January 17, 2023 • 28 mins
The NFL Power Rankings Podcast with Colleen Wolfe and Dan Hanzus begins with the 49ers holding onto the top spot. Which teams took a bump down after their Super Wild Card weekend performances? Find out how the Giants victory and the Jaguars comeback affected their ranking positions. The Cowboys opened Dan's eyes, but he's keeping their first round opponent in mind. Colleen wants to point out a flaw in Dan's system this week. Onto the teams that didn't advance, we learn why the Chargers collapse actually surprised Dan and why the Vikings have such a long offseason ahead of them.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
NFL Power Rankings is a production of the NFL in
partnership with I Heart Radio. Hello and welcome to another
edition of NFL Power Rankings. Colin the podcast presented by Energizer.
I'm Dan Hansas that he came from Colleen Wolf. Hey, Connie, Hello, welcome,
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and Eleanor is here or there you go? Had yeah
longer with us. Thanks shout out to Eleanor and all
the grace she brought to us. Um all right, it
is the Visional Round weekend. I don't I'm sure she did.
It is Supercard Supercard weekend. Super wild Card weekend is
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in the rear view. And I must say, Colleen before
we take a look at the big board for the
first time here, and we have now knocked it down
from thirty two un to fourteen. Feel tighter, feel lighter.
I feel like we're getting closer to the finish line,
and I feel good about my rankings. Let's take a
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look at the UH top eight, because what you'll notice here,
Connie is that, yes, I got the Niners locked at
number one. Feeling great about that. Was a little bit
nervous at halftime against Seattle, but then much closer than
I thought it was going to straight points, said Dan,
you got it right, top Boat keeping them at number one.
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UM the Bills and Bengals. I just gave him a
little hey, wake up, guys bumped down one spot, especially
the Bills. I almost put Cincinnati head of Buffalo. Didn
Kansas City gets that, Hey, we on a bye week
and look at our our biggest rivals in the a
f C struggling against backup quarterbacks, bumps after the after
the bye. So then you got the Eagles staying at five,
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the Cowboys staying at six, Giants up four to seven,
and the Jaguars after that incredible rally, hold at eight.
And what I'm saying is you're not seeing a ton
of movement therather than the Giants. And that's because I'm
feel good about where I had the rankings going in,
and I didn't see much in the slate of games
that really made me change how I feel. Let's start
with the Let's start with the Cowboys, because that would
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be the one where people most people would be like, hey,
why aren't they getting a bigger bump into the top five?
And I just wasn't ready to do that. Connie. As
well as they played against Tampa, they did play arguably
the worst team in the playoffs, certainly the only team
with a losing record in the playoffs. But at the
same time, yes, my eyes are open about the Cowboys
potentially making noise in the divisional playoffs. I was going
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to ask you if you second guest moving them or
keeping them where they were after watching that game, like it,
was there any point in the game where you're like, Oh,
here's the thing, here's the thing. And I'll look at
him from a conference stand From standpoint, obviously, the Niners
are staying at one. They deserve it. I already am
kind of digging your Eagles by virtue of just they're
kind of off the grid right now. They got a
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banged up quarterback, and that's part of my reasoning. I
have them down to five the last couple of weeks,
and I'm sure they might and I think the reason
I parked him at five for that reason because I
just felt it wouldn't be right too now all of
a sudden, say, the Cowboys are a team that I
like better than the Eagles. I certainly think the Cowboys
are a team that if they have the Eagles this weekend,
I'd be thinking, oh, that's that's a coin flip. And
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guess what, that's why they're five and six. But but
the Chiefs moved up even though they were on a
by two. It's just not consistent. It is consistent, though,
I'll tell you why. I believe outside of the Niners,
I think there's a little gap right now. Okay, and
then I think the A f C teams are better
than the Eagles and Cowboys. So even though I wasn't
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thrilled with how the Bills and Bengals operated on Wild
Card weekend, it wasn't enough for me then say, oh,
I think the Cowboys are better than the Bills and Bengals,
or the Eagles are better. I just gave him a
little boom. And the Chief's a team that I respect.
In this time of year, they get a bit little benefit.
That's fair. It feels like at are flawed in one
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way or another. Now the Niners, they really mean, what
is the Niners law? Tell me that I don't know,
because what they're doing with Brock Party is really amazing,
and they've won eleven straight games. They seem so well rounded.
If I mean, I guess, like, honestly, I don't know.
I have no idea. This would be the only thing
I think someone that was doubting the Niners can say
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at this point that what if Brock Purty is playing
not the Seattle Seahawks but a big time opponent, does
he have the same level of production or even close
when when the rubber meets the road and that's what
happens in divisional round football. Because he's the only guy
I think is not proven at this point, I think
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the coaching staffs proven. I think many of the players
on the roster is certainly the stars have shown that
they could step up this time of year. You could
still put a little bit of a question arc over Party,
but at the same time, like be careful of that
because the guy is playing out of his mind. Well
that's what I thought after watching that first half against
the Seahawks and he was missing some throws to open receivers.
It was just a one point game at the half.
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And that was my question last week when we did
this show, was what, like Brock Party coming into the playoffs,
how will he play in the spotlight? And the second half?
No problem? And Kyle Shanahan does such a good job
of putting him in a position to succeed using Christian McCaffrey,
using Deebo Samuel to play run action and everything else
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that you know you see with these young quarterbacks who
were inexperienced or kind of it helps to camouflage any
type of potential problems in an offense. Just keeps it
moving and keeps that confidence up, and Kyle Shanahan does
it better than anyone. Yep, I agree with you. I
think that as good as Party has been, I've been
more impressed by the scheme and the talent, and then
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a ton of respect to the Mr. Relevant his ability
to do his job basically, and you hear that in
the quotes in and around the team, like these guys
are not talking about Brock Party is a godlike figure
who's playing the quarterback position at level they've never seen.
I think it's more like we respect that this kid
is doing exactly what we need from him, and uh,
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it might not be flashy, but it is super effective.
