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Speaker 2: Forty five fourteen the final numbers. Yesterday Bengals defeat the Dolphins.
Speaker 2: Next up the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday. Plenty of ground
Speaker 2: to cover between now and nine o'clock. So let's get
Speaker 2: to it. Lance McAllister, Dave Lapham and Dave. Last week,
Speaker 2: at this time we were discussing a shutout loss that
Speaker 2: eliminated the Bengals. We were wondering how they would respond.
Speaker 2: This week, there were storylines around Zach and Joe, and
Speaker 2: there was going to be a big weather difference, and
Speaker 2: you add it all up and I give to you.
Speaker 2: Probably if you looked in the dictionary under complimentary football,
Speaker 2: it would probably say see yesterday's game in Miami.
Speaker 3: No question about at Lance. I mean that that sums
Speaker 3: it up right there. Your your comments are right on point.
Speaker 3: They did. They went down and they took care of
Speaker 3: business against the Miami Dolphins. There's no question about that.
Speaker 3: And you know one all three phases did their job.
Speaker 3: As Paul Brown used to say, do your job. You know,
Speaker 3: you don't have to do anything more. You don't do
Speaker 3: anything less, and please don't do anything less. Just do
Speaker 3: what you're supposed to do, how you're supposed to do it.
Speaker 3: Be where you're supposed to be when you're supposed to
Speaker 3: be there, all those good things. It was complimentary football
Speaker 3: at his finest, as you mentioned, and you know, really
Speaker 3: the star, the guy who basically led the troops led
Speaker 3: to pack Joe Burrow completed seventy three percent of his passes.
Speaker 3: That's Kenny Anderson. Like I mean, that is pinpoint accuracy,
Speaker 3: three hundred and nine yards passing, four touchdowns, no interceptions,
Speaker 3: quarterback rating a one forty six point five. I mean,
Speaker 3: amongst the best of his career. And then he had
Speaker 3: he utilized multiple weapons. That was the other thing. I mean,
Speaker 3: they attacked the Miami Dolphins every way they could be
Speaker 3: attacked and Jamar Chase at eleven targets, nine catches, hundred
Speaker 3: and nine yards. T Higgins targeted three times fifty three
Speaker 3: yards three catches. He averaged over seventeen yards seventeen point
Speaker 3: seven per reception. Kasiki got in the mix. He threw
Speaker 3: the football to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
Speaker 3: Ten different receivers caught a pass of his of his
Speaker 3: thirty or twenty five completions to ten different receivers. That's
Speaker 3: that's spraying the ball around, man. That's that's attacking every
Speaker 3: quadrant of the football field. That's seeing the field. An
Speaker 3: offensive line gave him time to see the field. And
Speaker 3: when you give Joe Burrow time to survey the field,
Speaker 3: he'll pick your part. And he picked the Dolphins apart.
Speaker 2: And defensively to create It's one to create turnovers, but
Speaker 2: back to the complimentary point of turnovers into points. They
Speaker 2: get a fumble, they turn into a touchdown, interception into
Speaker 2: a touchdown, they get a fourth down stop, they turn
Speaker 2: it into a touchdown, they get another interception, turn it
Speaker 2: into a touchdown. That's all you could ask for. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's perfection right there. On offensive defense helping each other out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in the defense. Those four turnovers you're talking about
Speaker 3: all the current the third quarter, you know, I mean,
Speaker 3: Miami runs three plays game, six yards funnels of football,
Speaker 3: Bengals score touchdown. Miami goes three plays and they don't
Speaker 3: gain a yard, interception, score a touchdown, and then six
Speaker 3: plays twenty eight yards they gain big, big drive there.
Speaker 3: They average over four yards of play and lose the
Speaker 3: ball on downs fourth down, stop, one play, throw an interception,
Speaker 3: game no yards. Obviously, I mean that that defensive third
Speaker 3: quarter historic. I'm not sure any team in the NFL
Speaker 3: has ever done that. The opposition gets four drives, they've
Speaker 3: turned it over four times, and you score twenty four
Speaker 3: points out of that bad boy crazy.
Speaker 2: And last week we're talking about the Bengals getting into
Speaker 2: Ravens territory not being able to score yesterday after the
Speaker 2: ninety one yeard touchdown drive. They have TD drives of
Speaker 2: fifty six, thirty four, thirty five, fifty three, fifty two.
Speaker 2: Talking about making it easier on your.
Speaker 3: Offense, Absolutely, those turnovers gave the Bengals offense short fields,
Speaker 3: you know, and the Bengals offense capitalized. I mean again,
Speaker 3: it's like one you know, one phase fit one one
Speaker 3: unit supporting the other. The defense says, here's the takeaway.
Speaker 3: The offense says, fine, thank you, appreciate it very much. Touchdown.
Speaker 3: And you know, they kept doing that, they kept supporting
Speaker 3: each other. Early on in Bengals scored their first drive,
Speaker 3: and then Miami scores and their first their first two drives,
Speaker 3: and the Bengals score field goal on their second drive
Speaker 3: fourteen to ten. And it's it's kind of a you know,
Speaker 3: seesaw game back and forth in the first half. Well
Speaker 3: played game, good game. Then in the third quarter, man
Speaker 3: all hell broke loose, positively for the Bengals, negatively for
Speaker 3: the Dolphins.
Speaker 2: Boy, and we talked going in about their fine running
Speaker 2: back eight Chan, who makes a lot of people miss
Speaker 2: and had racked up yards, and he made a couple
Speaker 2: of Bengals miss on a run early, the forty eight
Speaker 2: yard touchdown run. But if you take that out, yeah,
Speaker 2: if my butler math is right, if you take that
Speaker 2: one playout the rest of the defense. He ran twenty
Speaker 2: six times and they allowed just eighty one yards when
Speaker 2: it was all said and done, minus that big run.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the Dolphins came in running the football well,
Speaker 3: I mean their running attack was the thing they were
Speaker 3: hanging their hat on. And twenty eight carries as a
Speaker 3: football team for one hundred and twenty nine yards four
Speaker 3: point six carry. The Bengals ground game was decent. I'm
Speaker 3: not going to say it was stellar. It wasn't Hall
Speaker 3: of Fame material or anything, but twenty six carries on
Speaker 3: the day one hundred and five yards average four per carry,
Speaker 3: Chase brown Man five and a half few yards per carry,
Speaker 3: and as long as Carrie was was was twelve yards.
Speaker 3: He had sixty six yards wrestling, so he consistently hammered
Speaker 3: it in there and got yards after contact, yards after
Speaker 3: initial contact, and he held onto the football he'd had.
Speaker 3: He's a complete back. Talked to him in the locker
Speaker 3: room after the game and mentioned that, you know, there
Speaker 3: aren't many of those in the National Football League, and
Speaker 3: he's very prideful of the fact that he's one of them.
Speaker 3: He runs it effectively, inefficiently, he can catch the football,
Speaker 3: and he's got really good soft hands. He runs excellent
Speaker 3: routes and man blitz pick up. He sticks his nose
Speaker 3: right in the chest and picks the linebacker safeties up
Speaker 3: and gives Joe Burrow time.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get reaction after the game. Here's Dave
Speaker 2: with the coach, Zach Taylor.
Speaker 4: I'm proud.
Speaker 5: I'm not surprised by a response. I'm proud of the
Speaker 5: response because you know, to be in this situation we're
Speaker 5: in right now, come down here to vacation weather.
Speaker 6: For everything feels good. I've coached here.
Speaker 5: I've seen a lot of teams fall flat coming out
Speaker 5: and for our guys respond and play complete game in
Speaker 5: all three phases, especially the way they controlled the second half.
Speaker 5: Defense came out and got four turnovers to start the
Speaker 5: second half. Offense scored four touchdowns to start the second half.
Speaker 5: Special teams was unbelievable with field position, everyboney's out there
Speaker 5: playing loose, having fun making plays. It was really really
Speaker 5: good to see.
Speaker 3: I don't think i've ever seen a third quarter like
Speaker 3: your team put together today. I mean, three takeaways, stop
Speaker 3: on four down, you score three touchdowns, kick a field goal.
Speaker 3: I mean that's total dominance. That was a butt kicking,
Speaker 3: and that's a pretty damn good football team. The Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 3: they're pretty solid.
Speaker 6: They are.
Speaker 5: They've got good talent, they've got a great coaching staff.
Speaker 5: They've had a tough season, like we have, you know,
Speaker 5: but we knew this was going to be a battle
Speaker 5: coming in.
Speaker 6: We have a ton of.
Speaker 5: Respect for him, and I was I was probably with
Speaker 5: the responsor guys had.
Speaker 3: Talk about coaching staffs, let's talk about yours. You know,
Speaker 3: you obviously called a great game. Dan Pitcher put together
Speaker 3: a good game plan. Al Golden put together a great
Speaker 3: game plan. Defensively, Darren simm has been doing it for
Speaker 3: a long time. Special teams like you mentioned, played at
Speaker 3: a real high level, dominated field position, just overall totally
Speaker 3: dominant performance, one unit complimenting the other.
Speaker 5: They were absolutely, you know, so proud of this coaching
Speaker 5: staff for sticking in there and keep coaching these guys
Speaker 5: up and getting the most out of them. Appreciate the
Speaker 5: players for how they've responded. They've taken the coaching, They've
Speaker 5: given great effort. We expect none the less form our guys.
Speaker 5: But still you can look around in a lot of
Speaker 5: these situations and you don't get all that. So again,
Speaker 5: just just prout of the way our guys responded and
Speaker 5: handle business today.
Speaker 3: I think that's the thing I'm gonna remember about this
Speaker 3: football team. The most played twelve years altogether. I know
Speaker 3: what It's like when the worm's not going your way,
Speaker 3: the worm doesn't turn your way, and you lose close
Speaker 3: football games and you're given hillacious effort and so doing.
Speaker 3: These guys never quit though, never even thought about quitting.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's not even in their vocabulary.
Speaker 7: How proud are you?
Speaker 3: How proud are you of that?
Speaker 5: It's just a credit to the men we have in
Speaker 5: the locker room. They're gonna handle their business, They're gonna
Speaker 5: play for the guy next to them. And so again,
Speaker 5: I didn't expect anything less, but it's always great to see.
Speaker 3: Coach has always appreciated big win and two more go
Speaker 3: three and old to close the season out that dogget
Speaker 3: hunt Ster.
Speaker 5: We'll start with the next one. We'll focus on the
Speaker 5: next one and then go from there, one at a time.
Speaker 3: I love it, Thanks Coach, appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Zach summon up forty five fourteen, your final score yesterday,
Speaker 2: still ahead. We'll hear from Chase Brown and Miles Murphy
Speaker 2: and Mike Is, Sicky T. Higgins, Barrett Carter and Moore.
Speaker 2: We are up and running, man, do we have a
Speaker 2: lot to get to tonight on Bengals Line on the
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Speaker 2: hanging out with Dave Blavel as we do each Monday night.
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow yesterday twenty five of thirty two through the air,
Speaker 2: three hundred and nine yards passing, force touchdowns, no interceptions,
Speaker 2: quarterback rating of holy cow.
Speaker 9: Look at those.
Speaker 2: Numbers, one forty six point five. Here's Joe with Dave
Speaker 2: after the game.
Speaker 3: How do you feel like you played today?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I thought I played pretty well.
Speaker 10: You know, I just took what was there, and our
Speaker 10: as are making plays down the field with the ball.
Speaker 4: In their hands.
Speaker 10: You know, I got greedy once or twice, But I thought,
Speaker 10: for the most part, is a pretty clean game.
Speaker 3: Unbelievable day twenty five of thirty two. I think that's
Speaker 3: a seventy three percent completion percentage or something thereabouts. Three
Speaker 3: hundred and nine yards passing, four touchdowns, no interceptions. That's
Speaker 3: a that's a hell of a hell of a stat line.
Speaker 3: What did you see out there? What were the Miami
Speaker 3: Dolphins trying to do?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 10: They played a little single high early and t got
Speaker 10: him out of it. He had two big plays early on.
Speaker 10: That's kind of set the tone for the rest of
Speaker 10: the game. And then we just got a lot of
Speaker 10: soft zone after that. So then after that we just
Speaker 10: started dinking and duncan and making plays after the catch.
Speaker 3: The third quarter, you ever been part of a third
Speaker 3: quarter like that? I mean the defense just turned them
Speaker 3: over three times. They had a stop on fourth down.
Speaker 3: I mean they didn't score a point, and you guys
Speaker 3: scored I think it was twenty four three touchdowns and
Speaker 3: kicked a field goal. I mean, you've ever been in
Speaker 3: a quarter as dominant is that one.
Speaker 10: Defense is making plays like that. You have a short field,
Speaker 10: you gotta convert. You know, we were able to convert
Speaker 10: on on all four of those opportunities, So that felt great.
Speaker 10: But it's fun watching these these young defensive players find
Speaker 10: their groove and keep getting better.
Speaker 3: You mentioned the team played well, got them out of
Speaker 3: that cover one. Your your running mate Jamar Chase was
Speaker 3: outstanding again, But I mean he's outstanding every week. The guy,
Speaker 3: the guy is the best. He's the best in the league.
Speaker 3: Having a one to two punch like that, what does
Speaker 3: that do for your offense?
Speaker 4: It just opens everything up.
Speaker 10: You know, they really defenses have to build their game
Speaker 10: plan around those guys, and we know that and they
Speaker 10: know that, and so we can execute plays based on that.
Speaker 4: And we have everything in our back.
Speaker 10: Pocket, know what to get to when you know we
Speaker 10: face all these different kinds of coverages. We faced basically
Speaker 10: everyone that you could see over the last four or
Speaker 10: five years.
Speaker 4: And you know, we've done a good job building.
Speaker 10: The packages to attack all these certain coverages that we
Speaker 10: see based on those two guys.
Speaker 3: T Higgins big, strong, physical athletic, Ron Rouse catch the football,
Speaker 3: will block uh T Jamar Chase same thing. You've known
Speaker 3: him since since the college days. I mean the guys,
Speaker 3: in my opinion, the best receiver in the National Football League,
Speaker 3: yosiv Andre Yosi vash coming into his own. He's starting
Speaker 3: to make plays for your Joe. I mean, you're you're
Speaker 3: going to him. You have trust and confidence in Yosi,
Speaker 3: and then Kisiki. I mean that's four weapons right there.
Speaker 3: And then forget I mean you can't forget about Chase
Speaker 3: Brown checking it down to him out of the backfield.
Speaker 3: I mean Tanner Hudson.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we have so many We have so many weapons
Speaker 10: and guys that fit into so many different roles on
Speaker 10: this team and really embrace their role and they're not
Speaker 10: going to try to be something that they aren't, and
Speaker 10: so they're going to attack that every day and work
Speaker 10: hard to try to build that role within the offense.
Speaker 10: And you know, we have so many guys to just
Speaker 10: make plays when they have opportunities.
Speaker 3: And finally, Joe, you mentioned your coaches put together great
Speaker 3: game plans for you guys, you know, every week in
Speaker 3: order to take advantage of all the all the talent
Speaker 3: and weapons that you've got. Talk about your coaches a
Speaker 3: little bit.
Speaker 10: Yeah, obviously there's a lot said about this team in
Speaker 10: this organization, and they did those coaches, but you know,
Speaker 10: nobody works harder than those guys to put us in
Speaker 10: good spots to go and execute. I think we have
Speaker 10: some of the best coaches in the NFL. I think
Speaker 10: the game plans that we put together put us in
Speaker 10: a great spot to succeed.
Speaker 3: Couldn't agree with you more. Joe as always appreciate you.
Speaker 3: Thanks for your time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks, love Joe Burrow after the game. And Dave,
Speaker 2: he did so many things well and such stark contrast
Speaker 2: to last week, I think was his second lowest quarterback
Speaker 2: rating game of his career. Yesterday was his second best
Speaker 2: of his career, and just so many things that he does.
Speaker 2: I hope people fully appreciate that.
Speaker 3: The kind of the.
Speaker 2: Broken play the created and find Drew Sample. It looked
Speaker 2: like for a second he was just going to throw
Speaker 2: it away. Nothing was there that Drew Sample's bailable. He
Speaker 2: throws to Drew Sample. And it's just the essence of
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow.
Speaker 9: He's so dang good.
Speaker 6: He is.
