actually at least 4 Admirals because Kuzan and Sakazuki are not Admirals and in the chapter before this chapter they said Admirals, so there is at least 1 new Admiral, would hope for Coby, but really doubt that xdStill, he is hyping pirates but not the marines, apart from Admiral (which are only 3) and anything higher. Whereas all we see is pirates, and they're hyped up a bunch.
i have to disagree with you, personally i consider Doflamingo as the strongest or at least in TOP 3 Shichibukais AND, i too think that Doflamingo might be hiding his true powers. possible that he is equal in power with Yonkousnope..The admirals are in a league of their own.The only people who have the firepower to defeat them are the yonkous and you saw how scared Dofa was when he realized that Kaidou will come after him.
And Smoker is powerful.The only reason he is getting beaten up is because he has the unfortunate luck of fighting incredibly strong opponents like DD.And we all know when he was fighting vergo his main aim was to recapture Law's hand
to this chapter, i think it wasn't really confirmed that Doflamingo has DF abilities, i mean, he was flying and now strings? hm,... i dunno if there isn't chance that if he does have DF ability, than that he uses wind currents as he was flying AND it would make sense that he can cut people thanks to wind xd
OR he might actually have 2 DFs like BB, but i must say that i think battle of Doflamingo and Kuzan won't be as one sided as many people think xd