The Fumblerooski Podcast - Built Different Ep 370 The Fumblerooski Podcast

Episode Date: July 8, 2025

On tonight's episode, Chris Costich and CJ Medeiros come together to create a 32-team ranking heading into the 2025 season. Are the Chiefs still top 5? Are the Bears a top 20 team? Where do the Patriots rank after their big offseason? Will the Commanders land in the top 5 after their big 2024 campaign? Who is the worst/best team in the league?

In today's episode of the Full Marouski Podcast, CJ and I are going to be ranking all 32 NFL teams heading into the 2025 season. You're not going to want to miss it. This is the Full Marouski Podcast. It may not have always showed it in the staff sheet, but you can see him making throws when he needs to make the throws. Back to back games where he has three touchdowns. Someone's got to get that six or seven spot.

He's an elite wide receiver as a rookie. Truly a lose lose scenario for both sides. Welcome to the Fumbarooski podcast by Power 88 Dean Radio and Secret Weapon Consulting. I'm Chris Kostich, he's CJ Maderos. Happy 4th of July to all that celebrated this past weekend Did you do for the fourth CJ? You know just kind of kept the low-key. Oh, there's some fireworks neighborhood You kind of see over the trees mostly just you know hanging out outside grilling and chilling

Heck yeah, American dream. That's on same thing with me went to my girlfriend's grandparents house on the fourth the It's always good, but oh especially at the wussachs on on July 3rd. That was a good fireworks show. Yeah Yeah, but 32 team ranking It's gonna be fun We usually do the tap in years past. We usually do our top 10 teams, but we decided today Let's have a little fun. Let's so we do not have this 32 team ranking set. So that's basically the episode CJ and I are going to create this right now.

So number 32 CJ, the worst team in the NFL. Who do you have? This requires no thought. It's the New team in the NFL. Who do you have? This requires no thought. It's the New Orleans Saints. Yeah. I mean, look, we can bash on the Saints forever, but we know you don't want to hear that. Here's a quick rundown. Your QB1 going into the year more likely than not is going to be the Ancient, for a rookie

at least, Tyler Shuck. You're still in cap hell. Chris Alavi needs to be signed. That hasn't happened. You're in this awful drafting slump. Like just, there's like no explosiveness on the roster and your head coach is Kellen Moore. I mean, I got no beef with Kellen Moore. Don't get me wrong.

None at all. But it kind of felt like you were scraping there because he wasn't considered that much of a candidate. You know what I mean? Yeah, for sure. I don't really have much more to say about the Saints besides the fact that they freaking suck. Yeah, poor guy. Number 31. I had a couple teams in mind for 31. I mean, honestly, you could just throw the bottom five of the league in any of these spots and it would be fine by me.

I was thinking the Jets for number 31. Your reasoning? My reasoning is that, I mean, this roster you could debate is a worse roster than last year. You have a worse quarterback than you did last year. You do have a new head coach in Aaron Glenn, which is good. But, you know, how good of a head coach will Aaron Glenn be? Is he just going to be a great defensive coordinator, head coach, be is he just going to be a great defensive coordinator? She head coach or is he just going to be a great coach all around? Yeah, no, that's a good question for me personally my who I had at 31

Was a little different. I Only had the Titans Okay, I I didn't know if we were doing it separately or not. No, no, no, this is great This is up for debate. I like it. All right So basically like I said I Basically put I basically have the Jets like, you know, I mean the other Titans I mean the Jets for a reference or my number 30 I think they're interchangeable the only reason I said the Titans were as bad as they are

are just because I just, I don't know, man. It's just not that good of a, they're just not that good of a team. I don't think they improved all that much and it's gonna be like hell for Cam Ward. And sorry if I stammered Adams in my ear I'm rightfully so this is on the fly. Thanks. I'm doing a good job, but I still respect the pick. So number 30 I

