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Speaker 2: they're always happy, Eric, and I know they're happy with
Speaker 2: you right now.
Speaker 3: They are happy.
Speaker 4: They could go back and read the Power Rankings for
Speaker 4: about three weeks ago when I had them listed fourth
Speaker 4: among the final four teams. I had a lot of people,
Speaker 4: to their credit who hit me up at the time
Speaker 4: and said less kind versions of you're wrong, dude, And
Speaker 4: they reminded me about you know, six minutes after the
Speaker 4: Super Bowl ended, so showed a little restraint as well.
Speaker 3: I'm kind of proud of them.
Speaker 2: You look, you can't make everyone happy, but those fans
Speaker 2: should be thrilled by the final result. Yes, what we
Speaker 2: witnessed in the Super Bowl. All right, let's get through
Speaker 2: the rankings here one through eight. Not a surprise, the
Speaker 2: Philadelphia Eagles sitting in that top spot. Congratulations to Jalen Hurts,
Speaker 2: the game MVP. The Chiefs, they dropped that spot. They'd
Speaker 2: been kind of hitting in that top spot for a while.
Speaker 2: At number one, it's the Bills, the Lions, and the Ravens.
Speaker 2: Rounding out three, four, five, The Commanders. What an amazing season.
Speaker 2: You think about where they were at the start of
Speaker 2: the Power Rankings, you could see a plus twenty the
Speaker 2: biggest move. We will do a deep dive on them
Speaker 2: in just a few minutes. The Minnesota Vikings also a
Speaker 2: team on a rise as well, up sixteen spots from
Speaker 2: where they landed in the first edition of the Power Rankings.
Speaker 2: And the Green Bay Packers your eighth squad. All right,
Speaker 2: let's take a closer look at the Philadelphia Eagles. Take
Speaker 2: way through this. What did we not necessarily see happening
Speaker 2: that explains why this team is a Super Bowl champion?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, obviously, if you kind of look back
Speaker 4: at their season and think about, you know, they had
Speaker 4: the two and two start they went into the buy
Speaker 4: turnovers were an issue, those were.
Speaker 3: The biggest questions of the season.
Speaker 4: They didn't lose a game after that, in which Jalen
Speaker 4: Hurt started and finished the game. It was that one
Speaker 4: loss to Washington where Kenny Pick had played most of it.
Speaker 4: So maybe we underestimated these Eagles coming in just a
Speaker 4: little bit. I finally switched my pick right before kickoff
Speaker 4: and said, I think Philly's gonna win. I had no
Speaker 4: idea they would blow out a team on the Vergia
Speaker 4: history like this, Like the Chiefs were so good in
Speaker 4: postseason situations, so good in the clutch time, but they
Speaker 4: finished on defense and they did just an off offensively
Speaker 4: to make it a successful day.
Speaker 3: You know, got the passing game going early.
Speaker 4: You knew they were going to gang up on Saquon
Speaker 4: Barkley and take him out of the game.
Speaker 3: As best they could.
Speaker 4: They did, you know, held him under one hundred yards
Speaker 4: total on thirty plus touches, but boy, they still couldn't
Speaker 4: keep him out of the end zone. Jalen Hurts outside
Speaker 4: of that one throw with spectacular And how about Vic
Speaker 4: Fangio's defense absolutely dominating from the start, really didn't let
Speaker 4: up until they were up.
Speaker 3: Thirty four to nothing.
Speaker 4: Even then, but boy, an absolutely outstanding performance from a
Speaker 4: coaching from a unit that I don't know that's gotten
Speaker 4: quite the respect that they deserved.
Speaker 3: All throughout the course of the season.
Speaker 4: They were mostly terrific this year, and you saw the
Speaker 4: upgrades that they made on all three levels this offseason.
Speaker 4: And a coordinator too, Fanjo, you know, arguably as a
Speaker 4: Hall of Fame type resume for a coach, for an
Speaker 4: assistant coach.
Speaker 2: I don't want to be over overly dramatic here. Is
Speaker 2: this a bungeoning dynasty too? Super Bowl appearances in three seasons?
