WEBVTT - #16: How high have the Buffalo Bills climbed? 0:00:04.743 --> 0:00:07.303 NFL Power Rankings is a production of the NFL in 0:00:07.383 --> 0:00:14.463 partnership with iHeartRadio. 0:00:13.063 --> 0:00:17.463 Pepie. Holidays to you and yours, and welcome to our 0:00:18.103 --> 0:00:23.263 Christmas edition, our week sixteen edition of the NFL Power 0:00:23.303 --> 0:00:27.943 Ranking Show, presented to you by Energizer from our studios 0:00:27.943 --> 0:00:31.503 in Los Angeles. My name is andrews Aciliano, the man 0:00:31.703 --> 0:00:34.703 on the other side of the screen right here, the 0:00:34.783 --> 0:00:38.463 man who made these Power Rankings, the man who honestly 0:00:38.583 --> 0:00:42.183 eric at home. I feel that at this point you 0:00:42.343 --> 0:00:44.903 just go like, I don't know anymore, just like, can 0:00:44.943 --> 0:00:47.423 we get to the playoffs? Like, I mean, can we 0:00:47.543 --> 0:00:50.863 just have these teams play meaningful games. I kind of 0:00:50.863 --> 0:00:55.343 feel like your frustration level must be at a holiday high. 0:00:56.223 --> 0:00:59.303 Yeah, I've got like the first tier one and two, 0:00:59.423 --> 0:01:02.063 the second tier, I don't know, maybe twenty teams or 0:01:02.103 --> 0:01:05.063 something like that. It's hard to decide who's nonumber three, 0:01:05.183 --> 0:01:06.823 four and split all these teams up. 0:01:06.943 --> 0:01:07.983 Very tricky time of the year. 0:01:08.023 --> 0:01:10.103 And listen, I'm not trying to be the grinch here. 0:01:10.463 --> 0:01:12.943 What I'm saying is these last three weeks are going 0:01:12.983 --> 0:01:16.023 to be awesome. I can't wait to get to the postseason. 0:01:16.103 --> 0:01:18.543 But we have this point of the season. Now we're like, well, 0:01:18.703 --> 0:01:20.503 I think all of these teams are really good. They 0:01:20.503 --> 0:01:22.143 are only a couple of teams that are really great. 0:01:22.143 --> 0:01:25.303 So let's show you the rankings. Eric doing Yeoman's work 0:01:25.343 --> 0:01:27.543 here watching that Monday night game and maybe having to 0:01:27.543 --> 0:01:30.703 move a little bit of the furniture around the final room. 0:01:31.023 --> 0:01:33.423 We have the Niners and the Ravens. You could scan 0:01:33.503 --> 0:01:35.183 the QR code on the screen to get this on 0:01:35.303 --> 0:01:37.903 NFL dot com. They are still one and two, and 0:01:37.983 --> 0:01:41.903 the Cowboys, despite just playing one of their worst games 0:01:41.943 --> 0:01:44.343 of the year in Buffalo against a good Bills team, 0:01:44.343 --> 0:01:47.463 don't move. I don't get that. The Dolphins are up 0:01:47.503 --> 0:01:50.583 one to four, the Eagles are down one to five, 0:01:51.023 --> 0:01:54.823 and then the Chiefs, the Lions at seven, and then 0:01:55.143 --> 0:01:58.503 the Buffalo Bills rounding out the top eight. And what 0:01:58.543 --> 0:02:01.783 do you know, Eric, with the Niners still clearly at 0:02:01.823 --> 0:02:05.503 one and the Ravens dismantling the jab are Sunday night 0:02:05.543 --> 0:02:12.263 at two, on Christmas Night, we get our Super Bowl preview. 0:02:12.583 --> 0:02:14.463 It would have been better if it was New Orleans 0:02:14.503 --> 0:02:16.103 and the lights were going out of this was the 0:02:16.263 --> 0:02:20.103 Horror Bowl. But maybe maybe we see this game in Vegas. 0:02:21.023 --> 0:02:23.983 Maybe we do. Yeah, this would be quite the preview. 0:02:24.023 --> 0:02:25.823 I feel like a kid again, right, I mean, just 0:02:25.903 --> 0:02:28.343 waiting for this, and this is the contest that I think, 0:02:28.383 --> 0:02:30.623 will you know, kind of give us an idea of 0:02:30.943 --> 0:02:33.983 you know, the two heavyweights right now, which one's standing taller. 