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PFT Live with Mike Florio

Kirk Cousins won't play in Preseason, Penix, Jr. involved in practice fight + James Cook gets new deal (8/14 Hour 2)

PFT Live with Mike Florio

Mike Florio

Sports

4.31.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Hour 2: Mike Florio (@ProFootballTalk) and Chris Simms (@CSimmsQB) discuss latest news in NFL including NFC West predictions, Kirk Cousins won't play in preseason, Michel Penix, Jr. involved in practice fight with Titans, and James Cook signing a new 4-year deal with Bills

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0:00.0

There are the odds from Draft King Sportsbook, the order of finish in the NFC West.

0:09.7

The 49ers have been the wire-to-wire favorites, even though they didn't make the playoffs last year.

0:13.9

The Rams made it to the final eight.

0:15.3

They gave the Eagles everything they could handle.

0:17.0

It feels like the Rams are in the Super Bowl window.

0:19.0

It feels like the 49ers aren't, although I think they are. I've been influenced by these odds. All right, so let's try to do it. They look fairly packed together there top to bottom. Very much. Who finishes fourth in the NFC West? And I know it comes down to two teams. Which one are you going to put there? Which fan base you're going to piss off at a time when everyone is happy? Why do you make us do this

0:41.1

control room? Everybody feels like the glasses have full and we have to peg the fourth place team in a division. Oh, well, is it the Cardinals of the Seahawks? I'm going to go with the Seahawks here. I am. It's a tough

0:35.2

one. It is a tightly packed

0:37.0

division, right? I mean, I think

0:39.2

the Rams are the best team. They're going to be my one. But the other three, I mean, do I think there's a path still, even though I'm going to pick them to be fourth right now, the Seahawks to be a playoff football team? Yeah, I do. But that's why I'm going to pick them forth because I've got to see a few things.

1:10.9

Got to see Sam Darnold in his new spot. Want to see how these receivers are doing? It's a whole different group of guys. Jackson Smith and Jigba is the only guy there that's left over. It's Cooper Cup. It's Valdez Scantling. The defense is awesome. It's a new offensive coordinator with Kubiak. So that's where I guess there's just some,

1:29.3

I'd like to see a little bit more evidence before I rank them any higher as of right now. Their

1:34.7

defense is going to be real. And that's what scares me about putting them for. But I got too many

1:39.9

other questions. Their O line, can they get a hole from Kenneth Walker, the things we've talked about.

1:46.8

That, yeah, I'm going to put them for fourth right now, Mike.

1:52.9

By the way, I was joking control room, but that joke did not stop someone from typing this into the document we share. You just shit on the Browns for 10 minutes and you tell us we're the

1:56.8

bad guy. In my defense, I was going for a pretzel. All right. I'll go with. Sorry, Cardinals.

2:12.2

I know there's this weird, and I remember, God, I've been doing this a long time. There was a period of time,

2:19.9

2005, 2006, 2007. It became trendy to pick the Cardinals to get to the playoffs. Like,

2:27.9

they're going to break, they're going to do it this year. Like, I'll, I can't, as you said, there's a path for every team in the division.

2:37.6

And in theory, in theory, all four teams from the same division could make the playoffs,

2:42.2

but somebody still has to finish fourth place.

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