WEBVTT - Bengals Line with Lance McAlister and Dave Lapham -- 10/20/25 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:04.720 This is Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network pay Corps. 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:08.080 Pay Corps proud to be the official HR software provider 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:11.639 of US Cincinnati Bengals. Kettering El best Care for the 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:16.560 Best Fans, Kettering Hell official healthcare provider of US Cincinnati Bengals. 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:20.800 This is seven hundred WLW, the home of the best 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:22.120 Bengals coverage. 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:24.280 All right, let's get it going on this Monday night. 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:26.759 Welcome into Bengals Line and the Bengals Radio Network in 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:30.200 seven hundred WLW. Lance Pacalister along with Dave Lapham and 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:32.159 Dave not a bad way to hit the mini by 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:34.440 when you go in with the victory. I woke up 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:36.360 Sunday morning and I had that thought, Wow, I kind 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:38.120 of like waking up on Sundays. Withere, the Bengals have 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:42.120 already won. There's nothing to worry about. And it was 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:43.680 a game that had a little bit of this and 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:46.400 a little bit of that and a one they desperately needed. 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:48.280 Nice to get in the win column for the first 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:50.320 time after a four game losing streak. 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:52.960 Yeah, there's no doubt, Lance, I mean, a four game 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:55.400 losing streak wears on you, you know, don't I don't 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:58.240 care who you are, what level of football you're playing, 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:01.520 what sport you're playing. You know, I mean baseball big 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:04.360 one hundred and sixty two. You know, four games is nothing. 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:08.200 It's one series, maybe not even that sometimes, but in football, 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:11.000 I mean it's big. You know, you only get in 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:13.320 certain number of games, seventeen games. Now, they've got it 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:15.880 at in the regular season to go out and perform 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:18.680 and show what you got as a football team and 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:20.640 as an individual player, and you don't want to waste 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:23.319 any of them. And they felt like they had wasted 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:26.880 a month or so of their season. But then in 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:30.880 comes Joe Flacco and he comes, you know, he answers 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:34.280 the bell they put out the emergency call, you know, 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:37.080 and Joe Flacco picked up the phone and the other 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:41.040 end and said, yeah, I'm all in, I'm ready. 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:41.200 To do this. 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:44.840 And you know, he knew all about the Cincinnati Bengals. 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.880 He played against him many times. He had a good 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:50.920 idea what Zach Taylor was about, and what kind of 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:54.440 offense the Bengals had, and what kind of offensive weapons. 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.480 More importantly, the Bengals had, particularly ones to throw to, 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:00.280 and he has a mirriad of those. There's no doubt 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:04.960 I mean Jamar Chase is the best in football. Another 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:07.640 sixteen catchers hundred and sixty one yards in a touchdown. 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:11.680 Te Higgins lit it up. Chase Brown rush for over 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:15.279 one hundred yards. Eleven carries hundred and eight What kidding. 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:18.519 This isn't little league football, man, This isn't Pop Warner. 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:22.280 This is the NFL. Eleven carries one hundred and eight yards. 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.360 So now you know you have guys that in the 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:29.000 offensive line. Take about Dylan Fairchild, young guard take a 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:32.400 bow man, ran the ball well, ran behind him. 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:32.480 Some. 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.960 They ran in the interior between the guards and Senator 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:39.639 Ted Carriss multiple times. Riisener did a good job over 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:42.560 there at right guard. And they performed well. They really 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:47.480 did offensively. I think every single position group, every guy 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:49.840 in every single position group can take a bow. I 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:53.359 thought their performance was much better than normal, much better 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:57.040 than average, I should say. Defensively, it was up and down. 0:02:57.120 --> 0:03:00.280 You know, I guess inconsistent might be a fear way 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:03.320 to put it. They showed up, you know, they were 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:06.760 ready to play. It wasn't like that when they had issues. 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:08.959 It wasn't due to lack of effort or lack of 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:13.519 emotion or you know, I don't think it was preparational, 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:15.320 though sometimes it looked like it out there. You know, 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:18.960 sometimes guys were i mean really open, big time open. 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:22.800 That should never happen at this level in the National 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:25.560 Football League, and Al Golden has to concern himself with that, 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:26.880 and I'm sure he didn't like it one bit. 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:30.880 David feels like this is almost the beginning of like 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:33.959 a third season within a season. You went through the 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:36.880 first phase with Joe and his injury and all the 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:39.400 emotions that came with it, and then Jake Browning in 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:41.560 the thought that okay, Jake can carry him for a while, 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:44.520 then his struggles, then the transition out to a third season, 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:48.120 which feels like there's a new juice and energy of 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:51.520 looking around going all right, for all we've been through, 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:53.560 if you look at the division, if you look at 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:56.520 the AFC, we're still in this thing, and we got 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:58.800 a quarterback we can ride right now for a while. 0:03:58.920 --> 0:03:59.360 I agree. 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.520 I mean, I think Joe Flacco Lance has been you know, 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:08.440 a huge shot of confidence in everybody's arm. You know, players, 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:14.320 head coach, coordinators, position coaches, everybody. Now they feel like, Okay, 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:17.040 we got a guy that's done this before we got 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:19.240 a guy that understands what it takes to do this. 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:22.680 And by doing this, I mean, you know, have a 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:26.320 winning record well above five hundred. Maybe it gets you 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:28.520 in as a wild card, maybe you win the division. 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:30.840 But the big, you know, the big prize, the big 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:34.120 banana course, is the super Bowl. If you can win 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:37.880 a playoff game and go to the division, win a 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.800 division playoff game, go to the conference championship game, and 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:43.000 then go to the super Bowl, that would be huge. 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.279 I mean, this team has been there three times, hasn't 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:48.400 won it yet. It would be ironic. I think if 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:53.880 Joe Flacco comes to Cincinnati and uh, in less than 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:56.680 a week's time, you know, puts up a big victory. 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:59.040 I mean, this thing was huge. I mean you can't 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:02.719 overstate how big this victory was. Puts a big victory 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:08.560 victory against arch rival Pittsburgh Steelers. AFC North Division title 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:11.120 basically in the works on the way. 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:13.599 This game. 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:15.719 They'll look back on this game and it'll be like 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:17.880 a watershed game, you know. I think it'll be like 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:20.599 if in fact, they have the season they're hoping to 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:24.560 have and they finish well above five hundred and do 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:28.440 the things I already talked about this game will be Yep, 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:31.719 that Pittsburgh game. That was the one. I mean, shoot, 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:33.719 we signed Joe Flacco in less than a week's time. 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:38.120 He's out there, you know, running the whole offense and 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:41.640 understanding the complexities of that offense. And I think what 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:43.560 they did do I think the coaches actually take about 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:48.200 I think they made a fairly complex offense simple. You know, 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:51.200 they there's simple components in it, and I think they 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:52.479 emphasize those big. 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:59.120 Time stadium wise, places packed, white out, looked great on TV, 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:03.160 looked great in person that looked around and thought, not 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:04.200 many Steelers here. 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:06.560 I kind of like that. It was a Bengal crowd. 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:10.320 It was loud and it it enjoyed that on Monday 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:11.880 or on Thursday night, it sure did. 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:14.400 I mean I thought that crowd was a huge factor 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:17.120 in the game. I mean they showed up loud and proud. 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:19.919 I mean they were ready to celebrate, and you know 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:24.039 they I think they were curious as to this quarterback 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:25.919 Joe Flackhamam. And we know we know about him. We 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:29.480 played against him and we've had mixed success. He's had 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:31.880 more success than we have. Uh, let's see what he 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:34.359 can do for us against the UH, the hated but 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:37.279 respected Pittsburgh Steelers and Mike Tomlin. 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:37.960 UH. 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:40.320 And he went out there and UH and did his thing. 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:42.880 I'll tell you he threw the ball exceedingly well I 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:44.760 thought he did. The ball came out of his hand 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:49.240 very quickly. He made unbelievably quick reads. He was sure 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:51.479 of his reads, very confident in what he was looking at, 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:54.400 and confident in himself, and got the ball out of 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:59.040 his hand quickly with velocity RPMs on that bad boy, 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.400 very active down the field twenty five thirty yards, you know, 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:06.039 hitting the receiver's left shoulder when he had to, right 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:07.839 hip when he had to, whatever the case may be. 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:11.760 He was putting it in very very small spots. 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:12.160 He was. 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:15.360 He was pinpointing the ball down the football field with 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:20.000 the accuracy that he has. He's a very talented thrower 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:22.080 passer of the football. There is no question about that. 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:24.680 A couple of forty something quarterbacks doing their thing on 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:26.920 a national stage, and even down to the final play 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:30.480 when Rogers rolls out. Everything to me went like slow motion, 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.680 like I've seen Rogers do this before, and this Hail 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:36.320 Murray has worked before. And as the ball is going 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:39.920 through the air. Everything just kind of slow down in 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:44.280 your watch. Somebody bat that baby down and they did 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:47.239 and they they hang on and win again. 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.200 So yeah, it was like super slow mo. You know that. 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:55.400 It's like, oh my god, is he going to do 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:57.640 it again? Because he's done it. He's done it before, 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:00.720 that's for sure. Like you've said, I mean, he's he's 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:05.840 unkenny how he can get that that done? But he 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:08.440 played He played a really solid game too. I mean, 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:11.720 like you said, two guys forty years old, forty years 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:14.560 old or more, putting up the numbers that they did, 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:16.400 the way they did it, how they played the game, 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:21.160 how they led, how they led their teammates. And you know, 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:24.600 both of them take a bow, but Joe flaccall can 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:25.480 take a bigger bow. 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.240 You you touched on it, and let's touch on in 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:32.199 the next segment. Some credit for Zach and Dan Pitcher 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:36.679 and Justin Roscotti getting Joe Flacco up to speed, getting 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.200 him ready, figuring out what he likes, and also Duke 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:42.240 Tobin who winds up flipping a fifth round pick for 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:45.800 a sixth round pick and brings in Joe Flacco. And look, 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:48.760 there's no secret, Mike Tomlin made his thoughts very clear 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:50.559 last week, like what are the Browns doing? 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:50.800 Why? 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:53.280 Why are the Cleveland Browns giving the Beggals Joe Flacco? 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:55.280 And when we saw why, he was a little bit 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:57.839 worried about that. Let's talk about some credit due as 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:01.319 we continue. He's Dave Lappaman, Glance Cas Bengals on and 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:05.920 the Bengals Radio networking seven hundred WLW walking back to 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:08.160 the Bengals line on the Bengals Radio Network in seven 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:11.440 hundred WLW Lions but Cantleister Dave Blapham, working our way 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:14.719 through three big hours of all things Bengals conversation. We'll 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.440 get into the Jets this weekend's opponent a little bit 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:20.040 later on in the show as well. Dave, you touched 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:22.400 on credit in the first segment, and let's expand that. 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:25.200 Let's first go big picture Duke Tobin. And there's a 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:27.640 great piece of Monday Morning Quarterback by Albert Breer of 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:30.720 how the Bengals after the Detroit loss had started looking 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:33.400 at quarterbacks and initially had a list of ten, and 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:35.200 they narrowed it down and they were looking for somebody 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.880 who was going to be a quick study, who could 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:40.840 work in their offense. Who knew the division, and Duke 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:43.120 Tobin pulls the trigger and Trey It flips a fifth 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:45.520 round pick for a sixth round pick to get Joe Flacco. 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:48.560 It looks like a genius move right now, but Flacco, 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:51.480 I mean, I don't know that they're among anybody else. 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:54.960 They would have considered anybody who could have as smoothly 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:57.920 slid in on a short week when he arrived and 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.599 then done the quick turnaround to the DIVISI rival and 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:02.480 the Steelers and get it downe like Joe Flacco got 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:02.719 it done. 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:04.520 I agree with you. I mean, I think I think 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:09.840 Joe Flacco. Obviously he's been around, he's he's got a 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.960 bunch of years uh service in the National Football League, 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:17.320 and he's played very very good football. I mean the guy, 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:20.600 uh you know, m v P type football and in 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:24.440 some instances, so he's a he's a guy that that 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:28.640 understands the game of football and he can assimilate offenses quickly. 