WEBVTT - Bengals Line with Lance McAlister and Dave Lapham -- 12/15/25 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:04.840 This is Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network pay Corps. 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:08.240 Pay corpus proud to be the official HR software provider 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:11.920 of the Cincinnati Bengals. Kettering how best care put about 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:16.760 best fans kettering hew official healthcare provider of US Cincinnati Bengals. 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:20.960 This is seven hundred WLW, the home of the best 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:22.120 Bengals coverage. 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:24.160 All right, let's get it going on this Monday night. 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:28.360 Welcome into Bengals Line. Three hours of conversation about to unfold. 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:31.200 We're gonna sort through what transpired yesterday at pay Corps. 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:34.280 We're gonna look ahead to what could transpire this coming 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:37.400 Sunday against the Miami Dolphins. I'm Lance, Butacallister. He is 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:40.000 Dave Lapham, and boy, Dave, had you told me at 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:42.280 the start of the day, with the Bengals at home 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:45.600 and playing for their collective playoff lives, had you said 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:48.720 they'll lose this game, I would have thought, okay, man, 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.840 that would be tough. But it's gonna be hard fought. 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:55.080 It's gonna be back and forth, there might be some 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:58.160 points score. There's gonna be dynamic quarterback play. I would 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:00.840 have said I could see that. Had you told me, 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:03.880 they won't score and they'll lose twenty four to nothing. 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:05.600 I would have said, wait a minute, time out. That 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:10.960 can't possibly happen. And unfortunately it did. Yeah, unfortunately it did. 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:14.759 I mean uh to uh to pitch a shutout. I mean, 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:17.480 Baltimore is capable of that. That defensive football teams a 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:21.200 good when we know that Harbaugh, you know, has has 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:25.040 made his living as a defensive minded head coach. And uh, 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:29.360 you know, they they play hard, they believe in the scheme, 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.600 they believe in the system, they play with a lot 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:35.800 of pride. The Bengals couldn't get anything done. I mean 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:39.840 there was no consistency, no continuity to what they were 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:41.640 they were doing. Every once in a while, there'd be 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:46.000 a big play, uh, but that would go away quickly. 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:48.360 The effect that that big play would go away quickly, 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.200 and Baltimore would just bowl their necks and bow their 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:55.320 backs and not allow the Cincinnati Bengals to get another inch. David, 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:58.200 it is stunning to look at. I'm a big numbers guy, 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:01.800 and then numbers sometimes mean something and numbers sometimes mean nothing. 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:04.720 And then there's some numbers that make no sense. And if 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:06.680 you're loyal, if you hadn't watched the game, and you said, 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:09.440 wait a minute, the Bengals had the ball for thirty 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:13.360 nine minutes, Yeah, almost forty minutes to the Ravens twenty. 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:18.080 The Bengals ran seventy one plays to the Ravens forty, 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.519 and yet the Ravens out gained the Bengals by nineteen 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:23.760 I mean, think about that. One team had the ball 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:27.760 for twenty fewer minutes and ran thirty one fewer plays 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:31.000 and out gained the other team by nineteen yards. That's 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:32.520 almost impossible. 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:34.800 Yeah, it really is. I mean if the numbers just 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:36.919 don't add up, it's like, wait a minute, man, that's 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:40.519 a brain cramp they're waiting to happen. You know. It's 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:45.160 just the factor that needs to be considered. There is 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.000 field position, you know, average drive start. Where did the 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:52.079 Baltimore Ravens start their first first and ten, you know, 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:54.760 and that's where they crossed the Bengals. Really, I mean, 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:58.840 they took their soul away on those they had the ball. 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:04.840 Their field position advantage was maybe as as significantly positive 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:07.240 to their side of things as I've seen in a 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.800 long time in the National Football League. I Mean, it 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:13.040 was crazy the way that thing unfolded. And you know 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:16.080 at that at that point, you know your defense has 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:17.880 already have their backs up against the wall. It's like, 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.760 if they allow one first down, you're in field goal range, 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:23.120 you know. And and and that's that's a bad place 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:25.120 to be. That's a tough place to be. And and 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:28.840 the Cincinnati Bengals could never get out of that. They 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:32.280 could never flip it, you know, flip the switch, flip 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:35.160 the coin, so to speak, and put the Ravens on 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:38.640 a long field. They had long field after long field. 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:41.680 The Ravens had short field after short field. I think 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:42.880 that was the biggest difference in the game. 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:47.200 And a real kicker and again filed under hard to fathom. 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:49.880 When the Bengals did get into the Ravens territory, they 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.240 got it into the Ravens side of the field five 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:55.760 different times and got i mean obviously zero points out 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:57.480 of it. But they get it to the forty and 0:03:57.520 --> 0:03:59.520 half to punt, They get it to the twenty nine 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:02.000 and throw the interception. They get it to the thirty 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:04.200 and they turn it over on downs. They get it 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:06.880 to the seven Joe throws to pick six. They get 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.040 it to the twenty seven and they get stopped on 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:11.280 fourth and one. I mean, the odds if you turn 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:13.440 to Vegas and said, all right, what are the odds 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:16.680 this Bengals offense, We'll get into Ravens territory five different 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:19.719 times and not score a single point. I don't know 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:21.880 even how you calculate the odds, because that would be 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:24.120 seemingly be impossible, right right. 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:29.320 I mean, fourth down stops and turnovers were huge. You know, 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:32.120 that's the reason that Baltimore was able to pitch the shutout. 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:37.359 Really they basically, in my mind, fourth down takeaways on 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:41.080 downs are pretty much equivalent to turnovers. You know, you 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:44.279 don't have an opportunity to even try a field goal 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:46.320 and score points and you're certainly not going to put 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:49.160 it in the end zone. So you know, the multiple 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.599 possessions where that was the case for the Cincinnati Bengals, 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:54.479 way too many possessions in one game. That's for damsure. 0:04:54.480 --> 0:05:00.840 I mean, they had enough turnover taken away eight points 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:04.760 and allowing a pick six and fourth down stops ate 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:07.360 enough of those for an entire season, at least two 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:09.960 thirds of the season anyway, and they had it all 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:12.560 in one football game. And when you add all that up, 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:14.760 it's just a recipe for Disaster. 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:18.320 Boy and one drive that really jumped out to me, Dave. 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:23.400 And it's seventeen to nothing, and so this is still 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:26.520 certainly the game is in play, you're not out of it, 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.080 and it's seventeen to nothing. The Bengals went on a 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:33.839 sixteen play trucks crauized eighty five yards and consumed eight 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:37.520 minutes on the clock. And again, if you're not watching 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:40.040 the game, you think, wow, sixteen play drive. But as 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:42.320 you were watching it, you're thinking, wait a minute, they 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:47.000 need to score multiple times here, and they're taking sixteen 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:49.400 plays in the time off the clock. And I'm watching 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:51.680 from one step to the next, and they're in the huddle, 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.880 and I'm thinking, it almost felt like it's seventeen to nothing. 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:58.599 It's silly to think they just wanted to get the 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:00.360 game over. But I don't know how you go on 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:03.359 a sixteen play drive and take eight minutes when you 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:05.520 need to score multiple times. 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.040 Yeah, and there's not much time left in the football game, 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:11.840 you know, And yeah, the clock management was curious. Make 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:14.200 you scratch your head, that's for sure. I don't know 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:17.880 what Zach was thinking in those situations. Only he can 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:22.360 answer that question. But yeah, and again field is a factor. 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.080 I mean, when you go on an eighteen play drive, 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:25.760 you haven't put it in the end zone. You start 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:28.400 your after your drive. Start was way back there, man, 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:31.920 I mean you were back at your ten yard line, 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:34.159 inside your ten yard line. You had a long way 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:36.400 to go, You at a long distance drive coming up, 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:38.839 and you just could not quite finish it. That was 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:42.080 the story of the game. The Cincinnati Bengals just came 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:45.920 up short in terms of finishing, you know, at inconsistency 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:48.480 of play and lack of finishing. I think of the 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:50.160 two big headlines for this football game. 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:53.680 Let's get immediate reaction after the game inside the locker room. 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:56.320 Here's Dave with the coach Zach Taylor. 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:58.080 We had a great play on defense, they gave us 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:00.599 an opportunity early in the game. And on dolphins. Obviously 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:02.120 we had the two that that really hurt us. 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:05.760 Third down another another key, another T. The three t's 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:09.120 that I had for the game, we're touchdowns, turnovers and 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:13.680 takeaways and third down. Third down didn't go very well. 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:16.200 Had some fourth downs that you had to try to convert. 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:18.720 I mean did okay, but not you know, you were 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:22.640 putting too many fourth down situations. Talk about the problems 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:23.680 that you faced on third down. 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:25.600 Yeah, I thought early we were good. You know, early 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:27.080 we put uff in a good spot and drove the 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:30.440 ball on the field and obviously didn't finish. You know, 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:32.480 on one we had a turnover that took points off 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:34.160 the board. Another one we had a sack that that 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:37.040 took out a field goal range. And so first half 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:39.040 it was frustrating. We felt like there was opportunity for 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:40.880 points there and we came away with nothing a halftime 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:42.400 and obviously finished the game the same way. 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:46.000 You were going to go from this football game to Miami. 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:49.040 I don't know how many degrees and just plan that's 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:50.680 going to be, but it's going to be. It's going 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:53.840 to be crazy. I know you don't necessarily want to 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.240 talk about the Miami Dolphins. You haven't had time to 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:59.160 digest the Miami Dolphins, to look at the Miami Dolphins much, 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.800 that's for sure. But I guess what do you think? 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:05.720 What are the weapons? What makes the Miami Dolphins a 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:06.680 solid football team? 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:07.360 Yeah? 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:10.560 I just know from what I've I am watching them 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:12.640 a long time. We'll find out. I know that they're 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:14.440 always a fast team and they've got a good quarterback 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:15.160 that gets out quick. 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:22.000 So your division record, if you'd won out would have 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:23.720 been five and one, now can be four and two. 