WEBVTT - #1: Cowboys = Super Bowl? Are the Jets overhyped? 0:00:04.743 --> 0:00:07.303 NFL Power Rankings is a production of the NFL in 0:00:07.383 --> 0:00:08.903 partnership with iHeartRadio. 0:00:13.383 --> 0:00:15.823 It's the new year. This is gonna be fun. Everybody. 0:00:15.983 --> 0:00:20.543 Welcome to NFL Power Rankings, presented to you by Energizer 0:00:20.623 --> 0:00:22.663 from our studios in Los Angeles. 0:00:22.983 --> 0:00:24.583 My name is Andrews. Siciliano. 0:00:24.903 --> 0:00:28.063 Heavy is the head that wears the crown, the crown 0:00:28.663 --> 0:00:32.423 of the man who does the weekly NFL powererankings on 0:00:32.623 --> 0:00:35.943 NFL dot com. That crown this year has been handed 0:00:36.143 --> 0:00:40.143 from Dan Hanzu's not here to Eric ed Hoolme. It 0:00:40.263 --> 0:00:44.983 is now your responsibility to step into the mailstrom and 0:00:45.103 --> 0:00:46.423 take grief from everybody. 0:00:46.583 --> 0:00:49.063 Eric with the new rankings. 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Eric has Kansas City, the defending 0:01:33.863 --> 0:01:38.143 Super Bowl fifty seven champions, as number one, then the Eagles, 0:01:38.463 --> 0:01:42.503 then the Bills, then the Niners and the Bengals. 0:01:41.943 --> 0:01:43.223 Routing out the top five. 0:01:43.663 --> 0:01:46.103 The Cowboys we'll get to them in the second at six, 0:01:46.303 --> 0:01:48.103 because wait until you hear what Eric has to say 0:01:48.143 --> 0:01:48.743 about them. 0:01:49.023 --> 0:01:51.703 Then the Ravens, and then the Chiefs. 0:01:52.303 --> 0:01:56.463 I guess Kansas City is obvious they won, Eric, and 0:01:56.503 --> 0:02:01.943 they still have Patrick Mahomes right, but Chris Jones's status 0:02:02.143 --> 0:02:04.223 is up in there. As we tape this on Tuesday, 0:02:04.703 --> 0:02:08.223 Kelsey has the knee, a hyper extended knee. Are they 0:02:08.383 --> 0:02:12.063 one merely because they did win? Or do you think 0:02:12.103 --> 0:02:13.023 they're winning again? 0:02:14.543 --> 0:02:15.623 Yeah, that's a question. 0:02:15.783 --> 0:02:17.383 And I think we'll get into kind of how the 0:02:18.423 --> 0:02:20.863 voting is done and how I rank these teams each 0:02:20.903 --> 0:02:23.423 week I'm ranking the Chiefs at number one right now. 0:02:23.423 --> 0:02:24.463 They won the Super Bowl. 0:02:24.463 --> 0:02:26.623 Of course, as you mentioned, I think they had a 0:02:26.663 --> 0:02:29.343 really good off season, avoided kind of losing some of 0:02:29.343 --> 0:02:32.463 the key parts, and the ones that did lose found 0:02:32.543 --> 0:02:33.783 adequate replacements. 0:02:34.023 --> 0:02:36.303 You got Mahomes, you got Red, you got a chance. 0:02:36.383 --> 0:02:38.863 Now are they trying to do everything in their power 0:02:38.863 --> 0:02:41.263 to make me look bad? With Jones holding out and 0:02:41.383 --> 0:02:43.583 Kelsey getting hurt on the eve of the game. Yeah, 0:02:43.583 --> 0:02:45.903 I'm getting a little nervous here, but this is one game. 0:02:46.263 --> 0:02:49.943 They'll have the little mini buy after Detroit on Thursday. Look, 0:02:50.343 --> 0:02:52.423 you can still lose Week one and be fine in 0:02:52.463 --> 0:02:55.503 the long term. But I just think they're firepower offensively, 0:02:55.623 --> 0:02:58.703 and assuming they get Jones back, they should have enough 0:02:58.743 --> 0:03:01.023 on defense to compete with not anybody. 0:03:01.103 --> 0:03:04.383 But that schedule is hard, and it starts in Week one. 0:03:04.703 --> 0:03:05.463 Detroit's legit. 