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Speaker 2: within the sound of my voice, and Merry Christmas to
Speaker 2: the Cincinnati Bengals, who manufactured the most complete performance of the.
Speaker 3: Season today in Miami.
Speaker 2: After getting shut out last week by the Baltimore Ravens,
Speaker 2: the Bengals took it personally, vowing that it would never
Speaker 2: happen again, and it certainly was not gonna happen today.
Speaker 2: After the Bengals fell behind fourteen to ten in the
Speaker 2: second quarter, they reeled off thirty five consecutive points with
Speaker 2: an unbelievable third quarter that we will get to Jim Breach,
Speaker 2: Merry Christmas to you and your family, at least for
Speaker 2: one day. We can put a smile back on our faces.
Speaker 4: That's right, chick, And Merry Christmas to you and your
Speaker 4: family also, and Mike, I can't hear anything. Today was
Speaker 4: pretty awesome, actually, you know, they played, as you said,
Speaker 4: the most complete game they played all year.
Speaker 5: It was our standout.
Speaker 4: You mean, you hopeful games like that, and that's where
Speaker 4: turnovers are huge, so huge, like that third quarter.
Speaker 2: They had three turnovers in the third quarter that the
Speaker 2: Bengals took advantage of. Two interceptions, a fumble recovery, then
Speaker 2: a stop on fourth down, and man, here came the points.
Speaker 2: Incredible six trips inside the Miami red zone Miami University
Speaker 2: red zone, six touchdowns for the Bengals, forty five to
Speaker 2: twenty one.
Speaker 3: Jim.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, interestingly, apart from last week, Miami didn't
Speaker 4: play great, but they've been playing really really good football
Speaker 4: of late, and their defense was a big reason and
Speaker 4: their running game were the two big reasons they've been
Speaker 4: playing so well. And Bengals pretty much took advantage of both.
Speaker 4: You know, they played really well defensively, and on top
Speaker 4: of that, they moved the ball. They moved the ball,
Speaker 4: they made plays, They made some huge plays. You know,
Speaker 4: they Chase Brown an unbelievable game and just shows his
Speaker 4: abilities on both sides of the ball, just rushing and receiving.
Speaker 2: Also, we'll get to all the individual performances, and we
Speaker 2: have to give credit here to the Bengals really run defense.
Speaker 2: After the forty eight yard touchdown, the Bengals gave up
Speaker 2: eighty one yards on twenty seven carries for a three
Speaker 2: point zero per yard average.
Speaker 3: That was phenomenal today.
Speaker 5: It was, you know, and.
Speaker 4: That's one of the things that's gone on with this
Speaker 4: defense this year is they'll play stretches where they play
Speaker 4: really well and then they'll give up big yards, a
Speaker 4: big gashes and those yearsually go for touchdowns or long
Speaker 4: long plays like last week against It happened a few
Speaker 4: times against Baltimore last week, but really the only time
Speaker 4: it happened today was that play that Ashane went the distance.
Speaker 4: Apart from that, they played solid and they were tacked.
Speaker 4: They did decent job tackling, They were close to the ball,
Speaker 4: they were tackling quickly after.
Speaker 5: The ball was caught.
Speaker 4: All the things you need to do to keep make
Speaker 4: teams have to go on long drives and hopefully you
Speaker 4: come up with turnover somewhere along those drives.
Speaker 2: Last week and the shutout lost to Baltimore. The Bengals
Speaker 2: got to the thirty five yard line of the Ravens
Speaker 2: five times, they didn't score a point. Today they score
Speaker 2: forty five points. Just incredible. And hey, Joe Burrow coming
Speaker 2: off really his worst performance of his career last week
Speaker 2: and getting shut out. How about the bounce back performance today.
Speaker 2: Twenty five of thirty two, three hundred and nine yards,
Speaker 2: four touchdowns, no interceptions, He did get sacked twice, a
Speaker 2: passer rating of one forty six point five, and he
Speaker 2: passes twenty thousand passing yards in his incredible career.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, when you do something long enough and
Speaker 4: you're really good, you get to do it for a
Speaker 4: long time. There's some really good stuff's gonna happen, and
Speaker 4: that's how he'd get into those milestone But he was
Speaker 4: just his placement of the.
Speaker 5: Ball today was outstanding.
Speaker 4: Yes, you know throw he made to T Higgins into
Speaker 4: the right hand corner of the end zone where T
Speaker 4: tms only when to have had chance that ball, and
Speaker 4: he throws that so well.
Speaker 5: In the long one.
Speaker 4: Down the left hand sideline, he throws it up high
Speaker 4: because he's gonna go he's gonna go get it.
Speaker 5: He gets probably eighty percent of those.
Speaker 2: Like Joe said after the game, they were playing single
Speaker 2: high safety, but that changed real quick because of t Higgins.
Speaker 2: What the thirty six yarder down the or the thirty
Speaker 2: five yarder down the left sideline, and then the unbelievable
Speaker 2: catch in the end zone in the right corner and
Speaker 2: he drops to his knees, looks to the heavens, thanking
Speaker 2: a higher power in the Bengals go on to put
Speaker 2: on a great performance.
Speaker 4: I think he's probably thankful that he's back playing. Yes,
Speaker 4: you know, after the concussions he's had recently, and he
Speaker 4: was just every aspect of the game. Ryan Rico four
Speaker 4: kicks inside the twenty two of them inside or two
Speaker 4: of them around the five yard line.
Speaker 5: Outstanding job.
Speaker 4: Today, when you have to go ninety ninety five yards,
Speaker 4: your chances of scoring a touchdown are going to be limited.
Speaker 2: Jamar Chase nine catches for one hundred and nine yards,
Speaker 2: a long gain of thirty six. It's his twenty eighth
Speaker 2: game with over one hundred yards. Incredible t and you
Speaker 2: could hear the chance tea at hard Rock Stadium in
Speaker 2: Miami Gardens three catches fifty three yards, a seventeen point
Speaker 2: seven yard average long gain of thirty five and that
Speaker 2: one touchdown that was just incredible. And Chase Brown, Wow,
Speaker 2: that's all you can say.
Speaker 3: Wow wow, wow, wow wow.
Speaker 2: Twelve rushes sixty six yards, four catches forty three yards,
Speaker 2: three touchdowns on the day, a twelve yard touch down
Speaker 2: run and two tds two TD receptions. He touched the
Speaker 2: ball sixteen times for one hundred and nine yards. And man,
Speaker 2: he he hit holes quickly. He finishes runs, and when
Speaker 2: you finish a run, you don't go down on first
Speaker 2: contact and that's what Man, the contact balance that that
Speaker 2: guy has phenomenal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the testdown run, he had a great, a great
Speaker 4: cut around the seven to eight yard line. But you know,
Speaker 4: the offensive line doing a great job getting down into
Speaker 4: the second at the second level to make some blocks
Speaker 4: to kind of spring him too. So it, uh, everything
Speaker 4: everything was going today. Offensive line played really well, the
Speaker 4: defensive line played really well against a team that had
Speaker 4: been running the heck out of the ball lately. You
Speaker 4: know they were they had gone over one hundred and
Speaker 4: fifty two hundred yards consecutive games, and today they pretty
Speaker 4: much shut him down.
Speaker 2: Interceptions by Barry Carter and Jalen Davis both led to touchdowns.
Speaker 2: Jordan Battle and DJ Turner with forced fumbles, Miles Murphy
Speaker 2: gets the fumble recovery on battles forced fumble and man,
Speaker 2: when you get turnovers like that and on short fields,
Speaker 2: it bodes well for the Bengals.
Speaker 5: Yes it does.
Speaker 4: And that's what happened in the third quarter. Right that's
Speaker 4: why you can score twenty one points.
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Speaker 2: Bengals forty five to twenty one victory over the Miami
Speaker 2: Dolphins in Miami Gardens, Florida. And Jim was at a
Speaker 2: coincidence that right after the game in the postgame locker
Speaker 2: room that Dave Lapham was able to secure one Joe Burrow.
Speaker 2: I think it's for the first time this year in
Speaker 2: the locker room he's been able to grab Joe. And
Speaker 2: I don't think it was a coincidence because with the
Speaker 2: national media coming down like a gosh, like an anvil
Speaker 2: on this franchise, on the coaches on this team saying
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow is gonna walk into my Brown's office and
Speaker 2: demand a trade, Joe kind of set the record straight
Speaker 2: praising his teammates, praising his coaches, praising everyone and having
Speaker 2: fun today.
Speaker 3: With this big victory over the Miami Dolphins. He puts
Speaker 3: some of that talk to rest.
Speaker 4: I think his goal really when he said those things
Speaker 4: at that press conferences, he just wanted fighter for the
Speaker 4: national press, give him something to talk about.
Speaker 5: Yes, don't you think, well, I think he did it
Speaker 5: pretty well.
Speaker 2: Yes, we're the Bengals are the easiest punching bag in
Speaker 2: the National Football League.
Speaker 3: But Stephen A.
Speaker 2: Smith doesn't want to look at the Pittsburgh Steelers. Okay,
Speaker 2: they might be leading the division, but Aaron Rodgers cannot
Speaker 2: play forever, Cam Hayward is nearing retirement, and TJ.
Speaker 3: Watt is injured. So they've got issues. Every National Football
Speaker 3: League team has issues in this season for the Super
Speaker 3: Bowl is wide open.
Speaker 4: This would have been a great year to get into
Speaker 4: the playoffs, particularly in the AFC. I mean it's there's
Speaker 4: really no dominant team. I mean New England is is
Speaker 4: one of them and very easily could have beaten them
Speaker 4: driving down at the end of the game. Buffalo a
Speaker 4: couple of weeks ago had them beat in the fourth
Speaker 4: quarter up by by eleven. My my take from what
Speaker 4: Joe Burrow said wasn't about the organization and his teammates.
Speaker 5: To me, it was.
Speaker 4: More about the rehabbing he's got to go through and
Speaker 4: how lonely it is and how difficult it is, and
Speaker 4: and you're there because you're you're apart from you're separated
Speaker 4: from your teammates. You're doing all this by yourself. That
Speaker 4: to me is what I took from it. That it's
Speaker 4: it's he's had to do it several times and it's difficult,
Speaker 4: you know, mentally emotionally.
Speaker 5: That's hard.
Speaker 4: You have to go in there every day and get
Speaker 4: yourself ready for the next foot all season.
Speaker 5: That takes a.
Speaker 4: You have to be very strong mentally to continue to
Speaker 4: do that. And I thought that's what he was referring to.
Speaker 2: Actually, and I interviewed Tim McGee last night on seven
Speaker 2: hundred WLW, and I askting flat out, is Joe Burrow bengalized?
Speaker 2: And that means that that definition is when all the
Speaker 2: life and joy of playing for the Bengals get sucked
Speaker 2: out of you. And he said he is nearing that vacuum.
Speaker 2: And the problem is, Joe has had so much success.
Speaker 2: That's all he's ever known. Okay, wring the Heisman Trophy,
Speaker 2: the National Championship, being the number one overall draft pick,
Speaker 2: and then reaching a Super Bowl early in his career,
Speaker 2: and to have three consecutive seasons without the playoffs. Man,
Speaker 2: it takes a mental, physical, and emotional toll on you.
Speaker 4: You know, After our first super Bowl in eighty one,
Speaker 4: we thought, gosh, we'll go back a couple more time
Speaker 4: with this team, and it took till eighty eight, but
Speaker 4: then almost there were only.
Speaker 5: Eight of us.
Speaker 4: I think that went to both Yes, so that means
Speaker 4: we had almost complete you know, eighty five percent turnover.
