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

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Speaker 2: I either touched him or said something very interesting or

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Speaker 2: or folks just want to hear themselves talk instead of me,

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Speaker 2: And you cannot blame them for that because our lines

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Speaker 2: blew up during the break. We will get to everybody,

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Speaker 2: but first our guys. Sean sayat he of the Stats

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Speaker 2: and Scheme newsletter from sumer sports dot com, Sean, how

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Speaker 2: are we doing well? I'm doing all right, you know.

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Speaker 3: Unfortunately we got another another time. I'm talking with a

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Speaker 3: Bangals team not going to be in the playoffs, but

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Speaker 3: you know, I'm finding a way to get through.

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Speaker 2: Can you give me any advice on how to get through?

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Speaker 3: You know, hopefully whatever music Bro's listening to, maybe not

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Speaker 3: that music. I know he's not a field the best

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Speaker 3: right now, and I don't blame him kind of considering

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Speaker 3: what happened on the field this weekend. But you know,

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Speaker 3: I think you come look forward to some small improvements

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Speaker 3: on defense. Maybe it'd be hard to get worse. I

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Speaker 3: think next season and then you're hoping an offense that

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Speaker 3: comes back fully healthy and ready to go.

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Speaker 2: Can I ask a stupid question, Oh, the Bengals this

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Speaker 2: season have been historically bad at covering the middle of

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Speaker 2: the field. When you watch the teams that are good

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Speaker 2: at covering the middle of the field, what do they

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Speaker 2: do that the Bengals don't.

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Speaker 3: I think a lot of teams are putting more resources

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Speaker 3: to it. So if you're having like four players underneath

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Speaker 3: since the three, that's gonna be one difference. Also, playing

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Speaker 3: linebacker in the NFL is so sub hard, so the

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Speaker 3: best offenses are finding the exact ways to make it

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Speaker 3: too hard for that player to cover the rock and

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Speaker 3: cover the pass. So I do think there is a

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Speaker 3: little bit at the player evaluation level where you know

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Speaker 3: you're hoping for I think, just better players at those spots.

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Speaker 3: But it really does feel like all of these things combined,

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Speaker 3: where the linebackers, you know, not feeling the play out correctly,

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Speaker 3: where they're really really biting the aggression, something is going

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Speaker 3: the other way. So I do think there's a combination

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Speaker 3: of play field, maybe a little bit of the design.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, well I don't have to have to show

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Speaker 3: you too much film to know and to tell you

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Speaker 3: that it's been a little bit tough watching the Bengals

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Speaker 3: linebackers at time this season.

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Speaker 2: When you watched the Bengals offense this weekend, critically, what

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Speaker 2: was missing?

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Speaker 3: No, I think the high pressure situation that's really tough.

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Speaker 3: You go three or for fifteen on third downs. You

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Speaker 3: missed that fourth down as well. Of course that high

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Speaker 3: ball in that third and five interception. That's a really

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Speaker 3: really tough situation. You have the pick six where cool

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Speaker 3: play on defense, but you just have miscommunications for the

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Speaker 3: offensive lot. So it did feel like the Bengals were

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Speaker 3: moving the ball like decently at times. Right you have

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Speaker 3: the fourth down myss and that interception that are happening

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Speaker 3: in Raven's territory overall. So it just felt like every

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Speaker 3: single high leverage moment was going against you. Where you're

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Speaker 3: now on offense that is totally funneled through one receiver

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Speaker 3: obviously when t Higgins is out, So just felt like

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Speaker 3: your margin for error was so soaked in and you

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Speaker 3: just didn't get the lights out hundreds percentile Borough performance

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Speaker 3: that you know sometimes has carried the Bengals to win

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Speaker 3: so far.

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Speaker 2: When you like nerd out on film watching the NFL,

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Speaker 2: Which are the offenses? Do you love watching the most?

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Speaker 3: The Bears offenses is super super fun watching what Ben

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Speaker 3: Johnson's doing theirs. I think it's it's it's getting to

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Speaker 3: the special level where it's like him morphing his identity

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Speaker 3: and changing things. And this is like the most fat

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Speaker 3: offense are not always just the best. You're just asking

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Speaker 3: me most fun. Like what I see from them is

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Speaker 3: has been really really cool. I think the way the

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Speaker 3: Packers have changed things a little bit up over the

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Speaker 3: last few weeks has been a lot of fun. Sean

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Speaker 3: mcday with the Rams and just being like they dictate

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Speaker 3: the terms of engagement to defenses. They say, we're gonna

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Speaker 3: make you play exactly the way we want you to play,

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Speaker 3: and we know exactly.

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Speaker 4: How to beat it.

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Speaker 3: So those offenses are really really fun. The last one

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Speaker 3: just quickly mentioned. The Jacksonville Jaguars I think over the

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Speaker 3: last few weeks have been pretty pretty cool just from

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Speaker 3: a design perspective, like they are making things crystal clear

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Speaker 3: and easy for Trevor Lawrence and it just happens. You know,

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Speaker 3: is the ball gonna end in the wide open guy's

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Speaker 2: When you nerd out and watch other teams defenses. Which

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Speaker 2: one do you like watching the most? Is the answer?

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Speaker 4: Not the Houston Texans, Yes, I mean the Texas is

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Speaker 4: that's not a nerd out, that's like a visceral, like

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Speaker 4: the core of my human spirit. Like those guys are big,

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Speaker 4: they're fat, and they are they are really fun. I

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Speaker 4: do think from this comatic perspect that absolutely you have

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Speaker 4: things like the Minnesota Vikings where guys are rotating in

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Speaker 4: different directions, just like at the weirdest of weirdest ways.

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Speaker 4: I think the Sea Offs are a really good example

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Speaker 4: of a team who you're gonna play on their terms,

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Speaker 4: like we're gonna play with our five defensive backs no

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Speaker 4: matter what you do. I actually think the Rams have

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Speaker 4: been pretty fun on defense. Then you have the Eagles

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Speaker 4: defense of the Cans are just really really well coached.

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Speaker 4: So you know, I can imagine if only watched the

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Speaker 4: Bengals games, it might be a little bit less fun.

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Speaker 3: But a lot of good things out there in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: There are, and we get to pay attention to them

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Speaker 2: even more closely since the Bengals and I'll be paying

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Speaker 2: playing out the string sewn awesome have you. As always,

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Speaker 2: we'll talk next week.

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Speaker 3: Thanks as I appreciate it.

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