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Speaker 1: This is Football Men in the Nattie, brought to you

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Speaker 1: ESPN fifteen thirty to the official home of the Cincinnati Bengals.

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Speaker 2: J Morrison from Bengals Talk dot Com and The Growler

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Speaker 2: Podcast joins us on Thursdays at Buy Jay Morrison on Twitter, Jay,

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Speaker 2: have you enjoyed the twenty four hours or so of

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Speaker 2: psychoanalysis of Joe Burrow?

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Speaker 3: No, there's much more interesting things I think that we

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Speaker 3: could have talked about. But anything that guy does is news,

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Speaker 3: so you've got to react to it, all right.

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Speaker 2: What is the appropriate reaction to what Joe Burrow put

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Speaker 2: on display yesterday?

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, I was more taken aback by what

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Speaker 3: he said after.

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Speaker 4: The game Sunday and just kind of a flippant nature.

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Speaker 3: And you know that he's so uber intense and you

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Speaker 3: just expect him to be really really mad about the loss,

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Speaker 3: and that was he was joking and that hab a

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Speaker 3: cookie crumbles, that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 4: That was more concerning yesterday.

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Speaker 3: I mean, he did say it was personal and football.

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Speaker 3: I think people making nationally people are making too much.

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Speaker 4: Out of it. Just assuming he's.

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Speaker 3: Had enough in Cincinnati once out. I think it sounded

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Speaker 3: like something's going on in his personal life, and we

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Speaker 3: know he doesn't like birthdays, and everybody was giving him

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Speaker 3: gifts and singing to him and making him feel uncomfortable

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Speaker 3: and just just the guy having a bad day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I like birthday gifts, by the way. So here's

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Speaker 2: my next one question, and then this is the important one.

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Speaker 2: What's he buying the offensive lineman for Christmas this year?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we don't know yet.

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Speaker 3: I think we'll find that out next week. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's a good question. It's gonna be hard to top

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Speaker 3: samurai swords.

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Speaker 2: It is definitely going to be hard to top samurai swords.

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Speaker 2: What is happening with t Higgins right now?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, still going through the protocol. He was limited again today.

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Speaker 3: I just you know, when when these start stacking on

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Speaker 3: top of each other, you really get concerned. I no

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Speaker 3: one's told me anything, but I just I'd be surprised

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Speaker 3: if he plays this week. You need to take it,

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Speaker 3: you know, the more conservative, safer approach. Getting getting two

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Speaker 3: head injuries in the span of three games, it's it's

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Speaker 3: not good, and you know, the it's going to be

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Speaker 3: freezing cold lower than freezing cold on Sunday. That turk

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Speaker 3: is going to be even harder. And I just I

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Speaker 3: think the smart thing to do, well we'll be too

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Speaker 3: to sit him out again.

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Speaker 4: He has to go, he has to go.

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Speaker 3: Through a full practice, non contact practice before you can

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Speaker 3: see the independent neurologist.

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Speaker 4: And he didn't do that. He was limited again.

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Speaker 3: Today, So I would say it's definitely trending towards him

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Speaker 3: not playing.

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Speaker 2: You've outlined this week how historically bad the Bengals are

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Speaker 2: against tight ends. It's worth noting Mark Andrews did pop

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Speaker 2: up on the injury report this week in Baltimore, and

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Speaker 2: so it's not that dissimilar from what we talked about

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Speaker 2: going into the first time these two teams played, Where

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Speaker 2: you worry about the middle of the field. Is there

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Speaker 2: as obvious answer as the rookie linebackers can play better.

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Speaker 2: Is there anything Al Golden can legitimately do to fix

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Speaker 2: something that has been as bad as the Bengals have

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Speaker 2: been at covering the middle of the field, specifically against

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Speaker 2: tight ends.

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Speaker 3: No, I mean, you can't make these guys grow up

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Speaker 3: in a hurry. They're there that they believe they're getting better.

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Speaker 3: But it's incremental. They're not just going to be really

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Speaker 3: good and really aware overnight. And you know, part of

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Speaker 3: it is the aggression aspect, and they are they are

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Speaker 3: biting on play fakes and and really set to stop

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Speaker 3: the run. And that's going to be That was the

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Speaker 3: case with Buffalo, it's going to be the case again

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Speaker 3: with Baltimore. That maybe going man to man a lot

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Speaker 3: would maybe take care of some of that. But I

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Speaker 3: just I don't see that happening. I think they're just

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Speaker 3: going to have to live with it. And I don't

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Speaker 3: think that Bengal payers should be excited about the possibility

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Speaker 3: of Mark Andrews not playing because Isaiah Likely had a

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Speaker 3: ton of yards. He was more of the tired tight

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Speaker 3: end target than Mark Andrews was when they met on

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Speaker 3: Thanksgiving night. That just means more opportunities for him if

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Speaker 3: Andrews is out.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to find something to be excited about. Jay,

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Speaker 2: So no, I'm not excited about Isaiah Likely, or Mark

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Speaker 2: Andrews or pretty much anybody else. Not a lot. All right,

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Speaker 2: you're the man, Thanks so much.

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Speaker 4: All Right, thanks Moe.

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Speaker 2: That's our guy, Jay Morrison, Bengals Talk dot Com and

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