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Woman, babe, and I'll make
a good woman steel. I'm a cold

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woman less and I'll make a yogirl
sweet. I want to be us.

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Put a baby in yo. I'm
that I'm bad of the Bowl, Bad

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of the Bowl, Bad of the
Bowl. Billy Cunningham, the great American.

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Of course, the voice of your
Bengals is the Great Dave Lapham,

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along with Dan Horde breaking it all
down. Action starts in about six hours

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right here, gonna be unbelievable action, because, let's face it, this

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is a this is a monumental effort
by the by the Rams to redo what

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they did in the Super Bowl a
couple of years ago. Will Joe Burrow

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play? Will he not play?
And Dave Lapham has all the answers.

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Dave Lapham, welcome again to the
Bill Cunningham Show. Can you tell the

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American people this afternoon? Yea or
nay? On the Great number nine?

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Well, I know the Great number
nine worked out late morning, early afternoon

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under the eyeballs of many interested coaches, in front office people, et cetera,

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with teammates to see if he would
be able to go this afternoon.

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So it's a fifty fifty proposition.
I guess based on how that workout has

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gone, and there's obviously a few
within the organization that know. But it

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looks like it's going to be a
game time a scenario unless somebody uncovers it

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before that. But I would think
that you would definitely know when the deactives

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come out. If Joe Burrows deactivated, that's an obvious answer. If he's

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up, that's an obvious answer.
If he's one of the fifty three players,

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he's starting. If he can't go, he's going to be deactivated.

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It's gonna be that simple. And
Dave Lapham, he's secretariat. He wants

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to run the race. Of course. I watched earlier today some of the

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so called experts on the ESPM and
Fox Sports saying the smart money said he

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would not. We had some incipiate
reports saying the smart money says he will

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left up to Joe Burrow. He's
gonna play, It'll be up to the

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trainers and up to those individuals that
take him down. What impact on this

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did the cart ride with Mike Brown
that was the most well played twenty five

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second cart ride in the history of
golf. Mike Brown is on the field

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of honor picks up Joe Burrow,
who's stretching. The other players look up

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and say, take a look at
this deal. So Mike Brown carted him

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around a little bit. Some said
when he got out he hit a frown

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on his face. Others say when
he got out of the cart, Joe

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Burrow was smiling. What does the
Dave Lapham say about the smile or the

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frown on Joe Burrow's face after the
cart ride with Mike Brown might have been

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both knowing Joe he might have had
a frown then he turned it upside down.

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Who knows, or he had a
smile and he turned that upside down

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to a frown. Well, so
we don't know. He goes, yeah,

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well, I think he knows that
that that was going to be watched

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closely. So he's not going to
give any any body language secrets away or

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whatever the case. Maybe he'll let
people draw their own conclusions. But I

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think I think all that was talked
about was you know, Mike Brown saying,

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look, Joe, if if you
feel that you are unable to go

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and take care of yourself in so
doing, if you feel like you'd be

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vulnerable by playing because lack of movement, where the case may be, don't

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push it. You know what we
were looking for the long term here.

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We've signed you to a long term
deal for the highest paid quarterback in NFL

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history. We're not thinking sure term, we're thinking long term now. If

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he if he's in a situation where
he can do no further damage to the

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cash strain, and you know he
has to it's a paint hollerance thing.

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He'll play and the medical people will
probably let him play because Joe's a tough

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dude, tough physically, tough mentally, all that kind of thing. If

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there's a possibility that he could do
more extensive damage to the calf, which

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could lead to other issues, you
know, the calf's right about the Achilles

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tendonment, and you don't want to
think about any of those kind of crazy

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dynamics, that's for sure. So
you do have to do your due diligence

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and be smart about about all of
it. There's no doubt that Joe Burrow

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wants to play. He's a competitor, loves his teammates, teammates love him.

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He wants to be part of it. But if it doesn't make sense,

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I think that's the whole thing.
I think that was the whole session

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subject or basically the message it was
livered by Mike Brown. If it doesn't

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make sense, don't force the issue, don't push it. And Dave Lapham

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on the Rams defensive line, you
have a guided missile number ninety nine who

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has a target on the chest of
Joe Burrow, and that defensive line rush.

