Welcome to the Ringer NFL show.

I'm your host, Sheel Capadia.

Today, we are going around the AFC.

If you listen to last week's episode, it's the same exercise.

I've got 10 questions on a number of different topics.

And my friend, Deonté Lee, from the ringer, he's going to pick a number.

We're going to go to that question.

And we are going to talk about a lot of the happenings with these AFC teams and maybe what they're going to look like during the 2026 season.

So let's take a break.

We'll come back with Deontay.

Okay. Let's take a break. We'll come back with Deonte. All right, we are back here with my friend Deontay Lee.

We are doing 10 questions around the AFC. A little bit different than last week with the NFC. I got some different questions in here. We got some different headliners in the AFC, Deonti, but you know the drill. So, I mean, we don't need to beat around the bush and do small talk. We got 10 questions to get to. Why not just start and give me a number? There you go, man. I'm a compatriotin veteran at this point, and I love that you're treating me as such. Well, get a jump on number two here. All right, number two. Here we go. Deonti, by the way, doesn't know, for newcomers. Doesn't know any of these questions beforehand. I just surprise him, and we see what he has to say. So, Deonti, I got a little crystal ball over there in the corner. I was looking at it this morning, you know, and I asked that, hey, who was going to represent the AFC in the Super Bowl? You know, I'm looking for some pod content here. Can you help me out? Crystal ball. And I saw these two logos, but it was two logos. It didn't just give me one. It gave me one that looked like the Ravens and one that looked like the Bills.

And, you know, I thought, oh, they're saying, all right, one of these offseason coaching changes,

whether it's going to Joe Brady in Buffalo, whether it's going to Jesse Minter in Baltimore,

one of these are going to result in Lamar Jackson or Josh Allen getting

over the hump and that team's going to get to the Super Bowl. But it was kind of a cheap. It was a

Bobo Crystal Ball. So it wasn't giving me the exact answer, Deontes. So it gave me too. That's where I

need your help. What do you think? Which one of those two teams is actually the one that's going to get over the hump and finally get to the Super Bowl?

I think, oh man, I'm backed into such a corner here. This is honestly, this is something that I know I'm going to be debating back and forth all offseason, which is really the struggle here. But I would say, that's right. That's right. For listeners, you got to know.

We can't hold Deonté to this. You can't clip this if he's wrong. We will have time to give our final takes. This is a check-in on the AFC and how we're feeling about these questions before we even get to training camp or anyone else. There you go, Deonti. I gave you a little disclaimer there.

I appreciate giving me a little breathing room.

And honestly, if any fan is hankering to yell at me, I do power raking. So every week, you'll have an opportunity to scream at me for something you don't like, right, about how I feel about teams. But if you're asking me based off of the coaching change, if I'm putting that up front, that in the offseason, and saying which team has most significantly changed their opportunity to go win a championship?

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