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:30.880 And that's what they were looking for. Duke Tobin and 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:33.600 his scouting department, they you know, put a laundry list 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:37.640 of requirements together and obviously that was first and foremost. 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:40.680 We need somebody to get up to speed. Quickly because 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:43.680 we want somebody now, uh, Jake Browning, we gave the 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:46.760 opportunity to and then he he kind of you know, 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:51.559 did not perform to the level of expectation and unfortunately, 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:55.240 you know, kind of just spit the bit, gave it up, 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:59.680 gave up the the opportunity that he was afforded, and 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:03.520 somebody to step in right away. And for him to 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.520 be able to do it as quickly as he did 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:09.360 is remarkable. It really is. It's truly remarkable. I think 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:12.200 credit should go to Zach, should go to Dan Pitcher, 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:16.880 should go to you know, all the offensive coaches teammates 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:19.120 for you know, making life easier for him. 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:20.160 He does. 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:24.120 He let's face it, he's got the the the plus 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.560 coming to Cincinnati of throwing the football to like a 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:32.520 dynamic trio of receivers, not just a receiver, but multiples, 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:37.160 you know. And I think also, uh give a lot 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:38.880 of credit to his wife for the help that she 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:39.400 gave him. 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:39.640 You know. 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.280 I mean, here he is driving down from Cleveland. They 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:45.960 get him a car and a driver and to his 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:47.960 wife or a backseat whatever seat they're in, and they're 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:51.680 just she's grilling, she's grilling about the Cincinnati Bengals offense. 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:53.560 I'll give you a formation, you give me the play. 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:55.880 I'll give you a play, Give me the formation, give 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:58.240 me any nuances with the play, you know, if there's 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:00.960 any motion or change the strength or whatever the case 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:05.240 may be. For him to do what he did in 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:07.640 such a short period of time, it took him a 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.719 little while, you know, to to you know, crank it up, 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:13.520 get the juices flow and get the blood flowing a 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:17.560 little bit. But when he did, man, he really was magnificent. 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.760 I love the fact that even he said on Thursday night, 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.960 there's still some plays that he didn't quite get all 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:26.640 of from Zach and the headset or was talking about 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:30.120 Zach's Zach was joking about his own Oklahoma accent and 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:32.520 how it wasn't quite getting to him. And he went 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:34.400 to the line and he said, they made it work, 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:36.000 and they laughed as they went to the sidelines. 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:36.800 The number of times. 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:39.679 Maybe the full play wasn't there, the formation was quite right, 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:42.240 but a veteran he is, they still were able to 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:44.360 make it work. There was no panic, there was no 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:46.600 you know, time out, I need to figure this out. 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.000 They just figured it out on the fly, and that's 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:50.199 what a veteran does right. 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:55.400 And the plays that ended in the letter F we're 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:58.640 the ones that were a problem. Like Flaco couldn't he 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:02.040 couldn't hear it. He couldn't understand what what is the word? 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:05.320 So is this a code game or something? 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:08.679 What are we doing here? This is I don't have 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:09.319 time for this. 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:11.959 I need I need to break the huddle and get 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:13.600 to the line of scrimmer so I can have some 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:15.240 time with the line of scrimmage and need to check 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:16.600 the play and check. 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:17.280 From one to another. 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:21.080 So when you when you factor all that in, it 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:23.480 really is it's a it's a it's a great story. 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.360 It's probably one of the Alvin Preer would probably agree 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:28.320 it's one of the better stories in the National Football 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:29.000 League right now. 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:33.640 Yeah, And to think of the quick turnaround and the 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:37.679 results from it, and just you know, you gotta you 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:40.640 gotta trust your coach, and your coaches have to know 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:44.000 what it's that classic, figure out what he likes, what 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:46.800 he doesn't like, throw out some of the stuff, let's 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:49.760 maybe massage some of the stuff. And it looks like 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:53.199 he's comfortable. He's you know, when you operate at the 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:56.280 level he did on Thursday, night on eight days rest 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:59.079 or eight days in the system, you're doing. 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:03.040 Something absolutely and uh, you know, the coaches they have 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:07.080 to have a respect for his football IQ, his football mind, 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:10.120 his football intelligence, and even if he's only got like 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:12.160 parts of it and he's missing like a little component, 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:14.160 figure it out and get it, get it put together. 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:16.520 You played a lot of football. We trust you, you know, 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:19.280 and get it. Get that part of it done. But 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:21.200 I think the other thing, the big thing that he 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:23.680 gives his teammates is hope, you know. And now all 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:27.040 of a sudden, everybody's you know, before the game watching 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:28.040 him warm up, They're like. 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:30.240 WHOA, looks pretty good man. 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:33.360 This might this might work out, This might be this 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:35.760 might be a lot of fun. And then what he 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:37.680 did during the course of the game and the adjustments 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:39.880 he had to make, and the adversity he had to 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:44.520 overcome and just kept overcoming it again and again and again. Uh, 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:46.680 and putting points up on the board. I mean, that's 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:50.680 you know, to put thirty on the board is that's 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:54.640 that's extraordinary. So now you come in the locker room, 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:56.640 you're filing off the field and. 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:59.080 Was saying, man flackah song becomes a real deal. Man. 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:03.560 He's legit. Joe Flacco is the man. And now he 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:06.160 has a presence in that locker room. When you when 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:08.320 you walked into that locker room after the game, you 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:11.720 could feel that you could feel him taking over a 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:15.960 very prominent position and role in that football team, not 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:18.280 only as a player, but as a leader. And you know, 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:21.760 he's been a captain. He has got leadership. He's according 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:23.520 to players and coach that I've talked to, he's just 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:24.440 a good dude. 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:25.240 I mean, he. 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:28.720 Doesn't have a you know, like a malicious bone in 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:31.280 his body kind of thing. You know, he wants everybody 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:34.520 to do well. He wants everybody to succeed. He wants to, 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:38.400 you know, sing around the campfire little Kumbaya Dave. 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:41.240 He also seems good at doing something as simple as 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:44.280 bailing on a play when it's not there. He'll throw 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:46.120 it into the ground and throw it out of bounds. 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:49.760 He sees it, recognizes it quickly enough to say it's 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:52.400 not there initially. I'm not going to extend this play 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:54.960 and create the potential for a turnover. I'm going to 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:57.960 live to play another down. Let's go next down, bingo. 0:15:58.080 --> 0:15:59.760 I agree with one hundred percent LANs. I mean, you 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:01.960 know football, You've watched a lot of it. He does 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.240 not put the ball in jeopardy. It's like, you know, 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:08.000 if this is close, throwing it away or I'm gonna 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:09.880 put it in a spot that's going to be difficult 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:11.960 for my receiver to make a play on it. 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:15.080 But he's the only one that can make a difficult 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:17.680 play on it, you know. And uh and and and 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:20.120 I think the other thing is, like you said, man 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:22.760 does he make quick decisions. I mean, he scans that 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.560 field and knows what he's looking at. And you know 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:28.920 they start in cover two and then rotate to cover one, 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:32.880 or you know they'll play cover three or man across 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:34.880 the board, whatever the case may be. He is on 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:40.040 it like now, is no no wasted time whatsoever. And 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:43.120 and that's a that's a big, big plus. And I 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:45.920 think that part of his game. I think that And 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:49.240 then watching him when his teammates watched him throw the football, 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:51.960 their confidence and Joe Flaco just went through the roof. 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:54.400 All right, hang tight, we're up and running. We've got 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:56.960 plenty of ground to cover. We talked about Joe Flacco 0:16:57.080 --> 0:16:59.320 throwing the ball. Let's talk about that running game that 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:03.720 newly covered running game and the gaping holes in which 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:07.000 Chase Brown and company ran through that. As we continue, 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:09.480 he's Dave Lapham, I'm Lance, but Calister, thanks for being 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:11.919 with us tonight. It's Bengals Line of the Bengals Radio 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:17.280 Network and seven hundred WLW. Let's keep it moving along 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:19.440 on this Monday night, a Bengals Line on the Bengals 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:22.479 Radio Network in seven hundred WLW. Looking back at that 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:25.720 big Thursday night went over the Pittsburgh Steelers thirty three 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:29.439 thirty one. Well, eventually look ahead of the windless Jets 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:31.880 this weekend. We'll get to that coming up at hour 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.080 number three. But let's get to in this hour the 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:37.719 Bengals running game. Twenty three totes of the football for 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:39.960 one hundred and forty two yards. That's an average of 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:44.320 six point two yards of carry. Chase Brown eleven carries 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:48.560 one and eight yards, a nine point eight yards per 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:52.000 carry average. And there were moments he was galloping through 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:54.640 holes day it was fun to see. On Thursday night, 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:57.560 he was, I mean, when you average almost the first 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:01.720 down every time you run the football, and that's what 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:06.120 uh Chase Brown did, That's that's ridiculous. I mean that's 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:10.200 almost stupid at any level. But against the Pittsburgh Steelers 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:14.760 and Mike Tomlin, who are known for having a vaunted 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:17.800 run defense, I mean, they're not gonna They're gonna give 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:22.399 up uh rush yards grudgingly. It's not gonna be a 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:26.000 cake walk when you go out there against the Pittsburgh 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:29.040 Steelers and the Bengals. Just man, they hit them right. 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:30.360 They they changed up. 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:34.800 Uh, they had a lot of different blocking schematics in 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:36.840 that run game. You know, they had to just come 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:39.000 off the line of scrimmage and knock people off the football, 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:42.199 which is which is great. And and once they started 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:45.480 doing that and anchoring the Pittsburgh Steelers, then they had 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:48.080 you know, down block, down, block, pull a gap scheme. 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:51.440 That's what the gap scheme is. Basically, Uh, block down 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:54.640 and and and pull around and find finding somebody would 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:57.320 stick a hat on as that puller. They did a 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:00.680 good job of that. They ran some naked mean, Joe 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:04.680 Flacco had a big carry that was a very important 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:08.000 play in the football game, and he was he was 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:10.800 almost laughing as hard he could barely describe the player 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:12.080 in the locker room after the game. 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:14.359 But yeah, I think he may have summed it up 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:16.200 by saying he knew the formation was alright. 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:18.400 He said, screw it, I'll take it. Yeah, it goes 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:19.399 for twelve yards. 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:22.960 I know that they know how they're supposed to block it, 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:24.680 so I'm going to trust the fact they're going to 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:25.000 block it. 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:27.960 Pretty well. Here I go. I mean, that's that's when 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:28.800 you know it's going right. 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:32.080 Though. You know, sometimes some games it's like, man, I mean, 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:35.720 we can't screw up. Even if we try to screw 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:37.520 it up. You know, it's like it's impossible. 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:40.160 Today and so many it was so nice to see 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:43.159 Chase Brown be able to get up ahead of steam 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:45.639 so many carries this year he'd been hit now at 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:48.000 the lot of scrimmage, he'd been hitting the backfield on 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:51.119 the handoff and and it kind of reminds you of 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:53.960 what they saw on him, especially last year when he 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:55.919 went through like a six or seven game stretch with 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:58.439 over one hundred total yards in offense. He was catching it, 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:00.159 he was running it, but he was able to have 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:01.639 a little bit of space to do that. 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:03.240 And that space was there Thursday. 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:04.400 Nay, it was, it was. 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:09.240 It was you know, sometimes it was due to outstanding blocking. 