#13: Eagles regain #1, Jets jump 4, Commanders and Jaguars impress, Ravens out of Top 10, Bucs busted, and Schedule gifts

so whatever. All right, but we're not talking the MLB Power Rankings. Does that exist? Probably, But the NFL Power Rankings do exist. In fact, there's only one official one. It's mine on NFL dot Com and hours on this podcast. That's right. We share this one, right, so I'm going

to have some ownership of this. So I don't know if there's like a pre nup involved that we need when, um, you know, if they end up going south if I get if you divorce me in a business sense and then take my power rankings, that sounds I get the dogs, you get the power ranking deals off deals. All right, let's get into it. By the way, weird times here, Um, in our league the East Coast. We both hail from the East Coast. I'm from New York here from Pennsylvania,

Philly girl. Um, the a f C East and the NFC East. All eight teams are in the top half of the power rankings right now. So eight out of sixty nailed it. Of the power rankings, the top half are the East teams. Is that East Coast bias by ol ZUSA? Are you in on this? Well, that's what I mean. I guess it's hard for me to talk about East Coast bias because I opened the show talking about the Phillies in But what a time to be alive if you're from the East, if you root for

a team from the East. Nobody really thought that that was going to happen in training camp anything like that. So it's kind of cool to see. Yeah, so that is interesting. We'll see if that holds. Is the season kind of comes towards its final point of the regular season. Of course we do this all the way through the playoffs. No one really knows, but you do, so make sure to watch us every week through the Super Bowl. Let's check out teams one through eight. And speaking of Philadelphia

and those Eagles. Somebody actually tweeted at me this morning, well, this guy's list. He can't be taken seriously because he's an Eagles fan. That eaggles green. But they do swap spots with the Chiefs. Eagles at number one after one spot one week out of the top spot, the Chiefs dropped it to the Niners. Look out for the Niners up two to number three, the Cowboys at number four, Bills number five, Dolphins up one to six, Vikings coming off the Thanksgiving win up to to seven, and yes,

the Bengals of two to eight. Where do we want to start here? I don't know. Maybe we should just start at the top, all right, I shall we start with the Let's start now. People don't make too much of it, society that the Chiefs dropped in the Eagles rose. It's not because I put so much into the Chiefs not performing so well in a win against a decimated

Rams team. But I did put when they're this close, the Eagles dominating the way they did in primetime, which is always just a little bit of a bump in the power rankings, those Island game performances. That was enough to get him to the top spot. But it's very close right now. Yeah, and I think you could argue that both teams one and two are the best in their conference, but the Eagles. Right now, Jalen Hurts is

the most popular guy in Philadelphia. When I went home for Thanksgiving, everyone everyone wanted to talk about Jalen Hurts. Didn't matter who it was. Family members, friends from high school that I didn't even know knew about football. They want to know about Jalen Hurts. And he did it. He's picking up a lot of the slack without Dallas Goddard in the lineup, and he's doing it with his legs.

I mean, he was absolutely magical. He had a killer first half and he just keeps building a stronger case for m v P, which I thought was interesting watching this game, seeing Aaron Rodgers, last year's MVP, in the spot that he's in right now, and we know he's playing with the broken thumb as well, and then he got hurt his oblique. But it's just it's bleak. Watching

the Packers bleak is bleak, you know. The way they are right now did feel like a bit of a changing of the guard in the NFC because when Rogers, after he leaves the game and he gets the X rays. They show him with the pads off, with the jersey off, and he looked very much like a man nearing forty years old. And then you see Jalen Hurts looking like Michael vick On. I would say reincarnated, but Michael, there is still a lot as a football player, perhaps reincarnated.

