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Speaker 2: call it here, the week twenty edition in our studios
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles. My name is ANDREWS. Siciliano. On the
Speaker 2: other side of the screen in a frozen, frigid Chicago,
Speaker 2: which just got the news that Caleb Williams is entering
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty four NFL Draft. Eric at Hoolme, good
Speaker 2: to see you.
Speaker 3: Good to see you too. This is the pound for pound,
Speaker 3: the best round, right.
Speaker 4: Don't agree with the divisional round? Yeah? I think so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, after watching a super Wildcard round that saw the
Speaker 2: average margin of victory.
Speaker 4: Sit at seventeen point three.
Speaker 2: And that includes keep in mind the fact that Sunday
Speaker 2: night in Detroit it was a one point game.
Speaker 4: Is that insane?
Speaker 3: Impactful games like the games that had purpose but not
Speaker 3: exactly the tightest ones. I think this round will be
Speaker 3: a little better, but yes, it is very much insane.
Speaker 2: The Ravens are number one, the Niners are number two.
Speaker 2: They are the two number one seeds. They had the
Speaker 2: weekend off. They watched on their couch and they have
Speaker 2: not changed. We'll get to them at a second. The
Speaker 2: Bills are up one. They are number three. The Lions
Speaker 2: are up one. They are number four. We're going to
Speaker 2: focus only on these four teams right now. And as
Speaker 2: we start this, I know there are people at home going,
Speaker 2: wait a minute, all you're doing is rearranging the fourteen
Speaker 2: teams that made the playoffs.
Speaker 4: Yes, however, I will make.
Speaker 2: An argument later that a couple of the teams were
Speaker 2: so bad they should be dropped from the top fourteen. However, Eric,
Speaker 2: they do not include these top four. The Ravens are one.
Speaker 2: They get the Texans coming up. As it's all chalk
Speaker 2: in the AFC. I would actually argue that with maybe
Speaker 2: Mark Andrews coming back and with Dalvin Cook waiting in
Speaker 2: the wings, the Ravens got better during their bye.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt. I mean, well as Firs as far
Speaker 3: as personal personnel and who could be available, no question
Speaker 3: about it. And you know, did they need the rest.
Speaker 3: Obviously got some guys rested in Week eighteen. Not everybody
Speaker 3: played against the Steelers in that one. It was bad
Speaker 3: conditions out there, So yeah, I mean I think they're
Speaker 3: at full strength, and they've had the bulk of that
Speaker 3: time to look back at twenty nineteen and the failures
Speaker 3: that were I mean, everybody wrote their stories. Is this
Speaker 3: going to be another repeat of twenty nineteen. I don't
Speaker 3: think so. But they do have a stiff challenge, and
Speaker 3: I think things are set up maybe a little bit better,
Speaker 3: even though that was a pretty dominant team that won
Speaker 3: fourteen games not long ago.
Speaker 2: No, it's a dominant team here, and there's a dominant
Speaker 2: team in twenty nineteen, and they're facing a very good
Speaker 2: team at the Houston Texans, a team they beat in
Speaker 2: Week number one. Obviously a lot has changed for the
Speaker 2: Texans since then. We'll get into them a little bit later.
Speaker 4: That was c J.
Speaker 2: Stroud's first start. Didn't throw a touchdown, got sacked four times. Listen,
Speaker 2: he's better. Matter of fact, I think he's great. It's
Speaker 2: funny they beat Joe Flacco. The old elite conversation with
Speaker 2: Joe Flacco. We're going to have that elite conversation pretty soon,
Speaker 2: if not already here for CJ.
Speaker 4: Stroud.
Speaker 2: So the Ravens are one, the Niners are two. The
Speaker 2: big thing for the Niners is get healthy during theirby
Speaker 2: they have time to rest, and now they get the
Speaker 2: Packers coming to tap and honestly not to take away
Speaker 2: from green Bay.
Speaker 4: It sets up nicely here for Kyle Shanahan.