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:26.560 Still pretty solid, still something to be proud of. A 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:29.520 foreign two record in the division, and still it could 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:33.320 give you an eight and nine record, So obviously there's 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:34.160 a lot to play for. 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:35.480 We just got to win. 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:37.760 You know, We're gonna come in the building every day 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:40.280 and focus on finding a win in Miami, finding a 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:43.480 win after that. It's been disappointing that this is where 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:48.520 we're at right now. We're all accountable for that, and 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:51.719 that's obviously a disappointing day. But tomorrow we're gonna have 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:53.840 to pick ourselves up and find a way to go 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:55.559 find a win, get some momentum. 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:58.800 That's what you're talking about there. One win at a time, 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:01.760 Paul Brown, my first head coach in the National Football League. 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:03.880 That's what you said. Man, you can't get a hit 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:06.680 yourself here, no matter what the situation. You got to 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:09.599 approach it one week at a time. You got to 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:12.920 try to accumulate one victory at a time. And that's 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:14.920 where you find yourself right now, isn't it. 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.160 That's well, that's all we can do is takeing one 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.600 game at a time and make the corrections from this 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:20.959 one and move on to the next one. 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:21.880 Took as possible. 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:25.480 Coach, appreciate your time. You don't have to do this. 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:29.040 I know that sometimes it's difficult to do this. I 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:30.880 know a lot of times it's very difficult to do this. 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:33.280 But you're a class act and we appreciate your carbon 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:34.000 time for us. 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:36.920 You got it, Zach Taylor. After the game, sum it up. 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:39.520 We'll take our first time out and continue. You hear 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:42.120 from QB one Joe Burrow on a rough day all 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:45.800 around as we navigate through the first of three hours 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:48.600 tonight if Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network and 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:54.520 seven hundred WLW all night sorting through yesterday on Bengals 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:57.400 Line and the Bengals Radio Network in seven hundred WLW 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.240 heard from Zach. Let's hear from Joe Burrow. You're at 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:02.640 a second. He goes twenty five of thirty nine, two 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:06.720 hundred and twenty five yards, sack three times, two interceptions. 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:11.440 Fifty eight point two was his rating. Here's Joe after 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:11.880 the game. 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:14.840 You go back to Wednesday, there was a lot made 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:18.840 of your moment if you're having fun or not in Cincinnati, 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:21.520 so just still let you address it. Are you still 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:22.559 enjoying playing. 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:23.079 For the Bengals? 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:26.000 And what did you make of kind of what happened 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:27.480 in your comments on Wednesday? 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:31.959 My comments had nothing to do with Cincinnati. My comments 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:35.080 had everything to do with me and my mindset in football. 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:37.760 Do you think that your mindset this week in fact 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:41.360 in your play today or was it just your player today? 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:46.200 Three years now of missing the playoffs, typically that results 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:49.040 in change for most NFL organizations. Do you still have 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:51.600 confidence in the people in the front office and the 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:54.520 coaching staff that they can get this roster in a 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:56.760 place and this team in a place where that wouldn't 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:57.360 happen next year? 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:01.600 A lot of confidence because I know how hard people 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:02.040 work at it. 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:06.120 We got the right people, uh starts, the players playing better, 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.000 and today was me from the outside. 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:13.600 Are gonna just say that the organization top to bottom 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:17.199 front the office doesn't have enough people or the right 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:21.720 people in place. You honestly feel that they do and why. 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:22.880 This is a team effort. 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.080 You know, at the end of the day, players got 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:28.400 to play better on the field. 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.679 Today was me, I gotta be better? What do you 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:33.559 feel like you could have know better today everything. 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:36.040 Why was Why was it. 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:36.560 So tough on there? 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:39.480 What they made such challenge? 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:43.680 They're getting good pressure, but you know, some. 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:51.040 Uncharacter uncharacteristic mental mistakes on my end and some unforced errors. 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:54.240 Touch on the mindset. 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:57.080 Do you think those things could be inter twined at all? 0:11:57.200 --> 0:11:59.199 Is to maybe why you didn't go the way you 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:03.319 wanted to early on? Can you take us through? You 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:06.320 had a throw to Jamar, it was right for the interception, throw. 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:09.120 To Jamar in the end zone. The interception where it 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:12.200 was just those two, those two players just felt. 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:13.560 Like you gott. 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.280 Yeah the go I felt good about where I put it. 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.439 He got tugged a little bit. You Now, sometimes you 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:24.200 get those calls, sometimes you don't. But I felt good 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:25.760 about where I put down one. And then yeah, obviously 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:27.320 the interception was was a bit high. 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:29.360 What would you think as you go back on the 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:32.680 field for the last time, the conditions, you probably would 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:34.520 not have what was run through your mind as you 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:35.000 go back. 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:38.720 After the pick six. I mean, at that point it 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:40.440 was over, So just protect yourself. 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:42.920 Joe, out of playoff contention, do you want to play 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:44.280 the last three games personally? 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:48.480 I do Joe Burrow after the game and Dave clearly 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:51.280 he was as hard on himself as you've ever heard 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:54.640 Joe Burrow. It was a rough day all around for everybody. 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.360 It was a really rough day for Joe, and he 0:12:57.400 --> 0:13:00.679 did not hold back. I love what he said. You know, 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:03.280 you're you're you're not gonna win NFL games when your 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:06.760 quarterback plays like I did today. I want everything on 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:09.120 my plate. That's the position I want to be in. 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:12.600 And it just it. It wasn't his day, It wasn't 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:16.200 everybody's day yesterday, but that's certainly far from a typical 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:17.280 Joe Burrow afternoon. 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:22.080 Absolutely, and uh, you know he uh in in typical 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:24.680 Joe Burrow fashion, the leader that he is, he said, 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:27.400 put it on my shoulders. It's all on me, you know. 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:29.520 I just I did not perform the way that I'm 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.360 capable of performing. And talk to him in the in 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:37.360 the locker room after the game, not on not taping him, 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:40.840 but just conversing a little bit, and he was very, 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:44.680 very disappointed. He was down about his performance, and you know, 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.559 and deservedly so, rightfully so. But I do think one 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:50.000 thing about Joe Burrow is he does bounce back quickly, 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:53.480 and I think he will compartmentalize. Now, he'll learn, he'll 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:55.480 learn from this. There's a lot to learn. There are 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:58.839 lessons to learn for everybody that played in this football game. 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:02.560 Everybody the participate paid it in this debacle. You know, 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:05.040 you get shut out in the National Football League. Offensively, 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:06.880 a lot of lessons to learn there, and there's no 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:10.800 doubt defensively as well. You know, when your offense is struggling, 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:12.600 you have to pick them up. You know, it's a 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:17.480 it's basically it's a team game, and you have to 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:21.239 when one when one side is struggling, one phase is struggling, 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:23.160 the other one has to lift and raise the boat, 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:26.320 so to speak. So that's the that's the biggest lesson 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:29.560 I think learned in this football game. And it's not 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:31.560 gonna be easy going to Miami, and can tell you that. 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:35.160 You know there's gonna be a huge temperature swing, there's 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:38.920 no question, and humidity could be a big issue down 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.960 there as well. So guys better eat right, they better 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:45.000 get their rest, better take care of their bodies because 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:46.720 that trip to Miami is no joke. 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:51.080 First time in Joe's NFL career he's been involved in 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:54.760 a shutout, the first Bengals home shutout since the opener 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:57.920 of twenty seventeen, first time Joe's played in a game 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:01.520 his team was shut out since twenty eighteen at LSU 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:05.240 against Alabama when Bama was was number one in the country. 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:08.240 And it also sticks out that his teammates said that 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:11.200 Joe addressed the team after the game. They didn't go 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:14.280 into details on what he said, but another thing that 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:17.120 you look for in a franchise quarterback and your leader, 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:22.480 gathering guys and speaking, and it is he put it 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:25.000 on him. But I'm sure the message was to the 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.440 group that we all need to do more. This is 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:29.160 not acceptable right now exactly. 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:30.920 I think that you're hitting it right on the head. 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:34.560 And the great quarterbacks, the great leaders that the Cincinnati 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:37.760 Bengals have had, and they've been blessed with tremendous quarterback 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:41.920 play and tremendous people at the quarterback position, and I 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:45.640 can envision Boomers Iceen and Can Anderson both doing exactly 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:48.760 what Joe Burrow did. You know, Hey, guys, I played 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:51.040 like horse dong. You know, there's no question about it. 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:54.040 I stunk, I was, I was, I sucked, I was awful. 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.200 But you guys weren't much better. You know, I mean, nobody, 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:02.040 nobody did anything. Uh, you know that football game was atrocious. 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:05.480 It was it was not not up to snuff, not 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:09.680 up to standard for for NFL performance. You have to 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:11.520 you have to play at a higher level than that. 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:14.200 Let's make sure. Let's let's go learn. Like I was 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:18.400 talking about before, lesson hard, lesson hard pill to swallow, 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:21.240 tough pill to swallow. But let's get it down and 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:25.800 digest it and uh and and live through it. You know, 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.480 your neighbor's going to be all over here, your family 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:30.880 will probably be all over you gonna be hard to 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:33.760 find some friends. But that's what it's like, That's what 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.080 life's all about, the National Football League. When you lay 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:37.680 an egg as big as the one we laid. 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:39.920 Yeah, no doubt. And you know, it's a rough day 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:42.080 for Joe. There's been days where he's maybe sailed to 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:44.320 pass or under thrown a pass. But when Joe says 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:47.080 an opening drive, when he took the sack that took him 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:49.160 out of field goal range, he said, a mental mistake 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:52.320 by me. Joe doesn't make mental mistake. You know, it's 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:54.800 a rough day when Joe's making a mental mistake right on. 