0:03:05.703 --> 0:03:07.783 Yeah, that schedule is brutal. You get an early game 0:03:07.823 --> 0:03:09.543 in the heat in Jacksonville as well. Look at the 0:03:09.543 --> 0:03:10.663 second half of the schedule. 0:03:10.903 --> 0:03:11.623 It is brutal. 0:03:11.663 --> 0:03:14.783 But then again, they've hosted three consecutive AFC Championship games 0:03:14.823 --> 0:03:16.423 in their own building, which is absurd. 0:03:16.463 --> 0:03:18.223 Yet the Eagles at two. I get it. 0:03:18.543 --> 0:03:22.983 You have the Bills at three, so you're not really 0:03:23.103 --> 0:03:27.543 taking any stock in the offseason drama with Stefan jis 0:03:27.623 --> 0:03:29.863 or the idea that and I hate the pressure conversation. 0:03:29.943 --> 0:03:31.863 I feel like there's more pressure this team than any 0:03:31.863 --> 0:03:32.383 other team. 0:03:34.143 --> 0:03:36.623 I agree, it's produce or you know what's going to 0:03:36.663 --> 0:03:39.583 happen next year, right, Stefan Diggs, all the drama that 0:03:39.623 --> 0:03:42.343 happened the offseason quietly been pushed to the side. 0:03:42.623 --> 0:03:44.623 Everything's fine, right, Well, we'll see right. 0:03:44.663 --> 0:03:47.863 I mean, there's no guarantee that he and Josh Allen, 0:03:47.903 --> 0:03:49.943 who were very much on the same page last year, 0:03:50.023 --> 0:03:52.343 the year before, et cetera, are going to be there 0:03:52.383 --> 0:03:53.943 at the end of the season. We saw how the 0:03:53.943 --> 0:03:57.583 playoff game unfolded. They didn't really add another weapon, so 0:03:57.623 --> 0:04:00.823 that pairig has to be superb again. Also got to 0:04:00.863 --> 0:04:03.103 worry about the defense too. I mean, look, Sean McDermott 0:04:03.223 --> 0:04:06.583 is really your you're head coach and your coordinator now 0:04:06.823 --> 0:04:10.383 our colleague Leslie Fraser now joining us at the NFL Network. 0:04:10.463 --> 0:04:12.783 But it's a lot of responsibility for. 0:04:12.783 --> 0:04:15.223 One guy to oversee the entire team, a team that 0:04:15.383 --> 0:04:17.583 did kind of flame out at the end and also 0:04:17.703 --> 0:04:19.943 run the defense. So it's a little bit of a 0:04:20.023 --> 0:04:22.143 leap of faith by being putting them this high, especially 0:04:22.143 --> 0:04:23.903 after the Bengals looked like they were a better team 0:04:23.903 --> 0:04:25.463 at the end of last season than the Bills. 0:04:25.823 --> 0:04:27.943 I just think this that if they don't win this year, 0:04:27.943 --> 0:04:30.663 they're going to be massive changes. Seann Dermott says, it's 0:04:30.663 --> 0:04:32.303 all on my back right here. If I'm going out, 0:04:32.343 --> 0:04:34.783 I want to do it my way calling the defense. 0:04:34.903 --> 0:04:39.703 Vonn's not ready yet. If they don't get to the 0:04:39.703 --> 0:04:42.343 AFC Championship Game, if they don't get to the super Bowl, 0:04:42.383 --> 0:04:44.503 I do think they're massive changes here. But that's just 0:04:44.623 --> 0:04:47.983 me and we're sitting here. In the first week of September, Eric, 0:04:48.103 --> 0:04:50.303 you were telling me off there that for some reason 0:04:50.423 --> 0:04:53.703 you were getting grief for putting the Niners at four. 0:04:55.623 --> 0:04:56.943 Absolutely, I was shocked. 0:04:56.983 --> 0:04:59.983 If there was one team the Steelers fans definitely chimed in. 0:05:00.023 --> 0:05:02.903 But if there was one fan group or one, I say, 0:05:02.943 --> 0:05:05.823 one team that people kind of single doubt as being 0:05:05.863 --> 0:05:07.663 way too high on my list, it was the forty 0:05:07.703 --> 0:05:10.343 nine Ers, and I thought, Okay, this came at the 0:05:10.343 --> 0:05:13.063 time when we didn't know Purdy's status. There were some 0:05:13.263 --> 0:05:15.583 questions about what was going to happen with Trey Lance. 