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Speaker 1: A lot to watch if you're a Titans fan. On Saturday,

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Speaker 1: Las Vegas at Cincinnati, three thirty Central time, kickoff, Amy Wells,

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Speaker 1: how do you see this game? I'm excited about this game.

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Speaker 1: I'm interested to see how the Raiders are able to

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Speaker 1: rally from such an emotional game. And it's going to

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Speaker 1: be a shorter week for them preparation wise because they

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Speaker 1: have to travel and they played on Sunday night, So

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Speaker 1: that's all going to be interesting. The Bengals, let's just

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Speaker 1: say it now because everyone else is going to say

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Speaker 1: it a million times. They haven't won a playoff game

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Speaker 1: in thirty one years. Oh my gosh. There's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a lot of excitement and energy going into that game.

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Speaker 1: So I'm excited to see how that's going to go

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Speaker 1: as well. Joe Burrows, I mean, has had a great

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Speaker 1: end to his season. He's got a lot of people

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Speaker 1: around him. I mean, he's got Joe Mixon, he's got

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Speaker 1: all the receivers that feel like Te Higgins, Jamar Chase.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's so many things that he has at

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Speaker 1: his disposal right now, and a defense that is top

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Speaker 1: five in run defense, so I mean, there's so many

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Speaker 1: good things that the Raiders are going to have to

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Speaker 1: come up against. But we've seen the Raiders play this

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Speaker 1: season and they have, I mean, they've been strong at

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Speaker 1: moments and then they've kind of faltered at moments. So

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Speaker 1: it's going to be interesting to see what Raiders team

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Speaker 1: shows up again coming off of a really emotional game.

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Speaker 1: The Raiders have reeled off four in a row. Cincinnati

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Speaker 1: lost their game in Week eighteen, but Joe Burrow did

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Speaker 1: not play in that game. Brian Allen started because I

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Speaker 1: believe that Joe Burrow has a right knee that's got

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Speaker 1: tweaked the week before. But to Amy's point, in his

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Speaker 1: last three games, Joe Burrow eleven hundred twenty eight yards

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Speaker 1: passing nine touchdowns, no picks. Jamar Chase in his last

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Speaker 1: four games twenty one catches four hundred twenty yards two scores,

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Speaker 1: and owns the rookie record for receiving for the Bengals

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Speaker 1: franchise at fourteen five. Those two are just unbelievable. To

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Speaker 1: your point, he still has t Higgins, they still have

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Speaker 1: Joe Mixon to run the ball. But the history's there, Amy,

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Speaker 1: You're right, It's been thirty one years since the last

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Speaker 1: time that the Bengals won a playoff game, was over

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Speaker 1: the Houston Oilers forty one to fourteen, and the next

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Speaker 1: season in the postseason, the Raiders started that thirty one

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Speaker 1: year drought for the Bengals. So there's some history involved

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Speaker 1: in all of this. But I like Cincinnati's chances at

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Speaker 1: home with the hot hand with Joe Burrow. Could it

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Speaker 1: go the other way? But I think Cincinnati's onto something.

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Speaker 1: But both of these quarterbacks have never appeared in the postseason.

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Speaker 1: Neither one of them. Derek Carr took a team to

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Speaker 1: the postseason, but then he was hurt and couldn't play

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Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty seven starts never seen as seen

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Speaker 1: a postseason game. We remember Steve McNair's first postseason game,

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Speaker 1: and he played very poorly. He was very nervous after

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Speaker 1: he got the first one out of the way. He

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Speaker 1: did a good job. But you just wonder, even as

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Speaker 1: big a deal as Derek Carry is, even as big

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Speaker 1: a deal as Joe Burrow is Joe Burrow winning the

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Speaker 1: National Championship two years ago, I get it. The NFL

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Speaker 1: playoffs are different. I just wonder which quarterback will be

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Speaker 1: up to the challenge in their first playoff start. This

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Speaker 1: says to me that you should tune in around the