A hundred and fifty seven yards rushing for Hurts, which is a Eagles record, and they came Jeez, Connie, three and sixty three yards on the ground by the Eagles, just thirteen yards shy of the franchise records set in nineteen. It's been a minute. So that is what happened with Eagles. Do you know? You know, do you have? How much time do you have? They lost in the wild card round to the Jaguars. Actually, I do hate by the way, c J. Gardner Johnson, and he's gonna miss some time

now too with the lacerated kidney. Um. It was encouraging to see the rookie read blanket ship get a pick on his first career target. But c. J. Gardner Johnson leads the league. He was leading the league in interceptions. He's a huge part of the defense. In that secondary, so that could hurt them. Yeah, he was such a huge pickup right before the season starts. They really swindled him away from the Saints. And if I guess, if you want to pick one thing the Eagles defense is,

it's something that can be exposed. I know they did give up thirty three points to Green Bay, but some of that came in kind of garbage time with Jordan's love feeling good about them at number one, But when Jordan Davis is back, by the way, just one last thing that Eagles run defense too will significantly improve. I agree, who else did you like? Like? Kind of who when we take a look at the first tier? Who else did you kind of like what you saw from? Well? Im?

You know who I liked? I liked the Jets did Jets? We haven't seen that. I'm not just like pandering to you about this because I really love Mike White. I'm one of those like basic girls that just absolutely he came in and provided such a spark, like there was actual juice on this offense. And I think it all goes back to was it last year that Mike White

had his whole thing? And then we were and I did the Thursday night football game, and I spent an entire pregame show talking about Mike White and how amazing and blah blah blah. Did they send something to the Hall of Fame that way they did his jersey because he kind of set the yardage record I believe in a first start. And yeah, he went and immediately got knocked out of that Thursday night game with an injury, and then through four picks the following weekends the Bills,

and then he disappeared. So pardon me as a jetsman. And by the way, they're up to number ten, up four spots after dropping four spots the previous week after that grizzly loss to the Patriots. You have to pardon me if I am still my guards up here, because the Bears are just there's no eat on that bone when you take out justin fields and their defense is wretched.

But at the same time, White looked incredible, and the offense was running like it's intended to run with the right playmakers like Garrett Wilson and remember Elijah Moore getting right. They all wanted to trade because none of them wanted to play with Zach Wilson, and I think It's a credit to Robert Salt for listening to his team, saving the locker room and maybe saving this season. Now you

got the vikings coming up, you do. But I like the fact that Mike White spread the ball around and everybody was eating, like ten different players caught a pass. It was just he had a great haircut to go with it too, like he was looking yeah great, fade good, good good. And what about Zack Wilson cut to him on the sideline? Oh no, it was too sad. I

wish I knew the Star Wars reference. But someone posted a side by side of who's the guy he turned into Darth Vader and those dopey sequels from the nineties and early two thousand. Anybody, I haven't even seen The Godfather all the way through? What do I look like? Marks? Is it? Frodo? Who was it? Who was it? This is this is where I need a producer to help us out back there? Nobody knows nothing. Everyone just been his hands up, baby Yoda? How old is everyone back there?

All right, let's so the Jets. Let's see I'm guarded here, because this would be a very Jets move, like the Thursday night preview. You did last year and then nothing good happens? Can they stack some? It's been a roller coach. Why don't you just have fun though? Why can't you just because isn't this offense more fun? It's like being an Eagles fan before the Nick Foles here. Do you remember how you you were always expecting something terrible to happen? Yeah?

I still do. Jets fans are Eagles fans without the Nick Foles here. So we're not that. We've been hurt so many times we don't expect the good times to ever last. All right? About the jag Wars, Sorry, they're another team you've got your eye on. Speaking of Nick Foles, the Doug Peterson connection, which, oh my god, going for two Jets, but I know where you're going. Listen. That was the head coach, Doug Peterson. I don't know if you know about what happened that year, Dan, that Star

Wars guy. While okay, so absolutely loved what I saw from the Jaguars and Trevor Lawrence. I mean, he had such a strong performance in this game, with the game winning drive plus the two point conversion that I couldn't believe they went for and got with fourteen seconds left. That was a defining moment for Trevor Lawrence. That was the moment that we've been waiting to see from him, and he got it done at that passed to say Jones on fourth and eight. Three straight games now he's

completed over seven passes. I know, what the hell, But it was just one of those games where I was watching and I thought that they were not going to get the two points. You know, it is wild, and I have to say, as a head coach, I'd probably be kicking the extra point. But we had two teams, the Chargers and the Jacks go for it on too this week, and they both hit them to win their games in dramatic fashion. So you know, props to that. Yeah.

