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Baltimore. Joining you on all is
the voice of your Cincinnati Bengals. I

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say, the best play by play
man in the business. Even bigger and

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better than Phil Samp is Dan Hord, Dan Hord, Welcome again to the

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Bill Cunningham Show. Dan or you
recall Phil samp I never knew Phil.

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I never met Phil. I certainly
know of Phil, and I've heard many

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of his great calls over the years, so I know he is the eternal

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voice of the Cincinnati Bengals, and
I'm happy to be following in his footsteps

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many years later. Two issues are
percolating around my brain like a bbe in

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an empty railroad box car. Number
one Brian Combs head this morning this factoid.

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Since winning a Thursday night game in
Philadelphia in December of twenty two twelve,

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the Bengals have lost fourteen consecutive primetime
road games in the regular season.

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What primetime defined is starting at six
thirty or later. Et is that accurate

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is zero and fourteen. The number
is accurate. But I'm very happy you

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brought that up, Willy for this
reason, does job or does Andy Dalton

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throwing a primetime interception in twenty thirteen
have anything to do with the Cincinnati Bengals

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Now? The answer to that question
is no. I say this is the

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year for JB. The only statistics
that matter are the ones in the Borough

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era because Joe Burrow has changed everything
we think about where this franchise is concerned.

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So primetime games used to freak everybody
out. They don't anymore because we

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have Burrough. Now. Having said
all that, they are zero to four

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in primetime road games in the Borough
era, this is a milestone that he

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needs to overcome. He's lost to
in Cleveland, he lost the AFC Championship

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Game last year, and he lost
in primetime last year in Baltimore. So

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I don't know about you, but
when you present Joe Burrow with something that

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he has never been able to do
before, and people talk about it and

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they debate it in Sports Center and
stuff like that, what does Joe usually

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do win? He takes care of
it exactly. He wins. So the

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number is accurate. They have lost
fourteen in a row. All that matters

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is that it's four with Joe Burrow
and let's see if he ends that tonight.

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I think there's a pretty good chance
that he will. Before the kickoff,

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can you get this information to him? Can you pass it on and

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say, hey, Joe, do
you know that you're zero in five that

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the Bengals are zero and fourteen?
Can you get him that information? If

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I see him in the team dining
room, I'm going to say, by

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the way, Joe, you realize
you've never won a road primetime game.

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The Bengals quarterback, you're owen four. Joe, You're own four. Joe,

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You're own four Joe in the cl
response. Now, Secondly, I

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thought this was a joker, some
sort of a prank headline in ESPN.

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As of twelve oh one pm today, Big twelve WWE pairing hands title belt

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to conference champion. The new pack
will include a blended Big twelve and WWE

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logo on the fields at eight and
G Stadium. The partnership is and also

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Nelly's going to perform at halftime.
But did you know that the Big twelve

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where you've seen Al calls home has
hooken up with Pro Wrestling. I didn't

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know that until your producer, the
Great broadcast. Sheriff Dave Peaton informed me

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of that before I went on,
but I did take a quick peek at

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the ESPN story on the subject.
I'll tell you Brett Yormark, who is

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the commissioner of the Big Twelve,
will do anything and everything to try to

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expand the conference's footprint and audience.
You know you're gonna play basketball games south

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of the border. They had a
basketball clinic in New York City in the

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off season that the Cincinnati coaches were
involved with. So I'll give them credit

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for trying to come up with creative
ways to get people talking about the Big

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Twelve. It does seem to work
well. You talk about Hull, Klagner,

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Rick Flair, give me the Dan
Hord, Mount Rushmore and pro wrestling.

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Now that you've hooked up with the
WWEE, who are the four heads

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on Mount Rushmore For Dan Horde of
pro wrestling, I'm not sure that I

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can come up with four, Willie. I've never been a big pro wrestling

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guy. My grandmother, my mothers
or my father's mother, Norma Hoard,

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was an avid pro wrestling fan.
She was convinced it was real. So

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Grandma Hoard never missed pro wrestling,
but her love of that broadcast entertainment sports

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entertainment was not passed down to her
loving grandson Dan. So you can't give

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me hul Cogan, Rick Flair,
maybe the Undertaker give you the Rock.

