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Will Joe Burrow stay healthy? Can Aaron Rodgers turn back the clock? What will the Ravens look like under a first year head coach? JP and BMitch discuss all headlines surrounding the AFC North.
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00:00it is only fitting as we go around the nfl with our divisional previews that today being here in
00:07baltimore we do the afc north let's go um afc north has been quite good over the years you've
00:13got two of the most stable franchises i would say and the steelers and the ravens um you've got a
00:20wild card franchise in the bangles and you've got one of the worst franchises in the cleveland
00:24browns yeah um you want to start with the browns yeah browns last year went five and twelve uh they
00:31were three and six at home two and six on the road had a good defense still a minus 100
00:37point
00:38differential um browns shook everything up this year they fired stefanski they bring in todd munkin
00:44um the biggest i mean let's start you trade away miles garrett which is just a massive massive big
00:51deal for the organization i understand why he wanted out i like jared verse the verse is good
00:57versus a good player defensively there's stuff to like for yeah yeah the browns um sweschinger's
01:04really good verse is quite good um grant delpit safety played lsu a million years ago denzel ward
01:11defensively they've been good will probably continue to be good my boy a landon alum mike rutenberg is the
01:18defensive coordinator in cleveland certainly rooting for him but offensively brian i mean the first
01:25question is a quarterback what do you think of deshaun getting this job over shador
01:31it's all about the money i i believe that if they were both making the same amount of money
01:37they would have given the job to uh shador but now you've had all these years they've been paying him
01:43and now he's healthy they're like let's see if i've been saying this the whole time let's see if
01:48you can give us what we've been paying you for i mean you got to pay him and the only
01:54way you get
01:54out of him is put him on the field you want 40 million dollars sitting on the sideline
02:01do you how big of a blow do you think it is to players everywhere that want more guaranteed contracts
02:08that watson finally got one and it went like this well i think if quarterbacks dns receivers
02:17cornerbacks stuck together more people can get guaranteed contracts the problem is guys in the
02:23nfl they talk about stuff but they don't like to go in as a as a crew you know if
02:28everybody just say
02:29to hell with them we don't we don't get guaranteed we're not doing it this league will find a way
02:35browns browns had a big draft they took spencer finneau tackle in the first round casey concepcion
02:41uh a and m wide receiver in the first round another receiver in denzel boston in the second round
02:47i like the dude harold fan in the tight end they added last year or maybe two years ago um
02:53you have
02:54quinchon judkins the ohio state running back there um how many quarterbacks do you think start a game
03:01for cleveland this year three me too i just i think we're about three of them with that position
03:08in the shape it's in what's your win total here cleveland win total four and a half i was gonna
03:15say
03:16five and a half what is it clary they are at six and a half right wow i know i'm
03:22thinking that's good
03:23dude the defense is good but i mean you're gonna lose something losing miles yeah for sure um all
03:32right where do you want to go next pittsburgh or cincinnati uh let's go to the berg where they
03:39gonna keep four quarterbacks blitzberg all right let's do it steelers last year won the division at
03:4510 and 7 they won 10 games you want to guess their point differential over the course of 10 wins
03:5315 10 10 point plus 10 on the season which is insane so they beat everybody one point
04:03um obviously the biggest question for the steelers mike tomlin's gone he's been there forever now you
04:08got mike mccarthy um you still have aaron rogers apparently it's his last year dk metcalf just redid
04:14his deal i did like the trade for michael pittman from the colts they also drafted the bama kid
04:20jeremy bernard in the second round um you know that offensive line has been pretty good pat fryer
04:27moved at tight end defensively you still have tj watt you still have patrick queen you still have
04:33alex highsmith joey porter jr probably looking for a new contract oh i've been talking about that
04:38already cam hayward how old is cam hayward cam is about 40 41 now you think he's that old i
04:44think so
04:44i'll try to look it up what does the steelers come down to for you if they quarterback will
04:51their quarterback be sane or not 37 years old for cam hayward 37 i mean that's probably still like 40
04:5941
04:59in the league and after being hit that much in d-line years for sure um you think it's all
05:04about
05:04rogers yeah it all comes down to him because let's be real their defense have played great
05:10throughout and they they give them chances they got jalen ramsey too but it comes down to aaron rogers
05:16staying above water and not not getting into some of his what's the stuff how wasa whatever he's
05:23how wasa yeah wasa um i also think it's really interesting one thing mike tomlin did
05:31they never bottomed out i mean never had a losing record they were always going to stay competitive
05:36i don't know that mike mccarthy's going to bottom out either i mean his career resume
05:40honestly probably isn't that dissimilar from tomlin's they both won one super bowl um both had good
05:46teams that you know lost in the playoffs um but i think mccarthy will maybe will that relationship
05:55stay like it is right now because those two did not like each other for a while now they're
06:00back together they're playing nice right now will it stay like that steelers win total is nine
06:11i'll go right there all right clary we're both in at nine the steelers are at eight and a half
06:17for 2026 i don't like that over do you you like the steelers i do it when was the last
06:24time they had
06:25a losing record man i know it's not tomlin but that's when they had tomlin though i know he was
06:30able to keep him motivated i don't know if mccarthy's the same guy i mean mccarthy's career
06:36record's pretty darn good though he like i'm it's not like they hired some brand new guy or some slouch
06:42like as much as mike mccarthy he's not mike tom ain't much to look at um yeah i agree i
06:49mean tomlin did
06:50it for a long time mccarthy's career record 174 112 and two in dallas 49 and 35 and green bay
06:59125 and 77
07:00so his career win percentage is you know above 500 also so his career win percentage is 608
