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Despite the Bengals’ defensive improvements this season, stopping the run has been a weakness. Tim Barbalace, Femi Ayanbadejo, and Ken Weinman discuss why the Ravens need to establish their ground game on Sunday and how attacking Cincinnati’s biggest defensive weakness could be the key to getting a win.

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00:00Lamar does not play Sunday, and is there a path to a win?
00:05Absolutely.
00:06And you gave a lot of those numbers, Femi, and maybe I'm going to Optimus Prime you.
00:10Okay, let's go.
00:11Let's go.
00:13Optimus the Optimus.
00:14I'm not going to go crazy.
00:16Okay, all right.
00:16But if you look at the Bengals' defense, you gave a lot of those numbers.
00:22We thought that this Bengals' defense would be much better than they have been throughout the first five weeks,
00:28but something that they have been good at, Femi, that I've kind of been bringing up from a Ravens' perspective,
00:34they have been, Ben, but don't break.
00:37They give up a ton of yards, but they have the fourth-best red zone defense.
00:40They give up a ton of yards, but they're ninth in takeaways per game.
00:45So they're opportunistic, and they hold you to threes instead of sevens.
00:50But to the Optimus part of it, they've really struggled against the run.
00:54And we talked a lot yesterday about how bad this Ravens team has been running the ball inside the tackles.
01:01The Bengals are 32nd in yards per carry inside runs.
01:04They're 26th in yards per carry on outside runs.
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