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00:00All right, here we go. Reverse AFC power ranking, 16.
00:06Well, considering that I think they claimed roughly an eighth of their roster off waivers yesterday
00:14and already had the market cornered on being 16, I feel like Miami is a pretty safe pick until further
00:22notice.
00:22I almost think there's no way around it with the Dolphins right now.
00:27And there are bad teams. There are four other bad teams on paper in the AFC.
00:33And I love to be contrarian, if you don't know that. I can't not pick Miami.
00:40They have more dead money appropriated to players not on their team anymore than they do on their actual roster.
00:51It's $187 million they've got.
00:56But that's a lot of Tua.
00:58Tua, I have it almost memorized, at least the top few guys.
01:01It's Tua, Tyreek Hill, Jalen Waddell, Jalen Ramsey, and then you get to Bradley Chubb.
01:07Bradley Chubb's only like $11 million.
01:08But Tua's like close to $60 million.
01:10Hill's close to $30 million on his own.
01:13Waddell's $27 million, I think.
01:14They're big.
01:16I mean, they just ate it.
01:18So, I mean, good luck convincing anyone that they're trying to be competitive.
01:24Malik Willis.
01:25I mean, that doesn't mean Malik Willis isn't going to try.
01:28No, of course.
01:29But I just don't think he's going to have very much help.
01:31I do like, though, that they did the waivers thing that they did, because that's always
01:37been a complaint of mine to bad Bills and Sabres teams, especially the Sabres over the years.
01:42If you're that bad, let's try something.
01:43Why are we not?
01:44No.
01:44Like, a lot of teams are really stupid.
01:47So, if they're going to waive somebody, this is more hockey.
01:49Maybe not as true as it was 10 years ago.
01:51But, why not see if somebody whose possession stats are really good can't make the worst
02:00team in hockey better?
02:01Like, just, they just wouldn't do it.
02:04Yeah.
02:05All right.
02:06Miami is the pick.
02:0815.
02:10Tennessee.
02:14Bulldog hates those uniforms.
02:16They look just like the Oilers.
02:17Yeah.
02:18I love them.
02:20I love how they look.
02:21They just should not be wearing them.
02:23It's offensive to me that they're wearing them.
02:25I might buy one.
02:26Good.
02:27You do that.
02:27And wear it in here.
02:28Yeah.
02:28I want you to do that.
02:29Let's see what happens.
02:31Wow.
02:32My standings page here that I look at, just to remember some teams, they have little logo
02:40icons, and the Tennessee one is in those colors now.
02:44Yeah.
02:45They have made the switch, yes.
02:47So, I'm mad.
02:48And, therefore, I'm not even going to tell you, give my usual Cam Ward speech.
02:52I'm going to just say, fine, Titans.
02:54I don't care.
02:54Fine.
02:5714.
02:58Although, Brian Dable, you know, maybe.
03:00Maybe.
03:01How about try completing one good pass in all the preseason?
03:05Starting quarterback.
03:06Pick first overall in 2025.
03:08Try that.
03:08The Cam Ward make one good play challenge.
03:11I think that you're grossly overstating that.
03:13Oh, you know what?
03:16Should we get Warren Sharp on the Western Hotline to prove what I'm saying, to affirm?
03:22I mean, he's like, he was the worst quarterback in the league in the preseason.
03:27Including all the Bueshells and the Minshews and all of them.
03:32Well, he's probably playing against starters.
03:34Four team.
03:36Cleveland.
03:37Cleveland.
03:41They kept three quarterbacks, not including Dylan Gabriel.
03:44Who's on IR.
03:45Who went to IR.
03:46They had another guy that I'd never heard of.
03:48Yeah.
03:49They had no follow-up questions.
03:51They also, there are four teams that kept four.
03:53Which is wild.
03:55Like, that never happens.
03:56Like, even two.
03:57Right.
03:58In a given offseason, keep four.
03:59But I don't know why that would be.
04:01It's just four teams did that.
04:02Not including the Browns.
04:0413.
04:09I think I want the Jets here.
04:13It's either them or the Raiders.
04:14I could be, you could push me over with a feather on either one, to be honest with you.
04:18I'm starting to feel the Jets.
04:20Uh-oh.
04:21It's coming.
04:22September.
04:23Sounds like Zach.
04:23I'm starting to feel the Jets.
04:24I better dig in on the Jets, then.
04:25There we go.
04:26There we go.
04:27I better dig in.
04:28Because I had, didn't I, was not, spring, I was, I had a Jets-y spring.
04:32You had a moment there.
04:34Like, well, Gino Smith is half decent.
04:36You had, you had what I would call a Jet Flash.
04:39Yes.
04:40Okay.
04:40That works.
04:41That's what that was.
04:42I'm over it.
04:47I'm saying Jets.
04:50Um.
04:55Steelers.
04:58I have just so, so little respect.
05:02I'm so sick of the Steelers getting away with it every year.
05:06And they do get away with it every year.
