Speaker 1: The Super Bowl has arrived, and this is the dream
Speaker 1: of the tape. Ed's Babel Shusan, a longtime radio voice
Speaker 1: the New York Jets and obviously a football junkie and
Speaker 1: a football nerd. That's why I enjoy talking every week
Speaker 1: to Danilowski at Scott Pioli, Dan, longtime NFL quarterback, see
Speaker 1: him of course all the time breaking down the tape
Speaker 1: everything we do NFL wise at ESPN and Scott Pioli,
Speaker 1: longtime NFL general manager, guys diving into the tape. You know,
Speaker 1: we have to do these kind of survey shows each week,
Speaker 1: right like we're picking out the three or four or
Speaker 1: five best games of the week to talk about. And
Speaker 1: for this show, we actually have one game, one matchup
Speaker 1: to dive as deep as we possibly can. To me,
Speaker 1: this is like the dream week for this podcast to
Speaker 1: pick your brains about. This matchup is uh is as
Speaker 1: fun as it gets. Here's what we're gonna do today's episode.
Speaker 1: We're gonna look Bengals offense, Rams defense that side of
Speaker 1: the ball. Then the episode that will drop on Thursday
Speaker 1: will fly to the other side and then get some predictions.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna talk Rams offense, Bengals defense with the
Speaker 1: matchup perspective on Thursday. But let's start with I think
Speaker 1: the more interesting side of the ball, and that is
Speaker 1: we've been waiting all season as if some shoe was
Speaker 1: finally going to drop with this Bengals offense. Would they
Speaker 1: not be able to protect Joe Burrow? Would he get
Speaker 1: so beat up and not be able to get the
Speaker 1: ball out? Would someone be able to thwart all of
Speaker 1: these weapons that the Bengals have with respect to their
Speaker 1: offensive line of protection not being very good. And we've
Speaker 1: now arrived at the Super Bowl and Dan, it still
Speaker 1: hasn't happened. Is there a reason to believe in this game?
Speaker 1: Let's talk about that matchup. First, Ram pass rush, Ram
Speaker 1: defensive line, Bengals offensive line that they can get to
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, maybe not even with numbers, to the point
Speaker 1: that they can cover up all these weapons that the
Speaker 1: Bengals have. Yeah, I think this is the game that
Speaker 1: we see that. I think this is the greatest challenge
Speaker 1: of this season for Joe Burrow in that offense of line,
Speaker 1: and Bob, I think it's attached to the back end
Speaker 1: of the Rams. You know, there's two reasons why I
Speaker 1: look at this matchup, and and it favors the Rams heavily.
Speaker 1: Number one, they're gonna play their too high safety shell,
Speaker 1: cover four, cover two, cover six, zone coverage, you know,
Speaker 1: where they're not gonna give many one on one matchups.
Speaker 1: And so, you know, for people listening from a quarterback's perspective,
Speaker 1: when we get man to man coverage, man to man
Speaker 1: across the board, there's one safety in the middle field
Speaker 1: more often than not, that's easy for us. Hey, where's
Speaker 1: my guy versus the guy that I don't think he's
Speaker 1: very good. It's recess all over again. Let me throw
Speaker 1: it to my guy because he's better. When we have
Speaker 1: to play against zone coverages, it's harder because we have
Speaker 1: to think and we have to try to move people,
Speaker 1: and the guy that I'm anticipating throwing two might not
Speaker 1: be open, you know, and so we we have to
Speaker 1: constantly be thinking. And I think that's the challenges. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna get a lot of your man coverage, and
Speaker 1: Joe is gonna have seven sets, you know, at least
Speaker 1: six sets of eyeballs on him on a consistent basis.
Speaker 1: And then you pair that with the past rush that
Speaker 1: that's gonna get home and I think the difference between
Speaker 1: and this is in respect to the Raiders pass rush,
Speaker 1: the Tennessee pass rush, and the Kansas City pass rush.
Speaker 1: Those are all very good pass rushes. The differences the
Speaker 1: Rams are so athletic, and I would say that, you know,
Speaker 1: those pass rushes they did beat the offensive line, they
Speaker 1: just in moments couldn't get to Joe because he is
Speaker 1: so good at evading that. And I think the difference
Speaker 1: between the Rams and those is is the athleticism that
Speaker 1: those individual players have knowing I got zone coverage behind me,
Speaker 1: quarterback is gonna have to hold it for a blinker
Speaker 1: two and then that athleticism of a guy like Letter
Speaker 1: Floyd is crazy athletic, and um Von Miller crazy athletic,
Speaker 1: and Aaron Donald. So I think their their ability to
Speaker 1: kind of chase Joe down in in in small and
Speaker 1: short spaces be just as good, if not better than him.