And for the record, when Jimmy, Jimmy, g what did
he do to himself? How do he heard himself? It
feels like so long ago now it was l No,
what was the injury he suffered? Like all of the
was a foot injury he got he got tackled and
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he had a foot injury, and I dropped the Niners
after that happened from two down to seven, and after
Party stepped in right away and and started playing at
a high level and the offense got better. They've been
at two to one, one one one now since in
the six weeks with Party feeling good about where they are. Yeah,
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that's right, chan Han said it. Jimmy G broke a
few things, but remember when they were talking what it
seemed like the Niner season was over, like maybe Jimmy
G can come back, and maybe in the play Jimmy
G is not coming back. Even if he could come back.
This is Party's offense now. I don't think there's any doubt.
I have some friends that are Niners fans, and I'm
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getting the same energy from them about Brock Party that
I got from Eagles fans. Falls on their run. There's
a lot of shirts that say some similar types of
mottos that we're going around right right, So you can
mandated perhaps and he has been farm related. You figured
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it out, you google it, so we don't have to
say anything else. So yeah, Chiefs at two Bills at three.
I just want to let's talk the Bills a little
bit here. Were you as alarmed as I was, not
just this game, but even going back the first post
of mar Hamlin game against the Patriots, where there were
a lot of leagues and the special teams brilliance covered
it up, and then in the first round of the
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playoffs just kind of sloppy. Yeah, the problem there. Their
issues with taking care of the ball just continue and
you can't do that in the playoffs. Like they had
twenty seven giveaways in the regular season, only the Colts
and the Texans had more than the Bills, And we
just continue to see this theme. Two first half interceptions
and then Josh Allen gave up the scoop and score
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on the strip sack. So I mean, better teams are
going to make them pay for these turnovers, and a
better team like the Bengals might do that. And I
don't know if they are necessarily better because we never
got to see that game fully play out this year.
We only saw nine minutes of it before the Damar
Hamlin incident. But this is the game that we've kind
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of all been waiting to see. And when that game started,
it looked like the Bengals were going to win it. Yeah,
and the Bills they've taken care of business this season.
There now what, they're fourteen and three with the playoff win,
and yet there have been stages in the year where
you kind of expecting them to be more dominant. Maybe
they're not a dominant team. Maybe it's time for like
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people like me and perhaps us to say, Okay, despite
them having this great season and being two wins away
from the super Bowl, it's not like we should be
looking at them as some infallible entity. And Josh Allen
is a perfect example of that that he's just this tremendous,
gifted quarterback that could beat you in so many ways,
but he's always going to offer up gifts to the
other team, and their success and failure will be dictated
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by that other teams of ability to take advantage of
those mistakes, like the Dolphins converted Allen's three turnovers into
eighteen points. And the reason the only reason the Bills
didn't go home it is because the Dolphins stink like that.
That version of the Dolphins was not a true playoff team,
so you were able to get the necessary stops on
defense to move on. It won't play against the Bengals.
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Won't play. And I'll say this, and you can check
out the Around the NFL podcast which Connie is on
on Thursday. We'll haven't thank you in depth, thank yourself
in depth preview on this matchup. But one of the
things that jumps out to me but builds Bengals three
four in the Power rankings, is the Bengals offensive line shambles. Man.
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If von Miller was still around, I would feel way
better about the Bills taking control of the game at
the line of scrimmage. We'll see how it goes from
that standpoint. Well, the Bengals, their offensive line is just
self destructing at the absolute worst possible time. This is
what we saw with the Bengals all last season. They
spent the off season trying to prevent this from happening,
and then they get to the playoffs and now they're
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going to be down probably three starters. We don't really
know yet about Alex Cappa, who heard his ankle in
Week eighteen, but like all Collins done for the year.
On Christmas Eve the a C L Jonah Williams, he
was knocked out of the game. This located kneecap week
to week. That doesn't sound great, sounds painful. Yeah, and
tape it up and get him out there. Like Burrow
was sacked a ton in that game, four times, it
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felt like more. He was constantly under pressure and he
couldn't get the receiver's couldn't get separation. There was just
not enough time for them to get down the field.
So I don't think Joe Burrow threw a pass longer
than twenty yards. That's a problem. That's a major problem.
The offensive line is something that could ruin their season.
It didn't last year. The year before, not only to
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ruin their season, Joe Burrow blew out his knees. So
you always have to on a on a on a hit,
You always have to be concerned about how that can
affect their entire operation. And yeah, I think it's I mean,
I'm very, very fortunate. We're all fortunate because who needed
another week of Lamar Jackson storylines around the Ravens that
the Ravens didn't get through that game and get to
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Divisional round play. But at the same time, other than
Ravens fans, they would have loved it. Yeah, they would
have absolutely loved it. I don't know if Lamar Jackson
what even wanted it, but Ravens exactly. Nobody knows. But
at the same time, let's just be fair and credit
to John Harbaugh and the Ravens, even in their state
with their quarterback situation is unsettled. It is they played
better than Cincinnati on Sunday night. They had the Bengals
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number if not for Sam Hubbard's brilliance, uh going damn
seventeen and a half miles per hour on his yard
fumble return. Big time stuff there. So I like the Bengals.
I like the Bills obviously, like the Niners. I want
you to tell me, Connie, do I have the top five? Right? Well,
so I'm gonna put you on. I'm gonna put you
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on the spot here in real time, Connie's top five here,
I'm gonna give you a pen. I would put Niners
up top at one, all right, So I got that right,
I feel like that's the most important one. I yeah.
So the Chiefs, it's kind of like these next three Chiefs, Bills,
Bengals are tough. I taking a walk and then my shoes.
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I don't know why I'm doing this. This is your job.
I'm just here to judge. But you know, I do
like an exercise, so, um, I would probably put this
is so hard, this is great. I think that I
might put the Bengals a touch above the Bills. All right,
now put them in the two? Uh do you respect me?