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:11.760 I think sometimes it was maybe a little bit of 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:15.600 an assignment era a misalignment by the Pittsburgh Steelers or 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:18.679 hitting a wrong gap two guys in one gap and 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:22.480 then one gap just totally exposed and wide open. But 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:24.480 credit the Bengals, they found it, you know. And the 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:28.159 Chase Brown, like you said last, when he gets up 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:32.440 ahead of steam, the dude is an automatic. Yards after contact, 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:34.960 he's going to pick up something. It might only be 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:37.760 a yard or two, but that's a tough yard or 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:39.760 two that you don't have to worry about. 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:39.679 You know. 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:44.000 And offensive linemen love running backs to do that, to 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:46.600 lower their pad level and just run people over and 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:49.240 get yards after catch. I mean block for Pete Johnson, 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:50.960 he was bigger than us for crying out loud, but 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:53.159 that guy would flatten people and run him over and 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:56.439 get yards after contact. And Chase Brown, the thing that 0:20:56.480 --> 0:21:00.600 he has, he has the ability to power in the 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:03.240 in the power running attack. He has the power to 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:05.880 do that. But then he'll make you miss and he'll 0:21:05.960 --> 0:21:08.879 run away from you. So I mean this guy, you 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:12.800 get him in space defenders defensive backs in particular, like, 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:16.159 I better come up and get myself ready here. This 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:17.840 guy's the lord. I get a brace for it, and 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:19.840 then he'll make him look stilly, He'll make him miss. 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:22.600 So Chase Brown is a very talented guy. Plus the 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:25.720 fact that you know he'll I love there's a form alignment. 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:28.000 Love to watch this dude and blitz pick up. He 0:21:28.040 --> 0:21:30.760 is stoning people now, he's sticking his face right in 0:21:30.800 --> 0:21:34.920 there and stopping linebackers in their tracks when they're coming downhill, 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:38.200 trying to blitz that. That's significant. Then he gets out 0:21:38.200 --> 0:21:40.200 of the backfield. You know, they have a good screen 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:43.440 game with him, screen passes on the passing attack and 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:46.840 Flacco utilize that. And then just having him as a 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:50.400 as an outlet a check down in the passing game 0:21:50.440 --> 0:21:52.800 when they took away things down the football field, let 0:21:52.840 --> 0:21:56.160 me get it Chase Brown and and generate some yards. 0:21:56.560 --> 0:21:57.280 They went into the. 0:21:57.240 --> 0:22:01.919 Game averaging I think fifty six yards per game rushing 0:22:02.040 --> 0:22:04.200 just fifty six a game. They were the only team 0:22:04.240 --> 0:22:06.040 in the NFL that didn't have a run of at 0:22:06.160 --> 0:22:08.440 least fifteen yards until Thursday night. 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:09.520 What does it mean? 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:11.920 And nobody expects them to go for one forty two 0:22:11.960 --> 0:22:14.560 every game or average six per care every game. But 0:22:14.640 --> 0:22:18.040 if they've unlock something, if they can rush for four 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:20.520 yards a little tick over four yards per carrier. What 0:22:20.560 --> 0:22:23.080 does it mean for that offense? And what does it 0:22:23.119 --> 0:22:25.240 mean for how defenses are going to have to respect 0:22:25.240 --> 0:22:27.800 that element of the game that's now been reintroduced to 0:22:27.840 --> 0:22:28.400 their offense. 0:22:28.920 --> 0:22:32.520 I think that the successful teams in the NFL, I mean, 0:22:32.560 --> 0:22:35.320 you look at the ones that always seem to be there, 0:22:35.440 --> 0:22:38.640 Philadelphia Eagles, you know, being one a real good example 0:22:38.680 --> 0:22:43.199 of it. They first and foremost want to run the 0:22:43.240 --> 0:22:46.840 football every single week. They want to establish their ground game. 0:22:47.080 --> 0:22:49.120 They wanted to say, we're going to win the line 0:22:49.119 --> 0:22:53.080 of scrimmage. We're going to basically show our physical dominance 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:56.159 by knocking you around and winning the line of scrimmage, 0:22:56.400 --> 0:22:58.679 and then okay, try to rush the pass on us. 0:22:58.720 --> 0:23:00.680 We're going to be a stone wall. We're gonna be 0:23:00.760 --> 0:23:04.120 a fortress that you can't penetrate whatsoever. So that that's 0:23:04.160 --> 0:23:06.400 kind of like the formula when the Steelers were great, 0:23:06.440 --> 0:23:07.200 that's what they did. 0:23:07.280 --> 0:23:09.120 I mean, they ran the heck out of the football. 0:23:09.200 --> 0:23:14.080 Frank O'harris, Rocky Blyerlas, you have the bus, I mean, 0:23:14.200 --> 0:23:16.800 and then and then just you know, built the fortress 0:23:16.800 --> 0:23:19.120 and said, you know what, you're not gonna touch Ben Roethlisberger. 0:23:19.440 --> 0:23:21.200 I mean, Ben's gonna be able to stand back there 0:23:21.200 --> 0:23:24.040 and Survey. I mean I used to go nuts thinking, gosh, 0:23:24.080 --> 0:23:27.000 somebody smack him, for God's sake. Don't let them sit there, 0:23:27.000 --> 0:23:30.399 and you know, survey one side to the other side, deep, 0:23:30.480 --> 0:23:33.720 shallow deep again. It's like, God, man, he's got a 0:23:33.760 --> 0:23:36.119 day and a half too much time to throw the 0:23:36.119 --> 0:23:36.960 football at all. 0:23:36.960 --> 0:23:39.040 Starts with that sound running game. 0:23:39.800 --> 0:23:41.520 What does it mean to and I there was a 0:23:41.920 --> 0:23:44.600 clip on the sidelines and I think ted Carris was 0:23:44.680 --> 0:23:47.600 miked up, and late in the game, when the final 0:23:47.640 --> 0:23:50.639 play had had fallen in completely it's over. Teddy stands 0:23:50.680 --> 0:23:52.800 up and you hear him let out this just scream 0:23:52.880 --> 0:23:56.159 of joy and delight. And and I was thinking what 0:23:56.240 --> 0:23:59.280 it must have meant for that offensive line to feel 0:23:59.320 --> 0:24:02.680 like they had kind of imposed their will to rush 0:24:02.720 --> 0:24:04.719 for one hundred and forty two on the ground. What 0:24:04.760 --> 0:24:06.800 does that mean as you're going back to the huddle 0:24:07.000 --> 0:24:09.240 and things, you're clicking and and you're reeling off six 0:24:09.320 --> 0:24:10.600 yards per carry like they were. 0:24:10.720 --> 0:24:14.760 Yeah, it's I can't explain the feeling. I mean, it 0:24:14.800 --> 0:24:19.440 gives you such a such an unbelievable feeling of accomplishment, 0:24:19.480 --> 0:24:23.600 you know, and it's an accomplishment by the group. And 0:24:23.720 --> 0:24:26.560 with offensive line, I've talked about this many times as 0:24:26.600 --> 0:24:30.000 a form alignment. It's like it's a fraternity. I mean, 0:24:30.040 --> 0:24:35.040 it's a it's it's a very very close knit. I 0:24:35.080 --> 0:24:38.000 think it's the most close knit position group on the 0:24:38.000 --> 0:24:43.880 football team because you're codependent everybody the success. 0:24:43.440 --> 0:24:44.760 Of your even your play. 0:24:45.200 --> 0:24:47.480 A lot of times there are snaps where you have 0:24:47.560 --> 0:24:50.040 to have proper help or you're going to look bad. 0:24:50.200 --> 0:24:52.720 And uh, and it can happen. It does happen, there's 0:24:52.720 --> 0:24:55.560 no question about it. But you know, uh, when when 0:24:55.560 --> 0:25:00.720 the offensive line is performing well and everything's in sync, uh, 0:25:00.760 --> 0:25:02.960 it's just it's it's a thing of beauty to watch. 0:25:03.040 --> 0:25:05.200 I mean, it's like there are five spokes in the 0:25:05.240 --> 0:25:08.439 wheel and every single spoke is doing exactly and holding 0:25:08.480 --> 0:25:10.959 up strong and doing exactly you know what it's supposed 0:25:11.000 --> 0:25:13.119 to do, and there's no broken spokes and there's no 0:25:13.640 --> 0:25:17.040 you know, problem area in the offensive line. It's like, man, 0:25:17.080 --> 0:25:19.119 we can't we can't go over there because we know 0:25:19.200 --> 0:25:23.920 that we can't handle the opposition over there. They're dominating us. 0:25:23.960 --> 0:25:27.840 But I think I think Ted was just kind of 0:25:28.000 --> 0:25:31.960 uh he was exalting emotion from the entire group. Yes, 0:25:32.160 --> 0:25:34.560 you know, like a like a tar san type Uh, 0:25:34.800 --> 0:25:35.000 you know. 0:25:35.800 --> 0:25:37.040 Uh. 0:25:37.440 --> 0:25:41.200 Victory victory scream by Ted carras no doubt, no doubt. 0:25:41.200 --> 0:25:43.120 All right, let's take a time out of come back. 0:25:43.160 --> 0:25:46.200 We are up and running towards three hours tonight. When 0:25:46.200 --> 0:25:48.960 we're ultimately done talking all things Bengals, let's get into 0:25:48.960 --> 0:25:51.760 the defense. Some of the things that have gone right 0:25:51.840 --> 0:25:53.480 with some of the things that need to be worked on, 0:25:53.560 --> 0:25:55.880 and some of the guys they're they're getting looks at, 0:25:55.920 --> 0:25:57.800 and some of the guys like Cam Taylor brid who 0:25:57.840 --> 0:26:00.720 was on the outside looking in on Thursday. We'll sort 0:26:00.760 --> 0:26:03.000 through the defense as we continue. He's Dave Lapham, I'm 0:26:03.080 --> 0:26:05.760 Lance Pacallister. Thanks for being with us tonight. It's Bengals 0:26:05.760 --> 0:26:09.320 Line and the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. 0:26:12.520 --> 0:26:14.439 We continue on in this Monday night. 0:26:14.560 --> 0:26:17.280 It's Bengals Line and the Bengals Radio Network. Thanks for 0:26:17.480 --> 0:26:19.879 tagging along with us talking about a big one over 0:26:19.880 --> 0:26:20.800 the Pittsburgh Steelers. 0:26:20.800 --> 0:26:21.800 I'm Lance Pacallister. 0:26:21.960 --> 0:26:24.200 Alongside is Dave lap When we've talked to offense Joe 0:26:24.280 --> 0:26:26.280 Flacco in a little bit of that running game. We'll 0:26:26.280 --> 0:26:28.280 get into Jamar Chase in his night a little bit 0:26:28.359 --> 0:26:30.320 later on, and so much more on the offense. Let's 0:26:30.600 --> 0:26:32.840 pick up some stuff on the defense first. The two 0:26:32.880 --> 0:26:36.679 turnovers forced, Jordan Battle gets an interception. DJ Turner for 0:26:36.720 --> 0:26:40.080 the second straight week. We're gonna talk about DJ Turner 0:26:40.119 --> 0:26:43.600 in terms of making plays and Dave on a defense 0:26:43.640 --> 0:26:48.200 that needs guys beyond Trey, they need other playmakers. DJ 0:26:48.280 --> 0:26:50.480 Turner for two straight weeks has been a guy. He's 0:26:50.480 --> 0:26:51.200 made plays. 0:26:51.280 --> 0:26:54.880 Absolutely, Lance, you're right on again. You know what you're 0:26:54.880 --> 0:26:58.240 looking at, my man? I mean DJ Turner is the 0:26:58.280 --> 0:27:01.760 guy in the back end that it's making some wild plays, 0:27:01.840 --> 0:27:04.679 you know. I mean you have to have playmakers at 0:27:04.720 --> 0:27:07.480 every level. With your defensive line. You got Trey Hunters 0:27:07.560 --> 0:27:10.800 coming off the edge, you know, creating havoc, wrecking games. 0:27:11.359 --> 0:27:14.840 You know, just a consistently profound pass rusher. 0:27:15.480 --> 0:27:15.680 Uh. 0:27:15.720 --> 0:27:17.560 You have to double and triple team the guy. And 0:27:17.600 --> 0:27:20.040 then when you do that, other guys are gonna eat 0:27:20.080 --> 0:27:22.680 because you know they're in one on one situations and 0:27:22.680 --> 0:27:25.119 and they're gonna win their share of those. At the 0:27:25.160 --> 0:27:29.080 linebacker level, you've got you know, solid play by a 0:27:29.080 --> 0:27:30.760 bunch of guys, a lot of young guys at that 0:27:30.840 --> 0:27:34.200 linebacker level that can really run, physically gifted, they've got 0:27:34.240 --> 0:27:38.280 size speed ratio pluses. And Uh, Logan Wilson has kind 0:27:38.320 --> 0:27:40.560 of made his sacrifice, and you know, things didn't go 0:27:40.640 --> 0:27:43.760 well for him. Uh, it was decided that Al Golden 0:27:43.840 --> 0:27:46.720 decided that he was gonna go in a different direction. 0:27:46.880 --> 0:27:49.840 And but but what Al Golden did is, Okay, you're 0:27:49.840 --> 0:27:52.960 you're still gonna contribute, Logan, And you're gonna contribute. And 0:27:53.000 --> 0:27:55.600 when we go three linebackers, when we go three four, 0:27:55.680 --> 0:27:57.719 three four, you're gonna be a big part of what 0:27:57.720 --> 0:27:59.760 we're doing out there. When we go five to, you're 0:27:59.800 --> 0:28:03.120 gonna be over there with me and helping maybe determine 0:28:03.119 --> 0:28:05.000 what we need to do, adjustice, we need to bake, 0:28:05.080 --> 0:28:09.040 and things of that nature. Logan Wilson has immense brilliant 0:28:09.040 --> 0:28:11.320 football IQ. He's been around, he's been around the block. 0:28:11.600 --> 0:28:13.680 He knows what he's looking at and he can still 0:28:13.680 --> 0:28:17.320 play the game. So I and then again, you know, 0:28:18.240 --> 0:28:21.240 you get in the back end, you get a guy 0:28:21.240 --> 0:28:24.280 who turners just saying I'm gonna I'm gonna take control 0:28:24.320 --> 0:28:26.800 of this football game. I'm not gonna let anybody beat me. 0:28:27.200 --> 0:28:29.840 Nobody is gonna beat me one on one. I'm gonna 0:28:29.880 --> 0:28:31.639 do my job. I'm gonna take my guy out of 0:28:31.640 --> 0:28:34.760 the equation. There's no way that Aaron Rodgers is gonna 0:28:34.760 --> 0:28:37.240 throw to my guy and my my I'm taking away 0:28:37.280 --> 0:28:40.640 my portion of the field. And then uh, he's he's 0:28:40.680 --> 0:28:42.560 the best tackle that they have in space in the 0:28:42.600 --> 0:28:46.080 secondary by far. I mean, the guy is just a 0:28:46.120 --> 0:28:49.640 machine getting guys on the ground. He doesn't miss many tackles. 0:28:50.120 --> 0:28:53.240 And then when he makes it a tackle and causes 0:28:53.280 --> 0:28:57.240 a turnover, that's you know, that's cherry on top of 0:28:57.240 --> 0:29:00.120 the hot fudge Sunday man. You know, it's like that's 0:29:00.560 --> 0:29:03.840 he's playing his tailoff in every every way that you 0:29:03.880 --> 0:29:07.640 can play defensive football to impact the game for his team. 0:29:08.160 --> 0:29:09.040 Turner's doing it. 0:29:09.000 --> 0:29:12.520 David in the athleticism he showed on the sideline interception 0:29:12.560 --> 0:29:14.600 where he ripped it away and he got some help 0:29:14.640 --> 0:29:16.680 from you give Geno Stone credit for the. 0:29:16.920 --> 0:29:17.680 Smack as well. 0:29:17.840 --> 0:29:20.120 I think that maybe loosened it up a little bit 0:29:20.120 --> 0:29:23.520 for the rip away, which you know, Gino gets criticism 0:29:23.600 --> 0:29:25.640 and slings an arrows sometimes, but he was in on 0:29:25.640 --> 0:29:29.240 that play in the right spot. But DJ Turner's closing 0:29:29.320 --> 0:29:32.040 speed and the ability to rip it away along the 0:29:32.120 --> 0:29:35.480 sidelines and stay in bounds. That that was a flash 0:29:35.480 --> 0:29:37.200 of a really nice skill set. 0:29:37.360 --> 0:29:42.560 Absolutely, Like you say, a skill set that's just an athlete, 0:29:42.640 --> 0:29:46.960 particularly an athlete that's wearing shoulder pads and helmet, you know, 0:29:47.320 --> 0:29:50.479 a football athlete. Things that you have to have in 0:29:50.600 --> 0:29:53.200 order to be uber successful in the game of football. 0:29:53.440 --> 0:29:55.840 Turner has an abundance. He has an abundance of them, 0:29:56.400 --> 0:30:00.360 both mentally and physically. He's gifted to play this game 0:30:00.400 --> 0:30:02.400 at a very high level. The Bengals did a good job, 0:30:02.800 --> 0:30:05.800 you know, unearthing him and bringing him to the to 0:30:05.840 --> 0:30:09.560 the table to make his contributions to the Cincinnati Bengals, 0:30:09.560 --> 0:30:13.400 and he he had one of his better games of 0:30:13.440 --> 0:30:17.520 his career in a timely fashion against a division opponent 0:30:17.680 --> 0:30:19.680 that was a very important football game. 0:30:19.720 --> 0:30:22.960 You mentioned Logan Wilson, and there's there's a couple of 0:30:22.960 --> 0:30:24.920 ways something can go when you're at this stage of 0:30:24.960 --> 0:30:27.800 your career and and you're told you're not going to 0:30:27.880 --> 0:30:30.120 get the snaps you were getting. We're gonna get younger 0:30:30.160 --> 0:30:32.880 guys in to get more snaps you. You can pack 0:30:32.920 --> 0:30:34.840 it in, you can pout, you can sulk, you can 0:30:34.880 --> 0:30:38.120 say trade me, release me, or whatever, or you can adjust. 0:30:38.200 --> 0:30:40.640 And it looks like he's adjusted. He made a play 0:30:40.680 --> 0:30:43.480 when he was in there. The Pro Football Focus great 0:30:43.560 --> 0:30:46.000 say the plays he was in he he graded well. 0:30:46.080 --> 0:30:48.680 So that tells me he understands. 0:30:49.240 --> 0:30:52.120 I'm I can still be useful for this team and 0:30:52.160 --> 0:30:54.960 I can still make my presence felt, and that's not 0:30:55.000 --> 0:30:57.520 always the case with guys who lose the playing time. 0:30:57.960 --> 0:31:02.600 Right on, Lance, you right on again, and Logan Wilson understands, 0:31:02.840 --> 0:31:06.720 like you were talking about, I can I can be 0:31:06.800 --> 0:31:10.040 a problem, or I can be a solution to a problem. 0:31:10.440 --> 0:31:12.800 And I'd prefer to be the solution to the problem. 0:31:13.200 --> 0:31:16.560 I'd rather help my teammates every way I possibly can, 0:31:17.560 --> 0:31:20.640 both physically and mentally. I'd rather help my teammates get 0:31:20.680 --> 0:31:22.520 ready to play at the highest level that they can 0:31:22.560 --> 0:31:25.600 possibly play at. I'd love to see all my teammates, 0:31:25.640 --> 0:31:29.520 you know, lead the team in tackles and and make 0:31:29.560 --> 0:31:32.120 a lot of money. Because Logan Wilson is he's played 0:31:32.160 --> 0:31:35.120 a long time, he's made money, and you know he 0:31:35.160 --> 0:31:38.200 and his family are taken care of. But shoot, no problem, 0:31:38.320 --> 0:31:41.080 no reason not to make more, and he's going to 0:31:41.160 --> 0:31:45.200 do that in his leadership. I think his leadership is 0:31:45.200 --> 0:31:47.240 is a big thing. I think during the course of 0:31:47.280 --> 0:31:49.760 the game, when there's gonna be ebbs and flows and 0:31:50.000 --> 0:31:52.360 you're gonna have leads and you're gonna, you know, spit 0:31:52.400 --> 0:31:54.960 the bit and give the leads up, and then do 0:31:55.040 --> 0:31:58.160 you have the guts and determination wherewithal to continue to 0:31:58.200 --> 0:32:01.040 play and get the lead back? And in the National 0:32:01.040 --> 0:32:05.000 Football League, more games come down to one score or 0:32:05.080 --> 0:32:07.280 less at the end of the football game than not. 0:32:07.920 --> 0:32:09.960 So you have to have guys with the mindset and 0:32:09.960 --> 0:32:12.760 the makeup of the mentality that Logan Wilson has displayed 0:32:12.800 --> 0:32:15.720 during the course of his career with the Cincinnati Bengals 0:32:15.960 --> 0:32:18.200 to win your share of those types of games. 0:32:18.240 --> 0:32:20.960 I love the fact that in the media session last 0:32:20.960 --> 0:32:23.080 week he more or less put his arm around Barrett 0:32:23.120 --> 0:32:25.200 Carter with the media and said, whatever this guy needs, 0:32:25.480 --> 0:32:28.520 I'm paraphrasing, I'm here for him, and you could, as 0:32:28.560 --> 0:32:31.000 the more veteran guy, you can let him be on 0:32:31.040 --> 0:32:33.440 their own and let them think, all right, I'm going 0:32:33.520 --> 0:32:35.120 to let him fail and I'm going to get my 0:32:35.240 --> 0:32:38.520 job back. Instead he's right there for him, passing on 0:32:38.760 --> 0:32:41.200 his working knowledge, which is the essence of being a 0:32:41.200 --> 0:32:42.480 professional player. 0:32:42.200 --> 0:32:43.360 Right on, right on again. 0:32:43.480 --> 0:32:47.239 And you know, it's not easy to do sometimes, you know, 0:32:47.440 --> 0:32:52.640 but it's how you can continue to have a career. 0:32:53.160 --> 0:32:57.120 And maybe Logan Wilson might consider coaching, you know. I mean, 0:32:57.160 --> 0:32:59.840 I don't know what his aspirations are after playing the 0:32:59.880 --> 0:33:00.760 game of football. 0:33:00.960 --> 0:33:02.280 I think he'd be a damn good coach. 0:33:02.360 --> 0:33:06.280 I think he has that type of that type of personality, 0:33:06.320 --> 0:33:09.440 that type of mentality, that type of mindset. He is 0:33:10.240 --> 0:33:14.280 a very very intelligent football player. Like we've talked about. 0:33:14.720 --> 0:33:18.480 The other thing that this shows is on both sides 0:33:18.480 --> 0:33:22.640 of this. It's like, you know, Logan Wilson, he could 0:33:22.680 --> 0:33:25.880 have been like, I'm too cool for school. This sucks. 0:33:26.120 --> 0:33:28.240 I'm not going to help you a bit. I'm gonna 0:33:28.480 --> 0:33:31.160 I hope you fall flat in your face, and I 0:33:31.280 --> 0:33:33.360 might even try to do as much as I possibly 0:33:33.360 --> 0:33:35.480 can to make sure you fall flat in your face. 0:33:35.960 --> 0:33:38.400 Just the opposite, like you talked about how he's been 0:33:38.440 --> 0:33:43.400 handling it, and then Barrett Carter, he respects Logan Wilson. Yeah, 0:33:43.480 --> 0:33:45.960 he respects what he's done. So he's not going to 0:33:46.040 --> 0:33:48.440 be like, you know what, Yeah, I'm the young buck. 0:33:48.840 --> 0:33:51.480 I'm better than you. I can kick your butt, man, 0:33:51.840 --> 0:33:54.920 I can do whatever, you know, And I'm I'm gonna 0:33:54.920 --> 0:33:56.760 be a Pro Bowl player. I'm gonna be you know, 0:33:57.120 --> 0:34:01.360 no arrogance, no conceit, you know, none of those kind 0:34:01.440 --> 0:34:03.440 of things. And I think once again you have to 0:34:03.440 --> 0:34:07.080 give credit to Duke Tobin in the scouting department for 0:34:07.200 --> 0:34:10.120 finding guys that aren't just good football players, but are 0:34:10.239 --> 0:34:11.320 damn good people. 