Is The Bengals Season Already Over? | Pat McAfee Show

Is The Bengals Season Already Over? | Pat McAfee Show

It is time for one of our favorite segments of the week. BS or no BS with BS. Okay. Uh we’re going to say a statement that has been made by somebody somewhere and we seen it. It’s not us saying it. No. Just like the po you blow it. Yeah, exactly. That was somebody. It was everywhere on the internet. I I couldn’t stop. We were just trying We’re trying to figure out whether or not it’s BS or no BS. All right, here’s the first one. The Bengals might be dead. So, a lot of people are saying after last night, especially, no Joe Burrow here for the foreseeable future, no protection at quarterback anyways. If Joe Burrow’s in there, what inevitable almost for him not to be playing this season, seemingly a reoccurring thought. They gave a lot of money to two wide receivers. Trey Hendrickson still not happy, not around longterm, and they just got their asses beat on prime time. So, the statement is the Bengals might be dead. Is that BS or no BS? BA. That’s no BS because they can’t block anybody. Okay. Okay. Try not to step anybody. I mean, it’s uh it’s amazing to me that that is a very talented football team. And uh Jake Brown’s had had games, but even he he didn’t have chance to back foot last night a few times and they’re all over him. So, if they don’t get a running game, they’re going to kill him. Okay. So, they DC leaves obviously Louis Anarumo. Uh there’s all the drama in the offseason about the deals that still haven’t really been figured out going into this off seasonason. Trey Hendrickson most specifically. Uh are they going to think about being sellers you think this year? Is that the would the goal be here to punt on a year if you’re the Cincinnati Bengals? Like what do you think their mindset is? If they are in fact no dead at this point? No, I think they got to go fight fight fight every week. You know, I mean that you’re never going to give up in this league and uh you know, Zach’s going to be fighting for his job again. And uh you know, that defense, they got to have some more pride about him. Dbut, you think they’re dead dead? Yeah, definitely dead. Dead and historically bad run game, too. I don’t even know the exact numbers, but Chase Brown and he had a decent year last year, but no run game. So, you talk about, you know, coming from that McVey tree, you got to have run game. You got to have play action. I don’t care how talented your receivers are on the outside. You can’t be a drop back passing offense, especially with your backup quarterback. So, everybody here with football brain says you’re dead. We just saw them. We saw we built built the team in the offseason. Now, you have an MVP caliber quarterback. He can cover up a lot of that When you don’t, can get ugly real quick, man. It has. And we all had to watch it last year. Yeah. Never again. Never again. Like, let’s let’s do that right now. But aren’t they Yeah, they’re probably They are Thanks. Oh, yeah. They are on Thanksgiving. Change it right now. Change it right now. I think the Cincinnati Bengals are scheduled for prime time. Yeah. Thanksgiving. Can’t have it. No. Can’t. That’s a lot of eyes. Now, we had the Lions for a long time on Thanksgiving. Yes, we did. At noon. Yeah, you’re right. It kicked off the day. And you can eat the tradition part of that cuz that was part of it. It’s like, hey, you wake up, you’re going to have Thanksgiving lunch with your family. You’re going to watch the Lions get their asses kicked. No, they always put up a good fight. It was just devastating. It’s a part of tradition to watch them lose. Exactly. We can’t just be throwing in the Bengals because why not? Okay, especially and again, I said it yesterday. It’s this is not this is not Jake Browning’s fault, okay? Look, I mean, you see it last night, but we don’t need to be watching them on Thanksgiving night, okay? Especially cuz we’re all going to be a little tired at that point. You we won’t watch good ball. That kind of carries us through. That kicks off the entire holiday season. The Cincinnati Bengals are going to be tasked with kicking off our holiday season. Not on my watch. And they’re going to have a lot more prime time games cuz Joe Burrow’s so freaking cool. And Jamar Chase has so many cool dance moves. I hate the Bengals, dude. This sucks. Like genuinely sucks. And and he he mentioned Why do you hate the Bengals? They got a lot of cool this whole offseason. We t just I hate them. Can’t even go into how much they suck. They probably have four more prime times games. But to what Pat said that Dan Ulowski told him is can he just change the offense? Like, can Zack Taylor just go out there and be like, “Okay, I’ll we’re going to do, you know, what the Steelers kind of did. We’re going to put six tackles out there when we run the ball, and then when we throw the ball, we’re going to chip and help the O line.” Like, why aren’t they just doing that? I mean, yeah, that’s a good question. I mean, you got to help the guys somehow. I mean, the 47 years, the jump that they were getting, the Broncos were getting, the