WEBVTT - Postgame Sports Talk w/ Austin Elmore -- 11/28/25 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:07.040 This is the Tri State Chevy Dealer's Postgame Sports Talk 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:11.280 presented by R and L Carriers. Postgame Sports Talk is 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:14.240 brought to you in part by Pellow Windows and Door 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:19.360 making life brighter, Pella Now pay Later Carrier and your 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:24.720 local carrier dealers turn to the experts. Carrier Cincinnati Tax 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:29.120 Resolution powered by Tove Sheldon five one three five one three, 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:33.960 TOPH Postman Law Injured call eight four to four Postman 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:39.479 Others promise Postman delivers R and L Carriers. 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However, you may have spent your Thanksgiving 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:20.120 holiday with your family, whether you were at work, whether 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:22.800 you were going to your in laws, whether you were 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:26.720 passed out on the couch eating turkey and watching football. 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.440 There is a lot to be thankful for in our 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:33.120 everyday lives. But I think all Bengals fans can say 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:37.800 tonight we are thankful for Joe Burrow. Joe Burrow makes 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:42.120 his triumphant return to the gridiron and the Bengals beat 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:47.120 the Baltimore Ravens thirty two to fourteen at MNT Bank 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:51.040 Stadium in Baltimore. It is never easy to go on 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:54.680 the road in a short week. It is especially never 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:57.240 easy to go on the road in a short week 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:02.240 inside the division in the AF Well, the Bengals, for 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:07.120 the third straight year played a Thursday primetime game in 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:11.640 Baltimore against the Ravens, and finally they won one. 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:13.480 They did it on one of the. 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:18.560 Biggest stages, the Thursday night Thanksgiving Night game on the 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:23.400 NFL John Madden Thanksgiving and beat Lamar Jackson and the 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:28.560 Baltimore Ravens. This was an unbelievable game because you didn't 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:31.480 really know what to expect. You didn't know what Burrow 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:33.840 was going to look like. Having not played since the 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:38.280 second quarter of Week two against Jacksonville. You knew that 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:40.920 Baltimore hasn't been great and Lamar was a little bit 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:44.280 banged up. But he's still Lamar Jackson. He's still electric. 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:46.760 And he showed that a couple of times, and you 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:50.120 really weren't sure if the Bengals defense we saw against 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:54.320 Pittsburgh and New England was an anomaly, wasn't an outlier? 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:57.880 Was it fools gold or were they legitimate? Well, the 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:03.680 Bengals defense tonight forced five takeaways over the Baltimore Ravens. 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:06.320 The Bengals haven't forced that many takeaways in a game 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:10.920 since two thousand and seven. They did something unthinkable tonight, 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:16.760 forcing fumbles, getting interceptions just all over the field. Joseph 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:21.240 Osai was magnificent, Miles Murphy was wonderful. Cedric Johnson oh 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:23.200 by the way, on the offensive side of the ball, 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.880 Jamar Chase returned from suspension. All he did was catch 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:30.760 seven passes for one hundred plus yards, and the Bengals 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:33.480 scored thirty two points and they didn't get even that 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:36.040 many points off of all the turnovers that they had. 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:40.120 It was just what a game? What a game like? 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:41.280 It's sweaty. 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:45.440 You never feel comfortable, I don't think because you know 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:48.240 the Bengals defense, you've seen it for most of the season. 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.520 But when you really think about it, Baltimore had a 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:55.040 couple of big chunk plays, but they really weren't all 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:59.280 that competitive. Their offense was in shambles. They refused to 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:02.360 run the football and hand up. One of the things 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:05.720 I'm thankful for is that Todd Munkin didn't run the football. 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:09.080 I mean, Derek Henry had like ten carries for seventy 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:11.920 five yards. He probably could have went for two hundred. 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:15.080 But the Ravens because they were playing from behind, because 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:17.480 the Bengals just kept getting points and getting points and 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:21.920 getting points. It was a strange game. It was an 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:28.840 unexpected outcome, and although the chances remain slim, the Bengals 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:32.960 are alive. If you think back to this time last year, 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:37.360 Cincinnati was four and eight. Well, with the victory tonight, 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:40.320 they're four and eight. They've got to win their last 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:42.960 five if they want to have a chance to get 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:46.040 into the playoffs. And you can't win the last six 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:48.720 if you don't win the first one. They took care 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:52.080 of that business tonight. We've got so much to get 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:55.280 to between now and three am. Gonna be on here 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:59.320 until three am on ESPN fifteen thirty and seven hundred WLW. 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:03.080 I'm gonna open up the phone lines at five one, three, seven, four, 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:08.040 nine seven thousand, your reaction to what you saw tonight 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:11.719 in Baltimore, and what's going through your mind as a 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.760 Bengals fan right now, Because I know that a lot 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.640 of fans were split on whether or not Joe Burrow 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:20.880 should play, and then some of the answers that Burrow 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:23.440 gave during the week made me think, Ooh, I don't 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:25.000 know if he really is one hundred percent. 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:26.440 I don't know if he is able to go. 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:30.360 And then the report of this carbon fiber plate that 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:32.159 he had in the bottom of his cleat and this 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:35.160 tape job he has on his big toe coming out 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:38.320 of surgery, and I don't know what's gonna happen tonight 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:40.279 in this house of whoors that is M and T 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:43.480 Bank Stadium, where Joe Burrow has already had one season 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:46.760 in the injury before. Like a lot of Bengals fans, 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:49.159 I was kind of expecting the worst to happen. I 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:52.800 wasn't sure what to think, what to expect. And while 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:54.960 it took Joe a little bit of time to knock 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:58.680 the rust off, he knocked it off and the Bengals 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:02.240 were victorious over the Baltimore Ravens. We'll go through all 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:05.480 the stats we'll get some postgame audio if we can 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:08.320 uh to listen to some of that, But I want 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:10.479 to hear from you. If you're still awake, if it's 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.159 a Black Friday, maybe you're gonna be one of those 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:16.640 Black Friday shoppers. Maybe you're a door buster, an early 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:20.160 bird type of person. Do people still do that? I 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:22.880 remember when I was growing up as a kid, Black 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:25.880 Friday was a big deal. People would go out at midnight. 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:28.039 They'd go out till one or two or three o'clock 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:30.240 in the morning. You know, all across the street over 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:32.760 here at the Kenwood Mall. That parking lot looks pretty good. 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:33.040 People. 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:36.720 Are people still doing that? If you are feel free 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:40.839 call in five one, three, seven, four nine seven thousand, 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:43.720 and you can also tweet it me as well at 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:47.400 Audi Elmore A U T y E L M O 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:51.200 r E. Let me just start with the numbers for 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.560 Joe Burrow before we go any further, because I'm sure 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:57.920 that's what so many of you want to know. Burrow 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:03.520 finished tonight twenty four of forty six. Yes, he threw 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:08.039 the ball forty six times. In his return from turf 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:11.320 toe surgery. He threw it for two hundred and sixty 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:15.560 one yards. That's a five point seven average. He threw 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:20.040 two touchdowns, no interceptions, He was sacked just one time 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.880 and finishes the night with a QB rating of eighty 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:27.360 three point seven. You know, the other part, Joe Burrow 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:31.680 rushed the ball three times. He had three runs. One 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:35.240 was a quarterback sneak, one was a two, one one 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:38.120 was a quarterback sneak, one was a scramble, and one 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:41.080 was a broken down you know, busted play on an 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:43.360 RPO where he just kind of dove forward for a 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:46.680 couple of yards. He carried the ball three times for 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:51.280 eight yards as well. So the story is both Joe 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:56.360 Burrow returning and also the Bengals defense doing what they did. 