Live from Southern California. This is the Jim Rome Show.

In terms of the NFL

Sunday is so good and it was so good that you're not sure exactly where to start

with the Monday whip around. It's also never a bad idea to start the whip with the hottest quarterback leading the hottest team in the league right now

We could debate who and what that is but I'm gonna roll with Cincinnati

You know I'm gonna to start right there. Joe Burrow and the

Bengals are not just back. They're on fire. They look scary and no I'm not

talking about whatever was going on with Burrough's

fingernail I'm talking about the entire team finally looking every bit like the

team we expected them to look like this season.

Of course these dudes, we're going to get it back on track, just as of course Joey B was not

going to let some mangled fingernail get in the way of another home win in prime time. Not after he already

dealt with that calf issue and essentially being immobile for the first half of the

season. I love that question afterwards like, hey Joe, what's been the biggest

difference with you? I can run? Oh, would that help? Does that help you at the quarterback

position? Anyway, to him, given the issues he had with his calf that

bloody finger with a possibly missing fingernail might have been a thing to most people but to Joe that's just

merely a little scratch.

You banged up that finger everything okay?

Just a little scratch that That's football, baby.

What is it that you can do, Joe, now that you could not do at the start of the season?

Run, run.

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