0:34:11.920 --> 0:34:14.120 Hang tight, We've got more to get too as we 0:34:14.200 --> 0:34:16.880 head down the stretch in our first of three hours tonight, 0:34:16.880 --> 0:34:18.840 it's Bengals Line and we do it on the Bengals 0:34:18.920 --> 0:34:22.880 Radio Network and right here on seven hundred WLW. 0:34:25.400 --> 0:34:27.239 Down the stretch we are rolling till the. 0:34:27.160 --> 0:34:29.440 Top of the hour in our first hour, about to 0:34:29.480 --> 0:34:31.120 be put in the books of Bengals Line and the 0:34:31.120 --> 0:34:34.399 Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW and. 0:34:34.400 --> 0:34:37.960 Lance Kettering Health. The Injury Report here we go, presented 0:34:37.960 --> 0:34:41.520 by Kettering Healthy, official healthcare provider of the Cincinnati Bengals, 0:34:41.520 --> 0:34:44.640 providing the best care for the best fans. The tight 0:34:44.719 --> 0:34:46.960 end position got beaten up a little bit, Lance, I mean, 0:34:47.120 --> 0:34:51.719 you know, Mike H. Sticky strand pulled, whatever the case 0:34:51.760 --> 0:34:56.600 may be. We don't have all details the severity of 0:34:56.680 --> 0:34:59.680 the poll of a pectoral muscle, which is up in 0:34:59.680 --> 0:35:01.880 the check. You know, you have the pack, you have 0:35:02.040 --> 0:35:06.279 the major and minor pectoral, and so that's that's good. 0:35:06.320 --> 0:35:09.680 That's a tough injury because you can't put your hands 0:35:09.680 --> 0:35:12.160 above your head, you know, to catch the football. You 0:35:12.200 --> 0:35:15.920 can't block and finish and extend your arms. Depending on 0:35:15.920 --> 0:35:19.440 this verity again of the pectoral injury. So he you know, 0:35:19.520 --> 0:35:22.000 he may might be out a little bit. And uh, 0:35:22.320 --> 0:35:26.600 now you have uh uh Hudson another tight end that's 0:35:26.640 --> 0:35:27.400 got concussion. 0:35:27.680 --> 0:35:30.400 He was in concussion protocol. So how long is that 0:35:30.440 --> 0:35:30.839 going to be? 0:35:31.040 --> 0:35:33.480 When will he be cleared? Will he be playing this week? 0:35:33.840 --> 0:35:36.000 Well maybe not this week, but will he be playing 0:35:36.160 --> 0:35:37.040 the following week? 0:35:37.400 --> 0:35:37.799 I don't know. 0:35:37.880 --> 0:35:41.400 Sometimes concussions can be you know, dicey, They can be tricky. 0:35:41.400 --> 0:35:44.160 It can be two three weeks or whatever. Uh, you know, 0:35:44.239 --> 0:35:47.640 down the down the down the road. And then Trey Hendrickson, 0:35:47.920 --> 0:35:51.399 your best pass rusher, has got a hip issue and 0:35:51.400 --> 0:35:55.480 and let's face it, that's not an easy injury to 0:35:55.760 --> 0:35:58.839 overcome and get back out on the football field and 0:35:59.000 --> 0:36:01.799 knock heads with big you know, six foot five three 0:36:02.120 --> 0:36:06.480 and twenty pound offensive tackles snap after snap. So they 0:36:06.520 --> 0:36:09.759 do have their share of injury, not as bad as 0:36:09.760 --> 0:36:12.400 some teams around the National Football League, but they're not 0:36:12.520 --> 0:36:13.560 injury free as well. 0:36:13.719 --> 0:36:16.879 That is one hour officially in the books. 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Bengals Line, Bengals Radio Network in seven hundred WLW. 0:36:53.360 --> 0:36:55.879 Glance but now Lester Dave Lapham sorting through a big 0:36:55.920 --> 0:36:58.080 Thursday night went over the Steelers. We'll look ahead to 0:36:58.080 --> 0:37:01.560 the New York Jets as well, and let's look back 0:37:01.600 --> 0:37:04.880 on what we saw on Thursday night, Dave a pleasant site. 0:37:04.640 --> 0:37:07.200 They a Joe Burrow sighting, yes on the. 0:37:07.200 --> 0:37:12.360 Sidelines walking around, uh, and I think it encouraged everybody. 0:37:12.400 --> 0:37:15.319 He was off the little scooter thing he's been using. 0:37:15.400 --> 0:37:18.800 Still a ways away, but reports from the NFL network 0:37:18.840 --> 0:37:23.520 where things are going well. He's targeting mid December. Now, 0:37:23.520 --> 0:37:25.319 there's a long way to go between now and then, 0:37:25.360 --> 0:37:27.000 but it's a great sign to see Joe up and 0:37:27.040 --> 0:37:27.720 walking around. 0:37:27.840 --> 0:37:31.800 Absolutely, and I think, honestly, Joe Flacco was glad to 0:37:31.840 --> 0:37:32.200 see him. 0:37:32.200 --> 0:37:32.320 You know. 0:37:32.400 --> 0:37:34.360 I mean, what. 0:37:35.000 --> 0:37:38.080 The world of quarterback position in the National Football Leagues 0:37:38.120 --> 0:37:41.239 of fraternity, and it's a pretty small fraternity, and there's 0:37:41.280 --> 0:37:46.160 a big level of respect there amongst these quarterbacks and 0:37:46.360 --> 0:37:50.280 the talents that these quarterbacks do have, and every quarterback 0:37:50.320 --> 0:37:53.319 knows exactly what the other quarterbacks going through, you know. 0:37:54.520 --> 0:38:00.480 And so Joe Flacco, he I'm sure he is welcoming 0:38:00.960 --> 0:38:06.799 any comments, any not criticisms, but any input. Yeah, good, 0:38:06.880 --> 0:38:11.279 good word input that Joe Borrow may have in terms of, hey, 0:38:11.960 --> 0:38:14.759 when you're running that play, when they call it again, 0:38:14.800 --> 0:38:17.200 because we'll call it because we picked up twelve yards, 0:38:17.280 --> 0:38:18.879 so they're going to call this thing again, this tight 0:38:18.960 --> 0:38:21.520 end drag across man. Let them clear a little longer, 0:38:21.560 --> 0:38:24.439 you know, and it'll it'll be a home run. It'll 0:38:24.440 --> 0:38:26.680 go for even more yards. Or you know, when they're 0:38:26.680 --> 0:38:29.640 in cover two pre snap, they're giving this little tell. 0:38:29.719 --> 0:38:32.160 I see this tip that the strong safety is doing 0:38:32.200 --> 0:38:34.160 before he drops down in the box, and you know, 0:38:34.280 --> 0:38:36.680 and the free safety is rotating and you know to 0:38:36.719 --> 0:38:39.759 cover one. And you might have seen it, Joe. If 0:38:39.760 --> 0:38:42.680 you haven't, here's what I saw, you know, And I 0:38:42.760 --> 0:38:45.440 just want to make sure that you know. If I'm 0:38:45.480 --> 0:38:47.239 seeing things over here on the sideline, I want to 0:38:47.280 --> 0:38:49.080 make sure that you're seeing them as well out in 0:38:49.080 --> 0:38:50.759 the football field, because I want to do everything I 0:38:50.800 --> 0:38:54.839 possibly can to help my football team win the football game, 0:38:55.040 --> 0:38:57.359 because I can't do anything physically, so all I can 0:38:57.400 --> 0:39:00.120 do is help from a from a metal standpoint. And 0:39:00.400 --> 0:39:03.480 nobody has as good a mind for the game of football. 0:39:03.160 --> 0:39:03.760 As Joe Burrow. 0:39:04.600 --> 0:39:09.280 And there there is a The report was mid December. Again, 0:39:09.320 --> 0:39:11.920 this is all who knows this will be. There's a 0:39:11.920 --> 0:39:14.680 lot of hurdles to clear in the rehab and it's 0:39:14.680 --> 0:39:19.080 got to keep going right and at least though mid December. 0:39:19.360 --> 0:39:21.320 It causes me to at least look at the schedule. 0:39:21.400 --> 0:39:23.680 I say, all right, there's six more games to get 0:39:23.719 --> 0:39:27.279 to mid December. That's December fourteenth. If I account mid 0:39:27.360 --> 0:39:31.319 is December fourteenth. Can this team hang around, stay in 0:39:31.320 --> 0:39:35.400 contention and like build a bridge almost to Joe Burrow 0:39:35.440 --> 0:39:38.200 and that that sure beats sitting at two and five 0:39:38.239 --> 0:39:40.840 had you lost Thursday and having no bridge to build bingo. 0:39:41.200 --> 0:39:46.800 It does, and what it gives the football team thinking that, wow, 0:39:46.880 --> 0:39:49.480 the middle of December, we may have the best quarterback 0:39:49.520 --> 0:39:52.600 in the National Football League back throwing to Jamar Chase 0:39:52.600 --> 0:39:55.640 and T Higgins and I mean andre Yosi Vash and 0:39:55.680 --> 0:39:59.320 hopefully Kasiki's back by then. And you know, Hudson and everybody, 0:39:59.320 --> 0:40:01.520 we have all of our our arsenal, all of our weapons. 0:40:01.840 --> 0:40:05.000 It gives us hope, man, and there's there's nothing better 0:40:05.040 --> 0:40:08.600 than hope, you know, keep hope alive. And and that's 0:40:08.600 --> 0:40:12.799 what that's what this will do. And it just it 0:40:12.960 --> 0:40:17.479 just gives the team probably feels a lot more whole. Yes, 0:40:17.560 --> 0:40:19.799 when Joe Burrows on the sideline, be it in a 0:40:19.840 --> 0:40:23.080 boot or whatever the case may be, uh supporting that 0:40:23.080 --> 0:40:24.279 that injury that he's got. 0:40:25.080 --> 0:40:27.640 So yeah, it's it's it's all good. 0:40:27.719 --> 0:40:31.200 There's no there's no negative whatsoever in any way, shape 0:40:31.280 --> 0:40:34.040 or form about Joe Burrow being down that sideline. 0:40:34.200 --> 0:40:36.520 I had heard, and this had bugged me for the 0:40:36.600 --> 0:40:38.880 last couple of weeks. I don't think people understood what 0:40:39.000 --> 0:40:41.160 Joe was going through. I had heard from a number 0:40:41.160 --> 0:40:43.439 of people who said, why isn't Joe with the team, 0:40:43.440 --> 0:40:47.000 Why isn't Joe helping it? And and one the initial 0:40:47.040 --> 0:40:49.600 surgery left him on a scooter with with his leg 0:40:49.680 --> 0:40:50.359 up on a pad. 0:40:50.600 --> 0:40:50.799 Yep. 0:40:50.920 --> 0:40:53.440 So one, you're not gonna you're not going to travel 0:40:53.480 --> 0:40:55.680 with your scooter on a plane and deal with all 0:40:55.719 --> 0:40:57.400 that and through the airports and everything else. You're not 0:40:57.440 --> 0:40:59.239 gonna be on the sidelines on a scooter and open 0:40:59.280 --> 0:41:01.839 yourself up at being immobile if a play comes out 0:41:01.840 --> 0:41:03.560 of bounds and runs in. I mean, there were just 0:41:03.600 --> 0:41:05.920 too many things that could go wrong. So I never 0:41:05.960 --> 0:41:09.480 understood why anybody would want Joe based on everything he 0:41:09.520 --> 0:41:11.240 was having to deal with with the scooter, why anybody 0:41:11.280 --> 0:41:12.960 thought he should have been with the team at that point. 0:41:13.000 --> 0:41:15.040 I agree. I agree with all of that. I mean 0:41:15.440 --> 0:41:16.399 that physical part. 0:41:16.680 --> 0:41:18.399 I mean it's hard for him to move around, hard 0:41:18.400 --> 0:41:20.560 for him to, you know, travel with the apparatus, got 0:41:20.640 --> 0:41:23.120 to pack it underneath the plane and you know everything else. 0:41:23.320 --> 0:41:26.160 So it's not an easy chore. Plus the other thing is, 0:41:27.160 --> 0:41:31.680 let's face it, broadcasters would be looking at, say, Joe 0:41:31.680 --> 0:41:35.520 Flacco makes a poor decision that throws internship. Oh man, 0:41:35.560 --> 0:41:37.839 look Joe Burrow sitting on that sideline looking. I wonder 0:41:37.880 --> 0:41:40.280 what he's thinking. I wonder what's going through Joe Burrow's 0:41:40.280 --> 0:41:43.480 mind right now when Joe Flacco throws that key interception 0:41:43.600 --> 0:41:45.839 with two minutes to go in the first half, boy 0:41:45.880 --> 0:41:49.520 oh boy, and all of that can't that big can 0:41:49.520 --> 0:41:52.839 of worms gets opened up, and you know it's it's 0:41:52.840 --> 0:41:55.680 tough enough for Joe Flacco in a short period of 0:41:55.680 --> 0:41:57.400 time to get ready to play to the level that 0:41:57.440 --> 0:42:00.439 he's played at US, never mind being compared to Joe 0:42:00.480 --> 0:42:04.480 Burrow at his best, when he's potential MVP candidate in 0:42:04.520 --> 0:42:06.320 the National Football League. 0:42:06.560 --> 0:42:09.680 I'm and I've never gone through turf toe. I think 0:42:09.760 --> 0:42:13.400 it would be interesting and fascinating to think if everything 0:42:13.480 --> 0:42:16.560 starts at your base and your feet. I wonder how 0:42:16.680 --> 0:42:19.640 much rehab, what what rehab is like for Joe or 0:42:19.680 --> 0:42:22.479 if mid December is doable. It's not like you can 0:42:22.600 --> 0:42:25.840 you can do any running conditioning and I don't know. 0:42:25.920 --> 0:42:27.800 I guess you can sit there and throw a football. 0:42:27.800 --> 0:42:30.080 But when everything starts at your feed and your toes, 0:42:30.120 --> 0:42:31.080 it's got to make it tough. 0:42:31.200 --> 0:42:32.080 Yeah, it's brutal. 0:42:32.120 --> 0:42:34.760 I mean, it's the it's the base of your foundation, 0:42:35.040 --> 0:42:38.480 you know, and uh, all your weight gravity, and it 0:42:38.520 --> 0:42:40.960 takes it takes it right down there. I did have 0:42:41.320 --> 0:42:45.279 turf toe. Mine was caused by you know, on on 0:42:45.320 --> 0:42:48.799 the goal line trying to block and get underneath people 0:42:48.800 --> 0:42:51.960 and borrow under and banging shan my toe into the 0:42:52.239 --> 0:42:55.760 the astra turf, the fake fake grass which had no padding. 0:42:55.800 --> 0:42:58.680 I mean it was hardest rock and uh and. 0:42:58.600 --> 0:43:02.400 Man, I'm telling you as alignment it was, it was 0:43:02.600 --> 0:43:06.200 not as severe probably as Joe's, but it was painful. 0:43:06.200 --> 0:43:09.040 I mean, there was definitely something there. It wasn't normal, 0:43:09.080 --> 0:43:14.480 that's for sure. Man, telling you you just in your mind, 0:43:14.600 --> 0:43:17.840 your mind is don't favorite, don't favorite, you know, treated equally, 0:43:18.200 --> 0:43:20.560 treated just like the other one. But man, that pain 0:43:20.680 --> 0:43:24.240 is like the pain's there for a reason. God invented 0:43:24.280 --> 0:43:27.000 pain to let you know, dude, cut it out, don't 0:43:27.000 --> 0:43:30.400 be stupid. Stop it, you know. So yeah, there's no 0:43:31.000 --> 0:43:33.839 there's no magic wand that Joe Burrow can wave and 0:43:33.920 --> 0:43:38.360 uh and and you know eliminate his his issue, his injury. 0:43:38.960 --> 0:43:41.080 So he has to be has to be mindful of that. 0:43:41.160 --> 0:43:43.680 And if you try to come back too quickly, which 0:43:43.680 --> 0:43:47.800 I tried to do for practice standpoint, I tried to 0:43:47.800 --> 0:43:50.640 come back a day earlier than I should have, jammed 0:43:50.680 --> 0:43:53.080 that bad boy up, tweaked it and like, whoa man, 0:43:53.200 --> 0:43:55.359 that put me back a little bit. And now you're 0:43:55.719 --> 0:43:57.960 not only back, but you're worse. 0:43:58.080 --> 0:43:58.279 You know. 0:43:58.360 --> 0:44:01.800 You're like if there are steps leading down to the basement, 0:44:02.280 --> 0:44:04.439 instead of four step down, you're the fifth step down, 0:44:04.480 --> 0:44:06.279 you know. And it's like, oh, brother, why did I 0:44:06.320 --> 0:44:08.440 do it? That was stupid? Why did I do that? Well, 0:44:08.440 --> 0:44:10.600 you did it because you love your team, You love 0:44:10.640 --> 0:44:12.719 your teammates. You want to do what you can to 0:44:12.800 --> 0:44:16.120 help your coaches, you know, keep their jobs and win 0:44:16.239 --> 0:44:17.719 as many football games as they can. 0:44:18.400 --> 0:44:20.879 Final thought, as we hit the brake, if we were 0:44:20.920 --> 0:44:25.440 looking at that December fourteenth return, potentially just as a 0:44:25.480 --> 0:44:28.120 moving target, there'll be four games left in the regular 0:44:28.160 --> 0:44:31.560 season that would include Baltimore at the Dolphins home to 0:44:31.600 --> 0:44:33.719 the Cardinals and home to the brown So they'd be 0:44:33.800 --> 0:44:37.080 thirteen games into the season with four games left. If, 0:44:37.120 --> 0:44:40.239 in fact, Joe could hit a December fourteenth target. That's 0:44:40.400 --> 0:44:42.160 a big if at this point, but it's certainly an 0:44:42.200 --> 0:44:45.320 if that is worth at least considering and getting a 0:44:45.360 --> 0:44:47.719 little excited about with the possibilities. 0:44:47.840 --> 0:44:49.880 Yeah, and you look at those That's not Murderer's role, 0:44:50.040 --> 0:44:53.200 it's not. I mean Baltimore. Baltimore is struggling right now, 0:44:53.520 --> 0:44:56.600 but you know Lamar Jackson's out. They have more guys 0:44:56.600 --> 0:44:59.360 out than they have playing. Yes, if the Baltimore Ravens 0:44:59.440 --> 0:45:00.720 roster there's playing now, it's. 0:45:00.600 --> 0:45:01.520 Like, who are these guys? 0:45:01.880 --> 0:45:03.799 You know, you need a who's who of football to 0:45:03.880 --> 0:45:07.520 identify who the players are. They'll they'll probably all be 0:45:07.640 --> 0:45:10.840 back and playing at a relatively high level. They'll probably 0:45:10.840 --> 0:45:13.000 have been playing for at least a couple of weeks 0:45:13.560 --> 0:45:17.279 before they match up against the Cincinnati Bengals. But man, 0:45:17.360 --> 0:45:20.160 the other teams, if the Bengals can't beat them, they 0:45:20.160 --> 0:45:22.120 don't deserve to be in the playoff hunt anyway. 0:45:22.160 --> 0:45:24.520 Yeah, that's the name of the name of the game. 0:45:25.160 --> 0:45:27.359 Well, when we come back, I've had a question ask 0:45:27.520 --> 0:45:29.480 of me a lot that I'll ask you to you 0:45:29.520 --> 0:45:32.520 and it's and we just went through what Joe Burrow 0:45:32.600 --> 0:45:35.080 might be able to do to help Joe Flacco. I've 0:45:35.120 --> 0:45:38.440 been asked a lot about does Joe Flacco. Can Joe 0:45:38.480 --> 0:45:41.919 Burrow learn things from Joe Flacco? Flacco is the most 0:45:41.960 --> 0:45:46.200 experienced quarterback that Joe's had with him on the team 0:45:46.239 --> 0:45:48.640 at one time. Yeah, seen a lot, done a lot 0:45:48.760 --> 0:45:52.799 things that maybe Joe could learn and see through Joe 0:45:52.800 --> 0:45:55.000 Flacco's performance. Let's do a little bit of that and 0:45:55.080 --> 0:45:57.640 more as we continue. It's Bengals Line on the Bengals 0:45:57.760 --> 0:46:03.160 Radio Network and seven hundred W l W. Hey, We're 0:46:03.200 --> 0:46:04.960 back on Bengals Line on this Monday night on the 0:46:04.960 --> 0:46:08.480 Bengals Radio Network. In seven hundred WLW. Lance Pacallister hanging 0:46:08.520 --> 0:46:09.960 out with Dave Lappham. 0:46:09.640 --> 0:46:12.080 Lance Shop the Bengals Pro Shop find the best selection 0:46:12.200 --> 0:46:15.600 of the Bengals merchandise anywhere. This is the Pro Shop, 0:46:15.680 --> 0:46:17.920 seven days a week, located on the north side of 0:46:17.960 --> 0:46:21.000 pay Court Stadium, a shop online at Bengals dot com. 0:46:21.000 --> 0:46:22.839 So day we were talking about Joe Flacco, we were 0:46:22.840 --> 0:46:25.800 talking about Joe Burrow. Joe Flacco clearly has the most 0:46:25.840 --> 0:46:30.360 impressive resume, the most accomplished quarterback that Joe has played 0:46:30.440 --> 0:46:33.280 with on this Bengals roster. He's never had a backup 0:46:33.360 --> 0:46:35.600 or now obviously a starter in Flacco, who's done what 0:46:35.719 --> 0:46:36.840 Joe Flacco has done. 0:46:37.280 --> 0:46:38.880 Is there are there things. 0:46:38.640 --> 0:46:43.160 You And I'm always I'm always big on getting different perspective, 0:46:43.160 --> 0:46:45.439 but a different a different way of looking at things 0:46:45.680 --> 0:46:48.440 and fresh eyes and and I think it's good for 0:46:48.560 --> 0:46:51.440 Joe now, especially now that he's with the team, to 0:46:51.640 --> 0:46:55.239 see someone else do what he did and know that 0:46:55.280 --> 0:46:58.640 it's done from somebody has accomplished is Joe Flacco. There's 0:46:58.640 --> 0:47:03.240 got to be nuances or mannerisms or get tendencies. There's 0:47:03.239 --> 0:47:04.719 got to be a variety of things that could be 0:47:04.760 --> 0:47:06.440 there to be picked up on by Joe Burrow. 0:47:06.600 --> 0:47:08.960 Yeah, yeah, I would think there's ways that he can 0:47:08.960 --> 0:47:12.720 tweak his game, you know. And good call by you. 0:47:12.719 --> 0:47:15.360 You're a very intelligent man. I mean you you you 0:47:15.880 --> 0:47:18.440 try to learn as much as you can every single day. 0:47:18.480 --> 0:47:20.719 I mean, I think the day that any of us 0:47:20.719 --> 0:47:23.839 say absolutely, I don't want I don't want to even 0:47:23.880 --> 0:47:27.440 hear anything anymore. I don't want to don't don't muddy 0:47:27.480 --> 0:47:29.839 the waters. Man, don't cloud the issue. To me, I've 0:47:29.840 --> 0:47:32.799 got to figure it out. That's the first day you're 0:47:32.840 --> 0:47:34.560 on the way down, you know, that's the first day 0:47:34.600 --> 0:47:38.880 you're you're closer to not retire, either retirement or getting fired, 0:47:38.920 --> 0:47:42.640 you know, and people people moving on. And and I 0:47:42.680 --> 0:47:45.000 do think that Joe Burrow does look at Joe Flacco 0:47:45.080 --> 0:47:47.920 as somebody that, man, this guy's a great resource for me. 0:47:48.480 --> 0:47:51.520 I love learning all I can about the game of football. 0:47:51.600 --> 0:47:54.200 I'm a football savant. I want to know everything there 0:47:54.239 --> 0:47:56.799 is to know about the game and how to play 0:47:56.840 --> 0:47:58.440 the game, and how to play the game at the 0:47:58.480 --> 0:48:01.399 highest level. And Joe Blaco has been an MVP, Joe 0:48:01.480 --> 0:48:04.000 fat Flacco has won playoff games, you know, in neither 0:48:04.239 --> 0:48:06.040 one of us have won the Super Bowl. Yet that's 0:48:06.080 --> 0:48:10.040 our ultimate goal. If we collaborate and do things the 0:48:10.120 --> 0:48:12.759 right way here, one plus one is going to equal three. 0:48:13.080 --> 0:48:15.279 It just won't eat just won't equal two. You know, 0:48:15.320 --> 0:48:18.200 there'll be a synergistic effect here that will help the 0:48:18.360 --> 0:48:19.279 entire football team. 0:48:19.360 --> 0:48:23.000 And David, I wonder and their there are stark differences 0:48:23.040 --> 0:48:24.839 between the two in terms of what we talked about 0:48:24.840 --> 0:48:29.000 with Joe Flacco earlier. He will when the play isn't there, 0:48:29.320 --> 0:48:31.600 he won't try to make something of it. He moves on. 0:48:32.120 --> 0:48:34.640 Joe is different from the standpoint. Joe's very good at 0:48:34.680 --> 0:48:37.359 extending plays and trying to get that wide receiver. Ope, 0:48:37.360 --> 0:48:39.840 but at the last minute, maybe taking a hit sometimes 0:48:39.840 --> 0:48:43.000 it might lead an interception. I wonder if Joe sees 0:48:43.040 --> 0:48:45.759 a different way of maybe I don't always have to 0:48:45.800 --> 0:48:48.239 extend plays. Maybe there is something to be said for 0:48:48.360 --> 0:48:50.640 don't take the hit or don't risk the throw, just 0:48:50.719 --> 0:48:52.359 throw it away and move on to the next play. 0:48:52.440 --> 0:48:55.640 Yeah, I mean, there's nothing wrong with reevaluating you the 0:48:55.640 --> 0:48:57.960 way you look at your game, you know, uh, the 0:48:58.000 --> 0:49:01.200 way you look at the game of football as a whole. 