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00:08Okay.
00:09Got the teams? Got a list of teams?
00:11I'm familiar. I've heard of most of these teams.
00:16So I think I'm prepared for the assignment.
00:18All right.
00:19I do...
00:20Mostly vibes-based, I think.
00:21Yeah, I mostly want to start off with that in mind.
00:24And because I don't necessarily really believe that this team deserves to be ranked 16,
00:31but I feel like when you revisit something,
00:34you pull the warm, comfortable flannel blanket up under your chin on the cold winter's night,
00:41and you're looking for the comfort food that is the Reverse AFC Power Rankings,
00:45I think you have a certain expectation that the New York Jets are going to be the first team mentioned.
00:51And I'm not sure I really need them to be 16, but in a certain way, I kind of do.
01:01Well, I guess I understand and appreciate that story.
01:07For me, they are not the worst team in the conference.
01:11Enough good players are there.
01:13Quarterback's not terrible.
01:14They signed Brees Hall.
01:16We didn't really talk about that, but he was always seemingly sending messages that he wanted to leave,
01:22and he got a contract.
01:24Wilson's good.
01:25You like Omar Cooper.
01:26I don't dislike him.
01:27The tight end in the first round has his fans.
01:30So they've got some good skill position players now.
01:34I think Miami, for me, is 16.
01:36If I were to guess right now which team finishes with the worst record in the conference,
01:40I feel like Tennessee probably ticks up the Raiders with Bowers and Gentee and Mendoza could be a little bit
01:52good.
01:54Dolphins.
01:55I like Miami here.
01:59I'm fine with it.
02:00If they're not a blanket on a cold night, what is this?
02:03I think I let off with I don't even really believe the Jets need to be in the lead-off
02:11hole here.
02:11Yes.
02:12Just felt like maybe a thing that you could do.
02:14And I still feel so much that way that I'm going to suggest Cleveland for 15.
02:19Oh, you can do that?
02:22Hey, new year, new rules.
02:23New rules?
02:24You're coming off the Jets.
02:25I'm coming off the Jets.
02:25You just like the symbolism of the Jets.
02:27If you guys were going to run with me on the symbolism, fine, but I didn't want to be dug
02:31in.
02:31And I really wasn't.
02:32The whole platform was predicated on not really being dug in.
02:38Yes.
02:38So I'm leaving them.
02:39Love those.
02:40Yeah, right.
02:40That's a platform for you.
02:42Oh.
02:42I don't really mean any of this.
02:43Anything be more contemporary in American politics, in the discourse, than that right there.
02:50I could not disagree with myself more about what I'm about to say.
02:55Right.
02:55I hate it, actually.
02:57It's bad for all of us.
02:58If you knew me, you would know that I completely don't believe any of this.
03:03Who wins with this legislation?
03:05No one.
03:06That's who.
03:06Let's do it.
03:08Hurry.
03:09Let's all get on board.
03:11No cynicism in this area at all.
03:14Back at Mission Control, I suggested Cleveland for 15.
03:18Yeah, that was what I did.
03:20Say Jets.
03:21No, I'm not going to say Jets.
03:24Okay.
03:26Watson, maybe.
03:29Kind of seems like it, right?
03:30Mm-hmm.
03:31Watson.
03:32Yep.
03:33Sorry, I was taking a drink.
03:34Yeah.
03:36Sure, that should go well.
03:42Cleveland at Jacksonville, week one, by the way.
03:45Miami at Las Vegas, week one.
03:4814.
03:50Tennessee.
03:55I'm going to say Jets.
03:58I like Cam Ward.
04:01You know this.
04:02That's the thing.
04:03You like Cam Ward.
04:03I do not.
04:04The two of you know this.
04:05I like Cam Ward.
04:08I'm kind of, I think Dayball with him there and Tate.
04:12I'm interested in what that ends up looking like.
04:15And I kind of come around on Robert Sala, I think.
04:19I mean, he was the Jets coach and it went badly.
04:23Of course it went badly.