Speaker 4: Every season is different and the NFL, unlike college football
Speaker 4: where Ohio State or LSU or these teams to get
Speaker 4: the majority of the five star you know, the SEC
Speaker 4: gets a lot of them. So if you can recruit
Speaker 4: really well, you're well ahead of the game. Yes, in
Speaker 4: the NFL, it's all about one how well you draft,
Speaker 4: how well you develop, because the talent level is very equal.
Speaker 4: So it's how many games come down to a one
Speaker 4: score game. I mean the average score in the league
Speaker 4: is a one score game. So those types of things.
Speaker 4: And Joe, yeah, he is unbelievably competitive. But from that standpoint,
Speaker 4: I would think that he would I would push him
Speaker 4: to want to even be better. However, today during the game,
Speaker 4: they showed all those players that have been drafted.
Speaker 3: Yes, it.
Speaker 5: Didn't look real good. Did as far as where guys are.
Speaker 4: In their development that has got that has definitely got
Speaker 4: to improve. If you're gonna be paying a lot of
Speaker 4: money to Burrow, Chase and Higgins. You've got to have
Speaker 4: young guys playing at a high level, and lately the
Speaker 4: defense is playing better. Some of those guys are really
Speaker 4: coming along. So it's really that's that's really a positive.
Speaker 5: That's exciting to see.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna throw this out there for all the fans listening,
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Speaker 2: now as awesome as t higgins touchdown reception was nine
Speaker 2: yards to give you the Bengals a seven and h
Speaker 2: in lead.
Speaker 3: The situation is.
Speaker 2: Third and ten at Miami's thirty eight yard line in
Speaker 2: the second quarter.
Speaker 3: Joe Burrow is under pressure.
Speaker 2: He rolls right and he throws backward over you know,
Speaker 2: on the other side of his body, across his body
Speaker 2: between the hash marks to tight end drew Sample and
Speaker 2: Sample rumbles twenty seven yards to the eleven yard line
Speaker 2: of the Dolphins, and that led to samajp Ryns touchdown,
Speaker 2: giving the Bengals a seventeen to fourteen lead that they.
Speaker 3: Would not lose.
Speaker 2: I am saying, I'm giving Drew sample the delivery of
Speaker 2: the game an unbelievable play.
Speaker 4: I totally agree, not only on his part to be
Speaker 4: aware enough that Joe is going away from him. So
Speaker 4: he really wasn't a part of the play as far
Speaker 4: as the blocking aspect of it, right, So he just
Speaker 4: let his guy go and dropped off.
Speaker 5: Joe is going away from him.
Speaker 4: But because he understands so well what they're doing where
Speaker 4: everybody is, he knows he can right back to him
Speaker 4: and he did beautifully.
Speaker 5: And that was a that was a huge, huge play.
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Speaker 2: the leading scorer in franchise history, and we're breaking down
Speaker 2: the Bengals forty five to twenty one victory over the
Speaker 2: Miami Dolphins like a wrecking ball.
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Speaker 3: The Big one.
Speaker 2: Bengals put it all together today, all three phases offense, defense,
Speaker 2: special teams trample the Miami Dolphins forty five to twenty one.
Speaker 3: Jim Breach.
Speaker 2: What does it all mean for a team that's five
Speaker 2: and ten with two games remaining?
Speaker 4: It means you're playing for your job every week that
Speaker 4: you go out, every game, you play, every practice, you practice,
Speaker 4: you're playing for your job, particularly in an area if
Speaker 4: they're struggling, like the defensive struggled. Fortunately has been playing better,
Speaker 4: but there's a lot of guys there there. They're playing
Speaker 4: for their job every time they go out, just like
Speaker 4: those rookies in the preseason. You know why, you know,
Speaker 4: I don't want to watch the preseason, but those guys
Speaker 4: playing at the end of the bench.
Speaker 5: It's huge right right now. These guys are playing for
Speaker 5: their jobs.
Speaker 4: And on top of that, so if you don't care,
Speaker 4: there's just a chance to draft somebody in your positions that
Speaker 4: you don't want that, no doubt. Yeah, you're playing for
Speaker 4: your job every time you go out and and nobody
Speaker 4: everybody's competitive too.
Speaker 5: So yeah, you didn't You didn't have the season you
Speaker 5: wanted to have.
Speaker 4: But you know this week we can go out and
Speaker 4: put something together.
Speaker 5: And you asked me earlier. Can carry over?
Speaker 4: Dan Horde had metched something about that in nineteen eighty
Speaker 4: I came for the last four games. The Bengals had
Speaker 4: three wins. Yes, coming off five straight losses in the
Speaker 4: last four weeks, we go three and one or one
Speaker 4: loss was.
Speaker 5: To the Cardiac kids. Did they kick the field goal
Speaker 5: with like a minute to go in the game?
Speaker 3: Was that a six and ten season? It was six
Speaker 3: and ten.
Speaker 4: The offense had only scored over twenty points once and
Speaker 4: then scored twice over twenty and once in the thirties.
Speaker 4: Because now you could feel the offense really coming together.
Speaker 4: And the next season we go to the Super Bowl
Speaker 4: because what we had continuity on our coaching staff, so
Speaker 4: people were comfortable with what was going on on both
Speaker 4: sides of the ball, and from then we just took off.
Speaker 4: So I think there can be carryover unless there's a
Speaker 4: huge personnel change and guys are starting all over. But
Speaker 4: like for instance, just taking a while for the defense
Speaker 4: to start playing as competitive as they have been. So
Speaker 4: if you have a huge turnover, you could be starting
Speaker 4: over again in a lot of ways. Or do they
Speaker 4: fill in some spots that are critical and go from there.
Speaker 2: When you mentioned the nineteen eighty one season, a tier
Speaker 2: forms in my eye thinking about the immortal head coach
Speaker 2: for US, Crag.
Speaker 3: Who came from the Browns.
Speaker 2: He did Cleveland Browns and fell out of favor with
Speaker 2: players up there or whatever.
Speaker 3: All he asked was eight hours work for eight hours pay.
Speaker 3: And you're right.
Speaker 2: They built some momentum at the end of nineteen eighty
Speaker 2: and then nineteen eighty one was a Super Bowl run.
Speaker 3: It took what seven more years to get back.
Speaker 2: Hopefully that's not the case here in Cincinnati with Joe
Speaker 2: Burrow in his prime.
Speaker 3: But right now, let's pause. Let's go out to the phones.
Speaker 3: Mike is in Norwood. Mike are you there, Yes, I'm here.
Speaker 6: Thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 3: I'll take my answer off the air.
Speaker 6: I was worrying about Joe Burrow in the off season,
Speaker 6: and I was wondering how many hookers and how much
Speaker 6: cocaine go on them.
Speaker 2: I didn't quite hear the question what he's going to
Speaker 2: do in the off season.
Speaker 3: Man, he can do anything he wants.
Speaker 2: Hey, he could go back to France and be a
Speaker 2: fashion model, because I think his face belongs on the
Speaker 2: cover of People magazine. Can I say it as the
Speaker 2: sexiest man in America? A little man love there for
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow? Is that insane, Jim breeching.
Speaker 4: Well, with the kind of money of these guys make,
Speaker 4: they can do anything they want, Yes, they can. Just
Speaker 4: so they prepare for the season. And these guys they do.
Speaker 4: They work hard, they come in they're off seasons. As
Speaker 4: far as preparation are amazing. These guys work really hard.
Speaker 4: But yet they have a staff time. You can't work
Speaker 4: out literally eight hours, eight ten hours a day.
Speaker 3: It's not like the old days, Jim, where guys got.
Speaker 2: Just showed up, well, say got jobs, that got jobs
Speaker 2: in the offeason they needed them. They were not making
Speaker 2: that much money playing prof national football.
Speaker 3: Now it's all life changing money.
Speaker 5: It is. It is. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I remember going home and I was working at a
Speaker 4: paper company. I'd work half a day and then I
Speaker 4: go do my workout. Did that for Joe I moved
Speaker 4: out here.
Speaker 5: So yeah, it's uh, it's different today just a little bit.
Speaker 2: But Joe has you know, he's talked about improving his
Speaker 2: really his off season workouts.
Speaker 3: He works extremely hard.
Speaker 2: He's uh, you know, he's got all kinds of people
Speaker 2: to help him with his diet and his you know
Speaker 2: is the cooking and the intake of.
Speaker 3: Food and everything. So he's going to be careful with
Speaker 3: all that.
Speaker 2: But the dude has style, he's got grace, he's got talent,
Speaker 2: and he might be the most important He's definitely the
Speaker 2: most important player, uh, in this franchise right now, perhaps
Speaker 2: in history.
Speaker 4: Jim very very positively he uh he he kind of he.
Speaker 5: Did something that nobody else has ever been able to do.
Speaker 4: Carson Palmer couldn't get some of the things done he
Speaker 4: wanted done. Joe Burrow was able to got T Higgins signed,
Speaker 4: Mike Yasicki brought back. So yeah, from that standpoint, it's
Speaker 4: different than anybody has ever done in this franchise's history.
Speaker 5: And there is a.
Speaker 4: The thing is, when you're a player, your window is
Speaker 4: not very large large. You're looking at a long career
Speaker 4: might be ten or twelve years for quarterback like him,
Speaker 4: he could be fifteen to twenty. But for optimal playing
Speaker 4: for all these guys, it's it's pretty small.
Speaker 5: You have a small window, and you.
Speaker 4: Hate that you lose three seasons in a row, for instance,
Speaker 4: where you really have great talent. You potentially have great
Speaker 4: talent if you think of Chasing Higgins and Joe, but
Speaker 4: they've only been on the field thirty seven percent of
Speaker 4: the time together. So gotta fear out ha to get
Speaker 4: him on the field together, to stay on the field together,
Speaker 4: and then have the other aspects, the complementary aspects, so
Speaker 4: they can get into the playoffs and have chances at
Speaker 4: the run at the super Bowl every year because they
Speaker 4: should be able to.
Speaker 5: But you know it's Dan Marino.
Speaker 4: Dan Marino got to one super Bowl and he never
Speaker 4: got back. Dan Fouts never got to a Super Bowl
Speaker 4: with an unbelie maybe a better offense than the Bengals have.
Speaker 2: Right now, we could talk about the history forever.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one super Bowl for Dan Marino. They got beat
Speaker 2: handily by the San Francisco forty nine ers at Stanford Stadium.
Speaker 3: I believe it was nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 2: It was and he had great wide receivers in the
Speaker 2: Marx Brothers, Mark Clayton and Mark Duper, so he only
Speaker 2: made one. So we hope Joe will be able to
Speaker 2: get back and really hopefully both Joe's.
Speaker 3: I would love to have Flacco back next year. I
Speaker 3: really would.
Speaker 4: Is Jose back on, It'll be interesting because he said, really,
Speaker 4: every time he sits out, he goes somewhere and has
Speaker 4: an opportunity to play. And it's obvious he has no
Speaker 4: trouble picking up an offense. He played it after three
Speaker 4: days and he went out and played really well. So
Speaker 4: he might want to say I'm gonna take my chances
Speaker 4: and go somewhere where I could actually start.
Speaker 5: But unless he enjoys being here.
Speaker 2: Let's go back out to the phones. Do we have
Speaker 2: Carl in my old stomping grounds, Oak Hills?
Speaker 7: Hey, guys, I'm a long suffering Reds and Bengals fans.
Speaker 7: We'll leave the red for another day, but this is
Speaker 7: what I have.
Speaker 8: To say tonight.
Speaker 7: I'm glad that the winning time the Bengals win makes
Speaker 7: me happy, So I mean, there's no frustrating.
