Power Hour 5! Ranking All 32 Teams with SVP

**SPEAKER_1** (0:01)
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**Mina Kimes** (0:30)
Welcome back to The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny, Power Hour. This is the final Power Hour, the final Power Rankings of the off-season. So I had to bring in the big guns.
Hope Bill Simmons doesn't hear that.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:45)
Welcome to the show for the first time, buddy.

**Scott Van Pelt** (0:47)
Thank you very much. I'm very excited about this. Red sends hello.
This is Red Studios. Well, that's my Rhodesian. So I think he and Lenny would get along famously. So regards from Red. Thank you for the on-ramp here, which like Simmons last week, this was a chance for me to reacquaint myself with all the different things that will come into clearer focus here in the coming months.

**Mina Kimes** (1:09)
You promised me some surprising opinions. You titillated me with the debt. You said you're not ready for some of these things.

**Scott Van Pelt** (1:16)
I scribbled down some nonsense. Let me frame it a little bit more reasonably here.

**Mina Kimes** (1:20)
All right, well, for folks who haven't tuned in before, the format remains the same. We are ranking the entire NFL. I give Scott, my guess, two choices. He picks one. So it is a co-ranking, which means neither of us can be held fully accountable for the results. That's the beauty of it. No one can yell at you because it's choices I gave you.

**Scott Van Pelt** (1:39)
Right, but they'll, I'm sure they'll yell at me. I'm sure I'm gonna piss off fan bases. That's just how it works, but we understand that going in.

**Mina Kimes** (1:45)
Yeah, Bengals fans currently mad at Bill. Not my fault, not my fault. Yell at him. Okay, oh, by the way, obviously folks, check out SVPod, also an Omaha Productions podcast. It doesn't have Red's name on it. I don't know if he has any issues.

**Scott Van Pelt** (1:58)
That's a great point. I don't want to bite the bit. I mean, that's Lenny's space and it belongs to him.

**Mina Kimes** (2:03)
I saw Mike Rabel brought his dog up to the mic the other day. And I thought, you know, stay out of my lane.

**SPEAKER_5** (2:08)
But stay out of my lane.

**Mina Kimes** (2:10)
Okay, so I'm gonna, I swear to God, I'm gonna mix up some of the choices. I made a few little tweaks. It's gonna be a little bit different. But I do insist on giving you the same choice that I'd give it to everyone at the beginning. Because I do think it is the correct choice. I really don't think there's a counter argument. Rams, Seahawks for the number one team in the NFL. Who you got?

**Scott Van Pelt** (2:30)
All right, a couple of caveats here. Number one, my eldest daughter, I'm afraid inherited from her dad this, when given a choice between this or that, often she'll say both. I recognize both is not an option. So I'll try not to get there in this conversation. Also something you should know about me, I am really stubborn and I have a difficult time letting go of teams that I believe are good. Last year when Luke missed the kick for Baltimore, and we did our show the following Monday night, Pittsburgh and Houston did. Wiped up a wild card weekend. I was still thinking on Tuesday, there was going to be a game with the Ravens somewhere, because I was just, how are they not a playoff team? I thought they were that good. Mina, I thought the Rams were the best team in the NFL last year. I said it over and over and over again.
That game against Seattle in the NFC title game was played in Seattle, not Los Angeles, in part because Charbonneau picks up a ball in the end zone and hands it to an official, and after a lengthy commercial break, two points are awarded to Seattle.
Perhaps correctly, all credit to Seattle for coming back in that game, for having big balls in overtime and winning, but I felt like Los Angeles was better that Thursday night. I thought they were going to win that game in Seattle. They didn't. The Seahawks are the reigning champs, and they deserve and earned every bit of it, but I was stubborn then and I'm stubborn now. Also, maybe Donald's going to play and Garrett now wears the Rams colors. I'm going to start with the Los Angeles Rams. I see you shaking your head.