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Lance McAllister, Dave Lapham and Dave. Last week, 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:44.080 at this time we were discussing a shutout loss that 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:47.639 eliminated the Bengals. We were wondering how they would respond. 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:50.479 This week, there were storylines around Zach and Joe, and 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:52.360 there was going to be a big weather difference, and 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:54.480 you add it all up and I give to you. 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:57.960 Probably if you looked in the dictionary under complimentary football, 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:01.200 it would probably say see yesterday's game in Miami. 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.520 No question about at Lance. I mean that that sums 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:06.319 it up right there. Your your comments are right on point. 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:08.800 They did. They went down and they took care of 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:13.200 business against the Miami Dolphins. There's no question about that. 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:17.679 And you know one all three phases did their job. 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:22.119 As Paul Brown used to say, do your job. You know, 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:24.320 you don't have to do anything more. You don't do 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:26.840 anything less, and please don't do anything less. Just do 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:28.880 what you're supposed to do, how you're supposed to do it. 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:30.960 Be where you're supposed to be when you're supposed to 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:34.280 be there, all those good things. It was complimentary football 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:39.319 at his finest, as you mentioned, and you know, really 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:43.720 the star, the guy who basically led the troops led 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:48.000 to pack Joe Burrow completed seventy three percent of his passes. 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:51.600 That's Kenny Anderson. Like I mean, that is pinpoint accuracy, 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:55.240 three hundred and nine yards passing, four touchdowns, no interceptions, 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:58.400 quarterback rating a one forty six point five. I mean, 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:02.240 amongst the best of his career. And then he had 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:05.600 he utilized multiple weapons. That was the other thing. I mean, 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:09.480 they attacked the Miami Dolphins every way they could be 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:13.440 attacked and Jamar Chase at eleven targets, nine catches, hundred 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:18.959 and nine yards. T Higgins targeted three times fifty three 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:23.359 yards three catches. He averaged over seventeen yards seventeen point 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:28.280 seven per reception. Kasiki got in the mix. He threw 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:31.519 the football to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:36.480 Ten different receivers caught a pass of his of his 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:42.000 thirty or twenty five completions to ten different receivers. That's 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:45.720 that's spraying the ball around, man. That's that's attacking every 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:50.200 quadrant of the football field. That's seeing the field. An 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:53.520 offensive line gave him time to see the field. And 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:55.560 when you give Joe Burrow time to survey the field, 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:57.960 he'll pick your part. And he picked the Dolphins apart. 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:01.240 And defensively to create It's one to create turnovers, but 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:05.560 back to the complimentary point of turnovers into points. They 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:08.399 get a fumble, they turn into a touchdown, interception into 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:10.799 a touchdown, they get a fourth down stop, they turn 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:13.520 it into a touchdown, they get another interception, turn it 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:17.040 into a touchdown. That's all you could ask for. I mean, 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:20.359 that's perfection right there. On offensive defense helping each other out. 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:23.000 Yeah, in the defense. Those four turnovers you're talking about 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:25.320 all the current the third quarter, you know, I mean, 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:29.200 Miami runs three plays game, six yards funnels of football, 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:35.840 Bengals score touchdown. Miami goes three plays and they don't 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:41.360 gain a yard, interception, score a touchdown, and then six 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:44.640 plays twenty eight yards they gain big, big drive there. 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:48.120 They average over four yards of play and lose the 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:52.760 ball on downs fourth down, stop, one play, throw an interception, 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:56.800 game no yards. Obviously, I mean that that defensive third 0:03:56.960 --> 0:04:01.000 quarter historic. I'm not sure any team in the NFL 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:04.040 has ever done that. The opposition gets four drives, they've 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.680 turned it over four times, and you score twenty four 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:08.720 points out of that bad boy crazy. 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:11.320 And last week we're talking about the Bengals getting into 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:15.320 Ravens territory not being able to score yesterday after the 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:18.360 ninety one yeard touchdown drive. They have TD drives of 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:21.960 fifty six, thirty four, thirty five, fifty three, fifty two. 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:23.760 Talking about making it easier on your. 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:28.200 Offense, Absolutely, those turnovers gave the Bengals offense short fields, 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:32.000 you know, and the Bengals offense capitalized. I mean again, 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:35.599 it's like one you know, one phase fit one one 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:39.400 unit supporting the other. The defense says, here's the takeaway. 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.560 The offense says, fine, thank you, appreciate it very much. Touchdown. 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.160 And you know, they kept doing that, they kept supporting 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:48.760 each other. Early on in Bengals scored their first drive, 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.600 and then Miami scores and their first their first two drives, 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:55.400 and the Bengals score field goal on their second drive 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:57.480 fourteen to ten. And it's it's kind of a you know, 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.440 seesaw game back and forth in the first half. Well 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.520 played game, good game. Then in the third quarter, man 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:07.960 all hell broke loose, positively for the Bengals, negatively for 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:08.520 the Dolphins. 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:10.800 Boy, and we talked going in about their fine running 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.279 back eight Chan, who makes a lot of people miss 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:15.880 and had racked up yards, and he made a couple 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:18.200 of Bengals miss on a run early, the forty eight 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:21.120 yard touchdown run. But if you take that out, yeah, 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:23.400 if my butler math is right, if you take that 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:27.360 one playout the rest of the defense. He ran twenty 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.600 six times and they allowed just eighty one yards when 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:32.479 it was all said and done, minus that big run. 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:36.240 Yeah, I mean the Dolphins came in running the football well, 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:40.040 I mean their running attack was the thing they were 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:43.160 hanging their hat on. And twenty eight carries as a 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:46.080 football team for one hundred and twenty nine yards four 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:50.640 point six carry. The Bengals ground game was decent. I'm 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:52.360 not going to say it was stellar. It wasn't Hall 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.080 of Fame material or anything, but twenty six carries on 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:58.160 the day one hundred and five yards average four per carry, 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:01.080 Chase brown Man five and a half few yards per carry, 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:04.640 and as long as Carrie was was was twelve yards. 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:08.440 He had sixty six yards wrestling, so he consistently hammered 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:12.080 it in there and got yards after contact, yards after 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:16.880 initial contact, and he held onto the football he'd had. 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:19.159 He's a complete back. Talked to him in the locker 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:21.360 room after the game and mentioned that, you know, there 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:23.520 aren't many of those in the National Football League, and 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:26.000 he's very prideful of the fact that he's one of them. 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:30.440 He runs it effectively, inefficiently, he can catch the football, 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:33.440 and he's got really good soft hands. He runs excellent 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:36.120 routes and man blitz pick up. He sticks his nose 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:38.359 right in the chest and picks the linebacker safeties up 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:39.400 and gives Joe Burrow time. 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:42.400 All right, let's get reaction after the game. Here's Dave 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:44.000 with the coach, Zach Taylor. 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:44.719 I'm proud. 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:46.919 I'm not surprised by a response. I'm proud of the 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:50.280 response because you know, to be in this situation we're 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:53.000 in right now, come down here to vacation weather. 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.040 For everything feels good. I've coached here. 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:57.960 I've seen a lot of teams fall flat coming out 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:00.800 and for our guys respond and play complete game in 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:03.440 all three phases, especially the way they controlled the second half. 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:05.840 Defense came out and got four turnovers to start the 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.760 second half. Offense scored four touchdowns to start the second half. 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:12.680 Special teams was unbelievable with field position, everyboney's out there 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.040 playing loose, having fun making plays. It was really really 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:15.640 good to see. 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:18.000 I don't think i've ever seen a third quarter like 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:21.600 your team put together today. I mean, three takeaways, stop 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:24.960 on four down, you score three touchdowns, kick a field goal. 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:27.760 I mean that's total dominance. That was a butt kicking, 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:30.560 and that's a pretty damn good football team. The Miami Dolphins, 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:31.320 they're pretty solid. 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:31.560 They are. 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:33.760 They've got good talent, they've got a great coaching staff. 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:36.400 They've had a tough season, like we have, you know, 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:37.600 but we knew this was going to be a battle 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:37.840 coming in. 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:38.360 We have a ton of. 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:40.760 Respect for him, and I was I was probably with 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:41.800 the responsor guys had. 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.200 Talk about coaching staffs, let's talk about yours. You know, 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:48.680 you obviously called a great game. Dan Pitcher put together 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.800 a good game plan. Al Golden put together a great 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:54.800 game plan. Defensively, Darren simm has been doing it for 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:57.400 a long time. Special teams like you mentioned, played at 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:01.640 a real high level, dominated field position, just overall totally 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:05.880 dominant performance, one unit complimenting the other. 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:08.280 They were absolutely, you know, so proud of this coaching 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:10.240 staff for sticking in there and keep coaching these guys 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:12.880 up and getting the most out of them. Appreciate the 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.280 players for how they've responded. They've taken the coaching, They've 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:18.280 given great effort. We expect none the less form our guys. 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:19.800 But still you can look around in a lot of 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:22.559 these situations and you don't get all that. So again, 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:24.120 just just prout of the way our guys responded and 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:25.000 handle business today. 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:27.400 I think that's the thing I'm gonna remember about this 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:32.680 football team. The most played twelve years altogether. I know 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:35.760 what It's like when the worm's not going your way, 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:38.120 the worm doesn't turn your way, and you lose close 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:41.240 football games and you're given hillacious effort and so doing. 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:43.960 These guys never quit though, never even thought about quitting. 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:45.599 I mean, it's not even in their vocabulary. 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:46.199 How proud are you? 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:48.080 How proud are you of that? 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:49.680 It's just a credit to the men we have in 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:52.320 the locker room. They're gonna handle their business, They're gonna 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:55.040 play for the guy next to them. And so again, 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:57.200 I didn't expect anything less, but it's always great to see. 0:08:57.600 --> 0:09:01.600 Coach has always appreciated big win and two more go 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:03.480 three and old to close the season out that dogget 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:03.800 hunt Ster. 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:06.000 We'll start with the next one. We'll focus on the 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:07.640 next one and then go from there, one at a time. 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:09.240 I love it, Thanks Coach, appreciate you. 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:13.760 Zach summon up forty five fourteen, your final score yesterday, 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.120 still ahead. We'll hear from Chase Brown and Miles Murphy 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.880 and Mike Is, Sicky T. Higgins, Barrett Carter and Moore. 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:20.800 We are up and running, man, do we have a 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:22.599 lot to get to tonight on Bengals Line on the 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:32.520 Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLWA. 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:30.320 The Bengals line on this half. 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:33.439 Of the Bengals Radio network at seven hundred WLWE Malanger 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:35.920 hanging out with Dave Blavel as we do each Monday night. 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:39.079 Joe Burrow yesterday twenty five of thirty two through the air, 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:43.359 three hundred and nine yards passing, force touchdowns, no interceptions, 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:45.240 quarterback rating of holy cow. 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:45.920 Look at those. 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:50.120 Numbers, one forty six point five. Here's Joe with Dave 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:50.959 after the game. 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:53.000 How do you feel like you played today? 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:54.480 Yeah? 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:56.000 I thought I played pretty well. 0:09:57.040 --> 0:09:59.840 You know, I just took what was there, and our 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.880 as are making plays down the field with the ball. 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:03.320 In their hands. 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:07.520 You know, I got greedy once or twice, But I thought, 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:08.920 for the most part, is a pretty clean game. 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:13.440 Unbelievable day twenty five of thirty two. I think that's 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:17.960 a seventy three percent completion percentage or something thereabouts. Three 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:23.160 hundred and nine yards passing, four touchdowns, no interceptions. That's 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:25.480 a that's a hell of a hell of a stat line. 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:27.960 What did you see out there? What were the Miami 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:29.000 Dolphins trying to do? 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:29.840 Well? 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:32.000 They played a little single high early and t got 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:34.200 him out of it. He had two big plays early on. 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:36.400 That's kind of set the tone for the rest of 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:38.320 the game. And then we just got a lot of 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:40.280 soft zone after that. So then after that we just 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:42.640 started dinking and duncan and making plays after the catch. 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:45.840 The third quarter, you ever been part of a third 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:48.800 quarter like that? I mean the defense just turned them 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.760 over three times. They had a stop on fourth down. 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:54.200 I mean they didn't score a point, and you guys 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:56.439 scored I think it was twenty four three touchdowns and 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:58.439 kicked a field goal. I mean, you've ever been in 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:00.840 a quarter as dominant is that one. 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:03.480 Defense is making plays like that. You have a short field, 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:05.920 you gotta convert. You know, we were able to convert 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:09.600 on on all four of those opportunities, So that felt great. 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:12.200 But it's fun watching these these young defensive players find 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:13.400 their groove and keep getting better. 