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Speaker 1: how are we doing tonight?
Speaker 2: And you live Rocky. Sometimes he'll text you and uh,
Speaker 2: the guy that's supposed to show up at the right
Speaker 2: location shows up at the wrong law location, not saying
Speaker 2: that ever, happen to me or anything.
Speaker 3: I still blame Lance, Mike. I still blame Lance no
Speaker 3: matter what is Mike, I wonder.
Speaker 2: That let's go you shouldn't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, let's go big picture first. Paint us a
Speaker 1: little picture. Give us a comparing contrast of just kind
Speaker 1: of the mood of the vibe around this team. You're
Speaker 1: around him every day from say two weeks ago to
Speaker 1: now with the arrival of Joe Flacco, and how this
Speaker 1: team has played since and where things stand.
Speaker 2: Well, that's a great question. Lance. That is markedly different.
Speaker 2: It's markedly more positive. And the word I would use
Speaker 2: is there's significantly more energy in the locker room because
Speaker 2: I think the Bengals have been interjected with the sense
Speaker 2: of hope that they have a guy in Joe Flacco
Speaker 2: who has a strong arm. He's won a Super Bowl,
Speaker 2: He's been through the Riggers, He's played as a starting quarterback,
Speaker 2: He's played in on many teams as a backup. He
Speaker 2: knows his role, and even as a backup to Joe Burrow,
Speaker 2: he still has this calmness about him and this leadership
Speaker 2: that he can provide, certainly to the younger players. And
Speaker 2: I think that was great last week before the Pittsburgh game.
Speaker 2: But I think going out and actually having the game
Speaker 2: Placo did, playing as cleanly as he did, watching the
Speaker 2: offense perform so much more efficiently, and getting to win
Speaker 2: in the closing seconds gave this team the sense that, Okay,
Speaker 2: now we can get back to where we were posts
Speaker 2: a pre Joe Burrow injury. And I think, you know,
Speaker 2: the energy and the hope are the two things that
Speaker 2: I've noticed pick up over the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: And trags to that note with Flaco come in and
Speaker 3: everyone knows how beloved Joe Burrow is and how loved
Speaker 3: he is in the locker room, and how the players,
Speaker 3: how he reacts with them, how they react with to him.
Speaker 3: If you pick up on any similarities or differences between
Speaker 3: Joe Burrow and Joe Flacco, just with how the players
Speaker 3: view him or how he, I guess it competes on
Speaker 3: a day to day basis.
Speaker 2: That is a very difficult question to answer, Rocky, and
Speaker 2: certainly Joe Flacco's been asked that question. We haven't had
Speaker 2: the chance to interview Joe Burrow yet since his injury,
Speaker 2: but Joe Flacco and I asked him this yesterday. He
Speaker 2: is trying, I think, to give Joe Burrow his space
Speaker 2: and let Joe Burrow talk when he wants to talk,
Speaker 2: and not you know, step over any boundaries. And you know,
Speaker 2: Jake Browning is a part of this equation as well,
Speaker 2: because let's not forget after three starts, Jake Browning was
Speaker 2: replaced by Joe Flacco when they went out and made
Speaker 2: the trade. So it's kind of an odd dynamic that's
Speaker 2: going on. But I think again, Joe Flacco, being the
Speaker 2: veteran he is, comes in, He's not stepping on any toes.
Speaker 2: He's very respectful of everybody. Uh. And you know, he's
Speaker 2: not trying to be Joe Burrow. He's not trying to
Speaker 2: do what Joe Burrow did. He's trying to come in
Speaker 2: and just run a very functional, highly functional offense with
Speaker 2: great weapons around it, uh and and make sure they
Speaker 2: perform to the level they're capable of. But off the field,
Speaker 2: I think, you know, the best way to put it
Speaker 2: with Joe Flacco, I think is he's laying low and
Speaker 2: trying to let you know, everybody in the locker room
Speaker 2: come to him.
Speaker 1: Trags. You talked with Dan Pitcher, Bengals up ins coordinator
Speaker 1: he is two years just over two years younger than
Speaker 1: than Joe Flacco. About Dan being able to pick up
Speaker 1: things from from Joe Flacco, and and how Dan thinks
Speaker 1: that maybe even Joe Burrow could pick up things from
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco.
Speaker 2: Well, I think this is really about Joe Flacco. When
Speaker 2: the play's not there, he gives up on it and says,
Speaker 2: we're going to live to play another down. When Joe
Speaker 2: Burrow sees the play breakdown, I think one of the
Speaker 2: critiques of Joe Burrow, and Burrow has acknowledged this himself.
Speaker 2: He tries to force the play into something productive. Uh
Speaker 2: And I you know, I think one of the things
Speaker 2: that he's learned, even as a superstar quarterback that he
Speaker 2: is Burrow needs to more often live to play another down.
Speaker 2: And on the play he got hurt against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 2: You know, Joe Sorry, Zach Taylor and Dan Picture both
Speaker 2: have acknowledged he probably should have given up on the
Speaker 2: play and gotten rid of the ball, but instead he
Speaker 2: held onto the ball and eventually, as we know, got
Speaker 2: sacked and injured on the play injuring his foot. And
Speaker 2: you know, that's one of the lessons I think comes
Speaker 2: with time. Even even Joe Burrow needs to learn. And
Speaker 2: I think that's one of the things that Dan Picture
Speaker 2: is learning from Joe Flacco is lived, lived to play
Speaker 2: another down.
Speaker 3: And you make a great point. It's it's even less
Speaker 3: about okay, you know, making a player, not making a play,
Speaker 3: it's about Joe Burrow's health. Give up on one and
Speaker 3: Zach Taylor or any football coach in the NFL will say,
Speaker 3: you know what, we rather have you be healthy then
Speaker 3: you you know, twirl around and throw a past seventy
Speaker 3: five yards down the field and we get a touchdown.
