 Sunday night football from M&T Bank Stadium Ravens and all black by the way the black-on black combo That's my favorite and they are taking on an AFC North opponent in the Cincinnati Bengals this should be a really good one and This is an opportunity for both teams both sitting at two and two both had some excruciating losses and Some dignified wins, but now it's time for that tiebreaker Because the winner of this game They take first place in the AFC North and I know it's super super early. It's very very early But this can sort of be a confidence boost To whichever team comes out with the victory because you much rather be sitting at three and two then two and three Even though it's a long season up ahead you want to try to get ahead of this long season But to talk about this game because you know, we could talk about it all day or every day But it's a very special game. So I had to bring on two very very extremely special guests Let's get into it Like The team keep it clean to very very very special guests in the building You know, this is a very special video because it's a very special game to AFC North teams sitting at two and two Two very different vibes right now from both of these teams, but I had to bring on The fellas my guy ace my guy is him from Newstripe City and this is actually yeah Another thing about this the first time that we got a Zim on the channel So welcome to the both of y'all. I appreciate the both of y'all for joining us Before we get into it because we got we got some good stuff to talk about before you get into it Let everybody know what y'all do where they could find you in the whole night Yes, sir. So me myself. I represent Newstripe City diehard YouTube channel for Bengals fans Also with my partners in we have the Winston atty podcast Together, which is me and him going in in-depth. 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So We got a big game on Sunday night primetime the world will be watching The two and two Ravens taking on the two and two Bengals right now How would y'all say the vibe is right now for Bengals fans? it's You know, it's one of those things where I think people kind of Joe Burr when we were on to He came to the podium and he said everybody relax because it was like this state of shock where No one thought that the Bengals if you're a Bengals fan thought that would be on to since he said that You know like he's from six touchdowns. No interceptions. He's leading the air see no from yards all these all these other different things He's doing really good and I feel like he's kind of got the fan base back into our emotion a little bit But there's still like a reoccurring theme of a good amount of fans are still questioning a lot of different things with the coaching There's still PTSD from different, you know things that the Bengals have filled at many times in past So that's always going to be there. So I think ultimately for this game The average fan I think feels really confident when they look at like some of the matchups Whether it be like the you know, the defense The passing yard is allowed as though as it relates to as it relates to what we do best in that's passing the football Right, but but at the end of the day is still the Ravens and it's still a team that you better respect And it's just a concept that I If you aren't prepared and the team comes out flat, especially like these division was going to use your butt Well, I think everybody really realizes that and I don't think there's a person alive. That's a Or I don't know how the Ravens fans feel but I don't feel like any baby fan think like they're whooping the Ravens I think that they feel confident and winning and I speak for myself I think that they you know, I feel pretty good about the game, you know, there's a lot of things I guess we'll talk about though. Oh, yeah, I will probably say Along with them, I think a lot of us were thrown off with the on to the start But I feel like they kind of found themselves in these last two games and it's like, okay This is the team that we remember from last year showing some of those strides that we've seen them take recently And they seem to be they seem like they're back I hate to say it because it's cliche, but it seems like we're back Now I haven't got a chance to watch a lot of bangles I did get to see the end of that first that they game with the craziness with the Pittsburgh Steelers and that was just Wow And then I also got to catch the Dolphins game just the the other Thursday night But how would y'all say the bangles have sort of responded to adversity? I know you mentioned Joe Burrell told everybody just to chill just to relax He ended up throwing six touchdowns and no interceptions But how have you seen this team respond just as a collective unit to the adversity that they faced this season? I Think we haven't seen them panic I mean, I think even when they were owing to you know We didn't see a lot of panic in from the players didn't see much panic in from the coaching staff So I think that they just believed that they would get this thing right and I think they've just really kind of right at that ship rallied around each other and Just maintained on what they needed to do which was go out and win these two games Put themselves back in the position knowing that it's a long season. And so I think that they've done that Okay. Now if we know about Joe Burrell, we definitely know about Jamal Chase Very familiar with Mr. Fourth and 12 Tyler Boyd. We know about T. Higgins We even got some a little bit of familiarity with that guy Hayden Hurst We know about Joe Mixon, but who would y'all say Is somebody and we'll do one for each side of the ball one on Bingles offense and one on bingles defense who Ravens really need to look out for let's start with the offense offense, I Mean you just hit on I mean it's It's Jamar Jason and T. Higgins and Tyler Boyd is you know, my brother here He made a shirt called amigos before like and it blew up