July 10, 2024 • 8 mins
Craig and Cam finish off the rankings of the NFL's top playmakers and Cowboys fans won't be surprised to see the 49ers at the top. How does the rest of the league rank?
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(00:00):
We continue here on this Wednesday afternoonon Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone.
I was going over those and bythe way, before I get to
the NFL stuff, I've been meaningto ask you, how did the uh
how di rect League basketball go foryou? Monday? Now we did never
show yesterday because we had daytime roundRock Express Baseball. How did the how
the Basketball showdown? Throw down gofor you? It was fun? Actually
(00:23):
put a lot better than I thoughtI would. Only only a few cuts
and bruises. I did not tearanything, to not strain anything, to
not break anything. They're not chipany teeth. So good night. Does
anybody ever like get angry and theyalmost have like like a fight? Oh
yeah, all the time, allthe time. Let's pick up basketball.
No, I'm at the point nowwhere it's like, I don't care.
(00:45):
I'm not going to earn a superMax contract off of my play. I'm
not going to get an All Star, but I'm not going to get a
ring. I'm out there just forthe cardio and the competition. But yeah,
every you know, multiple games becauseat the end of the night,
it gets very heated. By theend. Usually there's the team, there's
two teams that will keep on meetingand keep playing, and no one likes
(01:06):
to lose, and so someone willcall foul and it's you know, it's
ridiculous what it turns into in thefans, and I just go in the
corner, catch my breath because usuallyI'm you know, dying from exhaustion,
and wait for them to subside theirargument and then we'll go back to playing.
But yeah, good, I havenot been where punches have not been
thrown yet, which is good atthat point. That's that might be when
(01:30):
I exit out. Okay, allright. We were going over these playmaker
rankings for running backs, wide receivers, tight ends in the NFL with Bill
bartonwell doing those rankings on the ESPNplus site, and I thought they were
really really spot on with a lotof what he does. And you agree
(01:52):
with his assessment of the Cowboys middleof the pack and just very almost no
depth at all behind the front lineguys who are good, but if anything
should happen, there's no margin forerror. Do you see now why I'm
kind of transitioning away from the DallasCowboys. Here's Craig to get closer and
(02:12):
closer. It's a week one.Yeah, but I can't give you any
sympathy on that. I mean,I'm not asking for I know, but
but my point is this, Irooted for Rams teams for years and we're
awful Tony Banks at quarterback and stuff, and they had just did terrible teams.
But to your team, we're notgoing to get into that. We've
already done that. On that,right on that. To continue on his
(02:32):
rankings, he has the Packers atnumber seventeen. He says are just the
opposite of the Titans and the Cowboys. There's no star or household name yet
in the mix, but they havethe youngest, deepest receiving cores in the
league, four different wide receivers crediblycompeting for the top spot in the LINEU
when they're healthy. He thinks ChristianWatson is the most upside You've got don
(02:54):
Tavian Wicks there, Jane Reid,Luke musgrave Craft, and he says,
my concern here is a running backwhere the Packers swapped Aaron Jones for the
younger Josh Jacobs, but he doesn'tknow if he has enough there. Aj
Dillon, also disappointedly faded into ananonymous reserve role, has the Jaguars sixteenth,
(03:20):
the Ravens fifteenth, the Cheats theChiefs fourteenth. He said, it
can't be as bad as it was. Last year, Kansas City's wide receivers
posted the worst drop rate of thepast decade. We know why. Kadarius
Tony had a lot to do withthat, he said. When that regress
towards the meaning the playoffs, theoffense was good enough to win the Super
(03:44):
Bowl. Wide out has been perhapsthe only source of consternation for this team
since trading away Tyreek Hill. Butthe roster is deeper than it was in
twenty twenty three. They won't berelying on Sky Moore and Kadarius Tony.
