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Speaker 1: Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Hord and thanks for downloading

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Speaker 1: the Bengals Booth Podcast, the and We're Making Plans edition

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Speaker 1: as I discussed the twenty twenty four Bengals schedule with

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Speaker 1: my colleagues Dave Lapham and Jeff Hobson. But first, it's

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Speaker 1: my one on one conversation with Trey Hendrickson on why

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Speaker 1: he's fired up and ready to go for his fourth

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Speaker 1: get to football. Several weeks ago, just before the NFL Draft,

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Speaker 1: many of us were stunned when Adam Schefter reported that

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Speaker 1: Trey Hendrickson had requested a trade. It seemed to come

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Speaker 1: out of nowhere. After all, Trey signed a contract extension

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Speaker 1: last summer that runs through next season. The trade request

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Speaker 1: led to rampant speculation that Trey might hold out, and

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Speaker 1: his agent even told a reporter that Hendrickson was considering retirement. Well,

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Speaker 1: if that was ever really the case, there's no reason

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Speaker 1: to worry now, as Trey practiced with the team this week.

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Speaker 1: Even though it's a voluntary period. I spoke to him

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Speaker 1: one on one about where things stand. Trey, I think

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Speaker 1: Bengals fans were delighted when they saw the video of

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Speaker 1: you practicing yesterday, not knowing what was going through your

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Speaker 1: mind in the off season. Explain why you are here

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, there's a lot to be excited about

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Speaker 3: So I want to be a part of the foundation.

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Speaker 2: That we're building, and the only way to do that

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Speaker 2: is to be in meeting rooms, be a practice, build

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Speaker 2: relationships as we all collectively come together, and obviously have

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Speaker 3: Like minded goal to win the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: I've told people when I came into the building last

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a little more quiet, you know, it

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Speaker 2: You know, I wanted to be respectful of the guys

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Speaker 2: it was good that I got my work in, got

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Speaker 1: Where are you in terms of hoping to get a

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Speaker 3: You know, that's a good question.

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Speaker 2: It's a you know, my contract situation is it's just

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Speaker 1: About seventeen and a half sacks last year kind of

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Speaker 3: The Bengals level.

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Speaker 1: You spoke to Jeff Hobson yesterday and said something to

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, like, obviously what I'm asking for is

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Speaker 3: But once that was the business side of it. Now

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Speaker 3: Work hard, continue to work for what.

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Speaker 1: I think the one thing that anybody could understand is

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Speaker 2: I think it's more that I want to know where,

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Speaker 2: Like I love Cincinnati, I love Ohio. I don't want

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Speaker 3: If I want to play twelve years, you know, I don't.

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Speaker 2: And I think the organization does a good job balancing

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Speaker 2: And I don't necessarily see my contract being something that

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Speaker 2: what I'm asking for is not a business thing. I

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Speaker 2: just want security knowing that I can continue to play

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Speaker 2: I am at peace with the situation. I am blessed

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Speaker 2: You told me that when I was twenty one years old,

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Speaker 3: It's taken time.

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Speaker 1: You're here, Sam's here, Aj is here. We've added Sheldon Rankins.

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Speaker 2: You know, we're still figuring it out, you know, And

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Speaker 2: that's what I'm excited to be here about. You know,

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Speaker 2: the back half of my career regardless of anything. I mean,

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Speaker 2: playing sixteen years would be great, but you know, just

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Speaker 2: seeing it from a different perspective of like watching these

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Speaker 2: what I've learned as being successful is helpful to them

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Speaker 2: I'm excited about this defense, and obviously there's a lot

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Speaker 1: Called, We're excited that you're here. Thanks for your ton Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's no doubt you can make a strong case that

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Speaker 1: Trey Hendrickson is the best free agent acquisition in team history.

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Speaker 1: He's been a Pro Bowler in all three of his

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Speaker 1: Trey doesn't turn thirty until December, and here's hoping that

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Speaker 1: as long as he chooses to play pro football, he'll

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Speaker 1: do so in a Bengals uniform. Now, let's get to

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four schedule. If you judge the Bengals

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Speaker 1: schedule by their opponent's projected win totals in Las Vegas,

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Speaker 1: which is usually a better gauge than going by last

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Speaker 1: year's records, the Bengals have the sixth easiest schedule in

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Speaker 1: the NFL this year. That's quite a contrast from their

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Speaker 1: We already knew who the Bengals were playing and where

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Speaker 1: broadcast partner Dave Lapham and Bengals dot Com editor Jeff

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Speaker 1: Butch Hobson join me to take a closer look. All right, gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: the schedule is out. We have all seen it. Let's

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Speaker 1: start with some general thoughts. Butch, I will let you

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Speaker 1: bat lead off tonight.

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Speaker 4: Well, I defer the LAP. I want to see what

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Speaker 4: first thing I'd said is I wonder what laugh thinks.

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Speaker 1: So fair enough, we will the point guard will go

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Speaker 5: Well, as I started looking at it here, I mean,

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Speaker 5: the thing that seems really obvious to me is there's

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Speaker 5: not three straight road games, not three straight home games.

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Speaker 6: You know, it's home away, home away, home away.

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Speaker 5: You have a couple of straight home games, a couple

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Speaker 5: I like the fact that the buy occurs after the

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Speaker 5: biggest trip of the year, longest trip out to LA

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Speaker 5: to play, you know, to play the Chargers out there.

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Speaker 5: I think the buy is very well placed after the

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Speaker 5: miles total travel miles, the team's on second fewest in

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Speaker 5: the Chargers, for example, twenty three. I think I think

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Speaker 5: the schedule from a travel standpoint is extremely reasonable, you know,

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Speaker 5: but then you look at the league feels like this

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Speaker 5: is a damn good football team. They get five prime

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Speaker 5: time games, three at home to UH two at home,

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Speaker 6: They've got two additional or three additional.

