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The Thunderdome.

On this NFL week seven kickoff Thursday, October 16, 2025, this program begins now.

Football!

It's magical, and the NFL kicks off its seventh week this evening as an AFC North battle will take over Amazon Prime.

Kirk and I will be on the call as Aaron Rogers and Joe Flacco.

You know, a couple OGs in the league, a couple old guys, made men, if you will, Super Bowl champions.

People that have made over hundreds of millions of dollars playing football will lead two teams that they are very new to.

One, very, very, very new to one very very very

new to the other in his first season as the quarterback and commander of the offense that is doing

better than it has done over the last seven years Aaron Rogers looks good and here's a little stat

that came from Hembo this morning this Pittsburgh Steelers offense they're number one in the league

in yak yardage okay seven point something average yak for every single pass. Cincinnati

Bengals defense, worst in the league and giving up YAC. I don't know if that's tackling or

coverage or angles or leverage, but we do know that potentially what the Pittsburgh Steelers

do well on offense, the Cincinnati Bengals defense does not do well at all. Actually, worst in the league. First, first, worst. Anytime you see that type of stuff, you have to wonder what it's going to look like. And then on the flip side of that, Cincinnati Bengals' offensive line hasn't really been able to protect any of the corebacks to play quarterback for Cincinnati Bengals, which is not a good thing because that's what the offensive line's supposed to do. That's right. Then you think about, well, who's rushing a pass here tonight? Well, it's a lot guys. You got Big Cam Hayward, his head the size of that stadium they're going into. And we know Andrew Whitworth is a ruler of the jungle, but Cam Hayward's head alone could rule a jungle. Okay, that's how big his head is. And then he got Herbig Ouse coming into his absolute own. And then T.J. Watt, he didn't have a great PFF rating. Okay, not even the best in his own game at one point. But he's coming off a fresh ass beating of the Cleveland Browns. It seems like this defensive line could want to hunt. Then you think about Jalen Ramsey. What a perfect off-season pickup for the Pittsburgh Steelers. They spend money for the first time, long time, and pay people a lot of cash to come join what they have and seemingly go all in. They've already had a buy week. They're four and one right now, looking to become five and one the third team in the NFL to become as such. And that could happen in a divisional game that is kind of reminiscent of the entire division. Cleveland Browns, they are what they is. Okay, they are what they are what they are what they are. Tony Rizzo will tell you what they is. And we appreciate the hell out of Tony Rizzo. The Baltimore Ravens, boy. Uh-oh.

The hell is going on over there. Yikes. They should be good on paper. Whenever they're healthy, are they ever going to be healthy? Is this a year where they're like San Francisco 49ers and they're just not healthy? They just happen to not have any good fortune from the football gods. So are they going to stink forever? or maybe they make a run late here when Lamar Jackson comes back after the buy,

which is certainly possible.

And then the Cincinnati Bengals team, I mean, they're on the third quarterback. They traded in the division Joe Flack. They're doing his thing. Trey Hendrickson, the whole offseason storyline, what's going to happen with him? He was the odd man out that wasn't paid. Well, he had a back issue.

Now it's his hip thing he's on the injury report for.

Trey Hendrickson, hip.

He is questionable for tonight's Thursday night football. He's obviously a valuable piece of that defense. If he's playing on a short week after an injury on Sunday, if he's playing on a short week, that's obviously better for them than worse for him. But whenever you look at everything going on between these two teams, it's hard not to be like five and a half doesn't feel like enough. True. But boy, oh boy, these sports books have been winning. Let's go to one half

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