05:07I think I'll go, I think I'll go Jets.
05:09They probably will get away with it again.
05:12Probably.
05:12I mean, I don't know why.
05:16Twelve.
05:18I'll say Raiders before I get to the Steelers myself.
05:24Does not sound like Mendoza, like Cousins is their starting quarterback, right?
05:27I guess.
05:28Yeah.
05:28I watched ten minutes of Mendoza?
05:32Concerning.
05:33Not great.
05:34Not awesome.
05:34I've loved him this preseason, actually.
05:36Myself.
05:37The only, like, the bits I've seen have been the interceptions.
05:40I've missed most of, I think, the good things.
05:42But from what I've seen, it was just never close.
05:44Cousins is always going to start.
05:45I saw one play where he was just sort of scrambling around in the pocket in sort of what
05:50looked like imaginary pressure and just sort of spun himself into it.
05:55He might have just fell down.
05:57I'm exaggerating.
05:58Okay.
05:58But it was not an encouraging rep, I would say.
06:02No.
06:02But it was just one play.
06:03I haven't studied him either.
06:06But anyway, I'll say Raiders.
06:08Eleven.
06:10I'll get to your Steelers now.
06:12Okay.
06:15We should hammer the unders on the Steelers.
06:18Don't you want to?
06:19Just one of these times you're going to be right.
06:21All the teams in fantasy that I pick and all the Kendra Millers and the Marshawn Lloyds
06:27and the years go by and you never win because your roster is clogged with these up-and-coming
06:33prospect running backs that never play or always get hurt.
06:37I mean, now, so far, this year is the year to have Marshawn Lloyd above Kendra Miller,
06:42but maybe you're about to get paid for that patience and dedication.
06:47That's how I feel about the Steelers in reverse.
06:50I'm just going to keep hammering the don'ts on the Pittsburgh Steelers until I win.
06:57And then I'll win, and I can sort of wave my flag, and then you can say,
07:01well, you know, you lost for 11 years in a row.
07:03Well, I don't care.
07:04Because finally, I hung in there, and I got there.
07:07It feels like a lot is the same there.
07:09I mean, you know, Hayward, T.J. Watt, they'll get Joey Porter.
07:14I don't know.
07:15Maybe not.
07:15Maybe they won't get that done.
07:17You know, Rodgers still there.
07:19Metcalf's still there.
07:20Although that's only been a year.
07:21It's not like he's an old stalwart Steeler.
07:23But you can't say, like, they've got Mike Tomlin anymore.
07:26You know, and I don't know, maybe that gives them a bump,
07:30or maybe it's what lets the bottom finally fall out,
07:34and they don't win, you know, nine or ten games.
07:37It's possible.
07:39So, yeah.
07:41Pittsburgh at 11.
07:42Ten.
07:44Ken, for once.
07:45Is it possible?
07:46And I'm not really asking.
07:48I'm just bringing it up.
07:49That it not be Indianapolis.
07:52That was the team that I was about to say.
07:57Must it be Indianapolis?
07:59I think yes.
08:00I think I would pick them.
08:02There is not another team left that I like less.
08:08There's not another team left that could be terrible.
08:13We're sort of talking about, well, the first four, five teams
08:16could or should be terrible.
08:18And then you have the Steelers and the Colts,
08:21and, like, everybody else is sort of probably minus money
08:24to make the playoffs or thereabouts.
08:27Nine.
08:32Nine.
08:41Chiefs?
08:43It feels, it feels so...
08:45It feels wrong.
08:48The season is creeping closer, and to have them out of a playoff spot.
08:52Give me Cincinnati.
08:53Oh, Jesus, that's ridiculous.
08:55Kansas City.
08:57Eight.
08:59Ridiculous.
09:00Yeah, I think it's ridiculous.
09:05I mean, I'm spoken for.
09:07I'm on the board here with a better record than Houston for you.
09:11Wow, raise a banner.
09:13For not a small wager there, either.
09:17It's not a lot.
09:18Oh, it is only, okay, I thought it was bigger than that.
09:20I thought it was double that.
09:20You saw some zeros that weren't there?
09:22Yeah, yeah.
09:23Well, I didn't think it was that, but yeah, anyway.
09:25I hadn't looked at it.
09:2625 U.S.
09:27Yeah.
09:27All right.
09:28Eight Bengals.
09:31Go on, tell me who else is, like, worse than the Bengals.
09:47I think I like the Bengals better than the Chargers, but that's just me.
09:52It's close.
09:53I mean, you can make a case for either one to be, you know, really, really good.
09:57I think they'll go Chargers.
09:58Like, their time of the year is done.
09:59Now it's the whole Chargers fail to meet expectations season.
10:03It is September 1st.
10:04I mean, it's very much the Pittsburgh point.
10:07Give me all the Chargers bets.
10:11How well do I usually do?
10:13Bengals, two winning records in 10 years.
10:16No, more than nine wins.
10:18They've had two nine-win seasons.
10:20Sorry.
