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Speaker 3: Dave Lapboy live at the on the Rhyine Eatery, one
Speaker 3: hundred East Court Street, Downtown. It is the Halloween edition.
Speaker 3: No tricks, right treats, just good football talk. Getting ready
Speaker 3: for another big game, a must win game, Dave Lapham,
Speaker 3: I tell you this is one I told you earlier
Speaker 3: before we come on there. I like these kind of
Speaker 3: games because you get to see who wants it and
Speaker 3: who really wants it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right, Box, I mean, I think I think
Speaker 4: you know that's one thing that the coaching staff that
Speaker 4: I've talked to Vegans head coach Zach Taylor, coordinator, offensive
Speaker 4: coordinator Dan Pitcher, defensive coordinator Al Gold, and all the
Speaker 4: other position coaches. The players are all in still. I
Speaker 4: mean they they want it, they don't. They don't want
Speaker 4: to be known as you know somebody that cast their
Speaker 4: chips in you know, yeah and said, no, Moss, I'm
Speaker 4: not interested. You know, let's just get this season over
Speaker 4: with and want to get into the offseason as quickly
Speaker 4: as possible and get this in the back of my mind,
Speaker 4: you know, in the rearview mirror. None of that is
Speaker 4: going on. I mean, they they want to win football games,
Speaker 4: and with a three and five record, you know, they're
Speaker 4: still in the hunt. I mean, they still got possibilities.
Speaker 4: It's the league's not running away from them.
Speaker 3: There's not.
Speaker 4: Every single football team has lost at least one game,
Speaker 4: you know, and you're only eight games into it, so
Speaker 4: that you know it's competitive and there's probably not gonna
Speaker 4: be a team that pulls away and has a dominant
Speaker 4: season like dub Bears, the eighty five Chicago Bears. I
Speaker 4: don't think there's gonna be a team like that. Yes year.
Speaker 4: So if the Bengals can you know, hang in there.
Speaker 4: Get everybody healthy. They need to get healthy, and you know,
Speaker 4: win some football games and stay in the hunt. They
Speaker 4: should be fine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean because Pittsburgh hasn't helped themselves. They lose
Speaker 3: on Sunday night at home to the Packers. They're four
Speaker 3: and three, the Bengals three and five. It's only two
Speaker 3: games separating you right there, and you know Pittsburgh got
Speaker 3: a tough game coming up this week. I want to
Speaker 3: digress just for a second from football. We're going to
Speaker 3: dive into all this and and kind of ask you
Speaker 3: about the Ring of Honor. I mean, we I from
Speaker 3: my vantage point, so I get to sit up in
Speaker 3: the booth and I'm looking down and seeing everything happening,
Speaker 3: and obviously like everybody to see that that unfurling that banner,
Speaker 3: and there's that name. Man, it just for you when
Speaker 3: it all became a reality in that moment, talk about.
Speaker 4: That, man, it was surreal. You know, it was something
Speaker 4: I never ever dreamed would happen. You know, back when
Speaker 4: I was a little rug rat running around trying to
Speaker 4: play the game of football and learn as much as
Speaker 4: I could about football, and you know, just fell in
Speaker 4: love with the game totally. Everything about football was made
Speaker 4: sense to me. You know, the team concept of it
Speaker 4: was big, twenty two moving parts, twenty two moving pieces
Speaker 4: that you don't have to all be in concert, you know,
Speaker 4: to achieve and have success. I was intrigued by that.
Speaker 4: I like that a lot. I liked that concept. I
Speaker 4: like that idea. Nobody's too big for the game. For
Speaker 4: the team, everybody needs everybody. I mean, you might have
Speaker 4: an unbelievable quarterback or phenomenal player, he still needs people
Speaker 4: around him to show what he can do.
Speaker 3: You know, he can't do it all by right.
Speaker 4: He's got to have you know, ten other people on
Speaker 4: his side of the football working in concert, getting getting
Speaker 4: things done for him. So that's what I really liked
Speaker 4: about the game of football early on, and you know,
Speaker 4: wanted to be as good as I could possibly be
Speaker 4: and had great coaches along the way, great teammates and
Speaker 4: great coaches along the way to help me get there.
Speaker 3: You Know what was most fitting for me was at
Speaker 3: the event on Saturday and Kenny Anderson and Max Montoya
Speaker 3: and Anthony Munio talked about the things that people don't
Speaker 3: know about Dave Lapham and I'm gonna talk about Anthony specifically,
Speaker 3: saying his first two years here, you were his north star.
Speaker 3: You know, you guided him through that playbook and all
Speaker 3: those kinds of things, and there's room for people to
Speaker 3: be selfish. Number one pick comes in, gets all the
Speaker 3: pubs heralded. No, no, you're coming over here to me.
Speaker 3: I'm not helping you. But the selflessness and nature that
Speaker 3: you have that we know now you were about team
Speaker 3: and about getting better. And then Kenny Anderson talked about
Speaker 3: just the liability and just knowing he could count on
Speaker 3: you in Max. I mean, for me, that's what made
Speaker 3: this even more special is that those guys stars in
Speaker 3: their own right, were quick to say Dave Lappa was
Speaker 3: an integral part of this team.
Speaker 4: And that was very much appreciated. I mean, those guys
Speaker 4: went above me on the call of duty. I think,
Speaker 4: you know, to be as complimentary as kind and kind
Speaker 4: as they could be. But I have such a great
Speaker 4: relationship with all of them. And that's the thing about sports.
Speaker 4: You know, box you played sports, the bond that you
Speaker 4: make yes with your teammates is so unique. I mean
Speaker 4: it's like nothing else in life. You know, It's it's
Speaker 4: almost impossible to break it. Those guys are gonna have
Speaker 4: my back to the rest of my life. I'm going
Speaker 4: to have their back the rest of their lives that
Speaker 4: there's nothing they can do to change that. And I
Speaker 4: feel the same way about them. And when you achieve
Speaker 4: a high level of success together, the feeling of that,
Speaker 4: the unity, the unifying force of all that is rare.
Speaker 4: It's so special, so unique. So I mean, I just, uh,
Speaker 4: everything about the game of football intrigued me, the physical,
Speaker 4: the mental part of it. You know, it just became
Speaker 4: the love of my life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I tell you what, when we were setting
Speaker 3: up here, people were coming by. Everybody came by literally
Speaker 3: knew what happened last week, and they were saying, right,
Speaker 3: he congratulates that, they happy for you. It's just one
Speaker 3: after another after another, which to me spoke about why
Speaker 3: we thought you deserved to be in there for football
Speaker 3: for broadcasts, but because of how you are for the
Speaker 3: team and and the other thing that I kind of
Speaker 3: laughed about. I said, well, your grandkids could have got
Speaker 3: a nice geography lesson because you had people coming in
Speaker 3: from California, Maine and I think Vermont and other places.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you're right, Box, I mean, it was uh,
Speaker 4: you know, national geographic from my family coming in with
Speaker 4: this football game, California, Arizona, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut,
Speaker 4: Rhode Island, Massachusetts, or I mean friends and family from
Speaker 4: from all over and it's it just it's humbling, you know,
Speaker 4: when everybody's coming in because they want to be there
Speaker 4: for you. And generations of family, you know, not just
Speaker 4: my siblings, but their kids and their kids, grandkids, their grandkids. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So uh, you know, it's it's such a you know,
Speaker 4: a family affair something like that. And the best part
Speaker 4: of it was when they did unveil the plaque out
Speaker 4: there in the middle of you know, the middle of
Speaker 4: the of the stadium or the sideline, the middle of
Speaker 4: the sideline in the stadium up there and on the
Speaker 4: higher portion of of the stadium. And man, I mean
Speaker 4: when when sixty two and that that number show name
Speaker 4: it showed up with that number, I was like, wow, man,
Speaker 4: it really is Look pinch me, man, it's not a dream,
Speaker 4: you know. I'm I'm awake. I'm awake, and I'm kicking.
Speaker 4: That was a It was was totally humbling blowing experience.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Man, you deserved every piece of it. Appreciate a
Speaker 3: little bit of it man, I couldn't be happier. Dave Lapham,
Speaker 3: thanks Ring of Honor and Dan Horror from any that
Speaker 3: don't know, broke out the sixty two jersey, which was
Speaker 3: great as well. We're gonna get into some football on
Speaker 3: the field now we talked about football off the field.
Speaker 3: We'll be talking to members of the Bears media when
Speaker 3: we come back on the other side as far as
Speaker 3: what the Bears are looking at this week. But let's
Speaker 3: do that. We'll take a break, we'll come back and more.
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Speaker 3: Let's jump on the hot line man and the man
Speaker 3: who's down on the sideline when the games are going
Speaker 3: on for the Chicago Bears, giving that eyewitness report, our
Speaker 3: pleasure to welcome to the Bengals peparalley. So, Jason McKee, Jason,
Speaker 3: how are you, brother?
Speaker 5: Good?
Speaker 6: How you guys doing good?
Speaker 3: We're doing fantastic, man. This is obviously a big game
Speaker 3: for both teams. Not a good outcome in Baltimore for you,
Speaker 3: certainly not good for us here. What do you look
Speaker 3: at as the number one focus for the Bears coming
Speaker 3: into this game?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I think for the Bears, I think the message all
Speaker 7: week has been cleaning up self inflicted mistakes pre snat
Speaker 7: penalties that really plagued the Bears offense, which has, you know,
Speaker 7: hindered them for putting up touchdowns. They've relied on stield
Speaker 7: goals the past few weeks, and I know that's been
Speaker 7: a real point of emphasis throughout this week of practice,
Speaker 7: trying to get that cleaned up so that way they
Speaker 7: can put touchdowns on the board. And defensively, it's the
Speaker 7: same thing though, they've been trying to stop the pass.
Speaker 7: The Bears have been down some corners. Jalen Johnson has
Speaker 7: been out all year, Kyler Gordon just went an IR
Speaker 7: so they're down some corners. Have just signed Chauncey Gardner
Speaker 7: Johnson to come help alleviate some of that boyd that
Speaker 7: was left by those guys. So defensively, they've been trying
Speaker 7: to shore up that defense on the back end, and
Speaker 7: they're gonna need it with what you guys have over there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's definitely some quality receivers over here on this
Speaker 4: side of At this end of it, Joe Flacco can
Speaker 4: can rally and get himself ready to go and play
Speaker 4: in this football game, and I think he will start.
Speaker 4: I think he will play, and I think he'll be
Speaker 4: delivering the football pretty well. The injury factor, like we're
Speaker 4: talking about with football teams, Both teams have been nicked
Speaker 4: up and have have had their share of injury struggles
Speaker 4: when healthy, How good are the Chicago Bears?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think they can be really good. It's it's
Speaker 7: you know, they have talent at the receiver positions. Obviously
Speaker 7: Caleb the young quarterback with a lot of ability that's
Speaker 7: still you know, growing and developing. You've got a guy
Speaker 7: that's in his second year, his second system on another
Speaker 7: head coach. So, uh, there's been growing pains, but there
Speaker 7: also has been you know development as well. And when
Speaker 7: you look at the defensive side of the running backs,
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, I'll stay there. At the running backs, you
Speaker 7: have a young guy and kym an young guy who
Speaker 7: had drafted in the seventh round out of Rutgers Deandres
Speaker 7: that had some really good games. Uh, they got they're
Speaker 7: good at the tight end position with with Cole Comet
Speaker 7: Coast and Lovelin, and you know, we flip flipped the
Speaker 7: script going to the defensive.
Speaker 8: Side of the ball.
Speaker 7: They've got a ton of guys on a defensive line
Speaker 7: that can make plays. Obviously Montese sweating the focal point
Speaker 7: of that group, but Javon Exter has played well. Dale
Speaker 7: with Dingo is a guy they brought over in fregency
Speaker 7: from the Indianapolis coach who they've been you know, relying on. Uh,
Speaker 7: they've Also they also signed Grady Jarrett. So that linebacker position,
Speaker 7: you've got good linebackers veterans and t. J. Everards and
Speaker 7: Tremaine Edmonds, and like I said, in the back end
Speaker 7: has been you know, we thought of it was going
Speaker 7: to be a position of strength, but due to injuries,
Speaker 7: it's been, you know, a position of weakness that they've
Speaker 7: been trying to bolster. So the Bears can be as
Speaker 7: good as they want to be, but they've got to
Speaker 7: you know, correct some of the things I talked about
Speaker 7: in terms of offensively self inflicting mistakes. Defensively, they got
Speaker 7: to be you know, get to the quarterback and be
Speaker 7: more adept at stopping the run and being able to
Speaker 7: limit the amount of yard of giving up in the bass.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting to excuse me, certain teams just
Speaker 3: have an identity. They draft that identity. Uh, they're known
Speaker 3: by that identity. And the Bears defense is one of
Speaker 3: those examples. I mean, there are the takeaway machine right
Speaker 3: now with a plus ten differential. Uh, what makes these
Speaker 3: guys so good at ball hawking?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 7: And coach Al Harrison, who runs that secondary, he talked
Speaker 7: about this a few weeks ago in which you know,
Speaker 7: taking away the football, he said, as a mindset. So
Speaker 7: he said, if you don't have that mindset and mentality
Speaker 7: every single day that you're out there on the practice field,
Speaker 7: and you're not going to get those takeaways in the game.
Speaker 7: And he says, his secondary teaches those guys that, hey,
Speaker 7: when that ball is in the air, you're the receiver,
Speaker 7: you're going to attack that ball like the quarterbacks throwing
Speaker 7: it to you. So they had that type of mentality
Speaker 7: and that ball hawking mindset, and that's what's led to
Speaker 7: a lot of takeaways for this Bears defense.
Speaker 4: The Bears defense, you know, looking at the Chicago Bears
Speaker 4: defensively and as an organization, as a football team, historically,
Speaker 4: things they've done well played, but kicking defense, you know,
Speaker 4: they destroy you. Defensively, They basically take your soul away
Speaker 4: from you. Offensively and say, okay, well maybe better luck
Speaker 4: another day. It's not happening today. And then offensively, you know,
Speaker 4: they want to run the football, they can throw it.
Speaker 4: They got Caleb Williams, a very talented young quarterback, but
Speaker 4: I think he would be the first to tell you
Speaker 4: that once the running game is going, his play action
Speaker 4: pass game and things of that nature are much easier
Speaker 4: to execute. What is it about the Chicago Bears. They've
Speaker 4: had a history for a long time, uh successful history
Speaker 4: of playing great defense, shutting down the running game, making
Speaker 4: it difficult to pass, and then shutting down your running
Speaker 4: game on when you're on offense and making it difficult
Speaker 4: for you to throw the football. Is that still their mindset?
Speaker 5: You owe that a doubt.
Speaker 7: It's It's been a formula that has worked with this
Speaker 7: organization for years. Despite what type of personnel that you
Speaker 7: have on your roster, that formula has been proven. I
Speaker 7: was a part of that formula for seven years. And
Speaker 7: you know with the Bears, they want they want to
Speaker 7: get off the bus running obviously, they want to play
Speaker 7: great defense and get takeaways, put the offense on short
Speaker 7: fields and advantageous field position, and then play solid special team.
Speaker 7: So it's something when you look at the Bears wins
Speaker 7: this year, they did those things. They ran the ball well,
Speaker 7: defense was sound, and you know we had not necessarily
Speaker 7: you know, returning kicks back in the day like Devin
Speaker 7: Hester did. But your special teams did not do anything
Speaker 7: to make you lose a game. And when you have
Speaker 7: that formula here in Chicago that usually generates wins.
Speaker 3: You know. One of the things I've always felt for
Speaker 3: and had some compassion for Caleb Williams because he's gone
Speaker 3: through a series of coordinators, but it seemed like he's
Speaker 3: finally kind of settling man. And then with Rome Adouze,
Speaker 3: I hope I'm saying his name correctly, got thirty one
Speaker 3: catches already this year, that they're they're maybe developing some chemistry.
Speaker 3: Is it fair to say that now he's probably finally
Speaker 3: getting comfortable?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think with I think it's I think it's
Speaker 7: a continual process. And he says that, you know, each
Speaker 7: and every game he's still learning, you know, still learning
Speaker 7: the offense. And I think that's something that's going to be,
Speaker 7: you know, week to week. Like like I talked about earlier, Uh,
Speaker 7: you know on radio, you're gonna see there's gonna be growth,
Speaker 7: which you're going to see Caleb make some big plays,
Speaker 7: make splash plays, look great at times, but the growing
Speaker 7: pains are going to come with what we saw last week.