Now there's a colleague. Well let's not go that far. Um,
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But maybe the Eagles need to be higher. You want
the Eagles at three? Maybe we put the Eagles at one,
Eagle at one. I mean, Jalen Hurts come one. Like
we could be here in another six hours before Colin
gets to her fifth team here. Okay, I think I
would go Niners, Chiefs, then Bengals, Bills, Eagles, and I
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have Niners, Chiefs, Bills, Bengals, yea, Eagles. So I would
just switch Bengals and Bills. But it's like so close
we put that back. Anybody else in the top you
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want to talk about you? You know, we should talk
about the gi Men. They had the biggest jump and
the power rankings up four spots, the number seven, and
we didn't want to believe in them. And you know what,
that's not a shame amount of situation. Sometimes a team changes,
and sometimes a team kind of coalesces and becomes something
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greater at the perfect time. And to the credit of
Ryan Dable and the Giants, they were winning when they
were in a very good team and that's what got
them to the postseason and got them to the end
of the season in playoff positioning. And then Connie in
the last couple of weeks of the regular season and
obviously against the Vikings and wild card weekend, that is
an actual now good team. You know, it almost sounds
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like a power move, a power move. Power move was
presented by Energizer. That's right. Did you see what Giants
Twitter put out of Daniel Jones wearing all of the
chains and said, dimes on it like a Kirk Cousins deal.
I mean, it's great. I love petty Twitter. Well, the yeah,
if you followed that at all. The Vikings had something
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very petty after barely winning on Christmas Eve, bragging that
they beat the two New York teams and Buffalo and
I was like, all right, guys, well let's check back
into the playoffs and see how the Vikings are two
New York teams and Buffaloe. Everybody knows, everybody, do I
need to the two Northern New Jersey teams and the
team from Western New York, although the Northern New Jersey
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teams go by the New York City moniker. It's tough.
I'm not gonna lie. I don't. I don't love it,
but I do love that Brian Dayball is succeeding in
this way in his first season as a head coach
in the NFL. It's been lovely to see. Now it's
probably time for them to go home. This week, you
get the Eagles, because this is this is where Connie's
coming from. Tell me if I'm wrong. You're hoping, obviously
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that your Eagles get healthy here and beat the Giants,
But now you're worried about the Cowboys to the other
team that you hate, potentially shocking the world and beating
San Francisco. And then all of a sudden, you got
the Cowboys on fire in the NFC title game. And
I don't think you want anything to you just don't.
You don't want the NFC East around get that. But
if the Eagles could be the ones to kill them off,
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then I'm totally here for this is you. This is
very Connie centric. You're talking Eagles. The Giants deserve the
focus here. You know why. You know why, because Daniel
Jones has made the leap. Daniel Jones has no longer
got to be hidden in the offense. Daniel Jones is
now the face of the offense. Was sae Quon Barkley
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as the robin to his batman, which nobody saw coming.
And you you pair that with the Giants. Where are
the Giants special? Okay, they are special? Running back when
Danny Dimes is playing at this level, that's pretty special.
And then that defensive line, Dexter Lawrence who absolutely absolutely
ruined Minnesota season, Cavon Thibodeaux, who has really made strides
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as a rookie. He's becoming a player. Leonard Williams is
a former All Pro. These are guys that could give
your boy Jalen Hurts a lot of trouble, especially if
Jalen Hurts is hurt. Yeah, I know. So that's why
I'm sweating this a lot. That the East is talented
right now. He is playing as good as he's played
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all season. And same with Dak Prescott right now. And
so Daniel Jones, he played last week without turning the
ball over. And then they have guys like Isaiah Hodgson's Yeah,
no name, Isaiah Hodgens. You got it, you got it,
got there, you got there. They have this no name
group of wide receivers. In fact, the most famous guy
of their wide receiver group is Kenny Golladay, and he's
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like basically a multimillionaire blocker at this point, um for
the But these guys make plays week after week week,
and uh, I don't know. Can I tell you something?
What a little spoiler alert you are? I think I
can't wait to tell you you're wrong. I can't wait
to see how you can talk next week on the
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Power rankings if I'm wrong. But here's the thing. Grew
up right on the border of northern New Jersey over
on the other side of New York, and I learned
a thing or two like following the Yeah and the
Colton following. As Giants playoff runs, they take on a
certain feel the games, how they win the games. And
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I knew they were gonna win that Viking game, just
the vibe of the game. And that's gonna be a
dog fight against the Eagles. Yeah, that's okay. I mean,
Eli Manning in the building alone is going to give
Philly the strength it needs to do that. It's fully
expecting to get just verbally battered. All right, take a
break and we'll check in. You know what the teams were.
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It didn't work out so well in Super wild Card weekend.
We will be right back the NFL Power Ranking colon.
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Let's talk about the losers teams nine through fourteen. You know,
they made it to the postseason, so that's great. They
are winners in that regard, but their run ends. Now
you're going to give them participation trophy is like seven
year old soccer players. Maybe maybe they should. I mean, honestly,
a lot of these teams put up a great fight.
The Chargers that they completely imploded on themselves, which I
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didn't think it was gonna happen again, but it did
so down two spots to nine, their offensive coordinator got
got Yeah, that's a lot. So I'm sorry Chargers fans,
it's rough out there. The Vikings that they stay the
same at ten after they're lost. The Ravens they go
up three spots. Don't worry about the up three spots
because we went from yeah, just disregard this is the
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rest of the rest. Okay, so Ravens eleven, Bucks twelve,
Seahawks thirteen, and then Dolphins the last team, the false
start team. I like to call that fam are at
fourteen the delay of game time out team. Why don't
we start with the Chargers because there's no reason we
shouldn't be talking about them. And all due respect to
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the Jacks, who we didn't we didn't hit on the
top of the show, but the Jaguars deserve a ton
of credit for what they did, the comeback that they mounted.
I mean, their last there, their last five drives starting
late in the second quarter, was four touchdowns and the
winning field goal. So they didn't have a huge window
to amount that amazing comeback, and yet they did everything
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they had to do. And on the Chargers side, yeah,
Charger is gonna charger and you hate it and I
hate it as a Jets fan, you certain teams are
snake bit and it seems and you would think that
the players changed, the coaches changed, the management change, that
the fan base will get a new fan experience. But
the Bolts are just one of those teams where they
just can't seem to shake the bad vibes. I know,
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I know. I mean, look, the Jags, Trevor Lawrence was
a broken man to begin this game, and then he
picked up the pieces and it was almost like two
minutes to go before the half. He was trying to
get ahead of that halftime pep talk from Peterson. It's like,
all right, we're gonna turn around right now. It was
very important after the half and completely snapped out of it.