Speaker 3: It does. Yeah, I mean green Bay's obviously a very
Speaker 3: dangerous team, but I think the most important development was
Speaker 3: Philly blowing the lead, allowing the forty nine ers to
Speaker 3: clinch in Week seventeen. Rest guys in week eighteen have
Speaker 3: this buy They're in terrific shape. I guess you worry
Speaker 3: about offense rhythm coming out or whatever. Joe Berry's defense
Speaker 3: has played much better for Green Bay, but I think
Speaker 3: they would take that uncertainty over knowing the fact that
Speaker 3: they got Christian McCaffrey a lot of rest. He's going
Speaker 3: to be used pretty heavily, I would imagine in this game,
Speaker 3: and if they win, going forward, Deebo Samuel on down
Speaker 3: the line. So yeah, health was a big, big storyline
Speaker 3: last year in the playoffs. They're determined not to make
Speaker 3: it one I think this year. And yeah, other than
Speaker 3: the Baltimore game, they look pretty and good down the stretch.
Speaker 2: Look, they have to be happy sitting here watching at
Speaker 2: home and getting healthy. The Cowboys are out. The Eagles
Speaker 2: are out. I know they beat them both and beat
Speaker 2: them both handily, but the Rams.
Speaker 4: Are out as well.
Speaker 2: And while Kyle has owned Sean of late the last
Speaker 2: four or five years in the regular season, obviously in
Speaker 2: the postseason, Rams beat them a couple of years ago
Speaker 2: in the NFC Championship game. To me, those were possibly
Speaker 2: all due respect to the Lions. Their three biggest threats, Eric,
Speaker 2: those three threats are gone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's certainly a different field than we expect that
Speaker 3: I think coming in. Obviously, the Lions are a legitimate
Speaker 3: team and we have to take them seriously as a
Speaker 3: Super Bowl candidate. But you know, it's crazy to step
Speaker 3: back and think one of the following is going to
Speaker 3: start in the NFC for the Super Bowl. It's going
Speaker 3: to be Brock Purty, it's going to be Jordan Love,
Speaker 3: it's going to be Baker Mayfield or Jared Goff. That's
Speaker 3: who we're down to on that side of the field.
Speaker 3: And you know, you put it through that lens and
Speaker 3: it really kind of changes your perspective on what it's
Speaker 3: going to look like. So, yeah, I'll be fascinated to
Speaker 3: see how this all works out. But it's still a
Speaker 3: pretty pretty interesting, feel like, even though you said, I
Speaker 3: think things have kind of really lined up pretty well
Speaker 3: if they could somehow slow down this Packer's office.
Speaker 2: I love the Baker Mayfield Jared Goff former number one
Speaker 2: pick redemption tour possibility there for the super Bowl. Clearly
Speaker 2: Goth has a better shot right now, the clearer path
Speaker 2: than Baker.
Speaker 4: But whatever.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get to the Bills. They're you're new
Speaker 2: number three team, Eric, They are up one in the
Speaker 2: week twenty the Divisional round power rankings. Josh Allen did
Speaker 2: what they needed him to do, be Superman, but without
Speaker 2: the Kryptonite. He didn't turn the ball over. He rushed
Speaker 2: for this fifty two yard touchdown. By the way, we
Speaker 2: agree that was not a fake slide. That was a
Speaker 2: pitter patter of the feat. Guys, do we agree that
Speaker 2: was not a fake slide?
Speaker 3: Eric, I didn't even know people were arguing that.
Speaker 4: Steelers stands are angry.
Speaker 2: The Steelers drafted the guy who's fake slide in college football,
Speaker 2: changed the rules, and then he bragged about it. Anyway,
Speaker 2: I digress here. It wasn't a fake slide. Josh Allen
Speaker 2: now gets mahomes at home.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they were saying it's a fake slide
Speaker 3: to cover for Patrick Peterson not being able to catch
Speaker 3: a quarterback. But you know, I digress. Yeah, this is
Speaker 3: setting up I think the way everyone wanted it. Not
Speaker 3: Steelers fans obviously, not Dolphins fans, but the rest of
Speaker 3: the neutral observing football universe had to, you know, grip
Speaker 3: for the idea that we're going to have another Allan
Speaker 3: Mahomes game, this one an Allen Park, though I mean
Speaker 3: an Orchard Park, I should say, rather it could be
Speaker 3: a p pretty interesting. It could be Allen Parking, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: it'll be Allen Park if he wins this game. And
Speaker 3: the last time they met there kind of a strange
Speaker 3: outing in twenty twenty. I kind of throw that one out.