07:11with a super bowl what do we think tomlin's career win percentage is i'm just curious if these are closer
07:16than we would expect mike tomlin 19 years in pittsburgh so mccarthy was 0.608 mccart tomlin
07:26was 0.628 so mccarthy wins about 61 of his games tomlin wins about 63 of his games um all
07:34right let's go
07:34to cincy and we'll finish with baltimore i am high on the bangles i think they did a lot to
07:40address a
07:41defense that has been god-awful we all know what that offense can be the bangles finished last year
07:46six and 11 minus 78 point differential everything out there to me i think dexter lawrence is a massive
07:54difference maker especially a motivated dexter lawrence he is a game wrecker interior defensive
08:01lineman they also added um the dude i think from the seahawks boy a mafe they added him as a
08:07pass rusher
08:08i think they tried to get serious about improving the defense boy a mafe i forgot they got john allen
08:15too on the interior um brian cook they signed as a free agent in the back end offensively i mean
08:23chase brown jamar chase t higgins they have a lot offensively but it comes down to will that guy
08:30behind center stay healthy will mccauley coughlin stay healthy joe burrow in the last three seasons
08:38he played eight games last year he did play 17 and 24 he was outrageously good but the defense was
08:44god-awful 10 games in 23 played all 16 in 22 that team was really good um that's the team
08:52that i
08:52believe was that the super bowl team i think so um no i think the super bowl team was actually
09:00in 21
09:00when they were the wild card bangles at my super bowl pick maybe i'm crazy but at least i'm putting
09:07my neck out there i think the bangles win total is
09:1510
09:17i'll go with eight and a half nine nine what is it say the bangles are at nine and a
09:24half wins for
09:252026 the over is plus 140 on that i would take that i mean you're just betting on
09:33if burrow could stay healthy true honestly i mean it's not not to oversimplify but that's what that's
09:39all about yep um all right let's go to the third of bar more the baltimore ravens we're here
09:44certainly a new energy and i was listening to the junks had a a ravens reporter on this morning
09:51when you like the reality when you have todd munkin and john harbaugh your your age is just
09:59significantly higher and when they had mike mcdonald here he was the young guy to kind of
10:03balance everything out mcdonald left two seasons ago wins the super bowl his second year in seattle
10:09and you hear even the the ravens vice president marketing we had on like there there is a new
10:16energy jesse mentor is a way younger guy declan doyle the offensive play caller is like 29 years
10:22old i think you know what the ravens have from a talent standpoint starting with lamar jackson
10:28lamar is a absolutely lethal offensive player um zay flowers rashad bateman um they drafted and they pay
10:38zay they drafted two wide receivers they drafted the kid elijah surat from indiana they also drafted
10:45the young man jacoby lane in the third round um lamar to me the lamar conversation is kind of
10:52similar to the burrow conversation one without staying on the field yeah you also have i mean
10:57how could we go this long and not mention derrick henry who's a real workhorse even if maybe last
11:02year the numbers dipped a hair um i think they need to run more behind him stop trying to make
11:11it lamar
11:11and then end with him let him wear the people wear people to hell down and then let lamar take
11:16over
11:17lamar missed four games last year but lamar's numbers last year really dipped um completion
11:22percentage dipped touchdowns dipped interceptions peaked up a little bit um it'll be and rushing
11:30numbers really dipped for lamar he he ran significantly less whether that was by design or or what i i
11:37don't
11:37know um now you'd have to extrapolate it out but like he was averaging 55 60 yards a game rushing
11:44last
11:44year that was down to like 46 um fewer carries fewer attempts all that stuff also we have this notion
11:51i
11:52mean heck they're 40 yards away there's a statue of ray lewis right we have this notion of the ravens
11:58defense being an elite group last year they weren't they were you know and now that was part of their
12:04problem they were around 20th uh they were 18th in points allowed 24th in yards allowed win total for
12:12the ravens b mitch a lot of new stuff up here in baltimore a lot of new stuff they're still
12:17talked
12:17about as a super bowl contender i still go nine and a half number 10 10 i'll go 10 and
12:24a half for
12:25baltimore stallion the baltimore ravens are at 11 and a half wow wow they're high on them well i hope
12:34they're way below that because i'm so sick of being being our greta who oh your boy yeah
12:40he's a hater he's the biggest hater i've met in my life valdez and when his team lose you can't
12:45find
12:46him just like his other boy who cheers for the detroit lions when we whipped them i finally saw him
12:52earlier this year so i'm looking at this according to i think draft kings depending where you're shopping
13:00the ravens are favored to win the division minus 110 the bangles you can get around minus 175 i'm sorry
13:08plus 175 excuse me um then the steelers are at like plus 500 and the browns are at plus 2000
13:15which i think
13:16is appropriate yeah the bangles always give the ravens problems though so we're gonna see you think the
13:24steelers could be good the steelers always give i mean steelers ravens games you know i don't i don't
13:29like aaron rogers so no they're gonna be good you think the ravens win the division i think it's
13:34between them and uh bingles who do you have more faith in in what like to me if harbaugh was
13:43still here
13:44you obviously i would have more faith than if harbaugh was here but he's not here so i don't know
13:48what
13:48mental is about we'll see you know people talk about some guys say better energy this that and
13:54the other sometimes better energy don't mean better situations you know you can come in with a lot of
13:58hype and don't be able to follow through on what you want to get done so we'll see right like
14:02i know
14:03ravens players have enjoyed this training camp more but also because it's not as hard like is that
14:09necessarily good i don't know it could be like oh like remember what we thought about last year
14:13right with us so sometimes when the players are extremely happy about practice that means you're
14:19not really working i do think you can count on baltimore because they historically are pretty darn
14:24good but it's uh it's a whole new vibe here with with new bars and seating areas and everything else