and it put the three guys on there because It's not a crazy concept. I look at everything in life. Like it's all about opportunities These are three guys that are over a thousand yard receivers multiple times history sales is Talent tells us if you just give these guys the ball more than not you're going to win a football game It's not like rocket science. We don't have to go into like a big X and O like the games that we lose They fail to get the ball them early in the game now if the pass rush is disruptive enough then you know that It's like that that's just like the bread and butter of it It's like it's those three guys like if you see it, but I mean I guess it goes with Joe Mixon But we've proven we can win games without it But on offense, I just it's those three wide receivers if you can't check them There is no way in my mind that you know the bangles Offensively could be stopped on defense. I got it. I think that y'all should be watching for as a king Davis gate All all season. I heard that the bangles were super healthy. We just came up our show and just said this They weren't like there were many guys that were missing last year that we really really like a king Davis gate there was a guy that played in the first game in the week seven matchup against Lamar And he was the guy that they used as a spot. I thought he did Phenomenal in that game. That's not a household name But this guy then gets injured for the rest of the season I think the following week after that and then take it forward to now this season of Couple of weeks ago. Jermaine Pratt goes out our other weeks our linebacker He goes out a king Davis gate there has 12 tackles and balls like it He balls like out of control his hair is on fire take it to the Miami Dolphins game had another phenomenal game too So that's another guy that he's very quick We love our linebackers and I just think that that him and Logan Wilson are two guys that just show up like Every single play whether it's good or bad. They're gonna be there now Speaking of defense You talked about your linebackers and I know yeah Logan Wilson. He'd be doing this thing But let's let's get to the secondary We saw last week. Oh, and I just realized y'all are coming off of y'all gonna be coming off of a 10-day break But we saw last week with von Bale Was von Bale number 24. Yeah, it was he he was just feeling extra greedy last week He's like, you know what I'm gonna intercept to him, you know As a matter of fact, I'll intercept Teddy as well. I'm gonna get to But somebody else Who I'm sure was really looking forward to the game last week, especially After Tyree kill had called him out Mr. Eli Apple and he has been a big topic of conversation Amongst amongst a lot of Ravens fans amongst bingo fans, of course, too. How has Eli Apple been this season so far? Eli is just Similar to what he was last season solid Like I think a lot of people really look at Eli Apple and they think about his time with the Giants and the Saints And they just think that that's who he is. He hasn't been that with Cincinnati. He's been very solid He hasn't been a guy that's been a liability or anything like that. He's you know made plays where he's broken up Balls made to play He's just been a solid guy and I think a lot of teams look at it and they're like, okay We're gonna go at Eli Apple But it's not like how it was years ago when the Bengals had some some liabilities in the secondary where you could just target a Specific guy and get a first down every time Eli's just been the epitome of solid I mean, I think that he gets a bad rap But honestly, he's a very solid player a lot of people thought that you know He was the weakness in the secondary He would be replaced that just hasn't been the case the guy has played extremely solid And I give a lot of credit to Lou Anna rumu our defensive coordinator That was a former secondary coach for developing him, you know, he was one of his coaches in New York So obviously he saw something with him there on brought him to Cincinnati And I think he's really just done a great job of developing him into a solid corner Okay, appreciate that and what about opposite of him with Cheeto as he looked Cheeto's a dog. Tell him Cheeto was a dog, man I'm telling you right now. I feel like I was telling ace this the other day. I feel like the game plan Like just to kind of skip ahead a little bit ahead I feel like they should just put Cheeto on the island or whoever like every single week Like he's never failed me in that aspect The only what the only way I receive it has gotten off on him in the last two years It's been AJ Brown and we won that game and in that game It was just too big passes and one of the passes was like some incredible throw He's gone up against every wide receiver one that you could think of like Cheeto Bay or Woosie should be mentioned in the top 10 corners in football right right now like Ace had a stat with his numbers versus Jalen Ramsey last year. I mean, it's not even close We've interviewed him on our pod. We I consider him a friend like he's one of the MVP's at a defense Okay, I love it. So, you know what jump into this game Where do you feel that the bingles as far as their defense first where they could really really because you talked about the offense With how the Ravens passing offense hasn't been the best so far and how the those receivers can really get after it with that But on defense, how do you feel like the the bingles can really attack the Ravens this week? for me defensively, I think it would probably Revolve around some of the things that they did last year and not complete cover zero But mixing up the looks like I think that's one thing that Lou is really good at they've actually ran some Tampa two this season But I think the main thing is is trying to get pressure with four right trying to confuse LJ Throw him some looks that might be confusing as they did with LJ in my home's last year That's kind of their bread and butter right and