year, in overtime Chief safety. Justin Reed wasn't on the team
at the time, but he was asked what he would have done
differently in that game. Here's what Justin Reid said,
a lot of is going to come down to making the play on the ball,
you know? And they have 88, higbee know, it's that isn't
I hate me with the Rams?
What's his name?
It is Higgins.
Higgins.
They're going to have him back. He's a very talented receiver
to Of a finesse type of guy not the best blocker.
I'm going to lock it down,
you know, a straight-up.
So you know we don't have to come out and game like I said,
Fair best game and go out and do it.
Read thereafter got out the mop in the bucket. And he went to
Twitter to say this to be honest, I meant Hayden Hurst
for the man matchups. Nevertheless any and everybody
is still
getting locked up that caught the attention
of Bengals tight end, Hayden Hurst. Here's what he had to
say about Justin reads remarks.
I don't know. Yeah I mean you could pick anybody in this
locker room but I feel like I'm the last person you probably
wanna f*** about
because I have a long memory
Ha ha ha. Well, you don't need a long memory because the games
just a few days from now
and Peter, Justin Reid
fumbled this one on another level
because he was asked what he would have done. If he would
have been part of the cheese defense that day
havenhurst wasn't on the team.
CJ use AMA was the tight end at the time, Hurst came in
the offseason after use AMA left via free agency. So
Justin Reed, got that so wrong. He doesn't Even know how wrong
he got it.
I mean this falls under the category of their six days were
football, isn't played
in most cities in the NFL,
okay? And this falls into the category of who gives a crap.
I mean ha ha ha. You know
what just Justin Reed? Justin Reed
is going to say.
Yeah, I'm going to lock down. Whoever I come up against,
I mean, did he say Hayden? Hearst.
Jinx.
No, he didn't say that. He didn't even know his name
and you know Hayden Hurst always that's I'm the last guy
you want to talk crap about? I mean,
who cares? You know I just think Mike. Look
I'm an old man
and I'm sending my suit back and I'm raging at the kids that
all my
butt in my years covering the NFL. There have been so many
Mountains made out of so many stupid mole Hills. And what
I read about this yesterday, I just said to myself,
classic example of no, 12 of people,
I'm not saying inventing stuff,
okay. You want to use it as the fourth note,
in your locker room notes, that's fine.
You want to make it a headline.
It's it's silly. It is flat-out. Silly.
Well in this day and age, there are no longer fourth notes. In
locker room notes, every little blurb like that is its own
headline but that's a different issue altogether. The point
I think is that
these two teams for the most part
are very careful about saying anything
that could be used
as the old bulletin board material. We have a lot of
bouquets being thrown back and forth between Pat Mahomes and
Joe burrow, but I think there's an undercurrent of animosity
there especially coming from The Chiefs,
the Chiefs lost to the Bangles
twice last year, late in the regular season
and in the playoffs and, you know, at least with the bills
rivalry the Chiefs are on the right side of it. When it
matters, the bills have won the last two in the regular season.
But until the Bills win in the postseason, the chief still own
the Buffalo Bills,
the Bengals have quietly acquired title
to the Kansas City Chiefs
and I think there's a lot more bubbling under the surface and
I'll interpret this does. Just up between Reed and Hurst
as just a little indication
of what's being said behind closed doors. I think that and
that's good because if they're
carrying around pent-up frustration maybe that
guarantees a better football game. So
I think it became a story because nobody else from those
two teams is giving anyone anything that they can use
to Showcase, what should be
the one game that. We're all circling this weekend that this
is a conference Championship rematch between two teams that
are on a collision course for the postseason. So
it's a huge game
and except for Justin Reid and hatin Hurst. Everybody's
keeping their mouths shut when it comes to saying anything
that could be used against them.
I think what is really interesting when you think
about the Bengals right now? Mike, I'm going to say
something that that is, you know, you've got to sort of put
your thinking cap on a little bit, okay? But but I think that
if you look at two
teams in the AFC, one of which was the number one seed last
year, and the other of which everybody thought was
the nominal best team in the The AFC of the end of the year,
only didn't win to go to the Super Bowl and that's Kansas
City. So, if you take the Tennessee Titans
and the Kansas City Chiefs
since January 1st,
okay? The Cincinnati Bengals against those two teams are 3
and 0
and could be four in a row
in this calendar year. Because remember they played the Chiefs,
you know, right after New Year's last year, I think it
was January 2.
And then they beat Kansas City again in the playoffs
and then and I'm sorry, therefore and 0 therefore and 0
against those two teams because they beat Tennessee
last year in the playoffs
and then this year
in the regular season.
So I look at all this. And I just say,
I think it was fashionable and I was probably among them
because I pick Baltimore to win
the AFC North this year.
I think it's Fashionable to say that the team that loses
the Super Bowl
history says that,
they don't perform all that. Well, the next year,
but it's a good thing. Joe burrow doesn't read history,
I don't think he does. Maybe he does,
but it or at least he doesn't pay any attention in history
because he's slapping history. In the face this year
for the Bengals, to be 4 and 0 against
the. Number one seed from Last year and the team that
everybody fought by the end of the year was the best team in
the AFC
and could be five in a row after Sunday, that is
an amazing feat by the Cincinnati Bengals.
And it is stunning to me that the Bengals aren't more
regarded as a Super Bowl Contender.
