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Somebody who's got to say the Ravens and somebody's got to say the Bills

because this is just what we do in this era

and then every year they lose to the Chiefs,

but maybe it'll be different this year.

I will take door number three because I'm going to say the Bengals.

Because the Bengals have done it.

The Bengals have beaten him. They have dethroned him. They have taken him out. And I also think the bounce back year for the Bengals in the sense that last year was so strange, and they were so prolific and so statistically excellent and then just couldn't win games. There's no possible way they can protect Burrow worse than they did last year. The guys are paid. The guys are under contract. And by the guys, I certainly don't mean the pass rush. I mean the two toys that Burrow has. I just feel like with that coach and that quarterback, I have to believe that things are going to be better than last year. And last year, they were brilliant in terms of productivity. And I just, if you always give me a puncher's chance for one team or one guy that's

going to go to Arrowhead in the divisional of the title game, and holy crap, they beat the

chiefs, I can pick the teams that never do it, or I can pick the team that has at least done

it once.

So again, hashtag June 2nd, I'll say Burrow does it.

And I love Lamar.

I love Josh, but there's just something

about that number nine in Cincinnati. I would just first say about Caleb and the story that he

didn't want to be in Chicago and all this and that. I am on innumerable Bears text chains with

lifelong meat and potato hard hat wearing Bears fans in the Chicago area and across the country.

I don't know a single one of them who gave a single bleep about that story or wasn't in any way

insulted, in any way sensitive, because Bears fans have a lot of their faults, but one of them

is not lacking self-awareness. They know what they are and what they aren't, and they know that the elephant in the room is that their quarterbacks are very, very rarely good and that they've been chasing one for 40 years. So the idea that Caleb's like, I don't know, Chicago, I'm going to be the number one pick. I'm not sure that's the best place for me to go to succeed in football. All bears friends are like, yeah, no kidding. We're thrilled that you're here. Of course it's not the best place. It's the Bears. I don't see any of that about how dare he say. It's nonsense. I think it's a straw man. I think it's completely made up. And every Bears fan is so excited about Caleb and so embracing of Caleb that it's fine. We like it out in the open now.

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