00:01yeah you've heard of power rankings this is the power surge yeah we got some movement in the top
00:07six so just to recap from last week san francisco was at one chicago was at two denver three kansas
00:13city four and then the top six was rounded out by buffalo and jacksonville now if you look at
00:20everybody in the top six nobody was on a buy they all won so what does that mean you know
00:26i'll give
00:27you a little clue no one gets bumped out of the top six but there's a reshuffling so let's talk
00:34about uh who was on the outside looking in first and the nfc south somebody's gonna win this division
00:42right yeah are you kidding me it's a joke three and five for carolina and new orleans three and six
00:49for
00:50tampa bay and atlanta what are we doing so let me ask you this question uh let's make this a
00:57little
00:57more interactive at the beginning does the nfl need to take a look at this and say hey we don't
01:04always have to have a division winner here has been my long proposed compromise the division winners
01:11should make the playoff they should not be guaranteed home field meaning if you get in at seven and
01:2010 you're the seventh seed you forfeit your home game should there also be a caveat that yeah all
01:30division winners are guaranteed a spot in the playoffs as long as you're above 500 i would be
01:34okay with that amendment too because we've seen this happen before it's not like it's just unique
01:39it seems to be more unique to the nfc south it's happened more times there than anywhere else but
01:44yeah so have no idea what to do with that division and none of those teams are just on the
01:49outside
01:49looking in a couple of teams that could start to make moves if they just simply get things right
01:56well at least one team dallas they're so confusing because they did in the off season what everybody
02:04thought they should do and they improved every level of defense yet the defense is still the thing that
02:08is their bugaboo that and closing out games right but again but but so you can put that on offense
02:15as well but cleveland five and four i think we are speaking of them of maybe the last time
02:23shador sanders goes in plays well but no they're going to stake with the sean watson i don't know what
02:29the right answer is i don't think anybody really cares so there is a whole bunch of teams that are
02:36grouped together just simply on the outside looking in and that is new england at five and four now a
02:43tough loss to green bay they got their doors blown off we heard about that with dan campbell yesterday
02:48and he is expecting a huge rebound by new england mike frable good coach drake may i think a good
02:56quarterback but he's playing like you would expect a rookie quarterback to play where it's hey you've got
03:03mountain tops and you've got valleys there's doesn't seem to be anywhere in between so i guess
03:08the caution is which drake may shows up on sunday and it may just simply determine the outcome of that
03:15team um and so they're at five and four the rams are at five and four starting to pick up
03:22a little
03:22bit starting to pick up some steam and getting really good play out of miles garrett now that he's healthy
03:28but they're so banged up at receiver puka nakuwa goes down last week they don't do anything at the
03:34trade deadline other than at a guy as i mentioned earlier from the san francisco practice squad i don't
03:41know if this was because they've already given up enough draft capital with miles garrett and some of
03:45the other acquisitions that they made or they just simply said hey matthew stafford you're just going
03:51to have to be be that the uh uh the mvp that we know you can be by the way
03:55he hasn't been this year
03:57not not not to this point now here are a couple of interesting teams in the afc pittsburgh and
04:03cincinnati i don't know that anybody thought pittsburgh would be here at six and two but they're playing
04:09solid football really good defense as you would expect from a pittsburgh team but aaron rogers has
04:16been better than okay yeah so i mean they're sitting right there cincinnati at six and two
04:21joe burrow is playing at an mvp level most of the time could turnovers still seem to be a bit
04:29of a
04:29concern so they're they're not yet uh in the power surge by the way those two teams play each other
04:34this week sunday night football yeah i know it's gonna be a great matchup uh and we've already seen
04:38it before and the turnover was what cost cincinnati in that game from joe burrow uh the new york giants
04:43five two and one again if dallas just decided that they wanted to play some football it should
04:53be dallas's division because i don't think the giants are gonna i don't know if it's sustainable
04:58but but they also have a head-to-head with the cowboys too going all the way back to week
05:01one
05:01the giants are in a great spot they're they're in a good spot that's why they're that's why they're
05:04here and we're just shaking our heads about dallas um and then you've got seattle they're a team that
05:10added quinn and nelson looks like he's gonna be out for a little bit gonna get some things
05:13cleaned up in his knee uh green bay six and three and this is where we get to the nfc
05:18north
05:18green bay at six and three minnesota at six and six added kurt cousins or i'm sorry six and two
05:25how does kurt cousins make that transition what does minnesota look like offensively not necessarily
05:32just this week but in three weeks in four weeks because they started off six and oh they've got the
05:41buffer to work him back in and see if he can be more productive than anything that they've had
