featured, a rematch of last year's AFC Championship,
the Bengals, and the Chiefs, and it's funny how many people fell
into this, very simple trap of
nobody's beating, Patrick Mahomes three times in a row,
just not happening. Chiefs are going to win simply because no
one is going to be Patrick Mahomes three times in a row
and Joe borrowing The Bangles
Beat Patrick Mahomes
three times in a row three times in the same freaking calendar
year. 2022 has been the year of the Bengal, as a relates to
the Chiefs
for as much as the Chiefs have resided. In the heads of
the Buffalo Bills, the Bengals are residing rent-free in the heads
of the Kansas City Chiefs. It's this weird round robin that's
going on. Oh, by the way, the bills in the Bengals, get
together for the final Monday night, game of the year, coming
up with should
be awesome. Awesome but Mi I you know,
This was exactly the game that I thought it was going to be,
nobody's blowing anybody out. It's going to be back and forth
up and down
and somebody's gonna make a big play and somebody isn't and
that's going to be the difference.
It's big boy heavyweight football.
I mean, it's the same kind of game really that we saw
between the bills and the Chiefs
a few weeks ago. And it just so happens that the, The Bangles
are a bad matchup for whatever reason, for the Kansas City
Chiefs. And it's just, it was one of those games where it's
like, man if Travis Kelce doesn't fumble
with Travis Kelce does not do very often
and then what happens in that game, right? The Chiefs are
still up at that point, they're trying to go down the Old and
score more Harrison bucker. How is he missing
that field goal what's going on.
So it's one of those games are some things happen
and as the Cincinnati Bengals like to say and we showed it in
the open to the show, they've got to come play us, you know
for all the bellyaching that we do
over Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen
be in the top two. Cubies in the league probably don't
borrow is right there and Joe Borough frankly his head more
success over the course of his young career. Then somebody
like Josh Alan
so maybe we should be talking about Mahomes
and
and good Lord, what's happening to my brain right now? Maybe we
should we talking about Mahomes and Joe Borough the way we talk
about my homes and Josh Allen, right? Because Patrick Mahomes
definitely has the championship. He's got the MVP,
but Joe, Bro, right now is playing as good as anybody in
the league and out of these cauchemar. Chase back, who
knows, what's going to happen with these guys is they go to
the Shhhh Tyler board. Last week, Bengals receiver said
that jobber over Sir. Patrick
Mahomes is the new Tom Brady versus Peyton. Manning
many would say it's Josh Allen and Mahomes maybe there will be
three of them. Maybe it's Alan and Brady
Allen and burro burro, new homes, homes and Alan around
robbing their. I mean, it's, it's it's, it doesn't have to
just be two guys. It can be that way. We've got, we've got
some
great quarterbacks. We've got three of them
in the conference and they're going to cross paths.
From time to time and it's going to be great whenever they do
here Zack, Taylor the head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals
on the question of whether borrow is doing what miles just
suggested playing at an MVP level.
He's playing at the level, we need for him to lead us to
be confident that we can go win every game we play. And and you
know so what are those conversations are? Like there's
no doubt. I've said it before. I wouldn't trade him for
anybody in the
world.
Here's the reality. As it relates to MVP. Sigh look,
I understand that. It's part of the discussion.
It generates clicks,
it draws interest. Whom I'm going to bet on who I want to
bet on the MVP. Futures, that's fine. That's fine. Please bet
responsibly but at the end of the day,
who's the number one seed?
That's what's going to determine who the MVP is. If
it's the Bangles,
then it's your burrow. If it's the bills, then it's Josh Alan.
If it's the Chiefs, then it's Patrick homes. Meanwhile, Jalen
Harrison. What the hell do I got to do
to get some votes, right? And it's almost like having more
competition To win the 1 seed, makes the guy whose team does
it
the biggest hero.