Speaker 1: I think that's the big difference this this defensive line
Speaker 1: has over the other three that Joe has played. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know it. This is It's funny because going
Speaker 1: into the Chiefs game, I think I really thought that
Speaker 1: the Chiefs front was going to get to Burrow a
Speaker 1: lot more I mean the week before Tennessee had sacked
Speaker 1: him nine times. I think they hit him another five
Speaker 1: or six times, and I thought the wheels were going
Speaker 1: to come off. And credit to the Bengals coaching staff again,
Speaker 1: it wasn't so much that the Chiefs weren't getting pressure
Speaker 1: right like, just like Dan said, they were getting pressure.
Speaker 1: There were mismatches, but it was a combination of Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow knowing that he better get rid of the ball
Speaker 1: quickly and the game plan and the choices that they
Speaker 1: made and the choices that they told Joe Burrow to make,
Speaker 1: and that helped them. And they're gonna have to do
Speaker 1: that again this week because you know, again he checked
Speaker 1: it down to mixing. They ran a few more draws,
Speaker 1: they ran a few more screens. But the difference here is,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, the speed and the athleticism of the
Speaker 1: Rams defense. They may do some of those checkdowns, they
Speaker 1: may go short, they may go sideways, they are going
Speaker 1: to do some things. But the ability for von Miller
Speaker 1: to turn and run, for Floyd to turn and run,
Speaker 1: They're they're fast football team. I think the other thing
Speaker 1: is gonna be pretty interesting in this and I can't
Speaker 1: believe we're saying this or I'm saying this is Eric Wettele.
Speaker 1: You know, Wettell played and make made plays close to
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, and it reminds me, you know,
Speaker 1: he's clearly not the athletes that he was. He's he
Speaker 1: retired for two years or whatever he did for two years.
Speaker 1: It reminds me when we had safeties like Rodney Harrison
Speaker 1: near the end. And I'm not comparing the two players.
Speaker 1: I'm saying how we use those players. And you've got
Speaker 1: a safety and you go to not only Nickel, but
Speaker 1: you go to Dime. And they're gonna probably do that
Speaker 1: because the matchups of personnel groupings that the Bengals are
Speaker 1: going to use, and they'll take that one extra safety
Speaker 1: and play him like a linebacker, which gives them more
Speaker 1: speed at the linebacker and they can cover the short
Speaker 1: and intermediate things better and more differently. So I think
Speaker 1: that they're going to try to do those things. But again, overall,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs offense clearly one of the fast and the league.
Speaker 1: Their defense, um, I just don't think they have the
Speaker 1: defensive speed that the Rams do, and so they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to attack things a little bit differently. I believe
Speaker 1: you know you brought up something. I also think the
Speaker 1: big part is the screen game, Scott. You know, if
Speaker 1: if we just look at the two teams independently, the
Speaker 1: Bengals have become a good screen team. They and they
Speaker 1: they're multifaceted. They've got the ability to kick perimeter screens
Speaker 1: out there. Sometimes it's one step to a guy like
Speaker 1: a Jamaar Chase, let's go get the yardage. Or they're
Speaker 1: they're kind of traditional quick hitting screen that they ran
Speaker 1: to p Ryan for a huge touchdown two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: or the cross action play action screens that have been
Speaker 1: a big part of their offense. So individually, they're a
Speaker 1: good offensive screen team. And then if you look at
Speaker 1: the Rams, they struggle defending the screen passes, mainly the
Speaker 1: perimeter ones. I mean San Francisco that that's that's how
Speaker 1: they scored against them early on in that game. And
Speaker 1: I think that if if you're the Bengals and you're
Speaker 1: asking yourself that question, well, how do we handle this
Speaker 1: defensive front? Okay, we gotta get the ball out quickly,
Speaker 1: we gotta run the football, we gotta move the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Screens will be a part of that as well, plaze
Speaker 1: to a strength of theirs, and you gotta make the
Speaker 1: Ramps defensively show that they can do it. And and