Speaker 3: They'll they'll give up that touchdown or even that win
Speaker 3: to have a healthy quarterback throughout the length this season.
Speaker 2: No question. And I think that's what the Bengals have to,
Speaker 2: you know, get through to Joe Burrow, and Joe Burrow
Speaker 2: has to be accepting of this. I think he will be.
Speaker 2: But you know, Joe Burrow is a stubborn athlete, and
Speaker 2: I mean that in the most positive sense. He wants
Speaker 2: to make whatever is in front of him work. And
Speaker 2: he has that mind, you know, Rocky, he processes so
Speaker 2: much information that when he processes that much information, he
Speaker 2: doesn't want to waste it. He wants to make use
Speaker 2: of it, and he wants to make something out of nothing.
Speaker 2: And Joe Flacco's not like that. He is Okay, if
Speaker 2: the play's not there, I'm not going to force it.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna again live to play another down. And you
Speaker 2: know that's the difference between the two quarterbacks. And I
Speaker 2: think that I'm curious to see how Joe Burrow plays
Speaker 2: when he returns, presumably in mid December, if the Bengals
Speaker 2: are A in it and B he's healthy enough to play.
Speaker 2: I'm curious to see if we see some very subtle,
Speaker 2: nuanced changes in the way Burrow attacks defenses.
Speaker 1: Trag's Jamar Chase continues to be must listen to every
Speaker 1: Thursday when he holds court. Today, tell explain to listeners
Speaker 1: what he said in terms of his rate on Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow through this and what was his reaction to Joe
Speaker 1: Flacco eating at restaurants by himself?
Speaker 2: Great, Okay, First of all, Jamar Chase ain't going out
Speaker 2: to restaurants by himself.
Speaker 3: We learned that today.
Speaker 2: And if he does and he's with Joe Flacco, He's
Speaker 2: gonna pull Joe Flacco aside and say, hey, Joe, We're
Speaker 2: going in the back room. We're gonna get a private
Speaker 2: waiter or waitress and have her or him or her
Speaker 2: serve us, and we're gonna have a nice quiet meal alone.
Speaker 2: We don't need to be out in public looking at
Speaker 2: other people. The thing he said about Joe Burrow that
Speaker 2: was interesting, Lance is that he thinks that Joe Burrows
Speaker 2: in a pretty good space mentally, and I thought that
Speaker 2: was pretty telling. He thinks that Joe Burrow's sporting the
Speaker 2: rock star hairdo you know the hair over his face
Speaker 2: that we saw before the Steeler game. That was pretty funny,
Speaker 2: but it's Jabar said it's hard to read Burrows sometimes
Speaker 2: in terms of his mood, and he tried to stay
Speaker 2: away from that as much as possible. But what he
Speaker 2: did tell us is he thinks that Burrows in a
Speaker 2: pretty good headspace.
Speaker 1: Schamar Stewart return from the ankle injury. Didn't have a
Speaker 1: game that caught your eye, certainly on Thursday night. Some
Speaker 1: of that I would think rust of not playing for
Speaker 1: a month either way, Yeah, they need more from him
Speaker 1: on Sunday, right.
Speaker 2: Especially if they give Trey Hendrickson another week to recuperate
Speaker 2: from the hip injury. They need Shamar Stewart to be better,
Speaker 2: more impactful. He only played I believe, twenty two snaps
Speaker 2: of the fifty eighth defensive snaps on Thursday night against Pittsburgh,
Speaker 2: and to his own admission yesterday, he said it was
Speaker 2: a sub far performance. I need to be better, but
Speaker 2: I think I will be better once I get more reps.
Speaker 2: He also said the ankle, any ankle injury is a
Speaker 2: tricky thing because it can, you know, improve very quickly,
Speaker 2: but it can also you know, you know, worsened very
Speaker 2: quickly if you don't treat it carefully, if you don't
Speaker 2: listen to your body. So that's one thing I think,
Speaker 2: you know, Jamar Stewart wants to go. I think he
Speaker 2: wanted to get on the field against the Steelers just
Speaker 2: to get the feel of playing game speed again on
Speaker 2: the ankle. This week, I think Shamar Stewart will be
Speaker 2: more of an impact and he should be against this
Speaker 2: Jets offensive line and against I'm gonna guess it's justin fields,
Speaker 2: just because of his ability to run the ball and
Speaker 2: what he did against the Bengals in Week two of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one. I think, you know, the Jets are
Speaker 2: going to go with Justin Fields, but we'll find out
Speaker 2: on Sunday.
Speaker 1: All right, treg for everybody wants to read, watch, and
Speaker 1: follow all you have. That's all over Bengals coverage. Tell
Speaker 1: them how they can go about doing that.
Speaker 2: Well. We're going to have a story up shortly tonight
Speaker 2: about Josh Newton talking about DJ Turner's emergent this year
Speaker 2: as a star cornerback in the NFL. We're also going
Speaker 2: to have a breakdown of the Logan Wilson trade demand
Speaker 2: that Ben Baby of ESPN broke late this afternoon. We'll
Speaker 2: have that up on Stealing s Sincy with a y
Speaker 2: dot com. You can follow Mike Jamar Chase interviews from
Speaker 2: today's press conference on Twitter at Trags t r ags
Speaker 2: and as always, the Jungle War podcast page at YouTube
Speaker 2: YouTube dot com slash at Jungle War Pod.
Speaker 1: Always fantastic stuff, Always good catching up. We'll talk again
Speaker 1: next week.
Speaker 2: Thank you, all right, gentlemen, take care.
Speaker 3: Thanks Trags.
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