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The Rock, I can give you
the rock yep I can give you Andre

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the Giant. Okay, So there
we've got four. That'd be a good

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matchup, right there, that'd be
a good matchup. All right, let's

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talk about football with your permission.
I know you want to talk about pro

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wrestling, but we got to talk
about football now. Big story in the

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inquiry today about the key injuries.
Of course, we know about t Higgins

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and Sam Hubbard with the Ben Galleys. Any other players are going to be

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injured and not playing the night other
than Higgins and Hubbard. And yeah,

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Andre Rochi Yosi Vash the rookie wide
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I think Trey Hendrickson will play.
So that's the big headline in the last

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twenty four hours or so. Because
Trey got hurt late in the loss of

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Houston on Sunday, Hyper extended Hyper
extended his knee. A lot of people

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speculated that well, Thursday night game, you won't be able to come back

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that quickly. But he has basically
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like he will answer the bell tonight. So that's big. That's your best

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pass rusher, somebody that can hopefully
keep Lamar honest when he drops back to

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throw. So they're gonna miss Hubbard
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happy to hear that Trey Henderson is
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what about the Ravens quote the raven
Nevermore, which Ravens will not take the

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field field of honor tonight about eight
fifteen. They're missing their Pro Bowl left

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tackle Ronnie Stanley, so that's a
big loss, and they might be missing

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their best cornerback, Marlon Humphrey.
He is listed as doubtful for the game

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tonight, so that means less than
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standards for that kind of stuff.
So those would be two big guys out

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if that's the case for Baltimore.
Baltimore's favored by three and a half points,

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which is basically a pick him kind
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have always had trouble with Lamar Jackson. They've had trouble with Baltimore. When

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Lamar Jackson plays, off the top
of your head, it appears that when

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Lamar Jackson plays with Joe Burrow,
I have a sense Joe Burrow has a

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losing record. Am I correct?
You are correct? So Lamar Jackson has

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made eight starts in his career against
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When he's missed games during that time
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So that's a pretty big indicator of
his value to the Ravens. Now

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head to head against Burrow, I
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One of those games was Burrow's rookie
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Bengals weren't very good. But in
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favor, including Week two this year
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So we'll see if joey be can
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Can you put in perspective, well, we made our picks back in

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May. By that, I mean
segment myself in the rock and all of

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us had the Ravens winning tonight.
Looking back from May. In June,

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predicting the entire seventeen game season,
eighteen week seventeen games, we predicted,

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all of us said the Ravens are
going to win that game. We all

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of us predicted the Ravens would lose
at a pay corps that didn't turn out.

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So can you put in perspective how
big this game is for the Bengals.

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Ito's huge. I don't think the
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they don't win tonight. I don't
think it would doom their playoff chances because

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there's kind of a muddled pack in
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like three and six losses, and
a couple of those teams will emerge and

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become wild card playoff teams. But
if they lose to Baltimore tonight, you're

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two and a half behind them in
the division. You're zero and two head

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to head, so you'd lose the
tiebreaker. I think it would be virtually

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impossible to win the division for the
third great win our third grade year if

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they don't win tonight. So their
chances of winning the AFC North I think

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will be determined at about eleven thirty
this evening Tony Bender tells me that the

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Bengals going to win this game flat
out because when the chips are down,

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when Joe Burrow's backs up against the
wall, when they got to win a

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game, this is the kind of
game they win. Plus, the weather

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is going to be extremely cooperative for
both sides as far as a passing attack.

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The temperature is going to be in
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the time eleven the'clock rolls around,
maybe the low fifties. That is perfect

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Joe Burrow weather, It's perfect.
I wish we had T Higgins. I

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think to have that nextra receiver would
be huge. That you're saying there's no

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chance of him playing. There's no
chance of T Higgins playing tonight. That

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is correct. He's not practiced since
Wednesday of last week, so Tea is

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definitely out tonight. It's going to
be a feed Jamar Chase kind of night,

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and the Ravens are going to double
team him. It's going to be

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hard to get him the ball,
but it's going to be up to the

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Bengals coaches to find creative ways to
do it. I will say this,

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there's one thing about Thursday Night Football
that I think comes into play tonight.