0:02:34.063 --> 0:02:35.783 And as you pointed out, we could see him in 0:02:35.863 --> 0:02:37.903 not too long in the super Bowl the way the 0:02:37.943 --> 0:02:40.903 season is gone. So I worry a little bit about 0:02:40.903 --> 0:02:44.223 San Francisco's run defense. They lose those t defensive tackles. 0:02:44.223 --> 0:02:46.383 You've got a team in the Ravens that can run 0:02:46.423 --> 0:02:48.903 the ball. But on the flip side, they have another 0:02:48.983 --> 0:02:51.823 devastating injury at running back Keaton Mitchell last week. And 0:02:51.863 --> 0:02:54.023 don't overlooked this one. He has been a spark plug 0:02:54.063 --> 0:02:57.183 for them. It's more burden I think on the shoulders 0:02:57.303 --> 0:03:00.703 Lamar Jackson. But you know, even with some of these injuries, Andrew, 0:03:00.743 --> 0:03:03.103 I think we're looking at a Grade A match up here. 0:03:03.183 --> 0:03:05.943 This one's gonna be fantastic. The present under the tree 0:03:05.983 --> 0:03:06.983 we've all been waiting for. 0:03:06.943 --> 0:03:10.103 You exactly, and this game is on Christmas night, as 0:03:10.103 --> 0:03:12.303 your belly is full and the presents are open, and 0:03:12.423 --> 0:03:14.623 you're at this point sleeping on the floor and the 0:03:14.703 --> 0:03:16.943 kids are playing with their new toys, and then you're 0:03:17.023 --> 0:03:19.503 you're mad at Gradma or for given a toy that 0:03:19.623 --> 0:03:21.943 makes noise, and then you're already thinking, how do I 0:03:21.983 --> 0:03:24.503 put this toy somehow in the trash canon? Have the 0:03:24.543 --> 0:03:27.143 kid not realize it? This is your Super Bowl preview. 0:03:27.223 --> 0:03:29.623 Keaton Mitchell is done for the season. The Ravens have 0:03:29.703 --> 0:03:33.263 Melvin Gordon stepping up. Lamar Jackson played just an absolutely 0:03:33.303 --> 0:03:36.783 fantastic game on Sunday night. I have serious concerns about 0:03:36.783 --> 0:03:39.583 the Jaguars, but all kinds of high hopes for the Ravens, 0:03:39.663 --> 0:03:42.583 and as you mentioned, the two defensive tackle injuries or 0:03:42.623 --> 0:03:46.023 the Niners will loom huge. You have the Cowboys at 0:03:46.063 --> 0:03:48.983 three and the Dolphins at four, and coincidentally three and four. 0:03:49.263 --> 0:03:52.063 This is kind of like the CFP Final four bracket 0:03:52.263 --> 0:03:55.703 play each other this week in Miami. With the Cowboys, though, Eric, 0:03:56.063 --> 0:03:58.823 how do you not move them down? I mean the 0:03:58.943 --> 0:04:02.783 game was over in five minutes in Buffalo and they 0:04:02.823 --> 0:04:05.823 did not show up, and they don't don't move this week? 0:04:06.783 --> 0:04:10.623 Yeah, I guess I still have reservations a little bit 0:04:10.663 --> 0:04:12.903 about the Dolphins. Look, I mean, they put together a 0:04:12.943 --> 0:04:17.023 terrific game plan, beat two struggling quarterbacks and an offense 0:04:17.063 --> 0:04:19.863 and the Jets that hasn't done much all season. Kudos 0:04:19.903 --> 0:04:21.823 to them, right, We're still waiting for that big win, 0:04:21.903 --> 0:04:24.663 and they're gonna get their chance starting with this week's 0:04:24.703 --> 0:04:27.583 game against Dallas. But you know, just kind of stacking 0:04:27.583 --> 0:04:29.983 them toe to toe and head to head and trying 0:04:29.983 --> 0:04:33.103 to do the Pepsi challenge, if you will. 0:04:33.143 --> 0:04:34.423 Between the two it's hard. 0:04:34.503 --> 0:04:37.583 I think you could easily say Miami's three, but I've 0:04:37.583 --> 0:04:40.903 had my reservations about them their inability to you know, 0:04:41.023 --> 0:04:45.383 string games together and beat quality opponents. Dallas obviously a 0:04:45.423 --> 0:04:48.303 step back after a good run. So you want to 0:04:48.343 --> 0:04:50.383 flip around, be my guest. I guess I'm like the 0:04:50.383 --> 0:04:53.143 Eagles defense. I got caught sort of flat footed at 0:04:53.143 --> 0:04:54.943 the end of the night on Monday, but when the 0:04:55.023 --> 0:04:57.343 rankings were due and I said, ah, I kind of 0:04:57.343 --> 0:04:58.103 panicked a little. 