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:01.080 You know, I was at one point mesm with what 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:04.360 I saw, and it felt like over the last couple 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:08.840 of weeks, the defensive coordinator Al Golden has unlocked something 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:13.080 with this defense and primarily putting a bunch of guys 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:15.600 up at the line of scrimmage and some of them 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.160 are dropping and some of them are not, and some 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:20.480 of them are coming, and half of them are blitzing 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:22.720 and half of them are dropping. There's all sorts of 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:27.640 stuff going on and it's confusing offensive lines and it's 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:30.000 giving the Bengals a bit of an advantage. On top 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:32.360 of that, they've tackled better. I think they've been better 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:35.240 on early downs. They've set the edge a lot better 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:39.320 in the run game. I think the edge rushers tonight 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:42.840 and everybody who plays that position tonight, from Cedric Johnson 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:46.240 to Joseph Oside of Miles Murphy, every single one of 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:49.800 those dudes played really well tonight. And that's without Trey Hendrickson. 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:53.959 It's without Cam Sample, who's one of their better run defenders. 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:56.600 I mean, they're a little bit banged up at that position. 0:08:56.760 --> 0:09:00.200 Isaiah Fosky was getting some snaps at one point point 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:03.240 in that unit as a whole played some pretty dog 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:06.439 on good football and was a big part of why 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:09.760 this team won this game tonight. So we have a 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.400 ton to get to between now and three o'clock. We'll 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:13.959 take a break and we'll come back and we'll get 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.800 to your phone calls. But before we do, just a 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:20.000 reminder for you that postgame Sports Talk is brought to 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:23.840 you in part by a door and window company where 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:27.320 they sell the best and service the rest. Once again, 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:30.760 the phone number is five one three seven, four nine 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:34.439 seven thousand. You can also tweet it me that's Audi 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:37.760 Elmore a U T Y E L M O R 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:42.120 on Twitter. You are listening to the Tri STATEE Chevy 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:45.800 Dealers Postgame Sports Talk Show presented by R and L 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:51.640 Carriers on ESPN fifteen thirty and seven hundred w l W. 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:00.560 Welcome back again. 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:05.240 Two the try Saint Chevy Dealers Postgame Sports Talk Show 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:09.600 on seven hundred WLW and ESPN fifteen thirty. 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:12.040 My name is Austin Elmore. Thank you for being here. 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:17.160 Happy Black Friday to you, Happy Victory Friday to you. 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:22.760 As the Bengals beat the Baltimore Ravens on Thanksgiving nights 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:25.480 to get to four and eight now on the season, 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:28.080 phone lines are open five on three seven, four nine, 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:31.240 seven thousand. If you're awake, I want your reaction. What 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:35.240 are you thinking as the Bengals get another victory over 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:39.960 the Baltimore Ravens tonight in Baltimore. Let's start in Indiana. 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:42.760 Let's talk to Todd. Todd, what's up? You're on the show. 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:48.679 Hey, I just wanted to say I'm a lifelong Bengals fan. 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:55.880 I'm from Cincinnati. My parents moved us to Indianapolis moved 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:58.280 on to Fishers. 0:10:57.600 --> 0:10:57.840 And. 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:03.959 There are very few Cincinnati Bengals fans in my area. 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:10.320 But I just want to point out one thing that 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:15.360 Miles Murphy ran down that guy and taggled him before 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:19.480 he could score. That guy has some speed on him, 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.559 and I love that, and I love that he didn't quit. 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:28.360 And I hope I'm here to say Bengals can win 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:32.959 out win the Super Bowl. Oh and look's call the year. 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:36.480 Well, if everybody plays the way Miles Murphy played tonight, 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:38.320 I think they got a chance. I mean, that's a 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:41.920 great observation by you, Todd, because that play could have 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:45.120 gotten away from them. And Murphy was all the way 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:47.480 back at the line of scrimmage and he'd chase down 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:48.360 Derrick Henry. 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:50.280 That's no easy guy to chase. 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:53.000 Down all the way down the field, and the Bengals 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:54.199 ended up getting out of there. 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:55.480 That's a great point, Todd. 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:58.920 Yeah, he's got no quit in his moger. 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:00.160 No, not at all. 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:03.080 And there was a play earlier in the game too, 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:06.400 where he beat Lamar Jackson to the edge on a 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:09.320 scramble and forced him out of bounds before he could 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:10.120 gain any yards. 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:11.200 That was a big play too. 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:19.440 That show's hard. Yeah, I love that, and I hope 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:23.480 nothing but the best for Joe Burrow and the Bengals. 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:27.000 I want to see that defense seat getting better and 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:29.000 I want to see the Bengals win a Super Bowl. 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:31.880 I'm right there with you, Todd. You're a believer and 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:35.640 saw am I thank you for the phone call. Thank 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:37.480 you there it is yeah, that you know Todd brings 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:41.160 up a good point. The hustle, the heart of the Bengals. 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:44.360 I mean that is listen, hand up. I've always been 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:47.800 a long time Zach Taylor apologist. One of the things 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:49.520 I think you could hang your hat on if you're 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:52.440 a Zach Taylor guy or if you're Zach Taylor, is 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:56.200 that at no point throughout any of the crap that 0:12:56.280 --> 0:13:00.880 his teams have gone through, have they quit. And the 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:05.439 way that the defense responded, especially after getting embarrassed by 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:08.720 Darnell Washington just kind of tossing them aside like rag 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:12.120 dolls in Pittsburgh a couple of weeks ago. They have 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:16.959 responded really well with effort, with energy, with getting better 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:20.240 at tackling, and overall with all the stuff they've gone through. 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:23.160 Effort has never been an issue for the Bengals, and 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:26.280 I do think that's a positive reflection of the head 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:30.160 coach and his coaching staff, Zach Taylor. Let's go to Middletown. 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:31.720 Let's talk to Beth. What's up, Beth? 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:37.240 Hi, I just wanted to say this Bengals victory was 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:41.920 the start to a fantastic football weekend for us, because 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:45.079 not only do we love our Bengals, but this is 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:48.600 a big weekend because we're from Middletown. The Middletown Midies 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:52.080 are going to face the Saint Xavier Bombers. We're heading 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:55.679 to Welcome Stadium tomorrow night to watch this and then Saturday, 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:59.160 we hope that our Ohio State Buckeyes beat that team 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:03.240 up north. So this Dingles victory was a great start 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:05.560 to an amazing football weekend for us. 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:06.959 That could be a good sign. 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:09.360 You know that not a lot of people are giving 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:11.800 Middletown a chance against say next Not a lot of 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:14.800 people gave the Bengals a chance tonight against the Ravens. 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:15.920 Maybe the Middies. 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:20.760 Will do it exactly exactly. We're going to cheer those 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.600 Midies on, cold and all. We're going to be there 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:26.880 at Welcome Stadium tomorrow night. So let's hope that this 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:30.360 Ingles victory is just the jump start. Yeah to a 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:32.640 fantastic football weekend for us. 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:34.600 Well, let's hope it is Beth. Thank you for the 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:38.240 phone call. Enjoy the football, and good luck to your middies. 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:42.240 Thank you, all right, that is Beth in Middletown. Yeah, 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:45.240 gonna be a great football weekend. I mean, there's a 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:49.680 great NFL game kicking off in fifteen hours from right now, 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:52.880 thirteen hours from fourteen hours from right now, whatever it is. 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:56.240 The Bears and Eagles play. Both those teams are eight 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:59.320 and three in the Black Friday Game. Can't wait for 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:03.160 that mentioned Hold another round to high school football, the 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:06.360 playoffs happening in the state of Ohio and Kentucky. You've 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:10.880 also got rivalry weekend in college football Ohio State Michigan 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:15.440 coming up a full slate NFL slate on Sunday. I mean, gosh, 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:16.880 this is one of the best weeks of the year. 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:20.040 It's also Feast week in college basketball. This is one 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:21.880 of the best sports weeks of the year. Let's go 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:27.160 to Hamilton and talk to Marcus. Hi, Marcus, how's it going, 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:28.400 Oh man, I'm great? 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:32.880 How are you pretty good? I just wanted to speak 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:36.160 on the Black Friday thing. Me and my buddy are 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:41.680 currently sitting in a parking lot waiting for people to 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:43.880 show up and then we have to go wait. 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:44.400 Out in the cold. 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:47.160 But we're all bundled up and we're ready to be. 