Pete. Joe borough is back Zach. Taylor coach of the Bengals
says, I don't want to put a timeline on it, but it's been
encouraging. He's back to himself
and meetings and he is looking good.
Mike Ryan the Sunday Night Football sports medicine.
Analyst tweeted something recently about how long it
takes. I mean it's not
like hey my appendix was out and I'm good to go, you've had,
you know, your body cut open. Yeah. Somebody reached inside
and remove something and they say. Sewed, it back up. He got
muscle, that was invaded. You got things that have to heal
and that whole you know yes and whole brightest.
This is fairly important, very quarterback does. This is kind
of good. I could just keep doing it but
it's got. It's got to be good for something better than just
sitting here. Why don't we just do this a whole show? But
anyway, it's gonna take some time and he's back and he'll be
ready to go for Week 1. The question is, what's he
missing, does it matter? It's not like they have an overhaul
of the receiving Corps, like, they do in Green Bay.
I think he'll be fine and they'll be fine.
I think so too.
Yeah, wonder you got to be careful. I mean, yeah, you're
saying a right that twisting that torquing that you're
trying to throw, you know, 50-yard go route, a 20-yard in
cut and you're trying to throw something with the, you know,
a little heat on it.
That's when you create those opposites between the upper and
lower half and that's car. I mean, anybody, you know, most
people have seen a,
an appendix or appendectomy scar there.
It is kind of right there at that crease of where that
happens. Then that motion that you were You know so gracefully
showing the audience on TV so you got to be careful there and
and yes you don't want to
tear anything. Maybe the muscles not completely healed
there yet. I'm not concerned. He's the man. They'll be ready
to go.
I'm just a little bit like
man. I wish you could be out there because I,
you know, I'm one of those that
I don't see. I know there's, there's the debates out there
like well, the Bangles fall off lat from last year and you
know, what would be one of those things? I'm one to go.
I think last year's a jump off with that group there I do.
I just think it just gave them confidence
and that's where I wish he was out there just building that
with them because I think they are on the precipice of
something special there with that crew. They got on
the offensive side of the ball. You said it,
it's a great receiving Corps.
It's a special group of talented skilled players
and now they got an offensive line to go with it
but but I think all in all you know you're right they're going
to be fine and he'll be fine and he'll be ready to go week
one.
Interesting side. Ecological experiment though because only
two teams have ever won the Super Bowl the year after
losing the Super Bowl, it is hard to go back down to
the valley of zero and zero is a dolphin's
haul, it and fight your way out was the Dolphins in Super Bowl
7. After losing Super Bowl, 62 the Cowboys and it was
the Patriots. Oh, yeah. 53, after losing 52 to Giggles, they beat
the Rams in 53
and lost to the Eagles and 52 and obviously, 151
over the for they basically in the Super Bowl every freaking
year for a while though. Didn't they didn't win more than one
in a row. They were in 49. 51. 52 and 53 and 1
1 2 3, right? Yeah. 13. They want. 1951 and 53. Yeah. But
they didn't go back to back like they did back in the last
the early part of their Dynasty Dynasty. Yeah, they
losers. So, anyway,
Bangles, Bangles
after, because I remember when the Bears got shut out by
the 49ers, in 84, in the end, FC championship game, right? That
Lit, the fuse for the 85 Bears. I heard the accounts,
the flight home, everybody was pissed off, and
they just decided, you know what? Next year, we're going to
go take this thing.
That's falling short of the Super Bowl. There's something
about getting to the Superbowl, not winning it and starting
over again. That is difficult, there was a recent comment from
Joe Mixon about how he wishes he had forced his way back onto
the field, where they use,
semaj perine right in that two minute drive. And it was third
and A I didn't get the first down mixing you know, maybe
would have and peer on was actually the intended target
for the desperation throw that Joe burrow made and mixing
upset that he wasn't out there and it's just one of those
things. It's not quite Super Bowl 49
past instead of run that that kind of stayed with
the Seahawks for a long time. But it's
you it's you want to get back to that point the hard part's
getting to that point. Yeah, the easy Parts finishing
the job just like with the 49ers. Remember when College Hanson
a couple years ago what I want to do? Is get back to where we
were
and finish the job,
the easy Parts finishing the job when you're up 10 with
seven minutes left, the hard part is getting to the point
where you're up 10 in the Super Bowl. The hard part's getting
the playoffs and win a playoff games. Look at that. Look how
close the margins were.