0:04:58.143 --> 0:05:00.063 So that's where we're at this week. 0:04:59.863 --> 0:05:01.703 All right. And now we get the Cowboys and the 0:05:01.743 --> 0:05:03.663 Dolphins and see if the Cowboys can beat a good 0:05:03.703 --> 0:05:06.063 team on the road. Not like it's Buffalo. This game 0:05:06.103 --> 0:05:08.223 is in Miami, the sun will likely be shining in 0:05:08.263 --> 0:05:11.583 far different conditions, but they themselves admit it. Now they 0:05:11.623 --> 0:05:14.743 have a road problem. They have a beat good teams 0:05:14.783 --> 0:05:17.903 away from the star problem. Yea, Dolphins were able to 0:05:17.903 --> 0:05:20.343 find a way to overcome the loss of Tyreek Hill 0:05:20.423 --> 0:05:24.223 Jalen Wattle as we see here step right in and 0:05:24.743 --> 0:05:27.183 even though they have those defensive injuries, you are still 0:05:27.183 --> 0:05:32.383 holding firm here with the Dolphins as your fourth best team. 0:05:33.383 --> 0:05:36.703 Yeah, I didn't see the owner dancing the way he 0:05:36.743 --> 0:05:38.343 did there. Maybe I would have bumped the mop had 0:05:38.383 --> 0:05:42.543 I known that, But yeah, ownership battles, head to head 0:05:42.543 --> 0:05:44.823 battles aside. I mean, I do think Miami's in an 0:05:44.863 --> 0:05:47.743 interesting spot here. What's the status of Hill? Does he 0:05:47.863 --> 0:05:50.863 play can waddle step up the way he did Sunday? Obviously, 0:05:51.303 --> 0:05:53.663 But that run game too, I mean, that's really gonna 0:05:53.703 --> 0:05:55.623 be the biggest thing. I think the bill showed a 0:05:55.663 --> 0:05:59.063 blueprint or reminded people of a blueprint that works against Dallas. 0:05:59.423 --> 0:06:01.623 Look in their four losses, they've been killed by the run. 0:06:01.743 --> 0:06:04.583 Nine rushing touchdowns, almost eight hundred yards on the ground. 0:06:05.023 --> 0:06:07.463 So that gives you a good indication of you want 0:06:07.463 --> 0:06:09.263 to slow down that pass rush. You run it right 0:06:09.303 --> 0:06:11.423 at them and Miami can do that. Now they've gotten 0:06:11.463 --> 0:06:15.103 the Devin Hn back and obviously most it's been a 0:06:15.183 --> 0:06:18.143 goal line guy this year in terrifica most of the season, so. 0:06:18.423 --> 0:06:19.783 They have the horses up front. 0:06:19.823 --> 0:06:24.063 I think if that offensive line can control Dallas's defensive line, we. 0:06:24.023 --> 0:06:26.943 Need an owner dance off. There is an NFL plus 0:06:27.023 --> 0:06:31.423 NFL channel content idea. Let's get to the Eagles. We're 0:06:31.463 --> 0:06:33.703 doing Game Day final on Monday night and listening to 0:06:33.823 --> 0:06:38.223 Nick Sirianni explain why he changed defensive coordinators a week 0:06:38.263 --> 0:06:41.463 before Christmas, why the offense isn't moving them all the 0:06:41.503 --> 0:06:45.103 way it should. This is a team in crisis. This 0:06:45.183 --> 0:06:47.263 is a ten and four team that, yeah, I went 0:06:47.303 --> 0:06:49.663 through a really tough point in their schedule. But Eric, 0:06:49.703 --> 0:06:51.703 this does not look like a super Bowl team. 0:06:52.943 --> 0:06:53.463 It doesn't. 0:06:53.743 --> 0:06:55.823 I'm of the belief that this loss in and of 0:06:55.863 --> 0:06:59.983 itself wasn't that catastrophic and events. But if you obviously yeah, 0:07:00.063 --> 0:07:01.703 I mean, if you just look at the last three 0:07:01.743 --> 0:07:03.823 weeks and what it's done, I mean, they still hold 0:07:03.863 --> 0:07:05.623 their own fate, can still win. 0:07:05.543 --> 0:07:07.343 Out and be in terrific shape. 0:07:07.503 --> 0:07:10.263 So you know, they have some tiebreakers against Dallas and 0:07:10.303 --> 0:07:13.063 all that, But as you pointed out, like you're playing 0:07:13.063 --> 0:07:15.703 with a sick Jalen Hurts. That defense steps up for 0:07:15.743 --> 0:07:16.783 the first fifty eight minutes. 