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tonight we are thankful for Joe Burrow. Joe Burrow makes his triumphant return to the gridiron and the Bengals beat the Baltimore Ravens thirty two to fourteen at MNT Bank Stadium in Baltimore. It is never easy to go on the road in a short week. It is especially never easy to go on the road in a short week inside the division in the AF Well, the Bengals, for the third straight year played a Thursday primetime game in Baltimore against the Ravens, and finally they won one.

And he showed that a couple of times, and you really weren't sure if the Bengals defense we saw against Pittsburgh and New England was an anomaly, wasn't an outlier? Was it fools gold or were they legitimate? Well, the Bengals defense tonight forced five takeaways over the Baltimore Ravens. The Bengals haven't forced that many takeaways in a game since two thousand and seven. They did something unthinkable tonight, forcing fumbles, getting interceptions just all over the field. Joseph

Osai was magnificent, Miles Murphy was wonderful. Cedric Johnson oh by the way, on the offensive side of the ball, Jamar Chase returned from suspension. All he did was catch seven passes for one hundred plus yards, and the Bengals scored thirty two points and they didn't get even that many points off of all the turnovers that they had.

five yards. He probably could have went for two hundred. But the Ravens because they were playing from behind, because the Bengals just kept getting points and getting points and getting points. It was a strange game. It was an unexpected outcome, and although the chances remain slim, the Bengals are alive. If you think back to this time last year, Cincinnati was four and eight. Well, with the victory tonight,

they're four and eight. They've got to win their last five if they want to have a chance to get into the playoffs. And you can't win the last six if you don't win the first one. They took care of that business tonight. We've got so much to get to between now and three am. Gonna be on here until three am on ESPN fifteen thirty and seven hundred WLW.

I'm gonna open up the phone lines at five one, three, seven, four, nine seven thousand, your reaction to what you saw tonight in Baltimore, and what's going through your mind as a Bengals fan right now, Because I know that a lot of fans were split on whether or not Joe Burrow should play, and then some of the answers that Burrow gave during the week made me think, Ooh, I don't know if he really is one hundred percent.

wasn't sure what to think, what to expect. And while it took Joe a little bit of time to knock the rust off, he knocked it off and the Bengals were victorious over the Baltimore Ravens. We'll go through all the stats we'll get some postgame audio if we can uh to listen to some of that, But I want to hear from you. If you're still awake, if it's a Black Friday, maybe you're gonna be one of those Black Friday shoppers. Maybe you're a door buster, an early

bird type of person. Do people still do that? I remember when I was growing up as a kid, Black Friday was a big deal. People would go out at midnight. They'd go out till one or two or three o'clock in the morning. You know, all across the street over here at the Kenwood Mall. That parking lot looks pretty good.

one yards. That's a five point seven average. He threw two touchdowns, no interceptions, He was sacked just one time and finishes the night with a QB rating of eighty three point seven. You know, the other part, Joe Burrow rushed the ball three times. He had three runs. One was a quarterback sneak, one was a two, one one was a quarterback sneak, one was a scramble, and one was a broken down you know, busted play on an RPO where he just kind of dove forward for a

couple of yards. He carried the ball three times for eight yards as well. So the story is both Joe Burrow returning and also the Bengals defense doing what they did.

You know, I was at one point mesm with what I saw, and it felt like over the last couple of weeks, the defensive coordinator Al Golden has unlocked something with this defense and primarily putting a bunch of guys up at the line of scrimmage and some of them are dropping and some of them are not, and some of them are coming, and half of them are blitzing and half of them are dropping. There's all sorts of stuff going on and it's confusing offensive lines and it's

giving the Bengals a bit of an advantage. On top of that, they've tackled better. I think they've been better on early downs. They've set the edge a lot better in the run game. I think the edge rushers tonight and everybody who plays that position tonight, from Cedric Johnson to Joseph Oside of Miles Murphy, every single one of those dudes played really well tonight. And that's without Trey Hendrickson. It's without Cam Sample, who's one of their better run defenders.