Speaker 7: We saw a turnover at interception UH that led to
Speaker 7: you know, in a critical situation that led to a
Speaker 7: Ravens you know scoring uh, a scoring drive and those
Speaker 7: are the thing that's going to happen with a young
Speaker 7: quarterback that's in the second system with the new head coach.
Speaker 7: So yeah, he's He's done a lot of great things.
Speaker 7: You talked about the chemistry has with Roun, with Dunes
Speaker 7: that you talked about, the weapons he has at his disposal.
Speaker 7: But there's gonna be a lot of growing pains with
Speaker 7: Caleb just because he is a young, talented quarterback. And
Speaker 7: we see a lot of quarterbacks in this league who
Speaker 7: who actually mature and develop at different times. We see
Speaker 7: Sam Dar finally starting to get it. We see Baker
Speaker 7: Mayfield on another team finally starting to play the way
Speaker 7: that they envision and playing. So these quarterbacks, their careers
Speaker 7: will take off at different times, and these quarterbacks pick
Speaker 7: up the game at different times, and they see the
Speaker 7: game differently at different times in their career.
Speaker 4: So the Chicago Bears have been around the National Football
Speaker 4: League for a long time, There's no question about it.
Speaker 4: They're a historic organization and their DNA is physicality and
Speaker 4: they have a mental toughness as well. And when you
Speaker 4: go to Chicago to play the Chicago Bears, you better
Speaker 4: bring it because they are and they're gonna it's gonna
Speaker 4: be a long day for you if you're not playing
Speaker 4: at a high level of intensity. And the same thing
Speaker 4: when they're on the road, and really they're not traveling
Speaker 4: very far coming down to Cincinnati, And I'm wondering how
Speaker 4: many fans from Chicago be traveling down with the Chicago
Speaker 4: Bears trying to come to Cincinnati to go to this
Speaker 4: football game. I wonder what kind of tickets are, what
Speaker 4: kind of prices they're they're charging for those tickets. But
Speaker 4: I hope the Bengals fans show up in full throw
Speaker 4: because the Bengals are gonna need it. They're gonna need
Speaker 4: it at home. They're gonna need that support from the
Speaker 4: fan base. They're gonna need that uh uh, those vocal cords,
Speaker 4: you know, to be to be challenged and stressed a
Speaker 4: little bit, because, man, I'm telling you this Bears football team.
Speaker 4: You know, the record doesn't show it right now, but
Speaker 4: this team can run it. Their offensive line gets after it.
Speaker 4: Their offensive line can come off the football and knock
Speaker 4: you back. They can double team and rub to the
Speaker 4: next level. They're athletically that at gifted, you know, to
Speaker 4: do that kind of thing. Defensively, they're aggressive and they
Speaker 4: get after you. Uh, they're physical and mentally physically and
Speaker 4: mentally tough as well. I'm telling you, playing the Chicago Bears, Uh,
Speaker 4: you might win the football game, but you might might
Speaker 4: lose the physical battle. And so doing, you're gonna be
Speaker 4: in the in the training room the next the next
Speaker 4: day or the next week with a lot of icebags,
Speaker 4: you know, and and uh and and taking care of
Speaker 4: some bumps and bruises.
Speaker 6: It's not the way.
Speaker 4: Is that what the Bears were?
Speaker 7: Yeah, the way you just described it, you know, you
Speaker 7: gave me flashbacks in which I almost ran in and try
Speaker 7: to try to find a helmet, you know, to get
Speaker 7: out there and get a mouth piece, and you described
Speaker 7: it so well. It's but that's exactly I mean, that's
Speaker 7: exactly what you know. This organization is built upon it. Right,
Speaker 7: you look at the Monsters of the Midway, and it's
Speaker 7: not just a name. It's not cliche when you look
Speaker 7: at the players that have warned you know, the Bears uniform,
Speaker 7: they've been that type of player, right. And and the
Speaker 7: Bears draft players based upon traits, They draft players based
Speaker 7: upon personality, and they draft players in which they feel
Speaker 7: like you could perform. Well, you know in this type
Speaker 7: of climate that they're going to be in half of
Speaker 7: the year and they got to have that physical trait
Speaker 7: and that's just pretty much being a bear. And you
Speaker 7: describe it to a tee.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, last question before we let you go
Speaker 3: in the man, thank you you again, man for making
Speaker 3: time for it. Is Kevin byern Man. I remember when
Speaker 3: he was at Tennessee and you know, he moved from
Speaker 3: there and I think went on the Philadelphia Knights there.
Speaker 3: But man, he's having a really really pro Bowl type year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he is.
Speaker 7: He's just been a guy who's just finds the football,
Speaker 7: or it seems like football finds him.
Speaker 5: He's like a magnet.
Speaker 7: Stuck in because I mean every time you look up,
Speaker 7: he's either getting his hands on a football or he's
Speaker 7: intercepting the football, and those are really good things. You know.
Speaker 7: He just has a knack for being able to disguise coverages.
Speaker 7: He has an understanding through his film study and in
Speaker 7: terms of what type of route concepts that offense is
Speaker 7: trying to present to the defense, and through that study,
Speaker 7: he puts himself a position to get those takeaways. So
Speaker 7: he's he's been you know one of the captains on
Speaker 7: this team, but not only just a captain. He's actually
Speaker 7: going out there and playing, uh, you know, like one
Speaker 7: of the elite leaders on this team, especially when they
Speaker 7: need him. When you're when you're down a Jalen Johnson,
Speaker 7: when you're down a College Gordon, you need a guy
Speaker 7: like Kevin Byr to step up and get these takeaways.
Speaker 7: So that's what he's been doing and it's been pretty good.
Speaker 3: It's been awesome to see hey, brother, Thank you so
Speaker 3: much for joining us.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: We look forward to seeing you this weekend and all
Speaker 3: the best to you.
Speaker 5: That sounds good.
Speaker 7: You guys, take care and thanks for having me.
Speaker 4: Thanks Rich trout Right.
Speaker 3: Jason McKee from the Chicago Bears. He's a sideline reporter,
Speaker 3: former fall back as well. We'll take a break. We'll
Speaker 3: be back with Tom Thayer on the offensive line, former
Speaker 3: offensive lineman. As the Bengals Pet Rowley Show continues, presented
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Speaker 3: now analyst for the Chicago Bears. Our pleasure. Welcome to
Speaker 3: the show, Tom theyer. Tom. How you doing, brother, I'm
Speaker 3: doing well.
Speaker 8: I appreciate you guys having me on.
Speaker 3: Well, we appreciate it. I'll turn it over to my
Speaker 3: colleague and offensive lineman Dave Lapham.
Speaker 4: Much appreciated box. Tom, you were a hell of a player.
Speaker 4: Congratulations on a magnificent a career with the Chicago Bears,
Speaker 4: and it was full of successes and awards for your
Speaker 4: team individually. You probably had a probably dreams as a
Speaker 4: youngster about playing in the National Football League, and your
Speaker 4: dream couldn't have come sure any better, could it?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 9: You know, Dave, I grew up a Chicago Bears sad
Speaker 9: my whole life being from Joey at Illinois and before
Speaker 9: they had all the channels and the satellites where you
Speaker 9: could go and gravitate or watch any seam that you
Speaker 9: like the players from.
Speaker 8: You had to grow.
Speaker 9: Up born in nineteen sixty one. You had to grow
Speaker 9: up in say a Bears fan. So I've been a
Speaker 9: Bears fan my whole life, and now it's a little
Speaker 9: different because I'm an alumni, a season ticket holder. I'm
Speaker 9: an a Bears fan and the broadcaster. So it seems
Speaker 9: like every time you ask me a question, you got
Speaker 9: to tell me what guy are you asking that question to?
Speaker 8: And I'll give you that answer.
Speaker 3: You know, Tom, one of the things I wanted to
Speaker 3: ask you about is, you know, the Bears probably would
Speaker 3: like to be better than they are on third down conversion,
Speaker 3: but that defense is really holding their end. I mean
Speaker 3: probably under thirty percent or so. I'm looking at that.
Speaker 3: What do you think they need to do to get
Speaker 3: better on third down? As far as the Bears offense concern,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 9: I still think it's a process of Caleb Williams learning
Speaker 9: the Ben Johnson's system so perfectly. He knows where all
Speaker 9: the openings and opportunities are going to be when he
Speaker 9: looks across the line, of scrimmage and see what defense
Speaker 9: they're offering him. And then if he does have to
Speaker 9: go to the alternate flight the huddle, exactly what that
Speaker 9: meant to the other ten guys in the huddle.
Speaker 8: And I'm not I think I'm more realistic.
Speaker 9: About the difficulty of a quarterback mastering the terminology. And
Speaker 9: I think the longer that Caleb is fortunate to be
Speaker 9: in the system, the better he gets. And we may
Speaker 9: not see the best of Caleb Williams until next year. However,
Speaker 9: he is making those incremental improvements. But when you look
Speaker 9: at a specific down in distance and you know third down,
Speaker 9: or even look at the red zone, that's where the
Speaker 9: Bears are having the most difficulty. And last week the
Speaker 9: two field goals came back to haunt them. And you know,
Speaker 9: like you said, the third down is needs to definitely
Speaker 9: get better.
Speaker 4: You mentioned red zone, third down, couple of areas of
Speaker 4: concern and very important obviously to have success, you have
Speaker 4: to you have to be able to execute well in
Speaker 4: those those two areas for sure. Where else? What is
Speaker 4: where is theiggest problem in your mind? Why are the
Speaker 4: Chicago Bears kind of middle of the road? I guess
Speaker 4: as such in terms of how it's gone so far
Speaker 4: this season. Is there any one area or are there
Speaker 4: multiple areas where they're need draft improvement.
Speaker 8: Well, there's two areas to me.
Speaker 9: Number one is the fact that they're not getting sacks
Speaker 9: and getting pressure on the quarterback that results and you know,
Speaker 9: just the pressure that a good defensive line can put
Speaker 9: on a quarterback and change the whole process and the
Speaker 9: thinking process of his game. And you know, they have Montesewen,
Speaker 9: and they brought in Grady Jarrett, and they have dio
Speaker 9: O Dangbo, and they have Gervon Deck. So they drafted high.
Speaker 9: So they do have guys that should be able to
Speaker 9: win battles. And that was one of the challenges that
Speaker 9: Ben Johnson put to the defensive line this week is
Speaker 9: that if you have a one on one, you better
Speaker 9: do something with it. And so I think that's a
Speaker 9: sense of urgency. And then number two, maybe two A
Speaker 9: is the fact that they tried to develop and bring
Speaker 9: along an offensive line that was bought through free agency
Speaker 9: but still glaring uncertainty at.
Speaker 8: The offensive tackle position.
Speaker 9: And I think when you're trying to put in a
Speaker 9: new system, you need that same offensive line to be intact.
Speaker 9: You need to have them listen to the cadence of
Speaker 9: the quarterback a thousand times or fifteen hundred times so
Speaker 9: they can be you know, be able to anticipate the
Speaker 9: rhythm of account which they haven't been able to do yet.
Speaker 9: And they're having some fall start penalties or just some
Speaker 9: issues on the offensive line that keeps them from you know,
Speaker 9: just rely. I mean, they're not capitalizing on good field position.
Speaker 9: And what I mean by that is last week in
Speaker 9: the red zone, it was a third and one and
Speaker 9: rather than understanding the rhythm of the cadence, the tight
Speaker 9: end jumped off sides, put them in a third and
Speaker 9: six and then that which led to ultimately having you
Speaker 9: set up for the field goal. So offensive line and
Speaker 9: defensive line are one in one. A.
Speaker 3: You know, when you talk about the kicking game and
Speaker 3: neither team has had anybody take it to the house,
Speaker 3: do you feel like their special teams is on the
Speaker 3: verge or cusp of a big play.
Speaker 8: You know, that's a great quing.
Speaker 9: You know, I spent every single game in my professional
Speaker 9: career on kickoff return and I was frustrated when they
Speaker 9: were just kicking into the end zone and taking them
Speaker 9: out from that point so I was excited to see
Speaker 9: what this new kickoff kickoff return was going to offer
Speaker 9: the NFL. And I've been a little disappointed about the
Speaker 9: you know, big yard returns or even touchdowns for that matter. So,
Speaker 9: you know, coach Hogh Tower still waiting to see. They
Speaker 9: had their longest return last week by Devin Duburne, which
Speaker 9: was a fifty yard return. But I think the Bears
Speaker 9: are really waiting on a punter that they drafted last
Speaker 9: year out of University of by While in the fourth round,
Speaker 9: who you know, has the reputation of being a big
Speaker 9: banger in the Midwest outdoor football, perfect for the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 9: And even though he had a great punt last week
Speaker 9: that was brought back because of a penalty, they're still
Speaker 9: waiting for him to be the Ray guy Er whatever,
Speaker 9: the greatest punter in the NFL history. They're still waiting
Speaker 9: for Tory Taylor to become that big footed punter.
Speaker 4: You know, you know football, you know good football. You
Speaker 4: know football players. You know good football players, guys to
Speaker 4: execute and play at the highest level. To your eye,
Speaker 4: as a broadcaster who's watched the Chicago Bears for many years,
Speaker 4: this year's version of the Bears. Who are the better players.
Speaker 8: You know, TJ.
Speaker 9: Edwards has been a heck of a player. Kevin Byern
Speaker 9: at the safety position has been a really good player.
Speaker 9: It's Jaquanton Brisker at the safety. If he can stay
Speaker 9: healthy he missed almost the whole year last year with
Speaker 9: a concussion, he can be he can be a good player.
Speaker 9: You know, Joe Tooney who they brought here as a
Speaker 9: free agent. Fundamentally, he's still playing some of the best offensive.
Speaker 8: Guard that there is in the league.
Speaker 9: After all this time, we're still waiting for guys like
Speaker 9: Cole Comett and Darnell Wright to be those players that
Speaker 9: they were drafted to be. Cole Comett has showed signs
Speaker 9: that he has the ability to be one of the
Speaker 9: top tight ends in the league. But you know, just
Speaker 9: because of the installation of this new offense, he hasn't
Speaker 9: been getting targeted like he has in the past. And
Speaker 9: then Darnell Wright with the eleventh pick in the draft
Speaker 9: a couple of years ago, at the offensive tackle position
Speaker 9: out of Tennessee. We're waiting for him to turn into
Speaker 9: that physical, dominant presence at right tackle that when you
Speaker 9: need that third and one or you got to go
Speaker 9: for it on fourth and one or you need a
Speaker 9: bread and butter play. He's got a be that guy.
Speaker 9: I think they still have, excuse me, a high upside,
Speaker 9: but we're waiting for them to get there. In the
Speaker 9: ultimate prize is Caleb Williams.
Speaker 8: If he.
Speaker 9: Really grows inside this Ben Johnson offense.
Speaker 8: And you know day, which is kind of crazy.
Speaker 9: You know that a couple of weeks ago, after the
Speaker 9: game is over, Jeff Joniak and I get to interview
Speaker 9: him first, and I asked him because he often talks
Speaker 9: about pressing the repeat button at halftime or the reset
Speaker 9: button at halftime, and I said, well, if you press
Speaker 9: the reset button, how often do you press the repeat button.
Speaker 8: During a game? He says he never calls the same
Speaker 8: play twice. And to me, when.
Speaker 9: You're talking about mastering terminology, every single play changes. You
Speaker 9: don't repeat one that back in our day, probably forty
Speaker 9: of our game plan you could.
Speaker 8: It's installed week.
Speaker 9: To week and you just something you go accustomed to.
Speaker 8: And so I think that does.
Speaker 9: Present the more difficult learning curve or Caleb, than if
Speaker 9: you had an offense that was consistent week to week.
Speaker 3: Hey, Tom, I tell you, man, that's great information and
Speaker 3: we appreciate you so much. Look forward to seeing you
Speaker 3: this weekend at Cincinnati, and and thank you for making
Speaker 3: some time for us today.
Speaker 9: You know Dave Lampton, he's still the king of all
Speaker 9: radio broadcasters nearly forty years.
Speaker 8: We only strive to be in the booth that long.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you got that right. And I'm so far away
Speaker 3: I'm probably California to Maine in terms of distance. Appreciates,
Speaker 3: appreciate you guys.
Speaker 4: Save travels. Tom.
