Welcome to the Peter King Podcast. So happy you could join us this week. It's just me and my buddy Paul Burmeister from NBC Sports. We're going to take a deeper dive into my listing of the teams one to 32 some people call them power rankings I just call them a

tremendous waste of time but I'm very very glad that you you could join me.

And I look, I'm not trying to kill myself here or anything,

but it's just, I poke fun at myself here,

but you know, everybody makes these lists and you

know Twitter gets angry for a couple of days and and then you play the games and

nobody remembers so anyway Paul thanks thanks a lot for joining me. How are you?

Of course, I'm doing great, Peter. It's always good to see you here to start the week off.

And to me, it's just a fun exercise for the third or fourth

week in day and as I was reading I think and I asked Chris Sims same type of

question before we get going on his list you compare putting this together

Peter your your power rankings compared to like a

mock draft a month ago. How do you compare those exercises?

Well the mock draft actually

actually takes work, you know, because unless you want to embarrass yourself, you've got to call a lot of people.

I actually only ran my list by one person in the NFL and it was really interesting. I ran my list

by and I had the bears a little lower. I forget where I had them but I had them somewhere right

around 20 or 21 something like that and after I ran through my list, this guy is a GM, he goes, the bears are going to be a lot better than that. And I started thinking about it. And I had been down on him again because of the quarterback situation but and we'll get into this in a little bit I've been down on him because of the quarterback situation but because I don't know what to expect and then I just started thinking well

it's not going to be any worse than it was and they made the playoffs last year so

so anyway I ended up putting them up a few slots and rightfully so but but anyway Paul before we get started I want to ask you one

Question about a current event in football right now.

And that is the NFLPA is asking players,

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