then trying to force any kind of turnover that you can and then getting Off of the off of the field on third down like if you can stop any team on third down and just get off of the field That's a victory. I think for the defense You're not gonna contain or you're not gonna stop this Ravens offense, right? You're talking about the number one scoring offense in the league But you got to contain them and I think you try to bend but not break it and try to get as many stops as you can Against this offense to get against that offense to give it back to your offense Can I give you can I give you some stats really quick on the bangles defense who I think is carried the whole entire team The fourth they've allowed the fourth leaves least amount of Russian yards The fourth lowest number of Russian first downs allow the second least passing touchdowns The third lowest completion percentage the second least amount of time on the field the fourth least Qbr allowed the third least third down completion percentage allowed in the whole entire NFL all of us And there's a now the competition that they had faced is nowhere near Lamar Jackson level But some of those same guys that we played Did work on a lot of different people like flacco had a really good game on some other people Like there's some guys that did some really good Cooper Russia, whatever did really good on some other guys the bangles On paper right now are top five defense, but they haven't played anybody yet not not to the level of the Ravens Okay, and then that's a good point Now as far as the pass rush because Ravens offensive line Ravens offensive line has been a little bit shaky Run blocking just really hasn't been there but pass blocking. It's been up and down Trey Hendrickson Who was has been a great pickup for y'all from New Orleans? Sean Hubbard, how has the bingles pass rush been this year so far? So far it's like it's it's above average They have about seven sacks on the whole entire season as a collective I thought that Trey Hendrickson has gone against some really good guys like I thought he just went against Terran arms They are kind of misspoke on like offense like coming into this that last game the Dolphins were really hot They were the most efficient third down team. They were on fire So I did that is one team that did get off But but Trey Hendrickson saw as tough as matchup I thought what Terran arms did this past week and he looked really good in the third and fourth quarter early in that game They were like helping Terran arms set out, which I didn't think that they would do But ultimately Sam Hubbard looks really really good. B. J. Hill is very very underrated Defenses tackle now the number one guy that we me a she just did our quarter awards just now on our show The number one guy that I feel like is the number one the Joe always calling the Joe borough of our defense DJ reader He's predominantly a run defender But this season he had been offering some pass rush that I had never seen before like maybe early in his Texas days Whatever, but he's on injured reserve right now So that is one thing that I think bangles fans are a little bit worried about but from a pass rush stand point all together Trey Hendrickson To me is one of the premier pass rushes in the NFL, but the guys that he's gone against early in the season You know it was some tough ones and then when he got a week matchup against the Jets He was a FC like player of the week like two sacks two phone work up Like if you're tackle if you're left tackle, whatever isn't up the par. He's gonna eat like that's that's not that's not Changing like okay, we've seen a lot of people putting shit blocks on Henry Hendrickson this year Which we didn't see much of that last year. Okay. So yeah, I guess he definitely took his game to another level then now We talked about the past Russia. Let's flip it to Ravens past rush because Ravens past rush has been It's been rough this year. It's been really rough But it's been rough for a long period of time But definitely this year has just it hasn't been getting home Consistently now bingles, we know bingles of course last year Joe Burrow was sacked a lot a whole lot And bingles they made some upgrades to that offensive line But how have those upgrades in that offensive line been doing around Joe Burrow? I think initially the first two games they struggle, right? I'd be lying to you if I said that they weren't right 13 sacks in two games It's funny because we were talking about our Disappointments and I forgot to mention Jonah Williams on that one. I'm Jonah Williams I think this season has really kind of had an uncharacteristic season for him, right? I think he's given up about four of those sacks on his side We also have seen some issues from Lyle Collins early on but I will say The rookie that we have Cordell Volsen. He's really shown some strides tag Harris He definitely took some strides the last couple of games and just the last two games They've only allowed some sacks So I think the light is finally coming on with this offensive line Now it could be that they weren't facing the Michael Parsons and the TJ Y right on in those situations They have looked a lot a lot Suspect but in the last two games against the Jets and against the Dolphins They have really short up the offensive line and they've really I feel like suited up those fronts So as far as away, if he is looking for someone that he might have some production on it Possibly could be Jonah Williams, but I think that I am confident that the line will be able to protect burrow in this one Okay. All right, so in closing Because this let me let me say this real quick. Let me say this real quick a Lot of people are down on the Bengals office a line like earlier like from the outside Even when they gave up seven sacks, they were better than last year like like they were bad last year, bro Like it's just Joe was kind of trying to get into a rhythm You know, it's just you know, you know how it