Speaker 5: With that at all.
Speaker 7: But you know you hear Burrow and Chase saying that,
Speaker 7: you know, there's not an issue.
Speaker 8: With the coaching. They got great coaching.
Speaker 7: So if I take them for their word and Zach
Speaker 7: Taylor and all his coaching staff are great coaches and
Speaker 7: all that kind of stuff, it leads me to, Okay, well,
Speaker 7: the front office sudden, Now this is where this is
Speaker 7: just I'm not I'm more of a baseball man than
Speaker 7: i am a football man, even though.
Speaker 8: I'm a big, a big fan. So I'm interested in
Speaker 8: seeing what.
Speaker 7: You guys think about this. So if you're not going
Speaker 7: to have a quote unquote GM and you're going to operate,
Speaker 7: you know how the Bengals are operating, which I don't.
Speaker 8: See that changing, and that's fine.
Speaker 3: They own the team.
Speaker 7: They have a right to running however they like. So
Speaker 7: I guess my frustration of it is is when it
Speaker 7: comes to drafting, and when you know, anybody can draft
Speaker 7: Chase Burrow and all that kind of stuff. So when
Speaker 7: it comes to the other other players and filling out
Speaker 7: the roster and all that kind of stuff. Is it
Speaker 7: crazy for me to think that if you really don't
Speaker 7: have a GM, that this.
Speaker 8: This is this is where it's going to get crazy.
Speaker 7: Just look at all the mock drafts and this and
Speaker 7: that and the other, and seeing who all these quote
Speaker 7: unquote experts are supposes, you know, saying the should take
Speaker 7: or whatever and put it all together and look at
Speaker 7: those players and then kind of.
Speaker 8: Stick to that.
Speaker 7: I guess, you know, I don't know, just because I mean,
Speaker 7: Shamir Stewart might might turn out to be the greatest
Speaker 7: thing ever. But you know, obviously the first year has
Speaker 7: been a little bit less to be desired. And it
Speaker 7: seems like it I'll end on this and here it
Speaker 7: lets you guys talk, But it seems like, you.
Speaker 8: Know, when they see something.
Speaker 7: In a player that maybe no one else sees and
Speaker 7: then either the development slow or it never happens at all.
Speaker 7: What do you guys think about that?
Speaker 2: Wow, that was a three minute monologue that could have
Speaker 2: been reduced to ten seconds. The draft is an inexact science.
Speaker 2: And I know the Bengals get bludgeoned for their small
Speaker 2: scouting department. Can we say it again, Jim Breach? Everyone
Speaker 2: knows who you know the best players are. You pick
Speaker 2: players you know based on you know, scouting reports and
Speaker 2: what you see with the eye test and everything. So yeah,
Speaker 2: some of it has to do with developing them. Uh,
Speaker 2: the previous defensive coordinator liked veterans and and here comes
Speaker 2: out Golden.
Speaker 3: With a youth movement. And you know, with the youth movement,
Speaker 3: and that's it.
Speaker 2: Was a gamble they took and it kind of backfired
Speaker 2: this year, letting Logan Wilson go. So what we're seeing
Speaker 2: is a Miles Murphy with with what one year left
Speaker 2: on his contract, really stepping forward. You know, it took
Speaker 2: three years it you know, so.
Speaker 5: You can you can throw DJ Turner in there.
Speaker 3: All.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's played really well.
Speaker 4: DA's hill when he as he's gotten healthier, He's definitely
Speaker 4: he's really a really good player. He made one play today,
Speaker 4: a swing pass to the running back.
Speaker 5: He comes up to get he's got.
Speaker 4: A lead blocker out in front of him, he dives
Speaker 4: underneath the block, hops up and tackles. I've a change
Speaker 4: for a one yard game. That was unbelievable.
Speaker 5: It was athletic.
Speaker 3: That was Davis blow up a play.
Speaker 4: Now, Jalen Davis is a free agent, So that's a
Speaker 4: free agent that they brought in. But the fact is
Speaker 4: they showed those guys on the list, there aren't very
Speaker 4: many that are having much impact that list of second, first, second,
Speaker 4: third round players.
Speaker 5: They have not developed, They have not drafted and developed well.
Speaker 4: And I'm sure internally they're talking about it because it
Speaker 4: just hasn't happened.
Speaker 5: Marvin Lewis had a really good eye for talent, right.
Speaker 4: I mean, they had some really they picked up, you know,
Speaker 4: the Geno Atkins, Carols, Unlaps, and unfortunately the last several drafts,
Speaker 4: it just hasn't happened on defense. So they whether it's
Speaker 4: the drafting, and I don't think it has anything to
Speaker 4: do with the size of the draft department, because as
Speaker 4: you said, everybody has the same people they're looking at,
Speaker 4: and they get guys from obscure schools. When the Bengals
Speaker 4: had guys that had part time jobs doing this outing,
Speaker 4: that's when they got the Ken Riley's, you know, Lamar Parrish's.
Speaker 2: I think, so hey appreciate that, appreciate all the callers.
Speaker 3: We have to take a break.
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Speaker 2: Cincinnati Bengals forty five, Dolphins twenty one. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to the phones our good friend Brandon Indianapolis.
Speaker 3: Brandon, what's on your mind?
Speaker 9: Hey, Chicksterre and Jim Merry Christmas.
Speaker 5: To you guys.
Speaker 10: Chick, I've been Disney and that's why I haven't called
Speaker 10: in lately.
Speaker 3: But I really write back down.
Speaker 5: Thank you too.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and Jim, I you know I appreciate what you
Speaker 10: did as a player, you know, guys. It's uh. I'm
Speaker 10: glad they won today. Will always taking a win, you know.
Speaker 10: I we need to get back to playoff football. I
Speaker 10: hope that they don't say, well, first of all, I
Speaker 10: hope they don't say when this is all over, where
Speaker 10: our defense and everything's just fine, because it's not. And
Speaker 10: why on God's Green Earth that I still play in.
Speaker 10: Joe Burrow and jamar Cha, I know they want to play,
Speaker 10: but guys, they could get hurt. Wouldn't you be really kicking?
Speaker 2: I'm glad you brought that up, Brandon. A lot of
Speaker 2: fans said, hey, sit Joe Burrow down. Okay, Well, when
Speaker 2: I as a fan, when I go to a game,
Speaker 2: I want to see the best players.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: Number one, he wants to play, he's healthy enough to play.
Speaker 2: He wants vindication after last week's you know, terrible loss
Speaker 2: in a shutout to the Baltimore Ravens, and he got
Speaker 2: sat down with eleven minutes and twenty two seconds to
Speaker 2: go today with the Bengals finally enjoying a lopsided win.
Speaker 2: They don't come very often, Jim Breach, You know.
Speaker 5: That is a long time.
Speaker 4: That's a that's really early in the game for any
Speaker 4: any quarterback to be taken out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no matter what the score is.
Speaker 4: But yes, elevens ago, that's a lot of time left.
Speaker 4: You know, the Bengals just scored three touchdowns in a quarter,
Speaker 4: and you don't want to get into let the momentum
Speaker 4: turn around. You do something crazy and all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: you lose the momentum, and they scored a couple of
Speaker 4: touchdowns really quick. They get back in the game, and
Speaker 4: that's really the thinking. They don't want to disrupt it
Speaker 4: too much. Now if the other team starts to replace guys, uh,
Speaker 4: and it just seems to be well in hand, which
Speaker 4: it was so at eleven minutes they were able to
Speaker 4: switch it out.
Speaker 2: But any anything else there, Brandon, I'm sorry I interrupted you.
Speaker 10: Well, no, I was just I was just.
Speaker 9: Gonna say, and I'm glad we won today.
Speaker 10: But guys, I hate to sound negative, but the wins
Speaker 10: don't meet I mean, we're I mean it's probably gonna
Speaker 10: hurt our draft pick. And I know that the team
Speaker 10: doesn't play the tank. I wouldn't want him to play
Speaker 10: the tank. I don't think you'd never be told that, Gym,
Speaker 10: But I just I just need to see a serious
Speaker 10: injury when it doesn't matter. I don't blame Joe who
Speaker 10: want to play, but man, I just want to see
Speaker 10: playoff football like the Reds. You know, we want to
Speaker 10: see playoff baseball, but I want to see playoff football.
Speaker 9: In the defense it's actually gonna.
Speaker 10: Show up like they did today. I mean they're probably
Speaker 10: gonna win.
Speaker 5: They're they're probably gonna win out.
Speaker 9: But it doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 10: That's my that's my whole problem with all that. It
Speaker 10: doesn't mean a thing.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: That's hey, you know, they get paid to play and
Speaker 4: they're professionals, and you gotta play.
Speaker 5: And if that means winning games, you're gonna win games.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The only way it can be controlled is if they're
Speaker 4: coaching staff or the ADM. You know, the people running
Speaker 4: the show ultimately decide, you know, we need to find
Speaker 4: out what some of these guys can do, which kind
Speaker 4: of what happened with the defense is they put these
Speaker 4: two linebackers in and so those are gonna be our starters.
Speaker 5: We're gonna deal Logan Wilson to to.
Speaker 4: Dallas and we're gonna find out and and it didn't
Speaker 4: work out really well for a long time. It started,
Speaker 4: it's getting better. It's it's starting to come together. And
Speaker 4: that's that's one of the reasons they need to play.
Speaker 5: Guys and.
Speaker 4: Your competitor. You don't want guys do not want to sit.
Speaker 4: We're so we're so competitive at everything we do. We're
Speaker 4: playing a flag football game. After we're all done playing
Speaker 4: a bunch of us old guys playing some team up north,
Speaker 4: some school team, and it was a close game.
Speaker 5: And Icky's like, he's yelling at us. We're guys are competitive.
Speaker 5: Some guys want to play, so the coaches.
Speaker 4: Yeah, to your point, if coaches have to put you down,
Speaker 4: sit you down.
Speaker 2: All right, appreciate that. Brandon, stay well. Merry Christmas to you,
Speaker 2: and hey, we can need to take a break.
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Speaker 2: who wore both numbers ten and three in his career.
Speaker 3: Am I correct? You are correct? Yes? I love both not.
Speaker 5: Do you know why?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: When I came to the Bengals, there were two teams
Speaker 4: in the NFL that didn't have single digits, Green Bay
Speaker 4: Packers Cincinna Bengals John Stanner Rud the same day I
Speaker 4: signed with the Bengals. For the next day, stand Rud
Speaker 4: signed with Green Bay, who had worn three and.
Speaker 5: I wore three.
Speaker 4: Because of Stanner Rude, he wore three throughout his career.
Speaker 4: He ended up wearing ten in Green Bay and I
Speaker 4: ended up wearing ten, which was Chris Barr's number prior
Speaker 4: to that. So I said, Tom Gray, if we ever
Speaker 4: go to single digits, I'd like to go back to
Speaker 4: three and eighty four, and they drafted Boomer. Part of
Speaker 4: his contract was he gets to wear a single digit
Speaker 4: at seven.
Speaker 5: So that's how I ended up with three.
Speaker 3: Oh, that is fantastic. Well, Jim, let's check out.
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Speaker 2: Bengals are nursing a halftime lead seventeen to fourteen, right, Okay,
Speaker 2: Then Miami gets the ball to start the third quarter,
Speaker 2: they face third and four at their own thirty six.
Speaker 2: All of a sudden, a thirty one yard pass play
Speaker 2: for the Dolphins, but we see yellow hankies on the
Speaker 2: field offensive pass interference. Now it's instead of third and four,
Speaker 2: it's third and fourteen. And Dan Horde said during the broadcast,
Speaker 2: if you can force Quinn viewers, starting.