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:16.840 You mentioned the team played well, got them out of 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:20.640 that cover one. Your your running mate Jamar Chase was 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:24.040 outstanding again, But I mean he's outstanding every week. The guy, 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:26.360 the guy is the best. He's the best in the league. 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:30.000 Having a one to two punch like that, what does 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:31.079 that do for your offense? 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:32.800 It just opens everything up. 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:35.480 You know, they really defenses have to build their game 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:38.400 plan around those guys, and we know that and they 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:43.600 know that, and so we can execute plays based on that. 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.120 And we have everything in our back. 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:48.920 Pocket, know what to get to when you know we 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:53.160 face all these different kinds of coverages. We faced basically 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:55.679 everyone that you could see over the last four or 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:56.240 five years. 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:59.439 And you know, we've done a good job building. 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:04.400 The packages to attack all these certain coverages that we 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:06.120 see based on those two guys. 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:12.280 T Higgins big, strong, physical athletic, Ron Rouse catch the football, 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:17.960 will block uh T Jamar Chase same thing. You've known 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:20.520 him since since the college days. I mean the guys, 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:23.320 in my opinion, the best receiver in the National Football League, 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:26.880 yosiv Andre Yosi vash coming into his own. He's starting 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:29.040 to make plays for your Joe. I mean, you're you're 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:31.760 going to him. You have trust and confidence in Yosi, 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:34.920 and then Kisiki. I mean that's four weapons right there. 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.040 And then forget I mean you can't forget about Chase 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:39.560 Brown checking it down to him out of the backfield. 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:41.960 I mean Tanner Hudson. 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:44.120 Yeah, we have so many We have so many weapons 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:47.160 and guys that fit into so many different roles on 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:50.000 this team and really embrace their role and they're not 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:51.880 going to try to be something that they aren't, and 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:54.360 so they're going to attack that every day and work 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.880 hard to try to build that role within the offense. 0:12:57.920 --> 0:12:59.280 And you know, we have so many guys to just 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:00.679 make plays when they have opportunities. 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:04.520 And finally, Joe, you mentioned your coaches put together great 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:06.960 game plans for you guys, you know, every week in 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:09.760 order to take advantage of all the all the talent 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:12.439 and weapons that you've got. Talk about your coaches a 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:12.880 little bit. 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:17.120 Yeah, obviously there's a lot said about this team in 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:20.280 this organization, and they did those coaches, but you know, 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:22.080 nobody works harder than those guys to put us in 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:26.320 good spots to go and execute. I think we have 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.080 some of the best coaches in the NFL. I think 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:30.960 the game plans that we put together put us in 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:32.000 a great spot to succeed. 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:34.800 Couldn't agree with you more. Joe as always appreciate you. 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:35.480 Thanks for your time. 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:38.160 Yeah, thanks, love Joe Burrow after the game. And Dave, 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:41.240 he did so many things well and such stark contrast 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:43.800 to last week, I think was his second lowest quarterback 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:46.720 rating game of his career. Yesterday was his second best 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:50.440 of his career, and just so many things that he does. 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:52.560 I hope people fully appreciate that. 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:53.360 The kind of the. 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:56.880 Broken play the created and find Drew Sample. It looked 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:58.199 like for a second he was just going to throw 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.440 it away. Nothing was there that Drew Sample's bailable. He 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:02.600 throws to Drew Sample. And it's just the essence of 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:03.160 Joe Burrow. 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:04.160 He's so dang good. 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:04.600 He is. 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:06.800 Man, he's good hitting. My opinion, he's the best in 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:09.360 the National Football League. And like you said, when he 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:13.280 starts extending and creating plays as many times as he 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:15.920 did yesterday's football game, you got problems. If you were 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:19.120 a defensive coordinator. It's like it doesn't matter what defense 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.200 you play, because at some point in time, you know, 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:25.440 okay with the coverage, and then if the protection is 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:28.560 good enough, Joe's running around, extending, creating, and now you 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:31.680 know the offense knows where what they're gonna do. They 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:34.040 do scramble drills, they have scrambled drills, and Joe Burrow 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:37.240 knows exactly where his receivers are gonna go. He's been 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:39.400 doing it with Chase Brown since college. I mean, these 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:43.160 guys read each other's mind when when the play breaks down, 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:45.520 and that's when the Bengals offense can really cook. And 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:48.240 they've made a lot of big plays over the years, 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.119 extending and creating plays. 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:54.000 He played it his seventy fifth career game yesterday, and 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:57.840 among all players in history through seventy five games, Joe 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:02.560 Burrow ranks first in completion, third in touchdowns, and fifth 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:05.440 in passing yards of all quarterbacks through their first seventy 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:07.920 five games. And I compare in contrast and think of 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:11.320 the situation in Miami where they don't they're gonna probably 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:14.160 move on from Tua and coming up this week, Arizona 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:15.920 and Kyler Murray and they don't know what to do 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:19.200 with Kyler Murray and Las Vegas and the Jets in 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:22.040 so many different places. And I think of here and 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:25.760 how this franchise in this city has a quarterback. What 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.640 a luxury compared to a lot of markets that just 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:30.440 don't know what they're doing at that position. 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:33.240 Absolutely, you know. And I was listening to Sports Center 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:35.880 a little bit this morning before we came in to 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:40.080 do the show here, and man, I'll tell you a 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:45.080 lot of analysts we're talking as a group there were 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:47.160 three of the modern panel and they said, you know, 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:49.720 when you have a head coach, you have a quarterback, 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:53.000 you have a chance to be a dominant franchise in 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:56.200 the National Football League. The Bengals feel like they have 0:15:56.280 --> 0:16:00.280 their coach. A lot of fans may disagree. I think 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:04.360 Zach Taylor is an extraordinary offensive mind. Joe Burrow does. 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:07.240 Joe Burrow has gone to bat for Zach Taylor many times, 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:11.600 and he really believes in Zach Taylor in his offensive 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:15.680 structure and how he attacks defenses in the National Football League. So, 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:19.440 I mean, the Bengals do have pieces. They really do. 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:21.600 I mean, and the two biggest pieces are head coach 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:26.920 and quarterback. They've got two receivers that are number ones, 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:29.240 really one in one a with the Bengals, but number ones. 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:32.640 If if t Higgins were with another football team, he'd 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:36.480 be a number one receiver by far. Mike Kasicki and 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:39.440 the tight end group is a good one. They can 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:44.680 all do different things. Some ones that more extraordinary blocker 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:46.600 than receiving. The other one is a better receiver than 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:49.080 a blocker, and sick he's kind of able to do both. 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:51.480 So they have all all bases covered and then we've 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:54.480 talked about Chase Brown. You know out of the backfield, SAMJ. 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:58.040 P Ryan another weapon, can run it, catch it. They're 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:02.400 stacked offensively, got some pieces to accumulate defensively, and watch 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:03.520 out in twenty twenty six. 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:06.080 Well hear more from Chase Brown as we continue. It's 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:10.600 Bengals Line of the Bengals Radio Network. It's seven hundred WLW. 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:14.800 Did we keep moving. 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:16.840 Along on this Monday night edition of Bengals Line of 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:19.800 the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred l up dat 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:22.520 plans with cat Lester Long is always with Dave Blapham. 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:25.840 Chase Brown yesterday twelve carries, sixty six yards and a touchdown, 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:29.159 four catches forty three yards in two touchdowns. What a 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:31.600 season he is having. What a game he had yesterday. 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.040 Here's Dan Horde with Chase Brown face. 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:36.560 Is this the all around performance this team has been 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:37.520 looking for all year? 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:38.600 I think so. 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:42.080 I mean, the defense came out with turnovers and we 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:43.960 were able to respond to every single one. 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:45.080 So that always feels good. 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:46.679 We'd love to. 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:49.520 Carry this momentum going forward and just finish off the 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:50.320 season the best we can. 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:53.239 Was it a game where you were almost surprised how 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:55.679 quickly the offense was back on the field. They were 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:57.840 not only getting turnovers, they were getting them quickly. 0:17:57.960 --> 0:17:59.840 Yeah, no, it was it was I was standing there, 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:02.080 I'm like, did you just get the ball back again? 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:03.560 I'm sprinting of in my helmet. 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:05.560 So yeah, they definitely called me by surply. 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:07.920 Sometimes when the last time you scored three touchdowns in 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:10.400 one quarter, I'm sorry, it's happened. 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:13.879 Never maybe like little league maybe. 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:17.400 But that's a My last three touchdown game was Illinois 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:20.359 against Wyoming, I think, not in one quarter, but in 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:21.040 a cool game. 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:23.240 What was going through your mind when when that happens? 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:25.880 You have to touchdown catches, you have the touchdown run 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:26.880 and suddenly. 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:30.080 I'm really like, do you hear the play? And it's 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:31.919 either going to you or it's not. So it's like 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:35.600 trying nextually, the best, the play the best I can. 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:38.880 No points last week, forty five points this week. How 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:41.720 determined were you guys during the course of this week 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:44.919 at practice to show who you really are on offense. 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:48.720 We we took it personal, so we had to respond 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:49.080 this week. 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:54.720 Good balance. Joe threw four touchdown passes. Obviously, the running 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:56.800 game got better and better as the game went along. 0:18:57.359 --> 0:18:59.439 Did it feel like, all right, this is what this 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:01.440 offense can do when it's clicking. 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:06.480 Definitely, when everything's firing and all cylinders. 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:08.679 I mean, we're we're gonna score a lot of points. 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:10.760 So it's all good to go out and do that today. 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:14.080 It's just building momentum, even though you know our season 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:16.679 is gonna end not the way that we wanted it to, 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:20.000 but you know we can still finish off on a positive. 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:22.240 Nope, it's great to have Tea back. 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:25.159 Obviously, two big plays early in the game, it just 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:28.680 kind of reinforced, at least in my mind, the impact 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:30.800 that he can have when he's available. 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:32.520 Yeah, I mean, she's a great player. 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:35.119 If he's one of the best receivers, if not the best, 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:37.520 we got both of them. 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:38.840 We have two of the best receivers in the NFL, 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:39.200 right there. 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:43.480 That's the only way to put it. So yeah, I mean, 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:46.280 she's always gonna make a play. I'm not surprised anytime 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:47.960 I see a fifty fifty jump ball. It's not fifty 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:51.480 to fifty, it's like ninety ten. So he's a great player. 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:53.840 Does a game like this leave you wanting more like 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:56.359 almost wishing that you know, there were more games left, 0:19:56.560 --> 0:19:58.960 so you guys could ultimately get me where you want 0:19:58.960 --> 0:19:59.080 to be. 0:19:59.240 --> 0:19:59.920 You're long. 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:05.919 Maybe if we could play, Yeah, we could play all 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:07.840 year long without getting hurt in our bodies. 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:09.560 Like we're able to take it. 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:13.440 I mean I would. So we're gonna miss. 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:19.080 Feels good and Grat's not a great game. 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:22.600 And Dave, you mentioned it in our earlier segment, and 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:24.520 it's worth going back to. Not only does he have 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:27.119 the TV run, he has the two TD catches. He 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:30.760 had a really nice protection block to help Joe keep 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:33.840 Joe for that split second more and that cannot be 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:37.080 underrated or overlooked on what he brings to this offense. 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:39.520 Absolutely, I mean he does all the dirty work, you know. 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:42.600 And uh, a lot of guys that, you know, our 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:46.000 premier players in the National Football League, they think that 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:48.640 those type of things are beneath them. That's for other 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:49.240 people to do. 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:49.520 You know. 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:52.239 I'm I'm I'm the star. You know, I'm gonna make 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:55.120 score touchdowns and I'm going to make big plays. I'm 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:57.119 going to be on all all the NFL highlights and 0:20:57.280 --> 0:21:00.840 NFL highlight films, you know. But but Chase Brown is 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:04.680 a guy who just loves to play football. Every single 0:21:04.960 --> 0:21:08.040 part of the game intrigues him and he wants to 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:10.520 excel at it. And you know, he's got a great 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:13.359 mindset for the game. He's got a tremendous football IQ. 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:15.439 You can do a lot of things with him. You 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:17.200 can line him up in the backfield, you can line 0:21:17.280 --> 0:21:18.879 him up in the slot, you can line him up 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:20.359 as the X, you can line him up as a Z. 0:21:21.560 --> 0:21:25.720 You know, he really is a very, very versatile guy. 0:21:25.800 --> 0:21:29.600 He's a tremendous chess piece, you know. And they check 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:32.560 my defenses regularly when they involve Chase Brown the way 0:21:32.560 --> 0:21:32.880 they do. 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:35.840 Eight and forty six yards rushing. To this point in 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:39.520 the season, he has sixty two catches. Now, he's over 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:43.080 twelve hundred yards from scrimmage, but those sixty two catches 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:46.360 dave now the most in a single season by Bengals 0:21:46.480 --> 0:21:50.480 running back in franchise history. James Brooks had fifty five 0:21:50.560 --> 0:21:53.679 in a season. Giovanni Bernard had fifty six in a season. 