Speaker 3: Man, he's good hitting. My opinion, he's the best in
Speaker 3: the National Football League. And like you said, when he
Speaker 3: starts extending and creating plays as many times as he
Speaker 3: did yesterday's football game, you got problems. If you were
Speaker 3: a defensive coordinator. It's like it doesn't matter what defense
Speaker 3: you play, because at some point in time, you know,
Speaker 3: okay with the coverage, and then if the protection is
Speaker 3: good enough, Joe's running around, extending, creating, and now you
Speaker 3: know the offense knows where what they're gonna do. They
Speaker 3: do scramble drills, they have scrambled drills, and Joe Burrow
Speaker 3: knows exactly where his receivers are gonna go. He's been
Speaker 3: doing it with Chase Brown since college. I mean, these
Speaker 3: guys read each other's mind when when the play breaks down,
Speaker 3: and that's when the Bengals offense can really cook. And
Speaker 3: they've made a lot of big plays over the years,
Speaker 3: extending and creating plays.
Speaker 2: He played it his seventy fifth career game yesterday, and
Speaker 2: among all players in history through seventy five games, Joe
Speaker 2: Burrow ranks first in completion, third in touchdowns, and fifth
Speaker 2: in passing yards of all quarterbacks through their first seventy
Speaker 2: five games. And I compare in contrast and think of
Speaker 2: the situation in Miami where they don't they're gonna probably
Speaker 2: move on from Tua and coming up this week, Arizona
Speaker 2: and Kyler Murray and they don't know what to do
Speaker 2: with Kyler Murray and Las Vegas and the Jets in
Speaker 2: so many different places. And I think of here and
Speaker 2: how this franchise in this city has a quarterback. What
Speaker 2: a luxury compared to a lot of markets that just
Speaker 2: don't know what they're doing at that position.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, you know. And I was listening to Sports Center
Speaker 3: a little bit this morning before we came in to
Speaker 3: do the show here, and man, I'll tell you a
Speaker 3: lot of analysts we're talking as a group there were
Speaker 3: three of the modern panel and they said, you know,
Speaker 3: when you have a head coach, you have a quarterback,
Speaker 3: you have a chance to be a dominant franchise in
Speaker 3: the National Football League. The Bengals feel like they have
Speaker 3: their coach. A lot of fans may disagree. I think
Speaker 3: Zach Taylor is an extraordinary offensive mind. Joe Burrow does.
Speaker 3: Joe Burrow has gone to bat for Zach Taylor many times,
Speaker 3: and he really believes in Zach Taylor in his offensive
Speaker 3: structure and how he attacks defenses in the National Football League. So,
Speaker 3: I mean, the Bengals do have pieces. They really do.
Speaker 3: I mean, and the two biggest pieces are head coach
Speaker 3: and quarterback. They've got two receivers that are number ones,
Speaker 3: really one in one a with the Bengals, but number ones.
Speaker 3: If if t Higgins were with another football team, he'd
Speaker 3: be a number one receiver by far. Mike Kasicki and
Speaker 3: the tight end group is a good one. They can
Speaker 3: all do different things. Some ones that more extraordinary blocker
Speaker 3: than receiving. The other one is a better receiver than
Speaker 3: a blocker, and sick he's kind of able to do both.
Speaker 3: So they have all all bases covered and then we've
Speaker 3: talked about Chase Brown. You know out of the backfield, SAMJ.
Speaker 3: P Ryan another weapon, can run it, catch it. They're
Speaker 3: stacked offensively, got some pieces to accumulate defensively, and watch
Speaker 3: out in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: Well hear more from Chase Brown as we continue. It's
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Speaker 2: Chase Brown yesterday twelve carries, sixty six yards and a touchdown,
Speaker 2: four catches forty three yards in two touchdowns. What a
Speaker 2: season he is having. What a game he had yesterday.
Speaker 2: Here's Dan Horde with Chase Brown face.
Speaker 11: Is this the all around performance this team has been
Speaker 11: looking for all year?
Speaker 8: I think so.
Speaker 12: I mean, the defense came out with turnovers and we
Speaker 12: were able to respond to every single one.
Speaker 8: So that always feels good.
Speaker 4: We'd love to.
Speaker 12: Carry this momentum going forward and just finish off the
Speaker 12: season the best we can.
Speaker 11: Was it a game where you were almost surprised how
Speaker 11: quickly the offense was back on the field. They were
Speaker 11: not only getting turnovers, they were getting them quickly.
Speaker 12: Yeah, no, it was it was I was standing there,
Speaker 12: I'm like, did you just get the ball back again?
Speaker 13: I'm sprinting of in my helmet.
Speaker 8: So yeah, they definitely called me by surply.
Speaker 14: Sometimes when the last time you scored three touchdowns in
Speaker 14: one quarter, I'm sorry, it's happened.
Speaker 15: Never maybe like little league maybe.
Speaker 12: But that's a My last three touchdown game was Illinois
Speaker 12: against Wyoming, I think, not in one quarter, but in
Speaker 12: a cool game.
Speaker 14: What was going through your mind when when that happens?
Speaker 14: You have to touchdown catches, you have the touchdown run
Speaker 14: and suddenly.
Speaker 12: I'm really like, do you hear the play? And it's
Speaker 12: either going to you or it's not. So it's like
Speaker 12: trying nextually, the best, the play the best I can.
Speaker 11: No points last week, forty five points this week. How
Speaker 11: determined were you guys during the course of this week
Speaker 11: at practice to show who you really are on offense.
Speaker 13: We we took it personal, so we had to respond
Speaker 13: this week.
Speaker 11: Good balance. Joe threw four touchdown passes. Obviously, the running
Speaker 11: game got better and better as the game went along.
Speaker 11: Did it feel like, all right, this is what this
Speaker 11: offense can do when it's clicking.
Speaker 12: Definitely, when everything's firing and all cylinders.
Speaker 6: I mean, we're we're gonna score a lot of points.
Speaker 13: So it's all good to go out and do that today.
Speaker 12: It's just building momentum, even though you know our season
Speaker 12: is gonna end not the way that we wanted it to,
Speaker 12: but you know we can still finish off on a positive.
Speaker 6: Nope, it's great to have Tea back.
Speaker 11: Obviously, two big plays early in the game, it just
Speaker 11: kind of reinforced, at least in my mind, the impact
Speaker 11: that he can have when he's available.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, she's a great player.
Speaker 12: If he's one of the best receivers, if not the best,
Speaker 12: we got both of them.
Speaker 8: We have two of the best receivers in the NFL,
Speaker 8: right there.
Speaker 12: That's the only way to put it. So yeah, I mean,
Speaker 12: she's always gonna make a play. I'm not surprised anytime
Speaker 12: I see a fifty fifty jump ball. It's not fifty
Speaker 12: to fifty, it's like ninety ten. So he's a great player.
Speaker 11: Does a game like this leave you wanting more like
Speaker 11: almost wishing that you know, there were more games left,
Speaker 11: so you guys could ultimately get me where you want
Speaker 11: to be.
Speaker 4: You're long.
Speaker 12: Maybe if we could play, Yeah, we could play all
Speaker 12: year long without getting hurt in our bodies.
Speaker 8: Like we're able to take it.
Speaker 13: I mean I would. So we're gonna miss.
Speaker 11: Feels good and Grat's not a great game.
Speaker 2: And Dave, you mentioned it in our earlier segment, and
Speaker 2: it's worth going back to. Not only does he have
Speaker 2: the TV run, he has the two TD catches. He
Speaker 2: had a really nice protection block to help Joe keep
Speaker 2: Joe for that split second more and that cannot be
Speaker 2: underrated or overlooked on what he brings to this offense.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I mean he does all the dirty work, you know.
Speaker 3: And uh, a lot of guys that, you know, our
Speaker 3: premier players in the National Football League, they think that
Speaker 3: those type of things are beneath them. That's for other
Speaker 3: people to do.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm I'm the star. You know, I'm gonna make
Speaker 3: score touchdowns and I'm going to make big plays. I'm
Speaker 3: going to be on all all the NFL highlights and
Speaker 3: NFL highlight films, you know. But but Chase Brown is
Speaker 3: a guy who just loves to play football. Every single
Speaker 3: part of the game intrigues him and he wants to
Speaker 3: excel at it. And you know, he's got a great
Speaker 3: mindset for the game. He's got a tremendous football IQ.
Speaker 3: You can do a lot of things with him. You
Speaker 3: can line him up in the backfield, you can line
Speaker 3: him up in the slot, you can line him up
Speaker 3: as the X, you can line him up as a Z.
Speaker 3: You know, he really is a very, very versatile guy.
Speaker 3: He's a tremendous chess piece, you know. And they check
Speaker 3: my defenses regularly when they involve Chase Brown the way
Speaker 3: they do.
Speaker 2: Eight and forty six yards rushing. To this point in
Speaker 2: the season, he has sixty two catches. Now, he's over
Speaker 2: twelve hundred yards from scrimmage, but those sixty two catches
Speaker 2: dave now the most in a single season by Bengals
Speaker 2: running back in franchise history. James Brooks had fifty five
Speaker 2: in a season. Giovanni Bernard had fifty six in a season.
Speaker 2: Joe Mixon had sixty in a season. Chase Brown was
Speaker 2: still two games to go. Now, it's sixty two catches
Speaker 2: out of.
Speaker 3: The backfield, and you're talking about some of the greatest
Speaker 3: receiving running backs in franchise history. You know, when you're
Speaker 3: talking about James Brooks and Giovanni Bernard. Interesting Giovanni Bernard
Speaker 3: was at the football game, had his little guy with
Speaker 3: him and catching up with people, former teammates and coaches
Speaker 3: after the game. He looked great, but he was a
Speaker 3: tremendous player. And you know, Chase Brown does all of that.
Speaker 3: Giovannie Bernard would block there, There's no question about it.
Speaker 3: James Brooks would too. I mean he was a very,
Speaker 3: very physical strong for his size pound for pound, maybe
Speaker 3: the strongest guy I've ever seen in the weight room.
Speaker 3: I saw him wrap three hundred and fifteen pounds four times.
Speaker 3: He weighed like, you know, buck eighty five, Buck ninety.
Speaker 3: So there have been some great ones in franchise history,
Speaker 3: and the Bengals are blessed to have one now.
Speaker 2: Dave, just in our first couple of segments, we've talked
Speaker 2: about so many elements of this offense, and I think
Speaker 2: of there there was I'm going to quote a song
Speaker 2: back in the eighties by The Fix. I don't know
Speaker 2: if he remembers The Fix, but it was a song
Speaker 2: called one Thing leads to another. And in this offense,
Speaker 2: even early that passed the t Higgins and he goes
Speaker 2: up and high points the ball over top of the
Speaker 2: little defensive back, and just so many different weapons lead
Speaker 2: to so many things opening up on this offense. It's
Speaker 2: like a puzzle and the pieces start to fit in
Speaker 2: and new avenues and doors open to the offense.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'd hate to be a defensive coordinator trying
Speaker 3: to take everything away from this Bengals offense that you
Speaker 3: need to worry about. You say, okay, well, Jamar Chase
Speaker 3: probably one of the best, if not the best, in
Speaker 3: the National Football League in my opinion, I've stayed many
Speaker 3: times I think he is the best. And you say, okay, well,
Speaker 3: they have to start by taking Jamaar Chase out of
Speaker 3: the mix. Can't let Joe Borrow destroy us by targeting
Speaker 3: Jamar Chase and them producing a lot of catches and
Speaker 3: yards and touchdowns. Well, you know you do that, and
Speaker 3: what do you have to deal with Higgins? And he
Speaker 3: showed yesterday that he's deserving him being a number one
Speaker 3: thirty one other teams in the NFL. Like we talked about,
Speaker 3: he is the number one. This guy can high point
Speaker 3: a football about as well. The timing to do that
Speaker 3: is taken for granted sometimes because these guys are so
Speaker 3: effective at it. But t Higgins, man, I mean I've
Speaker 3: seen him hoop. He can shoot, and which is good.
Speaker 3: But I mean you should see him put on a
Speaker 3: dunk display. I mean he almost he dunks and almost
Speaker 3: has his elbow into the you know, into the into
Speaker 3: the rim.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: It's it's amazing how athletic these guys are. And uh,
Speaker 3: and then you know, you take those two away, you
Speaker 3: go to Gasiki, you take a sticky away, you know,
Speaker 3: you go to Chase Brown. Then there's other backs to
Speaker 3: worry about, other tight ends to worry about. Being coordinating
Speaker 3: a defensive package against this Bengals football team offensively, with
Speaker 3: Zach Taylor and Dan Pitcher being as creative as they
Speaker 3: are with game plans, is no easy task. And final thought,
Speaker 3: just think about it. All those off some weapons we
Speaker 3: just named, and then there's Yoshi who makes a twenty
Speaker 3: one yard third down catch, and sample made a twenty
Speaker 3: seven yard third down catch, and coordinator's.
Speaker 2: Gotta be going going. I don't know, there's too many guys.
Speaker 2: I can't can't cover all these guys, we can't figure
Speaker 2: out all this stuff.
Speaker 3: Sample when he ran a great route and caught that football,
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, that's true.
Speaker 9: Sample.
Speaker 3: I thought I thought at first I thought it was
Speaker 3: Gasicki And I'm like, no, Sample, that's a bigger boy.
Speaker 3: Look at that body, big, big strong body.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean they do they have they have weapons and guys,
Speaker 3: are you know, don't forget about me. You know I
Speaker 3: can I'll make a play for you.
Speaker 6: I can do it.
Speaker 2: Still ahead, let's get to the defensive side of things.
Speaker 2: Miles Murphy part of the conversation as we continue with
Speaker 2: Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 8: Continue on this.
Speaker 2: Day sorting through victory yesterday for the Bengals forty five
Speaker 2: fourteen over the Dolphins. We'll get to those Arizona Cardinals
Speaker 2: coming up in our third hour tonight. We talked a
Speaker 2: lot about the offense. Heck, let's get back to the
Speaker 2: defensive side of things, where Miles Murphy had another impact day,
Speaker 2: made some plays, recovered to fumble after Jordan battle and
Speaker 2: punch things out. Here is Miles Murphy on the afternoon
Speaker 2: and the victory.
Speaker 14: The defense came up big you guys forced a bunch
Speaker 14: of turnovers, four straight in the second half.
Speaker 9: You guys get to win.
Speaker 14: What's going through your mind right now?
Speaker 16: I mean, just glad, honestly, Like this is kind of
Speaker 16: the message that us and coach all have been preaching.
Speaker 16: I say, playoffs there out of the picture, but we
Speaker 16: have to We have three games nothing the season, and
Speaker 16: we really want to just end the season the high note.
Speaker 16: And really I've just been telling some of the guys
Speaker 16: I've been talking to this. How we end these three
Speaker 16: games is gonna be how we step into next season.
Speaker 16: I want to do exact what we did today. Set
Speaker 16: hard edges, get her on the quarterback, gets to k
Speaker 16: the ball, took the ball carrier. Really just do anything
Speaker 16: to just get our office back to the ball.
Speaker 6: And that's what we did today.
Speaker 14: A few weeks ago against the Ravens, you chase down
Speaker 14: Derrick Henry and it's it's talked about today, a similar situation.
Speaker 14: It's a pass up field and you chase it down,
Speaker 14: recover the fumble. What's going through your mind there? And
Speaker 14: obviously you landed on the ball and that kind of
Speaker 14: changed the game early in the third.
Speaker 16: Uh, Well, really just hustle players, it's like running around
Speaker 16: regardless of this runner passes, getting always want to be
Speaker 16: around the ball, and that's kind of what als preaching
Speaker 16: this effort, effort, effort, an attitude. At the point of time,
Speaker 16: the ball was kind of going crazy, hopefully hoping it
Speaker 16: was kind of just gonna die down what it did.
Speaker 16: So wanted to return it but couldn't, so I just
Speaker 16: laid on it, got our office back to the ball,
Speaker 16: and they scored. So I'm thinking on defense, splash plays
Speaker 16: are just so valuable.
Speaker 9: Shacks, tackles for lost.
Speaker 14: Fumbles, fumber reck coveries, turnovers. It feels like every week
Speaker 14: now we're saying Miles Murphy sack, Miles Murphy, tackle for
Speaker 14: loss today, even before the Fumber reck coovery. Seems like
Speaker 14: you're making a splash play or two at least every week.
Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, this is a it's a It starts.
Speaker 6: I say it all the time. It starts on Monday.
Speaker 16: It starts on Monday in the film room, Wednesday, Thursday practice.