Guess is still the Titans, you know because apparently we're now gonna alternate like whoever is going That's not the point. It's a tradition now. It's a tradition now. But yeah, still the Titans for all the reason I said we're kicking off back to Chris. Who's your 29? 29? I had, I was in between probably the Jaguars or can't forget about the Browns. But like the thing with the Browns is that they're deaf. They're definitely gonna have a better year this year, right? Like that was a team that was, like half of it was injured. I mean, our front of the

show, Tony Pauline was raving about them when we were talking to him about Chider Sanders. But yeah, we could. Yeah. I think I'm'm gonna have to go with the giants though absolutely yeah i i think that's the safe play right there at 29 yeah i wholeheartedly agree man yeah um and by the way chris one thing i want to add about the giants you know the old saying when you have two quarterbacks you really have none Well, the Giants have three so how does that math work out? What's that quarterbacks and how you've got what negative one or do you owe the universe a quarterback? I don't know like your only hope really is to hope is to hope that Jackson Dart

shows some sort of promise in those and During training camp where you can start him in him. Um, because ross and running back. I love the wide receiver. They have g on defense, but just also got to realize is going i Giants have the hardest s Also, one thing that you gotta realize is going into this year, the Giants have the hardest schedule in the league and it is not close. Yeah. So, it's just not looking good.

Makes sense. So, 28, what are we thinking here? 28, this is where I'd go Cleveland. Yeah. Because, you know, if you got Myles Garrett back, you know, his tantrum subsided. That's cool. We like that. Uh, you lost Nick Chubb. That sucks. I mean, what? You got Jerome Ford now. Old man Joe Flacco is back, you know, for another go of it. Or you've got Super Bowl champion Kenny Pickett. Uh, I like Jerry, Judy, Wider, Searer.

I like a joke with a tight end. You know, they still got Denzel Ward there. This is a team that has some pieces and Honestly, I think Joe Flacco is capable of holding it down for a year Well either Dylan Gabriel or Shudder Sanders develop, but at the end of the day it's just it's a clown show just from top to bottom and They do have some good pieces like I said like like, but that's all I can say. And I feel like Stephansi is probably gonna get canned

even though let's be real, it's not his fault. It's GM Andrew Barry's fault, but no. What are you gonna do? So what are we on now? 27. 27, that's right. 27. 27, just looking at some of the other teams that finished below six wins this year.

The thing is, like, I want to like I want to rank, like save these teams to rank them higher. That's my problem. Because I do have some thoughts, though though for whatever you decide. Yeah, yeah, like I'm just I'm just laying out like my thinking process right now. And I might be a bit hot though. But yeah, like I, I have to remind myself there is a lot of other really good teams in the league when thinking about these decisions. So with that being said, I'm gonna go with Vegas at 27. Yeah, I hear you, I do. They improved a lot though, that's the thing. Yeah, they did. They improved a lot, so it's like,

how do you rank these above, like say the Panthers, for example. Yeah, the thing with Vegas though is that, like how do you rank these like say the Panthers for example. Yeah. The thing with Vegas though is that they're not they're one of those teams that I know deep down is not is not uh how do I say they're not

going for a Super Bowl. That's that's that's what it is. Yeah. Like Vegas at twenty at 27 Like the reason you put him down there is because they're not aiming for the Super Bowl They're aiming to be better the Pete Carroll Geno Smith era isn't supposed to be a long-term thing It's not you know there because they're not trying to win at all. This is just Trying to get a clean slate trying to get back to 500 and then maybe let a different QB and coach take the reins in the future. This is strictly a cleanup year for Vegas, which is why I think 27 would be a good spot

for them like you said. So would you put them at 27 or do you want to go with another one? No, personally, I go with Indy. Well, I'm sorry, I don't care. This is one of those teams where yeah, they've got some really good pieces on both sides of

the ball, you know, such as Michael Pittman and Jonathan Taylor and all of them but oh my god, your QB battle is Anthony Richardson and Daniel Jones, Anthony Richardson who cannot hit a five yard checkdown and then Daniel Jones who you know is the turf monsters favorite victim. So that's me personally. I would go the Colts at 27 the Raiders probably at 26. Yeah

but my thing too though is like is that the Colts like I feel like their biggest problem besides like maybe some deep maybe some spots on defense is their quarterback play at that point though. So I feel like that as a team holistically they are better than I hear you. So for me at 25, 25, oh, that's easy. This, this is where I'm going Jacksonville. Yeah. I was thinking that too. This is single-handedly the put up or shut up year for Trevor Lawrence.