0:05:16.423 --> 0:05:19.063 Those have sort of since been answered, even if Brock 0:05:19.103 --> 0:05:19.983 Purty only has this. 0:05:20.063 --> 0:05:22.543 Small sample size. So I'm shocked at people who say, 0:05:22.623 --> 0:05:23.423 you got to put him. 0:05:23.343 --> 0:05:25.543 Down at twelve, you got to put him at thirteen whatever, 0:05:25.903 --> 0:05:27.703 almost outside the playoff picture. 0:05:27.903 --> 0:05:30.783 I'm not doing that. Look, I get Demiko Ryans moving on. 0:05:30.903 --> 0:05:33.903 That's a big loss Steve Wilks running the defense now. 0:05:34.143 --> 0:05:37.143 Purty questions about the sample size only eight games if 0:05:37.183 --> 0:05:40.263 you count the playoffs, but a number of weapons they have, 0:05:40.543 --> 0:05:44.903 Kyle Shanahan's history of making quarterbacks look better, the defensive 0:05:44.943 --> 0:05:48.023 talent didn't just suddenly get sucked up into the void. 0:05:48.103 --> 0:05:50.463 So this is a good football team. They don't play 0:05:50.463 --> 0:05:53.703 in the strongest division. In my opinion, I think they're 0:05:53.703 --> 0:05:55.383 going to be just fine, and I think Purdy's going 0:05:55.463 --> 0:05:57.743 to at least carry on the way he did at 0:05:57.743 --> 0:05:58.023 the end. 0:05:57.983 --> 0:05:58.583 Of last season. 0:05:58.623 --> 0:06:01.903 And I think the division certainly factors here. You know, 0:06:02.303 --> 0:06:04.343 I'm kind of a rams homer here, but we know 0:06:04.383 --> 0:06:07.863 they they may have some issues this year, particularly defensively, 0:06:08.223 --> 0:06:10.943 and Kyle Shanahan has had Sean mcvay's number. I don't 0:06:10.983 --> 0:06:14.223 know what the Cardinals are doing, so I think the 0:06:14.263 --> 0:06:17.183 division is in their favor. I still think the Seahawks 0:06:17.263 --> 0:06:20.423 are a good team here, whether or not they could 0:06:20.943 --> 0:06:23.543 make it to the postseason healthy, which is always their issue. 0:06:23.543 --> 0:06:26.783 When they are healthy, then they're good. When they're not, obviously, 0:06:27.183 --> 0:06:30.343 it's been a mess, but that's the biggest thing for 0:06:30.503 --> 0:06:33.143 me for the forty nine ers. All Right, we showed 0:06:33.143 --> 0:06:36.303 you what number five was. Let's get to number six 0:06:36.503 --> 0:06:40.103 if we could. Here in time for Future champ presented 0:06:40.143 --> 0:06:43.263 by Fan Duel, as we look at the odds. 0:06:44.223 --> 0:06:47.543 To win the Super Bowl. Yes, we're doing this right now. 0:06:47.623 --> 0:06:50.543 Kansas City and Philadelphia, who are in it last year, 0:06:50.663 --> 0:06:53.583 are plus six hundred and plus eight hundred. The Bills 0:06:53.703 --> 0:06:56.943 and this is your one two three really are plus 0:06:57.023 --> 0:07:00.103 nine hundred. The Cowboys, and I think this is a 0:07:00.223 --> 0:07:04.943 sucker bet are plus thirteen hundred because the Cowboy are 0:07:04.943 --> 0:07:07.223 great in August and they haven't done anything in twenty years. 0:07:07.263 --> 0:07:10.943 In January, you have them at number six in your 0:07:11.023 --> 0:07:14.823 power rankings in Eric your initial power rankings, but you 0:07:15.103 --> 0:07:17.343 have them winning the Super Bowl. 0:07:17.823 --> 0:07:20.783 How in the world does that make sense. 0:07:21.743 --> 0:07:23.783 I was prepared for this. I was ready for the 0:07:23.863 --> 0:07:26.743 onslaught here. Okay, explain it to us at home. Here's 0:07:26.783 --> 0:07:27.703 the way I look at it. 0:07:27.783 --> 0:07:27.983 Right. 