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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 see what you 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. It's versus Cleveland at home, fine.

That could be a win.

Versus Denver at home.

Tough. It would be a win. And then who do they finish with? At Pittsburgh. Who might be resting starters. And those divisional games, you never know. Like, they just can go anyway. So that would be the miracle upon miracle. I don't know if the percentage is in front of me.

I'm sure that when they were four and eight,

it was 0.003% repeating.

But the Bengals somehow won, and if I don't have the percentage in front of me. I'm sure that when they were four and eight, it was 0.003% repeating. But the Bengals somehow won, and if they don't, Joe Burrow, I think he's the runner-up for MVP behind Allen. It's just that weird and that bizarre, but it's really fun. And now I'm kind of rooting for it. Yeah, I was wondering if Cincinnati came down hard on you, Kyle, after that graphic with the gone fish in a couple weeks back, or is that boat just lingering out in the sound, like waiting for the fog corn. Here it is. Apparently, we have it. Graphically, we just have it at the ready. This is dated. You guys, we should have put a date on this. You did this, Kyle. Speak to it. Yeah, Jamie, it was week 13 after they come off the buy, they lose to Pittsburgh.

They give up 44 points.

They go to 4 and 8.

And I'm like, we got to let these guys go. At the time, they had the passing leader, the receiving leader, the sack leader, and they could never win a game. They beat the Cowboys, they beat the Titans. We'll see. I got to say for the Lions fans out there who are probably a little shell-shacked and a little nauseous, they have a ridiculous amount of injuries in their defense. I was going to show you a list of it. We can't even fit them all on the screen at the same point. It's getting worse. This Aaron Glenn defensive that had so much swagger and so much dominance is really, really, really hurting. But I would say the biggest compliment and the

biggest tribute we can give Josh Allen is none of the stats and none of the historical

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