Marquise Brown, wildly efficient at timeduring his time with the Ravens and Cardinals,
is an upgrade on Mark his ValdezScantley, he said, Can the
(04:04):
young guys be building box? RashieRice is likely to face some sort of
suspension for his off field conduct.That's the stuff in Dallas. Rookie first
rounder Xavier worthyse range of outcomes includeseveryone from Hill and to Shawn Jackson on
the high end, to Troy Williamsonand John Ross on the low end.
(04:25):
Who might be more of a situationalplayer than an immediate every down starter.
The advantageers more about depth than anyoneplayer becoming a star. So and he
talked about Pacheco has grown into hisrole as the running back. Kelsey still
obviously very very solid to have offof that thirteen, Tampa Bay twelve,
(04:47):
the Jets eleven, Cincinnati now intothe top ten of playmaker rankings, Atlanta
number ten, number ten. Whathe says there, Number nine the Rams
mainly because of the emergence of KyrinWilliams in the back that I'm pooking Nkua
(05:10):
receiver there they said healthily they cancreate a path forward for a team that
been overlyve relying on Cooper Cup.Completely agree with that. On that number
eight, the Seahawks seven, theLions six, the Bears number five,
the Vikings number four. The HoustonTexans says the bit haest changed here.
(05:32):
Huh. Texans were last year's biggestsurprise as Nico Collins took a major step
forward and Tank Dell, who expectedto be a gadget player and a punt
return as a rookie, looked likea superstar before suffering a season ending fibula
injury. Dalton Schultz a solid tightend in his debut season in Houston.
Veterans Devin Singletary and Noah Brown playedbetter than previous campaigns. Elsewhere, John
(05:55):
Matchi and Robert Woods, two playersI expected to be regulars in the passing
game rotation, were bear needed afterthoughts in the league's most surprisingly fun offense.
Now there's no sleeping on the Texans. Collins, Dellan Schultz are all
back, and this team has majormade major upgrades elsewhere Booie by C.
J. Stroud strong performance on arookie deal. Houston traded a late round
(06:17):
pick for Joe Mixon and deled asecond round pick to shockingly acquires Stefan Diggs
from the Bills. With virtually everybodyof note besides Singletary from the twenty twenty
three team returning to the lineup,this is a deep pool of talent at
wide out on numbers one through six. At receiver, nobody is deeper than
(06:38):
the Texans. He says, it'sthe new guys having a little bit worried.
Digs production has declined a little bit. Mixing also has fallen off a
little bit, but he still likesthem a lot. I like him too.
They made a great leap this pastseason, got some playoff experience.
I mean they were right there againstthe Ravens at halftime and Baltimore had a
great second half. Houston did notlook like a younger team miss Tank Dell,
(07:02):
that's for sure. But coming thisseason, the fifth high acids to
win the conference plus eight fifty KansasCity plus three under the overall favorites,
they're Texans team, and I thinkCraig that, you know, maybe something
happens to Mahomes. The Chiefs ison habit this year. Houston, I
think is a fairy sneaky Super Bowlpick number three the Dolphins, number two
(07:25):
the Eagles, and the number oneplaymaking group of playmakers belongs to the forty
nine ers. You mentioned the fortynine ers earlier, you know, he
said there's a chasm between the fortynine ers and everybody else in the league
in terms of their playmakers and explosiveness. They can afford to lose Deebo Samuel
or George Kittle for stretches and stillchallenge for the top of the list on
(07:46):
other teams. Jwan Jennings would bea trendy breakout candidate after he had two
hundred and twenty one yards receiving duringthe postseing, then scored two touchdowns in
the Super Bowl. Here he mightbe the fourth wide receiver behind sam Muel,
Brandon Ayuk and rookie first round pickRicky Pearsall the day will come on
the forty nine ers will likely needto move on from Ayuk or Samuel,
(08:07):
but until that happens, they canenjoy an embarrassment of riches. And then
you have Christian McCaffrey. He saidtwenty twenty three wasn't even dominant by CMC
standards, but he unsurprisingly has becomea more efficient runner in Shanahan's offense.
Yeah, I agree, it's gonnabe it's gonna be tough to unseat their
(08:28):
playmakers. All right, we'll beback to wrap up our number two here
on Sports Radio AM thirteen under thezone of the i R Radio app.