Speaker 2: Young Defense, got your quarterback locked up? Is this something
Speaker 2: that we're going to see in the years to come?
Speaker 4: If you ask me right now who the favorites are
Speaker 4: next year, I think you'd say Philly. Now that's pre
Speaker 4: free agency, pre draft, pre cut downs, all that stuff,
Speaker 4: so there's a lot to be figured out. But if
Speaker 4: you had to have one team to sort of say,
Speaker 4: who do you think could win a next year?
Speaker 3: Why not Philly?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 4: For all the reasons you just stated. And I think
Speaker 4: you know, Jalen Hurt's kind of getting that monkey office back,
Speaker 4: so to speak. Right, everybody sort of putting a ceiling
Speaker 4: on him. And not believing he actually can win a
Speaker 4: Super Bowl. He proved that wrong after all the ups
Speaker 4: and downs he's endured from Alabama to his first head
Speaker 4: coach in Philly. Now with Nick Sirianni, they've seen the
Speaker 4: mountaintop and I think they could be back there, whether
Speaker 4: it's next year or beyond that. So yeah, maybe it's
Speaker 4: not what we've seen from the Chiefs level of success,
Speaker 4: but you bet they could be.
Speaker 2: All Right, Where did the Chiefs go from here?
Speaker 3: Great question? Right?
Speaker 4: We still have to figure out what's Travis Kelcey's future. Right,
Speaker 4: what are the plans for the offensive line that had
Speaker 4: a really rough day? I understand that they went into
Speaker 4: that game maybe not wanting to change the chemistry up
Speaker 4: front after they'd made some switches, patched holes as best
Speaker 4: they could, but it became obvious that that pass rush
Speaker 4: was too much from And I think you could be
Speaker 4: talking about multiple offensive line spots this offseason that need addressing,
Speaker 4: whether it's Trace Smith leaving in free agency, that left
Speaker 4: tackle spot. You'd ideally moved Joe Toney back to left guard,
Speaker 4: his best home. You know, we hear now about DeAndre
Speaker 4: Hopkins possibly retiring. Maybe he is, Maybe he isn't sort of.
Speaker 4: He deleted a tweet that said he's still got some
Speaker 4: football left. But we'll find out what their plans are
Speaker 4: at receiver, on the offensive line, and also on defense.
Speaker 4: I think they probably need some more pass rush force,
Speaker 4: you know, to penetrate good lines like the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 4: They just weren't able to do it consistently enough.
Speaker 2: I know it's disappointing for Chiefs fans. This was still
Speaker 2: a really good season. This team is still not going anywhere,
Speaker 2: especially considering how they've drafted over the last couple of years.
Speaker 2: The Bills sit at number three here. I think they
Speaker 2: silenced a lot of critics who were concerned about massive
Speaker 2: changes to personnel. How big is this window for Buffalo?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think a year ago a lot
Speaker 4: of people were suggesting that, Okay, they let a slew
Speaker 4: of veterans go on the first day of free agency.
Speaker 4: This is the blood letting. Josh has missed his window.
Speaker 4: They're going to have to go through some sort of
Speaker 4: period of rebuild. Well, look, if having the ball with
Speaker 4: a chance to win in the fourth quarter of the
Speaker 4: AFC Championship Game is a rebuild, then I think they're
Speaker 4: in pretty decent shape.
Speaker 3: Remember, they didn't get a ton out of key.
Speaker 4: On Coleman, their top draft pick this year at the
Speaker 4: top receiver, who you know didn't perform on the same
Speaker 4: level as z Avier Worthy did.
Speaker 3: I think he can make a step.
Speaker 4: I think the defense obviously needs some reinforcements, but Josh
Speaker 4: is still in the prime of his career.
Speaker 3: We saw guys like Khalil Shakir breakout.