Yeah. Like I don't give, I don't care that they signed him to this big deal. If it's now or never, you've got an offensive minor head coach in Liam Cullen, you got a fun new toy in Travis Hunter, you got Brian Thomas Jr. And the defense did add some pieces.

So literally, like I said, it's now or never. Like if you do not have your breakout season now, you probably never will. Yeah, no, 100% agree on this one. It's a big Travis, Travis, or it's big Travis Hunter year potentially and all eyes are on Trevor Lawrence. So, and I'd have to agree.

Even with like some of the moves that they've made, especially with the new head coach, big draft, I just, I feel like those few moves aren't going to be what gets them to be, say, a top 15 team in the league. I think 24 is where I'm going to go with Carolina here. I'm actually stuck between Carolina and I'm gonna throw out Miami as to that I would put here.

Personally, I will go Carolina. Yeah. And I'll tell you why. Because look, when you think about the Panthers, they're one of those teams that had a lot of moral victories last season, like, oh, they played a contender and they made them sweat it out. They proved they could hang.

Well, I don't want you to hang with contenders. I want you to beat them. And look, the Bryce Young resurgence was a cute story, but the stats, not even just the eye test, the real stats like advanced passing and everything tell you a very different story. But then again, he was already starting from such a low level that any incremental change would have looked great. So I like the Panthers here. I think they've got a lot of room to improve. But once again, it's all on Bryce Young

Yeah, no, I agree too. I so let's go Panthers for 24. Yeah 23, what are you thinking? 23 This is honestly where I would put the Cardinals the Cardinals are for me and I think I said this during our NFC West preview, a very high floor, low ceiling kind of team. Like they're going to be a lot, I think, to get at least six, maybe seven wins, but they're also in a tough division, that's gonna suck. And their defense is reliable, but there's really no star power. And look, I know they're saying about,

oh, you know, a big name is just a name, but there are big names for a reason. So, and once again, if the chemistry between- Going to Twins. I'm just saying, if the chemistry between Marvin Harrison jr. And Kyler Murray doesn't improve then they're not gonna go anywhere because let's be real there's no chemistry between them yeah I'd be interested to see how that chemistry holds up for her'll see forms for

the recent Ramsey making Fitzpatrick trade and say that either team got better. I feel like I personally I feel like the Dolphins got worse, especially getting rid of John Smith. And now you pick up Darren Waller in that trade with the Giants out of thin air, or he comes out of retirement to come play for you. I don't know. That's just me. But yeah. All right. We're going to take a quick break. When we come back, we're going to get into 21 to 11 of our team rankings. This is the Fumbarusky podcast. It may not have always showed it in the staff sheet, but you can see him making throws when he needs to make the throws. Back to back games where he has three touchdowns. Someone's got to get that six or seven spots. He's an elite wide receiver as a rookie, truly a lose lose scenario for both sides. Welcome back to the Fumbaruski podcast.

CCJ Madero. So I'm Chris Kostich doing team rankings 32 to one, uh, for the NFL. 32 to one for the NFL. And right now we're gonna now get into 21 to 11. So I'll start so far, solid start. I think this is a very good list that we have compiled together. Absolutely. So I'm going to open up at 21. And I'm going to open up at 21 and I'm going to put New England. And man, what a turnaround they've had from being. And look, here's the thing. This is more of those times where, you know, there's that old saying, you are what your record says you are.

New England was probably a 1 in 16 team masquerading as 4 in 13. They had no business beating Buffalo. Then again, you know, it's like a well-estab team masquerading as 4-13. They had no business beating Buffalo. Then again, you know, it's like a well-established fact that Buffalo threw the game, you know, with multiple punts inside the New England 40. It's like, Matt, a lot of people disagree, but they're wrong. And, you know, Mayo trying to win the team,

Ayo and Mayo trying to win that last game as Spike because he knew he was out the door, but whatever. The thing with New England is that despite the fact, even though the record says they weren't, they were the worst team out the door, but whatever the thing with New England Is that despite the fact even though the record says they weren't they were the worst team in the league you had This massive free agency splurge or you brought in guys like Stefan Diggs Morgan Moses Milton Williams Carlton Davis you drafted guys like Trevion Henderson and Will Campbell in the draft They crushed they got an A plus in free agency an A Campbell in the draft. They crushed, they got an A plus in free agency, an A plus in the draft. So yeah, this is enough to get you to go from like anywhere from 30 to 32 to 21.

