It's Bengals, it's bears, it's two teams looking to bounce back.

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plenty to dive into when it comes to this matchup of two teams looking to bounce back in a big way.

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We're excited about this matchup.

There's plenty to dive into and storylines with both teams while taking big L's and different ways in week eight and trying to bounce back this week.

And Lauren, what's the biggest thing going on right now in Chicago land as the Bengalsengals rival the baltimore ravens handled business against the bears in week eight yeah there's a little bit of a feeling of the sky falling and i think it's an overreaction sky falling it's a little chicken little action where he's looking around like no one you know it's it but still there's a feeling of like well everything that you thought you thought was working, stopped working a little bit last week.

And so, oh, does that mean it's broken? Is it all the is Caleb Williams? The problem is the defense ever going to stop anybody ever again? Like, and there's a certain amount of like, hey, let's take a deep breath and relax here. But I do think, you know, along those lines, they present, I think, a favorable matchup for Cincinnati in some of the ways where the bears are struggling,

line up well with what Cincinnati does well,

and where the bears are doing well, maybe lines up where Cincinnati can withstand that. So I think there's a legitimate fear of like a couple of losses stacking up here. And I think for Chicago, they just want to see themselves stop beating themselves with penalties and their own mistakes and really feel like, hey, this opponent

is the one, like, that you're giving your best shot to your opponent.

Yeah, I totally get that.

And I think it was a tough spot.

Like going into that game last week, I looked at it and I was like, man, if the Bengals

win, which we fully expected them to beat the Jets, and they should have

beat the Jets, and the Ravens lose to a red hot Chicago team, like the Ravens are pretty

done. And it went the other way. The Steelers lost, the Bengals lost, the Ravens won, and now it's

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