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Week 15 of the NFL season, it's already underway. Thank you so much to the Falcons and Buccaneers for getting us kicked off last night to talk about what we can expect this weekend, what we might expect over the next month as the regular season comes to a close. Joining us right now is someone who covers all things NFL for the New York Post. Welcome back to the show, Ryan Dunleavey. Ryan, welcome back, man.
What's up, dude? How you doing? I'm very well. I mean, based on what we saw last night, and Falcons with that comeback victory against the Buccaneers, things aren't great in the NFC South, but we know that the Buccaneers are going to have two chances against the Carolina Panthers. Do you think they're ultimately going to emerge or are the Panthers going to hold on to this one?
I don't know. I mean, the Bucks are so clearly the better team. But sometimes the better team doesn't win these things. Like the the Panthers have the the Panthers have the mojo, they're the overachieving team, the Bucks are the underachieving team. I do power rankings every week, JR, and like it's hard to believe, but I had the Bucks number one at one point in the power rankings.
They were like four and oh or something like that or four and five and one. And they've just fallen apart. I think they've lost six of the last eight. If you're asking me who wins, I'm going to go with the Panthers because I just think they're a team that has a little mojo right now and has a little bit of they're overachieving. They're ha they look like they're having fun on the field and the Panthers and the Bucks look like they're miserable.
Well, you talk about overachieving. I mean, we see a lot of these young teams who are making some moves in the NFL. This is a game that I'm really looking forward to seeing at the 1 p.m. slot. It's probably going to be cold.
Maybe it's snowing. We got Buffalo taking on New England, 1 p.m. Eastern Time. We know New England is sitting at the top of the AFC East. We've had people saying that Drake May is an MVP favorite over a guy like Stafford.
What are your thoughts on New England? Can they realistically win a championship this year? Are they the best in the AFC? No, I don't think they're the best. I think they're going to see the best in the AFC this weekend.
I think it's the Bills, and I think the Bills need to send that message this weekend. I think this is my Sunday column in the Post. It's online right now. This is the Bills' best chance. Like, it's not their best team, but you don't always have to have your best team.
I talked to Jeff Saturday, who was with those. Colts that were knocking on the door forever in the early 2000s and he like their best team wasn't the 2007 team that won the Super Bowl or the 2010 team that lost the Super Bowl. It was the 2005 team that didn't win a playoff game because Mike Vanderjat missed the field goal against the Steelers.
So your best team doesn't always win.
Sometimes it's the team that's playing hot at the right moment. This is the Bills' chance to show that that's them. And sometimes it's your playoff draw. And Look, if you told me before the season the Bills were going to get a playoff bracket that didn't have the Chiefs, Ravens, or. Bengals in it, I would have said they're going to walk to the number one seed.
And there might be five or six in the AFC. I can't remember the last time a five or six seed in a conference was going to be, you know, the majority pick to go to the Super Bowl. But I think that's what it's going to be as long as the Bills finish out strong here.
Well, Ryan, let me ask you this. I mean, historically speaking, over the past half decade or so, you could look at the Buffalo Bills, the. The Kansas City Chiefs, of course, and the Ravens to be there competing for the title. We know the Chiefs have come out on top. Are the Chiefs and Ravens completely cooked?
Of course, Baltimore has a little bit more life, but what are your thoughts on Kansas City and Baltimore for the rest of the season? Yeah, I mean, I think the Chiefs are cooked. Yes. I don't think it reminds me a little bit, a little bit, of like the Warriors in hoops. Like, it doesn't mean the dynasty is over, right?
Like, they went to those four. I think it was four NBA finals in a row, and I think they won three of them. And then they didn't even make the playoffs for two years. And then they came back and won another championship. And, like, it doesn't mean to me that the.
Chiefs are done. Like, maybe Travis Kelsey retires and they sign Kyle Pitt. And we saw what co pits could be last night. Like It du as long as Mahomes is there, as long as Reid is there, it doesn't mean it's done. But for this year, I think the Chiefs are cooked.