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Speaker 5: Four to twenty five kicks, So you know, that's half

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Speaker 5: the schedule is you know, is a special games a

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Speaker 5: special special game that week from a scheduling standpoint, So

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Speaker 5: you know, it confirms the fact that the league is

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Speaker 5: in agreement that that, you know, it's it's a pretty

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Speaker 5: good football team. The other thing is, we knew this

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Speaker 5: before the actual dates, but five new head coaches and

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Speaker 5: the Bengals the first four games. The Bengals have three

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Speaker 5: new head coaches, the Patriots, Washington, and Carolina. So you know,

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Speaker 5: you'd think you can you can make two arguments there.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, you don't know what the heck those teams

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Speaker 5: are going to do because they have a new head coach.

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Speaker 5: What are they going to do systematically?

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Speaker 3: This and that?

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Speaker 6: I counted that with.

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Speaker 5: You know, the Bengals in the early stages of the

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Speaker 5: And I'd rather have a coaching staff that's been together

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Speaker 5: I think that's a that's a big deal, the fact

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Speaker 5: that three new head coaches in four games. I mean,

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Speaker 5: if the Bengals can handle the Chiefs on the road,

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Speaker 5: you got to figure they'd have a decent shot of

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Speaker 5: starting the season out four and oh and the and

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Speaker 5: the way it's been the last few years, there's been

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Speaker 5: struggles to start the season. This year with this scheduled, potentially,

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Speaker 5: you know, if you certainly don't want to assume anything

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Speaker 5: in the National Football League, there's no question about it.

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Speaker 5: Anybody can beat anybody and.

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Speaker 6: We all know that. But i'd uh, I think that

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Speaker 6: they're going to be favored in three of the four

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Speaker 6: first games of the season for sure.

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Speaker 1: All Right, Butch, you want to go second or would

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Speaker 1: you like me to go second?

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Speaker 4: Well? I was just gonna say kind of what piggyback

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Speaker 7: Uh, three of those new head coaches who from are

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Speaker 7: probably gonna start rookie quarterbacks. So you know, you go

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Speaker 7: and they're going and they're going against a defense it's

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Speaker 7: six straight years, so you know that's uh probably probably

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Speaker 7: uh uh probably may starts for the Patriots and the AGA,

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Speaker 7: which would be the first time though if there's a

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Speaker 4: Then they come back and they'll probably play another rookie

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Speaker 4: helpful if you're looking to get out of the Great

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Speaker 4: Gate fast. And then I think just the other thing

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Speaker 4: said to me, the the toughest spot of part of

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Speaker 4: the schedule stats in November seventh, that that Thursday night

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Speaker 4: that's but they get cushion by that because they have

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Speaker 4: got thereby so it really doesn't get tough until that

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Speaker 4: how they do it. Everybody's got a brutal December. You know,

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Speaker 4: the Bengals no different. But you know they've got another

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Speaker 4: short week, first time in history they've had two Thursday

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Speaker 4: night games. They got a short week in December. But

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Speaker 4: so do the Steels and Ravens who are getting screwed

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Speaker 4: up in the Christmas Day stuff. So I think it's

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Speaker 4: pretty good. I you know, it gets rough. You know,

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Speaker 4: December one starts Borough member, not December Borough member. Remember

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Speaker 4: he is thirteen and four in games in December and January,

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Speaker 4: so they get a pretty good I think it's pretty

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Speaker 1: All right, I've scribbled down a few things. Number one,

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Speaker 1: and this is something both of you guys touched on.

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Speaker 1: Three of the first four games are against three of

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Speaker 1: the worst teams in the NFL. New England four and

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Speaker 1: Add that up, you get ten and forty one in

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Speaker 1: sending the Bengals to Baltimore for primetime games third year

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the AFC North started in two thousand and two.

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Speaker 5: You know, one other interesting matchup is going to be Philadelphia.

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Speaker 5: The four to twenty five kickoff Philadelphia in Cincinnati.

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Speaker 6: Hurts and Burroughs score off for the first.

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Speaker 5: Time you know that Burrows played. You know a lot

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Speaker 5: Who But like we're talking about, you get to buy

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Speaker 6: So the league I think was extremely fair.

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Speaker 5: To the Bengals when they said, all right, we're going

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Speaker 4: I think December is gonna be really interesting. You played

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Speaker 3: Then you got it.

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Speaker 4: you know, that's another nice one to have. I think

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Speaker 4: between Cleveland and uh Pittsburgh, the trip to Pittsburgh end

439
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Speaker 4: of season.

440
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Speaker 1: Well, I can tell you what Dallas thinks of Denver.

441
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Speaker 1: They've got the Broncos winning five and a half games

442
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Speaker 1: on the Vegas line this year, so they don't expect

443
00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:06,720
Speaker 1: Sean Payton's team good to be very good. Let's quickly

444
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Speaker 1: run down the schedule game by game. We start in

445
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Speaker 1: Week one. Bill Belichick has gone after twenty four years

446
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:16,080
Speaker 1: as the Patriots head coach. Thirty seven year old Girodmeo

447
00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:19,159
Speaker 1: takes over youngest head coach in the NFL. Which you

448
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:22,400
Speaker 1: mentioned the possibility that the number three pick in the draft,

449
00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:25,200
Speaker 1: Drake may could be the starting quarterback, but they might

450
00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:28,520
Speaker 1: start the year with Jacoby Brissett, who they signed to

451
00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:31,760
Speaker 1: kind of be that bridge QB. Add all of that up.

452
00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:35,960
Speaker 1: A home game Week one against a team with those factors,

453
00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:37,920
Speaker 1: that's a game you gotta win, right.

454
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Speaker 5: No question, no question question. You got to And I mean,

455
00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,480
Speaker 5: let's face the New England's defense is always good and

456
00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:50,840
Speaker 5: I think it will be again. But got to win

457
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Speaker 5: that football game.