I think what we've been seeing with Lawrence is a slow building title way right, because his rookie season was a disaster because of you know who Urban Meyer. The second year, it was very hit or miss, some scatter shot games in the mix of bad games in the mix. And just when you started, you know, those conversations were percolating again in November, what happened to this guy being

you know, a generational town. He's now stacked three games in a row, but this one, especially this one felt like the game, and I think give it to Jaguars fans. That building t i a a stadium. Maybe we could workshop that. I still call it the Big Chlorine Tank because of that pool. That place is going nuts. You can you could tell that that's a good fan base, that that sensed the moment happening. And the Jaguars are gonna be trouble. Maybe not this year, but they're gonna

give teams trouble the rest of the season. Yeah, you can see that consistency starting to develop with Trevor Lawrence. And their mascot is really spicy too, you know, not since the Philly Fanatic has a mascot so currently captured the city in which it lives. I mean, the what is it an American flag thong? Is that what we're dealing with, Mammock? Is that? What we're dealing with here is that even allowed I don't will listen, the Fanatic gets naked all the time and nobody blinks an eye.

Do you think of Rock? But he's not. He's like a living He's a cartoon character. Like the Here's the thing that's the thing about Jacksonville. He's a human body. He's in spandex, Right, Philip Finatic doesn't have to wear pants because he's like a muppet. He's like a mutated muppet. Is listen, Jack's got parts. This is confirmed. We know that this is a This is so I'm just one, can he be celebrated? Why does he have to be ashamed? I'm just wondering body positivity? Okay with it? I'm okay,

I'm just waring, Like is rog okay with this? Is rock watching on the tube and like, all right, where is he up? Like, hey, put some pants on the mascot. We'll see. We're gonna find out next week. Will all right, where are we going next? What do we want to talk? Maybe? Okay, so this is going to be now two weeks in a row, so we're skipping around a little bit. But Washington, I thought, once again, Yeah, Now they've won six of their last seven. They're above five D for the first

time since which was two years before the pandemic. So I like to say two bp um at this point because I can only really judge years by the pandemic. So the fact that I just love Brian Robinson, that's what this is all about for me, Like I know that I'm trying to compartmentalize Washington is the organization versus the Commanders as a team. We can we can them. Yeah,

and that's and that's what I'm doing. And I'm also trying to pretend that they're not in the division with the Eagles and that they did not beat the Eagles and give them their only loss of the year. However, I just love Brian Robinson so much. Had his first one hundred yard Russian game of the year, he got the game ball, he was wearing that gigantic hat, like everything about it, and him a lot of money. I think, yeah,

it's listen. He he had such a good game, and his return and the Commander's success are not independent of each other. They're directly And for people who don't know, here's the timeline. Brian Robinson Jr. Gets drafted in April in the third round by Washington, has a great offseason,

training season, has a really strong preseason. Then he gets shot twice in the leg during an attempt at robbery in August, makes it back to the field in October, and then it wasn't until Sunday where this you could tell this is the guy Washington thought they were getting. And he's a good matches physical style with Washington's defense. And yeah, on the power rankings, the number thirteen spot, as I always say, is like when I'm not sure what to do with the team, I stick him at thirteen.

