we choose based upon the question let's begin with this
which is the real Bengals team
we say eight 9 when they lost to the Jets and the Browns was
75 points allowed to be weeks 11 and 12 post by wins against
the Raiders and the Steelers are the only 23 points allowed
which is the real Bangles
I'm going to go with B Mike this just feels like to me
a team that's figuring out how to win and figuring out that they
are good and they are and I think they have a chance to do
special things not just in the future but
I didn't have a chance to do something special this season
we all know how long it's been since this team has won
a playoff game 1990 I think was the last time they want to plug
in it decades ago so they need to figure out how
to win we're really good we can do this and I think they're
starting to that 13th offensively 13th defensively 6
in scoring 60 points allowed they're just doing a great job
overall and I think this is a really good football team they
just need to keep
it going my can in figure out how to win some close games
figure out how to beat the better teams in when they get
to the postseason they could be dangerous
yeah I agree with you completely and Joe burrow has
kind of been a hard reset button on the franchise
the stuff that happened the past does not matter the struggles
do not matter all that matters is moving forward they expect
to beat the Steelers they expect
us at the standard a expect to win games and I'm impressed by
what they've done since those two losses I think this is
the real Bengals team the past two weeks because they took that
bye week they diagnosed her issues you heard Joe burrow say
that
he had fallen in love with the big play he realized in that
week 7 win over the Ravens right before the two straight
losses that your marchaste was being double-teamed more and
more and you take them away instead of trying to force
the ball to him
or stare him down to the point of the pocket collapses
whatever the case maybe you just throw the ball to other
guys were going to be open or you run the ball more Joe Mixon
has been a star the past couple of weeks over 280 rushing
yards and four touchdowns as they recognize there are
running Lanes as teams try to stop tomorrow Chase all right
winning streak the Patriots with now six in a row
who have won four in a row and they have two more home games
plus thereby they don't play on the road again until they go to
the Superdome 4 weeks from tonight against the Saints ring
which one's more surprising to you
I think they're both pretty surprising but I'm going to go
with Visa Dolphins because I thought they were done sitting
there at 1 and 7 + 1 + 17 has never made the postseason and
they have a chance to do that and if you look at
how their winning streak started it started with barely
a victory over the Texans 17:9 it wasn't very impressive and
then all of a sudden to come out and beat the Ravens
somewhere else done right and then the Jets and the Panthers
I had the game yesterday
with them against the Panthers and I thought they were pretty
impressive beating the Panthers like they did and I just said
now they have the Giants and the Jets and the Saints and
the Titans and the Patriots and at least you got a chance here if
they just take it game-by-game they're getting better every
game I think to a has found him a weapon and Jaylen waddle he
knows him very well from their time in Alabama that was
definitely wattles best game yesterday over 100 yards
receiving for the first time and
he looked like an elite receiver yesterday Mike
yeah and amazing to see how he's come on to the time when
Chase has tailed off in the Patriots light by Mac Jones
he's now the clear favorite to be the offensive rookie of
the year but I think the Dolphins win streak is more surprising I
look I expected the Patriots to settle in like they always seem
to do and Bill Belichick to find the best formula to get
the best out of the team that he has the Dolphins were 1 and
7 they were. It was over and I think it
worked out perfectly that the window closed on the trade talk
involving DeShaun Watson in the Texans it was over it was done
there's no reason to even discuss it anymore after that
what happens they start winning football games to Watauga Bilo
is no longer distracted by
and I really do think it was a real issue that that they're
not going to be forthcoming about the stuff going on behind
the curtain I think 20 was upset about the fact that they
were ready to throw him overboard for Deshaun Watson
they never gave
him a fair chance and maybe he he did what
what I said all along Tom Brady would do you get pissed off and
you decide to go out and play so well that they're not going
to want to think about the Sean Watson or anybody but you as
the team's quarterback most offensive
I'm going to try that again not most defensive but most
impressive offensive performance out of these two
choices nothing offensive about it the 49ers with 34 points 423
total yards and 200 rushing yards against the Vikings or
the Packers with 36.399 total yards and 307
pass yards against the Rams which one was more impressive to you
I think this one's pretty easy Mike I think it's the Packers
because the Rams defense was number one in the NFL last
season they've added Von Miller they were supposed to be great
now they haven't lived up to that I get that but this is a
a really talented defense with a lot of name players on it and
they just rolled this team they play opening Dr but then they
went touchdown field goal field goal field goal touchdown punt
touchdown they also had three Red Zone field goals on the day
Mike if they had scored touchdowns on those just
imagine what that score would have been this was
an impressive offensive performance by the Packers
remember two weeks ago after the Rams were steamrolled by
the 49ers running game the excuse was well this this is
a team
that vulnerable to run it's designed to take away to pass okay
what happened on Sunday at Lambeau Field and in
the problem isn't coach Dungy made this point yesterday while we
were talking about the games the idea that this was
the measuring stick for these Rams that have gotten Matthew
Stafford and Von Miller and Odell Beckham jr.
this is all about getting past the Packers now they still may
have a rematch in January but it's far more likely that games
going to be played at Lambeau Field. It's 05 Stadium that's
what the stakes were on Sunday so they may have to go back
there again and you know we're reaching the excuse-making
phase of the season for Matthew Stafford he's injured he's not
injured what you know Google why is he not playing well well
he's dealing with these injuries oh no I'm fine
I looked at the Rams are not
fine they lost three in a row and I think it was more
impressive the Packers dismantled that defense that
have all of these MVP All-Pro level performers on it and
the Packers just have Aaron Rodgers supposedly although plenty of
other guys got it done yesterday all
right which 6 and 5 a.m. Key West team is most likely to
make the playoffs so we have three choices here a b or c
the Chargers the Broncos or the Raiders all six and five which
one of them do you think is most likely to
get it
or is this is a tough choice Mike I'm a go with the Chargers
because I think they're the more talented team among those
three teams but boy they haven't played like it and that
was a huge disappointment yesterday they're just
absolutely laid an egg but I'm
going to go with the Chargers it cuz they do have this
the Giants on there they should win that game and you figure
they're going to beat the Texans but those other games
are at Allsup's and they need to play well this week against
this and
that are for playing so poorly and Justin Herbert has a played
well here of late opportunities to prove it against each other
I see they each have three division games left in
the final five and I think the charges to go with the team
that has
the best quarterback all due respect their car I think
Justin Herbert is the best quarterback the problem is
the rest of the team isn't backing it up and they started so
strong and then they just kind of falling into this
just you never know what you're going to get out of
the Chargers any given week that they came they should have one
after that that win over the Steelers where they fell apart
then they came back and won and I thought that would give them
a boost to go into Denver and and expose the Broncos is being
overachievers and now the Broncos are six and five and
I don't
know what the hell to think about them because Teddy
Bridgewater got injured and then he played Andrew because
Drew lock was so bad at the back of its not like Teddy
Bridgewater has been great so I'll go Chargers then maybe
Raiders then maybe Broncos although I've
noticed something that I find encouraging Broncos fans are
starting to get an attitude again in a few years again
that's a sign that a team is starting to come back the fan
to start to feel it and there's a little bit of
an attitude cuz can keep it go