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Speaker 2: ESPN fifteen thirty. My name is Austin Elmore. Happy to
Speaker 2: be with you and let me be the first to
Speaker 2: wish you a happy victory Friday. That's right. For the
Speaker 2: first time in a month, the Bengals are back in
Speaker 2: the win column, and they do so on a Thursday
Speaker 2: night against their bitter rival and a Hall of Fame
Speaker 2: quarterback in Aaron Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Steelers. They picked
Speaker 2: off Rogers twice and old Man Joe Flacco comes away
Speaker 2: victorious and what they were calling the Icy Hot Bowl.
Speaker 2: Some we're calling it the Unk Bowl, the Old Man Bowl,
Speaker 2: whatever you want to call it. A couple of forty
Speaker 2: something year old quarterbacks were lighting it up at pay
Speaker 2: Corpse Stadium tonight, and boy, oh boy, was that a
Speaker 2: fun football game. I'm sitting there, I'm at the edge
Speaker 2: of my couch and I'm like leaning towards the TV screen,
Speaker 2: and I have this pit in my stomach. And if
Speaker 2: you're a Bengals fan, you know that pit that's in
Speaker 2: your stomach. You know that feeling when you're like, I
Speaker 2: don't feel good about this. It's not gonna end. Well
Speaker 2: I don't, and you just you can feel it coming
Speaker 2: and you're just waiting for the next shoot a drop
Speaker 2: and you're waiting for the next gut punch. Except it
Speaker 2: didn't come. Joe Flacco kept coming, he kept driving down
Speaker 2: the field, he kept leading the Bengals. He was not
Speaker 2: afraid to throw the ball up. He was aggressive, He
Speaker 2: got the ball out quickly, and he led this team
Speaker 2: to a victory. Jamar Chase was outstanding yet again. He
Speaker 2: set a Bengals record for receptions in a game with sixteen.
Speaker 2: T Higgins had one of the smartest and best plays
Speaker 2: you'll ever see from a wide receiver when he caught
Speaker 2: a twenty eight yard pass and slid down inside the
Speaker 2: ten yard line. Because he knows well as everybody else,
Speaker 2: you can't trust the Bengals defense, and the Bengals brilliantly
Speaker 2: nestled the clock down to about eleven seconds and Evan
Speaker 2: McPherson kicked a game winning field goal to give the
Speaker 2: Bengals a thirty three to thirty one win. Cincinnati now
Speaker 2: three and four on the season. They break that four
Speaker 2: game losing skid. They are two and zero in the
Speaker 2: AFC North and are right back in the conversation, Right
Speaker 2: back in the conversation. Why well, because they play the
Speaker 2: Jets at home next week after the mini bye. The
Speaker 2: Jets are winless. Then they play the Chicago Bears at
Speaker 2: home after that before the bye, and then they have
Speaker 2: a chance to go into Pittsburgh and beat the Steelers again.
Speaker 2: This is the time in the schedule where you start.
Speaker 2: You gotta start getting hot, you gotta start heating up
Speaker 2: a little bit now. Obviously Flacco was wonderful, and what
Speaker 2: he's done over the course of ten days, sin say,
Speaker 2: hard to believe, like legitimately hard to fathom. But also
Speaker 2: we got a good report on Joe Burrow prior to
Speaker 2: the game today that his rehab is going well, he's
Speaker 2: on schedule, he intends to come back in mid December.
Speaker 2: He was on the sidelines tonight in a walking boot,
Speaker 2: had the hat on, had the headset on Joe Burrow.
Speaker 2: Sighting Joe Burrow still possible that he comes back at
Speaker 2: the end of this season. And if you can keep
Speaker 2: yourself afloat the way the AFC is shaping right now,
Speaker 2: there's no reason to believe that the Bengals can't make
Speaker 2: a run. Well, I take that back, there's one reason
Speaker 2: to believe the Bengals can't make a run, and that is,
Speaker 2: by god, the worst defense I have seen in quite
Speaker 2: some time.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I've seen and you've seen some bad Bengals defenses over
Speaker 2: the last couple of years. It's hard to find a
Speaker 2: group worse than the twenty nineteen Bengals. That's still the
Speaker 2: worst defense I've ever seen. Only twenty four Bengals defense
Speaker 2: was pretty atrocious, and the twenty twenty five defense is
Speaker 2: not much better. I mean the inability to tackle slow
Speaker 2: off the line of scrimmage. Pittsburgh could have run a
Speaker 2: toss to the right side every play tonight and won
Speaker 2: the game if they wanted to. That's how slow the
Speaker 2: light the linebackers were. That's how bad the tackling was.
Speaker 2: That's how awful the defensive line was. Now, obviously Trey
Speaker 2: Hendrickson not playing is going to have an impact on that.
Speaker 2: Shamar Stewart playing his first game in a few weeks
Speaker 2: is gonna have any He's not gonna be one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: Not gonna expect him to show up and be Trey Hendrickson.
Speaker 2: Not going to be easy. But Barrett Carter left a
Speaker 2: lot to be desired. Demetrius Knight left a lot to
Speaker 2: be desired. Nobody really played well on the defense except
Speaker 2: for DJ Turner. Another couple of pass breaks up for
Speaker 2: DJ Turner, press passes broken up. He tried to say
Speaker 2: for DJ Turner the league leader in that category, and
Speaker 2: the Bengals may have a budding star in DJ Turner
Speaker 2: on the outside. On the opposite end of that spectrum,
Speaker 2: one of the storylines going into the game tonight. Cam
Speaker 2: Taylor Britt, he was a healthy scratch. He got his
Speaker 2: ass benched by Zach Taylor and the Bengals coaching staff
Speaker 2: because of how atrocious he has been. And Josh Newton,
Speaker 2: Marco Wilson, dj Ivy in on the last play of
Speaker 2: the game, they all got a shot over Cam Taylor Britt,
Speaker 2: who has put together one of the worst performances of
Speaker 2: a Bengal ever so far this season. So there's a
Speaker 2: lot going on with this team right now as they
Speaker 2: head into the quote unquote Mini by which is obviously
Speaker 2: being off this weekend, and then getting back to work
Speaker 2: ahead of the New York Jets in the Bengals Ring
Speaker 2: of Honor game next weekend. I want to hear from
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Speaker 2: Elmore a U T. Y E L M R. Now,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say something here that might be an unpopular opinion.
Speaker 2: It might get a couple of people all riled up.
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to hurt anybody's feelings here, but I
Speaker 2: have to say this because I believe it to be
Speaker 2: the truth. Zach Taylor was excellent tonight. Zach Taylor had
Speaker 2: one of his best games ever. When it comes to
Speaker 2: play calling. He had great feel, he had great balance,
Speaker 2: He kept the defense guessing. He used a lot of
Speaker 2: different motions, bunch formations, quick passes, slants, took advantage of
Speaker 2: man coming, took advantage of zone coverage, and ran the
Speaker 2: football effectively. Did Zach Taylor? I thought he had a
Speaker 2: brilliant feel for the game tonight as a play caller
Speaker 2: and got into a rhythm and a comfort level with
Speaker 2: Joe Flacco, and that allowed the offense to flourish. And
Speaker 2: more than anything, they effectively ran the football. That's important.
Speaker 2: When you run the football, you unlock everything else. This
Speaker 2: is a huge, huge step in the right direction for
Speaker 2: the Bengals. Well, take a break, we'll come back and
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Speaker 2: service the rest. The Bengals window might be opening again
Speaker 2: with Joe Flacco leading the way. Flacco tonight thirty one
Speaker 2: of forty seven, three hundred and forty two yards, three touchdowns.
Speaker 2: Bengals offensive line did a good job protecting him as well.
Speaker 2: Just two sacks for fourteen yards. Now he got the
Speaker 2: ball out quick. That's a good thing. You got to
Speaker 2: live like that in the National Football League, especially against TJ.
Speaker 2: Watt and Nick Herbig and Alex Heighsmith and all those
Speaker 2: guys that Pittsburgh has on that defensive line. Great offensive
Speaker 2: game plan from the Bengals tonight, especially on a short week.
Speaker 2: Let's go to the phones five one, three, seven, four, nine,
Speaker 2: fifteen thirty. We have full lines right now as we
Speaker 2: inch towards one o'clock in the morning. Let's start in
Speaker 2: Cole Rain and talk to Joe. Joe, you're on postgame
Speaker 2: sports talk. What's up?
Speaker 4: Hey, thanks for having having me and you've got a
Speaker 4: great show.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Man.
Speaker 5: Hey, listen, you could coach the Beangals.
Speaker 4: Brother, you could coach the Bengals with that offense with
Speaker 4: Higgins and Jamar Chase.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, you can team.
Speaker 4: Let me tell you what what they got here is
Speaker 4: you got a guy and Joe Flacco who didn't have
Speaker 4: anybody's row to. Really basic Cleveland receivers weren't that great.
Speaker 4: Now he's got somebody can throw to.
Speaker 6: Jamar needs somebody to throw him.
Speaker 4: The ball, and he can need somebody to throw him
Speaker 4: the ball, and that's working. So oh no, it's working.
Speaker 4: On a defensive end, Let's face it, Pittsburgh didn't play.
Speaker 3: Any better than the Bengals.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 4: And honestly, I tell the Bengals got to do is
Speaker 4: match the other defense through the season. If they can
Speaker 4: do that through the whole sentire season, to have Flaco
Speaker 4: beyond point like you was tonight, I mean, that's face.
Speaker 3: You're right. He throws the ball quick.
Speaker 4: He's does an amazing job.
Speaker 5: And getting getting it out quick.
Speaker 6: He has like three seconds gone.
