when you consider
the history before the player arrived, who is? I think it
would be maybe a Joe Montana. Yeah. Okay. The 49ers were
nothing right? Especially Super Bowl
era, right? Nothing Super Bowl era, right? And then Montana
changes everything and they were among the dregs of the NFL
and maybe the bills. Sure, the bills weren't horrible. We get
Jim Kelly and it changes everything. I've only I hear
you.
Yeah, those are good. So it's, you know, it's like
in the Broncos have been to a Super Bowl.
Bowl before our way, you're right? The Miami we know
the 70s I got and even though and even though the Bengals have
been to a couple Super Bowls. That was that was like
a lifetime ago. They had been so bad
after their most recent Super Bowl appearance before last
year and then there's just that 30 plus years without one in
a playoff game.
They just were regarded as
you know, it's kind of like what would happen if the Lions
did it. It's gets kind of almost to the same extent.
Lions are Browns one of these teams where
They've been doormat status
sooner than later in the past. And this is a guy who comes in
and changes, everything, just everything and I think it's
hard for people to get used to it. And that's what's going to
be interesting. This year
will teams truly have
the Target on the backs of the Bengals. Will they benefit
from their own history and that people still can't
Get that, you know,
who it's the Bengals.
This is a this is a measuring stick game for us. There's so
many measuring sticks in the AFC. We talked last week, about
the Bengals, Bing
behind the Ravens and the Browns
in the betting odds, for the AFC, North Crown Ravens and
Browns at plus 200 Bengals at plus-2 tennis, not a huge
difference, but maybe they benefit Chris.
You know, what a normal year? Yeah.
It'd be like, we were, hey. Hey, we're going to prove
ourselves by kicking the crap. Out of the Bengals this year in
the AFC You just prove yourself by not drowning. I see ya.
You're there's going to be those type of challenges every
week. You're right.
There is it's four teams and they have see yes most weeks to
your point are going to be oh man this team and
that quarterbacks coming into town this week. Oh man this
team and we gotta go play that quarterback this week and
that's right. I can't wait for the season itself. And yeah,
there's it's like it's like this
is weird. You're it.
It's like them
Kansas City Buffalo. I think it's like there's three teams
that and even maybe even Tennessee, you could throw in
there that have like a Target on their back of being like,
that kind of team. Because even though you look at the Bangles
and go, they went to the Super Bowl.
I still think enemy of the people. Number one in the AFC
will be Mahomes in the Chiefs. I still think that'll be
the team that most teams are looking at to go. We got to
beat them and be better than them to get to the Super Bowl.
I know, Tyree kills gone, but damn the the chief skilled at
this. Season 2 and then people are crazy to think they're
going to fall off Earth because they don't have Tyree kill when
they
win every game. He doesn't play the last few years
basically except for like one.
So that's where it is a little different to your point. Mike.
Then maybe other Super Bowl teams.
I don't know if you saw the video of Patrick Beverley.
We're going to actually talk about buffers. I love it. I've
been watching difference in the preparation
when playing Chris Paul
versus Steph Curry. Chris Paul go out and have A nice steak
dinner, drink some wine, sweat out any hangover in the shoot
around, Steph Curry,
go to bed at 8:00
at turn the phone off.
Nobody bother me,
right this year in the AFC. It's Steph Curry
every damn week.
Yeah, right. So that benefits the Bengals in a normal year.
The Bengals are the
go to bed at 8:00 team
and the other teams are the go out and have steak and wine,
but you're gonna have to be And up every week to thrive, or
survive in the AFC. So, in a roundabout way, that does help
the Bengals. They don't stand out. Yes, the way
the defending conference Champion usually would know.
I think that's exactly right. They don't stand out that way.
They're not, they're not the, you know, the there was talk
about the Bills and Chiefs.
Yes. I mean, that's where they're not the biggest threat.
I feel like to most people in the media or the league.
I think most teams. Look at the Chiefs and Josh Allen still,
and go. I feel like
again, I'm not going to throw names out there.
But I don't know how many people I've talked to in football
that go, man. The Bills must be kicking themselves, all
offseason, the though the bills, the bills would have won
the Super Bowl. If they won that game. They won the Super
Bowl there. That mean
that would have been
the worst matchup for the Rams because it have been Josh Allen
running around and doing all that. Now, D line and they're
all line was a little bit better. So,
yes, I mean to your point. I think that the windows are,
like, Graphics
are my eyes were like,
hey, hey. Hey.
We talked earlier about
shutting out the noise, unless you don't. Hey, Joe burrow.
Hey, anybody with the Bengals, print that out and put that
everywhere you have right in the put that everywhere you're
allowed to have in the building now.
Points, betting is official
sports book, partner of the National Football League print
that out and put it everywhere. That is unbelievable to me
the Chargers higher than the Bengals.
The Broncos. How Arthur this still is astounding to me.
Three teams from the AFC West have better odds to win
the Super Bowl in the Bengals. Get out of here with that at least
at least the Browns in the Ravens aren't on there ahead of
them. No, I know but it's it but I think it speaks
to the broader the broader Point you're making. That's
people still kind of look at it. As the Bangles people still
think it was like a flash in the pan and
it's not, it's just none of it helps, it helps. It does help
me upset about a Bengals fans. It's like the lions, having all
their games at 1:00. It helps
it lets you fly.
The radar but also it's going to help guys get a chip on
their shoulder. It is going to help the Bengals achieve
whatever. They're trying to achieve this year. Yeah it well
it definitely will and I think with, you know, a guy like Joe
burrow leading the charge and then again, you just look at
the team and the old lines going to be better. How good?
I don't know. We'll see during training camp, like Joe burrow
said, but
their offense on paper, I mean last year, it was close to
this. So now you think with the offensive line, you know, there
might have the ability to be a little bit
like, Kansas. City where the offense can be so Elite and
such a great unit
that they're going to play teams and teams are going to go
down. We gotta play a different way this week. We can't think
we're just going to like play defense and
win the game 22:17.
This is Joe burrow and Jamar Chase. They're going to score,
28 or 30. We got to, we got to play a different game game this
week. I think there are borderline getting to that area
of talent
and then, of course, the defense is no slouch either
to go. You better watch. Watch out with these guys. I mean,
they're a big play. Like we saw all year. We called in the big
play Bangles and
that happened in the Super Bowl
against the most physically gifted defense in the whole league.
Yeah, unbelievable. And these highlights just underscore
number one. It's so weird to see the Bengals in that setting
and to see how it is. And you know, as you said last year
those helmets that you've hated. Yeah, ever since they
started using they look at hell of a lot better. Who'll now
I don't
feel burn company
inside.