0:07:16.823 --> 0:07:18.543 Matt Patricia was calling a pretty good game. 0:07:19.023 --> 0:07:21.263 But they go to single high, they rotate to it 0:07:21.303 --> 0:07:23.343 to a one high look in in that third and 0:07:23.383 --> 0:07:27.783 ten situation after DK Metcalf had his big catch and 0:07:27.863 --> 0:07:29.063 Drew Locke took advantage of it. 0:07:29.103 --> 0:07:31.103 I get the idea of a backup quarterback. 0:07:31.263 --> 0:07:34.383 Maybe you're feeling good, but at that point, Darius Slay's 0:07:34.423 --> 0:07:37.023 already out. The secondary has been beat up. You know, 0:07:37.103 --> 0:07:39.903 that was a tough spot right there. So have their 0:07:39.943 --> 0:07:41.383 defensive issues been fixed? 0:07:41.463 --> 0:07:42.223 I don't think so. 0:07:42.983 --> 0:07:46.423 And good teams will exploit that secondary. That's a backup quarterback, remember, 0:07:46.463 --> 0:07:49.303 So obviously that's that's part of the problem right now. 0:07:49.343 --> 0:07:51.583 And is it enough to derail them? 0:07:51.663 --> 0:07:53.303 I don't know. I think they can still hang on 0:07:53.343 --> 0:07:56.103 and win this division, but long term, you're right, that's 0:07:56.223 --> 0:07:57.023 that's the big question. 0:07:57.183 --> 0:07:59.303 If Eagles went out, they should and this is a 0:07:59.343 --> 0:08:02.823 strength of victory tiebreaker that's impossible to truly project, but 0:08:02.983 --> 0:08:07.743 they should win. In Yeah, the NFC East three games 0:08:07.863 --> 0:08:10.703 to go. We have the Chiefs at six and the 0:08:10.863 --> 0:08:15.263 Lions at seven here Eric at home the Lions, who 0:08:15.343 --> 0:08:18.823 jumped out to a twenty one to nothing lead. Then 0:08:18.903 --> 0:08:21.663 they took care of business in the night cap of 0:08:21.703 --> 0:08:23.183 the tripleheader Saturday evening. 0:08:24.183 --> 0:08:25.503 Yeah, a little slow start there. 0:08:25.583 --> 0:08:27.143 I had obviously a little bit of tension in the 0:08:27.143 --> 0:08:30.103 building given their struggles recently. You know that the two 0:08:30.183 --> 0:08:32.183 tough games against the Bears. One they pull out one, 0:08:32.263 --> 0:08:34.823 they didn't think. Everybody was a little nervous, but they 0:08:34.823 --> 0:08:37.463 explode in the second quarter and then these strange third 0:08:37.503 --> 0:08:39.463 quarter lulls that they have. I can't figure it out. 0:08:39.503 --> 0:08:43.023 You'd think, you know, a caffeine fueled halftime speech by 0:08:43.103 --> 0:08:45.983 Dad Campbell might get the guys breaking doors down, but 0:08:46.023 --> 0:08:47.383 that it didn't occur. 0:08:47.543 --> 0:08:48.303 I don't know what it is. 0:08:48.343 --> 0:08:51.223 All season, they're minus forty two in point differential, They're 0:08:51.623 --> 0:08:54.143 you know, plus ninety something in the other three quarters. 0:08:54.183 --> 0:08:56.343 But if they could figure that out, that's a big 0:08:56.383 --> 0:09:00.103 deal right there. Defensively made some strides I thought against 0:08:59.743 --> 0:09:01.583 the Denver but yeah. 0:09:01.383 --> 0:09:02.983 That was a get right game for them, and they 0:09:02.983 --> 0:09:05.463 had to have it. I felt like, why did I 0:09:05.503 --> 0:09:06.263 not move them up? 0:09:06.463 --> 0:09:08.143 You know, it's this sort of same thing with the 0:09:08.183 --> 0:09:10.863 Chiefs that I could have flipped them, but didn't. Ultimately 0:09:10.863 --> 0:09:11.943 feel like they've done enough. 0:09:12.663 --> 0:09:15.743 Lions get the Vikings twice in the final three weeks. 