Speaker 3: In place of to a tagabaloa, force.
Speaker 2: Him to row the ball under duress third and long,
Speaker 2: great chance that there could be a turnover.
Speaker 3: Well, third and.
Speaker 2: Four he did get a ten yard pass off to
Speaker 2: tight end Greg Daltchik, but here comes Jordan Battle punching
Speaker 2: the ball out. Miles Murphy recovers, and basically the rest
Speaker 2: is history. Often the races, the avalanche of points start
Speaker 2: coming and touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, And we can't say it enough.
Speaker 2: The third quarter in this game arguably one of the
Speaker 2: greatest quarters in Bengals history.
Speaker 5: It was pretty good.
Speaker 2: And three turnovers plus a fourth down stop, so basically
Speaker 2: four turnovers and three touchdowns in the third quarter and
Speaker 2: more in the fourth.
Speaker 3: So it was just phenomenal.
Speaker 5: It was. It absolutely was.
Speaker 4: I do remember a game against Houston where we scored
Speaker 4: four touchdowns in the first quarter, which was I think
Speaker 4: that might have been the ninety ninety from the ninety
Speaker 4: season in the playoff game that year, but twenty one,
Speaker 4: twenty eight. That changes the game, That absolutely changes the game.
Speaker 4: They changed it today. You know that that play that
Speaker 4: was kind of a quick I don't know that the
Speaker 4: guy really should have been called for huff insipassit affair.
Speaker 5: He did.
Speaker 4: He did a good job trying to avoid it. Kind
Speaker 4: of looked like he was trying to get out of
Speaker 4: the way. But they called it, which was great for
Speaker 4: the Bengals.
Speaker 3: Right wrong place, wrong time. Hey, we'll take it.
Speaker 5: We'll can The.
Speaker 2: Three touchdowns that the Bengals scored into third quarter all
Speaker 2: by Chase Brown, a nine yard pass from Joe Burrow,
Speaker 2: a twelve yard run, and a five yard pass from
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow. And those tribes were six plays thirty four yards,
Speaker 2: two plays thirty five yards, six plays fifty three yards.
Speaker 2: In that early fourth quarter, a seventeen yard passed from
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow to Mike Kisiki, making it forty five to fourteen. Well,
Speaker 2: and then you know, with a lot of backups in there,
Speaker 2: a nine play, ninety seven yard drive by the Miami
Speaker 2: Dolphins to score the final points in this game with
Speaker 2: three forty three to go, making it a final score
Speaker 2: of forty five to twenty one.
Speaker 3: In the game. That only took two hours and fifty
Speaker 3: one minutes, So that was sweet.
Speaker 5: That's interesting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, you know, Quinn you were I thought
Speaker 4: he played okay even the two interceptions won. He actually
Speaker 4: put it right on the guy. Newton made a phenomenal play.
Speaker 4: And on the one down the sideline, Jen Davis, what
Speaker 4: a play. He completely pinned Waddle into the sideline. They
Speaker 4: had no nowhere from to go, and that was textbook.
Speaker 4: I'll put that on a highlight reel. That was beautiful.
Speaker 2: Quin you weres twenty of thirty for two hundred and
Speaker 2: sixty yards, no sacks, no touchdowns, two interceptions, a long
Speaker 2: gate of twenty nine a passed a rating of sixty
Speaker 2: six even and what I noticed, gosh, he was throwing
Speaker 2: off balance a lot, throwing off his back foot. I
Speaker 2: mean the throw down the right sideline that Jalen Davis intercepted,
Speaker 2: I mean it was up there, and you're right, Davis
Speaker 2: pinned the guy. I think it was a toward Waddle
Speaker 2: wile TMD and yeah, grabbed it, but I.
Speaker 4: Thought there were a couple of times and Joe did
Speaker 4: this also where he threw it to Waller and he
Speaker 4: threw the ball, he just laid it up high because
Speaker 4: Waller's so much bigger than the guy trying to cover him.
Speaker 5: And he got two receptions that way Waller did.
Speaker 4: And just like Joe did, the Higgins down the sideline
Speaker 4: and into the core of the end zones.
Speaker 5: He throws him up.
Speaker 4: There where a team's gonna go up and get it
Speaker 4: over almost everybody else.
Speaker 2: Waller an X Raider, an X Raider who took last
Speaker 2: year off and he had I think he's he did
Speaker 2: have some mental issues, some anxiety and depression. So uh
Speaker 2: happy for him to come back and continue his career.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Darren Waller, he's a good player, he really is.
Speaker 3: We are at five one three seven nine seven hundred,
Speaker 3: the big one.
Speaker 4: Hey, hey, throw some use Yes, wouldn't you like more
Speaker 4: games where we have to when we're complaining.
Speaker 5: About whether we take the quarterback out soon or not
Speaker 5: or not?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, after because the team is so far ahead.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, we got more of those. And I love
Speaker 3: the banter between Dan and lap Dan Horde and Dave Lapham. Uh.
Speaker 2: You know, with a comfortable lead, the Bengals never get
Speaker 2: a comfortable lopsided win.
Speaker 3: It seems like, well.
Speaker 4: It seems like the games when with head and direction,
Speaker 4: something happens and the other team gets back in it. Today,
Speaker 4: it didn't they around them to maintain and mild on it.
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Speaker 2: you know, just looking at some of the numbers here
Speaker 2: from the Cincinnati Bengals once again, t Higgins big impact early,
Speaker 2: especially on the first drive, the deep pass down the
Speaker 2: left sideline. I mean, he's just a special talent. He
Speaker 2: is long, he is strong, He high points the ball
Speaker 2: and he snatches it out of the air.
Speaker 5: And then on the.
Speaker 2: They just compliment each other so well, the strength and
Speaker 2: the power of a Jamar Chase.
Speaker 5: I agree.
Speaker 4: You know, she just made me think with Higgins, he
Speaker 4: catches that, he high points that ball. He's like a center,
Speaker 4: and they always sound him, don't bring the ball down
Speaker 4: when you're in basketball, don't bring it down.
Speaker 5: Where guys can get it and you gotta hold it up,
Speaker 5: keep it up.
Speaker 4: He just keeps the ball up there and he's got
Speaker 4: like that, he's like trying to knock it away from
Speaker 4: he holds it.
Speaker 5: He goes to the ground, he's still holding it.
Speaker 4: Away from his body and he hands him back to
Speaker 4: the ref same way he did the same thing on
Speaker 4: the touchdown.
Speaker 5: He just keeps that, says, long arms. He holds that
Speaker 5: ball up in a way they can't get it out.
Speaker 2: Well, the catch that he made against Minnesota a couple
Speaker 2: of years ago and reach back, yeah, like at the
Speaker 2: one or two yard line and then flips the ball
Speaker 2: back over the pie line.
Speaker 3: That that was unbelievable.
Speaker 5: That was truly great awareness.
Speaker 3: Oh that was fantastic.
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Speaker 3: We talked about it off the air.
Speaker 2: We're picking the first touchdown drive because the Bengals got
Speaker 2: shut out last week by the Baltimore Ravens, and like
Speaker 2: Jim said, in the last two weeks, the Bengals are
Speaker 2: averaging how many points a game? Twenty two and a
Speaker 2: half points a game, good for a one to one record.
Speaker 2: Shut out last week, scoring forty five.
Speaker 3: This week six for six in the red zone. Just awesome.
Speaker 2: But here's the first drive, the second drive of the
Speaker 2: game for the Bengals, no score, First and ten, Cincinnati
Speaker 2: had its own nine. Joe Burrow deep passed on the
Speaker 2: left sideline to t Higgins for thirty five yards.
Speaker 3: That was huge.
Speaker 2: Then a short pass to samajp Ry for eight yards.
Speaker 2: P Ryan off left guard for three yards. Now it's
Speaker 2: first inten at Miami's forty five yard line. A short
Speaker 2: pass to Jamar Chase, he got pushed out of.
Speaker 3: Bounds for eleven yards.
Speaker 2: Now the Bengals face first and ten at miamis thirty four.
Speaker 2: Chase Brown left guard for three yards. Second and seven
Speaker 2: at Miami's thirty one yard line, Joe Burrow short pass
Speaker 2: over the middle to Jamar Chase for twenty two yards
Speaker 2: to Miami's nine. And on the next play out of
Speaker 2: the shotgun right side passed it to the right really
Speaker 2: the right corner of the end zone and just a beautiful.
Speaker 4: Catch, beautiful throw, beautiful catch. Team was the only one
Speaker 4: had chance. He threw it up and literally because of
Speaker 4: his size and at length of his arms, he was
Speaker 4: the only one that had chance. And he does such
Speaker 4: a good job getting both.
Speaker 3: Feet down the toe tap was just unbelievable.
Speaker 5: Beautiful all around. It was beautiful.
Speaker 4: They and they did basically did that play a couple
Speaker 4: of weeks ago against Buffalo, same type of play.
Speaker 2: And Jim were watching college football, the playoffs, college football playoffs,
Speaker 2: were watching the NFL.
Speaker 3: In the NFL, t.
Speaker 2: Was covered maybe the guys, you know inches. And last
Speaker 2: night the Chicago Bears on the in overtime on the
Speaker 2: final play, a walk off touchdown to uh dj Moore,
Speaker 2: Dj Moore, and the defender of Green Bay has his
Speaker 2: arms you know right, I mean right there, and DJ
Speaker 2: Moore pulled that sucker in. He's just unbelievable. And that's
Speaker 2: the that's the greatness of the NFL. These are world
Speaker 2: class athletes.
Speaker 4: Calen Williams to the ball, you literally could not have
Speaker 4: put it there or any better than he threw that.
Speaker 4: And then the guy is strangling DJ Moore has his
Speaker 4: arm in there, and somehow he's able to catch that.
Speaker 4: So that was, Yeah, that was pretty phenomenal. It's amazing.
Speaker 4: You're right, you know they say anytime the guy's back
Speaker 4: to you, to the receiver, they're open, Yes, so they
Speaker 4: throw it a lot. That's why these back the back
Speaker 4: shoulder throws work so well, because what can you do,
Speaker 4: especially if a guy like t throw.
Speaker 5: It up high, you can't. I don't care. If even
Speaker 5: I know it's coming, they can't stop it.
Speaker 3: And yes, uh who likes to say it, Yeah, it
Speaker 3: was David Folcher.
Speaker 2: When the ride receiver's eyes get real big in the
Speaker 2: running back or the dB is running with a you
Speaker 2: know that it's.
Speaker 3: Coming his way.
Speaker 2: Yep, So attempt to get your head turned around and
Speaker 2: uh defend the ball man or defense.
Speaker 3: The pass just just incredible.
Speaker 2: So the drive of the game was the Bengals first
Speaker 2: touchdown drive seven plays ninety one yards. It took four
Speaker 2: minutes and once one second off the off the clock,
Speaker 2: and the Bengals score was seven to fifty eight to
Speaker 2: go in that first quarter for a seven and up
Speaker 2: in lead, and of course the Miami Dolphins answered quickly.
Speaker 3: The Bengals kicked.
Speaker 2: A fueld goal and you know it was a good
Speaker 2: day for Cincinnati when Evan McPherson's forty five yard fueld
Speaker 2: goal off the left upright goes through.
Speaker 5: Loved it. Yes, I love it when that happened.
Speaker 2: Yeah, every once in a while, a kicker we'll get
Speaker 2: that break, baby.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you're watching it.
Speaker 2: And what if Evan mc What if Evan McPherson was
Speaker 2: healthy last year man with all the.