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:57.199 Joe Mixon had sixty in a season. Chase Brown was 0:21:57.240 --> 0:21:59.840 still two games to go. Now, it's sixty two catches 0:21:59.840 --> 0:22:00.280 out of. 0:22:00.200 --> 0:22:02.800 The backfield, and you're talking about some of the greatest 0:22:03.480 --> 0:22:06.520 receiving running backs in franchise history. You know, when you're 0:22:06.560 --> 0:22:11.959 talking about James Brooks and Giovanni Bernard. Interesting Giovanni Bernard 0:22:12.000 --> 0:22:15.439 was at the football game, had his little guy with 0:22:15.560 --> 0:22:20.800 him and catching up with people, former teammates and coaches 0:22:21.119 --> 0:22:24.080 after the game. He looked great, but he was a 0:22:24.080 --> 0:22:29.000 tremendous player. And you know, Chase Brown does all of that. 0:22:29.040 --> 0:22:33.080 Giovannie Bernard would block there, There's no question about it. 0:22:33.400 --> 0:22:35.760 James Brooks would too. I mean he was a very, 0:22:35.880 --> 0:22:40.520 very physical strong for his size pound for pound, maybe 0:22:40.520 --> 0:22:42.280 the strongest guy I've ever seen in the weight room. 0:22:42.480 --> 0:22:45.200 I saw him wrap three hundred and fifteen pounds four times. 0:22:46.040 --> 0:22:49.199 He weighed like, you know, buck eighty five, Buck ninety. 0:22:49.800 --> 0:22:53.280 So there have been some great ones in franchise history, 0:22:53.280 --> 0:22:54.840 and the Bengals are blessed to have one now. 0:22:55.240 --> 0:22:58.080 Dave, just in our first couple of segments, we've talked 0:22:58.080 --> 0:23:00.840 about so many elements of this offense, and I think 0:23:00.840 --> 0:23:02.920 of there there was I'm going to quote a song 0:23:03.000 --> 0:23:04.679 back in the eighties by The Fix. I don't know 0:23:04.680 --> 0:23:06.920 if he remembers The Fix, but it was a song 0:23:06.960 --> 0:23:10.000 called one Thing leads to another. And in this offense, 0:23:10.080 --> 0:23:13.040 even early that passed the t Higgins and he goes 0:23:13.119 --> 0:23:15.000 up and high points the ball over top of the 0:23:15.040 --> 0:23:19.520 little defensive back, and just so many different weapons lead 0:23:19.600 --> 0:23:22.320 to so many things opening up on this offense. It's 0:23:22.359 --> 0:23:24.159 like a puzzle and the pieces start to fit in 0:23:24.200 --> 0:23:26.600 and new avenues and doors open to the offense. 0:23:26.680 --> 0:23:27.240 Yeah, you're right. 0:23:27.320 --> 0:23:30.560 I mean, I'd hate to be a defensive coordinator trying 0:23:30.600 --> 0:23:33.920 to take everything away from this Bengals offense that you 0:23:33.560 --> 0:23:37.480 need to worry about. You say, okay, well, Jamar Chase 0:23:37.560 --> 0:23:39.199 probably one of the best, if not the best, in 0:23:39.240 --> 0:23:41.480 the National Football League in my opinion, I've stayed many 0:23:41.520 --> 0:23:43.560 times I think he is the best. And you say, okay, well, 0:23:43.640 --> 0:23:46.040 they have to start by taking Jamaar Chase out of 0:23:46.040 --> 0:23:49.879 the mix. Can't let Joe Borrow destroy us by targeting 0:23:49.960 --> 0:23:53.040 Jamar Chase and them producing a lot of catches and 0:23:53.119 --> 0:23:57.960 yards and touchdowns. Well, you know you do that, and 0:23:58.040 --> 0:24:00.480 what do you have to deal with Higgins? And he 0:24:00.600 --> 0:24:03.600 showed yesterday that he's deserving him being a number one 0:24:04.359 --> 0:24:06.400 thirty one other teams in the NFL. Like we talked about, 0:24:06.440 --> 0:24:08.760 he is the number one. This guy can high point 0:24:08.760 --> 0:24:12.600 a football about as well. The timing to do that 0:24:13.480 --> 0:24:16.400 is taken for granted sometimes because these guys are so 0:24:16.440 --> 0:24:19.200 effective at it. But t Higgins, man, I mean I've 0:24:19.200 --> 0:24:22.640 seen him hoop. He can shoot, and which is good. 0:24:22.640 --> 0:24:24.320 But I mean you should see him put on a 0:24:24.440 --> 0:24:26.879 dunk display. I mean he almost he dunks and almost 0:24:27.160 --> 0:24:30.000 has his elbow into the you know, into the into 0:24:30.040 --> 0:24:30.680 the rim. 0:24:30.960 --> 0:24:31.240 Uh. 0:24:31.640 --> 0:24:35.840 It's it's amazing how athletic these guys are. And uh, 0:24:36.840 --> 0:24:39.040 and then you know, you take those two away, you 0:24:39.080 --> 0:24:41.520 go to Gasiki, you take a sticky away, you know, 0:24:41.560 --> 0:24:43.920 you go to Chase Brown. Then there's other backs to 0:24:43.960 --> 0:24:47.919 worry about, other tight ends to worry about. Being coordinating 0:24:47.960 --> 0:24:52.119 a defensive package against this Bengals football team offensively, with 0:24:52.240 --> 0:24:54.960 Zach Taylor and Dan Pitcher being as creative as they 0:24:55.000 --> 0:24:58.520 are with game plans, is no easy task. And final thought, 0:24:58.640 --> 0:25:00.639 just think about it. All those off some weapons we 0:25:00.760 --> 0:25:03.200 just named, and then there's Yoshi who makes a twenty 0:25:03.200 --> 0:25:05.680 one yard third down catch, and sample made a twenty 0:25:05.720 --> 0:25:08.199 seven yard third down catch, and coordinator's. 0:25:07.640 --> 0:25:09.800 Gotta be going going. I don't know, there's too many guys. 0:25:09.840 --> 0:25:11.880 I can't can't cover all these guys, we can't figure 0:25:11.920 --> 0:25:12.600 out all this stuff. 0:25:12.760 --> 0:25:15.199 Sample when he ran a great route and caught that football, 0:25:15.240 --> 0:25:16.400 I'm like, oh, that's true. 0:25:16.480 --> 0:25:16.880 Sample. 0:25:17.359 --> 0:25:19.720 I thought I thought at first I thought it was 0:25:19.840 --> 0:25:22.120 Gasicki And I'm like, no, Sample, that's a bigger boy. 0:25:22.160 --> 0:25:24.240 Look at that body, big, big strong body. 0:25:24.400 --> 0:25:24.640 Yeah. 0:25:24.880 --> 0:25:28.399 I mean they do they have they have weapons and guys, 0:25:28.400 --> 0:25:30.840 are you know, don't forget about me. You know I 0:25:31.160 --> 0:25:32.520 can I'll make a play for you. 0:25:32.600 --> 0:25:33.120 I can do it. 0:25:33.520 --> 0:25:35.800 Still ahead, let's get to the defensive side of things. 0:25:35.880 --> 0:25:38.480 Miles Murphy part of the conversation as we continue with 0:25:38.520 --> 0:25:42.240 Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. 0:25:46.359 --> 0:25:47.320 Continue on this. 0:25:47.680 --> 0:25:51.200 Day sorting through victory yesterday for the Bengals forty five 0:25:51.320 --> 0:25:54.400 fourteen over the Dolphins. We'll get to those Arizona Cardinals 0:25:54.400 --> 0:25:56.639 coming up in our third hour tonight. We talked a 0:25:56.640 --> 0:25:59.000 lot about the offense. Heck, let's get back to the 0:25:59.040 --> 0:26:02.680 defensive side of things, where Miles Murphy had another impact day, 0:26:03.320 --> 0:26:06.080 made some plays, recovered to fumble after Jordan battle and 0:26:06.160 --> 0:26:09.280 punch things out. Here is Miles Murphy on the afternoon 0:26:09.359 --> 0:26:10.040 and the victory. 0:26:10.359 --> 0:26:12.200 The defense came up big you guys forced a bunch 0:26:12.240 --> 0:26:14.600 of turnovers, four straight in the second half. 0:26:14.680 --> 0:26:15.480 You guys get to win. 0:26:15.600 --> 0:26:16.800 What's going through your mind right now? 0:26:17.640 --> 0:26:19.879 I mean, just glad, honestly, Like this is kind of 0:26:19.880 --> 0:26:22.440 the message that us and coach all have been preaching. 0:26:22.760 --> 0:26:24.960 I say, playoffs there out of the picture, but we 0:26:25.040 --> 0:26:26.760 have to We have three games nothing the season, and 0:26:26.800 --> 0:26:30.000 we really want to just end the season the high note. 0:26:30.000 --> 0:26:32.000 And really I've just been telling some of the guys 0:26:32.040 --> 0:26:34.640 I've been talking to this. How we end these three 0:26:34.680 --> 0:26:36.600 games is gonna be how we step into next season. 0:26:36.760 --> 0:26:39.840 I want to do exact what we did today. Set 0:26:39.840 --> 0:26:42.159 hard edges, get her on the quarterback, gets to k 0:26:42.200 --> 0:26:45.399 the ball, took the ball carrier. Really just do anything 0:26:45.440 --> 0:26:46.600 to just get our office back to the ball. 0:26:46.640 --> 0:26:47.640 And that's what we did today. 0:26:48.200 --> 0:26:50.560 A few weeks ago against the Ravens, you chase down 0:26:50.600 --> 0:26:55.280 Derrick Henry and it's it's talked about today, a similar situation. 0:26:55.359 --> 0:26:57.120 It's a pass up field and you chase it down, 0:26:57.200 --> 0:27:00.720 recover the fumble. What's going through your mind there? And 0:27:00.760 --> 0:27:02.720 obviously you landed on the ball and that kind of 0:27:02.800 --> 0:27:03.880 changed the game early in the third. 0:27:04.480 --> 0:27:08.600 Uh, Well, really just hustle players, it's like running around 0:27:08.640 --> 0:27:11.000 regardless of this runner passes, getting always want to be 0:27:11.000 --> 0:27:13.280 around the ball, and that's kind of what als preaching 0:27:13.400 --> 0:27:16.720 this effort, effort, effort, an attitude. At the point of time, 0:27:16.800 --> 0:27:20.080 the ball was kind of going crazy, hopefully hoping it 0:27:20.160 --> 0:27:21.840 was kind of just gonna die down what it did. 0:27:21.880 --> 0:27:25.439 So wanted to return it but couldn't, so I just 0:27:25.480 --> 0:27:26.800 laid on it, got our office back to the ball, 0:27:26.840 --> 0:27:31.760 and they scored. So I'm thinking on defense, splash plays 0:27:31.760 --> 0:27:32.720 are just so valuable. 0:27:32.880 --> 0:27:34.600 Shacks, tackles for lost. 0:27:34.720 --> 0:27:37.240 Fumbles, fumber reck coveries, turnovers. It feels like every week 0:27:37.320 --> 0:27:40.760 now we're saying Miles Murphy sack, Miles Murphy, tackle for 0:27:40.840 --> 0:27:43.440 loss today, even before the Fumber reck coovery. Seems like 0:27:43.480 --> 0:27:46.440 you're making a splash play or two at least every week. 0:27:47.320 --> 0:27:51.119 I mean, yeah, this is a it's a It starts. 0:27:51.359 --> 0:27:52.760 I say it all the time. It starts on Monday. 0:27:52.760 --> 0:27:56.960 It starts on Monday in the film room, Wednesday, Thursday practice. 0:27:57.000 --> 0:27:59.520 And it's it's not just me. It's a lot of 0:27:59.520 --> 0:28:01.320 guys on deep is making plays and this is because 0:28:01.359 --> 0:28:04.200 of that. They start let's start working on Monday. Started 0:28:04.240 --> 0:28:06.800 with the film bodywork, recovery, stuff like that, and it 0:28:06.880 --> 0:28:07.840 just shows out on Sunday. 0:28:08.240 --> 0:28:10.920 This is the best you've ever felt NFL career wise 0:28:10.960 --> 0:28:12.119 and confidence wise. 0:28:12.440 --> 0:28:13.440 Yeah, most confident for. 0:28:13.359 --> 0:28:15.960 Serrea Miles Murphy after the game thanks to our guy 0:28:16.040 --> 0:28:18.639 James Rpeen of Bengals talking locked on Bengals for passing 0:28:18.640 --> 0:28:21.600 along his conversation with Miles and and Dave to me, 0:28:21.800 --> 0:28:25.720 Miles Murphy isn't there were moments where maybe he would flash. 0:28:25.880 --> 0:28:29.520 Now it's like that light staying on and Miles Murphy's 0:28:29.560 --> 0:28:31.720 presence is being felt throughout football games. 0:28:31.720 --> 0:28:32.199 It seems. 0:28:32.280 --> 0:28:34.920 Yeah, I think you're right. Flashing is a good way 0:28:34.960 --> 0:28:37.439 to describe it. That's a good word choice there, because 0:28:38.120 --> 0:28:42.520 he is athletic as hell. I mean every defensive edge 0:28:42.560 --> 0:28:44.320 player in the NFL would like to have the size 0:28:44.360 --> 0:28:47.680 speed ratio that Miles Murphy does. And he's pretty stout. 0:28:47.720 --> 0:28:49.240 I mean, he's been in the weight room and he's 0:28:49.440 --> 0:28:53.440 he's put on some good weight, very very strong individual. 0:28:53.480 --> 0:28:56.560 You know, his chest, he's built up his chest, his arms. 0:28:57.880 --> 0:29:00.720 Then where he really has an impact, there's in that 0:29:00.800 --> 0:29:04.360 lower body with that explosiveness and speed he has and 0:29:04.440 --> 0:29:09.280 his quads and hamstrings and Kazer are exceptionally strong. The 0:29:09.560 --> 0:29:13.240 good thing for the Bengals defense yesterday is multiple guys 0:29:13.280 --> 0:29:16.880 had solid football games. Battle had five tackles. You talked 0:29:16.880 --> 0:29:19.280 about the fumble that he forced. He had four unassisted 0:29:19.320 --> 0:29:23.760 tackles and one assist. Murphy had five, three tackles and 0:29:23.800 --> 0:29:28.200 two assists. Brandon Carter had five. He had one tackle 0:29:28.240 --> 0:29:32.080 and four assists. Bj Hill had four tackles and he 0:29:32.200 --> 0:29:35.520 defended a pass, knocked a pass down. Three tackles and 0:29:35.560 --> 0:29:38.560 an assist to go with that, Demetrius Knight three tackles 0:29:38.560 --> 0:29:41.280 and an assist for a total of four. Ivy two 0:29:41.320 --> 0:29:43.800 and two for a total of four, Davis two and 0:29:43.800 --> 0:29:46.560 two for a total of four, and then Slayton was 0:29:46.560 --> 0:29:49.080 the last one that had four tj Slayton had four assists. 0:29:49.120 --> 0:29:52.160 So I mean they were getting a production out of 0:29:52.520 --> 0:29:56.040 You know, every position group is represented here. You know, 0:29:56.200 --> 0:30:02.480 secondary defensive line linebackers. Al Golden has to be happy 0:30:02.520 --> 0:30:07.440 that that every single position group and individuals within those 0:30:07.440 --> 0:30:10.400 position groups all showed up on the statuet. 0:30:10.160 --> 0:30:12.920 And Dave, what I love about what feels like is 0:30:12.920 --> 0:30:15.920 happening with Miles Murphy just in watching body language on 0:30:15.960 --> 0:30:19.800 the field, he's feeling that the confidence and the energy. 0:30:19.880 --> 0:30:21.840 He's starting to feel himself a little bit and is 0:30:21.880 --> 0:30:25.760 more demonstrative and and that to me says he feels 0:30:25.800 --> 0:30:28.840 like he belongs, he's producing, he feels good. And that's 0:30:28.840 --> 0:30:30.600 what you were. It may have taken a while to 0:30:30.600 --> 0:30:33.000 get to this point, but it's it's arrived and it's 0:30:33.040 --> 0:30:34.120 fun to watch it is. 0:30:34.240 --> 0:30:38.640 And uh, you know, I confidence is a big thing, 0:30:38.680 --> 0:30:41.560 and you're right on the money there. Uh you could 0:30:41.600 --> 0:30:43.560 almost see it. You can almost see it as the 0:30:43.600 --> 0:30:46.640 game went on. In the game against the Miami Dolphins, 0:30:46.680 --> 0:30:49.640 you know, hey, I got a sack. I get rewarded, 0:30:50.040 --> 0:30:53.600 thought it made a good move and broke the guy down. Uh, 0:30:53.680 --> 0:30:55.960 and get a sack. And then all of a sudden, 0:30:55.960 --> 0:30:57.480 you know, you start to play the run a little 0:30:57.520 --> 0:30:59.440 bit better, and you want to put yourself in a 0:30:59.480 --> 0:31:01.920 situation where we can go rush the passer again. So 0:31:01.960 --> 0:31:04.040 you have to stop people on first and second down 0:31:04.480 --> 0:31:06.800 and be part of that run defense package. I really 0:31:06.800 --> 0:31:11.680 thought yesterday that the defensive line and linebackers in secondary 0:31:11.720 --> 0:31:15.200 as well, everybody played the run for al Golden as 0:31:15.200 --> 0:31:17.239 well as they have all year long. I thought that 0:31:18.080 --> 0:31:20.120 the defensive line did a nice job at two gap 0:31:20.120 --> 0:31:22.680 and when they were told to do that, when they 0:31:22.840 --> 0:31:25.440 were told to take an edge and penetrate, they did 0:31:25.480 --> 0:31:28.440 that very well. I thought that it was well coordinated, 0:31:28.800 --> 0:31:32.080 well thought out, and I thought that the defensive players 0:31:32.120 --> 0:31:34.760 all believed in it and trusted what Al Golden was 0:31:35.560 --> 0:31:38.040 telling them to do. Against the Miami Dolphins, who are 0:31:38.080 --> 0:31:41.920 you know, solid offense football team even without t Tonya Varloa. 0:31:42.000 --> 0:31:49.040 But everybody carried out their individual responsibilities and assignments to perfection. 0:31:49.640 --> 0:31:52.440 Still ahead, we'll hear from Mike is Sicky and we'll 0:31:52.440 --> 0:31:54.800 head down the stretcher in our first hour. Already time 0:31:54.840 --> 0:31:57.720 flies when you're talking about a victory. He's Dave laphamim alliance. 0:31:57.760 --> 0:32:00.880 But callister Bengals onto the Bengals Radio network in seven 0:32:00.960 --> 0:32:06.560 hundred WLW. We were rolling right along down the stretch. 0:32:06.600 --> 0:32:09.160 We go final segment in our first of three big 0:32:09.200 --> 0:32:11.360 hours of Bengals like and I know the Bengals Radio 0:32:11.400 --> 0:32:14.280 network had seven hundred w l W. Mike Kasicki had 0:32:14.320 --> 0:32:17.520 three catches yesterday, thirty five yards total long of seventeen. 0:32:17.560 --> 0:32:20.160 He had a touchdown to the mix. Here's the Bengals 0:32:20.160 --> 0:32:22.680 tight end after the game had that had a. 0:32:22.600 --> 0:32:24.840 Long stretch here early in my career, so it felt 0:32:24.840 --> 0:32:26.960 good to come back and as a as an offense, 0:32:26.960 --> 0:32:29.760 as a team, really you know, we responded today and 0:32:30.000 --> 0:32:31.120 felt really good to get that. 0:32:31.080 --> 0:32:32.200 Way in the fashion that we did. 0:32:32.440 --> 0:32:35.360 Were you plating on grittying until like the fifty yard line? 0:32:36.680 --> 0:32:39.120 To say that I didn't think about that, I'd be lying. 0:32:39.920 --> 0:32:42.840 But I just made sure that you know, I appreciate, 0:32:42.880 --> 0:32:44.560 you know, Zach for you know, getting that play call 0:32:44.600 --> 0:32:47.320 in and the look was exactly how we wanted it 0:32:47.320 --> 0:32:49.960 there and Joe gave a phenomenal ball, and I just 0:32:50.000 --> 0:32:51.760 had to make sure that you know, I held onto it. 0:32:51.840 --> 0:32:54.000 Is this the offense that you were waiting for the 0:32:54.040 --> 0:32:54.680 Bengals to have? 0:32:54.840 --> 0:32:55.480 Was this the gay? 0:32:56.280 --> 0:32:56.400 Uh? 0:32:56.480 --> 0:32:56.640 Yeah? 0:32:56.680 --> 0:32:58.080 I mean listen, like we've had a lot of big 0:32:58.080 --> 0:33:00.560 games this year, obviously last week. 0:33:01.080 --> 0:33:01.760 Is you know the. 0:33:01.720 --> 0:33:03.880 Memory that people had coming into this game of our 0:33:03.960 --> 0:33:05.800 of our offense. But that's not who we are, It's 0:33:05.800 --> 0:33:08.880 not who we've ever been, and you know this is 0:33:09.040 --> 0:33:09.320 this is. 0:33:09.280 --> 0:33:10.080 Obviously who we are. 0:33:10.600 --> 0:33:12.240 Uh, you know, getting t back. 0:33:12.040 --> 0:33:14.600 Out there was big time Chase Brown, big big day, 0:33:14.880 --> 0:33:17.840 Jamar Chase over one hundred yards Joe throwing four touchdowns, 0:33:18.160 --> 0:33:20.160 Andre making a big catch on fourth down, the O 0:33:20.320 --> 0:33:22.840 line protecting all day, and then creating lanes in the 0:33:22.880 --> 0:33:24.880 run game. Like the list goes on and on and on, 0:33:25.720 --> 0:33:27.080 and everybody in the locker room should be. 0:33:27.080 --> 0:33:27.400 Proud of that. 0:33:27.600 --> 0:33:28.440 Good does this feel? 0:33:29.040 --> 0:33:30.160 Uh? Yeah, felt really good. 0:33:30.200 --> 0:33:32.520 Like I said, you know, last week obviously, uh you know, 0:33:32.520 --> 0:33:34.920 it wasn't up to our standard. And to be able 0:33:34.920 --> 0:33:36.880 to come out here today and put up forty five 0:33:36.880 --> 0:33:37.520 points felt good. 0:33:37.520 --> 0:33:41.600 Mike Gasicki on victory yesterday and doing the gritty as well, 0:33:41.600 --> 0:33:44.880 and just another one of those parts of the puzzle 0:33:44.920 --> 0:33:47.800 we've referenced and and Mike brings an element to this 0:33:47.880 --> 0:33:50.640 offense that just helps it go to another level. And 0:33:50.760 --> 0:33:52.760 we've talked before they missed him in that stretch with 0:33:52.800 --> 0:33:55.600 the peck issue. But when he is right and he 0:33:55.720 --> 0:33:58.600 can target the middle of the field and run as 0:33:58.600 --> 0:34:01.160 well as he does, what an element for this offense. 0:34:01.400 --> 0:34:04.800 Joe Borrow loves him, He really loves Mike Kasiki. Like 0:34:04.840 --> 0:34:07.480 you said, the middle of the football field, Mike Kasicki 0:34:08.680 --> 0:34:11.160 stands out, you know, like a lighthouse up He can 0:34:11.160 --> 0:34:13.839 a light, you know, her shifts at her lost out 0:34:13.880 --> 0:34:19.040 at sea. I mean, Joe Burrow finds him easily and regularly, 0:34:19.480 --> 0:34:24.160 and they've they've got an unbelievable bond, a great relationship 0:34:24.200 --> 0:34:27.440 on and off the football field. They're fast friends. But 0:34:28.040 --> 0:34:30.960 Joe Burrow has every confidence in the world that when 0:34:30.960 --> 0:34:33.759 he releases that football and it comes off that hand 0:34:33.800 --> 0:34:37.400 so smoothly, and then Kasiki catch the ball so easily 0:34:37.440 --> 0:34:40.920 and tucks it away, Joe Burrow has every confidence in 0:34:40.920 --> 0:34:42.480 the world that Mike Casique is going to do that 0:34:42.600 --> 0:34:44.520 over and over and over again. 0:34:44.600 --> 0:34:46.800 But final point to end the hour, and I forgot 0:34:46.840 --> 0:34:49.400 to mention him in her last second about the defense, 0:34:49.400 --> 0:34:52.520 But I want to mention Jayalen Davis, who Jaylen Davis 0:34:52.520 --> 0:34:56.440 has had a long journey of from Miami to Arizona 0:34:56.480 --> 0:34:59.000 to the Bengals. He's got in the league in twenty eighteen. 0:35:00.000 --> 0:35:03.360 He's had sporadic opportunities, but he's a guy whose patience 0:35:03.360 --> 0:35:06.239 has been tested and he's hung in there and been 0:35:06.400 --> 0:35:10.240 ready for an opportunity. And now with that opportunity arriving, 0:35:10.320 --> 0:35:13.399 he delivers his first career interception yesterday. Just a really 0:35:13.440 --> 0:35:14.200 cool day for him. 0:35:14.280 --> 0:35:18.120 Big play teammates love him. He's one of those guys 0:35:18.160 --> 0:35:22.480 that is so easy to like. He's I think he's phenomenal. 0:35:22.480 --> 0:35:27.319 I think he's a great communicator and easy to talk to. 0:35:29.040 --> 0:35:31.759 Almost every guy in the team it seems like says, yeah, 0:35:31.800 --> 0:35:33.399 he's one of my best friends. I mean, I love 0:35:33.440 --> 0:35:36.600 the guy. So when you have that going for you, 0:35:36.600 --> 0:35:39.080 you have a lot. You know everybody in the locker 0:35:39.160 --> 0:35:41.960 room is supporting you in it is behind you, and 0:35:42.040 --> 0:35:44.520 that always always pays dividends. 0:35:44.840 --> 0:35:47.640 Still ahead, we'll turn into our second area here from 0:35:47.680 --> 0:35:51.360 t Higgins, Barrett Carter, and a whole lot more to 0:35:51.440 --> 0:35:54.120 navigate on a day we sort through victory for the 0:35:54.120 --> 0:35:57.200 Bengals forty five to fourteen against the Miami Dolphins. This 0:35:57.280 --> 0:36:00.400 is Bengals Line. It's on the Bengals Radio network seven 0:36:00.480 --> 0:36:10.760 hundred WLW. Well are underweighting our second big hour tonight 0:36:10.880 --> 0:36:13.160 talking Bengals football, and I went over the Dolphin's yesterday. 0:36:13.200 --> 0:36:15.600 It's Bengals out of the Bengals Radio network at seven 0:36:15.680 --> 0:36:19.000 hundred WLW. We'll get into the Arizona Cardinals in our 0:36:19.040 --> 0:36:20.960 third hour tonight. But man, of all the things we 0:36:20.960 --> 0:36:23.080 talked about in the first hour, let's circle back around 0:36:23.080 --> 0:36:26.719 to begin our number two and talk t Higgins, three targets, 0:36:26.760 --> 0:36:29.879 three catches, fifty three yards, a log of thirty five, 0:36:30.160 --> 0:36:33.160 and a touchdown. Here's the Bengals wide receiver after the 0:36:33.239 --> 0:36:35.040 game light. 0:36:35.760 --> 0:36:38.839 But other than that, see that is can you take 0:36:38.880 --> 0:36:42.359 atting through the art of the T Higgins contested catch 0:36:42.520 --> 0:36:45.919 because it feels like it's evolved from a few years 0:36:45.960 --> 0:36:48.319 ago to now and it seems like you're making a. 0:36:48.320 --> 0:36:49.280 Look so routine. 0:36:49.440 --> 0:36:52.000 Yeah, man, I just that's my job to go up 0:36:52.040 --> 0:36:53.719 there and catch the ball. And you know, Joe Give 0:36:53.760 --> 0:36:55.239 isn't the great boss. It's where I only I can 0:36:55.320 --> 0:36:58.280 catch it, and you know it's either me or nobody. 0:36:58.400 --> 0:37:03.400 So is it kind of just uplifting, excited to be 0:37:03.440 --> 0:37:05.960 able to come back from what you did and happy 0:37:06.040 --> 0:37:06.480 type of game? 0:37:07.560 --> 0:37:10.080 Yeah, I mean definitely, definitely a you know, a bonus. 