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A public mauling on display, but not a mauler, a mauling.

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It was not on Fox, but Joe Buck was there, and Troy Aikman, they were there.

What on Fox, though? It was on the NFL network.

Very confusing.

But Thursday night's NFL schedule kicking off, we don't count the first game.

The reason we don't count the first game is because it's not a traditional Thursday night game.

The Eagle Falcon game, they had a full week to prepare for that game. So it's not a Thursday night where you play on Sunday and then bam, you're right back at it on Thursday.

But if you saw the carnage in Cincinnati from a Raven perspective, Andy Dalton, coming out with

surgical precision early, which is not actually 100% accurate because he did throw some incomplete

passes, but lighting up A.J. Green and exposing the Ravens defense,

four touchdowns in the first half, three of them to A.G. AJ Green and a defense that

the Ravens like to brag about how good they are defensively.

The hallmark of Ravens football is that they're really good defensively.

And last week they just destroyed the Buffalo Bills.

But on this night, for the first half, it was slice and dice.

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