0:07:28.183 --> 0:07:31.543 The power rankings represent where I would slot these teams 0:07:31.663 --> 0:07:33.903 right now. What happens right now is going to be 0:07:33.903 --> 0:07:37.183 a lot different from what happens in January. Injuries, hold 0:07:37.223 --> 0:07:41.023 out developments. Take Dak Prescott last year got on kind 0:07:41.023 --> 0:07:44.943 of an interception streak. There way too careless with the football. 0:07:45.223 --> 0:07:47.423 I think that ends, and I think Mike McCarthy you 0:07:47.463 --> 0:07:49.703 pointed out right pressure may be an overrated word, but 0:07:50.023 --> 0:07:52.343 there are a lot of folks in Dallas who understand 0:07:52.423 --> 0:07:53.503 it's now or never. 0:07:53.663 --> 0:07:56.223 Cherry Jones certainly feels that way. But I think they're 0:07:56.223 --> 0:07:56.783 going to put. 0:07:56.663 --> 0:07:58.903 Some of their offense to issues behind them, and I 0:07:58.903 --> 0:08:00.583 think that defense is going to be one of the 0:08:00.583 --> 0:08:03.343 best teams in the NFL. So I think by the 0:08:03.503 --> 0:08:05.303 over the course of the season, you're going to see 0:08:05.343 --> 0:08:08.183 this team really develop. I've hedged a little bit, but 0:08:08.303 --> 0:08:09.983 I'm just outside the top five. 0:08:10.303 --> 0:08:11.663 But that doesn't mean they don't have. 0:08:11.583 --> 0:08:14.103 The upward mobility to be one of the best two 0:08:14.143 --> 0:08:16.903 or three teams. Plus, you know, the best team in 0:08:16.943 --> 0:08:19.983 football doesn't always win the Super Bowl. So they have 0:08:20.103 --> 0:08:22.503 maybe a few more questions than the Eagles do. 0:08:22.863 --> 0:08:24.743 But can they beat them next year? I think they can. 0:08:25.423 --> 0:08:26.863 By the way, I said, you know who five is? 0:08:26.903 --> 0:08:29.263 Five is Buffalo six? Here is Dallas Again you have 0:08:29.383 --> 0:08:32.903 them winning the Super Bowl. But this kind of if 0:08:32.943 --> 0:08:34.863 we get backpedal here go back to Kansas City at 0:08:34.863 --> 0:08:38.783 one and the Cowboys at six, this kind of opens 0:08:38.863 --> 0:08:43.143 up people to question, I think, and lets you explain 0:08:43.743 --> 0:08:45.823 how you do these hansus And I'm going to reference 0:08:45.863 --> 0:08:47.143 them a couple of times here in the first couple 0:08:47.183 --> 0:08:51.943 of weeks, always just to say, these aren't the power standings, 0:08:52.663 --> 0:08:54.743 they're the power rankings. 0:08:55.263 --> 0:08:57.343 Why do you have a team at six that you 0:08:57.383 --> 0:08:59.543 say will win the Super Bowl? 0:08:59.703 --> 0:09:03.743 And how does your Super Bowl math factor? What's your 0:09:03.863 --> 0:09:06.383 overall philosophy with doing these? 0:09:07.783 --> 0:09:09.943 Yeah, I mean, I think the biggest thing is just 0:09:10.023 --> 0:09:13.063 going to be how much room for improvement do these 0:09:13.103 --> 0:09:16.743 teams have from within and right? And how many unanswered 0:09:16.863 --> 0:09:18.383 questions currently exist? 0:09:18.503 --> 0:09:18.703 Right? 