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00:00Well, last Tuesday, I know it was a Tuesday because it's usually a Tuesday, it was time
00:05for Reverse AFC Power Rankings.
00:07Sneaky Joe jumped in, and with, you know, camps ramping up or almost starting, rookies
00:17reporting, I'll take anything I can get.
00:19It's another beginning.
00:20Football has lots of beginnings.
00:21And here's another one today.
00:23Rookies showing up their physicals.
00:25But still, they count.
00:26Yes.
00:27Let's go.
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00:37Here they are.
00:39Got a little bit mixed up last week toward the end.
00:44We'll see what the day brings.
00:48As we head out on a new season, Reverse AFC Power Rankings, 16.
00:56Miami.
01:00Is it close?
01:04It's always Miami now.
01:06It's always Miami.
01:07I don't think it's particularly close.
01:12To me, it might be either they or Cleveland.
01:17I'm still not real bullish on what the Browns are up to.
01:21I am kind of digging Cleveland a little bit.
01:24So.
01:26Any sort of quarterback play could make them interesting.
01:31Because they often, I mean, they traded Miles Garrett now.
01:34That's what got me there.
01:34They often have a lot of it okay.
01:36But they're just completely undone at quarterback.
01:40And that could happen again.
01:41It's the same guys.
01:42I almost would predict it will.
01:44New coach.
01:47Well, I wouldn't go Cleveland here.
01:49I just want to see if Miami.
01:52Who else?
01:53The Jets.
01:53I think that to me.
01:54Tennessee.
01:55The Jets.
01:56Tennessee.
01:58They.
01:59Raiders.
02:00None of it has to work.
02:02You know.
02:02But I just think I can see my way to.
02:06Okay.
02:07I can see them being a little better than we thought.
02:11Miami.
02:11I just don't.
02:12I just don't see it.
02:15There's one though where the quarterback is more of an unknown.
02:18And maybe the ceiling is higher than all these other guys.
02:22Maybe even combined.
02:23I mean, he might be really good.
02:25I just don't know who he's going to be playing with.
02:28Um, so, you know, maybe we'll get a chance to really take the, how important is the quarterback?
02:33You know, elevating everyone out for a real spin if they are surprisingly good.
02:38But I just don't think there's enough there elsewhere.
02:41I mean, didn't you mention yesterday when we were talking to Sam Monson, like name a Miami receiver challenge?
02:47Yeah.
02:48I mean, I don't know what, what to do with me.
02:50Washington, Chris Bell.
02:51Yeah.
02:52I don't.
02:53Yeah.
02:54Greg Dulcich, tight end.
02:56Yeah.
02:56Yeah.
02:57Running back's good.
02:59All right.
02:59Like, I like the Jets more.
03:01I like Tennessee more.
03:03I just, Miami to me is sitting on the bottom until, I don't know, something changes my mind.
03:09Yeah.
03:09And that hasn't happened yet.
03:10Miami is fine.
03:13I do think Tennessee and the Raiders could be close.
03:18But I wouldn't say the Jets or the Browns.
03:2115.
03:21I would say Tennessee here.
03:29I really like Cam Ward.
03:32No, that's so weird.
03:35Why?
03:35Because he's good?
03:36Is he?
03:37Yeah.
03:38Really?
03:38I think he's good.
03:38I've never heard anybody say that.
03:39I think he's good.
03:40You're not listening to the right people.
03:43I guess.
03:44Ryan Clark told me.
03:45No, I'm kidding.
03:47Um, yeah, I just, I think there's a good player in there.
03:50And so I'm excited about what they might be able to put together.
03:55Um, but are they a better bet than, I think I like the Jets more.
04:06I would, I would say Cleveland myself.
04:08I would, I would still say Cleveland.
04:10I just don't, I don't buy.
04:10I like Jared Verse, but I'm not expecting any of those quarterbacks to take a step for them.
04:19I'm almost kind of rooting.
04:21I can't stand that Deshaun Watson is still even in the league really, but I'm sort of rooting for the
04:27train wreck.
04:28Like I want, I want to see them trot him out there and like, I don't know, maybe watch body
04:34parts fall off.
04:37That's an image.
04:39Cleveland's probably the worst.
04:40It's the worst version of the Texans.
04:42Defense is good.
04:43They maybe even have weapons.
04:45Yeah.
04:45Quarterbacks are bad.
04:47I think I'll go Tennessee here because of that.
04:52Have you not satisfactorily been paid off wanting to see the Deshaun Watson train wreck already?