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:56.840 I mean, you know, just throw it away. You know 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:02.160 that those yards, every yard is valuable. He more than 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:05.520 anybody understands that. And one of those days. You know, 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:08.480 every once in a while, no matter what your job is, 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:10.720 you have a day at work where it's like, oh boy, 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:12.960 I wish this day would end. You know, this day 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:15.240 can't end fast enough. And that was the case for 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:17.120 Joe Burrow and the Bengals yesterday. 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:19.240 No doubt, we've reached the bottom of the hour. Hangtag. 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:21.200 We'll flip to the defensive side of things here from 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:23.560 Miles Murphy. He had a nice day, a couple of sacks. 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:27.159 Talk more about his continuing development as we continue with 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:31.040 Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:38.640 We rolled right along in this lendy nut of Bengals 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:41.399 Line and the Bengals Radio Network in seven hundred WLW, 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:43.800 Lance mccunt, Lester, Dave Black Them. We'll hear from Orlando 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:45.880 Brown coming up in this hour a little bit later 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:49.119 on Jamar Chase Head, caraus in so much more. But 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:52.840 let's talk defense yesterday, and let's start with Miles Murphy 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:55.639 who turned in a two sack day. He's up to 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:58.639 four and a half on the season. Here's Miles after 0:17:58.640 --> 0:17:59.040 the game. 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:02.160 We're in the locker room with Miles Murphy after disappointing 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:04.720 loss for the Bengals. You had two sacks. 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:05.280 TJ. 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:08.080 Slayton was involved in one of those sacks. In any case, 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:12.000 how difficult were the playing conditions for everybody on both 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:12.600 sides today? 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:15.520 I mean, of course it's cold, but it's just a conditions. 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:18.000 Just you know what you signed up for football. You 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:22.959 played in any any weather, so just gotta bear with 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:24.480 it and still just play your keys. 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:26.240 Played the run, rust passer. 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:27.639 You know, do we can as a defense? 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:30.879 Big plays hurt you guys today? Did you feel like 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:32.680 that was the biggest problem my defense? 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:33.600 Uh? 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:37.159 Yeah, Limiting the explosives. They're explosive team. They got guys 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:39.919 all over at quarterback, O line, running back, receivers, So 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:42.160 you gotta do what you can't do, limit the explosives. 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:43.560 I felt we felt that we did a good. 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:46.960 Job against the run, kept them, cut them, contain, cut 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:47.720 pressure on them. 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:49.200 But it was just the explosives. 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:50.120 Uh. 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:52.000 I was I was one of them. I was one 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:53.400 of them that gave it the one of the one 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:56.399 explosive and those are just things that just can't happen. 0:18:57.160 --> 0:18:59.280 Was that on the touchdown pass to al Lee? I 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:01.280 was on your but I didn't really know what your 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:02.359 responsibility was there. 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:03.720 Yeah, the first one I was supposed to Yeah, I 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:05.320 was supposed to take them on that one. And that's 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:07.639 just something that can't happen to me and or anyone. 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:10.200 I just can't happen to give up that explosive play. 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:13.800 It was a tough game in the sense that Thangals 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:19.080 had some opportunities early inside the thirty, didn't take advantage Baltimore. 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:21.200 Baltimore got a score, and then it kind of felt 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:24.040 like the momentum swung their way, particularly when they got 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:27.560 that second score late in the second quarter. Describe what 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.159 it was like for you guys, just from a momentum standpoint. 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:33.640 Really, as a defense, we try to approach every every 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:35.159 possession of the same like we got to get the 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:37.000 ball that for our offense, because we know our offense, 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:40.280 you know, just like there's a we have offenses full 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:42.760 of explosive guys and who they all they need is 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:44.159 a chance man, and that's that's what we try to 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:45.560 do for our offense. Just give them a chance. And 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:48.199 you know, that's the only thing we can do. Just 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:50.680 do our just do our job and continue to give 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:52.760 our give Joe to just continue to give you the ball. 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:54.240 That's that's all we want to do. That's all we 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:54.600 can do. 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:57.399 It obviously doesn't help the playoff math. Where do you 0:19:57.440 --> 0:19:59.000 guys stand now with three games to go? 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:01.760 What's the same deal? The next next week is the 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:04.080 biggest game of the year. That's that's my mindset. I 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:06.320 feel like that's the entire defensive mindset. Just done to 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:10.360 next week, same mindset. Attack, stop the run, get after 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:12.680 the quarterback. But nothing changes. We're not just gonna sit 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:14.520 back and just let whatever happen to us like we're 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:19.200 gonna still attack set, set edges, do what we can 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:21.679 and just you know, show show everyone what bangle, what 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:22.639 bangle football is. 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:24.480 Appreciate your time, Miles thinking. 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:27.480 Miles Murphy after the game yesterday, he wasn't perfect. He 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:30.840 admitted his the role in in the breakdown in the 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:34.320 thirty yard touchdown. But if we're talking about the graph 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:36.680 and this team needs young guys to keep getting better 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:39.320 and Dave, there is clear momentum for the way Miles 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:42.720 Murphy has come on in the back part of this season. 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:44.720 Agreed lancetal question about it, And like you said, he 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:46.520 has four and a half sacks now in the season 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:50.359 with that two sack performance yesterday, that's number two in 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:52.359 the team. The only guy that's got more is with 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:55.359 Joseph a side with five. So you know, Miles Murphy 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:57.280 is becoming a little bit of a factor off the edge. 0:20:57.320 --> 0:20:59.920 You know, he and Osia both young players. They both 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:03.719 have immense physical talent. Uh, and when the Bengals scouted them, 0:21:03.880 --> 0:21:07.960 they they are size, speed ratios and everything strength overall 0:21:08.000 --> 0:21:11.520 body strength or off the charts. So now it's a 0:21:11.560 --> 0:21:15.520 matter of making sure that knowing the game, what they're 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:17.680 what they're expected to do in the game of football, 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:21.239 understanding football, football IQ, everything that goes along with that. 0:21:21.800 --> 0:21:25.040 And uh, they're very intelligent, both of them have you know, 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:29.440 raw i Q. So hopefully the football IQ will will 0:21:29.440 --> 0:21:30.240 come along quickly. 0:21:30.800 --> 0:21:35.320 Boy, and he's somebody. Let's let's look ahead and you 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:38.880 know likelihood that Trey I don't know, Betray Henderson probably 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:42.040 not here next year. You never know, but you need 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:48.159 somebody to become a dominant, game changing game wrecking. I 0:21:48.560 --> 0:21:50.720 don't want I don't expect him to immediately jump to 0:21:50.760 --> 0:21:53.120 it all pro next year, but you need the continued 0:21:53.160 --> 0:21:55.879 development of somebody who can be an impact a young, 0:21:56.040 --> 0:21:57.520 impactful guide or defense. 0:21:57.600 --> 0:22:01.720 Absolutely, And if you're a defensive coordinator, Al Golden, he 0:22:02.440 --> 0:22:05.359 wants to have a guy, all right, I know I 0:22:05.359 --> 0:22:08.600 can count on him to pressure the quarterback, not necessarily 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:13.040 sack them, but pressure him, make him uncomfortable, make him 0:22:13.080 --> 0:22:15.440 make a quicker decision than he wants. To make him 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:18.240 put the ball in jeopardy at least once a game, 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:21.120 maybe multiple times a game. And that's that's what he's 0:22:21.160 --> 0:22:25.560 looking for defensively. And so you know, pass rush can 0:22:25.600 --> 0:22:29.520 have an impact different ways other than quarterback sacks. Quarterback 0:22:29.560 --> 0:22:32.080 being taken to the ground. That's the sexy deal that 0:22:32.119 --> 0:22:34.879 everybody's looking for. You know, what kind of quarterback sacks 0:22:34.880 --> 0:22:38.160 do you have? But quarterback pressures are important also, quarterback 0:22:38.240 --> 0:22:41.359 hurries are important also. And the more you can get 0:22:41.680 --> 0:22:45.199 out of these two young guys in that regard in 0:22:45.240 --> 0:22:47.159 those two categories, the better off you're going to be. 0:22:47.200 --> 0:22:49.359 Boy. And while we're on the defensive side of things, 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:53.800 and and young and needing more from Dimitris Knight Junior 0:22:53.840 --> 0:22:57.080 has a two sack day and has five tackles, and 0:22:57.080 --> 0:22:59.760 and that's something that the linebackers have been in the 0:23:00.080 --> 0:23:02.159 crosshairs in the spotlight a lot this season. But to 0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:04.720 see Dimitri's Knight Junior have a big day's got to 0:23:04.760 --> 0:23:06.720 do a lot for his confidence, exactly. 0:23:06.760 --> 0:23:10.840 And you know he's capable. I mean, you know he's 0:23:11.160 --> 0:23:15.440 Those two sacks put him in the top policy one, two, three, four, five, 0:23:15.520 --> 0:23:17.440 he's in the top five from the team. Now with 0:23:17.600 --> 0:23:21.760 those two quarterback stacks tied for top five, which I mean, 0:23:21.800 --> 0:23:24.120 the Bengals aren't tearing it up in terms of team 0:23:24.200 --> 0:23:28.480 quarterback sacks, that's for sure. But again, young guys, young 0:23:28.480 --> 0:23:30.720 guys at every level, young guys at defensive line, there 0:23:30.720 --> 0:23:32.800 are young players at the linebacker level. There are young 0:23:32.800 --> 0:23:35.360 guys in the back end that are starting to show up. 0:23:35.800 --> 0:23:39.560 And the graph of their contribution and their play is 0:23:39.560 --> 0:23:40.800 going straight up, it really is. 0:23:41.080 --> 0:23:44.160 And if you go back started the game, first three possessions, 0:23:44.200 --> 0:23:47.440 the defense forces a punt, forces a punt, gets the interception, 0:23:47.920 --> 0:23:50.880 and then it's it's such a theme with this defense. 0:23:50.920 --> 0:23:54.080 There'll be good, good, good, and then just ah, really 0:23:54.160 --> 0:23:58.159 awfully bad on a breakdown, and there were plays they 0:23:58.160 --> 0:24:01.640 allowed of thirty two yards thirty twenty nine, twenty eight, 0:24:01.720 --> 0:24:05.320 twenty six, twenty five, twenty two, twenty two. And if 0:24:05.320 --> 0:24:07.520 we go back to time obsessions, the Ravens only had 0:24:07.600 --> 0:24:11.239 forty snaps and yet eight plays went for twenty two 0:24:11.320 --> 0:24:14.560 yards or more. Those are just backbreaking and just our 0:24:14.640 --> 0:24:17.320 steps back from so many steps you try to take forward. 0:24:17.400 --> 0:24:20.040 Yeah, exactly, they're catastrophic, you know. I mean it's like, 0:24:20.080 --> 0:24:22.320 you know, you start to feel good about yourself. Yeah, hey, 0:24:22.320 --> 0:24:25.919 things are we're believers. Man, things are going pretty well, 0:24:25.920 --> 0:24:28.400 and then all of a sudden, bam right in the face. Man, 0:24:28.440 --> 0:24:30.119 you take a shot right in the bridge of the 0:24:30.200 --> 0:24:32.879 nose and get your nose busted all over your face. 0:24:32.920 --> 0:24:37.320 I mean, that's life in the National Football League for sure. 0:24:37.680 --> 0:24:42.600 But man, you know, these young players, they're just gonna 0:24:42.600 --> 0:24:45.200 have to minimize those big plays. Every team in the 0:24:45.320 --> 0:24:47.520 NFL is going to give up big plays. But if 0:24:47.560 --> 0:24:51.080 you give up, you know, three big plays and eight snaps, 0:24:51.320 --> 0:24:53.720 you're in trouble. I mean, I don't care how you 0:24:53.760 --> 0:24:57.879 know who you are, what team you are, you just 0:24:57.880 --> 0:25:00.600 can't afford to give up those kind of glosives. 0:25:00.760 --> 0:25:04.600 Yeah, just looking at the sheet for perspective, Bengals offense 0:25:04.680 --> 0:25:08.639 ran seventy one plays and only had two plays that 0:25:08.800 --> 0:25:12.640 gained twenty or more yards. The Ravens ran forty plays 0:25:12.920 --> 0:25:16.399 and had eight plays that went for over twenty yards. 0:25:16.440 --> 0:25:18.080 Those explosive plays are. 0:25:18.080 --> 0:25:20.520 Just gut punches one out of every five. 0:25:20.560 --> 0:25:21.920 Yeah, that's true. That's incredible. 0:25:21.920 --> 0:25:23.879 That's twenty percent of this is Riley taught me right 0:25:23.920 --> 0:25:25.800 how to side for a little bit. I mean, you know, 0:25:25.920 --> 0:25:31.760 twenty percent of your snaps are big plays, explosives. That 0:25:31.880 --> 0:25:34.760 dog's definitely not gonna hunt if you're a defensive football team. 0:25:35.040 --> 0:25:37.120 Did a lot of hunting for the Ravens, there's no question. 0:25:37.240 --> 0:25:39.320 Yeah. And you know, a final thought on young guys 0:25:39.359 --> 0:25:42.120 and you reference Shamar Stewart. I would think final three 0:25:42.560 --> 0:25:44.600 games will be big for him, And it looks like 0:25:44.720 --> 0:25:48.359 the trend is he's probably we wondered he might play 0:25:48.359 --> 0:25:50.919 this week, didn't. If he can play the final three, 0:25:50.960 --> 0:25:56.000 that would be I think huge for his development, his confidence. 0:25:56.119 --> 0:25:58.840 Just to get something on tape that that he can 0:25:58.880 --> 0:26:01.200 feel good about to end the season with, I think 0:26:01.200 --> 0:26:02.800 would mean a lot going into the off season. 0:26:02.840 --> 0:26:04.959 I agree with you. And for the coaching staff, yes, 0:26:05.160 --> 0:26:07.959 you know, it's like get tape, like you said, plays 0:26:08.000 --> 0:26:10.720 from him on tape, or you can really evaluate and say, 0:26:11.000 --> 0:26:13.200 do we need to still address this or are we good? 0:26:14.080 --> 0:26:16.399 Do we see growth and development here? Do we feel 0:26:16.400 --> 0:26:18.840 good about what's going on at the on the edge 0:26:19.040 --> 0:26:21.600 for our defensive football team? And you know, can we 0:26:21.680 --> 0:26:25.399 put resources somewhere else at linebacker or in the back end, 0:26:25.440 --> 0:26:28.000 whatever we need to do on our side of the football. 