Speaker 3: All right, man, we'll take a break. We'll be back
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Speaker 3: football across the region with games, giveaways and who they
Speaker 3: speed catch the Bengals in your community of Bengal, when
Speaker 3: you say catch is synonymous with Jamar chase it. Doue
Speaker 3: catches anything, everything comes his way and he continues to
Speaker 3: pile up the numbers and puts in the work that
Speaker 3: you start to say, why am I even surprised or
Speaker 3: amazed or anything? Seventy catches seven hundred and twenty yards
Speaker 3: five touchdowns, averaging ten point twenty nine yards per Carrie
Speaker 3: met with the media this week, preparing.
Speaker 10: For both Jake and John and Frodi or are.
Speaker 11: You getting ready pretty much both?
Speaker 5: Whoever?
Speaker 1: Does it make the week any more challenging when there
Speaker 1: is a little bit of mystery surrounding who will be
Speaker 1: throwing past the Sunday?
Speaker 12: No, we still got to attack it the same way
Speaker 12: and just do us at the end of the day,
Speaker 12: we can't really worry about that situation.
Speaker 10: Does it change the way that you prepared throughout the
Speaker 10: course of the week? Now, how did Flaka look today?
Speaker 5: Regularly?
Speaker 12: Look pretty same? Didn't look I didn't even know it
Speaker 12: was injured for her?
Speaker 13: What was it like when you saw him coming back
Speaker 13: out of the tunnel on Sunday. Do you think that
Speaker 13: they're being shy to come back, but just like come
Speaker 13: back at that moment?
Speaker 12: Uh, If I'm being honest, I didn't. I didn't even
Speaker 12: see Flacker runs on the field. I just was in
Speaker 12: a huddle and I heard of play being caught and
Speaker 12: I looked up.
Speaker 11: It was Flacco, So I didn't. I didn't know what
Speaker 11: was going on.
Speaker 13: So I talked yesterday about, you know, about how much
Speaker 13: Flaka wants to play, given that he's only been here
Speaker 13: for a little bit. What's it like to see guy's
Speaker 13: been here for like a month and really wants to
Speaker 13: play through an injury like that.
Speaker 11: Mean still wants it?
Speaker 12: You know what I'm man, He loves this game, obviously,
Speaker 12: you could tell the way he plays and just the
Speaker 12: performance he gives off, the energy he gives off. But
Speaker 12: he's still attackses the same way practice throughout the week.
Speaker 10: You said you wouldn't find it practice, You didn't. You
Speaker 10: didn't see anything different about the way the ball was
Speaker 10: coming out or anything like that.
Speaker 14: How does it feel to be here at home in
Speaker 14: your own bed for such a long stretch after playing
Speaker 14: so many road games over the course.
Speaker 11: Of the first several weeks the season.
Speaker 15: Now you've been at home the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 15: then you get to bye week.
Speaker 6: How does that feel.
Speaker 12: It's good that we get a chance to play in
Speaker 12: front the crowd, front the home stap, the home field
Speaker 12: give us a better advantage just with the crowd and
Speaker 12: just getting points on the board.
Speaker 11: After a different after the difficult loss on Sunday.
Speaker 15: Actually, you're a captain now this year, it's a lot
Speaker 15: of young guys who.
Speaker 11: I'm sure were not thrilled with the way the game went.
Speaker 11: How do you now?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 10: And a captain drill sort of calmed them down get
Speaker 10: ready for the next week.
Speaker 12: I wouldn't really say I calming them down anything. Uh,
Speaker 12: defense did their own thing with the meeting, how they
Speaker 12: you know, their stuff going on the offense does too,
Speaker 12: So we really can I'm really just controlling them the
Speaker 12: things that I can control and the stuff that I
Speaker 12: can just give advice to the younger guys and just
Speaker 12: push them to be better and just getting the prep
Speaker 12: going for the week after a game like that.
Speaker 14: Tomorrow you obviously we're upset.
Speaker 11: You're professional or competitives.
Speaker 10: What of the last couple of days as you trying
Speaker 10: to process.
Speaker 14: Just move on.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 12: After the game, I was that that was my last
Speaker 12: day thinking about the game. If I'm being honest, Once
Speaker 12: the next day happened, I got a transposition with all
Speaker 12: my focus going into the next game.
Speaker 11: How high we said for you to.
Speaker 5: Talk to.
Speaker 12: It wasn't hard for me to talk to y'all. It's
Speaker 12: just hard for me to give y'all a full answer.
Speaker 12: That's the hard part for me. Why is that because
Speaker 12: I don't want to talk?
Speaker 11: Yeah, it does.
Speaker 15: Do you think if you happen you figure what it's talk?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm pretty sure probably.
Speaker 6: The full answer.
Speaker 11: Now, maybe it depends, I said.
Speaker 1: Al Golden said that with the players meeting, the defensive
Speaker 1: players meeting that he doesn't know what was discussed or
Speaker 1: should he.
Speaker 16: Do you take the same approach or were you asking
Speaker 16: those guys what they were talking about?
Speaker 12: I would take the same approach. I mean, I talked
Speaker 12: to Gino Stone about it a little bit. Me and
Speaker 12: him had all our words about it, but I told
Speaker 12: him at the end of the day, like they can
Speaker 12: only control the things they control and don't over don't
Speaker 12: over don't overdo it with each other. At the end
Speaker 12: of the day, I still gotta have each other's backs
Speaker 12: and be a union. But that's all I can say
Speaker 12: to him.
Speaker 11: Do you think something like that can make a difference
Speaker 11: a meeting like that?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 11: I can't. Yeah, what do.
Speaker 13: You feel like the offense probably need to do better
Speaker 13: at the end of games in order to make sure the.
Speaker 11: Uh probably closing out the game better.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 11: It's hard to say.
Speaker 12: We wasn't in those positions like we were a lot
Speaker 12: this year, so I mean, we learned from the opportunity.
Speaker 12: Maybe we could have slowed the possesion down when we
Speaker 12: scored too fast.
Speaker 13: Who knows, what what's your report like with Sack after
Speaker 13: a game like that?
Speaker 10: What's the rapport, what's the what's the dialogue.
Speaker 13: Like with Zack after a game like that? Do you
Speaker 13: guys sit down and go over things? And how is
Speaker 13: that kind of evolve Over.
Speaker 12: The years, everything still feels the same, pretty much normal.
Speaker 12: I mean, we still talk about the players that we're
Speaker 12: putting in or will put in, and you know, we
Speaker 12: go from that, but we don't really talk about stuff
Speaker 12: like that.
Speaker 11: I would assume that's a Joe Burrow thing.
Speaker 13: I know, you want to win every game and you
Speaker 13: have to win every game and or all of those things.
Speaker 10: That's your mindset, your mindset each and every week.
Speaker 13: Does it feel like your backs are against the wall
Speaker 13: a bit after what happened Sunday going.
Speaker 12: I wouldn't say that, No, you know, I just feel
Speaker 12: like I would say we fell off a cliff of
Speaker 12: what we wanted to be at. What I'm saying, we
Speaker 12: got to climb back up.
Speaker 8: Is that possible?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 10: What's it gonna tell me?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 10: At three and five? Knowing where y'all want to go?
Speaker 10: What's gonna take to make sure that y'all don't let
Speaker 10: that slip you further?
Speaker 11: You gotta close out the game a lot better.
Speaker 12: Defense, gotta adjust today the stuff that they talk about offense,
Speaker 12: Gotta close out the game better and just start fast
Speaker 12: in the game.
Speaker 11: You know, it sounds like a lot, but it's something
Speaker 11: that we can do.
Speaker 16: Thanks, Thanks, Thanks you.
Speaker 11: That was pretty dope.
Speaker 3: Does Jamar Chase? I thought somebody was coming with another question. Yo,
Speaker 3: this is a guy you don't have to worry about Sunday, Monday, Thursday, Tuesday, Friday.
Speaker 3: He's bringing it.
Speaker 4: He is Jamar Chase is a competitor, and he referenced
Speaker 4: that and Uh, it's a good thing. I mean it's
Speaker 4: Jamar Chase wants to win football games. He wants to
Speaker 4: be at his best at all times. He wants to
Speaker 4: be a big reason why the football team is winning
Speaker 4: football games. He is a football player. I mean that
Speaker 4: is the definition of the Jamar Chase. That's who he is,
Speaker 4: That's who he wants to be, and that's what he
Speaker 4: wants to be known for. He is somebody that went
Speaker 4: out and gave it his all for his team, for
Speaker 4: his teammates, for the city of Cincinnati, for whatever the
Speaker 4: organization that he went out and emptied the bucket every
Speaker 4: single game, every single day, every single practice. Jamar Chase
Speaker 4: was doing everything he possibly could do to help his team,
Speaker 4: his organization win football games.
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Speaker 4: Report lap, Yeah, Box. I think the Chicago Bears, as
Speaker 4: far as they're concerned, I don't think they have any
Speaker 4: debilitating injuries where a player is going to miss the
Speaker 4: game because of injury that took place during the course
Speaker 4: of the football game. I think they're probably still tired
Speaker 4: beating up all that. And whenever you play an NFL game,
Speaker 4: no matter who the opponent is, uh, you're going to
Speaker 4: have those kind of those kind of feelings when the
Speaker 4: football game is over because you put so much into
Speaker 4: it mentally, physically, you exhausted yourself. You emptied the empty
Speaker 4: the bucket, as they say, yeah, And I think the
Speaker 4: Chicago Bears did that. So they're recovering. They're in recovery mode.
Speaker 4: The Bengals, I think, came out of it pretty darn
Speaker 4: well too. I don't think that there's any injuries that
Speaker 4: is gonna are gonna cost the Cincinnati Bengals. Oh, he
Speaker 4: can't go, he can't start because he got nicked up,
Speaker 4: he got dinged in the football game, and it's gonna
Speaker 4: cost him some time. There may be a guy or
Speaker 4: two that missed a practice, But I don't think anything
Speaker 4: more significant than that. So I think both of these
Speaker 4: football teams are ready to roll. I think that it's
Speaker 4: an important game for both teams. Both teams want to
Speaker 4: turn the war mess. I still want to get their
Speaker 4: seasons turned around. And the big question is who's gonna
Speaker 4: get it done, No question about it.
Speaker 3: We just got a recent update. DeAndre Swift has been
Speaker 3: ruled out for this game.
Speaker 4: Really, so that's a big yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that just came in.
Speaker 4: And so what's his injury?
Speaker 3: They said, growing, He's got the groin, so it's gonna
Speaker 3: be tough on him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's loose Groun's a happy growing and this isn't
Speaker 4: very happy right now.
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Speaker 3: Zach Taylor talks to the media this week, and we'll
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Speaker 3: against dub Airs.
Speaker 14: Does he need I mean, you've seen, you've seen what
Speaker 14: he's done. Came in and played on a Thursday, you know,
Speaker 14: after three days of practice. So I think if anybody,
Speaker 14: if anybody in this league can get by with minimal
Speaker 14: reps right now, it's it's tempt.
Speaker 13: So if he if he didn't practice at all, if
Speaker 13: physically he could go Sunday, you would.
Speaker 14: Still be Yeah, And we've got a plan in place
Speaker 14: to see what we can do physically during the week.
Speaker 14: So he won't be today, he won't be out there
Speaker 14: during the open portion of things will come out after that,
Speaker 14: but we got to play in place to see where
Speaker 14: he's at as the week goes. Yeah, I mean, here's
Speaker 14: the deal with him. I don't know because I've never
Speaker 14: done it. He wants to play in the game, and
Speaker 14: so kudos to him. Man, he's been here three weeks.
Speaker 14: He wants to play. I he hate speaking for him,
Speaker 14: but that's what he's told me. We'll have to work
Speaker 14: through the week to see if that's that's able to
Speaker 14: do that. It's a throwing shoulder, it's painful, but I mean,
Speaker 14: call a guy who wants to do that, wants to
Speaker 14: get out there and play with something like that. Credit
Speaker 14: to him. So we'll go through the week and see
Speaker 14: where it ends up and have Jake ready to go
Speaker 14: to and and just see how it plays out. Responded, Yeah,
Speaker 14: I've been happy with Jake's response. He's still working hard.
Speaker 14: If he's in there and he gets the opportunity, I
Speaker 14: have confidence in Jake that Jake can win us the game.
Speaker 14: So howeverd shakes out will have a great point in
Speaker 14: place to help those guys.
Speaker 17: Can you elaborate kind of what you mean kind of
Speaker 17: the whole kudos to him. Point about Flacco just getting
Speaker 17: here and wanted to.
Speaker 14: Play, Yeah, I mean he's been he wasn't hear in
Speaker 14: the off season, he wasn't invested in our training camp,
Speaker 14: you know. And so for him to come in and
Speaker 14: it would be easy to make a decision that there's
Speaker 14: no way I'm playing, you know, I just I've got
Speaker 14: a ac joint. We got a bye week next week.
Speaker 14: Let's just let this think. Heel up, and that has
Speaker 14: not been the communication he's given to me at all. Now,
Speaker 14: ultimately he may not be able to play. We may
Speaker 14: make that decision. But for him just to want to
Speaker 14: put it out there for our team himself, like he
Speaker 14: said before, He's just a football player. That's what he does.
Speaker 14: That certainly goes along with me.
Speaker 10: Understandable. He doesn't need the reps what he's done.
Speaker 13: But how comfortable do you need to feel on Sunday?
Speaker 14: No, I really don't. I mean again, I've I've seen
Speaker 14: him show up three days with no knowledge of our
Speaker 14: offense whatsoever. Jamar got minimal work that week. The next week,
Speaker 14: we got no physical reps whatsoever. And so I think
Speaker 14: that the proofs out there that you know, we we
Speaker 14: could do it if we needed to. I'm not that's
Speaker 14: not my terminology. We'll just work through the week and
Speaker 14: see rings up. He will not practice the same thing
Speaker 14: with pain Taler.
Speaker 18: It's almost and saying if he gets basically good enough
Speaker 18: for Sunday, it's probably the better question for Jacob being
Speaker 18: away for a couple of weeks, specially playing not playing.
Speaker 10: It's just kind of have to see how much that
Speaker 10: maybe helps him little bit to clear his head.
Speaker 14: Yeah, that probably better question for him. You know, he's
Speaker 14: had that experience before where he's played for us, and
Speaker 14: so again I've got confidenent them, I've seen him do it.
Speaker 14: We'll put together a great plan that that enhances everything
Speaker 14: we can do.
Speaker 19: Defense is eleven turnovers, Yeah, their first in the league
Speaker 19: and turnover margin, you know, and they've had a ton
Speaker 19: of takeaways, picks, fumbles, guy guys that have a real
Speaker 19: knack for the ball.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 14: I know that the guys that are healthy right now,
Speaker 14: the backers and the safeties have done an excellent job
Speaker 14: taking the ball away from people anticipating throws, doing a
Speaker 14: great job with their covered structures of being in a
Speaker 14: position to be aggressive.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 14: The unknown who they're corners are yet no with Tyreek
Speaker 14: to see how he plays out. But those guys in
Speaker 14: the in the dB room, I've had some turnovers as well,
Speaker 14: so a really good job. Again when you're number one
Speaker 14: in the league and turnover margin. That says a lot
Speaker 14: about how you're playing. And so it's a real challenge
Speaker 14: for our guys to protect the ball, protect the quarterback.
Speaker 14: I've got to get you in and over there as
Speaker 14: the world coach.
Speaker 17: What do you appreciate about what pe Ryan brings to
Speaker 17: the offense.
Speaker 14: I mean, he's just the same guy every day, you know,
Speaker 14: for years now. I always used to watch his tape
Speaker 14: when he was in Kansas City and Denver. I'd go
Speaker 14: through every week and watch his protections and just consistent
Speaker 14: throughout his entire career. Very reliable, hard to bring down,
Speaker 14: durable back understands where you're fitting the ball, does a
Speaker 14: great job in protection, has a great knack for the checkdowns.
Speaker 14: So again, just just the combination of him and Chase
Speaker 14: back there gives you a lot of confidence in your backfield.
Speaker 14: And Tas has really come along too, So it's a
Speaker 14: really good room. Justin's done a great job with those guys. Sama.
Speaker 14: Just again, he's the he's the the vet in the
Speaker 14: room that you does it exactly how you expected to do.
Speaker 14: Not that the other guys don't. They do a great
Speaker 14: job as well, but somas. He's just done it for
Speaker 14: a long time.