Speaker 1: I think the multitude of screens that they I would
Speaker 1: be shocked guys if they if the Bengals didn't throw
Speaker 1: at least I mean at least five screens in this
Speaker 1: football game at least, and I agree with that. The
Speaker 1: other thing is gonna be interesting is when C. J
Speaker 1: Usama went down uh in the Chiefs game, I thought
Speaker 1: to myself, oh no, this is going to be a
Speaker 1: problem for the Bengals, and it wasn't as much of
Speaker 1: a problem as I thought it was going to be.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be interesting to see how he
Speaker 1: comes along this week and what version that they're going
Speaker 1: to have, because the importance of him to Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: and that offense is critical. But so I think if
Speaker 1: they have to go a game sixty minutes without him
Speaker 1: or without him being game planned importantly, because again, he's
Speaker 1: not a ninety catch guy. But you know, I keep
Speaker 1: repeating it every week. You know, forty nine catches, but
Speaker 1: more than half of those were touchdowns and or first downs,
Speaker 1: and that shows you how important he's a player. That
Speaker 1: they're going to need. If those three receivers are able
Speaker 1: to be schemed in a way, where is there a
Speaker 1: way for them to cover up the fact that Usama
Speaker 1: is not there, maybe adding some protection and just given
Speaker 1: those three receivers an extra beat. Um is his absence
Speaker 1: in the screen game gonna be if he's not able
Speaker 1: to play as much of a factor as we probably believe. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the so here here's the challenge, Bob, when
Speaker 1: you do a little bit more protection. I mean if
Speaker 1: if if I've got to add in protection because Uzam
Speaker 1: is not there, I'm taking numbers away from numbers. You know,
Speaker 1: if if you're gonna be covering six and I'm only
Speaker 1: three out, in my concept that is, that's not good
Speaker 1: for me. If if you're gonna be covering seven and
Speaker 1: I've got three or four him, that's not good for me.
Speaker 1: You know, the Bengals actually want to play spread out,
Speaker 1: empty football, and I think that's a huge you know,
Speaker 1: part of how this game goes is how the Rams
Speaker 1: defended defensively. I think the question becomes what do the
Speaker 1: Rams do with Jalen Ramsey? You know, are are they
Speaker 1: going to travel Jalen Ramsey everywhere Jamaar Chase goes, whether
Speaker 1: it's a man or his own coverage. And then the
Speaker 1: subsequent steps are, well, what do you do if you're
Speaker 1: traveling Jalen Ramsey and I motioned Jamaar, I start him
Speaker 1: on the right and I go to the left. Does
Speaker 1: Jalen follow him? Does he not follow him? So you're
Speaker 1: you're trying to find these matchups that you can attack. Well,
Speaker 1: if you follow someone, maybe I'll work away, you know,
Speaker 1: Higgins and Boyd and what happens if I line him
Speaker 1: up in the backfield and I motion them out? So
Speaker 1: it's it's that when that's that game, that information in
Speaker 1: in that kind of calling the right stuff at the
Speaker 1: right time, that is going to be more prevalent than
Speaker 1: I think, you know, trying to do protection if Uzama
Speaker 1: not able to play. See, that was gonna be my
Speaker 1: next question, and we're gonna take a quick time out
Speaker 1: and come back on the other side of a fast
Speaker 1: break to build off of that question, I think, because
Speaker 1: I think that might be the most interesting schematic decision
Speaker 1: that the Rams have to make defensively. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about that. We come back on tap. Its Welcome back
Speaker 1: to tape. Its Boba Shoes and Dani or Lobsky, Scott
Speaker 1: Pioli and Dan going into the break, I think asked
Speaker 1: one of the most interesting questions in a way schematically
Speaker 1: about this game, and that is, let's take this from
Speaker 1: the Rams defensive perspective. Now, Jalen Ramsey his ability level,
Speaker 1: he could be the X factor in any game plan. Right,
Speaker 1: you can maybe x somebody out by making him a
Speaker 1: matchup player. Would you do that? Would you try and
Speaker 1: hide your other guys and maybe play some zone or
Speaker 1: would you make Jalen Ramsey a match up specific man
Speaker 1: to man kind of Darrell Reevus go follow Jamaar Chase
Speaker 1: type of a corner in this game, I would match
Speaker 1: him up versus Jamar Chase, but not necessarily calling man.
