Hines Ward predicts a blowout -- for the Rams

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Yeah, that's the one outcome I can't see happening. The Bengals can hold their own in all three phases. They don't all work in every game, but they would all need to face-plant to get blown out. Which is just so improbable.

I don't know if it's true for Hines, but the one thing I noticed from all the punditry this week is that these people haven't seen us play much before. For example, they look at our line and think, "How in the world can they overcome that?" The problem with that logic- which appears sound at a distance- is that it's been proven wrong not just recently, but all year. What the Bengals have done is unprecedented, and they're also used to it by now. It's part of their identity. Every team thinks they can bully us in the trenches, that they can rollick Burrow- hell, even some of them succeed (e.g. Tennessee)- only to lose the game. To do that one thing is just not enough.

A lot of the country is seeing it now for the first time. It's cute. I feel like it's a time warp back to September when we were all in the same boat lol. And tonight I expect them to be schooled in the exact same way that we were: no matter how it looks on paper, there is no easy way to beat these Cincinnati Bengals.

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