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Perhaps the greatest alignment of all time
is Aaron Donald of of your Los

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Angeles Rams, wearing number ninety nine. Maybe a bit better than Big Daddy

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Lipscomb. I'm not sure, but
maybe the greatest linement of all time wants

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to put a target into the Rams. This is a huge game because of

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where they are in the same division
with the forty nine ers. We tend

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to think a thing from a Cincinnati
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from a Rams perspective, it's equally
important. The forty nine ers look impregnable.

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They look like that Joe Montana forty
nine ers, for God's sakes,

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And so from the Rams perspective,
they see a wounded Joe Burrow, they

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see a secretariat with a bad leg, and they're gonna put a target on

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him an attack. So from a
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for the Rams? Oh, it's
massive, there's no question about it.

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I mean for the Bengals perspective.
In the Super Bowl era, children fifty

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one teams have started owing three and
just six made the playoffs. That's in

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the Super Bowl era. Under the
current playoff format since twenty twenty made a

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little have adjustment one and two starts. Teams that have started one and two

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they had the playoffs thirty percent of
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every three. So you don't want
to bury yourself, ah and three.

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So it's it's the numbers say that
it's massive for the Bengals in common sense

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as it's massive for the Bengals.
But yeah, like you said, Willie,

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I mean this is a this is
a big, big deal for the

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for the Rams. The Rams last
year sucked. They were five and twelve,

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they lost sixth straight and in the
second half of the season they went

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two and nine to finish the year. Terrible. I mean they were they

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were sitting at at seven and three
and went two and nine, worst year

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by defending Super Bowl champion in National
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that. They want to rebound from
that, and they got rid of a

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lot of players. Bobby Wagner's aren't
there anymore, Leonard Floyd, Jalen Ramsey,

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and people are like, oh,
it's a rebuild. Oh not so

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fast, my friends, and remodel. It's not a rebuild because, like

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you said, they have Aaron Donald
who he's one of three players in the

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NFL history to win three Defensive Player
of the Year awards. And the other

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two are Lawrence Taylor and J.
J. Watt not be pretty good,

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comfort not bad. And the other
guy the other he straws. He stirs

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the defensive drink. He's that straw. The guy that stirs the offensive drink

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is Matthew Stafford. Now you know
he doesn't have the gun that he once

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had, There's no question about that. But he can still make every throw

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and can make can make every throw
with some zip on the football. I

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mean, he was a human judge
machine in his earlier years. He's not

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quite that anymore. But the dude
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and big game every which way around. I think the smart money says he

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plays or tries to play is sixty
percent of Joe Burrow better than one hundred

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percent of Jake Browning but jured to
have sixty percent Joe or one hundred percent

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of the Jake. Well, the
other the other art you have to consider

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is the long term, short term
deal. I mean, honestly, this

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calf injury, I think they're gonna
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the course of the rest of the
season. These things are tricky. They

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just don't go away. They start
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all of a sudden you tweak it
again, you know. And that's the

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thing. If Joe's out there playing, he spones four good balls, and

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well will the fifth ball be when
I feel that? And now you're like,

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am I gonna feel it? Am
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it's like it's just a it's a
paint and the ass. You have

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to try to play through that kind
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he does tweak it worse, you
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you have Jake Browning for an extended
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the bye week. If he tweaks
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right now, and again, he
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mean, the dude the dudes as
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Give me your report on Taylor Swift
and Travis kell See. Of course

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the media is going nuts on that, and uh, Travis Kelsey has deep

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connections to the UC Bearcats. Taylor
Swift going nuts. Did you see what

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was happening yesterday in Kansas City?
The unspoken love between Taylor Swift and Travis

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Kelsey? Did you could you feel
the passion? I wonder, you know,

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I it would be great. I
think Bill Belichick had the greatest line

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on that ever so far. He
said, Boy, Travis Kelsey's made a

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lot of big catches during his career, but none bigger than this one.

