September 30, 2025 • 24 mins
How are did the Chiefs climb back up the rankings and how far did Eric drop the Baltimore Ravens? Where do the Bengals turn next and did the NY Giants crack the top-20?
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Welcome to a brand new edition of NFL Power Rankings.
Mike m. Eric at home with you, and as.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Always, every single week, we take you through the top
teams in the NFL. For a complete list of all
thirty two teams and where they sit according to Eric,
all you have to do is check out the article
on NFL dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Before Eric, we get to the top teams.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I do think it's worth repeating here because if you
haven't heard, Tyreek Hill goes down with the dislocated knee
on Monday Night Football. They get the win, and that's
the positive from a Dolphins perspective, but they lose the
best wide receiver on their team for the entire year.
How different is this offense going to look without the Cheetah?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Yeah? I guess it's good that Darren Waller had the
game he did in his return to the NFL two
touchdowns and the on sites kick return to help kind
of seal it there, But losing Tyreek Hill completely changes
this team. We have Molak neighbors go down in New
York too, So every week it seems like there's been
a new position that's been attacked, and wide receiver certainly
is one. So Miami's gotta find some solutions, jal Wadle,
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somebody else. It's got to come from within.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I think we will find out exactly where the Miami
Dolphins rank on your list.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
But let's get to the top teams right now in
the league.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
And at number one with no drama at all, four
and O the Philadelphia Eagles, the Buffalo Bills right behind them,
followed by be the line, so no change in that
top three. A nice move here from the Rams, who
we'll talk about in just a moment, moving up six
spots into the fourth position. Seattle, let's go moving up
eight spots. The Packers hold firm at six with.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
A tie on Sunday Night Football.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
It's still weird to see two to one and one
as a record for them against the Dallas Cowboys. That
was entertaining until we didn't get closure on a winner.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers dropped two spots to seven, and
then we got the Chargers falling four spots into that
eighth position. All right, I think there's a lot of
teams that would love to have this type of drama
be four and Zho coming off of a Super Bowl appearance.
(01:57):
What am I supposed to make of these conversations with
this offense and AJ Brown being upset and Jalen Hurts
in some of these numbers in the first half versus
the second half, they're still undefeated.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Yeah, And you know, we had a lot of conversations
like this about the Kansas City Chiefs last year, right,
all the close wins, all the close shaves that they had,
but they had this sort of late game grit. Now
I understand the Eagles didn't play all that well in
the second half of this game, didn't play well in
the first half against the Rams. They've had this sort
of bad habit of I don't want to say falling asleep,
but you know, going into snooze mode if you will. Offensively,
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and you know, Jalen Hurts is still capable of making plays.
We've seen more design runs, there were these little clever
pitch plays. There was the fake Tush push. So they
added more to this offense this week, but it just
wasn't connecting consistently. They really haven't had a great sixty
minute game yet. But with the defense playing as well,
it is special teams as well. You know, the offense
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still getting good field positions, still making you know, a
high point total. So right now it's good enough. Will
it be good enough in October, November, December, we shall see.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
If if the Bills were dominant and they got tested
against the seats, if they were dominant, would you have
slid them into the top spot.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Yeah, I considered it too with Detroit, you know, I
mean Buffalo and Detroit, two teams that I thought about
moving up into that top spot right now, the top quartile,
the first eight teams. You can make an argument for
a lot of different orders, other teams that I didn't
even include in this list. So it's been hard to
solidify the kind of the upper class right now.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
The Rams I think are in that mix, and I'm
glad you moved them up as far as you did.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
They sit fourth in the rankings.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
They move up six spots, and I know a couple
weeks ago they lost to this Philadelphia team in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
But I'm a believer in the Colts.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Maybe I'm in the minority, I'm not exactly sure, but
I think the Cults are a really good football team,
and they got tested there make the case for the
Rams and justify this fourth position for them.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
I'm with you. I think the Cults are a legitimate opponent.
Granted they did shoot themselves in the foot, but and
the Rams took advantage of it, right, I mean, I
think they're an opportunistic football team. If Matthew Stafford stays healthy,
they have a chance. The run game been a little
hit or miss, but those two explosive receivers that in
the pass rush makes for an next combination. If they
can solidify the special teams, I think they'll have a
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you know, a squad that's very dangerous to face. So,
you know, you think about kind of how they've they've
gotten to this point. It's really a loss at Philly.
They had a chance to win that game at the
very end. That's the only thing keeping them from four
to zero right now. So when you step back, you
kind of look at their resume. Yes, some close shade wins,
but still coming against some better teams. I think the
Texans will be will end up looking like a better
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win in Week one and you know, just across the board,
and they don't have any glaring weaknesses in my opinion.
But the question is are they gonna stay healthy. Are
they gonna stay viable for the whole season? Just think
about how much better they look now, though then it
starts the last two seasons one and four, three and six.
That's that's been a huge improvement right there.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yeah, well look at it because they've been healthy these
last couple of years. You think about the starts of
their seasons and revolving doors on their offensive line, star
players going down. I just think if you're a Rams fan,
you absolutely have to love the fact that Matthew Stafford
looks healthy, because there was some real concern with that
back injury heading into a week nowe one in the preseason,
not really seeing them out there, So definitely a positive sign. Eric,
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you had the Rams moving up six spots, but they
weren't the biggest mover of the week. The Seahawks they
move up eight spots. That is a significant move. How
bullish are you on this team?
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I think there's a lot of that too it, Mike.
I mean, like I said earlier, it's been a little
bit tough to determine who are the best eight teams,
who are the real cream of the crop. But as
I kept looking more and more at Seattle, I thought,
boy close loss in Week one, have made strides since then,
have a big road at a road win at Pittsburgh,
short week road win at Arizona even if they had
to hang on. So a lot of good things. And
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I guess I didn't know what to expect out of
Sam Darnold coming into the season. I guess I didn't
know whether Jackson Smith and Jigbo would be that wide
receiver one without DK there so far those have been answered.
I think both guys have played excellent. The defense has
made some strides. The run game can put teams away.