0:09:15.783 --> 0:09:17.943 There is a very real scenario where they then have 0:09:17.983 --> 0:09:20.223 to play the Vikings in the wildcard round and would 0:09:20.263 --> 0:09:23.063 place them or play them three times in twenty one days, 0:09:23.623 --> 0:09:27.423 which is just bonkers. So the Lions don't move, the 0:09:27.463 --> 0:09:30.663 Bills move up too. Let's get to them because they 0:09:30.703 --> 0:09:33.903 are your team of the Week, presented by Truest. The 0:09:34.023 --> 0:09:38.503 reason Eric has an unlisted phone number and address is 0:09:38.543 --> 0:09:43.103 that Bills fans are that fired up. Well, ten days 0:09:43.103 --> 0:09:45.383 ago people thought Sean vic Dedermott was going to get 0:09:45.423 --> 0:09:47.063 fired and this team is going to get blown up 0:09:47.063 --> 0:09:49.743 in the offseason. Now, Bills fans are angry at home 0:09:49.983 --> 0:09:52.103 that you only have them at number eight. 0:09:53.663 --> 0:09:55.823 Andrew don't be coming in here with your perspective and 0:09:55.863 --> 0:09:58.703 all that stuff, right, your reasons and take I don't 0:09:58.743 --> 0:10:01.143 have any time for that, right I'm busy fending off 0:10:01.183 --> 0:10:03.183 these Bills fans who want me to put them right 0:10:03.183 --> 0:10:07.463 there between the I don't know, the Dolphins and the Cowboys. Maybe, look, 0:10:07.703 --> 0:10:09.823 the last three games have been important, even with the 0:10:09.863 --> 0:10:11.983 loss against the Eagles, they showed they can go toe 0:10:12.023 --> 0:10:14.383 to toe with some of the best teams. And Sunday 0:10:14.423 --> 0:10:16.463 that run game, I mean, Josh Allen was back in. 0:10:16.383 --> 0:10:18.263 A rocking chair. Seven completions. 0:10:18.583 --> 0:10:20.743 You tell me pregame that Josh Allen's gonna have fewer 0:10:20.783 --> 0:10:23.383 than ten completions and they're gonna win going away. I 0:10:23.423 --> 0:10:27.103 wouldn't wonder, Okay, how many defensive touchdowns did they score? No, 0:10:27.263 --> 0:10:28.863 it was just a ground game, So it was a 0:10:28.943 --> 0:10:32.423 terrific attack there. I moved them up two spots. Felt 0:10:32.423 --> 0:10:34.703 like that was a good balance between where they are 0:10:34.743 --> 0:10:37.063 as a team and what they've done in the past 0:10:37.143 --> 0:10:40.903 six losses. But Bill's fans care to disagree, and maybe 0:10:40.903 --> 0:10:43.383 they're right Andrew. They're just not even in the playoffs yet. 0:10:43.423 --> 0:10:45.743 But if they get in, as I wrote this week, 0:10:45.783 --> 0:10:48.303 maybe they're a team that can just you know, go 0:10:48.623 --> 0:10:51.503 twenty twenty Tom Brady and come from a five seed, 0:10:51.583 --> 0:10:54.743 let's say, or somewhere below the top four, and race 0:10:54.783 --> 0:10:55.383 to a super Bowl. 0:10:55.383 --> 0:10:56.023 They're that good. 0:10:56.663 --> 0:10:59.263 Nobody wants to play the Buffalo Bills period, right well 0:10:59.303 --> 0:11:03.903 stop nobody, yep at all? And what a difference three 0:11:03.943 --> 0:11:06.183 weeks make? Are eight and six, but at the playoffs 0:11:06.303 --> 0:11:09.103 or to start today, they don't. They don't. The Bills 0:11:09.143 --> 0:11:12.983 would not be in right, and they are the nine seed, right, 0:11:13.223 --> 0:11:15.823 I'm looking at my standing. They are the nine seed 0:11:16.143 --> 0:11:19.183 in the AFC, behind the Houston Texans at eight. But 0:11:19.263 --> 0:11:22.943 nobody wants to play the Bills, including probably the Chargers 0:11:22.943 --> 0:11:26.703 with their interim head coach. That game Saturday evening a peacocky. 0:11:27.943 --> 0:11:30.223 This is the NFL Power Ranking Show pres out of 0:11:30.263 --> 0:11:33.983 my Energizer. Coming up next, Where are the Browns after 0:11:34.023 --> 0:11:38.663 another part stopping finish over the team in Ed Holmes backyard. 