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So leave it to Bill Belichick to
sum it up. You know, well,

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this is unbelievable. Of course,
everything in the world has a Cincinnati

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connection, and of course Kelsey and
his brother spent like four years here.

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Pretty good, pretty good tight end. And I don't know what to say

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about these star Cross lovers, but
that's the big story. And of course

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the Congo line in Dolphin Land I
watched this morning. I didn't see the

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game live. Seventy to twenty can
talk about a beatdown. That's like when

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student nurses teeted up against Richard Speck
in Chicago many years ago, and the

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Dolphins literally are doing a conga line
with a kicking out el Kuca racha against

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against the Denver Broncos. Unbelievable what
happened there? Sean Payton went after the

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old coacha for the for the Denver
Broncos. What allows you job he did?

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Now there's a congo line in Miami. Your reactions, Yeah, my

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first reaction on the final reaction on
the Swift Kelsey thing. If they're there,

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yeah, if there is nothing really
going on, romantically, greatest marketing

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move ever because you're taking the NFL
audience and you're taking a big international music

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audience and you're co mingling the whole
thing. It's like they're just from a

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social media standpoint, their clicks are
gonna just They're gonna have additional people back

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and forth. It is a shared
marketing genius move. Different fact, that's

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all it is. But more than
that, God bless both of them.

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Would you like to be in a
locker room with Kansas City? Can you

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see the Chiefs players dealing with Travis
Kelsey right now? Can you imagine that

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would you like to have a microphone
in that locker room. I think each

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and every one of them are.
They're bowing down to him so like you

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know, he's the Messiah. He
is swift, going nuts with your mom.

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Oh my god, we got a
roll. Dave, you're the best

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at this. You've done it for
fifty years. You've seen it all,

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You've done it all. My forty
years are nothing compared to your fifty years

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with the Bengals. Tell me what
happens tonight and give me the final score.

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Let's jump ahead about six hours.
Does he play, does he not

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play? And who wins the game? Well? I think I think there's

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a strong chance he plays, but
I would not be shocked if he does

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not play. That's that's where I
am right now. And I don't think

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we're gonna see seventy points in seven
hundred and twenty six yards put up two.

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It did with the Miami Dolphins.
No matter who's quarterbacking, that's not

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gonna happen seven and twenty six yards. Are you kidding me? Seventy points?

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Are you kidding me? That's the
National Football League? Come on,

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man, they had two rating backs. He'd scored four touchdowns it's ridiculous.

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It's ridiculous, it's scene, it's
obscene. But you know, I'm gonna

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be very interested to see how the
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schematically because you know the Bengals offense, it's gonna be who's going to be

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at the quarterback position that that's gonna
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and Laflora, they've used a lot
of motion to collect information. The defensive

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eyes have to be right. They've
got to communicate mc They use a hard

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count, a quick count. He
changes a launch point for Stafford with bootlegs,

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with nakeds, who'll have a couple
of gadgets. I mean, it's

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gonna be interesting. If the Bengals
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be a hell of a win and
get their season and turned around and start.

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You know, Joe Burrow is still
a single man. But if Taylor

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Swift shows up at paid Corn he's
cheering on our quarterback, that'd be something

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you'd have a you'd have a cat
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Burrow and who wins that matchup?
Well, I wish I wish Taylor Swift

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would donator calf to Joe Burrow.
That would work. I mean, if

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we could get a good calf for
Joe Burrow, no matter if it's male,

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female, whatever it is, I
just want a calf. That's all

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I want. Give me a calf. Well, that's the only part of

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her anatomy I'm not interested in.
So I hear you hear that? All

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right, Well, I think you
might give it up. She will me

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give it up, that's what.
Yeah, it's like, you know,

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it's it's not really that benefficient.
It's not I'll give up the calf.

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I don't mean I got an extra
calf. He canna have one of mine.

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It sounds like an Ombish farmer in
Adams County for God's sakes. All

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right, Dave Lapham, thank you
for your analysis. My pleasure will anytime

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you're the man. Thank you,
Dave. I'll see you later. Yeah,

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