NFL Power Rankings: Rams, Bills start season atop respective conferences

Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Jason Fitz and Coley Harvey are joined by senior NFL writer Frank Schwab to discuss his latest NFL power rankings and why he views the Los Angeles Rams and Buffalo Bills as the best teams in their respective conferences. Watch the full episode of Yahoo Sports Daily on YouTube or YahooSports.TV. View More Video Transcript Let's just agree the Rams-Seahawks was probably easy part of this. How did you decide three-four? You know, yes, the Rams and Seahawks were the easy part of this. I You know, the Bills just come off to me as the team that they have the best player. This AFC's wide open, right? Like, the NFC you can make some arguments, but you're e- eventually gonna come back to those two NFC West teams. In the AFC it is wide open, and I kinda wanted to default to the best player. I think that obviously Josh Allen is that. And them ch- making the coaching change I think sh- shakes them up in a good way. Look, Sean McDermott had a great run of success, but I think that let the whole organization know we're in this to win now. I actually like that. I like the Bills to come out of the AFC this year. And with the Broncos, I, I've said, you know, all off-season, the regression police have just gone too far with the Broncos. Everybody wants to tell you, everybody, literally everybody wants to tell you, "They're not gonna go 14 and three again. They're..." Yeah, we know. We, we, we understand. There's been nine teams in NFL history to win 15 or more games. They're not going to win 14. But w- regress to what? I, I almost think if the Broncos were 11 and six last year, which the metrics said they should've been, they were lucky last year to get to 14. If they were 11 and six last year, we'd be saying, "Wow, look at this Broncos team. Great defense. Maybe o- one of the top three, four defenses in the NFL. Maybe the best offensive line in football. And a third-year quarterback who's making strides. They just added a great playmaker, Jaylen Waddle, for, for a first-round pick when you weren't gonna draft a, a playmaker in that area of the draft in this draft to give that kind of impact. And by the way, they're all coached by a future Hall of Famer in Sean Payton." We'd be way more excited about this team had they just won 11 games instead of 14, 'cause everybody just wants to be the first to tell you, "Hey, you know, they're not gonna win 14 games again. They're gonna..." Yeah. I We get it. It So I, I'm high on the Broncos. I still think they're a good team. They're going to regress, I get it, but they're still very, very good. Close