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The Kevin Sheehan Show

Kevin & Max's NFL Power Rankings, Kirk Cousins explains how much defenses have improved

The Kevin Sheehan Show

Audacy

News, Sports

4.7697 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

12.18.25, Kevin Sheehan and Producer Max list their top 5 teams for the NFL Power Rankings and Kevin reacts to a clip of his favorite quarterback Kirk Cousins explaining how different modern defenses are compared to when he was in college.

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0:00.0

All right. You know, last week with the injuries, Michael Parsons, the Packers lose.

0:08.8

You know, obviously that's big. Kansas City hasn't been in our rankings for a while.

0:13.4

The Rams, Devante Adams probably out tonight, but not for the year.

0:19.3

Man, there are just a couple of teams that I want to put in my top five.

0:26.9

I think there are four teams right now that should be comfortably in anyone's top five,

0:33.1

I think.

0:34.9

And then there's a big debate among many for the fifth spot.

0:39.6

But maybe not.

0:40.8

I'm going to go five to one and then I'll come back to five.

0:44.7

Then we'll do yours and then we can come back to the other teams that deserve it.

0:48.9

Because it's kind of crazy who I'm going to put in at five here.

0:53.3

But they haven't been in my top five all year.

0:56.7

But they've won three straight games.

0:59.2

They've actually won six of their last seven games.

1:03.6

Now, some of the wins, you know, like the Raiders and the Titans and the Vikings

1:10.6

when they weren't any good, you know, may not be super

1:14.1

impressive. But the Chiefs, the Chargers beating the Eagles and then going to Arrowhead in a

1:21.9

win or die game for Kansas City, even though Mahomes got hurt on that final drive and they had a chance to tie it. But if you watch

1:29.2

that game, the Chargers

1:31.1

were the better football team, the

1:33.2

much better football team in that

1:35.4

game. And Justin Herbert is still playing

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