 Our next guest is one of my favorite people generous with his time always three-time Pro Bowl wide receiver yada yada yada ranks first on the Cincinnati Bengals all-time career receptions list he has won an Emmy 17 times pales in comparison to my baby one and he's currently in his 14th season in the Sunday night football booth on NBC chris Collinsworth welcome 17 Emmys what say how are you my friend how are you i'm so good thank you for joining me how are you i'm a little i'm a little worried though that uh since you haven't been to Cincinnati this year my boys are falling apart just a bit and you are sort of the uh the princess of the queen city so can we get a return visit maybe to get the spark going okay because really you ignited the flame last year you know you really did i really did maybe it needs to be like a you and me situation where we both go and take care of business and let's start there in Cincinnati not only home to the print of the princess of queen city but your home of course in the home of pff which we love and they've got all those stats and they're not kind to one joe borough who has been sacked a million times already uh this season and by a million i mean 13 he's on pace for an outrageous 111 sacks this year how do they fix it i don't know but they you know they've been behind in both games and let's start with they played two really good defense it's right they played defense bergs dealers uh got behind in that game had to drop back and throw it and joe was getting killed they got behind against the dallas cowboys uh and and had to drop back had to throw it in you know he's gonna take a beating from that defense as well so they clearly have you know some issues up front they did it's a carryover from last year you would have thought you know they tried to do some things bringing in lio collins bringing in alex kappa they got the rookie bolson over there ted carris so everybody thought it was going to be better but it to some extent too i think that joe borough has to take a little bit of it and just go i'm not going to make my guys look bad anymore you know i'm going to get this ball out of here tom brady you know is under 25 sacks every year for a reason because tom brady knows how to get rid of the football so at this level of football and with the significance of what joe borough is you know he's just used to franchise he's everything to the sentinetti bingles a he has to stay healthy so he's got to take fewer hits and i think he has to take a little bit of responsibility get that sucker out of there every once in a while i literally have a question is there any responsibility of this on borough and you just answered it before i even asked you my only other question that's sort of that mind-melt thing that we got going on that's sentinetti thing chris but also i mean are they going to regret not just getting to ron armstead if you look at you know obviously had a high price tag but maybe i i i hope the o-line gelson works out i really do yeah i know they you know they that jonah williams was a high draft picks i think they felt like that they they had it covered this year and it just hasn't worked out that way so far but one thing we know about the nfl whether you're broadcasting or playing it's a long year right and the things that we thought about in the beginning of last year and what we thought at the end of last year were two entirely different things i mean they just are and you look at even at the playoffs you know does it even matter if you're the number one seed and get the buy or not because the two first round you know the two top seeds last year got knocked out at home in the opening weekend we had a four seed playing a four seed and probably should have been a four seed playing a six seed in san francisco but for the dropped interception right at the end of that game and the championship game right so i it's a long road i think the bangles offense line will get better i just hope that joe survives the year so agree that the backup situation bleak uh in cincinati but i'll get out there i'll fix i'll just i'll fix it off there's your analysis just give them the tip of the tier and you know every it'll all go away just like you did last time it was all you came to town one time one time jack collinsworth showed you a couple of fancy places to go to you know the chili parlor and the greater ice cream and all of a sudden you tip the tier and that was it we were on roll that's the solution that's the boat's missing you're so right here i want to ask you about treyland's because he's done for the years in big nfl storylines with the great chris collinsworth jimmy g comes in he guides them to win over the seahawks i checked pff as i always do and i saw that he earned a barely above average overall pff grade for his performance are the niners actually better with jimmy g under center you have to remember that jimmy didn't even get a playbook you know which is bizarre until like three weeks ago because they all just thought he was going to be traded so they want to show him the whole playbook and so he had to sort of work out on his own on the side and i think somewhere in the back of all of our minds we were wondering you know what is best for the 49ers and we just didn't get to see enough of treyland's to know if he was the right answer but we know that garabalo is good enough at least to take them to the championship game and the super bowl once despite the fact they got beaten and it wasn't for one miss pass on a long ball now and they might have won the super bowl as well so i think that immediately there'll be an air of confidence about this 49ers team but remember he's still coming off that shoulder injury he didn't get a whole lot of training camp either so i think there'll be a bit of a learning curve here that's a young offensive line they're still going to get better as they go along here as well but it was there was a little i don't know it just didn't feel quite right yet with the san francisco 49ers with treyland's and all of a sudden garabalo came in there and it just seems like they've just sort of fallen