Speaker 18: You said you wouldn't classify it as a must winner,
Speaker 18: you wouldn't use those terms.
Speaker 10: What is your message do ye.
Speaker 11: With Flacco's situation?
Speaker 10: Do you have to do any differently with Sean Clifford
Speaker 10: just in case?
Speaker 14: Well, he'll get Scout team reps, you know, more so
Speaker 14: than he would have in the past, when when Jake's
Speaker 14: gotten most of those. So again, Brad always does a
Speaker 14: great job during the special teams period. That that's just
Speaker 14: any any quarterback room you're in, that's where you get
Speaker 14: the work for the guys that don't get a lot
Speaker 14: of reps. So certainly he'll get more with Joe being
Speaker 14: out and uh of practice today, he'll get He'll get
Speaker 14: more opportunity with Scout team reps and normally Jake takes
Speaker 14: pretty much all of them. So again that's where his
Speaker 14: work will come in.
Speaker 20: Zach, what did you learn over the three weeks that
Speaker 20: Jake was through and a half weeks that Jake was
Speaker 20: a quarterback in terms of the way you guys run things,
Speaker 20: the way he played, and then how quickly it kind
Speaker 20: of got better when Joe got your real lessons you
Speaker 20: took from that time period.
Speaker 14: I mean, it's that was a wholesale offense. We got
Speaker 14: to play better and and at times there were tough
Speaker 14: circumstances that the Minnesota game got out of control fast
Speaker 14: with just turnovers that that we've done an excellent job
Speaker 14: of preventing, you know, in terms of the fumbles and
Speaker 14: things like that. Next week we went on the road
Speaker 14: in a tough environment. I think Denver speaks for himself
Speaker 14: right now how they're playing on defense. That's that's been
Speaker 14: a tough challenge for everybody. And then Detroit obviously has
Speaker 14: been a great tam as well. They've been getting after everybody.
Speaker 14: So so it was a challenge for any quarterback that's
Speaker 14: playing those units. Obviously we didn't we didn't hold up
Speaker 14: to the challenge in any way, shape or form. That
Speaker 14: was on all of us. And we put that behind us.
Speaker 14: And now our offense is doing a great job these
Speaker 14: last couple of weeks and we got to keep doing that.
Speaker 14: And so if it's Jake that steps in, I got
Speaker 14: full confidence that that will continue to operate at a
Speaker 14: high level and be all score some points with that.
Speaker 4: So you think that the.
Speaker 21: Offense could pick up Jake's level play given the fact
Speaker 21: that they've been playing at a certain level.
Speaker 14: I think that's everybody. I think everybody picks everybody up,
Speaker 14: you know, and it's the quarterback lifting up others, others
Speaker 14: lifting up the quarterback. It's it's that's part of what
Speaker 14: a great unit does is find different ways for different
Speaker 14: guys to step up whatever position they play, maybe and
Speaker 14: and find a way to get the most out of everybody.
Speaker 21: Can you put your finger on the let's revived the
Speaker 21: running game in the last two weeks, big numbers.
Speaker 14: I mean, I think we've we've had better control is
Speaker 14: not a great word of the game, but just opportunity
Speaker 14: with with drives. I think you guys have heard me
Speaker 14: myself a million times. Getting that first first down really
Speaker 14: gives us a chance to get into a flow. And
Speaker 14: we've done a much better job of that these last
Speaker 14: couple of weeks. And so you got a chance to
Speaker 14: give the run game some opportunity there. And you know,
Speaker 14: sometimes people are so held being on on taking taking
Speaker 14: away our receivers, you know, so it opens up the
Speaker 14: great opportunity. Our guys have done a good job maximizing that,
Speaker 14: and we have to keep that up.
Speaker 20: There's something that switched to a point that you look
Speaker 20: at with the offensive.
Speaker 10: Line pitch're just saying how well he's felt like they
Speaker 10: have played.
Speaker 18: The last couple of weeks is something you feel like
Speaker 18: has been a turning point for them over the course
Speaker 18: of this year.
Speaker 14: They've worked really hard at it, you know, and even
Speaker 14: when we weren't really statistically you want the tape having
Speaker 14: having a great deal of success, we still believe that
Speaker 14: we were right there. It was just we got to
Speaker 14: fine tune some things to continue to improve. You know,
Speaker 14: We've we've had two young guards that are playing in there,
Speaker 14: and they're only going to get better with every rep
Speaker 14: they take. And so again we've been mixing in people
Speaker 14: in that room, and whoever it is, whether it's the
Speaker 14: two rookies, whether it's been Dalton or Lucas, I got
Speaker 14: confidence in that room continue to rise up. And again
Speaker 14: they have a lot of confidence right now. So sometimes
Speaker 14: you just get into a rhythm and things start to click,
Speaker 14: and you find a little bit of your identity in
Speaker 14: the run game. You start to maximize that and then
Speaker 14: you have some success and then the guys see, all right,
Speaker 14: we're working. We've got a great cohesive unit here. We're
Speaker 14: finding success in this That confidence gives you momentum, and
Speaker 14: then you continue to build off that momentum. I think
Speaker 14: that's just what these last couple weeks have been for us.
Speaker 22: There are a couple of running plays where it would
Speaker 22: be a big run and you see Orlando kind of
Speaker 22: big reaction pointing to the sidelight you, guys, is that
Speaker 22: something when you see stuff like that that.
Speaker 10: Convinces you to keep going back to it more? Does that?
Speaker 5: Is that?
Speaker 7: Can that impacting a play?
Speaker 5: Cards? Well?
Speaker 14: I think the success of the run is what impacts
Speaker 14: me as much as anything. It's great to have that emotion.
Speaker 14: It's great to have guys. Scott does a great job
Speaker 14: getting those guys to go cover down the field and
Speaker 14: pick people up, and Dalton has some great examples of
Speaker 14: that in Pittsburgh that stood out to me. Those guys
Speaker 14: all play with great energy and when you're finding success
Speaker 14: and the run war the path. When they say protect
Speaker 14: and they see Drew sample block two guys and to
Speaker 14: throw a stutter go to t Higgins for touchdown, they
Speaker 14: get as fired up about that as they do for
Speaker 14: the run game. So I think everything gets them excited
Speaker 14: when you're having success on offense and you're being efficient,
Speaker 14: you're being explosive and both run in pass and will
Speaker 14: continue to try to attack defenses as best we see
Speaker 14: fit for that week. Go ahead, Go ahead, Jeff.
Speaker 21: Ted gets a lot of pub for me, just ed,
Speaker 21: but as a player the last because he's getting older,
Speaker 21: it seems like he is getting almost better of it.
Speaker 14: As a head coach, Yeah, I mean he's he's does
Speaker 14: a great job. He is certainly a leader on the field,
Speaker 14: certainly a leader in the old line room.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 14: Probably my favorite time of day with Ted is the walkthroughs,
Speaker 14: just the commitment to excellency he's gotten the walkthroughs and
Speaker 14: the energy he plays with in the detail of trying
Speaker 14: to get it right and asking the right questions to
Speaker 14: get us going. So those are things that people wouldn't
Speaker 14: even see, you know, they see the emotion on the
Speaker 14: field and the effort he plays with. But he's consistent
Speaker 14: with that throughout the day, throughout the preparation, and it's
Speaker 14: great when you have a captain that's like that and
Speaker 14: continues to lead others the right way. That's he's pulling
Speaker 14: people up. He's trying to make everybody better. He's demanding
Speaker 14: of other people, and he's very demanding of the rookies
Speaker 14: next to him, and I think that's that's a big
Speaker 14: part of it.
Speaker 13: By week's coming up, how much do you guys weigh
Speaker 13: that into the system, you know, whether you best playing
Speaker 13: or not.
Speaker 14: We'll weigh everything in there. But we'll see how he
Speaker 14: feels as a week progresses, and we'll make a decision
Speaker 14: from that. And again there's certainly an element of protecting
Speaker 14: them from certain Now I'm got to trust him how
Speaker 14: he feels and how he communicates, and I trust eighteen
Speaker 14: years in he's probably played with injuries before on I
Speaker 14: can do this or I can't do this, And so
Speaker 14: I think we'll get good information as the next couple
Speaker 14: of days go bye and make our decision what we
Speaker 14: need to do given.
Speaker 10: The importance of his position. Could it go up to
Speaker 10: a pregame work.
Speaker 14: At like it might? You know, I've never been in
Speaker 14: this exact situation, So I hate to sit here on
Speaker 14: a Wednesday and to find exactly how the week's gonna look.
Speaker 14: We have an idea in our own heads, and Joe's
Speaker 14: on that same page, and we'll just see how it
Speaker 14: shakes out. Yeah, Yeah, he's been good I don't have
Speaker 14: any updates on there. It's gone as we had hoped.
Speaker 14: He's had a great attitude, great energy about him. You know,
Speaker 14: he's in the meetings, met with than one on one.
Speaker 14: He's been great to be around and optimistic and things
Speaker 14: have been going well. But I don't have any update
Speaker 14: on the timeline back.
Speaker 15: When when the defense needs a lift, you've talked about
Speaker 15: leaders stepping up, you spend more time during the practice
Speaker 15: week leaning that way, watching the defense, around the defense.
Speaker 11: Ord's that.
Speaker 14: It's the same as as I always do, you know,
Speaker 14: communicating with the defensive staff, interacting with the players.
Speaker 5: I do.
Speaker 14: I do spend time with the offense as well. As
Speaker 14: you're getting ready to call the game. That's important as well.
Speaker 14: So it's a head coach, you got to you got
Speaker 14: to manage a lot of different things. And I do
Speaker 14: everything I can to be there for the defense and
Speaker 14: help them with my feedback. And that's that's what I do.
Speaker 15: Are you seeing what you need to see out of
Speaker 15: a guy or a couple of guys in that room.
Speaker 10: I know it's still kind of early in the week.
Speaker 14: Yeah, Yeah, everything's been positive. Everything's the response has been
Speaker 14: what we have We haven't had an opportunity to do
Speaker 14: a lot yet. You know, we just had the meetings
Speaker 14: this morning, and the walkthrough that part is easy. It's
Speaker 14: easy to pass that test. And so again we'll just
Speaker 14: we'll see how the practices go.
Speaker 17: Knowing Ben Johnson for as long as you have, what
Speaker 17: do you thought of his first year as a head
Speaker 17: coach and the job he's doing.
Speaker 14: I think he's doing an excellent job. I think he's
Speaker 14: put together a really good staff. He's done a great
Speaker 14: job getting his team to where they're at right now.
Speaker 14: It's it's obviously it's challenging for every team. Everyone's trying
Speaker 14: to find a way to win, and everyone's got close games.
Speaker 14: But Ben's a very smart guy. I think he's been
Speaker 14: thorough and detailed and demanding, and I know that he's
Speaker 14: gonna be very successful during this time there.
Speaker 4: A medical staff feels like Joe Flacco is unable to go.
Speaker 4: What do you do as a backup? I mean, do
Speaker 4: you have Joel on the side. I mean, it's just
Speaker 4: the start against nicked up God forbid.
Speaker 14: And yeah, we'll see, we'll see as we get through
Speaker 14: the week exactly what our quarternight claim will be.
Speaker 3: All right as Zach Taylor talking with the media getting
Speaker 3: ready for Chicago Bears. He knows Ben Jonson Well is
Speaker 3: gonna be very interesting. We'll come back and break it
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Speaker 3: We heard from the coach. Now let's hear from the quarterback,
Speaker 3: the spinner. Not Joe Cool, but Joe calm, Joe Flacco.
Speaker 6: I feel good?
Speaker 10: Yeah, you feel good about.
Speaker 6: Yeah? I mean, I listen.
Speaker 23: I've never really talked about injuries before, so I don't
Speaker 23: know what to say, but.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I feel I feel good. Yesterday it went while
Speaker 6: I was happy without one.
Speaker 13: So what's the biggest obstacle point with that type of
Speaker 13: shoulder spring with how how does that make it's more
Speaker 13: difficult to maybe other natures?
Speaker 23: Yeah, well, I think it's I don't know I've never
Speaker 23: really dealt with it before, but I guess there's a
Speaker 23: point where it's not really up to you. It's just
Speaker 23: kind of how it's reacting and and and how you feel.
Speaker 23: So that's why I wanted to make sure, you know,
Speaker 23: I was able to test it out a little bit.
Speaker 14: So it was Wednesday, just today, We're just give it
Speaker 14: one more day and then give it the shot on Thursday.
Speaker 23: I didn't want to do anything to you know, I
Speaker 23: think the I think the idea was just treatment and
Speaker 23: and get as much as that, get as much of
Speaker 23: that as possible, get it feeling as good as possible,
Speaker 23: and then go from there, needing.
Speaker 10: To see how it reacts.
Speaker 3: Is that why even though you say you feel.
Speaker 4: Good about like you really need to need a couple.
Speaker 18: More nations to make sure on Sunday everything's good or
Speaker 18: at this point is it good?
Speaker 23: Well, I feel pretty good. I just think, yeah, I
Speaker 23: you don't want to just assume you're gonna be able
Speaker 23: to throw or not really know. So I think I
Speaker 23: wanted I definitely wanted to be able to go out
Speaker 23: there at some point this week and and and feel
Speaker 23: good about what was going on.
Speaker 6: I think that's all I was trying to say, kind.
Speaker 18: Sailer, kudos to you on wanting to try to play
Speaker 18: through this. Why is it so important to try to
Speaker 18: play through where you could have easily sent with the
Speaker 18: Bible on the other side to just this heel and
Speaker 18: come back out your side.
Speaker 6: I don't know. I didn't really give it much thought.
Speaker 23: I just always it's like, if you can, you know,
Speaker 23: just just you try to play. You're the quarterback, you know,
Speaker 23: and and then you take it from there. So I
Speaker 23: think my initial instinct is always just, you know, whatever
Speaker 23: we can do to get there and then adjust.
Speaker 17: Do you anticipate doing just normal pregame workout and all
Speaker 17: that kind of stuff on Sunday?
Speaker 23: Yeah, yeah, I don't do much, you know, going into
Speaker 23: the game anyway. And I mean, yeah, I don't necessarily
Speaker 23: anticipate trying to do anymore, just to just to just
Speaker 23: to go feel it.
Speaker 18: Out once the game starts, to you expect any limitations
Speaker 18: or you are just the same.
Speaker 6: It's gonna treat it the same, you know.
Speaker 23: If I'm out there and you know, then I'm treating
Speaker 23: it the same, just like any other game.
Speaker 10: I mean, it's the same amount of I.
Speaker 23: Think it's gotten better like there's certain things about it
Speaker 23: that is that have gotten better. I feel like I
Speaker 23: just not having dealt with it before, But I feel
Speaker 23: like it's something that definitely you can feel improvement on
Speaker 23: day to day. But at the same time, it's one
Speaker 23: of those things that you know, you can aggravate it
Speaker 23: and piss it off and and all those things.
Speaker 21: So the offense responded the Steeler game and against the
Speaker 21: Jets for the most part last week. Do you feel
Speaker 21: a sense of obligation the offense really produced with you
Speaker 21: there you want to.
Speaker 23: I think when you're the guys out there play in
Speaker 23: you always there's always a sense of obligation to to
Speaker 23: go out there and and and be there for your team.
Speaker 23: I mean I missed, you know, and sent in in
Speaker 23: kind of terms of that showing up for your team,
Speaker 23: Like I missed.
Speaker 6: My second son's birth because I wanted.
Speaker 23: I thought it was important for the quarterback to be
Speaker 23: out there, and you know, I didn't know I was
Speaker 23: gonna miss it, Like it just so happened.
Speaker 6: That he came on that day.
Speaker 23: But like, yeah, I do, I do feel a sense
Speaker 23: of obligation being out there for your for the guys
Speaker 23: that you play with, for sure. I think it's just
Speaker 23: natural to, you know, when you're when you play this
Speaker 23: game to kind of want to be out there with everybody.
Speaker 10: Did you allow yourself to I won't be able to
Speaker 10: go this week or as a bit from the job,
Speaker 10: I mean text on Wednesday you want to play.
Speaker 3: I mean it's it's been pretty clear that.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 23: I think that was just always the mindset is getting
Speaker 23: to the point where I can and like working towards that,
Speaker 23: and then you know, I think with this specifically, it
Speaker 23: was always going to come down to like you just can't.
Speaker 23: But I think mindset wise, it was just I am
Speaker 23: until you know, I just know I can't.