458
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Speaker 1: Week two at Kansas City. The Chiefs play in the

459
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Speaker 1: kickoff game on the Thursday, and Week one against BA Baltimore,

460
00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:02,760
Speaker 1: so they'll have a long week to prepare. But Butch,

461
00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:06,040
Speaker 1: I'm kind of excited to see a Bengals Chiefs game

462
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,040
Speaker 1: that isn't one of the final games of the year.

463
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:10,840
Speaker 1: All these matchups over the last few years, they've played

464
00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 1: five times in the last three years. The earliest one

465
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Speaker 1: was in Week twelve and obviously you've had the two

466
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Speaker 1: AFC championship games. We're going to get to see these

467
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Speaker 1: two teams early this year.

468
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the what's nice is and I know

469
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 4: they still have a ten day break, but you know,

470
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Speaker 4: this is going to probably be there might be a

471
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Speaker 4: little bit of a letdown after all the hoopla of

472
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Speaker 4: that opener, you know, and you know, maybe there's you know,

473
00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:40,919
Speaker 4: the Bengals had a Super Bowl hangover when they went

474
00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:43,479
Speaker 4: to Zoombo. Now they didn't win it, but you know,

475
00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:46,720
Speaker 4: Kansas City's won too. I think this is that's kind

476
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Speaker 4: of where you want to catch this team. I think,

477
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:50,760
Speaker 4: you know, you don't want to get them when they're rolling,

478
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Speaker 4: you know, So I kind of like that. And you know,

479
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:57,119
Speaker 4: I think the fact, you know, the Bengals know they

480
00:24:57,119 --> 00:25:00,280
Speaker 4: can win an arrow, that's that's that's absolutely huge. So

481
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Speaker 4: I'm with you, Dan. I like the fact that you know,

482
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:07,800
Speaker 4: maybe you catch him, you know, maybe maybe you you know,

483
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Speaker 4: those are the teams you can catch him.

484
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Speaker 1: And it might not be brutally cold this time.

485
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Speaker 3: Around.

486
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Speaker 1: Week three is a Monday night home game against Washington,

487
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:19,040
Speaker 1: a new head coach, and Dan Quinn, in all likelihood

488
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,320
Speaker 1: a rookie starting quarterback and the number two pick in

489
00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 1: the draft Jade and Daniels, although maybe Marcus Mariotis starts

490
00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,399
Speaker 1: the year at QB before they work him in. But

491
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Speaker 1: in any case, Lap that's a team that won four

492
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Speaker 1: games last year. Primetime home game against one of the

493
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Speaker 1: weaker teams in the NFL again, much like Week one,

494
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,720
Speaker 1: certainly when you'd expect the Bengals to take care of business.

495
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Speaker 5: In I agree, and real quick about Kansas City. Isn't

496
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Speaker 5: there Thursday night game? Their opener is at home as well?

497
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Speaker 5: Aren't they direct home games in a row?

498
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Speaker 1: Correct?

499
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Speaker 6: So they're going to have to travel. So I think

500
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Speaker 6: that's a factor.

501
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Speaker 5: They don't have to travel, you know, they get the

502
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Speaker 5: home crowd in two straight games. I think that one's

503
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:02,639
Speaker 5: going to be a challenge, I really do, you know,

504
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:07,360
Speaker 5: it's I think the league did them a favor by saying,

505
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,320
Speaker 5: all right, we're giving you two tough opponents, but you're

506
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:12,280
Speaker 5: gonna have them both at home, and you're gonna have

507
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:14,720
Speaker 5: all that time in between those two games. So we're

508
00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:16,680
Speaker 5: gonna make that as fair and balanced as we can

509
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:18,680
Speaker 5: as well. And I think that's what took the league

510
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:20,680
Speaker 5: so damn long to make the schedule, and they're trying

511
00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:22,720
Speaker 5: to be fair and balanced to everybody, and there's so

512
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 5: many partners and so many teams, it's almost impossible to

513
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:30,520
Speaker 5: juggle every ball. But yeah, I mean, I do think Washington,

514
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:37,280
Speaker 5: you know, here in Cincinnati, Monday night football primetime game.

515
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,760
Speaker 5: I just I just think the Bengals will be able

516
00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 5: to handle business. You know, that would be a disappointment

517
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Speaker 5: if they don't take care of the Washington here in

518
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Speaker 5: Cincinnati on Monday Night.

519
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Speaker 1: Which one of the benefits of finishing in fourth place

520
00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:55,120
Speaker 1: last year in the AFC North is that the Bengals

521
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,919
Speaker 1: get three games against teams that finished in fourth place

522
00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:00,320
Speaker 1: in their division last year, and one of those teams

523
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 1: is Carolina in Week four. It's a road game. But

524
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:05,960
Speaker 1: the Panthers had the worst record in the league last year.

525
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:07,920
Speaker 1: They won two games. They've got a new head coach

526
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 1: and Dave Canallis, former offensive coordinator with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

527
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:15,000
Speaker 1: Good circumstances to go get a road win.

528
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:17,439
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I just was trying to look at

529
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 4: their depth chart, you know, in the last couple of

530
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 4: days and having trouble coming up with anybody that I

531
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Speaker 4: really knew, you know, I mean, they just don't really

532
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 4: have any impact players on either side of the ball.

533
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 4: They got some good players, but you know, I think, yeah,

534
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,080
Speaker 4: I mean, that's to get to be able to go

535
00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:42,200
Speaker 4: down there and get a win. I think they've got to.

536
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 4: They've got to do that because I, like I said,

537
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Speaker 4: I can't think of it. You know, they lost their

538
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 4: two best defensive players everybody. You know, they they lost

539
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:56,399
Speaker 4: Brian Burns and Frankly Lavou the linebacker, you know, and

540
00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:00,360
Speaker 4: I mean, you know they're going with kids, so that

541
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:04,200
Speaker 4: really should be a you know, you gotta that's one

542
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:04,800
Speaker 4: you gotta win.