Speaker 4: He's got to keep throwing that and if he does,
Speaker 4: I see the Banks maybe sneaking in the back door.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 4: I mean tonight it being a decent Pittsburgh stewer team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they did, and obviously, I mean they got some
Speaker 2: good players on that defense. They haven't been great at
Speaker 2: all this year, and I think it's it's you know,
Speaker 2: part of the conversation in Pittsburgh is they've spend one
Speaker 2: hundred and forty million dollars on that defense and they're
Speaker 2: still struggling to get stops. And you're right the point
Speaker 2: you made in Joe thank you for the phone call,
Speaker 2: the point you made about the guys that Joe Flacco
Speaker 2: is throwing to. I mean, he never had weapons like
Speaker 2: this in Cleveland, didn't have weapons like this in Denver,
Speaker 2: didn't have weapons like this in Indianapolis. I think back
Speaker 2: to that twenty fifteen season when he had Steve Smith
Speaker 2: and Tory Smith as wide receivers in Baltimore. That had
Speaker 2: to be like the next closest thing. And even then,
Speaker 2: that's that's not the same as what you got with
Speaker 2: Jamar Chase and T Higgins. Higgins and Chase combined for
Speaker 2: thirty three targets tonight. Thirty three of Joe Flacco's forty
Speaker 2: seven attempts went to Jamar Chase and T Higgins. That
Speaker 2: is unbelievable. Let's go to Covington and talk to Liam.
Speaker 8: What's up, Liam, I'll tell you what I am fired up, man.
Speaker 8: It's fun to watch fun football. I'm yes, fun, It's
Speaker 8: supposed to be fun. Yeah, I can't believe it having fun.
Speaker 7: And I took I.
Speaker 8: Took some kids in this game. This was their first
Speaker 8: NFL game ever.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 8: It's like, so I had to tell them when we
Speaker 8: kicked that settle for that field we I'm like, they're
Speaker 8: gonna score and they think it's over. They're like, oh,
Speaker 8: we want, we want. I'm like, no, be ready, and
Speaker 8: we're marching down. I'm thinking, Jeremy Hill, We're gonna fumble
Speaker 8: the ball. I'm like, I'm thinking every work Stase scenario.
Speaker 8: GJ what tripstack Joe Flacco interception after an awesome game?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then none of that happened.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it doesn't feel real.
Speaker 8: I couldn't even accept it, Like I almost wasn't even happy.
Speaker 8: At first, I'm like, no way, this shocked, but the
Speaker 8: joys finally thinking in an hour later and I'm just
Speaker 8: fired up.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 3: I love football, love I.
Speaker 2: Love football too. And that's the thing, Liam, Like I was,
Speaker 2: I was having that feeling as I'm leaning into the
Speaker 2: couch and I have that pit in my stomach of like,
Speaker 2: how is this gonna go wrong? And I had this
Speaker 2: brief moment of clarity of like, this is what is
Speaker 2: so beautiful and so great about being a sports fan.
Speaker 2: And if you're in the stadium, those moments are even
Speaker 2: better because you're just surrounded by sixty thousand people all
Speaker 2: feeling the same way you are. And now you got
Speaker 2: those kids hooked on football. You're out there spreading the
Speaker 2: gospel of football. Liam, great job, they have.
Speaker 8: A great night. Keep on the show off and show fam.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Liam. I appreciate that. Let's go to Loveland.
Speaker 2: Let's talk to Brent. Brent.
Speaker 10: What's up, Hey, how you doing, buddy.
Speaker 2: I'm fantastic. It's a victory Friday.
Speaker 7: Brent.
Speaker 10: Heck yeah, man, I tell you what. Look, you're right
Speaker 10: about Taylor. Like I've seen numerous times where we put
Speaker 10: this team for to bed and those guys, he's figured
Speaker 10: out ways to do it. Like we're all ready run
Speaker 10: him out of town one season after another. But they
Speaker 10: figure it out. And you know, you got the Steelers
Speaker 10: like spending all that money on defense, and the Singles
Speaker 10: spend all this money on offense. Like the thing that
Speaker 10: impressed me the most tonight and really the last couple
Speaker 10: weeks is the offensive line. Like it's so maligned, but
Speaker 10: they've been running the ball and they've been protecting the
Speaker 10: quarterback and you know they're they're making it happen. And
Speaker 10: this defense, also much maligned, just has not been able
Speaker 10: to make the stops when it matters in the last
Speaker 10: few weeks. You know, not enough last week. But they
Speaker 10: did tonight like they did tonight, and we got a
Speaker 10: new season on our hands. You know, we're back in it.
Speaker 10: We're back in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, you couldn't have said it better, Brent,
Speaker 2: and thank you for the phone call. You just gotta
Speaker 2: find a way. You gotta find a way to win,
Speaker 2: and that's what the Bengals did. And the defense has
Speaker 2: I think everybody agrees the defense has a long, long, long, long,
Speaker 2: long long long way to go. But they showed up tonight.
Speaker 2: They forced a couple of turnovers of Aaron Rodgers. They
Speaker 2: forced a punt which I still can't believe. Mike Tomlin
Speaker 2: punted on like fourth and four towards the middle of
Speaker 2: the field, down by a score. I still can't believe
Speaker 2: that he punted in that moment, but he did. And
Speaker 2: you mentioned the running game, and to me, it's the
Speaker 2: key that unlocks everything. How about this statistic. This is
Speaker 2: from Paul Dayner, Junior of the Athletic This is the
Speaker 2: Bengals yards per carry by game this year. Week one
Speaker 2: in Cleveland two yards per carry, Week two against Jacksonville
Speaker 2: two point eight, Week three two point five, Week four
Speaker 2: three point five, Week five five point three, Week six
Speaker 2: three point four, and tonight at one point it was
Speaker 2: up over ten yards per carry and it finished like that.
Speaker 2: You run it like that, you're gonna be fine. Really,
Speaker 2: if you run it more than three and a half
Speaker 2: yards per carry every time, you're gonna be just fine.
Speaker 2: And that's what the Bengals have got to be aiming for,
Speaker 2: because when you have even the slightest threat of a run,
Speaker 2: it forces the defense to step up, It forces them
Speaker 2: to bring guys up in the box, It forces more
Speaker 2: man coverage, it forces more blitz, It plays into the
Speaker 2: hands of your playmakers on the outside. Even the slightest
Speaker 2: threat of a run opens up the entire offense. And
Speaker 2: I thought Zach Taylor did a masterful job of balancing
Speaker 2: that tonight. RPOs, quick game, quick slants, the mesh concept
Speaker 2: at the end of the game that left Jamar Chase
Speaker 2: and Jamar Chase wide open, nobody near him got them
Speaker 2: into Pittsburgh Steeler territory. What I've seen also more from
Speaker 2: Zach more motions, more bunch formations, things that cause havoc
Speaker 2: for the defense and can create separation, huge, huge in
Speaker 2: getting the offense going. In A tip of the cap
Speaker 2: to Zach Taylor for that. Let's go to Middletown. Let's
Speaker 2: talk to Bobby. What's up, Bobby?
Speaker 4: Hey, are you?
Speaker 2: I'm fantastic man.
Speaker 11: So I think there were two takeaways from the game.
Speaker 11: Chase Brown in the first couple drives had that terrible drop,
Speaker 11: you know, probably would have had a fifteen to twenty
Speaker 11: yard game, but he bounced back after that quite amazing.
Speaker 11: And then I think another underrated thing was on the
Speaker 11: third and eighteen. Maybe at the time it didn't seemed
Speaker 11: like it was the right thing to run the ball,
Speaker 11: but it turns out it made him waste of time
Speaker 11: out and ended up you know, saving that because Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 11: You don't want him on last drive with the time
Speaker 11: out giving him a little bit of clock.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just.
Speaker 11: Joe Flack goat.
Speaker 2: Bobby, thank you. Yes, we're all whacko for Flacoh, Joe
Speaker 2: Flack goat. When I was in Green Bay last weekend,
Speaker 2: they were saying go flat Co instead of go pack go.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, you brought up a good point. I
Speaker 2: kind of entirely forgot about all the drops Jamar. Chase
Speaker 2: was targeted twenty three times tonight. I think he had
Speaker 2: like three drops and he had one that I don't
Speaker 2: know if it counts as a drop, but it was
Speaker 2: a one handed effort that it's not out of the
Speaker 2: realm of possibility for Jamar to make that play like
Speaker 2: we've seen him do that before. There was one that
Speaker 2: hit him right in the hands that nobody could believe
Speaker 2: that he dropped, so even you know, listen to the
Speaker 2: postgame show Dave Lapham talking to Chase Brown afterwards, and
Speaker 2: Chase Brown was like, I feel like we left so
Speaker 2: much out there. We left so many plays out there
Speaker 2: that we went back, and I thought that was a
Speaker 2: good point from him. Also, speaking of the drops, andre
Speaker 2: Yoshivash had another one and then he you know, catches
Speaker 2: a small pass and you know, it's a bit of
Speaker 2: a Bronx cheer from the Bengals crowd. And then later
Speaker 2: on in the game, third quarter, big moment on a
Speaker 2: third down, andre Yoshivas thirty nine yard reception. Again on
Speaker 2: a beautiful play design using Jamar Chase and t Higgins
Speaker 2: to draw the defense. Andre Yoshivas gets a mismatch down
Speaker 2: the middle of the field and Joe Flacco hits it.
Speaker 2: That stuff right there is when you're in a rhythm
Speaker 2: and you're in that flow state as a play caller
Speaker 2: and you're going with that stuff. Like Zach Taylor was,
Speaker 2: let's go to Matt in Springfield. What's up, Matt, Hey,
Speaker 2: what's going on?
Speaker 7: Man? How you do?
Speaker 2: I'm fired up? Dude. I don't know about you, but
Speaker 2: I'm fired up.
Speaker 7: I am at a good feeling.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 7: Even earlier day, I was like, man, Bengals are gonna
Speaker 7: win this tonight. Man, their backs against the wall. And
Speaker 7: I mean Joe Slacker looked really good against the Packers
Speaker 7: in that second half, you know, so, I mean, think
Speaker 7: about it, he was there for five days and hopefully
Speaker 7: get in the second half of that Packers money.
Speaker 2: Come on, really, I mean yeah, like the first half
Speaker 2: against the Packers, it looked like a dude who'd been
Speaker 2: there for a couple of days. And there was a couple,
Speaker 2: you know, like get your feet wet drives in this game.