Speaker 16: And it's it's not just me. It's a lot of
Speaker 16: guys on deep is making plays and this is because
Speaker 16: of that. They start let's start working on Monday. Started
Speaker 16: with the film bodywork, recovery, stuff like that, and it
Speaker 16: just shows out on Sunday.
Speaker 14: This is the best you've ever felt NFL career wise
Speaker 14: and confidence wise.
Speaker 16: Yeah, most confident for.
Speaker 2: Serrea Miles Murphy after the game thanks to our guy
Speaker 2: James Rpeen of Bengals talking locked on Bengals for passing
Speaker 2: along his conversation with Miles and and Dave to me,
Speaker 2: Miles Murphy isn't there were moments where maybe he would flash.
Speaker 2: Now it's like that light staying on and Miles Murphy's
Speaker 2: presence is being felt throughout football games.
Speaker 11: It seems.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you're right. Flashing is a good way
Speaker 3: to describe it. That's a good word choice there, because
Speaker 3: he is athletic as hell. I mean every defensive edge
Speaker 3: player in the NFL would like to have the size
Speaker 3: speed ratio that Miles Murphy does. And he's pretty stout.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's been in the weight room and he's
Speaker 3: he's put on some good weight, very very strong individual.
Speaker 3: You know, his chest, he's built up his chest, his arms.
Speaker 3: Then where he really has an impact, there's in that
Speaker 3: lower body with that explosiveness and speed he has and
Speaker 3: his quads and hamstrings and Kazer are exceptionally strong. The
Speaker 3: good thing for the Bengals defense yesterday is multiple guys
Speaker 3: had solid football games. Battle had five tackles. You talked
Speaker 3: about the fumble that he forced. He had four unassisted
Speaker 3: tackles and one assist. Murphy had five, three tackles and
Speaker 3: two assists. Brandon Carter had five. He had one tackle
Speaker 3: and four assists. Bj Hill had four tackles and he
Speaker 3: defended a pass, knocked a pass down. Three tackles and
Speaker 3: an assist to go with that, Demetrius Knight three tackles
Speaker 3: and an assist for a total of four. Ivy two
Speaker 3: and two for a total of four, Davis two and
Speaker 3: two for a total of four, and then Slayton was
Speaker 3: the last one that had four tj Slayton had four assists.
Speaker 3: So I mean they were getting a production out of
Speaker 3: You know, every position group is represented here. You know,
Speaker 3: secondary defensive line linebackers. Al Golden has to be happy
Speaker 3: that that every single position group and individuals within those
Speaker 3: position groups all showed up on the statuet.
Speaker 2: And Dave, what I love about what feels like is
Speaker 2: happening with Miles Murphy just in watching body language on
Speaker 2: the field, he's feeling that the confidence and the energy.
Speaker 2: He's starting to feel himself a little bit and is
Speaker 2: more demonstrative and and that to me says he feels
Speaker 2: like he belongs, he's producing, he feels good. And that's
Speaker 2: what you were. It may have taken a while to
Speaker 2: get to this point, but it's it's arrived and it's
Speaker 2: fun to watch it is.
Speaker 3: And uh, you know, I confidence is a big thing,
Speaker 3: and you're right on the money there. Uh you could
Speaker 3: almost see it. You can almost see it as the
Speaker 3: game went on. In the game against the Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 3: you know, hey, I got a sack. I get rewarded,
Speaker 3: thought it made a good move and broke the guy down. Uh,
Speaker 3: and get a sack. And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: you know, you start to play the run a little
Speaker 3: bit better, and you want to put yourself in a
Speaker 3: situation where we can go rush the passer again. So
Speaker 3: you have to stop people on first and second down
Speaker 3: and be part of that run defense package. I really
Speaker 3: thought yesterday that the defensive line and linebackers in secondary
Speaker 3: as well, everybody played the run for al Golden as
Speaker 3: well as they have all year long. I thought that
Speaker 3: the defensive line did a nice job at two gap
Speaker 3: and when they were told to do that, when they
Speaker 3: were told to take an edge and penetrate, they did
Speaker 3: that very well. I thought that it was well coordinated,
Speaker 3: well thought out, and I thought that the defensive players
Speaker 3: all believed in it and trusted what Al Golden was
Speaker 3: telling them to do. Against the Miami Dolphins, who are
Speaker 3: you know, solid offense football team even without t Tonya Varloa.
Speaker 3: But everybody carried out their individual responsibilities and assignments to perfection.
Speaker 2: Still ahead, we'll hear from Mike is Sicky and we'll
Speaker 2: head down the stretcher in our first hour. Already time
Speaker 2: flies when you're talking about a victory. He's Dave laphamim alliance.
Speaker 2: But callister Bengals onto the Bengals Radio network in seven
Speaker 2: hundred WLW. We were rolling right along down the stretch.
Speaker 2: We go final segment in our first of three big
Speaker 2: hours of Bengals like and I know the Bengals Radio
Speaker 2: network had seven hundred w l W. Mike Kasicki had
Speaker 2: three catches yesterday, thirty five yards total long of seventeen.
Speaker 2: He had a touchdown to the mix. Here's the Bengals
Speaker 2: tight end after the game had that had a.
Speaker 17: Long stretch here early in my career, so it felt
Speaker 17: good to come back and as a as an offense,
Speaker 17: as a team, really you know, we responded today and
Speaker 17: felt really good to get that.
Speaker 4: Way in the fashion that we did.
Speaker 18: Were you plating on grittying until like the fifty yard line?
Speaker 17: To say that I didn't think about that, I'd be lying.
Speaker 17: But I just made sure that you know, I appreciate,
Speaker 17: you know, Zach for you know, getting that play call
Speaker 17: in and the look was exactly how we wanted it
Speaker 17: there and Joe gave a phenomenal ball, and I just
Speaker 17: had to make sure that you know, I held onto it.
Speaker 10: Is this the offense that you were waiting for the
Speaker 10: Bengals to have?
Speaker 8: Was this the gay?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 17: I mean listen, like we've had a lot of big
Speaker 17: games this year, obviously last week.
Speaker 4: Is you know the.
Speaker 17: Memory that people had coming into this game of our
Speaker 17: of our offense. But that's not who we are, It's
Speaker 17: not who we've ever been, and you know this is
Speaker 17: this is.
Speaker 8: Obviously who we are.
Speaker 9: Uh, you know, getting t back.
Speaker 17: Out there was big time Chase Brown, big big day,
Speaker 17: Jamar Chase over one hundred yards Joe throwing four touchdowns,
Speaker 17: Andre making a big catch on fourth down, the O
Speaker 17: line protecting all day, and then creating lanes in the
Speaker 17: run game. Like the list goes on and on and on,
Speaker 17: and everybody in the locker room should be.
Speaker 6: Proud of that.
Speaker 9: Good does this feel?
Speaker 4: Uh? Yeah, felt really good.
Speaker 17: Like I said, you know, last week obviously, uh you know,
Speaker 17: it wasn't up to our standard. And to be able
Speaker 17: to come out here today and put up forty five
Speaker 17: points felt good.
Speaker 2: Mike Gasicki on victory yesterday and doing the gritty as well,
Speaker 2: and just another one of those parts of the puzzle
Speaker 2: we've referenced and and Mike brings an element to this
Speaker 2: offense that just helps it go to another level. And
Speaker 2: we've talked before they missed him in that stretch with
Speaker 2: the peck issue. But when he is right and he
Speaker 2: can target the middle of the field and run as
Speaker 2: well as he does, what an element for this offense.
Speaker 3: Joe Borrow loves him, He really loves Mike Kasiki. Like
Speaker 3: you said, the middle of the football field, Mike Kasicki
Speaker 3: stands out, you know, like a lighthouse up He can
Speaker 3: a light, you know, her shifts at her lost out
Speaker 3: at sea. I mean, Joe Burrow finds him easily and regularly,
Speaker 3: and they've they've got an unbelievable bond, a great relationship
Speaker 3: on and off the football field. They're fast friends. But
Speaker 3: Joe Burrow has every confidence in the world that when
Speaker 3: he releases that football and it comes off that hand
Speaker 3: so smoothly, and then Kasiki catch the ball so easily
Speaker 3: and tucks it away, Joe Burrow has every confidence in
Speaker 3: the world that Mike Casique is going to do that
Speaker 3: over and over and over again.
Speaker 2: But final point to end the hour, and I forgot
Speaker 2: to mention him in her last second about the defense,
Speaker 2: But I want to mention Jayalen Davis, who Jaylen Davis
Speaker 2: has had a long journey of from Miami to Arizona
Speaker 2: to the Bengals. He's got in the league in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2: He's had sporadic opportunities, but he's a guy whose patience
Speaker 2: has been tested and he's hung in there and been
Speaker 2: ready for an opportunity. And now with that opportunity arriving,
Speaker 2: he delivers his first career interception yesterday. Just a really
Speaker 2: cool day for him.
Speaker 3: Big play teammates love him. He's one of those guys
Speaker 3: that is so easy to like. He's I think he's phenomenal.
Speaker 3: I think he's a great communicator and easy to talk to.
Speaker 3: Almost every guy in the team it seems like says, yeah,
Speaker 3: he's one of my best friends. I mean, I love
Speaker 3: the guy. So when you have that going for you,
Speaker 3: you have a lot. You know everybody in the locker
Speaker 3: room is supporting you in it is behind you, and
Speaker 3: that always always pays dividends.
Speaker 2: Still ahead, we'll turn into our second area here from
Speaker 2: t Higgins, Barrett Carter, and a whole lot more to
Speaker 2: navigate on a day we sort through victory for the
Speaker 2: Bengals forty five to fourteen against the Miami Dolphins. This
Speaker 2: is Bengals Line. It's on the Bengals Radio network seven
Speaker 2: hundred WLW. Well are underweighting our second big hour tonight
Speaker 2: talking Bengals football, and I went over the Dolphin's yesterday.
Speaker 2: It's Bengals out of the Bengals Radio network at seven
Speaker 2: hundred WLW. We'll get into the Arizona Cardinals in our
Speaker 2: third hour tonight. But man, of all the things we
Speaker 2: talked about in the first hour, let's circle back around
Speaker 2: to begin our number two and talk t Higgins, three targets,
Speaker 2: three catches, fifty three yards, a log of thirty five,
Speaker 2: and a touchdown. Here's the Bengals wide receiver after the
Speaker 2: game light.
Speaker 14: But other than that, see that is can you take
Speaker 14: atting through the art of the T Higgins contested catch
Speaker 14: because it feels like it's evolved from a few years
Speaker 14: ago to now and it seems like you're making a.
Speaker 11: Look so routine.
Speaker 19: Yeah, man, I just that's my job to go up
Speaker 19: there and catch the ball. And you know, Joe Give
Speaker 19: isn't the great boss. It's where I only I can
Speaker 19: catch it, and you know it's either me or nobody.
Speaker 12: So is it kind of just uplifting, excited to be
Speaker 12: able to come back from what you did and happy
Speaker 12: type of game?
Speaker 19: Yeah, I mean definitely, definitely a you know, a bonus.
Speaker 19: Obviously I wanted to come out and try to dominate personally,
Speaker 19: but he was able to do that as a whole today,
Speaker 19: and you know the results show was.
Speaker 11: That as fun as it looks. Eighty degrees, forty five.
Speaker 19: Points pre pre game, I'm like, oh, this hot came
Speaker 19: back in got IV. But other than that, man, it
Speaker 19: was so fun out there. You know, everybody was playing together.
Speaker 19: It was a lot of laughs and jokes on the
Speaker 19: on the sideline. That's all you asked for, Man, the
Speaker 19: game is fun.
Speaker 11: Chase Brown said, you guys took the shoutout personally last week.
Speaker 19: I mean, yeah, for sure, Man, we definitely don't want
Speaker 19: to want that to happen ever again. You know, and
Speaker 19: speaking on Chase Man, man had a hell of a game,
Speaker 19: you know, shout out to him.
Speaker 8: You could just see how he's getting better and better
Speaker 8: each and every single week.
Speaker 20: There there was a lot of talk about going back
Speaker 20: to the Buffalo game that why you went back into
Speaker 20: the game, Like should the NFL have allowed you to?
Speaker 8: I mean, I've passed the tent tests. Yeah I felt I.
Speaker 19: Felt great at the time, and you know, it's just
Speaker 19: so happy to be one of those times I felt
Speaker 19: the symptoms later, you know what I mean.
Speaker 8: And that's that's how that was.
Speaker 20: How would you like advocate? Everybody said that you came
Speaker 20: forward with the symptoms that you felt, Like, do you
Speaker 20: think that that's important for people moving forward to if
Speaker 20: you're happy?
Speaker 7: For sure?
Speaker 19: If you have if you if you have any symptoms,
Speaker 19: for sure, you got you need to come forward because
Speaker 19: you know, the brain injury, there's nothing that's nothing to
Speaker 19: play with as serious and it confects you a long.
Speaker 8: Time, you know what I mean. So I said, I
Speaker 8: see every everything.
Speaker 19: Everybody's saying that I should say, I see all that
Speaker 19: and trust me, but I went to see a specialist
Speaker 19: and especially say it was okay for me to, you know,
Speaker 19: go back out there and play my game.
Speaker 8: And that's what I was. That's what I did.
Speaker 13: Just kind of feel like an example of your guys.
Speaker 9: Offense at its absolute peak today. That's kind of like
Speaker 9: everybody making the count.
Speaker 6: For sure.
Speaker 8: Man, we was offense at full power today.
Speaker 19: You know, we had everybody and you see what we
Speaker 19: could do when the field we all we got everybody together.
Speaker 11: Is that bittersweet a little bit?
Speaker 14: This is the kind of performance you want to put
Speaker 14: up in December going into a playoff runt?
Speaker 2: Is there?
Speaker 14: Like for sure?
Speaker 19: It's like yeah, for sure, man, It's bittersweet, But you know,
Speaker 19: we gotta live.
Speaker 8: What's what's what happened? You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 19: All we can do is just put our best go
Speaker 19: forward these next two games.
Speaker 20: We haven't had a chance to ask you, but we
Speaker 20: asked Jamar. We asked Joe last game, what are you
Speaker 20: hoping changes this offseason that will get you guys over
Speaker 20: the hump to hitch you back in the playoffs.
Speaker 19: Side of my job, you know, my job is just
Speaker 19: coming here, be a good teammate, be a leader.
Speaker 8: And play good football. All the other stuff leave that
Speaker 8: to them.
Speaker 11: Does this feel like a preview of what this team
Speaker 11: can be in twenty twenty six?
Speaker 8: Definitely?
Speaker 19: Uh, you know, the offense especially, and you know defense
Speaker 19: played they bust off to that. Yeah, there's definitely could
Speaker 19: be a preview. Obviously, you know next Sea, next next
Speaker 19: next year's team will be the same as this team obviously,
Speaker 19: but you know, yeah.
Speaker 2: Definitely team with another big day. That's ten touchdown catches
Speaker 2: on the season. Keep in mind that's thirteen games played,
Speaker 2: miss two. That's ten touchdown catches in thirteen games. Dab
Speaker 2: he has twenty touchdown catches going back to Week one
Speaker 2: of last year. So that's twenty touchdown catches in the
Speaker 2: last twenty five games for this team.
Speaker 3: That's getting it done. It certainly is. Man, that's a
Speaker 3: touchdown maker extraordinary right there. And the big reason why is,
Speaker 3: you know a lot of those touchdowns have come not
Speaker 3: all of them. I mean he had a thirty five
Speaker 3: yard you know play in this football game. He but
Speaker 3: his whole A big deal with him is with the
Speaker 3: size that he has is a red zone target. I
Speaker 3: mean he is, you know, stands out. It's it's like,
Speaker 3: you know, you got another tight end out there from
Speaker 3: a physical stature standpoint six four plus, you know, two
Speaker 3: fifteen to two twenty ish, and you get him matched
Speaker 3: up against a much smaller defensive back like what happened
Speaker 3: on the touchdown pass and he had I mean Joe
Speaker 3: Burrow when he sees that kind of a physical mismatch
Speaker 3: like bingo, I know where I'm going with the football.
Speaker 3: And then you know it's like, all right, what do
Speaker 3: I do? Man?
Speaker 2: This?
Speaker 3: You know, there's not that much football field of defense.
Speaker 3: So I'm not gonna play a safety deep. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: have safeties closer to the line screen. I'm gonna double
Speaker 3: te I'm gonna double Chase. Well then just get sick.