But that's not really the case of the Commanders. I kind of know who they are. They're limited offensively to a certain degree. They're not gonna win any shootouts, but they're gonna drag you into the muck and they're gonna make games ugly, and they're showing an ability to win those games. And that's a team that I don't want to face, especially as the season that gets into the later stages, and that defense, the way that they can

wreck a game. Their half game behind the Giants. Right now, they play them twice in the next three weeks with a buy in between the Giants. They've lost two straight. They're going in the wrong direction. I just want to know if the Commanders are going to end up in the playoffs with Carson Wentz watching on the bench. They should, I mean they can't. I don't know, Carson Wentz, You're not You don't have that ring with the Eagles of that Wentz his first four team games. But I know

I speaking of Commanders. Yes, they're number thirteen. Let's check out the rest of Quad two as we call it. The Titans dropped three spots to number nine off that disappointing lost to Cincinnati, like the Bengals a lot, but I feel like they they're rounding in to form the Jets as we sent up four spots to ten. Ravens down three and we'll get to them in a second to eleven, Chargers up five to twelve, Commanders up three to thirteen. They've been on a steady rise over the

past month. Seahawks down to that defense is an issue again to fourteen, Pats down too, off the narrow loss and Thanksgiving the Vikings Hunter Henry caught it uh to fifteen, and the Giants are going the wrong direction right now, and they're down one to sixteen with two matchups in three weeks against the Commanders, and I feel like there's a bit of a maybe a body swap between those two teams now, and I kind of expect Washington to find a way to win one at least of those games.

The Ravens, Connie, let's talk about it. What's going on? Here's a stat Come into the therapist corner. What's up? You want a little data point? I would love it. Data or data data numbers? Please, you're a regular, Cynthia Freeland. For the first time this season all year in the Power rankings, the Ravens are outside the top ten. And you know why, Connie, because I've seen it now too many times. Fool me once, Shame on you, Fool me twice, shame on me three times. Boy, you must be an idiot.

Fool me a fourth time. Why are you on a camera talking into a microphone. But they have led every opponent by at least nine points this season in the second half, and they've lost four games now, including yes, that loss to the Jaguars on the apware mentioned two point conversion, and it just it was the way they

lost too. And listen, the whole team didn't exactly cover itself and glory in this game, the fumble by Gus Edwards, the defense completely laying down, and Lamar Jackson, even after he played well down the stretch, then gets after an idiot fan on Twitter and says stupid stuff, and it's just like that was a weird moment for him. It was also weird that it was up for three hours before taking down and John Harbaugh came out and said it was out of character and they addressed it. It's

just like what is going on, Baltimore. But anyway, the way the Jaguars offense just marched down the field, it just seems schematically that the Ravens were a mess and

personnel wise, they weren't getting it done. And it's this has happened enough now where I just you feel like this is how their season is going to end eventually as well, maybe in January and a playoff game where they get ahead and then they just can't close because they can't close, and it almost feels like it has a little bit of a Chargers vibe to it, where they just keep coming so close and then they just keep failing, which is exactly it's so out of character

for them. Also, they're having so many issues in the red zone to the last two games or three of nine in the red zone. Lamar Jackson just is in his effective at all. I mean de Sean Jackson. They got him in there and he was involved, so that was cool for a second, but even just routine throws that Lamar would have made earlier in the season, the one where he overthrew DeMarcus Robinson who was wide open early.

Like things like that just keep adding up and they're struggling. Yeah, but you know what, I understand that, But I put this one on the defense. Gotta close that game out. You gotta close that game out. And it's one thing I know we just talked about. Trevor Lawrence has arrived, so that I get. So you don't want to say, oh,

how do you let the Jaguars beat you? But it's the way that Jaguars went down the field, how pathetic the Baltimore defense was, the way they weren't even defending the sidelines for a team the Jacksonal team that didn't have time out, it was just like, what is going on with this team? Anyway? I don't know, Let's move on.

We'll see if they get back to the topton I. I kind of think they will because they are talented than when it ends, when the season is over, they'll probably get those eleven wins or so well, they have the Broncos next week. What do I trust them there? They should take care of business. How about a team that you want to take from this quadrant? I got one for you here. I was looking at the Patriots. Yeah, I was trying to see where you have them at fifteen.