Speaker 3: The rest of them have been classics, and I expect
Speaker 3: nothing less. Allen's at the peak of his powers. We
Speaker 3: saw what Mahomes can do again last week Bill's d
Speaker 3: Can they be healthy, can they hold on? Are some
Speaker 3: of these injuries gonna bite them in the end. I
Speaker 3: don't know. That's the big question.
Speaker 4: I'm kind of leaping.
Speaker 2: The big one being Terrell Bernard, who has carted off
Speaker 2: with the ankle injury.
Speaker 4: He has played so well.
Speaker 2: And remember no Matt Milano and no Tredavius White and
Speaker 2: no Jordan Phillips. The hits keep on coming for that
Speaker 2: Bill's defense.
Speaker 4: But they get him at home. They get the Chiefs
Speaker 4: at home.
Speaker 2: Third time in four years they meet in the postseason,
Speaker 2: and first time A Holmes is going to play a
Speaker 2: playoff game other than a super Bowl, obviously outside of
Speaker 2: their building when last they met.
Speaker 4: It's so.
Speaker 2: Crazy how things change down the stretch. When last these
Speaker 2: two teams met, Eric, you and I sat here and said,
Speaker 2: this is the Bill season, and really the Bill's soul
Speaker 2: as they're constructed on the line right they went to
Speaker 2: Arrowhead that article had been written about Sean McDermott.
Speaker 4: You're like, this is it.
Speaker 2: They are on the brink, and then Kadarius Tony lined
Speaker 2: up off sides. The Bill's got their win, and it's
Speaker 2: been like a march towards Vegas since then. And I
Speaker 2: cannot wait for this one of the best Divisional obviously
Speaker 2: the best weekend of the football year. All right, let's
Speaker 2: celebrate the Lions here. You know, I worked for the Rams.
Speaker 2: I wanted the Rams to win that game, but I'm
Speaker 2: happy for Jared Goff as I said last week, I
Speaker 2: would be if they won.
Speaker 4: You got the fans crying.
Speaker 2: He got Brad Holmes yelling in an elevator of the
Speaker 2: Lions are up one spot.
Speaker 4: They are four this week in the Power rankings.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean some people may disagree. Some people feel
Speaker 3: like maybe they got a little lucky there. Obviously the
Speaker 3: Rams had kind of turned the tide of that game.
Speaker 3: Everyone bracing for that, that comeback victory, that fourth quarter
Speaker 3: victory that Stafford pulled off a lot of times in Detroit.
Speaker 3: But Jared Goff completes the biggest pass in his career,
Speaker 3: not the toughest, not the prettiest, but the most important
Speaker 3: past of his career. Hadn't completed one in almost a
Speaker 3: quarter at that point, so after the hot start, he
Speaker 3: really needed to finish that game off. He did. What
Speaker 3: a moment for him, right, and just what a relief
Speaker 3: I think for the Detroit Lions fans who you know,
Speaker 3: braced for this utter heart rending disappointment it didn't happen,
Speaker 3: and now their favorites in this game coming up, second
Speaker 3: straight home playoff game, unheard of time. First of all,
Speaker 3: the state of Michigan, right with Yeah, the Wolverines, Harbaugh
Speaker 3: and this it is on fire right now in the
Speaker 3: football world, so I can't imagine what's going to go
Speaker 3: down this weekend. But they have to feel like, Okay,
Speaker 3: now we're the hunted, right. I can understand a lot
Speaker 3: of people picking the rams, but they have to feel
Speaker 3: like they need to take care of business in this
Speaker 3: game and not let the emotions kind of kind of
Speaker 3: ruin the day.
Speaker 2: You see that a hug there that embraced between Golf
Speaker 2: and Stafford at the end of the game. I recommend
Speaker 2: inside the NFL or check out the NFL Films Twitter
Speaker 2: page here. It's a great moment in which Stafford tells Golf, hey,
Speaker 2: go win this thing.
Speaker 4: I'm happy for you.
Speaker 2: And then Jared a couple of seconds later, after they
Speaker 2: had walked away, Jared circles back and says, basically, you're
Speaker 2: one of the toughest you know, whats I've ever seen,
Speaker 2: Like legendary toughness here, like respect because Matthew Stafford that
Speaker 2: should have been a flag by the way for roughing
Speaker 2: there got up at the end and his hand was
Speaker 2: banged up, and he was banged up, and he kept
Speaker 2: on slinging it and he is a warrior, a football warrior,
Speaker 2: obviously not a real warrior. But you know what I'm
Speaker 2: saying here. So the Lions are number four. We'll get
Speaker 2: to the Rams a little bit later. We'll get to
Speaker 2: the Texans as well. How about the Packers? Where do
Speaker 2: they land?
