From listening to KDZ in the last podcast he seems very reasonable in judging matchups, but he will have to hold the statements that he made in the past after Superman was normalized. Probably frustration got to him when he made those statements before. I would give him a 6 on the downplaying scale only because of his previous comments but the podcast makes me feel like he redeemed himself.
Rico is a 10 though, Handicapped character? really? Black Adam, a top 8 character, is handicapped now? He is blaming people for JUSTIFIED normalizations?
I would put Brady at 7 because even though he knows that Aquaman is a top character he somehow finds a way to explain away how Aquaman isn't that great. Half of what Theo did in his matches with Aquaman was MB trident rush (Brady on blast).
CDJR a 10, Flash isn't good? Zoning game? etc...