This team it bums me out for some reason. They just feel worse than their actual record and their six and five, so they're they're pretty mediocre. But I don't really love anything that I see from them. I know Mac mac jones kind of woke up the offense, but like they just couldn't get it going, couldn't keep it going, couldn't sustain it, and that just felt like such a waste for the team to not take advantage of a really good effort from mac Jones, because he threw for

a career high in yards. But the same issues just continue to hurt New England. And that's where my frustration lies, because they had five penalties that just gifted the Vikings first downs. They converted on just three of ten third downs. The red zone and is where the offense just goes

to die. They were oh for three. I mean, although Hunter Henry caught it, but yes, and I know I know that was The Vikings red zone defense is awful, Like they're the worst in the league, so they should have at least been a little bit better aside from the Hunter Henry and if you are a truther of the Patriots have a bad coaching staff and Belichick blew it, which is there is a faction of people out there you can point to the Patriots doing Unpatriots things during

the season with self inflicted eras of stuff. That part of their greatness other than Tom Brady and Bill Belichick being in the building, was they would let other teams beat themselves. And they were just so clinical and how precise they were in terms of playing the game. So you have to go for three and the red zone. Those five penalties were first downs, to surrender, a kick off, a return for a touchdown when they seemed to take the momentum in the second half, all that stuff. They're

not good enough to make up for that. And yet you know, six and five seems right for them. Five and six, six and five the Jets games were weird because Zack Wilson basically gifted them to them gift of those two games they probably should have at least split with the Jets, which would make them five and six. They feel like an eight and nine, nine and eighteen, So maybe they are kind of I guess that's just

kind of like with them. And now they have stuff on Diggs next week where they couldn't stop Justin Jefferson at all. So I don't know how that's going to work out. That's coming up on Thursday, all right, And we know what the Bills have been doing to the Patriots the last few matchups. It's been grizzly. Let's finish this discussion of Quad two with old juice or taken an owl. I don't like to do it, but if you're gonna be powering this guy, you gotta admit when

you were dumb. And I was dumb about the Bucks because I've all season kind of believed that they were going to figure things out, and when they had the slightest bit of success like that win over Seattle and Munich, I took that to mean, oh, the offense is fine now. But then you look, it's like I scored what one points in that game, whatever it was, and then they have their by, they come out of the by, and it's more the same against the Brown seventeen points, six

three and outs. Just it's so hard for the team to manufacture offense, and at a certain point I need to stop looking at the names and focus on the game. So I I dropped them seven spots to eighteen, which is really probably the area they should have been for most of this year. But I was just giving them that benefit of the doubt. I'm not doing it anymore. I shouldn't have been doing it in the first place. But sometimes you get sucked in, and I did. I

also did after the game in Germany. It was I got swept up in the full emotion of it all, which was amazing by the way, but the way that they were able to run the ball finally, and that was the whole thing going into the game. They hadn't been able to do it for so long, and we just saw so many good moments from them, and maybe that was more of an indictment on the Seahawks defense, especially after what we saw them do their their next game,

which is the defense completely tank again exactly so. And you add the Tristan Worf's injury to it as well, and not just compounds things. Yeah, Wors went down with a high ankle sprain, a weird freak injury, and overtime he's going to be out multiple weeks. They don't really even have a timetable three to four. That's exactly what that is. That's a timetable. So Colleen, that's why we work well together. You know, we're just getting started here.

By the way, Anakin Skywalker is from Star Wars that Zack Wilson resembled on the sideline with this hoodie on getting rained on. Were traded by Hayden Christensen and that one person behind the glass can help us out with him. Is that related to our producer Drew. He doesn't speak. He seems like a Darth Vader in trading. Maybe that is what's going on here. We'll be right back back here.