0:26:28.119 --> 0:26:31.040 Let's uh, let's let's figure it out. Let's let's do 0:26:31.080 --> 0:26:32.399 the evaluating we need to do. 0:26:32.600 --> 0:26:35.479 Yeah, especially, it just popped into my head. Joseph Osai 0:26:35.640 --> 0:26:38.000 is going to be in a contract situation. So you're 0:26:38.040 --> 0:26:41.000 weighing Miles Murphy coming on on one end. If you 0:26:41.119 --> 0:26:43.399 feel good over the final three with Shamar and then 0:26:43.720 --> 0:26:46.359 maybe it impacts how you view Osai. Maybe it doesn't, 0:26:46.400 --> 0:26:49.080 But a lot of questions and you just need young 0:26:49.240 --> 0:26:51.160 progress and development. That's the bottom line. 0:26:51.160 --> 0:26:53.600 Absolutely, I mean that that is the bottom line. Young 0:26:53.680 --> 0:26:57.520 progress and development is the lifeblood of any organization in 0:26:57.560 --> 0:26:58.080 the NFL. 0:26:58.440 --> 0:27:02.080 When we continue Orlando Round Junior on the offensive line 0:27:02.160 --> 0:27:04.600 and so much more. Thanks for hanging out with us 0:27:04.640 --> 0:27:07.399 tonight it is Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network 0:27:07.640 --> 0:27:15.320 and seven hundred. We keep moving along on this Monday night, 0:27:15.400 --> 0:27:17.840 picking up the pieces from yesterday, and eventually we'll turn 0:27:17.880 --> 0:27:20.080 the attention to those Miami Dolphins coming up in our 0:27:20.160 --> 0:27:23.399 third hour tonight of Bengals Line and the Bengals Radio Network. 0:27:23.440 --> 0:27:26.600 We've heard from Zach, heard from Joe, heard from Miles Murphy. 0:27:26.680 --> 0:27:28.000 Let's go to the other side of the ball, and 0:27:28.119 --> 0:27:30.720 up front Orlando Brown on the day that was for 0:27:30.760 --> 0:27:33.760 the Bengals in the offensive line. Here's Orlando after the game. 0:27:34.119 --> 0:27:38.600 You know, I definitely resonate with was and Joe on 0:27:38.960 --> 0:27:39.639 a filling on that. 0:27:39.920 --> 0:27:42.280 All right, Joe has done so much in his organization, 0:27:42.359 --> 0:27:44.960 so many games he even wanted he came in today. 0:27:45.320 --> 0:27:47.760 This one's on me as a guy who's a leader 0:27:47.800 --> 0:27:50.440 on this team. Do you have Joe's back that like, 0:27:50.600 --> 0:27:51.399 it's a team effort. 0:27:51.400 --> 0:27:53.320 It's not just the quarterday, Yeah, one hundred percent of 0:27:53.320 --> 0:27:56.480 team effort, man. And you know, so many things going 0:27:56.520 --> 0:27:58.880 to being able to win a football game. 0:27:59.040 --> 0:28:00.560 And it's not just about our. 0:28:00.520 --> 0:28:03.880 Quarterback playing well or just our defense playing well. Uh, 0:28:03.960 --> 0:28:06.560 so many things have to go together. And so uh, 0:28:06.680 --> 0:28:08.720 today's losses and just on him, man, you know, zero 0:28:08.800 --> 0:28:11.560 points offensively, We all got a hand in that, and 0:28:12.000 --> 0:28:12.639 whatever that is. 0:28:12.680 --> 0:28:13.920 You know, we'll watch the film. 0:28:14.040 --> 0:28:15.400 We'll we'll learn from, you. 0:28:15.320 --> 0:28:18.160 Know, mistakes that we made and be able to uh, 0:28:18.680 --> 0:28:20.480 you know, focus on that and and make sure those 0:28:20.480 --> 0:28:21.400 things don't happen again. 0:28:21.440 --> 0:28:22.680 But it's never just on a joke. 0:28:22.720 --> 0:28:22.920 Man. 0:28:23.280 --> 0:28:25.960 You know what this locker room has to be a 0:28:26.000 --> 0:28:28.000 third straight year Orlando without making them. 0:28:27.920 --> 0:28:30.360 Playoffs against that, Yeah, it is surprising. 0:28:30.400 --> 0:28:30.600 Man. 0:28:30.680 --> 0:28:32.879 You know, we spend a lot of time uh in 0:28:32.920 --> 0:28:35.000 the off season. Uh, we spend a lot of time 0:28:35.600 --> 0:28:38.880 uh as a as a team, bonding and and and growing. 0:28:38.960 --> 0:28:41.760 And so you know, anytime you don't get the opportunity 0:28:41.800 --> 0:28:44.120 to be in a dance, it's it's frustrating and and 0:28:44.160 --> 0:28:47.720 it sucks, man, And you know it puts it puts everybody, uh, 0:28:47.880 --> 0:28:50.160 you know, in a in a difficult spot. But I 0:28:50.160 --> 0:28:52.760 could tell you over these next three weeks, man, I'm 0:28:52.760 --> 0:28:55.640 so thankful for the ability to play this football game. Uh, 0:28:55.760 --> 0:28:57.680 you know, something always dreamed of as a young kid. 0:28:57.800 --> 0:29:00.680 And so uh man, I'm I'm I'm thankful to be 0:29:00.720 --> 0:29:02.720 playing for this organization. In the city and I'm gonna 0:29:02.720 --> 0:29:05.360 continue to give it everything I got. But it is frustrated. 0:29:05.400 --> 0:29:07.200 It's frustrating not being in the playoffs to get back 0:29:07.240 --> 0:29:07.400 to the. 0:29:07.680 --> 0:29:10.040 Super Bowl expectations you guys have. What do you feel 0:29:10.040 --> 0:29:11.560 like it is the first step to get back? 0:29:11.800 --> 0:29:11.880 Oh? 0:29:11.960 --> 0:29:13.480 Yeah, I mean it's a lot of different things. 0:29:13.520 --> 0:29:13.680 Man. 0:29:13.720 --> 0:29:15.800 It's it's hard to sit here and hang my hat 0:29:15.840 --> 0:29:18.280 on one thing. But to me, you know, it just 0:29:18.400 --> 0:29:20.760 it comes down to being able to to win when 0:29:20.760 --> 0:29:22.480 we need to and showing up in these big games 0:29:22.480 --> 0:29:25.160 and these big moments and so uh, you know, I've 0:29:25.320 --> 0:29:27.480 I've been a part of those you know, special teams 0:29:27.520 --> 0:29:29.640 and obviously a lot of guys in this locker room 0:29:29.640 --> 0:29:31.440 were part of it, you know, here in twenty one 0:29:31.440 --> 0:29:33.200 and twenty two being able to push to that point. 0:29:33.280 --> 0:29:35.400 So h it's a lot of things, man that it's 0:29:35.400 --> 0:29:37.040 gonna take for us to get back in that. 0:29:37.000 --> 0:29:38.440 Position, youse. 0:29:39.080 --> 0:29:41.360 Uh, definitely, definitely, you know. But the reality is that 0:29:41.400 --> 0:29:43.200 the NFL, a lot of teams are close. 0:29:43.280 --> 0:29:43.480 You know. 0:29:43.520 --> 0:29:45.440 The way that this league is set up is designed 0:29:45.480 --> 0:29:47.800 for everybody to have an even playing field, with the 0:29:47.840 --> 0:29:50.840 way the draft order, the waiver wire, the cap, uh, 0:29:50.880 --> 0:29:52.880 so you know what's the take to to be able 0:29:52.880 --> 0:29:54.640 to win a Super Bowl? You know, that's that's a 0:29:54.640 --> 0:29:57.520 whole building, that's a whole uh set of players that 0:29:57.800 --> 0:29:59.920 are focused on the task at hand and understand that 0:30:00.040 --> 0:30:01.960 it's one day at a time. You know, you can't 0:30:01.960 --> 0:30:04.200 win the Super Bowl and September. You can't win it 0:30:04.240 --> 0:30:05.760 in April. You gotta go win it when the when 0:30:05.800 --> 0:30:08.480 the game's played in February. So you know, I man, 0:30:08.520 --> 0:30:11.120 once we once we continue to to grow and and 0:30:11.160 --> 0:30:13.560 we get to that point, to me, we'll be able 0:30:13.560 --> 0:30:16.360 to hopefully finish when those that opportunity comes. 0:30:16.440 --> 0:30:19.720 How much is it the test of professionalism next three 0:30:19.760 --> 0:30:22.200 weeks for the guys in here, not having a shot 0:30:22.200 --> 0:30:24.560 to go to the playoffs still play up to the 0:30:24.560 --> 0:30:25.600 standard that you expect. 0:30:25.640 --> 0:30:28.560 Yeah, it's important, man, It's important cause, Uh, I know 0:30:28.600 --> 0:30:30.640 my brothers are relying on me, and you know I'm 0:30:30.640 --> 0:30:33.600 gonna continue to come out here and give them all. 0:30:33.600 --> 0:30:34.440 Why is that important? 0:30:34.480 --> 0:30:34.640 Makes? 0:30:35.640 --> 0:30:35.960 Uh? 0:30:36.120 --> 0:30:37.600 Yeah, I mean for so many reasons. 0:30:37.720 --> 0:30:38.080 Uh. 0:30:38.600 --> 0:30:41.320 You know, I think there's a lot of people that 0:30:41.360 --> 0:30:43.680 would you know, I don't wanna be dramatic, but. 0:30:43.800 --> 0:30:44.960 Die for this opportunity. 0:30:45.040 --> 0:30:48.600 I mean, you know, and that's that's the reality to me. So, uh, 0:30:48.800 --> 0:30:50.600 you know, anytime I get the opportunity to suit up 0:30:50.640 --> 0:30:52.360 in this game and and go out here and play 0:30:52.360 --> 0:30:53.840 with my brothers, always give. 0:30:53.760 --> 0:30:56.520 It all up. Orlando Brown on the uh, the struggles 0:30:56.520 --> 0:30:59.640 and difficulties yesterday, and and Dave that it's not all 0:30:59.640 --> 0:31:01.920 on the offensive line, and Joe admitted some of his 0:31:03.000 --> 0:31:05.680 mistakes as well. But Joe got sacked three times, he 0:31:05.720 --> 0:31:10.360 got hit ten times. It wasn't the crisp offensive line 0:31:10.400 --> 0:31:13.000 play we've seen in the recent weeks for that group. 0:31:13.240 --> 0:31:17.800 No, I mean three quarterback sacks, ten quarterback hits, and 0:31:17.840 --> 0:31:21.960 that's not even including pressures that weren't hits. Yes, So 0:31:22.240 --> 0:31:25.480 you know, Joe was kind of you know, Ben Gazeera, 0:31:25.880 --> 0:31:27.320 he was, he was on the run, he was on 0:31:27.360 --> 0:31:30.880 the move quite a bit. You hate to see your 0:31:30.920 --> 0:31:33.680 quarterback get sacked, but you don't want your quarterback to 0:31:33.680 --> 0:31:36.640 get hit ten times in the National Football League. Every 0:31:36.680 --> 0:31:39.840 time he gets hit, you know, the odds increased that 0:31:40.320 --> 0:31:43.720 one of them may be very painful. Yes, So you 0:31:44.400 --> 0:31:45.920 want to you want to clean that up. You want 0:31:45.920 --> 0:31:48.400 to address that. You want to make sure three games 0:31:48.480 --> 0:31:52.480 left in the in the regular season, you want Miami, 0:31:52.560 --> 0:31:54.880 Arizona and Cleveland. You want to make sure that you 0:31:54.960 --> 0:31:59.400 minimize the exposure that Joe Burrow has to pressure, resulting 0:31:59.440 --> 0:32:01.080 in the quarterback Harrison quarterback hits. 0:32:01.160 --> 0:32:03.360 Yeah, and that game, I think it's fair to say, 0:32:03.440 --> 0:32:06.080 got very chippy. And the longer it went on, the 0:32:06.080 --> 0:32:08.160 more I worried about Joe. You're thinking, all right, this 0:32:08.280 --> 0:32:10.560 is not their day. The last thing you really need 0:32:10.720 --> 0:32:13.240 is a cheap shot, a laid hit, something that's going 0:32:13.280 --> 0:32:16.920 to impact Joe. And it was trending that way multiple 0:32:16.920 --> 0:32:17.680 times yesterday. 0:32:17.800 --> 0:32:20.360 Yeah, it was. And you know, it's a division battle, 0:32:20.360 --> 0:32:24.440 a heated division battle. Baltimore and Cincinnati. They there's bad 0:32:24.520 --> 0:32:27.480 blood there. They don't really like each other, there's no 0:32:27.600 --> 0:32:31.240 question about that. And uh and and usually more and 0:32:31.400 --> 0:32:35.000 more of the pushing and shoving and chippiness and activity 0:32:35.040 --> 0:32:39.120 after this play is completed happens up front. So those 0:32:39.160 --> 0:32:41.400 are the guys that that need to kind of keep 0:32:41.400 --> 0:32:44.320 their cool, keep their composure, and just take it out 0:32:44.400 --> 0:32:47.880 each other. Uh, from the snap to the whistle, and 0:32:47.920 --> 0:32:50.120 then after that go back to the huddle, line up 0:32:50.120 --> 0:32:52.160 and do it again the next time and go snap 0:32:52.200 --> 0:32:53.560 to whistle, No doubt about it. 0:32:53.560 --> 0:32:55.920 Hey. Coming up in our second hour, we'll hear from 0:32:56.080 --> 0:33:00.360 Jamar Chase and Ted Carris and uh mortiget to as 0:33:00.400 --> 0:33:03.760 we eventually turn to our second hour, three Big Ones 0:33:03.760 --> 0:33:05.920 tonight to break it all down, come back and head 0:33:05.920 --> 0:33:08.360 down the stretch of hour one as we continue with 0:33:08.400 --> 0:33:11.080 Bengals Line of the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred 0:33:11.160 --> 0:33:19.440 WLW down the stretch we go of our first hour, 0:33:19.600 --> 0:33:22.400 first of three IF Bengals Line of the Bengals Radio 0:33:22.440 --> 0:33:23.720 Network and Lance. 0:33:23.800 --> 0:33:28.120 As always, we have the Kettering Health Report, the Injury Report, 0:33:28.200 --> 0:33:32.400 that's a feature every week where really, I think, as 0:33:32.480 --> 0:33:35.160 I think back, the Bengals didn't have any real severe 0:33:35.280 --> 0:33:37.520 problems coming out of this football game. I don't think 0:33:37.520 --> 0:33:41.040 anybody's gonna miss any big time. We do have a 0:33:41.080 --> 0:33:43.880 bruised shin that you know, that's a little bit of 0:33:43.920 --> 0:33:48.320 an issue for Osai. All of that is presented by 0:33:48.400 --> 0:33:51.520 Kettering Health, the official healthcare provider of the Cincinnati Bengals, 0:33:51.720 --> 0:33:53.840 providing the best care for the best fans. 0:33:54.080 --> 0:33:55.880 And how about what I'm thinking of it? And it 0:33:55.960 --> 0:33:58.360 points to who he is and no one's ever questioned 0:33:58.440 --> 0:34:00.600 who he is or what he's all about. Some J. P. 0:34:00.760 --> 0:34:03.080 Ryan has carved off at one point and you turn around, 0:34:03.120 --> 0:34:05.040 you look at he's coming right back onto the field, 0:34:05.200 --> 0:34:08.319 and you can just imagine him saying, blankety blank, I'm 0:34:08.400 --> 0:34:09.640 going back into that game. 0:34:09.840 --> 0:34:11.719 He is a tough dude. We were talking about that, 0:34:11.880 --> 0:34:14.600 you know, on the air. He came off the field, 0:34:14.600 --> 0:34:16.640 went into the blue tent, and he was out of 0:34:16.680 --> 0:34:17.240 there quickly. 0:34:17.280 --> 0:34:17.520 Man. 0:34:17.960 --> 0:34:20.799 You know, I mean, I guess whatever if it was, 0:34:21.719 --> 0:34:25.880 if he got wrong, they cleared the concussion protocol symptoms 0:34:25.880 --> 0:34:28.600 pretty damn quickly, that's for sure. If he had some 0:34:28.640 --> 0:34:30.960 sort of an issue on a sprain or whatever it was, 0:34:31.040 --> 0:34:33.719 it was determined not to be that severe. But that 0:34:33.880 --> 0:34:36.600 dude is tough man, and he is physical. He is 0:34:36.640 --> 0:34:41.640 a horse. I mean he's uh his his quadriceps, his hamstrings, 0:34:41.760 --> 0:34:46.400 his calves strong. I mean he's got unbelievable legs, leg power, 0:34:46.719 --> 0:34:49.239 and he churns those those legs, you know when he 0:34:49.280 --> 0:34:52.440 moves the whole pile when he's when he's pushing runs 0:34:52.440 --> 0:34:54.200 with a good body, lean as well, and he gives 0:34:54.320 --> 0:34:58.160 very little hitting surface. A big, powerful back that has 0:34:58.239 --> 0:35:01.040 good soft hands can catch it and he will block. 0:35:01.160 --> 0:35:03.960 He will uh quarterbacks and Joe Burrow in particular will 0:35:03.960 --> 0:35:06.200 love him. He'll stick his nose right in the chest 0:35:06.239 --> 0:35:08.480 of linebackers and safeties and stone them. 0:35:08.560 --> 0:35:11.880 Ten degrees at kickoff yesterday minus one wind chill, so 0:35:12.120 --> 0:35:17.400 cold yesterday, so cold yesterday the booth windows were closed, 0:35:17.800 --> 0:35:21.240 that they were or on orders closed the booth windows 0:35:21.280 --> 0:35:24.280 or you know what Yd's equipment freezing up or anything 0:35:24.320 --> 0:35:26.680 like that. You know why you had uncomfortable honestly during 0:35:26.680 --> 0:35:28.640 the game, as will so close him and everybody. But 0:35:29.120 --> 0:35:31.720 you know, it's cold when the windows have to be closed, 0:35:31.719 --> 0:35:33.360 and that's the way it was yesterday. 0:35:33.440 --> 0:35:35.280 Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what governing body 0:35:35.280 --> 0:35:37.399 makes that decision you and I'm not sure who makes 0:35:37.440 --> 0:35:42.000 the call un closing uh closing the windows at pay Corps. 0:35:42.040 --> 0:35:45.400 But it was toasty. The booth was very comfortable, and 0:35:45.480 --> 0:35:47.920 no question about that. I know it was chili willie 0:35:47.920 --> 0:35:50.000 for the boys out in the field. And I remember 0:35:50.000 --> 0:35:51.120 when it was like in the freezer. 0:35:51.120 --> 0:35:53.680 Ball man, you think about that, I said, you know, 0:35:53.920 --> 0:35:56.200 yesterday and obviously a big deal is made out of 0:35:56.239 --> 0:35:58.640 the weather windshill minus won and I'm looking around one 0:35:58.800 --> 0:36:01.840 wait a minute, I mean, certainly everybody remembers what minus 0:36:01.880 --> 0:36:04.280 fould we think of just saying it out loud minus 0:36:04.320 --> 0:36:08.200 fifty nine wind chill. That doesn't even sound humanly possible, 0:36:08.280 --> 0:36:10.240 and yet it very much was possible. 0:36:10.320 --> 0:36:12.960 Yeah, it was. It was cruel and unusual punishment. I 0:36:13.000 --> 0:36:16.080 can say that, man, I have never been close to 0:36:16.160 --> 0:36:19.520 that cold at any other point in my lifetime. And 0:36:19.560 --> 0:36:22.680 they came close to calling that game, postponing the game. 0:36:23.000 --> 0:36:25.560 It was like in the in the final hour, really 0:36:25.600 --> 0:36:28.680 they made the determination to just go ahead and let 0:36:28.719 --> 0:36:31.200 it roll out. Yesterday's game was never in any danger 0:36:31.239 --> 0:36:35.640 of you know, postponement, cancelation for twenty four hours or whatever. 0:36:35.719 --> 0:36:38.759 But yeah, that was chili. And I can identify man 0:36:39.440 --> 0:36:42.600 watching the take cares out there and warm ups and 0:36:42.600 --> 0:36:43.920 shorts and T shirt and I'm. 0:36:43.760 --> 0:36:46.560 Thinking there's Ted keeping up the tradition, the old line 0:36:46.600 --> 0:36:49.600 way to go Ted. Yes, we'll hear more from here 0:36:49.600 --> 0:36:52.000 from Ted coming up. In our second era, we turned 0:36:52.000 --> 0:36:54.320 the corner. It's Bengals line and the Bengals Radio Network 0:36:54.360 --> 0:36:55.960 and seven hundred WLW. 0:36:57.840 --> 0:37:01.800 This is Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network. 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Let's begin our two with 0:37:38.560 --> 0:37:42.320 the Jamar Chase, Bengal wide receiver had a ten catch 0:37:42.400 --> 0:37:45.520 day yesterday, ten catches, one hundred and thirty two yards 0:37:45.520 --> 0:37:48.120 a long of thirty four. Here's Jamar with the reaction 0:37:48.360 --> 0:37:49.120 after the game. 0:37:50.080 --> 0:37:50.680 Where did you. 0:37:50.680 --> 0:37:53.799 Think that game got away today? Why was it so 0:37:53.880 --> 0:37:59.640 hard to create offensive rhythm? 0:38:00.600 --> 0:38:01.839 Just wasn't executing a little bit? 0:38:03.600 --> 0:38:06.560 Wasn't pushing the ball on the field when getting putting 0:38:06.560 --> 0:38:10.359 ourselves in position on third down? Or get the ball 0:38:10.440 --> 0:38:11.960 on the field and just get a raison? You know, 0:38:11.960 --> 0:38:14.399 I dropped a I dropped a slam on the first 0:38:14.440 --> 0:38:17.000 series that put us in a position to get a 0:38:17.040 --> 0:38:19.319 t uh field goal or touch down, and Uh, I 0:38:19.360 --> 0:38:20.759 put that on myself dropping that path. 0:38:22.040 --> 0:38:22.799 Did he take us through? 