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Quick Take: Bengals Run It Back with Duke Tobin and Zac Taylor Despite Missing the Playoffs Again · Height Differential

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  Let's just start with the Bengals.
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  I mean the game like it was clear they had no interest in
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  getting Joe Burrow hurt. Bunch of quick outs.
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  Didn't really run their full offense until the last drive of
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  the game where they they ran the classics where they got T with
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  the back shoulder. Jamar across the middle finally
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  got him in the end zone to take the lead.
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  Joe misses the throw on the two point conversion to put him up 3
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  where he had him. Browns get 2 defensive scores,
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  McPherson misses two extra points, and that's how you end
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  up losing. I mean, that's what it is.
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  It's more of the, I mean, not the game doesn't really matter.
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  And to be honest with you, I didn't watch the game because A,
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  wasn't on local TV and B, we had women's basketball game.
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  So I was working. But I did catch, you know, read
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  about it, caught, caught the highlights.
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  And it's more of Cincinnati just beat themselves than Cleveland
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  won it. I mean, the two defensive
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  touchdowns. I mean, Cleveland scored six
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  offensive points. Six.
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  Yeah, and. Three of them.
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  Two missed extra points, a missed 2 point conversion, 2
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  missed extra points. I mean, that's what it is.
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  I mean, the Bengals just lost the game themselves and they
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  once the game goes back to not being prepared, you're coaching
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  all of it, whatever it doesn't. Like here's my thing, Like we we
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  talked all about this last week, like all the momentum, like
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  whatever this fake momentum at the end of the season, I'm glad.
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  I'm I'm glad they're going in the offseason with a loss.
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  Now, is it making changes? No, but I'm glad they're going
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  to this season with a loss and we're not able to talk about,
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  hey, we went into the end of the season winning three in a row,
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  winning five in a row like they did last year.
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  They don't get that talking point.
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  But before we move on, no offense, that was his third time
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  this year that he has put the ball on the ground and another
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  team has picked it up and scored.
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  And one other stat for you. Only three teams this year saw
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  that in one game have had a pick six and a scoop and score.
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  It's happened all three times against the Cincinnati Bengals.
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  All three of them, yes. Against the Vikings, the
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  Steelers. Steelers.
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  Yep. And Noah Faint was involved in
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  all three of those scoop and scores.
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  Yes, yes, Zach Taylor in his his post game says that was a
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  fitting way to end the season. Like what?
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  What do you think when you hear the head coach say that?
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  Because he ain't wrong. It's fitting.
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  But is that but let? Me just, but that's not taking
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  response. But he's not taking
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  responsibility for the way the season went.
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  It's like, oh, it's just fitting.
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  Like it was just bad luck it that things just didn't go our
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  way. It's like, no, they didn't go
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  your way because you didn't have the team prepared to play good
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  football. Like take some responsibility.
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  It it is a fitting way, but it's fitting because you made it that
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  way. Well, how many how many times
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  this season have they had the lead with less than two minutes
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  to go in a game? And how many times have they
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  stopped the defense from scoring in that situation and won the
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  game? Zero times.
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  Yes, and the only time they did win a game late was game one
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  when Cleveland missed a field goal at the buzzer.
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  So it wasn't because your defense.
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  And you could also game Game 2 when Browning scored with what?
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  But they didn't. They didn't give him a chance to
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  get the ball back, really. Right.
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  So I mean, that also happened in the Steelers win.
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  Yeah. I mean, T Higgins slides down.
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  So the defense. Doesn't.
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  You have another chance. Yeah, no, you're right.
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  So. In order to win games, you
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  either got to score at the buzzer or your players got to
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  take these inside of five and rely on kicking a field goal to
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  win it. It's pretty sad.
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  Jamar Chase, they asked him About what?
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  What do you think Zach meant when he said this?
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  A fitting way. Oh.
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  He said you'd have to go ask that.
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  He wouldn't even lie. What?
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  He's talking about. Yeah, he's like, yeah, yeah.
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  And look it it, it is fitting. And this is the way that you've
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  lost every game. But instead of saying it's
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  fitting, say our defense isn't good enough to hold teams in the
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  final minute to win games. And if they were, our record
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  would have maybe flipped 345 games.
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  And if you do that like you're in the playoffs.
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  But this defense is what we knew they were Changing your
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  defensive coordinator and adding two rookie linebackers and one
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  defensive lineman is not going to go from being the worst
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  defense to even 20th. They got worse.
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  They got worse. And now you're in the same exact
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  situation and you're bringing everybody back.
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  How many coaches got fired today?
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  I don't know of at least 4. How many ended up getting fired?
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  At Falcons fired the heat. Morse is gone.
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  Browns. Raiders.
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  Pansky Gone. Carols Online.
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  Cardinals. Yes, gone.
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  Is there another? I don't.
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  I didn't write them down, but the plenty of coaches got the
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  axe today. Except the one that's probably
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  deserve it the most. But we knew it wasn't going to
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  happen, and I will. There was one telling thing
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  today. One telling thing.
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  Yeah. In Mike Brown's statement
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  talking about how they believe in this staff and they're all
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  coming back next year, he mentioned Duke Tobin.
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  Yeah. Duke Tobin usually does not get
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  mentioned. Usually he's in the.
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  What does that tell? So what is that telling you?
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  At least tells me that they are aware that the job that he did
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  last offseason wasn't enough. OK.
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  And they still believe in him because he's been there 20
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  something years and he had drafted Achille Smith in 1999.