Speaker 4: You know, it wasn't even the best year from Dalton Kincaid,
Speaker 4: So you know, I think they have the chance to
Speaker 4: be even more explosive offensively the next year. The question is,
Speaker 4: with limited resources this offseason, only so much cap space,
Speaker 4: only so high draft picks, how are they going to
Speaker 4: be able to add layers to that defense, which to me,
Speaker 4: by the end of the season you saw a depleted group,
Speaker 4: but one that for the most part, I thought held
Speaker 4: together pretty well throughout the course of the season.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, attrition is an issue for a lot of
Speaker 2: teams in the NFL, and I think you saw some
Speaker 2: of that. Buffalo probably did a better job than most
Speaker 2: weathering that storm, much like the Number four team. I
Speaker 2: think we forget about the Detroit Lions and the amount
Speaker 2: of injuries that they had throughout the course of this season,
Speaker 2: yet an opportunity still to potentially even make it to
Speaker 2: a Super Bowl. They're going to be facing the same
Speaker 2: thing the Eagles faced a couple of seasons ago coming
Speaker 2: off of that Super Bowl run, losing built of their coordinators.
Speaker 2: What's the fallout for that change.
Speaker 4: If they make the wrong decisions, you know, like the
Speaker 4: art Eagles arguably did. They moved on from both coordinators
Speaker 4: learned last season. It sets you back a year, but
Speaker 4: as they proved this season, if you make the right
Speaker 4: hires one year later, you can go win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: So you know, I know we think in terms of
Speaker 4: windows and how long this team can get going. Obviously,
Speaker 4: Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn are a big part of
Speaker 4: their success, and this can't be overlooked. Other multiple assistants
Speaker 4: have left as well, so you know, it's a big
Speaker 4: challenge for Dan Campbell is as you know, golf kind
Speaker 4: of heads into the back half of his career. You know,
Speaker 4: maybe Kevin Zeitdler moves on some other pieces and fregency.
Speaker 4: They still have to fix that defense and ad Layer
Speaker 4: is a talent to that. We saw how it broke
Speaker 4: down at the end of the year, so you know
Speaker 4: this is no easy climb back up the mountain top.
Speaker 4: But again, I think there's a real strong belief and
Speaker 4: now a pattern history of success over two and a
Speaker 4: half seasons that you know this team isn't going anywhere.
Speaker 4: I don't think until proven otherwise. But that OC position.
Speaker 4: Ben Johnson did work some magic at times, and they're
Speaker 4: gonna have to find somebody who can match that.
Speaker 2: I know, we haven't even hit the NFL draft. You
Speaker 2: were at the Senior Bowl, I was at the Shrine
Speaker 2: Shrine Bowl. Know that there's gonna be some talented players available.
Speaker 2: The lines have done a really nice job in the
Speaker 2: draft building this roster. Do we look at and just
Speaker 2: kind of assuming like, hey, they'll make some additions here
Speaker 2: that'll be positive for this team. Do we look at
Speaker 2: the Lions as still on the shortlist? I don't know where.
Speaker 2: I shouldn't even be talking about rankings for next season
Speaker 2: on our last show, but I got to imagine, like,
Speaker 2: in terms of complete teams, they're one of like three
Speaker 2: or four in the NFL that you would point.
Speaker 3: To have to be. I think they absolutely are.
Speaker 4: In fact, you know, my preseason top four might look
Speaker 4: pretty similar to what I've got here on this wrap
Speaker 4: up of the twenty four season. So yeah, the Lions
Speaker 4: will be right up there among the heavyweight contenders. We
Speaker 4: know they can score forty on any given day. They
Speaker 4: were playing very good defense prior to Aiden Hutchinson injury,
Speaker 4: which you know, just sort of started the avalanche. It
Speaker 4: seemed like every week they dropped a starter or two.
Speaker 4: You saw it happen to the Dolphins late in the
Speaker 4: twenty three season and.
Speaker 3: They collapse completely. This is a better roster.
