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One of the reasons I like the NFL playoff system is it's unforgiving.

We don't do a committee here.

We don't do I-test.

We do facts.

Talk about it. Wins and losses.

And, you know, there's this that Bengals deserve.

They deserve to be in. Bengals, I'm going, the Bengals deserve, they deserve to be in.

Bengals, I'm going to pay you a compliment. We deserve to be in. You are Gene Hackman in the Unforgiven lying down on the ground, looking up at Clint. And Hackman says, I'm building a

house. I don't deserve this. You know what Clint says to him? Deserves got nothing to do with it. It's nothing. I don't care what you deserve. It's wins and losses. Yes, you lost week one to Jacoby Brissette, and you lost week two, and you lost week three. Start a season. Have a training camp where you start a season because you started one and four. Last year started one three the year before that you started two and three and that's why on this show all through

september what are we all saying just stack wins i don't care what the score is what the stats are

no doubt have to win and bangles vans just saying Pittsburgh sucks we should be in instead of

Pittsburgh they hung 44 on you 500 yards you couldn You couldn't stop them. I'm sorry. But to quote everybody ever, you know, offense is only a third of the game. You had a great offense. I loved it. It was really fun. You don't deserve it. You didn't win enough. Don't come running late. It's exciting. We all get our hair blown back by the come running team. You've got to at least keep up with the pack in September. I don't need

you to win out in September. Can you go 500 one of these years? Then you'll get in. Believe me,

if you're walking around, the officers say the Bengals deserve to be in, deserves got nothing

to do with it.

We'll see you in minicamp. I have some questions about the Mike Evans thing. It's five yards short. You know the situation. They're up eight points. Question number one. If Baker throws it to him and it's incomplete, do they throw it to him again? Have to. And better than this. So he needs five yards. They throw it to Evans. he gets tackled for a three-yard game.

Do they call timeout?

Because they had one left and throw it to him again i think that they

do what if he's tackled right here and the saints by the way should have known maybe they were in on it

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