0:09:18.983 --> 0:09:21.223 If you want to factor in the idea that hey, 0:09:21.663 --> 0:09:24.503 Mike McCarthy's taken over play calling, you know, some people 0:09:24.543 --> 0:09:28.623 thought that his decision to can the OC last year 0:09:28.903 --> 0:09:31.263 or at the beginning of this year was a bad decision. Right, 0:09:31.423 --> 0:09:33.223 he's putting too much on his table. He's got a 0:09:33.223 --> 0:09:37.423 new fangled or an old fangled offense. I guess that's 0:09:37.423 --> 0:09:39.543 a question mark, right. I don't think it'll be as 0:09:39.583 --> 0:09:42.223 big an issue as everybody else does, But at this moment, 0:09:42.263 --> 0:09:44.023 I think it's fair to bring it up until we've 0:09:44.063 --> 0:09:46.503 seen evidence that they can move the ball and move 0:09:46.543 --> 0:09:48.983 it consistently. You've pointed it out too, right, one year 0:09:49.023 --> 0:09:51.463 doesn't have to do with the next. But how do 0:09:51.503 --> 0:09:53.503 you have faith in a team like the Cowboys or 0:09:53.583 --> 0:09:56.663 Chargers when historically they seem to always kind of let 0:09:56.743 --> 0:09:57.663 us down and crunch then? 0:09:57.863 --> 0:10:00.183 And it's funny how they're both kind of linked here. 0:10:00.223 --> 0:10:02.863 I was at Cowboys camp at Oxnard a couple of 0:10:02.863 --> 0:10:05.183 weeks ago, and all I heard from anybody, Oh, man, 0:10:05.263 --> 0:10:10.303 Kellen Moore is gone, we are gonna throw the ball deep. 0:10:10.663 --> 0:10:16.343 All right, this offense, this offense is going to get unleashed. 0:10:17.103 --> 0:10:22.223 Right But with the Chargers, you know what they're saying, Man, 0:10:22.743 --> 0:10:25.783 Kellen Moore is here. Now, we are gonna throw the 0:10:25.943 --> 0:10:29.943 ball deep. Now that Joe Lombardi's gone, Man, we're really 0:10:29.983 --> 0:10:30.943 gonna open up that. 0:10:30.983 --> 0:10:33.863 Offense, and it's it's look, it's August. 0:10:33.943 --> 0:10:36.543 Everyone's optimistic, everyone's gonna say it's gonna be different from 0:10:36.623 --> 0:10:39.143 last year. But for my money, until the Cowboys prove 0:10:39.183 --> 0:10:41.383 that they could do anything in January, it will never 0:10:41.463 --> 0:10:44.263 be different than last year because we know what they are. 0:10:44.903 --> 0:10:47.943 They are last year and the year before that, and 0:10:47.983 --> 0:10:50.663 the year before that and the year before that. Coming 0:10:50.743 --> 0:10:55.383 up next, however, what will the Jets be and where 0:10:55.863 --> 0:11:00.543 will they be on Eric at Holmes Week number one 0:11:00.943 --> 0:11:03.423 NFL Power Rankings. 0:11:02.903 --> 0:11:05.823 That's coming up next Twitter. 0:11:13.863 --> 0:11:17.423 NFL Power Rankings presented by energizer Eric at Holmes Week 0:11:17.663 --> 0:11:20.743 one numbers which are on NFL dot Com, which you 0:11:20.743 --> 0:11:23.023 could find by scanning the QR code right there on 0:11:23.063 --> 0:11:25.663 your screen. When you go to dot com. You'll see 0:11:25.663 --> 0:11:29.343 the Jaguars are nine, America's darlings. The Jets are ten, 0:11:29.823 --> 0:11:35.343 followed by the Lions, Chargers, Seahawks, Steelers at fourteen. Get 0:11:35.383 --> 0:11:38.183 to them at a second, the Vikings at fifteen. Remember 0:11:38.223 --> 0:11:41.703 fourteen teams make the playoffs. Consider the imaginary bar right there, 0:11:42.383 --> 0:11:45.743 and then the Saints. I told you Eric at Holme 0:11:45.823 --> 0:11:48.543 puts these numbers together. It's Eric at Holmes job now 0:11:48.623 --> 0:11:52.183 to defend them and defend why after the Jets were 0:11:52.223 --> 0:11:54.183 the darlings of hard knocks, right, they get the hard 0:11:54.263 --> 0:11:58.023 knock bounce, don't they. They get Aaron Rodgers Broadway erin 0:11:58.063 --> 0:11:59.943 because all he does is go to Broadway. 