00:01check in on the nfl hierarchy john who are the best teams yeah we got some movement uh in the
00:07top six and we'll see if anyone drops out or if it's just a reshuffle of the deck just to
00:13recap
00:13last week san francisco was the top team kansas city at two they were on a bye week we'll see
00:18what happens there buffalo seattle jacksonville and minnesota that was the top six in that order
00:23and i had everything broken into tears last week so i did the same there's some movement there's
00:28more movement between tiers three and two some up some down the only team that has dropped out of
00:34tier three is the indianapolis colts they gone no more colts talk at least in the near future because
00:41danny dimes can't figure things out uh and neither can indianapolis no matter how much their owner wants
00:48to take notes it'll be interesting to see what comes of that coaching staff near the end of the
00:55season because they went all in last year with sauce gardener and some trades not working out
01:00for them uh and i can just see ursa she's circling falling out of power surge it's in her notes
01:06now
01:06oh yeah yes yes she's tuning in this morning at least i'm sure she probably gets the podcast version
01:11stream it um and so tier three the new york giants stay in it with the tie and i do
01:20want to discuss the
01:21tie the whole overtime but i won't do that now i think both teams should have just got a loss
01:28because neither of them if nobody scores just give both of them a loss they've earned it especially the
01:32way that one ended but um they're in tier three a very bottom of tier three dallas at two and
01:39three
01:39i'm not ready to throw them out because the division is so garbage now just making the playoffs like
01:45carolina last year was really never in the power surge but i have them in tier three at two and
01:50three
01:50eagles at two and three they started to sell off last week i don't know how long say saquon is
01:57going
01:58to be unavailable that's going to be a big part of whether or not they get back into the power
02:02surge
02:02now they could have won that game um and jacksonville it was just an ugly game yes um the raiders
02:10at three
02:11and two are making their way down the power surge cleveland just a little bone to the city of cleveland
02:19i'm going to leave them in now that they're three and two a loss to the jets this is tier
02:24three okay
02:24um i wasn't ready to put a team that's won three games uh out of the power surge at this
02:30point the
02:31rams how about this the rams and cleveland and the raiders all in tier three just as we all predicted
02:39yes um how is it possible well i'll tell you how it's possible um was it harrison mevis their kicker
02:47is now unemployed such a kicker name harrison mevis have you seen the memes nice job mevis mevis and
02:53butthead i'm sure yeah so i mean it kind of writes itself but you could just it's one of those
02:58like
02:59kids that you beat up in elementary school come on mevis that's probably why you ended up being a
03:03kicker um tier two pittsburgh with the win hanging around at tier two is aaron rogers did they figure
03:13something out in the passing game and dk metcalf can't catch the ball he's not very productive but
03:18he can sure block downfield um green bay they're back up into tier two at three and two that's it
03:26that's a good win with them that's a division win uh and jordan love much improved with christian
03:33watson as as the number one target cincinnati uh with the win not an impressive win but it was a
03:39win
03:39over miami they're at three and two new england did drake may get things fixed in the last two weeks
03:45left to switch huh he is i mean they are but he is specifically the reason that this team is
03:52turning
03:52things around and looks much better detroit chicago both at three and two are still in tier two even
03:59though hey detroit did put up a ton of points they looked good um defense looked better but
04:07some of the flaws i'm not ready to say are actually fixed um so they're they're they're still there in
04:13two or two and chicago like that was what we thought that that defense would be denver at three and
04:19two
04:20bo nicks i mean sean payton takes over the play calling and it doesn't look any better bo nicks
04:24is is really struggling this year and baltimore is just on the outside looking in a big win and we
04:33have talked about this with a number of teams minnesota um you know and um seattle getting wins
04:41with backup quarterbacks minnesota getting wins with backup quarterbacks so it's they're still on the
04:46outside looking in um but they're right there probably a 6b okay seattle with the loss to san francisco
04:54they dropped down to number six okay now you could say well why would you if you lost to the
04:59number
05:00one team in the power search why would you drop that far well their wins right now some of their
05:04street cred is wearing off from being the defending world champs their wins are against the pats and that
05:10was week one when the pats weren't playing good and drake may the cards uh arizona cardinals and the