543
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 1: You do know their redheaded backup quarterback. That's one guy

544
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:09,680
Speaker 1: on the roster that you know.

545
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 2: I do.

546
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,440
Speaker 4: I did know that that's true. That's true. But I'm

547
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:15,360
Speaker 4: not sure he's gonna play. But who knows. I guess

548
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 4: you never know.

549
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 1: Nowadays, not likely to play a significant role barring an

550
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,159
Speaker 1: injury to Bryce Young. Let's move to Week five. Last year,

551
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 1: lap the Bengals had to open the season with back

552
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 1: to back games against teams from the division, and they

553
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 1: didn't have a healthy Joe Burrow. This year, they don't

554
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,120
Speaker 1: get that first Divisional game until Week five, a home

555
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:36,159
Speaker 1: game against Baltimore. Here come the Ravens after sweeping the

556
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 1: Bengals last year. But Joe Burrow wasn't healthy either of

557
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 1: those games. And the Ravens are a great team obviously,

558
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 1: But I also think Baltimore lost more in free agency

559
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:48,160
Speaker 1: than any other team in the NFL.

560
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Speaker 5: I agree with that statement, Dan, and I think it's

561
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 5: time to spank the Baltimore Ravens in Cincinnati.

562
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Speaker 6: I mean, you know they're suitful in Baltimore. There's no

563
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 6: question about, no two ways about it.

564
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:02,120
Speaker 1: Period.

565
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 5: Uh you've got to take advantage of your home crowd.

566
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Speaker 5: I think I think the Baltimore Ravens respect the atmosphere

567
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 5: at pay Corps. I think that you know, they know,

568
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 5: they know that the Bengals being a division division arrival

569
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:19,239
Speaker 5: of big battle on the road at pay Corps. I mean,

570
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 5: the Bengals have to feel like they can get get

571
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 5: the job done. And Joe Burrow we matching up with

572
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 5: Lamar Jackson again and uh that that'll be interesting to

573
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 5: talk about. But uh, I do there's there was some

574
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 5: turnover with the Baltimore Ravens, and you just wonder how

575
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 5: long will it take for everything that they that they

576
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 5: had to replace. How long will it take for them

577
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:45,040
Speaker 5: to gel and uh, this is only the sixth game

578
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 5: of the season or the fifth game of the season,

579
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 5: so you know that's that's still there's still a work

580
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:53,480
Speaker 5: in progress at that point.

581
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 1: Butch Week six, Sunday Night Football at the New York Giants,

582
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 1: a team that won six games a year ago. They

583
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,080
Speaker 1: did not take a quarterback with the sixth pick in

584
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:06,480
Speaker 1: the draft. They're sticking with Daniel Jones. What do you

585
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 1: think of that matchup in Week six?

586
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:10,840
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, it's on the road, it's at night,

587
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 4: so you never know, you know, you never I mean,

588
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 4: ask the Steelers about it. Asked the twenty twenty Steelers

589
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 4: about that at pay Corpse, So there's all you never know.

590
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,960
Speaker 4: But I mean that's another one that before that. You know,

591
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 4: that's where you kind of ah, that's what because I

592
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 4: think the next two games or you know, you know,

593
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 4: the next three games or Cleveland Philly I in Baltimore,

594
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:33,640
Speaker 4: so you know, you've got to beat a not very

595
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 4: good team. You know, you got to get those you

596
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:38,240
Speaker 4: get all that you can, you know how you know

597
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:40,240
Speaker 4: we do this every year and he win a game,

598
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 4: he didn't think they're gonna win, and they lose a

599
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:44,480
Speaker 4: game then so it kind of evens out right. But

600
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Speaker 4: that's you gotta that's that's when you have to circle

601
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:51,200
Speaker 4: because you know the Lake neighbors their number one pick,

602
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,959
Speaker 4: you know, great player, but you know, can they protect

603
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 4: Jones to get them the ball?

604
00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:56,480
Speaker 3: You know?

605
00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:59,320
Speaker 4: That's uh. It should be a day where the Bengals

606
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 4: defensive line teas off lap.

607
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 1: Week seven is the first game against the Cleveland Browns.

608
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 1: It is in Cleveland, and this is the team that's

609
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 1: been Joe burrows nemesis so far in his NFL career,

610
00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 1: one in five as a starter against Cleveland. We all

611
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 1: remember what happened in Week one last year when the

612
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 1: Bengals couldn't do anything on a rainy day offensively in Cleveland.

613
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 1: The Bengals did beat the Browns in the final game

614
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 1: of the regular season last year, but that was Cleveland's

615
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 1: B squad. This is an opportunity to show that they

616
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 1: can beat the Browns at full strength.

617
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Speaker 6: It is Dan and I'll tell you you know, the

618
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 6: Cleveland Browns have good personnel. There's no doubt about it.

619
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Speaker 5: I mean you look at that at that group top

620
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 5: to bottom, the biggest question is what are they going

621
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 5: to get out of the quarterback? Is the quarterback play

622
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 5: going to be consistent enough to be a difference from

623
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 5: win football game for him? I think defensively that group

624
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 5: can keep them in any football games they're playing to

625
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 5: their capabilities. I think their offensive line is solid. I

626
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,080
Speaker 5: think they've got you know, good skill player. It's a

627
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 5: it's a damn good football team. And I think what

628
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 5: the Bengals have an opportunity to do here is to uh, basically,

629
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 5: last year they struggled in the to start the season,

630
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 5: and they struggled in division games this year in their

631
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 5: first seven games, two of them in division games. Now,

632
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 5: you know, it'd be it'd be great to beat Baltimore

633
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:24,920
Speaker 5: at home, and it'd be uh unbelievably great to follow

634
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 5: off of the road winning Cleveland. And I think with

635
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 5: this football team, it's it's doable in both situations.

636
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 6: You certainly don't want.