On Power Rankings brought to you by Energizer. For quad three of the old Zeuser's rankings, we got teens through at seventeen. You have the Raiders up nine spots, okay, running away with Josh Jacobs at eighteen. The Bucks they're going the other way. They fall seven spots. The Browns come in at nineteen, up five. Then you have the Lions down to at twenty, the Packers down to one, Cardinals just you know, hanging around there at twenty two, not going to any of the most two team that's

ever been. They are you got the Jags at twenty three up six love that we talked about that and then twenty four up one spot after beating the Colts on Monday Night Football. Alright, So time four Power Moves presented by Energizer and Dan. You know, tis the season right now to rise or fall in the rankings. And December, you know, it's the tough months of December to remember, it is the sales event. What's coming to December? You know, Listen, You've got a lot of stuff in the schedule. You

got holiday parties. You got to come up with gift ideas. I mean, and that's tough. You're buying gift cards for everybody that you don't know. Maybe you're feeling ashamed about giving a gift card, but that's what people want. Yeah, you have alcoholic family members to try and deal with. It's a lot at the holidays, but sometimes the schedule breaks your way and everything comes up right. Um, And that's what's going on with the Raiders. It's going to

be a good discever for them. We're gonna go through some schedules here with teams who could potentially make a huge jump in the rankings. So I was looking at what the Raiders have going on. Okay, and two straight overtime wins, so that's some nice moment off a little extra adrenaline shot. So good. It's starting to feel Dare I say a little bit like last season when they went on a streak and then they made the playoffs. But maybe this is something that they could do this season.

I mean, can they keep it up? You little wet here? Next four games? They got the Chargers, they got the Rams, they got the Patriots, and then they got the Steelers. Now most of those games are you got two of their final six games are on the road, so they're playing four of those games at home. The only problem is they have the Diners and the Chiefs at the end of the year. But they could in theory have eight wins, could be eight and seven going into those

final two games. And if Josh Jacobs is still making everyone regret doubting him there in Vegas like this could be. This could be good for them. I like it their fun team right now. Okay, So now I'm gonna even though I wrote about the same things that you're talking about right now, I'm gonna now let's go the other way. Josh Jacobs We don't even know if he's playing this week. He's got a calf issue, he said. He said on Tuesday's gonna try to play weird, but he will probably play.

Hopefully he'll be himself. After the three yards from scrimmage, we're gonna talk about the decisions, Daniels. I'm gonna talk about that. What I'm gonna talk about is this is a team that has repeatedly they play heart attack football. They've lost so many close games before these two overtime wins that they are a very hard team to trust. To say, all of a sudden, they're going to become a consistently good team. And yes, you mentioned those last two games where it gets really tough. Who is it

against the Chiefs, the Chiefs of the Niners. Chiefs and Niners, two of the best teams in football. They have to win the next four weeks to even have a chance, and they've already won the So we're asking these Raiders to win six games in a row. That feels rich to me, But at the same time, it's worth having the conversation because there's usually one team that kind of comes out of nowhere in December and makes a push and they do have the talent. I know it's there.

I think the reason why I sort of like them is because they're such a chaotic team and that that just draws me in. Like I like the chaos, I like heart attack football, like that is. I don't have any other stakes with that team, so it really it doesn't doesn't hurt me if they end up losing, but it is exciting when they do win. They win the way that they have, you know they're gonna do by the way they're gonna win the next three games, it's

gonna be five game winning trick. Everyone's gonna be talking about him, and then Kenny Hick it's gonna beat him on a last second touchdown a week or sixteen or whatever. All right, what about what about the Panthers? You? Uh, I listened, Sam Donald? He might I wish I could quit you. He might end up taking this team to the playoffs because it's such a bad division. Let's take a look at the schedule right now. Okay, so Carolina,

are you actually are you? Do you believe what you're about to say, Connie or is this content for a program they I'm not just giving an honest answer. I'm just trying to stay ahead of this because if it happens, I will look so great, and if not, I'll just, you know whatever. Everyone's doubting me anyway, so it doesn't matter. So their schedule pretty favorable. Let's take a look at it here. Okay, so you've got the Seahawks, then you

got the Steelers, the Lions. Let me um and doable with Baker Mayfield, I guess, sitting on the bench like I. This is the same thing with the Commanders and Taylor Heinecky potentially taking them on a run with Carson Wentz sitting there and watching. Now, I'm rooting for Sam Donald and I need this to happen. Yeah, I I see that four game stretch, maybe one or two wins in there.