Easy, you know, Vrabel's gonna be a good head coach. A lot of it's gonna be on Drake and May and to be fair, I'm still not stoked about their wide receiver core. But as a whole, I can't hate it. There's why I definitely think they belong outside of the bottom 10. Yeah, no, I agree with that. I think like from where they were last year and with all the moves they made, they they 100% got better. But the question is how much better?

So I think it's safe to leave them out of like the top 20. As Pax fan saying that, of course. But the question is how much better so I think it's safe to leave them out of like the top 20 As being saying that of course, but um Speaking of 20, let's go to number 20. Um for number 20. Um Just looking through teams right now let's Just go with The Seattle Seahawks. I can see it.

I like the Seahawks at 20. Would you agree with that? Personally, no. I have them a lot higher just because of their roster. But the thing that's holding them back is I want to see more from Mike McDonald and I Need to be assured that Sam. Donald is not a one-year wonder. Yeah That's kind of where I'm getting at here is like when you look at the Seahawks from last season and we talked about it too last Last week. Yeah when we were talking about the MC West this was We we talked about some of the teams

that were really inconsistent and very up and down throughout the season. The Seahawks were in that tier of like, they had a really good win here, they competed in this week, and then they fell flat in this week, and it's like, what's going on here? So that's kind of why I was thinking,

Seahawks are a little farther back. And like you said, like we don't know if this Sam Darnold year was just a one year wonder and Mike McDonald being more of a defensive minded guy, whereas Sam Darnold was originally with a coach that was a very good offensive mind. Don't know what's gonna happen with that. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Who would you have thrown at 20? How about that? Personally, I would have gone with, well, we're gonna move on to 19. This is where I'm putting the Chicago Bears. Okay. I would have had a 20.

The Bears are kind of like the New England Patriots in the sense where they improved just as much, but they were starting from a bit of a higher floor than New England was yay, finally were able to lure Ben Johnson out of Detroit You know, Caleb Williams, I think should take another step Same thing with Roma doons a you got DJ more they finally finally beefed up the offensive line you know their defense should continue to improve and you know, like I said, they trade for Joe

Tooney. That was also huge. Colston Loveland should come out and be a big volume target guy for him as well. You know, the tight end they drafted. So yeah, honestly, the Bears deserve to be top top 20 especially Now they got like a real legitimate coach not that bum that Eva flows and Caleb Williams should progress because he did show A lot of flashes his rookie year. I think them just having been Johnson in general is enough to make him a top 20 team Like that was that was the biggest thing holding them back last year was coaching. So Yeah, and interior line so that's why you go get Joe Tooney but 18 18 I'm gonna I'm thinking between the Falcons and the Cowboys right now

Kind of personally in Dallas yeah, that's what I'm thinking too cuz even though like the Falcons last year was such a weird team, I think you need to get out of that. Like, I think like a year two of like a team like that ends up coming out of that. Yeah, so I think I like Cowboys at 18. How about how about Falcons at 17? Yeah, I could definitely do that That's where I would go and the thing with Dallas at 18 Everybody says there's three phases of the game right offense defense and special teams But I would argue there's four and it's the fourth is where Cowboys fall the hardest. That's coaching.

That was a horrible move to hire Brian Schottenheimer and that in and of itself was going to keep Dallas at the top 15 and also Dallas is quickly becoming very hollowed out. All their money is going to their stars. They still have to pay Micah Parsons. They traded for George Pickens but that's like reshuffling deck chairs on the Titanic. Because he's, I don't care how good he may or may not be, at the end of the day, he's a one-year rental. So moving on to number 17, like we agreed upon, you got the Atlanta Falcons. I really want to see what Michael Pennis can do. I definitely think he's gonna take a step, you know, B. John Robinson broke out Drake London and that's I

Cannot Wait to see him, you know with like hopefully a confident quarterback and pennix they finally Finally picks the pass rush, you know, spending two first round picks on edge rusher and maybe just maybe Kyle Pitts will break out and I'm telling you I'm getting real sick of playing will he won't he with pits. I got the answer for you he won't. No, no, but yeah Dallas they're gonna have Dak back but like you said coaching and they've spent so much money on their stars that they've as you mentioned hollowed out Falcons they got the talent there it's just what kind of quarterback player you're gonna get. All right, so what do you think of for 16 16 16 I go the Bengals at 16 to be. Actually, no, no, no. Stop myself there. Stop.