The odds are just too far against them. They can't win their division. They're fighting an uphill battle for a wildcard. They could lose again this week. I mean, they've ne they haven't been this far under five hundred.
in the Andy Reid era, I think they're done. The Ravens? No, I mean, I think. They're a game back of the Steelers. They still play the Steelers once.
They obviously have the better team. It's just a matter of how healthy is Lamar Jackson. He doesn't look healthy. He doesn't look like he's willing to run that much. The defense is starting to get back.
Into shape. That was a touchdown to Isaiah likely. I don't understand how it wasn't. That would change the whole outcome of that game, the whole outcome of the playoff picture. If you're asking me, I'll pick the Steelers, but no, the Ravens are the Ravens are far from done.
I mean, if I'm picking the Steelers, it's 60-40. I think that could still be a coin flip. And if I'm not mistaken, JR, I think they play in week 18, like Or they play week seventeen, like whatever game that is, that's a pl that's an early playoff game for all of us. Ryan Dunlevy is here with us, covers all things NFL for the New York Post. You talk about the Steelers.
Of course, the big news, unfortunately, for them right now Is at their future Hall of Fame end, uh got a needle in the lung. Are they just cursed this year? Like, is it a bad season for this squad? They're winning, but they're just, it sucks. You know how many fan bases are listening right now, JR, who said, wait a minute, a cursed season is being seven and six and in first place in uh First place in Artivision.
Try telling the Bengals or the Jets that's a cursed season, you know? It's crazy that it's crazy that happened. It reminds me. I don't know if the details are exactly the same, but do you remember Tyrod Taylor? We talked about it.
He was getting medicine, and you got this guy, TJ Watt. He's getting a dry needle in his. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know how that happens.
I'm not a medical expert. The coaches always get to plead the fifth on that. When we ask them about injuries, they always say, I'm not a doctor.
So I'm going to. Plead the fifth and say, I'm not a doctor. I don't know how that happens, but yeah, I mean, look, the It has been a crazy season for the Steelers, but I think it's a little bit of the Mike Tomlin magic that we're still sitting up here talking about a seven and six first place team. Not a Super Bowl team. Listen up, football fans.
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Probably not even a team that wins wins in the playoffs. I wouldn't hate being the five seed If I'm, you know, who's going to be the, if I'm the Bills and I have to go to the Steelers in the first round of the playoffs, that doesn't scare me at all.
Well, let me ask you this: speaking of being scared, Houston is on a five-game winning streak right now. We saw them knock off the Chiefs. We know Phil Rivers, maybe, maybe not. I don't know why the hell you bring him in if you're not going to start him, but he's back for the Indianapolis Colts. Are the Houston Sexens being overlooked?
Okay. Yes, because everybody's looking at them as Oh, these are the same old Texans who win the crappy AFC South every year and then play the 430 Saturday playoff game and Maybe sometimes they win, maybe sometimes they lose, but that's it. That's the end of their season. And I think this is a better team than that. This is a team that won three games with Davis Webb at Davis Mills at quarterback.
This is a team. That has the best defense the Texans maybe have ever had. This is a team that can. that can run the ball. I think this is a team that is In competition in a good AFC South.
We're used to chalking up the AFC South as the AFC South thinks.
Well, the AFC South. Hey, I Their numbers compared to the AFC North over the last eight years, they pale in comparison.
Well, this year they're the better division. Third place in the AFC South would be winning the AFC North. It's totally on its head this year.
So this is a team if they get in the playoffs at all three of those AFC South teams. I wouldn't discount the Jaguars too. I think either one of those teams either one of those teams could get hot and win a playoff game here. I would not discount I say yes. We are Overlooking the Texans if we dismiss them.
Look, the whole AFC is crazy, JR. If we're taking out the Bengals-Ravens, if we're taking out the Bengals-Ravens. And Chief than any of these teams. Like we're what we're gonna we're gonna look at it and say like, oh, wow, how could the Jaguars get to the AFC Championship? How could the Texans get to the AFC Championship?
Anybody's gonna be new, basically. Anybody but the Bills is gonna be fresh blood.
Well, let me ask you this. You talk about playoff caliber teams. We got a playoff caliber matchup between Green Bay. In Denver, we know that the Green Bay Packers have now jumped in front of the Chicago Bears. They're not getting a lot of attention.
