Hey, what's up everybody? Welcome into Tom Carn's Patriots Talk podcast. Got a couple of guests for

you today. As always, we're going to have irrelevant questions.

That's going to be with Jalen Hawkins. But first, you're going to hear from Jay Morrison from Sports Illustrated who covers the Cincinnati Bengals. Jay, caught my eye as I was doing Bengals research this week. You know why? Because he was funny. Funny as hell.

Pointing out the ineptitude of the Bengals defense,

he wrote earlier this week,

blast in the fact that the Bengals gave up at least 27 points

in their ninth straight game to tie the NFL record

and the fact that they put out another feature length teach tape

on how to not to pursue ball carriers

and how not to try to tackle them.

And the fact that three of them got the man versus boys treatment on the same play,

there were actually a few positives.

He also added about the three and seven Bengals, Jay did.

The NFL average for converting on third down and 10 or longer coming into week 11 was

19.4%. The Bengals ranked next to last in the league in that category, allowing teams to convert

30% of the time, six of 20, six times in nine games, three times Sunday alone. Three times in one

game is tied for the most this year. So the Patriots are facing

the Bengals who have set an NFL record by allowing 14 points in the fourth quarter for a fifth

consecutive game, breaking the mark of four shared by eight teams, three of which did a pride

of the Super Bowl era. You know, for us writers, you'd rather the team be good than bad.

But if it's bad, it isn't bad if it's horrible because there's just a whole lot of artillery.

So the Patriots, excuse me, the Bengals, Patriots formerly were bad.

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