05:01There's already, there's always more.
05:02I mean, I guess if he's still alive in the league, then he can rewrite the script again, but you've
05:07kind of, it's been how many years where it's just been a total disaster and everything about the Browns is
05:15kind of wearing the embarrassment of that still.
05:18So I guess, you know, you could, you, so to speak, you could be afraid of Watson sort of getting
05:23back on track and being healthy again and being competent.
05:28I mean, he was better than competent.
05:30Yeah.
05:30He was before he went away.
05:32Pretty great.
05:32He was pretty great.
05:34But, I mean, really, if you were a doomsday fan about the, weird way to put it, of the, you
05:44know, in terms of the Browns, you know, you kind of won.
05:48It's been what you wanted so far.
05:50Yeah, yeah.
05:50It could even have been this bad.
05:52Yeah.
05:52I mean, if you believe in karma, they have been crippled by karma.
05:56I mean, the Watson contract, you know, bringing him in under the circumstances they did with all the allegations, it
06:03was, they, they got what you might look back from a distance and say they deserved.
06:09So, yeah, I mean, I don't particularly need more carnage, but I'm just, I, does it seem like he's going
06:16to play?
06:17Yes, I think so.
06:18Right. So, the last thing I need is the networks all at once writing some sort of reclamation project story
06:30about Deshaun Watson and trying to make it into some sort of a feel-good thing.
06:35I mean, good luck with that.
06:37First nine games.
06:39Jacksonville, Tampa Bay, Carolina, Pittsburgh, Jets, Baltimore, Tennessee, Pittsburgh again, New Orleans.
06:48They also have Vegas, Atlanta, the Giants, that AFC North.
06:53That's like 13 wins.
06:55The Browns are going to win 13 games.
06:56The Browns are going to win 13 games.
06:57You probably take six.
07:01All right, 14.
07:03You're going to be Cleveland.
07:05I'm still on Cleveland, yeah.
07:07Fine.
07:07We've talked about them enough.
07:09I can just write their name in.
07:1013.
07:11Raiders.
07:13Sure.
07:1712.
07:21The Jets.
07:23Yeah.
07:26I'm going to be honest.
07:27I sort of forgot about them already.
07:29I was in danger.
07:30I was like, wow, who's left?
07:31Oh, yeah.
07:32The Jets.
07:35I think they are Geno Smith middle of the pack season away from maybe being really surprising.
07:46Well, you know, me with the Jets and even Geno Smith, like, I don't think that's really far-fetched at
07:51all.
07:52Right.
07:53And I just feel like the, dare I say the word, culture stuff with the Jets is such a disaster.
08:02And it's almost amazing that the coach gets another turn after what last year was in sort of every way.
08:08They didn't intercept a pass the whole season.
08:12Just, he was a star defensive back.
08:15He couldn't teach them how to intercept one pass in 17 games.
08:18They played the Dolphins, too.
08:20Still couldn't do it.
08:21A ball just wasn't deflected by a lineman to another lineman at the line of scrimmage.
08:27How do you go through a whole season?
08:29Now, this season, 17 games, they don't play a single game later than 4.05.
08:34No night games.
08:35No stand-alone Europe games.
08:37Not even 4.25.
08:39The good late win.
08:40New York Jets.
08:41Not a single game scheduled for later than 4.05.
08:45I did see that they are going to wear those boss white helmets that I like so much in their
08:49home opener.
08:50All right.
08:51So, they got that going for them.
08:53I like that look a lot.
08:54That's against Green Bay in Week 2.
08:57You can watch it.
08:57The Bills will be off.
08:59Right.
09:00Because you know the Jets play only 1 o'clock Sunday except for two 4.05s.
09:0511.
09:05Jets are 12.
09:0611.
09:11Pittsburgh.
09:12Pittsburgh.
09:13Yeah, Pittsburgh.
09:14Okay.
09:17Division champion.
09:1910.
09:21Colts?
09:21Last year's division champion.
09:23I wouldn't put them 11 if I thought they were going to win this year.
09:25But they probably will.
09:27Colts?
09:28I'm going to say Colts, yeah.
09:31Yeah, this is the tear break.
09:32They're the last team left that I have a hard time seeing make the playoffs.
09:37The Colts have been 10 every reverse AFC power rankings since February 10th.
09:46Really?
09:47They come in 10th every time.
09:48They're better than those other.
09:50We forced the Steelers up.
09:52They're better than everybody else and worse than everybody left.