0:49:01.880 --> 0:49:04.359 Let's face it, the way Joe Borrow has been doing 0:49:04.440 --> 0:49:06.319 it has led quite a bit of injury. I mean 0:49:06.400 --> 0:49:09.880 he's been he's been dinged up a lot. Uh and uh, 0:49:09.960 --> 0:49:14.520 you know, high school, he was just better than everybody 0:49:14.800 --> 0:49:17.960 physically better. Same same at the collegiate level, although you know, 0:49:18.160 --> 0:49:23.479 they were physically much more unique at the collegiate level 0:49:23.480 --> 0:49:25.560 than at the high school level. And now you face 0:49:25.600 --> 0:49:29.080 the most unique, uh, physical specimens in the in the 0:49:29.160 --> 0:49:33.640 National Football League, So you know you're advancing and and uh, 0:49:34.760 --> 0:49:35.919 all it takes is one blow. 0:49:36.000 --> 0:49:37.120 One blow and you're out. Man. 0:49:37.280 --> 0:49:39.799 So you do you have to be judicious. You have 0:49:39.880 --> 0:49:42.680 to be, you know, really thoughtful in how you approach. 0:49:43.280 --> 0:49:44.799 How many hits do I want to take? 0:49:44.920 --> 0:49:45.120 Man? 0:49:45.680 --> 0:49:47.200 How much of a beating do I want to take? 0:49:47.239 --> 0:49:49.240 I want to win games. I want to win games 0:49:49.239 --> 0:49:53.160 for my teammates. I want to, you know, win division titles. 0:49:53.360 --> 0:49:55.399 I want to win conference championships. I want to win 0:49:55.440 --> 0:49:58.160 Super Bowls. But you have to do it judiciously. 0:49:58.520 --> 0:50:01.600 Another thought on on Joe Flah and this not tied 0:50:01.640 --> 0:50:03.840 specifically to Joe Burrow, but I think everybody in that 0:50:03.880 --> 0:50:08.799 locker room. I until he came here, My knowledge of 0:50:08.880 --> 0:50:12.400 Joe Flacco was simply watching him play and hearing a 0:50:12.440 --> 0:50:14.080 SoundBite or two maybe every week. 0:50:14.239 --> 0:50:14.399 Right. 0:50:14.440 --> 0:50:17.640 The more I listen to Joe Flacco, the more impressive 0:50:17.680 --> 0:50:22.000 he is from just his big picture understanding and appreciation 0:50:22.160 --> 0:50:26.000 of things there. And I'm not saying he's like the 0:50:26.080 --> 0:50:28.279 adult in the room or the grandfather in the room, 0:50:28.480 --> 0:50:33.759 but he just sounds he sounds different than everybody else 0:50:33.800 --> 0:50:36.520 in this team because he maybe it's just because he's 0:50:36.520 --> 0:50:39.160 forty and live life longer than anybody else. I just 0:50:39.280 --> 0:50:41.839 find him very reflective and refreshing to hear. 0:50:42.040 --> 0:50:44.239 Yeah, I think he's so experienced. 0:50:44.400 --> 0:50:49.279 You know, it's like there's not one dynamic in life 0:50:49.320 --> 0:50:52.000 that he hasn't gone through probably, you know. I mean 0:50:52.040 --> 0:50:56.920 it's whether it's his family, his football family, whatever the 0:50:56.960 --> 0:50:59.879 case may be. I mean, I do know in talking 0:50:59.880 --> 0:51:03.480 to him that the single most important thing to him 0:51:03.560 --> 0:51:05.680 is his wife and children. And he's got five kids 0:51:05.680 --> 0:51:08.879 and they're raising a beautiful family. He wants to make 0:51:08.920 --> 0:51:11.919 sure that everything is done right in that regard, doesn't 0:51:11.920 --> 0:51:15.759 want to jeopardize anything with respect to that, but he 0:51:15.880 --> 0:51:19.120 does know that, you know, football is a good way 0:51:19.160 --> 0:51:22.279 to make their life a little bit better, a lot 0:51:22.320 --> 0:51:26.040 better really, And there's economics involved that he's done exceptionally 0:51:26.080 --> 0:51:28.080 well and he's going to continue to do well, and 0:51:28.080 --> 0:51:31.960 his team will, his team, his family will thrive as 0:51:32.000 --> 0:51:35.080 a result of that. So he is a very mature 0:51:36.080 --> 0:51:39.160 human being. I think he's even mature beyond his years. 0:51:39.960 --> 0:51:44.759 And Joe Flackell understands life, understands football life, and understands 0:51:44.800 --> 0:51:45.880 how they're related. 0:51:46.160 --> 0:51:48.200 I love the fact he was talking last week about 0:51:48.239 --> 0:51:51.120 once in his mind he knew he wanted to keep 0:51:51.160 --> 0:51:53.680 playing and made the commitment mentally to it. You know, 0:51:53.760 --> 0:51:56.640 things like taking care of your body or understanding situations 0:51:56.640 --> 0:51:59.520 and how each situation he's been in has helped in 0:51:59.560 --> 0:52:02.120 the next situation. And maybe it was a place he 0:52:02.120 --> 0:52:04.520 didn't necessarily want to be, maybe he didn't want to 0:52:04.520 --> 0:52:07.000 be the backup, but he used it as a learning 0:52:07.080 --> 0:52:09.839 experience to get to through it to the next thing. 0:52:10.120 --> 0:52:13.400 And this is the next thing, and it's it's like, 0:52:13.600 --> 0:52:15.319 I don't want to say the Fountain of Youth, but 0:52:15.680 --> 0:52:18.000 I would. There's a lot of juice behind this for 0:52:18.120 --> 0:52:18.800 him as well. 0:52:18.920 --> 0:52:25.640 Absolutely, And how about this question, what tandem or duo 0:52:25.680 --> 0:52:27.600 of quarterbacks in the NFL is going to be better 0:52:27.640 --> 0:52:30.200 than Joe Burrow and Joe Flacco. When Joe Burrow is 0:52:30.239 --> 0:52:34.440 able to come back. Great Joe Flacco as a backup quarterback, 0:52:34.560 --> 0:52:37.680 I mean, he may be the best backup quarterback in 0:52:37.719 --> 0:52:41.120 the history of the National Football League, particularly if he play. 0:52:41.200 --> 0:52:43.680 I mean, he's playing very well right now. And as 0:52:43.680 --> 0:52:46.719 the weeks go by and he gets more and more 0:52:46.719 --> 0:52:50.920 familiar with the game plan on a repetition repetition preachs 0:52:51.120 --> 0:52:54.319 comfort level on a week by week basis, his level 0:52:54.360 --> 0:52:56.399 of play is going to increase. I mean, he will 0:52:56.400 --> 0:52:58.920 put up significant numbers. And I'm not saying that Joe 0:52:59.000 --> 0:53:01.480 Burrow won't get a starting job back, you know, but 0:53:01.520 --> 0:53:04.480 when he comes back, it's not gonna be a quarterback controversy. 0:53:04.800 --> 0:53:08.000 I mean it's gonna be. It's gonna be an embarrassment 0:53:08.040 --> 0:53:10.680 of riches at the quarterback position, is what it's gonna be. 0:53:11.000 --> 0:53:14.920 You're gonna have arguably the greatest quarterback in the NFL 0:53:14.960 --> 0:53:17.360 as a starter, and the greatest backup quarterback in the 0:53:17.480 --> 0:53:18.800 NFL is your backup quarterback. 0:53:18.840 --> 0:53:21.040 Can't beat that one too much. Perfect segue. 0:53:21.120 --> 0:53:23.839 In our next segment, let's talk about perhaps the maybe 0:53:23.880 --> 0:53:26.200 not even perhaps maybe a given the best wide receiver 0:53:26.239 --> 0:53:26.600 in the game. 0:53:26.640 --> 0:53:27.040 What JR. 0:53:27.160 --> 0:53:29.120 Chase did on Thursday night. Holy cow. 0:53:29.480 --> 0:53:32.759 Let's give him some love and continue conversation along those 0:53:32.800 --> 0:53:35.760 lines as we continue with Bengals Line on the Bengals 0:53:35.840 --> 0:53:40.960 Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. Hey, welcome back to 0:53:40.960 --> 0:53:43.520 Bengals Line of this Monday night of the Bengals Radio Network. 0:53:43.520 --> 0:53:47.440 In seven hundred WLW, we have sorted through Thursday night 0:53:47.440 --> 0:53:50.480 against the Pittsburgh Steelers on both sides of the football 0:53:50.520 --> 0:53:53.239 got into Joe Flacco as well. Let's spend some time 0:53:53.320 --> 0:53:59.440 on Jamar Chase targeted twenty three times, twenty three targets, 0:54:00.000 --> 0:54:03.880 forty seven pass attempts by Joe Flaccoie hauls in sixteen 0:54:03.920 --> 0:54:06.480 of those for one hundred and sixty one yards in 0:54:06.560 --> 0:54:11.400 a touchdown, and man I by halftime started the third quarter, 0:54:11.719 --> 0:54:12.920 I thought sure he was gonna. 0:54:12.760 --> 0:54:13.560 Get twenty catches. 0:54:13.600 --> 0:54:15.839 They just kept going to him and going to him, 0:54:15.920 --> 0:54:17.279 and he just kept catching him. 0:54:18.080 --> 0:54:24.160 He's unbelievable. And what it showed me these kind of numbers. 0:54:24.400 --> 0:54:27.840 When you're targeted twenty three times, sixteen catches, one hundred 0:54:27.880 --> 0:54:32.279 sixty one yards and a touchdown, that is tiring. His 0:54:32.600 --> 0:54:37.359 physical conditioning is great, point incredible. It's remarkable to do 0:54:37.440 --> 0:54:42.400 that at the NFL level against you know, great physical specimens. 0:54:42.440 --> 0:54:45.920 These guys are jamming you, you know, pushing you around, 0:54:45.920 --> 0:54:48.960 trying to get you off course, double teaming you. You're 0:54:49.000 --> 0:54:52.920 going through contact, you're sprinting, you're running full speed, and 0:54:53.000 --> 0:54:56.319 then you're breaking it down. That That is tiring, going 0:54:56.320 --> 0:54:58.480 full speed and chopping it down to you know, and 0:54:58.520 --> 0:55:00.880 then making a cut up, you know, change in direction 0:55:01.360 --> 0:55:06.160 off of that. That is man mind boggling for him 0:55:06.200 --> 0:55:09.880 to be as fresh as he was in the fourth quarter. 0:55:10.239 --> 0:55:12.359 And I didn't notice any difference in him coming off 0:55:12.400 --> 0:55:15.520 the line of scrimmage and how he was attacking defensive 0:55:15.520 --> 0:55:19.040 backs in quarter number one or quarter number four, I mean, 0:55:19.640 --> 0:55:23.319 or any time in between. He is something else. I mean, 0:55:23.880 --> 0:55:25.919 And then I was watching him. When are you gonna 0:55:25.960 --> 0:55:26.359 drink water? 0:55:26.440 --> 0:55:26.840 Dude? 0:55:27.360 --> 0:55:29.680 I mean, for crying out loud, what are you a machine? 0:55:29.800 --> 0:55:32.319 Or what are you? It's He'll take like a little 0:55:32.360 --> 0:55:33.440 simple water here and there. 0:55:33.480 --> 0:55:36.760 You know. It is just it's unbelievable to watch him 0:55:37.239 --> 0:55:39.680 perform his craft. He is as good at what he 0:55:39.760 --> 0:55:44.080 does as anybody doing anything in the entire world. 0:55:44.200 --> 0:55:48.319 His his strength in the ability to create yards after 0:55:48.480 --> 0:55:52.360 catch and break tackles. It is I mean, sometimes you 0:55:52.400 --> 0:55:54.680 think he's not even humid. He's like a robot. He 0:55:54.800 --> 0:55:58.839 just sheds people who it looks like he's wrapped up 0:55:58.920 --> 0:56:00.600 and he just breaks that. 0:56:00.600 --> 0:56:02.759 The strength is just off the charts. 0:56:02.920 --> 0:56:05.520 I'm a great point again, Lance, I'm wondering of the 0:56:05.520 --> 0:56:08.319 one hundred and sixty one yards, how many of those 0:56:08.440 --> 0:56:12.120 are yards after catch, yards after contact? A bunch, I mean, 0:56:12.160 --> 0:56:15.320 a good a good percentage I bet forty percent anyway 0:56:17.000 --> 0:56:20.319 that that that is, that's just remarkable and in the 0:56:20.360 --> 0:56:23.279 red zone because all the things you're talking about, how 0:56:23.320 --> 0:56:26.200 strong he is, how physically dominant he is, and the 0:56:26.800 --> 0:56:29.880 size speed ratio he has the best size speed ratio 0:56:29.960 --> 0:56:32.680 in the NFL. And you watch him in the weight 0:56:32.760 --> 0:56:35.759 room and you watch him power clean weight, you watch 0:56:35.840 --> 0:56:38.839 him deadlift weight, It's like, what the hell I mean 0:56:38.880 --> 0:56:42.680 he's stalling weights around that offensive and defensive lineman throw around, 0:56:42.680 --> 0:56:46.120 and Jamar Chase is just, you know, very casual, nonchalant 0:56:46.120 --> 0:56:48.400 about the whole thing. It's like, you know, hey, another 0:56:48.440 --> 0:56:50.200 day at the office. Here we go. I'm just trying 0:56:50.200 --> 0:56:53.560 to make myself better. And that that's the thing about 0:56:53.640 --> 0:56:59.680 him is he is the ultimate competitor, uber uber competitive. 0:57:00.040 --> 0:57:02.520 And David, I know he's still early in his career, 0:57:02.560 --> 0:57:05.080 and I'm not making this as a declaration, but when 0:57:05.080 --> 0:57:08.399 you think all that this franchise has seen from from 0:57:08.480 --> 0:57:11.440 Isaac Curtis to Chad Johnson to A. J. Green to 0:57:11.719 --> 0:57:16.520 to Carl Pickens and all their skill sets, I look 0:57:16.560 --> 0:57:20.280 at the combined skill set of Jamar Chase and I say, 0:57:21.120 --> 0:57:24.480 you guys are great. Yeah, the one package what Jamar 0:57:24.680 --> 0:57:26.160 is it's hard to comprehend. 0:57:26.560 --> 0:57:30.560 It's totally unique. Yes, I mean it's dynamic, is what 0:57:30.600 --> 0:57:34.080 he what it is. And I think all of those receivers. 0:57:35.000 --> 0:57:38.760 I've talked to Isaac Curtis about Jamar Chase, He's like, oh, man, dude, 0:57:39.040 --> 0:57:41.640 he's a freak. There's a freak as a way, you know, 0:57:42.280 --> 0:57:44.760 it's like his physical specimen. 0:57:44.840 --> 0:57:45.120 Man. 0:57:45.520 --> 0:57:47.959 And uh, you know all of them feel that way. 0:57:48.080 --> 0:57:52.240 You know, it's that's universal and that uh that's a 0:57:52.280 --> 0:57:56.480 credit to Jamar Chase. And I think they also like 0:57:56.560 --> 0:58:00.520 the fact that he doesn't freelance, and he he doesn't 0:58:00.600 --> 0:58:03.480 you know, he's not interested in, you know, having his 0:58:03.600 --> 0:58:08.440 numbers be the story. He wants the store to be 0:58:08.520 --> 0:58:11.960 the team one. And then there's a subplot by the way, 0:58:12.080 --> 0:58:14.440 you know, I had sixteen catches one hundred sixty one 0:58:14.520 --> 0:58:15.360 yards in a touchdown. 0:58:15.600 --> 0:58:17.160 He didn't want it to be the other way around. 0:58:18.080 --> 0:58:22.080 And uh, yeah, he's he is the consummate professional of 0:58:22.080 --> 0:58:23.040 the consummate teammate. 0:58:23.200 --> 0:58:26.640 What I really loved on Thursday night and I'm I 0:58:26.720 --> 0:58:29.440 love taking what you're given, and that was there. They 0:58:29.480 --> 0:58:31.480 just kept going to it. Yeah, they kept it was 0:58:31.480 --> 0:58:34.840 successful and they kept going, and Joe Flacco targeted the 0:58:34.920 --> 0:58:39.000 two of them, chasing Higgins thirty seven thirty three times 0:58:39.000 --> 0:58:39.960 between the two of them. 0:58:40.320 --> 0:58:42.440 But he just kept going to Chase because it was. 0:58:42.440 --> 0:58:45.080 There, the advantage was there, and he was just rolling 0:58:45.120 --> 0:58:45.880 and there was no state. 0:58:45.880 --> 0:58:47.880 He just kept feeding him the ball. And I love that. Yeah, 0:58:47.960 --> 0:58:50.640 And why not if it's working, keep going to it exactly. 0:58:50.960 --> 0:58:53.800 And I can't I can't believe that. You know that 0:58:53.880 --> 0:58:54.920 they stayed in the coverage. 0:58:55.320 --> 0:58:58.760 They didn't said, you know, so Flacco Chase look at 0:58:58.800 --> 0:59:00.680 each other, gonna keep doing it. 0:59:00.720 --> 0:59:01.880 Here we go. 0:59:02.520 --> 0:59:03.840 Give you a tip of the cap, you know, a 0:59:03.840 --> 0:59:05.760 little a little non little bow or whatever. 0:59:06.120 --> 0:59:06.400 Yeah. 0:59:06.520 --> 0:59:09.400 I mean, eventually they may come out of it, but 0:59:09.400 --> 0:59:11.560 it doesn't seem like they're in any hurry, that's for 0:59:11.680 --> 0:59:15.160 darn sure. And I think the running game was a 0:59:15.200 --> 0:59:18.120 factor in that as well. I feel like Tomlin felt 0:59:18.120 --> 0:59:21.720 like he had to do certain things and commit certain 0:59:21.800 --> 0:59:26.560 numbers of linebackers and safeties from a personnel standpoint to 0:59:26.600 --> 0:59:30.120 the running game because Chase Brown was so effective, and you. 0:59:30.040 --> 0:59:31.160 Know, that's what you want. Man. 0:59:31.280 --> 0:59:34.720 When you have a balanced attack like that, it makes 0:59:34.800 --> 0:59:37.400 it almost impossible for a defense to defend. You know, 0:59:37.760 --> 0:59:39.760 you don't want to be one dimensional. You want to 0:59:39.800 --> 0:59:41.840 be balanced, and the Bengals were the definition of it. 0:59:41.880 --> 0:59:42.080 Boy. 0:59:42.200 --> 0:59:45.600 I remember I laughed because Joe Flacco has mentioned in 0:59:45.640 --> 0:59:48.760 the last couple of weeks what he's learning about Higgins 0:59:48.760 --> 0:59:50.680 and Chase and just how darn good they are. And 0:59:50.720 --> 0:59:53.240 I think of Flacco's career, and he's had some okay 0:59:53.360 --> 0:59:55.200 receivers along the way, but I go back to Week 0:59:55.240 --> 0:59:56.640 one with the Browns where he had a couple of 0:59:56.680 --> 0:59:59.880 his passes the receivers bobbled and they turned into interceptions. 1:00:00.160 --> 1:00:02.400 And to think of where Flacco was at one point 1:00:02.400 --> 1:00:04.680 in his career to now being able to throw to 1:00:04.760 --> 1:00:06.920 Chase in Higgins. I mean, Joe Flacco's got to go 1:00:06.960 --> 1:00:08.680 home every night and tell his wife. 1:00:08.640 --> 1:00:10.360 You want I mean, this is heaven. 1:00:10.640 --> 1:00:12.680 I've got two of the best of the game catch 1:00:12.720 --> 1:00:15.920 of my passes exactly. I think he probably goes to 1:00:16.120 --> 1:00:19.240 Holmes Her and says, honey, now I know what football 1:00:19.280 --> 1:00:22.520 heaven is. You know the football gods. I know there 1:00:22.520 --> 1:00:24.840 are football gods now. I wasn't sure for a while, 1:00:25.080 --> 1:00:27.720 and I know there are now because they've they've really 1:00:27.760 --> 1:00:30.560 blessed me man and I have got a couple of 1:00:30.640 --> 1:00:34.280 studs that I'm able to compete with and throw the 1:00:34.280 --> 1:00:37.240 football to on a weekly basis, And man, it's like 1:00:37.520 --> 1:00:40.000 I just can't wait. I can't wait for the game plans. 1:00:40.400 --> 1:00:42.800 I got coaching staff that knows what the hell they're doing, 1:00:42.880 --> 1:00:45.960 Zach Taylor, Dan Pitcher, and I got receivers that can 1:00:46.280 --> 1:00:46.880 execute it. 1:00:46.920 --> 1:00:49.320 And man, I am in hog Heaven. 1:00:49.640 --> 1:00:51.800 Take a time out of continue. Let's flip back to 1:00:51.840 --> 1:00:55.400 the defensive side of things, because I must. We must 1:00:55.440 --> 1:00:59.400 address why why is tackling so hard in the NFL 1:00:59.480 --> 1:01:01.960 these days? Why are there so many miss tackles. Let's 1:01:02.160 --> 1:01:04.720 get into that. We'll do an extensive study of tackling 1:01:05.120 --> 1:01:08.080 as we continue. It's Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio 1:01:08.080 --> 1:01:13.000 Network in seven hundred WLW. Let's keep rolling right along 1:01:13.040 --> 1:01:15.360 and this Monday night, working our way through three hours 1:01:15.360 --> 1:01:19.440 of Bengals conversation and eventually into Jets conversation. The opponent 1:01:19.960 --> 1:01:23.040 on Sunday at pay Corpse Stadium, I'm alliance, Butacallister, he 1:01:23.240 --> 1:01:28.080 is Dave Lapham. We talked about the defense and the 1:01:28.120 --> 1:01:31.840 takeaways on Thursday night. There continues to be the thread 1:01:32.320 --> 1:01:35.240 of the issue of tackling. And it's not just the 1:01:35.280 --> 1:01:38.440 Bengals around it's amazing around the NFL how many misstackles 1:01:38.480 --> 1:01:42.240 there are. I haven't seen an official number from Thursday night, 1:01:42.280 --> 1:01:43.959 there was a rather large number from. 1:01:43.880 --> 1:01:44.560 The week before. 1:01:47.160 --> 1:01:49.480 Why let me ask it this way, if you're a 1:01:49.520 --> 1:01:52.280 poor tackling team, how do you make Is there a 1:01:52.320 --> 1:01:54.600 way to make yourself a better tackling team. 1:01:55.480 --> 1:02:01.080 I think that in today's football coaches, head coaches, coordinators, 1:02:01.120 --> 1:02:05.400 they're hesitant about doing routine tackling drills because of the 1:02:05.520 --> 1:02:09.120 possibility of injury. Yep, they are so scared that they're 1:02:09.160 --> 1:02:12.720 gonna lose, fearful of losing one of their star players, 1:02:13.120 --> 1:02:16.840 you know, in a routine tackling drill where it's like, 1:02:17.760 --> 1:02:21.439 I mean, I remember Paul Brown. We didn't hit all 1:02:21.480 --> 1:02:25.919 that much in practice until we did team work, and 1:02:26.160 --> 1:02:28.880 his whole thing was, I don't want to lose you know, 1:02:29.080 --> 1:02:32.120 Kenny Anderson and Isaac Curtis or Bob Trump or whatever 1:02:32.640 --> 1:02:36.480 in a you know, a stupid, you know, routine tackling drill. 1:02:37.040 --> 1:02:41.000 So there's I think there's that side of it. The 1:02:41.080 --> 1:02:43.160 other side of it is I just I just think 1:02:43.200 --> 1:02:46.560 that these offensive players are so damn good. I mean, 1:02:46.960 --> 1:02:49.240 the size speed ratio of these guys. These guys are 1:02:49.560 --> 1:02:53.080 big people that can really run and pack a hell 1:02:53.080 --> 1:02:56.400 of a punch. So they will they'll just they'll take contact. 1:02:57.040 --> 1:02:58.200 That's no big deal. 1:02:58.520 --> 1:02:59.120 I can handle. 1:02:59.160 --> 1:02:59.240 That. 1:02:59.400 --> 1:03:01.480 Is that all you get? Why don't you? 1:03:01.760 --> 1:03:03.479 Why don't you try to try to try it again? 1:03:03.520 --> 1:03:04.680 You know, let's take another rep. 1:03:05.880 --> 1:03:10.400 And it's it's amazing to watch, even watching practice, the 1:03:10.440 --> 1:03:12.320 way these guys can run through tackles. 1:03:12.320 --> 1:03:14.520 And Chase Brown is a great example. 