0:38:22.880 --> 0:38:23.040 Uh? 0:38:23.120 --> 0:38:23.560 The gobo? 0:38:23.640 --> 0:38:26.400 I think it was on the next drive? Yeah? 0:38:26.680 --> 0:38:28.239 Did he just you not get your head around cause 0:38:28.239 --> 0:38:28.640 he was grabbed. 0:38:29.280 --> 0:38:29.480 Yeah. 0:38:29.520 --> 0:38:32.719 He twist M like he try this some sneaky that 0:38:32.840 --> 0:38:36.279 was pretty pretty good for him, pulled my help and 0:38:36.320 --> 0:38:38.560 you know it caused me to jerk my body and 0:38:38.680 --> 0:38:41.080 uh in two ways, and I just couldn't find a ball. 0:38:42.920 --> 0:38:45.279 Jo was especial league hard on himself and as he 0:38:45.440 --> 0:38:47.160 he had elblities and was one of the worst things 0:38:47.160 --> 0:38:47.720 he ever played. 0:38:47.719 --> 0:38:49.240 What was your thoughts on Joe's cart. 0:38:49.520 --> 0:38:51.960 Uh, I've been knowing Joe for a long time, and 0:38:52.560 --> 0:38:53.640 at the end of the day, I know where he's 0:38:53.680 --> 0:38:55.600 capable of. I know when he's off, I know when 0:38:55.600 --> 0:38:59.239 he's on. But I gotta find a way to help him. 0:38:59.239 --> 0:39:00.719 You know what I'm saying. It he's off on, it 0:39:00.719 --> 0:39:04.520 don't matter. I gotta beat that for him, encourage him, you. 0:39:04.480 --> 0:39:07.320 Know what I'm saying. Just do whatever I can for you. 0:39:07.440 --> 0:39:09.919 At a couple of thirty yard catches, Jamorrow but what's 0:39:09.960 --> 0:39:12.239 their plan to take away the deep ball? Is that 0:39:12.280 --> 0:39:13.600 what Baltimore prioritize. 0:39:14.320 --> 0:39:17.799 I'm not sure what they planning was today, but I'm 0:39:17.800 --> 0:39:19.239 sure it was not for us to score. 0:39:19.400 --> 0:39:20.960 So what'd you been? 0:39:21.080 --> 0:39:22.800 What's it like to see if Beast are called himself 0:39:22.840 --> 0:39:24.600 after a game? I think the most he's ever after. 0:39:24.440 --> 0:39:25.120 Any kind of fuck. 0:39:31.320 --> 0:39:33.000 He just he just really loved the game. Man, he 0:39:33.120 --> 0:39:34.640 just wanna be great. And at think then I could 0:39:34.680 --> 0:39:37.640 respect that from him. But like he told me, don't care. 0:39:37.719 --> 0:39:39.760 I ain't gonna I ain't gonna let him kill himself 0:39:40.200 --> 0:39:42.960 mentally by just one game he played better. 0:39:43.680 --> 0:39:45.839 How hard is it to accept the fact that you're 0:39:45.840 --> 0:39:46.640 officially alarm? 0:39:47.400 --> 0:39:49.160 Hard pill to swallow? But I mean, at the end 0:39:49.200 --> 0:39:50.360 of the day, is where we got a live with. 0:39:51.040 --> 0:39:52.760 How would you sum up this season? 0:39:52.800 --> 0:39:54.960 Howse the the the roller baster or stups and down 0:39:55.080 --> 0:39:56.080 everything that he doesn't know? 0:39:56.960 --> 0:40:00.120 Yeah, we just I don't know. I don't know if 0:40:00.120 --> 0:40:01.600 I mean, I don't know, Man, you gotta find a 0:40:01.600 --> 0:40:02.520 way at the end of the day. 0:40:03.000 --> 0:40:05.359 A complimentary football has been tough for you guys this year. 0:40:05.400 --> 0:40:07.239 Why is it doing so much harder this year than. 0:40:07.120 --> 0:40:11.480 Past season, but that that don't mean nothing, you know 0:40:11.520 --> 0:40:12.640 what I'm saying. As in the day, we still have 0:40:12.719 --> 0:40:14.600 opportunities to put ourselves in a position with the close 0:40:14.680 --> 0:40:16.879 games and we dat them. So uh we just gotta 0:40:16.960 --> 0:40:18.200 you gotta find a way to execute them. 0:40:18.239 --> 0:40:19.080 And when games going. 0:40:18.960 --> 0:40:21.160 Forward, do you still believe in this coaching stuff? 0:40:22.040 --> 0:40:22.239 Yeah? 0:40:22.280 --> 0:40:24.360 I mean we had great plays today, that was opportunities 0:40:24.360 --> 0:40:26.480 so for us to score and and and kill 'em deep, 0:40:26.520 --> 0:40:28.320 but you know, sometimes we just didn't connected. 0:40:29.200 --> 0:40:32.160 So be it three straight seasons missing the playoffs. 0:40:32.200 --> 0:40:33.759 What kind of changes would you like to see in 0:40:33.760 --> 0:40:34.400 this offseason? 0:40:37.239 --> 0:40:39.120 M You know, if I if I can, if I 0:40:39.120 --> 0:40:41.160 had to say so, it'd probably be be something. But 0:40:41.200 --> 0:40:43.239 I don't know what I could do. So all I 0:40:43.280 --> 0:40:44.720 could do is control what I could control. 0:40:45.360 --> 0:40:45.759 How do you. 0:40:45.760 --> 0:40:48.000 Approach these last three weeks now, you know, being eliminated, 0:40:48.080 --> 0:40:49.000 just playing towards. 0:40:48.760 --> 0:40:49.400 The end of the season. 0:40:49.840 --> 0:40:51.600 Uh, I just gotta be a leader man, be a captain, 0:40:52.400 --> 0:40:54.200 pushing the guys forward and just trying to finish strong. 0:40:54.320 --> 0:40:57.719 What kind of battitude they wanna say after this SAFS playing. 0:40:58.840 --> 0:40:59.839 It's just about finishing strong. 0:40:59.840 --> 0:41:02.120 Had playing many everybody got come in and work we 0:41:02.160 --> 0:41:03.880 all coming in the same thing, doing the same stuff 0:41:03.880 --> 0:41:07.279 every day. Everybody time is being doing being put in 0:41:07.360 --> 0:41:09.040 around the same thing. So we gotta come in and 0:41:09.160 --> 0:41:10.960 just keep pushing it and just finish strong. That's all 0:41:10.960 --> 0:41:12.080 I think we could do. At the end of the day. 0:41:12.200 --> 0:41:14.520 Three years ago, when you guys left the Arrow had 0:41:14.640 --> 0:41:18.200 losing the second ARC Championship, they told you that you 0:41:18.200 --> 0:41:20.600 wouldn't be back, just didn't a plan over the next 0:41:20.640 --> 0:41:22.200 three years. What do you think your. 0:41:22.040 --> 0:41:24.520 Reaction would have been, Uh, I probably wouldn't believe you. 0:41:25.760 --> 0:41:28.480 What's the attribute to think y'all probably missing most to 0:41:28.480 --> 0:41:29.279 get back to that point? 0:41:29.400 --> 0:41:30.279 Could again, what's the. 0:41:30.239 --> 0:41:33.360 Attribute y'all are missing most as a team? More than that? 0:41:33.440 --> 0:41:34.920 More like is there? 0:41:37.400 --> 0:41:40.040 I'm not sure. Man. At the end of the day, offense, 0:41:41.400 --> 0:41:42.080 it's either. 0:41:41.920 --> 0:41:43.759 The offense is clicking or the defense is clicking. One 0:41:43.760 --> 0:41:45.640 of the days we we have never yet to put 0:41:45.640 --> 0:41:48.520 our offense and defense together as one unit and play 0:41:48.520 --> 0:41:49.160 together with. 0:41:49.320 --> 0:41:51.480 So much on the line this week, Jamark, did you 0:41:51.480 --> 0:41:55.640 guys feel mentally prepared to take on the Ravens today? 0:41:55.280 --> 0:41:59.239 I I believe we felt mentally prepared. But it's the 0:41:59.239 --> 0:42:01.320 best of the best that then and it's the NFL. 0:42:01.360 --> 0:42:03.360 And what's the hardest part? 0:42:03.239 --> 0:42:06.279 I play again, when it's that hold out there, what's 0:42:06.280 --> 0:42:06.839 the hardest part? 0:42:07.440 --> 0:42:11.000 Trying trying to breathe, trying to breathe? Yeah? 0:42:11.080 --> 0:42:12.200 Does that make everything. 0:42:12.000 --> 0:42:13.640 You're seeing that much more intense? 0:42:13.760 --> 0:42:14.120 Just tough? 0:42:14.160 --> 0:42:15.080 When everything's aren't going on? 0:42:15.160 --> 0:42:17.560 How much more difficult does it feel when it is 0:42:17.600 --> 0:42:18.120 that cold? 0:42:20.280 --> 0:42:22.359 I mean, you gotta it's football, man, and the day 0:42:22.360 --> 0:42:24.080 it's a physical sport. But the cold don't make it 0:42:24.120 --> 0:42:25.640 no better. And you you gotta be out there, you 0:42:25.640 --> 0:42:26.240 gotta play. 0:42:26.840 --> 0:42:29.600 Does surviving in the ground, like when you're catching the ball? 0:42:29.640 --> 0:42:30.520 Does that change in the cold? 0:42:30.520 --> 0:42:30.640 Does? 0:42:30.719 --> 0:42:32.279 It seemed like that was an Issu're not just for 0:42:32.400 --> 0:42:33.839 anyone in particular, but as a whole. 0:42:33.880 --> 0:42:34.440 The skin. 0:42:36.000 --> 0:42:39.719 Like surviving getting tackled, like knowing how to fall and stuff. 0:42:39.520 --> 0:42:41.520 Like when you're catching the ball and you to make 0:42:41.560 --> 0:42:44.440 you have a completion when you hit the ground. 0:42:44.560 --> 0:42:46.719 I I don't pay attention to I'm not gonna lie you. 0:42:46.760 --> 0:42:48.080 I mean to get in the hit on them. I'm 0:42:48.120 --> 0:42:49.960 not so more. 0:42:50.080 --> 0:42:52.480 You know Joe better than just about anybody. 0:42:52.480 --> 0:42:54.040 What do you do to lift him? 0:42:54.239 --> 0:42:54.520 What? 0:42:54.520 --> 0:42:58.640 What I from being honest? 0:42:58.640 --> 0:43:01.839 I never I never been in a situation with him 0:43:01.840 --> 0:43:03.759 where I had to uplift him, you know what I'm saying. 0:43:03.840 --> 0:43:06.279 But going forward, I might need to because he does 0:43:06.320 --> 0:43:07.440 it to me at the end of the day, and 0:43:07.920 --> 0:43:09.440 you never know what he might be going through, so 0:43:09.600 --> 0:43:11.080 I might I might need to start doing that. 0:43:11.160 --> 0:43:14.440 You know, your bottom line is winning and losing. But 0:43:14.520 --> 0:43:17.960 does the shutout make it worse? Does that rep you 0:43:18.040 --> 0:43:18.720 the wrong way? 0:43:20.760 --> 0:43:22.440 If I'm being honest, I read blown out, then be 0:43:22.560 --> 0:43:25.480 playing in a close game and lose byfield goal, so that. 0:43:27.520 --> 0:43:30.120 Jam Joe burrows a stage. 0:43:31.760 --> 0:43:33.200 I'm not sure. This is my first time. 0:43:33.480 --> 0:43:36.000 You know, probably going to have to if anything, but 0:43:36.080 --> 0:43:37.600 I probably doubt I will, But. 0:43:39.080 --> 0:43:39.400 I don't know. 0:43:39.400 --> 0:43:41.080 We just probably just gonna kick it, chill and just 0:43:42.000 --> 0:43:43.280 try not to talk about football. 0:43:43.280 --> 0:43:44.400 If I'm being honest, Yeah. 0:43:44.480 --> 0:43:48.399 Is it adds like a weird feeling? 0:43:49.040 --> 0:43:52.600 Not really, No, Jamar Chase on a difficult day, he 0:43:52.719 --> 0:43:56.200 was targeted sixteen times. You know it's it. It wasn't 0:43:56.800 --> 0:43:59.279 and Jamar kind of alluded to it. There was there 0:43:59.280 --> 0:44:01.279 were times where he and Joe didn't seem to be 0:44:01.360 --> 0:44:04.560 on the same page, But in the end, it's still 0:44:04.560 --> 0:44:06.680 a ten think about it. It's still a ten catch, 0:44:06.680 --> 0:44:08.879 one hundred and thirty two yard day for Jamar Chase, 0:44:08.920 --> 0:44:12.920 which shows his greatness. He's still able to have a 0:44:13.000 --> 0:44:15.200 day like that when it maybe it wasn't at the 0:44:15.200 --> 0:44:17.560 most proficient level between he and his quarterback. 0:44:17.640 --> 0:44:20.319 Yeah, and Jamar referenced it. He said in the locker 0:44:20.400 --> 0:44:22.399 room back to the game. You know, Joe was off. 0:44:22.480 --> 0:44:26.600 Joe wasn't like Joe can be. You know, Joe wasn't precision, 0:44:26.680 --> 0:44:30.600 pinpoint accuracy. I wanted to try to help as as 0:44:30.680 --> 0:44:32.920 much as I possibly could. We've been together for a 0:44:32.960 --> 0:44:35.920 long time, all the way back to the LSU days, 0:44:35.960 --> 0:44:39.480 and probably I don't know about the All Star gamers too, 0:44:39.520 --> 0:44:43.200 not who knows, but they know each other cold, they 0:44:43.239 --> 0:44:47.520 know exactly. They've got kind of esp in terms of 0:44:48.320 --> 0:44:51.080 being on the same page and seeing the game the 0:44:51.120 --> 0:44:54.160 same way, seeing coverage is the same way, seeing defenses 0:44:54.200 --> 0:44:56.960 the same the same way, and they can tell when 0:44:57.000 --> 0:44:59.600 each other's having a good day or a bad day 0:44:59.680 --> 0:45:03.920 or whatever and the reasons for it. So yeah, it 0:45:04.200 --> 0:45:07.880 it definitely was not. It was a big day for Jamar. 0:45:08.239 --> 0:45:14.040 How about targeted sixteen times? Many and really quarterbacks, you know, 0:45:14.040 --> 0:45:16.960 I remember when Kenny would say, you know, when you're 0:45:16.960 --> 0:45:20.000 in struggling, when you're not things aren't going the way 0:45:20.239 --> 0:45:22.879 you anticipated them to go, you look for the guy 0:45:23.320 --> 0:45:25.400 that's your safety net. You look for the guy that, 0:45:25.480 --> 0:45:27.440 no matter what, you know, he's gonna be where he's 0:45:27.440 --> 0:45:29.239 supposed to be when he's supposed to be there, doing 0:45:29.280 --> 0:45:33.360 exactly what he's supposed to do. And uh, Kenny had Trump, 0:45:33.480 --> 0:45:37.239 he loved, he loved to locate Bob Trumpy and you know, 0:45:37.520 --> 0:45:40.080 the pro bowler stepped up for Kenny many times. And 0:45:40.400 --> 0:45:43.080 that's the relationship that Jamar Chase and Joe Borrow have 0:45:43.120 --> 0:45:43.440 as well. 0:45:43.880 --> 0:45:46.400 I think it's a great point in the trust and 0:45:46.480 --> 0:45:48.480 know he's going to be there, because, let's be honest, 0:45:48.560 --> 0:45:53.040 Yoshi had another yesterday and in Tinsley had a moment 0:45:53.080 --> 0:45:55.640 where he probably should have had a touchdown catch at 0:45:55.640 --> 0:45:57.759 the end zone. And it's only you're only human, if 0:45:57.760 --> 0:46:00.799 you're Joe of if there's enough that you store in 0:46:00.840 --> 0:46:02.840 the back of your mind and you wonder about you 0:46:02.960 --> 0:46:04.960 never have to wonder about throwing the ball to Jamar 0:46:05.080 --> 0:46:08.759 Chase or or somebody. And he wasn't there yesterday. So 0:46:09.280 --> 0:46:12.280 sixteen targets makes a lot of sense. If you're calculating 0:46:12.360 --> 0:46:14.359 in the back of your mind, Am I gonna throw 0:46:14.360 --> 0:46:17.680 it to player A, B or C who maybe not 0:46:17.760 --> 0:46:19.200 in the right spot might make the dry ar? Am 0:46:19.239 --> 0:46:21.080 I just gonna maybe force it a little bit to 0:46:21.160 --> 0:46:22.920 Jamaar because I know where he's gonna be. And it's 0:46:22.960 --> 0:46:23.640 easy to do that. 0:46:23.760 --> 0:46:25.680 Yeah, it is. It's easy to start to fall into 0:46:25.680 --> 0:46:28.000 that trap a little bit. And speaking about T Higgins, 0:46:28.480 --> 0:46:31.000 you know he's from the Florida area originally. For him 0:46:31.000 --> 0:46:32.920 to go down to Miami and play against the Dolphins 0:46:33.040 --> 0:46:34.759 is a big deal. It's a big deal for him, 0:46:34.840 --> 0:46:37.440 for his family, for his friends. Everybody's going to be 0:46:37.480 --> 0:46:41.160 excited to watch T Higgins perform and he who probably 0:46:41.160 --> 0:46:44.440 I'll guarantee you T Higgins is playing on, putting on 0:46:44.480 --> 0:46:48.240 a show. And have you know, like almost a double 0:46:48.239 --> 0:46:51.759 digit catch, you know, maybe seven to ten catches for 0:46:52.000 --> 0:46:53.760 you know, one hundred and twenty five to one hundred 0:46:53.760 --> 0:46:56.279 and forty yards, a couple of touchdowns. I could see 0:46:56.280 --> 0:46:58.880 those kind of numbers for T Higgins in this football 0:46:58.920 --> 0:47:00.000 game against the Dolphins. 0:47:00.160 --> 0:47:03.359 One final thought on Jamar, I thought maybe the most 0:47:03.440 --> 0:47:06.839 telling thing he said after the game was about his 0:47:07.239 --> 0:47:11.280 connection with Joe, and you alluded to how they understand 0:47:11.320 --> 0:47:13.319 each other, and I thought it was pretty powerful when 0:47:13.360 --> 0:47:16.839 Jamar said, I've never been in this situation where I 0:47:16.960 --> 0:47:20.759 have to uplift him, but going forward, I might need to. 0:47:21.800 --> 0:47:23.439 Joe does it to me. At the end of the day, 0:47:23.760 --> 0:47:25.880 you never know what he might be going through, so 0:47:26.040 --> 0:47:28.319 I might need to start doing that. And I think 0:47:28.360 --> 0:47:32.200 that's great recognition of Jamar of his quarterback. His friend 0:47:32.719 --> 0:47:35.800 isn't where he usually is. Where there, it's mentally physically 0:47:35.880 --> 0:47:40.040 and needs needs him now, and I think that's great 0:47:40.080 --> 0:47:42.799 recognition by Jamar of what he has to do now. 0:47:42.880 --> 0:47:44.879 Yeah, I think I think you're right, And I think 0:47:45.520 --> 0:47:48.920 you know, Joe made mention after the game that he's 0:47:48.960 --> 0:47:51.239 got some personal things that he's dealing with. It's not 0:47:51.440 --> 0:47:56.680 necessarily football related, it's not organizational related to the Cincinnati Bengals, 0:47:56.960 --> 0:47:59.240 but he has to work through and sort through some things. 0:48:00.040 --> 0:48:02.880 And if anybody can help him do that and forget 0:48:02.880 --> 0:48:06.719 about those things, it's Jamar Chase and t Higgins, yep. 0:48:06.960 --> 0:48:09.640 And I just I think both of them are gonna 0:48:09.640 --> 0:48:13.720 combine for a massive day down there against the Miami Dolphins. 0:48:13.840 --> 0:48:17.320 I can see them really saying, Joe, we got your back, buddy. 0:48:17.440 --> 0:48:20.359 You know you've had ours many many times. Yes, you've 0:48:20.400 --> 0:48:22.640 made us look good. Time for us to make you 0:48:22.680 --> 0:48:24.000 look good. We got you, bro. 0:48:24.360 --> 0:48:27.400 Very well, said, very well, said still ahead. Ted Carris 0:48:27.760 --> 0:48:29.600 on the day that was at pay Corps. This is 0:48:29.600 --> 0:48:33.279 Bengals on on the Bengals Radio network and seven hundred WLW. 0:48:38.960 --> 0:48:41.560 Let's keep covidight along on this Monday night of Bengals 0:48:41.600 --> 0:48:44.640 on on the Bengals Radio network in seven hundred WLW. 0:48:44.800 --> 0:48:47.360 And let's get back into the offensive line side of things. 0:48:47.560 --> 0:48:50.680 Ted Carris talking after the game about the day that 0:48:50.920 --> 0:48:53.200 was for the Bengals. Here is the Bengals center. 0:48:53.080 --> 0:48:55.560 Ted, I'll get Baltimore credit. They played well on defense. 0:48:55.600 --> 0:48:57.400 What were some of the things that they did well today? 0:48:58.040 --> 0:49:01.480 Finish in the red zone with turnovers and knocks out 0:49:01.480 --> 0:49:02.200 a field goal range. 0:49:02.239 --> 0:49:05.040 So zero points ridiculous. 0:49:05.000 --> 0:49:07.799 Those first couple of drives which you're alluding to. You 0:49:07.840 --> 0:49:09.680 got to the twenty five the first time, the twenty 0:49:09.760 --> 0:49:12.680 nine the second time and didn't come away with points. 0:49:12.960 --> 0:49:15.439 How much of a momentum swing is that? How much 0:49:15.480 --> 0:49:16.839 does that knock you back? 0:49:17.400 --> 0:49:19.600 I mean, defense gave up seventeen points. That should be 0:49:19.680 --> 0:49:21.000 enough to beat the Baltimore Ravens. 0:49:21.040 --> 0:49:22.719 So not good enough. 0:49:23.120 --> 0:49:26.040 Third downs were great last week, it was a struggle today. 