I mean, the They've been able to pick up Micah. He's been an amazing addition to them. Love is certainly on a heater right now. They've had to deal with injuries to the wide receiver room. How do you feel about these Packers as they get ready to take on this great defense of Denver?
Yes, I thought the Packers were the best team in the NFC before last week. I doubled down on it after they beat the Bears. Actually, the Bears showed me a lot in that loss. I was I kind of thought they were a paper tiger and they hung in with the Packers. I thought the Packers were my preseason NFC pick to go to the Super Bowl even before the Parsons trade, doubled down on it after the Parsons trade, tripled down on it now.
I think they're the most complete team. They have depth even at a time they're starting to get healthy again at receiver. I obviously craft is down. But I like I think the Packers can beat you a bunch of different ways. They're really their only losses are games they fell asleep, like the Browns.
And um they have another terrible loss. And they those are really whenever they play a good team, they rise to the occasion.
So they're only going to face good teams in the playoffs. I like the Packers. I think. They're they're the best team in the NFC and you're right. This is a playoff game, Broncos Packers.
It's the Broncos tend to win all these close games. It'll be really interesting to see if they're able to do it against the Packers. I picked the Packers. Yeah, Green Bay is rolling. Oh, let me get your thoughts on the Los Angeles Rams.
I think they may have the MVP, Matthew Stafford, on their team. What are your thoughts on the Rams? Yeah, I mean Stafford would probably get my vote if it was in if it was due today. He is having a Devontae Adams, I had a conversation with somebody before this season. And just feeling out, like, what do you like?
What did you think of this offseason? What were the big highlights?
Somebody said to me, you didn't give. Devontae Adams signing with the Rams enough credit. And I was like, really? He was okay with the Jets. And they're like, no, you're just thinking of Devontae Adams.
The player, I'm thinking of Devontae Adams. at from a schematic standpoint and they're like if you put him on the edge of a Sean McVay Matthew Stafford offense. And you get to basically have him either be singled up or he's doubled and it opens up everything, the Rams are going to score a million points. And like, I texted that person like last week or the week before that, and I was like, you know what, you nailed this. Like, Devontae Adams looks Uh, like a you know, prime weapon right now.
Uh, the uh Stafford, the way he takes care of the ball, it's not just a It's not just the touchdowns. It's, you know, other than that one hiccup against the Panthers, I think he has no interceptions in the first seven or eight games. Um Just that young defensive line. Everybody was wondering how they were going to do it without Aaron Donald. Then they picked those.
guy the first round picks a little first and second round pick from Florida State along the defensive line and now their defensive line looks back to where it was. Like it's just a team that I think could be a lot of ways. And I think Sean McVeigh, I will he's going to give you an advantage on the sideline pretty much every game.
Well, we got a lot to get into, a lot to pay attention to. I know we got Detroit and Los Angeles, and we talked about Green Bay. I want to thank you, Ron, for coming through and dropping some knowledge about the upcoming schedule and what we may see following this week. The NFL season is slowly but surely coming to a conclusion as we race towards the postseason. Please tell everybody where they can follow you and all of your work with the New York Post.
Yeah, thanks. Me on X or Twitter at RY, the first two letters of Ryan. Dunlevy, whole last name, like the basketball family, R.Y. Dunlevy, and NYPost.com nypost.com. The sports section has all our NFL coverage.
If you're a masochist and want to read about the Giants and Jets, or if you just want to read, like I said, league wide coverage, I have something on the bills this week. I do a weekly NFL column on Sundays.
Something on the bills this week.
Next week, it'll be on the Chargers. And we just on we go towards the playoffs. Yeah, we're getting closer. Yeah, if you want some real pain, follow the teams closer to New York City. That'll do the trick.
Hey, Ryan, we'll catch you soon, okay? Thank you. No doubt about it. Thank you so much to Ryan Dunleave, who covers all things NFL for the New York Post. Yeah, if you like paying.
Yeah, hang out with the Giants and the Jets. You want a chance to win? Go to western New York and hang out with the Bills. the actual only NFL team that plays in New York State. Jetson Giants in New Jersey.
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