Speaker 3: He gets in the mix. You'll see Vash gets in
Speaker 3: the mix. Chase Brown gets in the mix. So they
Speaker 3: have a plethora a weapons in red zone targets for
Speaker 3: Joe Burrow to take advantage of. And I mean they
Speaker 3: are one of the best red zone offenses in the
Speaker 3: entire league.
Speaker 2: That the thirty five year catch he made over top
Speaker 2: of the defensive back, it looked like it looked like
Speaker 2: the big kid playing against the little kid in the backyard.
Speaker 2: And not to demean the defensive back, he's just small
Speaker 2: in stature and he just like, I'll take that. It
Speaker 2: just like reached over to almost off his helmet.
Speaker 3: I'll take that.
Speaker 2: That's just that that power and strength and size is
Speaker 2: awfully tough to match up.
Speaker 3: Again, it is remember uh, as kids, we played keep away. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 3: get guys, I'll tamalize you a little bit. You know
Speaker 3: you're not going to get the ball away from me.
Speaker 3: Don't even think about trying.
Speaker 2: And what a big week for Tea and he and
Speaker 2: he talked about how during the week he flew to
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh on uh some advice from he said that the
Speaker 2: front office, the folks, Abobby, he said, And and that
Speaker 2: certainly had to give him peace of mind because he's
Speaker 2: gone through two concussions. He'd missed time and and I
Speaker 2: would imagine on that flight out there, who knows what's
Speaker 2: running through your head? What what are they going to
Speaker 2: tell me, am all right, I want to be all right,
Speaker 2: I want to play, And clearly he got green light
Speaker 2: thumbs up and had to feel really good about coming
Speaker 2: back and playing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's the thing, Lance, what you're saying, it's uh.
Speaker 3: You know, even if you're not a football player, if
Speaker 3: you you're worried about your health, it's hard to perform
Speaker 3: any job, really hard to go in and focus on
Speaker 3: being the best accountant in the in the world. You know,
Speaker 3: if you're if you're worried about your brain shooting properly,
Speaker 3: you know, and uh, or whatever occupation you may have.
Speaker 3: Same with the football player, Same with T. Higgins. I'm
Speaker 3: sure that there were some anxious moments for him on
Speaker 3: that flight out to Pittsburgh, but jubilation and excitement about
Speaker 3: what he was going to be able to do against
Speaker 3: the Miami Dolphins on the flight home.
Speaker 2: And you know, it's been said of Joe Burrow, Guys
Speaker 2: like Joe Burrow and T their they're football players. They
Speaker 2: play and you you could make the case, you could
Speaker 2: make a very legitimate case when your team's eliminated and
Speaker 2: you've got a player who's had two concussions.
Speaker 3: If T.
Speaker 2: Higgins would have not played yesterday. I think most people
Speaker 2: would have understood, you know what, they're out of it.
Speaker 2: He's got he's had concussions, don't risk it. But T
Speaker 2: got cleared, and T wanted to be with his teammates,
Speaker 2: and T wanted to play football yesterday.
Speaker 3: I think that's a great point, Lance, I mean tremendous point.
Speaker 3: You understand the game of football, and you've been around
Speaker 3: it a while here in the National Football League, and
Speaker 3: Zach Taylor talked about it. Zach Taylor talked about it
Speaker 3: in as pressors. Joe Burrow is going to play. You know,
Speaker 3: he's been he's been nicked up, He's had a tough
Speaker 3: season with respect to injury. They could have shut him down,
Speaker 3: but Joe's like, no, no, I'm rehabbing, I'm coming back,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna play. There's games left. T Higgins is the
Speaker 3: same way, and he could have easily said, you know what,
Speaker 3: I had two concussions in a very short period of time.
Speaker 3: That's not good. That's not healthy. My post football life.
Speaker 3: I want to be able to live a normal post
Speaker 3: football life and be able to do things that everybody
Speaker 3: else does. Travel, have fun, you know, enjoy family and
Speaker 3: all that sort of thing. So those kind of things
Speaker 3: definitely go through your mind. But like you said, these
Speaker 3: guys love football, They love being around each other. There
Speaker 3: are so many good friends on this football team. The
Speaker 3: relationships and bonds that have been made are gonna last
Speaker 3: long after the game of football is over with. These
Speaker 3: guys are going to be catching up with each other
Speaker 3: and as they have families, their families will be catching
Speaker 3: up with each other. And that's one of the beautiful
Speaker 3: things about pro sports.
Speaker 2: Boy, that's a great point about the relationships on the team.
Speaker 2: And it almost it's weird to say that Jamar Chase
Speaker 2: with nine catches one hundred and nine yards, had a
Speaker 2: quiet day but he didn't get all the headlines of
Speaker 2: touchdowns yesterday, And yet it doesn't. It never bothers him
Speaker 2: and he looks at t have a big game and
Speaker 2: jamorro will have a big game next week. And it's
Speaker 2: the give and take of nobody needs to get their own.
Speaker 2: They're happy when somebody else gets theirs on a day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. They're they're happy for each other. You know,
Speaker 3: they know that there's a limited time that's going to
Speaker 3: be able to enjoy and play the game of professional football,
Speaker 3: and you want to be compensated properly. And you know
Speaker 3: Jamar Chase the kind of guy okay T had his
Speaker 3: this week. I'm getting mine next week. Yep, There's no
Speaker 3: doubt that I'm going to get mine because I know
Speaker 3: I'm better than any defensive back one on one in
Speaker 3: the National Football League. And if they double me, I
Speaker 3: can beat that too.
Speaker 2: Let's talk defense when we come back. Barrett Carter on
Speaker 2: his day and the defensive side of the ball as
Speaker 2: we rock and roll through this Monday night of Bengals Line,
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Speaker 13: Heny.
Speaker 2: We're rolling around along roll through on Monday night talking
Speaker 2: Bengals football and Bengals on of the Bengals Ring Network.
Speaker 2: It's seven hundred WL. I think we've been flipping back
Speaker 2: and forth offense the defense. Let's go back to the
Speaker 2: defensive side of things. Barrett Carter first career NFL interception yesterday.
Speaker 2: Here's the Bengal rookie linebacker with Dan after the game.
Speaker 11: Barrett, three takeaways in one quarter. Describe what it was
Speaker 11: like you had one of the interception. Describe what that
Speaker 11: third quarter was like for everybody on defense.
Speaker 21: Yeah, uh, just coming in at halftime, Coach Taylor just
Speaker 21: said that we needed to take the ball away and
Speaker 21: on offense, we had to keep the ball away from them. So, no,
Speaker 21: that was that's the goal that we go into every
Speaker 21: single game with to try to be at least plus
Speaker 21: two and just for us to you know, come out
Speaker 21: third quarter swing, come out swinging and they'll get the
Speaker 21: ball back to our offense was huge and create a
Speaker 21: lot of momentum for our team.
Speaker 6: So it's a I'm glad we were able to do that.
Speaker 6: We just have to keep building on that.
Speaker 11: A major challenge going into this game with stopping the
Speaker 11: running attack. They had the one long touchdown runner leave
Speaker 11: the game. Other than that three point yards per Carrie
Speaker 11: for the rest of the day. How did you guys
Speaker 11: do such a good job at stopping the run.
Speaker 21: Yeah, we always have to lock in on our keys.
Speaker 21: We knew that stopping the run was going to be
Speaker 21: the main emphasis this week, and you know.
Speaker 6: Miami, they do a great job every single week of
Speaker 6: creating a.
Speaker 21: Lot of I Kenny and it makes it very challenging
Speaker 21: for a defense. So we knew that it was gonna
Speaker 21: be a big challenge for us and know we're able
Speaker 21: to step up to that challenge.
Speaker 11: Describe the excitement level of coming with your first IMT
Speaker 11: in the NFL.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm super exciting. No, I feel like I was
Speaker 6: it was long overdue. I feel like I should have
Speaker 6: had that many many weeks ago.
Speaker 21: But you know, God makes no mistakes, So I'm just
Speaker 21: glad I was able to get that for our team
Speaker 21: and you know, get the ball back to our offense.
Speaker 6: So hopefully I can just keep building on that.
Speaker 11: You got your first. Jalen Davis got his first as well.
Speaker 11: He's had a nice impact since moving up from the
Speaker 11: practice squad. Describe what he's done for the defense. Yeah,
Speaker 11: JD is such a so savvy.
Speaker 21: He's been in the league for however many years has been,
Speaker 21: and you know he's been he's just been working every
Speaker 21: single day, just waiting for a shot.
Speaker 6: And we know he stepped up. He stepped up to
Speaker 6: the plate.
Speaker 21: He wasn't afraid to, you know, come in and do
Speaker 21: his thing. And you know, JD's a dog. It's an
Speaker 21: honor to get to play alongside him, and it's a
Speaker 21: he just flies around and makes play, so it's a
Speaker 21: it's a blessing to get to play with JD.
Speaker 11: It's just one of those games, parrit where you guys
Speaker 11: excelled in all three phases. Offense scores forty five, defense
Speaker 11: gets multiple takeaways. Ryan Rico had four bunchs inside the twenty.
Speaker 11: Did you feel like this was the first time that
Speaker 11: you've experienced a total performance by the Bengals.
Speaker 6: I feel like it.
Speaker 21: It was in bits and pieces, so there was still
Speaker 21: a lot of a lot of players left out there
Speaker 21: that you know that we need to correct in all phases.
Speaker 21: I know all guys can say that, but you know,
Speaker 21: we're we're taking We're definitely taking steps in the right direction,
Speaker 21: but it's nowhere near what we're what we're capable of
Speaker 21: doing as a team. So we just have to, you know,
Speaker 21: keep keep this momentum going, keep building on this and
Speaker 21: you know, the feeling that we have right.
Speaker 6: Now, we have to chase this feeling every.
Speaker 21: Single week and even leading into the next because we're
Speaker 21: capable of so much more. But now, when we played
Speaker 21: conflimentary football, we're capble of doing really great things and
Speaker 21: that's what we showed today.
Speaker 6: But we just have to keep going on it.
Speaker 11: So nice early Christmas present for Bengals fans. Congratulations on
Speaker 11: a great win. Thank you so much, appreciate that. That's
Speaker 11: linebacker Barrett Carter.
Speaker 2: Barrett Carter with the pick yesterday, and Dave. One of
Speaker 2: the things that really jumped out to what they did
Speaker 2: defensively yesterday, that old saying the more you can get
Speaker 2: flying to the football, the better it is. And and
Speaker 2: Battle punched out the ball, Murphy recovered the fumble. Curd
Speaker 2: had the interception after Josh Newton knocked the ball in
Speaker 2: the air. It was tandem efforts. That's a lot of
Speaker 2: guys around the football making things happen.
Speaker 3: Great point again, Lance, they ran to the football. Well,
Speaker 3: they ran to the football defensively as a group, about
Speaker 3: as well as I've seen all year long. I think
Speaker 3: Al Golden was happy about it. On the bus ride
Speaker 3: to the airport, I did talk. I mentioned that to him.
Speaker 3: I said, she's coach. Almost every play when I look
Speaker 3: down there at the end of the play, there's like three, four,
Speaker 3: maybe even five defenders you know around the ball. He goes, Yeah,
Speaker 3: we've been harping on that big time. You know, run
Speaker 3: to the ball, good things will happen. You create opportunities
Speaker 3: when you run to the football, and they certainly did yesterday.
Speaker 3: So Carter is is a force in the run. He
Speaker 3: stops the run pretty well. Now if he can make
Speaker 3: himself a dual threat in terms of being able to,
Speaker 3: you know, drop back into his own and play Arizona,
Speaker 3: patrol it well and make plays on the football or
Speaker 3: cover a back out of the backfield or a tight
Speaker 3: end on a cross in the middle of the football field,
Speaker 3: and be able to run with him, which he's capable
Speaker 3: of doing. Physically, he's got He's got everything you need
Speaker 3: to be an outstanding linebacker in the National Football League.
Speaker 3: And he's one of many young players Demetrius Knight, there's
Speaker 3: a bunch of young players that are you know, Dax
Speaker 3: Hill is not super young, but he's not anywhere near
Speaker 3: the end of his career. I think he's one of
Speaker 3: the best cover guys, the best the Bengals have, and
Speaker 3: he's one of the best in the National Football League.
Speaker 3: And the other thing I thought the benk did well
Speaker 3: yesterday was they tackled and part of it was so
Speaker 3: many guys around the ball, but one guy would you know,
Speaker 3: stick his head across the bow and wrap up and
Speaker 3: take them to the ground. If he didn't quite take
Speaker 3: them on the ground two or three other guys were
Speaker 3: smacking him as he was going to the ground and
Speaker 3: maybe trying to knock the ball loose. But if you're
Speaker 3: back to your point on Al Golden, if you're Ale,
Speaker 3: it's obviously been.
Speaker 2: A trying year. You've got young guys who don't always
Speaker 2: get it at the speed you need them to get it.
Speaker 2: But flashes like yesterday, if you're Al Golden, you go
Speaker 2: home and you put your head on the pillow and
Speaker 2: you're looking up and thinking, all right, there's signs here.
Speaker 9: I'll take the signs.
Speaker 2: Little things to build on one week to the next,
Speaker 2: and it's got to feel. It's got to feel good
Speaker 2: for Al to see some proof, some evidence starting to
Speaker 2: develop it. Everybody wanted it in week one and it's
Speaker 2: taken some time and there have been a lot of
Speaker 2: mistackles along the way. But if there's something they have
Speaker 2: found and guys have found some confidence at this point,
Speaker 2: that's big to carry into the offseason.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think they're confident in their coach and their coach
Speaker 3: to start and be confident in them, and that's always
Speaker 3: extremely important both ways to have the confidence. And I
Speaker 3: do think the graft's going up for the Cincinnati Bengals defensively,
Speaker 3: they are young, they are improving, and I think Al Golden,
Speaker 3: you know, is excited about what it's going to look
Speaker 3: like in twenty twenty six and beyond.
Speaker 2: We mentioned the three turnovers, and I know you'll always references.
Speaker 2: They get the fourth down stop in the in the
Speaker 2: third quarter, that's as good as a turnover because he
Speaker 2: gives you your offense the football back.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, you know. I mean, uh, you know, sometimes the
Speaker 3: turnovers don't occur at the spot of the football field
Speaker 3: we should pre further to occur. You know, sometimes the
Speaker 3: offense ends up being backed up. But you know, hey,
Speaker 3: as long as you're taking away points, you're taking away
Speaker 3: opportunities to score. Okay, well, Varney, we're already in field
Speaker 3: goal range. Now we're in a chip shot field goal territory.
Speaker 3: And then you get that taken away. That has a
Speaker 3: lingering effect. I mean, that's not as easy to get
Speaker 3: over as people think. Players back say, oh, man, if
Speaker 3: we had done this, if we had done that, if
Speaker 3: they didn't do this, they didn't take that away from us,
Speaker 3: would have been a different game. Yeah, what should have
Speaker 3: could have It's not the way it is in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Still ahead, We'll continue breaking down yesterday's game. We'll look
Speaker 2: at head to Arizona. We're gonna drop in something I
Speaker 2: heard Sam Hubbard say to you guys on Friday about
Speaker 2: the final play of his career and something that Zach
Speaker 2: Taylor said about Sam Hubbard the leader I thought was
Speaker 2: just fantastic and worth taking a listen to. We'll do
Speaker 2: that as we continue as well. It's Bengals on on
Speaker 2: the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. Hey, welcome
Speaker 2: back on Bengals On to the Bengals Radio Network, seven
Speaker 2: hundred WLW. Antil callister Dave Lappom. We've worked our way
Speaker 2: through yesterday's went over the Dolphins forty five fourteen. We've
Speaker 2: got the Miami or the Arizona Cardos to look forward
Speaker 2: to in our third hour, plus game balls. It'll be
Speaker 2: nice to hear presentation of game balls on a after
Speaker 2: a winning game for the Bengals as well. But while
Speaker 2: I'm thinking about it, and I love the Bengals Friday
Speaker 2: pep rally that you do with Dan Horden sometimes Wayne
Speaker 2: box Miller and you guys have had the fun of
Speaker 2: the last two weeks having Sam Hubbert, join you, and
Speaker 2: I thought Sam's reflections on Friday about his final play
Speaker 2: of his career, a touchdown catch of all things from
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow. And then Dan had asked Zach Taylor about
Speaker 2: Sam's presence on the team and what it meant, and
Speaker 2: Sam reacted that I thought it was really good stuff.
Speaker 2: Let's take a listen to just a portion of Friday,
Speaker 2: Dan and laugh with Sam Hubbard. Here it is.