They have that two headed monster O Lion is kind
of hell firm for now. Just more big plays defensively
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the last three games too, So I love the progress
they've made. It look like a more surefooted team. Some
doubt maybe are they truly that elite level contender. I
don't know yet, but again, their resume looks pretty good
and they're right up there with the Rams as one
of the NFC West heavyweights, I.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Think, and an opportunity to really solidify themselves and justify
this ranking with Tampa Bay that's looming, and quite frankly,
eric they win that football game I think there's more
people who watch the show, listen to this podcast who
will say, oh, okay, this makes sense. I feel like
I jinx the Green Bay Packers. Coming off of Week two.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I'm doing shows, you.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Know, on the NFL channel and hanging out with you, Eric,
and I'm like, Yo, green Bay's got the best resume
in the NFL. They I was buying it. I'm like, Hey,
they're going to be a super Bowl team. Then they lose,
and then they come up with a tie. How am
I supposed to view this squad based off of the
highs and some of the lows to the first few
weeks of the season.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Yeah, I think the team that looked like it was
going to race out to a two touchdown lead all
of a sudden had an extra point block that's a
three point swing, started giving ground defensively, and we started
asking ourselves, is this the same defensive group that we
saw in the first three weeks of the season. Even
as good as Dak Prescott is, and he was fantastic
Sunday night, but still this defense kind of held itself
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to a higher standard, had kind of raised the bar,
if you will, with their performance the first three weeks
of the season, and it dropped. There's no question about it.
I mean with that one game, all of a sudden,
we're kind of left to question, Hey, what happens when
they slow down the pass rush? Is that secondary going
to be able to hold up? Look, Jordan Love is
going to have a couple of quirky plays per game.
(07:38):
You sort of baked that into the expectations. He's been
more good than bad. You know. Josh Jacobs sort of
cured some of their run game issues Sunday night, even
if it did come against the Cowboys. But special teams
remain a problem. That offensive line has injuries. Thankfully they're
at the by and they can kind of sort some
of those things out. But all of a sudden two
one and one, I think we're we're questioning their credentials
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a little bit.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah we are.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
You know who are not questioning right now? Jackson Dark
and the GMA. How about the Giants.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Let's go I.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Told you last week on the show, he's gonna he's
gonna invigorate this team.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I will say this, I didn't see this coming.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
And what I mean by that is I didn't see
them beating the Chargers and really dominating most of that game.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I'm almost willing.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
To give La the past here. We knew about Slater
before the season started, gets some mega contract, he's not
on that offensive line. Joel Alt gets hurt, Justin Herbert
some uncharacteristic interceptions. This dude doesn't really make mistakes. I
thank you and I on this show, we're talking about
him as like an early MVP candidate. Are you with me, like,
just say, hey, like a blip on the radar. Let's
not panic right now. They didn't have Najee Harris. I
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think Amri and Hampton looked pretty good. Or are you
legitimately concerned about this offensive line creating more problems, you know,
than solutions over the next few weeks.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Yeah. One of the good things that came out of
that game, one of the very few, let's make that clearer,
was Omari and Hampton. I think him breaking out and
you know, putting that fumble a couple of weeks ago,
way behind him. Here. Each week he seems a little
bit more comfortable. That's a good thing. It's important that
he has a role. But losing Slater first in the
preseason and losing all both your tackles, both high paid
guys both expected to be huge parts of their equation.
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Really kind of having those two made them think maybe
we don't need to add as much in the offseason
to that group. Becton, you know, if they had all
those guys together healthy, they might have one of the
better offensive lines in the league. Now arguably one of
the worst. So how are they going to find solutions
to keeping Herbert upright protecting him? He's already sped things up,
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He's already done so much with so so passed protection.
What's a good you know, what's gonna happen? The way
we saw in that second half, the Giants just mauled
and Austin Deculus had his hands full. I don't know
if there's a solution on the roster right now to
help out.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I will say this Giants defense, and I know this
team has struggled this season. I mean, I just love
seeing the emotion with Jackson Dard and Brian Dabell, But
this defense is actually pretty good. So for as much
as people want to say, like, oh, they should have
lost this game, you have the injuries on this offensive line.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I think that's a problem.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
The one positive and there's more than one, but one
of the positives is the Chargers have one of the
best wide receiver rooms and one of the best quarterback
in the NFL. So I think that there's a credit Harbaugh.
I believe in him, trust him. I think he'll be
able to figure it out. But they do drop four
spots in these rankings. There's another team that candidly like
I actually thought we'd be talking a whole lot more
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about them, and it's been mostly negative. But I'll tell
you what I think they're really on. The men's Xavier
Worthy looked terrific. We'll examine the Chiefs and talk about
some struggles and the Ravens. That's coming up next on
NFL Power Rankings. Back here on Power Rankings, Mike ham
along with Eric ed Holm, and you can take a
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closer look.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
At Eric's rankings. Teams nine through sixteen don't look now.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Kansas City Chiefs look like they are back, moving up
two spots to number nine. The Colts with that loss
that Coose loss to the Rams drop a spot into
that tenth position. The Commanders they cannot wait to get
Jayden Daniels back into the line up. At eleven, the
Broncos look good, move up two spots on Monday Night football.
With a win against Cincinnati, they're in the twelfth spot.
The Jags at their team, the Steel at fourteen. We'll
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talk about both those teams.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
At fifteen.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
It is the Niners who dropped three spots. Even had
Rock Purty back in the line, I couldn't figure out
a way to get it done. And the free fall
for the Ravens continues. One in three they dropped nine spots.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Eric I was looking at some of.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
The AFC West odds to go and win that division.
The Chargers, despite that loss, are still in the driver
See Kansas City got a win and they're still behind
in terms of the odds from Los Angeles. Then it's
Denver and the Raiders in that order. But let's focus
in on this Kansas City Chiefs team. Xavier Worthy, if
you would have said to me, like, hey, one guy
makes a difference in this offense, of course, I think
(11:41):
we all think about Patrick Mahomes in one to five.