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:49.440 First on LN You what are you shopping for? What 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:50.920 are you going to be waiting in line for? 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:56.880 This is gonna sound absolutely ridiculous, but it's saltwater fish. 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:58.720 Oh like aquariums. 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:01.640 Okay, that's not ridicult list those are? I mean that's 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:03.640 like that's a serious market there. 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:10.080 Oh big time actually at Discover Aquatics and Taylor Milk. 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:10.600 Wow. 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:14.120 And they they have a tank and they're signed by 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:15.880 t Higgins. 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:17.720 Old tank. 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:20.600 He was doing jellyfish for a while, right, the whole 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:24.240 jellyfish thing with t Higgins. 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:27.359 I'm pretty sure it was eels. He had like big 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:28.320 crazy eels. 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:31.640 Yeah, like these things are crazy interesting. Okay, So what 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.240 do you what do you got on the Bengals? 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:38.560 Uh? I thought overall it was a great win tonight, 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:43.400 but you know, you just never know which which side 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:46.360 of the Bengals you're gonna get, you know, if their 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:48.640 defense is going to show up or not. And then 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:53.480 it just goes to show how big turnovers are. Yeah, 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:57.200 I mean, I mean that really won the game. I 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:01.280 mean they didn't score a ton of touchdowns and they 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:04.679 still put up thirty two points, which I thought also 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:06.240 was really impressive. 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:08.280 Yeah. I'm right there with you. 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:10.359 And there is kind of like that pit in your 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:14.359 stomach almost possession to possession during a Bengals game, because 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:15.919 you don't know, are they going to look like the 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:18.640 team that can score fifty points on offense? Are they 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:20.399 going to look like the team that can only settle 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:21.920 for field goals? Are they going to look like the 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:25.200 defense we saw tonight or the defense they can't stop 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:27.840 a nosebleed. They couldn't stop a sentence with a period 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:28.840 earlier this season. 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:30.480 So I'm right there with you. 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:34.520 It's difficult, but it does make the games fun, right Marcus. 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:38.199 Yeah, I mean until it's the fourth quarter and you 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.360 think you won and you walk in the other room 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:42.760 and you come back and then you're like, oh shit. 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:47.679 Yeah, yeah, all right, Marcus, thank you for the phone call. Yeah, 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:50.080 that's the life, you know, that's the life of a 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:50.760 Bengals fan. 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:52.760 It's not easy. It's not easy. 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:55.440 And then at the end of the game tonight, trying 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:57.280 to run out the clock and kick a field goal 0:17:57.320 --> 0:18:01.119 to go up three possessions. Samaj p Ryan fumbles to 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:05.960 give Baltimore some life and I think to myself, oh 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:11.000 my goodness, it's never easy. Here we go again. How's 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:14.240 this defense going to respond? And sure enough, they responded 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:17.600 by creating another turnover of their own. 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:18.960 That was incredible. 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:23.520 So the Bengals schedule from this point forward, they're four 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.720 and eight. They have five games to go. They've got 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:29.480 that many by this weekend, so they don't play this weekend, 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:34.160 but they are in Buffalo on December seventh, next Sunday. 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:36.120 Now that game. 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:39.520 Originally was a four to twenty five pm kickoff, it's 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:44.760 been moved up to one pm in Buffalo. Then December fourteenth, 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:48.880 right back here at pay Corpse Stadium against the Baltimore 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:53.400 Ravens again, so two times in three weeks. Then they 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:56.600 go to Miami to play the Dolphins. As of now, 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:59.840 that is a Sunday night football game on December the 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:02.639 twenty first. That could get flexed out. I would expect 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:05.639 it does get flexed out. Then they come back for 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:09.400 two at home to finish the season against the Arizona 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:14.359 Cardinals and against the Cleveland Browns. Every single one of 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:17.639 those games is winnable based off the way those teams 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:22.560 have been playing. Buffalo was embarrassed last Thursday night against 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:26.440 the Houston Texans. Baltimore. We saw the way their offense 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:30.800 performed tonight Miami. They've gotten better since they fired their GM, 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:33.200 but they still feel like they're a long ways away 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:36.119 and have dealt with injuries. Arizona feels like it's the 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:39.040 end of Kyler Murray there. They don't have much going 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:42.080 on in Cleveland has a super Bowl caliber defense. I 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:45.359 will give them that, but they really aren't playing for 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:48.320 much in Shadoor Sanders as their starting quarterbacks, so you 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:50.919 don't know what to expect. So when you think of 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:55.240 the future, how about this the Joe Burrow effect. Earlier 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:59.240 this morning or Thanksgiving morning, the Bengals odds to make 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:04.000 the playoffs on FanDuel were plus twenty five hundred. Now 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:07.760 they're plus nine eighty. They're odds to win the AFC 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:13.280 North On Thanksgiving morning morning were plus four thousand, Now 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:17.480 they're plus eleven hundred. The Joe Burrow effect in a 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:21.400 road win in primetime in the AFC North to put 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:23.760 the Bengals at three and one in the AFC North. 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:27.520 That's the Joe Burrow effect and all of a sudden, 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:29.840 there's a lot left to play for for the Bengals. 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:31.840 You're listening to the postgame sports talk show. 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:32.719 It's the Art. 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:35.840 It's the tri Stage Chevy Dealers Postgame Sports Talk Show 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:41.360 presented by RNL Carriers on seven hundred WLW and ESPN 0:20:41.560 --> 0:20:46.760 fifteen thirty. 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:51.920 Borrow a shotgun right, two is right, shotgun staff Joe 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:54.199 under pressure flings it down the middle of. 0:20:54.200 --> 0:20:58.119 The film, LC Bosh leaves at the three and takes 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:02.480 it into the end zone. Eight yard touchdown to Andre 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:06.040 Yo Si Vosh and the Bengals. 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:09.040 Lead is back to eleven with a pat coming up. 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:11.800 I love the way Yoshi caught the football cut up 0:21:12.320 --> 0:21:15.160 and just you know, quietly let the baul rolled off 0:21:15.200 --> 0:21:16.639 his hand and looked at the crowd. 0:21:16.680 --> 0:21:18.800 The Baltimore crowd just did how about that throw? 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:19.080 Yeah? 0:21:19.240 --> 0:21:23.159 Oh, just dynamite. Dynamite. 0:21:23.359 --> 0:21:26.800 Indeed, that was the call from Dan Horde and Dave 0:21:26.920 --> 0:21:33.000 Lapham of Joe Burrow's touchdown pass to Andre Yoshivas. That 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:37.000 twenty eight yard touchdown pass is our delivery. Of the 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:41.280 game brought to you by RNL Carriers. Visit RLC dot 0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:47.400 com and make R and L Carriers your global transportation provider. 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:49.840 That was the play too that Joe Burrow said after 0:21:49.880 --> 0:21:51.720 the game. That's when he was like, okay, I got 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:54.240 it back like I felt it. He had to split, 0:21:54.359 --> 0:21:57.119 you know, right over the linebacker and in between the 0:21:57.160 --> 0:22:00.680 safety and andre Yoshivash wins on the kind of throw 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:02.679 it out in front of him, catches it on a 0:22:02.720 --> 0:22:05.320 big third down where he's feeling the pressure on third 0:22:05.320 --> 0:22:09.720 and nine, and Joe Burrow makes the throw. Andre Yoshivash 0:22:09.800 --> 0:22:12.439 makes the play and as you heard Dan say in 0:22:12.480 --> 0:22:17.200 that clip right there, the Bengals lead went back to eleven. 0:22:17.280 --> 0:22:20.760 That was right with fifteen seconds to go at the 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:23.920 end of the third quarter. That was a big, big 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:27.040 moment in the game four the Bengals, who would go 0:22:27.040 --> 0:22:29.760 on to win thirty two to fourteen. By the way, 0:22:29.800 --> 0:22:33.040 you're listening to the Tri State Chevy Dealers postgame sports 0:22:33.040 --> 0:22:36.439 talk show presented by RNL Carriers. My name is Austin Olmore, 0:22:36.520 --> 0:22:40.879 with you until three o'clock on this beautiful black Friday morning, 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:45.040 this victory Black Friday. As the Bengals beat the Ravens 0:22:45.520 --> 0:22:49.160 thirty two to fourteen. I mentioned the statistics for one 0:22:49.280 --> 0:22:53.399 Joe Burrow, the completion percentage not where he wanted it 0:22:53.440 --> 0:22:56.000 to be, not what we're used to with Joe Burrow. 0:22:56.040 --> 0:22:59.080 But he admitted after the game there was some rust 0:22:59.200 --> 0:23:01.040 that he needed to work off, and I thought that 0:23:01.200 --> 0:23:05.040 was evident early on. There was a play in which 0:23:05.320 --> 0:23:08.719 Jamar Chase had one on one coverage on the outside 0:23:09.440 --> 0:23:13.240 and he had a step He had beaten his guy, 0:23:13.520 --> 0:23:17.160 and it was if Joe throws the pass that were 0:23:17.200 --> 0:23:20.679 typically used to seeing Joe throw, it probably ends up 0:23:20.680 --> 0:23:23.600 a touchdown or if not, a thirty or forty yard 0:23:23.600 --> 0:23:26.440 gain to Jamar Chase, and Jamar really didn't have a 0:23:26.600 --> 0:23:29.000 chance for it. There was also a quick out route 0:23:29.080 --> 0:23:31.399 that Jamar really didn't have a chance for. There was 0:23:31.440 --> 0:23:34.080 a ball that was thrown behind Jamar that kind of 0:23:34.080 --> 0:23:37.440 clanked off his hands. You could tell early on Joe 0:23:37.480 --> 0:23:39.520 had some happy feet and he was just trying to 0:23:39.520 --> 0:23:42.200 get the ball out quickly. I was going back through 0:23:42.240 --> 0:23:45.200 my notes and at one point I wrote, Joe does 0:23:45.240 --> 0:23:47.920 not want the ball in his hands. He doesn't look 0:23:47.960 --> 0:23:51.600 comfortable with the ball in his hands, and That's the 0:23:51.640 --> 0:23:54.840 thing about Joe Burrow. He's been in the league for 0:23:54.920 --> 0:23:58.240 six years now. We've seen enough of him, especially early 0:23:58.280 --> 0:24:02.280 in the season, to know that he needs reps and 0:24:02.359 --> 0:24:04.399 he needs to get into the flow of the game. 0:24:04.840 --> 0:24:06.720 And once he gets into the flow of the game, 0:24:07.000 --> 0:24:11.000 then it's like, Okay, yes there's Joe Burrow. But he's 0:24:11.040 --> 0:24:14.359 not always a fast starter, which you know, we've talked 0:24:14.400 --> 0:24:16.520 about fast starts a lot with the Bengals over the 0:24:16.600 --> 0:24:19.879 last couple of years, but it's especially evident with Joe Burrow. 