Speaker 4: Uh, there was other things going on besides just his
Speaker 4: health that happened toward the end of the year he
Speaker 4: had he was struggling with some technique things and he's
Speaker 4: made some adjustment.
Speaker 5: It's it's different.
Speaker 4: He's kicking them all differently this year, more like he
Speaker 4: did his first year. And I think mentally, I mean
Speaker 4: he is so he's kicking the ball so well.
Speaker 5: And yeah, so it's amazing how many guys get hurt.
Speaker 4: Kickers get hurt these days where guys are missing time constantly, and.
Speaker 5: So I'm not sure.
Speaker 4: Maybe maybe it's kick it so hard they get they
Speaker 4: put so much stress.
Speaker 5: I don't know. I don't know what it is, but
Speaker 5: guys miss a lot of time and it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 2: And that's why, Jim, you don't quit the NFL. It
Speaker 2: quits you. You've got to keep working out because you
Speaker 2: never know when that phone calls coming, especially for a
Speaker 2: kicker that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you gotta be ready. Uh, you know, you never
Speaker 4: know when the opportunity is going to arise. You got
Speaker 4: to be ready for it when it does.
Speaker 2: I wished Shane Graham a happy birthday on Facebook, so
Speaker 2: we we did a couple of messagers together. He says,
Speaker 2: hope you're doing well. I said, I hope you're doing well.
Speaker 2: And you look up his career. Technically he was property
Speaker 2: of eighteen NFL.
Speaker 5: Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2: And he played like fourteen years whatever, but three teams
Speaker 2: in one season. But he lasted seven years with the Bengals,
Speaker 2: and it's interesting.
Speaker 4: He had an opportunity to go after the he struggled
Speaker 4: again in the Jets game playoff game. The Bengals wanted
Speaker 4: they wanted to keep him, and they made him a
Speaker 4: good offer, but he wasn't satisfied with it, and so
Speaker 4: it just didn't work out and he moved on. But
Speaker 4: they would have gladly kept him, right, he probably would
Speaker 4: have played the rest of his career in Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: That's that's wild. Yeah, that's just you know, you make decisions.
Speaker 4: Chrissebo decided to leave the Reds, right, and then he
Speaker 4: just never really had a great career after that. So
Speaker 4: you make decisions and you don't know it's even's greener
Speaker 4: on the other side or not.
Speaker 3: You're absolutely right.
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Speaker 3: The Big One and Jim. What we find out is
Speaker 3: when the Bengals lose, my cell phone blows up, phone
Speaker 3: lines light.
Speaker 2: Up like a Christmas tree. But just let them win
Speaker 2: a football game, and all his calm all is bright.
Speaker 2: Christmas Week has started with a Bengals victory to push
Speaker 2: their record.
Speaker 3: To five and ten.
Speaker 4: Well check, not only did they win, they won an
Speaker 4: in dominant fashion, complementary football.
Speaker 5: Everybody played well, all sides of the ball. What can
Speaker 5: you say, I know except that it was a good game.
Speaker 5: It was a really good game.
Speaker 3: It really was. The third quarter was just unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Basically four turnovers, two interceptions, a fumble recovery, and then
Speaker 2: to stop them on fourth down and then to score
Speaker 2: after every one of those turnovers.
Speaker 3: They will score twenty one unanswered points in that third quarter.
Speaker 2: They wind up scoring thirty five in a row after
Speaker 2: falling behind fourteen to ten, for a very comfortable forty
Speaker 2: five to twenty one victory over the Dolphins.
Speaker 4: There haven't been a lot of those over the last
Speaker 4: few years where you could relax in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 4: take your quarterback out, take get some young guys in,
Speaker 4: get them to play. And it was kind of nice
Speaker 4: that way. The bench, the bench is it's a blast.
Speaker 4: The trip home is fine because everybody got to be
Speaker 4: a part of it. Everybody got to contribute.
Speaker 2: And one of our themes here Jim today is what
Speaker 2: does it all mean? Well, we'll answer that. Let's go
Speaker 2: out to the phones. We've got Willie in Monroe home
Speaker 2: with the hornets.
Speaker 10: You got that ride, all right, Willy Jim chicking, Jim, Mary, Marry.
Speaker 11: Christmas to you guys, Thanks very much, Thank you you too.
Speaker 11: A couple of little things. And I don't want to
Speaker 11: uh turn this thing salar, but uh, you know we're
Speaker 11: we've got five wins. I don't hear a lot of
Speaker 11: celebration going on in your background. Uh we need to
Speaker 11: appreciate what happened today. But did it take this long
Speaker 11: into the season to make this happen?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you just wonder, you wish, uh you wish they
Speaker 3: had more like this.
Speaker 2: And you know, listening to uh, you know the postgame report,
Speaker 2: you know, the the theme from Dan Horte's questions to
Speaker 2: the players in the locker room afterward. You know, could
Speaker 2: this basically be a springboard and a positive sign for
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty sixth season.
Speaker 5: I believe it can be.
Speaker 4: And as I said earlier, our our eighty season ended
Speaker 4: up three waiting three of the last four after the
Speaker 4: team was three and uh three and nine going into
Speaker 4: the end of the last four games and going.
Speaker 5: Three and one.
Speaker 4: And scoring over twenty points twice over thirty when they'd
Speaker 4: only had one game over twenty all year prior to that,
Speaker 4: and it was things kind of turned the tide. So
Speaker 4: we went in training camp the next year. Everybody was
Speaker 4: on the same page. You didn't have to it was
Speaker 4: full steam ahead. And I think potentially, particularly on the
Speaker 4: defensive side, these last few weeks, I mean, you know,
Speaker 4: Baltimore game wasn't great, but Baltimore scored twenty four, right,
Speaker 4: they had twenty four points.
Speaker 5: That's winnable most times. That's very winnable. So I'm encouraged
Speaker 5: that if they can continue to build on this.
Speaker 4: We see some really positive things happening with the defensive backfield.
Speaker 4: Some of the young guys Jayalen Davis played great today.
Speaker 4: DJ Turners had a Pro Bowl year. Ax Hill has
Speaker 4: had some great plays. The safeties are playing better. There's
Speaker 4: some good things happening. Yes, and I think it's potentially
Speaker 4: can lead into next season.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm looking.
Speaker 2: I love the ball possession and drive chart. And the
Speaker 2: Bengals had twelve possessions and after punt, touchdown, punts, field goal,
Speaker 2: then touchdown, end of the half, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown,
Speaker 2: So five consecutive possessions ending with a touchdown.
Speaker 3: That is just fantastic.
Speaker 4: It is is demoralizing if you're on the other end,
Speaker 4: it just seems like everything you do, you know, it
Speaker 4: turns into a touchdown, turned into a turnover that turns
Speaker 4: into a touchdown, and that's frustrating and that takes the
Speaker 4: steam out of you in a hurry.
Speaker 3: And hey, we really appreciate Willie calling.
Speaker 2: Appreciate all the loyal listeners and all the callers to
Speaker 2: the Bengals postgame show.
Speaker 3: And do we have Dave in Sharonville?
Speaker 8: Yes, Hi, check, Hi Jim, how you doing great?
Speaker 3: Great?
Speaker 12: Merry Christmas, good, goody, Merry Christmas. You know, I noticed
Speaker 12: one thing about the offense you know, obviously they were
Speaker 12: shown when when on TV, they were shown When Burrow,
Speaker 12: Chase and Tea all start a game, like their winning
Speaker 12: percentage goes way up. And I think that was one
Speaker 12: of the main differences between last week and this week,
Speaker 12: was just having Tea in there, because when when they
Speaker 12: don't have them in there, it's easy to double cover
Speaker 12: jamar And and the offense just seems to look totally
Speaker 12: different when Tea's not on the field.
Speaker 3: No doubt about it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's true.
Speaker 4: But that's where you have these young guys Tinsley and
Speaker 4: Yoshivas really need to step up, and they they've had
Speaker 4: their opportunities and really haven't stepped up yet on a
Speaker 4: consistent basis. Now, Yoshi had a really nice play across
Speaker 4: across the field that Joe laid out there for me.
Speaker 5: He went and got it. It was a big gainer.
Speaker 5: So the young guys have to step up because you're
Speaker 5: not going to have everybody on the field all the time.
Speaker 4: It's just it's a it's type of sport that people
Speaker 4: do get hurt UH and unfortunately, and that's why your
Speaker 4: depth is so so critical in the UH in the NFL.
Speaker 8: Let me ask you guys one other questions.
Speaker 12: So say they win the next two and you know,
Speaker 12: everybody's feeling optimistic.
Speaker 7: Hey, we're going to be better next year.
Speaker 3: I mean in your mind.
Speaker 12: I'll leave you with this, and I just want to
Speaker 12: hear what you think.
Speaker 3: What changes do need to be made for next year?
Speaker 12: You know, even if we finish three and zero here
Speaker 12: down the stretch, what changes do you think need to
Speaker 12: be made to where we give ourselves a better chance
Speaker 12: of you know, making a getting in the playoffs and
Speaker 12: making a deep run next year.
Speaker 2: We'll address that when we come back from break. Very
Speaker 2: good question. Appreciate the call. You're listening to the Tri
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Speaker 2: celebrating the bengals forty five to twenty one victory over
Speaker 2: the Miami Dolphins. We're breaking it down like a wrecking ball.
Speaker 2: Everybody wants us to have a crystal ball. Jim, what
Speaker 2: are the Bengals going to do in the offseason?
Speaker 5: What can they do?
Speaker 3: What changes can they make in order to get back
Speaker 3: to the playoffs.
Speaker 2: I say they need a couple more veterans on defense
Speaker 2: and then man.
Speaker 3: Draft.
Speaker 2: Well, especially on defense, I think you can always add
Speaker 2: an offensive line that when you look at this offense,
Speaker 2: to me, it's pretty well set. You've got the tackles
Speaker 2: or Endo Brown has another year, Amius Mims is awesome. Okay,
Speaker 2: you got two young guards, Ted karrisher S.
Speaker 5: Also you have Ryisner who's played very well. They could
Speaker 5: resign him. Probably a pretty good deal.
Speaker 2: Exactly right, And and then your skill position players all
Speaker 2: over the place. Mike Kasiki is back, he's under contract.
Speaker 2: Of course, t Higgins and Jamar Chase are under contract,
Speaker 2: so is Joe Burrow and samaj Ap Ryan. You definitely
Speaker 2: want him back. I believe he's under contract. Chase Brown phenomenal.
Speaker 2: His career is starting to really blossom. So there's a
Speaker 2: lot of continuity on offense. Defense. Yeah, these young guys
Speaker 2: are fighting their tails off. They're playing not only for
Speaker 2: the Bengals but for thirty one other clubs and just
Speaker 2: draft better and add some free agents.
Speaker 5: That's easy to say, is it really is?
Speaker 3: It really is?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I'm sure nobody goes into a draft think, you know,
Speaker 4: we're not gonna does that draft well this year, that's
Speaker 4: exactly everybody think.
Speaker 5: And when you draft, you think this is we got
Speaker 5: really good players.
Speaker 3: Yes, but.
Speaker 5: Sometimes it doesn't happen right away. Miles Murray, he is playing.
Speaker 4: Really well and it's taken a little while for it
Speaker 4: to kick in, and he's getting a lot of opportunity.
Speaker 5: That might be part of it too.
Speaker 4: He's playing more and it's finally it's maybe things are
Speaker 4: slowing down a little bit and his athlicability is coming out.
Speaker 4: But he's playing very nice that Shamar Stewart made some
Speaker 4: plays today.