0:49:26.160 --> 0:49:28.080 Anything stand out off the top of your head. 0:49:28.600 --> 0:49:28.880 Not yet. 0:49:28.880 --> 0:49:31.560 I'm gonna go home and watch it. So, but didn't 0:49:31.560 --> 0:49:35.879 convert enough, obviously, and didn't score enough points. 0:49:35.680 --> 0:49:38.160 Were How big of a factor were the weather conditions? 0:49:38.920 --> 0:49:39.520 Non factor? 0:49:41.280 --> 0:49:46.440 You just got it out. You just got it out. Yeah, 0:49:46.760 --> 0:49:50.120 you beat these guys a week and a half ago, essentially, 0:49:51.280 --> 0:49:53.439 how did that affect the game today? Could you tell 0:49:53.520 --> 0:49:57.360 that they were now hell bent on evening the score? 0:49:57.920 --> 0:49:59.759 I'm sure they were, and so were we. 0:50:00.080 --> 0:50:04.239 So they executed way better than we did and won 0:50:04.520 --> 0:50:06.640 the football game twenty four to nothing. 0:50:06.719 --> 0:50:08.840 So you gotta gotta go take a look at it. 0:50:08.880 --> 0:50:12.400 And then, uh got three weeks left to do something? 0:50:13.880 --> 0:50:16.760 What is the goal the mission for these final three weeks? 0:50:17.120 --> 0:50:17.319 Win? 0:50:19.600 --> 0:50:22.720 It's almost hard to fathom a game where you guys 0:50:22.719 --> 0:50:26.799 don't score. You've been so good offensively. How does it, 0:50:27.120 --> 0:50:28.840 you know, strike you when you look up at the 0:50:28.920 --> 0:50:30.920 end of the game and you got a goosegg on 0:50:30.960 --> 0:50:31.560 the scoreboard? 0:50:33.160 --> 0:50:33.880 It doesn't strike me. 0:50:33.920 --> 0:50:39.080 Well, So we gotta I mean at zero points unacceptable 0:50:39.080 --> 0:50:41.160 at any any level of football in the NFL with 0:50:41.200 --> 0:50:42.280 the most dynamic offense. 0:50:42.400 --> 0:50:44.680 So I gotta go take a look at it. 0:50:46.840 --> 0:50:47.880 And get ready for Miami. 0:50:47.960 --> 0:50:51.279 Ted Carris after the game, and Dave Ted alluded to it. 0:50:51.360 --> 0:50:54.160 Joe alluded to it. The Ravens this time around seemed 0:50:54.200 --> 0:50:56.840 to be able to get pressure without blitzing a lot, 0:50:57.360 --> 0:50:59.919 just four man pressure, which was different than the match 0:51:00.160 --> 0:51:02.640 two weeks ago. It just seemed like they figured out 0:51:02.680 --> 0:51:05.280 something that gave the Bengals some problems from that standpoint. 0:51:05.400 --> 0:51:08.680 Yeah, and uh, the fact that they got significant pressure, 0:51:09.040 --> 0:51:12.919 you know, three quarterback sacks and hit the quarterback hits, 0:51:12.960 --> 0:51:17.080 the knockdowns, the pressures making Joe uncomfortable, making him throw 0:51:17.120 --> 0:51:19.759 the ball before he really wanted to, before he felt 0:51:19.800 --> 0:51:25.560 comfortable with what he saw. That that that's kind of surprising, honestly, 0:51:25.800 --> 0:51:28.520 because you got five to block four and then you're 0:51:28.560 --> 0:51:31.759 gonna have back out of the backfield as a safety valve, 0:51:31.800 --> 0:51:34.160 little safety net, and Joe can get the if he's 0:51:34.200 --> 0:51:36.239 got any problems, get the ball down, check it down 0:51:36.280 --> 0:51:39.800 to him right away. Uh. So, the fact that that 0:51:40.120 --> 0:51:43.720 speaks to not only the pressure that the Miami Dolphins 0:51:43.760 --> 0:51:46.560 put on with their four man rush. Everybody was winning 0:51:46.600 --> 0:51:49.640 more matchups going one on one against the Bengals offensive 0:51:49.640 --> 0:51:53.400 lineman than they lost. They they also had good coverage 0:51:53.520 --> 0:51:56.080 in the back end because you know, Joe is known 0:51:56.120 --> 0:51:58.040 for getting the ball out, getting the ball out quickly. 0:51:58.080 --> 0:52:00.560 I mean it's almost like he seems to and when 0:52:00.560 --> 0:52:03.000 the ball's come in the shotgun, he catches it and 0:52:03.160 --> 0:52:06.000 throws it all one motion. I mean, never really even 0:52:07.000 --> 0:52:09.480 hold on to the football for any any period of time. 0:52:10.719 --> 0:52:14.960 So yeah, it speaks to how well they looked at 0:52:14.960 --> 0:52:17.480 the at the first matchup and said, you know what, 0:52:17.600 --> 0:52:21.400 we're going to change everything. We're we're we've only got 0:52:21.440 --> 0:52:23.040 a little bit of time. You know, we do have 0:52:23.080 --> 0:52:25.319 to game plan obviously for the opponent in between here, 0:52:25.400 --> 0:52:27.839 but we are gonna we're gonna do things a lot 0:52:27.880 --> 0:52:30.279 differently the next time we face the Cincinnati Bengals, and 0:52:30.320 --> 0:52:32.319 it turned out to be real successful. 0:52:31.800 --> 0:52:33.680 By the way. Final thought before the bottom they are 0:52:33.719 --> 0:52:36.279 on Ted Carris and thinking of offensive lineman and the 0:52:36.320 --> 0:52:39.640 cold Uh, there's the legendary story of the vasolene. Do 0:52:40.080 --> 0:52:43.160 our our offensive lineman? And are you allowed today to 0:52:43.239 --> 0:52:47.120 wear vasoline? Or was that banned or outlawed. Did anything 0:52:47.280 --> 0:52:49.000 change after you guys did it? 0:52:49.120 --> 0:52:51.520 That's a good question. I'm not sure how the league 0:52:51.560 --> 0:52:53.839 handled that. I'm not sure if there were any any 0:52:53.960 --> 0:52:55.680 changes to what you were allowed to do from a 0:52:55.800 --> 0:53:00.200 uniform code standpoint. But I don't think yesterday it was 0:53:00.320 --> 0:53:04.360 necessarily you know, so called that you had to resort 0:53:04.400 --> 0:53:04.680 to that. 0:53:04.760 --> 0:53:05.920 It wasn't a vaciline day. 0:53:06.000 --> 0:53:08.160 It might not have been a vacine day, right, what 0:53:08.440 --> 0:53:09.080 might not have been? 0:53:09.640 --> 0:53:12.920 We've reached the bottom of the hour, Hang tight, much 0:53:12.960 --> 0:53:15.800 more to get to. He's Dave Lapham, I'm Lance, but callister. 0:53:16.080 --> 0:53:19.000 This is Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network and 0:53:19.160 --> 0:53:29.680 seven hundred WLW. Hey, welcome back in on this Monday 0:53:29.760 --> 0:53:32.120 night of FENOS on Bengals Radio. If to get seven 0:53:32.160 --> 0:53:36.319 hundred WLW. We've talked to offense, we've talked defense. We're 0:53:36.320 --> 0:53:39.000 making our way through what all took place yesterday at 0:53:39.040 --> 0:53:42.040 pay Corps and let's oh, I know, as I'm thinking 0:53:42.080 --> 0:53:44.640 about it, we left off with the vasiline and you'll 0:53:44.680 --> 0:53:48.400 appreciate this. One of my other broadcast partners, Rocky Boyman, 0:53:48.480 --> 0:53:50.720 has told a story from a defensive side of things. 0:53:51.000 --> 0:53:52.600 He used to. Now tell me if you've ever heard 0:53:52.640 --> 0:53:56.120 of this. He used to spray what amounted to like 0:53:56.520 --> 0:54:00.120 pam cooking spray silicon. Yes, so you guys are the 0:54:00.200 --> 0:54:02.840 offensive side couldn't get a hold of it. Have you 0:54:02.880 --> 0:54:05.520 heard of that? Now that's illegal, he's he's I think 0:54:05.520 --> 0:54:07.200 he said, now it's illegal. But they used to just. 0:54:07.920 --> 0:54:12.920 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. We had defensive players. Bengal teammates 0:54:12.920 --> 0:54:16.440 did it, and defensive players did it that. I was 0:54:16.480 --> 0:54:20.520 playing against h frequently regularly, and it was I mean, 0:54:20.560 --> 0:54:21.040 it'd be like. 0:54:21.000 --> 0:54:23.440 What the heck is that slipping right off? 0:54:23.760 --> 0:54:26.839 If there's some slick stuff right there, boy, it really is. 0:54:27.840 --> 0:54:31.680 That's beautiful looking at guys lockers. Hey, yeah, you got cologne, 0:54:31.760 --> 0:54:33.960 you got the deoder, you got what you've got Pam 0:54:34.000 --> 0:54:38.000 crooking spreads what that cooking spray? For whatever it takes, 0:54:38.040 --> 0:54:41.320 whatever advantage there is to be found, it will eventually 0:54:41.360 --> 0:54:41.800 be found. 0:54:41.800 --> 0:54:43.200 There's no question about it. 0:54:43.960 --> 0:54:46.520 Wayne box Miller yesterday had a chance to talk with 0:54:46.640 --> 0:54:50.359 McKinley Jackson, the Bengals second year defensive lineman, who had 0:54:50.360 --> 0:54:54.800 some interesting thoughts about learning to be a professional, understanding professionalism, 0:54:54.880 --> 0:54:57.360 and kind of knowing the game I thought it was 0:54:57.400 --> 0:54:59.680 worth listening to McKinley. Then, Dave, I want to ask 0:54:59.719 --> 0:55:02.960 you about just learning to be a pro when you 0:55:03.120 --> 0:55:06.680 enter the league. Here is Wayne box Miller with McKinley Jackson. 0:55:06.920 --> 0:55:09.520 Let's talk about the difference so far for you between 0:55:10.120 --> 0:55:11.960 year one and the following year. 0:55:12.800 --> 0:55:16.400 Uh, it's been a big transition just understanding how the 0:55:16.480 --> 0:55:19.279 NFL leads and just understanding the routine. But as far 0:55:19.320 --> 0:55:23.759 as like just you know, playing should at the same 0:55:23.760 --> 0:55:27.200 intelligence go out there. I stted to prove myself and 0:55:27.360 --> 0:55:28.960 you know, do whatever it takes to win. 0:55:29.840 --> 0:55:32.880 You know, you came from a high level college conference 0:55:32.920 --> 0:55:36.799 at CC, you come here. Talk about the preparation that 0:55:36.920 --> 0:55:38.400 gave you. Do you feel like that prepared you a 0:55:38.400 --> 0:55:40.520 little bit more because you were in competition every week 0:55:40.560 --> 0:55:41.160 in that league. 0:55:41.400 --> 0:55:45.640 Nah, competition never dictated my preparation. That's one thing I 0:55:45.680 --> 0:55:49.400 would say, just a preparation just to being around professional 0:55:49.600 --> 0:55:52.279 other professional athletes. And there's thirty one other teams, so 0:55:52.440 --> 0:55:54.879 I mean other guys are preparing to you know, play 0:55:54.960 --> 0:55:57.319 the world the best work CLIs of athletes, So I 0:55:57.320 --> 0:55:59.040 feel like you got to take it upon yourself to 0:55:59.200 --> 0:56:01.759 prepare these situations and you know, it's a weekend and 0:56:01.800 --> 0:56:04.200 we got Uh. It doesn't get any easier and these 0:56:04.239 --> 0:56:07.160 wins are hard fought. So you know, just preparing is 0:56:07.280 --> 0:56:11.000 the biggest thing rather than just just god given ability 0:56:11.040 --> 0:56:14.359 brute strength. Just just the preparation is the biggest thing. 0:56:14.840 --> 0:56:17.200 Talk about the veterans and what they mean to you 0:56:17.239 --> 0:56:19.160 when you come in, because there's so much about this 0:56:19.239 --> 0:56:20.840 game that's different at this level. 0:56:21.040 --> 0:56:24.719 Yeah, you just obviously you want to just look at 0:56:24.719 --> 0:56:26.719 look at them and just if all that shadowt and 0:56:26.840 --> 0:56:29.640 just you know, just keen on what they're doing to 0:56:29.680 --> 0:56:32.640 get to these uh these mark second contract. 0:56:33.040 --> 0:56:36.760 Uh you're eight year nine All pros Pro Bowlers. Uh. 0:56:36.960 --> 0:56:39.600 Some guys been here at a BA Football Champs. So 0:56:39.680 --> 0:56:42.200 it's like, you know, you want to take every circle 0:56:42.280 --> 0:56:44.719 and everything that they give out. You know, it's a 0:56:44.800 --> 0:56:47.240 it's just a place where like no one is bigger 0:56:47.239 --> 0:56:49.399 than the team, and you know what's better than next man? 0:56:49.640 --> 0:56:51.680 So it's nothing but gaming. I can learn from each guy. 0:56:52.280 --> 0:56:54.439 Do you feel a sense of accomplishment as you pick 0:56:54.520 --> 0:56:57.120 up nuggets and different things and you have those aha 0:56:57.120 --> 0:56:59.600 moments like, man, this is really starting to come together 0:56:59.640 --> 0:56:59.880 for me. 0:57:00.680 --> 0:57:03.279 No, I put the person on myself because I mean 0:57:03.320 --> 0:57:05.440 the world is full of critics, so you can't never 0:57:05.520 --> 0:57:08.000 be you can't you can't never be comfortable in this game. 0:57:08.080 --> 0:57:10.799 And it's always send me to work on. So it's 0:57:10.800 --> 0:57:13.279 a sense of accomplishment. I mean, once the ring hitting 0:57:13.320 --> 0:57:15.400 my finger and then these guys feel in the locker room, 0:57:15.520 --> 0:57:17.480 I feel accomplished then. But until then, you know, I'm 0:57:17.480 --> 0:57:19.040 putting my head down and I put my heart head on. 0:57:19.840 --> 0:57:21.920 How do you feel about the players you play with, 0:57:21.960 --> 0:57:23.800 because many of them, when I talk to them, they 0:57:23.800 --> 0:57:25.680 talk about you, and you get that. You don't get words, 0:57:25.720 --> 0:57:27.840 something to forget the eyebrow. I was like, man, they 0:57:27.880 --> 0:57:30.160 really just appreciate who you are and how you play. 0:57:30.600 --> 0:57:32.600 I appreciate that, and I appreciate these guys for sitting 0:57:32.600 --> 0:57:34.600 here just being paid with me, you know, early on, 0:57:36.440 --> 0:57:38.120 like you know, it took me a little bit to 0:57:38.200 --> 0:57:41.760 understand professionalism, especially in this league. And you know, you know, 0:57:41.800 --> 0:57:44.400 once I get it, I get a downpack. Guys are 0:57:44.520 --> 0:57:46.840 really like you know, they trusted me, and I went 0:57:46.880 --> 0:57:49.880 out there and I made players, and you know, hopefully 0:57:50.440 --> 0:57:53.000 I can keep doing that and just just do it 0:57:53.000 --> 0:57:55.200 a high level and keep continuously doing it and making 0:57:55.200 --> 0:57:57.000 plays for this team, helping them. It's get the best 0:57:57.000 --> 0:57:59.160 position to get in the playoffs and then you know 0:57:59.200 --> 0:57:59.960 we go on from there. 0:58:00.640 --> 0:58:03.360 Lastly, I always say to young guys, at some point 0:58:03.440 --> 0:58:06.080 you realize that the game of football gives way to 0:58:06.160 --> 0:58:08.680 the business of football. When did that kind of hit you, 0:58:08.680 --> 0:58:10.560 because it seems like you learned that pretty early. 0:58:10.800 --> 0:58:14.040 Yeah, and yeah, it was a it was a tough spot, 0:58:14.480 --> 0:58:16.680 especially this year, just you know, not getting out there 0:58:16.760 --> 0:58:20.000 and not helping his team, not helping his team and 0:58:20.040 --> 0:58:22.600 just contributing. I mean, no matter if we went on losing, 0:58:22.680 --> 0:58:25.720 it's just that you still want to contribute. And I'm 0:58:25.720 --> 0:58:28.040 just a guy that never never was not able to 0:58:28.040 --> 0:58:29.880 play football unless I was you know, injured in my 0:58:29.920 --> 0:58:32.840 whole life. So this year there's been a testament to 0:58:33.280 --> 0:58:36.640 just uh my faith and just staying patient and you know, 0:58:36.760 --> 0:58:39.280 trusting my coach and schurch on my teammates and you know, 0:58:39.360 --> 0:58:41.800 doing my part as a player, and you know, we can, 0:58:42.120 --> 0:58:44.120 we can. We got out just beend on it and 0:58:44.560 --> 0:58:46.680 you know, hopefully being an impact forul player for this 0:58:46.760 --> 0:58:49.280 team and just uh to continue for us to get 0:58:49.320 --> 0:58:51.720 better and get another winning Well. 0:58:52.000 --> 0:58:53.680 You know, I have no question that's gonna come. 0:58:53.760 --> 0:58:56.240 I see how hard you work, and your peers respect you, 0:58:56.280 --> 0:58:57.960 so thank you so much for spending time with us. 0:58:58.040 --> 0:58:58.640 I appreciate it. 0:58:58.720 --> 0:59:02.320 Thank you box with McKinley, Jackson and David. I thought 0:59:02.320 --> 0:59:05.280 it was very interesting to hear McKinley, who's in his 0:59:05.360 --> 0:59:07.320 second year and has had his ups and downs and 0:59:07.640 --> 0:59:11.440 moments and not so great moments, but say and admit 0:59:11.600 --> 0:59:14.160 it took him a minute to understand how to be 0:59:14.360 --> 0:59:16.960 a professional on this level. And the more I've thought 0:59:16.960 --> 0:59:21.560 about that, it is one thing for preparation and preparing 0:59:21.560 --> 0:59:24.520 your body and your mind. In college, you get to 0:59:24.520 --> 0:59:27.360 be a pro. You've got a lot more free time, 0:59:27.440 --> 0:59:29.560 you don't have class, you got paid, you got a 0:59:29.640 --> 0:59:32.800 nice paycheck, signing bonus. There is a there's a big 0:59:32.880 --> 0:59:35.400 gap between what it means to be a pro high 0:59:35.400 --> 0:59:38.640 school college to pro. That's a huge jump. And it 0:59:38.680 --> 0:59:41.880 doesn't always doesn't always click with guys right away, does it. 0:59:41.920 --> 0:59:43.960 No, it doesn't. And the best thing to have as 0:59:44.000 --> 0:59:46.800 a mentor, Yes, you know somebody that's done it, done it, 0:59:46.840 --> 0:59:51.160 and has done it well and has done it maybe 0:59:51.200 --> 0:59:54.280 close to the timeframe that you're doing it. If you've 0:59:54.320 --> 0:59:57.760 got a guy that has had success, a modicum of success, 0:59:58.080 --> 1:00:00.520 and he's in his fourth year, for example, you know, 1:00:00.640 --> 1:00:02.960 go pick his brain, Go sit down with him in 1:00:03.000 --> 1:00:05.280 the locker room, or you know, outside the locker room 1:00:05.280 --> 1:00:08.360 at a restaurant having a bite, heat or whatever. And 1:00:08.560 --> 1:00:10.240 what what do you do? Man? How do you how 1:00:10.240 --> 1:00:12.280 do you get ready? How do you look at tape? 1:00:12.560 --> 1:00:13.640 How do you study? 1:00:13.680 --> 1:00:13.720 What? 1:00:14.200 --> 1:00:15.520 What are some of the keys? What are some of 1:00:15.520 --> 1:00:17.720 the tips. A guy that was big for me was 1:00:17.720 --> 1:00:23.640 Bob Johnson. Bob Johnson had uh everything in terms of 1:00:23.680 --> 1:00:28.720 being a pros pro. He understood the game of football 1:00:28.800 --> 1:00:33.120 at the highest possible level. He was an offensive Lineman 1:00:33.160 --> 1:00:35.240 of the Year at Tennessee when he was a college 1:00:35.240 --> 1:00:39.520 football player, first pick ever in the Cincinnati Bengals in 1:00:39.560 --> 1:00:42.520 the history of their franchise. So, you know, I read 1:00:42.560 --> 1:00:44.760 about all that stuff about Bob Johnson. When I got 1:00:44.840 --> 1:00:46.800 drafted by the Bengals. I got a media guide and 1:00:47.120 --> 1:00:49.760 started boning up on some teammates and stuff, and then think, 1:00:49.760 --> 1:00:51.960 I'm listen to this dude. I think he might know 1:00:52.000 --> 1:00:54.360 what the hell he's talking about. And he and Bob 1:00:54.400 --> 1:00:58.000 Trumpy were roommates and they were both unbelievable resources for 1:00:58.080 --> 1:00:59.560 me as a rookie that didn't know what the hell 1:00:59.600 --> 1:01:00.000 was going on. 1:01:00.200 --> 1:01:04.480 Yeah, and I would imagine it takes your your special veterans, 1:01:04.520 --> 1:01:07.240 because I would think there would be some veterans who 1:01:07.480 --> 1:01:09.680 might look and say, well, here comes the young buck, 1:01:09.720 --> 1:01:11.640 and he's gonna take my job. I'm not gonna I'm 1:01:11.640 --> 1:01:14.840 not at all. It says a lot about the veteran 1:01:15.160 --> 1:01:18.480 who is the willing mentor ultimately. 