00:00pittsburgh by the way uh as as we're following the bouncing ball that's a nice
00:04uh sell i think i think on pittsburgh right now pittsburgh's not good either but they they've now
00:09won two games in a row one in overtime one against the saints who played like crap so get ready
00:15to
00:15start fading pit would be my advice and and they play the browns this week so now all of a
00:23sudden
00:23we've got a divisional matchup between two teams that is can i make the argument now's the time
00:29to sell on the browns that's the problem so we're gonna sell a hard yeah you're right you're right
00:34you can't do it that's right give me a different game i'll find another game for you before the end
00:38of the week can they end in a tie craig is that possible there with the browns and the steelers
00:44uh it's kind of laughable and then here you go with the bengals sitting at four and two
00:50it no lamar no ravens for me i think you and i agree on that until they can figure out
00:55if he's
00:55healthy or not healthy there's no way you can bet him but if that second half joe uh joe burrow
01:02and
01:03company if we get that craig by the way hasn't been sacked a ton this year at all so they're
01:09keeping
01:10them upright which is fantastic if they can keep doing that uh the defense i mean listen they were
01:17bend don't break in the first half but uh they were downright just you weren't moving the ball at
01:24all in the second half baltimore i don't know i mean is are we sleeping on burrow that team can
01:30score 40 points on anybody i think i truly think when healthy and upright uh joe burrow is uh is
01:37one
01:37of the best quarterbacks in the in the league with that version of him yesterday that's what i want to
01:43see from the bengals moving forward right but then you know cincinnati minus three and a half uh in
01:50pittsburgh and pittsburgh wins the game outright a couple weeks ago you know so that that's that's
01:54sort of the issue with cincinnati is that you want to believe like this is their look honestly on paper
01:59joe you're 100 right this is the best chance the bengals have had this is it this is the best
02:04since
02:05burrow took the team the super bowl in 20 or 21 whatever that was this is it you look at
02:10you look
02:10at the division you say okay look they're the best built their guys are healthy the defense is good the
02:14offense is good but the second the bengals win a couple in a row and then they become a four
02:19-point
02:19favorite over someone on the road and then they lose and then you're like wait a second here they
02:24lost again but to your point it would seem to be the year but i until what you said at
02:31the beginning
02:31is really the point here like and really we should just emphasize it until when lamar jackson comes back
02:36we could start analyzing this again because until then it's it's really he could be the mvp every year
02:42but when he comes back and he plays we'll get a better idea for uh for what this is certainly
02:48i i
02:48don't expect pittsburgh as good as they are to be there in the end i don't expect cleveland as good
02:53as they are to be in the end but the truth is is that cleveland has banked a lot of
02:57wins and all they
02:58really have to do when you think about it is probably go 500 the rest of the way cleveland makes
03:03the playoffs so they are they're right there to do it but here's the problem they got the the young
03:10tight end conception they got boston they have a lot of young guys that are delivering that i
03:17didn't see it but they're winning because of defense uh i mean that might be the best defense
03:24because no no offense to lamar jackson lamar jackson doesn't play defense that you know hendrickson
03:31was in that game yeah how do you allow borrow to come out there and light you up for 35
03:35points and a
03:36half right how is that where is that defense with baltimore at least the browns have a legit defense
03:44and they got young weapons it's defense at some point that division come december has got to matter
03:51right because that's you got to win goal you got to win games when it's minus 13 don't you at
03:56some
03:56point there greg it is it's true but again not to pour water on it but uh the one the
04:03reason yes
04:04it's true the reason why they've won is the defense but their kicker their kicker's also
04:09but their kicker's been perfect he's kicked every game winning field goal four weeks in a row or three
04:14weeks in a row joe that's a little variance that tends to turn not that he misses one but but
04:20odds
04:21are end of the game you win every one at the end of the game that tends to turn at
04:25some point
04:26and you start losing some close games uh even point that i was making on the rams how the rams
04:31lost all
04:32those close games they're just bound to start winning some even if they're not as good as we
04:35thought they were going to be and i and i think that that will normalize a little bit remember
04:38cleveland joe could play another good game next week and lose 1917 so some of that stuff will turn
04:43and then the other the other the other part of this too is that in the playoffs uh yes cleveland's
04:50defense if they had a first game and their first game was at home uh and and they were playing
04:54against i don't know some team in the west or something not kansas maybe denver could you see
05:00cleveland beating denver of course you could but but then after that you know buffalo's gonna score
05:0540 and that's gonna be it you know like that that but but cleveland to their credit biggest surprise
05:10of the year for me cleveland without a doubt