I mean, they're a little bit banged up at that position. Isaiah Fosky was getting some snaps at one point point in that unit as a whole played some pretty dog on good football and was a big part of why this team won this game tonight. So we have a ton to get to between now and three o'clock. We'll take a break and we'll come back and we'll get to your phone calls. But before we do, just a reminder for you that postgame Sports Talk is brought to you in part by a door and window company where

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his teams have gone through, have they quit. And the way that the defense responded, especially after getting embarrassed by Darnell Washington just kind of tossing them aside like rag dolls in Pittsburgh a couple of weeks ago. They have responded really well with effort, with energy, with getting better at tackling, and overall with all the stuff they've gone through. Effort has never been an issue for the Bengals, and I do think that's a positive reflection of the head

coach and his coaching staff, Zach Taylor. Let's go to Middletown. Let's talk to Beth. What's up, Beth?

and three in the Black Friday Game. Can't wait for that mentioned Hold another round to high school football, the playoffs happening in the state of Ohio and Kentucky. You've also got rivalry weekend in college football Ohio State Michigan coming up a full slate NFL slate on Sunday. I mean, gosh, this is one of the best weeks of the year. It's also Feast week in college basketball. This is one of the best sports weeks of the year. Let's go

to Hamilton and talk to Marcus. Hi, Marcus, how's it going, Oh man, I'm great?

Cardinals and against the Cleveland Browns. Every single one of those games is winnable based off the way those teams have been playing. Buffalo was embarrassed last Thursday night against the Houston Texans. Baltimore. We saw the way their offense performed tonight Miami. They've gotten better since they fired their GM, but they still feel like they're a long ways away and have dealt with injuries. Arizona feels like it's the end of Kyler Murray there. They don't have much going

on in Cleveland has a super Bowl caliber defense. I will give them that, but they really aren't playing for much in Shadoor Sanders as their starting quarterbacks, so you don't know what to expect. So when you think of the future, how about this the Joe Burrow effect. Earlier this morning or Thanksgiving morning, the Bengals odds to make the playoffs on FanDuel were plus twenty five hundred. Now

they're plus nine eighty. They're odds to win the AFC North On Thanksgiving morning morning were plus four thousand, Now they're plus eleven hundred. The Joe Burrow effect in a road win in primetime in the AFC North to put the Bengals at three and one in the AFC North. That's the Joe Burrow effect and all of a sudden, there's a lot left to play for for the Bengals. You're listening to the postgame sports talk show.

it back like I felt it. He had to split, you know, right over the linebacker and in between the safety and andre Yoshivash wins on the kind of throw it out in front of him, catches it on a big third down where he's feeling the pressure on third and nine, and Joe Burrow makes the throw. Andre Yoshivash makes the play and as you heard Dan say in that clip right there, the Bengals lead went back to eleven. That was right with fifteen seconds to go at the

end of the third quarter. That was a big, big moment in the game four the Bengals, who would go on to win thirty two to fourteen. By the way, you're listening to the Tri State Chevy Dealers postgame sports talk show presented by RNL Carriers. My name is Austin Olmore, with you until three o'clock on this beautiful black Friday morning, this victory Black Friday. As the Bengals beat the Ravens

thirty two to fourteen. I mentioned the statistics for one Joe Burrow, the completion percentage not where he wanted it to be, not what we're used to with Joe Burrow. But he admitted after the game there was some rust that he needed to work off, and I thought that

was evident early on. There was a play in which Jamar Chase had one on one coverage on the outside and he had a step He had beaten his guy, and it was if Joe throws the pass that were typically used to seeing Joe throw, it probably ends up a touchdown or if not, a thirty or forty yard gain to Jamar Chase, and Jamar really didn't have a chance for it. There was also a quick out route that Jamar really didn't have a chance for. There was a ball that was thrown behind Jamar that kind of

clanked off his hands. You could tell early on Joe had some happy feet and he was just trying to get the ball out quickly. I was going back through my notes and at one point I wrote, Joe does not want the ball in his hands. He doesn't look comfortable with the ball in his hands, and That's the thing about Joe Burrow. He's been in the league for six years now. We've seen enough of him, especially early in the season, to know that he needs reps and he needs to get into the flow of the game.

And once he gets into the flow of the game, then it's like, Okay, yes there's Joe Burrow. But he's not always a fast starter, which you know, we've talked about fast starts a lot with the Bengals over the last couple of years, but it's especially evident with Joe Burrow.