1:01:18.160 --> 1:01:21.200 No question about it. That and that is, that is 1:01:21.200 --> 1:01:24.640 a fact. You know, when you're maybe like Isaac Curtis 1:01:24.640 --> 1:01:28.400 and you have such unique talent, skill talent and skill set, 1:01:28.440 --> 1:01:31.880 I should say, uh, you know an Olympic caliber sprinter 1:01:32.280 --> 1:01:35.080 that had you know, sticky fingers, glue fingers. You know 1:01:35.160 --> 1:01:38.120 that you know that they're going to find a role 1:01:38.160 --> 1:01:39.640 for you, a spot for you. You're going to be 1:01:39.720 --> 1:01:42.200 taking a ton of snaps. So you don't go ahead 1:01:42.200 --> 1:01:43.840 and help a young buck out. You know, there's no 1:01:43.960 --> 1:01:47.280 question about it. But if you're a guy that is 1:01:47.280 --> 1:01:50.840 is basically fighting and scraping to make the football team, 1:01:51.200 --> 1:01:54.439 you're you know, holding your breath on final cutdown day 1:01:54.800 --> 1:01:57.320 year after year. You're not going to give a young rook, 1:01:57.400 --> 1:01:59.600 a young buck that was a high draft pick. Any 1:01:59.680 --> 1:02:01.920 help whatsoever. 1:02:01.720 --> 1:02:04.680 And we're talking, I mean the scope and the scale 1:02:04.720 --> 1:02:08.680 of doing this. It's understanding how important sleep is, how 1:02:08.680 --> 1:02:11.800 important diet is. Always go back to a conversation I 1:02:11.920 --> 1:02:14.040 used to always have with John Thornton, the former Bengal 1:02:14.080 --> 1:02:16.360 of how important it was. On Fridays for him, he 1:02:16.440 --> 1:02:21.880 always had a massage, therapy, acupuncture, and he used to 1:02:21.880 --> 1:02:25.560 always say, I invest in my body. It will cost 1:02:25.680 --> 1:02:28.320 X number of dollars a year for a masseuse and 1:02:28.360 --> 1:02:31.800 for acupunction everything else. But he says that investment translates 1:02:31.840 --> 1:02:35.480 to another year and another year and those that's money, 1:02:35.760 --> 1:02:38.800 and that's that's an investment in my body means I 1:02:38.840 --> 1:02:40.800 get to play longer and I get to make more money. 1:02:40.840 --> 1:02:42.680 Absolutely, I mean you get a look at it as 1:02:42.680 --> 1:02:45.040 a business. Yes, it's a it's a it's a business, 1:02:45.600 --> 1:02:47.840 and you don't have to worry about inventory and inventory 1:02:47.920 --> 1:02:50.280 control and all that sort of thing. But your body 1:02:50.800 --> 1:02:55.720 is basically what your whole job is all about. And 1:02:55.840 --> 1:02:57.400 taking care of your body to the best of the 1:02:57.440 --> 1:03:01.040 ability is huge. And if you can get two or 1:03:01.040 --> 1:03:04.919 three more years, that's hundreds of thousands of dollars if 1:03:04.920 --> 1:03:08.200 you can at the end of the season and you're 1:03:08.200 --> 1:03:11.720 making a playoff push and your body is well rested, 1:03:12.160 --> 1:03:15.760 well nourished, you're not tired. You're gonna play it better. 1:03:15.920 --> 1:03:16.640 That's a great point. 1:03:16.640 --> 1:03:18.880 You're gonna play better, and now you're gonna get more, 1:03:19.080 --> 1:03:22.040 you know, quote bonus money. You're gonna get additional money, 1:03:22.360 --> 1:03:24.640 more game checks. You know, as you get to the 1:03:25.640 --> 1:03:29.160 the AFC, NFC championship games. We're talking serious dollars. In 1:03:29.200 --> 1:03:30.680 the Super Bowl is a big payday. 1:03:31.360 --> 1:03:35.400 I give McKinley Jackson credit for the recognition and their 1:03:35.480 --> 1:03:39.120 articulation of that. I didn't understand right away how to 1:03:39.160 --> 1:03:43.040 be a professional, and you hope that lesson learned prolongs 1:03:43.040 --> 1:03:46.080 and extends his career. Sadly, the example on the other 1:03:46.160 --> 1:03:49.280 end is somebody like Jermaine Burton who didn't seemingly wasn't 1:03:49.320 --> 1:03:51.760 able to figure it out, and now he's on the 1:03:51.800 --> 1:03:54.800 street looking for another opportunity, and maybe he learns from 1:03:54.840 --> 1:03:57.840 that lesson. But that's the difference between staying in the 1:03:57.880 --> 1:04:00.840 league and looking for your life's work someplace else. 1:04:00.960 --> 1:04:04.400 Absolutely, I mean, you gotta give McKinley Jackson a lot 1:04:04.440 --> 1:04:06.920 of credits from being like introspective, you know, and and 1:04:07.520 --> 1:04:11.800 looking inside himself and being honest with himself and and 1:04:11.960 --> 1:04:14.720 uh doing what he needs to do and finding out 1:04:14.720 --> 1:04:17.440 what he needs to find out to survive in advance 1:04:17.480 --> 1:04:21.080 as a professional. Burton, on the other hand, he just 1:04:21.240 --> 1:04:23.880 never got to figure out like you said, he just uh, 1:04:24.880 --> 1:04:28.240 you know, A plus B did not equal see ever 1:04:28.560 --> 1:04:32.440 for Burton. Unfortunately, when we continue, I have a list. 1:04:32.520 --> 1:04:35.120 I made the mistake of starting to jot down to 1:04:35.160 --> 1:04:38.000 all the Bengals third downs yesterday off basively, and I like, 1:04:38.240 --> 1:04:40.320 and then I got very depressed. I wanted to stop. 1:04:40.360 --> 1:04:42.880 But we'll talk about the third down struggles and more 1:04:42.920 --> 1:04:45.840 as we continue these Dave Blapham My Glance, but callister 1:04:45.880 --> 1:04:48.000 Bengals Line is the show. It's on the Bengals Radio 1:04:48.040 --> 1:04:58.560 Network and it's on seven hundred w l W. We 1:04:58.640 --> 1:05:02.400 continue on this Monday. I talk at Bengals from all angles, 1:05:02.920 --> 1:05:04.800 and we've got plenty more to get to in our 1:05:04.880 --> 1:05:07.520 third hour tonight as well, look ahead to those Miami 1:05:07.560 --> 1:05:10.440 Dolphins as well. I mentioned the third downs, and I 1:05:10.440 --> 1:05:13.320 guess we must. We must go back through what transpired 1:05:13.360 --> 1:05:17.320 for the Bengals offensively on third down fifteen opportunities. Yesterday 1:05:17.480 --> 1:05:19.880 they converted their very first one to third and two 1:05:20.480 --> 1:05:24.440 and wound up for the game three of fifteen on 1:05:24.760 --> 1:05:28.439 third down yesterday, you wonder you look back and you say, 1:05:28.480 --> 1:05:30.200 how did they not score? How did they get into 1:05:30.400 --> 1:05:33.120 territory plus territory so many times and not score? If 1:05:33.160 --> 1:05:36.560 you're three of fifteen, it's awfully hard to sustain drives 1:05:36.600 --> 1:05:37.960 and put points on the board. 1:05:38.120 --> 1:05:41.800 Absolutely, I mean that is that's twenty percent third down conversion. 1:05:42.080 --> 1:05:46.040 That is failure. I mean that is brutal. The first 1:05:46.120 --> 1:05:48.240 third down, third and two, they pick up five yards. 1:05:48.320 --> 1:05:51.440 That's the one they made that you described lance. The second, 1:05:51.480 --> 1:05:55.200 third down, third and four, they get sacked for fifteen yard. Sacked. 1:05:55.240 --> 1:05:57.440 Joe's running around back there trying to create an extent 1:05:57.520 --> 1:05:58.800 and losing yardage. 1:05:58.440 --> 1:06:00.000 And took took him out of field goal. 1:06:00.160 --> 1:06:02.720 Absolutely, I mean that was a big mistake right there. 1:06:02.880 --> 1:06:05.560 You know, throw it away, throw it away, take the incompletion. 1:06:05.960 --> 1:06:08.240 You know, at least you can have them McPherson lineup 1:06:08.240 --> 1:06:11.080 and kick a long field goal for you. Third third down, 1:06:11.120 --> 1:06:13.480 third and four, they pick up two, So now it's 1:06:13.480 --> 1:06:16.760 fourth and two. The next third down, third and five, interception. 1:06:17.520 --> 1:06:20.120 Third and nine they pick up seven. Now it's fourth 1:06:20.200 --> 1:06:24.200 and two. They had a third and nineteen. Third and 1:06:24.440 --> 1:06:28.920 nineteen and try to throw the football obviously, and it's incomplete. 1:06:29.400 --> 1:06:32.959 Third and four, throw the football incomplete. Third and one 1:06:33.120 --> 1:06:35.400 they run the ball and they pick it up two yards. Okay, 1:06:35.480 --> 1:06:38.200 first down, how about that? Hall Lujah, Praise the Lord. 1:06:39.240 --> 1:06:43.840 The next one, third and eight failed, they run the football, 1:06:44.200 --> 1:06:46.560 excuse me, throw the football? They pick up two yards. 1:06:46.960 --> 1:06:51.040 Next one, third and one fail, run it, gain nothing, zilch, 1:06:51.640 --> 1:06:56.960 not a squash douche on number eleven, Third and six incomplete, 1:06:57.000 --> 1:07:02.160 pass number twelve, goal to go first in goal. This 1:07:02.240 --> 1:07:08.440 is the pick six. That's the basically basically close the 1:07:08.480 --> 1:07:11.320 game out. Say you know, it's history, Katie, bar the door. 1:07:11.840 --> 1:07:13.640 Third and one, they pick it up, they run the 1:07:13.640 --> 1:07:15.880 ball for six yards. How about that one, that's big. 1:07:16.280 --> 1:07:19.560 Third and seven incomplete or excuse me, run the football, 1:07:19.840 --> 1:07:22.200 don't make it and only pick up three and the 1:07:22.200 --> 1:07:25.440 final one, third and six they throw the football, only 1:07:25.520 --> 1:07:27.560 pick up five yards, and they have a fourth and one. 1:07:27.600 --> 1:07:32.520 I mean that is third down inefficiency at its past. 1:07:32.680 --> 1:07:36.760 I mean, it's it's really it's really a sad, sad 1:07:36.840 --> 1:07:38.800 commentary going through that list. 1:07:38.640 --> 1:07:42.160 That means on the day, the fifteen third down opportunities, 1:07:42.280 --> 1:07:45.640 they did not convert one that was beyond a third 1:07:45.680 --> 1:07:49.160 and two. Think about that for a second. They on 1:07:49.720 --> 1:07:52.160 third and four to five yards they went oh for four. 1:07:52.360 --> 1:07:54.680 On third and six or more they went oh for seven. 1:07:54.880 --> 1:07:57.400 They converted nothing that was longer than third and two 1:07:57.440 --> 1:07:59.960 the entire afternoon. I don't even know how that's possible. 1:08:00.240 --> 1:08:02.760 Yeah, and let's face it, I mean, third and four, 1:08:02.880 --> 1:08:05.520 third and five, you're gonna have to convert some of those. 1:08:05.680 --> 1:08:05.840 Yep. 1:08:06.000 --> 1:08:10.560 It's the National Football League. I mean, you know, defenses 1:08:10.560 --> 1:08:13.280 get paid to play too. They're gonna You're gonna find 1:08:13.280 --> 1:08:17.080 yourself in third and four. You got to make plays, 1:08:17.520 --> 1:08:21.240 you have to convert. Uh. It just yesterday was a 1:08:21.400 --> 1:08:23.240 nightmare in every sense of the word. 1:08:23.680 --> 1:08:25.639 And the deeper you get, the more yards you need, 1:08:25.680 --> 1:08:27.400 the more you're gonna have to try to try to 1:08:27.520 --> 1:08:30.160 maybe force something, and it leads to the interception or 1:08:30.280 --> 1:08:33.000 leads to a pick. It's just nothing, nothing good happen. 1:08:33.080 --> 1:08:35.559 It's like nothing good happens staying out after midnight. Nothing 1:08:35.560 --> 1:08:39.080 good happens on third and long. Usually good analogy, too 1:08:39.080 --> 1:08:42.760 many bad days. Good analogy, take a time out and continue. 1:08:43.040 --> 1:08:45.479 We'll head down the stretch at our second of three 1:08:45.560 --> 1:08:49.160 big hours tonight. It's Bengals on the Bengals Radio Network 1:08:49.160 --> 1:08:59.800 in seven hundred w l W down the stretch we go, 1:09:00.080 --> 1:09:03.160 final segment of our second of three hours tonight, Bengals 1:09:03.240 --> 1:09:05.640 line of the Bengals Radio Network. Time to squeeze in 1:09:05.720 --> 1:09:08.599 something from outside the Bengals realm of things, and it's 1:09:08.640 --> 1:09:13.240 what has everybody buzzing around the NFL. Philip Rivers Returns 1:09:13.240 --> 1:09:15.479 at the age of forty four. He starts for the 1:09:15.479 --> 1:09:18.800 Colts yesterday, his first game in an NFL game in 1:09:18.840 --> 1:09:22.240 over eighteen hundred days, going back to twenty twenty. He 1:09:22.479 --> 1:09:24.519 led the Colts to a go ahead field goal, a 1:09:24.640 --> 1:09:27.000 sixty yarder with less than a minute to go, but 1:09:27.080 --> 1:09:29.639 then Seattle marches right back down the field and kicks 1:09:29.640 --> 1:09:32.439 a fifty six yarder to win it. But Dave still 1:09:32.600 --> 1:09:35.799 hard to process that. At age forty four, Philip Rivers 1:09:35.840 --> 1:09:39.559 Returns goes eighteen to twenty six, one hundred and twenty yards, 1:09:39.600 --> 1:09:41.880 threw a touchdown a pick on the final play, kind 1:09:41.880 --> 1:09:44.040 of a desperation pass, but man when he threw the 1:09:44.080 --> 1:09:47.080 touchdown and he turned and pumped his fist and just 1:09:48.120 --> 1:09:52.040 I've thought about it all week. Forty four years old 1:09:52.320 --> 1:09:56.639 and he came back and started. Just wasn't the backup 1:09:56.680 --> 1:09:58.759 he started an NFL game yesterday? 1:09:58.880 --> 1:10:02.840 Incredible, it really is. And uh, you know he was 1:10:02.880 --> 1:10:05.200 coaching in high school football and his high school team 1:10:05.320 --> 1:10:09.720 was watching the game as so cool. The kids, Oh, 1:10:09.800 --> 1:10:11.880 they went crazy. I mean they almost did. Jumped through 1:10:11.880 --> 1:10:14.200 the roof. I mean they were they were vertical, man, 1:10:14.200 --> 1:10:18.479 they were skying, and uh, it's just it's an unbelievable, uh, 1:10:18.640 --> 1:10:21.840 unbelievable accomplishment for phil Philip Rivers to be able to 1:10:21.880 --> 1:10:25.360 do that. Now was what kind of football shape was 1:10:25.400 --> 1:10:27.160 he in? Obviously he was able to throw the football, 1:10:28.520 --> 1:10:31.640 probably has uh some tonnage to drop and there's no 1:10:31.760 --> 1:10:32.720 question about that way. 1:10:32.720 --> 1:10:35.920 And how I must feel this morning, Oh gosh, yeah, 1:10:35.960 --> 1:10:36.880 really the first time. 1:10:37.080 --> 1:10:39.240 Yeah, And That's what I was going to say about. 1:10:39.280 --> 1:10:42.400 If I'm an offensive lineman and Philip Rivers agrees to 1:10:42.439 --> 1:10:44.760 come back at the age of forty four to help 1:10:44.880 --> 1:10:48.280 us win football games, I'm protecting him with everything that 1:10:48.439 --> 1:10:51.920 I've got, every inch of my life, man, I am. 1:10:51.960 --> 1:10:52.280 I am. 1:10:52.760 --> 1:10:55.920 If Philip Rivers gets hit and I'm responsible for it. 1:10:55.920 --> 1:10:59.280 It's my guy, my my responsibility that put a lock 1:10:59.320 --> 1:11:02.080 on Philip Rivers. I'd have a hard time going back 1:11:02.080 --> 1:11:04.840 to back to the huddle and looking at us, you know, 1:11:05.080 --> 1:11:08.559 and making eye contact. Have been filing my bad. I'm sorry, man. 1:11:09.080 --> 1:11:12.439 You know it won't happen again. That is that's that's 1:11:12.479 --> 1:11:14.479 a tremendous NFL story. 1:11:15.160 --> 1:11:18.680 And I always I look for context and perspective. When 1:11:18.720 --> 1:11:22.160 I thought of this, it blew me away. Philip Rivers 1:11:22.280 --> 1:11:25.400 was taken fourth overall in the two thousand and four drafts. 1:11:26.200 --> 1:11:29.439 How long ago was that The Bengals first round pick 1:11:29.520 --> 1:11:33.240 that year was Chris Perry. I'll think about that, the 1:11:33.360 --> 1:11:37.759 Michigan running back. That's how long ago Philip Rivers was drafted. 1:11:37.760 --> 1:11:40.200 The look on Yid's face says it all. Yes, two 1:11:40.280 --> 1:11:44.439 thousand and four, Chris Perry, the Bengals, and Philip Rivers 1:11:44.439 --> 1:11:47.639 at forty four was back on the football field slinging 1:11:47.680 --> 1:11:48.599 the football yesterday. 1:11:48.640 --> 1:11:50.040 That puts it all in contest. 1:11:51.160 --> 1:11:53.080 And the final note to end the hour, the sad 1:11:53.120 --> 1:11:56.280 news out of Kansas City, man Patrick Mahomes tears acl 1:11:56.720 --> 1:11:59.000 done for this season. They say it might bleed into 1:11:59.040 --> 1:12:03.040 into next season. What an and the Chiefs get eliminated yesterday? 1:12:03.280 --> 1:12:06.280 What What a weird dynamic in the NFL to think 1:12:06.280 --> 1:12:08.600 that the Bengals and Joe Burrow aren't going to be 1:12:08.600 --> 1:12:10.960 in the playoffs, The Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes aren't going 1:12:10.960 --> 1:12:14.599 to be in the playoffs. It's it's not h It's 1:12:14.600 --> 1:12:17.120 not the way it has been. No, it's it's different. 1:12:17.200 --> 1:12:17.720 It's uh. 1:12:17.760 --> 1:12:21.000 And Jerry Jones upset too. The Cowboys and Michael Parsons 1:12:21.040 --> 1:12:24.040 aren't they all are the in the playoffs with his 1:12:24.160 --> 1:12:27.320 a cl injury. So a lot of a lot of 1:12:27.479 --> 1:12:32.439 difficult injuries. Uh, yesterday over the weekend. No National Football League. 1:12:32.280 --> 1:12:34.400 No question. That's two in the books. Let's get to 1:12:34.479 --> 1:12:36.960 our third hour. We'll hear from more from Zach, more 1:12:37.000 --> 1:12:39.680 from Joe, and fun facts with Taj Brooks. It's all 1:12:39.720 --> 1:12:42.400 ahead Bengals one of the Bengals Radio Network and seven 1:12:42.479 --> 1:12:43.559 hundred w l W. 1:12:51.720 --> 1:12:55.719 This is Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network. Pay Corps. 1:12:55.880 --> 1:12:58.599 Pay Corp is proud to be the official HR software 1:12:58.680 --> 1:13:02.479 provider of US Cincinnati Bengals. 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Visit the Pro Shops seven days 1:13:36.080 --> 1:13:38.799 a week, located on the north side of pay Court Stadium, 1:13:39.000 --> 1:13:41.080 or shop online at Bengals dot com. 1:13:41.120 --> 1:13:43.200 Agat twenty four to nothing, the final in a game 1:13:43.200 --> 1:13:46.320 that unfortunately eliminates the Bengals. Here is Zach at the 1:13:46.360 --> 1:13:49.120 podium meeting with the media after the game. 1:13:49.560 --> 1:13:51.400 You know, I think we had five trips, you know, 1:13:51.479 --> 1:13:52.920 to their side of the field and came by with 1:13:52.920 --> 1:13:57.920 no points. And just again that's as a point caller, 1:13:57.960 --> 1:14:00.280 that that starts with me. When you walk with no points, 1:14:00.320 --> 1:14:02.200 there's a huge amount of accountability that I got to 1:14:02.240 --> 1:14:05.280 take for that, but it was just an overall very 1:14:05.280 --> 1:14:07.040 frustrating day. I think we did some things that were 1:14:07.120 --> 1:14:11.800 very unorthodox on offense for us, you know, just penalties, 1:14:12.000 --> 1:14:16.439 silly penalties that were controllable on our end, you know, 1:14:16.479 --> 1:14:18.240 in some possessions where we had opportunites at points and 1:14:18.240 --> 1:14:20.160 didn't walk away with anything. I was was frustrating. 1:14:20.760 --> 1:14:22.360 What are your thoughts on that team's effort. 1:14:23.760 --> 1:14:26.200 Well, I thought, defensively, I saw some really good things. 