Speaker 1: You know, I think that teams and and we've played
Speaker 1: against teams, and I've played against teams that matched the
Speaker 1: corner no matter where the receiver goes, and they're still
Speaker 1: playing their zones. And the benefit for the Rams is
Speaker 1: that they've had two weeks to prepare for this, They've
Speaker 1: had two weeks to handle the communication aspect, and you
Speaker 1: know there's checks upon checks upon checks. If I were
Speaker 1: the Rams defensively. And I'm speaking from an offensive player's
Speaker 1: or an offensive kind of viewpoint. If I were the
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals, that's what I would expect, and if they
Speaker 1: didn't do it, I would saying thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: So I would be expecting that Jalen Ramsey should follow
Speaker 1: Jamaar Chase around for plus of this football game. But
Speaker 1: it doesn't necessarily mean that I'm going to get man coverage.
Speaker 1: And so I just the way that Jalen can match up,
Speaker 1: the physicality, the athleticism, the ball skills as well, the
Speaker 1: ball skills when it's in the air is a big
Speaker 1: part of this conversation as well. So yeah, I would
Speaker 1: anticipate that, and if they don't know, that would be
Speaker 1: a very confusing thing for me, you know, the morning after. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would recommend it. And I agree with you, Dan,
Speaker 1: and I think that's sometimes you bring up a really
Speaker 1: good point that that I think those you know that
Speaker 1: that watch tape and and and have been so close
Speaker 1: to it is just because someone's matched up doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that it's man coverage. And to me, Jamaar Chase is
Speaker 1: I think they could have tryed to force Jamar Chase.
Speaker 1: I think the young quarterback will try to force Jamar
Speaker 1: Chase a little bit. That being said, to put Jalen
Speaker 1: Ramsey on him, who is not only so good, but
Speaker 1: so incredibly smart and thoughtful and can bait people and
Speaker 1: do things. I think it would be it would be
Speaker 1: wise for the Rams to do that and do it
Speaker 1: exactly like you said, don't make it all man, don't.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be pressed, it doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be close um disguise it sometimes too. And I think
Speaker 1: that they can do that, and I think maybe even
Speaker 1: near the end of the half, right because there will
Speaker 1: be some talk in the half during a halftime. I mean,
Speaker 1: teams are just by the second series, but they'll be
Speaker 1: a more extended conversation during the halftime because it is
Speaker 1: a long halftime. Maybe do a couple of things if
Speaker 1: you're the Rams at the end of the half, if
Speaker 1: Cincinnati's on the field, to get in their heads a
Speaker 1: little bit and make them think that they don't know
Speaker 1: what's coming in the third quarter, indoor second half, and
Speaker 1: something else I think really interesting in this game, and
Speaker 1: in both of these segments, we haven't even touched on
Speaker 1: it yet, but Scott, you've been beating the drum for
Speaker 1: Jill Nixon all season, the role that you know he
Speaker 1: needs to play for this offense in order for them
Speaker 1: to be at their best. We've talked about the screen game.
Speaker 1: We've talked about Jamaar Chase. We've talked about whether or
Speaker 1: not it's gonna be Manner Zone on the back side,
Speaker 1: maybe a combination of both. We've talked about Higgins and
Speaker 1: Boyd as those second and the effect that Usama maybe
Speaker 1: not being in this game could have. But in the
Speaker 1: a f C Championship game, it seemed like even if
Speaker 1: it was just used to keep Kansas City honest, because
Speaker 1: the bread and butter of the Bengals obviously is Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow's right arm and all these weapons, whenever they needed
Speaker 1: just a six yard run, a seven yard run, a
Speaker 1: ten yard run. At times with Mixon, he seemed key
Speaker 1: moments in that game to pop a little run just
Speaker 1: when their offense needed it, and it kind of keep
Speaker 1: Kansas City honest. Do they have to have that in
Speaker 1: this game? Does there have to be a legit element
Speaker 1: for the Bengals offense got of them running the football
Speaker 1: with Mixon to make sure that what else they want
Speaker 1: to do Schematically offense is there. I think that that
Speaker 1: you always have to run to keep a team honest,
Speaker 1: but I think it's more important that they find a
Speaker 1: way to get the ball into Joe's hands again, whether
Speaker 1: it's a you know, it's a run, whether it's a draw,
Speaker 1: which is a run, but it's a different kind of
Speaker 1: run um. But also again the short and sideways screens,
Speaker 1: you know, check downs. Because here's the other thing we've
Speaker 1: learned about Joe Mixon over the course of this season.