goes like your office a line for your for you guys like with McCarty And in different guys like that like it takes time to like get with the guy that's right next to you You know, like it just doesn't happen overnight in another big factor and ace hit on it is this When teams and I saw this in a Giants game when the Cowboys played the Giants when teams play Micah Parsons I'm here to tell you, you know how you were I remember you found me one week If this is last year and you were like telling me about like Jamar chase you like I don't know what we're gonna do Like I don't know your exact words, but you was like bro, like they're I'm here to tell you when you play Micah Parsons Bro, I'm dead serious like I feel like if there's a top 10 in the NFL Micah Parsons got to be in it and I'm not saying that just because of the Bengals game any game that he meant Rex games does anything that you want to do Rex your game anything like it TJ Y did that in the first game and Bengals just recovered from it in TJ Why there's different things you could do to there's nothing you could do to Micah Parsons, bro Like he's playing like I seen a cut up the day where somebody was comparing them to like Lawrence Taylor And I was like rough shut up. They were showing side-by-side plays of Lawrence Taylor and Michael Park Like you he's got a bull rush that is like J. J. Watt and his prime, but he's got the speed of 4344 kind of Crazy thing is they line them up everywhere So anything that you want to play if you don't have protection or extra guy to slide on that side He wrecked the game and before we knew it We were down like 14-3 and then we had to go and fight inside the game back up But a lot of people like mental office luck. He may lie. Oh Collins looked like a rookie, bro Like he made him look for you be both. Yeah, because he was everywhere. They will they will bro. I'm look When you play the guy play the Cowboys, right? No, no y'all don't cuz I think Man, okay Y'all can dodge him but but I'm gonna tell you bro like that one thing about our off the line that people don't do is give Enough sometimes when our players and you might do that you might see this a lot Sometimes when our players don't perform that we like a lot a lot of people blame coaching they blame the player themselves I like to look at who am I facing sometimes? So the office online didn't look that great in week one week two But if you go look at that film on them guys TJ Watt looked amazing in that game Micah Parsons looked amazing week three They didn't have they didn't have that guy and we had a tree Hendry said and we looked amazing So it was it's one of those things that you got to kind of look at if away Can did drop and do be who's want him to be I feel like that he is the key to the game Coming up Sunday night. Oh, yeah for sure. And I know context matters Some that I've heard you bring out a lot with context, especially with the Bengals offensive line is that um You talked about how Joe Burrow he would hold on to the ball. Just really trying to make something happen So in the result of that was him taking a lot of sex So I know you sort of called them like sort of good sex in a way Because Joe Burrow is just trying to make a play and we do see that with a lot of young quarterbacks now in closing Game prediction from the both of y'all. How do y'all think this one is gonna go? I Think this is gonna be like the game that everybody's been asking for I don't think it's gonna be a blowout either way I think it's gonna be a game that's gonna come down to probably a field goal when it's all said and done Maybe a touchdown But I think that it's gonna be you know something that lives up to the hype Sunday night football I think whenever we had these bingles and Ravens games, they're always exciting. They're always a good battle You're gonna see Lamar Jackson. You're gonna see Joe Burrow You're gonna see a lot of guys on both sides So and you're gonna see two teams that don't really like each other, right? And they want to be you know the top of the division. So I think this is a very important game I think it's the game of the week I'm gonna say I'm gonna say I got the bangles barely winning this one I think that we're gonna try to get make a statement in this game being that we crawl back from 0 and 2 I think that they're gonna try to take advantage of this game. Okay. All right, Zim I'm in this. I feel like the bangles, you know, like our fan base is like Sam man take advantage Go crazy or whatever and I just I can't see that like I don't know like I don't see like a blowout on either side I feel like the defense has got to carry us for most of this game And and I think that that's what I think will happen and Lamar is gonna be Lamar. You know I'm saying so I Think the bank Maybe buy a touchdown. I don't think it's three points. Maybe a time That's just just so my gut tells me I wish it would be more comfortable in my heart wouldn't be you know, all pumping and all crazy and stuff like that But it's it's I think it's gonna be a great game though for sure Yeah, it should be a good one and enjoy your time there at a M&T Bank Stadium when you go So appreciate the both of y'all a lot for coming on. Thank you for joining me Like I said all the links to all of that stuff will be down below in the description I know my guy Kenyatta. He will be checking y'all out. He probably does already That's a bingles fan that comes through on just about every single video. So I appreciate the support He be talking this trash, but it's all in love. So I appreciate the both of y'all much love Keep doing what y'all been doing and just keep having that that that positive impact not just on the bingles community But just on the football community in general a lot of love for the both of y'all appreciate what both of y'all do and thank you again Thank you for having me bro. Really respect what you do man. Appreciate you. Oh, yeah All right team keeping clean appreciate y'all and we out