1:03:14.560 --> 1:03:18.120 I mean, he's he's five ten and twenty pounds, low 1:03:18.200 --> 1:03:21.600 center of gravity, and man, when he when he lowers 1:03:21.640 --> 1:03:24.480 his pads and finishes a run when they're doing like 1:03:24.560 --> 1:03:27.880 live goal line and short Yardie Wills, he's something else. 1:03:28.040 --> 1:03:30.120 I mean, he's he's he'll he'll. 1:03:29.920 --> 1:03:34.200 Pack a punch, there's a surge there, and then he's 1:03:34.240 --> 1:03:36.480 an excellent blitz pickup guy to stick his nose right 1:03:36.480 --> 1:03:38.720 in the chest of linebackers and you know, have a 1:03:38.960 --> 1:03:41.680 ben his knees, have a real low, low center of gravity, 1:03:41.680 --> 1:03:45.480 low body, good receiver out of the backfield catching the 1:03:45.480 --> 1:03:50.520 ball and then you know, breaking tackles there. It's it's crazy, 1:03:50.560 --> 1:03:55.480 you know, Uh, I just I just think that tackling 1:03:55.520 --> 1:03:59.080 form is terrible in the National Football League these days. 1:03:59.120 --> 1:04:01.360 I think it's a lost I think that they should 1:04:01.400 --> 1:04:05.720 go back to football fundamentals basically, and uh. 1:04:05.360 --> 1:04:07.720 And so much of a day, it seems today has 1:04:07.760 --> 1:04:11.880 become the idea of knocking the ball loose, you know, 1:04:12.040 --> 1:04:14.800 going for the football, which is is great in theory 1:04:15.040 --> 1:04:17.600 because everybody wants a turnover to get the ball back, right, 1:04:17.680 --> 1:04:20.640 but some of the time it's it's sacrificing yardage because 1:04:21.000 --> 1:04:22.800 you're not popping it loose and you're not making the 1:04:22.800 --> 1:04:24.040 tackle and wrapping the guy up. 1:04:24.200 --> 1:04:26.840 Yeah, if everybody's going for the kill, hyes, everybody's also 1:04:26.920 --> 1:04:29.400 the big play. Yep, they're like, oh my god, look 1:04:29.440 --> 1:04:33.240 at that play. You know, and uh, if if in 1:04:33.280 --> 1:04:35.520 fact you can do that during the course of action, 1:04:36.080 --> 1:04:38.920 you know, as the play is finalizing and you and 1:04:39.240 --> 1:04:41.600 you can you can take a shot at the football, 1:04:42.200 --> 1:04:44.360 you know, probably smart to do. So You've got to 1:04:44.400 --> 1:04:46.960 make sure though that you're not the only guy. You're 1:04:47.000 --> 1:04:49.480 not in space one on one. There's got to be 1:04:49.520 --> 1:04:51.480 teammates around there that if you you know, if you 1:04:51.560 --> 1:04:53.760 if it doesn't work, you don't knock it loose, you 1:04:53.760 --> 1:04:56.120 don't jar the football out of there, somebody else is 1:04:56.160 --> 1:04:57.720 going to be there to clean up and get somebody 1:04:57.720 --> 1:04:58.160 on the ground. 1:04:58.680 --> 1:05:02.000 One other aspect of this defense and it'll help, hopefully 1:05:02.000 --> 1:05:03.520 if Trey's back this week. 1:05:03.760 --> 1:05:05.280 They've got to get pressure on the court. 1:05:05.760 --> 1:05:08.120 Watching Aaron Rodgers, there was there was a lot of 1:05:08.600 --> 1:05:12.160 three four and five Mississippis I was counting on Thursday 1:05:12.240 --> 1:05:13.840 night where he was free. I mean, I think the 1:05:13.880 --> 1:05:16.400 one officially he rolled out of the pocket and had 1:05:16.560 --> 1:05:20.320 nine point eight seconds to throw, and you could give me, 1:05:20.400 --> 1:05:22.160 if you give me nine point eight second, I might 1:05:22.160 --> 1:05:23.920 be able to complay to pass. In the NFL, it 1:05:24.040 --> 1:05:26.520 was maddening how little pressure they were able to get. 1:05:26.640 --> 1:05:30.440 Yeah, and trying to be I think what the defensive 1:05:30.480 --> 1:05:32.760 backs were thinking when they running round back. Can't imagine 1:05:32.920 --> 1:05:35.240 nine at ten secs, Like, come on boys, where are 1:05:35.280 --> 1:05:39.439 you guys? I mean, let's let's get the troops going here. 1:05:39.480 --> 1:05:42.320 How about getting after it a little bit. You can't 1:05:42.360 --> 1:05:45.680 cover receivers that long. They're two gifted, too talented in 1:05:45.760 --> 1:05:49.440 today's National Football League, So uh yeah, that that's something 1:05:49.440 --> 1:05:52.160 that needs to be addressed as well. The pass rush 1:05:52.520 --> 1:05:55.960 has not been what al golden wants, particularly when Trey 1:05:55.960 --> 1:06:00.320 Henderson out of the mix. I mean it was was 1:06:00.480 --> 1:06:03.200 not what what you what you need, not what you 1:06:03.640 --> 1:06:05.560 have to have to win football games. 1:06:05.600 --> 1:06:06.600 And I don't think it's shocking. 1:06:06.680 --> 1:06:09.520 Everybody knows Train is the best pass rusher the Bengals 1:06:09.600 --> 1:06:12.480 have maybe the best in the National Football League. But 1:06:12.600 --> 1:06:15.000 without him, they looked very pedestrian. 1:06:15.120 --> 1:06:17.880 Yeah, and you could understand a little Schamarz Stewart hadn't 1:06:17.920 --> 1:06:20.680 played in almost a month, four weeks at the ankle. 1:06:20.720 --> 1:06:25.920 But Miles Murphy, Joseph Osai, there's gotta it's gotta be. 1:06:26.040 --> 1:06:28.120 It always goes back to you can count on Trey 1:06:28.160 --> 1:06:31.280 when he's in there, You've got to have somebody else 1:06:31.560 --> 1:06:35.560 who's a presence to attract some attention and create some pressures. 1:06:35.640 --> 1:06:39.400 Absolutely. I mean you can't have everybody up and down 1:06:39.440 --> 1:06:43.400 the defensive line like ooh almost, Oh you almost got him, 1:06:43.640 --> 1:06:44.960 you almost made that play. 1:06:45.200 --> 1:06:47.080 Nah, gotta have Oh. 1:06:47.000 --> 1:06:49.840 Look at that dude, finish, look at the hit that 1:06:49.920 --> 1:06:50.680 he put on him. 1:06:50.720 --> 1:06:52.400 And they have guys that can do it. 1:06:52.440 --> 1:06:55.080 I mean the guys you rotted off there, you know, Murphy, 1:06:55.080 --> 1:06:58.800 o Sai and everybody else. Those guys need to step up, 1:06:58.920 --> 1:07:03.960 and stud they need to step up now, not later now. 1:07:03.800 --> 1:07:04.680 When we come back. 1:07:05.360 --> 1:07:07.680 One other thing that jumped out on Thursday night was 1:07:07.720 --> 1:07:11.280 the number of explosive plays. This Bengals offense had a lot, 1:07:11.320 --> 1:07:14.040 I mean big chunk plays, thirty seven, thirty seven and more. 1:07:14.160 --> 1:07:16.240 Let's talk about that and what it means for this offense. 1:07:16.320 --> 1:07:18.800 They've been able to produce those big plays. As we 1:07:18.880 --> 1:07:21.520 head down the stretch in our second hour tonight, it's 1:07:21.520 --> 1:07:28.240 Bengals Line of the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. Hey, 1:07:28.240 --> 1:07:30.680 we're back at it on this Monday night, sorting through 1:07:30.920 --> 1:07:32.920 everything related to the Bengals from the way over the 1:07:32.960 --> 1:07:35.560 Pittsburgh Steelers, looking ahead to the New York Jets coming 1:07:35.600 --> 1:07:37.400 up in our third hour tonight, and Dave, one thing 1:07:37.440 --> 1:07:40.120 that stood out on Thursday night if you look at 1:07:40.680 --> 1:07:44.280 the big plays, chunk plays even down to if you 1:07:44.320 --> 1:07:47.160 look at just plays to gain fifteen yards or more, 1:07:47.280 --> 1:07:50.160 Bengals had ten of those on Thursday night. They had 1:07:50.200 --> 1:07:53.439 thirty seven, thirty seven yards, twenty nine yards, twenty eight, 1:07:53.520 --> 1:07:55.160 twenty seven, twenty five. 1:07:55.040 --> 1:07:57.520 Eighteen, eighteen, sixteen, fifteen. 1:07:57.880 --> 1:08:00.000 That's the type of stuff, man, when your offense is, 1:08:00.400 --> 1:08:02.520 and you can get big plays and don't have to 1:08:02.600 --> 1:08:05.360 plod your way down the field with extended drives or 1:08:05.640 --> 1:08:08.480 things can go wrong. Those chunk plays are huge for 1:08:08.520 --> 1:08:09.160 this offense. 1:08:09.240 --> 1:08:14.360 They are I mean explosive plays, big plays are they 1:08:14.520 --> 1:08:19.800 They lift the spirits offensively and they absolutely crush and 1:08:19.840 --> 1:08:23.720 demoralize the defense. I mean, that was one thing that 1:08:23.760 --> 1:08:26.360 Paul Brown used to talk about all the time. Uh, 1:08:26.600 --> 1:08:29.000 you know, winning the turnover battle, winning third down winning, 1:08:29.240 --> 1:08:32.800 but winning the chunk plays. The big plays make more 1:08:32.800 --> 1:08:35.280 big plays than the opponent because they are the ones 1:08:35.600 --> 1:08:40.280 that are demoralizing. And uh, you know, if you've got 1:08:40.680 --> 1:08:43.599 players like we had Isaac Curtis, the guy could make 1:08:43.640 --> 1:08:46.320 a big play in his sleep. You know, Kenny Anderson 1:08:46.320 --> 1:08:48.240 to Isaac Curtis. I heard it over and over again 1:08:48.280 --> 1:08:52.200 many times. There it is Kenny Anderson, Isaac Curtis, big play, 1:08:52.600 --> 1:08:55.679 Bengals lead, and Bengal's not gonna give the lead back. 1:08:56.120 --> 1:08:59.160 That's that's what you know. Joe Burrow has done with 1:08:59.240 --> 1:09:02.080 Jamar Chase. But Joe Flacco is already finding out that 1:09:02.160 --> 1:09:05.200 he can do with Jamar Chase and Tee Higgins isn't 1:09:05.479 --> 1:09:08.679 a bad plan. B I mean He's a significant big 1:09:08.680 --> 1:09:12.040 playmaker himself, and his is a little bit his stature 1:09:12.080 --> 1:09:15.599 is a little bit different, a little bit taller, longer arms, 1:09:16.240 --> 1:09:19.040 can tested catch when he gets, when he goes up 1:09:19.080 --> 1:09:21.760 and fights for the football, that dude comes down with 1:09:21.800 --> 1:09:24.400 it a higher percent of the time than almost any 1:09:24.439 --> 1:09:25.439 receiver I've ever seen. 1:09:25.479 --> 1:09:26.320 He is remarkable. 1:09:26.720 --> 1:09:27.080 It is. 1:09:27.720 --> 1:09:31.680 It's amazing to look. In Week one against Cleveland, the 1:09:31.720 --> 1:09:35.599 Bengals had one play that gained at least fifteen yards 1:09:35.800 --> 1:09:37.639 one Thursday night. 1:09:37.720 --> 1:09:38.559 They had ten. 1:09:39.080 --> 1:09:42.280 Against Denver, they only had two plays of fifteen yards. 1:09:42.320 --> 1:09:45.920 Against Minnesota, they only had three plays of fifteen yards. 1:09:46.200 --> 1:09:47.160 It just makes it. 1:09:47.200 --> 1:09:50.440 I mean, there's something to be said for long, extended 1:09:50.520 --> 1:09:52.640 drives that killed time on the clock. You get the 1:09:52.640 --> 1:09:54.800 time of possession, wear a team down. But if you 1:09:54.840 --> 1:09:58.080 can strike with big plays chunk toss in chunk plays 1:09:58.080 --> 1:09:59.000 along the way, it. 1:09:59.000 --> 1:10:01.360 Just makes it so much. I mean, from play caller 1:10:01.360 --> 1:10:02.759 to quarterback and everybody else. 1:10:02.880 --> 1:10:07.280 Yeah. Absolutely, And you don't think Mike Tomlin was pulling 1:10:07.280 --> 1:10:10.320 his hair out by the roots and Pittsburgh gave up 1:10:10.360 --> 1:10:13.040 ten plays of fifteen years or more. That is so 1:10:13.960 --> 1:10:18.320 unlike a Mike Tomlin defensive football team, a Pittsburgh Steeler 1:10:18.439 --> 1:10:21.000 football team as well. I mean, I remember back in 1:10:21.040 --> 1:10:24.080 the day, boy, when we were playing the steel cartin 1:10:24.560 --> 1:10:30.200 at three River Stadium in Pittsburgh. In instance of home 1:10:30.240 --> 1:10:32.760 or away, it didn't matter. These guys brought it. Man 1:10:32.960 --> 1:10:38.679 and Joe Green Fats Homes, Ernie Fats Homes, Elsie Greenwood, 1:10:38.720 --> 1:10:44.519 Dwight White, Jack, Lambert Jack Ham, Andy Russell. I mean 1:10:45.880 --> 1:10:51.559 those Historically, the Rooney family has loved a defense and 1:10:51.640 --> 1:10:58.280 running game. They've always always had had that first and foremost. 1:10:58.520 --> 1:11:00.439 And then once you get the running game going and 1:11:00.479 --> 1:11:03.680 plays good solid defense, quarterback takes over and closes the 1:11:03.720 --> 1:11:04.120 game out. 1:11:04.240 --> 1:11:04.400 You know. 1:11:04.520 --> 1:11:06.439 A final thought on the segment, and you mentioned T, 1:11:07.360 --> 1:11:10.040 how about some credit to T and even Zach who 1:11:10.120 --> 1:11:12.960 kind of gave the heads up if the opportunity opened. 1:11:13.120 --> 1:11:15.919 It was a big play. But T goes into the slide, 1:11:16.360 --> 1:11:18.960 forcing the Steelers to burn the clock and taking away 1:11:19.000 --> 1:11:20.960 seconds from Aaron Rodgers being on the field. 1:11:21.000 --> 1:11:23.080 What a heads up play, heads up, big time. 1:11:23.200 --> 1:11:27.879 I mean, that's that's just you know, high football IQ 1:11:28.840 --> 1:11:32.839 by Zach Taylor and Dan Pitcher. Not surprised there, obviously, 1:11:33.240 --> 1:11:37.400 they lecture their team on that type of thing, and 1:11:37.400 --> 1:11:41.719 in that type of situation, particularly final two minutes, final minute, 1:11:41.960 --> 1:11:44.639 final thirty seconds of the half of a game. And 1:11:44.960 --> 1:11:49.519 T Higgins followed suit perfectly, and you know what, very unselfish. Yeah, 1:11:49.640 --> 1:11:52.240 I mean, he could have had an easy touchdown, but 1:11:52.360 --> 1:11:55.080 instead it's like, it's more important to me that we 1:11:55.160 --> 1:11:58.240 win the football game than I get that touchdown. 1:11:58.240 --> 1:12:01.320 Reception probably made some fantasy team owners unhappy. 1:12:01.840 --> 1:12:04.160 They'll have to live with you if you had t 1:12:04.280 --> 1:12:06.400 and your TV. You're thinking, I'm gonna score a touchdown. 1:12:06.439 --> 1:12:09.200 Wait a minute, why you're doing what? I've lost my 1:12:09.479 --> 1:12:11.679 I've lost my game because T Higgins went. 1:12:11.600 --> 1:12:12.520 Into a slide. 1:12:13.400 --> 1:12:15.240 All right, we put two in the book, so when 1:12:15.240 --> 1:12:17.519 we turn into our number three. I don't know if 1:12:17.520 --> 1:12:20.800 anybody in this room is aware, but Sunday is is 1:12:20.920 --> 1:12:23.479 ring of honor. I might have to ask you about 1:12:23.600 --> 1:12:25.680 Lamar Parrish when we come back, and I might have 1:12:25.720 --> 1:12:27.720 to ask you about you at some point we come 1:12:27.760 --> 1:12:29.360 back and we do. Are you prepared to do all that? 1:12:29.520 --> 1:12:35.959 I'm prepared for Lamorrow. He's Dave's Pacallister. 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We'll get into the Jets later on this 1:13:10.960 --> 1:13:13.479 hour and this weekend is gonna be fun at the 1:13:13.600 --> 1:13:16.400 Paved Corps for Bengals and Jets Ring of Honor induction. 1:13:16.560 --> 1:13:19.559 Lamara Parrish and my guy Dave Lapham. I'll get to 1:13:19.600 --> 1:13:23.640 you in a second, sir. Let's get to Lamara Parrish. 1:13:23.960 --> 1:13:27.200 Tell me for if someone is listening right now who 1:13:27.320 --> 1:13:30.080 never got to see Lamara Parrish play, paint a picture. 1:13:30.160 --> 1:13:32.240 Tell everybody about Lamar Parrish. 1:13:32.880 --> 1:13:36.040 Lamar Parish number twenty in year program for the Cincinnati Bengals, 1:13:36.120 --> 1:13:40.280 Number one in your heart. He was maybe the greatest 1:13:40.400 --> 1:13:43.400 athlete I've ever seen from on a football field. You 1:13:43.439 --> 1:13:46.040 see great athletes in basketball, you know, with the jumping 1:13:46.040 --> 1:13:49.559 ability and windmill dunks and you know, three sixty dunks 1:13:49.600 --> 1:13:50.680 and all that sort of thing. 1:13:50.720 --> 1:13:51.960 Lamar Parish could do all that. 1:13:52.280 --> 1:13:54.240 When we were playing Bengals basketball, he put on a 1:13:54.280 --> 1:13:57.200 dunk show, There's no question about that. In the offseason. 1:13:57.640 --> 1:14:02.240 But this guy long hollered than the average cornerback, very 1:14:02.280 --> 1:14:06.639 long arms, and he could he could cover ground. Boy, 1:14:06.680 --> 1:14:09.759 he could close on a on a route so quickly 1:14:10.479 --> 1:14:12.839 quarterback would think, yeah, I got got a little separation, 1:14:13.040 --> 1:14:15.920 got some disc I can fire that in there. Nope, 1:14:16.120 --> 1:14:17.320 and the balls in the air and all of a 1:14:17.320 --> 1:14:19.519 sudden the courts back, Damn, I shouldn't have thrown that one. 1:14:19.920 --> 1:14:25.120 And Lamar would make big plays, not just picking the 1:14:25.120 --> 1:14:26.240 ball off but returning it. 1:14:26.680 --> 1:14:26.720 No. 1:14:26.880 --> 1:14:30.960 He I don't know what his average yards per interception 1:14:31.120 --> 1:14:34.600 return might be, but I bet if they keep this 1:14:34.720 --> 1:14:37.400 stat in the Pro Football Hall of Fame or wherever, 1:14:38.040 --> 1:14:39.880 he's got to be in the top five in the league. 1:14:39.920 --> 1:14:43.000 I mean, he never just intercepted the ball and fell 1:14:43.040 --> 1:14:45.680 down on the ground, you know, or or let the 1:14:45.720 --> 1:14:46.439 guy tackle him. 1:14:46.560 --> 1:14:47.360 Lamar was strong. 1:14:47.439 --> 1:14:51.080 He was a very strong player, very physically gifted. And 1:14:51.120 --> 1:14:55.120 then that's not to even talk about yet his return abilities. 1:14:55.200 --> 1:14:58.200 I mean, as a point returner, kickoff returner, the best 1:14:58.280 --> 1:15:02.080 I've ever seen, bar none. I don't care. People can 1:15:02.120 --> 1:15:04.519 try to sell me on whoever else. You know, I 1:15:04.560 --> 1:15:07.080 know there were some great ones, but this guy who 1:15:07.840 --> 1:15:12.000 as a teammate, he just made so many big plays 1:15:12.000 --> 1:15:13.600 for us in then. 1:15:13.600 --> 1:15:16.960 In nineteen seventy four, Dabe he led the league averaging 1:15:17.080 --> 1:15:19.639 eighteen point eight yards per punt return. 1:15:19.760 --> 1:15:23.240 That's unbelievable. That is sick, it really is. I mean, 1:15:23.479 --> 1:15:26.800 if you average, you know, ten yards less than that. Yes, 1:15:26.880 --> 1:15:31.280 a damn good Yes, yes you're talking about I mean that. 1:15:31.400 --> 1:15:33.559 See what they should do is take every punt return 1:15:33.600 --> 1:15:37.719 from that year and put it in a little tape, 1:15:38.080 --> 1:15:40.120 send it to Canton and put it in the Hall 1:15:40.120 --> 1:15:43.360 of Fame and have people say, Okay, this is a 1:15:43.360 --> 1:15:45.960 punt returner, best example of a punt returner. 1:15:46.479 --> 1:15:48.439 This is Lamar Parrish. This is what he did. 1:15:48.479 --> 1:15:51.080 This is every return he had, you know, in nineteen 1:15:51.200 --> 1:15:53.040 seventy four for the Cincinnati Bengals. 1:15:53.240 --> 1:15:54.840 Take a look and see what you think. 1:15:55.320 --> 1:15:57.920 Unbelievable and hard to fathom. 1:15:58.439 --> 1:16:02.599 We're talking thirteen non offensive touchdowns in his career from 1:16:02.680 --> 1:16:03.280 kick returns. 1:16:03.280 --> 1:16:04.960 To punt returns, to fumble returns, the. 1:16:04.960 --> 1:16:08.920 Interception returns, thirteen touchdowns from a defensive player. 1:16:09.200 --> 1:16:12.519 Unbelievable, crazy, crazy, And I remember one time Paul Brown 1:16:13.840 --> 1:16:15.880 used him on to reverse because I mean, you know 1:16:16.360 --> 1:16:19.120 what not yeah, you get Isaac Curtis and put Lamar 1:16:19.160 --> 1:16:21.400 Parris in there. It's like whoa you know, I mean, 1:16:21.439 --> 1:16:23.240 Charlie Jordan is a great receiver, it just didn't have 1:16:23.280 --> 1:16:25.320 that kind of that kind of foot speed. But I 1:16:25.320 --> 1:16:28.920 mean Lamar Parris was a difference maker in every sense 1:16:28.920 --> 1:16:32.880 of the word at the at the cornerback position and 1:16:33.280 --> 1:16:37.360 tremendous versatility, could do a lot of things. He also 1:16:37.479 --> 1:16:39.719 he played the run. People don't give him enough credit. 1:16:39.800 --> 1:16:43.400 I don't think for how he could tackle in space 1:16:43.439 --> 1:16:45.960 because he such an athlete. A lot of times, you know, 1:16:46.000 --> 1:16:48.479 it's like you're looking back, would be in space and 1:16:48.560 --> 1:16:53.040 talented running back and it's like, oh it's Lamar. Were 1:16:53.080 --> 1:16:55.639 good went on and Lamar get him on the ground. 1:16:56.160 --> 1:17:01.360 He was gifted and ten total team player. 1:17:01.800 --> 1:17:03.720 He was special. Lamar Parrish A. 1:17:03.680 --> 1:17:06.719 Couple of things that point to won his athletic ability 1:17:06.840 --> 1:17:10.160 and to Paul Brown's eye for talent. He's a seventh 1:17:10.280 --> 1:17:13.280 round draft pick out of Lincoln University in nineteen seventy 1:17:13.680 --> 1:17:16.960 had never played the cornerback position and goes on to 1:17:17.000 --> 1:17:20.240 do what he does, his ability to adjust to whatever, 1:17:20.439 --> 1:17:23.960 and Paul's eye for I think I'm gonna make him 1:17:24.439 --> 1:17:26.880 this it's I mean, that's Paul Brown, it is. 1:17:27.000 --> 1:17:31.760 And and Paul would part of his evaluation process was 1:17:32.200 --> 1:17:35.080 he would give, like I was, I was involved with 1:17:35.120 --> 1:17:37.719 it when I was at Syracuse, give you a written test. 1:17:37.840 --> 1:17:40.040 And it was all kinds of stuff, all kinds of 1:17:40.120 --> 1:17:42.840 It was almost like a you know, an sat yeah 1:17:42.920 --> 1:17:44.920 type test, not anywhere near that long, you know, a 1:17:45.000 --> 1:17:47.479 lot shorter, fewer questions and all that sort of thing, 1:17:47.520 --> 1:17:50.240 but it was it was pretty expansive in terms of 1:17:50.280 --> 1:17:55.719 you know, you know, history and math and whatever else English. 1:17:55.760 --> 1:17:58.759 You know, he wanted base intelligence and then he wanted 1:17:58.760 --> 1:18:00.559 to talk to the coaches. 1:18:00.800 --> 1:18:03.040 It was after beating the Browns, if I remember correct, 1:18:03.240 --> 1:18:04.680 he was a little bit happy. 1:18:05.040 --> 1:18:06.240 He was very happy. 1:18:06.600 --> 1:18:07.000 He was. 1:18:07.160 --> 1:18:09.960 And Lamar Lamar he was a dresser. 1:18:10.040 --> 1:18:13.519 Oh, he had a seamstress in Saint Louis, and then 1:18:13.560 --> 1:18:17.520 he had people here in Cincinnati that also uh contributed 1:18:17.560 --> 1:18:18.960 to his his wardrobe. 1:18:19.360 --> 1:18:19.880 But man. 1:18:20.120 --> 1:18:23.560 Uh you know, tailor made so they you know, perfectly 1:18:23.680 --> 1:18:26.920 form fitting and uh you know Leap Lamar was a 1:18:26.960 --> 1:18:30.960 handsome dude and you know, very very fit, very put together. Yeah, 1:18:31.320 --> 1:18:33.720 very uh you know, muscle in the right spots. He 1:18:33.720 --> 1:18:37.240 he was. He was a very uh, very. 1:18:36.880 --> 1:18:38.479 I wish I had a picture of ball and a 1:18:38.520 --> 1:18:41.240 fur coat in the fedora and uh and it was 1:18:41.280 --> 1:18:41.840 a mink too. 1:18:42.360 --> 1:18:45.160 But he had he had minks, he had raccoons, he 1:18:45.240 --> 1:18:47.800 had you name it, every every animal, squirrel, I guess, 1:18:47.840 --> 1:18:50.160 I don't know every every animal. They had enough fur. 1:18:51.400 --> 1:18:53.240 Every animal, they had enough fur that you could put 1:18:53.400 --> 1:18:55.280 put together fur coat. Lamar had it. 1:18:55.280 --> 1:18:56.960 It was great, oh beautiful. 1:18:56.960 --> 1:18:58.720 All right, we'll take a time back, come back more 1:18:58.760 --> 1:19:01.559 to get to on this Bunday Bengals Line or the 1:19:01.560 --> 1:19:06.160 Bengals Radio Network in seven hundred w l W. Hey, 1:19:06.200 --> 1:19:08.240 let's keep it rolling on this Monday night. We're talking 1:19:08.280 --> 1:19:10.800 Bengals on Bengals Line and the Bengals Radio Network in 1:19:10.840 --> 1:19:11.760 seven hundred. 1:19:11.479 --> 1:19:13.880 W l W. Lance Pacalister, along with Dave. 1:19:13.800 --> 1:19:15.920 Lapham and Lance Paik Corp, Is proud to be the 1:19:15.960 --> 1:19:19.360 official HR software provider of the Cincinnati Bengle. 