Speaker 2: But outside of those, I guess maybe six five six
Speaker 2: total drives, the Bengals have gotten points on almost every
Speaker 2: other drive.
Speaker 7: You know what's crazy, too, is the office looks a
Speaker 7: lot better under center too. You know, instead of always
Speaker 7: being a shotgun, the way they were under center tonight
Speaker 7: a lot was I mean, it was a breath of
Speaker 7: you know, fresh air. It opened up the run lanes
Speaker 7: so much more. I mean, Joe Burrow's gonna have to
Speaker 7: do that when he gets back. It can't always be shotgun. Sure,
Speaker 7: that's why Joe Burrow's getting hit. The way is Look
Speaker 7: how good the line blocked tonight when you were under center.
Speaker 7: I mean, it takes a lot of pressure off of
Speaker 7: the line, you know, I mean, it really does. So
Speaker 7: that's what they're going to start doing because the run
Speaker 7: game open up to night and when you have the
Speaker 7: run game working, everything else works hand in hand. And yeah,
Speaker 7: that game Flaco sewing for almost four hundred yards. I mean,
Speaker 7: that was a fun game.
Speaker 2: The Unk bow Man, the Huns ball man. It was
Speaker 2: so much fun. It was like a track meet between
Speaker 2: those two old dudes.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was. It was definitely fun. And yeah, man,
Speaker 7: I'm happy to see Cam Pitt at brick Get bench.
Speaker 7: Maybe he might come back and it might let a
Speaker 7: fire under him because I mean, he was not playing
Speaker 7: like that, you know, last year. I mean that something's
Speaker 7: going on in his head. So hopefully this bench in
Speaker 7: might you know, reading not a fire. But DJ Turner
Speaker 7: he's becoming a star. Dude is becoming a star. But
Speaker 7: good stuff, man, I'm feeling pretty good. We could be
Speaker 7: five or four going into the bye weeks. Everything works out.
Speaker 7: Let's not lay no egg against the Jets or.
Speaker 2: The finger works works for me, Matt, thank you, yeah,
Speaker 2: thank you. Yeah. There's so much to get to between
Speaker 2: now and two thirty. I'm late for the news. We
Speaker 2: got to get the news in but this we still
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Speaker 2: fifteen thirty. I a Austin Elmore with you until two
Speaker 2: thirty this morning. On a victory Friday, following a Bengals
Speaker 2: thirty three thirty one victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. The
Speaker 2: key to success as far as I'm concerned, tonight was
Speaker 2: the run game for the Bengals. Chase Brown eleven carries
Speaker 2: for one hundred and eight yards. He finally goes over
Speaker 2: one hundred yards on a game this season. Samajp Rynd
Speaker 2: had seven carries for thirty one yards. Joe Flacco ran
Speaker 2: at five times for three yards, including a little scamper.
Speaker 2: Flacco had a little scamper that we haven't seen since
Speaker 2: the likes of Ryan Finley around here. I mean, the
Speaker 2: place went absolutely bonkers when Joe Flacco late in the
Speaker 2: game on a It was like second and long if
Speaker 2: I want to say second and ten and Joe Flaco
Speaker 2: just keeps it on a zone read and runs for
Speaker 2: the first down. Take a listen. This is what it
Speaker 2: sounded like with Dan Horde and Dave Lapham when Joe
Speaker 2: Flacco tucked it and ran it himself.
Speaker 12: Flaco in the gun, two receivers out to either side.
Speaker 12: It's a handoff, no Flaco running with the ball, then
Speaker 12: he'll run for a first down. What a call by
Speaker 12: Zach Taylor as he has a forty year old quarterback who.
Speaker 2: Is not fast at all.
Speaker 12: Take a handoff and keep it on a zone read
Speaker 12: for a twelve yard The.
Speaker 13: Red Sea parted for him. I mean they bit on
Speaker 13: that run fake. Mike Tomlin's not happy about it. They
Speaker 13: bit hard on that run fake. Everybody did. I'll tell
Speaker 13: you what. High Smith Who high Smith? He came down
Speaker 13: the line of scrimmage. He was gonna tackle p Ryn
Speaker 13: for a loss. He was all pumped up. Flacco takes
Speaker 13: it up the field.
Speaker 2: Facial shades of Ryan Finley against the Pittsburgh Steelers on
Speaker 2: a Monday Night a few years ago. That was incredible,
Speaker 2: and Joe Flacco postgame talking with the Thursday Night Football
Speaker 2: crew from Amazon Prime, basically said that wasn't what was
Speaker 2: supposed to happen, Like there was another play called and
Speaker 2: there was a miscommunication on where this guy was at
Speaker 2: and the lineup and the play clock was running down,
Speaker 2: and I just said, oh screw it, I'll just do it.
Speaker 2: And he saw the way Alex HeiG Smith crashed down
Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage, just pulled it and ran. I mean,
Speaker 2: that is incredible for a forty plus year old quarterback
Speaker 2: to tuck it and run like that. That was awesome.
Speaker 2: And that play call, that drive I thought was a
Speaker 2: really important drive in this game because Zach Taylor didn't
Speaker 2: change who he had been all night long. He was
Speaker 2: incredibly aggressive in that moment. So it was the Bengals
Speaker 2: ninth drive of the game and Mike Tomlin had just
Speaker 2: punted it back, and I'm thinking to myself, Okay, you
Speaker 2: have a chance with the lead here to go put
Speaker 2: this away, go win the game on offense. And you're
Speaker 2: also trying to like run the clock down a little bit,
Speaker 2: and you know, Milk, it as like a four minute
Speaker 2: offense type of situation. And to Zach's credit, he didn't
Speaker 2: just run the ball three times in punt. He put
Speaker 2: the ball in the hands of Joe Flacco. He trusted
Speaker 2: him to get the ball in the hands of Jamar Chase.
Speaker 2: That was the deep ball down the sideline to Chase
Speaker 2: that he got one paw on it and wasn't able
Speaker 2: to bring it in. Then it was the Flacco tuck
Speaker 2: and run that a couple of run plays did work.
Speaker 2: Another incompletion. I think this was when he got sacked
Speaker 2: on that drive as well, and it was third and eighteen.
Speaker 2: They handed the ball off, tried to drain some more clock,
Speaker 2: and then punted it back to the Steelers. That was
Speaker 2: the moment, That was the sequence I circled as Okay,
Speaker 2: they had a chance to win the game on offense,
Speaker 2: but they didn't and they punted the ball back. But
Speaker 2: I appreciated how Zach Taylor remained aggressive and then even
Speaker 2: later on another opportunity, Zach remained aggressive, kept throwing the
Speaker 2: ball to Jamar Chase and t Higgins. I think Zach
Speaker 2: deserves a lot of credit for his game plan tonight.
Speaker 2: And listen, I've been if you listen to my show
Speaker 2: down the Hall on Sincy three to sixty on ESPN
Speaker 2: fifteen thirty, if you listened to that, and if you
Speaker 2: follow me on Twitter, a couple of weeks ago, Zach
Speaker 2: Taylor lost me. I have long been a Zach Taylor apologist.
Speaker 2: I have believed in Zach Taylor. A couple of weeks
Speaker 2: ago he lost me, and I still think he has
Speaker 2: a long way to go to earn me back. But
Speaker 2: tonight was a good step in the right direction. Tonight
Speaker 2: was a really, really good performance from the Bengals head coach.
Speaker 2: Phone lines are open at five, one, three, seven, nine,
Speaker 2: fifteen thirty. Before we get to the phone lines, let
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Speaker 2: can depend on it. Let's go to Scott on his
Speaker 2: way back to Greenville from being at the game tonight.
Speaker 14: Scott, what's up, Hey, I just want to talk about
Speaker 14: the fact that Joe Flacco and his I don't know
Speaker 14: what five six out routes to Jamar Chase.
Speaker 15: They could not stop it.
Speaker 16: It was amazing.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I've never seen anything like that. He was unstoppable.
Speaker 15: I would agree with you, Austin. You know Zach, Zach
Speaker 15: called a gutsy, gutsy game finally for once in his life.
Speaker 15: We haven't seen that in a really, really long time.
Speaker 15: It doesn't matter what Joe was out there.
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 15: I was really proud to uh to see uh Joe
Speaker 15: just beat Joe and and just keeps from it to Chase.
Speaker 15: I mean, they couldn't stop it. It was it was amazing.
Speaker 15: I don't how many games dealers being those games I've
Speaker 15: been to and and we've been let down, and uh,
Speaker 15: much like you, I was biting my nails hold on
Speaker 15: the seats for the little life of me and thinking
Speaker 15: that this is this is not gonna end well, but
Speaker 15: they just kept going back to that same route and
Speaker 15: it was. It was amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it really was. To have that type of chemistry
Speaker 2: and that type of timing between two guys that have
Speaker 2: known each other for ten days, that's incredible. It is.
Speaker 15: It really is a testament to two professionals. Yeah, and
Speaker 15: I I think you just you have to part away.
Speaker 15: I think Taylor Solid, you have to you have to
Speaker 15: admit to that tailor saw that they had, like the
Speaker 15: professional chemistry it was. It was already obviously already spoken
Speaker 15: last week about about that.
Speaker 2: What was it was there?
Speaker 7: Well, they appreciate each other.
Speaker 2: Take me inside pay Course Stadium tonight. What was the
Speaker 2: energy like in there?
Speaker 15: Uh? The energy was we were all over the place, right,
Speaker 15: I mean, I mean it's the squealers. Who who wants
Speaker 15: who doesn't want to see the squeelers lose? It was?
Speaker 15: It was, it was electric, but it was there was
Speaker 15: very Uh it was nerve wracking at the end when
Speaker 15: we're down by down by a field goal and uh
Speaker 15: more or of us and uh we just thought this
Speaker 15: is this is you know, this is Aaron Rodgers, this
Speaker 15: is Uh, this is what the squeelers do. And we've
Speaker 15: we've had many times we've seen this gone down. And
Speaker 15: now you throw in, uh, you know, Lord helmet to
Speaker 15: get Aaron Rodgers in the mix.
