HR3: Mike Jones breaks down the NFL Playoff picture, Joe Beninati’s midseason Capitals analysis, NFL power rankings

The Kevin Sheehan Show

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🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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12.23.25 Hour 3, Mike Jones from The Athletic joins The Kevin Sheehan Show to go around the NFL to evaluate how the season is shaping up with the playoffs looming, which teams will clinch a playoff spot, playoff dark horse teams and who are the top contenders for a Super Bowl. Washington Capitals play-by-play announcer Joe Beninati joins The Kevin Sheehan Show to give his analysis on the Capitals being one of the top teams in the East and how they match up against the other top teams across the NHL. Kevin Sheehan and Producer Max give their NFL top 5 power rankings and Kevin gives out a smell test pick.

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0:00.0	Mike Jones joins us right now on the show.
0:03.5	Of course, Mike covered our team forever for the Washington Post.
0:07.2	He covers the NFL now as a national writer for the athletic at by Mike Jones on X on Twitter.
0:14.5	I don't even know where to start other than to say this is one of the wildest NFL seasons I can remember in a while with just really no
0:23.1	definition on who the best teams are and even some of the teams that we believe might be the best
0:29.5	right now. They still have to fight to get into the postseason. See Houston as an example.
0:34.6	You've covered this league forever. What do you make of it?
0:38.0	Yeah, it's the wildest, most unpredictable, most wide open season that I think I've ever seen.
0:46.3	I don't remember us getting to week 17, you know, the final two weeks of a season with so much up for grabs. And each week, my opinion
0:57.8	changes on who I think could win it all. You know, and I guess that's good because, you know,
1:04.3	the people alleging the script writing, you know, their arguments out the window because
1:10.4	nobody would have written a script that would have been able to, you couldn't have predicted any of this stuff right here. And you would have had a script where your, you know, faces of the league like Patrick Mahomes and possibly Lamar Jackson wouldn't even be in the playoffs. It's just really wild to see how everything is played out.
1:31.8	Yeah, I mean, the one thing you can never predict before an NFL season begins,
1:35.9	and it tends to be the biggest influencer is which teams are going to be healthy and which
1:41.6	teams aren't. You know, our team's a perfect example of that this year.
1:45.4	So let's just live in the moment and talk about what we think today.
1:49.6	Because even though they lost one of the wildest games, I think, in the league in years on Thursday night,
1:56.0	I still think the Rams are the best team.
1:58.4	What do you think?
2:00.5	I agree with you. I think that the Rams have the best team. What do you think? I agree with you. I think that the Rams
2:03.3	have a real chance to be able to go all the way. When you look at what they have, they've got
2:09.9	great quarterback play. They've got a strong run game. They've got game-changing wide receivers.
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