I'm not I'm not buying in. And you know, as a Jets fan who had a warmer viewpoint of Sam Donald than the rest of the world, I want to see him do well because it will get set him up for whatever comes next in his career. He'll make a little bit of money. Um. But at the same time, can I really get behind this team getting hot? Their defense is better than people realize, but they're going to

struggle to score points. And for instance, you know Gina Smith and the Seahawks, they're gonna put up a lot of points. The Lions, I imagine, are gonna put up a lot of points. And I feel like the Pittsburgh and Tampa defenses will be able to really neutralize Sam Donald and company. Like, I'm not buying on this. This division is so bad. Like you have the Bucks and the Falcons the lead the division with five wins each, Like that's it. They could win just because someone has

to from the division. All right, let's flip this down, all right, so as we look at quad four. By the way, let's look a quad for Falcons down five, Saints down five to six. I think that coach is gonna get canned, by the way, Cold State at Panthers up three to eight, Bears down six. Like I said, there's just nothing there with Justin Why would Justin Fields play again? Also if he is vulnerable with that shoulder down six, Rams down two to thirty? Could the Rams

do it? Can they win the Super Bowl and finish this season thirty two in the power rankings? They're knocking down the door, but probably not because the Broncos have Russell Wilson at thirty one, and the Texans are whoa whoof bad thirty two. Um, yeah, let's let's look at the teams that we feel good about now. But then when you look at the schedules you get a little noise. Let's start Connie with the defending conference champions. Okay, so the Bengals, I love them. It could be a little

bit of a stressful holiday season. Things might not go that great. They really needed this win because coming up they're about to enter the part of the schedule that I like to call and get some somber holiday music while you go through. Yeah, these teams, that'd be great. Okay, what do you got the love to hear that? So? Alright, a little bit of a nightmare before Christmas. Well, this works because this is the part of the schedule that I like to call a Colfin corner that they are

about to embark upon. And as you can see, they got the Chiefs. All right, let me go through this for you. Okay, I'll set you up on this one. The Chiefs obviously the number two team in the part rankings, the Browns at nine, team of the power ranks, but a pretty good team of the Browns and now they had that guy Deshaun Watson on the team playing quarterback Tom Brady and the Bucks number eighteen, and then the Patriots at fifteen. This, to you, profiles, is a very

difficult stretch. Well really, it's just the Chiefs coming up. But I think that the Browns, we don't know what they're going to be like with Deshaun Watson, and then I think that the Bucks could maybe play like a spoiler situation, depending on if they can get their stuff together first exactly. But there's seven and four right now. I like the fact that the Bengals have kind of found something in Soma J. P Ryan, but it's just not totally smooth sailing from Yeah, and they finished with

Buffalo and Baltimore. So it's a tough schedule, but I think this team is battle tested, Connie, and it's not an easy schedule. But as we saw, they just went to Nashville and beat up on the Titans, who a lot of people, who's the most physical team in football, exotic smash mouth and Society goes there without Jamar Chase and without Joe Mixon and and beat him up and win the game. So I'm okay, with this, I'm okay, how about let's look at another team, This team I

feel legitimately concerned about the New York Giants. Absolutely. Let's look at their up chemic schedule. And of course they were seven and two, which builds in a lot of wiggle room. But they've lost two straight games now and now here's the schedule. Ahead, go ahead, cutting, Okay, you got Washington number the number, you got Washington again, and then you got the Vikings seven. I think the Giants

the Giants. My viewpoint of the Giants is, I think all four of these games are gonna be very difficult to get one. There is a scenario where they go from seven and two to seven and eight. But I'm not gonna be that critical. I'm not gonna be that negative, so I will say they're gonna split with Washington. But I do see them coming out of this stretch eight and seven. The problem is the injuries have hit at just the wrong time too, because last week they were

