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