Stop. Steelers. Yeah. Yeah. Let me tell you something. The Pittsburgh Steelers are actually a really scary team if it was 2020. That's pretty much it. This is just this is the last dance team. This is you know, you got all the unks coming out of retirement, or not going to retirement, but right on like the doorstep of retirement, you know, Aaron Rogers, Darius Slay, along with a wash, Jalen Ramsey, and I mean, you got DK Metcalf, he's at least still good. But yeah, will this

finally put Mike Tomlin below? 500 No one knows that's the world may never know Thank you Then of course we got to move on to 15 yep and that That's got to be where I You know, this is playoff territory. This is probably where I want to put the Bengals, but yeah, I'm gonna put the Niners Yeah, that's right Once again there another team that just I keep saying it only cuz it's true they got

Malled to death in free agency Anyone who could leave dead, you know Lakin Tomlinson, I believe is gone. Tell a Noah who Fonga drag Greenlaw. Are they traded? Oh, what's his name there? They traded Devo Samuel that's his name and And Brock Purdy you're not gonna have the Avengers. Let's see what you can do And Brock Purdy, you're not gonna have the Avengers. Let's see what you can do That that's pretty much it for the Niners like they're a fringe playoff team. I mean don't get wrong. They're still good But they're coming back down to earth a bit. They're not a top 10 team anymore. No

Like they're like this year. They're probably gonna be like on the cusp of a playoff spot and that's it really Yeah, pretty much and speaking of being on the cusp of a playoff spot and that's it really. Yeah, pretty much. And speaking of being on the cusp of a playoff spot, I would honestly throw the Bengals at 14. Yeah, rightfully so. Yeah, because like, you got this contract dispute with Trey Hendrickson, now you got a contract dispute with your freaking rookie like, like, I don, the talent on the team is there, but like with so much outside noise going on, you don't know what the hell's about to happen. Yeah, I also don't like Zach Taylor as a head coach. That offense is going to, is going to be insane.

They're going to put up some of the best members in the league saying you better to screw him over. And the only reason why they're doing is because Joe Burrow pretty much a masculine them basically saying you better sign chasing Higgins or else so but based on the town level alone a burrow chasing Higgins you got to put the bangles top 15. The defense keeps him out of the top 10. Unfortunately, it unfortunately does. Number 12. Wait 1313. Fuck Okay, number 12. Wait, 1313 fuck losing count. Thanks for 1313. I'm thinking the Texans. Yeah, I'm either I'm Texans or Broncos here. That's what I'm thinking. Personally, I'd go at Denver because yeah, I remember Houston beat them.

Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So that's literally like that's the decider Houston beat. I don't know. So that's that's literally case closed. I guess like yeah, but now we're looking at this year though, like Houston's gonna be a better team than what they were last year, you would assume. Yeah, plus Denver's schedule is a little tougher. Is it? Yeah, cause I mean, I don't even think they beat

like a single playoff team all last year, Denver. I can't remember right now at the top of my head, but I'm I'm more thinking like Denver's I feel like just Denver overall like was able to come together like around the defense like the defense is still very good for Denver and I think the offense can pick it up as well like they got some good talent offense. Houston is also in that kind of inconsistent category. You know what I mean? Like they got some good talent offense Houston is also in that kind of inconsistent category You know what I mean? Like or I feel like Houston would be better off at 13 compared to Denver at like 12

Yeah, possibly yeah Yeah, didn't Denver actually just get the JK Dobbins they did, but is he even gonna play a whole year? Yeah, that too, that too. Ah! All right. Denver 13, Houston 12, how about that? Yeah, sure. Yeah.

So. Give me number 11. All right, so for reference everyone, Denver is going to be number 13 and number 12. We got the Texans and I know losing digs is going to hurt, but you got Christian Kirk. You're going to be fine. Nico Collins is going to be back healthy and he got another year of Will Anderson to improve and hey, Derek Stangley and Kamari Lassiter.