1:19:19.360 --> 1:19:21.280 All Right, we talked Lamar Parrish in the first segment. 1:19:21.320 --> 1:19:24.320 I must talk to you about you in this segment 1:19:24.320 --> 1:19:27.360 because you're going into the Ring of Honor. Easy, first question, 1:19:27.680 --> 1:19:30.559 will you write a speech or will you do you 1:19:30.600 --> 1:19:32.680 deliver a speech? Or do you do words off the 1:19:32.720 --> 1:19:33.360 top of your head? 1:19:33.400 --> 1:19:33.880 What? What? 1:19:33.880 --> 1:19:35.800 What happens? That's a good question. I'm not sure. I 1:19:35.840 --> 1:19:39.800 haven't been informed of that yet, but I'm sure they'll be. 1:19:40.600 --> 1:19:44.240 There's there's multiple functions. There's a breakfast, there's a dinner. 1:19:44.280 --> 1:19:47.639 There's the actual induction on you know, Ring of Honor 1:19:47.720 --> 1:19:49.880 day at at against the New York Jets. 1:19:50.000 --> 1:19:52.960 That'll be cool, getting everybody together, storytelling and everything. 1:19:53.040 --> 1:19:57.439 Yeah, well, my family, a lot of family from from 1:19:57.439 --> 1:20:02.639 New England, California, Arizona. I mean family from all over 1:20:02.680 --> 1:20:06.719 coming in. My brother, uh, my older brother, my younger sister, 1:20:06.840 --> 1:20:09.759 my younger brother, they're all coming in. And uh Lynn's 1:20:09.760 --> 1:20:12.840 side of the family, her brother, her sister in law, 1:20:12.880 --> 1:20:16.000 and and uh their their kids and grandkids. Got a 1:20:16.120 --> 1:20:19.760 got a bunch of it'll be uh. Uh we've we've 1:20:19.760 --> 1:20:22.360 maxed out our tickets, which is good. They're all being 1:20:22.479 --> 1:20:26.000 used and uh and yeah, there'll be a lot of storytelling. Uh, 1:20:26.400 --> 1:20:28.519 little little I'll have her good up and give her 1:20:28.600 --> 1:20:29.800 share of stories too. 1:20:30.240 --> 1:20:30.840 She can roll. 1:20:31.040 --> 1:20:33.160 That's it could be a podcast. 1:20:33.360 --> 1:20:36.360 Yes, absolutely absolutely. 1:20:36.479 --> 1:20:39.360 Have you been do you get measured for your coat? 1:20:39.560 --> 1:20:40.800 Have you been measured? You have? 1:20:40.960 --> 1:20:44.080 Uh? And uh that should be uh, that should be 1:20:44.120 --> 1:20:45.519 all set, all taken care of. 1:20:45.680 --> 1:20:46.200 I'll get that. 1:20:47.000 --> 1:20:47.120 Uh. 1:20:47.520 --> 1:20:51.280 I'm not sure what day we're uh lined up to 1:20:51.320 --> 1:20:53.360 get that, but I'll be receiving that. 1:20:53.560 --> 1:20:55.760 And uh, you can't wait for that. 1:20:55.760 --> 1:20:58.879 That goes on on the field, you know, at halftime 1:20:58.920 --> 1:21:01.840 of the of the game against the Jets, and you 1:21:01.880 --> 1:21:04.400 know the Jets, we had some good battles man Cleco 1:21:04.479 --> 1:21:07.479 and Gaston and those big old dogs hands change, Yeah, 1:21:07.560 --> 1:21:08.960 the sack exchange they had. 1:21:09.320 --> 1:21:11.360 They had great football teams back then. 1:21:11.400 --> 1:21:14.840 And uh so it'll be uh, it'll be fun at 1:21:14.960 --> 1:21:17.799 uh one o'clock kick at pay Course Stadium. 1:21:17.920 --> 1:21:21.320 From a playing standpoint, is it safe to say, as 1:21:21.400 --> 1:21:24.040 you reflect back on your playing career, you were most 1:21:24.080 --> 1:21:27.360 proud of how versatile you were for your football team. 1:21:27.560 --> 1:21:30.960 That's that's the Yeah, that's the probably the number one 1:21:30.960 --> 1:21:35.120 and only thing probably that that I would distinguish me 1:21:35.200 --> 1:21:38.040 from anybody else would be the fact that played, you know, 1:21:38.080 --> 1:21:40.479 all five positions in the offensive line and did it, 1:21:40.960 --> 1:21:43.320 uh in one game, two different times in one year 1:21:43.400 --> 1:21:46.040 or so. That was that was always. That was an 1:21:46.080 --> 1:21:46.800 amazing thing. 1:21:47.240 --> 1:21:50.680 And uh, I still I mean you say that, I 1:21:50.680 --> 1:21:54.160 hope that hits people. Is what you just said. Take 1:21:54.200 --> 1:21:59.920 me through how it unfolded that you not not five 1:22:00.040 --> 1:22:02.400 times in different spots in one season, you did it 1:22:02.479 --> 1:22:03.479 in one game. 1:22:03.640 --> 1:22:04.479 What was that like? 1:22:04.720 --> 1:22:06.519 Yeah, it was. It was a challenge. 1:22:06.560 --> 1:22:09.639 I mean Mike McCormick was my offensive line coach and 1:22:09.840 --> 1:22:13.240 he would give us a written tests every week on assignments. 1:22:13.360 --> 1:22:13.679 Uh. 1:22:13.960 --> 1:22:15.479 And he would give us two grades. One in the 1:22:15.520 --> 1:22:18.240 upper left hand corner was it was your grade on 1:22:18.280 --> 1:22:20.839 your position, and upper right hand corner corner was everybody 1:22:21.280 --> 1:22:25.719 on the offensive line and the five offensive lineman and uh, 1:22:25.800 --> 1:22:29.639 you know I started grading pretty well in both areas, 1:22:29.640 --> 1:22:31.760 and he's like, you know, we might, uh see, you 1:22:32.040 --> 1:22:34.280 might start working a little bit at some of these 1:22:34.280 --> 1:22:35.080 other positions. 1:22:35.200 --> 1:22:35.479 Uh. 1:22:35.600 --> 1:22:38.839 And particularly in past protection. You know, there's different techniques 1:22:38.840 --> 1:22:40.120 who want to teach you and blah blah blah. And 1:22:40.160 --> 1:22:42.920 Mike McCormick was an All Pro tackle himself with the 1:22:42.920 --> 1:22:46.240 Cleveland Browns, for Paul Brown, so we had a common 1:22:46.240 --> 1:22:49.280 denominator there. But uh, yeah, Mike McCormick was a big 1:22:49.320 --> 1:22:52.439 factor in me being able to play all those all 1:22:52.479 --> 1:22:54.160 those different positions in the same game. 1:22:56.760 --> 1:23:01.080 How strongly did you consider could could we? Could we 1:23:01.160 --> 1:23:04.640 have been talking about Dave Lapham the coach instead of 1:23:04.720 --> 1:23:07.559 Dave Lapham the broadcaster. Did you think about coaching? You 1:23:07.560 --> 1:23:10.040 You thought about it strongly getting into coaching. 1:23:09.720 --> 1:23:10.040 Didn't you? 1:23:10.080 --> 1:23:10.960 Absolutely? I did. 1:23:11.040 --> 1:23:14.719 Lance, Yeah, I thought long and hard about it. Paul 1:23:14.760 --> 1:23:17.479 Brown offered it up and said, you know, think you'd 1:23:17.479 --> 1:23:20.680 be a good line coach. And he felt like at 1:23:20.720 --> 1:23:23.680 the NFL level, like I had Rock all Pirot at 1:23:23.760 --> 1:23:27.040 Syracuse who he respected, and then in the NFL level 1:23:27.040 --> 1:23:30.160 because he respected Ben Schwarzwalder so much at the collegiate level, 1:23:30.160 --> 1:23:32.759 and then at the NFL level, to have Tiger Johnson, 1:23:32.800 --> 1:23:34.240 Mike McCormick, those kind of people. 1:23:34.320 --> 1:23:36.120 He knew what they were all about. 1:23:36.240 --> 1:23:39.040 He knew he hired those guys, he knew their resumes, 1:23:39.040 --> 1:23:43.120 He knew that they were both Pro Bowl players, great linemen, 1:23:43.240 --> 1:23:46.040 great players of their era, and and had taken on 1:23:46.120 --> 1:23:52.000 the coaching profession and succeeded very very well. So, you know, 1:23:52.080 --> 1:23:54.519 he he took me into his office at the stadium 1:23:54.560 --> 1:23:56.479 and said, you know, would you have an interest? And 1:23:57.000 --> 1:23:59.240 I'm like, I'm not sure, let me let me think 1:23:59.240 --> 1:24:03.240 about it. And really, for the sake of my wife 1:24:03.240 --> 1:24:05.679 and children, I just didn't want to be hopscotching around 1:24:05.720 --> 1:24:08.000 here as much, so I thought, well, stay in the 1:24:08.040 --> 1:24:10.000 broadcast end of it. And it's worked out. We've been 1:24:10.560 --> 1:24:12.519 been here for fifty years, ten as a player and 1:24:12.600 --> 1:24:13.320 forty in the booth. 1:24:13.360 --> 1:24:17.559 Now, man, oh man, what what does anything stick out 1:24:17.640 --> 1:24:20.680 from your very first game as a player with the. 1:24:20.640 --> 1:24:25.240 Bengals, Boy, very first game as a player. I just 1:24:25.320 --> 1:24:29.320 know I remember my very first practice probably as much 1:24:29.320 --> 1:24:32.320 as my very first game because it was against Mike Reid. 1:24:32.479 --> 1:24:36.479 I mean, the All Pro defensive tackle who was a 1:24:36.520 --> 1:24:39.600 concert pianist and a musician songwriter. I mean, yes, this 1:24:39.720 --> 1:24:44.519 dude was unbelievably talented. My god, he was amazing. He 1:24:44.600 --> 1:24:47.559 was like sixty three two fifty five two sixty I 1:24:47.600 --> 1:24:49.880 mean so quick. It's like, I know, I didn't close 1:24:49.920 --> 1:24:52.320 my damn eyes. How the hell did he get from 1:24:52.360 --> 1:24:53.360 there to there? 1:24:53.400 --> 1:24:55.040 So fast? He was. 1:24:56.080 --> 1:24:59.280 I used to just love all the offensive line we'd 1:24:59.320 --> 1:25:01.479 stand on the side instead of sitting now with stand 1:25:01.520 --> 1:25:02.120 there and watch him. 1:25:02.200 --> 1:25:03.120 What's he gonna do? Oh? 1:25:03.160 --> 1:25:05.599 Here he comes, here it is, here's the play. He's 1:25:05.600 --> 1:25:06.800 gonna make a big one. 1:25:06.520 --> 1:25:07.519 He was. 1:25:07.960 --> 1:25:11.519 He impacted the game from the defensive tackle position more 1:25:11.560 --> 1:25:13.559 than any alignment I've ever seen. 1:25:13.640 --> 1:25:16.040 I always thought he would be a great subject for 1:25:16.360 --> 1:25:19.559 ESPN's thirty for thirty, Absolutely for people who do just 1:25:19.640 --> 1:25:22.559 don't understand and appreciate how good he was as a 1:25:22.560 --> 1:25:25.080 football player walking away from it, and how good he 1:25:25.240 --> 1:25:28.120 was a singer songwriter. He's in the Nashville Music Hall 1:25:28.160 --> 1:25:32.960 of Fame. Ronnie MILLSAP songs, Bonnie Rait songs, his own songs. 1:25:33.120 --> 1:25:36.280 I was at now I'm flashing back to this. I 1:25:36.360 --> 1:25:38.240 was at the Blind Lemon with my wife a couple 1:25:38.200 --> 1:25:40.800 of years ago, first time I'd never been there, and 1:25:40.840 --> 1:25:42.479 I looked at all the pictures up on the wall 1:25:42.520 --> 1:25:45.520 of Mike Reid, and I'm like, if people only understood, 1:25:45.560 --> 1:25:47.840 there should be an ESPN thirty for thirty on the 1:25:47.880 --> 1:25:48.840 life of Mike Reid. 1:25:48.840 --> 1:25:49.560 It's incredible. 1:25:49.640 --> 1:25:54.320 Yeah, he really he was an unbelievable football player, and 1:25:54.720 --> 1:25:58.920 only like you said, Lance, he left the game four 1:25:59.000 --> 1:26:02.679 years after his fourth year, you had to play five 1:26:02.760 --> 1:26:05.200 to be invested pension. 1:26:05.600 --> 1:26:08.680 And he said, yeah, forget it, I'm done with it. 1:26:08.680 --> 1:26:12.200 He hated football, hated it, hated the physicality of it. 1:26:12.560 --> 1:26:14.640 I mean when I was a rookie, I was, you know, 1:26:15.080 --> 1:26:18.560 young and enthusiastic and you know, energetic, and I was 1:26:18.600 --> 1:26:20.280 coming off the line of scrimmage like it was a game, 1:26:20.320 --> 1:26:22.240 you know, and he's like, hey, hey, hey, big boy, 1:26:22.360 --> 1:26:26.080 you know sixty two, you know he settled down, Slow down, 1:26:26.120 --> 1:26:28.719 my man. Uh, you know, this is a long season. 1:26:28.760 --> 1:26:31.400 You're you're you're gonna you're gonna kill me. 1:26:31.400 --> 1:26:31.600 You know. 1:26:31.680 --> 1:26:34.880 It's I'm not interested in in in doing this. And 1:26:34.960 --> 1:26:37.360 it's like, oh man. Then I remember him sitting me 1:26:37.400 --> 1:26:39.920 down in uh in the locker room when he was 1:26:40.560 --> 1:26:43.640 gonna retire and talking about it and how heartfelt it 1:26:43.680 --> 1:26:46.599 was and everything. He just uh, I mean, the good 1:26:46.600 --> 1:26:49.080 Lord blessed him. But he said, you know what, Lord, 1:26:49.160 --> 1:26:51.599 you also blessed me as a musician. I'm gonna try 1:26:51.600 --> 1:26:52.280 that for a while. 1:26:52.640 --> 1:26:55.920 All right, final question about your broadcasting career. Take me 1:26:55.960 --> 1:26:58.519 back to like your first year, did you what what 1:26:58.600 --> 1:27:02.280 kind of broadcasting ex did you have any broadcasting experience 1:27:02.320 --> 1:27:04.080 before you started calling games. 1:27:04.200 --> 1:27:05.759 No I didn't, I really didn't. 1:27:06.280 --> 1:27:09.719 You know, just interviews, you know with uh, with people 1:27:09.800 --> 1:27:12.720 with local you know, media in town. 1:27:12.960 --> 1:27:15.200 And you would have started with Phil Samp, right, Phil 1:27:15.240 --> 1:27:16.080 Samp was your first. 1:27:16.240 --> 1:27:17.120 Ye, Phil Samp. 1:27:17.200 --> 1:27:20.920 I've had every uh, every play by play person uh 1:27:21.160 --> 1:27:25.599 in Bengals history for radio broadcasting has been a partner. 1:27:25.640 --> 1:27:28.839 And it's been uh, it's been great. It's been very interesting. 1:27:28.880 --> 1:27:32.120 And uh, I'll tell you what, man, love football, played 1:27:32.120 --> 1:27:35.439 football ever since I could walk, really and uh and 1:27:35.800 --> 1:27:38.599 do it as long as I have truly blessed man 1:27:38.640 --> 1:27:39.040 oh man. 1:27:39.120 --> 1:27:40.960 I in fact, I wrote down I don't think I'm 1:27:40.960 --> 1:27:43.680 missing any names you would know, from Phil Samp to 1:27:43.840 --> 1:27:48.320 Ken Brews to Paul Keels right to Pete Arbagas, how 1:27:48.360 --> 1:27:52.599 do you do to Brad Johansson to now Dan Horde? 1:27:52.640 --> 1:27:57.880 Absolutely wow, man, I uh man, I we're out of time. 1:27:57.920 --> 1:28:00.680 I could do this all night. I am so before you. 1:28:00.840 --> 1:28:04.479 I just I just I hearing all your family coming back. 1:28:04.520 --> 1:28:05.800 What a weekend it's gonna be for you? 1:28:05.880 --> 1:28:08.960 Yeah, it really is. And I'm excited for my my grandchildren. 1:28:09.479 --> 1:28:11.559 You know, they're they're they're over the moon, they're on 1:28:11.600 --> 1:28:17.680 cloud dying. It's like, and buddy, buddy, buddy, buddy, you're 1:28:17.680 --> 1:28:18.800 gonna go in the Ring of Honor? 1:28:18.920 --> 1:28:19.680 Is that is that? 1:28:19.840 --> 1:28:21.800 Like it's not like the Hall of Fame. I said, 1:28:21.920 --> 1:28:24.080 it's not really the Hall of Fame, but it's an 1:28:24.200 --> 1:28:27.000 you know, it's an it's a great honor achievement. 1:28:27.320 --> 1:28:28.280 I never thought I would. 1:28:28.439 --> 1:28:32.760 Uh uh so now it's and I'm I'm The thing 1:28:32.840 --> 1:28:35.040 I'm most happy about is you guys are gonna be there, 1:28:35.080 --> 1:28:36.439 and you guys are gonna be down on the field. 1:28:36.680 --> 1:28:39.240 We're gonna be on the field. Yeah, how about that? 1:28:39.320 --> 1:28:42.559 So get ready tell all your friends. Oh, that's awesome. 1:28:42.720 --> 1:28:45.840 That's awesome. Congratulations, Thank you, very cool, very cool. Take 1:28:45.880 --> 1:28:47.439 a time out, come back. We got to head down 1:28:47.479 --> 1:28:48.800 the stretch. We've got things to get to. 1:28:48.960 --> 1:28:49.160 Next. 1:28:49.200 --> 1:28:55.000 Bengals Line, Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred W l W. Hey, 1:28:55.000 --> 1:28:57.920 we're rolling right along, cruising through this third hour tonight 1:28:57.920 --> 1:29:00.519 of Bengals Line of the Bengals Radio Network, seven. 1:29:01.080 --> 1:29:04.280 LW Lance Bengals Friday Night Stripes Tour presented by a 1:29:04.360 --> 1:29:08.200 howl Kat is back for all locations this season. Ortengals 1:29:08.240 --> 1:29:09.600 dot Com slash community. 1:29:09.800 --> 1:29:12.519 We Love Dan Horde's weekly conversation with a member of 1:29:12.560 --> 1:29:15.880 the Bengals this week is Shamar stuart for fun facts. 1:29:15.880 --> 1:29:19.040 So let's take a listen Dan Horde with Shamar. 1:29:20.120 --> 1:29:24.080 No fantastic fun facts with Dan Ord. 1:29:25.000 --> 1:29:28.160 Time for some fun facts with defensive end Shamar Stewart. 1:29:29.120 --> 1:29:30.919 Your roots are Jamaican? Correct? 1:29:31.120 --> 1:29:35.440 Yes, correct, my mom, everybody, Yeah, everybody, My favorite Jamaican. 1:29:35.479 --> 1:29:36.559 Ever had the chance to go. 1:29:36.960 --> 1:29:38.640 Yeah, when I was little, I haven't been in like 1:29:39.240 --> 1:29:41.240 it's all of the years. Maybe now it's been in 1:29:41.240 --> 1:29:41.639 a while. 1:29:42.760 --> 1:29:45.439 You grew up near Miami. What do you like most 1:29:45.720 --> 1:29:47.160 about where you're from? 1:29:48.040 --> 1:29:52.000 Uh, the love for football, Like the city is just 1:29:52.840 --> 1:29:55.760 like it's all about football, like little league games, high 1:29:55.760 --> 1:29:59.400 school games, whatever, whatever. It is at the whole community 1:29:59.439 --> 1:30:00.839 showing up, coming out to see. 1:30:01.439 --> 1:30:03.679 And yet I've read that when you were really young 1:30:03.720 --> 1:30:06.000 you weren't really a sports kid. Is that true? 1:30:06.400 --> 1:30:08.679 Yeah, no, not at all. You know, I was more 1:30:09.400 --> 1:30:12.559 I was more of like a book nerd. Crazy to 1:30:12.600 --> 1:30:16.400 think that, but yeah, So what changed? 1:30:16.640 --> 1:30:17.639 What flipped the switch? 1:30:17.920 --> 1:30:20.760 One of my stitude teachers in third grade forced me 1:30:20.800 --> 1:30:23.240 to play football like he was not taking over an answer, 1:30:23.920 --> 1:30:27.560 so he got my grandma's number and basically forced me 1:30:27.600 --> 1:30:29.760 to force me to the part he was coaching. 1:30:29.520 --> 1:30:31.559 That that guy did you a favor. 1:30:31.800 --> 1:30:33.800 Yeah, his son is my best friend to this day. 1:30:34.720 --> 1:30:37.559 Now, is it true that you were really the last 1:30:37.680 --> 1:30:40.280 kid picked in gym class when you were about in 1:30:40.400 --> 1:30:41.080 sixth grade? 1:30:41.160 --> 1:30:42.000 Oh? Yeah, for sure. 1:30:42.120 --> 1:30:44.360 I was terrible. I was horrible. They used to say 1:30:44.360 --> 1:30:48.120 I have two left hands. Yeah, I was terrible. 1:30:49.439 --> 1:30:51.960 We're doing fun facts with Jamar Stewart. When you were 1:30:52.080 --> 1:30:55.280 junior in high school, one of your teammates was Ohio 1:30:55.400 --> 1:31:00.600 state wide receiver Jeremiah Smith. Could you tell them that 1:31:00.680 --> 1:31:02.599 he was going to be that guy? 1:31:03.520 --> 1:31:06.400 I knew he's gonna be great, but he just kept working. 1:31:06.439 --> 1:31:09.599 Now it just blew all everything I thought about him 1:31:09.640 --> 1:31:13.120 aout the water like that lesson was there since he 1:31:13.200 --> 1:31:16.120 came to my high school. So not a big shock. 1:31:16.160 --> 1:31:18.000 I've seen what he did, Like first couple of weeks 1:31:18.080 --> 1:31:21.320 when he was in full camp, I was like, man's crazy. 1:31:21.400 --> 1:31:23.120 As a freshman in high school. 1:31:23.400 --> 1:31:25.160 It's crazy to me to think that you two guys 1:31:25.240 --> 1:31:26.479 were in the same high school team. 1:31:27.160 --> 1:31:29.200 Yeah, and we weren't winning nothing. 1:31:29.600 --> 1:31:32.720 Crazy crazy, right, bad quarterback. 1:31:34.360 --> 1:31:36.800 I'll correct on D one. I don't know what it was. 1:31:37.240 --> 1:31:38.920 The other teams must have been really good. 1:31:38.840 --> 1:31:41.439 Man, I guess. So it's crazy. 1:31:41.640 --> 1:31:44.120 We're doing fun facts Schamar Stewart, You were one of 1:31:44.120 --> 1:31:46.760 the top recruits in the country. Did you enjoy the 1:31:46.840 --> 1:31:51.040 process having all of those schools and coaches essentially flirt? 1:31:52.240 --> 1:31:55.439 No? No, man, those phone calls just get crazy. 1:31:55.720 --> 1:31:59.320 I used to come home, hey man, call me, Like 1:32:00.080 --> 1:32:02.639 I got like ten calls from different coaches from all 1:32:02.640 --> 1:32:03.040 across the. 1:32:03.000 --> 1:32:05.120 Country, like, hey man, get back Abby, wait on it. 1:32:05.439 --> 1:32:06.240 Every asker your phone. 1:32:06.280 --> 1:32:10.040 I'm like, I'll be wanting to talk, Like what are 1:32:10.080 --> 1:32:11.040 they to talk about? 1:32:11.280 --> 1:32:13.559 You ultimately chose to go to Texas A and M. 1:32:13.560 --> 1:32:16.120 What did you enjoy most about your three years with 1:32:16.200 --> 1:32:16.719 the Aggies? 1:32:17.200 --> 1:32:19.880 And you know, the coaching staff there REI just treat 1:32:19.920 --> 1:32:22.320 you like family, you know, even though I'm two thousand 1:32:22.360 --> 1:32:24.080 miles away from home, Like I didn't feel like I 1:32:24.120 --> 1:32:27.439 was missing home very much. So and plus I made 1:32:27.520 --> 1:32:29.880 lifelong friends at A and M, so like I feel 1:32:29.920 --> 1:32:31.559 like I had a home away from home, you know. 1:32:32.160 --> 1:32:34.200 So I read that your nickname at Texas A and 1:32:34.360 --> 1:32:38.120 M was the Menace? Is that true? And who gave 1:32:38.160 --> 1:32:38.919 you that nickname? 1:32:39.400 --> 1:32:41.040 I forgot who exactly gave it to me? 1:32:41.080 --> 1:32:43.400 But I got it back in high school, going every 1:32:43.479 --> 1:32:44.960 day trying to get better. So of course of my 1:32:45.000 --> 1:32:48.160 practice hard, you know, make it hard for our office, 1:32:48.800 --> 1:32:51.400 you know, playing hard in practice to make our office better. 1:32:51.960 --> 1:32:54.479 And in the games, you know, I'm just all over 1:32:54.520 --> 1:32:57.200 the field and I'm just a little menace. 1:32:57.000 --> 1:32:57.439 On the field. 1:32:58.240 --> 1:33:01.160 What does the word man represent to you? 1:33:02.160 --> 1:33:06.439 Somebody has always been instructive, so I feel like that 1:33:07.000 --> 1:33:08.040 defines me very well. 1:33:08.520 --> 1:33:11.200 So I broadcast the Bengals games on the radio. When 1:33:11.240 --> 1:33:14.160 you have a sack, would you like me and my 1:33:14.240 --> 1:33:18.040 broadcast partner Dave Lapham to say a sack by the menace? 1:33:18.360 --> 1:33:19.080 I would love that. 1:33:20.160 --> 1:33:22.120 I will love that all right. 1:33:22.160 --> 1:33:24.360 Well, hopefully there will be a bunch this year. Do 1:33:24.400 --> 1:33:26.960 you have been compared to a Texas A and m 1:33:27.080 --> 1:33:31.639 legend Miles Garrett for obvious reasons, your similar size, similar 1:33:31.640 --> 1:33:34.479 athletic ability. What do you think of Miles Garrett? What 1:33:34.520 --> 1:33:35.560 do you think of the comparison? 1:33:35.760 --> 1:33:38.160 Man, he's a great player, and I feel like that's 1:33:38.160 --> 1:33:39.720 a blessing because the. 1:33:39.680 --> 1:33:42.040 Way he's doing it right now, he's coming the game. 1:33:42.360 --> 1:33:46.320 And I feel like that's a very great, great comparison. 