We continue here on this Wednesday afternoonon Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone.
I was going over those and bythe way, before I get to
the NFL stuff, I've been meaningto ask you, how did the uh
how di rect League basketball go foryou? Monday? Now we did never
show yesterday because we had daytime roundRock Express Baseball. How did the how
the Basketball showdown? Throw down gofor you? It was fun? Actually
(00:23):
put a lot better than I thoughtI would. Only only a few cuts
and bruises. I did not tearanything, to not strain anything, to
not break anything. They're not chipany teeth. So good night. Does
anybody ever like get angry and theyalmost have like like a fight? Oh
yeah, all the time, allthe time. Let's pick up basketball.
No, I'm at the point nowwhere it's like, I don't care.
(00:45):
I'm not going to earn a superMax contract off of my play. I'm
not going to get an All Star, but I'm not going to get a
ring. I'm out there just forthe cardio and the competition. But yeah,
every you know, multiple games becauseat the end of the night,
it gets very heated. By theend. Usually there's the team, there's
two teams that will keep on meetingand keep playing, and no one likes
(01:06):
to lose, and so someone willcall foul and it's you know, it's
ridiculous what it turns into in thefans, and I just go in the
corner, catch my breath because usuallyI'm you know, dying from exhaustion,
and wait for them to subside theirargument and then we'll go back to playing.
But yeah, good, I havenot been where punches have not been
thrown yet, which is good atthat point. That's that might be when
(01:30):
I exit out. Okay, allright. We were going over these playmaker
rankings for running backs, wide receivers, tight ends in the NFL with Bill
bartonwell doing those rankings on the ESPNplus site, and I thought they were
really really spot on with a lotof what he does. And you agree
(01:52):
with his assessment of the Cowboys middleof the pack and just very almost no
depth at all behind the front lineguys who are good, but if anything
should happen, there's no margin forerror. Do you see now why I'm
kind of transitioning away from the DallasCowboys. Here's Craig to get closer and
(02:12):
closer. It's a week one.Yeah, but I can't give you any
sympathy on that. I mean,I'm not asking for I know, but
but my point is this, Irooted for Rams teams for years and we're
awful Tony Banks at quarterback and stuff, and they had just did terrible teams.
But to your team, we're notgoing to get into that. We've
already done that. On that,right on that. To continue on his
(02:32):
rankings, he has the Packers atnumber seventeen. He says are just the
opposite of the Titans and the Cowboys. There's no star or household name yet
in the mix, but they havethe youngest, deepest receiving cores in the
league, four different wide receivers crediblycompeting for the top spot in the LINEU
when they're healthy. He thinks ChristianWatson is the most upside You've got don
(02:54):
Tavian Wicks there, Jane Reid,Luke musgrave Craft, and he says,
my concern here is a running backwhere the Packers swapped Aaron Jones for the
younger Josh Jacobs, but he doesn'tknow if he has enough there. Aj
Dillon, also disappointedly faded into ananonymous reserve role, has the Jaguars sixteenth,
(03:20):
the Ravens fifteenth, the Cheats theChiefs fourteenth. He said, it
can't be as bad as it was. Last year, Kansas City's wide receivers
posted the worst drop rate of thepast decade. We know why. Kadarius
Tony had a lot to do withthat, he said. When that regress
towards the meaning the playoffs, theoffense was good enough to win the Super
(03:44):
Bowl. Wide out has been perhapsthe only source of consternation for this team
since trading away Tyreek Hill. Butthe roster is deeper than it was in
twenty twenty three. They won't berelying on Sky Moore and Kadarius Tony.
Marquise Brown, wildly efficient at timeduring his time with the Ravens and Cardinals,
is an upgrade on Mark his ValdezScantley, he said, Can the
(04:04):
young guys be building box? RashieRice is likely to face some sort of
suspension for his off field conduct.That's the stuff in Dallas. Rookie first
rounder Xavier worthyse range of outcomes includeseveryone from Hill and to Shawn Jackson on
the high end, to Troy Williamsonand John Ross on the low end.