04:27Ditka in his prime would have had a hell of a time with the Jets.
04:32Ditka.
04:35Jets or Titans?
04:38I'll say Jets because I'll break the tie with, they used to be called the Titans.
04:42Wow.
04:42So the Jets are kind of like both the Jets and the Titans.
04:45How's that?
04:46Boom.
04:47That works.
04:4813.
04:51Vegas.
04:53You did it.
04:55I'll go with Vegas here at 13.
04:57Good?
04:58No.
04:59You want Tennessee?
05:01Or someone else?
05:02Who else?
05:03Chiefs?
05:04No, I'll say Vegas.
05:06You're going to have to show me that anything there is actually going to work.
05:11Clint Kubiak.
05:13Okay.
05:16We'll see, buddy.
05:17Miami has a new coach.
05:17Cleveland has a new coach.
05:19Vegas has a new coach.
05:20The Jets do not.
05:20They should.
05:21The Jets do not.
05:22Of the four top teams here in the reverse AFC Power Rangers, the Jets are the only one that
05:25brought their coach back.
05:29They're next, right?
05:31Halfley, Monken, and then Kubiak are the new guys.
05:35Aaron Glenn still with the Jets.
05:36No interceptions all year.
05:38Right.
05:39Yeah, let's put the Jets.
05:40No, they're 14.
05:41Tennessee, 12.
05:42Oh, sorry.
05:43Yeah, that's right.
05:44You want that?
05:44Yeah, yeah.
05:45I think that's a tear break after this one.
05:47Yeah, I agree.
05:48All right.
05:49Yeah, I think the work gets considerably harder now.
05:52Also a new coach, as you mentioned.
05:54Titans.
05:56That seems to happen in football, when your team is terrible.
05:59Yeah, yeah.
06:00Except when it's the Jets.
06:02Also right.
06:03Although, he was new last year.
06:06He was new last year.
06:07They were a bad year before that.
06:09Yes.
06:10It never ends, Jets.
06:12Jets-Titans week one.
06:14He didn't know.
06:15We're going to get a lot of questions answered there.
06:18Yes.
06:19Somebody's going to want to know.
06:20Right.
06:21And we already said Dolphins-Raiders.
06:24So, the Browns are the one team here.
06:26The race for the first overall pick is going to heat up in a hurry.
06:29It's a big week one.
06:31It's not wasting any time.
06:32The losers get a jump on it.
06:34And save that for November 425.
06:37No.
06:38If you missed it the other day, the Jets don't even have a single 425 game.
06:42Let alone a night game.
06:43That's incredible.
06:45And no interceptions all year last year.
06:46Two 405s.
06:48Don't they just sort of have to go out west and play at 425?
06:51They do not.
06:52They have 405 games in weeks 11 and 15.
06:57You know, maybe they'll get flexed.
07:00All right.
07:01And it's New York.
07:02I know.
07:04Like, Thursday's too good for them now because of prime and, like, what?
07:07That's the best part of the whole thing is they somehow killed the New York market for TV.
07:11Being so bad for so long.
07:13It's amazing.
07:15I mean, not amazing.
07:16It's notable.
07:18The Giants have a Thursday, a Sunday, and two Mondays.
07:21The Giants are in prime time.
07:23Get ready.
07:23The first two weeks.
07:25Great.
07:25Yeah, that gets you going for football, doesn't it?
07:28Back-to-back primetime Giants games.
07:31Yeah.
07:31Woo.
07:33All right.
07:3411.
07:39Pittsburgh.
07:40Yes.
07:41Yeah, okay.
07:42Good.
07:42Yeah.
07:46I mean, come on.
07:48Cut it out, Pittsburgh.
07:49Rodgers.
07:50What?
07:51What are you?
07:53Give it a break.
07:54That was hard to believe as a good idea.
08:01Four years ago, before he tore his Achilles against the Bills and still going?
08:08Come on.
08:09There's other guys.
08:11There are.
08:11Find another guy.
08:13What are you doing?
08:14Mix it up.
08:15You got as good as you could get out of him last year.
