The rivalry between the Cincinnati Bengals and Baltimore Ravens has been a fun one over the years.
While it isn’t Bengals-Steelers, the usual season-ending bout with the Ravens always makes for a good time. But it wasn’t really in need of any additional offseason trash talk to make it better.
Yet here is Ravens linebacker Pernell McPhee on “The Lounge” podcast,:
“When you catch whoever you catch — and there’s going to be a time when I catch whoever I catch, and I guess that’s going to be the Cincinnati Bengals — snatch one of their souls out their chest.”
McPhee was talking about how he used a timid free-agent market to motivate him, so the namedrop of the Bengals here is pretty interesting. A nine-year veteran, McPhee played seven games for Baltimore in 2019 after stints in Chicago and Washington. Prior to that, he had played four years in Baltimore.
Cincinnati hopes the return of Jonah Williams to play left tackle and uptick in competition along the line protects Joe Burrow well from the likes of McPhee and the Ravens.
If nothing else, there is some interesting locker-room fodder here for before the two link up for the first time this season in Week 5.
