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Felger: Who are the best teams in the league Mazz, tier one? Any movement.
Mazz: So no movement in tier one. And here is why…they all played each other last week. So Buffalo played Kansas City. Philadelphia played Dallas. Both games ended up being very competitive. The home team won both of those games, I’m sorry, no, Buffalo won the road game in Kansas City but Buffalo was favored. So I should say the favorite won both of those games. And the Dallas game was a blowout at halftime. But I thought the Cowboys actually showed a lot of balls playing their way back into that game.
Felger: Tier two, Anthony.
Mazz: Okay. We’ve had some movement, had some additions to tier two, because at the end of the day, I cannot ignore one loss records. So moving up into tier two this week, the New York Football Giants, five and one, you got to take them for real. Every week I keep saying the Giants are due to lose and they don’t lose. So the Giants, the Vikings, whom I don’t love, but again, one lost the record is what it is. And I think the Bengals are the third best team in the AFC. They won against New Orleans last week, so they’re on that level now with the Chargers, the Ravens, the Niners, the Dolphins and reluctantly I’m leaving the Green Bay Packers in tier two, but I wanted to move them to tier three.
Jim Murray: This tier stinks.
Felger: I can’t wait to see who’s in the third tier.
Mazz: Tier three moving up into tier three, the Patriots.
Felger: Ohhhhhhh.
Mazz: What, you don’t think the Patriots are a tier three team? They’re three and three.
Felger: I thought you’d hold your water a little bit better than this, but go ahead.
Mazz: Sit tight. I held plenty of water. That’s coming up in a minute. Just sit tight. Patriots, Jets, Colts, Seahawks, all now in tier three, along with Tennessee, the Rams and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who have dropped down a tier three that teams in trouble.
Mazz: Tier four. These are bad teams, but not the total suck bag teams in the league. New Orleans, Arizona, Atlanta.
They’re better than this.
Mazz: Atlanta out of tier five, I considered tier three for them. Murray.
Jim Murray: Okay.
Mazz: But your little fetish with the city of Atlanta, whatever it is, is like, you know, they’re still the Falcons. The Raiders, the Jags, the Broncos who have plummeted in these tiers from the beginning of the year.
Felger: Here comes tier five, also known as the Patriots schedule this month.
Mazz: Exactly. There you go. So while the Patriots didn’t move up to tier three, I would note to our listeners that their only victories this season are against teams in tier five, which now includes Pittsburgh, Carolina, Houston, Detroit, Cleveland. Those are two of the last two Patriots victories, along with the Steelers and the Patriots next victory, the Chicago Bears.