08:18Right?
08:19Mostly.
08:19He wasn't bad.
08:21But, like, where?
08:23What's the ceiling?
08:24It's last year.
08:25That's it.
08:27Oh, Pittsburgh.
08:28No Mike Tomlin, and they're still just fooling around over here.
08:32Well, the one thing – I don't disagree.
08:35I agree with the sentiment completely.
08:36The one thing that the Steelers have done, and I guess you have to say to their credit,
08:42we had Bills teams that were in the middle, and it was like there were no good ideas at quarterback
08:49because you didn't draft high enough.
08:52It was also a team I don't think guys really wanted to play for that badly.
08:55Like, there just was rarely an exciting idea.
08:59So, you settled – year after year, you settled for what you were at quarterback.
09:04The Steelers, you have to give them – they do make the playoffs.
09:08They could be –
09:09That's right.
09:10Those Bills teams, but they make the playoffs.
09:13And, okay, well, I mean, that's the goal.
09:16Somehow they do it.
09:17Plus 10 point differential last year was good enough to win the AFC North.
09:21Jackson gets hurt, and the Bengals are terrible on defense.
09:26And then, what, you're a couple good days away from going somewhere
09:30because, like, he gets hot at the right time maybe, I guess, right?
09:32I remember talking like this as the playoffs were coming last year
09:35because, of course, they qualified.
09:37Yeah.
09:37They just – they told the line of, is it worth it anymore to make the playoffs?
09:42Yeah.
09:42They get run over.
09:43Like, it's not even a fun game.
09:44They just get run over by whoever they play, and we're back at this next –
09:48like, they get rid of Mike Tomlin, but they hire Mike McCarthy.
09:51It's the same kind of guy.
09:52At least the good news is now we know that this is –
09:54you know, unless it's all just part of the game that Rodgers is saying,
09:59it's the end, and then there'll be a whole other run of new drama.
10:02Is it really the end?
10:04Did he really – what?
10:05Did he unbuckle his chin strap?
10:07Like, whatever.
10:09Maybe he'll go on.
10:10I just –
10:11But it's supposed to be the end of the line.
10:13So they can't do this again next year.
10:15They – well, so we think.
10:17They're going to have to find a better idea.
10:18It's insufferable.
10:20Yes.
10:21Ten.
10:23I'll go Colts here.
10:27I'm just not –
10:27I like that.
10:28Real sure where I'm heading there.
10:33Jones coming off an Achilles.
10:37Is that really – is that – he's just good now?
10:41I don't know.
10:42I think there's reason to be skeptical there.
10:47I just wish I had made that bet.
10:48I know.
10:49What were they?
10:50Eight and two or eight and three?
10:54They're not going to win another game.
10:55I'm going to give you it was eight and two.
10:56I think it was eight and two, yeah.
10:57They lost their last seven.
11:02They were eight and two.
11:04They beat Atlanta in overtime in Europe.
11:07Maybe that was Munich.
11:10And they didn't win again.
11:13Unanimous.
11:13All right.
11:14Indianapolis.
11:14Ten.
11:15Nine.
11:16Now it gets good.
11:18Yep.
11:24Houston for me, I think.
11:2712 and five.
11:29I think I want to say Houston.
11:32I'm either – I'm a Houston or I'm a Cincinnati, I think.
11:40I'll go Houston here.
11:46Boom.
11:46You don't have to even decide then.
11:48Good.
11:49It's taken out of your hands.
11:50I will stay with Cincinnati for the next – my next choice.
11:54I can't believe that stat about how often they're favored.
11:57I look at their schedule.
11:58I got to double-check that because I keep using it.
12:00Because their schedule does not scream out they're going to be favored
12:06like week after week after week.
12:07At Houston in week two.
12:09At Baltimore, they're not going to be favored in Baltimore.
12:11Or they're not now.
12:12They're favored in Atlanta.
12:13They're favored in Washington.
12:15They have the Chiefs.
12:16They're favored in all these games.
12:19I don't know.
12:19It's weird.