Speaker 4: Should the Eagles even be in these rankings?
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Speaker 2: Chiefs are up two. They are five, The Texans up three.
Speaker 2: They are six. Look at the Packers up six, They
Speaker 2: are seven.
Speaker 4: The Cowboys plummet? Are they really a top ten team?
Speaker 2: They are eight? And the Bucketeers are up three they
Speaker 2: are nine. Think about this and we will later. The
Speaker 2: Bucks are behind the Cowboys. The Bucks are playing next weekend.
Speaker 2: The Cowboys are not all right at home. The Chiefs
Speaker 2: are five. I think a lot of teams prove their
Speaker 2: critics right this weekend. I think the Chiefs, though, might
Speaker 2: be the only team that truly proved their critics wrong.
Speaker 4: They look fine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought they did right. I mean they were
Speaker 3: prepared for the environment. Obviously Miami wasn't.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: It was sort of a you know, start to finish,
Speaker 3: really solid performance. I mean, Mahomes played well, dealt with
Speaker 3: some of the early drops, got Kelsey going eventually. You know,
Speaker 3: it just sort of felt like they were very well
Speaker 3: prepared for this game, understanding that there was criticism about
Speaker 3: their game, understanding and knowing that people weren't going to
Speaker 3: be picking them to win the Super Bowl, and that
Speaker 3: they probably have to go on the road the following week.
Speaker 3: That was just the reality of it, and they took
Speaker 3: care of business. Because they've been in the situation so
Speaker 3: many times. Will that carry over? I tend to think so.
Speaker 3: I think they'll play well. I don't think they're going
Speaker 3: to come in there and get embarrassed. But yeah, they
Speaker 3: had to have this kind of a performance. If they
Speaker 3: kind of lucked their way into this next game, I
Speaker 3: don't think there would be as much sentiment for them
Speaker 3: being quote unquote back as we know them to be.
Speaker 2: Anyway, Yeah, I agree, and I will admit where I
Speaker 2: am wrong.
Speaker 4: I thought the Chiefs were the better team. I know
Speaker 4: they're the better team.
Speaker 2: I did pick the Dolphins when I did an Instagram
Speaker 2: video making all the picks Saturday morning, because I felt
Speaker 2: that the Dolphins would be able to get the ground
Speaker 2: game going. And I thought the ground game with the
Speaker 2: weather as the equalizer, would be the difference here. And
Speaker 2: I was absolutely wrong. Taylor Swift is a great chair dancer.
Speaker 2: The environment was all Kansas City and the Dolphins just
Speaker 2: shriveled up. And you know, the Dolphins are another one
Speaker 2: of these teams that can run up the score in
Speaker 2: September but can't do it in jay Ay.
Speaker 4: We see it again. Last year was Kyler Thompson.
Speaker 2: I realized, Okay, this year was Tua and they couldn't
Speaker 2: do it. I know they have the defensive injuries, but
Speaker 2: the offense didn't show up. He had a fifty yard
Speaker 2: touchdown on an under thrown ball the DPI. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's your only positive offensive play, all right, I digress.
Speaker 4: Let's get to the sixth seed.
Speaker 2: Your sixth rank team that is that is the Texans,
Speaker 2: super impressive up three. Maybe they were one of the
Speaker 2: teams that proved their critics wrong, but I am not
Speaker 2: one of these people that doubted c. J.
Speaker 4: Stroud.
Speaker 2: A matter of fact, I think those that doubted him
Speaker 2: shut up in September and they've been silent since.
Speaker 3: Yeah, anybody left still questioning him even prior to that game,
Speaker 3: I think has to reevaluate their football observation a little bit. Now. Look,
Speaker 3: obviously he could come out and get humiliated by the Ravens.