637
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 5: To come out of those two division games in the

638
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 5: first seven games of the season zero and two in

639
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 5: the division them, don't damn sure don't want to do that.

640
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 5: Better be at least one on one or two and oho,

641
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 5: you know, be sweet sugar, there's no doubt, but you

642
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 5: don't want to go over and lose those first two

643
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 5: division games and find yourself in a hole like they

644
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 5: found themselves in last year in the division.

645
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 4: But that's yeah, Now I was gonna say that game,

646
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:00,080
Speaker 4: that's the They're going to have to win one of

647
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 4: those division games on the road. They're going to have

648
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 4: to get the four and playing in Baltimore on a

649
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:07,880
Speaker 4: Thursday night and playing Pittsburgh in a finaleon a road,

650
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 4: you know, probably Cleveland on October twenty twentieth at one pm, probably,

651
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 4: you know, let's get that one first.

652
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 1: All right. Let's go to the next game, Week eight

653
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 1: at home against Philly. I think this is one of

654
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Speaker 1: the great home games on the schedule this year, a

655
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Speaker 1: four to twenty five kick at pay Corps. The Eagles

656
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:29,400
Speaker 1: were good last year. They faded late after going to

657
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl the year before. But they've added Saquan Barkley.

658
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 1: They've added a good pass rusher and Bryce Holt. They

659
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 1: drafted the top two cornerbacks on most people's boards this

660
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,040
Speaker 1: year in the NFL Draft. It's going to be a

661
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:45,720
Speaker 1: formidable Philly team that rolls into Cincinnati in Week eight.

662
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Speaker 4: And I think what I think they picked up Vic

663
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:52,280
Speaker 4: Fangio is their DC right, probably the best move they

664
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Speaker 4: It is probably the best move they made in the offseason.

665
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 4: You know, he will give you and he will give

666
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 4: you nothing. He will give you nothing deep. It's going

667
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,640
Speaker 4: to be a grind job right from the get going.

668
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 4: It's amazing. But in the league seven years, the Bengals

669
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 4: have never played him. I think he was hurt when

670
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:10,319
Speaker 4: the Giants were here in twenty twenty and they saw

671
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:12,400
Speaker 4: hurts just a little bit when he was a rookie

672
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 4: just but he was not the stating quarterback. So it's

673
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 4: you know, those guys coming here. You know, like you said, Dan,

674
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:21,880
Speaker 4: that's an elite team.

675
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Speaker 1: Lap The Las Vegas Raiders come to town in week

676
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Speaker 1: nine on November third. It's the return of Marvin Lewis,

677
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 1: who has surfaced on Antonio Pierce's coaching staff there with

678
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Speaker 1: the Raiders. I guess the question is can Marvin play quarterback?

679
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:40,400
Speaker 1: Because I'm not sure that Aiden O'Connell or Gardner Minshew

680
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 1: is going to lead the Raiders to much glory this year.

681
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:46,239
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's that's the deal.

682
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:51,400
Speaker 5: I mean, Joe Burrow or those two guys, I know

683
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:54,920
Speaker 5: where I put my money, and they're playing, you know,

684
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Speaker 5: in Cincinnati. Obviously they get back to back home games

685
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:04,320
Speaker 5: for the first time on the schedule for the season.

686
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Speaker 5: So it'd be nice to put together a couple of

687
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 5: a couple of if they can beat the Philadelphia Eagles

688
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 5: in Cincinnati on that on October twenty seventh to four

689
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 5: to twenty five, a lot of eyeballs watching that carry

690
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 5: some momentum into the U into the Raiders game. And

691
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 5: young head coach, I mean, this guy hasn't been He

692
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 5: did a hell of a job, there's no question interim scenario,

693
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,800
Speaker 5: he delivered and h and he's still you know, still

694
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 5: a young head coach.

695
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:33,920
Speaker 6: But the players love him.

696
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:36,800
Speaker 5: But man, you gotta have a quarterback in the National

697
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,239
Speaker 5: Football League to get where you want to want to

698
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:41,840
Speaker 5: try to go. And uh and and that's that's obviously

699
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 5: the big hole with the Las Vegas Raiders.

700
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Speaker 1: Which Week ten, almost exactly one month after playing Baltimore

701
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 1: at home, the Bengals play the Ravens on the road.

702
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:53,839
Speaker 1: And we've already talked about this. It's a Thursday night

703
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:57,880
Speaker 1: primetime game, in my mind, the toughest game on paper

704
00:35:58,200 --> 00:35:59,439
Speaker 1: on the schedule this year.

705
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 4: That is no question about it. Like I said, high

706
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:04,960
Speaker 4: ball never loses down there at night. They've never lost

707
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,920
Speaker 4: down there on a Thursday night. And h but I

708
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:11,359
Speaker 4: will say this, Uh, Joe Burrow's last pass put them

709
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 4: up ten to seven. So uh uh with you know,

710
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 4: late in the second quarter of that game. So let's

711
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 4: see how is it, you know, let's see how the

712
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:22,239
Speaker 4: let's see how it goes with four quarters. Whenever he

713
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 4: and Lamara get going, the thing is going to be

714
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 4: decided by a field goal. So you know, whenever they

715
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 4: play a full game together, Uh, you know, it comes

716
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 4: down to a turnover, right laugh. Whenever they played Baltimore,

717
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 4: it comes down to a turnover. Last year, I give

718
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 4: you last year, I give you Geno Stone. If Gino

719
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:44,799
Speaker 4: Stone doesn't make that play, Bengals win that game. So

720
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 4: I'm glad. I'm glad No Stone is Uh we got

721
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:49,320
Speaker 4: them on this Thursday.

722
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Speaker 1: The following week is the final game before the Bengals

723
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Speaker 1: by It is a road game in Los Angeles against

724
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 1: the Chargers. It's the Bengals returned to Cell Fi for

725
00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:01,359
Speaker 1: the first time since Super for Ball fifty six. They'll

726
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 1: have some extra time to prepare after playing on Thursday night, football.