0:11:38.663 --> 0:11:48.663 That's coming up next. Hey, we got a big game 0:11:49.383 --> 0:11:53.023 coming up on NFL Network on Christmas Eve on Sunday Night, 0:11:53.103 --> 0:11:57.503 The Holiday Classic, a Sunday Night special in primetime. The 0:11:57.543 --> 0:12:02.183 Patriots and the Broncos lighten up the night atm Eastern time, 0:12:02.303 --> 0:12:06.303 NFL Network and NFL plus the String. This game with 0:12:06.583 --> 0:12:10.543 playoff implications certainly, and they must win. Here for the 0:12:10.543 --> 0:12:14.063 Broncos after they fall to seven and seven with the 0:12:14.103 --> 0:12:16.623 week fifteen loss in Detroit, the Power Ranking Show persad 0:12:16.663 --> 0:12:20.023 by Energizer continues with the Browns beating the Bears but 0:12:20.103 --> 0:12:22.983 somehow falling one at home you got splained in to do. 0:12:23.343 --> 0:12:28.183 The Jaguars look awful but fall only one. The Texans 0:12:28.183 --> 0:12:30.103 are up one or the big case cane of victory. 0:12:30.263 --> 0:12:32.863 The Bengals are twelve, followed by the Colts, the Broncos, 0:12:32.943 --> 0:12:36.423 the Bucketeers, and the Rams of Los Angeles. But we 0:12:36.543 --> 0:12:41.103 begin with the Browns sitting here at number nine. You 0:12:41.223 --> 0:12:46.183 aren't impressed by Joe Flacco. You aren't impressed by this team, 0:12:46.503 --> 0:12:50.463 with the entire roster other than Miles Garrett on injured reserve, 0:12:50.543 --> 0:12:53.023 finding a way to win. You drop them in the 0:12:53.023 --> 0:12:56.663 Power rankings. Dude, That's why. 0:12:56.503 --> 0:12:57.103 I did it right. 0:12:57.143 --> 0:12:59.743 Everybody's banged up and they barely the Bears, Bears have 0:12:59.783 --> 0:13:02.623 actually been They win and they find ways to do it, 0:13:02.623 --> 0:13:05.503 and it's incredible. I keep saying to myself, Am I 0:13:05.583 --> 0:13:07.903 sure they're a top ten team? I've had to ask 0:13:07.983 --> 0:13:11.143 myself about the Browns seemingly every week, and given the 0:13:11.143 --> 0:13:13.743 way their defense plays, given the way they find ways 0:13:13.823 --> 0:13:17.503 to gain yards and in this case, come back from 0:13:17.623 --> 0:13:20.463 a seventeen to seven deficit against a team that's played 0:13:20.463 --> 0:13:22.983 good football lately, you got to give them some credit. 0:13:23.023 --> 0:13:25.743 But I ask myself, are they better than the Bills. 0:13:25.743 --> 0:13:28.183 Are they more dangerous than the Bills? My number eighteen? 0:13:28.623 --> 0:13:30.503 In this case, the answer would be no. Could I 0:13:30.543 --> 0:13:33.183 see them beating the Lions at number seven? 0:13:33.863 --> 0:13:34.423 Possibly? 0:13:34.543 --> 0:13:37.623 But again it's sort of a where do they fit 0:13:37.663 --> 0:13:39.263 in the whole picture kind of thing that. 0:13:39.343 --> 0:13:40.903 I feel great about dropping them now. 0:13:40.943 --> 0:13:43.943 I mean, Flacco obviously had his struggles, but when you 0:13:43.983 --> 0:13:46.303 have a team that has that synergy and can pick 0:13:46.383 --> 0:13:48.903 them up, all right, it's the defense's turned to make 0:13:48.943 --> 0:13:51.423 a stop, and they just do that every single week. 0:13:51.463 --> 0:13:53.623 Can they stack up in this big game this weekend? 0:13:53.703 --> 0:13:55.743 And you know, we don't know what the Texans are 0:13:55.743 --> 0:13:58.543 going to look like this weekend, So another mystery ball game. 0:13:58.623 --> 0:14:00.903 I think they could decide the fate of the playoffs. 0:14:01.023 --> 0:14:05.063 Listen, I'm giving you unnecessary reef here clearly. Also, they 0:14:05.063 --> 0:14:07.503 have players other than Miles Garrett who are still healthy. 