0:24:20.560 --> 0:24:23.960 He wasn't great in Week one against Cleveland. He was 0:24:24.320 --> 0:24:27.600 fine up until he got hurt against Jacksonville, and then 0:24:27.760 --> 0:24:30.359 he didn't play for nine weeks, and so I wasn't 0:24:30.440 --> 0:24:32.760 expecting him to come out and immediately be the guy 0:24:32.800 --> 0:24:36.840 from the twenty twenty four season who was capable of 0:24:36.880 --> 0:24:40.320 winning the MVP and put together the best statistical season 0:24:40.400 --> 0:24:43.840 ever by a Bengals quarterback. I didn't expect that. I 0:24:43.880 --> 0:24:47.120 expected some rust. We saw some rust. Here's the thing 0:24:47.119 --> 0:24:49.720 that I think that's interesting with Joe because early on, 0:24:50.480 --> 0:24:53.600 when the Bengals offense got onto the field, we saw 0:24:53.640 --> 0:24:55.960 a lot of under center. We saw some under center 0:24:56.000 --> 0:24:59.040 play action. We saw an under center toss, we saw 0:24:59.520 --> 0:25:03.720 a run, we saw and that's been a conversation that's 0:25:03.760 --> 0:25:06.560 been had a lot while Burrow was out and Joe 0:25:06.600 --> 0:25:10.240 Flacco was in. It is this prevalence to go under 0:25:10.440 --> 0:25:13.879 center that people want more of for the Bengals and 0:25:13.920 --> 0:25:16.560 that they think has been a big part of unlocking 0:25:17.119 --> 0:25:21.399 the Bengals offense and specifically the Bengals run game. And 0:25:21.480 --> 0:25:24.000 I do think there's something to it, but I do 0:25:24.040 --> 0:25:27.359 think it's probably a bit of an overblown topic to 0:25:27.520 --> 0:25:30.560 talk so much about that. But I was worried and 0:25:30.640 --> 0:25:34.399 I do a show with Tony Pike on ESPN fifteen thirty, 0:25:34.520 --> 0:25:37.080 and Tony was kind of talking about the intricacies of 0:25:37.080 --> 0:25:40.760 playing the quarterback position, and especially when you're under center, 0:25:41.280 --> 0:25:44.560 where you've got to push off with that right foot 0:25:44.920 --> 0:25:48.359 that Joe had the toe injury on. You got to 0:25:48.400 --> 0:25:51.240 kind of push off with that right foot you worry 0:25:51.240 --> 0:25:54.439 about getting stepped on by an offensive lineman and to 0:25:54.560 --> 0:25:56.520 get back into your drop or to get back the 0:25:56.560 --> 0:25:59.600 hand the ball off, there's like some torque on that foot. 0:26:00.240 --> 0:26:04.359 Really expect to see under center much from the Bengals tonight. 0:26:04.920 --> 0:26:06.639 We saw a lot more of it that, to me 0:26:06.800 --> 0:26:10.400 is a reflection of just how healthy Joe Burrow feels 0:26:10.640 --> 0:26:13.960 with his toe. They got some easy completions, they moved 0:26:14.000 --> 0:26:17.399 the pocket. I thought it was a safe, comfortable, and 0:26:17.600 --> 0:26:22.479 overall really good opening. A couple of drives for Joe Burrow. 0:26:22.920 --> 0:26:25.280 They didn't result in a ton of points. They scored 0:26:25.320 --> 0:26:28.879 points on their first drive of the game, and after 0:26:28.920 --> 0:26:32.320 that it was it was relatively you know, normal stuff, 0:26:32.359 --> 0:26:35.760 nothing crazy, and you could tell. I think they were 0:26:35.800 --> 0:26:38.960 just trying to get Joe to settle into the game 0:26:39.200 --> 0:26:41.119 a little bit, and I think he did a pretty 0:26:41.119 --> 0:26:44.320 good job of that, especially once they got into the 0:26:44.359 --> 0:26:47.320 second half, in which he was able to look more 0:26:47.440 --> 0:26:49.639 like the Joe Burrow that we're. 0:26:49.600 --> 0:26:50.240 Used to seeing. 0:26:51.080 --> 0:26:54.359 And the other thing that I find interesting over the 0:26:54.440 --> 0:26:59.240 last month or so, no offense in the NFL has 0:26:59.359 --> 0:27:04.000 been at as good at running the football as the Bengals. Yes, 0:27:04.280 --> 0:27:07.960 at running the football. Now, samajp Ryan's been a little 0:27:07.960 --> 0:27:09.960 bit banged up, and you relied on Tos Brooks and 0:27:09.960 --> 0:27:12.800 he was out tonight with the concussion. But Chase Brown 0:27:12.960 --> 0:27:16.720 in the Bengals offense, and specifically that Bengals offensive line, 0:27:17.320 --> 0:27:21.080 has been excellent at running the football like the best 0:27:21.160 --> 0:27:24.840 in the National Football League over the last month. And 0:27:24.880 --> 0:27:27.120 then you go through the first half of tonight's game 0:27:27.160 --> 0:27:30.240 in Baltimore and you see that Joe Burrow has thrown 0:27:30.440 --> 0:27:36.280 thirty two passes, the most by any player in a 0:27:36.520 --> 0:27:39.280 first half of a game in the NFL this season, 0:27:40.280 --> 0:27:43.080 And I'm thinking, why on Earth are there so many 0:27:44.200 --> 0:27:47.120 passes being called? But I was also kind of going 0:27:47.119 --> 0:27:49.720 through my notes and writing down there was a ton 0:27:49.960 --> 0:27:52.840 of Joe Burrow at the line of scrimmage checking out 0:27:52.840 --> 0:27:56.320 of a play or checking into a different player, killing 0:27:56.400 --> 0:27:59.440 one player, whatever it might be. That's the difference between 0:27:59.440 --> 0:28:02.679 Burrow and all the other quarterbacks on the roster. I 0:28:02.680 --> 0:28:06.320 think with Jake Browning or Joe Flacco for the most part, 0:28:06.400 --> 0:28:09.280 if Zach Taylor calls a run play, those guys are 0:28:09.320 --> 0:28:11.560 going to get up there, snap the ball and hand 0:28:11.600 --> 0:28:15.520 it off. If Zach calls a run play and you 0:28:15.560 --> 0:28:17.760 get to the line of scrimmage with Joe Burrow and 0:28:17.800 --> 0:28:20.080 Burrow doesn't like the look or he gets a key 0:28:20.160 --> 0:28:21.960 that says, Okay, this is not how we want to 0:28:22.040 --> 0:28:24.159 run the ball. We want to adjust this motion, we 0:28:24.200 --> 0:28:26.800 want to adjust this player. Boll then he'll check out 0:28:26.800 --> 0:28:31.880 of that to a more advantageous play call for the Bengals, 0:28:32.240 --> 0:28:34.879 and I think that often is out of a run 0:28:35.119 --> 0:28:38.880 into a pass, and because of that, those numbers get 0:28:38.880 --> 0:28:42.560 a little bit inflated. I think there is a balance 0:28:42.800 --> 0:28:45.480 that Joe and Zach are going to have to find. 0:28:46.400 --> 0:28:48.320 We've complained about this, and we've heard a lot of 0:28:48.360 --> 0:28:50.920 Bengals fans complain about this over the years, that they 0:28:50.920 --> 0:28:53.600 don't run the ball enough. And that was my complaint 0:28:53.600 --> 0:28:56.280 early on in this game, that they didn't run the 0:28:56.280 --> 0:28:59.520 football enough, and that you were putting a little bit 0:28:59.520 --> 0:29:04.000 too much stress on Joe Burrow. And I don't want 0:29:04.040 --> 0:29:07.160 to take away from what Joe does well, which is 0:29:07.280 --> 0:29:10.520 obviously an elite level of processing and having a complete 0:29:10.680 --> 0:29:12.960 mastery and a complete control of the offense. 0:29:13.760 --> 0:29:15.240 And that is. 0:29:16.800 --> 0:29:21.040 A skill and a talent and a trait, however you 0:29:21.040 --> 0:29:23.040 want to describe it, that not a lot of guys 0:29:23.080 --> 0:29:25.240 have in the NFL that complete and mastery. 0:29:25.240 --> 0:29:27.000 There's only a few of them, and. 0:29:26.960 --> 0:29:28.680 So I don't want to take that away from Joe, 0:29:28.840 --> 0:29:30.640 especially if that's where he's comfortable. 0:29:31.240 --> 0:29:32.120 But also. 0:29:33.400 --> 0:29:35.960 I think if you're running the ball well and your 0:29:36.000 --> 0:29:38.320 offensive line is playing well and you've got a good, 0:29:38.400 --> 0:29:42.800 dependable running back, sometimes you can just hand the ball 0:29:42.840 --> 0:29:45.080 off and trust that they're going to make a play. 0:29:45.600 --> 0:29:48.000 I don't think that every single time you have to 0:29:48.080 --> 0:29:51.400 check out of one thing into another. And I don't 0:29:51.400 --> 0:29:53.800 know if there's just they have to find a happy 0:29:53.880 --> 0:29:56.920 medium if you're Zach and Joe. I don't know if 0:29:56.960 --> 0:29:59.120 they need to adjust some of the keys that they 0:29:59.160 --> 0:30:01.320 look at and how they I don't know, and I 0:30:01.320 --> 0:30:04.000 don't know enough about the intricacies of that, but I 0:30:04.040 --> 0:30:06.800 remember thinking in the first half, he's throwing the ball 0:30:06.880 --> 0:30:10.120 way too much, why aren't they running it? And then 0:30:10.160 --> 0:30:13.160 also realizing Joe's checking out a lot of stuff at 0:30:13.200 --> 0:30:16.800 the line of scrimmage. But the run game continued to 0:30:16.840 --> 0:30:21.200 perform well tonight. As a team, the Bengals had thirty 0:30:21.280 --> 0:30:24.720 three carries for one hundred and twenty eight yards. Most 0:30:24.760 --> 0:30:29.240 of those came from Chase Brown. Chase had fifteen carries 0:30:29.800 --> 0:30:33.080 for seventy eight yards on the ground, he had seven 0:30:33.200 --> 0:30:35.960 catches for one hundred and thirty or excuse me, seven 0:30:36.000 --> 0:30:38.760 catches for thirty five yards, so he was over one 0:30:38.800 --> 0:30:42.600 hundred yards on the night. Samaj p Ryan fourteen carries 0:30:42.640 --> 0:30:45.280 for thirty nine yards. Burrow, as I mentioned earlier, carried 0:30:45.280 --> 0:30:49.080 the ball three times for eight yards, and there was 0:30:49.160 --> 0:30:52.440 one checkdown pass that was actually a backwards pass to 0:30:52.560 --> 0:30:55.200 Drew Sample, so it counts as a run for sample, 0:30:55.680 --> 0:30:58.440 but it was a three yard completion slash run to 0:30:58.520 --> 0:31:02.680 Drew Sample. So as a team thirty three yards thirty 0:31:02.680 --> 0:31:05.520 three carries one hundred and twenty eight yards for an 0:31:05.560 --> 0:31:08.920 average of three point nine per carry. Specifically, when you 0:31:08.960 --> 0:31:14.120 go up to Chase Brown five point two yards per 0:31:14.200 --> 0:31:17.320 carry for him, in the words of Dave Lapham, that 0:31:17.440 --> 0:31:20.320 dog will hunt. And even if you take the team 0:31:20.400 --> 0:31:24.080 total of three point nine yards per carry, that dog 0:31:24.480 --> 0:31:27.920 will hunt. And I do think there are plenty of 0:31:28.000 --> 0:31:32.000 reasons to criticize Zach Taylor and his play calling this year, 0:31:32.120 --> 0:31:35.280 and I would hear many of them. But one of 0:31:35.280 --> 0:31:37.480 the things I do think Zach is really good at 0:31:37.720 --> 0:31:42.400 is adjusting to his personnel and adjusting his scheme. And 0:31:42.440 --> 0:31:45.040 the way that the run game has grown from what 0:31:45.080 --> 0:31:46.640 it was in the first three weeks of. 0:31:46.600 --> 0:31:48.440 The season to what it is now. 0:31:49.040 --> 0:31:53.800 I think that is indicative of good offensive coaching, good scheme, 0:31:54.400 --> 0:31:58.840 and ability to work around what you have and fix 0:31:58.880 --> 0:32:02.320 it and doing that while also trying to install an 0:32:02.360 --> 0:32:04.840 offense with a new quarterback and dealing with the backup 0:32:04.920 --> 0:32:08.440 and all the other stuff that's been going on. I 0:32:08.520 --> 0:32:13.720 think that Zach Taylor deserves some credit for that. We'll 0:32:13.720 --> 0:32:16.040 get into some of the other team stats as we go. 0:32:16.120 --> 0:32:18.440 I will say this phone lines are still open and 0:32:18.480 --> 0:32:21.360 will be open for the entirety of the show. It's 0:32:21.400 --> 0:32:24.680 five hut three seven four, nine, seven thousand, going up 0:32:24.760 --> 0:32:28.320 until three o'clock on this black Friday morning. You are 0:32:28.400 --> 0:32:31.920 listening to the Tri Stage Chevy Dealers postgame sports talk 0:32:31.960 --> 0:32:36.920 show presented by RNL carriers on seven hundred WLW and 0:32:37.400 --> 0:32:43.800 on ESPN fifteen thirty. Welcome back into the Try Stage 0:32:43.840 --> 0:32:48.600 Chevy Dealers postgame sports talk show presented by RNL carriers 0:32:48.640 --> 0:32:52.840 here on seven hundred WLW and ESPN fifteen thirty. 0:32:52.840 --> 0:32:54.120 My name is Austin Elmore. 0:32:54.760 --> 0:32:58.120 Already almost one hour down and one hour to go, 0:32:58.120 --> 0:33:01.080 going till three o'clock this morning on this beautiful black 0:33:01.120 --> 0:33:07.000 Friday morning. Bengals victorious over the Baltimore Ravens on Thanksgiving Night, 0:33:07.040 --> 0:33:11.160 the John Madden Thanksgiving By the way, I just want 0:33:11.200 --> 0:33:13.560 to say I think the NFL has done an awesome 0:33:13.720 --> 0:33:18.760 job honoring an awesome man in John Madden. They've done 0:33:18.760 --> 0:33:21.760 this now, I think the last three years on Thanksgiving 0:33:21.800 --> 0:33:24.240 they've made it the John Madden Thanksgiving and I hope 0:33:24.240 --> 0:33:27.240 this is a tradition that never dies. They have a 0:33:27.480 --> 0:33:30.600 John Madden MVP Award that they give away in all 0:33:30.640 --> 0:33:34.480 three games and the player gets a ten thousand dollars 0:33:34.480 --> 0:33:39.480 donation in their name to Madden's Foundation where they help 0:33:39.560 --> 0:33:45.160 underprivileged kids. And every year they tell the story. 0:33:44.840 --> 0:33:45.680 Of John Madden. 