09:55Almost no.
09:56They had their own tear almost.
09:58Indianapolis.
10:00Nine.
10:00Now it gets good.
10:05Yeah, it really does.
10:06I don't know who.
10:07I'm not sure who I want to say at nine.
10:09I know who you won't say.
10:12Cincinnati.
10:13You won't say Cincinnati.
10:13I'm not going to say Cincinnati yet.
10:15No, I would sooner say Houston now.
10:17But I don't think that that's right either.
10:20But I like, you know, I like Cincinnati more than Houston going into the year.
10:24You could really do almost anything.
10:27This is really hard.
10:28One to nine is really interesting right now.
10:31These are not always interesting.
10:33Like sometimes it just sort of writes itself.
10:35But I think it would be fun to talk about this some more.
10:41Everybody left can almost make a case for anywhere, any remaining spot.
10:47The Bengals can't be one.
10:49But really, like last week there were three.
10:54And they had what record?
10:55Six and 11?
10:56I'm proud of Joe for, yeah, six and 11.
10:58I'm glad Joe, I don't know that Joe did.
11:00He had the same record as Kansas City.
11:02Both of them were six and 11 last year.
11:05I was happy to see or learn that Cincinnati got pushed up that high in my absence.
11:11My least favorite, I think I did this last week too.
11:13My least favorite team left is New England.
11:17I'm going to say New England at nine.
11:20Eh.
11:22And I am right out on a limb on that.
11:25Like, I'm almost loading questions to people.
11:28Like, don't you think New England is maybe just okay?
11:30And almost always they say, no.
11:33Yeah.
11:34You know, better than you think.
11:35Right?
11:35I mean, what did Sam say yesterday?
11:37Right there, Bills and Patriots.
11:38Right there.
11:39Yeah.
11:39They did win 14 games.
11:41Drake May is excellent.
11:43And young.
11:43A.J. Brown.
11:45I know.
11:46I don't know.
11:46Yeah, I don't know.
11:48Blind spot.
11:50I want you to be right.
11:53But I don't know.
11:54I don't know if I have a better idea.
11:56Best point differential in the AFC.
11:58Best record in the AFC.
12:00Tie with Denver.
12:01Beat Denver.
12:03I'll throw out the Chargers there.
12:11They're as good a pick as anybody else.
12:13That's kind of where I'm at, yeah.
12:14And they have, they're doing the thing that always happens with the Chargers is happening
12:21again.
12:22Hype.
12:23That, you know, you could hear it in the way we talked with Sam yesterday and you lauding
12:27his Herbert MVP pick.
12:29Or at least seeing, you know.
12:31I respect it.
12:31You see what he was doing.
12:32And like, okay.
12:34Go win something.
12:36Chargers.
12:39I think to break the logjam here, I mean, we're going to do this seven more times, I
12:44think.
12:44Because I really don't know.
12:45But I'll say Chargers, just to keep the train moving.
12:49Chargers at nine.
12:50Eight.
12:51I'm stuck on the Patriots.
12:53It might be a while.
12:53Yeah, right.
12:55I'll go Kansas City here.
12:57It feels like people are finally coming around to, this roster's not really that good.
13:02And while Mahomes is probably going to play week one, that's sort of the trajectory, he
13:07is somebody so based off of the little escapability, just manipulating the pocket, he probably won't
13:13be able to do that to that level this year.
13:16And then, who's catching the pass?
13:1945-year-old Travis Kelsey.
13:21It is important to remember in this exercise that he did not get hurt in September.
13:26No.
13:27Right?
13:27He got hurt.
13:28They were already done.
13:29They lose that game.
13:30They're out.
13:31And they're losing that game when he gets hurt.
13:33So, fine.
13:35I'm going to go.
13:36I'm going to say Chiefs.
13:37Okay.
13:38Seven.
13:39Now I like New England here.
13:42It is written.
13:43Six.
13:47Baltimore.
13:53Where are we at with their roster?
13:55Do they still have a great roster?
13:58Or is it getting old?
14:00I think, I mean, at every turn, you just read about how every move they make is brilliant.
14:08I mean, they lost their center in free agency.
14:12They replaced him, a guy from the Browns, who was good but has been hurt.
14:18I think that happened the last couple of days.
14:21They went for Max Crosby.
14:23They wiggled out of that and then just signed the Bengals guy.
14:25Right.
14:26Hendrickson.
14:28So, reads to me like, I mean, they're still always at the top of the odds charts and everything
14:32like that, that they've sufficiently made it through the offseason with the same kind
14:38of reputation, if that answers your question.