0:14:07.863 --> 0:14:11.823 Huge hundred yard day from both Amari Cooper and David 0:14:11.863 --> 0:14:15.183 Djoku both had touchdowns, both helped them get a win 0:14:15.263 --> 0:14:18.943 win number nine. As they head to Houston to play 0:14:18.943 --> 0:14:21.383 the Texans, who you have eleven, We're gonna get to 0:14:21.423 --> 0:14:23.103 them a little bit later. Let's focus on the team 0:14:23.143 --> 0:14:25.623 between the Browns and the Texans, and that would be 0:14:25.703 --> 0:14:29.343 the Jaguars. Eric, you drop them only one and now 0:14:29.423 --> 0:14:33.503 Trevor Lawrence's concussion protocols, the AFC South kind of slips 0:14:33.503 --> 0:14:36.223 away and they go to Tampa. This felt like a 0:14:36.263 --> 0:14:38.503 performance Sunday that deserves a bigger drop. 0:14:39.703 --> 0:14:42.343 Yeah. Had I think we known a little bit more 0:14:42.383 --> 0:14:44.703 about the status to C. J. Stroud when I wrote 0:14:44.703 --> 0:14:46.903 these and when I did this, I probably would have 0:14:46.943 --> 0:14:49.783 dropped them another spot. Texans barely win, and over time 0:14:49.863 --> 0:14:51.023 it was one of those things. 0:14:50.823 --> 0:14:52.983 Where you said, but do I trust right now? 0:14:53.143 --> 0:14:53.863 More you know? 0:14:53.903 --> 0:14:56.383 And I would say I would still believe it or 0:14:56.423 --> 0:14:59.543 not trust the Trevor Lawrence led Jags that I do 0:14:59.863 --> 0:15:02.903 with the question mark led Texans, we maybe Stradd'll come 0:15:02.903 --> 0:15:06.943 back and be terrific, but right now the Jaguars still 0:15:06.943 --> 0:15:08.503 have a lot of soul searching to do, and then 0:15:08.543 --> 0:15:10.783 Lawrence is probably at the center of that. I mean, 0:15:11.143 --> 0:15:14.983 the two fumbles were critical. The lack of execution on 0:15:15.023 --> 0:15:17.383 that end of the first half possession was awful. They 0:15:17.463 --> 0:15:20.583 left thirteen plus points on the field with the two 0:15:20.663 --> 0:15:24.263 missfield goals, and you can't do that against mediocre teams, 0:15:24.303 --> 0:15:27.303 much less to Baltimore Ravens. So yeah, it's an identity 0:15:27.303 --> 0:15:30.063 crisis for this Jaguars team. We've known about the defense 0:15:30.103 --> 0:15:32.863 for a while, but when the offense starts making those 0:15:32.943 --> 0:15:36.343 kind of game changing airs, I think all bets are off. 0:15:36.583 --> 0:15:38.743 Texans are right there, Colts are right there. They may 0:15:38.783 --> 0:15:41.143 not even make the playoffs. This thing has gone completely 0:15:41.183 --> 0:15:44.183 off the rails, but they still have the possibility to 0:15:44.183 --> 0:15:44.943 pull this thing back in. 0:15:45.103 --> 0:15:46.863 But they got to do it quickly. I mean, thinking 0:15:46.863 --> 0:15:48.503 about how bonkers that is. I'll say it right now 0:15:48.583 --> 0:15:49.943 when we do the show next week. I think the 0:15:49.943 --> 0:15:52.943 Colts are leading the AFC South. I think the Jaguars 0:15:52.943 --> 0:15:54.303 go to Tampa and I think they lose. And I 0:15:54.303 --> 0:15:56.423 think the Colts beat the Falcons the AFC South and 0:15:56.503 --> 0:15:59.383 the NFC South and this weird head to head in 0:15:59.463 --> 0:16:01.823 December as well, which is kind of contrary to how 0:16:01.863 --> 0:16:05.863 we do the schedule with all the divisional games. That's 0:16:05.943 --> 0:16:08.103 just my two cents again, the Texans that allowed him 0:16:08.103 --> 0:16:11.423 in the Bengals at twelve. Let's do future champions now 0:16:11.463 --> 0:16:14.983 for Zeniby FanDuel I will take the l here on 0:16:15.023 --> 0:16:17.543 this one. I said the Bengals season was over when 0:16:17.623 --> 0:16:20.143 Joe Burrow got hurt and Jake Browning came in. Now, 0:16:20.143 --> 0:16:23.823 will the Bengals make the playoffs? FanDuel says plus two hundred. 0:16:24.343 --> 0:16:28.623 Right now they are the sixth seed in the AFC, 0:16:28.663 --> 0:16:31.103 and Eric, you have that up one to twelve. 0:16:32.343 --> 0:16:36.583 Yeah, and all thanks to t Higgins with his performance 0:16:36.583 --> 0:16:38.743 there late. I mean, they fall in a hole and 0:16:38.783 --> 0:16:40.583 they found a way to come back with one of 0:16:40.623 --> 0:16:41.663 the Catches of the Year candidates. 0:16:41.703 --> 0:16:44.063 Anyone hasn't seen it yet, go check it out immediately. 