 Ravens, bingles, this is a game that you can never be prepared enough for simply because these are two division opponents and with your division opponents these guys they know you unlike a lot of other teams that you only play once a year some even once every four years you play these guys at least at a minimum two times a year sometimes in some cases maybe three because this game is so important because it's so crucial because like we said you can never be prepared enough we prepared to have another special guest to come on the channel to talk Ravens, bingles, Sunday night football match up let's get it the YouTube team keep it clean a very very special guest in the building my god Anthony from the orange and black inside of bingles podcast and we're here to of course talk about this Sunday night football game between box more Ravens and the Cincinnati bingles first and foremost Anthony let everybody know exactly what it is that you do and where they can find you well thanks for having me on again Justin good to get to chat with you I always I would love having you on our show love talking about this rivalry here but our show is part of the sincey jungle podcast network sincey jungle of course is within the espionation umbrella so I do some writing at sincey jungle dot com and then do some podcasting our show the orange and black insiders on youtube all the major audio platforms as well I co-host it with with my buddy John Sheeran who does a lot of the same in terms of writing and podcasting so we have a lot of fun and been doing it for a handful of years you've been exceptionally kind to our show coming on quite frequently so we appreciate that and just have some fun with it talking some bingles and AFC north all that good stuff oh yeah for sure and I appreciate it and now for the bingles how you feeling about the bingles right now as they sit in sit at two and two I was some very both interesting wins and losses how you feeling about Cincinnati right now it's hard to say and I think this sunday night's going to tell me a lot tell a lot of people a lot about both teams right I mean it's it's been kind of a little bit of the same throughout really the entire division it's a lot of you know good wins solid wins and then just these inexplicable losses yeah when you look at it I mean the bingles should very easily be three and one or four and oh at this point in time really weird set of circumstances both by their own errors and out of their control in the very first game you know when you lose a long snapper you never really figure that's going to happen and then they had two opportunities yeah you had two opportunities to win that game lose it at the very end over time the Steelers did not look good on offense on that side you know in that game the bingles had five turnovers in that game as well and still had an opportunity to win next week they go to Dallas face a backup in Cooper Rush they barely lose that one at the final gun there by a field goal so the losses have been by minimal minimal amounts the wins have been by you know essentially more than one possession the last two weeks and they're starting to write write the ship a little bit there but here's the thing man I what I can't get my get my arms around with this team is in the four games they're two and two and they've basically played for varying amounts of time four backup quarterbacks right Trubisky benched you know Cooper Rush I mentioned him then you go to the Jets Flacco backup then this week the unfortunate injury to Tua Teddy Bridgewater comes in so you're two and two against four backup quarterbacks at this point in time and I don't really know what to make of that but it seems like slow start they're starting to hit their stride a little bit this game is going to tell me a lot though yeah that's that's a really good point about the the four backups now something that you mentioned as far as the games and just how close they've been and the excruciating losses and how the bingles they could have been three in one or even four and no um but if you would have taken out the bingles name from everything that you said um and then thrown in the Ravens names then we could be having the same exact conversation uh because the Ravens they uh again in in the losses they've been by all the one score games um and then with the wins they've been by multiple scores multiple possessions so um it's like the the bingles and the Ravens are sort of on that same collision course and now they're getting ready to meet up with each other for Sunday night football now through these first four games you know both teams have certainly been up and down but for your bingles who would you say right now is the MVP of the team? Oh good question uh you know on offense a guy playing really really well is T Higgins um I mean Jamar Chase is making plays and others but uh it's really been T Higgins who's been taking advantage of all of the bracketed coverage that Jamar Chase has been receiving and all the attention he's been receiving um you're seeing a little bit more one-on-ones with T Higgins and then you know as pressure in the sacks and all the quarterback hits the first two weeks amassed the bingles went to a little bit more hey let's let's wait for the big play let's pop the big play after we work the underneath stuff to Tyler Moy and T Higgins um work the short intermediate and then those big plays will end up opening up there so I think T Higgins is is playing really really well at this point time unfortunately he's already had a concussion and an ankle injury in just four weeks of football so um hopefully he can he can kind of heal up there but at any rate he's been playing very very well and then you look on the defensive side of the ball really Vaughn Bell the safety he had two interceptions last week he's played pretty well and then the corners yes even Eli Apple has been playing pretty well out there had a decent game against Tyree Kill wasn't covering him all that much or wasn't targeted all that much in coverage against Tyree Kill last week despite all the chatter and Chidobia Wuzier remains a quietly solid corner on that team and then you know there's a couple of other cast of characters unfortunately I would say their their MVP on defense he won't be playing this week and he he's but he was out last