Speaker 11: We're going to turn the clock back to the very
Speaker 11: last play, Oh baby, Sam Hubbard's NFL career. Let's listen.
Speaker 11: In Burrow fakes a handoff, throws a pass.
Speaker 22: Sam Hubbard with the catch, sadon touchdown, Bengals out, Sam
Speaker 22: Hubbard raising the football over his head and spiking at
Speaker 22: Gronk style after the first catch.
Speaker 11: How his NFL career.
Speaker 3: Sam Hubbard started his career at Moler High School. Is
Speaker 3: a tight end? Sam Hubbard is an athlete, Sam Hubbard.
Speaker 3: That's a great fingertip catch.
Speaker 11: It was a great fingertip catch. About that spike, Was
Speaker 11: that something that you had in mind or was that
Speaker 11: completely in the moment.
Speaker 23: No, we had rehearsed that one. Joe was making me
Speaker 23: do them. The routes full speed and walk through pre practice,
Speaker 23: and then we had to, you know, practice a spike.
Speaker 23: Of course, I almost messed it up, getting too excited
Speaker 23: as soon as I got up, but then held it back,
Speaker 23: gathered ted and the rest of the crew, and I
Speaker 23: actually gave it a legit spike. So uh it worked out.
Speaker 23: One of the one of the coolest moments ever. I
Speaker 23: got Joe's jersey from that game, nice framed in my basement.
Speaker 9: Uh got the ball. I got the ball too.
Speaker 11: Did you expect to be wide open? I mean normally
Speaker 11: I was.
Speaker 9: Not wide open? Come on.
Speaker 11: No, No, That's what I'm saying. I'm wondering if you
Speaker 11: being a defensive lineman lining up presumably to block.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 23: No, Joe told me there's going to be a guy
Speaker 23: on me, and I don't have the exact breakaway speed.
Speaker 23: But uh, that was that, Yeah, the in traffic catch.
Speaker 23: But it was a I think Zach was so confident
Speaker 23: in calling it because it was a third string or
Speaker 23: second string linebacker.
Speaker 9: I didn't really know. So huh, take advantage, no doubt,
Speaker 9: no doubt.
Speaker 3: Take advantage of opportunities. When an opportunity knocks, men open
Speaker 3: the door. So Moller High School, Ohio State, Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 3: You are the Cincinnati kid, the Ohio kid. Is it
Speaker 3: something that as you reflect back on it, you even
Speaker 3: cherished the decisions you made even more to stay local.
Speaker 23: Yeah, I think so. I think that now. You know,
Speaker 23: big plan since I got drafted was to to always
Speaker 23: stay local. And you know, I'm here full time and
Speaker 23: want an opportunity to have the support system and everything
Speaker 23: that I had. And what makes it all the sweeter
Speaker 23: is the success we were able to have here, the
Speaker 23: energy we brought to the fan base.
Speaker 9: And you know.
Speaker 23: If you recall that that run to the Super Bowl,
Speaker 23: what the city fell like walking around the streets for
Speaker 23: those months. I mean, I'll hold onto that time for
Speaker 23: the rest of my life, and you know, hoping for
Speaker 23: it again here soon.
Speaker 9: I got.
Speaker 23: I got faith in our and our boys to uh
Speaker 23: to get back to the Promised Land.
Speaker 11: We worked that back when he wanted back soon. You
Speaker 11: preceded Zach Taylor. You actually started your Bengals career when
Speaker 11: Marvin Lewis was the head coach. We had the opportunity
Speaker 11: to do a visit with Zach earlier today and I
Speaker 11: asked him about the impact you made on his career,
Speaker 11: UH to this point as the Cincinnati Bengals head coach,
Speaker 11: here's Zach Taylor.
Speaker 5: Always the guy I could count on, Always a guy
Speaker 5: that if I needed and the opinion of a player
Speaker 5: on schedule or vibe of the team, or I knew
Speaker 5: I could get Sam up there, He'd be transparent with
Speaker 5: me and as a leader, like it was fun for
Speaker 5: me to see when he finally decided, you know, realize
Speaker 5: these guys respect me and I can now talk more.
Speaker 5: I don't just have to be the lead by example
Speaker 5: guy all the time. And I think that was more
Speaker 5: year two. So it was fun watching him become a
Speaker 5: captain and guys rally around him and we had the
Speaker 5: success we had, and he was a huge part of that.
Speaker 5: Fought through injuries. That's as a coach you appreciate that
Speaker 5: more than anybody, the guys that give you everything they
Speaker 5: have despite their circumstances. And Sam was the number one
Speaker 5: example of all that. And so that's that was always
Speaker 5: meant a lot to me to know that Sam was
Speaker 5: gonna we'll have the off season surgery, but I'm playing
Speaker 5: and doing everything I came to play. So that was
Speaker 5: that was great, and I you know, for him to
Speaker 5: he was on me for years to catch a pass,
Speaker 5: and so first career to end on that play. It
Speaker 5: was very fitting, you know, it really was, and it
Speaker 5: I don't obviously don't want his career to end on
Speaker 5: an injury, but I think it was. I can say
Speaker 5: this without feeling stupid, like it was a cool way
Speaker 5: for him in his career. You got to go in
Speaker 5: and run one route all season. He kind of touched
Speaker 5: up past contested catch from his college roommate.
Speaker 7: Pretty cool.
Speaker 15: That was cool.
Speaker 11: I think he's right. It was cool. Were you on
Speaker 11: him in fact for years to catch a pass?
Speaker 9: No, that was pretty cool. I didn't you asked him that.
Speaker 23: I was definitely, you know, in his year, I you know,
Speaker 23: jokingly because of my great reps as a rookie fullback.
Speaker 23: I was like, hey, you know, I'm ready, let's do
Speaker 23: it and go. And you know, when it comes down to, hey,
Speaker 23: here's the play we're calling it, it's a whole different ballgame.
Speaker 9: You get much more nervous.
Speaker 23: And you're like, I don't know if I actually want
Speaker 23: this and drop it here.
Speaker 9: But I got to give credit to Zach. He you know,
Speaker 9: he did.
Speaker 23: You know, he really made that happen, and it was
Speaker 23: turned the momentum in that game. But Zach, you know,
Speaker 23: I he did so much for me in my career.
Speaker 23: Have so much respect for him and how he's handled,
Speaker 23: you know, tough situations from you know, twenty nineteen till now.
Speaker 23: You know, I can't say enough good things about Zach
Speaker 23: and how he goes about his business.
Speaker 9: Also watching you know, he watched my evolution.
Speaker 23: I watched his evolution from a first time head coach
Speaker 23: to where he is now.
Speaker 9: I think that he's learned.
Speaker 23: He's all you know, he journals and writes everything down
Speaker 23: and really reflects and gets better every year. So it's
Speaker 23: cool to be around a.
Speaker 9: Guy like that. And yeah, that was cool.
Speaker 2: Dave so much good stuff in that hour long conversation
Speaker 2: you guys had. But I thought Dan's question to Zach
Speaker 2: about what Sam meant to the team, And then when
Speaker 2: Zach explained that Zach was a guy he could go
Speaker 2: to and if he needed to measure the pulse of
Speaker 2: the team, or if they should change a practice time
Speaker 2: or how they should do something in camp, Sam was
Speaker 2: the guy he turned to because he knew Sam had
Speaker 2: an understanding of that locker room and the guys in
Speaker 2: that room had an appreciation for him, and I thought
Speaker 2: that just spoke volumes about the regard that this organization
Speaker 2: holds Sam Hubbard in.
Speaker 3: I agree. You know, uh, the Cincinnati kid man Yep
Speaker 3: Moller High School, Ohio State up the road. You know,
Speaker 3: Paul Brown made his mark there, so Mike Brown loves
Speaker 3: Ohio State players. And then here with the Cincinnati Bengals. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I do think that that that Zach Taylor and his
Speaker 3: coaching staff knows that Sam Hubbard has a finger on
Speaker 3: the pulse of the franchise in terms of the players.
Speaker 3: Every single player in that locker room, he likes and
Speaker 3: respects and trusts Sam Hubbard. So they'll tell him things.
Speaker 3: They'll tell them things that are bothering them. They'll tell
Speaker 3: him things that they like, you know, and prefer to
Speaker 3: do it this way. Maybe we can tweak it and
Speaker 3: do it that way. And then the coaches, you know,
Speaker 3: know that Sam will you know, not blow the whistle
Speaker 3: or tattle on anybody as such, but just hey, what
Speaker 3: do they think, give me the give me the true
Speaker 3: scoop here? What do they think? What's going on? Are
Speaker 3: we doing things the right way? How can we improve
Speaker 3: what can we do to make things better for the players.
Speaker 3: That role is huge. It takes a you know, a
Speaker 3: special guy to be able to handle it. There's not
Speaker 3: any real pressure, but you want to help build as
Speaker 3: good an environment, a winning environment as you possibly can
Speaker 3: with the franchise, and anything you can do to help
Speaker 3: that move in the right direction is what you want
Speaker 3: to get done.
Speaker 2: And I love what Zach told Dan about Sam finding
Speaker 2: his voice as his career went on with the Bengals,
Speaker 2: because as a rookie, you know the old saying rookies
Speaker 2: are to be you know, seen, not heard. And as
Speaker 2: Sam became more comfortable, you heard Zach explain how excited
Speaker 2: he was to see Sam grow into a leader. And
Speaker 2: that's you know, as as Zach was saying that, I
Speaker 2: thought of guys like Barrett Carter and Dimitrius Knight junior,
Speaker 2: young guys who are going who are going to be
Speaker 2: here in a perfect world, who eventually grow into a
Speaker 2: voice but absorbing information right now, and you hope they
Speaker 2: they get comfortable like Sam did to become a voice.
Speaker 11: For this team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Sam by nature is pretty quiet, you know, he's
Speaker 3: not He never toots his own horn. You know about
Speaker 3: accomplishments or things that he did, you know, on the
Speaker 3: football field. He's a great family guy. I mean he's
Speaker 3: going to be you know, tremendous father, husband, you know,
Speaker 3: he's going to be a great grandfather as well as father.
Speaker 3: Time marches on. But you know, he just has that
Speaker 3: that ability to rally people, and uh, that's a that's
Speaker 3: a unique talent. It really is when you have it,
Speaker 3: you know you do, but you know you don't want to, like,
Speaker 3: you know, take take out a billboard and advertise it.
Speaker 3: You know, you kind of keep it to yourself. And yeah,
Speaker 3: someone else. I mean, I'm sure Zach is probably trying
Speaker 3: to figure out who that guy is going to be
Speaker 3: now that Sam Hubbard has moved on. And it's not
Speaker 3: an easy role, believe me, it really isn't.
Speaker 2: By the way, in our next segment, we've got a
Speaker 2: little local theme going on, Sam Hubbard the local kid.
Speaker 2: In our next segment, a little bit of what Wayne
Speaker 2: box Miller had to say with Xavier Johnson, the Ohio
Speaker 2: State and Summit Country Day product is part of the
Speaker 2: pregame yesterday. He's a local kid who drove by the
Speaker 2: Paul Brown Stadium every day as a kid growing up
Speaker 2: and now he's on the Bengals practice squad. You'll hear
Speaker 2: a little bit of that as we continue. Dave Lapham,
Speaker 2: Lance McAllister Bengals on in the Bengals Radio Network and
Speaker 2: seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 4: Team booming right.
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Speaker 3: Glance's time for the Kettering Health injury report and good news,
Speaker 3: I mean no major injuries to either football team in
Speaker 3: this game down there. Remind me, I don't remember either
Speaker 3: either team having a player taken the locker room and
Speaker 3: stayed in the locker room. Somebody might have gone in
Speaker 3: a blue tent to take a look at and take
Speaker 3: a picture of something that's was bothersome. But when you
Speaker 3: think about it, that was a very physical football game,
Speaker 3: a lot of hitting going on and to escape with
Speaker 3: no serious injury to either football team is what it's
Speaker 3: all about. And Kettering Health is the official healthcare provider
Speaker 3: of the Cincinnati Bengals, providing the best care one of
Speaker 3: the best fans.
Speaker 2: We keep rolling along. We developed a little bit of
Speaker 2: a theme here of local connection. We heard from Sam
Speaker 2: Hubbard in the last segment as part of the Friday
Speaker 2: pep Rally Show. Another local product on the Bengals roster,
Speaker 2: at least on the practice squad. He was signed last
Speaker 2: week played at Ohio State. Prior to that, he played
Speaker 2: at Summit Country Day High School. Talked about driving past
Speaker 2: the stadium every day as a kid growing up and
Speaker 2: one day wanting to be a member of the organization.
Speaker 2: He is now on the practice squad and Wayne box
Speaker 2: Miller is part of the pregame show. Talk to him
Speaker 2: about realizing the dream.
Speaker 18: Wayne box Miller with a young man I've known for
Speaker 18: a long time, know his family, Xaviers Johnson.
Speaker 8: Welcome back to Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Bustin. It's a blessing to be back, man,
Speaker 3: a blessing to be by.
Speaker 8: No question about it.
Speaker 18: Let's talk about your faith because I know you your
Speaker 18: faith based family, and you have a purpose in life
Speaker 18: and you believe that this journey is part of a purpose.
Speaker 18: And be back here in Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: Yeah, nber Man.
Speaker 15: When I got the call really came on the hills
Speaker 15: actually of a pretty uh spiritual weekend, if you want
Speaker 15: to say that.
Speaker 3: You know, I had a great.
Speaker 15: Church service and my my pastor down in Houston actually
Speaker 15: just reminded me of just the promises and how God
Speaker 15: is a promise keeper and so on the heels of
Speaker 15: that and kind of a revitalization of just I would say,
Speaker 15: my my faith, not that it was dead, but uh,
Speaker 15: you know, you get sparks times for time, and so
Speaker 15: coming on the hills of a spark, the Lord opened
Speaker 15: up this opportunity and so I definitely see this as
Speaker 15: you know, a mission field and opportunity to build rapport
Speaker 15: with men, pour into you know, men and hopefully save
Speaker 15: some men if God will so.
Speaker 9: A lot of a lot of players here.
Speaker 18: I talked to Trey Hendrickson or Joseph Osai or Dalton Riser,
Speaker 18: and they're all outward with their faith and and how
Speaker 18: much it helps them.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 18: For you, it's just been a source of support for
Speaker 18: you through all the ups and downs of the NFL.
Speaker 3: Yes throwing up and downs of my career.
Speaker 8: Really in high school.
Speaker 15: You know, the Lord took this uh sport, this gift
Speaker 15: that he gave me, and he molded it into exactly
Speaker 15: what he intended it for it to be to me
Speaker 15: when he gave it to me, as you know, a
Speaker 15: platform to glorify him.
Speaker 3: An opportunity to reach other men.
Speaker 15: Who you know, might not even know that they're struggling
Speaker 15: or not, might not even know that you know, there's.
Speaker 3: A need for for God because.
Speaker 15: You have so many outlets, you know, when you're a
Speaker 15: personal athlete and you're commensated so handsomely and you feel
Speaker 15: like you can, you know, uh, fulfill a lot of
Speaker 15: your knees or your once until those needs, you know,
Speaker 15: keep building up. So just to have an opportunity to
Speaker 15: be in the locker room with these guys.
Speaker 13: To build, like I said, build a report with.
Speaker 15: Them and ultimately you know, maybe uh somebody who can
Speaker 15: lean on or ask questions about their faith to this
Speaker 15: means everything.
Speaker 18: So I know you talked about driving by and all
Speaker 18: the other things. What I want to ask us when
Speaker 18: you pulled that car in the gate this morning and
Speaker 18: how it felt.
Speaker 15: It felt amazing, Man, it felt amazing. And I've been
Speaker 15: in the player entered one or one or two other
Speaker 15: times for one for the local day, and there was
Speaker 15: another time where I don't remember why I pulled in
Speaker 15: the game, but none of the cars.
Speaker 13: Were you know, were there or anything.
Speaker 15: So to be here and be a part of this,
Speaker 15: you know, this team, this opportunity and this you know
Speaker 15: group of men is truly a blessing.
Speaker 9: So that's all I can say.
Speaker 18: Talk about when you reflect back to your granddad who
Speaker 18: was so proud of you, man, just knowing that you're here,
Speaker 18: how much you probably wish he was still around just
Speaker 18: to see this.
