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Well, he played in the NFL for eight years, seven of those with the Raiders, one with the Texans, one with the Chiefs.

He's got a new podcast called All Facts, No Cap.

Stanford Rout, former NFL defensive back and a regular on the show joins us.

So Raiders Bengals is one that interests me because we've said before, we just don't even

understand how the Raiders are in this thing.

There's chaos everywhere.

The Henry Ruggs, the Gruden gets fired.

They cut their first round corner.

But they do have a pass rush and that and they have a

really capable quarterback. So they're very good. The captain of their offense is good. And in this

league, if you make the other quarterback uncomfortable, which they did the last time they faced

the Bengals. So let's just talk matchup first of all. What do the Raiders do? And you know that team well. You played their seven years. What do they do that Cincinnati will struggle with? Well, for one, I think it's going to have to come down to pass rush. You got Max Crosby, making all pro getting his first Pro Bowl nod and well deserve. I think he's going to have to make sure that he puts pressure on joe burrow just like he did the last time along with ingotkway and all those boys up front that's number one number two they're going to have to do a better job of running the ball with it just jacob so they can go ahead and control the clock yeah be able to go ahead and keep joe burrow off of the field and then it all comes down to they got to make plays in the secondary.

You got Jamar Chase, you got obviously a T. Higgins.

They're going to have to be able to make plays when they're able to get a lead if they are

and actually do a better job than they did down the stretch versus Justin Herbert last week,

giving up two touchdowns on fourth down, no less, in the last couple minutes of regulation.

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