Speaker 2: And uh, you know, did you call him Lord helmet?
Speaker 2: Is that what you called him?
Speaker 15: Yeah, Lord helmet. We keep the Lord helmet and uh,
Speaker 15: you know, the good forces of of you know, the
Speaker 15: sport defeated Lord Helmet. And I'm really happy that we
Speaker 15: feed the Lord.
Speaker 2: That is unbelievable. Scott, Thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 2: Safe travels man with you. Aaron Rodgers was not happy,
Speaker 2: apparently before the season because the helmet that he's worn
Speaker 2: for years has finally been It failed the inspection tests
Speaker 2: in the standards for NFL helmets and so he had
Speaker 2: to get a new one. And it does look like
Speaker 2: he's wearing something out of a superhero movie. Makes his
Speaker 2: helmet does his noggin look pretty big? All right, let's
Speaker 2: go out to la Let's talk to Brian. What's up, Brian?
Speaker 7: What's up?
Speaker 12: Body?
Speaker 5: You fired up or what?
Speaker 3: Buddy?
Speaker 2: Dude, I'm juiced. I don't know if I'll be able
Speaker 2: to sleep tonight. To be honest with you, I'm fired.
Speaker 5: Up, absolutely jacked up. Okay, first of all, I would
Speaker 5: be lying to you hand up when we When I
Speaker 5: heard we got black O, I was devastated. I thought
Speaker 5: our season was absolutely over. We were putting a statue
Speaker 5: back there. We were gonna be screwed. And I am
Speaker 5: eating my words as we speak.
Speaker 2: What does all this say about Jake Browning?
Speaker 5: Oh, I was so okay. So I was at the
Speaker 5: bowling it was bowling night tonight, and that's the first
Speaker 5: thing that I said was, Man, Jake Browning must feel
Speaker 5: horrible because this makes him look we at first when
Speaker 5: he was when he was anointed to take over after
Speaker 5: Joe got injured, we said, Jake Browning is the top
Speaker 5: thirty two quarterback in the league.
Speaker 2: Sure he was.
Speaker 5: Absolutely did not play like it, didn't even play like
Speaker 5: a top sixty quarterback in the league. Was absolutely horrible.
Speaker 5: I feel like he also made our O line look
Speaker 5: even worse than it is and poor on those guys,
Speaker 5: I mean they're not good whatsoever, but he made them
Speaker 5: look so bad. And the fact that a forty something
Speaker 5: year old Flaco can come in and dice up they're
Speaker 5: not the steel curtains, but dyce up the Pittsburgh Steelers
Speaker 5: is absolutely wild and gets my blood blowing.
Speaker 2: Buddy, what kind of blood was flowing when you saw
Speaker 2: Joe Flacco take off running.
Speaker 5: Well, it was a lot of baka red bulls was flowing.
Speaker 5: But when he ran the naked it was like shout
Speaker 5: out to little giants that annexation of Puerto Rico or
Speaker 5: the fumble Rouski. It looked like nobody on the planet
Speaker 5: knew what the hell was going on and they just
Speaker 5: stood there and just in all this guy was I'm
Speaker 5: pretty sure that he was running in slow motion and
Speaker 5: was still able to pick up twelve yards wild. That
Speaker 5: that fired me up. I was so happy. Often you're
Speaker 5: a boss man. I support you the whole time. I'm
Speaker 5: a huge Sincy three sixty fan. I'm so happy that
Speaker 5: you know you get to take over. You're doing a
Speaker 5: great job. We do miss Tony, but you're killing him, brothers.
Speaker 5: So I appreciate you all the way off from La,
Speaker 5: I listen to you guys are morning.
Speaker 2: That's very kind, Brian. I do appreciate that a lot.
Speaker 2: Thank you, man, thanks for calling in.
Speaker 5: Of course, have a good day hooday.
Speaker 2: Indeed, that is Brian out in La. We still got
Speaker 2: phone calls to get to. We've got John, We've got Allen,
Speaker 2: We've got Josh, We've got others all coming up next.
Speaker 2: This is the Tri State Chevy Dealer's postgame sports talk
Speaker 2: show on a victory Monday on ESPN fifteen thirty and
Speaker 2: seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 12: Flaco in the gun chase, one of three receivers out
Speaker 12: to the right, Placo is reading catches the shotgun snap
Speaker 12: Blitz coming. Blaco throws a fade and it is called
Speaker 12: punning inside the ten and going into a slide his
Speaker 12: t Higgins. That's brilliant, Patty run into the end zone.
Speaker 12: It would have been a touchdown. We all would have
Speaker 12: been excited, but it would have left plenty of time
Speaker 12: for Rogers to answer. By going down, he forces the
Speaker 12: Steelers to call another time out.
Speaker 2: Brilliant That was the word used by both Dan Hord
Speaker 2: and Al Michaels in that brilliant moment when t. Higgins
Speaker 2: caught that deep pass and slid down to drain the clock.
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Speaker 2: eight yards and a slide. Let's go back to the phones.
Speaker 2: Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven thousand is the
Speaker 2: phone number. We go out to the West Side now
Speaker 2: to an establishment called Lenny's where I'm told Mike and
Speaker 2: hundreds of others have flooded it after the big Bengals
Speaker 2: win over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Mike from Lennies, You're on
Speaker 2: postgame sports talk. What's going on? Hey, Austin, who day
Speaker 2: to you? Indeed, what's the vibes like over there on
Speaker 2: the west side?
Speaker 3: The West Side That Lenny's is pretty strong right now
Speaker 3: from the time that, uh, throughout the game and instance
Speaker 3: the game ended. So it's been pretty good.
Speaker 2: But what was what was the atmosphere like at the
Speaker 2: Paid Course Stadium for you tonight?
Speaker 3: Uh, the atmosphere was, Uh, it was very similar to
Speaker 3: We made comments in the stand like the the playoff games,
Speaker 3: and uh, you know, the crowd was in it and uh,
Speaker 3: you know a lot of Bengo fans. I mean you
Speaker 3: could see not many Steeler fans there and everybody was
Speaker 3: extremely excited.
Speaker 2: I was going to say on TV they talked about
Speaker 2: how there's far fewer Steeler fans there than you normally see.
Speaker 2: That's a good thing.
Speaker 3: Uh, yeah, it's it's a great thing. We didn't have
Speaker 3: to see the tows and a lot of white and
Speaker 3: it was great to see.
Speaker 16: Uh you know.
Speaker 3: One of things I was gonna say, uh, you know,
Speaker 3: I know, uh you know, you've been a little uh
Speaker 3: you know, questioning Zach. I thought it was great. I
Speaker 3: thought it was great that Zach was uh, you know,
Speaker 3: aggressive throughout the game and just you're to try to
Speaker 3: win the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm right there with you. It was aggressive from
Speaker 2: start to finish. Mike, it sounds like you're having a
Speaker 2: good time. I'm gonna let you go.
Speaker 3: Hey, hey, no, what on one quick question? How do
Speaker 3: you think this does for the trade deadline?
Speaker 2: I don't think it does anything. I don't think the Bengals,
Speaker 2: I don't think it moved the needle for them. But
Speaker 2: they should be going after somebody on defense, uh safety,
Speaker 2: that'd be nice, maybe another pass rusher. Because Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 2: had all day he was he was making peanut butter
Speaker 2: and jelly sandwiches back there all night.
Speaker 3: He had a lot of time. But it was it
Speaker 3: was great to see the team come up and uh,
Speaker 3: you know, make the place when they had to. So
Speaker 3: whode Austin, and thanks for everything you're doing.
Speaker 2: Who he Mike, thanks for the phone call your body. Oh.
Speaker 2: I love the good people at Lenny's. I love the
Speaker 2: good people at Lenny's. That made my day. Let's go
Speaker 2: from the West Side down to the a town Atlanta
Speaker 2: where Josh is standing by in Georgia. What's up, Josh?
Speaker 16: Oh great Austin.
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 2: You fired up?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 16: I am absolutely fired up. I mean we've been we've
Speaker 16: been a group for sixteen years.
Speaker 3: We have.
Speaker 16: Man, when when we're in the Super Bowl, we had
Speaker 16: six hundred Bengals fans in the group and to have
Speaker 16: watched this game with only about fifteen to twenty people
Speaker 16: and watch us pull us out, Holy moly.
Speaker 2: What do you guys go to? You have like a
Speaker 2: bar there, like a Bengal specific bar in Atlanta? You
Speaker 2: go to?
Speaker 16: We do, and actually we are on the Bengals site
Speaker 16: as the official Bengals bar of Atlanta.
Speaker 2: Oh all right, wonderful. Well that's that's exciting.
Speaker 16: We appreciate the Bengals as highlighting us as their bar.
Speaker 16: Yeah for Atlanta. I've been doing this for eleven years now,
Speaker 16: So we do appreciate support from the Bengals and putting
Speaker 16: us on their website as noting noting us as the
Speaker 16: bar in Atlanta.
Speaker 2: That's awesome, man. Well, uh who Day to you a
Speaker 2: victory Friday?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 16: Enjoy it absolutely. I mean it's been a freak. It
Speaker 16: was a freaking fun game to watch, Yes, Kent, but
Speaker 16: we we pulled it out.
Speaker 2: Yes we did. Josh, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 2: It's starting to make me a little nervous. Here are
Speaker 2: people calling in from establishments across the country. Let's go
Speaker 2: to Cedarville and talk to John. John. What's up.
Speaker 17: Hey, Austin.
Speaker 2: Hey, Man, call will be recorded.
Speaker 17: Hey, how you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm good man.
Speaker 7: Hey.
Speaker 17: Last game, I commented about Joe Flacco getting the taste
Speaker 17: of the weapons he had there.
Speaker 7: At his leisure.
Speaker 17: Uh huh, tonight, I think we've got to taste of
Speaker 17: Joe Flacco. And I want to say right now that
Speaker 17: who Day cream sure does taste sweet.
Speaker 2: That the Whoday cream sure does taste sweet. Is that
Speaker 2: what you just said?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 18: I did.