That is a solid duo. Yeah. Number 11. I was thinking the Chargers. Yeah. Yeah. Easily. I mean, like, I think that the main real big,

yeah, that's right. If we're using the playoff, if we're using the playoff theory of Texans charger or with Texans Broncos, then theoretically, when you have to make the same thing for Texans chargers. Yeah, by the way, early about the playoff theory, I didn't mean the Texans beat the Broncos. I meant the Texans won and the Broncos lost and the Broncos lost in embarrassing fashion. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't know what that was about.

I mean, yeah, I would actually switch Texans and Chargers personally. Yeah. You want to switch it then? Yes. And also, I think we'd be allowed to and anyone who says otherwise, I don't know. We just sit down and sit them in the corner. This is an open debate. and also, you know, I think we allow you and anyone who says otherwise, I don't know. We just sit him in the corner. This is an open debate. Yeah.

Yeah. Honestly, I put the charges outside the top 10 though and the reason being I want to make this abundantly clear. II gotta say this. They're just not an explosive team. I'm sorry. Like, you got why? Why are you not explosive? Like when you have Justin Herbert, and you're not creating fireworks, I know you don't need to have an explosive offense to win. But they went in to this offseason, I believe top 10 in cap

space, maybe even top five, and you still don't have a wide receiver one Like how did you let that happen and I need to see one more year from a conkey because he strikes me as a really high end to Yeah, I think it could be a one but but even if he is then it's McConkey and like nobody else because Josh Palmer's gone and Quentin Johnston, I just don't think has hands like at all. I also just wasn't a real big fan of the Chargers offseason either. I wasn't a big fan.

I like Texans at least made some moves to like improve on because you're not going to have tank Dell, but you were able to you're going to be without tank Dell. You just lost digs, but you're able to at least get another wide receiver thrown at hole whereas like Chargers still don't really have a bonafide wide receiver one as you mentioned. All right let's take a quick break come get when we come back we're gonna get into the top 10 teams in the NFL for the 2025 season. Don't go anywhere. It may not have always showed it in the staff sheet,

but you can see him making throws when he needs to make the throws. Back to back games where he has three touchdowns. Someone's gotta get that six or seven spot. He's an elite wide receiver as a rookie. Truly a lose-lose scenario for both sides. Welcome back to the Fumbaruski Podcast lose lose scenario for both be some fun to be. I love it. I love this so much. I can't wait. Terrifying for the next hour or however long. I already know. I already know that you and I are gonna have different

top 10. So we're just gonna, we're just gonna argue. All right. I know. I'm now seeing that you actually had the Seahawks as As a top 10 team. Yeah, I mean I could hear you but it's like I'm just saying roster wise Uh, but you know I can adjust for number 10. Give me green bay. Yeah that's why I had is number 10 and I Need to see more from Jordan love Outside of Toyota thongs like don't get me wrong. We know the legend of toyota thought Jordan love and he's very good but

That's I turn it on not so much. I Once again this I want It's not and I want to see more out of per se. It's his wide receiver room It's very it's a really crowded room and it's not because all these guys are starting caliber but someone's going to be in a three

receiver set. Someone's going to be the odd man out and it's not going to be Matthew Golden. You just drafted him unless you have that throw him at the bottom of the depth chart and make him work his way up approach which has never worked

in the history of ever. You know, you got Jayden Reed, who I feel like was there one last year, then there's Watson and Dobbs. Like, I don't know. I have no idea who it's gonna be. I would lean one of them being the odd man now. I just, they seem pretty much the same to me. That's the thing is like,

those three receivers you just named were basically sharing the wide receiver one role last year and it was like a mix of like one guy was out or like one guy is having an off week. Like there wasn't one bona fide guy that was taking over the reins. It's like the top target, you know. Yeah. And if you had any of them in fantasy, you were probably pulling your hair out. But and the defense. Oh, man, the to be a good target, you know? Yeah. And if you had any of them in fantasy, you were probably

pulling your hair out but and the defense, oh man, the pass rush is okay. You know, Kenny Clark or Sean Gary will always be solid but man, no, no, Alexander's going to hurt. Yeah, that will at least the god Xavier McKinney though in the secondary. So that's that's still

Still got some good stuff going on in there Nine minutes for nine picks. How about that? It we want to get out of 45. So number nine is Let's go the Vikings Yeah Yeah, honestly pretty good roster top to bottom. It's just QB is going to be a massive question mark with McCarthy. That's the biggest thing is J.J.