Speaker 3: I just don't see it happening though. Andrew I really
Speaker 3: thinks he's past that level. Right, Not that we say
Speaker 3: he can't have a bad game, but you know, the
Speaker 3: bad game he had in Week one against Baltimore, you know,
Speaker 3: for sacks, touchdowns. I don't think that's the kind of
Speaker 3: game he's gonna have this weekend. I think he's gonna
Speaker 3: come in prepared, confident. Yes, he doesn't have Tank Dell
Speaker 3: or Noah Brown, and he short some weapons, but I
Speaker 3: think they're going to go in there with all kinds
Speaker 3: of house money, nothing to lose, knowing that, you know,
Speaker 3: had they converted those three field goals into touchdowns in
Speaker 3: Week one, it's a different story. Plus they've come so
Speaker 3: far since then as a team. Demiko ryans we didn't
Speaker 3: know anything about his coaching ability then now we've seen
Speaker 3: he's been, He's brought this team together. Strau was hurt,
Speaker 3: Will and Anderson was hurt. Both were the best rookies on
Speaker 3: either side of the ball. I thought this season went healthy,
Speaker 3: so they got a lot going for him, and I
Speaker 3: think they'll go in there and give the Ravens a test.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and a year ago today right now, a year
Speaker 2: ago today, we are ten days into the I can't
Speaker 2: believe Lovey Smith and Davis Mill screwed up so badly,
Speaker 2: you know, tongue in cheek that they are now stuck
Speaker 2: with the number two pick.
Speaker 4: And think about where we are.
Speaker 3: They used it pretty well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it worked out just fine, and it worked out
Speaker 2: great as well for the Green Bay Packers. Speaking of
Speaker 2: good coaching and good quarterback play, the Packers are making
Speaker 2: power Moves. Power Moves presented by Energizer. They are up six.
Speaker 4: They are your number sevent team.
Speaker 2: As you and I record Kyle Shanahan on Tuesdays on
Speaker 2: the podium saying, among other things, Christian McCaffrey's are full
Speaker 2: participant in this week, and also saying that his staff
Speaker 2: started getting ready for the Packers midway through the second
Speaker 2: quarter of their win Sunday over the Cowboys. That's how
Speaker 2: thoroughly bludgeoned they That's how badly they beat the Cowboys.
Speaker 3: It's nice to get that little hour and a half
Speaker 3: two hour jump start on you on your prep work. Right,
Speaker 3: Obviously they've been sitting around waiting. They watched this game
Speaker 3: unfold and it turned out they didn't waste any time.
Speaker 3: They were right to prepare for green Bay. And look
Speaker 3: the way the offense is playing right now, I think
Speaker 3: you need extra time to prepare for it, because well,
Speaker 3: it looked like the Cowboys had no real answers for
Speaker 3: either Jordan Love or Aaron Jones, who, you know, since
Speaker 3: coming back from injury, has been probably one of the
Speaker 3: most productive backs in the league, led the NFL and
Speaker 3: rushed in the final four weeks of the season. So
Speaker 3: you know, it's like, I think, I know who is
Speaker 3: more important, But you could make a legitimate case that
Speaker 3: Aaron Jones, especially against that Niners run defense, is almost
Speaker 3: as valuable as Love could be in this game, and
Speaker 3: homecoming game for Love is just I think Green Bay
Speaker 3: will absolutely give them a lot to handle defensively. The
Speaker 3: question is can they stop things on the other side,
Speaker 3: And I don't know about that one.
Speaker 2: Look similar system certainly offensively, same tree defensively here as well.
Speaker 2: This is the youngest team of the NFL, the Packers,
Speaker 2: that is coming in to face an experienced team, but
Speaker 2: still with a young quarterback in Brock Purty. You have
Speaker 2: kids all over the board, but you have key veterans
Speaker 2: like Aaron Jones that make such a difference here. This
Speaker 2: is a team in midway through the season that a
Speaker 2: lot of people thought it wasn't working. As we see
Speaker 2: Sad Jerry Jones talking about the Packers, it is working.
Speaker 2: They are hot and I give them a puncher's chance here,
Speaker 2: not a great chance, but a puncher's chance in Santa
Speaker 2: Clara on Saturday against the forty nine ers. Now let's
Speaker 2: get to the team they beat. We see Sad Dak Prescott,
Speaker 2: Sad Jerry Jones. Okay, you have Eric the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 2: as your number EIGHTEAM. They were three, now they are eight.