0:11:59.583 --> 0:12:03.663 These days seemingly ten says to me, Eric that. 0:12:03.703 --> 0:12:07.703 You believe in them, but you're not entirely sure. 0:12:09.183 --> 0:12:09.383 Yeah. 0:12:09.383 --> 0:12:12.183 It kind of has like a first wild card type 0:12:12.223 --> 0:12:14.463 of feel, right, but you could also see them after 0:12:14.503 --> 0:12:16.623 We've seen other teams like the Colts last year with 0:12:16.623 --> 0:12:19.223 Matt Ryan bringing a veteran to kind of bring the 0:12:19.263 --> 0:12:22.823 whole thing together and it falls apart. Right, We're assuming 0:12:22.903 --> 0:12:24.623 that Aaron Rodgers not only is going to play a 0:12:24.623 --> 0:12:27.423 little bit more consistently than he did last year, but 0:12:27.543 --> 0:12:29.343 he's going to go to a new offense. Yes, with 0:12:29.383 --> 0:12:33.023 some familiarity Nathaniel Hackett his buddy running the show, but. 0:12:33.063 --> 0:12:35.183 Just step right in and gain this confidence. 0:12:35.183 --> 0:12:37.023 So yeah, I think we have to kind of pull 0:12:37.103 --> 0:12:40.143 back a little and say, look, he's not America Worker 0:12:40.183 --> 0:12:42.743 at age thirty nine. There are offensive line issues that 0:12:42.783 --> 0:12:44.263 plague this team in the preseason. 0:12:44.303 --> 0:12:46.583 We didn't just wave a magic wand and fix all 0:12:46.663 --> 0:12:46.983 of them. 0:12:47.343 --> 0:12:49.623 But they are trending in the right direction, and they 0:12:49.663 --> 0:12:52.703 do have Dalvin Cook. Now, they have Brice Hall back 0:12:52.743 --> 0:12:56.263 from injury. That defense was phenomenal, So there was enough 0:12:56.263 --> 0:12:59.783 positivity there outside of Rogers that I felt like, I 0:12:59.783 --> 0:13:01.703 think on the back end of the top ten is 0:13:01.743 --> 0:13:04.583 a pretty good spot for them, saying, look, they could 0:13:04.703 --> 0:13:07.343 win a Super Bowl or they can also miss the playoffs. 0:13:07.583 --> 0:13:09.223 These running backs on the screen, I think are going 0:13:09.303 --> 0:13:11.343 to be a huge part of this story as we 0:13:11.383 --> 0:13:15.463 tell the Jet story this year, because Breesaw's coming back 0:13:15.463 --> 0:13:18.943 from the knee, as you said, and any running back, really, 0:13:18.943 --> 0:13:21.223 any skill position player will tell you that year one 0:13:21.263 --> 0:13:23.463 coming back from the knee, and his was mid season, right, 0:13:23.503 --> 0:13:25.663 it wasn't like last summer in June. 0:13:26.143 --> 0:13:29.583 You're not the same. Oh he's activated, he's ready, But 0:13:29.823 --> 0:13:30.463 is he the same? 0:13:30.903 --> 0:13:33.823 Unlikely, because that's just not how these things work. Dalvin 0:13:33.863 --> 0:13:36.383 Cook's coming off surgery as well on that shoulder. Finally 0:13:36.423 --> 0:13:40.063 allegedly that thing is fixed. But you mentioned the old line, right, 0:13:40.303 --> 0:13:42.343 does that O line open up holes for those two backs? 0:13:42.423 --> 0:13:45.423 And can that old line protect Aaron Rodgers and what 0:13:45.543 --> 0:13:47.943 happens if and when it does not. 0:13:48.343 --> 0:13:49.383 We kind of got a. 0:13:49.343 --> 0:13:52.343 Glimpse of what goes wrong or what it looks like 0:13:52.383 --> 0:13:53.503 when it goes wrong. 0:13:53.583 --> 0:13:55.783 During hard knocks with that one. 0:13:56.383 --> 0:13:59.583 Explittive filled episode where he was getting on the O line. 0:13:59.783 --> 0:14:03.023 You know, I know it's the Aaron Rodgers think different 0:14:03.063 --> 0:14:07.383 of me tore right now, But how does this team 0:14:07.423 --> 0:14:09.303 look when it hits hardship? And I think that hardship 0:14:09.343 --> 0:14:11.063 comes on the old line. 0:14:11.383 --> 0:14:13.183 It absolutely does. That's what I'm worried about. 