So, right now right now you know what she go do responsibly
you should go bet on Josh Allen at 12:48 because the bills are
currently the one seed. And if the bill is finishes the one
seed,
I think it's going to be Josh Allen
as the MVP. So it's come down to him in jail and hurts and
we'll see and now this year because they've got the FI you
everybody's going
to vote for 5. It should make things a little closer and at
the possibility of a tie
but it's the one seed is what's critical until we know who
the one seeds are. We truly don't know who the top two candidates
are for MVP because it's not like
Tyreke Evans going to have 2100 receiving yards.
It's not like Justin Jefferson is going to do it either.
It's going to be one of these quarterbacks and it's going to
come down to the 21 seats in my opinion and one's going to make
it and one's going to not be
the ones going to be the runner-up of the to one seat.
That's how it's going to go.
Yes, and that's how it usually goes. I mean, in, there's
reason for that, you know, women are talking about
the most important position on the best team that kind of
inherently makes you
the most valuable. I mean, if
at the, I don't know, really gonna do that. But if,
if it's my mind right now, I mean, if you have the turd to
current one seeds, I'd go with Jalen hurts just because he's
created fewer turnover plays than Josh Alan. I mean, Jay
Sean still tied for the league lead in interceptions right
now, and they're just sort of
Those lapses sometimes that you see and it's not that he's
playing poorly but it's just I would vote for Jaylyn hurts
over. Josh. Alan, if they if, if I had a vote and the voting
was happening today,
lost in the shuffle yesterday to some o.j., perine filling in
for Joe Mixon, who has not cleared the concussion protocol
had 21, carries for 106 yards. He had a phenomenal college
career. He was
so many of these guys who just have
Like that must be a typo, type yardage in college
and come to the NFL.
It takes them a while like Deonte Foreman. Was it same
kind of guy like for whatever reason and maybe what happens
is these guys, here's a quick psychoanalysis. These guys are
used to being the guy, they're the star there. The stud
running back at their major college program and then they
get thrust into this morass of. Oh, what special teams I got to
play special teams. I gotta I gotta earn my way up the depth
chart. I got a prove that I can pick up blitzers on third down.
I gotta prove that I can hold on to the football
like you get knocked down
just as a way that the system works. Very rarely does. One of
these guys walk through the door and get handed everything
and some rjp run and Deonte forming a couple of guys that
had to earn it and it's taken p. R, i know what P
Ron's got the skills
and good for him
to have 100 yard game and proved to be
a viable number, 22.
Joe Mixon Jamar Chase in his first game back after missing for
with that fracture hairline. Sure, his hip had seven catches
for 97 Yards.
First, December loss for the Chiefs,
since 2018 and Miles. I don't know if you were watching the show
on Friday morning, you know, on the days when you're not on
the show, I assume you get up at 4 a.m. Pacific time to watch.
I stumped Peter.
And I would have stopped myself. I just knew the answer.
I had a Time the chief still have not won in Cincinnati
since 1984
that's the last time. The chiefs of one in Cincinnati
and that was Peter King's first year
covering the NFL
with the Cincinnati Enquirer. It was his second NFL game that
he ever covered. It was Todd, Blackledge vs
Ken Anderson in September of Nineteen Eighty-Four. That's
the last time. The Chiefs have one in Cincinnati when you
think about the last 40 years, Yeah.
The Bengals have not been good for most of it and the Chiefs
have been good for most of it and to think that they haven't
managed to win in Cincinnati. In all those years, it's
amazing to me.
Well, I don't play all that much, because when you talk
about the standings, right? It's not like they've been in
the same place and, you know, the division in the way
the schedule works and all that. But when you said 1984, I was
like well it
wasn't that the first year that
when Peter covering the
Bangles then and apparently yes. So
maybe they wouldn't have stopped me exactly. But yeah,
I mean, that's, that's that's a long, long long time ago,
that's several years. Before I was born long ago, so
apparently it's not just a house
of horrors. Yes, yeah, it was the year,
Another movie from the 1980s that Miles has not seen
Ghostbusters. Have you seen Ghostbusters?
No. Okay. I'm just I'm not going to ask. I'm just going to
assume that the movie was made between 1980 and 1989. You've
never seen
it and you never will.
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