1:33:46.439 --> 1:33:49.240 I feel like we look we match up body wise. No, 1:33:49.280 --> 1:33:50.759 I'm trying to match someone play wise. 1:33:52.200 --> 1:33:54.599 Was it a goal of yours to top the numbers 1:33:54.600 --> 1:33:56.360 that he posted at his combine? 1:33:56.840 --> 1:33:57.120 Kind of? 1:33:57.160 --> 1:33:57.479 Sort of? 1:33:57.920 --> 1:34:00.320 You know, I feel like if I could get what 1:34:00.439 --> 1:34:02.040 he got, people will look at me a different light. 1:34:02.439 --> 1:34:05.679 So I tried my hardest. He got me some arias, 1:34:05.720 --> 1:34:07.040 and I got him in some areas to. 1:34:07.479 --> 1:34:09.160 You got him in the forty, You got him in 1:34:09.200 --> 1:34:11.080 the broad jump. He got you by one inch in 1:34:11.120 --> 1:34:12.519 the vertical. That's pretty impressive. 1:34:12.520 --> 1:34:16.800 That's crazy because I felt like I jumped out my spine. 1:34:17.520 --> 1:34:18.240 It's crazy. 1:34:18.520 --> 1:34:21.040 All right, we're visiting with Shamar Stewart. Let's get back 1:34:21.080 --> 1:34:25.759 to athletic testing. Those numbers were freakish that you posted 1:34:25.800 --> 1:34:29.599 in Indianapolis. What do you consider to be your greatest 1:34:29.720 --> 1:34:34.080 athletic achievement? Did you dunk get a really early age? 1:34:34.479 --> 1:34:35.040 Yeah? 1:34:35.080 --> 1:34:36.400 What stands out to you? 1:34:36.960 --> 1:34:37.400 Uh? 1:34:37.439 --> 1:34:40.439 I don't. I got my first dunk in sixth grade? 1:34:40.920 --> 1:34:41.599 Sixth grade? 1:34:41.760 --> 1:34:44.040 Yeah, five nine. 1:34:45.040 --> 1:34:48.639 That's amazing. You were the seventeenth overall pick in the draft. 1:34:49.320 --> 1:34:52.599 You'll always be referred to as first round draft pick. 1:34:52.760 --> 1:34:55.680 Shamar Stewart. It becomes almost like a title. Can you 1:34:55.720 --> 1:34:59.160 describe the experience of being in Green Bay at Lambeau? 1:35:00.960 --> 1:35:03.040 You know, I was really happy, you know, I was 1:35:03.080 --> 1:35:05.160 thankful for a moment, you know, me and my family, 1:35:05.600 --> 1:35:07.760 everybody that had been along with me every step of 1:35:07.760 --> 1:35:10.519 the way, it was there, so you know, you know, 1:35:10.600 --> 1:35:14.160 I just took the night in, enjoyed it. Not they 1:35:14.160 --> 1:35:17.960 didn't really have much expectations, just if it was God's playing, 1:35:18.040 --> 1:35:20.880 So just wanted to be in the moment with everybody 1:35:20.920 --> 1:35:21.280 that I love. 1:35:21.800 --> 1:35:24.439 You did a phone call with reporters afterward and you 1:35:24.479 --> 1:35:29.200 didn't specifically remember meeting with the Bengals at the combine, 1:35:29.520 --> 1:35:32.080 And I get it. It's speed dating. You're going from 1:35:32.120 --> 1:35:34.960 team to team to team. It's like, you know, fifteen 1:35:35.000 --> 1:35:37.720 minute meetings with all of these teams. When you came 1:35:37.720 --> 1:35:41.160 into Cincinnati and you saw Zach Taylor and you saw 1:35:41.240 --> 1:35:43.960 El Golden and you saw Jerry Montgomery, did it click 1:35:44.080 --> 1:35:45.040 back in? Did you remember? 1:35:45.200 --> 1:35:45.599 Oh? 1:35:45.720 --> 1:35:46.839 Yeah, those guys. 1:35:47.160 --> 1:35:50.880 Yeah, it's kind of hard, Like you gotta remember I 1:35:50.920 --> 1:35:54.200 had twenty two formos, a couple infemos, and then I 1:35:54.240 --> 1:35:58.800 had fifteen thirty visits. So my mind is just all 1:35:58.800 --> 1:36:00.960 over the place. I'm ready for it over. I'm ready 1:36:00.960 --> 1:36:04.960 to be in one place. So when I see him, like, okay, 1:36:05.120 --> 1:36:06.800 I'm definitely remember MIDI Yo. 1:36:07.880 --> 1:36:10.519 The important thing is that they remembered you really well. 1:36:11.560 --> 1:36:14.320 I thank god they remembered me. If damn my memory, 1:36:14.360 --> 1:36:15.680 I'll probably be cooked right now. 1:36:17.040 --> 1:36:19.679 The next day, you were in Cincinnati for a news conference. 1:36:19.760 --> 1:36:22.680 You were accompanied by your mentor, Mo, the man you 1:36:22.760 --> 1:36:25.160 call dad. How did he come into your life? 1:36:25.760 --> 1:36:26.240 Oh? 1:36:26.280 --> 1:36:26.800 He came. 1:36:27.120 --> 1:36:30.120 He became my coach after my freshman year of high school. 1:36:30.960 --> 1:36:32.920 I remember walking to seeing him for the first day. 1:36:33.880 --> 1:36:34.680 I was maybe like. 1:36:35.600 --> 1:36:40.600 Two two fifteen. Maybe he was like and I was 1:36:40.640 --> 1:36:42.400 like two fifteen six four. He's like, I don't know 1:36:42.400 --> 1:36:43.680 who you are, but I'm gonna make your best pen 1:36:43.720 --> 1:36:46.240 of country. Fast forward five months later, I was the 1:36:46.280 --> 1:36:49.599 best parent in the country. And ever since that day, 1:36:49.600 --> 1:36:51.320 I just listened to everything he told me. 1:36:51.560 --> 1:36:54.040 Do you know what he saw in you? 1:36:54.040 --> 1:36:56.160 No, but I'm glad he did because I didn't see 1:36:56.200 --> 1:36:56.679 them myself. 1:36:57.800 --> 1:37:00.839 Time for some wild card topics now with Shamar Stewart. 1:37:00.840 --> 1:37:04.280 Who is your all time favorite athlete in any sport? 1:37:05.240 --> 1:37:07.360 All time favorite athlete? Who? 1:37:08.600 --> 1:37:13.000 Derek Rosse, Derek Rose, that's a deep cut. You might 1:37:13.040 --> 1:37:15.320 be the first person who ever say Derek Rose. 1:37:15.120 --> 1:37:16.280 Man, Derek Rose is crazy. 1:37:17.040 --> 1:37:20.160 All right, Derek Rose, that's a very interesting answer. Other 1:37:20.280 --> 1:37:23.040 than playing football, what are you good at? 1:37:23.280 --> 1:37:25.120 I'm good at video games? 1:37:26.200 --> 1:37:29.400 What in particular I'm good at playing two K you know, 1:37:29.760 --> 1:37:31.479 call dow used to be my thing for a while. 1:37:32.000 --> 1:37:34.280 I'm trying to explore on the on the game of Horizon. 1:37:35.240 --> 1:37:37.599 On the flip side, is there anything that you are 1:37:37.680 --> 1:37:39.040 really terrible at? 1:37:40.200 --> 1:37:40.679 Singing? 1:37:44.040 --> 1:37:46.320 The man wanted singing. I'm terrible singing. My voice is 1:37:46.360 --> 1:37:49.320 not meant for singing. God messing with a lot of things. 1:37:49.400 --> 1:37:52.000 Was singing was not one of them. Even in the shower, 1:37:52.200 --> 1:37:52.960 Even in the shower. 1:37:53.000 --> 1:37:53.839 I'll be terrible. 1:37:55.600 --> 1:37:58.680 Have you given any thought to a SAX celebration? 1:38:00.080 --> 1:38:01.040 Get my first one? 1:38:01.520 --> 1:38:04.479 I'm a I'm gonna have to plan one out for 1:38:04.520 --> 1:38:07.479 the next one, because like now, they're coming in so 1:38:07.600 --> 1:38:08.960 but the first one, I don't got nothing plan for 1:38:09.000 --> 1:38:09.439 the first one. 1:38:09.600 --> 1:38:12.280 First one is whatever just happens in the moment, and 1:38:12.320 --> 1:38:14.000 then once you've got one under your belt, you can 1:38:14.040 --> 1:38:14.599 start playing. 1:38:14.920 --> 1:38:17.360 I make I'm gonna making my next one my signature. 1:38:17.040 --> 1:38:17.439 All right? 1:38:18.200 --> 1:38:21.080 Is there a team or an opponent that you are 1:38:21.120 --> 1:38:27.120 most excited to face. The Dolphins home county team, you know, the. 1:38:27.120 --> 1:38:29.400 East to have My favorite player, Tiger Carroll was my 1:38:29.400 --> 1:38:32.800 fair player for a while, being the kid watching those 1:38:32.800 --> 1:38:34.920 type of people on TV and then one now playing 1:38:34.920 --> 1:38:38.080 against them. You know, it's gonna be a big opportunity, 1:38:38.120 --> 1:38:39.599 you know, because I used to look up too those 1:38:39.600 --> 1:38:42.600 people and being being on the same field as them 1:38:42.640 --> 1:38:43.280 at the same time. 1:38:43.960 --> 1:38:46.240 You know, it's a great it's a great achievement. 1:38:47.040 --> 1:38:52.120 Christmas Week in prime time at Miami, that's gonna be 1:38:52.280 --> 1:38:53.320 quite the deal for you. 1:38:53.439 --> 1:38:55.439 Yeah, you know, the whole family's gonna be out there. 1:38:56.080 --> 1:38:57.920 You know, everybody's gonna be cheering me on. 1:38:58.000 --> 1:39:00.960 I'm home. I anticipate be very comfortable. 1:39:01.320 --> 1:39:02.960 Did you go to games there when you were young? 1:39:03.520 --> 1:39:06.000 I went to maybe a couple, not a lot, but 1:39:06.080 --> 1:39:06.400 a couple. 1:39:06.520 --> 1:39:09.120 Part of the conversation Dan Horde had with Shamar Stewart 1:39:09.120 --> 1:39:11.720 for Fun Facts. More of that interview found on the 1:39:11.760 --> 1:39:15.680 Bengals Booth podcast Still Ahead Talk some Jets. You'll hear 1:39:15.680 --> 1:39:18.920 what Aaron Glenn had to say about changing quarterbacks yesterday 1:39:19.240 --> 1:39:22.439 and since the Bengals won, we will end the show 1:39:22.520 --> 1:39:24.640 with the presentation of the game balls and what was 1:39:24.680 --> 1:39:26.759 said in the locker room. All of that is ahead 1:39:26.960 --> 1:39:28.840 as we head down the stretch. Bengals Line on the 1:39:28.840 --> 1:39:33.880 Bengals Radio Network in seven hundred WLW. Hey, welcome back 1:39:33.920 --> 1:39:36.080 to Bengals Line on this Monday night. We do it 1:39:36.120 --> 1:39:38.479 on the Bengals Radio networking right here on seven hundred 1:39:38.520 --> 1:39:41.160 WLW Lance, but have Lester Dave lap them. Next up, 1:39:41.439 --> 1:39:44.920 those New York Jets losers yesterday thirteen to six to 1:39:45.000 --> 1:39:47.960 the Carolina Panthers. The Jets dropped to oh to seven. 1:39:48.000 --> 1:39:51.320 They made a quarterback change in game justin fields out 1:39:51.400 --> 1:39:55.439 Tyrod Taylor in Here's the opening thoughts on yesterday's loss 1:39:55.439 --> 1:39:57.280 from Jets coach Aaron Glenn. 1:39:58.040 --> 1:40:00.679 All Right, when it comes to injuries, j to Felley 1:40:00.840 --> 1:40:03.680 went out the game with a knee and Sauce and 1:40:03.800 --> 1:40:05.200 can they both had concussion. 1:40:05.320 --> 1:40:07.000 So we'll see exactly where that is. 1:40:07.840 --> 1:40:10.840 Give you guys an answer as the week progress on 1:40:10.920 --> 1:40:13.479 those three guys. When it comes to the game, I mean, 1:40:13.560 --> 1:40:17.920 obviously disappointed. Another low scoring game where the defense did 1:40:18.040 --> 1:40:20.120 a hell of a job, you know, holding this holding 1:40:20.120 --> 1:40:24.560 this team to thirteen points, getting a good amount of 1:40:25.680 --> 1:40:29.519 three and outs, but obviously not good enough. I mean, 1:40:29.560 --> 1:40:32.080 we give it too many points till I'm to win 1:40:32.120 --> 1:40:34.439 the game offensively. We have a lot of work to 1:40:34.479 --> 1:40:37.519 do and that speaks for self. We all know that. 1:40:38.160 --> 1:40:39.680 But the only thing we can do is go back 1:40:39.680 --> 1:40:43.160 to work. It's the only thing we can do. I 1:40:43.240 --> 1:40:45.840 understand the nature of the quarterback change, Listen, we needed 1:40:45.840 --> 1:40:47.960 a spark at that time. I felt it was the 1:40:48.040 --> 1:40:52.879 right time to do it. There was a tough situation 1:40:53.479 --> 1:40:56.760 for both of those guys, but it was my call. 1:40:57.439 --> 1:40:58.640 It was my call, and I felt it was the 1:40:58.720 --> 1:41:00.680 right time to do it. So when it goes into 1:41:00.680 --> 1:41:03.519 the next week, I'm not ready to sit here and 1:41:03.560 --> 1:41:05.839 say what's going on happen when next week with our quarterbacks, 1:41:05.880 --> 1:41:07.320 But I will say this, that's something I have to 1:41:07.320 --> 1:41:11.559 look at, you know, so any questions, I will say this. 1:41:11.680 --> 1:41:13.280 On a special team, I thought our special team did 1:41:13.320 --> 1:41:17.160 some good things. There was a couple of things that 1:41:17.160 --> 1:41:18.960 that we still have to work on, you know, for 1:41:19.000 --> 1:41:19.880 the most part, but there. 1:41:19.760 --> 1:41:21.720 Are some good things our special teams did. 1:41:22.720 --> 1:41:24.680 I was just gonna hurt cause canas out you know, 1:41:24.720 --> 1:41:26.920 with see exactly what it is gonna lead to because he's. 1:41:26.920 --> 1:41:28.360 He's one of our dynamic guys. 1:41:28.920 --> 1:41:31.080 But I thought there were some good things on special teams. 1:41:31.200 --> 1:41:33.920 When you did make the change, it looked like you 1:41:34.000 --> 1:41:36.800 had a little bit more flow offensively with Tyrod, even 1:41:36.840 --> 1:41:38.400 though that's a great playing. 1:41:38.160 --> 1:41:39.679 The end zone. 1:41:38.560 --> 1:41:41.880 But what did you did you feel out at all? 1:41:42.040 --> 1:41:44.200 You know, Yeah, I just I just felt like it 1:41:44.240 --> 1:41:46.040 was it was time, you know, that our team needed 1:41:46.040 --> 1:41:49.240 to spark, and I thought we did move the ball, 1:41:49.439 --> 1:41:52.640 you know, fairly well, obviously not enough to give our 1:41:52.720 --> 1:41:56.200 chief a chance to win. Yeah, those guys made two 1:41:56.200 --> 1:41:58.880 great plays on interceptions, and I guess the tough thing 1:41:58.880 --> 1:42:02.400 about that is, man, you rather have where either we 1:42:02.520 --> 1:42:05.040 catch it it's a dp I or it's incomplete, you know. 1:42:05.080 --> 1:42:07.519 And that has to be the mindset of us on 1:42:07.640 --> 1:42:11.040 offense to where we're not giving up interceptions. So but 1:42:11.080 --> 1:42:12.800 they happen, you know, got to get those guys credit. 1:42:12.880 --> 1:42:15.840 They made some plays, but we have to be able 1:42:15.840 --> 1:42:17.720 to pull out you know, these little scoring games. The 1:42:17.720 --> 1:42:19.639 thing is our guys are fighting. There's no quitting any 1:42:19.680 --> 1:42:22.120 of our guys. So I give those guys a lot 1:42:22.120 --> 1:42:23.800 of credit, but again we have to go back to 1:42:23.800 --> 1:42:24.479 work next week. 1:42:24.760 --> 1:42:27.599 Could you talk about some of the issues with past protection. 1:42:27.760 --> 1:42:30.360 They were not a big sack team coming in and 1:42:30.600 --> 1:42:33.240 I think they equals well, again, I have to go 1:42:33.240 --> 1:42:34.840 back and look at it, but it seemed like we 1:42:34.920 --> 1:42:37.040 lost a good bit of one on ones and that 1:42:37.040 --> 1:42:40.479 can happen in those situations, and I guess it's obviously. 1:42:40.479 --> 1:42:42.680 I mean, team's gonna try to pressure us, and we 1:42:42.760 --> 1:42:47.040 have to do a better job in those situations. So again, 1:42:47.080 --> 1:42:48.599 we have to look at the take, you know, see 1:42:48.640 --> 1:42:51.240 exactly what the issues are, go back to work next 1:42:51.240 --> 1:42:52.120 week and try to fix those. 1:42:52.200 --> 1:42:55.280 Aaron Glenn, rookie coach, was the defensive coordinator or the 1:42:55.400 --> 1:42:58.080 Jets or the Lions last year. It becomes the first 1:42:58.200 --> 1:43:01.559 Jets coach to lose his first seven games to begin 1:43:01.640 --> 1:43:04.720 his career. Jets haven't scored an offensive touchdown in the 1:43:04.800 --> 1:43:06.640 last two weeks. 1:43:06.360 --> 1:43:07.280 Oh and seven. 1:43:08.800 --> 1:43:11.760 Boy, I'd like to jump on them quickly and give 1:43:11.800 --> 1:43:14.840 them little reason to stay engaged in the game on Sunday. 1:43:14.560 --> 1:43:17.160 I think you've hit on the biggest factor and not 1:43:17.280 --> 1:43:20.280 surprised with all the football that you've seen. Paul Brown 1:43:20.360 --> 1:43:22.400 used to say that when we were going against the 1:43:22.400 --> 1:43:24.720 team they hadn't won a game. He would be like, 1:43:25.360 --> 1:43:27.760 jump right down their throats, you know, right away, take 1:43:27.800 --> 1:43:30.439 all the air out of their out of their lungs, 1:43:30.439 --> 1:43:34.040 you know, hit them as hard as you can, for 1:43:34.600 --> 1:43:37.479 as quickly as you possibly can. We don't want to 1:43:37.479 --> 1:43:39.400 mess around. We don't want it to be scoreless after 1:43:39.439 --> 1:43:42.439 the first quarter, scores at halftime, have them in the 1:43:42.439 --> 1:43:44.559 game at the end of the third quarter. We want 1:43:44.600 --> 1:43:48.439 this game to be over with And he honestly, he 1:43:48.600 --> 1:43:52.000 remember he told me one time, I'd rather play against 1:43:52.000 --> 1:43:55.439 a team you know that's that's seven and zero rather 1:43:55.479 --> 1:43:57.840 than oh and seven, because I know my guys are 1:43:57.840 --> 1:43:59.360 going to be up to beat them. They want to 1:43:59.360 --> 1:44:01.360 be the first team to knock them off, you know, 1:44:01.479 --> 1:44:05.559 And that's just human nature. And he said, you know, 1:44:05.680 --> 1:44:08.640 he used to worry about these these games, and I 1:44:08.680 --> 1:44:12.559 think Mike, being the son of Paul Brown, I think 1:44:12.600 --> 1:44:15.040 he probably has has his share of worry about this 1:44:15.080 --> 1:44:15.639 one as well. 1:44:15.720 --> 1:44:18.599 Yeah, we'll take our final time out, head down the stretch. 1:44:18.680 --> 1:44:21.679 We'll hear what it sounded like in a victorious locker room. 1:44:21.960 --> 1:44:24.360 To wrap things up on Bengals Line on the Bengals 1:44:24.439 --> 1:44:26.520 Radio network and seven hundred WLW. 1:44:29.000 --> 1:44:31.639 All right, here we go down the stretch final segment 1:44:31.760 --> 1:44:32.080 of the. 1:44:32.080 --> 1:44:34.479 Night here on Bengals Line of the Bengals Radio Network 1:44:34.479 --> 1:44:38.360 in seven hundred WLW. We always like to after victories 1:44:38.479 --> 1:44:40.920 listen in on what it sounded like and the presentation 1:44:40.960 --> 1:44:43.080 of the game balls, and you better believe we're doing that. 1:44:43.360 --> 1:44:46.040 Let's go back to Thursday night. Here is Zach after 1:44:46.080 --> 1:44:47.520 a big win over the Steelers. 1:44:47.560 --> 1:44:50.120 Sure it is early in the season, but I couldn't 1:44:50.120 --> 1:44:52.200 be happy for you guys because we've sat in these 1:44:52.240 --> 1:44:55.439 locker rooms the last four weeks and preached you guys 1:44:55.439 --> 1:44:57.760 are working hard, you're sticking together. 1:44:57.640 --> 1:45:00.160 You're about the right stuff. It's gonna come. And this 1:45:00.280 --> 1:45:01.559 feeling right now you have. 1:45:01.880 --> 1:45:05.200 Okay, it's Tony October, but the feeling reminds you of 1:45:05.280 --> 1:45:08.000 why we do this. Okay, to get a big divisional win. 1:45:08.160 --> 1:45:15.000 What's your wrecking the division right now? So we got time, 1:45:15.240 --> 1:45:17.360 we get a little streak going here, but we're gonna 1:45:17.400 --> 1:45:19.680 be in great shape. What you guys did tonight is outstanding. 1:45:19.880 --> 1:45:24.680 I got a lot of game boss to give out turnovers. 1:45:31.920 --> 1:45:33.960 Say his name a lot. I feel like Jordan Battle. 1:45:33.960 --> 1:45:40.759 Where are you at? 1:45:41.160 --> 1:45:43.479 I know, Roy City, I don't know how you did it, 1:45:43.560 --> 1:45:44.960 d J. We needed it. 1:45:45.000 --> 1:45:49.360 Man, I know I'm telling you. 1:45:50.120 --> 1:45:51.799 I'm telling you these divisual games. 1:45:51.880 --> 1:45:56.439 Every point matters Moneymack four field goals, a game. 1:45:56.280 --> 1:45:58.960 Winner points time. 1:45:59.040 --> 1:46:03.519 Man, let me start by saying this about the offense 1:46:03.600 --> 1:46:04.040 real quick. 1:46:04.120 --> 1:46:07.679 Anytime you have four hundred and seventy yards fast game 1:46:08.160 --> 1:46:11.880 one hundred and forty two rushing three forty two, that 1:46:12.000 --> 1:46:22.439 means your line your damn good job and telling us 1:46:22.760 --> 1:46:24.360 so YouTube captains got shot out game. 1:46:25.000 --> 1:46:27.800 Tell me eleven carries for. 1:46:27.800 --> 1:46:31.280 A nine point eight yard average per carry one hundred 1:46:31.320 --> 1:46:40.360 eight yards. Give me thirty one thirty one for forty 1:46:40.400 --> 1:46:44.720 seven forty two yards touchdowns. 1:46:53.120 --> 1:46:53.599 Here we go. 1:46:53.960 --> 1:46:57.160 I'm breaking his own franchise record for catches in the 1:46:57.240 --> 1:47:14.559 game sixteen. Understand, keep this filming right here, right here, 1:47:14.760 --> 1:47:17.000 keep this maintain this. 1:47:17.040 --> 1:47:17.799 Level of aity. 1:47:32.680 --> 1:47:36.320 Zach Taylor, game balls and the sounds of victory. 1:47:36.479 --> 1:47:37.040 Nowa day. 1:47:37.160 --> 1:47:40.320 Final thoughts on Sunday, boy, if you can get away 1:47:40.360 --> 1:47:43.200 over the Jets, he get back to five hundred all 1:47:43.200 --> 1:47:46.280 of a sudden, after everything you've been through, they would 1:47:46.360 --> 1:47:48.519 go to bed Sunday night at four and four, And 1:47:48.640 --> 1:47:51.479 how good a position would that be for this football team? 1:47:51.520 --> 1:47:53.320 After where they were to get to where they would be. 1:47:53.520 --> 1:47:55.000 Yeah, you're exactly right, Lance. 1:47:55.040 --> 1:47:56.640 I mean there's there's a lot of football left to 1:47:56.680 --> 1:47:59.519 be played, and uh, you know, crawling back to five 1:47:59.600 --> 1:48:03.600 hundred is nice. You know, you start off two and oh, 1:48:04.680 --> 1:48:07.360 Zach Taylor never won his first two games to start 1:48:07.360 --> 1:48:09.479 a season. And you lose four in a row. You know, 1:48:09.560 --> 1:48:12.240 it's it's the old roller coaster like we talked about. 1:48:12.920 --> 1:48:16.400 It's the National Football League. You can't give up the ship, 1:48:16.520 --> 1:48:18.000 you know if you do all go on a four 1:48:18.040 --> 1:48:20.400 game losing streak. And this team hasn't. This team does 1:48:20.439 --> 1:48:24.240 have character, they do have five or they know what 1:48:24.320 --> 1:48:28.280 it's in football games. And they just beat the division leader. 1:48:28.840 --> 1:48:31.200 So you're in second place and you just knocked off 1:48:31.240 --> 1:48:33.840 the division leader. You have two division wins, you're two 1:48:33.920 --> 1:48:36.160 and zero. Build on it. Build on it. 1:48:36.200 --> 1:48:39.720 Sounds like a playan have a great weekend again. I 1:48:39.760 --> 1:48:42.799 could not be happier for you. Sunday is gonna be awesome. 1:48:43.360 --> 1:48:45.360 Enjoy with your family, all right, shall do? 1:48:45.520 --> 1:48:46.599 Lance? Appreciate you? Sir? 1:48:46.800 --> 1:48:48.760 He is Dave Blackham. I'm Lance Pacallister. 1:48:48.920 --> 1:48:51.400 This has been Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network 1:48:51.520 --> 1:48:53.080 and seven hundred WLW. 1:48:54.320 --> 1:48:58.120 This was Bengals line on the Bengals Radio Network pay Corps. 1:48:58.280 --> 1:49:01.200 Pay Corps is proud to be the official HR software 1:49:01.200 --> 1:49:05.320 provider of US Cincinnati Bengals. Ulti Viper Aulti Viper the 1:49:05.400 --> 1:49:09.240 official WiFi and Internet provider of US Cincinnati Bengals. This 1:49:09.680 --> 1:49:15.080 is seven hundred WLW, the home of the fest Bengals coverage.