But how much better did they look with a healthy
wide receiver out there?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Yeah, it wasn't hard to see the difference. I'm sure
anyone who's been watching the Chiefs for a while now,
and certainly the beginning of the season. Just seeing him
right away, the big play returning to the offense average
seventeen plus points per touch, you know, thirty seven yard catch,
thirty five yard run, twenty eight yard catch all the
first thirty plus minutes of the game. That was the
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big difference right there. I've always said, when Patrick trusts
his receivers, his targets, and his offensive line, this is
a good offense. Right. We'll see if they're back to
being that super Bowl type contender, but I think they
have to feel a ton better about themselves with a
dominant victory over Baltimore with these developments happening. So yeah,
it just makes the home so much more dangerous. It
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takes a little office play as far as the scrambling
is concerned. So it's fun to see them with mostly
full compliment. Don't forget they still get Rashi Rice at
some point this season, so you know, with him and
Jalen Royals eventually too, when he's got his full arsenal weapons,
I think the Chiefs are gonna absolutely be one of
those teams you can't look past them at all. I Mean,
we were ready to bury him, but they're still coming.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Eric This is the first time this season I've watched
this team and they look like A they were having
fun and B they looked confident, and they were confident
against the Ravens team that's had a lot of injuries.
We'll talk about them in just a moment, but I
don't think it matters. Team goes Hey, Lamar Jackson still
on that side of the field. They still got some
other guys and they handled them. So I think this
is a big spot for Kansas City. To get Jacksonville
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on the road Monday night football, that's also a big
spot for them. All right, Let's move on to the Colts,
who sitt number ten on your rankings. Danny Dimes got
a couple interceptions, looking a little human because that hadn't
been the case to the first couple of weeks of
the season. They're like, literally like a dropped touchdown from
Edi Mitchell away from maybe having a different result against
the Rams.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
There's a part of me, and I said this earlier when.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
We talked about Los Angeles, I think this Colts team
is really legit, and you still having this top ten team,
you must feel the same way I do.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
I watched that game closely on Sunday Live watch parts
of it again later and I said, look, you know,
if if Ady Mitchell doesn't you, you know, kindly said,
drop right, cough it up, whatever you want to say,
just shy the end zone out of the back. I mean,
that's a turnover that's missing seven points right there. And
then a holding call also on Jonathan Taylor's fifty three
our touchdown return in the fourth quarter. You know, couldn't
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have two more disastrous for a single player. Obviously he
becomes the go but the Colts really did do what
they hadn't done the first three games of the season,
and that shoot themselves in the foot these costly penalties
and mistakes that really hurt them because at the beginning
of the game and through different stretches throughout, they actually
look like, if not the equal team, so maybe even
the better one than the Rams at times. So I'm
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with you. I think they're a legitimate team. I don't
think they're going to have games where Ady Mitchell or
one other player has this many terrible mistakes all at once.
But they've got to make sure they clean it up.
Their margin for air I don't think is quite as
big as some of the other contenders, but how efficient
they've been offensively this season, I don't think we can
look past them.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Yeah, they got the Raiders next up, and once again
you only drop them one spot. I could tell there's
a lot of respect that you have for that ball club.
The Jags move up four spots. At what point do
we say, oh, okay, Like, hey, maybe this is the
year that we thought we would get a couple of
years ago from this team, Like this looks pretty legit,
especially on the defensive side.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
That's thirteen turnovers they forced this year. My let me
here's a little crazy stats. That's more than three teams
had all of last season. In one of those three teams,
the Jacksonville Jaguars, they had nine turnovers all of last year,
forced thirteen through three or through four games, excuse me,
three of them at least three in every single game.
That'll win you football games right there. Even if Trevor
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Lawrence and Travis Hunter and Brian Thomas and those guys
are still kind of developing chemistry, even if the offense
has been a little bit hit or miss, you go
plus four in the turnover department against San Francisco and
you get a punt return touchdown. That's a game you
need to win, even with a missfield goal and some
other stuff they left out on the field. So look
the offensive formula. You know, Liam Cohene was brought in
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to kind of fix this thing, get the big place coming.
We've seen Travis etn We've seen some moments where it
looks promising, but it really has been about the defense
and in most cases the special teams that have done
the heavy lifting. So you know, they haven't even theoretically
hit anything close to their offensive peak yet, and they're
vastly outperforming what they did defensively a year ago. So
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I'm intrigued. You know, consider me fascinating where this team
could end up because you know, there's still so much
room to grow, and we'll see if they can kind
of threaten the Colts in that division and maybe even
make a playoff push.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yeah, I think one of those last points is a
legit one. They haven't even hit the ceiling right now
on the offensive side. Bucky Brooks, one of our colleagues
and NFL Media, actually works on that broadcast team for
the Jags.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I remember talking to him a week ago about this.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
He's like, hey, Brian Thomas doesn't even look like the
duty was last year, Like there's another gear for this
offense they haven't utilized. They're just not clicking right now
at full throttle. When that happens, they'll be scary. The Steelers.
They go to Island, they get a win, they move
up a couple spots in your rankings. They sit at fourteenth.
Are they the team to beat in the AFC North?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
I have very soft sort of recommendation for that. Right now,
every team in the North is in the negative and
point in perragial, including the Steelers. They're minus two even
though they're three and one, so you know, I don't
want to give them too much credit, but I will
say they've taken care of business the last two games
a Patriots team that hadn't found its identity yet and
now a Vikings team that's struggling offensively. The three wins
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they have are against flawed offenses, so I don't want
to put too much stock into what they've done. And
the big home loss of Seattle still kind of looms,
but we've at least seen progress. Aaron Rodgers looks pretty good.
I mean, look, I can't complain with a whole lot
of what he's done. DK Metcalf has been good too.
Kenneth Gainwell stepped in and did a really good job
for Jalen Warren. You know, they're fixing some of these
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little issues that kind of plagued them the first few
games of the season. But you know, is it the
most impressive three and one start of all time? No?
And I think you know, some Steelers fans wish they
wouldn't have punted there at the end of the game,
kind of keeping the door open, but doing the job
so far. And again, I think this is a team
that can get theoretically better than what we've seen so far.