14:42People love flowers and fantasy right now.
14:44But it is a new, it's a new coach, just like Buffalo.
14:47And I'm sort of, I've got a little, you know, hesitation on just assuming the machine just keeps
14:55rolling like it's been.
14:57So, I could, I could, I think I like them more than Houston, though.
15:02Baltimore.
15:03All right.
15:04Baltimore or Houston?
15:06I'll go Houston.
15:07Five.
15:09Baltimore.
15:10Four.
15:11Bengals.
15:15I want to say Bills.
15:17Ooh, I want to go Denver.
15:19I'm going totally off a quarterback now.
15:21Now we're, now we're really stuck.
15:23I'm going totally off quarterback.
15:25This is going to be the whole show now, because we are, we're, we've got three different answers.
15:28We'll take a timeout, we'll come back, we'll deliver.
15:32I'll just throw it out for Denver.
15:34A lot of comeback wins, a lot of one-score games.
15:37Knicks kind of openly does not have the biggest ceiling in the world.
15:40I like Waddle.
15:43The rest of the roster is so good.
15:45It is.
15:46Like, to me, they're, whatever I just said about the Jets, like, if Knicks is the 15th
15:51best quarterback in football, I think they win 12 games.
15:54What's Darnold?
15:57The 15th best quarterback in football?
15:59Yeah.
16:00Right.
16:00That worked out.
16:01Yeah.
16:02So I can't, I can't get to Denver yet.
16:05I'm still on Cincinnati.
16:08Do it, do it first.
16:09I'll go to Cincinnati with you.
16:11I'll, I'll, I'll pivot to there.
16:13Okay.
16:14Three.
16:15Bills.
16:16Yeah.
16:18Two.
16:20Jacksonville.
16:21Jacksonville.
16:24Jacksonville.
16:24Sir Purr.
16:25Is that Carolina or is that Jacksonville?
16:28Jacksonville.
16:29Which one is Sir Purr?
16:30Carolina mascot?
16:32That's Carolina.
16:32Sir Purr.
16:33Who's Roar?
16:35Somebody's got a Roar.
16:37Yep.
16:37Roar.
16:38And Jacksonville.
16:39Right.
16:40Jacksonville is back with your, your Jacksonville colors.
16:43These are all the same mascot to me.
16:45I don't even know.
16:46Golden blue over there.
16:48It's like almost exact.
16:50Uh, you're saying Jacksonville though.
16:52And then, and then, uh, Denver one, I guess is where, where I'm ending up.
16:58I'm, I'm with that.
17:00All right.
17:01So it is written.
17:02The comments are going to get after you now.
17:04Just be prepared.
17:05For what?
17:06For what?
17:07You come back.
17:08Buffalo goes back up to three.
17:10I don't think, I mean, I'm not reading the comments, so I wouldn't know.
17:13Maybe you would know.
17:14I don't think fans sound like they're that excited.
17:19Like they're that.
17:19Where were they last week?
17:21One.
17:21One.
17:21Yeah.
17:22And you come back.
17:23Oh, I see.
17:23Back up.
17:23Yeah.
17:24All right.
17:24I'm sorry.
17:25The, the, the wording threw me because you know, we've only been doing this for three
17:28years and I still don't know how it works.
17:30Longer.
17:30Which I think is part of the charm of it.
17:32At least that's what the guy who screws it up every time would say.
17:36I don't know.
17:37I'm not getting, I'm not reading the comments.
17:41If the bills come in at one, maybe this happened last week.
17:44Is it a string of people like, yeah, I mean, is that what it, is that actually
17:48happening?
17:50Because the, the calls we get are not fighting for them to get more respect or
17:58more, you know, flowers as they say now for what they are as a team.
18:03It's more just like, again, I've said this a lot.
18:06It's just more sort of the natural habitat that we live in here.
18:09Cause it's often people are calling to say what's wrong.
18:12Um, still, I know people are excited.
18:17I didn't mean to say they're not excited for the season or anything like that, but
18:21make the argument for the bills over teams like Denver or even the Bengals, if you
18:27want.
18:27I mean, I don't know.
18:28The Bengals won six games.
18:29The bills won double that.
18:30Yeah.
18:308 0 3 0 5 50.
18:32Sal at four.
18:33Mike show open the bulldog here.
18:34Lines open for you next.
18:35This is WGR.
18:36Pffs не кап Hoe зима.
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