back into old habits and now they'll rely on the run game defense and i think they're gonna be right in the mix yeah and then this week you've got denver of course a mess with penalties and decisions and all of that how do you use pff to get you set for that game now do that all i mean we use the grades we use the snap counts we use the tendencies we have my guys from pff will come in and they'll study the game from the week before and they'll give me a little breakdown which is what we did uh did all day yesterday denver is an interesting team i just got finished watching the defensive tape and uh they come up there with that five man line and and really try to get some pressure uh with randy gray gree on the outside who came up with the big plate and chub and all the different guys that they have out there so it's a it's an interesting team i don't know how badly hurt patrick sertan is and you know what that's going to mean for this week's game uh but they have to get it going on offense i mean it was startling to watch the number of mistakes that they made and it's easy to put everything on coaching quarterback and uh and just kind of go out of the annual hack and he doesn't know what he's doing and rustle wilson is a bad idea rustle wilson played fine he was putting the ball where he needed to put it within the hack its play calls were fine they were dropping passes they were jumping off sides they were holding every time they started to get something going they went in reverse and then they got down to the red zone and for the second straight game they haven't done anything down there so uh they've had six trips to the red zone they haven't scored a touchdown yet so that's that's the way you get beaten this week so this week they spend more time in the red zone i'll spend a little time at top golf and denberg getting ready for the game and uh we'll be good and of course hanging out on pff and getting set for all of that uh i gotta ask you while we have you and i want to get to the pff app and then have a little fun with you at the end of we're at the end of our show now but uh i gotta ask you indulge me and millions of nfl fans what happened to the slide hi okay so here's here's the basics of what happened all right so when al michael's was my partner al michael's did an opening monologue right he came on by himself and that's that's what al has done for the last 20 years so i'm not changing that you just you you just do that right you just do your opening monologue and then i'll you know so they tell me to sit look at this so they tell me to sit on the on the desk they tell me to sit on the desk and they put a piece of tape believe it or not k between my legs and they put it on the desk and they say all right straddle that piece of tape right there okay so i straddle that piece of tape and i sit in there just like i'm gonna be talking now and so then the cameraman comes over there and he looks at and so al's gonna do his opening monologues they shoot a solar shot of him and he goes chris get your ass out of the frame what are you doing get out of the way so i go are you told me to sit on the piece of tape what do you mean get out of the way so i'm like okay so he goes just lean out of the picture your shoulders in the picture so i go okay so i just lean like that and get out of the picture and so then al comes on he doesn't you know welcome to you know we're lambo field today erin rogers and tom brady da da da da let's welcome in my partner chris cosworth so then i go i go so then i just slide in so that i still have my legs between the piece of tape and and so that's how the whole thing got started and somebody made like a meme out of it or did something i don't know and then it started to become a thing but my three code doesn't do the opening monologue so what am i going to do it's like i'm sitting there i could lean out and then but it's be like stupid i was like so what do you do i don't do you do it just for a fact do you do it or i'll have to do it i don't know i don't know what i'm gonna do well maybe i'll leave that way so as i get finished maybe i just go that way or maybe you need another entrance i mean we'll take fawcett up and out of the show maybe you could do like what lady gaga did at the super bowl she came from the top maybe we strap a harness on you and plop you down i like that a lot you're good on social media everybody loves you on social media come up with an answer i need an answer for this because i don't i get a lot of like stuff people send me a lot of stuff they want me to do it but i don't know how to make it make sense anymore but you're acting like it's not like you like it was gonna go away and nobody was gonna say anything like the world is up in arms we need our cons were slides like come on you knew that i i guess so so just we only have to begin to fade to black here as you as you go off the air here that's how we'll go off the air but not before you tell me about the new app that we need to know about everything you've got going on pff app downloaded over 20 000 people already have downloaded this thing all the fantasy football all the gambling all the news you could ever want you don't need to go anywhere else just go to pff.com and check it out i think you'll love it we certainly will thank you so much chris collins earth for joining okay let's do it let's totally flayed let's do let's let's practice oh bye chris that's perfect okay you're the best thank you so much for joining us as we wrap things up uh we can say bye to chris there he's is he the best he is the best i had so much more i wanted to ask him of course about jaylen hearth's and his performance about erin rogers you know he said yeah they need to run the ball more and i wanted to ask him whether or not erin rogers has that in him to not just take off and throw the ball over the field if he uh feels like it okay that was our show we'll see you guys tomorrow incredible guest big thanks to lane johnson mark ingram and of course the great chris collins earth yeah it doesn't really work maybe we could do like uh i think the lady gaga thinks good