Speaker 2: He did, Yes, that the one play that he blew
Speaker 2: up at the line of scrimmage was impressive. And what
Speaker 2: a physical specimen he really is. And you just hope
Speaker 2: that he can continue to blossom. He was never hurt
Speaker 2: at Texas A and M, but when they come to Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: They get hurt.
Speaker 5: So, you know, Chick, there's a lot of physical specimens
Speaker 5: in the locker room.
Speaker 3: Yes, there are.
Speaker 4: Give me some guys to play football. And if their
Speaker 4: physical specimens too, that's even better.
Speaker 2: Hey, that is a great point, Jim. You're right. They're
Speaker 2: all physical, they're all great athletes, but can they play?
Speaker 2: And that's uh, that's what we want to see out
Speaker 2: of Shamar Stewart.
Speaker 5: No doubt about that.
Speaker 3: Hey we've got do we have Tim and Columbus? Hi? Tim? Yes?
Speaker 8: Hi, guys? How you doing so?
Speaker 13: I think one thing the Bengals need to do when
Speaker 13: they when they approach the draft is they need to
Speaker 13: they need to go after guys that have pelts on
Speaker 13: the wall, so to speak.
Speaker 8: They can't draft guys continue to draft guys at.
Speaker 13: Shamar Stewart where they say, hey, he's got all the intangibles,
Speaker 13: he's got a high ceiling. He's a two to three
Speaker 13: year project, but we think we could work with him. No,
Speaker 13: they need to go out and get guys like Peter
Speaker 13: Woods from Clumps and the defense tackle guys that have
Speaker 13: pelts on the wall, that have production in college.
Speaker 8: That's what they need to get.
Speaker 13: They can't they can't be reaching for guys in the
Speaker 13: first round, and they need to go out, like you said, chick,
Speaker 13: go out and get a couple of free agents on defense,
Speaker 13: like the like the Browns have done. They've gone out
Speaker 13: in free agency and compliment you know, and supplemented their
Speaker 13: defense with with uh, you know, with veteran players and
Speaker 13: the sprinkling some young guys. And I just think they
Speaker 13: need to change that draft strategy where they can't be
Speaker 13: reaching for guys. I mean, I think that's that's that's
Speaker 13: killing them. And you know, and like as far as
Speaker 13: you know saying well that you know these young guys
Speaker 13: are busting their tails out there, Well, my fifteen year
Speaker 13: old daughter will go out there and bust their tail.
Speaker 13: But they have to be able to produce.
Speaker 8: They have to be able to tackle.
Speaker 13: They can't get burnt.
Speaker 8: They can't. There's a lot of things that these guys
Speaker 8: are doing that it's just not a to me.
Speaker 3: It's just not a good omen for us to come.
Speaker 13: Hopefully they turned the corner, but I'm tired of talking
Speaker 13: about hopefully we're in a championship window here with Joe
Speaker 13: burrowtie is Jamar Chase is powerful offense, and we're spinning
Speaker 13: our wheels and defense and we can't do it. And
Speaker 13: that's my biggest concern is where this window is. Clo
Speaker 13: will closed, and it is closing, and hopefully they change
Speaker 13: their strategy in the draft and get some guys in
Speaker 13: here that can produce them day one.
Speaker 3: I'm tired of hearing about projects.
Speaker 2: They need production at all three phases of the defense,
Speaker 2: the line, the liners, and the secondary.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and you can't never have enough corners. He makes it,
Speaker 3: You make a.
Speaker 4: Good point in that they've had, whether it be Miles
Speaker 4: Murphy or Shamar Stewart, they've kind of gone out on
Speaker 4: a limb on some of these guys with these tangils,
Speaker 4: and I think part of it goes back to.
Speaker 5: Carlos Dunlap. That length and that athletic athleticism.
Speaker 4: Second round, and from then on it was Michael Johnson
Speaker 4: and guys like him in terms of the way they
Speaker 4: looked and athleticism.
Speaker 5: Miles Murphy is a similar type.
Speaker 2: Build to that, and and in developing them when you
Speaker 2: tramp them. It's taken Miles Murphy three years.
Speaker 4: Well developing, but sometimes it doesn't click right away for
Speaker 4: some guys like Miles Murphy.
Speaker 5: We're just talking about he's playing really well.
Speaker 4: He's taken a few years in part of it, maybe,
Speaker 4: so they kind of forced to put him on the
Speaker 4: field this year and he's done.
Speaker 5: He's played really well.
Speaker 2: So what will happen Jim come draft time and Pat
Speaker 2: Bruning will probably uh be watching that night. The Beggels
Speaker 2: will draft a wide receiver in the first round. No,
Speaker 2: I'm only teasing.
Speaker 3: Uh, you want need to blend and marry with talent.
Speaker 3: You do that, That's that's the goal anyway.
Speaker 5: So ultimately you want to take the best player available.
Speaker 4: Yes, and if that also, as you say, Mary's up
Speaker 4: with the what your needs, that's even better.
Speaker 3: And we can look back at some of the mistakes
Speaker 3: that this club has. Every every team has every.
Speaker 4: Every team has this, but there are some that seem
Speaker 4: to be consistently better at finding talent, because again, we're
Speaker 4: the same. The same pool of play is out there
Speaker 4: for everyone, and they're all good players, but some teams
Speaker 4: seem to be better at consistently picking on certain sides
Speaker 4: of the ball.
Speaker 5: Cleveland his point with Cleveland.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I necessarily agree with him on
Speaker 4: what Cleveland does, but Cleveland's defensive side.
Speaker 5: Of the ball is really good.
Speaker 4: They've picked some really good the offense and their offensive
Speaker 4: line was really good, but picking a quarterback that's been impossible.
Speaker 5: Wide receivers hasn't.
Speaker 4: Been great either, so you know it's and the Bengels
Speaker 4: have always struggled with offensive linemen for whatever reason.
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Speaker 2: We're continuing to break down the Bengals forty five to
Speaker 2: twenty one victory over the Miami Dolphins like a wrecking ball.
Speaker 2: Awesome to have Mike Mills here with us as our
Speaker 2: engineer and Sean McMahon back in our Kenwood studios. Jim,
Speaker 2: let's go over some scores right now in and around
Speaker 2: the National Football League and at Steelers in Detroit lead
Speaker 2: the Detroit.
Speaker 3: Lions twenty nine to twenty four.
Speaker 2: Lions have the ball after Chris Boswell, who never misses
Speaker 2: a field goal against the Bengals, he missed one and.
Speaker 4: He doesn't miss many against anybody, but he did bounce
Speaker 4: one off the upright and give gives the Lions up
Speaker 4: to go scoring.
Speaker 5: There. You got a fourth down coming up right now, Yes, drive.
Speaker 2: The Lions have the ball at their own thirty five
Speaker 2: yard line, fourth and two. Tonight's game pitch the Patriots
Speaker 2: against the Ravens in Baltimore, and these are finals now.
Speaker 2: The Jacksonville Jaguars are thirty four to twenty winners over
Speaker 2: the Broncos in Denver, which is no easy feat. The
Speaker 2: Buffalo Bills scratch out a twenty three to twenty victory
Speaker 2: over the Browns in Cleveland, and it was a day
Speaker 2: where Josh Allen didn't run for a touchdown and it
Speaker 2: didn't throw for one, which had then that very often.
Speaker 4: It really does have particularly a great day as far
Speaker 4: as statistically, But.
Speaker 3: That happens against the Browns. Their defense, yes, really good.
Speaker 2: But the Bills win twenty three to twenty, and the
Speaker 2: Los Angeles Chargers are thirty four to seventeen winners over
Speaker 2: the Dallas Cowboys in Arlington. Cowboys fall to six eight
Speaker 2: and one, the world's richest franchise value to thirteen billion dollars.
Speaker 2: Looks like they're going to be sitting home for the
Speaker 2: holidays at six eight and one, falling to the Los
Speaker 2: Angeles Chargers thirty four to seventeen at home, and the
Speaker 2: Tennessee Titans at home defeat the Kansas City Chiefs. Titans
Speaker 2: are now three and twelve. The Chiefs fall to six
Speaker 2: and nine Misery Loves Company and the New Orleans Saints
Speaker 2: at home defeat the New York Jets twenty nine to six.
Speaker 2: The Jets are three and twelve. The Saints improved to
Speaker 2: the same record that the Bengals have five and ten.
Speaker 2: The Vikings are sixteen to thirteen winners over the Giants
Speaker 2: in New Jersey, sixteen to thirteen Vikings win. The Carolina
Speaker 2: Panthers take care of business at home over the Tampa
Speaker 2: Bay Buccaneers. Panthers twenty three bucks twenty. Buccaneers are seven
Speaker 2: and eight. Panthers are eight and seven.
Speaker 5: I think they're in first place in their division.
Speaker 2: Now incredible. We'll check the standings here in a minute.
Speaker 2: And the Atlanta Falcons go into Phoenix and beat the
Speaker 2: Cardinals twenty six to nineteen. The Arizona Cardinals come to
Speaker 2: Cincinnati next weekend, and the Houston Texans, they were down
Speaker 2: in this game, but they come back and beat the
Speaker 2: Las Vegas Raiders twenty three to twenty one. And it
Speaker 2: all started this week in the NFL with the Seahawks.
Speaker 2: The Seattle Seahawks knocking off the Los Angeles Rams thirty
Speaker 2: eight to thirty seven, just incredible two point conversion to
Speaker 2: win that game and Sam Darnel playing his tailoff, and
Speaker 2: yesterday Eagles all over the Commanders in Washington twenty nine
Speaker 2: to eighteen in a final in overtime the Chicago Bears
Speaker 2: twenty two to sixteen over the Green Bay Packers. Packers
Speaker 2: now nine to five and one, Bears improved to eleven
Speaker 2: and four. And you're exactly right.
Speaker 3: The team that.
Speaker 2: Launched the career of Caleb Williams, the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 3: Wow, and Williams has just been phenomenal.
Speaker 5: He has played really well. Yes, it was that six
Speaker 5: six comeback wins this year.
Speaker 2: It's amazing. Let's go out to the phones. Brian is
Speaker 2: in Centerville, Brian, are you there?
Speaker 14: Yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 15: Hey, thank you for let me call you and talk
Speaker 15: to you, and I'll be real dirty. The thing that
Speaker 15: I think the Bengals me is a bigger scouting staff.
Speaker 15: Now I think maybe somebody might have already suggested that I.
Speaker 3: Just got on that got home, but I was glad
Speaker 3: to be talking about that for twenty years.
Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, yeah, But most of them have twenty to
Speaker 16: twenty four on their staff. And what I was looking
Speaker 16: up they directly said, often they're the teams that just
Speaker 16: have eight or fewer. And they were talking about the
Speaker 16: Bengals of having fewer and larger staff being more common
Speaker 16: like top teams like the forty.
Speaker 14: Nine ers and the Eagles. So it wouldn't it be
Speaker 14: better to put your money towards getting a bigger staff
Speaker 14: so that you have a wider net to bring players
Speaker 14: in and in that way, you save money because you
Speaker 14: have guys that are out there that want to play,
Speaker 14: that are good enough to play on an NFL level.
Speaker 14: And I can just think of just think of players
Speaker 14: like at Mount Union. You know they have they have
Speaker 14: really good talent out there. So I just wanted to
Speaker 14: throw that out at you, and yeah, is a good way.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, try to interrupt you. The years, the Bengals.
Speaker 4: Actually have found talent at the lower levels as well
Speaker 4: as anybody actually or free agent talent, and they have
Speaker 4: added to their their scouting department over the last few years.
Speaker 4: They just their philosophy is they don't feel like they
Speaker 4: need a huge number of people. I don't think that's
Speaker 4: a financial thing for them as much as they just don't.
