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00:00Is Cincinnati getting in the mix?
00:06Once your team, once your guy, Joe Burrow.
00:08Here we go.
00:09Here we go.
00:10LSU loses yesterday in the swamp.
00:11Wow.
00:12Wow.
00:13The digs are coming out.
00:14Jaden Daniels, terrible quarterback now.
00:15It started.
00:16It's a bad week for LSU, by the way.
00:17Daniels Thursday night.
00:18This could be the smash job.
00:21All right.
00:22So then, now I sit by and wait to hear what you have to say, because now I'm collecting
00:25data.
00:26The Chargers are a one-point favorite here on a Sunday night against the Bangles.
00:32What do you like, Joe?
00:33I'm going to go with Cincinnati one last time.
00:35I am.
00:36No, again.
00:37One last time.
00:38No.
00:39I mean, I didn't.
00:41One last time.
00:42I bet against them this year.
00:45First of all, I didn't bet them all year.
00:47I was against them against Washington.
00:49Let's get it right.
00:50What I mean, one last time is their backs are against the wall.
00:53They're four and six right now.
00:55They lose this game.
00:56They are out of the playoffs completely.
00:58They had a shot last week on the Thursday night with Lamar and Baltimore.
01:03They should have won the game.
01:04They should have had the flag in terms of the two-point conversion where they hit Burroughs,
01:08Hellman, no call.
01:09But again, they played well enough to win, and if they get that type of effort today,
01:14I think they're going to pull out the victory.
01:15Not going to be easy, but I'll take the road, slight road dog here going up against Justin
01:20Herbert.
01:21They're both playing very well right now.
01:22They are both playing very well.
01:23I just love the coaching staff there, certainly for the Chargers.
01:26It's just been horrible.
01:27I mean, he has absolutely turned this team around in one season, getting that foundation
01:30settled and with a legitimate chance now to make the playoffs.
01:32I think Herbert does have a big game tonight, but it does come down to, you saw the dominance
01:36of Jamar Chase over the past couple weeks.
01:37Tee Higgins was supposed to come back here, which adds that extra level of, oh, you want
01:40to double one guy?
01:41We'll torch you on the opposite side with Tee Higgins.
01:43But this is a tough, tough spot for them, and I said before, and I do have a small wager
01:48in on Cincinnati making the playoffs, whether they go one and two over the next three games
01:52they had.
01:53They lost to the Ravens 35 to 34.
01:54They need this victory.
01:56If they don't, they do have the bye week coming in, and then they're going to take on the
01:58Pittsburgh Steelers at home, which I think that's a winnable game.
02:01For me, Joe, I look at this and say, who has to absolutely be a monster?
02:06It's got to be Burrow again.
02:07He's got to throw for three, three 25 plus and multiple touchdown passes.
02:10Absolutely.
02:11That's why I do lean to Cincinnati.
02:12They are a better road team than they are at home, obviously three and two.
02:16If they would have picked up that 25 and four, if they would have picked up that victory
02:20on Thursday night, I mean, they would have been basically four and one on the road, right?
02:25It comes down to that.
02:26I mean, can Jamar Chase and Burrow eat in this matchup?
02:29We saw Will Levis have some success.
02:31Great call by you.
02:32I know you said we would get over that total.
02:35Took what, 59 minutes and 30 seconds to get there, but you still put up 17 points.
02:41You know, I don't want to take away from what Jim Harbaugh has done.
02:44They're six and three right now.
02:45They've won three straight by 15 points per game.
02:48The offensive identity, we might have points because that passing attack is starting to
02:52come around with Justin Herbert, Palmer, Disley, and Quinton Johnson as well.
02:57And I expect Joe Burrow to push, push tempo, Kev, but I'm with Donnie.
03:01It's got to be Chase Burrow.
03:02It's got to be the big three tonight.
03:04So I'll start by saying I am on the under on this game at 48, you mentioned the Chargers
03:08total last week.
03:09That is the first game all season where there's been 40 plus points scored in a Charger game.
03:14I understand that Cincinnati has played some absolute shootouts.
03:18They're a high tempo team who last week played Baltimore, who's a high tempo team.
03:23I went through this, not to throw you guys on the spot, but who are the most over teams
03:28in football?
03:29Great offense, vulnerable defenses.
03:31Baltimore.
03:32Well, Baltimore and Cincinnati might be one and two.
03:34I think Atlanta would probably be in the mix somewhere, right?
03:37So when you come off of like that 10 bell, all right, we can just throw bomb, bomb, bombs.
03:43I think that can then shoot up a total a little bit higher than it should be.
03:46So I'm taking a chance on the under.
03:47Here's one of the interesting things, though, about the stakes of this game.
03:51If you're the Chargers and you win it, you should be good.
03:55You should be in the clear, should be a playoff team.
03:58You should feel like you are in that Pittsburgh level of, okay, we're not, you're probably
04:02not going to win your division.
04:03That's just what the odds say about the Steelers.
04:05They could flip that perception today, but you're going to get in with Cincinnati, Joe.
04:10They are in the, somebody's got to get in class.
04:14Hear me out, Joe.
04:15A loss today, right?
04:16They fall to four and seven.
04:18You signing up for Denver, signing up for Indianapolis, you signing up for the Miami
04:23Dolphins.
04:24Someone's got to get to the seventh spot.
04:27I go back to what Donnie kept saying that when they were, you know, didn't have a win
04:30at home, right?
04:31How many more times can you get off the mat, right?
04:34They lost to some garbage teams, right?
04:37And the longer that you continue to lose later in the season, knowing the situation with
04:42Chase and Higgins, they're going to be checked out.
04:45You could only sell it to a certain point, right?
04:48So it's like, all right, week 11, right?
04:50We're selling this game.
04:51We get this victory.
04:52We're back in the mix.
04:53We're five and six overall.
04:55Hey, everything, once we get to 500, we could get to maybe nine or 10 wins.
05:00You lose this.
05:01Now it's like another three games before 500, right, Donnie?
05:04And then it's like, you know, at some point these guys are going to be like, you know
05:06what, I'm going to, it doesn't matter.
05:08The team is out.
05:09I got to worry about me and I'm going to shut it down.
05:13That is the only concern.
05:15That's why I put a lot of premise on this game and just thinking that if they lose this
05:19game and lose it bad, let's just say by 10 points or more, they might be checked out
05:24the rest of the way.