Stephen A. has the RAMS as his SECOND BEST in team in the league?! 🤯 | First Take

Stephen A. has the RAMS as his SECOND BEST in team in the league?! 🤯 | First Take

Oh man. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It’s time for the A-list. Keep in mind the list is fluid. This A-list. Steven’s A-list. Yeah. Yeah. I’m not going to jump like Stephen A. I already worked out today. Keep in mind. It’s an interesting list. Come on, Matt. This is one of the worst lists I’ve ever seen. Not a great list. The list is trash. Shots fired. Bam. You’re wrong. I’m wrong. You are wrong. Fluid. It’s fluid. Fluid. Fluid. Flu. It’s fluid. Fluid. This is flu. Don’t let him feel good. Don’t let him feel good. It’s flu. It doesn’t absolve you from nonsense. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What’s going on everybody? It’s week five. It’s in the books. You know the top five teams in the National Football League. My man Drew Brees is sitting there reclining the chair. He knows what I’m about to bring. Jeff Saturday knows what I’m about to bring. Shay, I don’t know what’s wrong with her today. Very negative. Very negative. I don’t know what to expect from her. She’s been around Chris Ky too damn long. That’s what it is. Keep in mind the list is fluid. The list is fluid. We going to go top five. Give me number five on the list right now. Bam. The Philadelphia Eagles. You’re damn right they dropped the five. Let me tell you why they dropped the five. I’m going to tell you exactly why they dropped the five. It’s not just that they lost. I don’t like the trepidation. I don’t like the receivers, you know, complaining. The offensive coordinator ain’t calling the right plays. It ain’t just AJ Brown. is to Bonte Smith. You got one minute you’re running the football. Another minute second half arrives and you run the football just twice you’re throwing the football all over the place. You ain’t completing passes, you’re not being effective. They seem to be a bit disoriented, a bit discombobulated. I don’t like what I’m seeing from the Eagles right now. That’s why I got take them out the top five, but I still got them at five. They’re not top four. I’m going to give you who top four is. Give it to me right now, please. Bam. This team right here, y they got an MVP candidate in Daniel Jones. I almost catching a heart attack saying that, but it’s the truth. This brother’s balling, completing over 71% of his passes, only threw two interceptions on the year. Jonathan Taylor is a stud. The offensive line filled with studs. Indie is no joke. They got weapons all over the place. They playing good football and they stomping on teams that they supposed to stomp on. Okay, I got to give credit where credit is due. Especially with Sergeant Friday in the house. Okay, let’s get the top three. Please give it to me right now. Bam. Right here. The Buffalo Bills. I know they lost. You’ve been dominating the New England Patriots. You took him for granted. Drake May comes into the house. He handles his business. I get all of that. But they still only got one loss in the season to the Buffalo Bills. They got Josh Allen and the crew. I think they’ll be fine. And as you look at the landscape of the AFC, you can’t summarily dismiss them from this position right now. It was an aberration. It ain’t a habit. Don’t worry about it. You’re going to keep them on this. They’ll make amends for this loss moving forward. I still got them top three. They’re not top two, though. Give it to me right now, please. Here you go. What? You see this team right here? What? That’s right. It’s a Los Angeles. Let me tell y’all something right now. When I see Shawn McVey and I see Matthew Stafford and I see Puka Nakua, do you notice that no matter what is going on, the Los Angeles Rams are always always competing? They’re always in the mix. They were talking about the Chargers last week. Okay, where they at right now. Forget all of them and their negativity. I’m going with the Los Angeles Rams. That’s a top two team right now to pay attention to. They just ain’t number one. Give it to me right now, please. Here we go. The Detroit Lions. Drew Brees alluded to it since week one. Do you see the potency of this offense putting up 40 with their eyes closed? Do you see the offensive coordinator with the weapons that they got in the back field with Gibbs and Montgomery and Williams and the wide out, you know what I’m saying? I mean, you just look at them right now with Amar St. Brown, Leaporta and the crew. Dan Campbell has established a culture in Detroit. I think right now with as potent as they are offensively, they are the number one team in football right now. So, I got the Lions, the Rams, the Bills, the Colts, and the Philadelphia Eagles as my top five with Tampa Bay on the outside looking in. Okay, perfect. I had to bring my tea over here cuz I’m so sick by this list. Um, sick. For one, you put the Rams up there who lost. So, so what? But no, you have the worst week to go. You have the worst case of recency bias I’ve ever seen in my life. And then you have you have the Columbia Eagles who also lost but fell from one to five. makes the only thing I agree with is the Lions there at number one. That’s literally the only thing I can possibly agree with. Stephen A. The Rams just lost to the M Jones led San Francisco 49ers in building Thursday night. In your power, where’s Russ at? Where’s Russ? Bring me whatever his coffee was in his coffee. I think I think something happened. Do Can we get it tested here and then? We got to get Yep. Yep. Something something happened here. You know what? You’re going to need it now. Slipped a little something in there. I believe in Hey, what about the Bucks? Yeah, exactly. I said the Bucks mention the Bucks. I thought I got a bon mention. I’m tired of these close wins against these subpar teams. That’s what I That’s Seattle’s not that. I got that part. But the the the Jets, Falcons, the best. I’m tired. I’m tired of hearing all that drama coming out of Philly. All right. Hey, they hate me already, so I’m kicking them out of the top five. All right. Bucks need to be in there. How do the LA Rams move up? Yeah. After a loss to two, y’all crucify me for that last week when I had them ahead of the Chargers and that’s what I’m after to a team who’s got 18 people on PIP right now. Yeah. or whatever it is. Huh? Chargers twice. That only That only makes sense in your mind. Nobody was slippage. That was slippage. That was slippage. Players mess up. That was slippage on my messed up. I messed up on that. Everything else I stand by. So, the Bucks should be in this top five. There we go. Okay. So, we’re fixing the list as we go cuz it’s fluid. It needs to be fluid right now. Listen. He’s like the college football playoff committee. The way he dropped people after a loss. Yeah. Buffalo and Eagles. That’s refiling. Come on now. Stay in the top five. Come on now. Stay in the top five. So, let me ask you this. Let me ask you this. If if they played today besides the Lions, who else would you put above the Bills? If they played today, if they played today, if they played today, is there any other team in the in the NFL you’d put above them besides the Lions? No, there would not. Put them at two. That’s where they belong. No, no. I just finished saying I messed up with my Rams. I take everybody and move them. Okay. You bounce them up. Okay. That’s what I said. All right. So you got flip with the ring. We We’re fluid fluid. We’re real fluid. We’re real fluid. We’re real fluid. I would I would say the Eagles for me would still be I would put them at four. That’s what I’m saying. I’d move everybody up. Yeah. But I’m saying take the Rams out, move everybody up, and put the Bucks at five. Leave the Lions at one, Eagles at four. Both did your list for you. It’s basically what we did. We just did a little, you know, I’m usually perfect. You know what I’m saying? Not today. Not today. Not today. It’s slippage. It’s slippage on my part. But that’s all it is. I’ll tell you it was in the drink. Something in that drink. In the drink. That’s what it is. The drink. That’s that That’s that same drink he was having when he said the Knicks are going to the final. Knicks are going to the finals. That’s same going to the finals. You can say whatever you want. The Knicks are going to the NBA finals. The New York Knicks will represent the East in the NBA Finals. Mark it down. It’s off the rails to say in October. uh coming up here on

On First Take, Stephen A. Smith, Chris Canty, and Jeff Saturday join Shae Cornette to react to Stephen’s A-List, which includes his top 5 teams through Week 5 of the 2025 NFL season.

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