Speaker 17: No, I was curious, would you be willing to share
Speaker 17: what the worst injury you've ever played through is?
Speaker 15: Uh?
Speaker 23: There was one. We ended up playing New England in
Speaker 23: the playoffs and we won. I only completed I only
Speaker 23: threw like eleven passes that game. But like it was
Speaker 23: something I was dealing with all year, like I wear
Speaker 23: I make sure I've had my hips up and stuff
Speaker 23: these days ever since then, because I had something on
Speaker 23: my hip that just kept blowing up, and by the
Speaker 23: end of the year, my whole left leg was just
Speaker 23: like destroyed, Like I was not moving well at all,
Speaker 23: and that was that was an issue. It was just
Speaker 23: because it was it was something that you felt like
Speaker 23: was gonna get was getting better, and then all of
Speaker 23: a sudden you land on it again and playing on
Speaker 23: turf or whatever. And it's just it was just the
Speaker 23: length that I had to deal with that, like the
Speaker 23: length of the year that I had to deal with that,
Speaker 23: and the fact that it was annoying because you kind
Speaker 23: of felt like it was getting better and then it
Speaker 23: would be it worse again.
Speaker 17: So you mentioned you didn't complete many passes in that game,
Speaker 17: but any good memories from maybe something you did were
Speaker 17: you kind of pushed through in that game against the Patriots.
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 23: We won the game and we didn't have to We
Speaker 23: didn't have to throw the ball that much. So anytime
Speaker 23: you go win a playoff game up in New England,
Speaker 23: it's a good memory. First the first first hand, first
Speaker 23: play the game right took for a touchdown.
Speaker 16: So do you weigh the real percussions of maybe playing
Speaker 16: now what that would mean down the road the rest
Speaker 16: of the season, look at it as this week.
Speaker 6: I think there's time to do that, and I don't.
Speaker 23: I don't think i've I don't think I've necessarily thought
Speaker 23: about that in this case.
Speaker 13: How much this is about just maximizing me, like what
Speaker 13: you got here said, maximizing all the opportunities we get care?
Speaker 6: How much of that is Listen, I don't know.
Speaker 23: I think you can try to like frame it in
Speaker 23: in that context, but I just feel like I just
Speaker 23: feel like it's always kind of in my mindset and
Speaker 23: I'm not changing it now.
Speaker 13: So what's what's a mood been like after a loss
Speaker 13: like you'll have last week as you'll get ready.
Speaker 10: For this team?
Speaker 23: Yeah, Listen, it's tough. I honestly feel like in spite
Speaker 23: of that, we've had a we've had a good week
Speaker 23: mentally and and and physically. I think guys have been
Speaker 23: you know, I think guys have been chopping at the
Speaker 23: bit to get back out there, and I think it's
Speaker 23: shown in a positive way. I think there's been a
Speaker 23: lot of energy, and practices have had some good tempo
Speaker 23: to them, and I think that's a good time.
Speaker 10: How crucial is this game, especially going into the buy
Speaker 10: So you guys.
Speaker 6: Haven't I've talked about it before.
Speaker 23: I mean, they're all so crucial every single one that
Speaker 23: you know, we only play seventeen of them, and yeah,
Speaker 23: it's more than we used to, but they're still all
Speaker 23: so important. And I've also talked about the fact that
Speaker 23: you can't really think about those things because that's just
Speaker 23: putting more pressure on you and it's making you make decision.
Speaker 23: It'll make you make decisions that you know are bad.
Speaker 23: You know they're not they're not They're not how you
Speaker 23: should be playing the game. So you know, that's always
Speaker 23: the case, that's always there looming how important the game is.
Speaker 23: But we got to keep our blinders on and just
Speaker 23: go do what we do.
Speaker 11: What was.
Speaker 6: Yeah, listen, I I hopefully those guys got something out
Speaker 6: of it, you know.
Speaker 23: And and I I feel like sometimes a's players, you
Speaker 23: feel like you have to do those things when you're
Speaker 23: not maybe playing the way you want to.
Speaker 6: And I don't know if they if they end up
Speaker 6: being positive or not.
Speaker 23: But but just from like I said a couple of
Speaker 23: minutes ago, talking about the energy that we had a
Speaker 23: practice and the tempo that we were playing with, it
Speaker 23: feels as though it feels as though those guys came
Speaker 23: together a little bit and you could tell by the
Speaker 23: way they practice this week.
Speaker 18: How little you've been a part of how many players?
Speaker 23: Not many, I mean a few throughout the years, and
Speaker 23: they're usually a little awkward and uncomfortable and and us
Speaker 23: it takes a little bit of time to kind of
Speaker 23: get to the point, but then you eventually do get
Speaker 23: there and find and find the reason for having it,
Speaker 23: and they usually end up being.
Speaker 6: Positive because of that.
Speaker 23: But as you can imagine, like when you when you
Speaker 23: call those there's probably a little bit of awkwardness and
Speaker 23: there's a little bit of a tension just because it's
Speaker 23: usually it's usually happening because of stuff that you don't
Speaker 23: want is going on on the field. So but yeah,
Speaker 23: in my experience, you probably sit in there and it's
Speaker 23: tough to kind of get going, and then as you
Speaker 23: get going, you find some reason that you that you
Speaker 23: find the reason that you did it, and hopefully.
Speaker 6: You have a good reaction to it.
Speaker 21: Is that kind of what you touched on after the
Speaker 21: game on Sunday, that everybody has to kind of focus
Speaker 21: on doing their own job to that's their ability and
Speaker 21: not have blinders on.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you can't.
Speaker 23: You can't worry about what you've done in the past,
Speaker 23: and you can't worry about what's about to happen three
Speaker 23: hours after the kickoff. You have to just go play
Speaker 23: the game, and you can't worry about, you know, what
Speaker 23: people were thinking when things happen throughout the course of
Speaker 23: a game.
Speaker 6: You just got to you gotta just go.
Speaker 23: Play and and and.
Speaker 6: You look up when it's all said and done.
Speaker 23: And you're cheering with your teammates, and it's it's such
Speaker 23: a hard thing to do. I think that's it's it's
Speaker 23: kind of like corny and cliche to talk about, but
Speaker 23: it is such a hard thing to do. Is you know,
Speaker 23: just be in the moment. Being in the moment is
Speaker 23: I mean in my experience, I mean, it's just you find.
Speaker 6: A way to do it. But maybe it's like.
Speaker 23: How can you just take this secret formula and be
Speaker 23: in the moment at all times? There's always things trying
Speaker 23: to distract you. And I think that's the biggest cause
Speaker 23: of just making decisions and playing, you know, not up
Speaker 23: to your standards, because you're worried about things other than
Speaker 23: the task at hand. And it's that's why when you
Speaker 23: talk about routines and everything like that, it's it's it's
Speaker 23: giving yourself the best percentage to be in the moment
Speaker 23: when you need to be in the moment. And I
Speaker 23: don't think it's like a full fool proof method that
Speaker 23: you have, Like you have your routine and he has
Speaker 23: his routine and it works hopefully, you know, ninety five
Speaker 23: percent of the time, and you can be in the moment.
Speaker 6: But there's all these outside distractions.
Speaker 23: That are that they are they're just distracting you from
Speaker 23: being in the moment when you need to be in
Speaker 23: the moment. And one of those things is, you know,
Speaker 23: how did we play last week?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 23: We really need to win. Well, really needing to win
Speaker 23: isn't a real thing. It's it's worrying about stuff that
Speaker 23: you can't control in the moment, and you got to
Speaker 23: get out of that mindset.
Speaker 3: All right, just Joe Flacco, we'll take a break. I
Speaker 3: want to come back and break that down with you. Lab.
Speaker 3: A lot of things I heard there that come from
Speaker 3: an eighteen year veteran about how to handle a bump
Speaker 3: in a rod or a speed bump.
Speaker 4: I heard a lot about it in the moment. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean there was a lot of that.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll be right back. You're listening to the
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Speaker 3: one of my favorite spots. Now. I'm hoo yeah, sure,
Speaker 3: but I want to get back to Joe Flacco. You bo.
Speaker 3: We both heard in the moment, but what also heard
Speaker 3: was wisdom from an eighteen year veteran.
Speaker 4: No doubt he is something special. I think he's got
Speaker 4: the right mindset, the right approach, the right attitude. He's
Speaker 4: got it all. And you know, he's physically gifted as well.
Speaker 4: I mean, the guy he's a big man six or
Speaker 4: four plus and thirty pounds and can rip the football,
Speaker 4: and he throws the ball with power and accuracy, and
Speaker 4: he can put her to any quadron into the football
Speaker 4: field with accuracy and with power. The players love him.
Speaker 4: Everybody I've talked to in the locker room. In a
Speaker 4: short period of time, he has impacted them. He's made
Speaker 4: a tremendous impact on them in terms of being a leader,
Speaker 4: in terms of stepping up, in terms of saying you
Speaker 4: know put it on me. I got broad shoulders. I
Speaker 4: can handle it. I've been in the league fifteen years.
Speaker 4: I can get this done. Let's go play some football.
Speaker 4: Let's go win some football games. And players respond to that.
Speaker 4: Players love playing with Joe Flackhaw. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think the other thing that I heard the press
Speaker 3: conference after the game last week, and I was just
Speaker 3: banging my fist on the table because he you know,
Speaker 3: the media was trying to bait him, you know, they
Speaker 3: were trying to bait him, you know, to blame the defense,
Speaker 3: to blame somebody. And he knew, because again he's a veteran.
Speaker 3: I see where you guys are going with this. And
Speaker 3: he's like, no, sure, we are one. He said, we
Speaker 3: are one. You know, we win as a team, we
Speaker 3: lose as a team. And when you got your guy
Speaker 3: out front basically taking that head on, saying I'm not
Speaker 3: going to let this get out of hand. I'm not
Speaker 3: even giving you one minuscule of a quote that you
Speaker 3: can spend to make some salacious headlines. And he's just
Speaker 3: a ware of everything around him.
Speaker 4: Salacious, good word box, I like it. Yeah he is.
Speaker 4: I mean, he gets it. You know, he's a football lifer.
Speaker 4: He understands that it's a team game. It's team game
Speaker 4: in every sense in the world. There's nobody that's more important,
Speaker 4: more special than any other. And you know when the
Speaker 4: media does try to try to bait you and set
Speaker 4: you up and throw a hook in the water to
Speaker 4: see if you'll bite about your importance, you know how
Speaker 4: great you are. Team can't win without you. That kind
Speaker 4: of thing, that that that causes problems, that that divides
Speaker 4: the locker room. You don't need any of that, You
Speaker 4: don't need any of that happen whatsoever. So you know,
Speaker 4: hopefully Cincinnati Bengals can turn the worm turned around. There's
Speaker 4: certainly not out of it. You know, eight games in
Speaker 4: there's not an undefeated game team in the National Football League,
Speaker 4: not one. So you know, everybody's got their struggles, everybody's
Speaker 4: had their problems. The Bengals are far from out of it, man.
Speaker 3: Far from out The other thing I was going to
Speaker 3: ask you ab about what I think Joe Flacco gives
Speaker 3: this team That is not written, it's not statistic, but
Speaker 3: he gives Zach Taylor some comfort to say, I know,
Speaker 3: I got a guy, a veteran guy that's gonna help
Speaker 3: me make sure that this team stays cohesive doing this
Speaker 3: turbulent time right here.
Speaker 4: I agree Box. I think he knows he's got a
Speaker 4: guy that can deliver his message. You know, he knows
Speaker 4: he's got a veteran presence in the locker room that
Speaker 4: understands exactly what he's trying to do, how he's trying
Speaker 4: to do it, why he's trying to do it, and
Speaker 4: can convey that to the entire locker room. So I
Speaker 4: do think in a very short period of time, Joe
Speaker 4: Flacco has garnered respect from the entire locker room both
Speaker 4: sides of the football. They look at him as the
Speaker 4: unquestioned leader. They look at him as you know, this
Speaker 4: guy is somebody to come in and normally save our season,
Speaker 4: but put together a hell of a run for us
Speaker 4: and we could have a great season. So you know,
Speaker 4: we'll see. It's it's you know, talk is cheap. You
Speaker 4: can talk about it all you want. Going out and
Speaker 4: doing it quite another thing, no.
Speaker 3: Question about it. What'll take a break, come back and talk.
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Speaker 3: before this game. There you go, because lap we know
Speaker 3: that this defense is number one in the NFL and
Speaker 3: turnover differential plus ten. We talked to a key, Uh.
Speaker 3: He talked about it. They are talked about it. It
Speaker 3: is the identity, it has long been, uh, the identity
Speaker 3: of the monsters of the midway.
Speaker 4: You're right, Box, and I think turnovers are the biggest
Speaker 4: key to success or failure in any foot in any
Speaker 4: football game at any level, I think high school, college
Speaker 4: or National Football League. We do keys to the game.
Speaker 4: You know every single week, and it's almost like it's
Speaker 4: a given. Turnovers are going to be the biggest key.
Speaker 4: The first and foremost the thing that you want to
Speaker 4: do is give extra possessions for yourself and take possessions
Speaker 4: away from the opponent if possible, and that that's a
Speaker 4: that's a big, big factor in winning and losing football games,
Speaker 4: there's no question. So the fact that there are plus ten,
Speaker 4: I mean says a lot. Uh eight games in they've
Speaker 4: had ten more possessions than the opponent. That's significant. That's
Speaker 4: better than one per game extra.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think they're averaging seven point one points
Speaker 3: her turnover, which means they're converted in the scores. It
Speaker 3: reminds me of the player for them, Peena Tillman. I
Speaker 3: mean that guy just had a punches them out.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: He was a professional puncher, not in the boxing says,
Speaker 3: but I mean just incredible. But they're also a lot
Speaker 3: like the Pittsburgh Steelers in the sense of they want
Speaker 3: to get a lead and then they just want to
Speaker 3: hand the ball off. They just want to pound you out.
Speaker 3: Like you said earlier when you were talking to him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean the turnovers the reason I'm probably scoring
Speaker 4: at that rate seven points per turnover differential short fields.
Speaker 4: I mean they're they're turning the ball over and short
Speaker 4: fields for their offense, giving them like, you know, twenty
Speaker 4: five thirty yards they have to go to pay dirt
Speaker 4: and they're putting them in the end zone. Credit them too.
Speaker 4: They're finishing. They're not having red zone difficulties where they
Speaker 4: have to settle for field goals and all that, all
Speaker 4: that sort of thing. But it is a typical Chicago
Speaker 4: Bear football team. Sound. They basic fundamentals are very important
Speaker 4: to the Chicago Bears success that they're going to have
Speaker 4: during the course of the season. They know it, The
Speaker 4: players know it, coaches know it, organization knows it. That's
Speaker 4: that's their DNA. That that's what it's all about. Taking
Speaker 4: care of the football, running the football, stopping the run.
Speaker 4: You know, a balanced offense with a capable passing attack.
Speaker 4: Don't let the opponent hurt you with their passing attack. Simple,
Speaker 4: simple football, fundamental stuff.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, the other fundamental stuff is you got
Speaker 3: to play sound football. But the non football stuff, Kevin
Speaker 3: is a buyered. There are guys in this league that
Speaker 3: have always seemed to just be where the ball is.
Speaker 3: You can't explain it. There's no you can't chalkboard it
Speaker 3: or whatever. It's just one of those weird things that
Speaker 3: they have. One of those guys they do.
Speaker 4: And you know, whenever we would play against a great
Speaker 4: offensi or defensive player, the coaches would put that name
Speaker 4: up on the chalkboard early in the week and say,
Speaker 4: don't let this guy control and dick take the temple
Speaker 4: of the game. Can't let it happen. If he does,
Speaker 4: if we allow him to have his way, we're gonna
Speaker 4: have trouble. We're gonna have trouble winning the football game.
Speaker 4: So you know, some guys, you would you would have
Speaker 4: to try to work to neutralize their ability. They would
Speaker 4: line up like buyers. He's gonna line up on best
Speaker 4: receiver Jamar probably and try to minimize him, try to
Speaker 4: neutralize them, try to you know, take him out of
Speaker 4: the game as such. So others are gonna have to
Speaker 4: step up. You know, t Higgins is gonna have to,
Speaker 4: you know, make plays. Mike is sick, he's gonna have
Speaker 4: to make plays. Guys are gonna have to do things
Speaker 4: above and beyond probably what they've done so far this season.
