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swing over to amazon music and check us out ad free that's right over on amazon music make sure you tap into that. Here's what Chris and I going to do. At the end of the show, we're going to preview tonight's game between the Chargers and the Minnesota Vikings. Somebody season is going to be done with, in my opinion. I got a feeling it's going to be team purple. We'll go right in the middle. We'll talk about the Bears and take a little bit of a look at the NFC North and what's going on. Once again, that's a very, very competitive division. But we're going to start talking about a team in the division that Chris covers, and that is the Baltimore Ravens. Chris, they're behind the eight ball man and they're in that way. and ain't going to say this too loud because this might be some little shrap, though, but they ain't playing no defense in Baltimore. And there's a couple of teams not playing no defense that we're used to see in playing defense this time of year. Yeah, it's been really rough for the Ravens. And listen, I think that they're still not anywhere. I don't think they're out of it at all. I think that this team can rebound. I do think that that Lamar Jackson, once he's back and healthy and raring to go, this offense will click into a high gear pretty quickly. But the defense is a big concern because this defense was supposed to be one of the best defenses in the NFL, much like as you're insinuating, the Steelers were supposed to be one of the best defenses in the NFL, neither have gotten off to a hot start. But at least the Ravens can say they've been destroyed by injuries. Madabweke, their key defensive tackles out for the season, Travis Jones is missed games, Marlon Humphrey, Miss Gade, Kyle Hamilton missed games, Rekekhon Smith is Missed Game. Like, at every level of their defense, they've been missing a key player for a significant amount of time. And then you lose your superstar quarterback. That's just not a way that you, that you're going to be able to sustain winning. But at the same time, sometimes you got to, you know, the Steelers have gone through years where they've been missing t j wott and they've been missing cam hayward they've missing big if it's patrick they were missing you know they had went through a year we're missing

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