Cleveland vs. Cincinnati: Key Game Analysis & Predictions

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00:00Let's get to Browns Bangles here because as I mentioned with the Jets, I think their season

00:10is very much on the line tonight. I don't think they can handle a loss. Cincinnati's,

00:14I don't know if it's on the line. I think this team is actually still going to make

00:17the playoffs. Just looking at their schedule, they should, but should with Cincinnati has

00:23not necessarily been great this season. They should have beat the New England Patriots

00:27in week one. They should have beat the commanders in week number two, at least just based on

00:31the pregame expectations. They should have rolled the New York Giants. Instead, they

00:37had their worst offensive performance since week number one. They got the cover. Thanks

00:41to Chase Brown hitting his head on the goalpost instead of going down. Shout out to him. They

00:46should roll the Browns today. Joe, do you think they will? I don't think they do. I

00:51think it's an ugly type of game. The fact that they're on the road again in back to

00:55back road games. I think that's a reason to back Cleveland. If I had to bet this game

01:00now, I was on Cleveland last week against Philadelphia getting eight and a half points.

01:05I lean to Cleveland Kev with the five and a half because Nick Chubb comes back. I think

01:09we're going to see more of a concerted effort to run the football consistently, work off

01:13of play action. Again, Deshaun Watson in the Cleveland Brown uniform to date this year,

01:18no game over 200 expecting this to get through the 41 and a half with a better passing attack

01:24on the other side. I just don't think you could do that. So it was the first time Cincinnati

01:29right knocking off the Giants that that defense showed there's themselves against a competent

01:35passing attack. I don't count week one against the Patriots and Jacoby Brissett as a test,

01:40right? That they shut down Daniel Jones contained him held that offense to seven points. That

01:45was a team that put up 29 points the week prior against Seattle. I'll roll with Cleveland,

01:51but I don't love it guys. It's hard to take Cleveland now. Understandably, we understand

01:55that, you know, the Cincinnati Bengals don't have a great defense by any stretch here,

01:59but there is a pedigree there, at least with the defensive coordinate that they can turn

02:01up the screws. Now, if you're playing a really good team, it's like, all right, maybe they're

02:05going to give up points and they have this season. You're not playing a very good team

02:08in this one. Understandably, Nick Chubb is coming back. Is it a ceremony that is coming

02:11back? Is he a hundred percent healthy? Is he going to be able to tote the rock 15 times?

02:15We'll find out, but let's start here with the basics. Cleveland's offensive line, Joe

02:18horrendous. Cleveland's quarterback, horrendous. Cleveland's wide receiving court. Now with

02:23Matt Amari Cooper is horrendous. Look, even like two guys lining up today, 128 wide receivers

02:28ranked at pro football focus. Two of them here, one 28th and one 22 out of one 28. I

02:34just don't know how Cleveland is scoring. Now wait till you see, sell me something.

02:37I'm going to sell you some beachfront property out there in the middle of the United States,

02:41but that's the simplistic look at this game. I look at Cleveland. They're an implosion

02:45away from just being bad and Cincinnati as much as we have them dead and buried and rightfully.

02:50So if you just keep winning football games, things will take care of themselves. Regardless

02:54of you're playing this Sunday, next Sunday or three weeks, they should win this game.

02:58And I'm going to say if it's four and a half or five and a half out there, it should be

03:01by a touchdown. I would be embarrassed again if they didn't win this game by a touchdown.