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Welcome to extra point taking shield company here joined by Ben so like it's prediction week, but this is NFC prediction day the next episode will be aFC prediction day here's what we're doing we're going division by division we will each pick our winners we will each safe we have a wild card team from that division we will save anything we want to about the teams that we don't

have making the playoffs and then at the end we will go through the playoffs and we will each pick an NFC representative for the Super Bowl Ben how many of the seven playoff teams do you think we will have the same here I like that I feel like I start every episode by asking you to predict what you think is going to happen on the episode yeah no you're you're in a big prediction mindset you just really predict all things predict how the predictions will go I mean like here's the problem I've seen your

power rankings so I have a general sense for who you think is good and who you think isn't that could have been to throw you off by the way and yeah I was a red herring for those who are curious we have a very exciting the NFL ranked special build is coming out for the ringer website where power rankings is going to be a collective thing done by staff is going to be debates this season's coreback rank is live there to your trade by try to live there's going to be sick

I but we got our first look at everybody on staff's respective power rankings entering the preseason and let's just say that by a mile the most away from average ranker shield of audio ladies and gentlemen just everyone else's grab just like get one two three four

start a little bit difference here difference there she'll be like nine 17 23 everywhere baby just live in listen as I said like Aaron Rogers I'm an independent thinker you're all sheep and I stand by all my

breathing in our lab baby you've been cooking I'm excited to see it I don't know about that all right let's start with the NFC East the NFC

spend you start us off who is your division champ in the NFC East and why I have the Eagles win in the division I have

them they went at 13 to 4 the Cowboys are right behind them at 12 and 5 I did like a slow pass at predictions just

to get like a general sense of of of what records might look like it was really tight Eagles Eagles and Cowboys when I

think about it heuristically anyone I look at the the little simulation that I did I think these teams are

are really going to be quite evenly matched there's the big outstanding question for the Cowboys in terms

of the change of their offensive play collar and then obviously the big outstanding question for the Eagles with

the change of their offensive and defensive play colors but talent wise Cowboys defense ton of talent Eagles

defense ton of talent Cowboys offense good amount of talent in the Eagles offense ton of talent only a

couple things you have to break the Cowboys way for this to really be like a 50 50 division kind of

as it was last year need Tony Pollard to be able to take what what was a really productive profile in

relief of a Zika Elliott and and and truly become a workhorse back to be able to sustain that over

a workhorse carry number of touches need Brandon cooks to hit which Brandon cooks is like you know say

you're washed for Brandon cooks like he he's he's he's he's pretty confident we are it's yeah pretty

comfortably a guy you can rely on here so you know it's the healthy expectant to be good uh and then

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