If you care, Cincinnati, a four-point favorite tonight at Northwestfield in Landover,

kickoff set for 8 o'clock.

Starters will play for the Bengals, and starters will play for at least a bit.

Not all starters, because not all starters are healthy or are ready to go because of a holdout in Terry's

case.

But Cincinnati last week in their preseason opener played their starters for a sizable

amount of time compared to the rest of the league and had a 14-7 lead against Philadelphia at the end of the first quarter.

They lost the game 3427 for what it's worth, not much.

Tonight they come to Washington to play our team.

Joining me right now is Ben Baby.

Ben is the John Kime equivalent for ESPN.

He covers the Bengals at Ben underscore Baby on X on Twitter.

I'm assuming you're in town, although maybe you've got a later, an afternoon flight. Are you

here yet? No, no. We take it easy during the end of preseason. We save our time. We hang

in a little extra time at home and get ready for that regular season. So I'll be watching tracking things through our next-gen stats. Otherwise, I'd love to be in the greater, I believe the DMB is what we should officially say here. Yeah, well, did you say DMB or V? DMV. I am a Dave Matthews band fan, but it is the DMV, correct. Okay, got you, because

remember Bill Walton famously sort of included Baltimore and Delaware in his DMB description.

Anyway, look, you know what, preseason games, that's probably the right decision from a cost

standpoint. But anyway, we won't

get into the reasons that you're not here. It's just preseason for me is a lot less learning

for us, more for the coaches than for us. But with that said, you at least get to see your

starters play. Let's go back to the decision that Zach Taylor made.

Obviously, it was to switch things up with the slow regular season starts, correct?

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