He wasn't great in Week one against Cleveland. He was fine up until he got hurt against Jacksonville, and then he didn't play for nine weeks, and so I wasn't expecting him to come out and immediately be the guy from the twenty twenty four season who was capable of winning the MVP and put together the best statistical season ever by a Bengals quarterback. I didn't expect that. I

expected some rust. We saw some rust. Here's the thing that I think that's interesting with Joe because early on, when the Bengals offense got onto the field, we saw a lot of under center. We saw some under center play action. We saw an under center toss, we saw a run, we saw and that's been a conversation that's been had a lot while Burrow was out and Joe

Flacco was in. It is this prevalence to go under center that people want more of for the Bengals and that they think has been a big part of unlocking the Bengals offense and specifically the Bengals run game. And I do think there's something to it, but I do think it's probably a bit of an overblown topic to

talk so much about that. But I was worried and I do a show with Tony Pike on ESPN fifteen thirty, and Tony was kind of talking about the intricacies of playing the quarterback position, and especially when you're under center, where you've got to push off with that right foot

that Joe had the toe injury on. You got to kind of push off with that right foot you worry about getting stepped on by an offensive lineman and to get back into your drop or to get back the hand the ball off, there's like some torque on that foot. Really expect to see under center much from the Bengals tonight. We saw a lot more of it that, to me is a reflection of just how healthy Joe Burrow feels with his toe. They got some easy completions, they moved

the pocket. I thought it was a safe, comfortable, and overall really good opening. A couple of drives for Joe Burrow. They didn't result in a ton of points. They scored points on their first drive of the game, and after that it was it was relatively you know, normal stuff,

nothing crazy, and you could tell. I think they were just trying to get Joe to settle into the game a little bit, and I think he did a pretty good job of that, especially once they got into the second half, in which he was able to look more like the Joe Burrow that we're.

in the National Football League over the last month. And then you go through the first half of tonight's game in Baltimore and you see that Joe Burrow has thrown thirty two passes, the most by any player in a first half of a game in the NFL this season, And I'm thinking, why on Earth are there so many

passes being called? But I was also kind of going through my notes and writing down there was a ton of Joe Burrow at the line of scrimmage checking out of a play or checking into a different player, killing one player, whatever it might be. That's the difference between Burrow and all the other quarterbacks on the roster. I think with Jake Browning or Joe Flacco for the most part, if Zach Taylor calls a run play, those guys are going to get up there, snap the ball and hand

it off. If Zach calls a run play and you get to the line of scrimmage with Joe Burrow and Burrow doesn't like the look or he gets a key that says, Okay, this is not how we want to run the ball. We want to adjust this motion, we want to adjust this player. Boll then he'll check out of that to a more advantageous play call for the Bengals, and I think that often is out of a run into a pass, and because of that, those numbers get

a little bit inflated. I think there is a balance that Joe and Zach are going to have to find. We've complained about this, and we've heard a lot of Bengals fans complain about this over the years, that they don't run the ball enough. And that was my complaint early on in this game, that they didn't run the football enough, and that you were putting a little bit

too much stress on Joe Burrow. And I don't want to take away from what Joe does well, which is obviously an elite level of processing and having a complete mastery and a complete control of the offense.

medium if you're Zach and Joe. I don't know if they need to adjust some of the keys that they look at and how they I don't know, and I don't know enough about the intricacies of that, but I remember thinking in the first half, he's throwing the ball way too much, why aren't they running it? And then also realizing Joe's checking out a lot of stuff at the line of scrimmage. But the run game continued to perform well tonight. As a team, the Bengals had thirty

three carries for one hundred and twenty eight yards. Most of those came from Chase Brown. Chase had fifteen carries for seventy eight yards on the ground, he had seven catches for one hundred and thirty or excuse me, seven catches for thirty five yards, so he was over one hundred yards on the night. Samaj p Ryan fourteen carries

for thirty nine yards. Burrow, as I mentioned earlier, carried the ball three times for eight yards, and there was one checkdown pass that was actually a backwards pass to Drew Sample, so it counts as a run for sample, but it was a three yard completion slash run to Drew Sample. So as a team thirty three yards thirty three carries one hundred and twenty eight yards for an

average of three point nine per carry. Specifically, when you go up to Chase Brown five point two yards per carry for him, in the words of Dave Lapham, that dog will hunt. And even if you take the team total of three point nine yards per carry, that dog will hunt. And I do think there are plenty of reasons to criticize Zach Taylor and his play calling this year, and I would hear many of them. But one of the things I do think Zach is really good at

is adjusting to his personnel and adjusting his scheme. And the way that the run game has grown from what it was in the first three weeks of.

