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The Kevin Sheehan Show

Kevin & Max's NFL Power Rankings: Top 5 going into week 5

The Kevin Sheehan Show

Audacy

Sports, News

4.7696 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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10.2.25, Kevin Sheehan and Producer Max give their top 5 NFL teams ranking going into week 5 of the season.

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0:00.0

I'll tell you what, doing NFL power rankings right now, it's typically very hard early in the season.

0:09.5

There's a lot of teams out there that I could see emerging as legitimate Super Bowl contenders.

0:18.7

And I'm going to make my list about, you know, the teams that I see being the best

0:24.7

down the road.

0:26.5

They may not have the best records right now.

0:29.6

Now, Buffalo is my number one team overall.

0:33.9

I think I've had them number one in my power rankings the last few weeks.

0:37.8

But, you know, Buffalo was life and death in the fourth quarter with New Orleans on Sunday.

0:42.8

If you didn't follow that game, it was 21 to 19 midway through the fourth quarter.

0:50.9

New Orleans was actually in position to take the lead,

0:53.7

and they ended up kicking a field goal down 21-16 in the fourth quarter. New Orleans was actually in position to take the lead, and they ended up kicking a

0:55.0

field goal down 21-16 in the fourth quarter. It's the NFL, I understand, but I'm keeping

1:02.0

Buffalo at one. But the team that I've got at number two, Max, is the team that I think might be

1:07.9

the best team in the league and probably has the best chance over the next few weeks

1:14.2

emerging as number one in my power rankings. And that's the Detroit Lions. I think the Lions are

1:22.0

legit. And by the way, if they end up being a one seed again in the NFC, even a two seed, Dan Campbell's going

1:29.7

to get a lot of votes for Coach of the Year because he lost both coordinators. And there was

1:35.4

this thought that Campbell's a bit of a meathead and it's all about his coordinators. If they

1:40.8

have another great regular season, Campbell needs to get recognized for that.

1:45.6

I think the lions are loaded, both sides of the ball, and we've seen it three consecutive

1:51.9

weeks. They put up 52 on the Bears, 38 on the Ravens on Monday night, and against the best

1:57.6

defense in the NFL, you know, it was slow going for much of it, and it wasn't

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