We waited all show to find out who are the nine teams. Nine. That are the very best in the NFL. And this next tier is five of them that I'm calling just... It wouldn't be a shock if we made the Super Bowl. I'm using that word shock. If you see these teams in the Super Bowl, it wouldn't be that surprising. So let's start at number nine, the packers, who I expect are going to get a lot of like, they make the Super Bowl love. I was thinking it going that way. Number eight, bangles. Number seven, eagles.

You were thinking of picking the packers to win the Super Bowl?

All offseason, I thought I was going to, and then I'm coming off of it now. Oh, spoiler alert. Six Bills, five Texans. How about the Texans being in the top five after being 32 in this exercise if we did it a year ago? That's an awesome group. Where do we want to start? How about the Bengals, Cynthia? You had him number five, I believe. That was the highest of the three of us, and I wanted you to talk about it.

Fourth place schedule, baby. Yeah. That's a huge deal. Fourth-place schedule for Joey B and his guy, Jamal Chase, who I fully expect to be all good.

He's practicing now.

He's practicing, which means likely playing. I'm not breaking new here because we don't know. But I think it's very interesting how things like these small, those three unique games can make such a big difference, especially in the north, where that's the most difficult division in football in my estimation. That's truly the point.

You had them ahead of the Ravens Ravens.

By a tiny, tiny bit.

In this exercise, Patrick and I, to me, it's power ranking who has the best team where they're at now. We had a pretty big gap between the Ravens and the bangles.

I know you power ranked it, but I did it by winter. I know. I'm just saying I think the Ravens are a better team, but I think the bangles have a better schedule.

It's a good combo. You had them at 10th, which is relatively low, but I guess not. They finished eighth, and they're in this group where you wouldn't be surprised to be covering Joe Burrow in New Orleans.

Oh, not at all. I think they are a better team than they were last That would be funny. Even without the Burrow, Joe being back, is something I talked about all last season. We actually talked about it earlier today that the bangles lost 96% of their snaps at safety, and then they come into last season and it looked bad on the back end. They go get Gino Stone. Von Bell comes back. It seems like an admission, Okay, we need that. I feel better about the team as a whole. I think Andre Yosefas looked incredible.

Complete player, I think.

The whole time that I was there for bangles camp. I believe in the offense. I think the defense is better. I think they're a good team.

It's funny. The Texans finished fifth. None of us actually had them as high as five, but it was just 6, 7, 6. We all see them in that group. Just the talent's pretty overwhelming. Eagles was a team that I thought I'd be the highest on. I had them seventh. Cynthia had them second. Love it.

They might be my Super Bowl team. I don't do this, but I have to look and see how everything shakes once all these 53 are set.

But I wanted to. I'm thinking about them. I picked them to the Super Bowl the last two years. One year, that was a fiasco. One year, it was fantastic. So I don't know.

This one's interesting because I think they're super boomer bust. If things start to go a little teeter tottery for them, that could be the ones who... I think that by talent alone, they are a really, really strong team. So if something did go wrong, I do see this as being That would be terrible. But you know what? The Niners, who are the other class of the division or a class of the NFC, to me, they're seemingly in a lot of question marks, too. Who's unquestion marky?

Nobody. That's a great question. I had the Bills higher than you guys. I would have had them in my first tier. I don't get the... I don't know if doubt's the right word, but you have the Dolphins ahead of the Bills, for instance, Patrick. I don't know. To me, it's just like, they are the closest thing to the Chiefs in the NFL. I know they haven't won the Super Bowl, and he's not Patrick Bomes. He's not, but they are the other team, 49ers, obviously, but I meant in the AFC. Just like, they're so consistent. I just know who they are on defense in terms of the schematic advantage McDermon provides, and I know who Josh Allen is, and I'm not really worried about anything else.

I'm worried about the defense. Okay. Matt Milano, not being their huge. Their safeties are completely different.

You guys have them eighth. It's not like you have them buried, but you do have them a tier lower than they probably would have been the last few years in this exercise.

Right now, this is the first time we'll see the no Micah Hyde or Jordan Poeyer at safety in however many years. That's a big thing. They're two starting corners, and they're three starting corners. The best one is probably Taran Johnson. That's scary, man.

I'm going to need somebody on the defensive side of the ball to be closer to Chris Jones before I say that they're the closest thing to the Kansas City Chiefs.

What about Von Miller?

No.

We got 2014, Von, busting through. You're right. But it's all Josh, and I love Josh, but it can't just all be Josh at this point. It seems like-Good line, good system.

I think good depth throughout the depth chart.Not wide receiver.Not as many. I disagree. I think they're deep enough, at least at cornerback and at wide receiver. Deep. Maybe not top-schelf talent, but enough Bs, enough B-level player.

Look, to me, Josh cures a lot of evils, and that O-line cures a lot of evils as well. I think the way you navigate this is, can they solidify the run game? Because if they have a really solid run game that's not just Josh, that'll be fine because they can control the clock. They can. They can put themselves in more manageable downs and distances, anticipate what passes are coming against them. But I would really feel better if Matt Milana were there.

Agree. And I think Bill's-And he might be by December, so they just got to stay in the mix, and we'll see.