Speaker 2: I can't. I don't think i've ever heard that one.
Speaker 3: John, Well, you know what.
Speaker 17: Victory we've been lating on it. Yeah that, yeah, I
Speaker 17: wonder comment on the defense. Okay, I don't know how
Speaker 17: many games in a row the opposing team's first possession
Speaker 17: they go down and they score. I'm curious to know
Speaker 17: was there any Did I call any blitzes?
Speaker 2: You know, it didn't seem like it didn't seem like
Speaker 2: he called a lot. I don't know for sure. We
Speaker 2: have to double check the stats in the morning, but
Speaker 2: it seemed like there were very few blitzes called. Uh,
Speaker 2: And I thought that that that has to change, because
Speaker 2: they just weren't getting any semblance of pressure on Rogers
Speaker 2: at all.
Speaker 17: Well, you had your you have your defensive down line
Speaker 17: then giving you a hundred percent and uh, if they
Speaker 17: need a little bit of help, I'm sure you can
Speaker 17: find a safety or a corner or some a linebacker
Speaker 17: someone just to you know, add that extra Uh. Sure, Russia,
Speaker 17: you get the line of scrimmage, you know, and you
Speaker 17: got behind the line of scrimmage, and you got beyond
Speaker 17: the line of scrimmage. Well, you don't want that offense
Speaker 17: to penetrate beyond the line of scrimmage. If you hold
Speaker 17: them for three downs, they kick the ball. Or if
Speaker 17: you don't get a turnover, humble or interception or whatnot.
Speaker 17: I mean, you got to help those down linemen sometimes,
Speaker 17: especially when you know they're giving you one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you, John, And thank you for
Speaker 2: the phone call. I appreciate it. Yeah, I think it
Speaker 2: goes without saying. I mean, you're happy that they won.
Speaker 2: Everybody's happy that they won. But getting pressure on the
Speaker 2: quarterback is a major issue. And without Trey Hendrickson it's
Speaker 2: even it's an even bigger issue. And if he were
Speaker 2: to miss time, if this back injury or this hip
Speaker 2: injury nags and he's not able to play, I mean,
Speaker 2: they're in major trouble. I mean, it's just in Pittsburgh
Speaker 2: doesn't have a very good offensive line coming into this game.
Speaker 2: They did not have a good offensive line, and the
Speaker 2: Bengals really did nothing to pressure them at all. We'll
Speaker 2: take a break, We'll come back. This is the Tri
Speaker 2: State Chevin Dealers postgame sports talk show on ESPN fifteen
Speaker 2: thirty and seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 12: They play here, third down in five, the Bengals at
Speaker 12: their own thirty eight o'clock running two thirty five left
Speaker 12: third quarter, Cincinnati nursing at three point lead, twenty to seventeen.
Speaker 12: Blacko from the shotgun looking throwing deep down in the
Speaker 12: middle of the field.
Speaker 2: Yo c Bosh with the catch.
Speaker 12: Beautiful throw by Flacco. Yos beating Darius Slay and he's
Speaker 12: tackled at the Pittsburgh twenty two. How about thirty nine
Speaker 12: yards on thirty five man.
Speaker 2: That What a throw by Flacco.
Speaker 13: Yosi Vash is to the left side of the formation.
Speaker 13: He's slot receiver inside of Jamar Chase just runs a
Speaker 13: post down the middle of the football field. Joe Flaccoll
Speaker 13: puts it on him.
Speaker 2: What a throw. Unbelievable accuracy. That was the call. Joe
Speaker 2: Flacco with a thirty nine yard completion to Andre Yosi Vash,
Speaker 2: who got involved in the action after a rough couple
Speaker 2: of games for Yoshi. He comes up big and the
Speaker 2: Bengals offense comes up big in a thirty three thirty
Speaker 2: one victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Let's quickly look at
Speaker 2: the receiving numbers for tonight. Jamar cha sixteen catches for
Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty one yards and a touchdown along
Speaker 2: eighteen He was targeted twenty three times. Twenty three times.
Speaker 2: Jamar Chase was targeted. T Higgins had six catches for
Speaker 2: ninety six yards and a touchdown. He was targeted ten times.
Speaker 2: Yoshi three catches forty nine yards and four targets. Noah
Speaker 2: Fan four catches forty four yards. He caught all four
Speaker 2: of his targets, including a twenty five yarder. They got
Speaker 2: the Bengals deep into Pittsburgh territory. Chase Brown had two
Speaker 2: catches for minus eight yards. Blew up a couple of
Speaker 2: spring screenplays did the Pittsburgh Steelers, and as a whole,
Speaker 2: thirty one receptions for three hundred and four two yards
Speaker 2: and three touchdowns were the Bengals wide receivers. Let's go
Speaker 2: back to the phones five three, seven, four, nine, seven
Speaker 2: thousand getting your reaction to the Bengals victory over the
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers. Let's go out to Batavia and talk to
Speaker 2: Alan Allen. What's up, Alan, Alan? Are you there?
Speaker 19: He can hear.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're on the air. What's up?
Speaker 18: Oh wow, man, I'm sorry, I let's fall asleep. Hey
Speaker 18: sorry man. But first off, I want to say Liam,
Speaker 18: who caught earlier about bringing bringing the kids to the game,
Speaker 18: that was awesome. Yeah, you know, I got to experience
Speaker 18: that when I was younger. The other thing I want
Speaker 18: to say is last week Yoshi Vash really was a
Speaker 18: disappointment and I'm a huge, huge fan of his, and
Speaker 18: I don't want to say tonight he he came back
Speaker 18: and made it better. He still got a ways to
Speaker 18: go in my book, but good catch on his part,
Speaker 18: and hope he keeps on going. So and loves for
Speaker 18: go Yoshi Vash and thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Alan, go get some sleep, man, Thank you for
Speaker 2: the call. And yeah, Yoshi still has a long way
Speaker 2: to go. I was ready to start calling for Mitchell
Speaker 2: Tinsley to maybe get a few of those snaps. And
Speaker 2: Yoshi had another drop a pass that certainly is catchable
Speaker 2: by his standards earlier tonight on a third and eleven
Speaker 2: that stalled out a Bengals drive that they ended up
Speaker 2: having to punt. And you know, I think making a
Speaker 2: few big catches. He had a six yard catch, he
Speaker 2: had that long thirty nine yard catch. I mean that
Speaker 2: sort of stuff right there that can give you some confidence,
Speaker 2: and it can instill some confidence in Joe Flacco. It
Speaker 2: can really help that relationship and get Yoshi back on track.
Speaker 2: And so you know, a little bit goes a long way,
Speaker 2: especially for wide receivers. You just start feeding them, start
Speaker 2: feeding them, and the next thing you know, they're right
Speaker 2: back to being their productive self. And I think Jamar
Speaker 2: is a great example of that. So go out to
Speaker 2: coved Dale. Let's talk to Mike. What's up? Mike?
Speaker 6: Hey, Awdie, how you doing.
Speaker 2: I'm good man, what's on your mind?
Speaker 6: So I went to the game tonight.
Speaker 20: Yeah, and.
Speaker 6: My voice is still recovering. But oh my gosh, what
Speaker 6: a game. It seems like every time that the on
Speaker 6: offense call, heyke, all right, where's Jamar? And every time
Speaker 6: that he threw, every time the Flaco threw the ball,
Speaker 6: there's Jamar right there. I don't, I don't. I am
Speaker 6: just overjoyed.
Speaker 2: It's amazing how it can seem so simple and yet
Speaker 2: he just it seems like he's uncoverable. Like I'm ready
Speaker 2: to say, I think he's the best wide receiver in
Speaker 2: the history of the Bengals franchise. And that's saying a lot,
Speaker 2: like there's some really great ones, but I've never seen
Speaker 2: a receiver consistently win the way he wins body control,
Speaker 2: hand control, strength, yards after the catch, and being able
Speaker 2: to do it in such a myriad of different roles.
Speaker 2: He's moving around all over the place. Sometimes in the backfield,
Speaker 2: he's in the slot, he's in most and he's outside.
Speaker 2: Like I've never seen a player like Jamar Chase. He's
Speaker 2: so oh good, Oldy.
Speaker 6: I just want to say, I appreciate you and Uh
Speaker 6: in the role that you're doing tonight. And it's it's
Speaker 6: late night. I've had some pops.
Speaker 16: I'm a big.
Speaker 6: Fan of the since he since he three sixty r
Speaker 6: I p Tony.
Speaker 2: Uh, he's still He's still alive. He's still alive.
Speaker 7: Well, I'm happy to hear.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 6: Hopefully we'll see on the Bearcats broadcast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it seems there. Seems like he's going to
Speaker 2: be there.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Do we know that that's his job?
Speaker 2: I believe. I saw Scott Springer report that he's going
Speaker 2: to be doing Bearcat games for the rest of the year.
Speaker 2: I believe so. I mean, I don't know that for sure.
Speaker 2: I haven't talked to Tony about that directly, but I
Speaker 2: would assume that that's going to happen.
Speaker 6: Well, I'll tell you, you and Tony get me through
Speaker 6: every single day, and it was it's it's Uh, I've
Speaker 6: been nervous to call into that daily show. And I'm
Speaker 6: cheers to you tonight. Thanks for having me on, Mike.
Speaker 2: Thank you for the phone call. I appreciate the kind
Speaker 2: words man, and for always listening and who day to you.
Speaker 2: Indeed I appreciate that. Yeah, man, it's uh, it's difficult,
Speaker 2: but thank god we have football. Let's go out to
Speaker 2: the west side. Let's talk to John. John is here, Hi.
Speaker 3: John, Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 20: Man?
Speaker 15: Man?
Speaker 2: Just out here getting it done, sitting in the dark
Speaker 2: room talking about football. What about you?
Speaker 6: Hey?
Speaker 19: It was a lot of fun in the jungle tonight, man,
Speaker 19: a lot of fun, great atmosphere.
Speaker 6: Shout out to the Steelers.
Speaker 19: Fans that there wasn't many of them.
Speaker 6: They were really cordial.
