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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

NFL Teams Ranked by a CFB Selection Committee. Plus: Damien Woody on Jeff Saturday and Bryce Young, and ‘The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson' With Jeff Pearlman.

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

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Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2022

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Russillo ranks the top six NFL teams in the style of a college football playoff committee (0:39), before he is joined by two-time Super Bowl champion Damien Woody to discuss Alabama QB Bryce Young, Jeff Saturday being named head coach of the Colts, NFL teams with the best resumé this season, Odell Beckham Jr.'s return, Aaron Rodgers, and more (11:43). Then Ryen is joined by author Jeff Pearlman to discuss his new book, 'The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson' (39:34). Finally Ryen and Kyle give out their favorite bets for NFL Week 10, before answering some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (1:14:54). Host: Ryen Russillo Guests: Damien Woody and Jeff Perlman Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Awesome podcast today. Here's what we're doing. We're gonna look at the NFL and come up with the six teams and how I would rank them in the college football playoff system, but for the NFL.

0:19.0

Damien Woody's talking Jeff Saturday, a bunch of other stuff and a little college ball as well with him and Jeff Perlman, new book out, The Last Folk Hero.

0:27.0

Bo Jackson, one of the coolest athletes of my lifetime. He's done the definitive biography. He'll talk with him our Friday, Fandual picks and life advice.

0:38.0

Today, we are going to focus on a new little thing we've done this before. We did this back in the day when we were just hunting for segments and I thought it'd be kind of fun. Halfway point of the NFL season.

0:49.0

I'm gonna try to rank the NFL teams at the top four college football team. So if there were NFL playoff and we were on committee and I was a voter, this is how I would put it together. So I'd be looking for my top four and then we would have the others just out five and six.

1:06.0

And I'll apply some college football philosophical stuff to this. Now again, I made this up last night when I put together my rankings.

1:14.0

Again, we've done this before in the radio show back in the day, just a fun little exercise when you are segment hunting. Okay. So when I try to figure out who my number one seed would be, I knew, well, you kind of have to put Philadelphia right there undefeated their eight know.

1:29.0

And I can put Minnesota there just because of the seven one record to they make the playoff just Minnesota make the top four. Then I started to think, okay, but if I were to apply some of the college football stuff that I've done in the past to this, how would I, how would I change it?

1:43.0

Like if I had one loss Alabama, I had of another undefeated team in college football like that wouldn't be the worst, right? But wait a minute Buffalo has two losses. Can you really do that?

1:54.0

So I decided to look at it this way. I think two losses in the NFL this point of the season is the same as one college football loss because eventually like if a team in college football that you still think is really good, they get to that second loss. And it's like, okay, I can't do this anymore.

2:08.0

And by the way, like everybody that we get mad about Alabama being that one lost team like, oh, here we go again. It's like, okay, you actually think they're bad. But then you have that second loss. It's kind of hard to make that argument.

2:17.0

So the math that I've created again last night so don't get super mad. I have Buffalo is my number one C if we were doing NFL playoff.

2:26.0

Their best win might be the best win in the NFL this year at Kansas City.

2:30.0

It's debatable, but it's you know, I put a ton ahead of it. I don't know that I would put any ahead of it. They beat Baltimore. The Rams week one win 31 10, you know, felt good, but you know, we're not that high in the Rams anymore, but just kind of go back to that point.

2:45.0

Like man, that was really dominant. Sometimes I do think like teams do change, you know, shockingly. The Green Bay win not really sure what to do with green Bay results anymore with the disaster they've been.

2:54.0

But that was kind of dominant, even if it was 2017. They've faced the fifth toughest schedule. They've played against the sixth toughest offenses.

3:04.0

It's a little bit of the SEC AFC comp here and they're the number one seed in the tougher conference. So I'm okay with it. Their losses aren't great. I still can't believe they lost to Miami in that game.

3:15.0

And they did lose to the jets just this past week. So if we did recent see, there's probably a lot of people are going to disagree with me on that one. And then I applied the do I actually just think they're better than everybody else and I still do.

3:28.0

So that moves Philadelphia to number two. Some will understand some will be upset. They're eight. No. Okay. The best win though.

3:35.0

Do they have anything that's close to at Kansas City? They do not. Do they have something that's better than Baltimore? It again, it depends on how the committee feels about Baltimore. Clearly this committee of one likes the Baltimore Ravens.

3:48.0

So you can't say the best win is against Dallas who was with Cooper Rush. It's definitely week two Minnesota 24 seven. It's Minnesota's only loss.

3:57.0

Eagles receivers running wide open the entire time. It felt like her cousins want to throw even more picks in that game. That was a beating of the Vikings very early in the season and considering the Minnesota is one every other game. That actually is a pretty good win. But it isn't at Kansas City.

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