Speaker 4: I think that what Miami had put together, and so
Speaker 4: you know, I firmly believe that they're going to be
Speaker 4: among the contenders next year. But again, like Philly twenty
Speaker 4: twenty three, there's no guarantee. They started out ten and
Speaker 4: one with those two new coordinators and ended up letting
Speaker 4: both go by the end of the season. So you
Speaker 4: never know in this league, and people make rass and
Speaker 4: decisions in tense situations.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, Look, you take some heat on social
Speaker 2: media for these rankings, and I'll probably take some heat
Speaker 2: for this. I know the AFC by and large better
Speaker 2: conference than the NFC, but if you say to me,
Speaker 2: the most complete teams heading into next season regardless of
Speaker 2: the draft, because obviously rosters are going to change. Eagles
Speaker 2: are in that conversation, the Lions are right there, and
Speaker 2: I'm based off of the personnel, like I put the
Speaker 2: Baltimore Ravens in front of all those other teams just
Speaker 2: based off of roster. I get it here. Yep, there's
Speaker 2: still Kansas City and Buffalo. Just making that point, there
Speaker 2: are some teams that are on the rise. And there
Speaker 2: is one that I am thinking about in a big
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Speaker 2: the Washington Redskins. I think about this trajectory. Week one
Speaker 2: of the season, you had them twenty six in your rankings,
Speaker 2: they took a loss, they dropped all the way down
Speaker 2: to twenty nine in week number two, and in the
Speaker 2: final rankings they're the six ranked team. What an accomplishment
Speaker 2: for Dan Quinn in year number one, and it helps
Speaker 2: to have the QB one in your future, maybe QB
Speaker 2: one for the NFL over the next few years.
Speaker 4: If you had bought Stock and the Commanders back in
Speaker 4: week one, even week two, and I knocked him down
Speaker 4: a few pegs, this is like buying bitcoin in twenty twelve.
Speaker 3: You're doing okay for yourself. Right.
Speaker 4: In fact, I remember on Twitter hosting my initial rankings
Speaker 4: number twenty six, and a local Commander's writer said, I
Speaker 4: think this is the highest I've seen so far. So
Speaker 4: I wasn't the only one. In fact, I guess I
Speaker 4: had a more rosy view of them than others. But
Speaker 4: love what Adam Peters did to the roster. Loved the
Speaker 4: addition of obviously Jayden Dalees. I thought he'd be a
Speaker 4: great hit with the Cliff Kingsbury. Didn't imagine it would
Speaker 4: be so successful year one. But in a lot of ways,
Speaker 4: they're kind of in the same position that Houston Texans
Speaker 4: found themselves in one year ago. Right they were coming
Speaker 4: off a successful playoff run.
Speaker 3: You know, they won the division.
Speaker 4: The record wasn't quite as impro is what Washington did obviously,
Speaker 4: but young quarterbacks sort of thrust into the spotlight in
Speaker 4: the discussion as one of the you know, the top
Speaker 4: young quarterbacks in the game today. There's gonna be a
Speaker 4: lot of pressure on them now. The expectations are there.
Speaker 4: They're gonna be a winning team next season. That's sort
Speaker 4: of the belief around the campfire. So we'll find out
Speaker 4: how much more magic can they do? They have to
Speaker 4: add on that defense. I feel like we've said that
Speaker 4: about every contender except the Eagles, but they absolutely facing
Speaker 4: teams like Dallas, like Philly every year, you know are
Speaker 4: going to have to tighten things up on that side
Speaker 4: of the ball. But boy, like you said, the future
Speaker 4: is so bright down there. All of a sudden, think
Speaker 4: about what a year has done to the outlook of
Speaker 4: this entire franchise, not just the football team, but just
Speaker 4: the top to bottom the whole thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's why there's so many teams that
Speaker 2: are looking for a quarterback right now. In this year's
Speaker 2: NFL Draft, they'll point to Washington Commanders, the one guy
Speaker 2: can really change the trajectory of our entire franchise. By
Speaker 2: the way, before we even annoint them, we know sometimes
Speaker 2: it's not always a given, right. The Houston Texans, we
Speaker 2: were kind of talking about CJ. Stroud this way, and
Speaker 2: they were still a playoff team. They were dealing with
Speaker 2: some injuries. But it's just not a lock and a
Speaker 2: guarantee that you're going to be able to duplicate success
Speaker 2: from year to year. So just to keep in mind
Speaker 2: here and just temper some of those expectations for a
Speaker 2: Commanders stands, although I think you and I feel like
Speaker 2: it's going to be really a great season next year.