Speaker 1: When Joe Mixon is doing well, he is a motivator
Speaker 1: for that football team. The team and the offense rally
Speaker 1: around for him for some reason. I don't know anything
Speaker 1: about their locker room dynamic, but you can tell on
Speaker 1: the field when you're watching the team respond and react
Speaker 1: how they feel about Joe Mixon and the energy that
Speaker 1: he brings. It's different, you know, to make a Bengals comparison,
Speaker 1: it's different, but similar to Ikey Woods back in the day,
Speaker 1: right when Ikey had the ball, that team reacted differently.
Speaker 1: And I think that there's something to be said about
Speaker 1: about that, and and and I think part of it
Speaker 1: also is the style in which Joe Mixon runs when
Speaker 1: he has the ball in his hands. Um, he brings
Speaker 1: a different level of of intensity and a mentality, So
Speaker 1: I think it, Bob. Yes, the couple of answers to
Speaker 1: the to the question. I know it's one question, but
Speaker 1: a couple of answers. Yes, they need to run the
Speaker 1: ball with him, you know, in the traditional sense. Yes,
Speaker 1: they need to get the ball in his hands on
Speaker 1: a draw to keep the pass rush honest. But again
Speaker 1: screens and sideways throws to get that team on the running.
Speaker 1: Because here's what we know about the Rams defense. Who
Speaker 1: they are gonna run. They're gonna run fast, They're gonna
Speaker 1: run hard. Maybe getting them a little bit tired. We
Speaker 1: know that they used their wave. But getting some of
Speaker 1: those big guys like Gains, who's gonna go a thousand
Speaker 1: miles an hour, Greg talking about Greg Gains, getting those
Speaker 1: guys running sideways and getting them a little bit tired
Speaker 1: early might be an important thing and another good reason
Speaker 1: to get the ball in Joe Mixon's hands. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: think that the Bengals have to have their outside zone
Speaker 1: going something. You just have to because that's there. It's
Speaker 1: their predominant run scheme. I mean, they they're not gonna
Speaker 1: come into this game go. You know, we're gonna do
Speaker 1: a little bit of you know, we're gonna major encounter.
Speaker 1: They might do a trap here there, but that's who
Speaker 1: they are. That's their bread and bread and butter. Brian
Speaker 1: Callaghan is Bill Callahan's son. Bill Callahan is one of
Speaker 1: the best outside zone run game coaches ever. Zach Taylor
Speaker 1: comes from the Shanahan tree, the McVeigh tree. So that's
Speaker 1: who they are. And I think if they're gonna watch
Speaker 1: some tree, can we stop getting again no offense to Sean,
Speaker 1: but you're right, it's the Shanahan Tree. Yeah, no doubt,
Speaker 1: no doubt, um. And I think if they're gonna help
Speaker 1: their offensive line a little bit and try to keep
Speaker 1: this this Rams defensive line from you know, or or
Speaker 1: forced them to play two sided football run and or passed,
Speaker 1: then they're going to have to be really good and there. Now,
Speaker 1: the good thing is they're good at it. They're they're
Speaker 1: not you know, they're not a team that you know
Speaker 1: we saw like the Browns b or the Packers have been,
Speaker 1: but they're good at it. And I think the thing
Speaker 1: that we could say about Zach Taylor and Scott you
Speaker 1: could probably speak to this as well, because I saw
Speaker 1: a couple of people in the a f C Championship
Speaker 1: game getting frustrated with it. He's going to call it,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna run it. It's it's He is going
Speaker 1: to be consistent and committed to it because he knows
Speaker 1: if he gets into a drop back game and tries
Speaker 1: to throw it forty plus times, it's night night. And
Speaker 1: does that equals some longer second downs? Yeah? And does
Speaker 1: it equals some longer third and downs? Yes, But at
Speaker 1: least it gives them a chance to get into those situations.
Speaker 1: And I think that we will see the consistency of it.
Speaker 1: And I say this all time about the zone scheme.