0:33:45.840 --> 0:33:49.440 And I think that's so important to continue to educate 0:33:49.480 --> 0:33:53.200 people on the man and the impact of John Madden, 0:33:53.760 --> 0:33:56.720 not only on football, in the game of football itself, 0:33:56.800 --> 0:34:01.680 but also on the presentation of football and to a 0:34:01.760 --> 0:34:05.920 national audience, international TV and all of it. John is 0:34:06.000 --> 0:34:09.040 just so incredibly important to the history of the game. 0:34:09.760 --> 0:34:13.200 And a couple of years ago after he passed away, 0:34:13.280 --> 0:34:15.960 there was a documentary that was released about him and 0:34:16.000 --> 0:34:19.720 about his life, and I believe it's just simply called Madden. 0:34:20.080 --> 0:34:23.520 And I cannot recommend that enough. If you're a football fan, 0:34:23.560 --> 0:34:27.000 if you're a football junkie like I am, any of it, 0:34:27.040 --> 0:34:31.120 Like cannot recommend that enough. It is such a good, 0:34:31.600 --> 0:34:35.440 good thing, and I think the NFL just continues to 0:34:35.440 --> 0:34:38.480 do a great job and it's pretty cool that they 0:34:38.480 --> 0:34:43.719 honored him again. Let's review the Guilty Windows Window of 0:34:43.840 --> 0:34:46.880 opportunity brought to you by Guilty Windows. The key to 0:34:47.040 --> 0:34:52.200 quality windows. That's trusting the pros at Guilty Windows. Think 0:34:52.239 --> 0:34:55.920 about this game for a moment. You have no Trey Henderson, 0:34:56.719 --> 0:35:02.160 you have no cam sample and you're on the road 0:35:02.320 --> 0:35:08.560 short week AFC North Baltimore Ravens Thanksgiving Night. You've got 0:35:08.600 --> 0:35:11.240 Derrick Henry on the other side, You've got Lamar Jackson 0:35:11.280 --> 0:35:15.360 on the other side, and your defense desperately needs to 0:35:15.400 --> 0:35:20.040 continue the good momentum. And with no Trey hendrickson, there 0:35:20.080 --> 0:35:23.520 have been more and more snaps, more and more opportunities 0:35:24.080 --> 0:35:27.600 for Joseph Osai and Miles Murphy. Now you might remember 0:35:28.200 --> 0:35:30.959 in those final five or six games of last year 0:35:31.440 --> 0:35:35.560 when Joseph Osai was spectacular, had five sacks at the 0:35:35.640 --> 0:35:38.120 end of last season and was really a big part 0:35:38.200 --> 0:35:43.000 of the Bengals winning those last five games. Well it's 0:35:43.160 --> 0:35:47.359 that time of year again, and tonight Joseph Osai stepped up. 0:35:48.120 --> 0:35:49.400 He had two sacks. 0:35:49.120 --> 0:35:53.319 Tonight and was one of the most important pieces on 0:35:53.360 --> 0:35:58.640 this Bengals team. He played fearless, he played fast, He 0:35:58.680 --> 0:36:03.480 had three solo tackles, He had four quarterback hits. He 0:36:03.600 --> 0:36:06.719 was part of a defensive line in that unit that 0:36:06.840 --> 0:36:09.120 I think was a huge part of the Bengals winning 0:36:09.160 --> 0:36:12.520 this game. And so the window of opportunity is about 0:36:12.600 --> 0:36:16.799 those chances that Osai got and also that Miles Murphy got. 0:36:16.800 --> 0:36:19.440 We got the caller earlier talking about the hustle for 0:36:19.600 --> 0:36:22.920 Murphy on that long play to Derrick Henry where Murphy 0:36:23.040 --> 0:36:26.200 chases down Henry and is able to get the stop. 0:36:26.760 --> 0:36:30.120 Miles had two tackles tonight, he had a pass defense. 0:36:30.800 --> 0:36:34.120 He was really playing a great game, I thought, on 0:36:34.200 --> 0:36:37.440 the edge and being able to show his speed and 0:36:37.560 --> 0:36:40.200 his strength and be able to set that edge. And 0:36:40.239 --> 0:36:43.520 then you had Cedric Johnson, who's only playing as his 0:36:43.680 --> 0:36:46.240 second or third game back, and he did get banged 0:36:46.320 --> 0:36:48.239 up with the knee injury a little bit later on, 0:36:48.719 --> 0:36:51.560 ended up walking off under his own power. But sad 0:36:51.640 --> 0:36:54.759 Johnson recovered two fumbles tonight when the ball falls right 0:36:54.800 --> 0:36:57.600 in front of him and has continued to put a 0:36:57.640 --> 0:37:01.160 little bit of extra pressure on a pose offensive lines. 0:37:01.680 --> 0:37:03.719 I think he deserves a lot of credit. So to me, 0:37:03.800 --> 0:37:06.280 the window of opportunity in the way that those guys 0:37:06.320 --> 0:37:09.960 seized it goes to Osai, goes to Murphy, goes to 0:37:10.239 --> 0:37:17.160 Cedric Johnson. I mean force and fumbles, just incredible force 0:37:17.239 --> 0:37:20.360 and fumbles, getting sacks, putting pressure on the quarterback, qb hits, 0:37:20.640 --> 0:37:23.879 making them uncomfortable in there. All that stuff for me 0:37:24.360 --> 0:37:28.240 is a big deal. And that's our guilty windows window 0:37:28.480 --> 0:37:30.880 of opportunity, and of course Guilkey Windows the key to 0:37:30.960 --> 0:37:36.680 quality windows. That's trusting the pros at Guilkey Windows. In 0:37:36.719 --> 0:37:39.760 case you missed the other games in the National Football 0:37:39.840 --> 0:37:42.560 League earlier today, the Bengals did get a little bit 0:37:42.600 --> 0:37:45.680 of help from the Dallas Cowboys. The Cowboys knocked off 0:37:45.719 --> 0:37:49.640 the Kansas City Chiefs at At and T Stadium in Arlington. 0:37:50.160 --> 0:37:53.160 Thirty one, p. Twenty eight was the final in that game. 0:37:53.320 --> 0:37:56.480 Dallas is now six five and one on the season 0:37:57.000 --> 0:38:01.160 and the Chiefs are six and six. Kansas City is 0:38:01.360 --> 0:38:05.640 one in five away from Arrowhead Stadium. That's kind of 0:38:05.640 --> 0:38:07.920 hard to fathom. First game of the day was the 0:38:07.960 --> 0:38:11.040 Packers and the Lions in Detroit. Detroit's going through some 0:38:11.120 --> 0:38:15.120 woes offensively, and they got even worse in the first quarter. 0:38:15.680 --> 0:38:18.720 I'm and Ross Saint Brown, their great all pro wide receiver, 0:38:18.880 --> 0:38:21.680 went out with an ankle injury. He was rolled up 0:38:22.080 --> 0:38:24.240 by one of his offensive linemen while he was blocking 0:38:24.280 --> 0:38:25.600 downfield on a run play. 0:38:26.080 --> 0:38:27.240 He did not return. 0:38:27.600 --> 0:38:32.440 His timetable as of now is unclear, but Detroit loses 0:38:32.520 --> 0:38:36.319 to green Bay thirty one to twenty four. Detroit now 0:38:36.440 --> 0:38:39.080 seven and five on the season. They're on the outside 0:38:39.080 --> 0:38:43.319 looking in, and green Bay goes to eight three and 0:38:43.480 --> 0:38:46.080 one on the year, and of course the Bengals over 0:38:46.120 --> 0:38:49.360 the Ravens. If you look at the playoffs right now, 0:38:49.440 --> 0:38:52.160 this is crazy. If you look at the playoff picture 0:38:52.719 --> 0:38:56.960 in the AFC right now, the following quarterbacks on the 0:38:57.000 --> 0:39:05.400 outside looking in CJ Stroud, Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, Joe Burrow. 0:39:06.480 --> 0:39:09.760 The last spot in the AFC playoffs right now belongs 0:39:09.760 --> 0:39:12.719 to Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills, and they are not, 0:39:13.280 --> 0:39:15.560 by any means playing up to the standard that we've 0:39:15.719 --> 0:39:19.560 expected out of that team. Right now, your top seven seeds, 0:39:19.640 --> 0:39:22.080 the top seven teams to make the playoffs in the AFC, 0:39:22.560 --> 0:39:25.879 New England at ten and two, Denver at nine and two, 0:39:26.640 --> 0:39:30.279 Indianapolis at eight and three Pittsburgh at six and five. 0:39:30.360 --> 0:39:33.920 They now lead the AFC North after tonight's result. The 0:39:33.960 --> 0:39:36.600 first wild card team is the LA Chargers at seven 0:39:36.640 --> 0:39:41.440 and four, the Jags at seven and four, and Buffalo 0:39:41.760 --> 0:39:44.840 at seven and four. If you're wondering about this weekend, 0:39:45.680 --> 0:39:50.520 Buffalo at Pittsburgh in that game, if you are a 0:39:50.560 --> 0:39:53.160 Bengals fan, and if you're trying to believe in the 0:39:53.200 --> 0:39:56.360 hope and the optimism and the fact that maybe, just 0:39:56.480 --> 0:39:58.880 maybe they have a chance with Joe Burrow at quarterback, 0:39:59.520 --> 0:40:02.279 well then you you are a big Buffalo Bills fan. 0:40:02.960 --> 0:40:07.680 This coming weekend in Pittsburgh, Josh Allen up against Aaron 0:40:07.760 --> 0:40:11.480 Rodgers in the Steel City should be fun. If you're 0:40:11.480 --> 0:40:15.759 a Bengals fan, you're rooting for those Buffalo Bills. We'll 0:40:15.760 --> 0:40:18.120 take a break for the news. We'll come back. 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Thank you for being here, and thank 0:41:37.200 --> 0:41:39.360 you for allowing me to be a part of your 0:41:39.960 --> 0:41:42.520 Black Friday morning and maybe just a little bit of 0:41:42.520 --> 0:41:46.759 part of your Thanksgiving festivities, whatever they might be. I 0:41:46.800 --> 0:41:50.359 am thrilled to be talking about a Bengals victory Cincinnati 0:41:50.440 --> 0:41:55.960 thirty two fourteen winners over Baltimore in Baltimore on a 0:41:56.120 --> 0:42:01.799 Thanksgiving Thursday nighter, and Cincinnati now four and eight on 0:42:01.960 --> 0:42:04.520 the season. I want to talk about the biggest story, 0:42:04.640 --> 0:42:06.320 which is that Joe Burrow played. 0:42:06.040 --> 0:42:06.479 In the game. 0:42:07.280 --> 0:42:11.479 It's kind of amazing that he did what he did. 0:42:12.040 --> 0:42:14.920 And I know, going back to all the conversations over 0:42:14.960 --> 0:42:17.120 the last couple of weeks while he's been practicing of 0:42:17.600 --> 0:42:21.160 should you play him or should you not play him? 0:42:21.320 --> 0:42:24.600 And my whole thing was, you're still technically alive in 0:42:24.640 --> 0:42:29.680 the playoff race. He's been medically cleared to play. He 0:42:29.800 --> 0:42:34.400 feels confident in playing, So why shouldn't your best player play? 0:42:35.320 --> 0:42:38.439 And I think the team needs him around. I don't 0:42:38.480 --> 0:42:41.440 know if you heard the locker room report with Wayne 0:42:41.440 --> 0:42:45.080 box Miller, but they had those interviews with Dan Horden, 0:42:45.160 --> 0:42:48.399 and Dan kept asking the same question to everybody, how 0:42:48.480 --> 0:42:51.760 much did the team feed off the presence of Joe Burrow? 0:42:51.760 --> 0:42:54.520 How much did they need having him back? And they 0:42:54.560 --> 0:42:58.880 all basically said, dude, yes, like him being here and 0:42:58.960 --> 0:43:01.160 helpful and like it. We know we have a chance 0:43:01.920 --> 0:43:04.239 when Joe Burrow is on the field. And I think 0:43:04.239 --> 0:43:06.560 that's how a lot of Bengals fans feel too. I get, 0:43:06.800 --> 0:43:08.920 you know, wanting to be careful with him and trying 0:43:08.920 --> 0:43:12.120 to think and balance out whether or not a draft 0:43:12.120 --> 0:43:17.279 pick is more valuable or winning games and getting him 0:43:17.320 --> 0:43:20.480 reps is more valuable and him not playing but two 0:43:20.480 --> 0:43:22.680 and a half quarters of football over the course of 0:43:22.960 --> 0:43:25.799 fifteen months or whatever, Like you're trying to balance out 0:43:25.800 --> 0:43:27.959 all the different stuff. But at the end of the day, 0:43:28.640 --> 0:43:32.359 he's a great player who's medically cleared to play and 0:43:32.440 --> 0:43:36.600 feels comfortable playing, and your team technically still has a 0:43:36.640 --> 0:43:40.360 path to the playoffs, So why not play him? That 0:43:40.560 --> 0:43:42.560 was my whole thing. And at the other part of 0:43:42.600 --> 0:43:46.439 it is too Joe is the best quarterback that's ever 0:43:46.480 --> 0:43:51.080 played for this franchise. And how many times or how 0:43:51.120 --> 0:43:53.960 many players would you think back on their career in 0:43:54.040 --> 0:43:57.560 Cincinnati and you would give anything to watch them play 0:43:57.600 --> 0:44:03.880 one more game. Anthony Moon, Isaac Curtis, Ken Anderson O 0:44:04.040 --> 0:44:08.799 Cho Sinko, maybe it's Corey Dillon, you know all, there's 0:44:08.840 --> 0:44:10.840 just so many great players that you would just do 0:44:10.920 --> 0:44:13.480 anything to watch them play one more game for the Bengals, 0:44:13.520 --> 0:44:19.560 Geno Atkins, AJ Green Like this stuff, it goes away quickly. 0:44:20.960 --> 0:44:25.800 Burrow is already in his sixth season. His contract is 0:44:25.880 --> 0:44:28.880 up five years from now. But I just told you 0:44:28.920 --> 0:44:32.279 he's in his sixth, sixth season. Like, think about how 0:44:32.360 --> 0:44:36.600 fast that goes. I want to watch great players play 0:44:36.680 --> 0:44:41.680 for my favorite team, and I was thrilled that Joe 0:44:42.080 --> 0:44:45.399 played tonight and performed the way he did and led 0:44:45.400 --> 0:44:48.399 the Bengals to a victory, And especially when you think 0:44:48.440 --> 0:44:50.279 of all the crap that kind of was going on 0:44:51.280 --> 0:44:54.200 around this game. Let's start with the fact that for 0:44:54.280 --> 0:44:57.359 the fourth year in a row the Bengals have had 0:44:57.400 --> 0:45:01.719 to go to Baltimore for a prime time game. That's 0:45:01.760 --> 0:45:04.439 hard as hell to do. Three out of those four 0:45:04.560 --> 0:45:07.960 have been short weeks Thursday night games in twenty three, 0:45:08.080 --> 0:45:13.040 twenty four, and twenty five. That's insane. The Bengals are 0:45:13.120 --> 0:45:17.640 understandably upset about that. But if you rewind to twenty three, 0:45:17.960 --> 0:45:21.360 that was the night in Baltimore where Joe's wrist popped. 0:45:22.040 --> 0:45:24.200 I did the postgame show that night. We had no 0:45:24.320 --> 0:45:26.920 idea what was going on, but as the night went on, 0:45:27.120 --> 0:45:33.520 we realized, oh crap, this is serious and that's kind 0:45:33.520 --> 0:45:35.680 of a place that as Joe said to the media 0:45:35.760 --> 0:45:38.120 last week, it would mean a lot for him to 0:45:38.160 --> 0:45:40.920 come back and play on that field in that moment. 