727
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 1: They'll be taking on a Chargers team. Lap with Jim

728
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 1: Harbaud now as the head coach, LA is going to

729
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 1: be a better team simply because he is the guy

730
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:13,879
Speaker 1: running the show.

731
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Speaker 6: Absolutely, you know.

732
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Speaker 5: I mean, I think it's going to be a much

733
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Speaker 5: more disciplined football team. I think it's going to be

734
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 5: a tougher, more hard nosed football team. They're going to

735
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 5: try to get the running game going. And they've got

736
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Speaker 5: a quarterback, there's no doubt about that. That's that's gonna

737
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 5: be the interesting dynamic I think, uh with with the

738
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Speaker 5: h Boys, barbar and a Bear Herbert, I mean, I think,

739
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:41,759
Speaker 5: you know, it's like, all right, I like, I want

740
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 5: to throw the pig.

741
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Speaker 3: I want to.

742
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:44,840
Speaker 5: I want to. I want to spend the spin the

743
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:47,400
Speaker 5: ball down the football field. Our ball believes in that

744
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:50,400
Speaker 5: running game, you know. And he had a very talented

745
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:54,400
Speaker 5: quarterback that only lost one football game for him at Michigan,

746
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 5: and he ran the football and the kid probably you

747
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:02,480
Speaker 5: know secretly with I wish I had an opportunity to

748
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 5: throw more at Michigan. But we're winning a bunch of

749
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:08,720
Speaker 5: football games and Barbaugh wants to run it, play solid

750
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 5: defense and the passing attack is a complimentary type thing.

751
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 5: It's going to be interesting to see how they respond

752
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:18,880
Speaker 5: to Harbaugh, and I think that he is going to

753
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:24,799
Speaker 5: make the LA Chargers a different football team from a

754
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:25,920
Speaker 5: mindset standpoint.

755
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:26,760
Speaker 6: There's no question.

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Speaker 1: We'll wrap up our look at the schedule in a moment,

757
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 1: but first, here's a quick reminder that the Bengals Booth

758
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Speaker 1: the official healthcare provider of the Bengals. I buy comes

764
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Speaker 1: in week twelve. That's the latest buy for the Bengals

765
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Speaker 1: since the two thousand was in thirteen season when they

766
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:04,320
Speaker 1: went eleven and five and made the playoffs before losing

767
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:07,280
Speaker 1: to the Chargers. Then after the buy in week thirteen.

768
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Speaker 1: Butch it's a home game against the Steelers. It's the

769
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 1: first meeting this year against Pittsburgh. Second year in a

770
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,600
Speaker 1: row that the two teams do not meet until the

771
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:16,839
Speaker 1: latter stages of the year.

772
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:19,839
Speaker 4: Yeah, last year I think they played two. I think

773
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:22,000
Speaker 4: they played their two games within three or four weeks.

774
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Speaker 4: Now they're playing within December. Is Russ gonna cook? That's

775
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 4: the big question that's going to be the deal in Pittsburgh.

776
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:29,799
Speaker 4: Is he going to be the guy?

777
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 1: Could be justin fields by then who knows?

778
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Speaker 4: Well if Russ's you know, the last the only game

779
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 4: Russ ever played in in the city of his birth

780
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:43,120
Speaker 4: was he got he was the victim of a twenty

781
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 4: four to seven comeback. But that will be you know,

782
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:48,319
Speaker 4: they've lost some guys on defense too, or do you

783
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 4: know they've lost you know, but they've added They've added

784
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 4: the great Patrick Queen, who is a piece that Bengals

785
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,320
Speaker 4: could never seem to solve when he was in Baltimore.

786
00:39:57,960 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 4: So you know, it could be a typical Pittsburgh game.

787
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 4: Then I think, you know, they've beat you know, Mike

788
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:08,000
Speaker 4: Tomins beating the Bengals with you know, guys like guys

789
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 4: you can't even remember now, so like Doug Dodges, Yeah, Doc, yes,

790
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 4: that's the guy. And he'll have and of course Mason Rudolph.

791
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:20,160
Speaker 4: Uh maybe he's not that bad at I don't know,

792
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 4: but he'll you know, Tom it will get his shot

793
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 4: with with russ Well.

794
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:29,959
Speaker 1: The Steelers swept the Bengals last year, but they didn't

795
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:32,759
Speaker 1: face Joe Burrow in either of those games. We'll see

796
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Speaker 1: if that changes things in week thirteen on December first lap.

797
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Speaker 1: The following week, another really difficult game, Monday Night football

798
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Speaker 1: at Dallas. I mentioned this at the beginning of our conversation.

799
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Speaker 1: Cowboys didn't lose a home game during the regular season

800
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Speaker 1: last year, and now they have Mike Zimmer as their

801
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:53,839
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. See if the Bengals can solve a Mike

802
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 1: Zimmer Paul Gunther defense on December the ninth.

803
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's going to be very, very interesting because

804
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:07,120
Speaker 5: I'm telling you, the Dallas Cowboys, the last time we

805
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:10,360
Speaker 5: saw them, they're getting run off the football field literally,

806
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:12,759
Speaker 5: I mean they were getting the ball run down their

807
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 5: collective throats. So obviously that's going to be something that

808
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 5: has been talked about the entire off season and it's

809
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 5: going to be addressed.

810
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:22,920
Speaker 3: Uh.

811
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Speaker 5: And really, how will the Bengals approached this Dallas Uh,

812
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 5: this Dallas defensive football team. And you know, the Cowboys

813
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 5: is just about the time of year where they they

814
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 5: start to shrink a little bit maybe not maybe not

815
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 5: quite yet. It's not the playoffs. They seem to have

816
00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:44,280
Speaker 5: things very very well.

817
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:44,759
Speaker 4: Uh.

818
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Speaker 5: During the course of the regular season, particularly at home.