12:22What is the stat about the thing?
12:23I don't even know – I don't know what this is.
12:24I saw – we were at the arena the one day where the BetOnline
12:27sent the emails out.
12:29I got to double-check it because I'm starting to doubt it.
12:30They were favored in 15 games.
12:33But they're favored in most of those games I just mentioned.
12:37Yeah, I don't know.
12:38NFC South, AFC South, sure.
12:43But still, in that division?
12:46No.
12:47I'll go check it because I said it this morning when I was on with Theo
12:51Gremminger and I immediately thought I should double-check this.
12:55I used to do stuff like that.
12:57You like Cincinnati at eight?
12:59Yeah.
13:01You know they're favored in 15 games?
13:04Is that the number?
13:05Have you double-checked that?
13:06I'll go Bengals, too.
13:08I don't – there's no one else I like.
13:10Right.
13:11You know.
13:11Right.
13:12Yeah.
13:12That's what you run into at the top of this thing.
13:15Seven.
13:16Especially when they haven't played games in months.
13:19Yeah, there's not a lot to work with lately.
13:22ADP chasing, 730 tonight.
13:24We'll find something.
13:25Uh-huh.
13:25You always do.
13:26Talk about Bucky Irving.
13:27Yeah.
13:27His injury.
13:28This is going to be good stuff.
13:30The guys like to argue about the receiver the 49ers picked at the top of the second round,
13:35Stribbling.
13:36Okay.
13:38There are a wide range of opinions.
13:40That seems like the choice in the draft that generated the most conversation.
13:45Isn't that where the whole consensus board conversation spun off of John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan
13:53getting questioned about that draft pick, I feel like, is where that really sprang from.
13:57Uh-huh.
13:58All right.
13:58See, even though the hockey playoffs were going on, I was paying attention.
14:02You caught that one.
14:02Other things.
14:03Yes.
14:04All right.
14:04Seven.
14:07I think you want to say it.
14:12Kansas City.
14:15Six and 11.
14:17Kenneth Walker now.
14:19Kelsey back.
14:20Rashi Rice.
14:21Who knows?
14:23ACL for the quarterback.
14:25Right.
14:25Oh, he's way ahead of schedule.
14:27Okay.
14:27All right.
14:27Let's just see how that looks in September.
14:30I also feel you always hear like ahead of schedule.
14:32No one ever goes like, oh, guys, actually.
14:35Right.
14:35Raise the alarm.
14:36No.
14:36It's always, I mean, he's a robot.
14:38I have no idea how this is happening.
14:39Not Bucky.
14:40No, not Bucky.
14:41Not Bucky or Malik Neighbors either.
14:42That's gone the wrong way.
14:44But that's when you are like, oh, no.
14:46Right.
14:46Like, I'm hearing Giants primetime two weeks in a row and immediately I'm like, not with Malik Neighbors.
14:50Probably not.
14:51And then Rashi Rice has to rehab in prison.
14:54Kansas City also, this will not come as any surprise, start with two night games.
15:00Home to Denver Monday night, then home to Indianapolis.
15:03It's both at Arrowhead in week two on Sunday night.
15:09Some of the Sunday night games are not really that exciting.
15:16Well, there's a school of thought that with ESPN buying NFL Network, that they basically
15:24just loaded up the Monday night schedule as a thank you or something.
15:28And the Sunday night games suffered a little bit.
15:30I mean, week four, Sunday night football is Detroit at Carolina.
15:34That had to happen.
15:36There was no better idea than that.
15:37Detroit at Carolina?
15:38They chose.
15:39On a Sunday night?
15:40Was there somebody threatened?
15:44Was there a handgun involved?
15:46Like, who?
15:47What?
15:47I know.
15:48I've not done that.
15:49I've not looked at, you know, the whole week by week or the Detroit at Carolina on Sunday
15:55night football is stunning.
15:56The Bills have one Sunday night game on the schedule week 14 at Green Bay.
16:01That's maybe the best looking game on paper of the whole schedule on Sunday night.