So the record helps him out quite a bit.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
I think one of the more disappointing teams this season
is inside that division. They dropped nine spots for you,
that's the Baltimore Ravens. By the time the game was
over with the Kansas City Chiefs, seven starters on this
defensive side either we're not playing because they got hurt
in the game or didn't even play in this matchup
because they were banged up. Then Lamar Jackson is out
late in that game because of a hamstring injury.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
They get Houston.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
What am I supposed to make of a one and
three football team that's got this much attrition.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Yeah, it's really hard to kind of gauge them right now.
We're still kind of waiting to hear what Lamar's status
is and what he's gonna be. Is he going to
miss a game? Would they consider sitting him out? Is
it multiple games and zero? You know that uncertainty looms
over everything because he's the guy that can rescue the
Ravens from a bad game. He hasn't really done that
so far, but he has that capability. He's superhuman in
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some regards. But when you have him banged up, not
as effective as a runner so far this season, and
tasked with cleaning up so many mistakes, all the injuries
on defense, how many points and drives they're giving up.
The offense has had problems as well. You know, this
is where the breaking point, you know, the law of
diminishing returns kind of kicks in at this point. So, yeah,
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you start thinking about Matta Bik out for the season.
You know, the secondary really being chewed up Rokwan Smith
to you know, that's the heart of the Ravens defense
outside of Kyle Hamilton, and to lose that kind of
backbone that core, if you will. It's just absolutely gutting
right now with some tough games coming up Texans Rams
and hopefully they limp into the by At this point.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
They are a one to three football team. Eric, I
gotta talk to a research department.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
I got to imagine teams that start one to three
making the postseason like that's probably low single digit.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Percent, pretty low.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
So yeah, this is this is gonna be an uphill
battle right now for this Ravens team. They got to
get healthy. Hopefully Lamar does not miss significant time. There's
a reason for smile for me though, because the New
York Giants handle a business getting their first win of
the season. Jackson Dart reinvigorating this ball club. What does
it mean for the g Men in their ranking. We'll
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also check in on a division rival and the Cowboys,
who also showed some signs to life on the offensive side.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
That's still become on Power rankings. Back here on Power Rankings,
Mike ym and Eric at home with you. Here's Eric's
teams seventeen through twenty four.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
The Vikings drop two spots with that loss against the
Steelers in Ireland. Don't look now, Chicago's starting to look
pretty good here Roma Douings and Kayleb Williams.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
That connection is looking pretty strong. They move up one.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Spot at nineteen. It's the Cardinals the Falcons. They might
be the biggest enigma in the NFL based off of
what we saw two weeks ago, and then win this
past week.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
They move up two spots. The Texans.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Good to see them get into the win column, also
moving up two spots to twenty one.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
The Dallas Cowboys a mover, up two spots.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
As well at twenty two, the Patriots at twenty three,
and the Cincinnati Bengals, Oh boy, drop four spots down
to twenty four. All right, the Cowboys explain this to me,
are are you a fan of ties?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (20:53):
I love ties? Are you kidding me? I like unusual scores,
I like strange games, So yeah, I do, and it
messes everything up right when we get down a tiebreaker season,
This is going to be pretty fun. But who knows
if the Cowboys leaving being playoff canens, if they have
George Pickens making plays like this, maybe they will. Dak
Prescott was special too, you know, A very tough team
to rank given their defensive struggles, but I will say
(21:14):
they're playing hard and it's good to see Dak back
at an elite level. He was an MVP candidate a
couple of years ago, and boy, I hope he gets
a chance at a ring at some point. Again, I
don't know if it's this season, but you gotta love
the fight in this team, and they did put on
a show at least Sunday night.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Yeah, an emotional game for the Dallas Cowboys with Micah
back into the building and obviously Mike I had that
huge tackle late in that game really actually helped to
save it for him from that perspective, because it could
have been a loss for Green Bay Bengals.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
They dropped four spots.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
I got a friend who's actually a fan of Cincinnati
shot me at Texas morning and he's like, hey, like,
what are we supposed to do? Like this was really
tough on Monday night, and he's right about that. They
dropped the four spots. Do you make a trade for
a quarterback?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Is it Russ? Is it? You know? Do you make
some calls for Jamis?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Like, I don't know what the solution is for this
team because Detroit is next, and I don't know how
they get that went.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
I mean, they're coming schedule is rough and what we
saw Monday night was not feasible. And this is not
how you employ your star wide receivers. You don't get
them the ball. That's certainly a problem. Jake Browning, it's
been bad. Maybe it is the solution you go for
a quarterback there are some options out there, or maybe
you go in the totally different direction and start fielding
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calls on on t Higgins or Trey Hendrickson. I guess
it depends how the next three four games go and
if they're going to be out of it by the
trade deadline. If they are, that's what I would do.
I would take the opposite approach. Look, you still want
to build around Burrow and Chase, that's fine. I get that,
But this was an all in type of season that's
going all out the window right now. So I don't
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know if I can defend that quarterback option unless they
start winning some games.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
That's the problem they went in on this season. This
team is to build up right now. Got to figure
it out.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Personnel wise.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Rankings twenty five through thirty two. It's the Cleveland Browns,
the New York Giants, moving up.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Just four spots, Art, what are we doing here? The
Panthers at twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
At twenty eight, it's the Raiders, followed by the Dolphins,
who don't have Tyreek Hill for the rest of the season,
the Jets, still looking for their first one of the
year at thirty the Saints also winless, and then the
Tennessee Titans at thirty two, dropping three spots by that
offense that it has just been tough sledding here the Giants. Dude,
why just four spots your biggest mover with the Seahawks.
I candidly I thought it was going to be the
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Giants moving inside the top twenty.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
If I'm being honest with.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
You, you gotta win some more games first, right, and you
lose Elik Neighbors. I mean, that's gonna take an effect too.
But I love what Dart did. I mean they added
some wrinkles to the offense. You saw this little shovel
of THEO Johnson, you know, darts athleticism. He used it
better than Russell Wilson did. So I'm still excited. I
think they can manufacture some some yards, but not without
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neighbors there. I don't know how much they're gonna be
able to do.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Yeah, it's a tough go, but the defenses look good
and make signs.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Of life for that offense. Appreciate you guys. Watching.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Welcome to a brand new edition of NFL Power Rankings.
