Keefer and the Beats: Jake Browning gives the Bengals hope, the Lions recent issues, and Zach Wilson's wild week
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🗓️ 12 December 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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In the Week 14 edition of Keefer and the Beats, Zak Keefer digs into the Bengals' resurgence with Jake Browning at QB with Paul Dehner, Jr.; the Lions' late-season skid and the worries that are growing in Detroit with Colton Pouncy; and Zach Wilson's return to the starting lineup for the Jets with Zack Rosenblatt.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:05.8 | Welcome back to the athletic football show. |
| 0:18.9 | This is at Kiefer here to dig into week 14 across the NFL. |
| 0:22.6 | We got to start in Dallas, where the Cowboys, in my opinion at least, have never looked better in the Dac-Prescott era. |
| 0:29.6 | I still got to beat San Francisco when it matters, and they might have to in January, but to me the Cowboys have the look and feel right now of a legitimate Super Bowl contender. |
| 0:38.9 | Now, I know how dangerous a statement that is to make, |
| 0:41.2 | considering they haven't reached the NFC championship game since the 1995 season. |
| 0:45.6 | But that team is rolling right now. |
| 0:47.6 | They owned Philly last night. |
| 0:49.5 | And now suddenly there's a three-team tie atop the NFC, |
| 0:52.5 | Philly, Sanfran, and Dallas, all 10 and three with four to go. |
| 0:56.5 | In the AFC, Kansas City, Cadarius Tony forgot that you have to line up on sides before the snap. |
| 1:03.0 | And the Chiefs have suddenly dropped three of four. |
| 1:05.4 | They don't look right. |
| 1:06.2 | The offense isn't humming like it usually is. |
| 1:08.9 | Patrick Mahones is throwing tantrums on the sideline. The receivers |
| 1:12.7 | are costing them week after week, and it's very much looking like Mahomes will be playing |
| 1:17.5 | the first road playoff game of his career come January. For the first time in the Mahomes era, |
| 1:23.4 | the Chiefs, they just look flawed and eminently beatable right now. |
| 1:28.4 | Below them, the AFC wildcard race is an absolute mess. |
| 1:32.3 | Six teams right now are seven and six and in the thick of it. |
| 1:35.9 | And we'll dig into one of them, the Cincinnati Bengals, today with our beat writer, Paul |
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