05:45a quarterback situation i think that they will and obviously detroit at six and two still on the
05:50outside looking in so we'll take a look top six i've got buffalo at six and i'm confused tell me
05:57if
05:57i'm missing something a lot of the power surges that i look at have them at one and they've had
06:04them
06:04at one for yeah like the last three or four weeks i just don't understand it now they did add
06:11a monty
06:11hooker as a safety and and i'm going to go through all of these teams and the top six have
06:16added players
06:17at the trade deadline imagine that so you've got buffalo at six kansas city with the win over the
06:23jets they're at five they dropped down one spot from four last week they got josh downs now as a
06:29wide
06:29receiver another target for patrick mahomes number four jacksonville and maybe i had them
06:36ranked a little bit low last week at six but they continue to produce they continue to win now
06:43nobody's going to look at the win over the raiders and say oh boy wow that's great but they added
06:48the
06:48most at the deadline with jordan davis jesse bates obviously those are the headliners another depth
06:54piece in uh devon davin godshaw um so they did the most because they think they're in a position
07:01to go for it and they end up may end up having the number one c in the afc chicago
07:06at three and what
07:09what i have them at two last week they bumped down one because of the turnover issues and the fact
07:14that
07:14it was tampa they allowed tampa to get back in the game had to kick a field goal at the
07:18very end to
07:19beat a three win team uh denver they bump up to number two a win over the panthers and they
07:26added
07:27linebacker dan headley they added to a strength defense is their strength and they're starting to
07:35get better play out of the running back as i mentioned last week better play out of bow nicks
07:39that's the key for them making that one more step but they're right there behind san francisco
07:44and until san francisco proves does something dramatically wrong i just don't see i'm sorry
07:52i mentioned the the jacksonville beat the ravens yes and san francisco beat the raiders so nobody's
07:58looking at that going oh boy but they added keenan allen because mike evans and debo samuel have are
08:04battling injuries they also added deforest buckner and they continue to they continue to make moves to
08:12stay atop the nfl not just of the nfc i think the niners should be the number one team i
08:18wouldn't
08:18fight you on that i think you're starting to see some of those guys get healthy on defense nick bosa
08:22and company no surprise the niners at the top of the list i wondered what you were going to do
08:27with
08:27the bears and the jags i think i might have both of them over denver i don't know if i
08:30trust that
08:30bo nicks has is hit a stride here you know well until they again that's kind of one where there
08:37yeah
08:37there's this great mystery because they're not getting great quarterback play yet
08:41there's seven and two is this just simply sean payton being the a genius on offense and then i
08:47wonder even comparing them in their division they split with the chiefs yeah who's the better team
08:53right i don't know it's it's it's uh fortunately we have more games to play and then buffalo at six
09:00i applaud your conviction because i did say i think it was espn has them number one how much of
09:04that is
09:04like we love josh allen we get it he's a great quarterback right that does not mean they're a great
09:08or the
09:08best team no and i was watching um i think it was i don't know it was a get up
09:12or or whatever it was
09:13yesterday but uh steven a is all over buffalo really and i just don't understand because
09:21defensively yeah a body hooker may make them a lot better but were they we asked this question about
09:27our own lions were they one player away defensively for being better is there anything the lions could
09:32have added at the deadline for you to take a team out of the top six or it'd still be
09:37i need to see
09:38how it translates i would need to see how it translate um i it certainly would have i mean would
09:44they have kept pace with minnesota would they have kept pace with chicago you know other teams that
09:53added at the deadline yeah i'm just looking at it now you you would have a hard sell bumping buffalo
09:57out for detroit given that buffalo boat race detroit we saw already this season yeah super quick super
10:02quick will you put the cincinnati pittsburgh winner in someone have to come out though yeah that's a
10:08big good win that yeah but i i still struggle with pittsburgh having i mean and maybe it's it's a
10:17hangover effect it's not a dislike for aaron rogers i think he's a good quarterback and he makes great
10:22he makes really good decisions for his ability at this time i just don't trust that they're a really
10:30good team all right and just the other thing denver okay probably the best two losses in the league
10:37san francisco and kc right they're only plus 12 and point differential i know they win a lot of close
10:44games including going back to last year it's uh they're they're tough one to figure out if they
10:49belong in and they belong in and and you go to the one that they they beat denver i mean
10:54they beat
10:54kansas city kansas city should have won that game yeah they should have but then i don't get enough
10:59to win it and kansas city doesn't have any big marquee wins outside of their their win against
11:03denver back in week one uh quickly on the lions across the industry they're anywhere from six to ten
11:10okay well so they they continue to creep up keep winning and it'll keep happening it's 97 one