Speaker 15: Yeah, man, it's where Cincinnati family grew up, Cincinnati through
Speaker 15: and through, you know, being I'm probably like third fourth
Speaker 15: generation now of just true to you know, cut us
Speaker 15: open where Cincinnati you know people. So for him to be,
Speaker 15: you know, as big as a Reds fan as he is,
Speaker 15: a big as a Bengals fan as he was, and
Speaker 15: he even actually played for the Reds way way back
Speaker 15: in the day. And so it's kind of like I said,
Speaker 15: I keep saying, it's a full circle moment.
Speaker 3: It's a real moment.
Speaker 15: But you know, the Lord has a funny way of
Speaker 15: navigating things and bringing things into fruition that you don't
Speaker 15: always expect, but they always make sense.
Speaker 13: He reveals them in his time.
Speaker 2: So Xavier Johnson, the Bengal wide receiver, local product on
Speaker 2: the practice squad, We'll take a time out and we
Speaker 2: come back. We got to save some time for special teams.
Speaker 2: Holy cow, they were special yesterday. We'll talk about him
Speaker 2: as we roll on with Bengals on on the Bengals
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Speaker 3: Down on the stretch. We go about to put.
Speaker 2: Our number two in the books, two of three tonight
Speaker 2: the Bengals out of the Bengals Radio Networking. As much
Speaker 2: time as we've spent on offense and defense, we referenced
Speaker 2: and if you used the term complimentary football and well
Speaker 2: routed performance yesterday, that includes special teams where everybody had
Speaker 2: a contribution, whether it was Evan McPherson with a lot
Speaker 2: of extra points, which is a good thing, right. Ryan
Speaker 2: Rico punning Bulah ball, the kick returns, the punt returns,
Speaker 2: the coverage. I don't even where to begin. I'll start
Speaker 2: with Ryan Rico, who has booted the ball well the
Speaker 2: entire season. He's had some issues with touchbacks, but yesterday,
Speaker 2: my goodness, he had all four of his punts inside
Speaker 2: the twenty yard line, two of those inside the ten,
Speaker 2: and he averaged fifty two yards a kick.
Speaker 3: He was on it yesterday, he really was. I mean
Speaker 3: four punts averaged fifty two yards a kick. Like you said,
Speaker 3: long of fifty nine four times inside the twenty twice
Speaker 3: inside the ten. Of those four times no touchbacks. And
Speaker 3: the return game for the Miami Dolphins because of the
Speaker 3: excellent c Rico was non existent. I mean two of
Speaker 3: them were down inside the ten yard line and in
Speaker 3: the red zone, and Washington never had a return. I mean,
Speaker 3: were never able to jumpstart things to get it going.
Speaker 3: And you talk about the rookie Williams as a kick
Speaker 3: returner for the Bengals, three returns seventy six yards, averaging
Speaker 3: over twenty five yards per along of thirty one Brooks
Speaker 3: had won for forty one yards. So the Bengals average
Speaker 3: twenty nine point three on four kickoff returns. They dominated
Speaker 3: field position courtesy of special teams. Darren Simmons, I know,
Speaker 3: was pretty pleased. He was smiling in the locker room.
Speaker 3: Had a chance to see him as he walked by
Speaker 3: as he was getting ready to go out to the buses,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, man, Rico was unbelievable. It can't be
Speaker 3: much better than he was today, you know. You know
Speaker 3: Darren is he kind of like, you know, very monotone,
Speaker 3: you know, very very composed. But yeah, and Rico, he
Speaker 3: was going crazy as his teammates were downing punts, you know,
Speaker 3: to keep that average away. And then he had one
Speaker 3: that looked like golf hitting the green and just you know,
Speaker 3: the spin on it, just just it hit and spun back.
Speaker 3: That one was a thing of beauty. But yeah, special
Speaker 3: teams overall. They put the Dolphins on long fields and
Speaker 3: they put Bengals on many short ones.
Speaker 2: By the way, I got about a minute left in
Speaker 2: the hour. What can you tell me about your vantage
Speaker 2: point and the size of the broadcast booth you were
Speaker 2: in yesterday.
Speaker 3: Dave Worse, Oh my god, wasn't the yid man. I mean,
Speaker 3: that's just horse pucky.
Speaker 2: But you were down, you were up and in the corner,
Speaker 2: in the corner, and it was like a little pham
Speaker 2: booth basically a broadcast.
Speaker 11: It was.
Speaker 3: We could only fit three across.
Speaker 24: It was.
Speaker 3: It was I was on on one side. Dan was
Speaker 3: in the middle, and then uh, the spot was to
Speaker 3: his left. The statistician was behind us, next to you
Speaker 3: up a step on the on the three steps down
Speaker 3: into the booth. I mean, it was, it was. It
Speaker 3: was a closet, man, it was. It was unbelievable, but
Speaker 3: it was a lot more tolerable because the way the
Speaker 3: game went.
Speaker 2: Yes, and the weather. About the weather, and you'll take
Speaker 2: just about any size booth.
Speaker 9: No question.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sunny, nice, nice little preeze. It wasn't it was.
Speaker 3: It was just beautiful. Oh man.
Speaker 2: All right, that's two in the books. Hey, type more
Speaker 2: to get two in our three. We're gonna hear from
Speaker 2: Zach Taylor. Here from Joe Burrow, fantastic fun facts talk
Speaker 2: Arizona Cardinals, and here the awarding of the game balls. Well,
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Speaker 2: I just realized I'm such an idiot. I've said forty
Speaker 2: five to fourteen like three times, and I forgot the
Speaker 2: garbage time touchdown late by the Dolphins. So I'd like
Speaker 2: to amend all my prior statements to we get forty
Speaker 2: five to twenty one the final. So, yes, right, it
Speaker 2: was a garbage time touchdown, but we'll count it because
Speaker 2: it's officially counted. But the Bengals still win by twenty
Speaker 2: four Inzach Taylor talked about it after the game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, proud, not surprised by the response our guys had.
Speaker 5: You know, we expected to come down here and you
Speaker 5: know a lot of questions about how these guys are
Speaker 5: gonna respond. We saw how they respond all week. We
Speaker 5: knew how they'd respond and come down here and put
Speaker 5: together the performance they did, especially settling down a halftime
Speaker 5: and coming out and getting four straight turnovers three three
Speaker 5: turnovers at turnover on downs. Offense responded with four straight touchdowns.
Speaker 5: Special teams units are in a great job control in
Speaker 5: the fuel position in the entire second half.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: Just just really proud, but again not surprised by the
Speaker 5: response we had.
Speaker 6: That that's usually how it works.
Speaker 5: I mean, they had a tough time containing Drew today,
Speaker 5: but Drew is just mister reliable, you know, he's in there.
Speaker 5: Protection has a great feel very similar to the Buffalo
Speaker 5: touchdown he scored a couple of years ago, same protection
Speaker 5: where he's just got this awareness where Joe needs my
Speaker 5: help right now, I'm out of the protection world, and
Speaker 5: and I got to go find a way and and
Speaker 5: he was trying to score, man. I was trying to
Speaker 5: hope he stayed in bounce to keep the clock running.
Speaker 5: There at the end of half, Drew was he was
Speaker 5: helping on getting in the end zone. And so again
Speaker 5: that's a huge play right there. Bye bye Joe, and
Speaker 5: by Drew and by the protection to give him the
Speaker 5: time to be able to extend the play like that
Speaker 5: first quarter.
Speaker 6: They're explosive team.
Speaker 5: Uh, They're really tough to defend, especially in the run
Speaker 5: game with the play actions off of it. They did
Speaker 5: a nice shot in the first half finding a rhythm.
Speaker 5: But I thought our defense really did a great job
Speaker 5: settling down and knocking those down for two or three
Speaker 5: yards and putting them in passing situations. You know, with
Speaker 5: the rookie quarterback, we knew that was going to be challenging,
Speaker 5: and so I thought the defense had a great response.
Speaker 5: You know, the big touchdown run, Yeah, they got us
Speaker 5: on it. They've gotten a lot of people on that.
Speaker 5: But I thought the response after that was really good
Speaker 5: by the d as you.
Speaker 7: Guys started, you know, ugalizing all of your weapons.
Speaker 9: You know, it's team here and.
Speaker 18: Jamarro and Chase Browns and this kind of an example
Speaker 18: of how your offense can be the ways playing profession.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I feel like we've shown this a
Speaker 5: million times over the years, you know, and unfortunately this
Speaker 5: year we.
Speaker 6: Just haven't haven't been able to do it. But this
Speaker 6: is no surprise.
Speaker 5: I mean I was walking off field Drew Sample and
Speaker 5: he said, this is how I'm used to these games going.
Speaker 5: You know, when we're when we got everybody on offense
Speaker 5: ready to roll. And so again we've got another opportunity
Speaker 5: this week against Arizona to come back home and do
Speaker 5: it in front of our fans, and I expect our
Speaker 5: guys to respond the right way.
Speaker 13: I know, you're in the game, is it or sweet?
Speaker 11: This is what you want it?
Speaker 6: Yeah? It is what it is.
Speaker 5: You know, this is the this is the situation we're in,
Speaker 5: and this is what we can control. And so after
Speaker 5: the season you'll have a chance to reflect back on
Speaker 5: things that we got to do differently. But I think
Speaker 5: right now this is all we could control this week
Speaker 5: was what was our response in the building to to
Speaker 5: you know a lot of people after us right now.
Speaker 5: And so the response was tremendous by our guys, and
Speaker 5: to put together such a complete game I thought was
Speaker 5: really impressive. Speaking yeah, I mean it was. I told
Speaker 5: Jamar to come punch me in the stomach. We hadn't
Speaker 5: thrown double go by the midway point the second quarter,
Speaker 5: so we got to it a little earlier than I
Speaker 5: had initially planned.
Speaker 6: We were backed up.
Speaker 5: It felt like the moment to go do it, and
Speaker 5: t did what he does. He goes up and gets
Speaker 5: it and we ran the double move there on the goal,
Speaker 5: and I thought he did a great job with his
Speaker 5: patient so Joe had time to get it up and
Speaker 5: he you know, he's got so many touchdowns in that
Speaker 5: back right corner of the end zone, getting getting his
Speaker 5: two feet in, so expected nothing less from that connection.
Speaker 20: You know that you get when you get you guys
Speaker 20: on offense. And he has staying healthy, clime is ready
Speaker 20: to go for the stage.
Speaker 6: That's great.
Speaker 5: I think Chase is a is a huge weapon for
Speaker 5: us and does a great job with his explosiveness, tremendous
Speaker 5: matchup in the past game as well that he probably
Speaker 5: doesn't get enough credit for. He's won a lot of
Speaker 5: those choice routs underneath, and he got a CEO for
Speaker 5: a touchdown today when he was matchup on a backer,
Speaker 5: and so again he's been a great weapon for us.
Speaker 5: I'm happy I have him. I'm good with the direction
Speaker 5: he's had.
Speaker 3: To go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean DJ was battling the flu, you know,
Speaker 5: so for him to even get out there and get
Speaker 5: IVS and go out there and play, it'd be hard
Speaker 5: to get through an entire game. So UH certainly appreciate
Speaker 5: DJ doing what he did. And fighting through it, and
Speaker 5: unfortunately we got to a point where we were able
Speaker 5: to get him out. And you know, if anyway, and
Speaker 5: we just got the flu you get midway point in
Speaker 5: the game, it's gonna beat you up pretty good. So
Speaker 5: again I appreci DJ doing everything he could to get
Speaker 5: to this game and get through it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, awesome.
Speaker 5: And I saw DJ Ivy at the end of the
Speaker 5: you know, make a good contest to play towards the end.
Speaker 5: So I thought the response was great. I thought JD's
Speaker 5: pick was was awesome. All those turnovers those guys got
Speaker 5: was a lot of them were combination plays where one
Speaker 5: guy was knocking it out, one guy was tipping it,
Speaker 5: the other guy's making the play. Uh, JD's was just
Speaker 5: one on one man coverage went up, made to play.
Speaker 5: It was a big time what's it feeling.
Speaker 14: On the sideline start to just snowing the turnover and get.
Speaker 2: That.
Speaker 6: We have to finish that.
Speaker 5: We had exactly what I thought was, we have to finish,
Speaker 5: you know, And I've got a lot of respect for
Speaker 5: the Dolphins and the coaching staff there. They're really good coaches,
Speaker 5: good people. But we needed to have a killer instinct
Speaker 5: to finish that. Game out, you know, and so we
Speaker 5: wanted to continue to be aggressive till about the midway
Speaker 5: point that fourth quarter. But uh, for our guys, for
Speaker 5: our sake, for identity moving forward, you know, we need
Speaker 5: to have a killer instinct and keep throwing the football
Speaker 5: and keep finding ways to finish drives and not let
Speaker 5: them try to get any hope and creep back in
Speaker 5: the game. And I thought our guys did a great
Speaker 5: job of that.
Speaker 2: Zach Taylor on the forty five to twenty one win
Speaker 2: over the Miami Dolphins yesterday. And I know, Dave, when
Speaker 2: once you get eliminated, there's great debate of how much
Speaker 2: it means and if you you know draft position and
Speaker 2: everything that comes with it. All I know is this,
Speaker 2: and I know they've been eliminated. I know it was
Speaker 2: quote just the Dolphins with the rookie quarterback, and I
Speaker 2: know there's always the concern of how it may, how
Speaker 2: it may skew any view of the team going to
Speaker 2: the offseason and changes needed. I just know this, to
Speaker 2: quote herm Edwards, you play to win the game, Bengo,
Speaker 2: and they won the game yesterday. And I could you
Speaker 2: could tell looking at players faces, even on the sidelines
Speaker 2: there were smiles, there was joy, there was fun to
Speaker 2: be had, and that has to mean something.
Speaker 3: No question, no doubt about it. Last absolutely, and you know,
Speaker 3: it's a long season, man, and the to taste the
Speaker 3: sweet nectar of victory at any point is meaningful. And
Speaker 3: and uh, it was a long time coming. It has
Speaker 3: been a long time coming. But this football team believes.
Speaker 3: They believe they're better than their record indicates. They thought
Speaker 3: they were going to have a really good year this
Speaker 3: year going into it. I know that for a fact,
Speaker 3: they felt like they had a lot of a lot
Speaker 3: of pieces, like we talked about earlier, a lot of
Speaker 3: a lot of pieces in place that would hold them
Speaker 3: in good stead. They did. You know, it just has
Speaker 3: not worked out that way. And like you said, you
Speaker 3: know people like Poo Poo and the fact that you
Speaker 3: beat the Miami Dalson just beat them, spanked them, man,
Speaker 3: I mean it was. It was a total butt kicking,
Speaker 3: took them to the h took them to the woodshed,
Speaker 3: and gave them a spanking. There's no no doubt about it.
Speaker 3: And uh, in every category that that you could win,
Speaker 3: they won, and they won decisively and handily. So it
Speaker 3: doesn't that doesn't happen in the NFL, particularly traveling to Miami. Uh,
Speaker 3: that's a tough trip. You know, it's significantly long, and
Speaker 3: then playing in the heat on the road, and then
Speaker 3: you know, back home and celebrate a little bit. They
Speaker 3: played with a lot of emotion, a lot of enthusiasm.
Speaker 3: They were excited about it, which is good. It's a
Speaker 3: good sign. Zach Taylor has not lost the football team.
Speaker 3: Zach Taylor. The coaching staff still has, you know, the
Speaker 3: football team where they want them in terms of listening
Speaker 3: and absorbing and understanding game plans and how to go
Speaker 3: about winning football games.
Speaker 2: By the way, a nugget to drop into in the
Speaker 2: segment the forty five points, they're most since they scored
Speaker 2: forty nine against the Jets October twenty seventh, twenty thirteen. Wow,
Speaker 2: that was two hundred and one games ago. That was
Speaker 2: the day that Andy threw five touchdowns, four of those
Speaker 2: two Marvin Jones. How about that from the past.
Speaker 3: That's a good answer to a trivia question. There, boy, Marvin.
Speaker 2: Had four touchdowns that day, eight catches for one twenty two.
Speaker 2: AJ had three catches for one point fifteen, and the
Speaker 2: Bengals beat the Jets and Rex Ryan forty nine to
Speaker 2: nine that day.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, Saxy Rex, he took a thump and yeah
Speaker 3: he did got beaten by forty.
Speaker 2: There is your nugget of the day.