week and that's DJ Reader the big big nose tackle um very very good player underrated player in the league um he's going to be out for probably another month or so he's on short-term IR with um what's believed to be a knee issue so um he was playing exceptionally well before he went down with an injury too okay okay now um speaking of injuries uh what would you and not even just injuries really but uh for the Bengals as a whole on defense what would you feel like the Ravens could take advantage of in this game well I think it's just Lamar's legs right I mean the Bengals have in this we go back to the four backup quarterback situation right I mean the Bengals haven't been letting up a lot of points and the defense has played really well they finally started to create turnovers in these last two wins get a little bit more quarterback hits and sacks the last two games so obviously all that correlates to the wins but um you know it's it's really Lamar's legs and if he can do that trademark deal that he does which is extend plays and and make make players miss in space and all of that um I think the Bengals last year did a pretty decent job of containing him they definitely did not stop Lamar in the in the first game he was not playing in the second one obviously but um so the you know I think Lamar making plays with his legs I know Mark Andrews is a weapon I know other he's got other outlets that are great weapons so you know I think the running game this week is a big test for the Bengals JK Dobbins now seemingly being back and you know I'm hearing Gus Edwards is going to practice and you know you got Justice Hill back in the mix all these guys are kind of healthy-ish after not being around last year so the run game is something I'm watching particularly with what I said about DJ Reader being out of the lineup because he's kind of even though he can get to the passer for a big guy a little bit um he's he's definitely a key to their run defense so that's what I'm looking at this week um you know I think Sam Hubbard on the edge can play pretty good contain and is decent against the run but Lamar is just a different different cat you know he he can do a lot of different things so we'll see what happens there okay and with that being said as far as the Bengals or something that they struggle with to this point of the season uh that you want to see them improve on in this game getting into the end zone this is something that they it was something that was exposed a bit in the postseason last year if you remember on their run I mean they were winning games and they would score and kind of flurries but it was long field goals a lot of uh you know long drives and sacks and and offensive penalties and negative runs that were issues in the postseason and the Bengals had to settle for field goals more often than getting into the end zone so it's a little bit of a problem again this year uh this year but it's been remedied a little bit the past couple of weeks with the wins but you know they got to get something more out of the run game they have to get more consistency there and they have to be able to when the field shortens because they have these big play guys right chase and Higgins and the guys that can do yards after the catch or go deep but when that field shortens they got to be able to get it in the end zone a bit more regularly obviously have a good you guys are familiar with it with Justin Tucker they've got a good weapon at kicker but um you know touchdowns you know if you're trading touchdowns for field goals or vice versa that's that's usually a formula for uh between a win and a loss so they need to get into the end zone a little bit more all right and and speaking of getting in the end zone that's of course how teams that's how they score their points um but when this when this game ends and the clock hits zero uh how do you think it's going to have went which team do you think is going to have ended up getting in the end zone a little bit more than the other one and how do you think this game is going to go on my show last night I actually predicted a slight Ravens win I know the Bengals basically you know uh took it to Baltimore last year twice and you know I'll score it by quite a bit and all of that one of which games in particular was you know you didn't have Lamar you didn't have a lot of players on the field at that point that's kind of been the rallying cry of Raven's nation this year is hey you know we're going to get back healthy and wait till we see again that sort of thing and so um you know I think also it's a home game the Bengals are much better in prime time under Zach Taylor and Joe Burrow than they were under Marvin Lewis and Andy Dalton they still have I can't remember a Sunday night win by the Cincinnati Bengals quite honestly I mean I've seen them win on Monday night and Thursday night but Sunday nights just do not treat them very well it's in Baltimore and I think quite honestly based on what I kind of saw last week a little bit from watching the game the Marcus Peters John Harbaugh thing this team's pretty pissed off it seems like for lack of better words and so between that maybe some bold and bored material from last year maybe the Ravens win a close one here wouldn't surprise me either way of the outcome same thing with with at this point in time as I'm looking at it down the road in the rematch either outcome wouldn't surprise me at that one either I when the schedule came out I had I had the Bengals splitting with the Ravens I had them sweeping the Steelers that obviously didn't happen I'm splitting with the Ravens and then splitting with the Browns as well so you know we'll see yeah okay we appreciate you and thank you for coming on and one more time before we get out of here let everybody know where they can find you it well all of our podcast audio side stuff is on iTunes and Stitcher Spotify Google podcasts all the major ones we're out there and then we have a YouTube channel The Orange of Black Insider so go check that out and then all the writing and the podcast is also available on cincyjungle.com it's a Bengals blog through Espionation all right perfect appreciate you coming on team keep it clean make sure you check out all of Anthony's work and subscribe check out his podcast leave a like on the video yeah you