Sam Darnold looked good there. I mean, come on. Oh, yeah. Yeah, if Sam Darnold was able to perform, I'd say J.J. McCarthy can too, but like different quarterbacks are weird with different systems. So you never know. Number eight, I, number eight, I had the Rams. Yeah. The Rams, I think they're, they got Aleric Jackson back on the offensive line, which is huge for them. They got Devonte Adams to pair up with a now healthy Pukka Nakua, Kyron Williams, Matt Stafford.

He's got at least one or two good years left in him. What holds them back from for me for being top five? That defensive backfield is not good. Like at all, it is a very bad defensive backfield like the pass rush is gonna be great I think the pass rush makes their DB's kind of look a little better than they are But when they're not getting pressure because there's gonna be one game every every team Every good team with a good pass rush has that like one game where you just can't touch the quarterback like at all That's really when their DB's are gonna get exposed

Yeah, there's a hole there. They're good. I mean, you know, I can't wait to see what Adams and Nakua can do Sam no, I I'm very excited to see how the Rams I'm just excited to see Pukin Devante Adams Just lined up on the same side of the football as each other. Oh, yeah, that's gonna be fun We were talking about that. We're talking about this exact same thing last week, actually. How much fun is gonna be to watch that? Um, or just how fun the Rams offense is in general too, but, um, seven, number seven, hear me out. This is where I put Tampa Bay.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, look, you got Baker Mayfield. You got Chris Gawin. You got Mike Evans. Bucky Irving, a solid offensive line. Defense is a bit of a question mark, but Yaya Diabe, I think, is going to take a step forward. I think is going to take a step forward. Vita Vey, of course, on defensive line, man. That's awesome to see. Levante David coming back for another year. Jamel Dean and Anton Winfield in the defensive backfield. Let Baker bake, man.

Just let him sling all over the yard. Let's have some fun with it. I like it. I like it. I like that a lot. I was thinking all those, all the words you just said Same thing with me. I love the offense Defense I think can be strong, but there's still a lot of question marks there

Good us that six I See you wrote Buffalo I went KC, but I also put the bills at seven So I'd be willing to go bills at six Yeah, I see you wrote Buffalo. I went KC, but I also put the Bills at seven. So I'd be willing to go Bills at six. Yeah, I see it. The Bills are a team that's an above average team everywhere except QB where you have Josh Allen, who's a top five quarterback.

James Cook, I know I sound foolish, but he just, he doesn't really scare me because for every game where he'd have like 150 scrimmage yards and three touchdowns there'd be a game where he's averaging like two yards a carry. Very streaky. I know Bill's Mafia is gonna put my head through a table for it, but I'm sorry. I don't think Khalil Shakir is a number one. I think he's like a mid-tier number two like not even a high end two. He does not frighten me. Keon Coleman not crazy

about but man as long as they have Allen they're going to be fine. Their defense is sneaky underrated. Christian Benford is really solid. May matamuano can stay healthy. I had Oliver and Greg Russo up front. I don't hate their defense, but their offense is literally one Josh Allen away from being bottom 10. But as long as they got Josh Allen, they're going to be humming, which is why they're top 10. And also I do like the defense. Can't forget about Joey Bosa on the defense now. Oh, Joey Bosa one year rental, but whatever. Still, it's

let's move on to number five, then. Five. Um, I was gonna go Chiefs in number five. I'm going to go with rental but whatever still it's let's move on number five then five. I was going to go Chiefs in number five. I can see that but I don't like the bills. You know that's the thing that they're like the bills on steroids where instead

of Josh Allen, you have Patrick Mahomes where they're a good team, but it's going to be Patrick Mahomes. They're going to stay competitive as long as they have him. And look, don't get me wrong. Through the eye tests and through the numbers, he's been on the decline, but they're still winning. And a lot of it's coaching too. Andy Reid is a great coach and Steve Spagnolo, well, he is a little blitz reliant and that really hurt him in the Superbowl. I still think he's a good defensive coordinator. The one knock I have on the Chiefs coaching is Matt Nagy.