Mike m. Eric at home with you, and as.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Always, every single week, we take you through the top
teams in the NFL. For a complete list of all
thirty two teams and where they sit according to Eric,
all you have to do is check out the article
on NFL dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Before Eric, we get to the top teams.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I do think it's worth repeating here because if you
haven't heard, Tyreek Hill goes down with the dislocated knee
on Monday Night Football. They get the win, and that's
the positive from a Dolphins perspective, but they lose the
best wide receiver on their team for the entire year.
How different is this offense going to look without the Cheetah?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Yeah? I guess it's good that Darren Waller had the
game he did in his return to the NFL two
touchdowns and the on sites kick return to help kind
of seal it there, But losing Tyreek Hill completely changes
this team. We have Molak neighbors go down in New
York too, So every week it seems like there's been
a new position that's been attacked, and wide receiver certainly
is one. So Miami's gotta find some solutions, jal Wadle,
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somebody else. It's got to come from within.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I think we will find out exactly where the Miami
Dolphins rank on your list.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
But let's get to the top teams right now in
the league.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
And at number one with no drama at all, four
and O the Philadelphia Eagles, the Buffalo Bills right behind them,
followed by be the line, so no change in that
top three. A nice move here from the Rams, who
we'll talk about in just a moment, moving up six
spots into the fourth position. Seattle, let's go moving up
eight spots. The Packers hold firm at six with.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
A tie on Sunday Night Football.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
It's still weird to see two to one and one
as a record for them against the Dallas Cowboys. That
was entertaining until we didn't get closure on a winner.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers dropped two spots to seven, and
then we got the Chargers falling four spots into that
eighth position. All right, I think there's a lot of
teams that would love to have this type of drama
be four and Zho coming off of a Super Bowl appearance.
(01:57):
What am I supposed to make of these conversations with
this offense and AJ Brown being upset and Jalen Hurts
in some of these numbers in the first half versus
the second half, they're still undefeated.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Yeah, And you know, we had a lot of conversations
like this about the Kansas City Chiefs last year, right,
all the close wins, all the close shaves that they had,
but they had this sort of late game grit. Now
I understand the Eagles didn't play all that well in
the second half of this game, didn't play well in
the first half against the Rams. They've had this sort
of bad habit of I don't want to say falling asleep,
but you know, going into snooze mode if you will. Offensively,
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and you know, Jalen Hurts is still capable of making plays.
We've seen more design runs, there were these little clever
pitch plays. There was the fake Tush push. So they
added more to this offense this week, but it just
wasn't connecting consistently. They really haven't had a great sixty
minute game yet. But with the defense playing as well,
it is special teams as well. You know, the offense
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still getting good field positions, still making you know, a
high point total. So right now it's good enough. Will
it be good enough in October, November, December, we shall see.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
If if the Bills were dominant and they got tested
against the seats, if they were dominant, would you have
slid them into the top spot.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Yeah, I considered it too with Detroit, you know, I
mean Buffalo and Detroit, two teams that I thought about
moving up into that top spot right now, the top quartile,
the first eight teams. You can make an argument for
a lot of different orders, other teams that I didn't
even include in this list. So it's been hard to
solidify the kind of the upper class right now.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
The Rams I think are in that mix, and I'm
glad you moved them up as far as you did.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
They sit fourth in the rankings.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
They move up six spots, and I know a couple
weeks ago they lost to this Philadelphia team in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
But I'm a believer in the Colts.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Maybe I'm in the minority, I'm not exactly sure, but
I think the Cults are a really good football team,
and they got tested there make the case for the
Rams and justify this fourth position for them.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
I'm with you. I think the Cults are a legitimate opponent.
Granted they did shoot themselves in the foot, but and
the Rams took advantage of it, right, I mean, I
think they're an opportunistic football team. If Matthew Stafford stays healthy,
they have a chance. The run game been a little
hit or miss, but those two explosive receivers that in
the pass rush makes for an next combination. If they
can solidify the special teams, I think they'll have a
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you know, a squad that's very dangerous to face. So,
you know, you think about kind of how they've they've
gotten to this point. It's really a loss at Philly.
They had a chance to win that game at the
very end. That's the only thing keeping them from four
to zero right now. So when you step back, you
kind of look at their resume. Yes, some close shade wins,
but still coming against some better teams. I think the
Texans will be will end up looking like a better
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win in Week one and you know, just across the board,
and they don't have any glaring weaknesses in my opinion.
But the question is are they gonna stay healthy. Are
they gonna stay viable for the whole season? Just think
about how much better they look now, though then it
starts the last two seasons one and four, three and six.
That's that's been a huge improvement right there.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yeah, well look at it because they've been healthy these
last couple of years. You think about the starts of
their seasons and revolving doors on their offensive line, star
players going down. I just think if you're a Rams fan,
you absolutely have to love the fact that Matthew Stafford
looks healthy, because there was some real concern with that
back injury heading into a week nowe one in the preseason,
not really seeing them out there, So definitely a positive sign. Eric,
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you had the Rams moving up six spots, but they
weren't the biggest mover of the week. The Seahawks they
move up eight spots. That is a significant move. How
bullish are you on this team?
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I think there's a lot of that too it, Mike.
I mean, like I said earlier, it's been a little
bit tough to determine who are the best eight teams,
who are the real cream of the crop. But as
I kept looking more and more at Seattle, I thought,
boy close loss in Week one, have made strides since then,
have a big road at a road win at Pittsburgh,
short week road win at Arizona even if they had
to hang on. So a lot of good things. And
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I guess I didn't know what to expect out of
Sam Darnold coming into the season. I guess I didn't
know whether Jackson Smith and Jigbo would be that wide
receiver one without DK there so far those have been answered.
I think both guys have played excellent. The defense has
made some strides. The run game can put teams away.
