00:00And then, George, let's talk about what happened last night in the final game of Thanksgiving.
00:04Maybe people had already succumbed to the tryptophan and did not see the final game.
00:10I would actually say it was also the worst of the three games.
00:13The big headline from this was Joe Burrow makes his return for the Cincinnati Bengals.
00:18And he looks like Joe Burrow usually does, especially against that Baltimore Ravens defense.
00:23They went 32-14.
00:26And let me tell you something here, George.
00:27This Cincinnati Bengals defense, who is performing at a historic level in terms of points per game allowed, right?
00:34The Cincinnati Bengals, they put up a graphic last night on the telecast.
00:38They've lost something like six games over the last two years when they scored 33 or more points.
00:44That tells you about this defense.
00:46But for me, this is a little bit more on the Baltimore side because with Lamar Jackson back, they had won like three straight, but they did not look good.
00:55And I have the same kind of questions about now if the Ravens are, in fact, a playoff team.
01:01This division, the AFC North, depends on what Pittsburgh does, but they got a tough game against the Bills.
01:06You could be in a universe where you wake up on Monday and both Pittsburgh and Baltimore have only six wins.
01:13And then the Bengals, now with Burrow back, have only four wins, yet both of them still on the schedule.
01:20George, eight and nine could win this division.
01:26Yeah, listen, great for Burrow.
01:29Burrow looked good last night, right?
01:30Him throwing on the ball, it's great to see here, especially in the primetime game.
01:34We all got to watch that.
01:35And he looked really good without T. Higgins.
01:37Baltimore, though.
01:38So, I mean, what a disappointment.
01:41All across the board here, whether you're a fan, if you're a gambler or a fantasy player, I mean, what the hell?
01:48What was that?
01:49All the turnovers there, right?
01:51Lamar Jackson, the old, what was that, you know, when you bring the ball, whatever they used to call that dumb rule there.
01:57Tuck rule, right?
01:59Thank God they got rid of that, but he fumbled the ball on that.
02:01Likely fumbling out of the end zone.
02:03Likely, you know, and by the way, people who are yelling at likely that, oh, he was trying to reach.
02:08He really wasn't trying to reach.
02:09He was trying to get, you know, really change hands there.
02:11I don't really blame him for that.
02:13Great play by the defense.
02:14Sometimes you need to say, hey, credit the defense here.
02:16I made a really good play there.
02:17But once again, I know people hate that rule, by the way.
02:19I don't.
02:20Hey, you fumbled out of the end zone.
02:22Too damn bad.
02:23Be better at it.
02:23Let's give the defense some credit here.
02:25We don't give them any breaks here.
02:27But really disappointing in Baltimore.
02:29And I think you're right.
02:29Cincinnati's not dead.
02:31They're not.
02:32Do I think they're going to do it?
02:33No.
02:34But as you just brought up, 8-9 could do it.
02:36None of these teams are good.
02:37All right.
02:37Pittsburgh's not good.
02:38Could lose Sunday very easily to Buffalo, although Buffalo's got no offensive line left.
02:42All right.
02:43And then we'll see what Baltimore and Cincinnati can do here.
02:45But it should be an – I'll go an interesting stretch in the AFC North.
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