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this is a tradition that never dies. They have a John Madden MVP Award that they give away in all three games and the player gets a ten thousand dollars donation in their name to Madden's Foundation where they help underprivileged kids. And every year they tell the story.

And I cannot recommend that enough. If you're a football fan, if you're a football junkie like I am, any of it, Like cannot recommend that enough. It is such a good, good thing, and I think the NFL just continues to do a great job and it's pretty cool that they honored him again. Let's review the Guilty Windows Window of opportunity brought to you by Guilty Windows. The key to quality windows. That's trusting the pros at Guilty Windows. Think

about this game for a moment. You have no Trey Henderson, you have no cam sample and you're on the road short week AFC North Baltimore Ravens Thanksgiving Night. You've got Derrick Henry on the other side, You've got Lamar Jackson on the other side, and your defense desperately needs to continue the good momentum. And with no Trey hendrickson, there have been more and more snaps, more and more opportunities

for Joseph Osai and Miles Murphy. Now you might remember in those final five or six games of last year when Joseph Osai was spectacular, had five sacks at the end of last season and was really a big part of the Bengals winning those last five games. Well it's that time of year again, and tonight Joseph Osai stepped up.

We got the caller earlier talking about the hustle for Murphy on that long play to Derrick Henry where Murphy chases down Henry and is able to get the stop. Miles had two tackles tonight, he had a pass defense. He was really playing a great game, I thought, on the edge and being able to show his speed and

his strength and be able to set that edge. And then you had Cedric Johnson, who's only playing as his second or third game back, and he did get banged up with the knee injury a little bit later on, ended up walking off under his own power. But sad Johnson recovered two fumbles tonight when the ball falls right in front of him and has continued to put a little bit of extra pressure on a pose offensive lines.

I think he deserves a lot of credit. So to me, the window of opportunity in the way that those guys seized it goes to Osai, goes to Murphy, goes to Cedric Johnson. I mean force and fumbles, just incredible force and fumbles, getting sacks, putting pressure on the quarterback, qb hits, making them uncomfortable in there. All that stuff for me is a big deal. And that's our guilty windows window of opportunity, and of course Guilkey Windows the key to

quality windows. That's trusting the pros at Guilkey Windows. In case you missed the other games in the National Football League earlier today, the Bengals did get a little bit of help from the Dallas Cowboys. The Cowboys knocked off the Kansas City Chiefs at At and T Stadium in Arlington. Thirty one, p. Twenty eight was the final in that game. Dallas is now six five and one on the season and the Chiefs are six and six. Kansas City is one in five away from Arrowhead Stadium. That's kind of

hard to fathom. First game of the day was the Packers and the Lions in Detroit. Detroit's going through some woes offensively, and they got even worse in the first quarter. I'm and Ross Saint Brown, their great all pro wide receiver, went out with an ankle injury. He was rolled up by one of his offensive linemen while he was blocking downfield on a run play.

The last spot in the AFC playoffs right now belongs to Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills, and they are not, by any means playing up to the standard that we've expected out of that team. Right now, your top seven seeds, the top seven teams to make the playoffs in the AFC, New England at ten and two, Denver at nine and two, Indianapolis at eight and three Pittsburgh at six and five.

They now lead the AFC North after tonight's result. The first wild card team is the LA Chargers at seven and four, the Jags at seven and four, and Buffalo at seven and four. If you're wondering about this weekend, Buffalo at Pittsburgh in that game, if you are a Bengals fan, and if you're trying to believe in the hope and the optimism and the fact that maybe, just maybe they have a chance with Joe Burrow at quarterback, well then you you are a big Buffalo Bills fan.

This coming weekend in Pittsburgh, Josh Allen up against Aaron Rodgers in the Steel City should be fun. If you're a Bengals fan, you're rooting for those Buffalo Bills. We'll take a break for the news. We'll come back. We'll keep talking some football on this beautiful Black Friday. Victory Black Friday morning right here on seven hundred WLW and ESPN fifteen thirty.

part of your Thanksgiving festivities, whatever they might be. I am thrilled to be talking about a Bengals victory Cincinnati thirty two fourteen winners over Baltimore in Baltimore on a Thanksgiving Thursday nighter, and Cincinnati now four and eight on the season. I want to talk about the biggest story, which is that Joe Burrow played.