819
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 5: Like you said, Uh, last year they didn't lose one.

820
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Speaker 5: So it's a it's a difficult place to play, there's

821
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 5: no no, no question about that.

822
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Speaker 4: It's uh, it's.

823
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Speaker 5: America's team, Jerry Jones. It's going to be a nationally

824
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 5: televised game, There's gonna be a lot on the line.

825
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:09,919
Speaker 5: It's going to be a tough, tough football game, there's

826
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Speaker 5: no doubt. Then you have a short week, Monday night football.

827
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Speaker 5: I think the toughest thing about it as a former

828
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 5: player was I do remember that short week, particularly if

829
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 5: you had a few years under your belt.

830
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Speaker 6: That short week becomes a factor, there's no question.

831
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Speaker 1: And that next game is a road game at Tennessee.

832
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Speaker 1: You talked about it earlier, butch the Brian Callahan reunion

833
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:37,920
Speaker 1: with Zach Taylor. Now first year NFL head coaches tend

834
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Speaker 1: to struggle, particularly early in their first year. But this

835
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Speaker 1: isn't early. This is week fifteen, and I imagine Brian

836
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:47,440
Speaker 1: Callahan and his dad, Bill Callahan, will probably have that

837
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 1: team playing reasonably be well by then.

838
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Speaker 4: Also, the Bengals are not exactly a mystery to him.

839
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Speaker 4: He's been going against this defense and Loumann Rumo for

840
00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:01,440
Speaker 4: five training camps and five five seasons practice, so that

841
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:05,720
Speaker 4: won't be a problem for him. You know. The folks

842
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:07,400
Speaker 4: down into you know, it's going to be a completely

843
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:10,799
Speaker 4: different you know, Zach Taylor had it all over Mike

844
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:13,279
Speaker 4: Vrabel in those matchups, you know, and that was not

845
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Speaker 4: exactly an offensive minded team down there. The folks in

846
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 4: Nashville are gonna think Callum I wrote this today. They're

847
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:23,400
Speaker 4: gonna think Callahan's air Coriel. They're gonna be be a

848
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:26,920
Speaker 4: much different offense than they've played in the past, you know,

849
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:31,320
Speaker 4: and you're throwing You're throwing Bill Callahan down there, working

850
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:34,240
Speaker 4: with the first round pick in jac Latham at left tackle.

851
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:36,759
Speaker 4: They're going to be a formidable group on offense. It's

852
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 4: not going to be a twenty to sixteen game or

853
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:42,799
Speaker 4: a night or a nineteen to sixteen game down there,

854
00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:45,320
Speaker 4: like the playoffs whore. It's going to be a different style.

855
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:49,560
Speaker 1: So lap, after back to back road games at Dallas

856
00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 1: and Tennessee, the Bengals come home for two games in

857
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:54,360
Speaker 1: a row, including a Thursday night home game against the

858
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Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns on December the nineteenth, the week before Christmas.

859
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:02,640
Speaker 1: They will have played Cleveland in mid October and they

860
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Speaker 1: get them again in the rematch in late December.

861
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 5: Yeah, and uh, it's the Battle of Ohio Part two.

862
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:15,840
Speaker 5: And the fact that you get the Cleveland Browns in

863
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:20,799
Speaker 5: Cincinnati at pay Court Stadium when it could be two

864
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 5: out of the last three games of the season division

865
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Speaker 5: games the NFL, there's intent there, those are tie breakers.

866
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Speaker 5: Those are significant football games. You get the one at home.

867
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Speaker 5: You've got one at home and one on the road.

868
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Speaker 5: You got Cleveland at home, you get Pittsburgh on the

869
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:39,799
Speaker 5: road to and it and the season. You've got to

870
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:42,799
Speaker 5: get the Cleveland Browns victory at home. You cannot lose

871
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:46,960
Speaker 5: a division game at home in the month of December

872
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:49,239
Speaker 5: when the playoffs are on the line. And I think

873
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 5: that that's going to be the case for this football team.

874
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:53,759
Speaker 5: I think the playoffs will be on the line. They'll

875
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:56,680
Speaker 5: be playing probably for a seed or whatever the case

876
00:44:56,760 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 5: may be. And the Cleveland Browns like nothing better than

877
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:07,000
Speaker 5: to knock off the Cincinnati Bengals for obvious reasons. And

878
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:09,560
Speaker 5: you know this division last year, the only division in

879
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:11,799
Speaker 5: the NFL that did not have a team with a

880
00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:16,239
Speaker 5: losing record. You wonder, you wonder how competitive it's going

881
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 5: to be this year. I think it's going to be

882
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:22,400
Speaker 5: just as competitive. Domlin doesn't lose, he does have losing seasons.

883
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:25,360
Speaker 5: Cleveland's got great personnel, like we talked about, you know,

884
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:29,040
Speaker 5: the first time matching up with them. Got to win

885
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:33,920
Speaker 5: this nationally televised Thursday night game in Cincinnati, The Battle

886
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:38,640
Speaker 5: of Ohio, Part two has to go to Cincinnati, all right.

887
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 1: One week later it's the final home game of the

888
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:44,200
Speaker 1: regular season, the Bengals hosting the Denver Broncos. Could be

889
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:46,960
Speaker 1: on Saturday, could be on Sunday, December twenty eighth or

890
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:50,319
Speaker 1: twenty ninth. Who do you think the starting quarterback will

891
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:53,760
Speaker 1: be at that point for the Denver Broncos. Butch bow Knicks,

892
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:56,320
Speaker 1: Jared Stidham or Zach Wilson.

893
00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 4: They gotta beat in one of them because you cannot

894
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:04,040
Speaker 4: lose to the Laps kind of taken off a Lap said,

895
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:06,720
Speaker 4: you can't lose to the You gotta win twelve games.