Speaker 16: I think it's because they're.
Speaker 19: Probably our neighbors, probably our friends.
Speaker 6: Good crowd, great time.
Speaker 19: I just have one one comment on any that didn't
Speaker 19: want to pay Jamar Chase and t Higgins like they
Speaker 19: are going to be quiet tomorrow or they're just going
Speaker 19: to celebrate and act like they didn't say it. Because
Speaker 19: those dudes are special, I mean so special. Really gets
Speaker 19: you excited for when joe when Joey B Does come back.
Speaker 19: But Flacco's great man was up in Green Bay last week.
Speaker 19: A lot more fun tonight, and yeah, keep it going man,
Speaker 19: big fan.
Speaker 2: And today, well John Houdai, thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I know it's funny the Bengals, you know,
Speaker 2: go through this stretch where they lose a few games
Speaker 2: and Joe Burrow gets hurt and all of a sudden
Speaker 2: people are saying, oh, well, the Bengals never should have
Speaker 2: paid t Higgins. They never should have done that the
Speaker 2: way that they did. That's not necessarily the case. The
Speaker 2: Bengals should have done a lot better job drafting and
Speaker 2: developing offensive lineman. They should have spent more money because
Speaker 2: they had plenty of money in the offseason to be
Speaker 2: able to to spend up to the cap more than
Speaker 2: they did. And maybe, just maybe their offensive line coach
Speaker 2: hasn't worked out the way that they expected him to.
Speaker 2: But to act as if you can't have those two
Speaker 2: dudes on the team, I mean, they are as good
Speaker 2: as anybody in the NFL. And that is a hell
Speaker 2: of a one to two punch that you can scheme
Speaker 2: so many different things off of. And while the offense
Speaker 2: a lot of times this year has been broken and
Speaker 2: a lot of that has to do with quarterback play
Speaker 2: and offensive line play. You can't ignore the mismatches that
Speaker 2: those dudes create. I mean the Steelers, for example, they
Speaker 2: went out and signed Darius Slay and Jalen Ramsey and
Speaker 2: Juan thorn Thornhill and Deshaun Elliott. They spend one hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty nine million dollars on that defense for the
Speaker 2: sole purpose of facing Jamar Chase and t Higgins twice
Speaker 2: a year. Baltimore did something similar. Cleveland did a really
Speaker 2: good job of this with the type of corn that
Speaker 2: they acquired. Now they just traded one in Greg Newsom
Speaker 2: to the Jacksonville Jaguars, but they did a really good
Speaker 2: job of building that defense against the Bengals. Baltimore, it
Speaker 2: hasn't worked out, but they took a safety in Malachi
Speaker 2: Starks with the first pick in the draft. Their first
Speaker 2: pick in the draft, they signed jy R. Alexander in
Speaker 2: the offseason, like teams build to try to beat the Bengals,
Speaker 2: to prepare for the Bengals because of that's that's how
Speaker 2: good those two guys are. And ideally it's supposed to
Speaker 2: have a trickle down effect to the run game. And
Speaker 2: that's what's supposed to make the offense work. And let's
Speaker 2: not forget how good this offense was a year ago
Speaker 2: with Jamar Chase and t Higgins and Joe Burrow, Like
Speaker 2: that's what it's supposed to look like. Tonight we are
Speaker 2: reminded of just how good those dudes are and what
Speaker 2: that offense is supposed to look like. We'll take a break,
Speaker 2: We'll come back. More phone calls five point three, seven four, nine,
Speaker 2: seven thousand. We have a lot to get to still.
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Speaker 12: Darnell Washington motions two big blockers on the right side
Speaker 12: for Pittsburgh. My action faked by Rogers looking to throw
Speaker 12: it deep, launches it high and deep edit is stepped
Speaker 12: off foot Bengals intercepting Jordan Battle on his feet and
Speaker 12: running it back. He's at the forty middle of the
Speaker 12: field of the forty five the fifty the forty five
Speaker 12: of Pittsburgh and tackled at the forty.
Speaker 2: Four yard line.
Speaker 12: Howe Jordan Battle with his third interception of the year.
Speaker 2: Man Dan Horde and Dave Lapham on the call as
Speaker 2: Jordan Battle picked off Aaron Rodgers one of two interceptions
Speaker 2: for the Bengals secondary Let's check on Cincinnati's defensive secondary coverage.
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Speaker 2: heard from Jordon Battle, the other on a great play
Speaker 2: fighting the ball away from DK Metcalf that DJ Turner made.
Speaker 2: DJ Turner has been awesome for the last month or so.
Speaker 2: He was awesome again tonight and did a great great
Speaker 2: job of shutting down at times DK Metcalf and he
Speaker 2: leads the league. DJ Turner leads the league in passes defensed,
Speaker 2: believe it or not. Other Bengals with the pass defense
Speaker 2: outside of Battle and Turner, well, Geno Stone, believe it
Speaker 2: or not, had one. He doesn't usually find himself anywhere
Speaker 2: near the football. Logan Wilson had a great play diving
Speaker 2: to his left and breaking up a pass and DJ
Speaker 2: Ivy at the very end that hail Mary by Aaron Rodgers,
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Speaker 2: the Bengals secondary is what happened prior to the game tonight.
Speaker 2: Cam Taylor Britt was a healthy scratch. He was benched.
Speaker 2: He did not play, He was not active. He was
Speaker 2: on the sidelines, big chain around his neck, big bright
Speaker 2: orange sunglasses, and apparently he was out of the locker
Speaker 2: room relatively quickly. Did not stick around to celebrate much
Speaker 2: with his teammates after the game. Cam Taylor Britt certainly
Speaker 2: going through something right now and not performing well by
Speaker 2: any stretch of the imagination, and the Bengals have seen
Speaker 2: enough not even giving him a shot, which is kind
Speaker 2: of amazing. But that's our secondary coverage. Let's go back
Speaker 2: to the phones. Let's go to Jeff in Owenton.
Speaker 9: What's up, Jeff, Hey, it was actually really a whole
Speaker 9: lot of fun to watch forty year old Joe Flacco
Speaker 9: hands real weapons which he's never had.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's really never been that that
Speaker 2: good of a group of guys around him in his
Speaker 2: entire career.
Speaker 9: Yeah, not even close. I mean when they won the
Speaker 9: Super Bowl, he didn't have anything like weapons like that,
Speaker 9: and he didn't. He didn't have an O line is
Speaker 9: as good as the Bengals O line, which is terrible.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but he didn't even have that then.
Speaker 9: So he's been through it, and I hope he can
Speaker 9: convey a few things he's learned over the years to
Speaker 9: it or other Joe, because Joe tries to make things
Speaker 9: happen when there's nothing there and that's why he spends
Speaker 9: so many games in the eye. Yeah, No, you got
Speaker 9: to learn when to chuck the ball away.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think he can be a little bit better at that.
Speaker 2: But also I don't want to take away from what
Speaker 2: makes Joe Burrow great. I mean, what he did last
Speaker 2: year single handedly keeping this franchise afloat was a lot
Speaker 2: of because you know, he was out there making plays happen.
Speaker 9: You got to balance it. You got to balance it
Speaker 9: where he's getting hurt every season. That's been pretty tough
Speaker 9: to watch. Yeah, I'd like to the Bengals call in
Speaker 9: maybe another outside group to draft for them, because they're
Speaker 9: totally I've drafted right before they do, and nine of
Speaker 9: the last eleven years, my players that I drafted have
Speaker 9: ended up better than the players they draft. That shouldn't happen.
Speaker 9: That should never happen. There shouldn't be fans out drafting them.
Speaker 9: They have a lot more resources than I have. Yeah,
Speaker 9: so that's very annoying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hear you, Jeff, And it's a huge part
Speaker 2: of the the questions of this franchise moving forward, and
Speaker 2: thank you for the phone calls, is they have to
Speaker 2: be better at drafting. They just absolutely have to be. Uh.
Speaker 2: What we're not gonna do is create this narrative that
Speaker 2: Joe Flacco and Joe Burrow and you know, Joe Burrow
Speaker 2: is part of the problem that that is complete bs
Speaker 2: and I know that we're gonna have clowns like Bill Cunningham.
Speaker 2: We're gonna come on this show or come on the
Speaker 2: station in a few hours and talk about how there's
Speaker 2: a quarterback controversy and Joe Flacco's better than Joe Burrow
Speaker 2: and blah blah blah blah blah. We're not gonna be
Speaker 2: doing that. If you know anything about football, you know
Speaker 2: that Joe Flacco played great tonight. Joe Flacco's had a
Speaker 2: really good career. Joe Flacco can't carry Joe Burrow's jockstrap.
Speaker 2: We know that, all right, not even close? Are there
Speaker 2: things Burrow could be better at Yes, that was a
Speaker 2: freak injury. What happened to his wrist, it was a
Speaker 2: freak injury. What happened to his toe? Those have nothing
Speaker 2: to do with him trying to escape the pocket. The Bengals,
Speaker 2: for the most part, bear the responsibility of what's happened
Speaker 2: to Joe Burrow. They started a guy named Michael Jordan,
Speaker 2: who was awful. That was blown up so bad in
Speaker 2: Washington his rookie year, Joe Burrow had have every ligament
Speaker 2: in his knee rearranged. That's not his fault. Those major injuries,
Speaker 2: those freak injuries, really are not his fault. Now, the
Speaker 2: calf injury, okay, the appendicitis that happens to people all
Speaker 2: the time. It's honestly been bad luck more than anything else.
Speaker 2: Let's go to William and Lexington. What's up William?
Speaker 6: Hey, how you doing?
Speaker 21: Thanks for making my calling.
Speaker 15: Good Good.
Speaker 21: I'm on the way back to Lexington. Actually I'm I'm
Speaker 21: staying safe, but seventy five south. I'll try to be brief.
Speaker 21: But I decided to buy tickets today while I was
Speaker 21: at work. Uh, just just like this afternoon, and I
Speaker 21: met a friend that lives in downtown Cincy that I
Speaker 21: went to college with. I ended up driving directly from
Speaker 21: work to the game, and I wore my suits to
Speaker 21: the game unintentionally, but I just the atmosphere was amazing,
Speaker 21: Like I just couldn't Like I thought the Bengals.