And I think the team needs him around. I don't know if you heard the locker room report with Wayne box Miller, but they had those interviews with Dan Horden, and Dan kept asking the same question to everybody, how much did the team feed off the presence of Joe Burrow? How much did they need having him back? And they all basically said, dude, yes, like him being here and helpful and like it. We know we have a chance when Joe Burrow is on the field. And I think

that's how a lot of Bengals fans feel too. I get, you know, wanting to be careful with him and trying to think and balance out whether or not a draft pick is more valuable or winning games and getting him reps is more valuable and him not playing but two and a half quarters of football over the course of fifteen months or whatever, Like you're trying to balance out

all the different stuff. But at the end of the day, he's a great player who's medically cleared to play and feels comfortable playing, and your team technically still has a path to the playoffs, So why not play him? That was my whole thing. And at the other part of it is too Joe is the best quarterback that's ever played for this franchise. And how many times or how many players would you think back on their career in Cincinnati and you would give anything to watch them play

one more game. Anthony Moon, Isaac Curtis, Ken Anderson O Cho Sinko, maybe it's Corey Dillon, you know all, there's just so many great players that you would just do anything to watch them play one more game for the Bengals, Geno Atkins, AJ Green Like this stuff, it goes away quickly. Burrow is already in his sixth season. His contract is up five years from now. But I just told you he's in his sixth, sixth season. Like, think about how

fast that goes. I want to watch great players play for my favorite team, and I was thrilled that Joe played tonight and performed the way he did and led the Bengals to a victory, And especially when you think of all the crap that kind of was going on around this game. Let's start with the fact that for the fourth year in a row the Bengals have had to go to Baltimore for a prime time game. That's

hard as hell to do. Three out of those four have been short weeks Thursday night games in twenty three, twenty four, and twenty five. That's insane. The Bengals are understandably upset about that. But if you rewind to twenty three, that was the night in Baltimore where Joe's wrist popped.

I did the postgame show that night. We had no idea what was going on, but as the night went on, we realized, oh crap, this is serious and that's kind of a place that as Joe said to the media last week, it would mean a lot for him to come back and play on that field in that moment.

their morning a little bit going into Thanksgiving morning. And yet they found a way to show up. What about the other part of two of this kind of battle

between the Ravens fans in the Bengals. You know, a couple of years ago, on that Thursday Night when Burrow screwed up his wrist after the game, Lamar Jackson is on the set with the Thursday Night Football crew and he's talking to them, and all the fans are gathered around, and you hear this loud, clear as day chant from the Baltimore fans saying, F Joe burr Row, F Joe burr Row, F Joe Burrow number one, classless number two.

Another part of the chapter of this rivalry and part of why it means so much for Joe to come back in that spot in that game. On that stage and perform the way he did. And listen, when the Bengals have Joe Burrow, they're a different team. When you go back the last eight games that Joe Burrow has started for the Bengals, you want to know their record eight to no last five from last year, first two from this year and tonight against Baltimore eight and oh.

Like I hope we understand the greatness that we have. This is an elite of an elite quarterback. And when he's healthy and when he's you know, in his rhythm, he's as good as any.

Jalen Ramsey. He was fresh after having not played against the Patriots, and he performed. Well, that's actually our connection of the game. That's our infinity of Northern Kentucky connection of the game. A service of infinity of Northern Kentucky. Reimagine luxury that's within your reach just ten minutes from downtown Cincinnati. Look for the tower Infinity of Northern Kentucky dot com. Joe and Jamar connected seven catches for one

hundred and ten yards. Did Jamar Chase fourteen targets? Bunch of those came on third downs, and the Bengals were able to move the chains with those two. Always fun to see the LSU connection back in action. We'll take a break, we'll come back. You're listening to the Tri Stage Chevy Dealers Postgame Sports Talk Show presented by RNL Carriers on seven hundred WLW and ESPN fifteen thirty. Welcome back in Postgame Sports Talks seven hundred WLW and ESPN fifteen thirty.

his physical therapists, his doctors, like all the people. You can just tell this moment were like he just did something that Joe Burrow, the little kid growing up in Athens, Ohio, always wanted to do, and you could just you could tell it hit him for a moment.

in a lot of different ways. Obviously, there is nothing that relates to me about having a two hundred and fifty million dollar contract, but his personality and his upbringing and you know, the experiences.