Speaker 2: More to come here on power rankings. How high up
Speaker 2: to the Rams, the Broncos and Bengals deserve to be
Speaker 2: that Answers coming up next. Yes, I'll back here on
Speaker 2: power rankings. Mike Imman Eric at home with you as
Speaker 2: you take a look at his squad's rank nine through sixteen.
Speaker 2: We'll do a deep dive on the Bucks. The Houston
Speaker 2: Texans so much expectations around CJ. Stroud. I think they
Speaker 2: figured it out late in the season, a little too
Speaker 2: late though. The Rams maybe the most intriguing team, at
Speaker 2: least in my mind in this grouping the Chargers, we
Speaker 2: know that arrow is pointing up the Broncos sitting at
Speaker 2: number thirteen. The Steelers got some real decisions to make
Speaker 2: this offseason. At fourteen, Cincinnati had fifteen. Why I was
Speaker 2: on that train for most of this season, and at
Speaker 2: sixteen it is the Seattle Seahawks. I break this down
Speaker 2: for me because the Bucks are a team that's consistently
Speaker 2: really good and yet haven't necessarily been able to break through.
Speaker 2: What's it going to take.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Tom Brady coming out of retire No, I'm kidding. Obviously,
Speaker 4: Baker Mayfield's done a tremendous job, right, and you know
Speaker 4: they're changing offensive coordinators for roughly the thirty seventh year
Speaker 4: in a row. Don't quote me on that fact, but
Speaker 4: it's something like that.
Speaker 3: And you know Mike Evans, Look, he was terrific.
Speaker 4: He got his thousand yards last year, but he's in
Speaker 4: the final year of his contract. Chris Godwin's potentially moving
Speaker 4: on and for agency, you know, playing in this division,
Speaker 4: obviously it gives them an advantage. Right, Carolina is still
Speaker 4: figuring things out. Atlanta's starting over a little bit with
Speaker 4: Michael Pennix, right, So they're gonna win football games.
Speaker 3: But to your point, how do they break through?
Speaker 4: I think getting better depth and health on defense is
Speaker 4: a big part of it. But obviously, another play caller,
Speaker 4: another system. Mayfield's sort of answered the call, reinvented his
Speaker 4: It's been fun to watch, but can he do it again?
Speaker 4: Maybe he's got to take a page out of Jalen
Speaker 4: Hurts his book, right, another guy who's been through his
Speaker 4: share hoot sas and follow that path to success.
Speaker 2: All Right? The Denver Broncos are thirteen, and I think
Speaker 2: a little bit of a different scenario as they're trying
Speaker 2: to break through. I look at your Week one rankings,
Speaker 2: you had them twenty seventh. They move up to thirteenth
Speaker 2: in the final one and look, that's a remarkable job
Speaker 2: from Sean Payton and this crew. They got it right.
Speaker 2: They hit the home run with bone knicks. What's that
Speaker 2: missing piece for this team?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think obviously defensively they're pretty strong. I think
Speaker 4: the offensive line has the parts. I think you'd like
Speaker 4: to see another weapon or two in this offense. And
Speaker 4: think back to what Sean Payton had in New Orleans.
Speaker 4: He always had that X factor, as he likes to
Speaker 4: call it, that joker, right, whether it was Jimmy Graham
Speaker 4: or Jeremy Shacky at tight end. You know, Taysom Hill
Speaker 4: is kind of a multi tool piece. Alvin Kamara, Reggie Bush,
Speaker 4: whatever you want to say. They had those kind of
Speaker 4: guys who were match up nightmares from the run back position,
Speaker 4: from tight end, they don't really have that. They tried
Speaker 4: four different backs last year, five guys really, three different
Speaker 4: tight ends. They all had their strengths, but you know,
Speaker 4: they really I think want one difference maker, and if
Speaker 4: they can find that player in the draft, that would
Speaker 4: be terrific. I know they're not anxious to spend a
Speaker 4: bunch of money in free agency, but just tighten a
Speaker 4: few things up defensively already a top ten unit, and
Speaker 4: then if they can give bo Nicks that one special playmaker.
Speaker 3: We see a player who played at a pretty darn high.
Speaker 4: Level as a rookie who could be able to elevate
Speaker 4: even further. So I'm excited to see what they do
Speaker 4: in this offseason and who they target.