Speaker 2: Why should they even be in the top ten when
Speaker 2: they flame out this badly? They are the summer blockbuster
Speaker 2: with the huge budget that all the kids are talking
Speaker 2: about that when it gets to Oscar time, they get
Speaker 2: shut out because there's no substance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Oh, this is why I don't watch the oscars, right,
Speaker 3: and I don't have to worry about all.
Speaker 4: That sad Midwest man.
Speaker 2: Angry man in Midwest says, I don't watch oscars.
Speaker 3: I tried to think of it this way, and this
Speaker 3: is my first year doing the Power Rankings, and I've
Speaker 3: always asked myself, like, Okay, if these two teams met
Speaker 3: on a neutral field, meaning like let's take the Bucks
Speaker 3: and Cowboys if they met in Huntsville, Alabama, who would
Speaker 3: be favored in that game? I maintained the Cowboys to
Speaker 3: be a four or five point favorite in that one
Speaker 3: if they went against the Bucks, even after what we
Speaker 3: saw last week, So maybe I'm wrong about that. I
Speaker 3: still think head to head, Dallas a better team. But
Speaker 3: there's no discounting what happened on the field. There's no
Speaker 3: you know, whitewashing anything that occurred. It was an ugly
Speaker 3: franchise shifting performance, right. This was the rug being pulled
Speaker 3: out from under them like we've seen before. And where
Speaker 3: do you go from here? If you're Jerry, do you
Speaker 3: blow everything up? Do you try to import a Vrabeler
Speaker 3: or Belichick and fix this thing on the quick? And
Speaker 3: is that gonna happen. I mean, you still got to
Speaker 3: worry about Dak too. He's got a huge cat number
Speaker 3: next year. He's got to be offended. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: it's I don't want to say it was Super Bowl
Speaker 3: or bust, but it certainly feels like that now talking
Speaker 3: about them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dak's cap numbers like fifty five something near sixty million.
Speaker 2: They got to do something so likely you have to
Speaker 2: commit to paying him another one hundred and fifty million
Speaker 2: dollars guaranteed.
Speaker 4: That's what you got to do. Extend them. That's what
Speaker 4: you gotta do. You got to extend. You got to
Speaker 4: take the number down.
Speaker 2: This contract was written to be redone right now after
Speaker 2: this season, and this season.
Speaker 4: Ended far earlier than they thought it would end.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: I want to tie the Eagles in here as well,
Speaker 2: because the NFC East is the only division eric that
Speaker 2: will not be represented on divisional Weekend. The Eagles lost horribly.
Speaker 2: They folded six out of seven down the stretch. You
Speaker 2: have them at thirteen down two. We're going to skip
Speaker 2: ahead a.
Speaker 4: Little bit here.
Speaker 2: Why should they even be in the top fourteen. I
Speaker 2: think they should be out of the power rankings.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 4: Honestly, if there.
Speaker 3: Was a Buffalo Bills like team, Remember the Bills went
Speaker 3: into Week eighteen, we didn't know if they were going
Speaker 3: to make the playoffs. Obviously they are now, but if
Speaker 3: there was that kind of a team that missed out
Speaker 3: out where we were saying, boy, had they gotten in,
Speaker 3: they would have been a handful. Maybe the Saints, who
Speaker 3: actually quietly played pretty well down the stretch, you could
Speaker 3: make an argument for. But the Steelers lost, and I
Speaker 3: have been questioning them up and down all seasons, so
Speaker 3: it's more of a hierarchy thing. I get your argument, right,
Speaker 3: the way they played the final seven games, I mean seven,
Speaker 3: even with the Giants win seven games is a massive
Speaker 3: chunk of the season, right, it's almost forty percent. So
Speaker 3: it's not like you can just sort of, you know,
Speaker 3: push this to the side and say, well, they were
Speaker 3: great at ten and one. I even had a few
Speaker 3: questions then, So I don't know, man, Yeah, this is
Speaker 3: as bad as it gets. But I thought the Steelers
Speaker 3: were a worse team, and that's the only reason I
Speaker 3: could sneak both.
Speaker 4: Now I get it, bad team, bad tape.
Speaker 2: They have crash landed, and I would argue that I
Speaker 2: don't deserve to be in the top fourteen.
Speaker 4: The Bucks do.