16:05But a lot of these, Houston at Pittsburgh, at Pittsburgh twice in four weeks on a Sunday.
16:11Baltimore, Atlanta.
16:14Tampa, Chicago.
16:16I don't know.
16:16I think they're not marquee games like I think I would say we're used to.
16:21Whereas Monday night you get some bigger matchups.
16:25I think.
16:26Anyway, that's definitely subjective.
16:28Where are we?
16:29Pick team number seven.
16:32And I said the Chiefs.
16:35Oh, we didn't decide on that?
16:37Fine.
16:37I'm fine with Chiefs.
16:39Yeah.
16:39So we're up to six now?
16:41Six.
16:42That comes after seven still?
16:45It does in our case, yes.
16:47Going backwards?
16:48Yeah.
16:49If the world were like this, seven, six would have been the fad.
16:53Mm-hmm.
16:54Mm-hmm.
16:54I see.
16:59This is tough.
17:01Chargers?
17:02Chargers?
17:04I'm, honestly, Chargers or Bills for me.
17:08Is where I'm at.
17:13I kind of want to go Bills.
17:15The Chargers should probably be really scary.
17:19You could definitely do something other than the Chargers or the Bills.
17:21I'm just saying, for me, that's where I'm at in the choosing.
17:25I would pick New England.
17:27I'm fine with New England.
17:29Okay.
17:31AJ Brown's not on the roster yet.
17:33No, right.
17:34And then when he is, we can do this again and move him.
17:38Or not.
17:42Five.
17:44I like L.A. a ton.
17:47I like Denver less.
17:49But if it matters, Denver beat the Bills in the playoffs.
17:55So it's a little, although I wanted to put New England, we did.
17:58Yeah.
17:59In that slot.
18:00So I'd have a tough time going Denver here, but I kind of want to.
18:05I'll just do it.
18:06That's my pick.
18:07Denver's my pick.
18:09It's not the standings.
18:11One seed.
18:13I want to put the Bills here.
18:15So if you want to avoid that outcome, choose Denver.
18:18Or choose a different team.
18:19We can start over.
18:20I don't know what we would do.
18:22Run it back.
18:22Go for the top.
18:23Is that allowed?
18:24I'll go Bills here.
18:26Okay.
18:29Four is Denver for me.
18:31Still.
18:33I like flipping Denver in the Chargers.
18:35I think McDaniel is going to be really interesting for them.
18:38The Chargers.
18:40All right.
18:40And they hopefully will have both their tackles.
18:42It is a little scary venturing out with Justin Herbert.
18:47Like, is the really, you can trust him, but.
18:51Look at what happened again.
18:53Three.
18:58Who are some teams who are left?
19:00Baltimore is left.
19:01Baltimore is left.
19:02How do they do it?
19:04How does Baltimore do it?
19:06They go eight and nine, and they end up winning this stuff.
19:09They have a great roster.
19:10That's how they do it.
19:12I thought about them, like, at seven or so, but I thought that that was too early.
19:18Now this feels a little bit too late, but it's too late to change it.
19:22And the other options are the Chargers and Jaguars.
19:27Wow.
19:29This was a ride.
19:30Those two teams, though, are always hot this time of year.
19:33Yes, this is their time of year.
19:34This is a Baltimore three.
19:36That's fine.
19:36Okay.
19:38That's correct.
19:39It is their time of year.
19:40The Chargers, especially.
19:42May.
19:43They love May.
19:46Two.
19:47L.A.
19:48I will say Chargers.
19:49One, Jacksonville.
19:50Jacksonville.
19:50Is that a first?
19:51No.
19:54They may have been one after they beat Denver.
19:56Yes.
19:58There was a, yeah, if you go back, there was a week.
20:01You were away, Nate was in, and I was, like, crushing on them.
20:05Like, they finally, they did it.
20:07They went down the road and took apart a good team.
20:09I see it.
20:10It's that left column.
20:11It's different writing.
20:12Yeah.
20:14Jacksonville, number one.
20:16Bills at five.
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