Speaker 2: All Right, two teams are the biggest jumps, the Commanders
Speaker 2: and the Broncos. Here the team you feel most confident
Speaker 2: in duplicating success or maybe even just leveling up next year.
Speaker 2: Which one would you pick between those two?
Speaker 4: That's a great question because obviously the expectations for the
Speaker 4: Commanders are going to be sky high, even playing in
Speaker 4: the same division as the Eagles, the team that knocked
Speaker 4: them out of the playoffs. But you know, I would
Speaker 4: probably say Tampa Bays. They can fly below the race
Speaker 4: a little bit and also play in the weaker division,
Speaker 4: so maybe that factors in. We still haven't seen how
Speaker 4: the schedule lays out, or what happens at trade and see.
Speaker 4: But right now, you know, I mean even Jayden Dale's
Speaker 4: is the better quarterback. They beat the Bucks head to
Speaker 4: head in the playoffs in Tampa. But you know, as
Speaker 4: far as like expectations and playing above that are equal
Speaker 4: to that, you know, wouldn't be shocking if the Tampa
Speaker 4: Bay Buccaneers end up with more wins than expected.
Speaker 3: If that makes sense, no question.
Speaker 2: I mean those three teams in general, you throw them
Speaker 2: into the basket, you pull out a name, and you'd
Speaker 2: be like, all right, like that team could be pretty
Speaker 2: good this upcoming season. Now we're talking about teams that
Speaker 2: have made the huge jump. There's some squads that didn't
Speaker 2: necessarily live up to the expectations that we thought. Oh
Speaker 2: I feel bad for your Brock, Like, I get it.
Speaker 2: Eric actually had them as number two team heading into
Speaker 2: the season. Are they even contenders moving forward? The answer
Speaker 2: to that is coming up next. We're on power rankings.
Speaker 2: Mike Amman, Eric at Home with You, Team seventeen through
Speaker 2: twenty four the Arizona Cardinals. This was this is a
Speaker 2: good season for him. They did move up, and I
Speaker 2: know there were some issues as the season unfolded. Form
Speaker 2: but they're at seventeen. The Dolphins injury bug in a
Speaker 2: big way at eighteen. The Falcons, oh the way this
Speaker 2: season had turned out for him, But Michael Pennix is
Speaker 2: waiting in the wings at nineteen, The Colts at twenty,
Speaker 2: San Francisco forty nine ers we'll get to in a
Speaker 2: moment here at twenty one, The Bears at twenty two.
Speaker 2: They dropped six spots from that original ranking, The Dallas
Speaker 2: Cowboys at twenty three, and the Carolina Panthers. The ro
Speaker 2: is pointing up for that franchise. All right, let's focus
Speaker 2: in on this Niner squad. I think this is the
Speaker 2: most intriguing team in the entire list. You had them
Speaker 2: number two before the season starts. They fall to now
Speaker 2: twenty one. There's no way on the preseason rankings, correct
Speaker 2: me if I'm wrong here, they're going to be outside
Speaker 2: the top twenty.
Speaker 4: Right, It would be hard to do, right, even if
Speaker 4: they end up trading Deebo Samuel, as has been reported
Speaker 4: and rumored. I think, you know, obviously it depends on
Speaker 4: what happens this season, right, but this offseason, I should say,
Speaker 4: but it seems to me like they're focusing on re
Speaker 4: signing party, giving him his long term deal how long
Speaker 4: we'll see, and then elevating one of those other receivers,
Speaker 4: whether it's Ricky Piersall their first round pick or Juwan
Speaker 4: Jennings and trying their best to get what they can
Speaker 4: for debo. Remember they tried to trade Brandon Auk last year.
Speaker 4: He ended up go getting hurt, Christian McCaffrey getting hurt,
Speaker 4: Trent Williams missing time. You know, virtually every single one
Speaker 4: of the key players that they couldn't lose missed at
Speaker 4: least one game, if not more.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 4: You know that's the reason they sunk so far. Am
Speaker 4: I gonna raise them all the way back up to number.
Speaker 3: Two right now?