Speaker 4: I think they feel like they're seeing the same players
Speaker 4: everybody else is seeing. They know where the guys are
Speaker 4: at Mount Union, and really, over the last few years,
Speaker 4: seems like they've it's been a lot of sec Big
Speaker 4: ten is where a lot of the players come from
Speaker 4: not everybody, but the majority come and you can kind
Speaker 4: of understand.
Speaker 5: The reasoning is so many players come into the.
Speaker 4: League out of the sec out of the Big ten,
Speaker 4: that they're already playing NFL quality players and if they're
Speaker 4: performing well there there's a good chance that's going to
Speaker 4: carry over.
Speaker 2: Yet, the other thing is they allowed the coaches to
Speaker 2: go out and scout, so add you know, add another
Speaker 2: twelve scouts is.
Speaker 5: Unique, probably unique to the Bengals.
Speaker 3: The you.
Speaker 4: You know, it's like I was talking to Mark Braden
Speaker 4: when he was doing the bank you know, he was
Speaker 4: our special teams coach and he was with the Cardinals.
Speaker 4: He was with the Cardinals and they were they gave
Speaker 4: him a The scouts did chose the players, the general management,
Speaker 4: the scouts. You didn't know who you had until they
Speaker 4: made that choice. You didn't know the guys at all.
Speaker 4: You'd never talked to the guys. You never interviewed the guy. Well,
Speaker 4: and now they probably interviewed him somewhat, but you really
Speaker 4: don't know who you were getting. At least now the
Speaker 4: Bengals do have an idea. Coaches have probably talked to
Speaker 4: these guys. They probably have watched a lot of tape.
Speaker 4: They know who the guys they want are. Unfortunately, they
Speaker 4: haven't been doing a great job of developing those players
Speaker 4: that they do choose. Right now now, hopefully maybe this
Speaker 4: defense is starting to take shape a little bit as
Speaker 4: the season is wearing down.
Speaker 2: You're right, Jim, They're getting players out of the big cop,
Speaker 2: big time conferences who've played in big games, and you
Speaker 2: just hope that translates to the National Football League. So
Speaker 2: but yay, appreciate the questions. Every fan wants us to
Speaker 2: have a crystal ball for the future. Hopefully today victory, Yeah,
Speaker 2: what does it mean? Hey, they win, They played hard,
Speaker 2: and hopefully this winning feeling. Hopefully that these final three weeks,
Speaker 2: if they could get these wins, can carry over to
Speaker 2: next year. There will be changes. You'll look around the
Speaker 2: locker room on the final day of the season and
Speaker 2: you're gonna say, some of us are not going to
Speaker 2: be here next year.
Speaker 5: That happens every year.
Speaker 2: Turnover, Yes, and Carl Pickens would go up to a
Speaker 2: locker and sniff the player's clothes that were in the lockers.
Speaker 3: As they were heading out the door. That was one
Speaker 3: of his weird habits. Crazy, Hey, it's time to take
Speaker 3: a break.
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Speaker 2: and we just watched the end.
Speaker 3: Of the Steelers Lions game.
Speaker 2: It looked like the Lions had scored a touchdown, but
Speaker 2: offensive pass interference is called and the Pittsburgh Steelers survive
Speaker 2: their trip to Ford Field, and the Steelers win twenty
Speaker 2: nine to twenty four, incredible and improved to nine and
Speaker 2: six on the season in first place in the AFC North,
Speaker 2: and the Lions dropped to eight and seven.
Speaker 4: So the Lions have some of the issues that the
Speaker 4: Bengals have. You know their defense, well, theirs has been
Speaker 4: because of injuries defensively, They've lost so many guys defensively,
Speaker 4: but yeah, you don't. If you cast out people, becomes difficult,
Speaker 4: even if you're scoring points.
Speaker 2: Let's let's go out to the phones and welcome to
Speaker 2: our friend John and Cedarville.
Speaker 8: Hi John, they ship and Jim yes, hey, uh yes, Virginia,
Speaker 8: there is a Christmas Yes, it's good. It's good to
Speaker 8: see the Bengals get back on the winning, the winning track.
Speaker 8: And uh, typically this is the kind of wins I
Speaker 8: expected to see from this team coming out of training camp.
Speaker 17: Uh.
Speaker 8: I know it's maybe a little too late, but uh,
Speaker 8: I always did think all all all season long that
Speaker 8: this offense, especially this offense, was just about unstoppable. And
Speaker 8: uh we've seen signs of that offense today that I mean,
Speaker 8: it wasn't surprising to me that they could score three
Speaker 8: touchdowns on a quarter. They just got they just boy,
Speaker 8: you just know they just got it. I mean you
Speaker 8: look at the receivers and deepens.
Speaker 2: Well, the turnovers helped. Yeah, the turnovers helped John in
Speaker 2: the short fields. And the Bengals get four turnovers in
Speaker 2: the third quarter, two interceptions, a fumble, and then they
Speaker 2: stop the Dolphins on fourth and one. So and then
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow got back in the saddle today. It was
Speaker 2: a phenomenal to watch and Chase Brown. The Bengals scored
Speaker 2: twenty one points in the third quarter and Chase Brown
Speaker 2: was in the end zone on each one of them.
Speaker 2: And they asked him, when was the last time you
Speaker 2: scored three touchdowns in a quarter? And he said he
Speaker 2: scored three in a game for Illinois, but he thought
Speaker 2: little league. If it was uh yeah, if it was
Speaker 2: one quarter.
Speaker 5: Do you know who the last one was? No, Joe Mixon.
Speaker 5: Really Fantasy twenty two.
Speaker 4: I had to be the Carolina game where he had
Speaker 4: five touchdowns. Okay, I bet it hasn't happened very many
Speaker 4: times in NFL history even.
Speaker 2: But really, John, it was a great day really for
Speaker 2: all three phases to be a magnificent the most complete
Speaker 2: game of the year.
Speaker 3: It's that simple.
Speaker 8: Pats off the defensive coordinator alt goal. I mean, the
Speaker 8: defense is really coming on.
Speaker 5: And uh it was.
Speaker 8: I like to see more clean up on the as
Speaker 8: far as the corners go. And if I noticed last week,
Speaker 8: if they're going blitz and blitz a little bit more,
Speaker 8: make be sure that they're blitzing, they're covering for the blitzer.
Speaker 8: I know, Uh, I didn't see that as much as
Speaker 8: I would have liked to from this team, as far.
Speaker 2: As the blitzer against the Buffalo Bills, when yeah, Josh Allen,
Speaker 2: Josh Allen took off for a forty yard run.
Speaker 8: Yeah, because if you're if you're in his then you
Speaker 8: got two guys standing there and one of your one
Speaker 8: of your defensive mates or your defensive mate is is blitzing.
Speaker 8: You kind of gotta gotta cheat one way or the
Speaker 8: other just to help him out and covery spot because
Speaker 8: he's given up his responsibility as far as that goes
Speaker 8: in in what's called just so he can blitz and
Speaker 8: get to the quarterback. But John, John, go ahead, go ahead,
Speaker 8: give I'm listening.
Speaker 2: John, Hey Job, we're gonna break away here. Thank you
Speaker 2: for the call. We'll continue to break this down. Uh,
Speaker 2: the defense is playing better, Jim breezs they are. They
Speaker 2: are this young defense, and you're right, they are fighting
Speaker 2: for their their jobs. You're not playing for the Bengals,
Speaker 2: You're playing for thirty one other clubs. Everything is on tape.
Speaker 5: That you do. And the last they are.
Speaker 4: Like today, I mean they Miami runs the ball really
Speaker 4: well correct and they except for the one run, they
Speaker 4: really shut them down. In the run game, they averaged
Speaker 4: I think you said three yards of rush that one run. Yes,
Speaker 4: and guys up front were maintaining they were they were
Speaker 4: where they were supposed to be.
Speaker 5: Do your job right. It's always about doing your job.
Speaker 4: But they're doing their job much better, so they're having
Speaker 4: fewer of these gash plays. Early in the year, they
Speaker 4: would be playing okay, and all of a sudden there's
Speaker 4: a big gash play. But happened several times in games.
Speaker 4: It seems to be happening less. So they're improving in
Speaker 4: all phases. Just you know, you hope that there's a
Speaker 4: carryover factor next year.
Speaker 2: You take away the forty eight yard run by Devon
Speaker 2: eight eight chan and the Miami Dolphins rushed twenty seven
Speaker 2: times for eighty one yards, exactly three point zero yards
Speaker 2: per carry.
Speaker 4: You know they used to say that about Barry Sanders too.
Speaker 4: He'd lead the league every year in minus yards. Yes,
Speaker 4: and he'd rush for seventeen eighteen hundred yards.
Speaker 3: Yes. Oh, I could still see when I closed my eyes.
Speaker 2: Michael Bankston has him at the fifty yard line with
Speaker 2: his arms wrapped around his legs, and he springs loose
Speaker 2: and sprints to the right pylon for.
Speaker 3: A fifty yard touchdown. Barry Sanders, was he ran.
Speaker 4: One against this ran a toss, He starts left, he
Speaker 4: comes back to the right.
Speaker 5: We have two guys that have a beat up. They're
Speaker 5: gonna drilling.
Speaker 4: He goes our sideline and he stops our two guys
Speaker 4: go flying into our bench and he runs around the
Speaker 4: other way for about thirty year game.
Speaker 3: Yes, he was fun to watch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I had I don't play fantasy football anymore,
Speaker 2: but I had Bo Jackson when he ran for about
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty yards on one play. He went
Speaker 2: left for twenty yards, turns right and Rod Jones pulls
Speaker 2: him down at the one yard line.
Speaker 4: So he was probably exhausted. Yes, Rod Jones was a
Speaker 4: four hundred meter champion in college. But I know Eric
Speaker 4: Thomas was chasing him when he didn't run one hundred
Speaker 4: and twenty yards.
Speaker 5: When he was running and Eric et is.
Speaker 4: A legit was a legit four low four threes, and
Speaker 4: Bo ran away from him.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, for a while.
Speaker 3: But and he did get a.
Speaker 2: Forced fumble that the Dolphins did recover that one Cam
Speaker 2: Grandy tight end for the Bengals. He left with a
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Speaker 3: Let's go out to the phones. John is in Florida. John,
Speaker 3: what's going on?
Speaker 17: I'm not sure how any of us are celebrating this win. Okay,
Speaker 17: it makes no sense to risk half a billion dollars
Speaker 17: of assets that we have in Burrow, t Higgins, and
Speaker 17: Jamar and then we win a game which gives us
Speaker 17: a worse draft pick. And the only person I think
Speaker 17: that likes the idea of us having a worst draft
Speaker 17: pick is Mike Brown because it's gonna save him millions
Speaker 17: of dollars if we don't get the number one. None
Speaker 17: of us should be happy about this win. Why are
Speaker 17: any of these guys playing?
Speaker 8: This makes no sense.
Speaker 17: We get like ten guys on defense that I've never
Speaker 17: even heard their name over the past two weeks, and
Speaker 17: all of a sudden, these guys are making plays. Why
Speaker 17: are we happy about this? I am not happy about this,
Speaker 17: as I'm guessing you can clearly see.
Speaker 3: And I'm not happy about this season. Okay.
Speaker 2: I'm not happy that Joe Burrow got injured. I'm not
Speaker 2: happy with five and ten, and this club should not
Speaker 2: be happy with it.
Speaker 3: At all. So this serves.
Speaker 2: Hopefully as a springboard for next season, and if they
Speaker 2: can beat the Arizona Cardinals and they can beat the
Speaker 2: Cleveland Browns. These are professionals. They're not gonna lay down,
Speaker 2: they're not gonna sit out. They're professionals making life changing money.