Speaker 3: Yes, he's fun to listen to, though I do. I
Speaker 3: do get a kick out and listening to Rex Rex
Speaker 3: always uh, you know he's got something to say, something
Speaker 3: to say, yeah, and says it in football lingo, you
Speaker 3: know he does. And he looks at everything through a
Speaker 3: defensive perspective, which I enjoy because I look at everything
Speaker 3: through an offensive perspective initially and then think about the
Speaker 3: defense and he's the reverse. He looks at it defensively
Speaker 3: and then thinks about it how the offense handled it.
Speaker 2: Still ahead QB one Joe Burrow with perspective on yesterday,
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Speaker 2: Get more from QB one Joe Burrow on a four
Speaker 2: touchdown day quarterback rating of Holy Cow one forty six
Speaker 2: point five. Here's Joe on victory and having fun.
Speaker 3: Was there any to.
Speaker 7: Bouncing back from last week or just another another week?
Speaker 13: He's executed better at the end of the day.
Speaker 10: You know, T set it off, set the tone for
Speaker 10: the day with those two big plays early, and I
Speaker 10: kind of set the tone for number one, how the
Speaker 10: day was going and number two, how they were going
Speaker 10: to play us. I think they had a plan and
Speaker 10: then those two plays happened and then they had to
Speaker 10: change their plan. And that's that's a hy t is
Speaker 10: who he is and why we value him so much,
Speaker 10: and he just makes plays like that what makes.
Speaker 14: Him so special and it's fantastic to catch situations and
Speaker 14: how it's hillball for him.
Speaker 7: It seems like he's making all.
Speaker 10: These Yeah, he's big, long, strong, physical, and he's grown
Speaker 10: up over the last you know, I don't first first year,
Speaker 10: he wasn't making a ton of those plays, and then
Speaker 10: we'd come back in twenty twenty one, he's maybe most
Speaker 10: of them since that's credit to how serious he takes
Speaker 10: in how much he works and likes to improve.
Speaker 13: The first one was the goal cause it wou where.
Speaker 3: It was the goal?
Speaker 13: And then what was the second one?
Speaker 10: The second one basically turned into that too, basically turning
Speaker 10: down chus.
Speaker 22: Prass talked a lot about his development and trying to
Speaker 22: be like a receiver bad whatever you've seen, especially how
Speaker 22: since day and developing in that area.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it really provides us a lot of versatility. And
Speaker 10: we've been able to put two backs on the field
Speaker 10: cause we feel so good about Smaje and obviously we
Speaker 10: feel good about Chase and uh, now that provides challenges
Speaker 10: for the defense. How are they gonna take that? How
Speaker 10: are they gonna play that with their personnel? What coverages
Speaker 10: are there? Are they gonna play with that?
Speaker 13: Cause?
Speaker 10: Uh, if I was the defense, I wouldn't feel great
Speaker 10: about a linebacker cover and Chase in space. He proved
Speaker 10: that on his his receiving touchdown today. And another guy
Speaker 10: that just loves to improve. And Chase his first year,
Speaker 10: I'm not sure he caught a ball in practice, and
Speaker 10: then he came back the next year and was catching
Speaker 10: everything and really took that to heart and has improved
Speaker 10: and it's turning in the players.
Speaker 11: Now is what are the players who played sample?
Speaker 24: Uh?
Speaker 13: Played sample?
Speaker 23: Wanted to throw it down when you falling across your body, Yeah,
Speaker 23: you're thinking maybe.
Speaker 13: They shouldn't do this, or do you thinking?
Speaker 11: You know?
Speaker 10: Well, but I was really just trying to throw it away,
Speaker 10: and I knew Drew was over there somewhere, so I
Speaker 10: was just going to throw it to the ground, and
Speaker 10: then I see Drew wide opening right there, and so
Speaker 10: I just popped it over to him and then he
Speaker 10: did the rest.
Speaker 19: Uh.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it was a crazy one.
Speaker 7: What was the uh?
Speaker 18: What was it really like on the sidelines on the
Speaker 18: third quarter as defense is getting stops and you guys
Speaker 18: are felt like Thompson was running back out.
Speaker 3: To go down and score. But I mean that was
Speaker 3: like the epit of me.
Speaker 13: Yeah, That's that's how it's supposed to look like. That's
Speaker 13: what it's supposed to feel like.
Speaker 10: So we gotta keep that feeling going these next couple
Speaker 10: of weeks and build some momentum.
Speaker 3: You would obviously, uh win exactly as for Joe flat thought.
Speaker 12: You would obviously don't enough to win the game at
Speaker 12: that point, But did you want to stay in No?
Speaker 9: I was good.
Speaker 13: I was good.
Speaker 22: How fun is it to be out there with all
Speaker 22: the leathers they were all out there.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 10: You just see how it changes how defenses playoffs and
Speaker 10: all the different things that they're worried about, and all
Speaker 10: of our different looks that we show.
Speaker 13: And prides.
Speaker 10: With more versatility, more things we can do, more personnel packages,
Speaker 10: it just really opens it up for cause you can.
Speaker 5: Feel like some of the highest today and then against
Speaker 5: Buffalo were some of the pigs would last year.
Speaker 10: You know, I feel like today and and against Buffalo
Speaker 10: were we were really consistent. You know, how they chose
Speaker 10: to play us today, I felt like a lot a
Speaker 10: lot like twenty twenty one. You know, we we hit
Speaker 10: our plays down the field when they came, but for
Speaker 10: the most part, we were getting it, getting out quick,
Speaker 10: getting it underneath, and our guys.
Speaker 13: Were making plays after the catch. That's really what's critical.
Speaker 10: When we get the opportunities, we have to hit them
Speaker 10: to scare defenses out of playing those kinds of coverages,
Speaker 10: and then we can start to, you know, get our
Speaker 10: past game going with all the zones that we like
Speaker 10: to attack and that our coaches do such a good
Speaker 10: job of providing those concepts for us and teaching them, showing.
Speaker 13: Us what to look at and what we how we
Speaker 13: have to play each play.
Speaker 7: Did they get I think it puts a lot girl.
Speaker 13: Did you did you get them out of it to
Speaker 13: stop doing it or what?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 13: How did you try to? Yeah?
Speaker 10: I just think I think that the Tea's two plays
Speaker 10: early on really just set the tone. Like you said,
Speaker 10: they were pressuring a little bit early, and team makes
Speaker 10: those two plays and then they they can't pressure as
Speaker 10: much and when they do, they have to play different
Speaker 10: coverages behind it, and so that light just get them
Speaker 10: all out quickly and in the space.
Speaker 13: And so it just started with those two from Tea.
Speaker 3: We saw you like you.
Speaker 11: They had to touch on your routine. You do kind
Speaker 11: of made the pressure like that dozens of time, and
Speaker 11: more than that, throughout your rear in that moment, what
Speaker 11: you could thinking, what do you feel it? What what's
Speaker 11: going on in your head?
Speaker 10: Well I just started to to move a little bit,
Speaker 10: and then I was like, we're in field goal range.
Speaker 10: I kind of gotta throw this away at this point.
Speaker 10: So I was just trying to find a place that
Speaker 10: I could dump it and live to see another down.
Speaker 13: And drew pops right there. Great job by him finding
Speaker 13: the space and realizing what was happening. You know, Trae.
Speaker 13: Drew's improved so much at that over the course.
Speaker 11: Of his career.
Speaker 10: And then he had another good one on the uh
Speaker 10: He scrambled left and ended up hitting Jamar, But Drew
Speaker 10: had a great reaction on that one too. I could
Speaker 10: have thrown it to him as well for for a touchdown,
Speaker 10: it would have been a little more difficult throw, so
Speaker 10: I chose the the other one.
Speaker 9: But Drew's just.
Speaker 10: Really embrace his role over the last couple of years
Speaker 10: and continue to improve and and carve out a bigger
Speaker 10: role based on how he's performed. Zach talked about killer
Speaker 10: instinct and kind of complimentated you guys on that day.
Speaker 3: I'm curious how more that is for you.
Speaker 2: To stipulating how to keep that role when you have.
Speaker 3: One of your teams and one they have.
Speaker 10: Yeah, when when you have a chance to to put
Speaker 10: it away or go up two scores or three scores,
Speaker 10: you have to take those opportunities.
Speaker 19: You have to.
Speaker 10: Because teams in the NFL are too good to let
Speaker 10: him hang around, and you know, guys on the other
Speaker 10: side of the field are gonna make plays. That's that's
Speaker 10: how this league goes, and so when you have a
Speaker 10: chance to do it, you gotta take advantage. How much fun,
Speaker 10: Yeah it was fun. I'm having fun playing football. Not
Speaker 10: playing football is not fun. And you're sitting in a
Speaker 10: locker room rehabit all day, that's that's not.
Speaker 6: Why you do it.
Speaker 13: This is why you do it. Right here and come back.
Speaker 9: This is one of you. I think this is your
Speaker 9: second best passive league.
Speaker 14: It's a week after he stepped up and said, hey,
Speaker 14: put this on me personally satisfying.
Speaker 3: This is the puns back.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 13: I thought I played a clean game. I thought I
Speaker 13: protected the ball for the most part. I got greedy
Speaker 13: with one over the middle.
Speaker 10: But that's that's how I have to play, play within
Speaker 10: this game and then take my opportunities to try to
Speaker 10: make a play when when I can. But I'm gonna
Speaker 10: limit limit that for the most part at this point.
Speaker 10: But I was just happy with with how we all
Speaker 10: execute it.
Speaker 22: To hear the fifth fastest quarterback to over twenty pass
Speaker 22: to your career and you're the third player in the
Speaker 22: first seventy five games.
Speaker 11: So pill Rogers gave me more passive touchdowns does.
Speaker 2: That mean anything.
Speaker 13: I've missed. I missed a full season of games too,
Speaker 13: so should have been more.
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow after the game, still ahead, Fantastic fun Facts.
Speaker 2: We've talked about the special teams. To put more of
Speaker 2: a spotlight on the special teams. With a guy who
Speaker 2: keeps making plays there, Joe Giles Harris. As we continue
Speaker 2: with Bengals Line Bengals Radio Network at seven hundred WLW, he'd.
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Speaker 2: On this Monday night, we are flying through our third hour.
Speaker 2: We go sort through yesterday's win over the Dolphins, and
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Speaker 2: We've talked about how the complimentary football rained yesterday for
Speaker 2: the Bengals. They did it offensively, defensively, and with special teams.
Speaker 2: Let's put the focus back on special teams each week.
Speaker 2: We love Dan Horde's fantastic fun Facts where he kind
Speaker 2: of pulls back the curtain. We learn more about the player,
Speaker 2: more about the person beyond the helmet. Here is a
Speaker 2: conversation with the special teams. Extraordinary Joe Giles Harris and
Speaker 2: Fantastic fun Facts.
Speaker 1: No fantastic fun facts with Dan Ord.
Speaker 11: Time for some fun facts with linebacker and special teams
Speaker 11: stand out Joe Giles Harris. I know you played football
Speaker 11: in Montvale, New Jersey, which isn't too far from New
Speaker 11: York City. Where exactly did you live growing up?
Speaker 24: I lived in New York growing up, so it's about
Speaker 24: fifteen minute rod right outside of all right outside of
Speaker 24: New Jersey.
Speaker 11: Do you consider yourself a New York City guy, a
Speaker 11: Jersey guy? How would you label yourself just.
Speaker 24: In New York and not New York City, not New
Speaker 24: Jersey guy. I love everybody I'm from New York. I
Speaker 24: love that about myself. I love the energy in New York.
Speaker 24: I love New York. I love everything that it revids
Speaker 24: and what it's about. So I tell everybody I'm from
Speaker 24: New York. Joe, what sports did you play growing up?
Speaker 24: And when did you know that football would ultimately be
Speaker 24: your path forward? So growing up we played everything, and
Speaker 24: then when I got the high school played football, basketball, lacrosse.
Speaker 24: But for me football was everything from an early age.
Speaker 24: My dad coach high school football from the time I
Speaker 24: was born, so I've been on the field in pampers
Speaker 24: and as long as I can remember, and it's the
Speaker 24: only thing I ever wanted to do. My mom jokes
Speaker 24: and will tell stories, so I told her that I
Speaker 24: wasn't going to college to stay classes. I was going
Speaker 24: there for chalk talk and film prep and things like that.
Speaker 24: That's what I was gonna do in college. So being
Speaker 24: able to be here now, it's a blessing. But I
Speaker 24: pretty much knew football was my path all.
Speaker 11: You played college football at Duke, which means you were
Speaker 11: probably a very good student in high school. Was that
Speaker 11: important in your family? Absolutely.
Speaker 24: My mom and my grandmother were both teachers, so that
Speaker 24: was pushed on us big from the early, from early on,
Speaker 24: and when it came to it, it's like, well why not,
Speaker 24: do you know, it's the best of both worlds. I
Speaker 24: got to play very competitive, powerful football and get one
Speaker 24: of the best educations in the country, So, I mean
Speaker 24: it was a win win for me.
Speaker 11: Coach k was the basketball coach throughout your tenure at Duke.
Speaker 11: Did you interact?
Speaker 24: I mean we saw him a couple of times. I
Speaker 24: wouldn't say I knew him personally, but there was a
Speaker 24: couple times he spoke to the football program and you know,
Speaker 24: going to the game and things like that. But it
Speaker 24: was definitely cool to see like a living legend in person,
Speaker 24: especially his last couple of years I was there, So
Speaker 24: it was pretty cool.
Speaker 11: While you were Duke, you were the three time winner
Speaker 11: of the Vincent Ray Award, which goes to the best
Speaker 11: linebacker at Duke. And Vinnie Ray, of course, is here
Speaker 11: in Cincinnati played for the Bengals. He is currently the
Speaker 11: team chaplain. Have you two hit it off now that
Speaker 11: you're here in Cincinnati.
Speaker 24: So it's funny, you know, being at Duke for the
Speaker 24: four years, that was the name I heard every day.
Speaker 24: I heard Vinnie Ray would do this, Vinie Ray would
Speaker 24: do that, Vini Ray wouldn't have done this, or and
Speaker 24: it was back and forth. And I didn't actually meet
Speaker 24: Vinnie until this past year, this past spring at an
Speaker 24: event the NFL host over the summer, and I got
Speaker 24: to meet Vini for the first time. And it was
Speaker 24: funny because I'm like, I know so much about you,
Speaker 24: but I don't know you. And since you know, he's
Speaker 24: been nothing but a blessing to me and my family
Speaker 24: and between getting settled in since the Bible studies, meeting
Speaker 24: with him one on one. You know, it's been really
Speaker 24: cool to you know, build that relationship. And Vinie's a
Speaker 24: New York guy who went to Duke, and I'm a
Speaker 24: New York guy I went to Duke, so it kind
Speaker 24: of just worked out hand in hand.
Speaker 11: We're visiting with Joe Giles Harris. You had a great
Speaker 11: career at Duke, team MVP, two time first Team All
Speaker 11: acc or a team captain there your final year, did
Speaker 11: you expect to get drafted and was it a big
Speaker 11: disappointment when you weren't? Oh, I think so.
Speaker 24: I think for me, you know, that's obviously for everybody,
Speaker 24: it's the ultimate goals to get drafted, and when it
Speaker 24: didn't happen, you know, it hurt a little bit. But
Speaker 24: I come from a competitive household and my brother plays
Speaker 24: profession lacross and things like that, so there was no
Speaker 24: sulking in the moment. It was just all right, what
Speaker 24: are you gonna do to stay? What are you gonna
Speaker 24: do to you know, actually make it? Because you're not
Speaker 24: the first the first door is not open, so you
Speaker 24: got to walk to the second door. So for me,
Speaker 24: it was disappointing, but I think it also taught me
Speaker 24: a lot of things about myself, and it taught me
Speaker 24: that if I really wanted, I had to put in
Speaker 24: that much more work to get to where I'm at.
Speaker 24: And seven years later, I'm still here doing it. So uh,
Speaker 24: blessed for how it's gone. How it started was kind
Speaker 24: of roup, but you know, figured it.
Speaker 11: Out because of the way NFL accounting works. The roster
Speaker 11: says you have two years of NFL experience, and it's
Speaker 11: always annoying to me because the truth is, this is
Speaker 11: your seventh NFL season, including time that you've spent on
Speaker 11: practice squads. It's a good living regardless of what your
Speaker 11: status is on the roster. What's been the key for
Speaker 11: you to remain an NFL player for seven years?
