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Speaker 1: And now move the sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks.

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Speaker 1: What's up everybody? Welcome to move the six DJ Bucky

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Speaker 1: Rhett with you here as we look at the Thursday

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Speaker 1: night matchup. Let's get things started right there. This is

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Speaker 1: this is a fun one. A lot of times on

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Speaker 1: Thursday nights we do these previews. I do it while

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Speaker 1: I'm plugging my nose. Not this week, boys, We've got

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Speaker 1: a good one here. This is the Bengals and the Ravens.

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Speaker 1: Uncle Al has got to be happy about this one.

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Speaker 1: His spirits are going to be picked up. Rhtt. You

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Speaker 1: look at this big matchup in the AFC North, short

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Speaker 1: week for the Bengals coming off of a tough loss,

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Speaker 1: man and they're going up against a team and the

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Speaker 1: Ravens might be coming off a tougher loss. So two hungry,

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Speaker 1: too desperate teams in need of a win here on

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Speaker 1: Thursday night.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think you know some of the questions

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Speaker 2: now are just where are the Bengals health wise? And

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Speaker 2: you know, how does the short week treat Jamar Chase

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Speaker 2: I think he was fifty to fifty to even play

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Speaker 2: last week coming off that back injury on Sunday night

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Speaker 3: And can the.

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Speaker 2: Bengals offensive line protect against what's been you know, just

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Speaker 2: a renaissance of a Ravens defense makes you think back

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Speaker 2: getting pressure on the quarterbacks. So can that Bengals offensive

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Speaker 2: line protect Joe Burrow long enough to deal, you know,

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Speaker 2: and show you some of the stuff that he's been

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Speaker 2: So Jamar Chase's health, offensive line protecting? Can they run

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Speaker 2: Can they take some of the pressure off Joe. Can

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Speaker 2: they find a way to get you know, whether it's

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Speaker 2: And then for me on the on the flip side

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Speaker 2: with the Ravens, if you build a lead, can you

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Speaker 2: close it out this week? Can you exercise those demons

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Speaker 2: pound when you have the lead and kind of take

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you talk about the Baltimore Ravens. You talk about

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Speaker 3: closing it out Before I can blame the offense, I'm

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Speaker 3: the defense. This is a defense that is number one

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Speaker 3: in scoring defense in terms of points allowed. But they

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Speaker 3: need to be able to close games out. And even

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Speaker 3: though they lack what we call a marquee pass rusher,

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Speaker 3: they've been being able to get it done by committee

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Speaker 3: and to these critical moments in games. Can they find

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Speaker 3: a way to close it out against Joe Burrow. You

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know how to make sense of the

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Speaker 1: more equipped to close out a game than the Baltimore Ravens.

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Speaker 1: Why can't they finish these games and close teams out

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Speaker 1: That's the challenge there for the Ravens. And then with Cincinnati,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that you know, you saw some

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Speaker 2: But you know, I think this is This is one

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Speaker 2: You've got you know, three of them in the playoff

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Speaker 2: So I still feel like I trust the Bengals and

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Buck, I want to get to you real quick

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Speaker 1: Man Like, that's the team. I'm sitting here going watch

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Speaker 1: out for the Steelers, the ugly their way to a

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you're talking about the old classics slingshot move,

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Speaker 3: that's Pittsburgh. But they find a way to get it done.

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Speaker 3: This is one of those things that you're looking for.

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Speaker 3: So this is a huge game, is one that everyone

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Speaker 2: And just lastly, DJ, I just like to say that

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Speaker 2: this bunch, I'm really happy to see you Moti off

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Speaker 1: He's from North Carolina. He's from North Carolina. You think

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Speaker 2: It's Nascar?

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Speaker 1: Literally, it's from.

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Speaker 2: North Carolinascar, your d youna.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I went to school in North Carolina. You have

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Speaker 3: If it's a ritt you're talking about turn and right,

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Speaker 3: it's only left hand turns. It's only left hand turns.

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Speaker 3: When you're in NASCAR, we're only going.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no. What I'm saying is it's not only left

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Speaker 1: I got a trouble because the road races.

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Speaker 2: That's what I'm trying to say.

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Speaker 1: Got hit on that Gettle, I got hit on that

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Speaker 1: I remember, all right, we suck at NASCAR talk. So

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Speaker 1: let's move along there the AFC. When you look at

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Speaker 1: They've got a legit chance. They're only a game back

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Speaker 2: You think of the bottom of the I mean, like when

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Speaker 2: you know, and obviously the you know, the Jaguars ran

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Speaker 2: Stroud is using the weapons at his disposal better right

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Speaker 3: Oh no, man, Like, like I know, I'm supposed to

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Speaker 3: put it where my teal glasses. But like the team

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Speaker 3: You got to get back on track. Would a win.

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Speaker 3: I'm just saying like they may have some vulndability, but

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Speaker 3: I'm not going to sit here at like like all

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Speaker 3: just go overtake them. We haveely decided to see how

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Speaker 3: that plays out. I think a team that can it

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Speaker 3: AFC North is the toughest division in football. You have

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Speaker 3: all four teams in the division currently holding playoff bursts.

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Speaker 3: I think, what exception of the Bengals. The Bengals just

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Speaker 3: a round robin tournament where they're playing each other. So

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Speaker 3: my eyes on the Baltimore Ravens. As good as they've

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Speaker 3: they're vulnerable because they haven't closed out games and they

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Speaker 3: gave away three games that could come back to bite them.

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Speaker 1: Quick question for you, Sorry, Rett, Well, hold on, hold on,

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Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, hold on, because I'm gonna I'm

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Speaker 1: call rhet out here, and this is what I'm gonna do,

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Speaker 1: because Rhett is inferring. He has the goal to infer

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Speaker 1: that the Houston Texans might be better than the Jacksonville Jaguars.

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Speaker 2: Clearly they already beat him on the road by twenty points.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And going back and looking at it, that seven

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, and I'm kind of listening to you

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Speaker 2: And then just to close the book for me on Matabik,

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Speaker 3: All Right, always feel like advertising his fantasy football exploit

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm hard to get Apparently, I gotta do better

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Speaker 1: with that. And I didn't think you'd have anything useful

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