Speaker 4: Because I'm sure they're gonna put two on Jamar Chase,
Speaker 4: They're gonna put corner in safety on Jamar. I'd be
Speaker 4: shocked if they don't.
Speaker 3: Well, you know. The other thing is, you know lap
Speaker 3: One of the things about these defenses when you go
Speaker 3: into Bengals that I think is advantage for us is
Speaker 3: Joe Flackle knows if you're gonna put two of my
Speaker 3: guy over here, Yeah, I'm expecting one of my other
Speaker 3: guys to beat their guy one on one.
Speaker 4: Absolutely. I mean, it's like we've got talent. We have
Speaker 4: receivers in this room that are going to win one
Speaker 4: on one battles. I have all the confidence in the world.
Speaker 4: I have all the faith in the world. My guy's
Speaker 4: gonna beat their guy one on one, and if they don't,
Speaker 4: it's not gonna go well, you know. I mean, if
Speaker 4: they don't win their share of one on one's, it's
Speaker 4: you know, the coaching staff with the opponent obviously has
Speaker 4: comfort in the fact that we feel like, Okay, the
Speaker 4: rest of our guys can cover who they need to
Speaker 4: cover and take it away. We'll mix it up and
Speaker 4: run some zone, run some man, but we're going to
Speaker 4: have the eraser, our best defensive back on your best weapon,
Speaker 4: and that's going to be a big matchup to watch
Speaker 4: and keep an eye on. But we're going to try
Speaker 4: to minimize the impact and the effect that the others
Speaker 4: have on the game.
Speaker 3: No question about it. We come back. I want to
Speaker 3: talk about special teams because it could be the turning
Speaker 3: point of this game. Both of them will overdue. It's
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Speaker 3: Biller and Ring of Honor, Honor Reed name up in
Speaker 3: the rafters Dave lapham Man. I smile when I say that, Yes,
Speaker 3: I appreciate that I smiled. The Blazer was looking good.
Speaker 3: Speaking of looking good, it would be nice to see
Speaker 3: our return team looking good.
Speaker 24: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Uh, it's just nobody's had a big run and they
Speaker 3: you know, McKee talked about that they got a couple
Speaker 3: of guys averaging over twenty twenty five yards per return.
Speaker 3: But man, you talk about changing the field, special teams
Speaker 3: can just make or break a day.
Speaker 4: Really can. And Darren Simmons understands that better than anybody.
Speaker 4: He's been around coaching special teams in the National Football League,
Speaker 4: ark than any special teams coach in the league right now.
Speaker 4: I think he understands the impact that special teams have
Speaker 4: on the game in terms of field position. Long field.
Speaker 4: Short field is what it's all about. I mean, that's
Speaker 4: their biggest goal. Their biggest objective in the football game
Speaker 4: is to give short fields to their offense by great returns,
Speaker 4: averaging a good number of yards per return and minimizing
Speaker 4: the number of plays that the offense has to run.
Speaker 4: And then on the flip side of it, long fields
Speaker 4: for the opponent, you know, and make them have to
Speaker 4: chew up a lot of plays. And the more snaps
Speaker 4: you run, the higher the percentage of making a mistake
Speaker 4: during one of those snaps occurs. It's just you know,
Speaker 4: basic math. And Darren Simmons is as good as there
Speaker 4: is in the National Football League. He has been for
Speaker 4: a while and he will be for a while longer.
Speaker 3: No question about it. You know, I'm growing to like
Speaker 3: the new kickoff. I wasn't a fan of it in
Speaker 3: the beginning. I think I'm used to it now. I
Speaker 3: still like the other way better, but yeah, I think that,
Speaker 3: you know, teams and players just have to figure out
Speaker 3: how to make it work to their advantage.
Speaker 4: I agree, And I think you know, there's a great
Speaker 4: returner for the Cincinnati Bengals in their history that's going
Speaker 4: in the Ring of honor or has gone in the
Speaker 4: Ring of Lamar Parrish. Yeah, I mean, that guy was
Speaker 4: was lightning in a bottle waiting to happen, waiting to
Speaker 4: be opened. He was spectacular, I mean, just incredible as
Speaker 4: a return guy. And what he did for his football
Speaker 4: team thirteen non offensive touchdowns.
Speaker 3: That that number still just blows my mind.
Speaker 4: It's sick, it really is. I mean, in terms of okay,
Speaker 4: interception returns, those are those are spectacular. They you know,
Speaker 4: they catch the fans fancy. There's no doubt about that
Speaker 4: fumble returns for touchdowns. But man, he made his mark
Speaker 4: also on special teams, returning kickoffs and returning punts for touchdowns.
Speaker 4: He had an unbelievable, an uncanny ability to make people
Speaker 4: miss in a short space. I mean tight quarters man.
Speaker 4: He would his lateral quickness was amazing, his explosion put
Speaker 4: the foot in the ground and go go sideways faster
Speaker 4: than anybody in the National Football League. God gave him
Speaker 4: a gift and he capitalized on it big time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's he's a pretty predecessor to Barry Sanders, who
Speaker 3: we all saw. Yeah, you know, Eric Thomas was talking
Speaker 3: to Lamar. He played running back in college. But to me,
Speaker 3: it speaks again to the genius of Paul Brown. You
Speaker 3: take Ken Riley a quarterback and Lamar parisps are running back,
Speaker 3: and you turn them into these two defensive backs that
Speaker 3: or basically both Hall of famers.
Speaker 4: And my yeah, amazing. I mean rattler. Ken Riley quarterback
Speaker 4: at Florida A and M was gifted as a quarterback.
Speaker 4: He threw the ball pretty damn well as well, but
Speaker 4: his feet were the big factor. I mean, he was
Speaker 4: a he was an option quarterback in high school and
Speaker 4: at the collegiate level at Florida and him very talented,
Speaker 4: very gifted player, and just a smart football player, just
Speaker 4: an unbelievably high football IQ. Understood uh principles and fundamentals
Speaker 4: of the game and techniques in the game of football.
Speaker 4: And and then he goes and pairs him up with
Speaker 4: Lamar Parris. You have a quarterback and a running back
Speaker 4: that he converts to the other side of the football,
Speaker 4: and all they do is reward him by making big
Speaker 4: play after big play. It's amazing.
Speaker 3: It just blows my mind. And again, Paul Brown. You
Speaker 3: know people will use the word genius to people throw
Speaker 3: the word genius around too much. Stop it.
Speaker 4: Paul Brown was a genius, total menza. His IQ was
Speaker 4: as high as has ever been recorded.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you can't get up there with Paul Brown
Speaker 3: and just say that you're very good, and you're pretty
Speaker 3: damn good, but you're not a genius. It's like I
Speaker 3: heard the word great throwing around all the time, and
Speaker 3: he's just over you so much as diluted the word.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Bengals peart Rally Show, broadcasting live
Speaker 3: from OTR. I'll tell you this on the rhine. I
Speaker 3: love this place. I'm thinking about the wings right now
Speaker 3: because I'm looking at laps and I said, presented by
Speaker 3: just Bear Chicken, Wayne Box Miller, ring of honored nominee
Speaker 3: Dave Lapham, and the numbers up there, sixty two us
Speaker 3: up there, the name was up there, and I couldn't
Speaker 3: be happier. I, like so many other people, been lobbying
Speaker 3: for that to see. Its dream come true for you man,
Speaker 3: but trust me, for us it was just as well
Speaker 3: and another dream come true to see my Michigan Wolverines
Speaker 3: were in a national championship years ago and a young
Speaker 3: man that was a vital part of that drafted the
Speaker 3: second round by the Bengals in twenty twenty four. Father
Speaker 3: Chris Jenkins played as uncle played in the NFL. He's
Speaker 3: got a lot of pedigree. But pleasure to welcome to
Speaker 3: the show on the phone, ladies and delm with Chris Jenkins.
Speaker 3: That's giving up for Chris brother. Chris, how are you man?
Speaker 5: Appreciate having me man, Thank you so much and congratulations
Speaker 5: for you again.
Speaker 4: Appreciate that, Chris, thank you very much. Coming from a
Speaker 4: member of royalty football family, Royalty Chris Jenkins, that means
Speaker 4: it means a time you you obviously your foot your
Speaker 4: family understands the game of football and what it's all about.
Speaker 4: My man.
Speaker 5: Oh, absolutely, unfortunately a little bit too much.
Speaker 3: You know, Chris, we were talking earlier this year and
Speaker 3: you talked about your off season just working out with
Speaker 3: your uncle. Uh, just because it's new to so many,
Speaker 3: talk to talk about that again and what that experience
Speaker 3: was like for you this summer.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, it's a very surreal experience. It's a very humbling
Speaker 5: one too. You know, you get to the point you're
Speaker 5: learning from some of the best of the best talent,
Speaker 5: learning mentally, physically, technique wise, and you know, he just
Speaker 5: told me so much, so many aspects of the game
Speaker 5: that I still didn't know about and he still he
Speaker 5: still says, you got much more to teach me. So
Speaker 5: it's been a very amazing experience working with him, and
Speaker 5: he's been a vital partner on my work so far
Speaker 5: in the lead.
Speaker 4: You know, people that don't play haven't played football at
Speaker 4: a very high level don't understand, you know, the techniques
Speaker 4: and fundamentals and a lineman. You know, i'll they do
Speaker 4: is knock each other around. There's no there's nothing going
Speaker 4: on there. There's just it's survival of the fittest. It's
Speaker 4: just who's the biggest, strongest, toughest. You know, all all
Speaker 4: of those kind of things is going to win the
Speaker 4: battle of the trenches. There's all kinds of techniques and
Speaker 4: fundamentals that you know that can take you to another
Speaker 4: level in the game of football. Your uncle, your dad,
Speaker 4: those guys playing at such a high level. What if
Speaker 4: they taught you over the years.
Speaker 5: Uh, they taught me the beauty of learning technique, the
Speaker 5: proper way of technique, and then learning technique in the
Speaker 5: aspect of how it ticks you, Betty, No, talking to
Speaker 5: my uncle and my father, you know, they taught me
Speaker 5: so much about myself that I didn't know about my
Speaker 5: technique loot and it's those little things that can get
Speaker 5: you go ahead on your gag.
Speaker 3: You know, Chris, I was thinking as you were saying
Speaker 3: that when people know a crap, whether it's you know, carpentry,
Speaker 3: whether it's football, whether it's whatever, you know, even a chef,
Speaker 3: it's just things that they can see and right away
Speaker 3: they know it. Was there one thing that your uncle
Speaker 3: pointed out to you quickly that you never even thought of.
Speaker 3: That he just said, right away, one thing I noticed
Speaker 3: you're doing is this, and you're like, wow, I didn't
Speaker 3: even recognize that.
Speaker 5: Absolutely. One thing we talked about a lot is me
Speaker 5: reading on the field because I'm a person I like
Speaker 5: to dispect the play as it's happening before I start
Speaker 5: to launch. And you know, my uncle's been starting to
Speaker 5: teach me that you can go, you can launch and
Speaker 5: take yourself to them, get into play without having it
Speaker 5: while seeing the play development.
Speaker 6: That makes sense.
Speaker 5: So being able to think on the fly and being
Speaker 5: able to as you're going, you already know what type
Speaker 5: of block or what type of technique you need to
Speaker 5: use while you're launching into your home, and you know
Speaker 5: that type of high level technique is some of the
Speaker 5: stuff you've been trying to build.
Speaker 4: Yeah. That uh, that is high level. That is high
Speaker 4: level technique. Man, that's awesome to have to have that,
Speaker 4: that kind of support system in your in your back pocket.
Speaker 4: You know, your your uncle and your dad. Now you
Speaker 4: learned a lot from them. What about coaches? What coaches
Speaker 4: when you were a young player? Uh, in elementary school,
Speaker 4: at junior high school, even at the collegiate level. What
Speaker 4: coach took you to another level in terms of how
Speaker 4: you played the game of football from a fundamental and
Speaker 4: technique standpoint.
Speaker 5: Oh, my high school coach is one hundred percent my
Speaker 5: D line, my D line coach, Kevin mcdad and in
Speaker 5: my high school.
Speaker 11: So I called them to go.
Speaker 5: They they helped me a lot while I was in
Speaker 5: high school because I used to be a small kid,
Speaker 5: so they started teaching me my powers.
Speaker 3: You know you were talking about when you got Michigan.
Speaker 3: It was an eye opening thing for you as well,
Speaker 3: because you were you're pretty tagon good in high school
Speaker 3: and had a lot of hardware and a lot of credentials,
Speaker 3: and you got up there and realized so did everybody else.
Speaker 3: And you I'm really proud of how you were very
Speaker 3: candid about recognizing that and then putting, you know, nose
Speaker 3: to the grindstone to figuring out how to get better
Speaker 3: than everybody else.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, I mean it's a humbling experience. I mean, you know,
Speaker 5: like I'm going into Michigan with cats like Aiden Hutchinson,
Speaker 5: Quitty Bay or there. You know, all these soon all
Speaker 5: pro athletes at Michigan, and you know, I'm trying to
Speaker 5: make a name for myself. They're one or two ways
Speaker 5: you could take it. You know, you can't feel sorry
Speaker 5: for yourself, you know, you trying to learn this stuff.
Speaker 5: Or you can build on that, you know, learn from
Speaker 5: some of the you know, high level computing guys, and
Speaker 5: I was fortunate enough to have that support system from
Speaker 5: them to learn and build and have so much more
Speaker 5: the game that it just became a blast, you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean support system from a high, high caliber
Speaker 4: teammates that played the game at such a high level
Speaker 4: is an amazing thing to have in your back pocket
Speaker 4: as well. But we talked about the coaches. What about players.
Speaker 4: Is there a player that you said, I'm going to
Speaker 4: play the game of football just like this guy man
Speaker 4: watching him on tape, watching him on the football field,
Speaker 4: be it a practice of be during the course of games.
Speaker 4: He does everything right. I mean, you know, everything is
Speaker 4: so sound he is. He's a football protege. Was there
Speaker 4: anybody like that that affected you or impacted you as
Speaker 4: a young player.
Speaker 5: David o'jabo, I forgot that he was that guy. Let
Speaker 5: me do yeah, oh yeah. Watching him work, you know,
Speaker 5: he's one of those guys. He constantly competes at a
Speaker 5: high level, and you know at Michigan somehow every practice,
Speaker 5: you know, every game he was going at one hundred
Speaker 5: and ten miles an hour. And before he had the
Speaker 5: season that he had at Michigan, you know, it was
Speaker 5: just seeing his work at seeing how intentional he was
Speaker 5: with his training, with his practice, wept, you know, with everything,
Speaker 5: listening his mindset. So you know, as young guys were
Speaker 5: trying to absorb as much from him and Aiden Hutchinson
Speaker 5: as we could.
Speaker 3: Well, let me ask you. I'm gonna tell you to
Speaker 3: put on an imaginary general general manager had if somebody
Speaker 3: came here and said, give me, give me a scollary
Speaker 3: report on Aiden Hutchinson and Mason Graham, what would you
Speaker 3: what would be your scoulary report on those two guys.
Speaker 5: Too? Yeah, oh man, that one. Two high levels, high
Speaker 5: working athletes that just have a love for the game.
Speaker 5: That's rare to see in a lot of people. Uh.
Speaker 5: The amount of time they taken the game is inspiring.
Speaker 5: And you know they're had the on watching film, study
Speaker 5: to set up their opponent, and you know, they just
Speaker 5: they just really intends when it comes to the problem solving.
Speaker 5: So if they do a rep all or they see
Speaker 5: something wrong with their technique, they're going to make sure
Speaker 5: they take sally.
Speaker 4: So seasons eight games old, three and five record right now,
Speaker 4: seasons far from over. I mean there's a lot of
Speaker 4: football to be played. Uh, Cincinnati Bengals, there's not a
Speaker 4: football team in the NFL it's undefeated right now. I
Speaker 4: mean it's very balanced.
Speaker 3: It's a.
Speaker 4: Tough league, man, on a week for week basis, It's
Speaker 4: the opponents are are high caliber. There's a lot of
Speaker 4: good football players on every team in the National Football League,
Speaker 4: a lot of good coaches coaching them. There's no cakewalking,
Speaker 4: there's no week off, there's no bye week where you're
Speaker 4: actually you know, playing a football game. And uh, in
Speaker 4: your actual buy So what do you have to do
Speaker 4: to make sure that it turns around what what are
Speaker 4: maybe a couple of three things that the Bengals have
Speaker 4: to do have a much higher level and much better
Speaker 4: level at this stage.