Speaker 2: The fans deserve to see.
Speaker 3: The best, and that's what they put out there on
Speaker 3: the field today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you have to go out and give your best effort,
Speaker 4: and you should put the best players on the field
Speaker 4: unless you have mitigating circumstances, whatever that may be.
Speaker 3: In being on the case, I could see guiding out.
Speaker 3: I could see sitting out.
Speaker 2: If you've got the lead, you got one game to play,
Speaker 2: you're already in the playoffs. Yeah you can rest your
Speaker 2: quarterback then, but not today. But I understand where you're
Speaker 2: coming from. I'm really glad you brought it up. But
Speaker 2: these are professionals, they're healthy, they're Joe Burrow should play
Speaker 2: if he's healthy, because as a fan paid big time money,
Speaker 2: you want to see the best players play.
Speaker 3: This isn't plan be free agency. This is not.
Speaker 2: A strike year where strike players are playing. These are professionals.
Speaker 5: Game paid very well. Like you said, life changing money.
Speaker 3: But I'm glad he brought up the subject.
Speaker 5: I really am so and I can understand where people
Speaker 5: come from, but.
Speaker 4: It's it would be embarrassing to put a team out
Speaker 4: of all backups. You know, you play basically like playing
Speaker 4: a preseason game and against starters, and the clubs that
Speaker 4: fair to the players on the field either And.
Speaker 3: I appreciate John and Florida calling.
Speaker 2: This is a time of the season with two games
Speaker 2: remaining and three going into today, where you've got to
Speaker 2: find out about your roster for next year. Who can
Speaker 2: play and who can't. They got to figure out who's helping.
Speaker 3: Them win and keep them, who's helping them lose and
Speaker 3: get rid of them.
Speaker 4: That's very true, and particularly with the defense playing better
Speaker 4: as the season's gone on in these last few weeks,
Speaker 4: finding out who's contributing to that, and then they have
Speaker 4: to make decisions. And you have free agency, then you
Speaker 4: have the draft. You have a lot of stuff going on,
Speaker 4: and you want to find out who can play for you,
Speaker 4: right And that's just like you said, so you gotta play,
Speaker 4: can't find out if they're not playing, And.
Speaker 3: We appreciate the call from John and Florida.
Speaker 2: Let's check Jim Breach on Cincinnati's defensive secondary. Coverage Today
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Speaker 2: the best game of the season that the defensive secondary played.
Speaker 5: They did play well, they really did.
Speaker 4: You know what I like is they're closing on balls
Speaker 4: that are caught, or they're close on balls that are
Speaker 4: caught than the year. Guys are just catching balls with three,
Speaker 4: four and five yard separation, and.
Speaker 5: Then they come up try and make a tackle.
Speaker 4: Now they're they're close to making the play on the
Speaker 4: ball and then making the tackle.
Speaker 5: Now they do have to improve tackling.
Speaker 2: Yes, oh no doubt about that. Josh fig Newton made
Speaker 2: a great play on the ball. It got tipped up
Speaker 2: and Barry Carter intercepts the ball. And Jalen Davis made
Speaker 2: a phenomenal interception on the sideline on a pass from
Speaker 2: Quinn Ewers toward Jalen Waddle.
Speaker 3: So the secondary played better.
Speaker 4: Let's put on the highlight tape the way he played that.
Speaker 4: You get you can't push him into the sideline like
Speaker 4: the wide receiver. Wald had no chance at that ball.
Speaker 2: And you mentioned Dax Hill, you know, blowing up a
Speaker 2: play and Jaylen Davis comes up and he'd be blew
Speaker 2: up a play for a loss.
Speaker 4: So Battle has been making some plays these last seven weeks,
Speaker 4: and they've they've created so many more turnovers in the
Speaker 4: last four or five weeks. They're in the top five
Speaker 4: or six in the league and creating turnovers in the
Speaker 4: last five or six games.
Speaker 2: You know, we always talk about a fast start. Well,
Speaker 2: the Pengals got a fast start this year going to
Speaker 2: and zero, beating Cleveland and Jacksonville. But unfortunately Joe Burrow
Speaker 2: gets hurt. And it's been a weird year because the
Speaker 2: AFC North, a black and Blue division, is down big time,
Speaker 2: and naturally Pittsburgh's on top right now and Baltimore's fighting
Speaker 2: for it's playoff lives and we're gonna see that a
Speaker 2: little bit later on against the New England Patriots. So
Speaker 2: this could be the year, Jim Breach where the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 2: Could this be the year they get into the playoffs
Speaker 2: and win a Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: Wow, from what I've seen from them in the last
Speaker 4: few weeks, I don't know if that's possible.
Speaker 5: But I think the NFC is really good, better than
Speaker 5: the AFC, quite a bit better than the AFC.
Speaker 2: Yes with wow, with the Los Angeles ranks the team,
Speaker 2: I mean, there's a bunch of them over there, that's right, Seattle.
Speaker 2: The way they're playing to San Francisco forty nine ers.
Speaker 4: That whole division ABSOLUTELYFC West is difficult except for Arizona.
Speaker 2: I got to give the Chicago Bears credit an zero
Speaker 2: to two start. Ben Johnson doing a great job in
Speaker 2: Caleb Caleb Williams man showing that he deserved to be
Speaker 2: the number one overall.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he is playing really well.
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Speaker 2: it's going to be a very nice flight home. They
Speaker 2: should be home by now, of course from Miami.
Speaker 5: Maybefully, yes, and that'd be pretty quick, you know, it
Speaker 5: would be probably five Yeah, maybe they have a chance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it could be.
Speaker 4: And I remember playing in Cleveland one year. I walked
Speaker 4: in the house at like seven point thirty. Oh, it
Speaker 4: was pretty cool. Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 2: But now they turn their attention to the Arizona Cardinals,
Speaker 2: who lose today to the Atlanta Falcons. Falcons are six
Speaker 2: and nine. The Arizona Cardinals fall to three and twelve.
Speaker 2: The Cardinals come in here next next weekend. And right now,
Speaker 2: Jacoby Brissette has taken over the quarterback range from.
Speaker 3: An injured Kyler Murray.
Speaker 5: He's played well. He's been playing well these last several weeks.
Speaker 2: Yes, And Jacoby Brissette is one of those journeyman quarterbacks
Speaker 2: who have defeated the Bengals, I believe at least a
Speaker 2: couple times.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's very possible. But he's probably defeated a bunch
Speaker 4: of teams. He's probably played and he's played for a
Speaker 4: bunch of teams.
Speaker 2: Veteran savvy quarterback who's seen that, who's been there, done that.
Speaker 5: And their defenses is they play well defensively.
Speaker 2: Yes, So that's what the Bengals are looking at. And
Speaker 2: then trying to close out the season against the Cleveland
Speaker 2: Browns at home.
Speaker 3: So when we originally looked at the scheduled.
Speaker 2: Jym Breach and you see the end of the year,
Speaker 2: you know at Miami home with Arizona and Cleveland, we
Speaker 2: were definitely thinking playoffs.
Speaker 3: But everything imploded it? Did it?
Speaker 4: Did you know that game against Cleveland, Miles game, it
Speaker 4: might be going to the He's a half, He's a
Speaker 4: half sack from the all time record.
Speaker 2: So what a what an unbelievable player. And I saw
Speaker 2: an interview with Joe Thomas, the great Hall of Fame
Speaker 2: left tackle for the Browns, and he even said, I
Speaker 2: don't think I could block him one on one, and
Speaker 2: there might not be a left tackle out there that
Speaker 2: can block Miles Garrett one on one.
Speaker 3: He's that good.
Speaker 5: He is that good, He's he is amazing. And you know,
Speaker 5: it's funny.
Speaker 4: He came out of college with not a lot of sacks,
Speaker 4: great ability, but not a lot of sacks, kind of.
Speaker 5: Like Shamar Stewart.
Speaker 4: Well more sacks and Stewart had but similar in that
Speaker 4: they didn't think his production matched his abilities, and he
Speaker 4: certainly turned it up.
Speaker 2: And Jim, while we have a few minutes here left,
Speaker 2: uh we what we've witnessed the games in the college
Speaker 2: football playoff, Yes, Tulane and James Madison University really didn't
Speaker 2: offer much resistance.
Speaker 5: James Madison maybe a little run in the second.
Speaker 3: Half, yeah against Oregon.
Speaker 2: Yes, But now that the dust has settled after those
Speaker 2: first round games, we're in the college football Playoffs. The
Speaker 2: quarterfinals are being have been determined, and it all starts
Speaker 2: on New Year's.
Speaker 5: Eve night.
Speaker 3: In the Cotton Bowl.
Speaker 2: The Chickster graduated with Archie Griffin Winter Quarter nineteen seventy
Speaker 2: six from the Ohio State University and.
Speaker 4: The Buck two time Heisman Trophy win, two time high
Speaker 4: surprise you didn't throw that out?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, the only.
Speaker 2: Two time Heisman Trophy winner we graduated together at Saint
Speaker 2: John Arena Winter Quarter nineteen seventy six. The Buck guys
Speaker 2: face the Miami Hurricanes Cotton bowld December thirty, first evening,
Speaker 2: and there's already talking heads out there predicting a Miami
Speaker 2: upset over the Buckeyes. All I know is their defense
Speaker 2: is unbelievably aggressive and that scares me.
Speaker 3: With the Ohio State's big.
Speaker 2: Semi slow offensive line, but Miami's offense shakey buck eyes,
Speaker 2: run the football and when you pass it, get rid
Speaker 2: of the ball quickly.
Speaker 3: Jay Mister saying.
Speaker 5: There, they've got some pretty good receivers. I know how
Speaker 5: to say. I heard they do.
Speaker 3: They really do.
Speaker 5: They'll find way. Yeah, Jed, ball to those guys.
Speaker 3: Jeremiah Smith and Carnell want.
Speaker 5: To win for Miami to go into Texas A and
Speaker 5: m That atmosphere.
Speaker 3: Was crazy, absolutely at Milefield.
Speaker 5: And to come away with a wing miss it was huge.
Speaker 2: And then my favorite day of the year, New Year's Day,
Speaker 2: it's Wallda Wall football and it starts incredibly with the
Speaker 2: Orange Bowl being the early game.
Speaker 3: Usually that's the night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, the Orange with Oregon and Texas Tech. Can't
Speaker 2: wait for that game. Then the Rose Bowl Indiana University
Speaker 2: against Alabama, and then the Sugar at night.
Speaker 4: Alabama had a nice win they did, and Oklahoma against Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: And the Sugar with Ole Miss against Georgia. As a
Speaker 2: Buckeye fan, Miami scares me more than Georgia, and that's
Speaker 2: who the Buckeyes will play Georgia if they could get
Speaker 2: past Miami.
Speaker 5: Where Georgia looked pretty good in the SEC championship game.
Speaker 3: They did, they absolutely did in one minute. Give us
Speaker 3: the winners.
Speaker 2: Oh miss Georgia, Georgia, Ohio State, Miami, I go, oh
Speaker 2: it's you, thank you?
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: The Orange Bowl, Oregon, Texas Tech.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go with Tech.
Speaker 3: In honor of the great Joe Walter.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, yes, yeah, Joe is recruited to play basketball.
Speaker 2: Also all right, and the Rose Bowl, the granddaddy of
Speaker 2: them all, in Pasadena, California, Indiana against Alabama.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go with Indiana.
Speaker 3: I am too.
Speaker 2: Well on behalf of my partner, the great Vegidary Bengals
Speaker 2: kicker Jim Breach and today's engineer Mike Mills, and our
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