They have that two headed monster O Lion is kind
of hell firm for now. Just more big plays defensively
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the last three games too, So I love the progress
they've made. It look like a more surefooted team. Some
doubt maybe are they truly that elite level contender. I
don't know yet, but again, their resume looks pretty good
and they're right up there with the Rams as one
of the NFC West heavyweights, I.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Think, and an opportunity to really solidify themselves and justify
this ranking with Tampa Bay that's looming, and quite frankly,
eric they win that football game I think there's more
people who watch the show, listen to this podcast who
will say, oh, okay, this makes sense. I feel like
I jinx the Green Bay Packers. Coming off of Week two.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I'm doing shows, you.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Know, on the NFL channel and hanging out with you, Eric,
and I'm like, Yo, green Bay's got the best resume
in the NFL. They I was buying it. I'm like, Hey,
they're going to be a super Bowl team. Then they lose,
and then they come up with a tie. How am
I supposed to view this squad based off of the
highs and some of the lows to the first few
weeks of the season.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Yeah, I think the team that looked like it was
going to race out to a two touchdown lead all
of a sudden had an extra point block that's a
three point swing, started giving ground defensively, and we started
asking ourselves, is this the same defensive group that we
saw in the first three weeks of the season. Even
as good as Dak Prescott is, and he was fantastic
Sunday night, but still this defense kind of held itself
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to a higher standard, had kind of raised the bar,
if you will, with their performance the first three weeks
of the season, and it dropped. There's no question about it.
I mean with that one game, all of a sudden,
we're kind of left to question, Hey, what happens when
they slow down the pass rush? Is that secondary going
to be able to hold up? Look, Jordan Love is
going to have a couple of quirky plays per game.
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You sort of baked that into the expectations. He's been
more good than bad. You know. Josh Jacobs sort of
cured some of their run game issues Sunday night, even
if it did come against the Cowboys. But special teams
remain a problem. That offensive line has injuries. Thankfully they're
at the by and they can kind of sort some
of those things out. But all of a sudden two
one and one, I think we're we're questioning their credentials
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a little bit.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah we are.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
You know who are not questioning right now? Jackson Dark
and the GMA. How about the Giants.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Let's go I.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Told you last week on the show, he's gonna he's
gonna invigorate this team.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I will say this, I didn't see this coming.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
And what I mean by that is I didn't see
them beating the Chargers and really dominating most of that game.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I'm almost willing.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
To give La the past here. We knew about Slater
before the season started, gets some mega contract, he's not
on that offensive line. Joel Alt gets hurt, Justin Herbert
some uncharacteristic interceptions. This dude doesn't really make mistakes. I
thank you and I on this show, we're talking about
him as like an early MVP candidate. Are you with me, like,
just say, hey, like a blip on the radar. Let's
not panic right now. They didn't have Najee Harris. I
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think Amri and Hampton looked pretty good. Or are you
legitimately concerned about this offensive line creating more problems, you know,
than solutions over the next few weeks.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Yeah. One of the good things that came out of
that game, one of the very few, let's make that clearer,
was Omari and Hampton. I think him breaking out and
you know, putting that fumble a couple of weeks ago,
way behind him. Here. Each week he seems a little
bit more comfortable. That's a good thing. It's important that
he has a role. But losing Slater first in the
preseason and losing all both your tackles, both high paid
guys both expected to be huge parts of their equation.
(09:10):
Really kind of having those two made them think maybe
we don't need to add as much in the offseason
to that group. Becton, you know, if they had all
those guys together healthy, they might have one of the
better offensive lines in the league. Now arguably one of
the worst. So how are they going to find solutions
to keeping Herbert upright protecting him? He's already sped things up,
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He's already done so much with so so passed protection.
What's a good you know, what's gonna happen? The way
we saw in that second half, the Giants just mauled
and Austin Deculus had his hands full. I don't know
if there's a solution on the roster right now to
help out.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I will say this Giants defense, and I know this
team has struggled this season. I mean, I just love
seeing the emotion with Jackson Dard and Brian Dabell, But
this defense is actually pretty good. So for as much
as people want to say, like, oh, they should have
lost this game, you have the injuries on this offensive line.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I think that's a problem.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
The one positive and there's more than one, but one
of the positives is the Chargers have one of the
best wide receiver rooms and one of the best quarterback
in the NFL. So I think that there's a credit Harbaugh.
I believe in him, trust him. I think he'll be
able to figure it out. But they do drop four
spots in these rankings. There's another team that candidly like
I actually thought we'd be talking a whole lot more
(10:19):
about them, and it's been mostly negative. But I'll tell
you what I think they're really on. The men's Xavier
Worthy looked terrific. We'll examine the Chiefs and talk about
some struggles and the Ravens. That's coming up next on
NFL Power Rankings. Back here on Power Rankings, Mike ham
along with Eric ed Holm, and you can take a
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closer look.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
At Eric's rankings. Teams nine through sixteen don't look now.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Kansas City Chiefs look like they are back, moving up
two spots to number nine. The Colts with that loss
that Coose loss to the Rams drop a spot into
that tenth position. The Commanders they cannot wait to get
Jayden Daniels back into the line up. At eleven, the
Broncos look good, move up two spots on Monday Night football.
With a win against Cincinnati, they're in the twelfth spot.
The Jags at their team, the Steel at fourteen. We'll
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talk about both those teams.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
At fifteen.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
It is the Niners who dropped three spots. Even had
Rock Purty back in the line, I couldn't figure out
a way to get it done. And the free fall
for the Ravens continues. One in three they dropped nine spots.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Eric I was looking at some of.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
The AFC West odds to go and win that division.
The Chargers, despite that loss, are still in the driver
See Kansas City got a win and they're still behind
in terms of the odds from Los Angeles. Then it's
Denver and the Raiders in that order. But let's focus
in on this Kansas City Chiefs team. Xavier Worthy, if
you would have said to me, like, hey, one guy
makes a difference in this offense, of course, I think
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we all think about Patrick Mahomes in one to five.