The Bengals could have and should have lost every game, right?
That they play. They could have lost to the Raiders. Maybe
should have lost to the Raiders. Could a loss to
the Titans should have lost to the Titans should have lost to
the Chiefs.
It's tough to your drawn, an inside straight. I mean it's
this is not Easy to do to get to the Super Bowl. And it's
only gonna be harder this year in the AFC. Yeah. They have
seized loaded with especially with those special quarterbacks
that's where, you
know, you're not, you're not always
to the point of what you just said there.
When you got a special quarterback, Sometimes the best
team doesn't win because the quarterback just makes a few
plays at the other team didn't or the other quarterback.
You know, made some mistakes AKA Ryan Tannehill and he's not
jobber. Oh I mean yeah there's that and
and I think you know, you're right there is a psychological
element, you talked about those 84 bears and then that was
the Jump off for the 85 Bears and then
on that deer, guess what happened the 85 Bears. Shut out
the New York, Giants 21 to nothing and that became
the jump off for the 86 Giants. And there is something there where
wait, we didn't get to the Super Bowl and were angry and
we don't know what it feels like to be there as compared
to, you know, we got there.
Oh my gosh, what a journey. And we lost, it's just more
devastating. And I got to thinking, you have a bigger
Target the next year. Yes, you do your target. You were pretty
mad.
You're 100%. Everybody's going to want to measure themselves
Against The Bangles early on in the football year ago with
this, is the team that won the sir was in the Super Bowl last
year. Look at us,
you know, and they're gonna be able to sell that to their fan
base. That's what builds a little confidence and culture
in a team but the letdown of that
and then I don't know, maybe the taste in your mouth of
wait, we did get there,
you know? Maybe that takes a little of the hunger away.
I don't know, but there certainly seems to be like
a psychological block there. That is,
you know, hard to overcome their No question.
Yeah, it really isn't and
some may scoff at this, but I think it's real because
the games are so close,
that factors like that, do matter. Yes. Because the games
come down to a play here in a play there and if you're just
a little more prepared, a little more excited about measuring
yourself against the Bengals. When have the Bengals
ever been in our lifetimes, the measuring stick for anything
other than how bad you are?
Realize to the Bengals. You must really suck mean
other than the late 80s the 88, that's it. Yeah, the the team
that almost beat the 49ers in Super Bowl 23 and similar to
similar to Super Bowl. Fifty six,
almost won the game
and it's not like the Bengals came back the next year.
That was the front end of them, slipping, into Decades of crap.
And that's not going to happen with Joe burrow and Jim are
chasing company. That would be a shock if it occurred because
they're on the front end, not the back end but but
Still, it's not easy
to do
when you've lost the Super Bowl because you do have the target
as if you'd want it and in the AFC this year I don't know who
the hell is going to emerge from that? It's going to be
driven by injuries
bad calls. Good call for the other team, bad call for one
team, weird. Bounce of the ball crazy, whether it's going to be
something like that
determines who makes it to the chaplain and might get off just
at go, one more thing. Sorry, I didn't mean to butt in there.
Just let Hey, matchups matter to,
you know, it does and and, and
I had
many people when I was in Cincinnati, kind of referred
to. We wish we would have saw the 49ers in the Super Bowl.
They were disappointed that the Rams got there, they knew
the Rams were the worst matchup for them, and that's what
frustrates you to sometimes. Just you go, oh man, that was
like, the one team
with their bad offense, a line
that they just didn't want to see,
you know, that way. So it is. It's just like you're saying,
it's a game of inches, there's so many. Many little things
that go into it, I'll be one to sit here and go. I
if the Chiefs went to the Super Bowl and played the Rams,
I think the Chiefs win the Super Bowl, they have a good enough,
offensive line to block that group up there and then with
Mahomes I'd go I don't like that matchup from the Rams in
that one.
So it is a there's so many things that you think about
what if this happened, what if that happened and it is it's
hard to replicate it and
we've only seen special teams really do that.