Speaker 4: That feels a little bit unlikely, but Kyle Shanahan proven
Speaker 4: the history of success in November December. I mean, I
Speaker 4: feel it's safe to say they'll be somewhere around that
Speaker 4: top ten.
Speaker 2: You will get a random text from me this summer
Speaker 2: and I'll be on vacation pool side somewhere with a
Speaker 2: little umbrella drink and the whole thing, and I'm gonna say,
Speaker 2: you're gonna have the Niners in the top ten. Just
Speaker 2: be prepared for that one. The Dallas Cowboys at this
Speaker 2: point sending at number twenty three. Is this as simple
Speaker 2: as McCarthy out and they get a shot in the
Speaker 2: arm with Shottenheimer.
Speaker 4: I think if you send me that same text with
Speaker 4: the Cowboys, with the little drink and everything the emoji,
Speaker 4: I don't know that I can give you that same answer.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: It might be a little different than what we say
Speaker 4: about the forty nine ers. This feels to me a
Speaker 4: little bit New York Jets ish in the sense that, hey,
Speaker 4: I know our plan last year didn't work, but let's
Speaker 4: mostly run it back. Let's take the guy who was
Speaker 4: essentially the first lieutenant for Mike McCarthy and make him
Speaker 4: the head man. I mean, if that's all it takes,
Speaker 4: then truly, I give a lot of credit to Jerry
Speaker 4: Jones for being patient and saying we're going to see
Speaker 4: this thing through.
Speaker 3: But the other half of me is questioning whether this
Speaker 3: is the right move. Yes, this is a.
Speaker 4: Team that went thirty six and fifteen over three years
Speaker 4: before that, but they fell to seven to ten, and
Speaker 4: even if injuries were part of the story, dak missing
Speaker 4: a big chunk of the year. I don't know that
Speaker 4: they're going to be a complete football team with the
Speaker 4: likes of the Ravens and the Lions and the Eagles
Speaker 4: and the other teams that we mentioned at the top
Speaker 4: of the show. Those teams are more complete right now.
Speaker 4: So we'll you see what the plan is.
Speaker 3: But you know, maybe Schottenheimer does give him a.
Speaker 4: Little energy, a little fresh perspective. Can he bring him
Speaker 4: through to the promise lay what Mike McCarthy couldn't do.
Speaker 4: I have my questions right now. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was talking Isaiah Standback, who does Good Morning Football.
Speaker 2: Right after the decision to go with Schottenheimer, he said, hey,
Speaker 2: verbiage language all going to be save for Dak which
Speaker 2: is definitely a huge bonus heading into next season. At
Speaker 2: city twenty five through thirty two. The Jets at twenty five,
Speaker 2: we know there's going to be massive changes. They are
Speaker 2: the Patriots at twenty six, the Raiders, what do they
Speaker 2: do with the draft? At twenty seven, the Saints have
Speaker 2: a new coach, officially, Kellen Moore is their guy. At
Speaker 2: twenty nine, it's the Jags, the g Men at thirty
Speaker 2: The Tennessee Titans might be thinking about QB one at
Speaker 2: thirty one in the draft, and the Cleveland Browns your
Speaker 2: last place team. I want to focus in on the
Speaker 2: Patriots because we've had some squads Eric that we're kind
Speaker 2: of in this range and became top fifteen teams. Can
Speaker 2: the Patriots do that?
Speaker 4: I think if there's one you bet on, well, Like
Speaker 4: you said, every single year, somebody in this range ends
Speaker 4: up sort of thriving the next year. We've seen Drake
Speaker 4: may play very well, Mike Brabil comes in, Josh McDaniels
Speaker 4: comes back.
Speaker 3: For a third ten yure in New England.
Speaker 4: And yes, they have a lot of holes to fill,
Speaker 4: but when you have over one hundred million dollars of
Speaker 4: salary cap space, a good till of draft picks, and
Speaker 4: the willingness to spend, I think they're in for a
Speaker 4: big offseason and that could lead to more victories next year.
Speaker 4: So yeah, they're one of the leading cannons from this
Speaker 4: bottom Groves.
Speaker 2: Cross for the Patriots, you're their best, Eric, always appreciate work,
Speaker 2: everything happen.
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