05:17la chargers so it's not like they're looking at wins where hey that's a great win they just have
05:23three wins and they're two losses albeit are tough losses jacksonville stays at five even though they
05:31got that win it's an ugly win versus philly and they've got to find a way to play better defense
05:40and i talked about that last week between the 20s there's just too much yards gained you know being
05:45gained on them they've got to find a way to solidify that middle of the field defense buffalo is
05:50at four and the reason they dropped from three to four even though they won was simply because
05:56turnovers james cook two balls on the ground they lost one and another interception by josh allen now
06:05everybody looking at you know josh allen and looking at the passing numbers seven touchdowns four
06:10interceptions especially compared to our guy not great but he also has eight rushing touchdowns so
06:15well there you go um you know they're they're going to be just fine defensively they have some
06:21issues number three is minnesota they take that big jump up and it's mainly because of kyler murray
06:26he played well i'm not going to say he played great but he's back he's healthy he picked up third
06:31downs
06:31he was he was the mobile quarterback that everybody thought he was going to be going to kevin o'connell's
06:40offense not a guy that's going to rush for over 100 yards but he does what he has to do
06:44to pick up
06:44first downs continue to move the chains and he was able to find his number one target was which is
06:50unbelievable catch yes uh by justin jefferson essentially um just throw it up there and let
06:54him go get it number two kansas city no movement there they were on a bye week they're just i
07:02i they're
07:03just consistent and okay you don't win you don't lose but their next three games they're going to be
07:08sorry next yeah three games they're going to be seven and oh because they play the chargers
07:12seattle and then they're at the broncos the broncos one could be a little bit of a challenge
07:16it's obviously a division game you think seattle's just a layup
07:20uh i i just think that they're that much better okay um no it's not a layup but it's a
07:25home game
07:26uh and so i think that i think i'm not going to say it's a layup but there are some
07:30challenges
07:31that seattle has had defensively even though that is their strong part yeah and they're not
07:38rushing the ball yeah so and that that leaves san francisco a solid number one and here's where i
07:44wanted to go with the future schedule a little more challenging for kansas city even though i think
07:48they end up seven and oh san francisco five and oh three and oh in that division they've played
07:53every single division opponent and they have won all those games famously in australia down under
07:58um they beat the rams in week one their next four games washington atlanta vegas and the dallas cowboys
08:08all right so some fun between dallas and san francisco because of the history but
08:12should keep this going probably nine and oh so but are they a true super bowl team because they were
08:17only up three against the cardinals in the fourth quarter that's that's what some are questioning
08:21and is the cardinals after all any questions uh or uh objections to how i reshuffled the top six
08:27i mean it'd be hard to fight you the three undefeated teams are your top three teams yeah so
08:33i was wondering how stubborn you were going to be about minnesota
08:37and and you have finally i finally they went from six to three um and it's really just because
08:44they seem to find a little bit more rhythm offensively with kyler murray i think it's very
08:49telling not that kyler is an unbelievable elite quarterback but it's clear the issues in arizona
08:55were the problem more than he can't play quarterback in the nfl they don't need him to be an unbelievable
09:01quarterback they don't need that offense to be a top five or even a top 10 offense because they have
09:06one of the best defenses under brian flores in the nfl tom any objections no not really i mean this
09:12thing's it's such a crap shoot right now trying to split hairs between these teams yeah green bay
09:17last week who saw that coming right and it's like all right now let's see them against dallas this
09:23week and can make a little bit more of a decision on both these teams and where they're at uh
09:27i would
09:28say this my big uh thing i saw yesterday on all the power rankings around websites like espn cbs had
09:35the lions 11 12 something like that mike florio pro football talk had them at 21 really it's still the
09:43question about the defense he's what he said he said i'm not buying anything on this defense yet
09:47right the consensus from sports illustrated to the athletic usa today cbs sporting news yahoo
09:54everybody else has them sitting between 11 and 13 just outside the top 10 teams are detroit lions
09:59i think that's appropriate that's john's power surge 97-1
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