missing like eleven starters that game against the Cowboys. They should get two of their starters on the offensive lineback, their right tackle, on their left guard, they should get a Zzo Glari back. Things seem to be trending upward for Fabian Brow, but you're you can't run the ball when you're missing three starters on the offensive line, and Daniel Jones can't get anything going with his legs either, so it could be rough. And Kwan has looked a

little a little off the last couple of weeks. You wonder if the work workload, which has been immense after two years of missing a lot of action, might be he might be hitting a little bit of a wall here. But we will will see, and and and I will say, because the Giants fans that are mad at me, and they've been annoyed all year that I've never given them the quote unquote respect they deserve and the power rankings. They have also won a lot of games in close

fashion when people were picking against them. Could they come out of this with two or three wins? Yeah, they can do that too, but I don't think that's how it plays out. Let me tee up on another team and this one, Connie, me and you lockstep on the Miami Dolphins. WHOA, you know what, Let's let's mix up the music too. I like the off brand Nightmare before Christmas, But what would you like something a little more sinister. Do we have a DJ back there? This does sound

like kind of an evil Santa. Okay, Evil Santa's in the house. Okay, all right, that works. So the Dolphins, they've won five straight. They lead the division now at this point, and I think that they're legitimately dangerous right now with wins over the Bills, the Ravens. I guess, you know, the Patriots. I don't really know how I feel about that anymore, kind of like you cut them down earlier. But look at this schedule. Yes, no, now

you say the number, Oh my god, three Bills, five Packers, one. Okay. So here is the thing though, because they are at the Niners, at the Chargers, at the Bills, they have three straight road games and you're talking about two of those on the West Coast, and then the Floridians have to go up to in December, and then finally they get back home and it's Christmas against the Packers. So I mean, come on, that that is rough. That schedule stinks for them. So yeah, and I have the Dolphins.

I get I show respect. You know you haven't got there yet. I show respect to the Dolphins by putting at number six, we need the mandolin. But let's not let's not forget who they beat during this five game losing streaks some of the worst teams in football, which is whatever you you, you play your schedule. They hung thirty points on every one of those teams. I got respect for you for that, okay, But in my soul down the Dolphins. No will I be absolutely in on

the Dolphins. If they beat the Niners all the way in, in fact they could, they could contend for the number one overall spot in the power rankings next week. That's how much I think of San Francisco. So you wouldn't dare you wouldn't do it. There's a little bit of a show me thing with the old Juser and the Dolphins. But they have a golden opportunity not just next week but in the next month. But yes, what a what

a perfect measuring stick game. If they beat the Niners, they go to one, Well, they beat the Niners, and you all set the factor in what the other teams do ahead of them. But if they moved to nine and three and they're writing a six game winning streak, and if it's the type of game like we've grown to see where they hang thirty eight on the Niners, who have not surrendered a point in the second half in a month, that are averaging ten points allowed on

defense during their own winning streak. Yeah, there's a real case to be made that they're the best team in football. But see, I can't even see that. I don't see that as something that's going to happen. I predict the Niners will throttle this Dolphins offense and bring them down to earth. But I'd be happy to be wrong because I like chaos. Chaos is I bet we'll get some You want to hear something crazy? I would love to the whole bit with the Star Wars thing and Zack

Wilson and Anakin Skywalker. And then I was like, oh, is our produced or Drew who's seven ft three always wearing a hat and a mask and that doesn't really speak to a lot of people. And I said, is he Darth? Is he Darth Vader? His last name is Christian Sin, That's what I said. Is he related to him? Because of Christians? Exact same spelling it to someone unusual spelling? Drue, Do you have anything you want to not gonna talk?

I gotta get him to talk. Just one word. By the end of this regular season, Drew will speak and people will love it. Give us a no even no one's all right. Thank you to everybody for checking out the Power Rankings, check out the podcast, check this show out digitally on NFL Plus and YouTube and wherever the places Roger should be, and we'll be right back here next week. He had NFL Power Rankings as a production

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