But how much better did they look with a healthy
wide receiver out there?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Yeah, it wasn't hard to see the difference. I'm sure
anyone who's been watching the Chiefs for a while now,
and certainly the beginning of the season. Just seeing him
right away, the big play returning to the offense average
seventeen plus points per touch, you know, thirty seven yard catch,
thirty five yard run, twenty eight yard catch all the
first thirty plus minutes of the game. That was the
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big difference right there. I've always said, when Patrick trusts
his receivers, his targets, and his offensive line, this is
a good offense. Right. We'll see if they're back to
being that super Bowl type contender, but I think they
have to feel a ton better about themselves with a
dominant victory over Baltimore with these developments happening. So yeah,
it just makes the home so much more dangerous. It
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takes a little office play as far as the scrambling
is concerned. So it's fun to see them with mostly
full compliment. Don't forget they still get Rashi Rice at
some point this season, so you know, with him and
Jalen Royals eventually too, when he's got his full arsenal weapons,
I think the Chiefs are gonna absolutely be one of
those teams you can't look past them at all. I Mean,
we were ready to bury him, but they're still coming.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Eric This is the first time this season I've watched
this team and they look like A they were having
fun and B they looked confident, and they were confident
against the Ravens team that's had a lot of injuries.
We'll talk about them in just a moment, but I
don't think it matters. Team goes Hey, Lamar Jackson still
on that side of the field. They still got some
other guys and they handled them. So I think this
is a big spot for Kansas City. To get Jacksonville
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on the road Monday night football, that's also a big
spot for them. All right, Let's move on to the Colts,
who sitt number ten on your rankings. Danny Dimes got
a couple interceptions, looking a little human because that hadn't
been the case to the first couple of weeks of
the season. They're like, literally like a dropped touchdown from
Edi Mitchell away from maybe having a different result against
the Rams.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
There's a part of me, and I said this earlier when.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
We talked about Los Angeles, I think this Colts team
is really legit, and you still having this top ten team,
you must feel the same way I do.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
I watched that game closely on Sunday Live watch parts
of it again later and I said, look, you know,
if if Ady Mitchell doesn't you, you know, kindly said,
drop right, cough it up, whatever you want to say,
just shy the end zone out of the back. I mean,
that's a turnover that's missing seven points right there. And
then a holding call also on Jonathan Taylor's fifty three
our touchdown return in the fourth quarter. You know, couldn't
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have two more disastrous for a single player. Obviously he
becomes the go but the Colts really did do what
they hadn't done the first three games of the season,
and that shoot themselves in the foot these costly penalties
and mistakes that really hurt them because at the beginning
of the game and through different stretches throughout, they actually
look like, if not the equal team, so maybe even
the better one than the Rams at times. So I'm
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with you. I think they're a legitimate team. I don't
think they're going to have games where Ady Mitchell or
one other player has this many terrible mistakes all at once.
But they've got to make sure they clean it up.
Their margin for air I don't think is quite as
big as some of the other contenders, but how efficient
they've been offensively this season, I don't think we can
look past them.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Yeah, they got the Raiders next up, and once again
you only drop them one spot. I could tell there's
a lot of respect that you have for that ball club.
The Jags move up four spots. At what point do
we say, oh, okay, Like, hey, maybe this is the
year that we thought we would get a couple of
years ago from this team, Like this looks pretty legit,
especially on the defensive side.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
That's thirteen turnovers they forced this year. My let me
here's a little crazy stats. That's more than three teams
had all of last season. In one of those three teams,
the Jacksonville Jaguars, they had nine turnovers all of last year,
forced thirteen through three or through four games, excuse me,
three of them at least three in every single game.
That'll win you football games right there. Even if Trevor
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Lawrence and Travis Hunter and Brian Thomas and those guys
are still kind of developing chemistry, even if the offense
has been a little bit hit or miss, you go
plus four in the turnover department against San Francisco and
you get a punt return touchdown. That's a game you
need to win, even with a missfield goal and some
other stuff they left out on the field. So look
the offensive formula. You know, Liam Cohene was brought in
(15:44):
to kind of fix this thing, get the big place coming.
We've seen Travis etn We've seen some moments where it
looks promising, but it really has been about the defense
and in most cases the special teams that have done
the heavy lifting. So you know, they haven't even theoretically
hit anything close to their offensive peak yet, and they're
vastly outperforming what they did defensively a year ago. So
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I'm intrigued. You know, consider me fascinating where this team
could end up because you know, there's still so much
room to grow, and we'll see if they can kind
of threaten the Colts in that division and maybe even
make a playoff push.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yeah, I think one of those last points is a
legit one. They haven't even hit the ceiling right now
on the offensive side. Bucky Brooks, one of our colleagues
and NFL Media, actually works on that broadcast team for
the Jags.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I remember talking to him a week ago about this.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
He's like, hey, Brian Thomas doesn't even look like the
duty was last year, Like there's another gear for this
offense they haven't utilized. They're just not clicking right now
at full throttle. When that happens, they'll be scary. The Steelers.
They go to Island, they get a win, they move
up a couple spots in your rankings. They sit at fourteenth.
Are they the team to beat in the AFC North?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
I have very soft sort of recommendation for that. Right now,
every team in the North is in the negative and
point in perragial, including the Steelers. They're minus two even
though they're three and one, so you know, I don't
want to give them too much credit, but I will
say they've taken care of business the last two games
a Patriots team that hadn't found its identity yet and
now a Vikings team that's struggling offensively. The three wins
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they have are against flawed offenses, so I don't want
to put too much stock into what they've done. And
the big home loss of Seattle still kind of looms,
but we've at least seen progress. Aaron Rodgers looks pretty good.
I mean, look, I can't complain with a whole lot
of what he's done. DK Metcalf has been good too.
Kenneth Gainwell stepped in and did a really good job
for Jalen Warren. You know, they're fixing some of these
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little issues that kind of plagued them the first few
games of the season. But you know, is it the
most impressive three and one start of all time? No?
And I think you know, some Steelers fans wish they
wouldn't have punted there at the end of the game,
kind of keeping the door open, but doing the job
so far. And again, I think this is a team
that can get theoretically better than what we've seen so far.