Horrible OC. Get rid of him, I don't know why he's still there. But I mean with Rishi Rice coming back healthy, there'll be a little more spark to that offense because I don't like ground and pound Kansas City. I don't think you can ride Isaiah Pacheco to a Super Bowl. He's a good complimentary piece, but he's not a bell cow. Yeah.

But hey, my homes, man. He's always going to be top five. He's inevitable. He will always have Kansas City as a top five team, no matter how terrible Kansas City is. Yeah. All right, four through. Yeah, we're at number four now. Washington. Absolutely. Yeah. the

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I'd be shocked if we were to get both on Washington. That's for sure Yep, so so number three three I Have Baltimore you have Detroit Fair enough, uh, I would lean here's why I'm Detroit at three, right? Remember time with the different phases of the game I'll make this very quick. I don't know what to expect from them after they lose both their coordinators. Teams that lose both their coordinators in a single season, always, always, always struggle because it's a bigger deal than you think.

I like that. So, I mean, you could say the same thing about the Eagles though. And I think that you and I didn't move their coordinators, Vic Fangio is still there. Yeah, that's right. I, I forgot about Vic Fangio, but yeah, you might have me going to try to three. I don't know though, because Baltimore is one of those teams that's just like, has never like just regular season. I hear it, but from a roster standpoint alone,

I do like their DB room a tiny bit better. It's close. But I feel like I just, I feel like I just like Detroit's roster more. That's it. No, no, no, offensively, but hey man, Derek Henry, Lamar's a better QB than Gaugh. Why is it better lot?

I mean, they're pretty much evenly split but Once again the Ravens DB room of Marlon Humphrey j Alexander Nate Wiggins Malachi Starks and Kyle Hamilton. That's what puts it over as well as Lamar and King Henry Chris I'll leave it up to you. Who's it? All right. All right Let's go with oh shit I'm gonna leave it up to you. Who's at three? All right. Let's go with. Oh, shit. Come on.

All right. Let you convince me on Detroit at three. So let's go Detroit three. Baltimore two like the thing with me is that like Jim Harbaugh, John Harbaugh, not Jim Harbaugh. John Harbaugh has been kind of growing on me in a negative way recently. Yeah. Honestly, it kind of balances out. Lion's Lest Both are coordinators,

whereas the Ravens stay the same, but I'm not a big Harbaugh guy. Yeah, exactly. It balances out. They're 2A and 2B. Yeah. So now that we've revealed who's going to be number one you Number one the Philadelphia Eagles It's gotta be everything they touch Turns to gold it like howie over there has been an

absolute dog and constructing this rock like we talked about the number of guys that Eagles lost during this past off season and It still feels like that they're bound to run the league. It's insane. Yeah They had a lot of depth they could lose depth Yeah, you lost no Williams and Josh sweat that sucks But you still have Jalen Carter and Nolan Smith exactly like that's not ideal but you still have the Kobe Dean like it it's just you know, like I mean losing those guys sucks, but

You had the depth to spare Yeah, like this is an Eagles team where like in ten years depending on the type of run that the Eagles have like this could be seen as one of the Greater stretches in league history, you know Yeah, as long as we have Jalen hurt sake home Barkley and AJ Brown that offense is still gonna be fine Exactly in the whole line man. Yeah scary unit scary scary scary All right. Well, that is our

NFL 32 team ranking. Boy, oh boy. CJ, you want to make a graphic? No, I don't think I will. That sounds like hell. Slow week in the news cycle. Real quick, we mentioned earlier Darren Waller getting sent to the Dolphins coming out of retirement. It's now official He's now a Miami Dolphins. So a compensatory seventh round pick was sent to the Giants as a result and quarterback season two coming out featuring Joe burrow Jerichoff and Kirk cousins once again

So starting today July 8th as well, so I'm pretty sure it's on Netflix as we speak or at least Episode one. I don't know. I forget how they release the episodes now, but Yeah, that is all of our schedule content for today though CJ. You got anything else? No, that's pretty much it Word that'll do it for us tonight. Thank you for tuning in be sure or we have new episodes out on Tuesdays at 730 Eastern Standard Time be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel and also have all our episodes available on Spotify speaker Apple podcast I heart radio Google podcast and so much more Be sure to follow our Instagram full Maruski underscore podcast keep up with the pod and the latest coverage on the NFL Otherwise, he's CJ Madero.

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