0:45:42.280 --> 0:45:43.720 And he did. 0:45:45.120 --> 0:45:49.719 That's also rewind to last night, the Bengals trying to 0:45:49.840 --> 0:45:54.760 fly to Baltimore. Their plane has mechanical issues. They're stuck 0:45:54.760 --> 0:45:57.279 on the tarmac on the plane for hours without being 0:45:57.320 --> 0:46:00.000 able to move or get off. Finally they switched play 0:46:00.320 --> 0:46:03.440 to a much smaller plane with these ginormous men. They 0:46:03.440 --> 0:46:07.480 don't get to Baltimore until almost one am local time. 0:46:09.239 --> 0:46:12.959 That throws off their meeting plan, their bed plan, their 0:46:12.960 --> 0:46:16.120 dinner plan, all of it, and I'm sure messes up 0:46:16.160 --> 0:46:19.319 their morning a little bit going into Thanksgiving morning. And 0:46:19.440 --> 0:46:23.960 yet they found a way to show up. What about 0:46:23.960 --> 0:46:26.760 the other part of two of this kind of battle 0:46:26.800 --> 0:46:32.440 between the Ravens fans in the Bengals. You know, a 0:46:32.480 --> 0:46:35.960 couple of years ago, on that Thursday Night when Burrow 0:46:36.440 --> 0:46:41.520 screwed up his wrist after the game, Lamar Jackson is 0:46:41.520 --> 0:46:44.719 on the set with the Thursday Night Football crew and 0:46:44.800 --> 0:46:47.880 he's talking to them, and all the fans are gathered around, 0:46:47.960 --> 0:46:52.640 and you hear this loud, clear as day chant from 0:46:52.640 --> 0:46:58.919 the Baltimore fans saying, F Joe burr Row, F Joe 0:46:59.080 --> 0:47:08.680 burr Row, F Joe Burrow number one, classless number two. 0:47:09.520 --> 0:47:12.359 Another part of the chapter of this rivalry and part 0:47:12.360 --> 0:47:14.399 of why it means so much for Joe to come 0:47:14.480 --> 0:47:19.440 back in that spot in that game. On that stage 0:47:20.239 --> 0:47:23.920 and perform the way he did. And listen, when the 0:47:23.920 --> 0:47:28.279 Bengals have Joe Burrow, they're a different team. When you 0:47:28.320 --> 0:47:31.480 go back the last eight games that Joe Burrow has 0:47:31.520 --> 0:47:35.239 started for the Bengals, you want to know their record 0:47:36.280 --> 0:47:41.080 eight to no last five from last year, first two 0:47:41.160 --> 0:47:45.759 from this year and tonight against Baltimore eight and oh. 0:47:48.600 --> 0:47:49.720 Are the Bengals. 0:47:50.120 --> 0:47:53.000 So when you think of all the history of Baltimore, 0:47:53.880 --> 0:47:57.120 the nonsense with the travel and getting there already being 0:47:57.160 --> 0:48:00.359 a short week and playing a division rival again, which 0:48:00.360 --> 0:48:03.120 has been a real problem for every team in the division, 0:48:04.480 --> 0:48:08.720 all the stuff going on, and Joe having not played 0:48:08.719 --> 0:48:13.080 in nine weeks, which was he's like three weeks ahead 0:48:13.120 --> 0:48:16.440 of schedule. Going through all that and finding way to 0:48:16.480 --> 0:48:18.920 perform the way he did, knock the rust off and 0:48:18.960 --> 0:48:21.960 play the way he did in the second half incredible. 0:48:22.880 --> 0:48:26.920 Like I hope we understand the greatness that we have. 0:48:28.800 --> 0:48:31.560 This is an elite of an elite quarterback. And when 0:48:31.560 --> 0:48:34.920 he's healthy and when he's you know, in his rhythm, 0:48:35.520 --> 0:48:36.880 he's as good as any. 0:48:36.680 --> 0:48:38.440 Player in the league. 0:48:38.800 --> 0:48:44.240 Doesn't matter, Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, I don't 0:48:44.280 --> 0:48:46.839 care Burrow is as good as any one of them, 0:48:46.920 --> 0:48:51.319 if not better, And it's so fun to watch. And 0:48:51.400 --> 0:48:54.160 I just you know, tonight was only the second time 0:48:54.760 --> 0:48:57.759 in the history of the franchise that the Bengals have 0:48:57.840 --> 0:49:03.080 played on Thanksgiving, and their superstar quarterback was healthy enough 0:49:03.120 --> 0:49:04.920 to play, and he played. 0:49:05.760 --> 0:49:07.920 I'm just enjoying that. I'm soaking that in. 0:49:08.920 --> 0:49:12.000 And as much as the debate has been about, you know, 0:49:12.080 --> 0:49:15.120 should Joe play or should Joe not play? I thought 0:49:15.160 --> 0:49:18.040 it was cool the answer that he gave to Melissa 0:49:18.080 --> 0:49:21.560 Stark from NBC prior to the game. 0:49:21.680 --> 0:49:23.360 Take a listen to this exchange. 0:49:23.560 --> 0:49:25.560 I'm just excited to get out there and play, have 0:49:25.680 --> 0:49:26.560 some time with the guys. 0:49:26.960 --> 0:49:29.200 You're wearing a hard plate in your shoe. 0:49:29.280 --> 0:49:30.359 What impact will that have? 0:49:30.880 --> 0:49:32.719 Well, see, I don't think it'll have much impact. I 0:49:32.719 --> 0:49:35.520 feel pretty good moving around, feel pretty good throwing. So 0:49:35.640 --> 0:49:36.680 excited to be back out there. 0:49:36.840 --> 0:49:39.359 The team is three and eight, slim chances of making 0:49:39.360 --> 0:49:40.080 the playoffs. 0:49:40.280 --> 0:49:42.680 Why was it so important for you to come back 0:49:42.680 --> 0:49:43.400 and play tonight. 0:49:43.880 --> 0:49:45.279 We're getting paid a lot of money to play a 0:49:45.320 --> 0:49:49.319 kid's game. I love playing. I just want to put 0:49:49.360 --> 0:49:50.680 on a show for the fans, be out there with 0:49:50.760 --> 0:49:51.959 my guys, go on play. 0:49:52.000 --> 0:49:56.279 Well, how cool is that? I want to put on 0:49:56.320 --> 0:49:57.799 a show for the fans. I want to play with 0:49:57.840 --> 0:50:00.160 my teammates. We get paid a lot of money to 0:50:00.160 --> 0:50:03.759 play a kid's game. What an awesome answer from the 0:50:03.800 --> 0:50:07.440 face of your franchise. I thought that was cool. I 0:50:07.480 --> 0:50:10.720 thought that was refreshing. I also thought it was awesome 0:50:11.000 --> 0:50:14.520 that Joe didn't really waste any time throwing the ball 0:50:14.760 --> 0:50:18.000 to his guy, Jamar Chase also a comeback of sorts 0:50:18.000 --> 0:50:21.640 for him. Jamar fresh off the suspension for spitting on 0:50:21.800 --> 0:50:25.720 Jalen Ramsey. He was fresh after having not played against 0:50:25.719 --> 0:50:30.120 the Patriots, and he performed. Well, that's actually our connection 0:50:30.400 --> 0:50:33.800 of the game. That's our infinity of Northern Kentucky connection 0:50:34.440 --> 0:50:37.560 of the game. A service of infinity of Northern Kentucky. 0:50:37.600 --> 0:50:41.120 Reimagine luxury that's within your reach just ten minutes from 0:50:41.160 --> 0:50:44.920 downtown Cincinnati. Look for the tower Infinity of Northern Kentucky 0:50:45.560 --> 0:50:49.480 dot com. Joe and Jamar connected seven catches for one 0:50:49.560 --> 0:50:53.520 hundred and ten yards. Did Jamar Chase fourteen targets? Bunch 0:50:53.560 --> 0:50:56.160 of those came on third downs, and the Bengals were 0:50:56.200 --> 0:50:59.600 able to move the chains with those two. Always fun 0:50:59.640 --> 0:51:03.600 to see the LSU connection back in action. We'll take 0:51:03.600 --> 0:51:06.160 a break, we'll come back. You're listening to the Tri 0:51:06.239 --> 0:51:09.960 Stage Chevy Dealers Postgame Sports Talk Show presented by RNL 0:51:10.040 --> 0:51:22.600 Carriers on seven hundred WLW and ESPN fifteen thirty. Welcome 0:51:22.640 --> 0:51:28.480 back in Postgame Sports Talks seven hundred WLW and ESPN 0:51:28.600 --> 0:51:29.360 fifteen thirty. 0:51:29.360 --> 0:51:30.560 My name's Austin Olmore. 0:51:30.640 --> 0:51:34.560 By the way, Postgame Sports Talk Show is brought to 0:51:34.600 --> 0:51:38.880 you in part by M and P Logistics. From first 0:51:38.880 --> 0:51:42.120 down to the final mile, M and P delivers, you 0:51:42.680 --> 0:51:44.560 can depend on it. 0:51:44.640 --> 0:51:44.799 Well. 0:51:44.920 --> 0:51:49.560 Joe Burrow, he delivered tonight. It was also cool after 0:51:49.719 --> 0:51:55.800 the game, they're doing the whole Turducan celebration. Joe gets 0:51:55.840 --> 0:51:59.640 the MVP the Madden MVP award, which was cool, and 0:52:00.040 --> 0:52:03.120 all the guys are gathered around and they're getting turkey 0:52:03.200 --> 0:52:06.440 legs and duck and chicken legs and the whole nine 0:52:06.520 --> 0:52:09.879 yards and they're all kind of celebrating and having fun 0:52:09.920 --> 0:52:14.560 around Joe Burrow and Melissa Stark is trying to ask him, 0:52:14.960 --> 0:52:16.600 you know, what are you thankful for? 0:52:16.719 --> 0:52:19.399 Like, what does this moment mean to you? And it's 0:52:19.560 --> 0:52:20.840 very rare that we. 0:52:20.680 --> 0:52:24.840 See emotion from the quarterback of the Bengals, and you 0:52:24.880 --> 0:52:26.680 could tell there was a moment where it kind of 0:52:26.719 --> 0:52:30.480 hit him where it kind of like, you know, thankful 0:52:30.520 --> 0:52:34.200 for the people that got him here, that got him 0:52:34.200 --> 0:52:39.440 to this point. The trainers, his friends, his family, his teammates, 0:52:40.000 --> 0:52:44.560 his physical therapists, his doctors, like all the people. You 0:52:44.600 --> 0:52:47.919 can just tell this moment were like he just did 0:52:47.960 --> 0:52:52.880 something that Joe Burrow, the little kid growing up in Athens, Ohio, 0:52:53.480 --> 0:52:55.879 always wanted to do, and you could just you could 0:52:55.920 --> 0:52:57.120 tell it hit him for a moment. 0:52:57.800 --> 0:52:59.000 I thought that was really cool. 0:52:59.640 --> 0:53:03.000 And you know I've said before, I'm a kid from 0:53:03.040 --> 0:53:06.680 a small town in Ohio, just like Joe, and you know, 0:53:06.760 --> 0:53:09.240 he's lived out the dream of a lot of kids 0:53:09.400 --> 0:53:12.040 who grew up in Ohio. He went on to Ohio 0:53:12.080 --> 0:53:14.080 State and obviously things didn't work out the way they 0:53:14.120 --> 0:53:17.919 expected it to, but he played for the Buckeyes, goes 0:53:17.960 --> 0:53:20.360 and wins the Heisman trophies, the number one pick in 0:53:20.400 --> 0:53:22.719 the draft. He gets back to Ohio with the Bengals 0:53:23.440 --> 0:53:26.919 and goes through all that he's gone through. I find 0:53:26.960 --> 0:53:29.719 him to be a relatable guy. I think, you know, 0:53:30.040 --> 0:53:33.200 in a lot of different ways. Obviously, there is nothing 0:53:33.239 --> 0:53:35.640 that relates to me about having a two hundred and 0:53:35.680 --> 0:53:40.560 fifty million dollar contract, but his personality and his upbringing 0:53:40.800 --> 0:53:44.040 and you know, the experiences. 0:53:43.320 --> 0:53:44.200 He had as a kid. 0:53:44.880 --> 0:53:47.440 I relate to a lot of that as well, and 0:53:47.760 --> 0:53:50.279 I've always just seen I thought it's so cool to 0:53:50.280 --> 0:53:54.120 see how he handles those moments, and I thought it 0:53:54.160 --> 0:53:56.960 was cool again tonight. Let's go over some of the 0:53:57.000 --> 0:54:00.839 other stats from this game. The Bengal as I said 0:54:00.880 --> 0:54:04.320 it was, it was a little dominating, like it wasn't 0:54:05.239 --> 0:54:08.319 as close of a game I think as maybe it 0:54:08.440 --> 0:54:12.680 felt to a lot of people watching it. The Bengals 0:54:12.680 --> 0:54:17.760 had twenty two first downs, Baltimore had sixteen. The Bengals 0:54:17.760 --> 0:54:20.919 were eight of nineteen on third downs, Baltimore was three 0:54:21.080 --> 0:54:24.520 for ten. Both teams were four for two or one 0:54:24.600 --> 0:54:29.879 for two on fourth downs. Total yards, Cincinnati had three 0:54:29.960 --> 0:54:35.239 eighty two to Baltimore's three forty six. Baltimore had one 0:54:35.320 --> 0:54:40.879 extra drive two in that entire situation. Rushing numbers were 0:54:40.880 --> 0:54:44.359 about the same. Cincinnati won twenty eight, Baltimore won twenty three. 0:54:45.920 --> 0:54:50.560 Penalties Cincinnati six for thirty five, Baltimore seven for fifty three. 0:54:51.200 --> 0:54:54.680 The Bengals were one for six in the red zone, 0:54:54.840 --> 0:54:58.840 Baltimore was one for two. As I mentioned, Baltimore fumbled 0:54:58.920 --> 0:55:02.839 four times and Jackson threw an interception. The Bengals did 0:55:02.880 --> 0:55:04.920 have one fumble they lost late in the game by 0:55:04.920 --> 0:55:08.200 samaj p Ryn. But here's the big one, here's the 0:55:08.200 --> 0:55:16.640 big kicker. Time of possession thirty eight forty six thirty 0:55:16.640 --> 0:55:23.920 eight minutes forty six seconds for the Bengals Baltimore twenty 0:55:24.000 --> 0:55:29.319 one minutes, fourteen seconds. So the Bengals had the ball 0:55:29.400 --> 0:55:34.160 for seventeen more minutes than the Baltimore Ravens did. 0:55:35.239 --> 0:55:35.960 That's amazing. 0:55:37.480 --> 0:55:41.440 And the total plays was eighty for the Bengals offense 0:55:41.480 --> 0:55:48.400 to fifty seven for Baltimore. That's just that's crazy. You 0:55:48.480 --> 0:55:51.160 just don't expect that. And I think that's going to 0:55:51.200 --> 0:55:54.239 be part of the thing, like kind of going back 0:55:54.280 --> 0:55:57.000 to that conversation about Joe changing the plays at the 0:55:57.000 --> 0:55:59.560 line of scrimmage and maybe doing that a little bit 0:55:59.600 --> 0:56:05.040 too freequly, or figuring out the balance. When your defense 0:56:05.080 --> 0:56:08.000 struggles the way that your defense has, you have got 0:56:08.040 --> 0:56:10.520 to get them off the field. You've got to keep 0:56:10.600 --> 0:56:13.960 Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry and those guys off the field. 0:56:14.320 --> 0:56:16.920 Next week against Buffalo, you got to keep Josh Allen 0:56:16.960 --> 0:56:20.839 and Dalvin Cook or James Cook and those you got 0:56:20.880 --> 0:56:24.680 to keep them off the field. And so you have 0:56:24.760 --> 0:56:28.360 to be able to operate an offense and be efficient 0:56:29.520 --> 0:56:33.120 and move the sticks. And you want chunk plays and 0:56:33.120 --> 0:56:35.080 you want exposive plays, and there's a place for that, 0:56:35.160 --> 0:56:38.120 but also you want to possess the ball. You want 0:56:38.120 --> 0:56:40.359 to run a bunch of plays. You want to wear 0:56:40.400 --> 0:56:42.719 that defense down, you want to drain that clock. You 0:56:42.719 --> 0:56:45.400 want to make sure that your defense is getting a 0:56:45.440 --> 0:56:47.760 break and they're not on the field every three plays, 0:56:47.800 --> 0:56:52.600 every three plays, every three plays. And that complimentary football 0:56:52.640 --> 0:56:55.000 that we talk a lot, a lot, a lot a 0:56:55.040 --> 0:56:59.880 lot about, I think is just incredibly important for the 0:57:00.200 --> 0:57:03.040 success of this team. And I thought you saw it tonight, 0:57:03.680 --> 0:57:07.080 even though it was a short week. The defense I 0:57:07.120 --> 0:57:12.799 felt like was really flying around. They were amazing with 0:57:12.840 --> 0:57:17.120 their speed, with their athleticism, with their motor. They looked 0:57:17.160 --> 0:57:19.960 fresh every time they took the ball or every time 0:57:20.000 --> 0:57:21.640 they took the field, and I think that's because of 0:57:21.680 --> 0:57:25.600 the way the offense was handling the ball. I mean, 0:57:25.640 --> 0:57:28.280 if you look at the numbers and what Lamar Jackson. 0:57:28.280 --> 0:57:31.920 Did I mean this guy is still an MVP candidate. 0:57:31.960 --> 0:57:34.440 He's still as good as anybody in the NFL. He 0:57:34.560 --> 0:57:40.200 was seventeen of thirty two two hundred and forty six yards, 0:57:40.720 --> 0:57:44.240 no touchdowns, and an interception. The Bengals sacked him three times. 