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But my god, the way that the Chargers collapsed, I
honestly I could not believe this because watching this game,
it felt like it was completely in the bag for
the Chargers. I started making brownies at this point I'm watching,
but I'm now I'm starting to, like my mind starting
to wander as I'm watching, because it felt like this
game was just so in hand. And then the brownies.
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Why didn't you bring them? And I have basically almost
finished all of them at this point. Kind of brownies?
They're special chocolate chips? Could I give them to my children? Okay,
that's why they're special? What kind of special brownies you
were talking about? Every special cookies, special brownies. Anything I make,
I just call it special. But Doug petersons, I just
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have to look. I like Doug Peterson. He's just like
round of applause for Doug Peterson ran him out of
town in Philly. But you know, I didn't want him
to go. I'm a big fan of Doug Peterson, so
him and Advisor and I think a justic hair, do
you know? I I would love to have Doug's hair.
And it's great when it was like the wind think
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we're all appreciative of the Doug Peterson situation just because
everyone was bummed about the Urban Meyer fiasco, not just
because of like how kind of it was almost disrespectful
how he treated a job in the responsibility that comes
with that job. But it was just like a waste
of everyone's talents and considerable talents and in the case
of Trevor Lawrence, a generational talent, and to steer it
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back to the Chargers. It's like, man, there is a
lot of debate about Justin Herbert and how great he
is and who's better than him, and who's he better than?
But I did need I kind of needed if Justin
Herbert is gonna be spoken of as like his generation's
Dan Marino, I kind of needed him to go win
that game. And uh, they didn't lose the game. I
know Joe Lombardi, their offensive Cordy, and I got fired.
They didn't lose the game because they got too conservative
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and just started handing the ball off a ton like
Herbert had a lot of opportunities to kind of put
that game away, and he couldn't do what The play
calling needs to be better, the whole scheme and offense
and and Los Angeles needs to be better. But he
takes a big part of the l in that game.
They couldn't run the ball even when they had a
huge lead. Like the play calling in general was very suspect.
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Quarterback coach Shane Day also was let go. Who else
do we want to talk? Let's talk about the Vikings.
I mean, I got it. I got the Vikings right,
I gotta say I talked about it all year. I
wasn't the only one that wasn't buying in on the
on the Vikings, but I caught a lot of fire
on Twitter when at the end of the regular season
I had non playoff teams like the Lions, for example,
ahead of them, and I just never bought it. And
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that's why heading into wild card weekend, I had the
Vikings and Giants right next to each other because you
knew that was gonna come right down to the end,
because you knew those teams despite one team being thirteen
and four and the other nine six and one, we're
basically at the same level. And it turned out the
other team with the worst record was better. I feel
like we did watch the better team did advance, and
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Vikings fans at the once again put up with like
just not just losing, but like like cruel irony type losses.
You go Levin and oh in the regular season and
one score games and then immediately once the playoffs start,
lose a one score game. That's very on brand for
the Viking. Speaking of snake bitten franchise, it is it
is the Vikings. They have. They have a lot of
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work to do in the off season, but as on
one side of the on defense exactly like they need
to do a tremendous amount of fixing. I mean, like
they I know that they switched schemes this year. There
was a lot of different changes, but I think overall
on the whole, having a new head coach in there
with Kevin O'Connell as his first season in Minnesota as
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the head coach, like this was a good year for them.
They won the division. Obviously it was a down year
for the Packers, but they had the Lions in there.
Now they have to deal with the Lions going forward
as well, so I think it's positive. It will be
moving in the right direction. But once they get the
defense fixed, then this will be a formidable team. You
have justin Jefferson. He's an unbelievable talent, and like, honestly,
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that's all you need. I think it's helpful sometimes when
you have off seasons like this where you know very
specifically what needs to improve. I know Cincinnati had that
type of situation after Burrows rookie year and they really
went after we need another playmaker and we need to
address the offensive line, and those things got a lot
better quickly. I think you're gonna see Minnesota be very aggressive.
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There are salary cap restraints, of course, but very aggressive
in free agency to address the defense at multiple levels.
And I think their draft you'll see it's one of
those always these teams like well, they had eight picks
and seven of the eight were defensive players. I think
you're gonna see that type of vikings offseason, and it
will be very logical. Some of these other teams, Connie,
as we kind of wrap things up here, it's harder
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to say what their offseason looks like. The Ravens. Obviously,
we don't know what's going on with Lamar Jackson. They
have this this former mvv P quarterback in his mid twenties.
That should be a no brainer. And yet when Melissa
Stark on Sunday Night Football comes on the air before kickoff,
well that's different. When she was talking to Johnny Harbaugh
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after the end of the first quarter, abolished the end
of first quarter interview a TV to get rid of it. No,
But when Stark was on as a Big Stark Show,
when Stark was on before kickoff and she said that
Lamar Jackson ruled himself out ahead of the playoffs and
that's a power move presented by you know, energizer and
then chose not to travel with the team to the
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PO And I'm like, whoa, that is a major, major
red flag in terms of where he stands with the team.
I was thinking the same thing because it's not like
he was just recently hurt and this would be a
problem for him to fly. I don't know the workings
of everything, but you would think that he would be
there with the team. Remember last week when we talked
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about the teams that we thought could make a big
jump on this show come August when we come back,
and I said the Jets they had to get a
quarterback first, which they were going to get. Where do
you think the Jets would be in? You know, there
are a lot of off brand power rankings, Like if
you added Lamar to that Jet offense and defense, like
a lot of people we would have, the Jets potentially
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is a top ten team. That's what Lamar would bring
to a new team. And the Ravens if they do
move him, and I don't think they would unless they
he makes it clear to them that there's no way
I want to be with you anymore. Um, He's gonna
make another team a lot better and it will be
a ton of buzz around wherever he lands for that team. Also,
think about how everything changed for that organization when Lamar
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got there, like specifically for John Harball, Like there were
so many uncertainties, especially at the quarterback position, and John
Harball basically built the offense around him and then built
himself extra years in the position. So I just feel
like there should be some loyalty to the family. Alight,
I like that. You know, did you finish the movie yet,
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finish god Father yet? In fact, before we say goodbye,
finish glass Onion, though I want to. I want to
check that out. So the Ravens in decision at quarterback,
the Bucks in decision at quarterback, the Seahawks unclear where
they are at quarterback, although it looks like Gino wants
back and they want you know. And the Dolphins, they
said the two is coming back next year, but we
don't know what to his future is questions question marks
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at quarterback will put you lower in the rankings? Exercise
in professional football facts, That makes sense. All right, We'll
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I'm Dan Hansas that he came from Colleen Wolf. Hey, Connie, Hello, welcome,
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and Eleanor is here or there you go? Had yeah
longer with us. Thanks shout out to Eleanor and all
the grace she brought to us. Um all right, it
is the Visional Round weekend. I don't I'm sure she did.