896
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:09,839
Speaker 4: I mean in that division, in this conference, you got

897
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:12,400
Speaker 4: to get to twelve. And it takes a lot to

898
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 4: win twelve games, and these are the games you have

899
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 4: to win, you know. I think Zach Taylor in December,

900
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:20,760
Speaker 4: I think he's nine and four. I talked about Burrow

901
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:23,839
Speaker 4: in December and January. He's, uh, you know, he's got

902
00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:26,920
Speaker 4: he's got a He's like thirteen and four. You know,

903
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 4: Burrough's never lost a prime time game at home. So

904
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:33,719
Speaker 4: they got a lot of things going for him into

905
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:37,160
Speaker 4: Cleveland and Denver matchups there that they have to they

906
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:40,240
Speaker 4: have to continue the December success.

907
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:43,399
Speaker 1: And it all ends in the regular season in Pittsburgh

908
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:47,719
Speaker 1: Week eighteen. The day and the time TBD based on

909
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 1: what's at stake. But obviously the NFL likes to end

910
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:54,759
Speaker 1: the regular season lap with divisional rivalries, and this is

911
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:56,480
Speaker 1: one of the best, the Bengals and Steelers.

912
00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 5: Of course, Dan, of course it's gonna end in what

913
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:06,640
Speaker 5: what what else could be the case? Oh my goodness,

914
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 5: Mike Tomlin, we talked about his his excellence. The guy

915
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:16,280
Speaker 5: he just does not lead football teams to losing records.

916
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:17,440
Speaker 6: It just it's he's.

917
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:21,120
Speaker 5: Never had a losing record in his entire National Football

918
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:26,439
Speaker 5: League career. Quite amazing. This this Pittsburgh Steeler team will

919
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:29,200
Speaker 5: be up in the bit, it's going to be a

920
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:32,720
Speaker 5: physical football game, going to be a slave knock er extraordinaire.

921
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:35,960
Speaker 5: Who's going to be able to control the line of scrimmage?

922
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:41,160
Speaker 5: Not necessarily, you know, in the run, I'm saying, control

923
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:44,279
Speaker 5: the line of scrimmage. Lets your quarterback operate, let's your

924
00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:47,480
Speaker 5: running game operate. It's not necessarily who out rushes the other.

925
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:51,719
Speaker 5: Who can execute their game plan the best by controlling

926
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 5: that line of scrimmage. And the Pittsburgh Steelers at this

927
00:47:56,520 --> 00:48:01,280
Speaker 5: stage of the season under Mike Tomlin historically don't make mistakes,

928
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:04,160
Speaker 5: they don't self destruct, They wait for you to screw

929
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:07,840
Speaker 5: it up. The Bengals have to play a clean football

930
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:13,440
Speaker 5: game in terms of turnovers, minimized turnovers, minimized mental eras,

931
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:17,720
Speaker 5: because the Pittsburgh Steelers history has shown that Mike Tomlin

932
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:21,120
Speaker 5: as his guys believing that if they play that way,

933
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:26,759
Speaker 5: if they play an error free mental game and take

934
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:30,040
Speaker 5: care of the football, they're gonna win these important games.

935
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 5: So the Cincinnati Bengals have to be better at Pittsburgh's

936
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:38,040
Speaker 5: game than Pittsburgh is in that particular matchup.

937
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:42,359
Speaker 4: I think both teams drafted with this game in mind.

938
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:45,280
Speaker 4: Both of them took offensive tackles in the first round.

939
00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:47,759
Speaker 4: Steel Has took an offensive line in the second round.

940
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:50,880
Speaker 4: The Bengals took a defensive tackle in the next two

941
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:54,319
Speaker 4: rounds and two and three, So they must have known

942
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:59,480
Speaker 4: something with everything on the line and probably all those

943
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 4: guys they'll be checking in at that point in the season,

944
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:04,640
Speaker 4: probably your top draft picks out to be playing.

945
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:09,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree, Butch, I think from a rotation standpoint,

946
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:13,480
Speaker 5: they'll have expanded their roles as such, and who's going

947
00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:16,840
Speaker 5: to control the line of scrimmage. That's the bottom line

948
00:49:17,239 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 5: in the AC North in general. You know, you can

949
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:23,520
Speaker 5: say the same thing when you face the Baltimore Ravens

950
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:26,920
Speaker 5: with the Cleveland Browns. I mean, both all three of

951
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 5: these football teams leave in having a depth in their

952
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:36,880
Speaker 5: talent in the trenches, and that's what you have to

953
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:40,160
Speaker 5: have to win this division. So will the Bengals be

954
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:40,959
Speaker 5: able to get it done?

955
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 1: Vegas has the Bengals winning ten and a half, butch

956
00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:48,319
Speaker 1: says it's going to take twelve to win the AFC North.

957
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:50,600
Speaker 1: I look at that schedule and I think twelve wins

958
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:54,440
Speaker 1: is very possible if Joe Burrow stays healthy. So far,

959
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:55,200
Speaker 1: it's looking good.

960
00:49:57,160 --> 00:49:59,799
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, that's the circle that in. That's the big

961
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:04,319
Speaker 5: Kirklet underline it, capitalize it.

962
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:07,600
Speaker 4: It's great if you go thirteen and four in that division,

963
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:10,799
Speaker 4: station and his own body call the playoffs.

964
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 1: Well, if you go thirteen and four, you've got a

965
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:16,399
Speaker 1: chance to be the number one seed and that would

966
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:19,040
Speaker 1: certainly go a long way toward getting the Bengals to

967
00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:23,600
Speaker 1: the Superdome in New Orleans. The Burrow and Chase returned

968
00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:25,600
Speaker 1: to the Bayou. It was written in the stars. It's

969
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:28,200
Speaker 1: going to happen, and now we know how it's going

970
00:50:28,239 --> 00:50:31,400
Speaker 1: to happen, now that the schedule has been released. Gentlemen,

971
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:33,879
Speaker 1: I appreciate your time as always, look forward to seeing

972
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:37,360
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00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:12,440
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