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uh but yeah I'm I'm I'm excited for tonight I mean of course we have not seen a team go back to back right since the Patriots of 2003 2004 they were good in the playoffs that year but they lost to Denver long 100 yard Champ Bailey return exactly right Tom Brady historically struggled in Denver so that was the end of the road and I thought back all the way to when I was growing up watching the Dolphins just assuming they were going to win three in a row after they go 17-0 manhandle the Vikings in 73 they're on their way the Sea of hands game against the Raiders and that was when the Raiders were finally like you know they great regular season but they couldn't do anything in the postseason they finally broke through and that was like wow this has really changed the narrative because it was all dolphins dolphins dolphins Steelers had a chance they got to the AFC Championship and and again the Raiders that's when the Raiders busted through to the Super Bowl otherwise we would have had a rematch to Steelers Vikings I wouldn't have felt very good about that in Super Bowl 11 and you've been mentioning like some of the ' 80s era stuff with your dad's Giants team and 90 being the one that kept the 49ers from going three in a row exactly right you know it wasn't my dad on that day right but it was Jeff hosell but still nonetheless right it's it is a little bit we go into the year here and go who's going to be that team who's that team that's going to stand up to the Kansas City Chiefs right now in the AFC I think it's a fair question you know we know there's a lot of talent in the AFC there's a lot of good quarterback play but as far as complete teams matching up and being a team that can really thrown right the Kansas City Chiefs I think you look at those teams and go okay hey yeah obviously the Ravens are in that combo I think Joe burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals are the the Giants to the 49ers or the 49ers to the Cowboys with Jason Garrett and the Troy Aman team right who won two in a row and then lost that third NFC Championship game to the 49ers out in San Francisco with Deion Sanders and all them but that that's hey that's something I'm intrigued by this year are we just going to who in the a is going to rise up to the occasion are we just going to sit down here and lay down to the Chiefs and and and let them just you know Run the World in the AFC and I look at those three teams is to be three teams that I think not only have the players and the team but you I think have the quarterbacks too that want to go wait wait wait I'm sick of this mome stuff here I want to make my mark and win a Super Bowl to me it's the Bengals because we've seen it happen exactly Joe burrow lives for yes the postseason he changes some guys Turtle when the postseason around and other guys step up and burrow transforms into a superhero even more of a superhero it's not Clark Kent to Superman it's Superman to Superman on steroids by the time Joe burrow makes it not that I'm I'm not saying Joe Burrow's on steroids it was just an examp I got I don't know that steroids would help Superman but work with me on that but that that was missing last year because burrow was hurt we had that and I remember when the schedule came out New Year's Eve we got to wait until New Year's Eve for Chiefs Bengals this classic post season matchup where the Bengals beat them one year the Bengals had them on the ropes the next year and somehow the Chiefs pulled the rabbit out of the Hat we got to wait all the way until the brink of the postseason for this game no no no no no let's do it early this year we're getting it early and I think that the Bengals are that team that stands out Above the Rest that when it's time to face down the momes Mystique yes they welcome it yes they want it they wouldn't have it any other way agreed agreed that that's what I look at and listen I know we're doing some predictions later and all that I've already predicted my Super Bowl matchup and all that and I'll be one to just you know kind of talk about that a little bit here and just go hey yeah I picked the Bangals to go to the Super Bowl this year for the reasons you talked about I did I I you know again I know I love the Chiefs I got major respect for them I would love to see them get to the Super Bowl and have a threp but yeah I think the the Bangals are a team that I look at and go this Jamar Chase thing is about the only thing I'm worried about on their football team I know we'll discuss that a little later but yes they have the qualities that you're talking about and I think they the way they've talked all offseason OTAs the way Jamar Chase talks and We Know Joe burrow is not scared of the Chiefs or any of that you know they refuse to back down from them and they do look like the team to me that uh is the hungriest to Dethrone the the Kansas City Chiefs and I would say on top of that yeah they have the quarterback that I think is most capable of being cool and big pressure against a guy like momes and being one of those few guys where you go wait we know Mahomes is going to come out on top against just about everybody but burrow I'm not sure about that one and that's where Cincinnati and and uh the Bengals I think are extremely dangerous but yeah I look at it and that you know I kind of went off of History a little bit with my picks that way going like hey it's always the team that's the biggest rival that knocks you off to to because they're they're all year they're sitting there watching the Super Bowl ah I can remember my dad in ' 89 watching the giant I mean the 49ers beat the Broncos I could tell he was disgusted and bothered by it when I was sitting there watching with it he was like oh my gosh Joe's got four and we only got one and you know we can't beat them and blah blah blah and they were bothered by it and that's of course why they started out 10 and0 and 90 cuz they knew hey this the 49ers they're going for a 3p we need to match that kind of you know intensity and I think we're going to see the Bengals match that intensity through the year just that chase thing bothers me a little bit well and again until somebody can knock off the team that's climbed at the top of the mountain two straight years we look at it and we say we don't think anybody can do it I look at it and I say I don't think anybody can do it that's one area and you know who knows we both may be flat wrong but we both see Chiefs and Bengals crossing paths in the post season and and it could go either way that's the beauty of it again that's why this this dynasty is not boring like ones we've seen in the past where it's like oh could somebody else please have a turn could somebody else play because even when the Chiefs win they really keep us in doubt they keep us on the edge of the seat they keep us guessing all the way until the very end when they somehow snatch entertaining regardless right right it is definitely is that way hi it's Mike Florio 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