0:37:10.320 --> 0:37:13.160 Obviously I wanted to come out and try to dominate personally, 0:37:13.960 --> 0:37:15.840 but he was able to do that as a whole today, 0:37:15.920 --> 0:37:19.400 and you know the results show was. 0:37:19.440 --> 0:37:22.600 That as fun as it looks. Eighty degrees, forty five. 0:37:22.440 --> 0:37:27.200 Points pre pre game, I'm like, oh, this hot came 0:37:27.239 --> 0:37:30.520 back in got IV. But other than that, man, it 0:37:30.640 --> 0:37:33.319 was so fun out there. You know, everybody was playing together. 0:37:33.360 --> 0:37:34.759 It was a lot of laughs and jokes on the 0:37:34.840 --> 0:37:36.719 on the sideline. That's all you asked for, Man, the 0:37:36.760 --> 0:37:37.319 game is fun. 0:37:37.640 --> 0:37:41.000 Chase Brown said, you guys took the shoutout personally last week. 0:37:41.840 --> 0:37:43.960 I mean, yeah, for sure, Man, we definitely don't want 0:37:43.960 --> 0:37:46.000 to want that to happen ever again. You know, and 0:37:47.040 --> 0:37:48.960 speaking on Chase Man, man had a hell of a game, 0:37:49.239 --> 0:37:50.520 you know, shout out to him. 0:37:50.760 --> 0:37:52.640 You could just see how he's getting better and better 0:37:52.680 --> 0:37:53.560 each and every single week. 0:37:54.640 --> 0:37:58.520 There there was a lot of talk about going back 0:37:58.520 --> 0:38:02.080 to the Buffalo game that why you went back into 0:38:02.160 --> 0:38:04.239 the game, Like should the NFL have allowed you to? 0:38:04.880 --> 0:38:08.680 I mean, I've passed the tent tests. Yeah I felt I. 0:38:08.600 --> 0:38:10.759 Felt great at the time, and you know, it's just 0:38:11.040 --> 0:38:12.719 so happy to be one of those times I felt 0:38:12.719 --> 0:38:13.960 the symptoms later, you know what I mean. 0:38:14.160 --> 0:38:15.400 And that's that's how that was. 0:38:15.719 --> 0:38:19.359 How would you like advocate? Everybody said that you came 0:38:19.440 --> 0:38:21.960 forward with the symptoms that you felt, Like, do you 0:38:22.000 --> 0:38:25.160 think that that's important for people moving forward to if 0:38:25.160 --> 0:38:25.680 you're happy? 0:38:25.760 --> 0:38:26.040 For sure? 0:38:26.080 --> 0:38:27.680 If you have if you if you have any symptoms, 0:38:27.719 --> 0:38:29.640 for sure, you got you need to come forward because 0:38:30.080 --> 0:38:31.759 you know, the brain injury, there's nothing that's nothing to 0:38:31.760 --> 0:38:34.640 play with as serious and it confects you a long. 0:38:34.560 --> 0:38:36.560 Time, you know what I mean. So I said, I 0:38:36.560 --> 0:38:37.440 see every everything. 0:38:37.480 --> 0:38:39.200 Everybody's saying that I should say, I see all that 0:38:39.239 --> 0:38:41.520 and trust me, but I went to see a specialist 0:38:41.560 --> 0:38:43.520 and especially say it was okay for me to, you know, 0:38:43.600 --> 0:38:44.680 go back out there and play my game. 0:38:44.719 --> 0:38:45.879 And that's what I was. That's what I did. 0:38:46.520 --> 0:38:49.240 Just kind of feel like an example of your guys. 0:38:49.320 --> 0:38:52.799 Offense at its absolute peak today. That's kind of like 0:38:52.960 --> 0:38:53.919 everybody making the count. 0:38:54.200 --> 0:38:54.520 For sure. 0:38:54.560 --> 0:38:56.759 Man, we was offense at full power today. 0:38:56.800 --> 0:38:59.279 You know, we had everybody and you see what we 0:38:59.280 --> 0:39:01.520 could do when the field we all we got everybody together. 0:39:01.760 --> 0:39:03.120 Is that bittersweet a little bit? 0:39:03.320 --> 0:39:05.040 This is the kind of performance you want to put 0:39:05.120 --> 0:39:06.799 up in December going into a playoff runt? 0:39:06.800 --> 0:39:07.080 Is there? 0:39:07.080 --> 0:39:07.600 Like for sure? 0:39:07.680 --> 0:39:10.440 It's like yeah, for sure, man, It's bittersweet, But you know, 0:39:10.480 --> 0:39:11.040 we gotta live. 0:39:11.120 --> 0:39:13.040 What's what's what happened? You know what I'm saying. 0:39:13.239 --> 0:39:14.600 All we can do is just put our best go 0:39:14.640 --> 0:39:15.680 forward these next two games. 0:39:15.880 --> 0:39:17.600 We haven't had a chance to ask you, but we 0:39:17.640 --> 0:39:21.239 asked Jamar. We asked Joe last game, what are you 0:39:21.440 --> 0:39:25.600 hoping changes this offseason that will get you guys over 0:39:25.640 --> 0:39:27.400 the hump to hitch you back in the playoffs. 0:39:30.320 --> 0:39:33.880 Side of my job, you know, my job is just 0:39:33.920 --> 0:39:36.239 coming here, be a good teammate, be a leader. 0:39:36.400 --> 0:39:39.640 And play good football. All the other stuff leave that 0:39:39.680 --> 0:39:40.560 to them. 0:39:41.080 --> 0:39:44.279 Does this feel like a preview of what this team 0:39:44.320 --> 0:39:45.680 can be in twenty twenty six? 0:39:46.719 --> 0:39:47.120 Definitely? 0:39:47.239 --> 0:39:49.680 Uh, you know, the offense especially, and you know defense 0:39:49.680 --> 0:39:52.239 played they bust off to that. Yeah, there's definitely could 0:39:52.239 --> 0:39:54.759 be a preview. Obviously, you know next Sea, next next 0:39:54.800 --> 0:39:57.240 next year's team will be the same as this team obviously, 0:39:57.320 --> 0:39:59.680 but you know, yeah. 0:39:59.400 --> 0:40:03.520 Definitely team with another big day. That's ten touchdown catches 0:40:03.520 --> 0:40:06.720 on the season. Keep in mind that's thirteen games played, 0:40:06.719 --> 0:40:10.480 miss two. That's ten touchdown catches in thirteen games. Dab 0:40:10.560 --> 0:40:13.440 he has twenty touchdown catches going back to Week one 0:40:13.480 --> 0:40:16.200 of last year. So that's twenty touchdown catches in the 0:40:16.280 --> 0:40:18.880 last twenty five games for this team. 0:40:18.920 --> 0:40:21.799 That's getting it done. It certainly is. Man, that's a 0:40:21.840 --> 0:40:25.920 touchdown maker extraordinary right there. And the big reason why is, 0:40:26.000 --> 0:40:28.040 you know a lot of those touchdowns have come not 0:40:28.120 --> 0:40:30.120 all of them. I mean he had a thirty five 0:40:30.239 --> 0:40:33.600 yard you know play in this football game. He but 0:40:34.200 --> 0:40:38.839 his whole A big deal with him is with the 0:40:38.880 --> 0:40:41.759 size that he has is a red zone target. I 0:40:41.760 --> 0:40:45.799 mean he is, you know, stands out. It's it's like, 0:40:45.920 --> 0:40:49.080 you know, you got another tight end out there from 0:40:49.120 --> 0:40:53.200 a physical stature standpoint six four plus, you know, two 0:40:53.520 --> 0:40:56.880 fifteen to two twenty ish, and you get him matched 0:40:56.920 --> 0:40:59.880 up against a much smaller defensive back like what happened 0:41:00.040 --> 0:41:02.160 on the touchdown pass and he had I mean Joe 0:41:02.160 --> 0:41:04.640 Burrow when he sees that kind of a physical mismatch 0:41:04.680 --> 0:41:07.400 like bingo, I know where I'm going with the football. 0:41:07.880 --> 0:41:09.799 And then you know it's like, all right, what do 0:41:09.880 --> 0:41:10.480 I do? Man? 0:41:10.560 --> 0:41:10.600 This? 0:41:10.880 --> 0:41:13.960 You know, there's not that much football field of defense. 0:41:13.960 --> 0:41:16.279 So I'm not gonna play a safety deep. I'm gonna 0:41:16.280 --> 0:41:18.640 have safeties closer to the line screen. I'm gonna double 0:41:18.680 --> 0:41:21.799 te I'm gonna double Chase. Well then just get sick. 0:41:21.800 --> 0:41:23.719 He gets in the mix. You'll see Vash gets in 0:41:23.760 --> 0:41:26.879 the mix. Chase Brown gets in the mix. So they 0:41:26.920 --> 0:41:30.840 have a plethora a weapons in red zone targets for 0:41:30.920 --> 0:41:33.680 Joe Burrow to take advantage of. And I mean they 0:41:33.760 --> 0:41:35.840 are one of the best red zone offenses in the 0:41:35.960 --> 0:41:36.640 entire league. 0:41:36.680 --> 0:41:39.960 That the thirty five year catch he made over top 0:41:40.000 --> 0:41:42.920 of the defensive back, it looked like it looked like 0:41:43.000 --> 0:41:45.960 the big kid playing against the little kid in the backyard. 0:41:46.320 --> 0:41:48.640 And not to demean the defensive back, he's just small 0:41:48.680 --> 0:41:51.520 in stature and he just like, I'll take that. It 0:41:51.680 --> 0:41:53.640 just like reached over to almost off his helmet. 0:41:54.040 --> 0:41:54.880 I'll take that. 0:41:54.880 --> 0:41:57.600 That's just that that power and strength and size is 0:41:57.920 --> 0:41:59.080 awfully tough to match up. 0:41:59.120 --> 0:42:07.520 Again, it is remember uh, as kids, we played keep away. Yes, yeah, 0:42:06.920 --> 0:42:10.759 get guys, I'll tamalize you a little bit. You know 0:42:10.880 --> 0:42:12.560 you're not going to get the ball away from me. 0:42:12.640 --> 0:42:14.080 Don't even think about trying. 0:42:14.360 --> 0:42:15.960 And what a big week for Tea and he and 0:42:16.000 --> 0:42:18.000 he talked about how during the week he flew to 0:42:18.000 --> 0:42:21.239 Pittsburgh on uh some advice from he said that the 0:42:21.239 --> 0:42:24.239 front office, the folks, Abobby, he said, And and that 0:42:24.400 --> 0:42:27.160 certainly had to give him peace of mind because he's 0:42:27.160 --> 0:42:30.400 gone through two concussions. He'd missed time and and I 0:42:30.400 --> 0:42:32.640 would imagine on that flight out there, who knows what's 0:42:32.680 --> 0:42:34.160 running through your head? What what are they going to 0:42:34.200 --> 0:42:36.399 tell me, am all right, I want to be all right, 0:42:36.680 --> 0:42:40.000 I want to play, And clearly he got green light 0:42:40.080 --> 0:42:42.279 thumbs up and had to feel really good about coming 0:42:42.280 --> 0:42:42.800 back and playing. 0:42:43.040 --> 0:42:47.120 Yeah, that's that's the thing, Lance, what you're saying, it's uh. 0:42:47.320 --> 0:42:49.279 You know, even if you're not a football player, if 0:42:49.280 --> 0:42:52.000 you you're worried about your health, it's hard to perform 0:42:52.080 --> 0:42:54.759 any job, really hard to go in and focus on 0:42:54.920 --> 0:42:57.400 being the best accountant in the in the world. You know, 0:42:57.480 --> 0:43:00.800 if you're if you're worried about your brain shooting properly, 0:43:00.840 --> 0:43:03.799 you know, and uh, or whatever occupation you may have. 0:43:04.360 --> 0:43:06.560 Same with the football player, Same with T. Higgins. I'm 0:43:06.560 --> 0:43:08.480 sure that there were some anxious moments for him on 0:43:08.520 --> 0:43:13.280 that flight out to Pittsburgh, but jubilation and excitement about 0:43:13.840 --> 0:43:16.720 what he was going to be able to do against 0:43:16.760 --> 0:43:18.279 the Miami Dolphins on the flight home. 0:43:18.400 --> 0:43:22.000 And you know, it's been said of Joe Burrow, Guys 0:43:22.040 --> 0:43:25.120 like Joe Burrow and T their they're football players. They 0:43:25.200 --> 0:43:27.759 play and you you could make the case, you could 0:43:27.800 --> 0:43:30.799 make a very legitimate case when your team's eliminated and 0:43:30.840 --> 0:43:32.919 you've got a player who's had two concussions. 0:43:33.320 --> 0:43:33.600 If T. 0:43:33.760 --> 0:43:36.600 Higgins would have not played yesterday. I think most people 0:43:36.600 --> 0:43:38.360 would have understood, you know what, they're out of it. 0:43:38.440 --> 0:43:41.040 He's got he's had concussions, don't risk it. But T 0:43:41.360 --> 0:43:44.120 got cleared, and T wanted to be with his teammates, 0:43:44.200 --> 0:43:46.560 and T wanted to play football yesterday. 0:43:46.600 --> 0:43:48.879 I think that's a great point, Lance, I mean tremendous point. 0:43:48.880 --> 0:43:51.000 You understand the game of football, and you've been around 0:43:51.040 --> 0:43:53.399 it a while here in the National Football League, and 0:43:53.640 --> 0:43:56.200 Zach Taylor talked about it. Zach Taylor talked about it 0:43:56.200 --> 0:43:59.040 in as pressors. Joe Burrow is going to play. You know, 0:43:59.640 --> 0:44:01.600 he's been he's been nicked up, He's had a tough 0:44:01.920 --> 0:44:05.200 season with respect to injury. They could have shut him down, 0:44:05.880 --> 0:44:08.640 but Joe's like, no, no, I'm rehabbing, I'm coming back, 0:44:08.680 --> 0:44:11.920 I'm gonna play. There's games left. T Higgins is the 0:44:11.960 --> 0:44:14.239 same way, and he could have easily said, you know what, 0:44:15.080 --> 0:44:17.520 I had two concussions in a very short period of time. 0:44:18.080 --> 0:44:21.439 That's not good. That's not healthy. My post football life. 0:44:21.920 --> 0:44:23.920 I want to be able to live a normal post 0:44:24.000 --> 0:44:26.520 football life and be able to do things that everybody 0:44:26.520 --> 0:44:29.360 else does. Travel, have fun, you know, enjoy family and 0:44:29.400 --> 0:44:31.879 all that sort of thing. So those kind of things 0:44:31.920 --> 0:44:36.439 definitely go through your mind. But like you said, these 0:44:36.480 --> 0:44:40.759 guys love football, They love being around each other. There 0:44:40.800 --> 0:44:43.880 are so many good friends on this football team. The 0:44:44.280 --> 0:44:47.160 relationships and bonds that have been made are gonna last 0:44:47.280 --> 0:44:49.919 long after the game of football is over with. These 0:44:49.960 --> 0:44:52.000 guys are going to be catching up with each other 0:44:52.040 --> 0:44:54.480 and as they have families, their families will be catching 0:44:54.560 --> 0:44:56.200 up with each other. And that's one of the beautiful 0:44:56.200 --> 0:44:57.400 things about pro sports. 0:44:57.560 --> 0:45:00.399 Boy, that's a great point about the relationships on the team. 0:45:00.440 --> 0:45:03.520 And it almost it's weird to say that Jamar Chase 0:45:03.600 --> 0:45:05.759 with nine catches one hundred and nine yards, had a 0:45:05.840 --> 0:45:08.359 quiet day but he didn't get all the headlines of 0:45:08.360 --> 0:45:12.000 touchdowns yesterday, And yet it doesn't. It never bothers him 0:45:12.000 --> 0:45:14.360 and he looks at t have a big game and 0:45:14.440 --> 0:45:16.200 jamorro will have a big game next week. And it's 0:45:16.200 --> 0:45:19.080 the give and take of nobody needs to get their own. 0:45:19.320 --> 0:45:21.680 They're happy when somebody else gets theirs on a day. 0:45:21.800 --> 0:45:25.759 Yeah, exactly. They're they're happy for each other. You know, 0:45:25.800 --> 0:45:28.800 they know that there's a limited time that's going to 0:45:28.840 --> 0:45:32.360 be able to enjoy and play the game of professional football, 0:45:32.600 --> 0:45:35.719 and you want to be compensated properly. And you know 0:45:36.320 --> 0:45:38.520 Jamar Chase the kind of guy okay T had his 0:45:38.640 --> 0:45:40.719 this week. I'm getting mine next week. Yep, There's no 0:45:40.760 --> 0:45:42.319 doubt that I'm going to get mine because I know 0:45:42.320 --> 0:45:44.600 I'm better than any defensive back one on one in 0:45:44.600 --> 0:45:46.960 the National Football League. And if they double me, I 0:45:47.000 --> 0:45:47.759 can beat that too. 0:45:48.440 --> 0:45:51.239 Let's talk defense when we come back. Barrett Carter on 0:45:51.360 --> 0:45:53.640 his day and the defensive side of the ball as 0:45:53.640 --> 0:45:56.399 we rock and roll through this Monday night of Bengals Line, 0:45:56.480 --> 0:45:59.840 Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. 0:46:02.680 --> 0:46:02.879 Heny. 0:46:02.920 --> 0:46:05.799 We're rolling around along roll through on Monday night talking 0:46:05.800 --> 0:46:08.440 Bengals football and Bengals on of the Bengals Ring Network. 0:46:08.600 --> 0:46:10.960 It's seven hundred WL. I think we've been flipping back 0:46:10.960 --> 0:46:13.000 and forth offense the defense. Let's go back to the 0:46:13.000 --> 0:46:17.880 defensive side of things. Barrett Carter first career NFL interception yesterday. 0:46:18.160 --> 0:46:21.480 Here's the Bengal rookie linebacker with Dan after the game. 0:46:21.800 --> 0:46:26.360 Barrett, three takeaways in one quarter. Describe what it was 0:46:26.480 --> 0:46:28.480 like you had one of the interception. Describe what that 0:46:28.520 --> 0:46:31.080 third quarter was like for everybody on defense. 0:46:31.520 --> 0:46:34.600 Yeah, uh, just coming in at halftime, Coach Taylor just 0:46:34.640 --> 0:46:36.440 said that we needed to take the ball away and 0:46:36.880 --> 0:46:39.560 on offense, we had to keep the ball away from them. So, no, 0:46:39.680 --> 0:46:41.160 that was that's the goal that we go into every 0:46:41.200 --> 0:46:43.280 single game with to try to be at least plus 0:46:43.320 --> 0:46:45.600 two and just for us to you know, come out 0:46:45.640 --> 0:46:48.040 third quarter swing, come out swinging and they'll get the 0:46:48.040 --> 0:46:50.279 ball back to our offense was huge and create a 0:46:50.320 --> 0:46:51.480 lot of momentum for our team. 0:46:51.600 --> 0:46:54.279 So it's a I'm glad we were able to do that. 0:46:54.320 --> 0:46:55.400 We just have to keep building on that. 0:46:55.920 --> 0:46:58.480 A major challenge going into this game with stopping the 0:46:58.600 --> 0:47:01.719 running attack. They had the one long touchdown runner leave 0:47:01.800 --> 0:47:05.360 the game. Other than that three point yards per Carrie 0:47:05.480 --> 0:47:07.480 for the rest of the day. How did you guys 0:47:07.520 --> 0:47:09.680 do such a good job at stopping the run. 0:47:10.120 --> 0:47:11.920 Yeah, we always have to lock in on our keys. 0:47:11.960 --> 0:47:13.719 We knew that stopping the run was going to be 0:47:13.719 --> 0:47:15.480 the main emphasis this week, and you know. 0:47:15.480 --> 0:47:17.279 Miami, they do a great job every single week of 0:47:17.320 --> 0:47:17.759 creating a. 0:47:17.760 --> 0:47:19.880 Lot of I Kenny and it makes it very challenging 0:47:19.880 --> 0:47:22.000 for a defense. So we knew that it was gonna 0:47:22.000 --> 0:47:24.399 be a big challenge for us and know we're able 0:47:24.400 --> 0:47:25.880 to step up to that challenge. 0:47:25.960 --> 0:47:28.480 Describe the excitement level of coming with your first IMT 0:47:28.640 --> 0:47:29.320 in the NFL. 0:47:29.920 --> 0:47:32.160 Yeah, I'm super exciting. No, I feel like I was 0:47:32.239 --> 0:47:34.319 it was long overdue. I feel like I should have 0:47:34.360 --> 0:47:36.040 had that many many weeks ago. 0:47:36.120 --> 0:47:38.680 But you know, God makes no mistakes, So I'm just 0:47:38.719 --> 0:47:40.200 glad I was able to get that for our team 0:47:40.280 --> 0:47:41.840 and you know, get the ball back to our offense. 0:47:41.840 --> 0:47:43.200 So hopefully I can just keep building on that. 0:47:43.520 --> 0:47:46.760 You got your first. Jalen Davis got his first as well. 0:47:47.120 --> 0:47:49.400 He's had a nice impact since moving up from the 0:47:49.400 --> 0:47:52.120 practice squad. Describe what he's done for the defense. Yeah, 0:47:52.239 --> 0:47:54.320 JD is such a so savvy. 0:47:55.000 --> 0:47:57.440 He's been in the league for however many years has been, 0:47:57.480 --> 0:47:59.200 and you know he's been he's just been working every 0:47:59.239 --> 0:48:00.600 single day, just waiting for a shot. 0:48:00.880 --> 0:48:03.279 And we know he stepped up. He stepped up to 0:48:03.280 --> 0:48:03.640 the plate. 0:48:03.920 --> 0:48:06.239 He wasn't afraid to, you know, come in and do 0:48:06.320 --> 0:48:08.520 his thing. And you know, JD's a dog. It's an 0:48:08.520 --> 0:48:10.920 honor to get to play alongside him, and it's a 0:48:11.120 --> 0:48:13.120 he just flies around and makes play, so it's a 0:48:13.200 --> 0:48:14.560 it's a blessing to get to play with JD. 0:48:14.920 --> 0:48:17.000 It's just one of those games, parrit where you guys 0:48:17.120 --> 0:48:21.440 excelled in all three phases. Offense scores forty five, defense 0:48:21.520 --> 0:48:25.960 gets multiple takeaways. Ryan Rico had four bunchs inside the twenty. 0:48:26.239 --> 0:48:29.040 Did you feel like this was the first time that 0:48:29.080 --> 0:48:32.879 you've experienced a total performance by the Bengals. 0:48:33.440 --> 0:48:34.560 I feel like it. 0:48:34.560 --> 0:48:36.720 It was in bits and pieces, so there was still 0:48:36.840 --> 0:48:38.560 a lot of a lot of players left out there 0:48:38.640 --> 0:48:41.360 that you know that we need to correct in all phases. 0:48:41.400 --> 0:48:43.960 I know all guys can say that, but you know, 0:48:44.040 --> 0:48:46.400 we're we're taking We're definitely taking steps in the right direction, 0:48:47.160 --> 0:48:49.680 but it's nowhere near what we're what we're capable of 0:48:49.800 --> 0:48:51.799 doing as a team. So we just have to, you know, 0:48:51.880 --> 0:48:54.800 keep keep this momentum going, keep building on this and 0:48:54.880 --> 0:48:56.360 you know, the feeling that we have right. 0:48:56.200 --> 0:48:58.400 Now, we have to chase this feeling every. 0:48:58.200 --> 0:49:00.719 Single week and even leading into the next because we're 0:49:00.760 --> 0:49:03.719 capable of so much more. But now, when we played 0:49:03.719 --> 0:49:06.600 conflimentary football, we're capble of doing really great things and 0:49:06.680 --> 0:49:07.720 that's what we showed today. 0:49:07.719 --> 0:49:09.440 But we just have to keep going on it. 0:49:09.480 --> 0:49:13.440 So nice early Christmas present for Bengals fans. Congratulations on 0:49:13.480 --> 0:49:15.879 a great win. Thank you so much, appreciate that. That's 0:49:15.960 --> 0:49:17.000 linebacker Barrett Carter. 0:49:17.280 --> 0:49:19.880 Barrett Carter with the pick yesterday, and Dave. One of 0:49:20.040 --> 0:49:21.839 the things that really jumped out to what they did 0:49:21.840 --> 0:49:24.960 defensively yesterday, that old saying the more you can get 0:49:25.000 --> 0:49:27.120 flying to the football, the better it is. And and 0:49:27.320 --> 0:49:31.200 Battle punched out the ball, Murphy recovered the fumble. Curd 0:49:31.760 --> 0:49:34.400 had the interception after Josh Newton knocked the ball in 0:49:34.440 --> 0:49:36.920 the air. It was tandem efforts. That's a lot of 0:49:36.960 --> 0:49:38.840 guys around the football making things happen. 0:49:38.960 --> 0:49:42.440 Great point again, Lance, they ran to the football. Well, 0:49:42.600 --> 0:49:46.160 they ran to the football defensively as a group, about 0:49:46.160 --> 0:49:47.919 as well as I've seen all year long. I think 0:49:47.960 --> 0:49:51.919 Al Golden was happy about it. On the bus ride 0:49:51.920 --> 0:49:54.000 to the airport, I did talk. I mentioned that to him. 0:49:54.040 --> 0:49:56.640 I said, she's coach. Almost every play when I look 0:49:56.719 --> 0:49:59.000 down there at the end of the play, there's like three, four, 0:49:59.080 --> 0:50:03.359 maybe even five defenders you know around the ball. He goes, Yeah, 0:50:03.360 --> 0:50:05.399 we've been harping on that big time. You know, run 0:50:05.440 --> 0:50:08.719 to the ball, good things will happen. You create opportunities 0:50:08.719 --> 0:50:11.520 when you run to the football, and they certainly did yesterday. 0:50:11.600 --> 0:50:16.279 So Carter is is a force in the run. He 0:50:16.320 --> 0:50:19.640 stops the run pretty well. Now if he can make 0:50:19.719 --> 0:50:22.400 himself a dual threat in terms of being able to, 0:50:23.040 --> 0:50:26.240 you know, drop back into his own and play Arizona, 0:50:26.320 --> 0:50:28.719 patrol it well and make plays on the football or 0:50:29.480 --> 0:50:31.719 cover a back out of the backfield or a tight 0:50:31.800 --> 0:50:33.680 end on a cross in the middle of the football field, 0:50:33.680 --> 0:50:36.040 and be able to run with him, which he's capable 0:50:36.120 --> 0:50:39.040 of doing. Physically, he's got He's got everything you need 0:50:39.080 --> 0:50:41.680 to be an outstanding linebacker in the National Football League. 0:50:42.160 --> 0:50:45.120 And he's one of many young players Demetrius Knight, there's 0:50:45.160 --> 0:50:47.960 a bunch of young players that are you know, Dax 0:50:48.040 --> 0:50:51.719 Hill is not super young, but he's not anywhere near 0:50:51.800 --> 0:50:53.920 the end of his career. I think he's one of 0:50:53.960 --> 0:50:56.600 the best cover guys, the best the Bengals have, and 0:50:56.680 --> 0:50:58.919 he's one of the best in the National Football League. 