Speaker 1: If I'm gonna call it twenty times a game and
Speaker 1: you're right on sixteen of them, awesome. If you're wrong
Speaker 1: or three and four, I win. And because I'm gonna
Speaker 1: cut you for fifteen to twenty yards on all of those,
Speaker 1: and that's that's the commitment to be consistent in calling
Speaker 1: it will be a big part of this game. The
Speaker 1: last thing I want to circle back on is kind
Speaker 1: of where we started, but we got right to the
Speaker 1: past game. It is the offensive line for the Bengals
Speaker 1: at his past protection, and I think a combination question
Speaker 1: that I have for you guys coming off of both
Speaker 1: championship games, because Dan, you said you thought Burrow in
Speaker 1: the championship game against the Chiefs played the most Tom
Speaker 1: Brady like game that you had seen him play this
Speaker 1: year in a year where he had a lot of
Speaker 1: really great offensive number games. And going back to the
Speaker 1: NFC Championship game, defense stibly for the Rams. They didn't
Speaker 1: rush three too often that I remember, but they also
Speaker 1: didn't rush more than five against Tom Brady too often
Speaker 1: that I remember, and they had the worths, you know,
Speaker 1: not being there obviously that was a big advantage. And
Speaker 1: this is an offensive line that you think they probably
Speaker 1: could get home against a somewhat stationary quarterback with only
Speaker 1: four at times five maybe not having to bring six.
Speaker 1: But they also had a pretty effective three man rush
Speaker 1: at times at different points this season. So how do
Speaker 1: you play this against Joe Burrow if you're the Rams?
Speaker 1: Is this an all four or five man rush game?
Speaker 1: With Floyd You're not blitzing them, But are you ever
Speaker 1: rushing three and dropping eight? Like? Do is there ever
Speaker 1: the need to do that? Because they never did that,
Speaker 1: it seemed against Brady to me that at times against
Speaker 1: the guy like Tom Brady, that's death if you only
Speaker 1: rush three and give him a lot of time back there.
Speaker 1: So how do you play that? I don't anticipate them
Speaker 1: doing because here's the thing. I always look at it
Speaker 1: like this, and this isn't specifically for just a d
Speaker 1: I want my eleven best on the field, Like, why
Speaker 1: would I take one of those past rushers and not
Speaker 1: allow him to pass rush? You know, Aaron's rushing, Leonard's rushing,
Speaker 1: Vaughan's right now. Now, the thing I will say this
Speaker 1: something that they have done a lot of in the
Speaker 1: last three weeks. Bob is taking their middle linebacker number
Speaker 1: fifty one, Troy Reader and blitzing him and dropping one
Speaker 1: of those guys. Now, it's still a four man rush.
Speaker 1: It has the presence of a five man rush, but
Speaker 1: it's still a four So I can see a little
Speaker 1: bit of that. But if I'm the Rams defensively, I'm going, hey,
Speaker 1: if we get into you know, ten third down in
Speaker 1: five plus situations, and I want those four cats rushing
Speaker 1: as much as they can, and that's in those situations
Speaker 1: to get number nine, that quarterback off of the field
Speaker 1: all right there and That was the best example that
Speaker 1: was at play when the Cardinals were backed up and faked,
Speaker 1: you know, running the game up front, and they dropped
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald into coverage, which I don't know why you
Speaker 1: would drop Aaron Donald in the coverage and then they
Speaker 1: brought Reader off the back side and it worked, But
Speaker 1: I guess that's why you would do it. But gosh,
Speaker 1: I would want Aaron Donald running forward as much as possible. Well,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be fascinating, obviously to see if there is
Speaker 1: a defense that can finally solve Joe Burrow or if
Speaker 1: he has a way behind an offensive line that all
Speaker 1: of us know isn't the best past protection offensive line
Speaker 1: in the NFL. If they can survive one more week
Speaker 1: and have it be a Lombardi Trophy hoisting uh end
Speaker 1: to the season. It's it's amazing that we're in this
Speaker 1: spot with Joe Burrow as good as he's been all year,
Speaker 1: and that for this episode of tapeds is the way
Speaker 1: we will look at the Bengals have of the ball
Speaker 1: against that ram defense. But when our next episode drops
Speaker 1: on Thursday, we're flipping it around. How does the Bengal
Speaker 1: defense slow down Odell Cooper cup Matthew Stafford and the
Speaker 1: Rams offense because this is Matthew Stafford's opportunity to enter immortality.
Speaker 1: So hopefully you will join us for our next episode
Speaker 1: when we go to the other side of the football.
Speaker 1: When we dropped Thursday's episode previewing the Super Bowl on tape,
Speaker 1: its