0:14:13.223 --> 0:14:15.863 Right, even if Rogers is great, right, he still has 0:14:15.943 --> 0:14:18.303 to have that protection in front of him, and you know, 0:14:18.583 --> 0:14:21.263 not having Dwayne Brown most to training camp. He showed 0:14:21.303 --> 0:14:23.783 up late, Makai Beckton, there was a point and you't 0:14:23.783 --> 0:14:26.143 even know if he could practice, so putting him at 0:14:26.183 --> 0:14:29.423 right tackle a largely unfamiliar position. He's mostly played on 0:14:29.463 --> 0:14:31.943 the left side, and you're just hoping that that really 0:14:31.983 --> 0:14:33.463 strong interior holds up. 0:14:33.463 --> 0:14:35.223 But look, that's a lot. 0:14:35.023 --> 0:14:37.263 Of finger crossing and you got to maybe get some 0:14:37.303 --> 0:14:39.903 help from the backs and tight ends too. So yeah, 0:14:40.183 --> 0:14:42.863 without that offensive line flourishing, I don't see how this 0:14:42.983 --> 0:14:45.343 Jets offense is much better than last year when they 0:14:45.423 --> 0:14:47.343 cycled through three different quarterbacks. 0:14:47.583 --> 0:14:49.623 I think it's perfect that they're right next to each 0:14:49.663 --> 0:14:51.943 other here the Jets and the Lions. Jets are ten, 0:14:52.063 --> 0:14:55.783 Lions are eleven. I was at Lions camp earlier this summer. 0:14:55.983 --> 0:14:58.783 I'm believing that all. I totally believe in Ben Jonson, 0:14:58.863 --> 0:15:00.943 Jared goffin this offense. I think Jamior Gibbs and David 0:15:00.983 --> 0:15:03.503 Montgomery give them a different look. I think Samuel Port 0:15:03.543 --> 0:15:05.263 is going to have the big year thing eric with 0:15:05.303 --> 0:15:07.423 the defensive All they have to do is kind of 0:15:07.423 --> 0:15:08.743 get the middle of the pack right. 0:15:08.943 --> 0:15:10.823 They were worse than football last year. 0:15:11.143 --> 0:15:14.783 If they can just get into the teams somewhere, I 0:15:14.823 --> 0:15:16.303 am buying this team. 0:15:17.703 --> 0:15:20.703 I'm with you hundred perssett that I'm not worried about 0:15:20.703 --> 0:15:23.143 them scoring points, right, even if it isn't that a 0:15:23.183 --> 0:15:26.623 completely prolific unit that we saw, especially down the stretch 0:15:26.703 --> 0:15:27.183 last year. 0:15:27.463 --> 0:15:30.023 They're gonna get there as on offense, and that doesn't 0:15:30.023 --> 0:15:30.463 concern me. 0:15:30.543 --> 0:15:34.023 It really is all about I think, improving by some 0:15:34.183 --> 0:15:37.143 measurable amount on the defensive side of the ball, and 0:15:37.183 --> 0:15:39.223 for me, it's really hard to picture them not being 0:15:39.303 --> 0:15:41.903 better on that side. Look at the unit or that 0:15:41.943 --> 0:15:45.463 they put together in the secondary, not an impressive group 0:15:45.543 --> 0:15:45.983 last year. 0:15:46.023 --> 0:15:50.503 They add Cam Sutton Emmanuel Moseley, CJ. Gardner, Johnson, Brian Branch, 0:15:50.503 --> 0:15:53.343 which I thought was a stealing Round three. That group 0:15:53.423 --> 0:15:54.063 feels better. 0:15:54.503 --> 0:15:57.663 Linebacker, they're kicking Malcolm Rodriguez to the bench kind of 0:15:57.703 --> 0:16:00.543 and with Jack Campbell the first rounder, and I think 0:16:00.583 --> 0:16:02.583 the defensive line around is dear. 0:16:02.663 --> 0:16:05.263 They have guys, it's like Josh Pascal coming off injury, 0:16:05.343 --> 0:16:06.303 leve On Zerique. 0:16:07.303 --> 0:16:10.303 I just think they're gonna be better at not only 0:16:10.583 --> 0:16:13.583 pressuring the quarterback, which we saw teases of last year, 0:16:13.623 --> 0:16:16.623 but also covered that was the coverage. 