Speaker 3: he looks comfortable back there. You know, even week one
Speaker 3: when he took as many hits as he did, he
Speaker 3: was a tough kid and he made some pretty good
Speaker 3: throws and you just sort of felt like, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: hang on to this guy. In the last two weeks terrific.
Speaker 3: So the interception streak has been fun. Demico's got his
Speaker 3: guys playing hard, two straight victories where they've sent us
Speaker 3: a message to the rest of the league we can
Speaker 3: play a little bit.
Speaker 5: I can't wait to see what the rest of their
Speaker 5: season looks.
Speaker 2: Like Yeah, the Houston Texans, everyone get to know them.
Speaker 2: They have a big test this week as they go
Speaker 2: to Atlanta. The Falcons coming off a disappointing game in London.
Speaker 2: They don't get the buy on the way home. Teams
Speaker 2: can ask for it. They didn't want the buye and
Speaker 2: they are sticking with Desmond Ritter at least for now.
Speaker 2: Those are your Houston Texans for my money, the future
Speaker 2: change the AFC South. All right, coming up here the
Speaker 2: rest of the power rankings. We are through sixteen. Where
Speaker 2: do the Rams end up after they're thrilling overtime win
Speaker 2: in Indianapolis? And for that matter, how about the bank goals?
Speaker 2: How far have they fallen? That's next? And if our
Speaker 2: power rankings presented by Energizer, let's look at seventeen through
Speaker 2: twenty four. The Rams are up seven after hanging on
Speaker 2: for dear life and getting a walk off at overtime
Speaker 2: in Indianapolis, follow by the Saints, the Jets, the Bengals,
Speaker 2: the Falcons, the Commanders, the Steelers plummet seven, the Patriots
Speaker 2: plummet six. The man who makes those rankings Eric at home,
Speaker 2: what do we think of these Rams? Had a figure.
Speaker 2: I figure they should have beaten the Bengals, but they didn't,
Speaker 2: we'd be looking at them a heck of a lot differently.
Speaker 2: But wow, Matthew Stafford played well in Indy. He did.
Speaker 3: He had Dio and engboll Land on him the third
Speaker 3: quarter and really appear to do some damage. So Stafford
Speaker 3: was out there gutting it out. But all game along
Speaker 3: he found Kuka a coup. I mean, what a revelation.
Speaker 3: This guy has been an incredible story right away, gets
Speaker 3: to him and then finishes the game in over time
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 5: But that skips a whole lot of the story. They
Speaker 5: blew a twenty three other lead, almost lost this thing
Speaker 5: on the road.
Speaker 3: That would have been pretty devastating, So jumping seven spots
Speaker 3: has to do with other people losing, etc. Still a
Speaker 3: good team, Still have some questions about them.
Speaker 2: Though, and still a big task coming up here on
Speaker 2: the schedule Sunday when the Eagles, the undefeated Eagles come
Speaker 2: to Sofi Stadium. We'll find out a lot about the
Speaker 2: Rams run defense in that one. Undoubtedly a lot of
Speaker 2: Eagles fans of the building here. They have had this
Speaker 2: trip circled for a while. Saints Jets, Bengals, Falcons, and
Speaker 2: then the commanders here Eric sitting at twenty two. They
Speaker 2: didn't move despite almost winning in overtime in Philly. If
Speaker 2: Riverboat Rod, by the way, ron hand in your riverboat card,
Speaker 2: please report the guest services had gone for it and
Speaker 2: gotten it, they'd be higher than twenty two.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that two point decision.
Speaker 3: That really bothered me because again, like you said, we
Speaker 3: have a coach who's reputation was sort of based on
Speaker 3: going for it in those situations.
Speaker 5: He's gotten more conservative. Certainly he's got not a rookie quarterback,
Speaker 5: but I'm a first year starter in Sam.
Speaker 3: Howell, who a week go is pummeled four interceptions, nine sacks.
Speaker 3: He played terrific on Sunday, right, and the numbers may
Speaker 3: not quite tell the whole story in battling back two
Speaker 3: touchdown drives in the fourth quarter, very impressive stuff. And look,
Speaker 3: you know you have a kid, Emmanuel Forbes who gets
Speaker 3: beat on the double move touchdown by AJ Brown.
Speaker 5: He's a talented guy.
Speaker 3: He needs to learn for what Howell did, which is
Speaker 3: come back after a tough week, and we'll see if
Speaker 3: he can bounce back next week in a big one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the future is bright. They get the
Speaker 2: Bears in TNF Thursday at home. That is a sell
Speaker 2: up quickly. Hell, let's get the rest of the numbers
Speaker 2: on the screen. Vikings at twenty five, followed by the Colts, Cardinals, Broncos, Raiders, Giants, Panthers,
Speaker 2: and yes, of course the Bears. The Cardinals are an
Speaker 2: interesting twenty seven. I think they beat the Bengals this week.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that can.
Speaker 3: This is a tough team, Andrew, you know, they've been
Speaker 3: super competitive. They've already beaten the Cowboys, should have won
Speaker 3: Week one. You know, plenty of adulation for what they've done.
Speaker 3: But that defense has got to get better. They've got stops.
Speaker 3: I think that's going to be the biggest issue this
Speaker 3: weekend against if Cincinnati can find their offensive mojo again.
Speaker 2: If Cincinnati can find it's mojo, and if they can
Speaker 2: all of a sudden make Joe Burrow heal miraculously and
Speaker 2: make him once again a quarterback that's able to move
Speaker 2: more than two feet either way in the middle of
Speaker 2: a very dirty pocket. Eric at home, It's always a pleasure, sir.
Speaker 2: The Bears, by the way, are thirty two. Apologies to
Speaker 2: the team in your backyard. Who if the draft were
Speaker 2: to be today it isn't, by the way, would pick
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Speaker 2: Week five Everybody.
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