tackles weren’t even out of their stance yet. No chance and uh the guy had no chance. So you got to chip help something and and run the damn ball some. And I think that’s the big difference where they’ve gone to a 50 pass attack every week. Yeah. Even with Joe, Joe does super stuff, you know, that that they can’t do. Well, they did the they’re doing 50 passes because they just paid 60 million a year to the two wide receivers on the outside. And we asked the question to your point, Debbut in the offseason. Mhm. You’ve been around football a long time. Somebody’s been around. Is this how you build a winning football team? Everybody with a football brain was like, “Nope. Never have, never will. This is not how it goes.” The wide receiver thing, he he even said it there earlier whenever he was chatting. Tackles, you trade up and get one of those. Wide receivers, you get one of those guys in the third round. It’s like, I don’t think you can get a chase in the third round or a T in the third round. But what they’re saying, all the OGs of football, is like you can have an operable offense with maybe not an outright rockstar at wide receiver. You can’t have an operable offense if you have a bad offensive line like that. The wide receiver does not matter. You cannot get the ball to the wide receiver. You You got to figure out this first. Inside out, I think is how everybody talks about building a team. And it did feel like all offseason the Bengals were literally starting as far out as they possibly could and then they started going in. And now granted, they were put in a position where sucks for them to have to make those types of decisions. obviously especially with talent that they’ve had and have grown and everything like that and relationships, but everybody that knows ball is like that’s not a winning recipe. And then we watch on Monday Night Football them score three points and the quarterback is just getting absolutely brutalized and everybody says we told you so. That is basically what everybody is saying to the Cincinnati Bengals team. And I don’t like that because unlike Connor, I don’t hate Cincinnati Bengals. I like that they’re a gritty football team, family-owned football team. Wish they’d be smarter business-wise. I think they’ve tried to and their fan base treats it like it’s a college team down there. You know, it is a great environment. The tailgating is insane. They always fill up. It’s like it just feels like this this particular roster construction might have to be re I don’t like the bagels. H you don’t like Well, you you don’t hate They were selling their TVs Irish Stadium to their fans. That was a that was one of the better things they’ve done. That’s a good hustle. 55 in TV for 80 bucks. Yeah, I think so. But it’s not in the parking lot. They’re doing that. Set up a tent. Yep. And when they’re gone, they’re gone. So get down here now and get them is basically what they’re doing. It has nothing to do with hating them. Bury these guys at 1 p.m. on Sundays. Okay. Thanksgiving can’t happen. No. I I want to have a good Thanksgiving. Me, too. You think I want to be yelling at my mom and, you know, my my grandma and stuff like that and my my brothers. No, cuz that’s what’s going to happen. We’re going to look up. It’s going to be 28 nothing with 11 minutes left in the first quarter and we’re going to be saying, “What are we going to do here? We’re going to talk to each other.” Leftovers. Leftovers. Leftovers. But you’re going to have to talk now. Now there’s no no distractor. And because you’re going to have to do that, what are you going to say? Politics, religion. I’m going to go get I’m going to go get liquored up first and then I’m going to come back and then we’re going to talk politics and religion and we’re going to be doing that boozed up and it’s going to be maybe the worst Thanksgiving ever. And that’s all because the Bengals are on prep time. Yeah. Who do they play? Doesn’t matter. Well, cuz No, hold on. If it’s the Browns, if it’s the Browns, Miles Garrett jumping over the offensive line and doing belly to back German suplexes. What if he’s doing release supers? Bengals Browns. If it’s Bengals Browns on Thanksgiving night, they should fire Goodell right now. I don’t think they should. Ravens. Ravens Browns. Oh, it’s even worse right now. 0 on Thanksgiving night. I think Jake Browning will slice and dice that Ravens defense right now. I think true. I think there’s a chance and whoever’s behind Browning. Yeah, they just need to do what the Steelers did with Darnell Washington. They just need to bring in that needs to be 12 personnel. Even whenever they’re trying to throw the ball, they need two assist. They need tag teams to many guys as you got. They And you know what? Let’s get a fullback in there as well. Let’s have one wide receiver. Let’s have one route on the outside. We got We’re paying them too much. They got to both be out there. Oh yeah. Okay. You’re right. We can’t even protect even more because we’re going to have both of them out there. Good luck, Bengals. We’re pulling for you.

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