It is Supercard Supercard weekend. Super wild Card weekend is
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in the rear view. And I must say, Colleen before
we take a look at the big board for the
first time here, and we have now knocked it down
from thirty two un to fourteen. Feel tighter, feel lighter.
I feel like we're getting closer to the finish line,
and I feel good about my rankings. Let's take a
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look at the UH top eight, because what you'll notice here,
Connie is that, yes, I got the Niners locked at
number one. Feeling great about that. Was a little bit
nervous at halftime against Seattle, but then much closer than
I thought it was going to straight points, said Dan,
you got it right, top Boat keeping them at number one.
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UM the Bills and Bengals. I just gave him a
little hey, wake up, guys bumped down one spot, especially
the Bills. I almost put Cincinnati head of Buffalo. Didn
Kansas City gets that, Hey, we on a bye week
and look at our our biggest rivals in the a
f C struggling against backup quarterbacks, bumps after the after
the bye. So then you got the Eagles staying at five,
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the Cowboys staying at six, Giants up four to seven,
and the Jaguars after that incredible rally, hold at eight.
And what I'm saying is you're not seeing a ton
of movement therather than the Giants. And that's because I'm
feel good about where I had the rankings going in,
and I didn't see much in the slate of games
that really made me change how I feel. Let's start
with the Let's start with the Cowboys, because that would
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be the one where people most people would be like, hey,
why aren't they getting a bigger bump into the top five?
And I just wasn't ready to do that. Connie. As
well as they played against Tampa, they did play arguably
the worst team in the playoffs, certainly the only team
with a losing record in the playoffs. But at the
same time, yes, my eyes are open about the Cowboys
potentially making noise in the divisional playoffs. I was going
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to ask you if you second guest moving them or
keeping them where they were after watching that game, like it,
was there any point in the game where you're like, Oh,
here's the thing, here's the thing. And I'll look at
him from a conference stand From standpoint, obviously, the Niners
are staying at one. They deserve it. I already am
kind of digging your Eagles by virtue of just they're
kind of off the grid right now. They got a
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banged up quarterback, and that's part of my reasoning. I
have them down to five the last couple of weeks,
and I'm sure they might and I think the reason
I parked him at five for that reason because I
just felt it wouldn't be right too now all of
a sudden, say, the Cowboys are a team that I
like better than the Eagles. I certainly think the Cowboys
are a team that if they have the Eagles this weekend,
I'd be thinking, oh, that's that's a coin flip. And
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guess what, that's why they're five and six. But but
the Chiefs moved up even though they were on a
by two. It's just not consistent. It is consistent, though,
I'll tell you why. I believe outside of the Niners,
I think there's a little gap right now. Okay, and
then I think the A f C teams are better
than the Eagles and Cowboys. So even though I wasn't
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thrilled with how the Bills and Bengals operated on Wild
Card weekend, it wasn't enough for me then say, oh,
I think the Cowboys are better than the Bills and Bengals,
or the Eagles are better. I just gave him a
little boom. And the Chief's a team that I respect.
In this time of year, they get a bit little benefit.
That's fair. It feels like at are flawed in one
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way or another. Now the Niners, they really mean, what
is the Niners law? Tell me that I don't know,
because what they're doing with Brock Party is really amazing,
and they've won eleven straight games. They seem so well rounded.
If I mean, I guess, like, honestly, I don't know.
I have no idea. This would be the only thing
I think someone that was doubting the Niners can say
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at this point that what if Brock Purty is playing
not the Seattle Seahawks but a big time opponent, does
he have the same level of production or even close
when when the rubber meets the road and that's what
happens in divisional round football. Because he's the only guy
I think is not proven at this point, I think
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the coaching staffs proven. I think many of the players
on the roster is certainly the stars have shown that
they could step up this time of year. You could
still put a little bit of a question arc over Party,
but at the same time, like be careful of that
because the guy is playing out of his mind. Well
that's what I thought after watching that first half against
the Seahawks and he was missing some throws to open receivers.
It was just a one point game at the half.
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And that was my question last week when we did
this show, was what, like Brock Party coming into the playoffs,
how will he play in the spotlight? And the second half?
No problem? And Kyle Shanahan does such a good job
of putting him in a position to succeed using Christian McCaffrey,
using Deebo Samuel to play run action and everything else
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that you know you see with these young quarterbacks who
were inexperienced or kind of it helps to camouflage any
type of potential problems in an offense. Just keeps it
moving and keeps that confidence up, and Kyle Shanahan does
it better than anyone. Yep, I agree with you. I
think that as good as Party has been, I've been
more impressed by the scheme and the talent, and then
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a ton of respect to the Mr. Relevant his ability
to do his job basically, and you hear that in
the quotes in and around the team, like these guys
are not talking about Brock Party is a godlike figure
who's playing the quarterback position at level they've never seen.
I think it's more like we respect that this kid
is doing exactly what we need from him, and uh,
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it might not be flashy, but it is super effective.
And for the record, when Jimmy, Jimmy, g what did
he do to himself? How do he heard himself? It
feels like so long ago now it was l No,
what was the injury he suffered? Like all of the
was a foot injury he got he got tackled and
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he had a foot injury, and I dropped the Niners
after that happened from two down to seven, and after
Party stepped in right away and and started playing at
a high level and the offense got better. They've been
at two to one, one one one now since in
the six weeks with Party feeling good about where they are. Yeah,
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that's right, chan Han said it. Jimmy G broke a
few things, but remember when they were talking what it
seemed like the Niner season was over, like maybe Jimmy
G can come back, and maybe in the play Jimmy
G is not coming back. Even if he could come back.
This is Party's offense now. I don't think there's any doubt.