0:57:46.160 --> 0:57:49.840 Other stats for Baltimore Dereck Henry ten carries, sixty yards, 0:57:49.960 --> 0:57:53.240 one touchdown. Jackson carried the ball just six times for 0:57:53.320 --> 0:57:56.800 twenty seven yards. He had a long of eleven. Keaton 0:57:56.840 --> 0:58:00.920 Mitchell carried twice for nineteen rasheen a Lee four carries 0:58:00.920 --> 0:58:04.760 for seventeen yards. As a team, Baltimore twenty two for 0:58:04.800 --> 0:58:07.959 one hundred and twenty three yards. That's getting it done. 0:58:08.000 --> 0:58:11.600 I'm surprised they didn't run the ball more. Baltimore's leading 0:58:11.640 --> 0:58:16.200 receiver was Isaiah Likely five catches for ninety five yards. 0:58:16.440 --> 0:58:19.480 He also had that fumble. It was a big play 0:58:19.520 --> 0:58:21.560 in the game as well. You want to talk about 0:58:21.560 --> 0:58:25.560 the effort of one Miles Murphy on the Derrick Henry play, 0:58:25.920 --> 0:58:28.880 What about the effort of Jordan Battle catching up to 0:58:29.000 --> 0:58:33.440 Isaiah Likely and slapping that left forearm that led to 0:58:33.480 --> 0:58:36.040 the ball slipping out of the hands of Isaiah Likely. 0:58:36.520 --> 0:58:38.960 Out of the back of the end zone, fumbled through 0:58:39.000 --> 0:58:41.720 the end zone for a touchback, and the Bengals get possession. 0:58:42.320 --> 0:58:44.200 That was a big play in the game as well, 0:58:45.080 --> 0:58:48.480 and early on it felt like the Bengals just letting 0:58:48.520 --> 0:58:51.120 Baltimore hang around, especially because of the way that they 0:58:51.760 --> 0:58:54.720 couldn't convert in the red zone. But I do think 0:58:54.760 --> 0:58:58.600 the Bengals deserved some credit because Baltimore landed some punches too, 0:58:58.680 --> 0:59:02.280 and Cincinnati didn't follow They ate those punches. They stood 0:59:02.360 --> 0:59:07.320 right in there and performed pretty well, and typically, you know, 0:59:08.080 --> 0:59:11.560 as is usual, tight ends eate the Bengals alive likely 0:59:11.600 --> 0:59:15.120 had five for ninety five. Mark Andrews four for forty seven, 0:59:15.640 --> 0:59:18.960 including a nineteen yarder. Derrick Henry had that one catch 0:59:19.000 --> 0:59:21.880 for forty four yards. But Zay Flowers he did nothing, 0:59:22.000 --> 0:59:26.160 two for six, two for six. That speaks to the 0:59:26.200 --> 0:59:30.200 importance of DJ Turner and DeAndre Hopkins had two for 0:59:30.280 --> 0:59:33.960 twenty five. I mean, when you do that, when you 0:59:34.000 --> 0:59:37.920 hold those top two targets to basically thirty one yards 0:59:37.920 --> 0:59:42.680 on four catches, and obviously the tight ends not great 0:59:42.880 --> 0:59:45.520 in terms of letting them go for yards, but that's 0:59:45.520 --> 0:59:50.520 pretty impressive, and that's Cincinnati's defensive secondary coverage brought to 0:59:50.520 --> 0:59:54.400 you by coversincy dot com, local health insurance experts for 0:59:54.520 --> 0:59:58.720 over twenty years. It was another great night for Dax 0:59:58.800 --> 1:00:04.160 Hill and DJ Turner, who were marvelous in coverage for 1:00:04.240 --> 1:00:09.320 the Bengals. Dax Hill two passes defensed. DJ Turner also 1:00:09.480 --> 1:00:14.960 had a pass defensed, and all together the team had 1:00:15.040 --> 1:00:17.560 six of them. Josh Newton had a big one on 1:00:17.600 --> 1:00:21.800 a fourth down, Barrett Carter had one, Demetrius Knight had one. 1:00:21.840 --> 1:00:26.040 It was just overall really impressive performance against Lamar Jackson 1:00:26.080 --> 1:00:30.000 and the Ravens. Once again, that's coversinci dot com, local 1:00:30.040 --> 1:00:33.400 health insurance experts for over twenty years. We'll take a 1:00:33.440 --> 1:00:36.200 break for the news. We'll come back. Postgame sports talk 1:00:36.360 --> 1:00:40.200 rolls along right here on seven hundred WLW and ESPN 1:00:40.280 --> 1:00:49.680 fifteen thirty. All right, rolling right along, twenty five minutes 1:00:49.720 --> 1:00:53.560 to go on the Tri State Chevy Dealers postgames sports 1:00:53.560 --> 1:00:58.360 talk show presented by RNL carriers here on ESPN fifteen 1:00:58.480 --> 1:01:02.520 thirty and seven hundred WLW. We'll get to the phones 1:01:02.560 --> 1:01:06.640 in just a moment. Davin Redding is standing by. 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Before we get to the phone's 1:01:41.080 --> 1:01:46.160 quick injury report, it's time for today's Postman Law Injury Report, 1:01:46.200 --> 1:01:49.400 brought to you by Postman Law Injured Call eight four 1:01:49.360 --> 1:01:55.080 to four Postman Others promise Postman delivers. No major injuries 1:01:55.160 --> 1:01:59.920 during the game for the Bengals, except one linebacker Brian 1:02:00.280 --> 1:02:04.280 Asamoa for the formerly with the Minnesota Vikings, the guy 1:02:04.320 --> 1:02:06.360 who was brought up on the practice squad and had 1:02:06.360 --> 1:02:09.560 turned into a really good special teamer for the Bengals 1:02:09.560 --> 1:02:12.840 over the last couple of weeks. He left with a 1:02:12.920 --> 1:02:16.760 knee injury and did not return to the game. So 1:02:16.920 --> 1:02:18.600 that's something to keep an eye out on when it 1:02:18.640 --> 1:02:22.400 comes to the special teams unit. Defensive end Cedric Johnson. 1:02:22.840 --> 1:02:24.680 As I mentioned earlier, he got a little bit banged 1:02:24.760 --> 1:02:27.280 up later in the game. He did walk off under 1:02:27.320 --> 1:02:30.120 his own power. Zach Taylor, from what I heard, did 1:02:30.120 --> 1:02:33.160 not provide any injury updates on those so not sure 1:02:33.240 --> 1:02:35.040 the status of either one of them. It was a 1:02:35.080 --> 1:02:40.040 knee for Brian Osamoa and unclear on Cedric Johnson's injury. 1:02:40.440 --> 1:02:45.200 And during the game, Baltimore's top cornerback, the young Nate Wiggins, 1:02:45.720 --> 1:02:49.040 he left with an injury and did not return in 1:02:49.080 --> 1:02:51.240 the second half. That was a big part of the Bengals' 1:02:51.240 --> 1:02:55.440 success offensively, especially when it comes to Jamar Chase. 1:02:55.640 --> 1:02:57.400 That is today's. 1:02:57.040 --> 1:03:00.720 Postman Law Injury Report, brought to you by Postman Law 1:03:00.920 --> 1:03:04.440 Injured call eight four to four. Postman. Others promise, but 1:03:04.640 --> 1:03:08.080 Postman delivers. Let's go out to the phones. Let's talk 1:03:08.160 --> 1:03:12.040 to Dave in reading. Dave, you're on post game Sports Talk. 1:03:12.080 --> 1:03:12.600 What's up man? 1:03:13.400 --> 1:03:16.680 Hey? Yeah? I also got kudos Hugh first off for 1:03:17.800 --> 1:03:20.480 bringing up John Madden. Talk about him. 1:03:21.160 --> 1:03:23.880 Oh yeah, he's the best man, the huge part of 1:03:23.920 --> 1:03:25.880 my childhood. I love John Madden. 1:03:26.440 --> 1:03:28.120 Hey, yeah, you're a young dude, But you seem to 1:03:28.120 --> 1:03:30.800 know a lot about NFL history. I try to tell 1:03:30.880 --> 1:03:34.280 the younger people in my family about the football history, 1:03:34.320 --> 1:03:36.720 and uh, it's it's a great thing. 1:03:37.040 --> 1:03:37.280 You know. 1:03:37.920 --> 1:03:39.800 You stole some of my thunder there. I was going 1:03:39.880 --> 1:03:43.800 to talk about the Ravens fans. You know. So when 1:03:43.800 --> 1:03:45.560 that happened Joeker hurt two years ago. 1:03:45.640 --> 1:03:47.800 Oh yeah, you know, I never would. 1:03:47.840 --> 1:03:49.800 I never want to ever want to see a player 1:03:49.800 --> 1:03:52.800 get hurts. Bet a quarterback, you know, because they're cheap 1:03:52.840 --> 1:03:55.400 in the game. But also I just believe in Fade. 1:03:55.440 --> 1:03:58.120 I mean, yeah, he does something. I guess he's gonna 1:03:58.120 --> 1:04:01.320 turn on the bike sometime and you know their quarterback 1:04:01.360 --> 1:04:04.000 right now, just old guy. He's he's right, you know. 1:04:04.160 --> 1:04:06.040 Yeah, he definitely I was. I saw a couple of 1:04:06.040 --> 1:04:07.960 people talking about this. I think it's the best way 1:04:07.960 --> 1:04:10.360 to describe it. Like he just doesn't look right, like 1:04:10.440 --> 1:04:13.840 he's not comfortable. It's been a hamstring, it's been an ankle, 1:04:13.880 --> 1:04:15.760 it's been a knee, it's been a toe. I just 1:04:15.960 --> 1:04:18.200 I don't know if he's got his legs underneath him. Man, 1:04:18.240 --> 1:04:20.360 He's just he's not the same guy we've seen in 1:04:20.400 --> 1:04:21.200 the past. 1:04:21.720 --> 1:04:23.400 Well, I was wrong about I know you guys, I 1:04:23.400 --> 1:04:26.200 guess you're one of them two. When he got drapped, 1:04:26.240 --> 1:04:29.440 it was saying he should be picked, and I didn't 1:04:29.440 --> 1:04:31.600 believe it. I didn't think he'd be that great. He said. 1:04:31.600 --> 1:04:34.880 He proved me wrong. He's he's become a great football player. 1:04:34.920 --> 1:04:38.800 But it's all about Joe today. I was a little wary, 1:04:38.920 --> 1:04:41.920 just because he's always been a flung starter way you know, 1:04:42.040 --> 1:04:44.280 I mean, began this season all the time, he didn't 1:04:44.280 --> 1:04:46.040 evenly look that good in the first game and half 1:04:46.040 --> 1:04:48.920 he played this year, and he did like you you 1:04:48.920 --> 1:04:52.120 you were dead on it, saying about him struggling early 1:04:52.120 --> 1:04:54.720 and everything. But the guy is he's just a winner. 1:04:54.800 --> 1:04:57.840 Let's face it's a great leader. He's just a winner. 1:04:57.840 --> 1:05:00.280 But let's all real quick about the deep and some 1:05:00.360 --> 1:05:04.280 really everybody's been putting them down. And these guys you 1:05:04.280 --> 1:05:06.640 can say what you want about and they're professionals and 1:05:06.720 --> 1:05:10.320 getting badgers doing this is terrible. All ESPN and everybody 1:05:10.360 --> 1:05:12.960 walls see how bad they are. And they was up 1:05:13.000 --> 1:05:16.440 to day. You know, you were talking about Miles Murphy 1:05:16.840 --> 1:05:20.080 and he actually deflected that interception, uh that. 1:05:20.000 --> 1:05:20.960 Past Yeah, that's right. 1:05:21.040 --> 1:05:21.240 Yeah. 1:05:21.320 --> 1:05:23.480 One of the things and he uh, he just had 1:05:23.520 --> 1:05:26.320 a really good game as a side did and it 1:05:26.440 --> 1:05:28.560 was just great to see it. And you see what happened. 1:05:28.600 --> 1:05:30.000 To get pressure on the quarterback. 1:05:30.680 --> 1:05:34.400 It changes everything, especially if if Lamar's a little bit compromised, 1:05:34.440 --> 1:05:37.840 like we're just talking about, then it makes everything so 1:05:38.000 --> 1:05:40.280 much harder for for that defense. 1:05:40.800 --> 1:05:44.120 Good to see al go. You're gonna see him blitz 1:05:44.120 --> 1:05:46.560 and I wonder why it's not taking so long to 1:05:46.640 --> 1:05:48.560 do that. I guess you just didn't trust him on 1:05:48.600 --> 1:05:49.280 the back end. 1:05:49.360 --> 1:05:51.040 Yeah, we've seen a lot more of that out of 1:05:51.040 --> 1:05:53.520 the bye week, where he's just been more willing to blitz. 1:05:53.560 --> 1:05:55.280 And there was a there was at one point I 1:05:55.280 --> 1:05:58.640 think it was a second down and a third down 1:05:58.800 --> 1:06:04.040 back to back, which that never happens to back to 1:06:03.840 --> 1:06:06.800 to blitz on back to back plays. I thought that 1:06:06.920 --> 1:06:09.040 was a good like, if nothing else, it breaks the 1:06:09.080 --> 1:06:12.280 tendency for the Bengals defense and moving forward, it's like, 1:06:12.320 --> 1:06:14.400 oh crap, they could blitz back to back plays. 1:06:14.440 --> 1:06:17.760 I thought it was a smart move exactly. Maybe he 1:06:17.920 --> 1:06:20.560 just hitting nothing to lose but trying it maybe, but 1:06:20.640 --> 1:06:21.440 uh yeah. 1:06:21.640 --> 1:06:22.200 It could be. 1:06:22.360 --> 1:06:25.040 I mean, desperate times called for desperate measures. 1:06:25.120 --> 1:06:27.240 Dave k a quick question. 1:06:27.880 --> 1:06:28.480 Thanksgiving. 1:06:28.880 --> 1:06:29.600 Oh it was great. 1:06:29.640 --> 1:06:32.320 I was able to hang out with my dad and uh, 1:06:32.440 --> 1:06:35.360 I was up in Covington, Ohio, where he lives, and 1:06:35.720 --> 1:06:37.800 I got to spend some time with my family. Got 1:06:37.840 --> 1:06:40.600 back home just in time to watch the game. And 1:06:40.840 --> 1:06:42.520 I'm here now. I'll tell you what I have about 1:06:42.560 --> 1:06:45.560 three plates and I'm gonna sleep like a rock tonight. 1:06:45.600 --> 1:06:50.320 I can tell you about maybe two of cars. Got 1:06:50.400 --> 1:06:53.080 tell you a quick thing about my from my thanks 1:06:53.080 --> 1:06:54.840 you and I we went out to eat my family 1:06:55.160 --> 1:06:58.120 the last couple of years. I won't say where a 1:06:58.120 --> 1:07:01.320 restaurant is respected prize see, but we were sitting there. 1:07:01.360 --> 1:07:04.320 My brother Scott, he goes, uh, at the table next 1:07:04.320 --> 1:07:06.560 to us, he goes, that was like, it's uh, that's 1:07:06.560 --> 1:07:08.760 why it looks like Davy concept she owned sitting there, 1:07:09.560 --> 1:07:12.760 And we looked at later on and atad is Davy 1:07:12.840 --> 1:07:17.640 concept she owned? Saysar Geronimo was sitting there, and then 1:07:17.760 --> 1:07:20.080 Scott says, yeah, the other guy over here. I'm not sure, 1:07:20.120 --> 1:07:22.920 but that it was like Tito and they were all 1:07:22.960 --> 1:07:24.280 three sitting at the table right. 1:07:24.200 --> 1:07:26.840 Next to us, no kidding, Yeah, it was cool. 1:07:26.920 --> 1:07:29.160 Yeah, and yeah we waved. They got down to their 1:07:29.200 --> 1:07:31.960 meal everything. I actually talked to him for about ten minutes. 1:07:32.000 --> 1:07:34.840 You know, Tino, he he did talk hood all your 1:07:34.840 --> 1:07:37.480 head off, and he was telling stories about you know, 1:07:37.840 --> 1:07:41.920 Pete Rose and some of the Big Red Machine and 1:07:42.160 --> 1:07:45.320 Davy's chiming was it was really surprising. 1:07:45.520 --> 1:07:48.800 Yeah, that's that's a really cool story, Davey. 