for ten. Both teams were four for two or one for two on fourth downs. Total yards, Cincinnati had three eighty two to Baltimore's three forty six. Baltimore had one extra drive two in that entire situation. Rushing numbers were about the same. Cincinnati won twenty eight, Baltimore won twenty three. Penalties Cincinnati six for thirty five, Baltimore seven for fifty three. The Bengals were one for six in the red zone, Baltimore was one for two. As I mentioned, Baltimore fumbled

four times and Jackson threw an interception. The Bengals did have one fumble they lost late in the game by samaj p Ryn. But here's the big one, here's the big kicker. Time of possession thirty eight forty six thirty eight minutes forty six seconds for the Bengals Baltimore twenty one minutes, fourteen seconds. So the Bengals had the ball for seventeen more minutes than the Baltimore Ravens did.

to get them off the field. You've got to keep Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry and those guys off the field. Next week against Buffalo, you got to keep Josh Allen and Dalvin Cook or James Cook and those you got to keep them off the field. And so you have to be able to operate an offense and be efficient and move the sticks. And you want chunk plays and you want exposive plays, and there's a place for that, but also you want to possess the ball. You want to run a bunch of plays. You want to wear

that defense down, you want to drain that clock. You want to make sure that your defense is getting a break and they're not on the field every three plays, every three plays, every three plays. And that complimentary football that we talk a lot, a lot, a lot a lot about, I think is just incredibly important for the success of this team. And I thought you saw it tonight, even though it was a short week. The defense I felt like was really flying around. They were amazing with

their speed, with their athleticism, with their motor. They looked fresh every time they took the ball or every time they took the field, and I think that's because of the way the offense was handling the ball. I mean, if you look at the numbers and what Lamar Jackson. Did I mean this guy is still an MVP candidate. He's still as good as anybody in the NFL. He was seventeen of thirty two two hundred and forty six yards, no touchdowns, and an interception. The Bengals sacked him three times.

Other stats for Baltimore Dereck Henry ten carries, sixty yards, one touchdown. Jackson carried the ball just six times for twenty seven yards. He had a long of eleven. Keaton Mitchell carried twice for nineteen rasheen a Lee four carries for seventeen yards. As a team, Baltimore twenty two for one hundred and twenty three yards. That's getting it done. I'm surprised they didn't run the ball more. Baltimore's leading receiver was Isaiah Likely five catches for ninety five yards.

He also had that fumble. It was a big play in the game as well. You want to talk about the effort of one Miles Murphy on the Derrick Henry play, What about the effort of Jordan Battle catching up to Isaiah Likely and slapping that left forearm that led to the ball slipping out of the hands of Isaiah Likely. Out of the back of the end zone, fumbled through the end zone for a touchback, and the Bengals get possession.

That was a big play in the game as well, and early on it felt like the Bengals just letting Baltimore hang around, especially because of the way that they couldn't convert in the red zone. But I do think the Bengals deserved some credit because Baltimore landed some punches too, and Cincinnati didn't follow They ate those punches. They stood right in there and performed pretty well, and typically, you know, as is usual, tight ends eate the Bengals alive likely

had five for ninety five. Mark Andrews four for forty seven, including a nineteen yarder. Derrick Henry had that one catch for forty four yards. But Zay Flowers he did nothing, two for six, two for six. That speaks to the importance of DJ Turner and DeAndre Hopkins had two for

twenty five. I mean, when you do that, when you hold those top two targets to basically thirty one yards on four catches, and obviously the tight ends not great in terms of letting them go for yards, but that's pretty impressive, and that's Cincinnati's defensive secondary coverage brought to you by coversincy dot com, local health insurance experts for over twenty years. It was another great night for Dax Hill and DJ Turner, who were marvelous in coverage for

the Bengals. Dax Hill two passes defensed. DJ Turner also had a pass defensed, and all together the team had six of them. Josh Newton had a big one on a fourth down, Barrett Carter had one, Demetrius Knight had one. It was just overall really impressive performance against Lamar Jackson and the Ravens. Once again, that's coversinci dot com, local health insurance experts for over twenty years. We'll take a

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to four Postman Others promise Postman delivers. No major injuries during the game for the Bengals, except one linebacker Brian Asamoa for the formerly with the Minnesota Vikings, the guy who was brought up on the practice squad and had turned into a really good special teamer for the Bengals over the last couple of weeks. He left with a knee injury and did not return to the game. So that's something to keep an eye out on when it comes to the special teams unit. Defensive end Cedric Johnson.