I have some friends that are Niners fans, and I'm
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getting the same energy from them about Brock Party that
I got from Eagles fans. Falls on their run. There's
a lot of shirts that say some similar types of
mottos that we're going around right right, So you can
mandated perhaps and he has been farm related. You figured
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it out, you google it, so we don't have to
say anything else. So yeah, Chiefs at two Bills at three.
I just want to let's talk the Bills a little
bit here. Were you as alarmed as I was, not
just this game, but even going back the first post
of mar Hamlin game against the Patriots, where there were
a lot of leagues and the special teams brilliance covered
it up, and then in the first round of the
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playoffs just kind of sloppy. Yeah, the problem there. Their
issues with taking care of the ball just continue and
you can't do that in the playoffs. Like they had
twenty seven giveaways in the regular season, only the Colts
and the Texans had more than the Bills, And we
just continue to see this theme. Two first half interceptions
and then Josh Allen gave up the scoop and score
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on the strip sack. So I mean, better teams are
going to make them pay for these turnovers, and a
better team like the Bengals might do that. And I
don't know if they are necessarily better because we never
got to see that game fully play out this year.
We only saw nine minutes of it before the Damar
Hamlin incident. But this is the game that we've kind
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of all been waiting to see. And when that game started,
it looked like the Bengals were going to win it. Yeah,
and the Bills they've taken care of business this season.
There now what, they're fourteen and three with the playoff win,
and yet there have been stages in the year where
you kind of expecting them to be more dominant. Maybe
they're not a dominant team. Maybe it's time for like
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people like me and perhaps us to say, Okay, despite
them having this great season and being two wins away
from the super Bowl, it's not like we should be
looking at them as some infallible entity. And Josh Allen
is a perfect example of that that he's just this tremendous,
gifted quarterback that could beat you in so many ways,
but he's always going to offer up gifts to the
other team, and their success and failure will be dictated
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by that other teams of ability to take advantage of
those mistakes, like the Dolphins converted Allen's three turnovers into
eighteen points. And the reason the only reason the Bills
didn't go home it is because the Dolphins stink like that.
That version of the Dolphins was not a true playoff team,
so you were able to get the necessary stops on
defense to move on. It won't play against the Bengals.
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Won't play. And I'll say this, and you can check
out the Around the NFL podcast which Connie is on
on Thursday. We'll haven't thank you in depth, thank yourself
in depth preview on this matchup. But one of the
things that jumps out to me but builds Bengals three
four in the Power rankings, is the Bengals offensive line shambles. Man.
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If von Miller was still around, I would feel way
better about the Bills taking control of the game at
the line of scrimmage. We'll see how it goes from
that standpoint. Well, the Bengals, their offensive line is just
self destructing at the absolute worst possible time. This is
what we saw with the Bengals all last season. They
spent the off season trying to prevent this from happening,
and then they get to the playoffs and now they're
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going to be down probably three starters. We don't really
know yet about Alex Cappa, who heard his ankle in
Week eighteen, but like all Collins done for the year.
On Christmas Eve the a C L Jonah Williams, he
was knocked out of the game. This located kneecap week
to week. That doesn't sound great, sounds painful. Yeah, and
tape it up and get him out there. Like Burrow
was sacked a ton in that game, four times, it
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felt like more. He was constantly under pressure and he
couldn't get the receiver's couldn't get separation. There was just
not enough time for them to get down the field.
So I don't think Joe Burrow threw a pass longer
than twenty yards. That's a problem. That's a major problem.
The offensive line is something that could ruin their season.
It didn't last year. The year before, not only to
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ruin their season, Joe Burrow blew out his knees. So
you always have to on a on a on a hit,
You always have to be concerned about how that can
affect their entire operation. And yeah, I think it's I mean,
I'm very, very fortunate. We're all fortunate because who needed
another week of Lamar Jackson storylines around the Ravens that
the Ravens didn't get through that game and get to
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Divisional round play. But at the same time, other than
Ravens fans, they would have loved it. Yeah, they would
have absolutely loved it. I don't know if Lamar Jackson
what even wanted it, but Ravens exactly. Nobody knows. But
at the same time, let's just be fair and credit
to John Harbaugh and the Ravens, even in their state
with their quarterback situation is unsettled. It is they played
better than Cincinnati on Sunday night. They had the Bengals
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number if not for Sam Hubbard's brilliance, uh going damn
seventeen and a half miles per hour on his yard
fumble return. Big time stuff there. So I like the Bengals.
I like the Bills obviously, like the Niners. I want
you to tell me, Connie, do I have the top five? Right? Well,
so I'm gonna put you on. I'm gonna put you
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on the spot here in real time, Connie's top five here,
I'm gonna give you a pen. I would put Niners
up top at one, all right, So I got that right,
I feel like that's the most important one. I yeah.
So the Chiefs, it's kind of like these next three Chiefs, Bills,
Bengals are tough. I taking a walk and then my shoes.
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I don't know why I'm doing this. This is your job.
I'm just here to judge. But you know, I do
like an exercise, so, um, I would probably put this
is so hard, this is great. I think that I
might put the Bengals a touch above the Bills. All right,
now put them in the two? Uh do you respect me?
Now there's a colleague. Well let's not go that far. Um,
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But maybe the Eagles need to be higher. You want
the Eagles at three? Maybe we put the Eagles at one,
Eagle at one. I mean, Jalen Hurts come one. Like
we could be here in another six hours before Colin
gets to her fifth team here. Okay, I think I
would go Niners, Chiefs, then Bengals, Bills, Eagles, and I
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have Niners, Chiefs, Bills, Bengals, yea, Eagles. So I would
just switch Bengals and Bills. But it's like so close
we put that back. Anybody else in the top you
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want to talk about you? You know, we should talk
about the gi Men. They had the biggest jump and
the power rankings up four spots, the number seven, and
we didn't want to believe in them. And you know what,
that's not a shame amount of situation. Sometimes a team changes,
and sometimes a team kind of coalesces and becomes something
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greater at the perfect time. And to the credit of
Ryan Dable and the Giants, they were winning when they
were in a very good team and that's what got
them to the postseason and got them to the end
of the season in playoff positioning. And then Connie in
the last couple of weeks of the regular season and
obviously against the Vikings and wild card weekend, that is
an actual now good team. You know, it almost sounds
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like a power move, a power move. Power move was
presented by Energizer. That's right. Did you see what Giants
Twitter put out of Daniel Jones wearing all of the
chains and said, dimes on it like a Kirk Cousins deal.