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You've got very little time to do
opponents specific game planning for a Thursday Normally

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you've got several practices where you are
doing a lot of stuff specifically based on

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the film study of the other team. You just don't have time to do

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that for a Thursday game. So
I think Thursday games really just kind of

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come down to basic stuff. And
with Joe Burrow certainly anything as possible,

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and I expect Joe to play very
well tonight. And lastly, I mean,

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look at the game Ravens lost to
Cleveland. They've looked that they've lost.

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Now Nick Chubby didn't play, and
Deshaun Watson looked like the old if

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there wasn't old Deshaun Watson in the
second half in Baltimore, I think it

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was fourteen to fourteen. There's that
number again. In the second half,

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he was fabulous. Now he's out
for god knows how long. So the

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Ravens are depressed. The Ravens don't
need the game as much as the Bengals

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need the game. If the Ravens
lose, they're still in first place.

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And with Cleveland having all these problems, it looks as in Pittsburgh. I

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don't know what Mike Tomlin is doing
in steel Land. It's unbelievable. Well

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what I mean to have a six
and three record with that team, and

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they have a much easier record.
But if Cleveland falters as Cleveland always does,

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I mean, nobody would want to
live in Cleveland, and so for

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God's sakes and so you really it's
the Bengals, and it's the Ravens and

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the Bengals. How they lost that
game to Houston was it's unbelievable. But

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nonetheless, the Bengals need this thing
like a pit bull needs a pork chop.

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And then the Ravens are on the
other category. If they lose,

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it's okay, they move on,
they get ten days, then they come

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back. All right, Dan Horde, I don't want to put you on

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the spot at all, but give
me the final score. Let's say it's

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now eleven forty seven pm Eastern time
tonight. I'll hold you to account for

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this. What is the final score? Willie? Last year, in a

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night game in Baltimore, the Bengals
lost on a last second field goal by

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Justin Tucker, the great Ravens kicker. They flip the script tonight. They

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win the game on a last second
field goal by Evan mc pherson from about

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forty seven yards away. Final score
Bengals twenty four, Ravens twenty one.

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All right, we're going to hold
you to account for that. Get my

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best to Dave him and Dan hold
Dan? Are you living out your dream

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right now? A little boy helping
Syracuse? Are you living out your dream

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here? It is twenty twenty three. I think about you calling against Alabama

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and then the Bengals Super Bowl?
Is this your dream? Have you reached?

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Have you reached the mountaintop? Willie? Reality has exceeded my dreams.

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I wanted to be a sports broadcaster. If that had been the Friday night

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high school game of the week back
in my tiny hometown of Lakewood, New

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York, I think I would have
been happy. But I'm going to do

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an NFL game tonight. I'm going
to do a college football game on Saturday

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afternoon. I'm going to do a
college basketball game on Sunday afternoon. It

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is the greatest gig in the world, and I am unbelievably lucky to be

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able to do it. Both of
us live undeserved lives, and certainly the

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case for me, Willie me just
a good way of phrasing it. I

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am very grateful, Dan Horde,
you're a great American and thank you for

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coming on the Bill Cunningham Show.
Thank you in anytime, Willie, Thank

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you, God bless America. Let's
continue with more. The line becomes available

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five one, three, seven,
four, nine, seven, twenty four

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to twenty one Bengals forty seven yard
field goal money Mac maybe hits the uprights

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and goes in. How about that? I take it. Remember Joe Burrow

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zero and four Bengals overall zero and
fourteen in primetime road games in the regular

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season and playoffs. It ends tonight, Bill Cunningham News Radio seven hundred WLWO.

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It's a prime time slumber knocking.
The Bengals and Riebits are looking for

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redemption after a heartbreaking losses. That's
gonna be It's Joe Burrow versus Lamar Jackson.

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In a heated conference showdown by Jay
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