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Speaker 1: Newsletter. Bengals beat the or lost to the Patriots, but

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Speaker 1: the defense was.

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Speaker 2: Better on Sunday. Was it better schemes, better schematics by

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Speaker 2: Al Golden or the Bengals just winning matchups?

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Speaker 3: Oh, it was really kind of fun to watch. I

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Speaker 3: wouldn't say it was necessarily schematic. I thought it was

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Speaker 3: a little bit more at the player level where on

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Speaker 3: our AI grade, DJ Turner had a grade out as

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Speaker 3: an eight, which is seen as like a player of

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Speaker 3: the week type performance. You also get that really nice

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Speaker 3: pick six from Geno Stone. You get some stunting success

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Speaker 3: on the inside, which I did like that, you know,

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Speaker 3: test the offensive line in a different way, a bunch

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Speaker 3: of goal line stands and kind of getting in the

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Speaker 3: face of wide receivers. So, actually, now I think about

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Speaker 3: it was a little bit schematic, but definitely at that

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Speaker 3: player level where now we're getting okay, good games from

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Speaker 3: Murphy Hill and Osi like those are things that you

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Speaker 3: can actually build on, where I do think some of

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Speaker 3: the issues for the Patriots came down to something as

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Speaker 3: simple as Drake made just just spray in a few

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Speaker 3: of those throws. It was it was a little fun,

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Speaker 3: if I may say so myself, to watch that game back.

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Speaker 2: It was it was, it was, It was an entertaining game,

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Speaker 2: it didn't have the right result. When teams play good

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Speaker 2: goal line defense, is that ever schematic or is it

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Speaker 2: just line up and beat the dude in.

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Speaker 1: Front of you?

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Speaker 3: Still I would say for really high level goal line offenses,

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Speaker 3: it can very much be schematic. I think when you

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Speaker 3: see four runs right into the middle, back to back

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Speaker 3: to back to back, I would lean that to be

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Speaker 3: a little bit more at the player level. And I

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Speaker 3: don't think there's anything wrong with that. As much as

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Speaker 3: I talk about skins and stuff, I still think this

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Speaker 3: is a player makes plays type of league. So I

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Speaker 3: do think that was just like a really nice job

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Speaker 3: on the inside at the individual level. How many times

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Speaker 3: have we talked this year, and you even look at

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Speaker 3: it in this game, where are you missing a tackle?

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Speaker 3: Are you able to destroy a block? And I think

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Speaker 3: the Bengals did that on the goal line against the Patriots.

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Speaker 2: The one thing they did not do well, and it's

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Speaker 2: been a deficiency all year. I think it stood out

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Speaker 2: on Sunday because they actually did do a lot of

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Speaker 2: things well is they had no defense in the middle

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Speaker 2: of the field. Hunter Henry Austin Hooper combined ten catches.

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Speaker 2: Hunter Henry had one hundred and fifteen yards. They combined

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Speaker 2: for over one fifty five Is there is there anything

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Speaker 2: you can do when you are playing two rookie linebackers

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Speaker 2: and you have the deficiencies the Bengals have in safety?

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Speaker 2: Is there anything that Al Golden can do to at

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Speaker 2: least somewhat shore up their defense in the middle of

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Speaker 3: I mean, you can try and find ways maybe just

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Speaker 3: make their life a little easier. Whether half the time

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Speaker 3: you're sending one linebacker and you're able to simplify the

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Speaker 3: job of the other linebacker. Because I agree with you,

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Speaker 3: and I'm watching that back and like any time the

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Speaker 3: Patriots needed to find a way to create some explosion,

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Speaker 3: it's like, let's get the linebackers going in the wrong direction,

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Speaker 3: We're going to be able to take advantage of them.

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Speaker 3: So I will say linebacker in the NFL is an

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Speaker 3: extremely hard job. When you look at the top, there

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Speaker 3: aren't like fifteen dominant dominant players. Maybe the same way

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Speaker 3: you think about wide receiver, but it's yeah, sometimes blow

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Speaker 3: the top and again through some of the film when

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Speaker 3: you're looking at emotion, just like totally kind of unfolding

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it really stood out on Sunday. I'm not sure

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Speaker 2: that's going to get any better given the fact that

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Speaker 2: they're going to play a team with a couple of

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Speaker 2: really good tight ends in in the Baltimore Ravens. So

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Speaker 2: Joe Burrow is going to play, and you and I

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Speaker 2: have talked about this a bunch. I don't expect Joe

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Speaker 2: Burrow to suddenly start taking a bunch of snaps under center.