I mean, it's great. I love petty Twitter. Well, the yeah,
if you followed that at all. The Vikings had something
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very petty after barely winning on Christmas Eve, bragging that
they beat the two New York teams and Buffalo and
I was like, all right, guys, well let's check back
into the playoffs and see how the Vikings are two
New York teams and Buffaloe. Everybody knows, everybody, do I
need to the two Northern New Jersey teams and the
team from Western New York, although the Northern New Jersey
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teams go by the New York City moniker. It's tough.
I'm not gonna lie. I don't. I don't love it,
but I do love that Brian Dayball is succeeding in
this way in his first season as a head coach
in the NFL. It's been lovely to see. Now it's
probably time for them to go home. This week, you
get the Eagles, because this is this is where Connie's
coming from. Tell me if I'm wrong. You're hoping, obviously
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that your Eagles get healthy here and beat the Giants,
But now you're worried about the Cowboys to the other
team that you hate, potentially shocking the world and beating
San Francisco. And then all of a sudden, you got
the Cowboys on fire in the NFC title game. And
I don't think you want anything to you just don't.
You don't want the NFC East around get that. But
if the Eagles could be the ones to kill them off,
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then I'm totally here for this is you. This is
very Connie centric. You're talking Eagles. The Giants deserve the
focus here. You know why. You know why, because Daniel
Jones has made the leap. Daniel Jones has no longer
got to be hidden in the offense. Daniel Jones is
now the face of the offense. Was sae Quon Barkley
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as the robin to his batman, which nobody saw coming.
And you you pair that with the Giants. Where are
the Giants special? Okay, they are special? Running back when
Danny Dimes is playing at this level, that's pretty special.
And then that defensive line, Dexter Lawrence who absolutely absolutely
ruined Minnesota season, Cavon Thibodeaux, who has really made strides
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as a rookie. He's becoming a player. Leonard Williams is
a former All Pro. These are guys that could give
your boy Jalen Hurts a lot of trouble, especially if
Jalen Hurts is hurt. Yeah, I know. So that's why
I'm sweating this a lot. That the East is talented
right now. He is playing as good as he's played
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all season. And same with Dak Prescott right now. And
so Daniel Jones, he played last week without turning the
ball over. And then they have guys like Isaiah Hodgson's Yeah,
no name, Isaiah Hodgens. You got it, you got it,
got there, you got there. They have this no name
group of wide receivers. In fact, the most famous guy
of their wide receiver group is Kenny Golladay, and he's
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like basically a multimillionaire blocker at this point, um for
the But these guys make plays week after week week,
and uh, I don't know. Can I tell you something?
What a little spoiler alert you are? I think I
can't wait to tell you you're wrong. I can't wait
to see how you can talk next week on the
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Power rankings if I'm wrong. But here's the thing. Grew
up right on the border of northern New Jersey over
on the other side of New York, and I learned
a thing or two like following the Yeah and the
Colton following. As Giants playoff runs, they take on a
certain feel the games, how they win the games. And
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I knew they were gonna win that Viking game, just
the vibe of the game. And that's gonna be a
dog fight against the Eagles. Yeah, that's okay. I mean,
Eli Manning in the building alone is going to give
Philly the strength it needs to do that. It's fully
expecting to get just verbally battered. All right, take a
break and we'll check in. You know what the teams were.
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It didn't work out so well in Super wild Card weekend.
We will be right back the NFL Power Ranking colon.
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Let's talk about the losers teams nine through fourteen. You know,
they made it to the postseason, so that's great. They
are winners in that regard, but their run ends. Now
you're going to give them participation trophy is like seven
year old soccer players. Maybe maybe they should. I mean, honestly,
a lot of these teams put up a great fight.
The Chargers that they completely imploded on themselves, which I
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didn't think it was gonna happen again, but it did
so down two spots to nine, their offensive coordinator got
got Yeah, that's a lot. So I'm sorry Chargers fans,
it's rough out there. The Vikings that they stay the
same at ten after they're lost. The Ravens they go
up three spots. Don't worry about the up three spots
because we went from yeah, just disregard this is the
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rest of the rest. Okay, so Ravens eleven, Bucks twelve,
Seahawks thirteen, and then Dolphins the last team, the false
start team. I like to call that fam are at
fourteen the delay of game time out team. Why don't
we start with the Chargers because there's no reason we
shouldn't be talking about them. And all due respect to
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the Jacks, who we didn't we didn't hit on the
top of the show, but the Jaguars deserve a ton
of credit for what they did, the comeback that they mounted.
I mean, their last there, their last five drives starting
late in the second quarter, was four touchdowns and the
winning field goal. So they didn't have a huge window
to amount that amazing comeback, and yet they did everything
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they had to do. And on the Chargers side, yeah,
Charger is gonna charger and you hate it and I
hate it as a Jets fan, you certain teams are
snake bit and it seems and you would think that
the players changed, the coaches changed, the management change, that
the fan base will get a new fan experience. But
the Bolts are just one of those teams where they
just can't seem to shake the bad vibes. I know,
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I know. I mean, look, the Jags, Trevor Lawrence was
a broken man to begin this game, and then he
picked up the pieces and it was almost like two
minutes to go before the half. He was trying to
get ahead of that halftime pep talk from Peterson. It's like,
all right, we're gonna turn around right now. It was
very important after the half and completely snapped out of it.
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But my god, the way that the Chargers collapsed, I
honestly I could not believe this because watching this game,
it felt like it was completely in the bag for
the Chargers. I started making brownies at this point I'm watching,
but I'm now I'm starting to, like my mind starting
to wander as I'm watching, because it felt like this
game was just so in hand. And then the brownies.
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Why didn't you bring them? And I have basically almost
finished all of them at this point. Kind of brownies?