0:50:58.920 --> 0:51:01.040 And the other thing I thought the benk did well 0:51:01.120 --> 0:51:03.520 yesterday was they tackled and part of it was so 0:51:03.560 --> 0:51:06.400 many guys around the ball, but one guy would you know, 0:51:06.440 --> 0:51:08.640 stick his head across the bow and wrap up and 0:51:08.640 --> 0:51:11.440 take them to the ground. If he didn't quite take 0:51:11.480 --> 0:51:13.080 them on the ground two or three other guys were 0:51:13.120 --> 0:51:15.120 smacking him as he was going to the ground and 0:51:15.200 --> 0:51:17.839 maybe trying to knock the ball loose. But if you're 0:51:18.000 --> 0:51:20.120 back to your point on Al Golden, if you're Ale, 0:51:20.120 --> 0:51:21.080 it's obviously been. 0:51:21.120 --> 0:51:24.000 A trying year. You've got young guys who don't always 0:51:24.040 --> 0:51:26.440 get it at the speed you need them to get it. 0:51:26.520 --> 0:51:30.080 But flashes like yesterday, if you're Al Golden, you go 0:51:30.160 --> 0:51:31.680 home and you put your head on the pillow and 0:51:31.680 --> 0:51:34.600 you're looking up and thinking, all right, there's signs here. 0:51:34.880 --> 0:51:36.360 I'll take the signs. 0:51:36.040 --> 0:51:38.319 Little things to build on one week to the next, 0:51:38.320 --> 0:51:40.600 and it's got to feel. It's got to feel good 0:51:40.640 --> 0:51:43.840 for Al to see some proof, some evidence starting to 0:51:43.880 --> 0:51:47.160 develop it. Everybody wanted it in week one and it's 0:51:47.200 --> 0:51:48.799 taken some time and there have been a lot of 0:51:48.800 --> 0:51:51.719 mistackles along the way. But if there's something they have 0:51:51.920 --> 0:51:54.400 found and guys have found some confidence at this point, 0:51:54.680 --> 0:51:56.360 that's big to carry into the offseason. 0:51:56.400 --> 0:51:56.600 Yeah. 0:51:56.640 --> 0:51:59.040 I think they're confident in their coach and their coach 0:51:59.080 --> 0:52:02.360 to start and be confident in them, and that's always 0:52:03.040 --> 0:52:07.440 extremely important both ways to have the confidence. And I 0:52:07.480 --> 0:52:10.640 do think the graft's going up for the Cincinnati Bengals defensively, 0:52:10.719 --> 0:52:14.480 they are young, they are improving, and I think Al Golden, 0:52:14.640 --> 0:52:16.919 you know, is excited about what it's going to look 0:52:16.960 --> 0:52:18.680 like in twenty twenty six and beyond. 0:52:19.200 --> 0:52:23.000 We mentioned the three turnovers, and I know you'll always references. 0:52:23.040 --> 0:52:24.759 They get the fourth down stop in the in the 0:52:24.800 --> 0:52:27.239 third quarter, that's as good as a turnover because he 0:52:27.280 --> 0:52:28.799 gives you your offense the football back. 0:52:28.880 --> 0:52:32.560 Absolutely, you know. I mean, uh, you know, sometimes the 0:52:32.600 --> 0:52:36.120 turnovers don't occur at the spot of the football field 0:52:36.160 --> 0:52:39.160 we should pre further to occur. You know, sometimes the 0:52:39.200 --> 0:52:41.960 offense ends up being backed up. But you know, hey, 0:52:42.040 --> 0:52:44.879 as long as you're taking away points, you're taking away 0:52:44.880 --> 0:52:49.520 opportunities to score. Okay, well, Varney, we're already in field 0:52:49.560 --> 0:52:53.040 goal range. Now we're in a chip shot field goal territory. 0:52:53.080 --> 0:52:55.239 And then you get that taken away. That has a 0:52:55.320 --> 0:52:57.359 lingering effect. I mean, that's not as easy to get 0:52:57.400 --> 0:53:01.799 over as people think. Players back say, oh, man, if 0:53:01.840 --> 0:53:03.359 we had done this, if we had done that, if 0:53:03.360 --> 0:53:05.520 they didn't do this, they didn't take that away from us, 0:53:05.760 --> 0:53:07.560 would have been a different game. Yeah, what should have 0:53:07.600 --> 0:53:10.040 could have It's not the way it is in the NFL. 0:53:09.960 --> 0:53:13.879 Still ahead, We'll continue breaking down yesterday's game. We'll look 0:53:13.880 --> 0:53:17.160 at head to Arizona. We're gonna drop in something I 0:53:17.200 --> 0:53:20.160 heard Sam Hubbard say to you guys on Friday about 0:53:20.360 --> 0:53:22.879 the final play of his career and something that Zach 0:53:22.920 --> 0:53:26.080 Taylor said about Sam Hubbard the leader I thought was 0:53:26.160 --> 0:53:28.719 just fantastic and worth taking a listen to. We'll do 0:53:28.800 --> 0:53:30.960 that as we continue as well. It's Bengals on on 0:53:31.000 --> 0:53:35.720 the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. Hey, welcome 0:53:35.719 --> 0:53:38.359 back on Bengals On to the Bengals Radio Network, seven 0:53:38.440 --> 0:53:43.520 hundred WLW. Antil callister Dave Lappom. We've worked our way 0:53:43.560 --> 0:53:46.680 through yesterday's went over the Dolphins forty five fourteen. We've 0:53:46.719 --> 0:53:49.479 got the Miami or the Arizona Cardos to look forward 0:53:49.520 --> 0:53:51.719 to in our third hour, plus game balls. It'll be 0:53:51.800 --> 0:53:54.600 nice to hear presentation of game balls on a after 0:53:54.680 --> 0:53:57.399 a winning game for the Bengals as well. But while 0:53:57.400 --> 0:54:00.319 I'm thinking about it, and I love the Bengals Friday 0:54:00.360 --> 0:54:02.959 pep rally that you do with Dan Horden sometimes Wayne 0:54:03.000 --> 0:54:05.759 box Miller and you guys have had the fun of 0:54:05.760 --> 0:54:08.040 the last two weeks having Sam Hubbert, join you, and 0:54:08.040 --> 0:54:12.480 I thought Sam's reflections on Friday about his final play 0:54:12.480 --> 0:54:14.920 of his career, a touchdown catch of all things from 0:54:15.000 --> 0:54:18.920 Joe Burrow. And then Dan had asked Zach Taylor about 0:54:19.080 --> 0:54:21.520 Sam's presence on the team and what it meant, and 0:54:21.560 --> 0:54:23.760 Sam reacted that I thought it was really good stuff. 0:54:23.840 --> 0:54:27.360 Let's take a listen to just a portion of Friday, 0:54:27.520 --> 0:54:29.640 Dan and laugh with Sam Hubbard. Here it is. 0:54:29.880 --> 0:54:32.640 We're going to turn the clock back to the very 0:54:33.000 --> 0:54:37.680 last play, Oh baby, Sam Hubbard's NFL career. Let's listen. 0:54:37.680 --> 0:54:41.800 In Burrow fakes a handoff, throws a pass. 0:54:41.160 --> 0:54:47.400 Sam Hubbard with the catch, sadon touchdown, Bengals out, Sam 0:54:47.480 --> 0:54:51.759 Hubbard raising the football over his head and spiking at 0:54:51.840 --> 0:54:54.520 Gronk style after the first catch. 0:54:54.680 --> 0:54:56.040 How his NFL career. 0:54:56.320 --> 0:54:58.719 Sam Hubbard started his career at Moler High School. Is 0:54:58.719 --> 0:55:02.760 a tight end? Sam Hubbard is an athlete, Sam Hubbard. 0:55:02.920 --> 0:55:04.800 That's a great fingertip catch. 0:55:05.360 --> 0:55:08.040 It was a great fingertip catch. About that spike, Was 0:55:08.080 --> 0:55:10.359 that something that you had in mind or was that 0:55:10.440 --> 0:55:11.520 completely in the moment. 0:55:11.640 --> 0:55:14.400 No, we had rehearsed that one. Joe was making me 0:55:14.480 --> 0:55:18.160 do them. The routes full speed and walk through pre practice, 0:55:18.200 --> 0:55:20.600 and then we had to, you know, practice a spike. 0:55:20.680 --> 0:55:23.880 Of course, I almost messed it up, getting too excited 0:55:23.880 --> 0:55:26.319 as soon as I got up, but then held it back, 0:55:26.960 --> 0:55:28.560 gathered ted and the rest of the crew, and I 0:55:28.600 --> 0:55:32.160 actually gave it a legit spike. So uh it worked out. 0:55:32.200 --> 0:55:34.080 One of the one of the coolest moments ever. I 0:55:34.080 --> 0:55:38.320 got Joe's jersey from that game, nice framed in my basement. 0:55:38.640 --> 0:55:42.120 Uh got the ball. I got the ball too. 0:55:42.520 --> 0:55:44.800 Did you expect to be wide open? I mean normally 0:55:44.920 --> 0:55:45.319 I was. 0:55:45.239 --> 0:55:46.440 Not wide open? Come on. 0:55:46.560 --> 0:55:50.320 No, No, That's what I'm saying. I'm wondering if you 0:55:51.120 --> 0:55:54.840 being a defensive lineman lining up presumably to block. 0:55:55.080 --> 0:55:55.279 Yeah. 0:55:55.400 --> 0:55:57.200 No, Joe told me there's going to be a guy 0:55:57.239 --> 0:55:59.600 on me, and I don't have the exact breakaway speed. 0:55:59.640 --> 0:56:04.120 But uh, that was that, Yeah, the in traffic catch. 0:56:04.280 --> 0:56:07.720 But it was a I think Zach was so confident 0:56:07.719 --> 0:56:10.239 in calling it because it was a third string or 0:56:10.640 --> 0:56:11.760 second string linebacker. 0:56:11.800 --> 0:56:15.960 I didn't really know. So huh, take advantage, no doubt, 0:56:16.040 --> 0:56:16.439 no doubt. 0:56:16.520 --> 0:56:19.680 Take advantage of opportunities. When an opportunity knocks, men open 0:56:19.760 --> 0:56:25.040 the door. So Moller High School, Ohio State, Cincinnati Bengals. 0:56:25.080 --> 0:56:28.400 You are the Cincinnati kid, the Ohio kid. Is it 0:56:28.840 --> 0:56:32.279 something that as you reflect back on it, you even 0:56:32.840 --> 0:56:35.920 cherished the decisions you made even more to stay local. 0:56:37.200 --> 0:56:39.839 Yeah, I think so. I think that now. You know, 0:56:40.080 --> 0:56:43.280 big plan since I got drafted was to to always 0:56:43.280 --> 0:56:46.640 stay local. And you know, I'm here full time and 0:56:47.800 --> 0:56:50.720 want an opportunity to have the support system and everything 0:56:50.719 --> 0:56:53.080 that I had. And what makes it all the sweeter 0:56:53.200 --> 0:56:55.320 is the success we were able to have here, the 0:56:55.800 --> 0:56:57.320 energy we brought to the fan base. 0:56:57.400 --> 0:56:59.239 And you know. 0:56:59.719 --> 0:57:02.960 If you recall that that run to the Super Bowl, 0:57:03.080 --> 0:57:06.400 what the city fell like walking around the streets for 0:57:06.440 --> 0:57:09.200 those months. I mean, I'll hold onto that time for 0:57:08.960 --> 0:57:12.480 the rest of my life, and you know, hoping for 0:57:12.520 --> 0:57:13.359 it again here soon. 0:57:13.600 --> 0:57:13.959 I got. 0:57:14.000 --> 0:57:17.360 I got faith in our and our boys to uh 0:57:17.400 --> 0:57:18.880 to get back to the Promised Land. 0:57:19.040 --> 0:57:21.720 We worked that back when he wanted back soon. You 0:57:21.840 --> 0:57:25.320 preceded Zach Taylor. You actually started your Bengals career when 0:57:25.320 --> 0:57:28.360 Marvin Lewis was the head coach. We had the opportunity 0:57:28.400 --> 0:57:30.560 to do a visit with Zach earlier today and I 0:57:30.600 --> 0:57:33.960 asked him about the impact you made on his career, 0:57:34.400 --> 0:57:37.360 UH to this point as the Cincinnati Bengals head coach, 0:57:37.360 --> 0:57:38.160 here's Zach Taylor. 0:57:38.880 --> 0:57:41.960 Always the guy I could count on, Always a guy 0:57:42.280 --> 0:57:45.080 that if I needed and the opinion of a player 0:57:45.520 --> 0:57:50.880 on schedule or vibe of the team, or I knew 0:57:51.000 --> 0:57:53.720 I could get Sam up there, He'd be transparent with 0:57:53.800 --> 0:57:58.720 me and as a leader, like it was fun for 0:57:58.800 --> 0:58:02.840 me to see when he finally decided, you know, realize 0:58:03.480 --> 0:58:06.560 these guys respect me and I can now talk more. 0:58:06.960 --> 0:58:08.640 I don't just have to be the lead by example 0:58:08.680 --> 0:58:10.120 guy all the time. And I think that was more 0:58:10.200 --> 0:58:14.040 year two. So it was fun watching him become a 0:58:14.080 --> 0:58:17.720 captain and guys rally around him and we had the 0:58:17.760 --> 0:58:20.160 success we had, and he was a huge part of that. 0:58:21.600 --> 0:58:25.080 Fought through injuries. That's as a coach you appreciate that 0:58:25.120 --> 0:58:28.600 more than anybody, the guys that give you everything they 0:58:28.640 --> 0:58:32.800 have despite their circumstances. And Sam was the number one 0:58:32.840 --> 0:58:36.760 example of all that. And so that's that was always 0:58:36.800 --> 0:58:38.320 meant a lot to me to know that Sam was 0:58:38.360 --> 0:58:41.040 gonna we'll have the off season surgery, but I'm playing 0:58:41.160 --> 0:58:43.560 and doing everything I came to play. So that was 0:58:43.720 --> 0:58:45.400 that was great, and I you know, for him to 0:58:46.000 --> 0:58:48.200 he was on me for years to catch a pass, 0:58:48.960 --> 0:58:51.840 and so first career to end on that play. It 0:58:51.920 --> 0:58:54.880 was very fitting, you know, it really was, and it 0:58:55.080 --> 0:58:56.640 I don't obviously don't want his career to end on 0:58:56.680 --> 0:59:02.280 an injury, but I think it was. I can say 0:59:02.320 --> 0:59:04.640 this without feeling stupid, like it was a cool way 0:59:04.680 --> 0:59:06.640 for him in his career. You got to go in 0:59:06.640 --> 0:59:08.960 and run one route all season. He kind of touched 0:59:09.000 --> 0:59:12.440 up past contested catch from his college roommate. 0:59:13.880 --> 0:59:14.320 Pretty cool. 0:59:15.040 --> 0:59:15.439 That was cool. 0:59:16.720 --> 0:59:19.000 I think he's right. It was cool. Were you on 0:59:19.120 --> 0:59:20.920 him in fact for years to catch a pass? 0:59:21.840 --> 0:59:24.640 No, that was pretty cool. I didn't you asked him that. 0:59:25.120 --> 0:59:27.920 I was definitely, you know, in his year, I you know, 0:59:28.160 --> 0:59:32.280 jokingly because of my great reps as a rookie fullback. 0:59:33.000 --> 0:59:35.120 I was like, hey, you know, I'm ready, let's do 0:59:35.160 --> 0:59:37.840 it and go. And you know, when it comes down to, hey, 0:59:37.960 --> 0:59:40.880 here's the play we're calling it, it's a whole different ballgame. 0:59:40.920 --> 0:59:42.560 You get much more nervous. 0:59:42.200 --> 0:59:44.080 And you're like, I don't know if I actually want 0:59:44.120 --> 0:59:45.400 this and drop it here. 0:59:45.880 --> 0:59:47.880 But I got to give credit to Zach. He you know, 0:59:47.960 --> 0:59:48.600 he did. 0:59:49.600 --> 0:59:52.120 You know, he really made that happen, and it was 0:59:52.520 --> 0:59:55.760 turned the momentum in that game. But Zach, you know, 0:59:55.840 --> 0:59:58.320 I he did so much for me in my career. 0:59:58.400 --> 1:00:01.320 Have so much respect for him and how he's handled, 1:00:01.400 --> 1:00:05.479 you know, tough situations from you know, twenty nineteen till now. 1:00:05.600 --> 1:00:08.240 You know, I can't say enough good things about Zach 1:00:08.320 --> 1:00:10.320 and how he goes about his business. 1:00:11.120 --> 1:00:13.240 Also watching you know, he watched my evolution. 1:00:13.400 --> 1:00:16.520 I watched his evolution from a first time head coach 1:00:16.600 --> 1:00:17.720 to where he is now. 1:00:17.760 --> 1:00:20.400 I think that he's learned. 1:00:20.480 --> 1:00:23.479 He's all you know, he journals and writes everything down 1:00:23.560 --> 1:00:26.760 and really reflects and gets better every year. So it's 1:00:26.800 --> 1:00:27.640 cool to be around a. 1:00:27.560 --> 1:00:31.000 Guy like that. And yeah, that was cool. 1:00:31.480 --> 1:00:34.080 Dave so much good stuff in that hour long conversation 1:00:34.200 --> 1:00:37.760 you guys had. But I thought Dan's question to Zach 1:00:37.840 --> 1:00:41.080 about what Sam meant to the team, And then when 1:00:41.200 --> 1:00:44.160 Zach explained that Zach was a guy he could go 1:00:44.240 --> 1:00:46.440 to and if he needed to measure the pulse of 1:00:46.480 --> 1:00:49.280 the team, or if they should change a practice time 1:00:49.360 --> 1:00:51.760 or how they should do something in camp, Sam was 1:00:51.800 --> 1:00:54.720 the guy he turned to because he knew Sam had 1:00:54.760 --> 1:00:57.840 an understanding of that locker room and the guys in 1:00:57.920 --> 1:01:00.600 that room had an appreciation for him, and I thought 1:01:00.640 --> 1:01:05.160 that just spoke volumes about the regard that this organization 1:01:05.640 --> 1:01:06.680 holds Sam Hubbard in. 1:01:06.840 --> 1:01:09.680 I agree. You know, uh, the Cincinnati kid man Yep 1:01:09.880 --> 1:01:12.760 Moller High School, Ohio State up the road. You know, 1:01:13.800 --> 1:01:16.840 Paul Brown made his mark there, so Mike Brown loves 1:01:16.840 --> 1:01:20.439 Ohio State players. And then here with the Cincinnati Bengals. Yeah, 1:01:20.520 --> 1:01:24.680 I do think that that that Zach Taylor and his 1:01:24.800 --> 1:01:28.200 coaching staff knows that Sam Hubbard has a finger on 1:01:28.240 --> 1:01:30.600 the pulse of the franchise in terms of the players. 1:01:31.280 --> 1:01:34.720 Every single player in that locker room, he likes and 1:01:34.840 --> 1:01:38.480 respects and trusts Sam Hubbard. So they'll tell him things. 1:01:38.840 --> 1:01:40.959 They'll tell them things that are bothering them. They'll tell 1:01:41.080 --> 1:01:44.320 him things that they like, you know, and prefer to 1:01:44.320 --> 1:01:46.520 do it this way. Maybe we can tweak it and 1:01:46.560 --> 1:01:49.720 do it that way. And then the coaches, you know, 1:01:49.720 --> 1:01:52.960 know that Sam will you know, not blow the whistle 1:01:53.080 --> 1:01:57.280 or tattle on anybody as such, but just hey, what 1:01:57.320 --> 1:02:00.959 do they think, give me the give me the true 1:02:01.000 --> 1:02:03.360 scoop here? What do they think? What's going on? Are 1:02:03.400 --> 1:02:05.520 we doing things the right way? How can we improve 1:02:05.560 --> 1:02:08.160 what can we do to make things better for the players. 1:02:09.200 --> 1:02:13.760 That role is huge. It takes a you know, a 1:02:13.800 --> 1:02:16.360 special guy to be able to handle it. There's not 1:02:16.400 --> 1:02:20.360 any real pressure, but you want to help build as 1:02:20.360 --> 1:02:23.320 good an environment, a winning environment as you possibly can 1:02:23.400 --> 1:02:25.840 with the franchise, and anything you can do to help 1:02:25.880 --> 1:02:29.440 that move in the right direction is what you want 1:02:29.480 --> 1:02:29.920 to get done. 1:02:30.120 --> 1:02:33.920 And I love what Zach told Dan about Sam finding 1:02:33.960 --> 1:02:37.040 his voice as his career went on with the Bengals, 1:02:37.080 --> 1:02:39.200 because as a rookie, you know the old saying rookies 1:02:39.240 --> 1:02:42.160 are to be you know, seen, not heard. And as 1:02:42.240 --> 1:02:46.080 Sam became more comfortable, you heard Zach explain how excited 1:02:46.120 --> 1:02:48.760 he was to see Sam grow into a leader. And 1:02:48.800 --> 1:02:51.040 that's you know, as as Zach was saying that, I 1:02:51.080 --> 1:02:53.680 thought of guys like Barrett Carter and Dimitrius Knight junior, 1:02:53.800 --> 1:02:56.480 young guys who are going who are going to be 1:02:56.520 --> 1:02:59.400 here in a perfect world, who eventually grow into a 1:02:59.480 --> 1:03:02.280 voice but absorbing information right now, and you hope they 1:03:02.520 --> 1:03:05.360 they get comfortable like Sam did to become a voice. 1:03:05.120 --> 1:03:05.640 For this team. 1:03:05.720 --> 1:03:08.680 Yeah, Sam by nature is pretty quiet, you know, he's 1:03:08.720 --> 1:03:11.600 not He never toots his own horn. You know about 1:03:11.640 --> 1:03:14.280 accomplishments or things that he did, you know, on the 1:03:14.280 --> 1:03:17.560 football field. He's a great family guy. I mean he's 1:03:17.600 --> 1:03:21.680 going to be you know, tremendous father, husband, you know, 1:03:22.720 --> 1:03:25.600 he's going to be a great grandfather as well as father. 1:03:25.720 --> 1:03:28.920 Time marches on. But you know, he just has that 1:03:28.920 --> 1:03:34.360 that ability to rally people, and uh, that's a that's 1:03:34.400 --> 1:03:36.400 a unique talent. It really is when you have it, 1:03:36.960 --> 1:03:39.520 you know you do, but you know you don't want to, like, 1:03:40.200 --> 1:03:42.960 you know, take take out a billboard and advertise it. 1:03:43.320 --> 1:03:46.960 You know, you kind of keep it to yourself. And yeah, 1:03:47.160 --> 1:03:49.919 someone else. I mean, I'm sure Zach is probably trying 1:03:49.920 --> 1:03:51.560 to figure out who that guy is going to be 1:03:52.080 --> 1:03:55.000 now that Sam Hubbard has moved on. And it's not 1:03:55.040 --> 1:03:56.680 an easy role, believe me, it really isn't. 1:03:56.760 --> 1:03:58.560 By the way, in our next segment, we've got a 1:03:58.600 --> 1:04:01.320 little local theme going on, Sam Hubbard the local kid. 1:04:01.720 --> 1:04:04.040 In our next segment, a little bit of what Wayne 1:04:04.040 --> 1:04:06.880 box Miller had to say with Xavier Johnson, the Ohio 1:04:07.000 --> 1:04:09.120 State and Summit Country Day product is part of the 1:04:09.160 --> 1:04:12.200 pregame yesterday. He's a local kid who drove by the 1:04:12.480 --> 1:04:14.640 Paul Brown Stadium every day as a kid growing up 1:04:14.640 --> 1:04:16.760 and now he's on the Bengals practice squad. You'll hear 1:04:16.800 --> 1:04:18.760 a little bit of that as we continue. Dave Lapham, 1:04:18.840 --> 1:04:21.880 Lance McAllister Bengals on in the Bengals Radio Network and 1:04:22.000 --> 1:04:24.040 seven hundred WLW. 1:04:26.040 --> 1:04:26.919 Team booming right. 1:04:26.840 --> 1:04:29.200 Along in this Monday Night of the Bengals line. Bengals 1:04:29.400 --> 1:04:31.680 Radio Network, seven hundred W l W. 1:04:32.120 --> 1:04:36.520 Glance's time for the Kettering Health injury report and good news, 1:04:36.640 --> 1:04:39.680 I mean no major injuries to either football team in 1:04:39.720 --> 1:04:42.680 this game down there. Remind me, I don't remember either 1:04:43.120 --> 1:04:46.520 either team having a player taken the locker room and 1:04:46.560 --> 1:04:48.840 stayed in the locker room. Somebody might have gone in 1:04:48.840 --> 1:04:51.400 a blue tent to take a look at and take 1:04:51.440 --> 1:04:55.160 a picture of something that's was bothersome. But when you 1:04:55.160 --> 1:04:57.600 think about it, that was a very physical football game, 1:04:57.640 --> 1:05:00.880 a lot of hitting going on and to escape with 1:05:01.040 --> 1:05:03.600 no serious injury to either football team is what it's 1:05:03.600 --> 1:05:06.840 all about. And Kettering Health is the official healthcare provider 1:05:06.840 --> 1:05:09.560 of the Cincinnati Bengals, providing the best care one of 1:05:09.600 --> 1:05:10.400 the best fans. 1:05:10.840 --> 1:05:13.720 We keep rolling along. We developed a little bit of 1:05:13.720 --> 1:05:16.280 a theme here of local connection. We heard from Sam 1:05:16.360 --> 1:05:18.400 Hubbard in the last segment as part of the Friday 1:05:18.400 --> 1:05:21.600 pep Rally Show. Another local product on the Bengals roster, 1:05:21.640 --> 1:05:23.640 at least on the practice squad. He was signed last 1:05:23.640 --> 1:05:26.160 week played at Ohio State. Prior to that, he played 1:05:26.200 --> 1:05:30.080 at Summit Country Day High School. Talked about driving past 1:05:30.120 --> 1:05:31.920 the stadium every day as a kid growing up and 1:05:31.960 --> 1:05:34.160 one day wanting to be a member of the organization. 1:05:34.320 --> 1:05:37.120 He is now on the practice squad and Wayne box 1:05:37.160 --> 1:05:39.120 Miller is part of the pregame show. Talk to him 1:05:39.120 --> 1:05:40.400 about realizing the dream. 1:05:40.520 --> 1:05:42.520 Wayne box Miller with a young man I've known for 1:05:42.520 --> 1:05:45.080 a long time, know his family, Xaviers Johnson. 1:05:45.360 --> 1:05:46.600 Welcome back to Cincinnati. 1:05:47.120 --> 1:05:48.960 Thank you, Bustin. It's a blessing to be back, man, 1:05:49.000 --> 1:05:50.000 a blessing to be by. 1:05:50.200 --> 1:05:50.960 No question about it. 1:05:51.080 --> 1:05:53.720 Let's talk about your faith because I know you your 1:05:53.760 --> 1:05:57.160 faith based family, and you have a purpose in life 1:05:57.160 --> 1:05:59.520 and you believe that this journey is part of a purpose. 1:05:59.560 --> 1:06:01.160 And be back here in Cincinnati. 1:06:01.240 --> 1:06:02.280 Yeah, nber Man. 1:06:02.720 --> 1:06:06.160 When I got the call really came on the hills 1:06:06.400 --> 1:06:10.760 actually of a pretty uh spiritual weekend, if you want 1:06:10.800 --> 1:06:11.240 to say that. 1:06:12.040 --> 1:06:13.480 You know, I had a great. 1:06:13.280 --> 1:06:16.240 Church service and my my pastor down in Houston actually 1:06:16.320 --> 1:06:19.880 just reminded me of just the promises and how God 1:06:19.920 --> 1:06:22.440 is a promise keeper and so on the heels of 1:06:22.440 --> 1:06:25.960 that and kind of a revitalization of just I would say, 1:06:26.000 --> 1:06:30.000 my my faith, not that it was dead, but uh, 1:06:30.160 --> 1:06:33.080 you know, you get sparks times for time, and so 1:06:33.360 --> 1:06:36.840 coming on the hills of a spark, the Lord opened 1:06:36.880 --> 1:06:39.280 up this opportunity and so I definitely see this as 1:06:39.480 --> 1:06:41.520 you know, a mission field and opportunity to build rapport 1:06:41.520 --> 1:06:46.160 with men, pour into you know, men and hopefully save 1:06:46.280 --> 1:06:47.560 some men if God will so. 1:06:47.720 --> 1:06:49.240 A lot of a lot of players here. 1:06:49.320 --> 1:06:52.800 I talked to Trey Hendrickson or Joseph Osai or Dalton Riser, 1:06:52.920 --> 1:06:55.480 and they're all outward with their faith and and how 1:06:55.560 --> 1:06:56.480 much it helps them. 1:06:56.880 --> 1:06:57.160 I know. 1:06:57.280 --> 1:06:59.360 For you, it's just been a source of support for 1:06:59.400 --> 1:07:02.200 you through all the ups and downs of the NFL. 1:07:02.120 --> 1:07:04.120 Yes throwing up and downs of my career. 