Speaker 5: One is observing what went wrong and problem solving. You know,
Speaker 5: we can't you can't afford to feel sorry for yourself
Speaker 5: after a loss. You have to be able to problem
Speaker 5: solve and take the situation going into the next game.
Speaker 5: And you know, the second thing is just looking forwards.
Speaker 5: Like y'all said, there's a lot of football games left,
Speaker 5: a lot of opportunities, Lenning, and you know this isn't
Speaker 5: so you know, we have the opportunity to really do
Speaker 5: something special. And looking forward has really been our biggest
Speaker 5: methode this week and making the both of our opportunity.
Speaker 3: We have to Sunday, Hey, Chris, we got to take
Speaker 3: a break and we get one more segment with you.
Speaker 6: Absolutely all right, thank you, brother, We'll take a break.
Speaker 3: We'll come back with Chris from the Cincinnati Bengals. It
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Speaker 3: from Michigan. Now he's down in the trenches for the
Speaker 3: Cincinnati Bengals. Christiinkers and Chris I'm gonna hit to something real,
Speaker 3: real quick, man. That just blew me away. They've got
Speaker 3: stats on everything, and I was looking at percentage of
Speaker 3: miss tackles and I looked at Chris Jinkins and said zero.
Speaker 4: How about it?
Speaker 3: How about that? Making that that's gotta be something that
Speaker 3: you hang your hat on. Of course, if you did
Speaker 3: miss tackles, I'm sure your uncle and dad have something
Speaker 3: to say.
Speaker 5: You know, every every football Sunday, they making sure they
Speaker 5: watched and so you know, I'm gonna get that feedback
Speaker 5: the second the game come. Yeah.
Speaker 4: You know, uh what what what player or players at
Speaker 4: the high school, collegiate, at or NFL level were the
Speaker 4: biggest challenge for you physically for you to match up
Speaker 4: with I mean everybody's I mean, I've got guys and
Speaker 4: I don't know. Man, that guy he was a beast.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: I couldn't I couldn't solve all the problems that he
Speaker 4: was giving me. Man, this guy was too much. Is
Speaker 4: there anybody like that that you played against?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 5: You know what funny story. High school we used to
Speaker 5: play a school called Gonbaga and that's who their quarterback was.
Speaker 4: What's his name?
Speaker 3: Oh williams Cale?
Speaker 4: Do kidding? All right? So give us, give us more,
Speaker 4: give us more, man.
Speaker 5: Uh, we used to be high school rivals, so you know,
Speaker 5: going into that game every single week, there was a
Speaker 5: lot of preparation.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: Sometimes you get back there and his ability to scramble
Speaker 5: it really passed your ability to tackle. Yeah, honestly, now
Speaker 5: to attribute him to uh really really staying on top
Speaker 5: of myself with my faculing ability.
Speaker 3: Wow, I'm sure that you were able to share what
Speaker 3: information you have with your teammates, like, hey, he's been
Speaker 3: doing this for a while, he's not new to this.
Speaker 3: This is just a character trait that's followed him from
Speaker 3: there Gonzaga to sc to the NFL. And another Michigan
Speaker 3: guy up there Coast and Loveland man I mean he's
Speaker 3: doing well in that tight end position.
Speaker 5: Absolutely. Yeah, you know, he's the hang of a player.
Speaker 5: He played hard, and you know we're right, we're going
Speaker 5: against each other now. Always good to see my boy.
Speaker 5: But you know what time it is, right right.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about that after the game is over, you know, Yeah, Chris.
Speaker 3: One of the things I think you've come to appreciate
Speaker 3: being in Cincinnati is that the fan base here is legit, man.
Speaker 3: I mean, they really want to see you guys do well.
Speaker 3: I mean the way they are a paid course stadium
Speaker 3: even here at our PEP rally shows and and things
Speaker 3: of that nature. You come from a place where they
Speaker 3: were packing them in. I mean, you know, I got
Speaker 3: a chance to go watch a football game of Michigan.
Speaker 3: But the fans here, man, they really get after that paid.
Speaker 5: Corps absolutely, you know. And that just goes to show
Speaker 5: the love and the past that they have for the
Speaker 5: team and for the game. Man. You know, we love
Speaker 5: and appreciate that, and that encourages us and players to
Speaker 5: play harder, you know, be more successful for them, because
Speaker 5: if they're giving their heart here and for us, you know,
Speaker 5: we can't do everything in our power give them something
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, let me let me ask you this as
Speaker 3: a guy that's got, you know, a second year under
Speaker 3: his belt that first year, talk about players, how veterans
Speaker 3: help you guys get acclimated to the game of football
Speaker 3: at this level because it's totally different from college.
Speaker 5: Right, absolutely, and that's huge. You know, you've got to
Speaker 5: be able to adapt quickly and it is a big
Speaker 5: difference in college. So having those better to ground and
Speaker 5: that will helps you to lead you business tech wuise,
Speaker 5: that's huge. And you know, we're blessed and fortunate enough
Speaker 5: to have a lot of great bet for Rome that
Speaker 5: have done that right, and you know, it makes that
Speaker 5: transition easier.
Speaker 1: It makes.
Speaker 4: So Chris, you've got a new defensive line coach by
Speaker 4: the name of Jerry Montgomery. Uh played the game of
Speaker 4: football at a high level himself, very good football coach.
Speaker 4: But with every change that you have in the coaching staff, UH,
Speaker 4: with your defensive line, there's going to be new techniques,
Speaker 4: new fundamentals, new expectations. What's been like with Jerry.
Speaker 5: Is you know what, it's been awesome And it's been
Speaker 5: a process learning new technique you know, uh, stuff that
Speaker 5: we haven't been used to since last year. But you know,
Speaker 5: it's really we've really been improving upon it since the
Speaker 5: beginning of the year, learning how to do more, not
Speaker 5: that playing with one hand as opposed to do at time,
Speaker 5: spend the edge and posing our will and being physical.
Speaker 5: And you know, he's a very passionate coach and a
Speaker 5: great coach when it comes to that. You know, he's
Speaker 5: really hype on the details and we try to master
Speaker 5: those details. And that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he seems like a guy that gets very hyped out.
Speaker 3: I watched a couple of you know, just sessions with him, man,
Speaker 3: and he really wants the best for you guys. And
Speaker 3: I one thing I appreciate about what he said is,
Speaker 3: you know, it doesn't matter what I want, It matters
Speaker 3: what they want, and if they want to be right,
Speaker 3: I want to help them become great. And that's really
Speaker 3: if you're a player in any sport, you want your
Speaker 3: coach to want for you, but you also want him
Speaker 3: to give you room and help to be the best
Speaker 3: version of yourself on the field exactly.
Speaker 5: And that's that's you.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna switch gears here because you know it's
Speaker 3: it's tough being in the trenches. But there's a great
Speaker 3: group of guys that are are in the interior of
Speaker 3: the Sinai Bengals. And uh, the chemistry you guys have, man,
Speaker 3: is really I I love watching it. But if I
Speaker 3: had to ask you, you know, without you know, naming
Speaker 3: names per se unless you want to, who's the funny
Speaker 3: guy in the group? Man, who's the guy that keeps
Speaker 3: everybody loose?
Speaker 5: And and and you'll already got to answer that I question.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it could be you.
Speaker 5: Huh No, I'm kidding. I gotta I gotta give it
Speaker 5: to my man. Uh. DJ Clayton he's one of.
Speaker 3: The guess he was on this show a couple of
Speaker 3: weeks ago. And yeah, he's a funny guy. He's got
Speaker 3: a sense of humor now, he has a sense of
Speaker 3: human But I think as a veteran man, it helps
Speaker 3: keep you young guys loose.
Speaker 4: You would I be right in assuming.
Speaker 5: That, Oh absolutely, you know, to see a guy do
Speaker 5: what he does at a high level, you know, have
Speaker 5: that laid back, funny personality that he does, you know,
Speaker 5: it's definitely it's definitely bringing a huge life to the room.
Speaker 4: Add to that, talking about veteran players that bring something
Speaker 4: to the room. What about Trey Hendrickson, he is I
Speaker 4: know he's not an interior defensive lineman, but he's, uh,
Speaker 4: he's part of the brotherhood. You guys are all a
Speaker 4: big brotherhood. They're up front in the Bengals defensive line.
Speaker 4: The way he approaches football in the National Football League,
Speaker 4: it's the same way he approached in high school and
Speaker 4: college when he went to Florida. Just I mean, take
Speaker 4: no prisoners man. It's it's he's gung hole. He's bringing
Speaker 4: it every single snap. He's uh, he's gonna test the
Speaker 4: opponent and try to uh try to bring out uh
Speaker 4: the best. He's he's unique. What have you learned from him?
Speaker 5: Oh? Yeah, Like you said, his mentality to take no
Speaker 5: prisoner's mentality, and you know that's infected like from every snap,
Speaker 5: every weapon practice, every rep with your technique list in
Speaker 5: regard that he's using that mentality and you can see
Speaker 5: how it shows on the field and he plays.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he gets after it, man. I think he gets
Speaker 3: stronger in the fourth quarter. And that's what callses problem
Speaker 3: for teams because this dude, man, he just wants it.
Speaker 3: You know, sometimes people just want it and I told
Speaker 3: Lap Chris, you know in this in this league, everybody
Speaker 3: has skill, but then it becomes a matter of will,
Speaker 3: man and that dude's will to get to the quarterback.
Speaker 3: It's a rarity.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, like his mentality. He will get to the quarterback.
Speaker 5: And they said, you're standing in my way. I take
Speaker 5: no present mentality.
Speaker 3: Go yeah, he's like that guy. Well what is it?
Speaker 3: I will hunt you down and I will find you.
Speaker 3: What is that movie I can't miss? Liam? Yea, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's Trey Henderson. You guys should start calling him Liam Deeson.
Speaker 5: For Halloween.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, Hey, Chris Man, thank you so much for
Speaker 3: making time for us. Man, I know you wanted to
Speaker 3: be here, and we appreciate you. Getting on the phone
Speaker 3: with his.
Speaker 5: Brother No, my absolute pleasure. Man. I appreciate y'all for
Speaker 5: having me and Dave again. Congratulations, man, you deserved it.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much, Chris. Chris coming from you, uh
Speaker 4: in the football family that you're a part of that
Speaker 4: means a ton. I appreciate you.
Speaker 3: All right, Chris Jacobs from the University of Michigan defensive
Speaker 3: tackle and man, glad to have you boored. We'll be
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Speaker 1: Time for some fun facts with linebacker Demetrius Night from
Speaker 1: Locust Grove, Georgia, less than an hour away from Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Your jersey was retired last week. Describe getting that news
Speaker 1: and going home for the ceremony.
Speaker 25: Yeah, it was a true blessing, just to just to
Speaker 25: be in that moment. It's not every day you get
Speaker 25: to retire in an old high school high school jersey number.
Speaker 25: You kind of think you're for your forgotten sometimes when
Speaker 25: you when yeah, you're you're often doing other things, but
Speaker 25: just having that to be recognized as is nothing but God,
Speaker 25: you know, nothing, nothing but Jesus. And that's what we
Speaker 25: stand on over there as strong Christian schools. So, uh,
Speaker 25: glad to see that they're still doing their thing in
Speaker 25: all the sports categories, but also good to see that
Speaker 25: you know, they'll they'll leave a bit, a little bit
Speaker 25: of my legacy to see around. So as my kids
Speaker 25: continue to grow, Uh, that would be something I can
Speaker 25: you know, rubbing rubbing their faces every once in a
Speaker 25: while as there as they're growing up.
Speaker 1: You're a linebacker now but you were a four year
Speaker 1: starting quarterback in high school. Give me a comp what
Speaker 1: college or NFL quarterback were you most like.
Speaker 25: I was definitely most like Cam Newton. I was trying
Speaker 25: to emulate him and everything he did. And then started
Speaker 25: to watch more college guys, started to watch Jalen Hurts,
Speaker 25: just knowing that I was a bigger type of quarterback
Speaker 25: and knowing that those are bigger quarterbacks, knowing that they
Speaker 25: they can run, but also you know, not just being
Speaker 25: the run of also being able to you know, be Leeds.
Speaker 24: In the past game.
Speaker 25: So as I continued to grow in my high school career,
Speaker 25: would you know, put the run first mentality behind it
Speaker 25: and you know, pass first and then run second.
Speaker 1: We're chatting with Demetrius Knight. Were you heavily recruited out
Speaker 1: of high school?
Speaker 24: No, sir, not not very much.
Speaker 25: Uh to Tech was pretty much the only offer I
Speaker 25: had going into my junior year and whatnot. And I
Speaker 25: would go to a camp where Paul Johnson was still
Speaker 25: the head coach at Georgia Tech and he's like, I
Speaker 25: don't I don't understand how you don't have more offers.
Speaker 24: I'm going to give you a first one, and that
Speaker 24: that pretty much sold it for us.
Speaker 1: So he made the offer, you chose Georgia Tech, and
Speaker 1: then he left before you got there. How difficult was
Speaker 1: that for you?
Speaker 25: It was pretty pretty difficult, just because I didn't know
Speaker 25: what I was going to get. I was already getting
Speaker 25: comfortable with the former coaching staff and him. Of course,
Speaker 25: that's that's just line. That's a business decision that he
Speaker 25: and his family had to make. And I didn't hate
Speaker 25: him or anything for that. That's just just just the
Speaker 25: way life goes. So of course I still wanted to
Speaker 25: be close to my mom and sister, uh not wanted
Speaker 25: to be too far away from them and the due
Speaker 25: places we were sharing. So I was like, of course,
Speaker 25: I don't know what the situation will be. I know
Speaker 25: there's there might be a possibility, and no, probably won't
Speaker 25: be quarterback, just because I know it's a new group
Speaker 25: coming in, but I at least figured it's it'd still
Speaker 25: be something on the offense.
Speaker 16: Uh.
Speaker 24: That was the complete opposite of the spectrum. But uh
Speaker 24: and ended up working out for the best.
Speaker 1: What was your reaction when they said Demetrius, you're a linebacker?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 24: Pretty much?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 24: World went upside down.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 24: I didn't know what to think.
Speaker 25: It was kind of unreal, and I just kind of
Speaker 25: went with it for a couple of weeks, thinking, oh,
Speaker 25: they're just they'll see I'm no good at this linebacker thing,
Speaker 25: and moved me back to the offense side of the
Speaker 25: ball in that quarterback And uh now, how now, how
Speaker 25: God hasn't played? God has it playing all the time.
Speaker 25: Of course, you had to go through trials and tribulation
Speaker 25: and perseverance and you end up here in the in
Speaker 25: the NFL as a linebacker.
Speaker 1: While you were in college, you got married and became
Speaker 1: a dad. What's your wife's name and how did.
Speaker 24: You two meet.
Speaker 25: My wife's name is gen C gen C Knights. She
Speaker 25: is She's also from Luggas Grove and we met. We
Speaker 25: went on a mission trip together my junior year, her
Speaker 25: sophomore year. But the whole funny thing is, even though
Speaker 25: we spent a week out in Haiti doing the law's work,
Speaker 25: we did not say a word to each other the
Speaker 25: entire trip. I remember sitting at her table with her
Speaker 25: and her friends and I didn't say a word. And
Speaker 25: then COVID would happened and send send me home from campus,
Speaker 25: and she's finishing up her senior year and you know,
Speaker 25: two boy people at home that happened to remember each
Speaker 25: other and the rest of the history.
Speaker 1: After four years at Georgia Tech, you transferred to Charlotte
Speaker 1: and had a breakout season, earning first team All Conference honors.
Speaker 1: How important was that season and getting you to where.
Speaker 24: You are now? Yeah, it was a lot.
Speaker 25: It was very good for me just because it showed
Speaker 25: that I could play the lineback position. Of course, at
Speaker 25: Georgia Tech it was ups and downs, his and lows,
Speaker 25: and that made me the player who I was going
Speaker 25: into that situation not knowing who was going to be
Speaker 25: the coach because they're getting it. They ever getting a
Speaker 25: new coach, ended up getting coach Coach Posy, coach Biff
Speaker 25: and him coming in was was a great start, just
Speaker 25: because everybody got to start from ground zero. There were
Speaker 25: no politics involved. It was come in and you know,
Speaker 25: earn a spot, and that's that's all I wanted.
Speaker 24: I didn't.