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Speaker 1: middle of the second quarter. That's when people will actually

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Speaker 1: start playing and the jeders will be out. You know,

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Speaker 1: that's when you can actually see some real football. So

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Speaker 1: get your nachos, get your wings, put it all together,

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Speaker 1: and then tune in after both quarterbacks have gotten a

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Speaker 1: series under their belt. If you're going to have Buffalo Wings,

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Speaker 1: save them until seven fifteen Central. Because it's New England

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Speaker 1: at Buffalo, third time this year, the road team victorious

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Speaker 1: both times. New England is at Buffalo, so the Bills

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Speaker 1: Bills Mafia. They have the home field advantage. But New

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Speaker 1: England won that game where what three passes were thrown

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Speaker 1: and they ran all over them for two hundred twenty

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Speaker 1: flip side, saw a great game from Josh Allen when

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Speaker 1: they played in Foxboro to win that particular game. I

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Speaker 1: think this is a complete toss up. I don't care

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Speaker 1: where it's played. I think New England Buffalo is a

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Speaker 1: of the year. He had two interceptions that day, and

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen had a fantastic years. You really see's the

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Speaker 1: first player in NFL history with four thousand yards passing

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Speaker 1: touchdowns in this But when those two teams get together,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of like Tennessee and Houston, crazy things happen.

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Speaker 1: I could see this one going either way. I really could.

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Speaker 1: Division matchups are different because these teams know each other

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Speaker 1: so well. For I've seen each other twice this year.

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Speaker 1: There's a little something extra in there because the familiarity

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Speaker 1: a good game. I'm with you, Mike. I think it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be an absolute toss up. All right, let's talk

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Speaker 1: familiarity as we go to the third AFC game to

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Speaker 1: be played Sunday nights seven to fifteenth Central Time, Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: at Kansas City, a rematch of a game from two

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Speaker 1: weeks thirty six to ten. Kansas City blitzed Pittsburgh. It

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Speaker 1: was never in doubt. It could have been eighty six

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Speaker 1: to ten the way it went. How different is this

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Speaker 1: one for the Steelers? How different is this one for

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs. Can the Rothless Burger sentimentality train continue into

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Speaker 1: the playoffs? Would then be coming here to Nashville as

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Speaker 1: that train would be running. Do you give the Steelers

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Speaker 1: a chance? I give the Steelers a chance only because

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Speaker 1: it's so recent and so fresh, and I think that

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Speaker 1: a lot of those mistakes that they made, I mean,

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Speaker 1: they had three turnovers in that game, which is very

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Speaker 1: uncharacteristic of them. I think having a chance to make

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Speaker 1: the Steelers are very aware of the fact that they

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Speaker 1: are not a good looking playoff team, you know. I

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Speaker 1: think Mike Tomlin said, here we are warts and all,

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Speaker 1: but we're still here, you know. And I think that's

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Speaker 1: a very kind of self aware way to be, like, listen,

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Speaker 1: this has been ugly, but we're here and we're going

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Speaker 1: to do whatever we can. And I think that that

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Speaker 1: And I mean, listen, the Chiefs are not the team

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Speaker 1: of destiny that they have been the last two years

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Speaker 1: when we've seen them go to the Super Bowl. They

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Speaker 1: are not coming in like on two wheels, just screaming

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Speaker 1: and doing everything right. They've had their own issues this season.

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Speaker 1: So I think that these two teams are going to

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Speaker 1: be better matched in this playoff game than they were

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Speaker 1: two weeks ago. I think Pittsburgh has a chance if

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Speaker 1: they rush for and bottle everything up for Kansas City

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Speaker 1: That's been the formula to beating Patrick Mahomes all this

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Speaker 1: year is just bringing four and locking everything else up.

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Speaker 1: That's how the Titans did it twenty seven to three

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Speaker 1: at Nissan Stadium in what week seven, That's how they

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Speaker 1: did it. If if he, If you allow Patrick Mahomes

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