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  They still believe in him. But I do think it shows that
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  they're at least aware that they need to do more in the
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  offseason. Well, they better be aware.
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  Every fan in Cincinnati's probably emailing Mike Brown
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  saying get rid of Duke Tobin. He's probably heard the name
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  Duke Tobin more times in his the last six months than he has in
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  the previous ten years. I mean, have you?
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  Yeah, everybody has. So of course he's aware.
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  And do Tobin, who never talks to the media, guess what he's doing
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  on Friday? I don't even want to hear you, I
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  mean. It's going to be interesting
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  what he says, like the fact. That Would you?
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  Do you believe anything that he says?
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  Well, we'll, we'll see what he says, OK?
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  But the way this team was constructed with that defense
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  and the fact that you thought, I don't know if they thought or
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  not, there was no way that that defense was going to help you
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  win games. No, there's just no way.
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  No. And I hope that he admits that a
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  little bit on Friday because they have to do more.
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  You have to do more. They are.
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  They are seventh in the They ranked 7th in cap space with
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  like $77 million available on that accounts, with Trey's money
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  coming off the books. All of that money should go to
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  defense. Don't touch the off and bring
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  back Reisner. Everybody else back that on that
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  offensive line that you know of. No, they are.
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  Everybody else is back on that offense.
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  Don't touch it. All defense, all $70 million of
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  it defense, they better spend it.
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  They better spend it. If you got the space, spend it.
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  Well, yeah, it and we talked about this last week.
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  It has to be like the off the the free agent signings where
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  they brought in Trey and they brought in Vaughn Bell and they
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  brought in that's you have to do this again and you have to get
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  it right. And hey, Joe Burrow was his
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  hair's all grown out and he's running his fingers through it
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  the entire press conference, but.
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  He kind of looks like a bomb. And he needs a haircut.
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  But this you said it. Should he go see Tammy at the
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  Fern Creek? Craig Cliff.
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  He needs to go see somebody. But this offseason as big as it
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  gets and look, I get on the national media for this
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  narrative that he doesn't want to be here, that he's going to
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  retire, that he's that he's going to leave and all this.
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  But if you do this again and you.
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  Make This is your last chance. This is your last chance to get
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  this right. Because if you don't get it
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  right this year, it's over. It's done.
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  And it's an absolute disservice to not only him, to Jamar Chase,
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  to T Higgins, to Chase Brown, to all those guys on that offense.
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  Yeah. This is your last chance to get
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  it right. And you finally got your
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  offensive line. It's the best offensive line
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  they've had. Yep.
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  Since Joe's been there, correct. And you've got a chance to bring
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  that same offensive line back to have continuity, which we know
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  how important continuity is when it comes to offensive line.
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  Yeah. And Risner in his post game is
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  just talking about how much he wants to be here and he just
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  hopes that the organization wants him there too.
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  And I, I mean, but we, we've made, we've said a lot of bad
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  things about the organization. I don't think if they can't get
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  this one done, but it's just I think we're not.
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  The only ones that feel this way, I mean, I sent you the Nick
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  Lachey. Can Nick Lachey by the team
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  because Nick Lachey thinks like us.
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  I don't. Think he's that rich?
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  98° they they didn't go 20 times platinum enough to what?
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  Did What did Nick Lachey say? Was all right, let's read his
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  quote here for you. He posted this on his social
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  media. I think it was Instagram or
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  something, but Nick Lachey, this is a quote from Nick Lachey.
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  This is a slap in the face to all Bengals fans and build a
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  team around them. As you said, he's more than 98%.
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  Right, he's more than you still we still not one but.
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  Yeah, he's he's absolutely right.
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  He's 198% right. Like that's the way that I don't
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  understand how we can all see it in old man.
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  Browns doesn't understand it. Well, he might understand it.
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  He just don't want you don't want to spend it.
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  I look they're loyal to a fault and look loyal can be a good
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  quality. It can, but I just think that
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  this offense deserves somebody else in charge.
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  I don't get a sense of 100% confidence in this staff when I
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  hear Joe talk, when I hear Jamar talk.
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  No, and you want that And look, this offense is fine.
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  Like everybody's talking about take away play calling from
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  Zach. I it's, that's not why they're
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  losing games. There's times where I'm like,
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  what? Like his?
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  Decision making. His decision?
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  Making happen with any that that's going to happen with any
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  play caller. His game management and his
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  decision making is poor and it happened yesterday and we saw it
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  on the the one where it was fourth and one and we took the
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  delay of game and we should have gone forward and there's another
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  time or you know, you maybe you shouldn't have gone forward and
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  you did. But it happens time and time
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  again where they take delay of games or they're not lined up
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  ready and they're like they just look a mess.
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  And that's on the head coach. And that has nothing to do with
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  play calling. He needs to grow up.
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  But I I mean the his play calling is not why they're
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  losing games. I didn't.
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  No, it's not. But he needs to grow up as a
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  game manager and that's a big part of being a head coach, I
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  think. I think he, I think more
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  importantly is you need to be a team manager and you you got to
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  play complimentary football. Yeah, because how many times do
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  we see this team play complimentary football this
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  year? 0.
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  No, I think twice. When Baltimore.
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  The last two before this one when it was already over.
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  Maybe the Baltimore game at Baltimore.
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  Yeah, potentially, maybe 3. We created what, 4 turnovers for
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  five turnovers? But I don't know, just it's
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  disheartening to see all these teams make moves and you know
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  your team's not going to make move and and then it does it.