Speaker 16: Are gonna win.
Speaker 21: I will admit I had some money on them, but
Speaker 21: that's neither here nor there. But like, if you're I'll
Speaker 21: put it this way. I'm kind of a bandwagoner. I'm
Speaker 21: from Western Kentucky, but I like the Bengals, and especially
Speaker 21: since Burrel's been around, they're so fun to watch. But man,
Speaker 21: if you're a lifelong Bengals fan, you got to love
Speaker 21: what you got right now. Like you have a fighting
Speaker 21: chance to win the division.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's all you can ask for. Two and
Speaker 2: zero in the AFC North. You still play the Browns
Speaker 2: again in week eighteen, and who knows is gonna be
Speaker 2: starting quarterback for them that day. Baltimore does not look
Speaker 2: like a tough team right now. I mean the way
Speaker 2: that their defense is playing, like it's still right in
Speaker 2: front of you, like the path is there.
Speaker 21: Yeah, yeah, it's it's exciting. So I might I might
Speaker 21: mess around and come up for another game in no.
Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you, William, what about today made
Speaker 2: you just kind of get this you know this hair
Speaker 2: to to say let's go.
Speaker 21: Well, I should have said it earlier, but I started
Speaker 21: mister Joe Elite Placo on my fantasy team, and boy
Speaker 21: does that work out. Uh, But I just had a
Speaker 21: wild here about it. I was like, I don't like
Speaker 21: the Steelers, Like they're overrated, to be frank, I mean
Speaker 21: they're not. They're gonna probably make the playoffs, but like
Speaker 21: they're nothing to write home about, Like they're a beatable team.
Speaker 21: And the thing that impressed me about the Bengals tonight
Speaker 21: is they had they had the running game to offset
Speaker 21: a little bit to keep, yeah, to keep the Steelers
Speaker 21: off balance. So if they can keep that, like they
Speaker 21: got to improve the pass rush. But if they can,
Speaker 21: if they all turn the ball over and they're a
Speaker 21: little balanced, they can win games for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm right there with you, William. Thank you for
Speaker 2: the phone call. Safe travels back.
Speaker 21: Thank you, take care?
Speaker 2: Yeah that is uh. William went to the game in
Speaker 2: a suit. Nothing wrong with that, you scull of wild hair.
Speaker 2: Come down to the old pay Course stadium. I like
Speaker 2: that we started this segment talking about Jordan Battle and
Speaker 2: that interception of Aaron Rodgers. Well, that was also our
Speaker 2: Guilty Windows window of opportunity. Not often Aaron Rodgers has
Speaker 2: given you gifts. DJ Turner and Jordan Battle took advantage
Speaker 2: that deep ball throw that Battle intercepted. That's a terrible
Speaker 2: pass from Aaron Rodgers. I mean, that's just not up
Speaker 2: to his standard at all. But the Guilty Windows Window
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Speaker 2: Hi, Hello, and welcome in to the final half hour
Speaker 2: the Tri State Chevy Dealers Postgame Sports Talk Show right
Speaker 2: here on seven hundred WLW and ESPN fifteen thirty. My
Speaker 2: name's Austin Hellmore. It's been such a blast the last
Speaker 2: hour and a half plus celebrating a Bengals victory victory
Speaker 2: Monday thirty three thirty one Cincinnati over the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 2: Tonight on Thursday Night Football, the Unk Bowl, the Icy
Speaker 2: Hot Bowl, A couple of forty year old quarterbacks with
Speaker 2: one hundred and ten thousand passing yards and seven hundred
Speaker 2: and seventy five passing touchdowns between the two of them
Speaker 2: getting together and putting up some big numbers in front
Speaker 2: of the nation Tonight on Thursday Night Football, Fun, fun,
Speaker 2: Bengals game and another primetime win over the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 2: For head coach Zach Taylor, we are going to go
Speaker 2: over a couple things including the drive of the game
Speaker 2: and the injury report. But before we do that, let's
Speaker 2: go to our friend dick In Dayton, who's been holding
Speaker 2: for a while. Hello, Richard, what's up.
Speaker 20: Well, Good morning, Austin, Good.
Speaker 2: Morning, Good morning do you Dick? When do you sleep?
Speaker 12: Well?
Speaker 20: No, I was, uh, you know, and I just fell asleep,
Speaker 20: but I thought i'd call. I just was with my friends.
Speaker 20: But it's a good day, Austin. It's a good day.
Speaker 20: I'm telling you.
Speaker 2: Anytime you win, it's a good day. Dick.
Speaker 20: Oh, to beat them, yeah, I'm won, you know, over
Speaker 20: the years and stuff. You know, Austin, I like this
Speaker 20: packo and I had a feeling. Remember I told you
Speaker 20: yesterday about the game. Yeah, I thought they would. I
Speaker 20: was pretty close. I was closed.
Speaker 2: You said twenty four twenty seven to twenty four is
Speaker 2: what you said.
Speaker 20: That's what I said.
Speaker 8: Good time?
Speaker 20: Yeah, Oh, Austin, I'm telling you.
Speaker 2: What do you think? As Are the Steelers the team
Speaker 2: that you hate the most? Dick?
Speaker 20: Yes, yes, well yeah, I remember when I was in college.
Speaker 20: I know the Mangos pulled off one I think it
Speaker 20: was in nineteen seventy nine. They were like and I
Speaker 20: remember Kenny Anderson beat them, but they never had much luck.
Speaker 20: But to beat the Steelers is an accomplishment for Zach Taylor,
Speaker 20: and on a national TV audience often, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, always is that those winds are a little bit sweeter,
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 20: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: But where did you go to Where did you go
Speaker 2: to college? Dick?
Speaker 20: Where did I go to college?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Where where did town?
Speaker 20: Dayton?
Speaker 3: Miami?
Speaker 20: Jacobs?
Speaker 2: Oh nice? Okay, all right, yeah I went there?
Speaker 20: And I have you heard of Saint Claire? I took
Speaker 20: some classes there and you know, history and music, you.
Speaker 2: Know, wonderful. Well, I didn't know that. I learned something
Speaker 2: about you today, Dick.
Speaker 20: Well, hey, did Dave called? Dave from Dayton?
Speaker 15: Is he called?
Speaker 2: He hadn't called in tonight?
Speaker 20: No, Oh, I haven't seen him for a while. But
Speaker 20: that day when he came, it was I was such
Speaker 20: a pleasure to meet you guys. You know, what a
Speaker 20: beautiful state, what a beautiful studio. Yeah, maybe I'll see
Speaker 20: you again, Okay, yeah, all.
Speaker 2: Right, we'll talk to you again soon, Dick. Thank you. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that is Dick from Dayton. Always loved talking to Dick Man.
Speaker 2: He's uh, he's something else. All right, let's highlight the
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Speaker 2: Store where Passion Loves Company. Now there's several drives that
Speaker 2: you could choose from, but for me, the most important
Speaker 2: was the first drive out of halftime for the Bengals.
Speaker 2: So they get the touchdown drive, they finally find their
Speaker 2: rhythm and they score to make it ten to seven.
Speaker 2: They're trailing Pittsburgh by three. Then first play of the
Speaker 2: drive was that Jordan Battle interception we talked about earlier.
Speaker 2: Bengals turned that into a touchdown in three plays and
Speaker 2: take the lead fourteen to ten. Then they get another
Speaker 2: interception from Aaron Rodgers and have the ball right before halftime.
Speaker 2: They turn that into a field goal, So all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, the Bengals go from down ten to nothing
Speaker 2: to up seventeen to ten, and they get the ball
Speaker 2: coming out of halftime. So to me, immediately, the most
Speaker 2: important drive of the game, no matter what happens, was
Speaker 2: going to be get points in that opening drive in
Speaker 2: the second half, make it a two possession game and
Speaker 2: force Pittsburgh to chase you for the entire second half.
Speaker 2: And that's what they did. The Bengals came out and
Speaker 2: put together a fourteen play, sixty three yard, seven minute
Speaker 2: and five second drive. Now they didn't score a touchdown.
Speaker 2: It ended in a field goal by Evan McPherson, but
Speaker 2: that made the score twenty to ten, up to possessions
Speaker 2: and showed half the clock off of the third quarter.
Speaker 2: That to me is such a critical drive by this team.
Speaker 2: Started off with a five yard reception by Jamar Chase,
Speaker 2: then a three yard reception by Jamar Chase. On third
Speaker 2: and two, it was a five yard run by Samaj
Speaker 2: p Ryan, followed up by a seven yard run by
Speaker 2: Chase Brown, then a sixteen yard reception by Jamar Chase,
Speaker 2: then a fourteen yard reception by Jamar Chase, a three
Speaker 2: yard run by Chase Brown. Flacco then threw an incompletion,
Speaker 2: then a six yard pass to Andre Jose Vash and
Speaker 2: then on fourth and one, fourth and one, Joe Flacco
Speaker 2: quarterback Sneak gets the two yards, then another two yards
Speaker 2: from samajp Ryan incompletion, incompletion field goal. But the Bengals
Speaker 2: were up to ten after taking advantage of two interceptions
Speaker 2: that they turned into touchdowns, taking advantage of what we
Speaker 2: call the middle eight, those four minutes before halftime, in
Speaker 2: the four minutes out of halftime and getting points and
Speaker 2: making things difficult on the Pittsburgh Steelers. That to me
Speaker 2: is the drive of the game. Brought to you by
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Speaker 2: let's review today's Postman Law injury report, brought to you
Speaker 2: by Postman Law. Injured Call eight four to four Postman. Well,
Speaker 2: the big news prior to the game was that Trey
Speaker 2: Hendrickson not able to go. Hendrickson had an MRI. He's
Speaker 2: dealing with hip and back injuries. Ian Rapaport of NFL
Speaker 2: Network reported that the MRI came back mostly clean, but
Speaker 2: it was just too quick of a turnaround with the
Speaker 2: soreness and the pain that Trey Hendrickson was dealing with,
Speaker 2: and they're hoping that the many buy will give him
Speaker 2: enough time to be ready to go again. The New
Speaker 2: York Jets in the game tonight, there was really only
Speaker 2: one moment where there was an injury. DJ Turner left
Speaker 2: with muscle cramps. He did return to the game. I
Speaker 2: believe Demetrius Knight left the game momentarily went to the
Speaker 2: locker room, and then he came back in. But for
Speaker 2: the most part, the Bengals were unscathed. Tanner Hudson is
Speaker 2: dealing with a concussion that he suffered last week against
Speaker 2: the Green Bay Packers. He didn't go tonight. Shamar Stewart
Speaker 2: was back recovering from that ankle injury. He played most
Speaker 2: of the game tonight, So from an injury standpoint, the
Speaker 2: Bengals seemed to be pretty good. Prior to the game,
Speaker 2: they activated off of the injured reserve list guard Lucas Patrick, who,
Speaker 2: if you remember, was the opening day starting right guard.