Speaker 2: However, the Bucks won there below the Cowboys, you have
Speaker 2: the Bucks at number nine, up three. Eric, talk to
Speaker 2: the angry fans that think they should be higher.
Speaker 3: Well, look, there were some drop passes early, they settled
Speaker 3: for some field goals. They got a little dicey there
Speaker 3: for a second after jail and got warm. But you know,
Speaker 3: you're beating an AJ brownless Eagles team that was trending,
Speaker 3: you know, worse than any stock that I've bought in
Speaker 3: the last five years. So yeah, I just didn't think
Speaker 3: that this was as impressive a win at home over
Speaker 3: a team that was going in one direction only. But
Speaker 3: they're competitive. Todd Bowles has done a really nice job
Speaker 3: since his name came up as a you know, as
Speaker 3: a possible name to watch to get fired. I don't
Speaker 3: think that's happening. Baker's done a great job. You know.
Speaker 3: It's fun to watch their progression this season, and I
Speaker 3: give them a lot of credit. I just don't know
Speaker 3: that they are a better football team pound for pound
Speaker 3: than what the Dallas Cowboys were.
Speaker 2: And Baker on the podium on Monday night said, this
Speaker 2: is our last home game, Baker, there's actually a shot
Speaker 2: you can host the NFC championship game. If you beat
Speaker 2: the Lions and the Packers beat the Niners, there could
Speaker 2: still be a game at Raymond James. You mentioned buying
Speaker 2: stocks coming up. Let's buy some futures. Shall we do that?
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Speaker 2: As we show you a teams ten through fourteen, the Rams,
Speaker 2: the Browns, the Dolphins, and then the two teams from
Speaker 2: the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Eagles at thirteen and the
Speaker 2: Steelers at fourteen. Time to invest in the Future presented
Speaker 2: by Fidelity. Eric at home, why are you buying the Rams?
Speaker 2: I'm with you, by the way, but you tell me, yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think the emergency of Pooka certainly this season,
Speaker 3: I'm an incredible rookie year, Kien Williams showing he could
Speaker 3: be a lead back, repairing that offensive line. And look,
Speaker 3: I don't know how long they've got left in Matthew Stafford,
Speaker 3: but when he was healthy, when he was on the field,
Speaker 3: as you pointed out several times throughout the season, he
Speaker 3: was great, So you know, you squeeze a little more
Speaker 3: out of Cooper Cup. You add pieces that defense. I
Speaker 3: think there's an interesting future. Plus you revived Sean McVeigh
Speaker 3: and he admitted on the post State Park press conference
Speaker 3: he found his way again, and you know that's that's
Speaker 3: an important piece of that whole puzzle. I don't know
Speaker 3: what Aaron Donald does, but I like their future.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they might lose Raheem Morris. I hope they do,
Speaker 2: by the way, on a personal level, I hope he
Speaker 2: gets another shot at being a head coach because he
Speaker 2: deserves another shot. But the future truly is bright for
Speaker 2: this team, and I think it's bright as well for
Speaker 2: the Browns. Granted, they need to get the Deshaun Watson
Speaker 2: eric that we saw that went fourteen for fourteen to
Speaker 2: the perfect passer rating with a broken shoulder to beat
Speaker 2: the Ravens on the road.
Speaker 3: It was his high point and then very short and point.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he might drop, I guess, but all eyes clearly
Speaker 3: on him this offseason. Now they get back an amazing
Speaker 3: amount of talent, all the guys who got hurt throughout
Speaker 3: the season. But we'll see what happens with the coaching
Speaker 3: staff and he changes there. Does Flack will come back
Speaker 3: as the number two? I mean, I guess we'll be
Speaker 3: on the treball. I would love to see it, but yeah,
Speaker 3: this is this is going to be very very interesting
Speaker 3: team to watch. They have the pieces. Can they put
Speaker 3: it all together and find that magic one more time?
Speaker 3: Not always easy?
Speaker 2: No, And when I say no, that's not saying I
Speaker 2: wouldn't want to see that. I just don't think it
Speaker 2: is feasible nor likely.
Speaker 4: Regardless.
Speaker 2: What is feasible and likely is that we are back
Speaker 2: to do this again after divisional weekend. All right, So
Speaker 2: we'll see you next week on the NFL Power Ranking Show.
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Speaker 4: Andrew so Long.
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