Bengals Aim for Critical Win Against Chargers on Sunday

SportsGrid

Watch Bengals Aim for Critical Win Against Chargers on Sunday - SportsGrid on Dailymotion

Transcript

00:00to win outright in AFC North team in the AFC North battle

00:04that will dictate the top spot in the division.

00:08Mine, also an AFC North team to win outright

00:11to keep their postseason hopes alive.

00:14That's the Bengals on Sunday night

00:16against the LA Chargers.

00:18Cincinnati is 5-0 against the spread this year on the road,

00:22twice as an underdog.

00:24They have covered every single point

00:27twice as an underdog.

00:29They have covered in both,

00:31but lost outright against the Ravens and the Chiefs

00:34by a single point.

00:36That does not happen this week.

00:38Joe Burrow is 17-3 ATS in his NFL career

00:42when he starts a football game as an underdog.

00:45This week it is outright

00:47because of all the good numbers about the Bengals as a dog

00:50and this is not a shot to the bullets.

00:52I do believe the Chargers are a playoff team in the AFC

00:56and Jim Harbaugh has come in

00:58and done exactly what you would expect

01:00for the program and organizational builder that he is.

01:04But the Bengals can ill afford any more losses,

01:08let alone this one.

01:10They win outright as the underdog on the road

01:14on Sunday night in SoFi.

01:17Yeah, I'm with you there, Ben.

01:19You're about to see here too in just a few minutes

01:24how much I agree with you on that play.

01:27But yes, Cincinnati, it's now or never.

01:30It is now or never.

01:32Frankly, it is a limited margin of error.

01:35They've got seven games remaining.

01:37Could they win five of seven

01:40and still be a playoff team

01:42with how weak the back half of the AFC is?

01:45Perhaps.

01:46But if you want to control your path and still have life,

01:49it's got to be six of seven, you would think.

01:52And that starts on Sunday,

01:55your favorite under of the weekend,

01:57which total catches your eye.

01:59Well, it's funny.

02:00Ironically, Ben, you talked about that Cincinnati Charger game.

02:03That was actually flexed into Sunday night

02:07to replace the Colts and the Jets,

02:11which is the game I'm using to go under 43 and a half in this one.

02:17And listen, I don't trust either of these quarterbacks right now.

02:22Certainly, we cannot trust the Jets offense to do anything

02:26and say what you want.

02:27The Colts have actually done defensively

02:30a pretty darn good job here over the last month,

02:33even though they didn't have a lot of success with Joe Flacco.

02:37I think that embarrassing performance against Arizona this week,

02:41Albrecht comes out and says they're turning back the clock.

02:44They're doing tackling drills.

02:46And you know what?

02:47They better because they were flat out embarrassed

02:50with the over 20 missed tackles against Arizona last week.

02:53I don't think they'll have that kind of game here.

02:56I think the Colts are going to have a hard time here.

02:58I do think the Colts probably outright win this game

03:02and put the Jets out of the misery.

03:04But I got this at like 23 to 16 kind of game here, Ben.

03:08I get that.

03:09Just give me one Anthony Richardson touchdown,

03:12and I do agree.

03:14The team's fighting, fighting because there's not a great chance

03:17for their playoff lives at this moment.

03:20All right.

03:21My favorite under of the weekend.

03:23Brown sinks under 44 and a half in New Orleans.

03:27Joe, I looked at this total, and I said to myself,

03:30huh, this is the highest total of the year for Cleveland,

03:35under in six of nine games.

03:38New Orleans, who, of course, lit the world on fire

03:41in their opening two weeks and then lost seven consecutive games,

03:44had their first win last week with Darren Rizzi.

03:48And what happened?

03:49The game stayed well under.

03:52I don't really know how we get 45 points.

03:55Both teams are a little bit helter skelter,

03:58and their seasons don't really have much.

04:00And you can see the title of the graphic tanker try,

04:03and it's a dead even pick them on the money line.

04:08I just was a little bit shocked by that number at 44 and a half.

04:12I'll stay under Cleveland and New Orleans on Sunday.

04:16Yeah, and I think, and we talked to Mike Blewett earlier there,

04:19and I think he nailed it.

04:21The difference in this game is going to be the pass rush of the Browns

04:25versus what we just saw from the Falcons, which have none.

04:29So Derek Carr, I think, is going to struggle in this game.

04:32I don't see them scoring a lot of points.

04:34I'm with you.

04:35I think the under is probably the best look.

Category

Transcript

Recommended