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Speaker 2: going with our next guest, who's been all over it

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Speaker 2: this week. He covers the Bengals for clnscincywithy dot Com,

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Speaker 2: host of the Jungle Roar podcast on YouTube. He's the

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Speaker 2: man they call Trags, Mike Petrallion Trags. In the first segment,

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Speaker 2: we played the exchange in your question to Joe yesterday

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Speaker 2: was a it was a money question. It was a

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Speaker 2: money recent bonds and how Joe Burrow answered your question

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Speaker 2: about what he would say to others is exactly what

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Speaker 2: you want from the face of your franchise, isn't it?

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Speaker 3: It is?

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Speaker 4: And I just think that's his way of showing leadership.

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Speaker 4: And he knows that there is something left to prove

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Speaker 4: in this season. Whether or not you think the Bengals

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Speaker 4: are capable of running off six straight wins and staying

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Speaker 4: relevant in.

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Speaker 3: The AFC North race is not the issue to him.

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Speaker 3: The issue is.

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Speaker 4: I've got to play each and every game.

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Speaker 3: I think we have a chance to win a game,

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Speaker 4: Is what I'm getting paid a lot of money to do.

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Speaker 4: And he's not obtuse. He's not oblivious to the role

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Speaker 4: that he serves.

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Speaker 3: On the team, in the franchise.

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Speaker 4: He is totally aware that he's a historic figure in

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Speaker 3: History already just based.

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Speaker 4: On a fifty five million dollar annual contract. So he

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Speaker 4: knows that there's an obligation to go out and play

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Speaker 4: when he can play fully healthy, and he believes, for

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Speaker 4: all intents and purposes, he is with the toe heeled.

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Speaker 3: He needs to go out.

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Speaker 4: And lead the team to a win, a win they

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Speaker 4: desperately need. They've lost four straight, eight of nine. All

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Speaker 4: nine of those games came without Joe Burrow as starting quarterback.

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Speaker 3: You want some good news.

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Speaker 4: The Bengals guys are on a The Bengals are on

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Speaker 4: a seven game winning streak with Burrow as the starting quarterback.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go.

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Speaker 5: Well we'll play to that, So tryon. I've been saying

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Speaker 5: all week, I'm fine with Joe Burrow playing as long

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Speaker 5: as there's no restrictions on him. You know, like, well,

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Speaker 5: we got to cut this from the playbook and we

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Speaker 5: don't want him to roll out. What's your indication is

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Speaker 5: that going to be the case? That is going to

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Speaker 5: be full on Joe Burrow, no restrictions.

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Speaker 3: So that's a great question, Rocky.

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Speaker 4: And the only bit of trepidation I had yesterday during

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Speaker 4: very question. He's like, well, we'll see, and I'm like, okay, Well,

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Speaker 4: that to me is not a great sign because maybe

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Speaker 4: the game a little bit, and maybe that it is

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Speaker 4: his tip of the cap that I can't sit back

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Speaker 4: So maybe that's what he's saying. But I do believe

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Speaker 4: that he feels one hundred percent healthy. The only soreness

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Speaker 4: Wednesday and Thursday. And he told me this when I

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Speaker 3: General body soreness. Well, you would expect.

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Speaker 4: That when you haven't had full NFL practice in the.

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Speaker 3: Middle of the week in ten weeks, that's going to happen.

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Speaker 4: And certainly I think he could have played, no question

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Speaker 4: there is some legitimate criticism of the decision that Bengals

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Speaker 4: game last week, I do think, and I know many

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Speaker 4: you're talking about a team that is coming into Baltimore

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Speaker 4: four and seven.

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Speaker 3: Not three and eight.

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Speaker 2: Trag's you're around this group, you talked with him this week.

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Speaker 2: Is it is it fair to say there is a

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there's no question there's a different vibe, and the guys,

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Speaker 4: especially the players, can feel it. I know certainly. Chase

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Speaker 4: Brown made reference to that early in the week on Monday.

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Speaker 4: He said, Look, when Joe's in the room, we all

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Speaker 4: know we've got a chance. He has a certain expectation

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Speaker 4: respond to that expectation. Jamar Chase has always said that,

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Speaker 4: and I think there's an expectation throughout the building that

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Speaker 4: a different level on Thursday night Tomorrow night. I will

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Speaker 4: also add this before I forget, let's not forget about

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Speaker 4: the improvement of the defense over the last two weeks.

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Speaker 4: They allowed twenty points to the Steelers and they allowed

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Speaker 4: nineteen points to the Patriots. Those are not bad numbers,

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Speaker 4: especially to the Patriots, and when you take a look

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Speaker 4: it ain't great and Lamar Jackson is not putting up

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Speaker 4: has shown over the last couple of weeks. The Bengals

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Speaker 4: definitely have a fighters chance tomorrow night.

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Speaker 5: So me, let's elaborate on the defense, because I agree

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Speaker 5: they have been better or certainly last week in your

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Speaker 5: conversations with the team. What do you attribute that to?

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Speaker 5: Is that an under better understanding of the of the

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Speaker 5: last week? Is that more of a will of one

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Speaker 5: to two and guys frankly getting pissed off and getting

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Speaker 4: Is it it's more of the latter, Rocky, I think

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Speaker 4: it's guys finally saying enough is enough. But what leads

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Speaker 4: you know, where their exact position.

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Speaker 4: They're just saying I'm gonna take my spot and bull

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Speaker 4: playing my position, my responsibility, and you know, it's kind

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Speaker 4: what the Bengals defense has been doing it certainly along

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Speaker 3: Confidence of the unit.

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Speaker 4: I think they know that they can stop a very

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Speaker 4: That can only give them confidence going forward.

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