10:20And who cares about 2016 anyway, right?
10:23Marvin Lewis was the coach.
10:25Yeah, that doesn't really.
10:26Not a team I really want to invest in, traditionally, Cincinnati.
10:31So, that's L.A. at eight?
10:32Yeah.
10:34Man, that's going to look bad.
10:36Receipts.
10:37Seven.
10:39It's a good thing nobody writes these down.
10:41I'm going to drink some more of that peanut butter coffee.
10:44Seven, while you guys decide if it should be Cincinnati or not.
10:47I'm going to Cincinnati here.
10:48Okay.
10:49Never mind.
10:50Coffee, sit back down.
10:52Six.
10:52Hear that, coffee?
10:53Coffee, sit back down, coffee.
10:59That'll teach you.
11:01Six, I'm going to say New England.
11:04Baltimore.
11:05Oh.
11:09Baltimore on principle.
11:12What principle?
11:14Can you explain that, please?
11:15They also had a losing season, like the Bengals and the Chiefs, and they're the, apparently
11:23this has been just written into the Constitution that you have to love them all the time.
11:27You have to love their roster.
11:28And okay, like I tend to agree with that.
11:30I kind of take my cues from that sort of thing, but New England, it's insulting to New England
11:37to be at six.
11:37I mean, what did we do?
11:39All we did was win 14 games and two playoff games, and now we're behind, like, wildcard
11:45teams?
11:45How dare you?
11:46Like, I didn't like how it felt last time with, New England was six last time with Brad
11:51here.
11:52And I just didn't like how it felt.
11:53It doesn't feel fair to New England.
11:56And they added A.J.
11:57Brown.
11:59Yep.
12:00So, I don't like him at six.
12:03My Ravens.
12:04I'm going to put the Ravens at six with you guys and then give New England a little bit
12:07more respect.
12:09Five.
12:12How do you feel about New England at five?
12:13Houston.
12:14Houston.
12:16Okay.
12:18Oh, hi.
12:19I'm New England.
12:20Let's play Houston in the playoffs and see what happens.
12:22Okay.
12:23Houston turns the ball over on every play and loses badly.
12:26Right.
12:27That's, I mean, I'm, I'm, I know everyone makes the point about who New England played
12:32last year, but even in the playoffs, it was a joke.
12:36It was a joke.
12:38I mean, they got the benefit of being at home up until, you know, the last one, because they
12:42had a better, they won the division.
12:44Again, that schedule was a joke.
12:46I'm not to old wounds.
12:49If the bills had had that path, chargers here, Houston here at Denver.
12:56Well, they did go to Denver without next, without next.
12:59Right.
12:59There's just no way they lose.
13:01Right.
13:02That's why, that's why I'm, I like AJ Brown.
13:04I like Drake May.
13:05I like Mike Vrabel.
13:06I mean, I can't stand Mike Vrabel, but I know he's, he's good.
13:09Like I, I respect him.
13:10Um, I just, I don't know.
13:13I, I think it's, it was all a little too quick that they're like, they're elite.
13:17They're going to win in the teens every year.
13:19Like, ah, slow down.
13:21No tradition of excellence either.
13:23New England.
13:24Well, you know.
13:24To buoy them.
13:25Or is that.
13:26Four.
13:28Bills.
13:28Who the heck is left here?
13:30What do we got?
13:30Jacksonville.
13:34I'm fine with the bills at four.
13:36Yep.
13:38I feel like mostly in this exercise over the months here, the last few months, I've wanted
13:44to sort of keep them down lower than you guys is, is how I feel.
13:49I don't know if I'm remembering that incorrectly.
13:50Lower isn't better?
13:52Higher.
13:53Sorry.
13:53Low.
13:54Worse.
13:55Worse.
13:56Right.
13:57Okay.
13:57That's why I'm saying I don't, I don't, I'm fine with them at four.
14:00Is that where they are?
14:01Four?
14:02Four.
14:02Yeah.
14:02Three.
14:05Jacksonville.
14:07You said Jacksonville.
14:08I'm on Jacksonville.
14:09Two.
14:10New England or Denver?
14:13New England.
14:15Yeah.
14:16New England.
14:16Yeah.
14:16Denver one.
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14:28There it is.
14:29Denver.
14:30This week's number one team.
14:32If you don't believe me, listen.
14:36Who was one last week when Brad was here last week for me?
14:39818.
14:40So two weeks ago.
14:41Okay.
14:42Bills.
14:43Bills were one?
14:44Yep.
14:45Wow.
14:45He insisted.
14:46Thank God I was away.
14:48He refused.
14:49He started, he got up and started to walk out of the room if it didn't go through.
14:53He's like, I don't have to do this anymore.
14:55You just, I'm a guest.
14:56What happens if I walk out?
14:58Nothing.
14:58I don't even work here.
14:59Exactly.
15:00During, past three o'clock.
15:01Oh, that's correct.
15:02Yeah.
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15:07We'll talk some more after the break.
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