Analyzing the NFC Playoffs Seeding and Team Dynamics

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00:00When you were, if you were to tear out the NFC, are you looking at a situation that it's

00:08like Lions, Eagles, Tier 1, a few other teams in Tier 2, Lions on their own tier, Philly

00:16with a Green Bay, Minnesota, like how are you viewing the contest?

00:18I look at, like you see the odds up on the screen right now, for me Tier 1 is the Detroit

00:22Lions and the reason I bring that up is, when you make the NFC playoffs, because I'm trying

00:26to extrapolate and see how it goes long term, they're the number one seed which means they

00:29get to buy, what a massive advantage.

00:32They are only going to have to play like one of the other quote unquote teams before we

00:36actually get involved in the NFC championship game.

00:38That's why they're on the top tier.

00:39I'd say the same thing right now if the Philadelphia Eagles had the number one seed and it looks

00:43like they were going to take that down.

00:44So let's move to Detroit.

00:45Here's what I'm struggling with here because you do look at the other teams that will be

00:49winning divisions, right?

00:50Let's just say it's the Seattle Seahawks that do sit now.

00:52Let's just say it's the Atlanta Falcons.

00:54I'm not worried one iot about those teams.

00:56Here's the problem that's going to be in the playoffs.

00:58The Vikings are 9-2 on the season, the same as the Philadelphia Eagles.

01:02You take a look here at the Green Bay Packers at 8-3.

01:04They don't get a lot of love.

01:05Why?

01:06Because the Detroit Lions sit in their own division.

01:07Like if you spread them out and said, okay, Minnesota's out west, whoa, watch out for

01:11them.

01:12The Packers are in the NFC South.

01:13Oh my goodness, that's a really legitimate team.

01:15They're very good, but I can't gauge them because they are going to be better football

01:19teams possibly than the teams they open up in the wild card round outside of the Philadelphia

01:23Eagles.

01:24So for me, you have the Lions slightly above the Philadelphia Eagles, and then you have

01:27that tier of the Eagles, the Vikings, and the Packers for me, Joe.

01:31But the Packers and the Vikings coming in as roughly 11 or 12 win teams in the wild

01:36card?

01:37Yeah.

01:38Insane.

01:39Yeah, I do agree with you on Green Bay and Minnesota, but I disagree.

01:40I do believe it's Detroit and Philadelphia.

01:42I needed to see that defense from Philadelphia come around, and they have, Kev.

01:47I told you, that turning point was against Cincinnati and Joe Burrow when they held that

01:52offense to 17 points, completely shut them out in the second half, and they've been on

01:56a heater ever since.

01:58What have they won?

01:59Nine games with Nick Sirianni, and that dominance on Sunday night over L.A., a team that's still

02:04fighting for a wild card berth, they dominated them on both sides of the football.

02:08So again, I put Philadelphia with Detroit in terms of that tier.

02:13I think it's Green Bay and Minnesota and everybody else.

02:15The reason why I give the edge to Green Bay over Minnesota is, again, in a playoff type

02:20of situation, I'd much rather back Jordan Love that did it last year, almost knocked

02:25off San Francisco, than Sam Darnold.

02:27Again, he could be great during the regular season.

02:30I need to see it in terms of the playoff.

02:32But Minnesota is still, to me, head and shoulders above Atlanta, Washington, because of the

02:37defense.

02:38Now, I know they gave up 27 points last week and Caleb threw for 330, but for much of the

02:43regular season, they have the second-best rush defense in all of the NFL.

02:47I gotta believe that that will carry through unless they fall off a cliff in the next five

02:52weeks.

02:54If you want an outlier, if they do get in, it would be Baker and Tampa Bay.

02:58I know they've dealt with injuries, but again, Baker's a gunslinger, and the way they can

03:02run the football in that defense, to me, they show me something if they can make a run.

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