So the record helps him out quite a bit.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
I think one of the more disappointing teams this season
is inside that division. They dropped nine spots for you,
that's the Baltimore Ravens. By the time the game was
over with the Kansas City Chiefs, seven starters on this
defensive side either we're not playing because they got hurt
in the game or didn't even play in this matchup
because they were banged up. Then Lamar Jackson is out
late in that game because of a hamstring injury.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
They get Houston.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
What am I supposed to make of a one and
three football team that's got this much attrition.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Yeah, it's really hard to kind of gauge them right now.
We're still kind of waiting to hear what Lamar's status
is and what he's gonna be. Is he going to
miss a game? Would they consider sitting him out? Is
it multiple games and zero? You know that uncertainty looms
over everything because he's the guy that can rescue the
Ravens from a bad game. He hasn't really done that
so far, but he has that capability. He's superhuman in
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some regards. But when you have him banged up, not
as effective as a runner so far this season, and
tasked with cleaning up so many mistakes, all the injuries
on defense, how many points and drives they're giving up.
The offense has had problems as well. You know, this
is where the breaking point, you know, the law of
diminishing returns kind of kicks in at this point. So, yeah,
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you start thinking about Matta Bik out for the season.
You know, the secondary really being chewed up Rokwan Smith
to you know, that's the heart of the Ravens defense
outside of Kyle Hamilton, and to lose that kind of
backbone that core, if you will. It's just absolutely gutting
right now with some tough games coming up Texans Rams
and hopefully they limp into the by At this point.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
They are a one to three football team. Eric, I
gotta talk to a research department.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
I got to imagine teams that start one to three
making the postseason like that's probably low single digit.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Percent, pretty low.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
So yeah, this is this is gonna be an uphill
battle right now for this Ravens team. They got to
get healthy. Hopefully Lamar does not miss significant time. There's
a reason for smile for me though, because the New
York Giants handle a business getting their first win of
the season. Jackson Dart reinvigorating this ball club. What does
it mean for the g Men in their ranking. We'll
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also check in on a division rival and the Cowboys,
who also showed some signs to life on the offensive side.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
That's still become on Power rankings. Back here on Power Rankings,
Mike ym and Eric at home with you. Here's Eric's
teams seventeen through twenty four.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
The Vikings drop two spots with that loss against the
Steelers in Ireland. Don't look now, Chicago's starting to look
pretty good here Roma Douings and Kayleb Williams.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
That connection is looking pretty strong. They move up one.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Spot at nineteen. It's the Cardinals the Falcons. They might
be the biggest enigma in the NFL based off of
what we saw two weeks ago, and then win this
past week.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
They move up two spots. The Texans.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Good to see them get into the win column, also
moving up two spots to twenty one.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
The Dallas Cowboys a mover, up two spots.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
As well at twenty two, the Patriots at twenty three,
and the Cincinnati Bengals, Oh boy, drop four spots down
to twenty four. All right, the Cowboys explain this to me,
are are you a fan of ties?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (20:53):
I love ties? Are you kidding me? I like unusual scores,
I like strange games, So yeah, I do, and it
messes everything up right when we get down a tiebreaker season,
This is going to be pretty fun. But who knows
if the Cowboys leaving being playoff canens, if they have
George Pickens making plays like this, maybe they will. Dak
Prescott was special too, you know, A very tough team
to rank given their defensive struggles, but I will say
(21:14):
they're playing hard and it's good to see Dak back
at an elite level. He was an MVP candidate a
couple of years ago, and boy, I hope he gets
a chance at a ring at some point. Again, I
don't know if it's this season, but you gotta love
the fight in this team, and they did put on
a show at least Sunday night.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Yeah, an emotional game for the Dallas Cowboys with Micah
back into the building and obviously Mike I had that
huge tackle late in that game really actually helped to
save it for him from that perspective, because it could
have been a loss for Green Bay Bengals.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
They dropped four spots.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
I got a friend who's actually a fan of Cincinnati
shot me at Texas morning and he's like, hey, like,
what are we supposed to do? Like this was really
tough on Monday night, and he's right about that. They
dropped the four spots. Do you make a trade for
a quarterback?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Is it Russ? Is it? You know? Do you make
some calls for Jamis?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Like, I don't know what the solution is for this
team because Detroit is next, and I don't know how
they get that went.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
I mean, they're coming schedule is rough and what we
saw Monday night was not feasible. And this is not
how you employ your star wide receivers. You don't get
them the ball. That's certainly a problem. Jake Browning, it's
been bad. Maybe it is the solution you go for
a quarterback there are some options out there, or maybe
you go in the totally different direction and start fielding
(22:24):
calls on on t Higgins or Trey Hendrickson. I guess
it depends how the next three four games go and
if they're going to be out of it by the
trade deadline. If they are, that's what I would do.
I would take the opposite approach. Look, you still want
to build around Burrow and Chase, that's fine. I get that,
But this was an all in type of season that's
going all out the window right now. So I don't
(22:44):
know if I can defend that quarterback option unless they
start winning some games.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
That's the problem they went in on this season. This
team is to build up right now. Got to figure
it out.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Personnel wise.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Rankings twenty five through thirty two. It's the Cleveland Browns,
the New York Giants, moving up.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Just four spots, Art, what are we doing here? The
Panthers at twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
At twenty eight, it's the Raiders, followed by the Dolphins,
who don't have Tyreek Hill for the rest of the season,
the Jets, still looking for their first one of the
year at thirty the Saints also winless, and then the
Tennessee Titans at thirty two, dropping three spots by that
offense that it has just been tough sledding here the Giants. Dude,
why just four spots your biggest mover with the Seahawks.
I candidly I thought it was going to be the
(23:24):
Giants moving inside the top twenty.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
If I'm being honest with.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
You, you gotta win some more games first, right, and you
lose Elik Neighbors. I mean, that's gonna take an effect too.
But I love what Dart did. I mean they added
some wrinkles to the offense. You saw this little shovel
of THEO Johnson, you know, darts athleticism. He used it
better than Russell Wilson did. So I'm still excited. I
think they can manufacture some some yards, but not without
(23:46):
neighbors there. I don't know how much they're gonna be
able to do.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Yeah, it's a tough go, but the defenses look good
and make signs.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Of life for that offense. Appreciate you guys. Watching.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
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