0:16:44.383 --> 0:16:48.103 But yeah, I mean, depending on what Jamar Chase's status 0:16:48.143 --> 0:16:50.823 is right now, we hear he could be out multiple weeks, 0:16:50.903 --> 0:16:53.663 he could be ready for Sunday. You know, the answer 0:16:53.663 --> 0:16:56.543 probably lies somewhere between. Maybe he misses the game, maybe 0:16:56.543 --> 0:16:59.543 he plays and he's not his full strength. But this team, 0:16:59.703 --> 0:17:03.263 Jake Browning has been able to find ways to replicate 0:17:03.263 --> 0:17:04.983 about eighty five percent and then. 0:17:04.823 --> 0:17:07.783 Of what Joe Burrow did. That's an achievement right there. 0:17:07.863 --> 0:17:10.863 So you know, you think about that and the gutsiness 0:17:10.863 --> 0:17:13.543 that they've been able to show coming back multiple times 0:17:13.543 --> 0:17:15.663 throughout the season handling this adversity. 0:17:15.943 --> 0:17:16.983 I give a lot of credit. 0:17:16.983 --> 0:17:20.303 They also lose a big one in the DJ Reader 0:17:20.463 --> 0:17:21.703 going down this weekend too. 0:17:21.823 --> 0:17:23.343 I mean that's you know, is that. 0:17:23.343 --> 0:17:25.903 Another kind of player that they can afford to lose? 0:17:26.103 --> 0:17:26.543 I don't know. 0:17:26.623 --> 0:17:27.463 So they're teetering. 0:17:27.583 --> 0:17:30.023 I mean, they're right there on the cuss but I 0:17:30.103 --> 0:17:31.023 have my concerns. 0:17:31.943 --> 0:17:35.143 I would too, but they keep finding way. Zach Taylor 0:17:35.623 --> 0:17:38.743 only said after Ian's report that Jamar Chase would be 0:17:38.783 --> 0:17:42.063 out potentially multiple weeks, that he is day to day. 0:17:42.143 --> 0:17:46.543 But that is standard Zach Taylor podium speak. The guy 0:17:46.543 --> 0:17:48.503 could be in the hospital and he would still say 0:17:48.943 --> 0:17:52.183 day to day. The Bengals get the Steelers coming up 0:17:52.543 --> 0:17:56.383 on Saturday, Colts thirteen, Broncos fourteen, and then the Bucketeers, 0:17:56.423 --> 0:17:58.863 who I mentioned, get the Jaguars. That game is in 0:17:58.943 --> 0:18:02.623 Tampa coming up this week. The Buccaneers are up three 0:18:03.423 --> 0:18:07.623 after Baker Mayfil played. It comes to passer rating a 0:18:07.863 --> 0:18:13.423 perfect game against Joe Berries deepense at Lambeau insane right. 0:18:13.743 --> 0:18:15.983 Two previous trips there, he hadn't had a very good time, 0:18:16.023 --> 0:18:18.943 a lot of turnovers to losses two different teams for 0:18:18.983 --> 0:18:21.783 that matter, Rams and Browns. But he comes back and 0:18:21.903 --> 0:18:24.303 I think played his best game as a Buccaneer. I mean, 0:18:24.383 --> 0:18:27.023 he's he's laid it all out of the line this season, right, 0:18:27.063 --> 0:18:29.103 I mean, he's played with heart, you know, he's He's 0:18:29.143 --> 0:18:32.103 had some good moments for sure, kept the steam afloat 0:18:32.183 --> 0:18:36.063 during during that losing spell, but throwing the ball effectively 0:18:36.063 --> 0:18:39.663 as he did with two games prior going under fifty 0:18:39.663 --> 0:18:42.863 percent completions, turned that around twenty two of twenty eight 0:18:42.903 --> 0:18:45.903 with a few drops too, So he was tremendous. You know, 0:18:46.023 --> 0:18:48.423 the late game execution the last couple of weeks has 0:18:48.463 --> 0:18:51.343 been great. They're sneaky. They won a few games in 0:18:51.423 --> 0:18:53.023 a row. Now might be the team to beat in 0:18:53.343 --> 0:18:57.063 the NFC South. Look, you know this team has fascinating 0:18:57.103 --> 0:18:59.143 me for a while, but they just didn't have the wins. 0:18:59.183 --> 0:19:01.783 They didn't have the resume to get to this point. 0:19:01.863 --> 0:19:04.943 But Hall of Fame wide receiver in Mike Evans Scott 0:19:04.983 --> 0:19:07.023 Wentz stepped up with a huge game where set White. 0:19:07.063 --> 0:19:10.183