0:16:16.223 --> 0:16:20.183 Breakdowns drove everybody nuts last year. I think they've got the. 0:16:20.183 --> 0:16:23.863 Chops to kind of solve it and good versatility defensively. 0:16:23.903 --> 0:16:25.943 To all of a sudden, they have twenty nine players 0:16:25.943 --> 0:16:28.543 on their opening fifty three on the defensive side of 0:16:28.583 --> 0:16:31.063 the ball. That's a lot that's trust in your offense, 0:16:31.103 --> 0:16:32.103 but also faith. 0:16:31.863 --> 0:16:34.063 That you have plenty of talent on DA and pretty 0:16:34.183 --> 0:16:38.463 much a brand new secondary. Brian Branch, can you have 0:16:38.503 --> 0:16:43.463 a second round slot guy be in conversation for dpoy, 0:16:43.543 --> 0:16:45.743 I think he could here potentially. 0:16:45.783 --> 0:16:47.703 I'm sorry. Defensive rookie of the Year. 0:16:47.703 --> 0:16:50.903 I think Brian Branch, along with Chauncey Gardner, Johnson Mcmanuel Moseley, 0:16:50.943 --> 0:16:52.503 all the other moves Camp Sutton they made in that 0:16:52.543 --> 0:16:55.263 secondary I think truly helped turn that team around. Now 0:16:55.383 --> 0:16:57.703 there's a conversation to be had here with the power rankings, 0:16:57.743 --> 0:17:01.023 and you did them another version right at the beginning 0:17:01.063 --> 0:17:03.663 of camp, maybe a week into camp, about what the 0:17:03.703 --> 0:17:08.583 preseason actually means. Eric for the Steelers, it meant something 0:17:09.023 --> 0:17:14.023 for you. You had them go from nineteen to fourteen 0:17:14.343 --> 0:17:16.943 after seeing what they did in the preseason. Was this 0:17:17.263 --> 0:17:19.543 from what you saw in these by the way, are 0:17:19.623 --> 0:17:23.623 power moves. Let's get that in here, power moves presented 0:17:23.623 --> 0:17:26.663 to you by energizer Or is this only a reaction 0:17:26.823 --> 0:17:28.983 to shut the Steelers fans up on social media as 0:17:29.023 --> 0:17:29.663 they hammer you. 0:17:30.823 --> 0:17:34.303 I would never cater to the Steelers fans that directly, 0:17:34.383 --> 0:17:35.983 but you know, they made a good point. 0:17:36.023 --> 0:17:37.223 I probably did. 0:17:37.023 --> 0:17:39.543 Have them a little too low at nineteen. I definitely 0:17:39.623 --> 0:17:42.543 heard from their contingent there. But you know, the more 0:17:42.583 --> 0:17:45.223 you look at this steam and I may have been 0:17:45.263 --> 0:17:49.743 more of a Browns fan in that division two months ago. 0:17:49.823 --> 0:17:51.583 As time has gone on, I kind of will get 0:17:51.583 --> 0:17:53.623 in the light a little bit. Oh sEH, I know, 0:17:53.703 --> 0:17:54.023 we will. 0:17:54.103 --> 0:17:56.863 I know you've got ties, but I just have kind 0:17:56.863 --> 0:18:00.343 of seen the light as far as targeted acquisitions this offseason. 0:18:00.383 --> 0:18:03.023 They needed to get better on the offensive and defensive lines. 0:18:03.103 --> 0:18:04.223 I think they did. 0:18:04.663 --> 0:18:07.023 The secondary a little bit of worry with Sutton gone. 0:18:07.183 --> 0:18:10.143 You mentioned who left for Detroit, but you get Joey 0:18:10.143 --> 0:18:12.983 Porter Junior in Troth and they still have some playmakers 0:18:13.063 --> 0:18:16.983 like Fitzpatricks, so you know they lose. 0:18:17.183 --> 0:18:20.543 They lost TJ wat for what seven eight games last year. 0:18:20.583 --> 0:18:22.543 That was a big deal. That's half the season. 0:18:22.903 --> 0:18:25.303 So I think there's also improvement from within that I 0:18:25.343 --> 0:18:28.663 maybe didn't account for. But five for five touchdowns and 0:18:28.743 --> 0:18:31.983 five drives with the first seam offense, that 'dit looked great. 0:18:32.223 --> 0:18:36.543