They're special chocolate chips? Could I give them to my children? Okay,
that's why they're special? What kind of special brownies you
were talking about? Every special cookies, special brownies. Anything I make,
I just call it special. But Doug petersons, I just
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have to look. I like Doug Peterson. He's just like
round of applause for Doug Peterson ran him out of
town in Philly. But you know, I didn't want him
to go. I'm a big fan of Doug Peterson, so
him and Advisor and I think a justic hair, do
you know? I I would love to have Doug's hair.
And it's great when it was like the wind think
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we're all appreciative of the Doug Peterson situation just because
everyone was bummed about the Urban Meyer fiasco, not just
because of like how kind of it was almost disrespectful
how he treated a job in the responsibility that comes
with that job. But it was just like a waste
of everyone's talents and considerable talents and in the case
of Trevor Lawrence, a generational talent, and to steer it
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back to the Chargers. It's like, man, there is a
lot of debate about Justin Herbert and how great he
is and who's better than him, and who's he better than?
But I did need I kind of needed if Justin
Herbert is gonna be spoken of as like his generation's
Dan Marino, I kind of needed him to go win
that game. And uh, they didn't lose the game. I
know Joe Lombardi, their offensive Cordy, and I got fired.
They didn't lose the game because they got too conservative
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and just started handing the ball off a ton like
Herbert had a lot of opportunities to kind of put
that game away, and he couldn't do what The play
calling needs to be better, the whole scheme and offense
and and Los Angeles needs to be better. But he
takes a big part of the l in that game.
They couldn't run the ball even when they had a
huge lead. Like the play calling in general was very suspect.
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Quarterback coach Shane Day also was let go. Who else
do we want to talk? Let's talk about the Vikings.
I mean, I got it. I got the Vikings right,
I gotta say I talked about it all year. I
wasn't the only one that wasn't buying in on the
on the Vikings, but I caught a lot of fire
on Twitter when at the end of the regular season
I had non playoff teams like the Lions, for example,
ahead of them, and I just never bought it. And
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that's why heading into wild card weekend, I had the
Vikings and Giants right next to each other because you
knew that was gonna come right down to the end,
because you knew those teams despite one team being thirteen
and four and the other nine six and one, we're
basically at the same level. And it turned out the
other team with the worst record was better. I feel
like we did watch the better team did advance, and
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Vikings fans at the once again put up with like
just not just losing, but like like cruel irony type losses.
You go Levin and oh in the regular season and
one score games and then immediately once the playoffs start,
lose a one score game. That's very on brand for
the Viking. Speaking of snake bitten franchise, it is it
is the Vikings. They have. They have a lot of
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work to do in the off season, but as on
one side of the on defense exactly like they need
to do a tremendous amount of fixing. I mean, like
they I know that they switched schemes this year. There
was a lot of different changes, but I think overall
on the whole, having a new head coach in there
with Kevin O'Connell as his first season in Minnesota as
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the head coach, like this was a good year for them.
They won the division. Obviously it was a down year
for the Packers, but they had the Lions in there.
Now they have to deal with the Lions going forward
as well, so I think it's positive. It will be
moving in the right direction. But once they get the
defense fixed, then this will be a formidable team. You
have justin Jefferson. He's an unbelievable talent, and like, honestly,
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that's all you need. I think it's helpful sometimes when
you have off seasons like this where you know very
specifically what needs to improve. I know Cincinnati had that
type of situation after Burrows rookie year and they really
went after we need another playmaker and we need to
address the offensive line, and those things got a lot
better quickly. I think you're gonna see Minnesota be very aggressive.
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There are salary cap restraints, of course, but very aggressive
in free agency to address the defense at multiple levels.
And I think their draft you'll see it's one of
those always these teams like well, they had eight picks
and seven of the eight were defensive players. I think
you're gonna see that type of vikings offseason, and it
will be very logical. Some of these other teams, Connie,
as we kind of wrap things up here, it's harder
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to say what their offseason looks like. The Ravens. Obviously,
we don't know what's going on with Lamar Jackson. They
have this this former mvv P quarterback in his mid twenties.
That should be a no brainer. And yet when Melissa
Stark on Sunday Night Football comes on the air before kickoff,
well that's different. When she was talking to Johnny Harbaugh
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after the end of the first quarter, abolished the end
of first quarter interview a TV to get rid of it. No,
But when Stark was on as a Big Stark Show,
when Stark was on before kickoff and she said that
Lamar Jackson ruled himself out ahead of the playoffs and
that's a power move presented by you know, energizer and
then chose not to travel with the team to the
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PO And I'm like, whoa, that is a major, major
red flag in terms of where he stands with the team.
I was thinking the same thing because it's not like
he was just recently hurt and this would be a
problem for him to fly. I don't know the workings
of everything, but you would think that he would be
there with the team. Remember last week when we talked
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about the teams that we thought could make a big
jump on this show come August when we come back,
and I said the Jets they had to get a
quarterback first, which they were going to get. Where do
you think the Jets would be in? You know, there
are a lot of off brand power rankings, Like if
you added Lamar to that Jet offense and defense, like
a lot of people we would have, the Jets potentially
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is a top ten team. That's what Lamar would bring
to a new team. And the Ravens if they do
move him, and I don't think they would unless they
he makes it clear to them that there's no way
I want to be with you anymore. Um, He's gonna
make another team a lot better and it will be
a ton of buzz around wherever he lands for that team. Also,
think about how everything changed for that organization when Lamar
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got there, like specifically for John Harball, Like there were
so many uncertainties, especially at the quarterback position, and John
Harball basically built the offense around him and then built
himself extra years in the position. So I just feel
like there should be some loyalty to the family. Alight,
I like that. You know, did you finish the movie yet,
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finish god Father yet? In fact, before we say goodbye,
finish glass Onion, though I want to. I want to
check that out. So the Ravens in decision at quarterback,
the Bucks in decision at quarterback, the Seahawks unclear where
they are at quarterback, although it looks like Gino wants
back and they want you know. And the Dolphins, they
said the two is coming back next year, but we
don't know what to his future is questions question marks
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at quarterback will put you lower in the rankings? Exercise
in professional football facts, That makes sense. All right, We'll
be back next week with the Conference Championship edition of
Power Rankings. They're just gonna get shorter and shorter the list,
which is less work for us, which is a good
thing for you. We love it. Until next week, He's
the call. NFL Power Rankings as a production of the
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