1:07:04.120 --> 1:07:05.080 Really in high school. 1:07:06.040 --> 1:07:09.280 You know, the Lord took this uh sport, this gift 1:07:09.280 --> 1:07:13.080 that he gave me, and he molded it into exactly 1:07:13.080 --> 1:07:15.320 what he intended it for it to be to me 1:07:15.480 --> 1:07:17.880 when he gave it to me, as you know, a 1:07:18.000 --> 1:07:19.280 platform to glorify him. 1:07:19.760 --> 1:07:21.320 An opportunity to reach other men. 1:07:22.680 --> 1:07:25.240 Who you know, might not even know that they're struggling 1:07:25.360 --> 1:07:27.400 or not, might not even know that you know, there's. 1:07:27.240 --> 1:07:29.160 A need for for God because. 1:07:29.120 --> 1:07:31.640 You have so many outlets, you know, when you're a 1:07:31.720 --> 1:07:34.840 personal athlete and you're commensated so handsomely and you feel 1:07:34.880 --> 1:07:37.400 like you can, you know, uh, fulfill a lot of 1:07:37.560 --> 1:07:40.040 your knees or your once until those needs, you know, 1:07:40.120 --> 1:07:42.200 keep building up. So just to have an opportunity to 1:07:42.200 --> 1:07:43.960 be in the locker room with these guys. 1:07:44.240 --> 1:07:45.640 To build, like I said, build a report with. 1:07:45.600 --> 1:07:49.480 Them and ultimately you know, maybe uh somebody who can 1:07:49.560 --> 1:07:52.120 lean on or ask questions about their faith to this 1:07:52.320 --> 1:07:52.880 means everything. 1:07:52.960 --> 1:07:55.440 So I know you talked about driving by and all 1:07:55.480 --> 1:07:57.600 the other things. What I want to ask us when 1:07:57.640 --> 1:07:59.520 you pulled that car in the gate this morning and 1:08:00.040 --> 1:08:00.560 how it felt. 1:08:01.160 --> 1:08:03.480 It felt amazing, Man, it felt amazing. And I've been 1:08:03.480 --> 1:08:05.760 in the player entered one or one or two other 1:08:05.840 --> 1:08:09.960 times for one for the local day, and there was 1:08:10.000 --> 1:08:13.480 another time where I don't remember why I pulled in 1:08:13.480 --> 1:08:15.120 the game, but none of the cars. 1:08:14.800 --> 1:08:16.320 Were you know, were there or anything. 1:08:16.479 --> 1:08:18.439 So to be here and be a part of this, 1:08:18.520 --> 1:08:21.600 you know, this team, this opportunity and this you know 1:08:21.760 --> 1:08:23.679 group of men is truly a blessing. 1:08:23.800 --> 1:08:25.320 So that's all I can say. 1:08:25.600 --> 1:08:27.960 Talk about when you reflect back to your granddad who 1:08:28.000 --> 1:08:30.559 was so proud of you, man, just knowing that you're here, 1:08:31.000 --> 1:08:33.400 how much you probably wish he was still around just 1:08:33.479 --> 1:08:33.920 to see this. 1:08:34.760 --> 1:08:38.439 Yeah, man, it's where Cincinnati family grew up, Cincinnati through 1:08:38.479 --> 1:08:42.800 and through, you know, being I'm probably like third fourth 1:08:42.840 --> 1:08:46.000 generation now of just true to you know, cut us 1:08:46.000 --> 1:08:49.280 open where Cincinnati you know people. So for him to be, 1:08:49.400 --> 1:08:51.000 you know, as big as a Reds fan as he is, 1:08:51.040 --> 1:08:55.000 a big as a Bengals fan as he was, and 1:08:55.080 --> 1:08:57.080 he even actually played for the Reds way way back 1:08:57.080 --> 1:09:00.599 in the day. And so it's kind of like I said, 1:09:00.680 --> 1:09:02.320 I keep saying, it's a full circle moment. 1:09:02.360 --> 1:09:03.280 It's a real moment. 1:09:04.320 --> 1:09:06.040 But you know, the Lord has a funny way of 1:09:06.479 --> 1:09:11.800 navigating things and bringing things into fruition that you don't 1:09:11.800 --> 1:09:14.559 always expect, but they always make sense. 1:09:15.720 --> 1:09:17.479 He reveals them in his time. 1:09:17.680 --> 1:09:22.080 So Xavier Johnson, the Bengal wide receiver, local product on 1:09:22.160 --> 1:09:23.920 the practice squad, We'll take a time out and we 1:09:23.960 --> 1:09:26.120 come back. We got to save some time for special teams. 1:09:26.120 --> 1:09:28.960 Holy cow, they were special yesterday. We'll talk about him 1:09:29.000 --> 1:09:31.360 as we roll on with Bengals on on the Bengals 1:09:31.479 --> 1:09:33.800 Radio Networking seven hundred WL. 1:09:35.439 --> 1:09:37.519 Down on the stretch. We go about to put. 1:09:37.520 --> 1:09:40.280 Our number two in the books, two of three tonight 1:09:40.360 --> 1:09:42.760 the Bengals out of the Bengals Radio Networking. As much 1:09:42.800 --> 1:09:45.280 time as we've spent on offense and defense, we referenced 1:09:45.439 --> 1:09:47.880 and if you used the term complimentary football and well 1:09:47.960 --> 1:09:53.320 routed performance yesterday, that includes special teams where everybody had 1:09:53.360 --> 1:09:56.760 a contribution, whether it was Evan McPherson with a lot 1:09:56.760 --> 1:09:59.400 of extra points, which is a good thing, right. Ryan 1:09:59.479 --> 1:10:03.320 Rico punning Bulah ball, the kick returns, the punt returns, 1:10:03.600 --> 1:10:06.280 the coverage. I don't even where to begin. I'll start 1:10:06.280 --> 1:10:08.720 with Ryan Rico, who has booted the ball well the 1:10:08.880 --> 1:10:11.879 entire season. He's had some issues with touchbacks, but yesterday, 1:10:11.920 --> 1:10:14.879 my goodness, he had all four of his punts inside 1:10:14.880 --> 1:10:17.360 the twenty yard line, two of those inside the ten, 1:10:17.720 --> 1:10:19.800 and he averaged fifty two yards a kick. 1:10:19.840 --> 1:10:22.280 He was on it yesterday, he really was. I mean 1:10:22.320 --> 1:10:25.280 four punts averaged fifty two yards a kick. Like you said, 1:10:26.720 --> 1:10:30.880 long of fifty nine four times inside the twenty twice 1:10:30.880 --> 1:10:34.240 inside the ten. Of those four times no touchbacks. And 1:10:35.000 --> 1:10:37.920 the return game for the Miami Dolphins because of the 1:10:37.960 --> 1:10:40.960 excellent c Rico was non existent. I mean two of 1:10:41.040 --> 1:10:43.760 them were down inside the ten yard line and in 1:10:43.800 --> 1:10:46.920 the red zone, and Washington never had a return. I mean, 1:10:47.280 --> 1:10:50.920 were never able to jumpstart things to get it going. 1:10:51.680 --> 1:10:55.080 And you talk about the rookie Williams as a kick 1:10:55.080 --> 1:10:58.519 returner for the Bengals, three returns seventy six yards, averaging 1:10:58.520 --> 1:11:02.680 over twenty five yards per along of thirty one Brooks 1:11:03.120 --> 1:11:05.960 had won for forty one yards. So the Bengals average 1:11:06.000 --> 1:11:10.320 twenty nine point three on four kickoff returns. They dominated 1:11:10.720 --> 1:11:14.040 field position courtesy of special teams. Darren Simmons, I know, 1:11:14.240 --> 1:11:17.840 was pretty pleased. He was smiling in the locker room. 1:11:17.920 --> 1:11:21.200 Had a chance to see him as he walked by 1:11:21.240 --> 1:11:23.719 as he was getting ready to go out to the buses, 1:11:23.760 --> 1:11:26.920 and I'm like, man, Rico was unbelievable. It can't be 1:11:27.000 --> 1:11:28.760 much better than he was today, you know. You know 1:11:29.200 --> 1:11:32.480 Darren is he kind of like, you know, very monotone, 1:11:32.520 --> 1:11:37.800 you know, very very composed. But yeah, and Rico, he 1:11:37.920 --> 1:11:41.360 was going crazy as his teammates were downing punts, you know, 1:11:41.520 --> 1:11:43.960 to keep that average away. And then he had one 1:11:44.360 --> 1:11:48.040 that looked like golf hitting the green and just you know, 1:11:48.120 --> 1:11:51.679 the spin on it, just just it hit and spun back. 1:11:52.640 --> 1:11:55.759 That one was a thing of beauty. But yeah, special 1:11:55.800 --> 1:11:59.680 teams overall. They put the Dolphins on long fields and 1:11:59.680 --> 1:12:01.320 they put Bengals on many short ones. 1:12:01.560 --> 1:12:03.400 By the way, I got about a minute left in 1:12:03.439 --> 1:12:05.519 the hour. What can you tell me about your vantage 1:12:05.560 --> 1:12:08.240 point and the size of the broadcast booth you were 1:12:08.240 --> 1:12:09.439 in yesterday. 1:12:09.000 --> 1:12:14.400 Dave Worse, Oh my god, wasn't the yid man. I mean, 1:12:14.400 --> 1:12:15.639 that's just horse pucky. 1:12:15.680 --> 1:12:17.960 But you were down, you were up and in the corner, 1:12:18.320 --> 1:12:20.679 in the corner, and it was like a little pham 1:12:20.680 --> 1:12:22.599 booth basically a broadcast. 1:12:23.080 --> 1:12:23.559 It was. 1:12:24.200 --> 1:12:25.760 We could only fit three across. 1:12:26.160 --> 1:12:26.400 It was. 1:12:26.760 --> 1:12:29.880 It was I was on on one side. Dan was 1:12:29.880 --> 1:12:32.760 in the middle, and then uh, the spot was to 1:12:32.800 --> 1:12:36.080 his left. The statistician was behind us, next to you 1:12:36.680 --> 1:12:39.720 up a step on the on the three steps down 1:12:39.760 --> 1:12:42.040 into the booth. I mean, it was, it was. It 1:12:42.080 --> 1:12:45.479 was a closet, man, it was. It was unbelievable, but 1:12:46.040 --> 1:12:48.160 it was a lot more tolerable because the way the 1:12:48.200 --> 1:12:48.599 game went. 1:12:48.760 --> 1:12:52.400 Yes, and the weather. About the weather, and you'll take 1:12:52.520 --> 1:12:53.959 just about any size booth. 1:12:53.880 --> 1:12:54.400 No question. 1:12:54.479 --> 1:12:59.000 Yeah, sunny, nice, nice little preeze. It wasn't it was. 1:12:59.160 --> 1:13:00.960 It was just beautiful. Oh man. 1:13:01.040 --> 1:13:03.040 All right, that's two in the books. Hey, type more 1:13:03.120 --> 1:13:05.040 to get two in our three. We're gonna hear from 1:13:05.120 --> 1:13:08.559 Zach Taylor. Here from Joe Burrow, fantastic fun facts talk 1:13:08.640 --> 1:13:12.360 Arizona Cardinals, and here the awarding of the game balls. Well, 1:13:12.439 --> 1:13:15.799 that's a busy third hour tonight. Stay with US Bengals 1:13:15.840 --> 1:13:18.760 on and the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. 1:13:19.920 --> 1:13:23.879 This is Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network, pay Corps. 1:13:24.080 --> 1:13:27.280 Pay Corps proud to be the official hr software provider 1:13:27.320 --> 1:13:30.840 of the Cincinnati Bengals. Kettering now best care for the 1:13:31.000 --> 1:13:35.799 best fans, Kettering now official healthcare provider of US Cincinnati Bengals. 1:13:36.000 --> 1:13:40.000 This is seven hundred WLW, the home of the best 1:13:40.120 --> 1:13:41.160 Bengals coverage. 1:13:44.880 --> 1:13:47.840 All right, welcome back in our number three. About to 1:13:48.000 --> 1:13:51.080 unfold this three hour journey we call Bengals Line and 1:13:51.160 --> 1:13:55.200 the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW sorting through 1:13:55.360 --> 1:13:58.519 yesterday's forty five fourteen went over the Dolphins. We've got 1:13:58.520 --> 1:14:00.960 the Arizona Cardinals in our sites. A little bit later 1:14:01.000 --> 1:14:02.880 on in the show, We've always got our sights on 1:14:02.880 --> 1:14:03.759 one of these days. 1:14:03.840 --> 1:14:06.719 Yes, sir Lance, it's time to shop the Bengals Pro Shop. 1:14:06.960 --> 1:14:10.280 Find the best election in Bengals merchandise anywhere. Visit the 1:14:10.280 --> 1:14:12.679 pro Shops seven days a week, located on the north 1:14:12.720 --> 1:14:15.679 side of pay Court Stadium. Our shop online at Bengals 1:14:15.720 --> 1:14:16.200 dot com. 1:14:16.240 --> 1:14:18.719 I just realized I'm such an idiot. I've said forty 1:14:18.720 --> 1:14:20.840 five to fourteen like three times, and I forgot the 1:14:20.880 --> 1:14:23.200 garbage time touchdown late by the Dolphins. So I'd like 1:14:23.240 --> 1:14:25.880 to amend all my prior statements to we get forty 1:14:25.880 --> 1:14:27.920 five to twenty one the final. So, yes, right, it 1:14:27.960 --> 1:14:30.200 was a garbage time touchdown, but we'll count it because 1:14:30.240 --> 1:14:32.759 it's officially counted. But the Bengals still win by twenty 1:14:32.800 --> 1:14:35.719 four Inzach Taylor talked about it after the game. 1:14:36.120 --> 1:14:39.080 Yeah, proud, not surprised by the response our guys had. 1:14:39.160 --> 1:14:41.439 You know, we expected to come down here and you 1:14:41.479 --> 1:14:42.880 know a lot of questions about how these guys are 1:14:42.880 --> 1:14:45.560 gonna respond. We saw how they respond all week. We 1:14:45.640 --> 1:14:47.760 knew how they'd respond and come down here and put 1:14:47.800 --> 1:14:51.160 together the performance they did, especially settling down a halftime 1:14:51.280 --> 1:14:53.880 and coming out and getting four straight turnovers three three 1:14:53.880 --> 1:14:57.600 turnovers at turnover on downs. Offense responded with four straight touchdowns. 1:14:58.120 --> 1:15:00.120 Special teams units are in a great job control in 1:15:00.120 --> 1:15:01.639 the fuel position in the entire second half. 1:15:02.120 --> 1:15:02.200 Uh. 1:15:02.400 --> 1:15:04.479 Just just really proud, but again not surprised by the 1:15:04.520 --> 1:15:09.960 response we had. 1:15:07.960 --> 1:15:14.559 That that's usually how it works. 1:15:14.600 --> 1:15:16.559 I mean, they had a tough time containing Drew today, 1:15:17.360 --> 1:15:19.200 but Drew is just mister reliable, you know, he's in there. 1:15:19.280 --> 1:15:21.920 Protection has a great feel very similar to the Buffalo 1:15:22.000 --> 1:15:23.920 touchdown he scored a couple of years ago, same protection 1:15:23.920 --> 1:15:25.800 where he's just got this awareness where Joe needs my 1:15:25.800 --> 1:15:28.160 help right now, I'm out of the protection world, and 1:15:28.160 --> 1:15:29.519 and I got to go find a way and and 1:15:29.680 --> 1:15:31.080 he was trying to score, man. I was trying to 1:15:31.120 --> 1:15:32.760 hope he stayed in bounce to keep the clock running. 1:15:32.760 --> 1:15:34.479 There at the end of half, Drew was he was 1:15:34.520 --> 1:15:36.599 helping on getting in the end zone. And so again 1:15:36.640 --> 1:15:39.880 that's a huge play right there. Bye bye Joe, and 1:15:40.400 --> 1:15:42.720 by Drew and by the protection to give him the 1:15:42.760 --> 1:15:48.360 time to be able to extend the play like that 1:15:48.600 --> 1:15:49.120 first quarter. 1:15:52.760 --> 1:15:53.880 They're explosive team. 1:15:54.280 --> 1:15:56.479 Uh, They're really tough to defend, especially in the run 1:15:56.520 --> 1:15:58.000 game with the play actions off of it. They did 1:15:58.000 --> 1:15:59.880 a nice shot in the first half finding a rhythm. 1:16:00.400 --> 1:16:02.240 But I thought our defense really did a great job 1:16:02.280 --> 1:16:04.400 settling down and knocking those down for two or three 1:16:04.479 --> 1:16:07.000 yards and putting them in passing situations. You know, with 1:16:07.000 --> 1:16:08.879 the rookie quarterback, we knew that was going to be challenging, 1:16:08.880 --> 1:16:11.320 and so I thought the defense had a great response. 1:16:11.360 --> 1:16:13.320 You know, the big touchdown run, Yeah, they got us 1:16:13.320 --> 1:16:14.559 on it. They've gotten a lot of people on that. 1:16:14.720 --> 1:16:16.360 But I thought the response after that was really good 1:16:16.360 --> 1:16:17.439 by the d as you. 1:16:17.360 --> 1:16:20.160 Guys started, you know, ugalizing all of your weapons. 1:16:20.200 --> 1:16:21.439 You know, it's team here and. 1:16:21.560 --> 1:16:24.519 Jamarro and Chase Browns and this kind of an example 1:16:24.600 --> 1:16:29.200 of how your offense can be the ways playing profession. 1:16:29.800 --> 1:16:32.120 Yeah, you know, I feel like we've shown this a 1:16:32.160 --> 1:16:35.000 million times over the years, you know, and unfortunately this 1:16:35.080 --> 1:16:35.400 year we. 1:16:35.360 --> 1:16:37.680 Just haven't haven't been able to do it. But this 1:16:37.800 --> 1:16:38.479 is no surprise. 1:16:38.600 --> 1:16:40.360 I mean I was walking off field Drew Sample and 1:16:40.439 --> 1:16:42.800 he said, this is how I'm used to these games going. 1:16:42.880 --> 1:16:44.840 You know, when we're when we got everybody on offense 1:16:44.880 --> 1:16:48.280 ready to roll. And so again we've got another opportunity 1:16:48.280 --> 1:16:50.400 this week against Arizona to come back home and do 1:16:50.439 --> 1:16:52.240 it in front of our fans, and I expect our 1:16:52.240 --> 1:16:53.200 guys to respond the right way. 1:16:53.240 --> 1:16:55.599 I know, you're in the game, is it or sweet? 1:16:56.880 --> 1:16:58.840 This is what you want it? 1:16:58.920 --> 1:17:00.280 Yeah? It is what it is. 1:17:00.400 --> 1:17:02.280 You know, this is the this is the situation we're in, 1:17:02.320 --> 1:17:05.360 and this is what we can control. And so after 1:17:05.360 --> 1:17:07.040 the season you'll have a chance to reflect back on 1:17:07.360 --> 1:17:09.680 things that we got to do differently. But I think 1:17:09.760 --> 1:17:11.599 right now this is all we could control this week 1:17:11.680 --> 1:17:14.880 was what was our response in the building to to 1:17:15.840 --> 1:17:17.479 you know a lot of people after us right now. 1:17:17.520 --> 1:17:20.599 And so the response was tremendous by our guys, and 1:17:20.720 --> 1:17:22.320 to put together such a complete game I thought was 1:17:22.320 --> 1:17:31.200 really impressive. Speaking yeah, I mean it was. I told 1:17:31.240 --> 1:17:33.000 Jamar to come punch me in the stomach. We hadn't 1:17:33.000 --> 1:17:35.000 thrown double go by the midway point the second quarter, 1:17:35.040 --> 1:17:37.200 so we got to it a little earlier than I 1:17:37.200 --> 1:17:38.080 had initially planned. 1:17:38.080 --> 1:17:38.640 We were backed up. 1:17:38.680 --> 1:17:40.960 It felt like the moment to go do it, and 1:17:41.280 --> 1:17:43.280 t did what he does. He goes up and gets 1:17:43.280 --> 1:17:44.720 it and we ran the double move there on the goal, 1:17:44.720 --> 1:17:45.920 and I thought he did a great job with his 1:17:45.960 --> 1:17:47.879 patient so Joe had time to get it up and 1:17:48.080 --> 1:17:49.960 he you know, he's got so many touchdowns in that 1:17:49.960 --> 1:17:51.640 back right corner of the end zone, getting getting his 1:17:51.680 --> 1:17:54.839 two feet in, so expected nothing less from that connection. 1:17:59.479 --> 1:18:02.000 You know that you get when you get you guys 1:18:02.000 --> 1:18:08.080 on offense. And he has staying healthy, clime is ready 1:18:08.120 --> 1:18:11.559 to go for the stage. 1:18:11.600 --> 1:18:12.000 That's great. 1:18:12.160 --> 1:18:14.600 I think Chase is a is a huge weapon for 1:18:14.680 --> 1:18:17.439 us and does a great job with his explosiveness, tremendous 1:18:17.439 --> 1:18:19.080 matchup in the past game as well that he probably 1:18:19.080 --> 1:18:20.880 doesn't get enough credit for. He's won a lot of 1:18:20.880 --> 1:18:24.600 those choice routs underneath, and he got a CEO for 1:18:24.600 --> 1:18:26.599 a touchdown today when he was matchup on a backer, 1:18:26.640 --> 1:18:28.960 and so again he's been a great weapon for us. 1:18:29.080 --> 1:18:31.840 I'm happy I have him. I'm good with the direction 1:18:31.880 --> 1:18:32.360 he's had. 1:18:34.560 --> 1:18:34.840 To go. 1:18:35.200 --> 1:18:41.479 Yeah, yeah, I mean DJ was battling the flu, you know, 1:18:41.600 --> 1:18:43.599 so for him to even get out there and get 1:18:43.600 --> 1:18:45.720 IVS and go out there and play, it'd be hard 1:18:45.800 --> 1:18:48.840 to get through an entire game. So UH certainly appreciate 1:18:48.920 --> 1:18:51.040 DJ doing what he did. And fighting through it, and 1:18:51.120 --> 1:18:52.960 unfortunately we got to a point where we were able 1:18:52.960 --> 1:18:55.240 to get him out. And you know, if anyway, and 1:18:55.280 --> 1:18:57.000 we just got the flu you get midway point in 1:18:57.040 --> 1:18:59.080 the game, it's gonna beat you up pretty good. So 1:18:59.400 --> 1:19:03.040 again I appreci DJ doing everything he could to get 1:19:03.040 --> 1:19:05.200 to this game and get through it. 1:19:05.280 --> 1:19:06.320 Yeah, awesome. 1:19:06.320 --> 1:19:07.840 And I saw DJ Ivy at the end of the 1:19:07.840 --> 1:19:10.080 you know, make a good contest to play towards the end. 1:19:10.120 --> 1:19:12.960 So I thought the response was great. I thought JD's 1:19:12.960 --> 1:19:17.280 pick was was awesome. All those turnovers those guys got 1:19:17.520 --> 1:19:19.439 was a lot of them were combination plays where one 1:19:19.439 --> 1:19:20.920 guy was knocking it out, one guy was tipping it, 1:19:20.960 --> 1:19:23.720 the other guy's making the play. Uh, JD's was just 1:19:23.720 --> 1:19:25.400 one on one man coverage went up, made to play. 1:19:25.400 --> 1:19:27.600 It was a big time what's it feeling. 1:19:27.720 --> 1:19:33.840 On the sideline start to just snowing the turnover and get. 1:19:35.360 --> 1:19:35.439 That. 1:19:35.479 --> 1:19:36.439 We have to finish that. 1:19:36.479 --> 1:19:38.360 We had exactly what I thought was, we have to finish, 1:19:38.560 --> 1:19:41.360 you know, And I've got a lot of respect for 1:19:41.400 --> 1:19:45.160 the Dolphins and the coaching staff there. They're really good coaches, 1:19:45.240 --> 1:19:48.559 good people. But we needed to have a killer instinct 1:19:48.600 --> 1:19:49.960 to finish that. Game out, you know, and so we 1:19:50.000 --> 1:19:51.840 wanted to continue to be aggressive till about the midway 1:19:51.840 --> 1:19:54.479 point that fourth quarter. But uh, for our guys, for 1:19:54.479 --> 1:19:56.840 our sake, for identity moving forward, you know, we need 1:19:56.880 --> 1:19:58.519 to have a killer instinct and keep throwing the football 1:19:58.560 --> 1:20:00.840 and keep finding ways to finish drives and not let 1:20:00.880 --> 1:20:03.240 them try to get any hope and creep back in 1:20:03.280 --> 1:20:04.960 the game. And I thought our guys did a great 1:20:05.000 --> 1:20:05.400 job of that. 1:20:06.040 --> 1:20:08.599 Zach Taylor on the forty five to twenty one win 1:20:08.760 --> 1:20:11.880 over the Miami Dolphins yesterday. And I know, Dave, when 1:20:12.200 --> 1:20:15.120 once you get eliminated, there's great debate of how much 1:20:15.160 --> 1:20:17.880 it means and if you you know draft position and 1:20:17.920 --> 1:20:19.840 everything that comes with it. All I know is this, 1:20:20.080 --> 1:20:22.160 and I know they've been eliminated. I know it was 1:20:22.280 --> 1:20:24.760 quote just the Dolphins with the rookie quarterback, and I 1:20:24.800 --> 1:20:28.639 know there's always the concern of how it may, how 1:20:28.680 --> 1:20:31.040 it may skew any view of the team going to 1:20:31.080 --> 1:20:33.479 the offseason and changes needed. I just know this, to 1:20:33.560 --> 1:20:36.360 quote herm Edwards, you play to win the game, Bengo, 1:20:36.479 --> 1:20:38.880 and they won the game yesterday. And I could you 1:20:38.920 --> 1:20:42.080 could tell looking at players faces, even on the sidelines 1:20:42.360 --> 1:20:45.439 there were smiles, there was joy, there was fun to 1:20:45.520 --> 1:20:48.600 be had, and that has to mean something. 1:20:48.320 --> 1:20:51.960 No question, no doubt about it. Last absolutely, and you know, 1:20:52.040 --> 1:20:56.519 it's a long season, man, and the to taste the 1:20:56.560 --> 1:21:01.240 sweet nectar of victory at any point is meaningful. And 1:21:01.240 --> 1:21:04.200 and uh, it was a long time coming. It has 1:21:04.280 --> 1:21:08.560 been a long time coming. But this football team believes. 1:21:08.800 --> 1:21:12.360 They believe they're better than their record indicates. They thought 1:21:12.360 --> 1:21:13.840 they were going to have a really good year this 1:21:13.960 --> 1:21:16.120 year going into it. I know that for a fact, 1:21:16.439 --> 1:21:18.479 they felt like they had a lot of a lot 1:21:18.479 --> 1:21:20.240 of pieces, like we talked about earlier, a lot of 1:21:20.400 --> 1:21:22.840 a lot of pieces in place that would hold them 1:21:22.840 --> 1:21:26.599 in good stead. They did. You know, it just has 1:21:26.640 --> 1:21:29.320 not worked out that way. And like you said, you 1:21:29.360 --> 1:21:31.160 know people like Poo Poo and the fact that you 1:21:31.240 --> 1:21:33.639 beat the Miami Dalson just beat them, spanked them, man, 1:21:33.960 --> 1:21:36.080 I mean it was. It was a total butt kicking, 1:21:36.400 --> 1:21:38.759 took them to the h took them to the woodshed, 1:21:38.840 --> 1:21:41.680 and gave them a spanking. There's no no doubt about it. 1:21:41.720 --> 1:21:44.800 And uh, in every category that that you could win, 1:21:45.040 --> 1:21:48.880 they won, and they won decisively and handily. So it 1:21:48.960 --> 1:21:53.479 doesn't that doesn't happen in the NFL, particularly traveling to Miami. Uh, 1:21:53.520 --> 1:21:56.880 that's a tough trip. You know, it's significantly long, and 1:21:56.920 --> 1:21:59.240 then playing in the heat on the road, and then 1:21:59.439 --> 1:22:01.640 you know, back home and celebrate a little bit. They 1:22:01.680 --> 1:22:04.120 played with a lot of emotion, a lot of enthusiasm. 