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Speaker 2: But like, given given what they have been able to

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Speaker 2: and all his experience, what can we expect schematically for

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Speaker 3: I mean, can I get some isolation shots from my guy,

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Speaker 3: Mitchell Tinsley. You have a lot of fun to watch

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Speaker 3: against the Patriots, so much fun. He was a lot

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Speaker 3: I'm looking for anything that can make this stuff more

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Speaker 3: I feel like, yes, Joe Burrow is probably not going

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Speaker 3: But maybe we should have a little bit of that

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Speaker 3: expectation where you need to find different ways to make

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Speaker 3: life easier on your offensive line. You need to find

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Speaker 3: different ways to really defenses in a conflict. And I mean,

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Speaker 3: I thought Chase Brown had a really good game against

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Speaker 3: the Patriots. You're able to see that burst. I think

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Speaker 3: he can run from gun and on our center. But

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Speaker 3: if we're getting into under center looks, we're getting that

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Speaker 3: play action look we can have guys running across the

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Speaker 3: middle of the field. I do want to see that

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Speaker 3: for the Bengals because the rest of this year to me,

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Speaker 3: and I like that Burroughs playing because it's like he's

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Speaker 3: he's paid. And I think that if you take a

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Speaker 3: full year off of football, that is really tough. Now,

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Speaker 3: don't play this back if he gets injured at any

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Speaker 3: point over the next games here. But I do think

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Speaker 3: keep finding ways to shape that offense and more for

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Speaker 3: a little bit. And I totally get Burrow is a special,

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Speaker 3: like one of one type shotgun player, like he really

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Speaker 3: really is. But in the NFL now the way things

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Speaker 3: are going, you're not always able to just sit back there.

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Speaker 3: You don't want to drop back forty five times from

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Speaker 3: a regular shotgun the way that your offensive line kind

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Speaker 3: of has played overall. So let's expect a little bit

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Speaker 3: under center and hopefully be able to talk about it

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Speaker 3: more next week.

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Speaker 1: I hope, So it'll be interesting.

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Speaker 2: Stats and Skin Newsletter at suomer sports dot com. The

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Speaker 2: Baltimore Ravens in the first four or five games of

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Speaker 2: the season were nearly as bad as the Bengals are defensively.

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Speaker 2: Since then, they've been terrific. Six consecutive opponents, they've given

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Speaker 2: up twenty points or fewer. The obvious answer I think

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Speaker 2: is they've gotten healthier. But beyond that, what's been the

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Speaker 2: difference you've seen on tape between Baltimore in the first

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Speaker 3: Big difference has been putting Kyle Hamilton in the slot.

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Speaker 3: You get him a little bit closer to the line,

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Speaker 3: you get him to play physical against the run, really

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Speaker 3: as like a line after a type of body. But also,

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Speaker 3: I don't want to take anything away from the wins,

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Speaker 3: but you played the Jets, the Browns, the Vikings, and

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Speaker 3: the Dolphins, not exactly the greatest stretch of offenses in

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Speaker 3: the NFL. So, Kyle Hamilton, I think he exited the

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Speaker 3: game maybe twice against the Jets for being banged up.

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Speaker 3: I think he ends up being healthy, and I'm assuming

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Speaker 3: that he's gonna play, but maybe you take it to

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Speaker 3: him a little bit, you know, at that physical level

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Speaker 3: where I mean, he's an awesome run defender. So I'm

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Speaker 3: not saying that you're gonna get positives all the time,

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Speaker 3: but you know, let's see, are you going to be

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Speaker 3: able to as a safety type body play in the

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Speaker 3: box for you know, thirty forty stats a game.

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Speaker 2: You point out that if you look at the Bengals

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Speaker 2: Jets game, Derrick Henry just a nineteen percent rushing success

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Speaker 2: rate right the first game of the season, and granted

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Speaker 2: he had a big fumble in that game, but they

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Speaker 2: lose to Buffalo. Derreck Henry was awesome in that game.

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Speaker 2: I feel like when I've watched him since, that hasn't

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Speaker 2: so much been the case. Meanwhile, Lamar Jackson hasn't been himself.

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Speaker 2: Not sure he's totally healthy. What's missing from the Ravens

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Speaker 2: offense this year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think those two things are tied together quite well,

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Speaker 3: because I don't think Lamar Jackson is one hundred percent healthy.

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Speaker 3: I don't think he's able to like be a conciston. Hey,

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Speaker 3: we're going to lean on you for fifteen carries every

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Speaker 3: single game, and if you're not able to do that,

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Speaker 3: sometimes it ends up closing some of the lanes for

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Speaker 3: Derrick Henry. So I it's been interesting to see this

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Speaker 3: offense definitely take a little bit of a step back

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Speaker 3: and it feels like on the outside, yes, Zy Flowers

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Speaker 3: have had a good year, but I'm just not sure

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Speaker 3: that this receiving group like really strikes a ton of

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Speaker 3: over you know, the left guard, the right guard, where

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Speaker 3: I think you can take advantage of this offense and

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Speaker 3: you're able to tackle Henry, you know, just at our

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Speaker 3: near the live of Scream, which I think is going

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Speaker 3: to be a real test for the Bengals linebackers. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: I think even at a team that is probably I

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Speaker 3: guess gonna win the AFC North because we have to

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Speaker 3: give the AFC North Championship to someone this season, they're not. Really,

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Speaker 3: they're not. I think making me shake in my boots.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, that's that's the thing.

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Speaker 2: Man. You know, if you're Baltimore, you go, Okay, put

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Speaker 2: the Bengals away. They should be able to beat Pittsburgh twice.

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