ESPN’s Ryan Clark on Rams as NFL’s Best & Drake Maye’s Ascension | The Rich Eisen Show

ESPN’s Ryan Clark on Rams as NFL’s Best & Drake Maye’s Ascension | The Rich Eisen Show

the best team in the NFL right now. Four weeks to go. Oh, don’t do don’t do me that, Rich. I got to I think it’s I believe it’s the Los Angeles Rams. You do, you know, and I know when you go back two weeks and you think to yourself, “Yeah, but they lost to the Panthers, right?” Right. The Panthers also went to Green Bay and got a win. But watching that game and the turnovers by Matthew Stafford, the the pick six, the the force uh the sack fumble late in the game, like it still shows you how good they are because they had an opportunity to win. They’re the best team in my opinion because they have the things I can count on the most. I can count on Matthew Stafford. can count on the run game of Shawn McVey, the two wide receivers on the outside and Puka Naku and Devonte Adams and a front four that just won’t quit and young playmakers on the second level and the back end that may not be household names but have made huge plays throughout this season. And so right now I believe they’re the best team and I can say all of those good things about the Los Angeles Rams and then you can still ask me now and be like I don’t know if they’re going to win it. Well, that’s because everything’s so that’s because everything is so wide open and and and it does take some of us to wrap our arms around an NFL season being different than the year before, if not the several years before, which is why people are like, “Yeah, but they lost in Carolina.” I’m like, “Well, wait a minute. Carolina also won in Green Bay. Wait a minute. Carolina has a chance to win its division.” you know, and and and it’s still just difficult for a lot of people to wrap their arms around the fact that the Chiefs and the Ravens aren’t going to make the playoffs this year unless there’s some massive turnaround. Sort of makes me sick. What do you mean? Like I know like the world wants to believe that it’s great when like all these teams have a chance to win the Super Bowl. Nobody wants that. I don’t really want that. You’re talking Chris’s language right now. Am I Am I right, Chris, though? Oh, yeah. Yes. And I say the same thing about the college football playoff like hey cool James Madison Tain nobody’s rooting for you. I agree. I’m sorry. And I’m from New Orleans. Like you don’t get a seat at the big boy table Thanksgiving. You know it’s so it’s yeah the NFL I get it but it’s tough for people to wrap their arms around. Like think about it. Last year’s 15 win teams the Lions are on the outside looking in. The Chiefs need to win the table and get some help to get in. You got 14 win team in the Vikings. They’re not making it. You got a 12 win team in the Washington Commanders. They’re not making it. So, the number of and you’ve got the Ravens that might not make it. You’ve got a whole bunch of teams that were incredibly successful last year that are either definitely not making or may not make it again this year. And then you look at the Patriots and the and the Broncos and you’re wondering, are they for real? Can Carolina really are they really for real? Yeah. That it’s entirely possible that they are for real, right? Well, I think the New England Patriots 100% are for real. Mhm. Uh Drake May’s Ascension was no surprise to me. In this very studio at the beginning of the season or before the season started, the question was, “What story are we not speaking about enough?” Yes. And I said, “It’s Drake May and the possibility of him becoming a superstar.” And some of the push back was he wouldn’t have the infrastructure around him from a roster standpoint that they might have been a year away. But that also didn’t take into account what he was physically capable of doing and what the addition of Josh McDaniels could do for a young Drake May. When he said it was something he said during his interview on Monday Night Football, he said, “I get to watch Tom Brady do exactly what I’m being asked to do.” That he’s sitting in a meeting with Josh McDaniels and they’re talking about certain play calls, certain decision making. And Josh, think about the cache that gives you as Josh McDaniels to be able to say, “Here is what I told Tom and here is what Tom did.” How do you refute that in any way as a player? And then what Mike, bro, I think back to when Mike Vrabel is running down the sideline with Antonio Gibson in Miami. And I’m like, how freaking cool is that to be able to look at your coach and know one he he did this at at a very high level. He also got in two jumped into two fights in training camp like physically got was bleeding. Y goes through the drills with us. Yeah. Has the coaching acumen that you learned when you work with a Bill Bich for most of your playing career and the things that you were able to do in Tennessee and be a coach of a year and like that’s your coach, man. What they have going on is is great. They’re for real. I do believe the Denver Broncos are for real. I can say I can be honest. Carolina Panthers, I am I’m not as sold on them because sometimes they can be so bad. Hey, you made it all the way to the end. Thanks for that. Check us out every single day streaming live on Disney Plus and the ESPN app 12 to 3 Eastern.

ESPN NFL analyst Ryan Clark tells Rich Eisen why the Los Angeles Rams are the best team in the NFL, and discusses the rise of the New England Patriots under 2nd-year QB Drake Maye and new head coach Mike Vrabel.

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