1:22:04.640 --> 1:22:06.880 They were excited about it, which is good. It's a 1:22:06.880 --> 1:22:09.519 good sign. Zach Taylor has not lost the football team. 1:22:09.880 --> 1:22:12.640 Zach Taylor. The coaching staff still has, you know, the 1:22:12.640 --> 1:22:16.519 football team where they want them in terms of listening 1:22:16.560 --> 1:22:20.320 and absorbing and understanding game plans and how to go 1:22:20.360 --> 1:22:22.280 about winning football games. 1:22:22.439 --> 1:22:24.559 By the way, a nugget to drop into in the 1:22:24.640 --> 1:22:27.280 segment the forty five points, they're most since they scored 1:22:27.400 --> 1:22:32.639 forty nine against the Jets October twenty seventh, twenty thirteen. Wow, 1:22:32.640 --> 1:22:35.479 that was two hundred and one games ago. That was 1:22:35.520 --> 1:22:39.360 the day that Andy threw five touchdowns, four of those 1:22:39.400 --> 1:22:43.479 two Marvin Jones. How about that from the past. 1:22:44.080 --> 1:22:47.320 That's a good answer to a trivia question. There, boy, Marvin. 1:22:47.040 --> 1:22:50.439 Had four touchdowns that day, eight catches for one twenty two. 1:22:50.640 --> 1:22:53.400 AJ had three catches for one point fifteen, and the 1:22:53.439 --> 1:22:56.960 Bengals beat the Jets and Rex Ryan forty nine to 1:22:57.080 --> 1:22:58.000 nine that day. 1:22:58.120 --> 1:23:01.280 Oh wow, Saxy Rex, he took a thump and yeah 1:23:01.320 --> 1:23:03.040 he did got beaten by forty. 1:23:03.400 --> 1:23:04.920 There is your nugget of the day. 1:23:05.120 --> 1:23:06.920 Yes, he's fun to listen to, though I do. I 1:23:06.960 --> 1:23:08.800 do get a kick out and listening to Rex Rex 1:23:09.479 --> 1:23:12.759 always uh, you know he's got something to say, something 1:23:12.760 --> 1:23:16.519 to say, yeah, and says it in football lingo, you 1:23:16.600 --> 1:23:21.200 know he does. And he looks at everything through a 1:23:21.240 --> 1:23:24.120 defensive perspective, which I enjoy because I look at everything 1:23:24.120 --> 1:23:27.640 through an offensive perspective initially and then think about the 1:23:27.640 --> 1:23:30.560 defense and he's the reverse. He looks at it defensively 1:23:30.560 --> 1:23:32.680 and then thinks about it how the offense handled it. 1:23:32.760 --> 1:23:37.360 Still ahead QB one Joe Burrow with perspective on yesterday, 1:23:37.360 --> 1:23:39.320 as we were along with Bengals on and the Bengals 1:23:39.400 --> 1:23:47.400 Radio Network and seven hundred WLW, we keep moving right 1:23:47.439 --> 1:23:50.400 along in this Let Me Night a Bengals, Bengals Radio 1:23:50.439 --> 1:23:52.720 Network and seven hundred wl W. 1:23:53.160 --> 1:23:55.640 And Bengals fans on Fridays, make sure to listen to 1:23:55.720 --> 1:23:58.840 myself and Dan Horde from Bengals pep Rally presented by 1:23:58.960 --> 1:24:01.240 Just Bear Chicken on the air from three to six 1:24:01.280 --> 1:24:03.599 pm on ESPN fifteen thirties. 1:24:03.640 --> 1:24:06.479 Get more from QB one Joe Burrow on a four 1:24:06.600 --> 1:24:10.360 touchdown day quarterback rating of Holy Cow one forty six 1:24:10.400 --> 1:24:14.160 point five. Here's Joe on victory and having fun. 1:24:15.200 --> 1:24:15.960 Was there any to. 1:24:16.000 --> 1:24:18.639 Bouncing back from last week or just another another week? 1:24:22.080 --> 1:24:24.080 He's executed better at the end of the day. 1:24:25.600 --> 1:24:27.120 You know, T set it off, set the tone for 1:24:27.160 --> 1:24:30.400 the day with those two big plays early, and I 1:24:30.479 --> 1:24:34.080 kind of set the tone for number one, how the 1:24:34.160 --> 1:24:35.840 day was going and number two, how they were going 1:24:35.920 --> 1:24:38.000 to play us. I think they had a plan and 1:24:38.000 --> 1:24:40.200 then those two plays happened and then they had to 1:24:40.280 --> 1:24:46.040 change their plan. And that's that's a hy t is 1:24:46.040 --> 1:24:48.280 who he is and why we value him so much, 1:24:48.320 --> 1:24:51.679 and he just makes plays like that what makes. 1:24:51.520 --> 1:24:54.000 Him so special and it's fantastic to catch situations and 1:24:54.000 --> 1:24:55.280 how it's hillball for him. 1:24:55.600 --> 1:24:56.719 It seems like he's making all. 1:24:56.760 --> 1:25:02.679 These Yeah, he's big, long, strong, physical, and he's grown 1:25:02.760 --> 1:25:07.519 up over the last you know, I don't first first year, 1:25:07.560 --> 1:25:09.160 he wasn't making a ton of those plays, and then 1:25:09.479 --> 1:25:12.920 we'd come back in twenty twenty one, he's maybe most 1:25:12.920 --> 1:25:16.880 of them since that's credit to how serious he takes 1:25:16.920 --> 1:25:19.160 in how much he works and likes to improve. 1:25:19.720 --> 1:25:21.799 The first one was the goal cause it wou where. 1:25:21.680 --> 1:25:22.200 It was the goal? 1:25:22.439 --> 1:25:23.720 And then what was the second one? 1:25:23.960 --> 1:25:26.519 The second one basically turned into that too, basically turning 1:25:26.600 --> 1:25:27.519 down chus. 1:25:27.560 --> 1:25:29.320 Prass talked a lot about his development and trying to 1:25:29.360 --> 1:25:32.200 be like a receiver bad whatever you've seen, especially how 1:25:32.320 --> 1:25:34.080 since day and developing in that area. 1:25:34.960 --> 1:25:38.519 Yeah, it really provides us a lot of versatility. And 1:25:38.640 --> 1:25:41.320 we've been able to put two backs on the field 1:25:42.080 --> 1:25:44.160 cause we feel so good about Smaje and obviously we 1:25:44.160 --> 1:25:47.919 feel good about Chase and uh, now that provides challenges 1:25:47.960 --> 1:25:50.840 for the defense. How are they gonna take that? How 1:25:50.840 --> 1:25:53.439 are they gonna play that with their personnel? What coverages 1:25:53.439 --> 1:25:54.600 are there? Are they gonna play with that? 1:25:54.680 --> 1:25:54.960 Cause? 1:25:55.640 --> 1:25:57.680 Uh, if I was the defense, I wouldn't feel great 1:25:57.680 --> 1:26:00.880 about a linebacker cover and Chase in space. He proved 1:26:00.880 --> 1:26:07.040 that on his his receiving touchdown today. And another guy 1:26:07.040 --> 1:26:10.360 that just loves to improve. And Chase his first year, 1:26:10.400 --> 1:26:12.600 I'm not sure he caught a ball in practice, and 1:26:12.640 --> 1:26:15.719 then he came back the next year and was catching 1:26:15.720 --> 1:26:19.879 everything and really took that to heart and has improved 1:26:20.160 --> 1:26:21.680 and it's turning in the players. 1:26:21.400 --> 1:26:24.599 Now is what are the players who played sample? 1:26:25.080 --> 1:26:25.240 Uh? 1:26:25.560 --> 1:26:26.240 Played sample? 1:26:26.320 --> 1:26:30.000 Wanted to throw it down when you falling across your body, Yeah, 1:26:30.000 --> 1:26:31.360 you're thinking maybe. 1:26:31.120 --> 1:26:32.519 They shouldn't do this, or do you thinking? 1:26:33.120 --> 1:26:33.280 You know? 1:26:33.360 --> 1:26:37.320 Well, but I was really just trying to throw it away, 1:26:37.560 --> 1:26:39.720 and I knew Drew was over there somewhere, so I 1:26:39.760 --> 1:26:41.559 was just going to throw it to the ground, and 1:26:41.600 --> 1:26:43.280 then I see Drew wide opening right there, and so 1:26:43.320 --> 1:26:45.280 I just popped it over to him and then he 1:26:45.320 --> 1:26:45.880 did the rest. 1:26:46.280 --> 1:26:46.759 Uh. 1:26:47.000 --> 1:26:48.360 Yeah, it was a crazy one. 1:26:48.760 --> 1:26:49.799 What was the uh? 1:26:50.040 --> 1:26:52.040 What was it really like on the sidelines on the 1:26:52.040 --> 1:26:54.880 third quarter as defense is getting stops and you guys 1:26:54.880 --> 1:26:57.200 are felt like Thompson was running back out. 1:26:57.080 --> 1:26:59.280 To go down and score. But I mean that was 1:26:59.320 --> 1:26:59.960 like the epit of me. 1:27:01.720 --> 1:27:04.160 Yeah, That's that's how it's supposed to look like. That's 1:27:04.200 --> 1:27:05.200 what it's supposed to feel like. 1:27:07.040 --> 1:27:09.599 So we gotta keep that feeling going these next couple 1:27:09.600 --> 1:27:10.880 of weeks and build some momentum. 1:27:10.880 --> 1:27:16.479 You would obviously, uh win exactly as for Joe flat thought. 1:27:17.960 --> 1:27:19.599 You would obviously don't enough to win the game at 1:27:19.600 --> 1:27:21.840 that point, But did you want to stay in No? 1:27:22.000 --> 1:27:22.439 I was good. 1:27:22.960 --> 1:27:23.400 I was good. 1:27:24.880 --> 1:27:27.519 How fun is it to be out there with all 1:27:27.720 --> 1:27:29.160 the leathers they were all out there. 1:27:30.280 --> 1:27:30.479 Yeah. 1:27:30.520 --> 1:27:34.840 You just see how it changes how defenses playoffs and 1:27:34.880 --> 1:27:36.680 all the different things that they're worried about, and all 1:27:36.720 --> 1:27:39.160 of our different looks that we show. 1:27:40.840 --> 1:27:42.040 And prides. 1:27:42.040 --> 1:27:46.160 With more versatility, more things we can do, more personnel packages, 1:27:46.520 --> 1:27:48.360 it just really opens it up for cause you can. 1:27:48.280 --> 1:27:50.120 Feel like some of the highest today and then against 1:27:50.120 --> 1:27:52.559 Buffalo were some of the pigs would last year. 1:27:57.000 --> 1:27:59.759 You know, I feel like today and and against Buffalo 1:27:59.800 --> 1:28:03.479 were we were really consistent. You know, how they chose 1:28:03.479 --> 1:28:05.040 to play us today, I felt like a lot a 1:28:05.120 --> 1:28:08.040 lot like twenty twenty one. You know, we we hit 1:28:08.080 --> 1:28:10.600 our plays down the field when they came, but for 1:28:10.680 --> 1:28:12.400 the most part, we were getting it, getting out quick, 1:28:12.400 --> 1:28:13.679 getting it underneath, and our guys. 1:28:13.560 --> 1:28:17.240 Were making plays after the catch. That's really what's critical. 1:28:17.840 --> 1:28:19.880 When we get the opportunities, we have to hit them 1:28:20.640 --> 1:28:23.400 to scare defenses out of playing those kinds of coverages, 1:28:23.840 --> 1:28:26.680 and then we can start to, you know, get our 1:28:26.720 --> 1:28:30.800 past game going with all the zones that we like 1:28:30.880 --> 1:28:33.599 to attack and that our coaches do such a good 1:28:33.680 --> 1:28:38.960 job of providing those concepts for us and teaching them, showing. 1:28:38.760 --> 1:28:40.280 Us what to look at and what we how we 1:28:40.360 --> 1:28:41.080 have to play each play. 1:28:41.439 --> 1:28:44.400 Did they get I think it puts a lot girl. 1:28:44.760 --> 1:28:46.240 Did you did you get them out of it to 1:28:46.360 --> 1:28:47.240 stop doing it or what? 1:28:47.439 --> 1:28:47.479 What? 1:28:47.720 --> 1:28:49.880 How did you try to? Yeah? 1:28:49.880 --> 1:28:52.439 I just think I think that the Tea's two plays 1:28:52.479 --> 1:28:55.880 early on really just set the tone. Like you said, 1:28:55.920 --> 1:28:59.160 they were pressuring a little bit early, and team makes 1:28:59.200 --> 1:29:02.360 those two plays and then they they can't pressure as 1:29:02.439 --> 1:29:04.320 much and when they do, they have to play different 1:29:04.360 --> 1:29:06.080 coverages behind it, and so that light just get them 1:29:06.080 --> 1:29:07.479 all out quickly and in the space. 1:29:08.800 --> 1:29:10.439 And so it just started with those two from Tea. 1:29:11.240 --> 1:29:12.000 We saw you like you. 1:29:12.280 --> 1:29:13.800 They had to touch on your routine. You do kind 1:29:13.840 --> 1:29:16.120 of made the pressure like that dozens of time, and 1:29:16.200 --> 1:29:18.800 more than that, throughout your rear in that moment, what 1:29:19.120 --> 1:29:21.280 you could thinking, what do you feel it? What what's 1:29:21.320 --> 1:29:22.160 going on in your head? 1:29:24.120 --> 1:29:26.080 Well I just started to to move a little bit, 1:29:26.120 --> 1:29:29.519 and then I was like, we're in field goal range. 1:29:29.520 --> 1:29:31.080 I kind of gotta throw this away at this point. 1:29:31.160 --> 1:29:33.360 So I was just trying to find a place that 1:29:33.439 --> 1:29:36.240 I could dump it and live to see another down. 1:29:37.040 --> 1:29:40.320 And drew pops right there. Great job by him finding 1:29:40.360 --> 1:29:42.720 the space and realizing what was happening. You know, Trae. 1:29:42.840 --> 1:29:45.479 Drew's improved so much at that over the course. 1:29:45.320 --> 1:29:45.880 Of his career. 1:29:46.800 --> 1:29:49.200 And then he had another good one on the uh 1:29:49.760 --> 1:29:52.479 He scrambled left and ended up hitting Jamar, But Drew 1:29:52.520 --> 1:29:54.439 had a great reaction on that one too. I could 1:29:54.439 --> 1:29:56.479 have thrown it to him as well for for a touchdown, 1:29:56.479 --> 1:29:57.920 it would have been a little more difficult throw, so 1:29:58.000 --> 1:29:59.479 I chose the the other one. 1:29:59.560 --> 1:30:01.920 But Drew's just. 1:30:03.840 --> 1:30:06.400 Really embrace his role over the last couple of years 1:30:06.479 --> 1:30:09.559 and continue to improve and and carve out a bigger 1:30:09.600 --> 1:30:12.240 role based on how he's performed. Zach talked about killer 1:30:12.280 --> 1:30:14.400 instinct and kind of complimentated you guys on that day. 1:30:14.680 --> 1:30:16.120 I'm curious how more that is for you. 1:30:16.280 --> 1:30:18.000 To stipulating how to keep that role when you have. 1:30:18.000 --> 1:30:19.080 One of your teams and one they have. 1:30:19.760 --> 1:30:21.720 Yeah, when when you have a chance to to put 1:30:21.800 --> 1:30:26.160 it away or go up two scores or three scores, 1:30:26.200 --> 1:30:27.680 you have to take those opportunities. 1:30:27.720 --> 1:30:28.080 You have to. 1:30:30.760 --> 1:30:34.599 Because teams in the NFL are too good to let 1:30:34.720 --> 1:30:37.519 him hang around, and you know, guys on the other 1:30:37.560 --> 1:30:40.120 side of the field are gonna make plays. That's that's 1:30:40.160 --> 1:30:41.600 how this league goes, and so when you have a 1:30:41.680 --> 1:30:43.760 chance to do it, you gotta take advantage. How much fun, 1:30:45.000 --> 1:30:49.960 Yeah it was fun. I'm having fun playing football. Not 1:30:50.040 --> 1:30:53.439 playing football is not fun. And you're sitting in a 1:30:53.479 --> 1:30:56.559 locker room rehabit all day, that's that's not. 1:30:56.600 --> 1:30:57.040 Why you do it. 1:30:57.120 --> 1:30:59.360 This is why you do it. Right here and come back. 1:30:59.439 --> 1:31:00.600 This is one of you. I think this is your 1:31:00.640 --> 1:31:01.760 second best passive league. 1:31:02.760 --> 1:31:05.040 It's a week after he stepped up and said, hey, 1:31:05.120 --> 1:31:07.280 put this on me personally satisfying. 1:31:07.360 --> 1:31:08.840 This is the puns back. 1:31:09.680 --> 1:31:09.840 Yeah. 1:31:09.880 --> 1:31:11.200 I thought I played a clean game. I thought I 1:31:11.280 --> 1:31:14.240 protected the ball for the most part. I got greedy 1:31:14.280 --> 1:31:15.160 with one over the middle. 1:31:15.240 --> 1:31:20.679 But that's that's how I have to play, play within 1:31:20.720 --> 1:31:23.040 this game and then take my opportunities to try to 1:31:23.040 --> 1:31:26.519 make a play when when I can. But I'm gonna 1:31:26.520 --> 1:31:28.880 limit limit that for the most part at this point. 1:31:29.960 --> 1:31:31.920 But I was just happy with with how we all 1:31:32.000 --> 1:31:32.439 execute it. 1:31:32.520 --> 1:31:36.360 To hear the fifth fastest quarterback to over twenty pass 1:31:36.680 --> 1:31:39.479 to your career and you're the third player in the 1:31:39.560 --> 1:31:40.639 first seventy five games. 1:31:40.680 --> 1:31:44.120 So pill Rogers gave me more passive touchdowns does. 1:31:44.000 --> 1:31:44.840 That mean anything. 1:31:46.320 --> 1:31:48.240 I've missed. I missed a full season of games too, 1:31:48.400 --> 1:31:49.840 so should have been more. 1:31:51.000 --> 1:31:55.479 Joe Burrow after the game, still ahead, Fantastic fun Facts. 1:31:55.520 --> 1:31:57.680 We've talked about the special teams. To put more of 1:31:57.760 --> 1:31:59.519 a spotlight on the special teams. With a guy who 1:31:59.600 --> 1:32:03.400 keeps making plays there, Joe Giles Harris. As we continue 1:32:03.640 --> 1:32:20.000 with Bengals Line Bengals Radio Network at seven hundred WLW, he'd. 1:32:19.840 --> 1:32:20.800 Move in right along. 1:32:20.880 --> 1:32:23.800 On this Monday night, we are flying through our third hour. 1:32:24.000 --> 1:32:27.400 We go sort through yesterday's win over the Dolphins, and 1:32:27.520 --> 1:32:30.799 we've got those Cardinals around the corner of our next segment. 1:32:30.880 --> 1:32:34.560 But first, this last pay Corps is proud to be 1:32:34.640 --> 1:32:38.320 the official HR software provider of the Cincinnati Bengals. 1:32:38.439 --> 1:32:41.800 We've talked about how the complimentary football rained yesterday for 1:32:41.880 --> 1:32:45.240 the Bengals. They did it offensively, defensively, and with special teams. 1:32:45.320 --> 1:32:48.479 Let's put the focus back on special teams each week. 1:32:48.600 --> 1:32:51.360 We love Dan Horde's fantastic fun Facts where he kind 1:32:51.400 --> 1:32:53.719 of pulls back the curtain. We learn more about the player, 1:32:54.320 --> 1:32:57.760 more about the person beyond the helmet. Here is a 1:32:58.000 --> 1:33:02.600 conversation with the special teams. Extraordinary Joe Giles Harris and 1:33:02.760 --> 1:33:04.160 Fantastic fun Facts. 1:33:05.160 --> 1:33:09.120 No fantastic fun facts with Dan Ord. 1:33:09.880 --> 1:33:12.559 Time for some fun facts with linebacker and special teams 1:33:12.600 --> 1:33:15.879 stand out Joe Giles Harris. I know you played football 1:33:15.960 --> 1:33:18.400 in Montvale, New Jersey, which isn't too far from New 1:33:18.479 --> 1:33:21.640 York City. Where exactly did you live growing up? 1:33:21.800 --> 1:33:23.760 I lived in New York growing up, so it's about 1:33:23.800 --> 1:33:26.360 fifteen minute rod right outside of all right outside of 1:33:26.400 --> 1:33:26.840 New Jersey. 1:33:27.160 --> 1:33:30.000 Do you consider yourself a New York City guy, a 1:33:30.160 --> 1:33:32.280 Jersey guy? How would you label yourself just. 1:33:32.320 --> 1:33:34.519 In New York and not New York City, not New 1:33:34.600 --> 1:33:37.280 Jersey guy. I love everybody I'm from New York. I 1:33:37.400 --> 1:33:40.160 love that about myself. I love the energy in New York. 1:33:40.200 --> 1:33:42.879 I love New York. I love everything that it revids 1:33:42.920 --> 1:33:45.160 and what it's about. So I tell everybody I'm from 1:33:45.160 --> 1:33:47.880 New York. Joe, what sports did you play growing up? 1:33:48.000 --> 1:33:50.800 And when did you know that football would ultimately be 1:33:50.960 --> 1:33:54.080 your path forward? So growing up we played everything, and 1:33:54.120 --> 1:33:56.479 then when I got the high school played football, basketball, lacrosse. 1:33:56.960 --> 1:33:59.439 But for me football was everything from an early age. 1:33:59.439 --> 1:34:01.640 My dad coach high school football from the time I 1:34:01.760 --> 1:34:04.160 was born, so I've been on the field in pampers 1:34:04.240 --> 1:34:06.400 and as long as I can remember, and it's the 1:34:06.479 --> 1:34:08.880 only thing I ever wanted to do. My mom jokes 1:34:08.880 --> 1:34:10.280 and will tell stories, so I told her that I 1:34:10.360 --> 1:34:12.280 wasn't going to college to stay classes. I was going 1:34:12.360 --> 1:34:15.040 there for chalk talk and film prep and things like that. 1:34:15.080 --> 1:34:17.360 That's what I was gonna do in college. So being 1:34:17.400 --> 1:34:19.960 able to be here now, it's a blessing. But I 1:34:20.040 --> 1:34:22.200 pretty much knew football was my path all. 1:34:22.920 --> 1:34:25.200 You played college football at Duke, which means you were 1:34:25.240 --> 1:34:27.840 probably a very good student in high school. Was that 1:34:28.120 --> 1:34:30.200 important in your family? Absolutely. 1:34:30.320 --> 1:34:33.880 My mom and my grandmother were both teachers, so that 1:34:34.160 --> 1:34:36.519 was pushed on us big from the early, from early on, 1:34:36.760 --> 1:34:39.360 and when it came to it, it's like, well why not, 1:34:39.520 --> 1:34:41.120 do you know, it's the best of both worlds. I 1:34:41.120 --> 1:34:44.680 got to play very competitive, powerful football and get one 1:34:44.680 --> 1:34:47.200 of the best educations in the country, So, I mean 1:34:47.240 --> 1:34:48.120 it was a win win for me. 1:34:48.760 --> 1:34:51.880 Coach k was the basketball coach throughout your tenure at Duke. 1:34:52.080 --> 1:34:52.959 Did you interact? 1:34:53.920 --> 1:34:55.160 I mean we saw him a couple of times. I 1:34:55.200 --> 1:34:57.519 wouldn't say I knew him personally, but there was a 1:34:57.520 --> 1:34:59.439 couple times he spoke to the football program and you know, 1:34:59.520 --> 1:35:01.000 going to the game and things like that. But it 1:35:01.080 --> 1:35:03.519 was definitely cool to see like a living legend in person, 1:35:03.600 --> 1:35:05.240 especially his last couple of years I was there, So 1:35:05.320 --> 1:35:05.960 it was pretty cool. 1:35:06.560 --> 1:35:08.840 While you were Duke, you were the three time winner 1:35:08.960 --> 1:35:11.360 of the Vincent Ray Award, which goes to the best 1:35:11.439 --> 1:35:15.160 linebacker at Duke. And Vinnie Ray, of course, is here 1:35:15.240 --> 1:35:17.560 in Cincinnati played for the Bengals. He is currently the 1:35:17.600 --> 1:35:19.880 team chaplain. Have you two hit it off now that 1:35:19.920 --> 1:35:20.840 you're here in Cincinnati. 1:35:21.040 --> 1:35:23.320 So it's funny, you know, being at Duke for the 1:35:23.360 --> 1:35:25.400 four years, that was the name I heard every day. 1:35:25.680 --> 1:35:27.439 I heard Vinnie Ray would do this, Vinie Ray would 1:35:27.439 --> 1:35:29.200 do that, Vini Ray wouldn't have done this, or and 1:35:29.320 --> 1:35:31.040 it was back and forth. And I didn't actually meet 1:35:31.120 --> 1:35:35.160 Vinnie until this past year, this past spring at an 1:35:35.200 --> 1:35:38.280 event the NFL host over the summer, and I got 1:35:38.320 --> 1:35:39.680 to meet Vini for the first time. And it was 1:35:39.720 --> 1:35:41.680 funny because I'm like, I know so much about you, 1:35:41.760 --> 1:35:44.160 but I don't know you. And since you know, he's 1:35:44.760 --> 1:35:46.599 been nothing but a blessing to me and my family 1:35:46.720 --> 1:35:50.719 and between getting settled in since the Bible studies, meeting 1:35:50.800 --> 1:35:53.000 with him one on one. You know, it's been really 1:35:53.560 --> 1:35:55.720 cool to you know, build that relationship. And Vinie's a 1:35:55.760 --> 1:35:57.360 New York guy who went to Duke, and I'm a 1:35:57.360 --> 1:35:58.559 New York guy I went to Duke, so it kind 1:35:58.560 --> 1:35:59.760 of just worked out hand in hand. 1:36:00.320 --> 1:36:02.679 We're visiting with Joe Giles Harris. You had a great 1:36:02.760 --> 1:36:05.920 career at Duke, team MVP, two time first Team All 1:36:05.960 --> 1:36:09.160 acc or a team captain there your final year, did 1:36:09.240 --> 1:36:12.120 you expect to get drafted and was it a big 1:36:12.200 --> 1:36:14.920 disappointment when you weren't? Oh, I think so. 1:36:15.080 --> 1:36:17.519 I think for me, you know, that's obviously for everybody, 1:36:17.520 --> 1:36:19.840 it's the ultimate goals to get drafted, and when it 1:36:19.880 --> 1:36:22.760 didn't happen, you know, it hurt a little bit. But 1:36:23.120 --> 1:36:25.519 I come from a competitive household and my brother plays 1:36:25.560 --> 1:36:27.400 profession lacross and things like that, so there was no 1:36:27.479 --> 1:36:29.160 sulking in the moment. It was just all right, what 1:36:29.200 --> 1:36:30.439 are you gonna do to stay? What are you gonna 1:36:30.479 --> 1:36:32.560 do to you know, actually make it? Because you're not 1:36:33.280 --> 1:36:34.920 the first the first door is not open, so you 1:36:34.920 --> 1:36:37.519 got to walk to the second door. So for me, 1:36:37.600 --> 1:36:39.439 it was disappointing, but I think it also taught me 1:36:39.439 --> 1:36:41.800 a lot of things about myself, and it taught me 1:36:41.840 --> 1:36:43.360 that if I really wanted, I had to put in 1:36:43.640 --> 1:36:45.840 that much more work to get to where I'm at. 1:36:45.880 --> 1:36:48.280 And seven years later, I'm still here doing it. So uh, 1:36:48.680 --> 1:36:51.200 blessed for how it's gone. How it started was kind 1:36:51.200 --> 1:36:52.240 of roup, but you know, figured it. 1:36:52.280 --> 1:36:55.639 Out because of the way NFL accounting works. The roster 1:36:55.760 --> 1:36:58.240 says you have two years of NFL experience, and it's 1:36:58.280 --> 1:37:01.760 always annoying to me because the truth is, this is 1:37:01.800 --> 1:37:05.000 your seventh NFL season, including time that you've spent on 1:37:05.160 --> 1:37:09.000 practice squads. It's a good living regardless of what your 1:37:09.040 --> 1:37:11.880 status is on the roster. What's been the key for 1:37:12.040 --> 1:37:15.200 you to remain an NFL player for seven years? 