Speaker 24: For me, I think it's just been simple. You know,
Speaker 24: show up to work every day and work. There's somebody
Speaker 24: coming in and take your spot every day. There's a
Speaker 24: hundred guys who are getting truts every day, and so
Speaker 24: what are you doing in that building to stand out
Speaker 24: on a consistent basis? So it's you know, I've built
Speaker 24: a routine being consistent and just being vocal and being
Speaker 24: a leader. And when you get your opportuny to make plays,
Speaker 24: make plays. That's the league about. The more plays you make,
Speaker 24: the longer you stay, the less players you're make, gonna
Speaker 24: have to find something else to do.
Speaker 11: I introduced you off the top as a linebacker, and
Speaker 11: special teams stand out right now. Pro Football Focus has
Speaker 11: you graded number eleven among all special teams players in
Speaker 11: the NFL so far this year. You've had several tackles
Speaker 11: and kick coverage in recent weeks. How much of special
Speaker 11: team's success is all out effort and how much is
Speaker 11: knowledge and technique?
Speaker 24: Well, I think you know it's a combination of both.
Speaker 24: But shout out you know coach Daron, Coach Ben, and
Speaker 24: you know the guys in the unit. You know, I'm
Speaker 24: just the guy who's been lucky enough to have a
Speaker 24: couple of tackles these past few games. But it comes
Speaker 24: down to film study and just working hard. And you know,
Speaker 24: I think for a lot of guys, you know, early
Speaker 24: on you can kind of look at special teams as
Speaker 24: that I don't want to play special teams. I want
Speaker 24: to be a defensiveuy. I want to be offensive guy.
Speaker 24: But it's just as important. It's it's just as fun,
Speaker 24: and you know, guys carve out roles doing that. So
Speaker 24: for me, like I told you, just being consistent and
Speaker 24: doing what I have to do to stay in a
Speaker 24: building and you know, getting the opportunity to play there
Speaker 24: and it's been nothing but good to me and kind
Speaker 24: of opened my eyes a little more special teams the world.
Speaker 24: And I just thank my film studying things for being
Speaker 24: able to be in the right place the right time.
Speaker 11: Maybe in a perfect world, you get drafted by a team,
Speaker 11: you spend a decade with that team, and that's your
Speaker 11: NFL career. That's not been the path for you. On
Speaker 11: the other hand, you've probably made hundreds of friends, and
Speaker 11: the different teams you've been with, you've seen how it
Speaker 11: works in different places. Says you've lived in different cities.
Speaker 11: Have you enjoyed that part of your career.
Speaker 24: Absolutely, I don't think any of this for granted. I've
Speaker 24: made nothing but great relationships, and you know, just the
Speaker 24: people I've met along the way have been amazing, and
Speaker 24: that you know, there's people you met along the way
Speaker 24: who aren't amazing, but it's just.
Speaker 6: Part of the process.
Speaker 24: But I'd say the overall knowledge I've gained just from
Speaker 24: the business side of it, how the NFL works. You
Speaker 24: know what locker rooms are like and things like that.
Speaker 24: I think it's kind of really helped me, you know,
Speaker 24: stay focused and stay grounded and things like that, and
Speaker 24: to really like it's been nothing but a blessing.
Speaker 11: Like I've loved this process.
Speaker 6: It's been hard.
Speaker 24: There's been days where I'm like, this is not it,
Speaker 24: this is the worst thing in the world, but it's
Speaker 24: you know, everything's turned the corner for me, and I'm
Speaker 24: grateful for it. I came to this lead with no kids.
Speaker 24: I have two kids now, two beautiful kids who have
Speaker 24: now part of this process. My wife's part of the process.
Speaker 24: So it's been good for us. It's given us a
Speaker 24: different perspective. Got to live in different areas of the country,
Speaker 24: which is cool, you know, being from New York, I
Speaker 24: only wanted to live in New York.
Speaker 6: It was good.
Speaker 24: I was able to branch out and do things like that.
Speaker 24: But it's been a blessing and I cherished every Every
Speaker 24: place I've been at has been good for me and
Speaker 24: my family, and I'm just forever grateful.
Speaker 11: All Right, A few wild card topics now for Joe
Speaker 11: Giles Harris, since you mentioned having two kids, son, daughter,
Speaker 11: one of each, and what's your favorite thing about being
Speaker 11: a dad.
Speaker 24: My son is two years old and my daughter's one
Speaker 24: year old, Blaze and Breeze, and I think my favorite
Speaker 24: part of being a dad is coming home and hearing
Speaker 24: what they had to say about their day and you know,
Speaker 24: what they did or what I did. And my son's
Speaker 24: at the age where he understands things now and wants
Speaker 24: to play football. So I get home and Dad, you
Speaker 24: didn't make a tackle the day, And I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 24: I know, I didn't make a tackle.
Speaker 11: Money I'm trying, so just that part.
Speaker 24: But it's just coming home and you know, seeing there's
Speaker 24: something more important than whatever you got going on that day.
Speaker 24: So I love to My daughter runs to me every
Speaker 24: time I come in the house, whether it's because she
Speaker 24: was being bad that day or she just wants to
Speaker 24: see me.
Speaker 11: It is, you know, to be determined, but just.
Speaker 24: Seeing their face, seeing their smiles, and remember there's you know,
Speaker 24: there's people counting on me to be more than a
Speaker 24: football player, and I think that's the best part about it.
Speaker 11: You have a hyphenated last name, Giles Harris. Was that
Speaker 11: always the case or did you make that choice?
Speaker 24: That's been always the case My mom and my dad
Speaker 24: neither one wanted to get up their last name, and
Speaker 24: it sounds great and it's original, and when you see it,
Speaker 24: you know who I am. So the only people who
Speaker 24: have that last name are people blood related to me.
Speaker 24: So I think I think it's a blessing. It helps
Speaker 24: me stand out and it's unique.
Speaker 11: So I appreciate you referenced your brother, JT. Earlier, a
Speaker 11: professional lacrosse player for the Denver Outlaws. He is a
Speaker 11: three time All Star in the Premier Lacrosse League. Tell
Speaker 11: us a little bit about his career.
Speaker 24: Oh, well, my brother has been, you know, the best
Speaker 24: player at lacrosse in my opinion, and I know that
Speaker 24: probably doesn't carry well because I live in the house,
Speaker 24: but he's been the best lacrosse player I've seen in
Speaker 24: a long time. He plays defense, you know, he played
Speaker 24: defense playing growing up, playing football and things like that,
Speaker 24: so kind of translated. But he's had, you know, a
Speaker 24: heck of probably a better career than I have had,
Speaker 24: to be honest. He you know, was a Defensive Player
Speaker 24: of the Year in college, All American most of his
Speaker 24: time in college. I think he won Defensive Player of
Speaker 24: the Year already in the PLL. So he's just a study,
Speaker 24: handles his business. He approaches every day coming some of
Speaker 24: what I do, you know, just attack the day mentality,
Speaker 24: and he's just a competitor, like there's a fire in
Speaker 24: him and it burns and he's gonna get his job
Speaker 24: none no matter what.
Speaker 11: Out there than football, what are you good at.
Speaker 24: Depends on yes. I think I'm a pretty good basketball
Speaker 24: player myself. Basketball, you know, and I like to just
Speaker 24: hang out. I'm a big I love to watch movies
Speaker 24: and do things like that. I love history, so I
Speaker 24: like to watch, you know, the trivia stuff and like
Speaker 24: things like that and.
Speaker 11: Test my brain. But those are pretty much small things.
Speaker 11: I'm gonna all right. Final fun fact for Joe Giles Harris.
Speaker 11: This one's kind of deep. If you could meet anyone
Speaker 11: in history, living or deceased, who would that person be.
Speaker 24: I say, right now, off the top of my head,
Speaker 24: probably Barack Obama, and I would just, you know, just
Speaker 24: want to pick his brain about you know, he was
Speaker 24: the first black president of the United States, and you
Speaker 24: know the things he went through growing up and the
Speaker 24: things he went through as our president. So just to
Speaker 24: kind of pick his brain and see where he's at,
Speaker 24: you know, because it takes a strong person to you know,
Speaker 24: lead this country, and especially when you're the first of
Speaker 24: you know, a group to do that. So just pick
Speaker 24: his brain and you know, just get to know him.
Speaker 24: I think that would be probably the person I want to.
Speaker 11: Meet the most. This has been great, appreciate your time.
Speaker 11: Best of left the rest of the year.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 11: I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Love the Dan Horde, fun facts and and Joe Giles,
Speaker 2: Harris Davis is just one of those guys. It seems
Speaker 2: Darren Simmons will have an eye for somebody and be
Speaker 2: able to add him to this and and and they
Speaker 2: just they become a force. He just makes tackles on
Speaker 2: special teams. And probably at the start of the season
Speaker 2: there were very few fans who knew of him. But man,
Speaker 2: Darren Simmons saw something, plugged him in and he's been rewarded.
Speaker 3: And boy, I'll tell you what nobody sees uh or
Speaker 3: evaluate talent with the eye of a guy like Darren Simmons,
Speaker 3: who has so much experience in the National Football League.
Speaker 3: He was a punter himself. He understands special teams, understands
Speaker 3: the importance of special teams, understands the role of a
Speaker 3: special teams player, and man, he just has a knack
Speaker 3: for unearthing these guys. Man, I mean he just out
Speaker 3: of a group of players when he's at the combine,
Speaker 3: he finds himself. Like you talked about Lance nuggets, potential nuggets,
Speaker 3: and then you know he'll he'll get them signed, cultivate them,
Speaker 3: you know, just almost like a jeweler turning coal into
Speaker 3: a diamond. That's what Darren Simmons does with players, and
Speaker 3: he's done it for years. He's he's more than proven commodity.
Speaker 3: There's no question about that. Darren Simmons is as good
Speaker 3: as it gets in the NFL with special teams.
Speaker 2: We continue on with the Cardinals ahead and game balls
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Speaker 2: Couple of thoughts on those Arizona Cardinals who are three
Speaker 2: and twelve. Kind of a mess of a season. It
Speaker 2: started out with great hopes. They started two and oh
Speaker 2: and they've gone one and twelve since then. They dropped
Speaker 2: seven straight late interception yesterday sealed their fate, and three
Speaker 2: and twelve overall. Although I would circle and I have
Speaker 2: highlighted one name tight end of all things, cover the
Speaker 2: tight end this week, because Trey McBride has one hundred
Speaker 2: and nine catches for one thousand and ninety eight yards
Speaker 2: and ten touchdowns this season.
Speaker 3: Oh man, man, I'll tell you what. Hat's tip of
Speaker 3: the cap. Hats off to McBride to be the bright
Speaker 3: spot in such a horrific season for football team three
Speaker 3: and twelve, and to put up those numbers, man, because
Speaker 3: obviously he's been targeted. It's like, this guy is killing it.
Speaker 3: This guy's having a Pro Bowl season. We have to
Speaker 3: eliminate him as an option as a weapon, and he
Speaker 3: continues to make plays. So, you know, credit the Arizona
Speaker 3: Cardinals coaching staff for finding waste to keep him involved offensively,
Speaker 3: and credit him for playing at a high level and
Speaker 3: staying healthy and all those good things. And making plays
Speaker 3: and the quarterbacks for finding them. And but boy, that's
Speaker 3: a that's a rough season. I experienced a four and
Speaker 3: twelve season, and I can tell you it is no
Speaker 3: fun whatsoever. I mean, you get tired of each other. Man,
Speaker 3: It's almost you know, it's like, when is this going
Speaker 3: to end? When is the misery and the drudgery you're
Speaker 3: going to end?
Speaker 9: So and Dave.
Speaker 2: That sets it up to me perfectly. They're traveling. They
Speaker 2: got to come all the waycross country here. It's not
Speaker 2: going to be cold, but it's going to be about
Speaker 2: fifty I think I saw on sun. But this is
Speaker 2: one of those games where you you cause you want
Speaker 2: to give the Cardinals a reason to check out early
Speaker 2: score on the opening drive, get them behind the eight ball,
Speaker 2: see how interested they are in playing, because they just
Speaker 2: may want to get back on.
Speaker 3: The play absolutely. You know, their biggest desire may be
Speaker 3: heading back to Arizona, being with their families. You know,
Speaker 3: I mean, start this chrismas, Yeah, why do we have
Speaker 3: to play a football game? You know, there's no reason
Speaker 3: for it. Plus you want to if you're the Bengals,
Speaker 3: you want to win the last three. Yep, you want
Speaker 3: to go out on a high note. And it's not
Speaker 3: great competition obviously Arizona and Cleveland. But you know, you
Speaker 3: got one under your belt beating the Miami Dolphins. Why
Speaker 3: not get two more? And people are going to say, hey,
Speaker 3: you know, but look at the competition. So what wins
Speaker 3: in the National Football League you don't take for granted.
Speaker 3: They're not easy to come by. And if you can
Speaker 3: use it as a building block to get off to
Speaker 3: a quick start in twenty twenty six, I'm all for it.
Speaker 2: Final segment ahead, and that's saving the best for last
Speaker 2: game balls. You hear the presentation from the locker room
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Speaker 2: When the Bengals win, we love to hear the presentation
Speaker 2: after the game of game balls. This is what it
Speaker 2: sounded like we faced a.
Speaker 25: Tune versus the last two weeks, so a lot of
Speaker 25: people that doubted you. Okay, I question how you were
Speaker 25: gonna respond, question how you've been this week. All you
Speaker 25: did was respond exactly how our coaching staff and you
Speaker 25: guys need to respond exactly how you came out here
Speaker 25: in a vacation weather and week sixteen. Okay, we know
Speaker 25: our playoff status, and all you did was handle business.
Speaker 7: At halftime, we said we gotta win. The turnobels seventeen
Speaker 7: to fourteen, no turnovers to no turnovers. Came out.
Speaker 25: You got four straight damn. The offense went down, scored
Speaker 25: four straight touchdown. The kickoff team was nails, hit them
Speaker 25: down the second half. Okay, Ryan ricco four inside the twenty.
Speaker 25: I saw kid returners getting loose, Williams toss Brooks, get
Speaker 25: the poet return, Keyshawn taking one twenty something yonder. I'll
Speaker 25: tell you the cub get into more of the stats here. Okay,
Speaker 25: everyone's getting a game ball, because for me, that ball
Speaker 25: was significant. That game was significant.
Speaker 2: Kay.
Speaker 25: Every coach, every staff member, every player responded the way
Speaker 25: we had responded. We had no other choice. And all
Speaker 25: I got, dudes, come down here and kick them. But
Speaker 25: I'm probably okay. But there's some things I want to
Speaker 25: point out.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 25: First of all, o line batcha tails off, Okay. For starters,
Speaker 25: Joe Burrow is twenty five to thirty two for three
Speaker 25: hundred and nine and four touchdowns. He's the fifth fastest
Speaker 25: quarterback in the league history to hit twenty thousand yards,
Speaker 25: my fastest quarterback in the league history to throw it
Speaker 25: for one hundred and fifty touchdowns.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 25: Jamar Chase seven games this season with omber one hundred.
Speaker 25: That's a Bengals record. If we went over five hundred
Speaker 25: career catches, which is the third fastest in NFL. Hiss
Speaker 25: Brown three touchdowns today, My second player in Bengals history
Speaker 25: score three and a quarter.
Speaker 7: Mine the second. The state isn't the biggest.
Speaker 25: That touchdown fell great coming back and see Higgins that
Speaker 25: went back huge, go right early when we're backed up.
Speaker 25: Big touchdown on the defensively, Man couldn't be prouder. Since
Speaker 25: Week twelve eleven takeaways most of the NFL. I thought
Speaker 25: Jordan Battle knocking out Miles Murphy recovering.
Speaker 8: The last run.
Speaker 7: I thought Josh Duton tipped that ball up and Mark
Speaker 7: Connor pick it off. That's all huge fourth and one
Speaker 7: hand by the entire defense. That counts as a turnover.
Speaker 25: Guys, you proved here we are. That's a huge character win.
Speaker 25: You gotta do it two more times. Let's keep this out.
Speaker 8: That's all.
Speaker 2: We love the sound of Victory Bengals beating the Miami Dolphins. Dave,
Speaker 2: Merry Christmas, Yid, Merry Christmas, listeners, Merry Christmas, and uh,
Speaker 2: I like Victory Mondays heading into Christmas.
Speaker 3: I'll take it absolutely absolutely, and men, it's a pleasure
Speaker 3: working with you every week, no question about it. You
Speaker 3: guys are prose pros. And with that said, Merry Christmas
Speaker 3: to all, into all, good night, perfect.
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