(04:25):
Who might be more of a situationalplayer than an immediate every down starter.
The advantageers more about depth than anyoneplayer becoming a star. So and he
talked about Pacheco has grown into hisrole as the running back. Kelsey still
obviously very very solid to have offof that thirteen, Tampa Bay twelve,
(04:47):
the Jets eleven, Cincinnati now intothe top ten of playmaker rankings, Atlanta
number ten, number ten. Whathe says there, Number nine the Rams
mainly because of the emergence of KyrinWilliams in the back that I'm pooking Nkua
(05:10):
receiver there they said healthily they cancreate a path forward for a team that
been overlyve relying on Cooper Cup.Completely agree with that. On that number
eight, the Seahawks seven, theLions six, the Bears number five,
the Vikings number four. The HoustonTexans says the bit haest changed here.
(05:32):
Huh. Texans were last year's biggestsurprise as Nico Collins took a major step
forward and Tank Dell, who expectedto be a gadget player and a punt
return as a rookie, looked likea superstar before suffering a season ending fibula
injury. Dalton Schultz a solid tightend in his debut season in Houston.
Veterans Devin Singletary and Noah Brown playedbetter than previous campaigns. Elsewhere, John
(05:55):
Matchi and Robert Woods, two playersI expected to be regulars in the passing
game rotation, were bear needed afterthoughts in the league's most surprisingly fun offense.
Now there's no sleeping on the Texans. Collins, Dellan Schultz are all
back, and this team has majormade major upgrades elsewhere Booie by C.
J. Stroud strong performance on arookie deal. Houston traded a late round
(06:17):
pick for Joe Mixon and deled asecond round pick to shockingly acquires Stefan Diggs
from the Bills. With virtually everybodyof note besides Singletary from the twenty twenty
three team returning to the lineup,this is a deep pool of talent at
wide out on numbers one through six. At receiver, nobody is deeper than
(06:38):
the Texans. He says, it'sthe new guys having a little bit worried.
Digs production has declined a little bit. Mixing also has fallen off a
little bit, but he still likesthem a lot. I like him too.
They made a great leap this pastseason, got some playoff experience.
I mean they were right there againstthe Ravens at halftime and Baltimore had a
great second half. Houston did notlook like a younger team miss Tank Dell,
(07:02):
that's for sure. But coming thisseason, the fifth high acids to
win the conference plus eight fifty KansasCity plus three under the overall favorites,
they're Texans team, and I thinkCraig that, you know, maybe something
happens to Mahomes. The Chiefs ison habit this year. Houston, I
think is a fairy sneaky Super Bowlpick number three the Dolphins, number two
(07:25):
the Eagles, and the number oneplaymaking group of playmakers belongs to the forty
nine ers. You mentioned the fortynine ers earlier, you know, he
said there's a chasm between the fortynine ers and everybody else in the league
in terms of their playmakers and explosiveness. They can afford to lose Deebo Samuel
or George Kittle for stretches and stillchallenge for the top of the list on
(07:46):
other teams. Jwan Jennings would bea trendy breakout candidate after he had two
hundred and twenty one yards receiving duringthe postseing, then scored two touchdowns in
the Super Bowl. Here he mightbe the fourth wide receiver behind sam Muel,
Brandon Ayuk and rookie first round pickRicky Pearsall the day will come on
the forty nine ers will likely needto move on from Ayuk or Samuel,
(08:07):
but until that happens, they canenjoy an embarrassment of riches. And then
you have Christian McCaffrey. He saidtwenty twenty three wasn't even dominant by CMC
standards, but he unsurprisingly has becomea more efficient runner in Shanahan's offense.
Yeah, I agree, it's gonnabe it's gonna be tough to unseat their
(08:28):
playmakers. All right, we'll beback to wrap up our number two here
on Sports Radio AM thirteen under thezone of the i R Radio app.
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