Mark Schlereth explains where the Patriots sit among the AFC's elite

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00:00Mark, we have three weeks to go in the regular season.

00:03And, you know, we have the Broncos atop the standings as the number one seed right now,

00:08the team that has clinched a playoff.

00:09Excuse me, what'd you say?

00:10The Broncos, yes.

00:11Yes, number one seed, yeah.

00:12The Broncos, number one seed, that's interesting.

00:15That's great.

00:16And then you have, like, the Patriots, the Jags, the Steelers, the Chargers next in line.

00:21And it's like all those teams are questionable in their own way.

00:24And I'm wondering, do you feel like at this late point in the season,

00:27you have a feel for sort of the power structure of the AFC

00:32and who the really good teams are?

00:34Or, I mean, you've kind of alluded to it.

00:36Josh Allen is the sixth seed, but he's also Superman.

00:39Like, what do you think of the sort of the standings right now in the AFC?

00:43Who's for real?

00:43Who isn't?

00:45Yeah, you know, it's really interesting because I think every one of those teams

00:49that you mentioned probably has a flaw or two.

00:53And, you know, it's been interesting living here in Denver,

00:56watching all of a sudden in the last three or four weeks,

01:00Bo Nix play his most efficient football.

01:03And he was really good against the Green Bay Packers,

01:07was unbelievably efficient against the Raiders.

01:10Maybe we don't count that because they're the Raiders and they're awful.

01:14But, you know, he's been really – he's played his best football here

01:17in the last three or four weeks, been really, really good.

01:20So – but still, you know, Jacksonville, we still have questions.

01:24New England, people will still always talk about, hey, the soft schedule.

01:27Same thing with the Denver Broncos.

01:29They've had a pretty soft schedule as well.

01:32You know, so everybody's got a few of those flaws.

01:35And I think Buffalo is a fairly average football team with a great quarterback.

01:41But, you know, one of the things I don't trust about them is it always seems to be,

01:47you know, come playoff time or in critical moments,

01:51the coaching staff always feels to me, they're just like, hey, Josh,

01:54go out and win a game for us.

01:56And so I don't necessarily trust them as well.

01:59So I think there's – I think it's wide open in the AFC.

02:04And I still think Denver and New England are the two best teams in the AFC.

02:08But, you know, we'll see what happens.