1:07:49.200 --> 1:07:51.840 Yeah, and then we uh well even missed maybe part 1:07:51.880 --> 1:07:53.560 of the first quarter by the time we got home, 1:07:53.560 --> 1:07:55.840 but didn't watch the game. It was great. But I 1:07:56.000 --> 1:07:59.480 appreciate your time. And uh, you're you're not working tomorrow, 1:07:59.520 --> 1:08:01.160 of course, no. 1:08:00.680 --> 1:08:05.080 No, I'm off with the company holiday tomorrow. But Dave's 1:08:05.080 --> 1:08:07.400 good talking to you, man. Have a happy Thanksgiving, happy 1:08:07.440 --> 1:08:12.280 holiday weekend. Man, that's pretty cool seeing a couple of 1:08:12.280 --> 1:08:15.280 the Big Red Machine and old Tito. It'd be a 1:08:15.280 --> 1:08:18.880 fun Thanksgiving story. I can only imagine what was going 1:08:18.920 --> 1:08:19.719 on at that table. 1:08:19.760 --> 1:08:20.240 That's cool. 1:08:20.760 --> 1:08:23.280 Uh, you're listening to the Tri State Chevy Dealers postgame 1:08:23.360 --> 1:08:27.240 sports talk show. Bengals victorious over the Ravens tonight. Let's 1:08:27.240 --> 1:08:30.479 go back to the phones five three, seven, seven thousand. 1:08:30.560 --> 1:08:34.000 Let's go up to Dayton and talk to Jeff. Jeff, 1:08:34.040 --> 1:08:35.240 you're on the air, what's. 1:08:35.040 --> 1:08:35.599 On your mind. 1:08:37.080 --> 1:08:38.080 How are you doing tonight? 1:08:38.200 --> 1:08:39.360 I'm doing all right. 1:08:40.439 --> 1:08:44.000 All right, great show. By the way, thanks a couple 1:08:44.040 --> 1:08:47.360 of comments on the Bengals. I've been following them since 1:08:47.400 --> 1:08:55.040 their inception sixty eight. This team right now has the 1:08:55.160 --> 1:08:59.200 energy back and that's because of Borrow. Some quarterbacks and 1:08:59.439 --> 1:09:03.640 lifted team to no ends. And that's Burrow. You know, 1:09:03.680 --> 1:09:06.200 I thought Brady and Manning had that as well, but 1:09:07.120 --> 1:09:12.880 JB's got that. As far as their defense, Osai and 1:09:13.000 --> 1:09:16.479 Murphy look like they're coming on now, and I'm wondering, 1:09:16.840 --> 1:09:19.519 I want I'm gonna question you on this. Why is 1:09:19.600 --> 1:09:24.440 it always so many players have these big years contract 1:09:24.560 --> 1:09:28.320 with contracts coming up? You know that's I know, you 1:09:28.400 --> 1:09:30.840 have to grow into that role. You know, it maybe 1:09:30.920 --> 1:09:31.840 takes three years. 1:09:31.880 --> 1:09:32.639 I don't know. 1:09:32.880 --> 1:09:37.559 But now side look, Osai's coming up. He's got five 1:09:38.040 --> 1:09:41.679 sacks right now and by the time of the seasons though, 1:09:41.680 --> 1:09:43.639 I don't know what he's going to have, but he's 1:09:43.640 --> 1:09:46.200 gonna want a big contract. Will they let him go? 1:09:46.800 --> 1:09:51.320 Final question? I don't think they're going to ever resign 1:09:51.479 --> 1:09:55.280 Chase Brown because Bengals is not going to give big 1:09:55.280 --> 1:09:59.920 money and running back Jeremiah Love out of Notre Dame 1:10:00.240 --> 1:10:07.280 is like as he's like the John Robinson that type, 1:10:07.880 --> 1:10:11.120 And would they do you think they could possibly in 1:10:11.160 --> 1:10:17.240 the first round take Jeremiah leg over any other positions. 1:10:17.520 --> 1:10:18.680 Thank you, I appreciate it. 1:10:18.720 --> 1:10:21.280 Yeah, Jeff, thank you for the phone call. I have 1:10:21.360 --> 1:10:24.559 a hard time seeing a world in which they would 1:10:24.640 --> 1:10:27.840 draft a running back in the first round, since they 1:10:27.880 --> 1:10:30.240 still have a couple of years of team control over 1:10:30.320 --> 1:10:34.439 Chase Brown and because they have so many other issues 1:10:34.479 --> 1:10:35.160 on defense. 1:10:36.200 --> 1:10:37.160 I'm open to it. 1:10:37.520 --> 1:10:41.439 I'm open to always like best player available in that situation. 1:10:41.560 --> 1:10:44.160 You should always be looking to upgrade your team, and 1:10:44.200 --> 1:10:48.559 you never want to be in a position where need 1:10:48.920 --> 1:10:52.280 outweighs best player. That's what has gotten the Bengals into 1:10:52.280 --> 1:10:56.240 some hot water over the last couple of years. So 1:10:56.320 --> 1:10:58.559 I just can't see a world where they go running 1:10:58.600 --> 1:11:01.640 back in the first round. But I do appreciate the 1:11:01.680 --> 1:11:06.160 outside the box thinking. As far as the contract year thing, 1:11:06.200 --> 1:11:09.600 I think it's interesting. You know, deadlines spur action in 1:11:10.400 --> 1:11:14.120 many different phases of life. Like you know, if you 1:11:14.200 --> 1:11:17.640 know that you're getting married in twelve months, well then 1:11:17.680 --> 1:11:19.640 you start to work out a little bit more. You 1:11:19.720 --> 1:11:21.240 start to put a little bit of muscle on, you 1:11:21.280 --> 1:11:22.640 start to lose a little bit of weight so you 1:11:22.680 --> 1:11:23.880 look good on that wedding day. 1:11:24.360 --> 1:11:24.519 You know. 1:11:24.880 --> 1:11:27.360 It's kind of like that. And Joseph Osai had a 1:11:27.400 --> 1:11:31.880 similar experience last year where he was really kind of 1:11:31.920 --> 1:11:34.200 dormant for the first ten or twelve games and turn 1:11:34.280 --> 1:11:37.840 it on at the end, and he decided to have 1:11:37.880 --> 1:11:40.439 another like one year prove it deal with the Bengals 1:11:40.439 --> 1:11:43.400 this year, and I wonder if they would be willing 1:11:43.439 --> 1:11:48.360 to keep him around at a bigger deal, but move 1:11:48.400 --> 1:11:52.080 on from Trey Hendrickson. I don't think Trey's going to 1:11:52.120 --> 1:11:55.040 play again for the Bengals. I don't think that the 1:11:55.080 --> 1:11:57.400 Bengals are going to use the franchise tag on him. 1:11:57.600 --> 1:11:58.960 I don't know that they want to go through that 1:11:59.160 --> 1:12:02.800 saga again. I don't think Trey wants to be here anymore. 1:12:03.680 --> 1:12:06.400 And so if that's the case, then you have all 1:12:06.439 --> 1:12:09.720 of a sudden, almost thirty million dollars freed up that 1:12:10.160 --> 1:12:13.479 you may have been earmarking for Trey Hendrickson next year. Well, 1:12:13.840 --> 1:12:15.799 what are you gonna do with that thirty million dollars? 1:12:15.880 --> 1:12:19.920 I mean, as a whole, you're you have seventy million 1:12:20.960 --> 1:12:23.960 in cap space for next year already, so you can 1:12:24.439 --> 1:12:28.240 spin that on maybe a Joseph Osai, maybe on a 1:12:28.240 --> 1:12:31.559 free agent. Obviously on your draft picks you got some 1:12:31.680 --> 1:12:34.120 you know, other positions that you need to look at. 1:12:35.080 --> 1:12:38.360 The difficult part with Joseph Osai is that his agent 1:12:38.560 --> 1:12:42.519 is David Mullagedta. David Mullageda, of course, the longtime agent 1:12:42.640 --> 1:12:45.320 for Jesse Bates, who the Bengals never got a deal 1:12:45.360 --> 1:12:47.640 done with, and he was the agent that was t 1:12:47.760 --> 1:12:50.839 higgins agent for a long time, and eventually t Higgins 1:12:50.840 --> 1:12:53.880 fired him and got the deal done with Cincinnati. 1:12:53.960 --> 1:12:55.400 So those two. 1:12:55.240 --> 1:12:59.320 Sides don't see eye to eye from what I know. 1:12:59.439 --> 1:13:03.800 But it's not to say it's impossible. Uh but uh yeah, 1:13:03.840 --> 1:13:07.360 that's good stuff. It's time to highlight the drive of 1:13:07.479 --> 1:13:11.599 the game. Brought to you by the bm W Store. 1:13:11.960 --> 1:13:14.920 There are over three hundred and fifty BMW centers in 1:13:14.960 --> 1:13:18.520 the United States, but there's only one store, the BMW 1:13:18.600 --> 1:13:23.080 Store where Passion Loves Company. For me, it was the 1:13:23.080 --> 1:13:27.400 Bengals first drive in the second half. They came out 1:13:27.600 --> 1:13:31.320 and put together a ten play, sixty one yard drive 1:13:31.920 --> 1:13:35.160 that was five minutes and twenty six seconds off the 1:13:35.200 --> 1:13:38.560 clock and it ended with a touchdown to put Cincinnati 1:13:38.680 --> 1:13:44.080 up nineteen to seven. So halftime happens. The Bengals defense 1:13:44.120 --> 1:13:47.679 immediately forces a three and out of Baltimore, and this 1:13:47.840 --> 1:13:52.360 drive ensues a six yard run by Chase Brown, an 1:13:52.360 --> 1:13:56.320 incompletion by Burrow, and then a six yard pass followed 1:13:56.320 --> 1:13:57.840 by a three yard run and a. 1:13:57.800 --> 1:13:58.799 Three yard pass. 1:13:59.439 --> 1:14:03.559 Then on third and four, the Bengals drew a pass 1:14:03.600 --> 1:14:08.400 interference penalty on Mitchell Tinsley that got the ball up 1:14:08.439 --> 1:14:12.080 to the Baltimore twenty six yard line, which was followed 1:14:12.120 --> 1:14:15.240 up by an eight yard run, a three yard run, 1:14:15.400 --> 1:14:18.840 an in completion, a one yard run, and then finally 1:14:19.320 --> 1:14:23.280 to finish out the drive. This is how the Bengals scored. 1:14:23.720 --> 1:14:27.080 Joe is Ready catches the shotgun, snap begins scrambling right, 1:14:27.280 --> 1:14:29.200 Burrow throwing downfield for Hudson. 1:14:29.479 --> 1:14:33.000 He's got it. Wow, touchdown Bengals. 1:14:33.280 --> 1:14:37.080 What an adjustment to the ball by Hudson and he 1:14:37.200 --> 1:14:41.600 knocks over the back right pylon for a fourteen yard touchdown. 1:14:42.120 --> 1:14:46.320 Joe Burrows first since returning from the toe injury, and. 1:14:46.360 --> 1:14:50.480 Tanner Hudson secures the ball with his left hand, transfers 1:14:50.520 --> 1:14:53.679 it to his right, tucks it away man. He caught 1:14:53.720 --> 1:14:55.680 the back tip of the football. 1:14:55.360 --> 1:14:58.240 With that left hand and then looked where. 1:14:58.120 --> 1:14:59.960 He was on the football field and then he had 1:15:00.040 --> 1:15:02.000 both feet down and then as she was going off 1:15:02.040 --> 1:15:03.800 the football field, high five in. 1:15:03.760 --> 1:15:06.280 The celebrade with everybody. That was awesome. 1:15:06.560 --> 1:15:10.559 That was an awesome moment for Tanner Hudson, who has 1:15:10.640 --> 1:15:12.559 been through a lot, a lot of ups and downs 1:15:12.560 --> 1:15:15.559 with the Bengals in his short career. Here to make 1:15:15.640 --> 1:15:18.919 that mid air adjustment, one hand snag for Joe Burrow's 1:15:18.920 --> 1:15:22.680 first touchdown pass coming back off the injury, and like 1:15:22.720 --> 1:15:25.160 I said, it put the Bengals up nineteen to seven. 1:15:25.840 --> 1:15:28.679 That is our drive of the game, once again, brought 1:15:28.720 --> 1:15:31.960 to you by the BMW Store. They're over three hundred 1:15:31.960 --> 1:15:34.920 and fifty BMW centers in the United States, but there's 1:15:34.960 --> 1:15:40.599 only one store, the BMW Store where Passion Loves Company. 1:15:41.160 --> 1:15:44.320 All Right, we're almost done, just a couple of minutes 1:15:44.560 --> 1:15:47.320 left to go. As I said, the Bengals are off 1:15:48.240 --> 1:15:52.639 this weekend obviously because they just played, but they will 1:15:52.680 --> 1:15:57.720 be in Buffalo on December the seventh. That game originally 1:15:57.760 --> 1:16:01.160 supposed to start at four to twenty five, it has 1:16:01.200 --> 1:16:06.120 been moved up to a one pm game in Buffalo. 1:16:06.160 --> 1:16:09.080 What else do I have here as some things from 1:16:10.360 --> 1:16:16.600 the game? Oh, how can we forget Evan McPherson was 1:16:16.720 --> 1:16:21.360 wonderful tonight, and Evan continues to have a sensational year. 1:16:21.560 --> 1:16:25.559 He was six for six kicking field goals tonight, two 1:16:25.680 --> 1:16:29.200 for two in the extra points, he had a long 1:16:29.280 --> 1:16:32.200 of fifty two. He scored twenty of the Bengals thirty 1:16:32.240 --> 1:16:36.599 two points. He was marvelous. Evan's having a really good 1:16:36.640 --> 1:16:39.120 season so far this year. He's not yet missed an 1:16:39.120 --> 1:16:42.240 extra point. He's one hundred percent. He's eighty eight percent 1:16:42.320 --> 1:16:44.519 on his field goals. He did hit a sixty three 1:16:44.600 --> 1:16:48.439 yard or just the other week, which is the longest 1:16:48.479 --> 1:16:55.080 in Bengals franchise history. Overall, Evan has been just marvelous, 1:16:55.320 --> 1:16:59.439 and from fifty plus so far this year he's four 1:16:59.520 --> 1:17:02.599 for seven, but from forty to forty nine he's nine 1:17:02.680 --> 1:17:06.360 for nine. Really, from forty nine in he's perfect, four 1:17:06.439 --> 1:17:09.639 for four, six for six, nine for nine. He has 1:17:09.720 --> 1:17:13.680 been marvelous for the Bengals this season, and he was 1:17:13.760 --> 1:17:17.200 one shy of tying the Bengals franchise record for most 1:17:17.240 --> 1:17:21.599 field goals made in a game, which ironically enough, happened 1:17:21.640 --> 1:17:24.960 at that same stadium. You might remember two thousand and seven, 1:17:25.439 --> 1:17:30.479 the Bengals played in Baltimore and Shane Graham made seven 1:17:30.680 --> 1:17:34.800 field goals that day. The Bengals beat Baltimore twenty one 1:17:34.840 --> 1:17:40.479 to seven, all seven three point field goals from Shane 1:17:40.560 --> 1:17:46.160 Graham in that game. So overall, it's always fun when 1:17:46.200 --> 1:17:49.559 your team wins. You're supposed to have fun, and I 1:17:49.680 --> 1:17:52.360 had fun watching the Bengals. The Bengals had fun winning 1:17:52.400 --> 1:17:56.400 the game. They had fun celebrating afterwards. And it's always 1:17:56.479 --> 1:17:58.559 more fun when you win. And now we get a 1:17:58.560 --> 1:18:02.639 stress free weekend off of the holiday, and we get 1:18:02.640 --> 1:18:05.400 to watch some college football, we get to watch some NFL, 1:18:05.439 --> 1:18:07.240 we get to root for the Buffalo Bills to beat 1:18:07.280 --> 1:18:11.479 the Pittsburgh Steelers. And it's always better when you win 1:18:11.560 --> 1:18:13.960 football games. That's what I think. I don't know what 1:18:14.040 --> 1:18:16.720 you think, but that's what I think. I've had a 1:18:16.720 --> 1:18:19.320 blast doing this. I think this is going to be 1:18:19.360 --> 1:18:22.360 the last one I do this year. I assume that 1:18:22.360 --> 1:18:25.640 that Miami game is going to get flexed out of primetime. 1:18:25.680 --> 1:18:27.840 I hope it doesn't, but I assume that it is. 1:18:27.960 --> 1:18:30.120 And so for those of you who have listened and 1:18:30.120 --> 1:18:32.080 called and been part of the show and the late 1:18:32.200 --> 1:18:35.800 night postgame sports talk I really really do appreciate it. 1:18:36.240 --> 1:18:37.880 If you like what you heard, you can listen to 1:18:37.880 --> 1:18:42.000 me weekdays from noon to three on ESPN fifteen thirty. 1:18:42.040 --> 1:18:45.200 I co host a show with Tony Pike. It's called 1:18:45.280 --> 1:18:48.599 Tony Pikes since E three sixty noon to three each 1:18:48.640 --> 1:18:51.800 weekday on ESPN fifteen thirty. 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