I think it's because last year's Super Bowl run
had
a pretty strong Vibe of. They got lucky. Now, they would
disagree and I disagree with it, but when you look at each
of the games, there was that weird call on a play. That
looked a lot. Like the Josh Allen last night
rolling to the right. And just at the sideline, throwing
the ball, remember the inadvertent whistle that marred, the
win, over the Raiders,
and it didn't really feel like the Bengals were
dramatically superior to the Raiders that day, they had to
fend off a late drive by Las Vegas to win that game and then
they go to Tennessee and Joe burrow gets sacked, nine times
and
somehow they get lucky and win that when they go to Kansas
City and they're down
big what was it? 20 13 at one point in the first half and it
was over in the Chiefs get greedy. And the next thing you
know it's a game in the next thing, you know, the Bengals
win and they almost won the Super Bowl but I just don't
think
that a lot of people looked at what they did last year and
said, this is sustainable and early in the season, those
people were proven kind of ripe But Here Come the Bengals. Even
without Jamar Chase. They've been very
good in recent weeks and now they get chased back
and what they're doing is sustainable
and Joe, burrow is healthy and Joe burrow is getting it done.
And Joe burrow is determined and we've just kind of
forgotten about And we get so caught up in Pat Mahomes and
Josh howling. And whoever that
the new flavor of the month is
Borough was the flavor of the month last year
who just kind of moved on
and, and I say, we like collectively everybody who pays
attention to football. I think we need to start paying a lot
more attention to Bengals and we will if they win at home on
Sunday where they are two and a half Point underdogs to
the Kansas City Chiefs. And I guarantee
you that fact is going to be used by someone in that locker
room to get those players even more fired up.
You know, I'm sure they will but
I don't think there's any shock to be underdogs to Patrick
Mahomes and Travis Kelce and Andy Reid.
You know, I mean that's, I think it's still take it as
a slap in the face for The Bangles.
You might, I'm sure, I'm sure and look
coaches can use anything at any time and I'm sure that Zack
Taylor. If he feels like it will help them will use it
because he's an NFL coach. And that's what NFL coaches do.
I think. Here's the way I look at it. Mike.
So in both of those games you talk about, why did The Bangles
not enter this year?
Getting the kind of respect that? You think that they
should? I think number one is history. The fact that Super
Bowl losing teams,
traditionally have not been great the next year and it's,
I mean, it's almost annual, okay? That's number one. And number
two,
just remember,
you know,
in their last two games of the AFC playoffs
Ryan Tannehill and Patrick Mahomes through five passes to
Bangles
and so you get picked off five times,
Andy. Even though you might be a better team than the Bangles,
if you get picked off five times, you're not a better team
than the Bangles and I think. And, and the way that those
things happened, the fact, that Tannehill threw an interception
in the last
minute of the game and the Bangles got in position for
Evan, McPherson to kick a 98-yard field goal or, you
know, whatever it was. And then the next week almost the exact
same thing.
Ins Mahomes throws that interception. I think it was
Devon Bell
and and you know they go down and kick another field goal to
win, I'm not in any way
minimizing, what the Bangles did. The Bengals won those
games on the road, Fair Square, deservedly.
What I am saying is that,
you know, those, I'm not saying they're coin-flip games, but
they're damn close. And so
I think that's why entering this year
plus The fact that Superbowl losers don't perform that.
Well, the following year,
that's why I think everybody was dubious on The Bangles.
Trivia question for you, Peter King.
When is the last time? The Kansas City Chiefs won a game
in Cincinnati.
2017.
I was going to give you a hint. When is the year that you began
covering the Cincinnati Bengals?
Oh, that's crazy. 1984.
Yes, that's the last time. Are you out of your mind? Yeah,
that is
that's what the sheet that is the craziest thing. I've heard
the research has been confirmed, 1984, six straight
losses. It's odd that they haven't played more than six
times in 40 years,
almost in Cincinnati sincere in the same conference and they
cross paths more often than if they were in different
conference. But yes, six straight losses to The Bangles.
During that period and it is surprising because
for most of that period,
the Bengals have been crap
and the Chiefs have been pretty good.
So Cincinnati's got something figured out, I don't know,
maybe they send a bunch of bad Chile to the Kansas City hotel,
the night before the game. Maybe that's the secret. Mike.
That was
I just looked it up. That's the second
NFL game I ever covered.
It was the second game of that season.
Kansas City 27,
Bangles, 22 is Zero recollection of it.
I wonder who played quarterback. Would it have been Bill? Kenny,
would it have been hot? Blackledge Berg?
Todd, black could have been to. Yeah, I bet it was
Todd Blackledge. I bet it was
Todd Blackledge against Kenny Anderson. I bet.
In 84, was it Boomer Esiason? He was drafted, Navy Force.
Well, be a boomer. That would have been Boomers second. Game
is a bangle. I don't think he was starting.
I'm pretty sure Ken Anderson
would have been playing the first month or so.
Yeah, I'm talk. Leverage, Anthony Anderson.
We're thank you. Courtney
here. Here, here's here's my here's my suggestion.
Unsolicited free.
So he's getting his money's worth
and you read fly Peter King to Cincinnati to cover this game,
if you want to win. That's the
Peter back.
That's that's the only way
if they want to make it happen in Cincinnati for the first
time since the year of Ghostbusters.
84. Hey my man, by the way, I chased by the way. Go ahead.
By the way, isn't this
one of the sneaky great weeks on the schedule like in a long
time
like I am totally fascinated by Miami at San Francisco. Kansas
City at Cincinnati is the game of almost any week. This year,
the way those two teams are playing
and And I mean, there are so many really interesting matchups
and important matchups
this week. I think this is going to be,
I think a fabulous Sunday.
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