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All right, let's do a live on a reaction Monday to show the program Bo Z, the Hoff in studio as well. We wish we were dissecting a win and yet somehow this still brings us joy swag.

Look at a color combination on that guy.

Keep it at level. Keep it simple. Yeah, you got to keep it simple here. Hoff, great to see you. Great to see you guys as always.

It's great to be here in Barrio. Live in in person. That's right. It's a tree. It could have been more of a tree. Yeah, it's, you know, that's a, that's a tricky one because when you, when you think about where you are in the season, the must win nature of it.

A Bengals team that is one of the best teams in football and has been building towards this for about a month, but that was wounded.

That played without two of its three receivers. It's tied in very limited in terms of who they had on the roster and what they could do.

And as it turns out, they didn't need much more than nine and number one and a little bit of run game in the second half defensively stifling performance out of them.

And for us, it's interesting. It feels like, and this has been a thing all season.

And if you want to use the two, you know, kind of the two blunders, blunders, however you wanted to find them in the first half, the first half drive that ends without points and the roughing the punter where you're going to get the ball back at midfield.

It seems like this season, anytime, Hoff, that we have had a critical decision to make or a critical play to be made, it has gone the opposite.

You can't be a playoff team in the NFL unless you're making big plays in those big moments.

You've got to be the best weekend and week out in those three to four plays that seem to always define the game because it's a league of parity.

I mean, you look at everybody's records. Most teams are right around that 500 and there's only a couple teams that really have separated themselves.

When you talk to Eagles, maybe the chiefs and the cowboys are those teams up there and then kind of the next tier is basically 500.

So if you want to be a team that can make the playoffs and can make a run, those three to four plays, which you don't know when they're going to be, they might be in the first quarter, they might be in the fourth quarter.

But you've got to be ready at any moment. And I think for this team to be able to take that next step, they got to be ready for those moments to be able to make those big plays and some of that experience.

But some of that's focus attention to detail and being sharp in the game, knowing that there's 68 or 69 plays.

And I don't know which one of these is going to be the most important. So I got to treat them all like it is the most important one right now.

You're exactly right. And that's where we saw against the bucks. We came up with those plays and we won the game. And in this one, we did not.

And you know, you go back to that opening drive and I understand, you know, the theory of what they were trying to do.

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