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Unless our team bus falls off a bridge, hard to envision the bengals losing this game. They’ll probably cover, I’m betting it.

Just looked it up, AT&T pays 17-19 million a year for naming rights to Jerra’s place.

Jerra wouldn’t cross the street for $3.75 million. There is a chasm between the haves and the have nots in this league.

The NFL or the feds or someone is doing an investigation into Snyder’s accounting practices. Essentially, they suspect he misreported income to keep it out of the money that falls into the revenue sharing bucket, and keep it in the bucket that goes to the home team. Knowing him, he probably did it, and he sees the writing on the wall so he’s bailing. One thing that irks me - he’s selling at an all time high. He’s going to make an absolute killing minus whatever nuisance lawsuits he has to settle. I don’t know if nfl franchises have much more ability to appreciate beyond where they are now. Life truly is unfair.

Zac never has them ready to play. Sometimes they get it going once they figure out they’re in a football game. Sometimes, like last night, they just can’t get it in gear. Zac needs to reevaluate how he prepares this team.

Seriously need a left tackle. Jonah Williams was a high draft pick. That’s all I can say right now. Seriously consider a FA next year, they take too long to develop and you can’t tell who’s going to actually turn into anything good. It’s hindsight but giving Huber another year was a mistake. Guys just wear out, even punters.

Browns have an amazing pocket for that no name an to throw from. Need our offense to win this game. Starting chunk plays now!

Going to have to run the ball a little. If we can.

You’re a depth guy, you get your big chance. Clank.

Myles Garrett, dude’s a beast. The offense looks in synch. Get a stop and we’ll score next possession.

Regular broadcast or the Manning brothers?

Other years: Bengals: “We’re here motherfucker! Let’s go!!” Olive Garden Parking Lot Cowboy: “Watch this.” Bengals: “Wait.. urghh… ah fuck!”

So looking forward to this game. Bengals on the rise. The Browns just doing their usual stumbling about. Hopefully the subtraction of Baker will be a big difference for us.

Wow, I would have absolutely loved to have been on that tour. I’m going the next time the bengals play there, and it’s mostly to see the stadium.

Watched that game last night and Brady was not accurate. He missed a number of throws. Also - what is with that dude’s face. He’s morphing into Blue Steel. I think surgery or some sort of fat removal procedure. Dude is sporting the sunken cheekbones of a Dickens novel street urchin. I’m very much looking forward to seeing what the Bengals can put together without Chase. If they just keep everything the same and shuffle guys around I’ll be disappointed. They need to adjust the scheme, looking for Hurst and Evans to thrive.

Hurst is going to get more looks. Obviously Boyd and Higgins will get increased throws. This sucks but if Boyd and Higgins are who they are, it won’t be a giant setback. I don’t even know which of our depth guys is going to be inserted into the lineup, but whoever it is they’re going to get some chances. Defenses will be heavily focused on our 1 and 2, the 3rd guy, whoever it is, is going to get some safety and hopefully linebacker coverage. All hands on deck that’s for sure. JaMarr needs to rest that hip for hopefully a playoff run.

WTF.

The wall is on the writing for Carman. Probably no market for him. After he’s cut, assuming he’s cut, someone will sign him for a reclamation project.

Fascinating to see the competition play out between Apple and CTB. Eli Apple came in here when we needed him and played well above expectations. Having said that, he’s inconsistent. Most worryingly, he doesn’t seem to have the maturity to handle a demotion to depth player. We’ll see. Great line from Dehner there when he describes Gunter’s worst moment as dislocating his knee during warmups. I guess that would be bad. Also funny how he can’t pinpoint a worst moment for Zach Carter. Dude just can’t beat pass blocking yet, like at all.

That Miked Up: ”A bug just flew into my mouth. Jesus.”

Also - not to rip these old timers or anything, but Terry Bradshaw and Jimmie Johnson are finished with a capital F. I watched their studio show and the two of them could barely come up with a coherent sentence after watching Joe’s highlights. Jimmie stammered a bit, then called him “Burrows”, they cut to poor Terry and he just basically had nothing. That whole show needs serious help. Retire those two, tell Howie he better find some charisma somewhere or he’ll be gone. It’s horrid right now.

Dude is on a different level. Watching the talking heads try to process what they were watching was fun. They kind of were stumped for superlatives. You just don’t see guys throw downfield like Burrow. Though most of them quickly pledged allegiance to the Bengals and basically pushed any old ladies to the back to secure their front seats on the Burrow bandwagon. I know because I’m driving the fucking thing.

I was not aware they dropped the potato cakes. Ridiculous, they seem intent on forcing their curly fries on us. Their curly fries try hard to be different. And they are different, just not in a good way.

Did you know that Chad used to be so dedicated to eating Arby’s that he actually didn’t even go home, he just slept at Arby’s. It’s true.

TJ, I must thank you. I was vaguely aware of yelp. I loaded the app in my phone then read the reviews of the Heath Arby’s. Riveting. I’ll summarize so we don’t all pile into the heath arbys yelp reviews. 1. Gabriel says it sucks, his sister works there and they don’t clean the grease baskets for days on end. It was alarming to read that they have something called “grease baskets” but I should have been prepared for this. 2. Joseph M. Is just a regular working guy. Tuckered out after a full day, he orders a number 10 combo. Gets home and is horrified to discover they forgot the fries and one of his Hawaiian Sliders was “plastered to the holder with all the cheese.” He called Arby’s 3 times and let it ring and ring. Guess what, the guys at the Heath Arby’s apparently weren’t born yesterday, they don’t answer the phone. Michael won’t be returning to the Heath Arby’s, and gives it one star. 3. William P. doesn’t have an actual experience at the Heath Arbys to review, he just jumped onto Yelp to say “fuck you Arbys.” 4. Amanda T.’s novella length review tells a heartbreaking story about a visit she and her mother made to the Heath Arby’s. Joey took their order but was rude. Then he used an insulting misspelling of Amanda’s name on the receipt! Elizabeth the assistant manager engaged in a spirited debate with Amanda regarding the various possible spellings of her name. Arby’s corporate office will be hearing from Amanda. Elizabeth’s reaction to this credible threat to her employment at Arby’s? Well, “she just stood there.”