Speaker 2: He was one of their offseason acquisitions formerly with the
Speaker 2: Packers the Saints, and was the starting right guard on
Speaker 2: opening day in Cleveland. He's been dealing with a calf injury,
Speaker 2: and he is active and back on the active roster. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: earlier today, though, the Bengals did put Mike Gisiki, the
Speaker 2: tight end, on the injured reserve list, and he will
Speaker 2: be out for at least four weeks. There is hope
Speaker 2: that it's not a season ending injury. It's a pectoral
Speaker 2: injury that he suffered against the Green Bay Packers. So
Speaker 2: Mike gisiki on the injured list and it will be
Speaker 2: a while for him as they wait the test. And
Speaker 2: Ian Rappaport reported that the MRI was maybe not as
Speaker 2: bad as they had originally suspected. Meanwhile, the biggest story
Speaker 2: is Joe Burrow. Joe Burrow was seen tonight at pay
Speaker 2: Course Stadium. He was on the sidelines in a walking
Speaker 2: boot and had a backwards hat on, had the headset on.
Speaker 2: He was talking to Jake Browning and Joe Flacco there
Speaker 2: on the bench and was at least a part of
Speaker 2: the process. Today, Ian Rappaport reported that things have gone
Speaker 2: well for Joe Burrow's rehab. He said that he's on track.
Speaker 2: He's still planning on coming back in mid December and
Speaker 2: has been telling people that he will come back if
Speaker 2: he can and if he's able and if the team
Speaker 2: is in it. And so there's been no setbacks. Everything
Speaker 2: has been going to plan with Joe Burrow and that
Speaker 2: turf toe injury that required surgery after that Week two
Speaker 2: loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars. That is your Postman law
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Speaker 2: four postman. All right, Bengals do have that many buy
Speaker 2: to heal up from the bumps and bruises and cuts
Speaker 2: and scrapes of a game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Difficult
Speaker 2: AFC North game, and obviously on a short week on
Speaker 2: a Thursday, that is never easy to do. But the
Speaker 2: Bengals did find a way to win tonight. Let's take
Speaker 2: you back to the final few plays of the game.
Speaker 2: Let's start with after draining the clock for a little while,
Speaker 2: this is what it sounded like when Evan McPherson hit
Speaker 2: what would eventually be the game winning field goal.
Speaker 12: Here we go, a thirty six yard field goal try
Speaker 12: for the lead, with eleven seconds left in the fourth
Speaker 12: quarter and the Bengals down by one point. Money Mack
Speaker 12: is ready. He takes a deep breath, waits for the
Speaker 12: long snap back to Rico. Rico puts it down. The
Speaker 12: kick is up. It is gosh have the Bengals have
Speaker 12: a two point lead with seven seconds left on the clock.
Speaker 2: Nice. Gotta love it.
Speaker 13: Joe Flacco, Welcome to Cincinnati, my man.
Speaker 2: Joe Flacco did a really good job of taking his
Speaker 2: sweet time backing up, killing a couple of extra seconds,
Speaker 2: and getting that down underneath ten seconds by the time
Speaker 2: the Bengals kicked the field goal. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2: I was a little bit nervous in that moment because
Speaker 2: if you've watched the NFL at all this year, you
Speaker 2: have seen a ton of blocked kicks. There have been
Speaker 2: blocked kicks everywhere across the NFL. So Higgins goes down
Speaker 2: on the slide and the Bengals are forcing the Steelers
Speaker 2: to use their time out. I thought, on third down,
Speaker 2: you should actually run a normal play, or at least
Speaker 2: your best run play, and try to score a touchdown.
Speaker 2: That way, you at least give yourself some protection from
Speaker 2: losing on a field goal and only being up too.
Speaker 2: But the Bengals decided to drain as much clock as
Speaker 2: they could and then kick the field goal and eventually
Speaker 2: kick it back to Aaron Rodgers, and the other part
Speaker 2: I was nervous. Number one, you get the field goal
Speaker 2: block Number two, Aaron Rodgers is really freaking good at
Speaker 2: Hail Mary's. I was in Green Bay last week and
Speaker 2: I was at the Packers Hall of Fame, and it's
Speaker 2: really cool. It was a great experience. And you kind
Speaker 2: of turn the corner and there's already basically an Aaron
Speaker 2: Rodgers room. They have his MVP Trophy from twenty eleven,
Speaker 2: they have one of his record breaking footballs in there.
Speaker 2: They've got jerseys and helmets and all this other stuff,
Speaker 2: and they have this wall that is basically dedicated to
Speaker 2: all the hail Mary's that Aaron Rodgers has completed over
Speaker 2: the course of his career. The Thursday Night famous one
Speaker 2: in Detroit a few years ago to Richard Rodgers. He
Speaker 2: did it twice in a playoff game against Arizona. Like
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers is the king of hail Mary's, he does
Speaker 2: it all the time. So that was also in the
Speaker 2: back of my head. I was a little nervous about that.
Speaker 2: And so Rogers had a quick completion to move the
Speaker 2: pocket and move the ball the line of scrimmage up
Speaker 2: a little bit just to get them into hail mary range.
Speaker 2: This was the final play of the game.
Speaker 12: Three defensive backs begin retreating about thirty yards down the field.
Speaker 12: Three seconds left, the Steelers sixty yards from the end zone.
Speaker 12: Rogers catches the shotgun snap. Now he'll run around, allow
Speaker 12: his receivers to get downfield, and he launches it into
Speaker 12: the end zone and it is broken up incomplete. No
Speaker 12: knocked the way by Djivy have. The Bengals have knocked
Speaker 12: out the Steelers on Thursday night by the final score
Speaker 12: of thirty three to thirty one. The AFC North gets
Speaker 12: tighter and the Bengals outlook gets brighter with a tremendous
Speaker 12: closing finish and a game winning field goal with seven
Speaker 12: seconds to go.
Speaker 2: How about that Money Max?
Speaker 13: So many heroes in this football game, offensive, defensive, and
Speaker 13: special teams when you include money Mack. All I can
Speaker 13: say is Bengals beat the Pittsburgh Steelers two division wins,
Speaker 13: two to zero in the division. That could be a
Speaker 13: factor as the season progresses.
Speaker 2: Unfold.
Speaker 13: Bam Bam bam, Bengals win thirty three thirty one.
Speaker 2: That's great stuff from Dave Lapham and Dan Horde. The
Speaker 2: AFC North gets tighter, the Bengals outlook gets brighter. That's
Speaker 2: awesome stuff from Dan Horde. Speaking of that Bengals outlook,
Speaker 2: what's next, Well back home against the New York Jets
Speaker 2: next weekend and that is the Ring of Honor games.
Speaker 2: So Dave Lapham and Leaping Lamar Parish will be honored
Speaker 2: as they are put into the Bengals Ring of Honor
Speaker 2: that day against the Jets. Then they're back home the
Speaker 2: following week, first of three. This game tonight was the
Speaker 2: first of three straight home games for the Bengals. They'll
Speaker 2: take on the Bears on November the two. Both of
Speaker 2: those are one pm games. Then the Bengals have their
Speaker 2: bye week. Out of their bye week, they make a
Speaker 2: trip to Pittsburgh to play the Pittsburgh Steelers. Then it's
Speaker 2: back here in Cincinnati against the New England Patriots before
Speaker 2: a Thanksgiving night trip to Baltimore to take on the Ravens.
Speaker 2: By the way, I will be here following Thanksgiving Night
Speaker 2: football in Baltimore. I'll be right here for postgame sports
Speaker 2: talk deep into the black Friday morning, looking forward to that.
Speaker 2: Bengals then follow up that many bye with a trip
Speaker 2: to Buffalo to take on the Bills. Not going to
Speaker 2: be easy. And then oh, by the way, the Ravens
Speaker 2: come to Cincinnati. So that stretch of of Steelers, Patriots, Ravens,
Speaker 2: Bill's Ravens. Yikes. Then they are in Miami and for
Speaker 2: what right now is scheduled as a Sunday night football game.
Speaker 2: I would imagine that game gets flexed out, but that
Speaker 2: is at Miami on December the twenty first, and the
Speaker 2: Bengals wrap things up at home with two home games,
Speaker 2: one against the Arizona Cardinals and one against the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 2: The dayton times of those games as always Week seventeen
Speaker 2: and eighteen in the NFL are t b D. All Right,
Speaker 2: that does it for me. I really appreciate you listening.
Speaker 2: Always fun to talk about a win. Always fun when
Speaker 2: the Bengals win football games. I had a blast tonight.
Speaker 2: If you liked what you heard, you can hear me
Speaker 2: weekdays twelve to three on ESPN fifteen thirty. I host
Speaker 2: a show called Sincy three sixty. I also host the
Speaker 2: Ball Don't Live Podcast. It's a Bengals podcast available wherever
Speaker 2: you get your podcast. And of course you can follow
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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for listening to the Tri State Chevy
Speaker 2: Dealers postgame sports talk show on ESPN fifteen thirty and
Speaker 2: on seven hundred WLW