As I mentioned earlier, he got a little bit banged up later in the game. He did walk off under his own power. Zach Taylor, from what I heard, did not provide any injury updates on those so not sure the status of either one of them. It was a knee for Brian Osamoa and unclear on Cedric Johnson's injury. And during the game, Baltimore's top cornerback, the young Nate Wiggins, he left with an injury and did not return in

the second half. That was a big part of the Bengals' success offensively, especially when it comes to Jamar Chase.

But it's all about Joe today. I was a little wary, just because he's always been a flung starter way you know, I mean, began this season all the time, he didn't evenly look that good in the first game and half he played this year, and he did like you you you were dead on it, saying about him struggling early and everything. But the guy is he's just a winner. Let's face it's a great leader. He's just a winner. But let's all real quick about the deep and some

really everybody's been putting them down. And these guys you can say what you want about and they're professionals and getting badgers doing this is terrible. All ESPN and everybody walls see how bad they are. And they was up to day. You know, you were talking about Miles Murphy and he actually deflected that interception, uh that.

Scott says, yeah, the other guy over here. I'm not sure, but that it was like Tito and they were all three sitting at the table right.

I want I'm gonna question you on this. Why is it always so many players have these big years contract with contracts coming up? You know that's I know, you have to grow into that role. You know, it maybe takes three years.

Final question? I don't think they're going to ever resign Chase Brown because Bengals is not going to give big money and running back Jeremiah Love out of Notre Dame is like as he's like the John Robinson that type, And would they do you think they could possibly in the first round take Jeremiah leg over any other positions. Thank you, I appreciate it.

many different phases of life. Like you know, if you know that you're getting married in twelve months, well then you start to work out a little bit more. You start to put a little bit of muscle on, you start to lose a little bit of weight so you look good on that wedding day.

I don't know that they want to go through that saga again. I don't think Trey wants to be here anymore. And so if that's the case, then you have all of a sudden, almost thirty million dollars freed up that you may have been earmarking for Trey Hendrickson next year. Well, what are you gonna do with that thirty million dollars? I mean, as a whole, you're you have seventy million in cap space for next year already, so you can spin that on maybe a Joseph Osai, maybe on a

free agent. Obviously on your draft picks you got some you know, other positions that you need to look at. The difficult part with Joseph Osai is that his agent is David Mullagedta. David Mullageda, of course, the longtime agent for Jesse Bates, who the Bengals never got a deal done with, and he was the agent that was t higgins agent for a long time, and eventually t Higgins fired him and got the deal done with Cincinnati.

Bengals first drive in the second half. They came out and put together a ten play, sixty one yard drive that was five minutes and twenty six seconds off the clock and it ended with a touchdown to put Cincinnati up nineteen to seven. So halftime happens. The Bengals defense immediately forces a three and out of Baltimore, and this drive ensues a six yard run by Chase Brown, an incompletion by Burrow, and then a six yard pass followed by a three yard run and a.

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What else do I have here as some things from the game? Oh, how can we forget Evan McPherson was wonderful tonight, and Evan continues to have a sensational year. He was six for six kicking field goals tonight, two for two in the extra points, he had a long of fifty two. He scored twenty of the Bengals thirty two points. He was marvelous. Evan's having a really good season so far this year. He's not yet missed an extra point. He's one hundred percent. He's eighty eight percent

on his field goals. He did hit a sixty three yard or just the other week, which is the longest in Bengals franchise history. Overall, Evan has been just marvelous, and from fifty plus so far this year he's four for seven, but from forty to forty nine he's nine for nine. Really, from forty nine in he's perfect, four

for four, six for six, nine for nine. He has been marvelous for the Bengals this season, and he was one shy of tying the Bengals franchise record for most field goals made in a game, which ironically enough, happened at that same stadium. You might remember two thousand and seven, the Bengals played in Baltimore and Shane Graham made seven field goals that day. The Bengals beat Baltimore twenty one to seven, all seven three point field goals from Shane

Graham in that game. So overall, it's always fun when your team wins. You're supposed to have fun, and I had fun watching the Bengals. The Bengals had fun winning the game. They had fun celebrating afterwards. And it's always more fun when you win. And now we get a stress free weekend off of the holiday, and we get to watch some college football, we get to watch some NFL, we get to root for the Buffalo Bills to beat the Pittsburgh Steelers. And it's always better when you win

football games. That's what I think. I don't know what you think, but that's what I think. I've had a blast doing this. I think this is going to be the last one I do this year. I assume that that Miami game is going to get flexed out of primetime.