1:37:15.880 --> 1:37:17.560 For me, I think it's just been simple. You know, 1:37:17.600 --> 1:37:20.040 show up to work every day and work. There's somebody 1:37:20.080 --> 1:37:22.360 coming in and take your spot every day. There's a 1:37:22.600 --> 1:37:25.280 hundred guys who are getting truts every day, and so 1:37:25.439 --> 1:37:27.400 what are you doing in that building to stand out 1:37:27.720 --> 1:37:30.679 on a consistent basis? So it's you know, I've built 1:37:30.720 --> 1:37:34.840 a routine being consistent and just being vocal and being 1:37:34.880 --> 1:37:36.639 a leader. And when you get your opportuny to make plays, 1:37:36.680 --> 1:37:38.479 make plays. That's the league about. The more plays you make, 1:37:38.520 --> 1:37:40.479 the longer you stay, the less players you're make, gonna 1:37:40.479 --> 1:37:41.400 have to find something else to do. 1:37:42.120 --> 1:37:44.240 I introduced you off the top as a linebacker, and 1:37:44.320 --> 1:37:47.160 special teams stand out right now. Pro Football Focus has 1:37:47.200 --> 1:37:51.120 you graded number eleven among all special teams players in 1:37:51.200 --> 1:37:54.280 the NFL so far this year. You've had several tackles 1:37:54.360 --> 1:37:57.519 and kick coverage in recent weeks. How much of special 1:37:57.600 --> 1:38:01.519 team's success is all out effort and how much is 1:38:01.640 --> 1:38:02.879 knowledge and technique? 1:38:03.760 --> 1:38:05.439 Well, I think you know it's a combination of both. 1:38:05.560 --> 1:38:08.760 But shout out you know coach Daron, Coach Ben, and 1:38:08.840 --> 1:38:10.120 you know the guys in the unit. You know, I'm 1:38:10.160 --> 1:38:11.439 just the guy who's been lucky enough to have a 1:38:11.479 --> 1:38:14.000 couple of tackles these past few games. But it comes 1:38:14.040 --> 1:38:16.880 down to film study and just working hard. And you know, 1:38:17.120 --> 1:38:19.639 I think for a lot of guys, you know, early 1:38:19.680 --> 1:38:21.120 on you can kind of look at special teams as 1:38:21.120 --> 1:38:22.400 that I don't want to play special teams. I want 1:38:22.400 --> 1:38:23.720 to be a defensiveuy. I want to be offensive guy. 1:38:23.800 --> 1:38:27.679 But it's just as important. It's it's just as fun, 1:38:27.760 --> 1:38:30.400 and you know, guys carve out roles doing that. So 1:38:30.560 --> 1:38:32.960 for me, like I told you, just being consistent and 1:38:33.080 --> 1:38:34.200 doing what I have to do to stay in a 1:38:34.240 --> 1:38:36.400 building and you know, getting the opportunity to play there 1:38:36.439 --> 1:38:38.960 and it's been nothing but good to me and kind 1:38:38.960 --> 1:38:40.880 of opened my eyes a little more special teams the world. 1:38:40.920 --> 1:38:42.760 And I just thank my film studying things for being 1:38:42.760 --> 1:38:44.040 able to be in the right place the right time. 1:38:45.080 --> 1:38:48.000 Maybe in a perfect world, you get drafted by a team, 1:38:48.360 --> 1:38:50.639 you spend a decade with that team, and that's your 1:38:50.720 --> 1:38:53.560 NFL career. That's not been the path for you. On 1:38:53.680 --> 1:38:56.320 the other hand, you've probably made hundreds of friends, and 1:38:56.439 --> 1:38:58.920 the different teams you've been with, you've seen how it 1:38:59.040 --> 1:39:01.799 works in different places. Says you've lived in different cities. 1:39:02.080 --> 1:39:03.639 Have you enjoyed that part of your career. 1:39:04.040 --> 1:39:07.320 Absolutely, I don't think any of this for granted. I've 1:39:07.360 --> 1:39:11.280 made nothing but great relationships, and you know, just the 1:39:11.320 --> 1:39:13.160 people I've met along the way have been amazing, and 1:39:13.240 --> 1:39:14.680 that you know, there's people you met along the way 1:39:14.680 --> 1:39:16.000 who aren't amazing, but it's just. 1:39:16.040 --> 1:39:16.839 Part of the process. 1:39:17.160 --> 1:39:19.160 But I'd say the overall knowledge I've gained just from 1:39:20.120 --> 1:39:22.600 the business side of it, how the NFL works. You 1:39:22.680 --> 1:39:24.720 know what locker rooms are like and things like that. 1:39:24.880 --> 1:39:27.720 I think it's kind of really helped me, you know, 1:39:28.320 --> 1:39:31.400 stay focused and stay grounded and things like that, and 1:39:31.680 --> 1:39:33.639 to really like it's been nothing but a blessing. 1:39:33.720 --> 1:39:34.840 Like I've loved this process. 1:39:34.960 --> 1:39:35.439 It's been hard. 1:39:35.479 --> 1:39:37.160 There's been days where I'm like, this is not it, 1:39:37.280 --> 1:39:39.240 this is the worst thing in the world, but it's 1:39:39.920 --> 1:39:42.639 you know, everything's turned the corner for me, and I'm 1:39:42.680 --> 1:39:45.080 grateful for it. I came to this lead with no kids. 1:39:45.080 --> 1:39:46.720 I have two kids now, two beautiful kids who have 1:39:46.800 --> 1:39:48.559 now part of this process. My wife's part of the process. 1:39:48.680 --> 1:39:50.760 So it's been good for us. It's given us a 1:39:50.760 --> 1:39:53.400 different perspective. Got to live in different areas of the country, 1:39:53.439 --> 1:39:54.920 which is cool, you know, being from New York, I 1:39:55.040 --> 1:39:56.000 only wanted to live in New York. 1:39:56.720 --> 1:39:57.120 It was good. 1:39:57.120 --> 1:39:58.720 I was able to branch out and do things like that. 1:39:58.920 --> 1:40:02.679 But it's been a blessing and I cherished every Every 1:40:02.720 --> 1:40:04.640 place I've been at has been good for me and 1:40:04.760 --> 1:40:06.920 my family, and I'm just forever grateful. 1:40:07.439 --> 1:40:09.680 All Right, A few wild card topics now for Joe 1:40:09.760 --> 1:40:13.679 Giles Harris, since you mentioned having two kids, son, daughter, 1:40:13.880 --> 1:40:15.800 one of each, and what's your favorite thing about being 1:40:15.840 --> 1:40:16.120 a dad. 1:40:16.200 --> 1:40:17.880 My son is two years old and my daughter's one 1:40:17.960 --> 1:40:21.080 year old, Blaze and Breeze, and I think my favorite 1:40:21.080 --> 1:40:22.639 part of being a dad is coming home and hearing 1:40:22.640 --> 1:40:24.360 what they had to say about their day and you know, 1:40:24.439 --> 1:40:26.040 what they did or what I did. And my son's 1:40:26.040 --> 1:40:28.360 at the age where he understands things now and wants 1:40:28.400 --> 1:40:30.400 to play football. So I get home and Dad, you 1:40:30.439 --> 1:40:31.920 didn't make a tackle the day, And I'm like, yeah, 1:40:31.920 --> 1:40:32.679 I know, I didn't make a tackle. 1:40:32.760 --> 1:40:35.479 Money I'm trying, so just that part. 1:40:35.400 --> 1:40:37.800 But it's just coming home and you know, seeing there's 1:40:37.840 --> 1:40:41.280 something more important than whatever you got going on that day. 1:40:41.400 --> 1:40:44.479 So I love to My daughter runs to me every 1:40:44.520 --> 1:40:45.920 time I come in the house, whether it's because she 1:40:46.040 --> 1:40:47.519 was being bad that day or she just wants to 1:40:47.520 --> 1:40:47.800 see me. 1:40:47.880 --> 1:40:50.439 It is, you know, to be determined, but just. 1:40:50.400 --> 1:40:52.840 Seeing their face, seeing their smiles, and remember there's you know, 1:40:52.960 --> 1:40:55.479 there's people counting on me to be more than a 1:40:55.520 --> 1:40:58.040 football player, and I think that's the best part about it. 1:40:58.720 --> 1:41:01.800 You have a hyphenated last name, Giles Harris. Was that 1:41:02.000 --> 1:41:04.000 always the case or did you make that choice? 1:41:04.240 --> 1:41:06.439 That's been always the case My mom and my dad 1:41:06.560 --> 1:41:08.720 neither one wanted to get up their last name, and 1:41:09.720 --> 1:41:12.760 it sounds great and it's original, and when you see it, 1:41:12.840 --> 1:41:15.559 you know who I am. So the only people who 1:41:15.640 --> 1:41:18.280 have that last name are people blood related to me. 1:41:18.400 --> 1:41:20.479 So I think I think it's a blessing. It helps 1:41:20.520 --> 1:41:22.040 me stand out and it's unique. 1:41:22.120 --> 1:41:25.920 So I appreciate you referenced your brother, JT. Earlier, a 1:41:26.000 --> 1:41:29.160 professional lacrosse player for the Denver Outlaws. He is a 1:41:29.240 --> 1:41:31.960 three time All Star in the Premier Lacrosse League. Tell 1:41:32.040 --> 1:41:33.240 us a little bit about his career. 1:41:33.640 --> 1:41:35.599 Oh, well, my brother has been, you know, the best 1:41:35.640 --> 1:41:37.960 player at lacrosse in my opinion, and I know that 1:41:38.000 --> 1:41:39.559 probably doesn't carry well because I live in the house, 1:41:39.600 --> 1:41:42.080 but he's been the best lacrosse player I've seen in 1:41:42.080 --> 1:41:44.599 a long time. He plays defense, you know, he played 1:41:44.600 --> 1:41:46.840 defense playing growing up, playing football and things like that, 1:41:46.920 --> 1:41:49.080 so kind of translated. But he's had, you know, a 1:41:49.160 --> 1:41:50.960 heck of probably a better career than I have had, 1:41:51.360 --> 1:41:53.200 to be honest. He you know, was a Defensive Player 1:41:53.240 --> 1:41:56.000 of the Year in college, All American most of his 1:41:56.080 --> 1:41:57.720 time in college. I think he won Defensive Player of 1:41:57.760 --> 1:42:01.080 the Year already in the PLL. So he's just a study, 1:42:01.160 --> 1:42:03.840 handles his business. He approaches every day coming some of 1:42:03.920 --> 1:42:05.919 what I do, you know, just attack the day mentality, 1:42:06.479 --> 1:42:09.280 and he's just a competitor, like there's a fire in 1:42:09.360 --> 1:42:11.439 him and it burns and he's gonna get his job 1:42:11.520 --> 1:42:12.040 none no matter what. 1:42:12.840 --> 1:42:15.320 Out there than football, what are you good at. 1:42:16.360 --> 1:42:18.519 Depends on yes. I think I'm a pretty good basketball 1:42:18.520 --> 1:42:22.880 player myself. Basketball, you know, and I like to just 1:42:22.920 --> 1:42:25.080 hang out. I'm a big I love to watch movies 1:42:25.120 --> 1:42:28.240 and do things like that. I love history, so I 1:42:28.400 --> 1:42:29.920 like to watch, you know, the trivia stuff and like 1:42:30.000 --> 1:42:30.680 things like that and. 1:42:30.960 --> 1:42:33.200 Test my brain. But those are pretty much small things. 1:42:33.200 --> 1:42:36.280 I'm gonna all right. Final fun fact for Joe Giles Harris. 1:42:36.360 --> 1:42:39.799 This one's kind of deep. If you could meet anyone 1:42:39.880 --> 1:42:44.160 in history, living or deceased, who would that person be. 1:42:45.120 --> 1:42:47.599 I say, right now, off the top of my head, 1:42:47.880 --> 1:42:50.840 probably Barack Obama, and I would just, you know, just 1:42:50.880 --> 1:42:52.640 want to pick his brain about you know, he was 1:42:52.880 --> 1:42:55.120 the first black president of the United States, and you 1:42:55.160 --> 1:42:57.240 know the things he went through growing up and the 1:42:57.320 --> 1:42:59.640 things he went through as our president. So just to 1:42:59.720 --> 1:43:01.599 kind of pick his brain and see where he's at, 1:43:01.680 --> 1:43:03.479 you know, because it takes a strong person to you know, 1:43:03.640 --> 1:43:06.519 lead this country, and especially when you're the first of 1:43:06.920 --> 1:43:09.599 you know, a group to do that. So just pick 1:43:09.680 --> 1:43:11.760 his brain and you know, just get to know him. 1:43:11.800 --> 1:43:13.360 I think that would be probably the person I want to. 1:43:13.360 --> 1:43:15.760 Meet the most. This has been great, appreciate your time. 1:43:15.840 --> 1:43:16.880 Best of left the rest of the year. 1:43:16.960 --> 1:43:17.240 Thank you. 1:43:17.280 --> 1:43:17.880 I appreciate it. 1:43:18.479 --> 1:43:22.360 Love the Dan Horde, fun facts and and Joe Giles, 1:43:22.439 --> 1:43:24.840 Harris Davis is just one of those guys. It seems 1:43:26.520 --> 1:43:28.760 Darren Simmons will have an eye for somebody and be 1:43:28.800 --> 1:43:31.200 able to add him to this and and and they 1:43:31.400 --> 1:43:34.519 just they become a force. He just makes tackles on 1:43:35.080 --> 1:43:37.400 special teams. And probably at the start of the season 1:43:37.439 --> 1:43:40.360 there were very few fans who knew of him. But man, 1:43:40.479 --> 1:43:44.439 Darren Simmons saw something, plugged him in and he's been rewarded. 1:43:44.640 --> 1:43:47.760 And boy, I'll tell you what nobody sees uh or 1:43:48.160 --> 1:43:51.479 evaluate talent with the eye of a guy like Darren Simmons, 1:43:51.520 --> 1:43:55.320 who has so much experience in the National Football League. 1:43:55.360 --> 1:43:58.599 He was a punter himself. He understands special teams, understands 1:43:58.640 --> 1:44:02.400 the importance of special teams, understands the role of a 1:44:02.479 --> 1:44:06.080 special teams player, and man, he just has a knack 1:44:06.600 --> 1:44:10.519 for unearthing these guys. Man, I mean he just out 1:44:10.560 --> 1:44:13.040 of a group of players when he's at the combine, 1:44:13.200 --> 1:44:17.080 he finds himself. Like you talked about Lance nuggets, potential nuggets, 1:44:17.600 --> 1:44:22.240 and then you know he'll he'll get them signed, cultivate them, 1:44:23.280 --> 1:44:27.840 you know, just almost like a jeweler turning coal into 1:44:27.880 --> 1:44:31.240 a diamond. That's what Darren Simmons does with players, and 1:44:31.280 --> 1:44:35.840 he's done it for years. He's he's more than proven commodity. 1:44:35.920 --> 1:44:38.479 There's no question about that. Darren Simmons is as good 1:44:38.479 --> 1:44:40.920 as it gets in the NFL with special teams. 1:44:41.000 --> 1:44:43.599 We continue on with the Cardinals ahead and game balls 1:44:43.600 --> 1:44:45.880 ahead on Bengals on on the Bengals Radio Network in 1:44:45.960 --> 1:45:00.280 seven hundred WLW. We continue on down the stretch all 1:45:00.280 --> 1:45:03.599 hour tonight of Bengals Line Bengals Radio Network, seven hundred 1:45:03.600 --> 1:45:06.280 couple ULWI lines with Catlister hanging out as always with 1:45:06.439 --> 1:45:07.560 Dave Leppham. 1:45:07.520 --> 1:45:09.680 Right on Lance and all the fibers, the official Wi 1:45:09.760 --> 1:45:13.000 Fi and Internet provider of the Cincinnati Bengals and Greater 1:45:13.080 --> 1:45:16.880 Cincinnati's fastest Internet up to two gig symmetrical speeds a. 1:45:16.920 --> 1:45:19.760 Couple of thoughts on those Arizona Cardinals who are three 1:45:19.880 --> 1:45:22.000 and twelve. Kind of a mess of a season. It 1:45:22.120 --> 1:45:24.360 started out with great hopes. They started two and oh 1:45:25.160 --> 1:45:29.080 and they've gone one and twelve since then. They dropped 1:45:29.280 --> 1:45:34.679 seven straight late interception yesterday sealed their fate, and three 1:45:34.840 --> 1:45:37.680 and twelve overall. Although I would circle and I have 1:45:37.800 --> 1:45:41.560 highlighted one name tight end of all things, cover the 1:45:41.640 --> 1:45:44.280 tight end this week, because Trey McBride has one hundred 1:45:44.280 --> 1:45:47.479 and nine catches for one thousand and ninety eight yards 1:45:47.600 --> 1:45:49.799 and ten touchdowns this season. 1:45:50.040 --> 1:45:53.720 Oh man, man, I'll tell you what. Hat's tip of 1:45:53.800 --> 1:45:57.000 the cap. Hats off to McBride to be the bright 1:45:57.080 --> 1:46:00.880 spot in such a horrific season for football team three 1:46:00.960 --> 1:46:04.719 and twelve, and to put up those numbers, man, because 1:46:04.920 --> 1:46:10.720 obviously he's been targeted. It's like, this guy is killing it. 1:46:11.160 --> 1:46:13.160 This guy's having a Pro Bowl season. We have to 1:46:13.200 --> 1:46:16.560 eliminate him as an option as a weapon, and he 1:46:16.680 --> 1:46:20.679 continues to make plays. So, you know, credit the Arizona 1:46:20.800 --> 1:46:24.360 Cardinals coaching staff for finding waste to keep him involved offensively, 1:46:24.920 --> 1:46:27.160 and credit him for playing at a high level and 1:46:27.360 --> 1:46:30.559 staying healthy and all those good things. And making plays 1:46:30.640 --> 1:46:33.680 and the quarterbacks for finding them. And but boy, that's 1:46:33.720 --> 1:46:37.560 a that's a rough season. I experienced a four and 1:46:37.600 --> 1:46:40.720 twelve season, and I can tell you it is no 1:46:41.360 --> 1:46:44.639 fun whatsoever. I mean, you get tired of each other. Man, 1:46:44.720 --> 1:46:47.120 It's almost you know, it's like, when is this going 1:46:47.240 --> 1:46:49.320 to end? When is the misery and the drudgery you're 1:46:49.320 --> 1:46:49.800 going to end? 1:46:50.439 --> 1:46:51.639 So and Dave. 1:46:51.720 --> 1:46:54.479 That sets it up to me perfectly. They're traveling. They 1:46:54.560 --> 1:46:56.479 got to come all the waycross country here. It's not 1:46:56.560 --> 1:46:58.439 going to be cold, but it's going to be about 1:46:58.479 --> 1:47:00.479 fifty I think I saw on sun. But this is 1:47:00.520 --> 1:47:04.840 one of those games where you you cause you want 1:47:04.840 --> 1:47:07.639 to give the Cardinals a reason to check out early 1:47:07.840 --> 1:47:10.080 score on the opening drive, get them behind the eight ball, 1:47:10.280 --> 1:47:12.400 see how interested they are in playing, because they just 1:47:12.479 --> 1:47:13.320 may want to get back on. 1:47:13.320 --> 1:47:16.880 The play absolutely. You know, their biggest desire may be 1:47:17.240 --> 1:47:19.600 heading back to Arizona, being with their families. You know, 1:47:20.080 --> 1:47:23.519 I mean, start this chrismas, Yeah, why do we have 1:47:23.600 --> 1:47:26.000 to play a football game? You know, there's no reason 1:47:26.080 --> 1:47:28.519 for it. Plus you want to if you're the Bengals, 1:47:28.560 --> 1:47:30.680 you want to win the last three. Yep, you want 1:47:30.720 --> 1:47:32.680 to go out on a high note. And it's not 1:47:32.840 --> 1:47:36.920 great competition obviously Arizona and Cleveland. But you know, you 1:47:37.000 --> 1:47:39.400 got one under your belt beating the Miami Dolphins. Why 1:47:39.479 --> 1:47:41.800 not get two more? And people are going to say, hey, 1:47:41.840 --> 1:47:45.240 you know, but look at the competition. So what wins 1:47:45.320 --> 1:47:47.759 in the National Football League you don't take for granted. 1:47:47.800 --> 1:47:50.840 They're not easy to come by. And if you can 1:47:51.640 --> 1:47:54.519 use it as a building block to get off to 1:47:54.600 --> 1:47:56.760 a quick start in twenty twenty six, I'm all for it. 1:47:57.400 --> 1:48:00.639 Final segment ahead, and that's saving the best for last 1:48:00.760 --> 1:48:03.160 game balls. You hear the presentation from the locker room 1:48:03.240 --> 1:48:05.679 after the victory. It's Bengals on on the Bengals Radio 1:48:05.720 --> 1:48:13.160 Network and seven hundred WLW. Here we go Final seven 1:48:13.360 --> 1:48:15.719 the night Plants, but count Lester Dave Lapham the Bengals 1:48:15.760 --> 1:48:17.840 line on the Bengals Radio Network. 1:48:17.640 --> 1:48:19.720 And Bengals fans make sure to catch me and Dan 1:48:19.840 --> 1:48:23.160 Horde every Wednesday this season for Bengals Game Plan presented 1:48:23.200 --> 1:48:24.960 by Bud Light on the air from six to eight 1:48:25.040 --> 1:48:27.240 pm on ESPN fifteen thirty. 1:48:27.280 --> 1:48:29.519 When the Bengals win, we love to hear the presentation 1:48:29.680 --> 1:48:31.880 after the game of game balls. This is what it 1:48:32.000 --> 1:48:34.000 sounded like we faced a. 1:48:34.000 --> 1:48:35.720 Tune versus the last two weeks, so a lot of 1:48:35.720 --> 1:48:38.080 people that doubted you. Okay, I question how you were 1:48:38.080 --> 1:48:40.920 gonna respond, question how you've been this week. All you 1:48:41.040 --> 1:48:43.880 did was respond exactly how our coaching staff and you 1:48:43.920 --> 1:48:46.960 guys need to respond exactly how you came out here 1:48:47.000 --> 1:48:51.439 in a vacation weather and week sixteen. Okay, we know 1:48:51.560 --> 1:48:53.960 our playoff status, and all you did was handle business. 1:48:53.960 --> 1:48:57.000 At halftime, we said we gotta win. The turnobels seventeen 1:48:57.000 --> 1:49:00.479 to fourteen, no turnovers to no turnovers. Came out. 1:49:00.840 --> 1:49:10.080 You got four straight damn. The offense went down, scored 1:49:10.160 --> 1:49:18.280 four straight touchdown. The kickoff team was nails, hit them 1:49:18.320 --> 1:49:21.759 down the second half. Okay, Ryan ricco four inside the twenty. 1:49:28.920 --> 1:49:34.760 I saw kid returners getting loose, Williams toss Brooks, get 1:49:35.400 --> 1:49:44.599 the poet return, Keyshawn taking one twenty something yonder. I'll 1:49:44.680 --> 1:49:48.160 tell you the cub get into more of the stats here. Okay, 1:49:48.240 --> 1:49:50.760 everyone's getting a game ball, because for me, that ball 1:49:50.880 --> 1:49:52.440 was significant. That game was significant. 1:49:52.520 --> 1:49:52.680 Kay. 1:49:53.120 --> 1:49:57.360 Every coach, every staff member, every player responded the way 1:49:57.439 --> 1:50:00.240 we had responded. We had no other choice. And all 1:50:00.240 --> 1:50:01.640 I got, dudes, come down here and kick them. But 1:50:01.680 --> 1:50:03.720 I'm probably okay. But there's some things I want to 1:50:03.760 --> 1:50:04.160 point out. 1:50:04.560 --> 1:50:04.880 Okay. 1:50:06.640 --> 1:50:15.799 First of all, o line batcha tails off, Okay. For starters, 1:50:15.880 --> 1:50:18.120 Joe Burrow is twenty five to thirty two for three 1:50:18.240 --> 1:50:22.400 hundred and nine and four touchdowns. He's the fifth fastest 1:50:22.479 --> 1:50:25.120 quarterback in the league history to hit twenty thousand yards, 1:50:30.439 --> 1:50:33.160 my fastest quarterback in the league history to throw it 1:50:33.240 --> 1:50:34.679 for one hundred and fifty touchdowns. 1:50:38.080 --> 1:50:38.479 You know. 1:50:40.720 --> 1:50:44.400 Jamar Chase seven games this season with omber one hundred. 1:50:44.439 --> 1:50:49.799 That's a Bengals record. If we went over five hundred 1:50:49.880 --> 1:50:53.040 career catches, which is the third fastest in NFL. Hiss 1:50:58.439 --> 1:51:04.120 Brown three touchdowns today, My second player in Bengals history 1:51:04.200 --> 1:51:05.400 score three and a quarter. 1:51:07.040 --> 1:51:11.920 Mine the second. The state isn't the biggest. 1:51:11.920 --> 1:51:19.800 That touchdown fell great coming back and see Higgins that 1:51:19.920 --> 1:51:22.559 went back huge, go right early when we're backed up. 1:51:23.000 --> 1:51:28.760 Big touchdown on the defensively, Man couldn't be prouder. Since 1:51:28.800 --> 1:51:36.360 Week twelve eleven takeaways most of the NFL. I thought 1:51:36.439 --> 1:51:39.440 Jordan Battle knocking out Miles Murphy recovering. 1:51:43.240 --> 1:51:44.040 The last run. 1:51:44.320 --> 1:51:46.519 I thought Josh Duton tipped that ball up and Mark 1:51:46.560 --> 1:51:54.000 Connor pick it off. That's all huge fourth and one 1:51:54.240 --> 1:51:56.719 hand by the entire defense. That counts as a turnover. 1:52:14.720 --> 1:52:17.360 Guys, you proved here we are. That's a huge character win. 1:52:17.560 --> 1:52:19.800 You gotta do it two more times. Let's keep this out. 1:52:19.840 --> 1:52:20.080 That's all. 1:52:31.120 --> 1:52:36.120 We love the sound of Victory Bengals beating the Miami Dolphins. Dave, 1:52:36.400 --> 1:52:42.040 Merry Christmas, Yid, Merry Christmas, listeners, Merry Christmas, and uh, 1:52:42.960 --> 1:52:45.080 I like Victory Mondays heading into Christmas. 1:52:45.439 --> 1:52:49.120 I'll take it absolutely absolutely, and men, it's a pleasure 1:52:49.200 --> 1:52:51.519 working with you every week, no question about it. You 1:52:51.600 --> 1:52:55.000 guys are prose pros. And with that said, Merry Christmas 1:52:55.040 --> 1:52:57.880 to all, into all, good night, perfect. 1:52:57.600 --> 1:53:00.280 Ending Bengals on on the Bengals Radio Network and seven 1:53:00.360 --> 1:53:01.360 hundred WLW. 1:53:03.320 --> 1:53:07.040 This was Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network. 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