Speaker 25: I wanted everybody to be on on ground zero and
Speaker 25: if someone out out, you know how it plays me
Speaker 25: for the spot, then they just outplayed me. But I
Speaker 25: wanted to have a fair shot and made sure that
Speaker 25: I made every rep count there.
Speaker 1: After great season of Charlotte, you still had one year
Speaker 1: of eligibility left. This is the ni l era. You
Speaker 1: had a wife and a baby at home. Did you
Speaker 1: look for the best financial offer you could find?
Speaker 4: I did, Uh, of.
Speaker 24: Course that was there.
Speaker 25: There were other schools that I was gonna take visits to,
Speaker 25: but you know, when you when you have a wife,
Speaker 25: it ends up being you know, happy wife, happy life.
Speaker 24: And we're already in North Carolina.
Speaker 25: South Carolina was you know, an hour and some chains away,
Speaker 25: and we've got to pack up a third floor apartment
Speaker 25: and take it somewhere.
Speaker 24: And she's like, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 25: I don't plan on going anywhere far sou South Carolina
Speaker 25: might be as far as I'm willing to go, because
Speaker 25: that's not bad of a drive. But it's also close
Speaker 25: to family, so you know, you know, that's that's perfect
Speaker 25: to me.
Speaker 24: Why not? So it ended up bringing out very well
Speaker 24: for us.
Speaker 1: We learned after the draft that you were a door
Speaker 1: dash driver in college to bring in a few extra
Speaker 1: bucks for your family even after games that you played
Speaker 1: in correct.
Speaker 25: Absolutely, yeah, that's uh not what you hear every every day.
Speaker 25: That not pretty much heard of. I'm sure there are.
Speaker 25: There are probably players at other smaller schools that do
Speaker 25: the same thing, but uh, being out of school like
Speaker 25: Charlotte h there were opportunities where got to make them count.
Speaker 25: And DoorDash delivered that opportunity to make account where you know,
Speaker 25: we didn't have to scrounge and I didn't have to
Speaker 25: go apply for different jobs at a Chick Flair or so,
Speaker 25: which I was definitely trying. I'm applying left and right
Speaker 25: to you know, deliver for Amazon. I couldn't get through.
Speaker 4: With them, but.
Speaker 24: It ended up working out for the best.
Speaker 25: DoorDash was it was quick and easy and you just
Speaker 25: get on there and right away you start making deliveries.
Speaker 25: And luckily for me where you know, you live on
Speaker 25: a college campus. You know college kids love to eat,
Speaker 25: so that makes makes it pretty quick and easy.
Speaker 1: To bring in a quick But yeah, I've got a
Speaker 1: student in college and I see those door dash bills,
Speaker 1: so you're absolutely right about that. We're visiting the Demetrius Knight.
Speaker 1: I'm a sucker for an emotional call from a team
Speaker 1: to a player during the NFL Draft, and you got
Speaker 1: choked up when the Bengals called you can you articulate
Speaker 1: the emotions that you were feeling.
Speaker 25: Yeah, just just everything that my family and I had
Speaker 25: been through, wife and I had been through and kids,
Speaker 25: just knowing where we were and how unsure we were
Speaker 25: going from from Tech to Charlotte and it's like, okay,
Speaker 25: well you don't really hear about people coming out of Charlotte,
Speaker 25: nless you you know, you're Alex high Smith, who's you know,
Speaker 25: doing his thing over in Pittsburgh and you know, I'm
Speaker 25: I can, I can make my mark here and ended
Speaker 25: up doing that and uh, situations changed, and you know,
Speaker 25: like when life gets going and it gets going, but uh,
Speaker 25: that's when again you learn how to persevere, lean on
Speaker 25: the faith, lean on the Lord, lean on Jesus and.
Speaker 24: Uh and and here we are.
Speaker 25: It's uh, it's never it's never the end. It's only
Speaker 25: just one chapter finishing and and and onto the next.
Speaker 1: All right, a few wild card topics now for Demetrius Knight.
Speaker 1: Who is your all time favorite athlete in any sport?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 25: Christiano Ronaldo? Uh, soccer fan because of my wife and
Speaker 25: my kids. But that's my wife's favorite watching his game.
Speaker 25: He's pretty good. It's between him and you know Line Messi.
Speaker 25: Those guys, they can get you up on your feet,
Speaker 25: and of course it's always righty at those games, so uh, definite.
Speaker 25: Definitely those guys who you know make make a lot
Speaker 25: of money doing it, So definitely those guys.
Speaker 1: Have you checked out an FC Cincinnati match yet?
Speaker 24: We get them on TV, so we're on TV. We'll
Speaker 24: always tune in.
Speaker 25: We haven't got to go to one yet just because
Speaker 25: of the busy schedule, but if we can get around
Speaker 25: to them, we definitely plan on being there.
Speaker 1: You shared with me that you hope to be a
Speaker 1: movie producer someday. How long have you been interested in
Speaker 1: the making of movies.
Speaker 25: I've been interested in that since I was at Georgia Tech.
Speaker 25: That's that kind of supports is why I got the
Speaker 25: degree that I got there. Just so once football is done,
Speaker 25: you know, I won't be one of those guys just
Speaker 25: lingering around not knowing what I want to do. I
Speaker 25: know once football is done, that's that's exactly what I
Speaker 25: want to do, And no matter what that has to
Speaker 25: start from, I have to put together movie sets first
Speaker 25: and work my way up to that road. I'll do
Speaker 25: it just because I believe all that's fun, it all
Speaker 25: works together, just like football. All works together all guys
Speaker 25: doing there, they're one eleven. It's the same thing with
Speaker 25: movie producing, to make you know, a masterpiece essentially.
Speaker 1: All right, final fun fact for Demetrious Night, And this
Speaker 1: one's kind of deep. If you could meet anybody in history,
Speaker 1: living or deceased, who would that person be?
Speaker 25: Pro I had to be Jesus himself. Uh, I'd love
Speaker 25: to be a fly on the wall just to hear
Speaker 25: him speak, and you know, just to be in the
Speaker 25: room and be in the areas washing them do what
Speaker 25: he does, you know, washing them do the the miracles
Speaker 25: that only he can do.
Speaker 24: That that would that would have to be number one.
Speaker 25: And then if I, if I had you, number two
Speaker 25: had to be Noah when you know he told told
Speaker 25: them to build the arc because I can't imagine He's
Speaker 25: all right, I'll build a big old boat. And you know,
Speaker 25: just to ask me about how did he persevere, you know,
Speaker 25: making making a big old boat, going through adversity, being
Speaker 25: laughed at by people around saying, oh, it's never gonna
Speaker 25: rain in it until it happens.
Speaker 24: So uh, they definitely have to be Jesus and then
Speaker 24: good old Noah.
Speaker 1: Excellent answers. I appreciate your time, best of luck the
Speaker 1: rest of the year.
Speaker 24: Yes, I appreciate you, all right.
Speaker 3: That was a Demetrius night with our Dan who will
Speaker 3: take a break and come back and get into the
Speaker 3: meat of the Keys to the Game. Coming up Sunday,
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Speaker 3: If we look at your keys to the Game, I
Speaker 3: would say number one. I'm just gonna take a guess
Speaker 3: ball security. When you got a ball hawking team like this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, how you write Box, I mean they're plus ten
Speaker 4: in the turnover margin, the turnover ratio. So when you
Speaker 4: have a team that can take the ball away like
Speaker 4: like this Chicago Bear team can do you know you
Speaker 4: got to you gotta ball security is probably the biggest
Speaker 4: key to the game, and I think it is I
Speaker 4: think it is on a weekly basis, high school football,
Speaker 4: National Football League, even pee wee football. I mean, it's
Speaker 4: like if you turn the football over and give your
Speaker 4: opponent extra possessions, you know they're going to take advantage.
Speaker 4: I mean, in eight games, they've got ten more possessions.
Speaker 4: That's better than one game. Yeah, where you know, And
Speaker 4: the Bengals don't want to be in that category. They
Speaker 4: don't want to be a team that's given the Chicago Bears,
Speaker 4: you know, extra possessions to do something to them. So
Speaker 4: I think that's the biggest key. I also think third
Speaker 4: down is going to be a factor in this football game.
Speaker 4: And I think who runs the football. Chicago is all
Speaker 4: about historically running the football well, Walter Payton, you know.
Speaker 4: I mean, they've had a lot of great running backs
Speaker 4: and a lot of great offensive linemen, a lot of
Speaker 4: great offensive lines. They want to control the game by
Speaker 4: running the football, do a little play action pass off
Speaker 4: of that. They have a quarterback that's got a big,
Speaker 4: powerful throwing arm. I think want to you know, stretch
Speaker 4: the field when available, catch you in uh coverages that
Speaker 4: are not favorable for the defense, and and take advantage
Speaker 4: of that. So I think I think those are those
Speaker 4: are two big things. And then also on the on
Speaker 4: the flip side of it, stop the run. You know,
Speaker 4: the Bengals defense has to stop the run for for
Speaker 4: you know, the Chicago Bears to struggle hawk hopefully a
Speaker 4: little bit offensively, and then the Bengals need to run
Speaker 4: the football. They started to run the football a little
Speaker 4: bit better since Joe Flacco has been the starting quarterback.
Speaker 4: And he'll be the first to tell you, but that's
Speaker 4: that's the key that unlocks everything. You know, if you
Speaker 4: can get that running game going, and then Joe Flacco
Speaker 4: can play action pass off of that, uh, then you're
Speaker 4: in high cotton and you get somethings believable.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you some j P run man, I think
Speaker 3: you had so much to that running game. And you know,
Speaker 3: people forget he was a prolific running back in Oklahoma
Speaker 3: when Joe Mixon was there. He was ahead of Joe
Speaker 3: Mixon on the depth chart a few times when they're
Speaker 3: out there. The other thing, for me, I think, uh,
Speaker 3: this to me from the Bengals standpoint, it's going to
Speaker 3: be one about mentality. After what happened last week, you
Speaker 3: come out this week, you can't afford to get to
Speaker 3: a place where you go woe is me or damn,
Speaker 3: you know this is not looking good and you start
Speaker 3: thinking about last week. So mentally strong, get your rest,
Speaker 3: you know, be focused, come out there. Understand if there's
Speaker 3: a hiccup here and there, it don't matter. Long game, yep,
Speaker 3: we got to play sixty minutes of football and if
Speaker 3: there's something that doesn't go our way early, shake it
Speaker 3: off and keep going.
Speaker 4: Absolutely. Box. I think that's a it's a wide statement,
Speaker 4: you know the game. I mean, I think I think
Speaker 4: they need to put last week's game in a box,
Speaker 4: you know, close it up, put a ribbon on it,
Speaker 4: and put it in the closet and forget about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and move on.
Speaker 4: That's that's gonna be. That's gonna be the biggest key.
Speaker 4: Coaches were talking about it. Zach Taylor was talking about it,
Speaker 4: Joe Flacco. It seems to be a pervasive mindset throughout
Speaker 4: the whole football team.
Speaker 3: No question about it. We'll take our last break and
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Speaker 3: we're wrapping up. And as we wrap up, so thank
Speaker 3: you everybody that came out. Thanks Chris Jenkins, Thank you
Speaker 3: to Tom Thayer and Aaron McKee just helping us out
Speaker 3: with this show. Daz, I look at this game, and
Speaker 3: I think special teams set the tone.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 3: If they kick the ball to us, make a big play,
Speaker 3: if we kick it at them, knock somebody on there,
Speaker 3: but make a statement right out of the gate that hey,
Speaker 3: we have some unfinished business this week and we want
Speaker 3: to go into this bye week with a win.
Speaker 4: And Darren Simmons is here here a box, He's all
Speaker 4: for it. He he's been talking about the importance of
Speaker 4: special teams obviously as offense and defensive had their problems,
Speaker 4: had their struggles, you know, he wanted to be the
Speaker 4: stabilizing force of stabilizing influence in the in the three
Speaker 4: phases offense, defense, and special teams. Special teams we talked
Speaker 4: about earlier in the Keys of the game. You know,
Speaker 4: they'll help dictate field position. The Bengals want to dominate
Speaker 4: field position against the Chicago Bears and just own that
Speaker 4: real estate man and uh and and make them score
Speaker 4: them a little bit, you know. Long field, short field,
Speaker 4: that's what it's all about. I think in this football game,
Speaker 4: I think it's two things. Turnovers and they contribute and
Speaker 4: help longfield short field. Bengals have multiple short fields where
Speaker 4: they are in the red zone, a low red zone
Speaker 4: and scoring points frequently and easily. And the Chicago Bears
Speaker 4: are backed up and have to go long field and
Speaker 4: struggle to score. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think this game could gun down to grasshopper and mensa.
Speaker 3: I think that Caleb Williams, you know, he as every
Speaker 3: now and they're still learning this offense. You heard it
Speaker 3: out there say they don't run this. I ain't played twice.
Speaker 4: I mean they're calling.
Speaker 3: He could have some struggles there and it could be
Speaker 3: opportunistic for the Bengal Bengals defense. On the other hand,
Speaker 3: because Joe Flacco is a veteran. Hey, I'm only going
Speaker 3: to take what you give me. I'm not going to
Speaker 3: try to force something to Chase force to the Higgins.
Speaker 3: If Yoci Vosh or if Tanner Hudson, or if Chris
Speaker 3: Chase Brown is doing a wheel route, whatever is there,
Speaker 3: I'm going to take it in that minsa of just
Speaker 3: I know football. It very well could come down to
Speaker 3: that for me. And that's what I'm going to be
Speaker 3: looking for potentially, is if Caleb Williams makes a mistake,
Speaker 3: can the Bengal defense make him pay for it?
Speaker 4: That's going to be a big key, maybe the biggest.
Speaker 4: And you know, I like the fact that the Bengals
Speaker 4: have the quarterback that's got the experience, he's got fifteen
Speaker 4: years in the NFL. I mean, that's that's that's a big,
Speaker 4: big deal. And the Chicago Bears have a quarterback that's
Speaker 4: in his second year and still learning what it takes
Speaker 4: to be an efficient, effective quarterback in the National Football League.
Speaker 4: That alone, in my mind, is a big enough advantage
Speaker 4: for the Cincinnati Bengals to pull this one out at home.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And as much as we talk about the running game,
Speaker 3: Chase Brown and smajp Run have been running the ball,
Speaker 3: this offensive line has been blocking, and the Bears have
Speaker 3: been given up five yards per carry on the ground.
Speaker 3: This could be a game where again, if keep the ball,
Speaker 3: keep them on the sideline, eat up the clock, get
Speaker 3: a lead, and just build on that lead and make
Speaker 3: them have to play from behind, which means Caleb Williams
Speaker 3: may have to throw more than he wants to or
Speaker 3: the coach may have to throw more. And that's when
Speaker 3: you put yourself in a position to potentially come up
Speaker 3: with a couple of big plays.
Speaker 24: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's the Abcson football. You know, we're talking about.
Speaker 4: You know, the things you learn about the game of
Speaker 4: football in order to win games at a very young
Speaker 4: age Peewee football, high school collegiate football, National Football League.
Speaker 4: It's not rocket science now we're talking about. Here are
Speaker 4: the things, the staples that winning teams accomplish on a
Speaker 4: week two week basis and win more football games and
Speaker 4: they lose. And you know, if you do this, you're
Speaker 4: going to win your share of football games as well.
Speaker 3: And the last thing I'll say is penalties. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: the Bengals have done better than their opponent's penalty wise,
Speaker 3: They've had less penalties than their opponents. Sometime they come
Speaker 3: at the wrong time. But if the Bengals can keep
Speaker 3: the penalties to a minimum again, and they've last three games,
Speaker 3: they've had less penalties than their opponents. Keep playing smart,
Speaker 3: sound football. Don't beat yourself, don't shoot yourself in the foot.
Speaker 4: And I think that's that's the mantra for this week's
Speaker 4: game against Chicago Bears. No self destruction, take care of
Speaker 4: the football, do not shoot yourself in the foot. You know,
Speaker 4: make sure that the Chicago Bears beat you. Make them
Speaker 4: beat you. Don't contribute to their cause. Don't make it
Speaker 4: easier for the Chicago Bears to beat you by giving
Speaker 4: them extra possessions, better field position, all the things we
Speaker 4: talked about. Take care of the ABC's and hopefully the
Speaker 4: Bengals will have a victory.
Speaker 3: Yes they will. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much
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