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One of the hottest memes right now that I keep seeing is that man stands up in a small town meeting and says something brave.

Peter sent it to me recently.

I won't say what it was about, but Peter said it to me recently with the take.

But I saw one of these yesterday, it was the guy standing up and it was Joe Burrow is the best player in the league.

And like, that's our bold take.

And listen, we're in a Josh Allen world and that's fine.

But I don't really remember a season quite exactly like this where the player is so good

and certainly the receiver is so good. And yet the record is

still coming off a win. Coming off two wins in a row is still so bad. So we started it to begin

the segment. Let's just talk about it now. Bengals, they have a chance. They're alive. I think

we did the gone fishing mock up like a few weeks ago. I'm like, they're done.

They're done. They're a sub 500 team. And yet bring up the AFC playoff standings.

I get. Let's let's take it look at them. Did the boat turn around? All right. The dolphins had a terrible

loss yesterday. It's really, really bad. So did Indianapolis. And then in order to avoid going

fishing, you have to have a team that comes back down to Earth. Now, Peter just basically lambasted the Chargers to say that they're fake tough guys and never beat anybody. We don't have the exact scenario yet. But all we have right this time of year is you want to see the Bengals remaining schedule, I'll just give it to you. I don't love it. Versus Cleveland at home, fine.

It could be a win.

Versus Denver at home.

Tough.

It would be a win, and then who do they finish with?

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