Bengals Face High-Stakes Game Against Chargers: Analysis

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00:00Is Cincinnati getting in the mix?

00:06Once your team, once your guy, Joe Burrow.

00:08Here we go.

00:09Here we go.

00:10LSU loses yesterday in the swamp.

00:11Wow.

00:12Wow.

00:13The digs are coming out.

00:14Jaden Daniels, terrible quarterback now.

00:15It started.

00:16It's a bad week for LSU, by the way.

00:17Daniels Thursday night.

00:18This could be the smash job.

00:21All right.

00:22So then, now I sit by and wait to hear what you have to say, because now I'm collecting

00:25data.

00:26The Chargers are a one-point favorite here on a Sunday night against the Bangles.

00:32What do you like, Joe?

00:33I'm going to go with Cincinnati one last time.

00:35I am.

00:36No, again.

00:37One last time.

00:38No.

00:39I mean, I didn't.

00:41One last time.

00:42I bet against them this year.

00:45First of all, I didn't bet them all year.

00:47I was against them against Washington.

00:49Let's get it right.

00:50What I mean, one last time is their backs are against the wall.

00:53They're four and six right now.

00:55They lose this game.

00:56They are out of the playoffs completely.

00:58They had a shot last week on the Thursday night with Lamar and Baltimore.

01:03They should have won the game.

01:04They should have had the flag in terms of the two-point conversion where they hit Burroughs,

01:08Hellman, no call.

01:09But again, they played well enough to win, and if they get that type of effort today,

01:14I think they're going to pull out the victory.

01:15Not going to be easy, but I'll take the road, slight road dog here going up against Justin

01:20Herbert.

01:21They're both playing very well right now.

01:22They are both playing very well.

01:23I just love the coaching staff there, certainly for the Chargers.

01:26It's just been horrible.

01:27I mean, he has absolutely turned this team around in one season, getting that foundation

01:30settled and with a legitimate chance now to make the playoffs.

01:32I think Herbert does have a big game tonight, but it does come down to, you saw the dominance

01:36of Jamar Chase over the past couple weeks.

01:37Tee Higgins was supposed to come back here, which adds that extra level of, oh, you want

01:40to double one guy?

01:41We'll torch you on the opposite side with Tee Higgins.

01:43But this is a tough, tough spot for them, and I said before, and I do have a small wager

01:48in on Cincinnati making the playoffs, whether they go one and two over the next three games

01:52they had.

01:53They lost to the Ravens 35 to 34.

01:54They need this victory.

01:56If they don't, they do have the bye week coming in, and then they're going to take on the

01:58Pittsburgh Steelers at home, which I think that's a winnable game.

02:01For me, Joe, I look at this and say, who has to absolutely be a monster?

02:06It's got to be Burrow again.

02:07He's got to throw for three, three 25 plus and multiple touchdown passes.

02:10Absolutely.

02:11That's why I do lean to Cincinnati.

02:12They are a better road team than they are at home, obviously three and two.

02:16If they would have picked up that 25 and four, if they would have picked up that victory

02:20on Thursday night, I mean, they would have been basically four and one on the road, right?

02:25It comes down to that.

02:26I mean, can Jamar Chase and Burrow eat in this matchup?

02:29We saw Will Levis have some success.

02:31Great call by you.

02:32I know you said we would get over that total.

02:35Took what, 59 minutes and 30 seconds to get there, but you still put up 17 points.

02:41You know, I don't want to take away from what Jim Harbaugh has done.

02:44They're six and three right now.

02:45They've won three straight by 15 points per game.

02:48The offensive identity, we might have points because that passing attack is starting to

02:52come around with Justin Herbert, Palmer, Disley, and Quinton Johnson as well.

02:57And I expect Joe Burrow to push, push tempo, Kev, but I'm with Donnie.

03:01It's got to be Chase Burrow.

03:02It's got to be the big three tonight.

03:04So I'll start by saying I am on the under on this game at 48, you mentioned the Chargers

03:08total last week.

03:09That is the first game all season where there's been 40 plus points scored in a Charger game.

03:14I understand that Cincinnati has played some absolute shootouts.

03:18They're a high tempo team who last week played Baltimore, who's a high tempo team.

03:23I went through this, not to throw you guys on the spot, but who are the most over teams

03:28in football?

03:29Great offense, vulnerable defenses.

03:31Baltimore.

03:32Well, Baltimore and Cincinnati might be one and two.

03:34I think Atlanta would probably be in the mix somewhere, right?

03:37So when you come off of like that 10 bell, all right, we can just throw bomb, bomb, bombs.

03:43I think that can then shoot up a total a little bit higher than it should be.

03:46So I'm taking a chance on the under.

03:47Here's one of the interesting things, though, about the stakes of this game.

03:51If you're the Chargers and you win it, you should be good.

03:55You should be in the clear, should be a playoff team.

03:58You should feel like you are in that Pittsburgh level of, okay, we're not, you're probably

04:02not going to win your division.

04:03That's just what the odds say about the Steelers.

04:05They could flip that perception today, but you're going to get in with Cincinnati, Joe.

04:10They are in the, somebody's got to get in class.

04:14Hear me out, Joe.

04:15A loss today, right?

04:16They fall to four and seven.

04:18You signing up for Denver, signing up for Indianapolis, you signing up for the Miami

04:23Dolphins.

04:24Someone's got to get to the seventh spot.

04:27I go back to what Donnie kept saying that when they were, you know, didn't have a win

04:30at home, right?

04:31How many more times can you get off the mat, right?

04:34They lost to some garbage teams, right?

04:37And the longer that you continue to lose later in the season, knowing the situation with

04:42Chase and Higgins, they're going to be checked out.

04:45You could only sell it to a certain point, right?

04:48So it's like, all right, week 11, right?

04:50We're selling this game.

04:51We get this victory.

04:52We're back in the mix.

04:53We're five and six overall.

04:55Hey, everything, once we get to 500, we could get to maybe nine or 10 wins.

05:00You lose this.

05:01Now it's like another three games before 500, right, Donnie?

05:04And then it's like, you know, at some point these guys are going to be like, you know

05:06what, I'm going to, it doesn't matter.

05:08The team is out.

05:09I got to worry about me and I'm going to shut it down.

05:13That is the only concern.

05:15That's why I put a lot of premise on this game and just thinking that if they lose this

05:19game and lose it bad, let's just say by 10 points or more, they might be checked out

05:24the rest of the way.

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