1:14:26.200 --> 1:14:28.800 I mean, they pressured him, he didn't have a lot 1:14:28.800 --> 1:14:31.000 of time in the pocket with three or four sacks, 1:14:31.240 --> 1:14:33.960 got a turnover, had an opportunity, had another one. I know, 1:14:35.439 --> 1:14:37.599 they got in a zero beater, you know, where were 1:14:37.640 --> 1:14:39.559 something we practiced, we were ready for it, and they 1:14:39.560 --> 1:14:41.360 still got us for a touchdown. So there was some 1:14:42.680 --> 1:14:44.360 held them three points in the second half. You know, 1:14:44.560 --> 1:14:48.840 this was if my memory serves correctly, So there was 1:14:48.840 --> 1:14:51.960 some some effort, you know. That's I didn't see it 1:14:52.040 --> 1:14:54.120 lack of effort. I just saw a lack of attention 1:14:54.200 --> 1:14:57.200 to detail. Maybe on offense that really showed up. That 1:14:57.320 --> 1:14:58.920 was that was disappointing for. 1:14:58.960 --> 1:15:00.960 The reason for so many drop today and how big 1:15:01.040 --> 1:15:02.000 were those drops? 1:15:02.080 --> 1:15:05.639 Yeah, but it was everything you know, it wasn't just drops, 1:15:05.640 --> 1:15:09.080 it was it was I think everybody involved in the offense. 1:15:11.080 --> 1:15:13.240 Has got to got to own up to that performance today. 1:15:13.840 --> 1:15:16.120 Zach Jill had a kind of a unique down demeter 1:15:16.280 --> 1:15:18.719 on Wednesday. Did you notice anything different from him this week? 1:15:19.800 --> 1:15:22.320 You had a lot of condition after Pittsburgh that you 1:15:22.360 --> 1:15:24.920 guys are going to be in this until the very end. 1:15:26.160 --> 1:15:28.760 Is it stunning the fact that you're sitting here three 1:15:28.760 --> 1:15:29.360 weeks ago. 1:15:29.400 --> 1:15:32.200 And it's yeah, I think it's it's frustrating to to 1:15:32.200 --> 1:15:35.320 score zero points get shut out at home. That's that's unacceptable. 1:15:37.360 --> 1:15:38.920 Never a million year is what I've seen that coming, 1:15:39.080 --> 1:15:41.439 you know, But that's that's what happened today. So now 1:15:41.439 --> 1:15:43.040 we've got to look at why that happened, and we've 1:15:43.040 --> 1:15:46.920 got to accountable for it and and keep moving forward. 1:15:47.479 --> 1:15:51.000 Zach, why do you think you in your group of coaches, administration, 1:15:51.160 --> 1:15:53.320 top to bottom are the right group? 1:15:54.600 --> 1:15:56.479 Yeah? I believe in everybody. I believe and every do 1:15:56.600 --> 1:15:56.920 we got. 1:15:57.880 --> 1:15:59.800 You're down seventeen to nothing. I believe that drive the 1:15:59.840 --> 1:16:01.960 day ended in the pick six took like eight minutes. 1:16:02.880 --> 1:16:05.200 Anything you guys could have done there to try to speed. 1:16:04.960 --> 1:16:08.240 That up, we had some personnel issues, certainly with some 1:16:08.280 --> 1:16:10.760 injuries that we were trying to balance there. Moments we 1:16:10.800 --> 1:16:13.280 went tempo, moments we decided huddle and try to make 1:16:13.320 --> 1:16:14.200 sure we got points. 1:16:13.960 --> 1:16:17.320 On the board. The playoff contention sw. 1:16:20.000 --> 1:16:21.800 Yeah, it's frustrating. This is a team that I thought 1:16:22.000 --> 1:16:23.640 was a talented team. There's gonna have a chance to 1:16:23.640 --> 1:16:24.479 do big things this year. 1:16:27.000 --> 1:16:31.519 Very similar. Joe was Joe sharp in practice rightily? Yes, 1:16:31.880 --> 1:16:32.800 how do you feel like it? 1:16:34.160 --> 1:16:35.760 I'll let him speak to that, but I know that 1:16:35.800 --> 1:16:37.320 there's some place that he's going to want to come back. 1:16:37.640 --> 1:16:38.280 Two weeks ago. 1:16:38.320 --> 1:16:40.760 You know, you guys were able to do anything at 1:16:40.800 --> 1:16:43.439 will really against Baltimore on Thanksgiving today? 1:16:43.600 --> 1:16:45.680 Did anything surprise you that they I wouldn't say that. 1:16:45.760 --> 1:16:48.280 I would say, you know it, maybe it looked easier 1:16:48.280 --> 1:16:50.880 than it really was. You know, our defense is five turnovers, 1:16:50.960 --> 1:16:54.040 five to nothing. Early on, we kicked a field goals 1:16:54.040 --> 1:16:55.880 in that game when when you'd like to come away 1:16:55.880 --> 1:16:58.439 with teschdowns, they made it really hard. So we knew 1:16:58.680 --> 1:17:00.920 that that wasn't People were going to say that. You 1:17:00.960 --> 1:17:02.560 know that we won how we won, and that was 1:17:02.600 --> 1:17:04.559 easy for us. It wasn't as far from easy you know, 1:17:04.600 --> 1:17:07.680 we scored on two third downs in that game, touchdowns, 1:17:07.720 --> 1:17:09.439 So we knew that this game was going to be 1:17:09.520 --> 1:17:11.360 very difficult, and we put a lot of time and 1:17:11.360 --> 1:17:14.120 effort to the plan and the practice, and I got 1:17:14.120 --> 1:17:14.960 to today. 1:17:14.640 --> 1:17:16.679 Film feeling really good about where we're at. 1:17:17.439 --> 1:17:19.240 And again, we just I'm not going to say that 1:17:19.280 --> 1:17:21.800 there was a single area, particularly an offense, that we're 1:17:21.800 --> 1:17:23.720 going to say that was that was nearly good enough. 1:17:23.720 --> 1:17:26.120 It wasn't even close to good enough anywhere, starting with me, 1:17:26.960 --> 1:17:28.720 and so that that part was frustrating. 1:17:29.080 --> 1:17:32.240 Why is complimentary football being difficult for this team to 1:17:32.240 --> 1:17:33.000 find the season? 1:17:33.160 --> 1:17:34.960 Yeah, that's that's the hard one for me to answer. 1:17:35.080 --> 1:17:37.960 It hasn't been good Enough's what's the where you'll go 1:17:38.040 --> 1:17:40.880 from here? Three games out with way to win? Just 1:17:40.880 --> 1:17:43.640 just approach every single week as if we're still in it. 1:17:44.040 --> 1:17:46.640 So get something to play for and that's our responsibility 1:17:46.640 --> 1:17:47.680 and that's what we're going to continue to do. 1:17:47.720 --> 1:17:49.640 Aside from this overall, leans, what would you like to 1:17:49.640 --> 1:17:52.519 see the most as you finished off the season? 1:17:54.320 --> 1:17:55.880 Wins would be there? The one thing what did you. 1:17:55.800 --> 1:17:59.040 See from guys this week? Obviously as the playoff hom 1:17:59.080 --> 1:18:01.480 was coming in, it was a big game at home. 1:18:02.520 --> 1:18:04.120 Yeah, it was important to everybody. 1:18:04.280 --> 1:18:09.360 I didn't see anything, and again this is you told 1:18:09.360 --> 1:18:12.639 me our defense is gonna sack them as many times 1:18:12.680 --> 1:18:14.240 and harass them in the pocket. 1:18:14.160 --> 1:18:16.959 And create a turnover and holding three points. 1:18:16.720 --> 1:18:18.920 In the second half. I'd sign up for that, you know. 1:18:19.000 --> 1:18:21.120 So again, just just wholesale as a team, we weren't 1:18:21.120 --> 1:18:21.640 good enough to do. 1:18:22.080 --> 1:18:25.679 Are going to want to obviously see some changes over 1:18:25.720 --> 1:18:26.720 the next three weeks or. 1:18:26.720 --> 1:18:29.519 So, giving them to vote for twenty twenty six. What 1:18:29.680 --> 1:18:30.960 is your message to the fans? 1:18:31.320 --> 1:18:33.880 Just hang with us. It's been frustrating. We're still portant 1:18:33.880 --> 1:18:36.120 our heart and soul to this thing and find a 1:18:36.120 --> 1:18:38.400 way to win. And it's it's been a frustrating season. 1:18:38.479 --> 1:18:38.960 Understand that. 1:18:39.200 --> 1:18:41.240 Just a follow up on that. I know you're just 1:18:41.439 --> 1:18:43.880 looking at this game, but looking big picture of three 1:18:43.960 --> 1:18:46.240 years of not making the playoffs. What would you like 1:18:46.280 --> 1:18:48.400 to say to the fans that give them a vote 1:18:48.439 --> 1:18:51.120 of confidence that you guys can get this right and 1:18:51.200 --> 1:18:52.320 they won't be feeling like this. 1:18:52.560 --> 1:18:52.720 Yeah. 1:18:52.720 --> 1:18:54.840 I've got great confidence. I mean, we come to work 1:18:54.880 --> 1:18:55.439 every single day. 1:18:55.439 --> 1:18:56.960 I believe in the guys we got in this locker room, 1:18:57.000 --> 1:19:00.519 coaches and players and frustrating. 1:19:00.120 --> 1:19:02.519 Frustrating season so far. We still got a couple of 1:19:02.520 --> 1:19:03.000 games left. 1:19:05.240 --> 1:19:10.200 Zachlow session tough that we just ended in a pick six, 1:19:11.000 --> 1:19:13.160 didn't get Flaco any time to warm up, and zero 1:19:13.240 --> 1:19:16.360 degree temperature basically, so try to manage it. Just hand 1:19:16.360 --> 1:19:18.200 the ball off their quick game things that would keep 1:19:18.240 --> 1:19:18.920 them out of harm way. 1:19:19.920 --> 1:19:21.840 Obviously tough spot to be in. 1:19:22.920 --> 1:19:25.160 I say, if it was anything other than zero degrees, 1:19:25.160 --> 1:19:28.040 we probably would have quickly made the change and forego 1:19:28.080 --> 1:19:30.360 them warm up. But again, just tried to as we 1:19:30.439 --> 1:19:32.400 called it, kept them out of harm's way with just 1:19:32.439 --> 1:19:34.479 any throw we made the boss coming out quick. 1:19:34.960 --> 1:19:37.720 Now that they are officially eliminated, how do you keep 1:19:37.760 --> 1:19:40.000 players heads in it for the last three weeks to 1:19:40.360 --> 1:19:41.040 keep going every day. 1:19:41.040 --> 1:19:43.719 They're professionals, you know, And that's that's why you build 1:19:43.720 --> 1:19:45.080 the locker room the way you do it, so that 1:19:45.120 --> 1:19:46.720 you don't have to worry about guys like that. You know, 1:19:46.800 --> 1:19:49.080 guys that they know how important this is not only 1:19:49.120 --> 1:19:51.479 for themselves in their career, but for all the work 1:19:51.479 --> 1:19:54.479 this team has put in and through good times and bad, 1:19:54.600 --> 1:19:55.800 go out there and put your best for four And 1:19:55.840 --> 1:19:57.559 I absolutely trust that these guys will do that. 1:19:57.800 --> 1:19:59.960 Zach Taylor on the loss yesterday and what it means 1:20:00.080 --> 1:20:03.840 going forward in the question, everybody's wondering, how what does 1:20:03.880 --> 1:20:05.680 it mean the final three? What do you do with 1:20:05.720 --> 1:20:08.960 the final three? I would think there's a lot of 1:20:08.960 --> 1:20:11.840 guys in this roster who should be thinking, I need 1:20:11.880 --> 1:20:15.880 to put something productive, and iye popping on this tape. 1:20:16.240 --> 1:20:18.360 In my best interest, I better show them something in 1:20:18.400 --> 1:20:19.559 the three games left. 1:20:19.600 --> 1:20:23.519 Bingo Lance, Absolutely, I mean I hope these players are 1:20:23.800 --> 1:20:28.760 thinking along the lines that you are right now, Miami, Arizona, Cleveland. 1:20:29.080 --> 1:20:33.240 Three more opportunities to show your stuff. And you know, 1:20:33.760 --> 1:20:36.759 I guess everybody, all the fans and coaches too, could say, 1:20:37.000 --> 1:20:40.080 what's taking you so long? Why did you wait for 1:20:40.160 --> 1:20:43.240 three games left in the season to show what you're 1:20:43.280 --> 1:20:48.160 capable of? You know, you get paid all season long 1:20:48.200 --> 1:20:50.599 to give us your best performance. Why haven't you given 1:20:50.680 --> 1:20:54.160 us your best performance? Why haven't you prepared yourself on 1:20:54.200 --> 1:20:57.120 a weekly basis to give us your best performance? But 1:20:57.880 --> 1:21:00.120 better late than never, I guess, so you better to 1:21:00.160 --> 1:21:02.479 show up. If you don't show up, we're gonna move on. 1:21:02.800 --> 1:21:03.000 Yep. 1:21:03.080 --> 1:21:05.760 You know we can play football in National Football League 1:21:05.760 --> 1:21:08.400 without you. You know you're not. You're not a multiple 1:21:08.400 --> 1:21:11.000 time Pro Bowl You're not. You're not a guy that 1:21:11.040 --> 1:21:13.840 we're hanging our hat on and have to have. So 1:21:14.120 --> 1:21:16.839 I'm telling you these last three weeks gonna be important 1:21:16.880 --> 1:21:18.439 for a lot of a lot of young players, not 1:21:18.520 --> 1:21:20.120 just with the Bengals, with everybody in the league. 1:21:20.240 --> 1:21:22.679 Yeah, as you were saying that, the words of Marvin 1:21:22.760 --> 1:21:26.000 Lewis resonate in my head. Do your job be a pro? 1:21:26.680 --> 1:21:29.439 And man, if i'm whether it's coaches on this staff 1:21:29.560 --> 1:21:32.040 or I'm coaches or front office on another team, maybe 1:21:32.040 --> 1:21:35.559 there's a Bengal who's a free agent potentially, I know, 1:21:35.720 --> 1:21:39.519 darn well. If I'm evaluating a Bengal, I'm going back 1:21:39.520 --> 1:21:42.439 and looking at these final three games to see how 1:21:42.479 --> 1:21:46.120 did they play when the season was over. Did they 1:21:46.200 --> 1:21:48.559 pack it in, did they have the car running to 1:21:48.600 --> 1:21:51.000 warm up the car for the offseason? How did they 1:21:51.080 --> 1:21:55.760 look when when they didn't maybe have the the incentive 1:21:55.760 --> 1:21:59.080 of a playoff chasing them? Because that's an evaluation point 1:21:59.080 --> 1:22:00.479 for me. If I'm looking at players, how do they 1:22:00.479 --> 1:22:01.559 play these last three weeks? 1:22:01.640 --> 1:22:03.439 Yeah? Because not every team in the NFL is going 1:22:03.520 --> 1:22:05.360 to make the playoffs. Yeah, you know, there's gonna be 1:22:05.400 --> 1:22:08.320 some teams that aren't. And if you're on that football team, 1:22:08.840 --> 1:22:11.439 you're expected to still give effort. I mean, they're selling 1:22:11.760 --> 1:22:15.559 tickets to the games, they're taking fans money, uh to 1:22:15.560 --> 1:22:18.759 to watch you play football. Give them a fair shake. 1:22:19.120 --> 1:22:21.639 Go out there and and and play like you can play. 1:22:21.920 --> 1:22:24.120 You know, I'm wondering too. Sometimes you know a guy 1:22:24.200 --> 1:22:28.360 doesn't play well at an organization because you know there's 1:22:28.479 --> 1:22:33.120 they're what they've decided to do offensively or defensively didn't 1:22:33.160 --> 1:22:36.639 necessarily fit that skill set that player has. Maybe another 1:22:36.640 --> 1:22:40.200 team in the league has uh some sort of a 1:22:40.240 --> 1:22:44.800 defensive or offensive schematic that fits better. You better show 1:22:44.880 --> 1:22:49.080 up and play and show that you could benefit by 1:22:49.479 --> 1:22:52.360 them taking you on that football team. You know, uh, 1:22:52.640 --> 1:22:55.920 keep your keep your career alive. It's a lot of money, man, 1:22:56.200 --> 1:22:57.280 a lot of money's at stake. 1:22:57.760 --> 1:23:02.040 Still ahead. More from Jill Burrow on yesterday, and the 1:23:02.160 --> 1:23:05.040 conversation continues through our third hour of Bengals Lot of 1:23:05.080 --> 1:23:17.840 the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW Well then 1:23:17.920 --> 1:23:20.880 right along through all Monday night talking Bengals football on 1:23:20.920 --> 1:23:24.520 the show we call Bengals Love Bengals or Radio Network. 1:23:24.280 --> 1:23:26.599 And Hey Bengals fans on Fridays, make sure to listen 1:23:26.680 --> 1:23:30.080 to myself and Dan Horde from Bengals pep Rally presented 1:23:30.080 --> 1:23:32.680 by Just Bear Chicken on the air from three to 1:23:32.720 --> 1:23:35.080 six pm on ESPN fifteen thirty. 1:23:35.120 --> 1:23:38.280 We heard from Zach Taylor after the game yesterday. Let's 1:23:38.320 --> 1:23:40.240 hear a little bit more from QB one on a 1:23:40.320 --> 1:23:42.160 rough day. Here is Joe Burrow. 1:23:42.280 --> 1:23:43.360 Joe, today was the offense. 1:23:43.360 --> 1:23:44.519 Other games it's been the defense. 1:23:44.560 --> 1:23:46.760 Why has complimentary football been so hard for this team 1:23:46.760 --> 1:23:47.439 to find this year? 1:23:48.840 --> 1:23:50.919 We haven't been a good football team. You know bad football. 1:23:51.160 --> 1:23:54.639 Bad football teams do losing things, and. 1:23:58.400 --> 1:24:01.840 You know, if you're wanting to compete for championships and 1:24:02.600 --> 1:24:03.639 in the playoffs, then. 1:24:05.560 --> 1:24:08.000 Number one, your quarterback has to play better than I 1:24:08.000 --> 1:24:10.800 did today. How far does that gap feel right now? 1:24:11.240 --> 1:24:15.400 Chill between this team and what's expected of the championship level. 1:24:15.800 --> 1:24:17.200 Not that far, not that far. 1:24:17.400 --> 1:24:19.320 This is the worst you felt after loss. 1:24:19.120 --> 1:24:22.360 Probably losing losing socks. 1:24:23.000 --> 1:24:25.679 I know you're taking a lot of responsibility for today's game, 1:24:25.760 --> 1:24:29.120 but one of the main things that has come out 1:24:29.120 --> 1:24:32.559 of this season is how much is on your plate 1:24:32.640 --> 1:24:35.320 and the record when you were out when you were 1:24:35.320 --> 1:24:39.200 out and last week's perfect example the turnovers, you guys 1:24:39.240 --> 1:24:41.920 lose the game. Do you feel like there's too much 1:24:41.920 --> 1:24:44.599 weight on you where it feels like if you're not perfect, 1:24:45.400 --> 1:24:48.479 the team is good enough around you to pick you up. 1:24:51.800 --> 1:24:53.320 You know, I want everything on my plate. 1:24:53.360 --> 1:24:56.439 I want That's a position I want to be in, 1:24:57.160 --> 1:25:01.759 and you know, I feel confident all those guys locker room, 1:25:01.800 --> 1:25:06.120 Like I said today, nobody there's not a team in 1:25:06.120 --> 1:25:07.799 the NFL that would have won. 1:25:07.640 --> 1:25:09.920 The game today if if I was the quarterbacks. 1:25:10.240 --> 1:25:12.880 Teams record is headed in the wrong direction. Do you 1:25:12.920 --> 1:25:15.840 think your play is slipping down the slope in the 1:25:15.840 --> 1:25:18.600 wrong direction over the last couple of years? 1:25:20.360 --> 1:25:23.280 You know, I feel very confident in how I played 1:25:23.400 --> 1:25:26.599 obviously today in my opinion, is an outliar. I think 1:25:26.600 --> 1:25:28.439 I've been consistently great for. 1:25:31.080 --> 1:25:33.719 Years and years and years. Did they change up its 1:25:34.080 --> 1:25:38.559 all from thanks Giving? The really different that way? Maybe 1:25:38.600 --> 1:25:39.559 don't think it's giving. 1:25:41.000 --> 1:25:43.880 I said they blitzed, They blitzed less. Their front four 1:25:44.000 --> 1:25:46.559 was able to get a little more pressure, So credit 1:25:46.600 --> 1:25:46.920 to them. 1:25:47.000 --> 1:25:49.679 What kind of on that first act the fifty yard 1:25:49.720 --> 1:25:51.920 on the third down going there in what kind of 1:25:51.920 --> 1:25:53.240 happened there? 1:25:54.800 --> 1:25:57.679 Ye, Is it the same thing on the pick six? 1:25:57.760 --> 1:25:58.280 Is that kind of it? 1:25:58.200 --> 1:26:00.320 It looks like it was a similar pressure that they 1:26:00.360 --> 1:26:01.160 had on the gap. 1:26:01.320 --> 1:26:03.800 Was that the same or now I have. 1:26:03.720 --> 1:26:05.040 To see the film on that one. 1:26:05.960 --> 1:26:08.080 We'll see what This is the hardest I think you've 1:26:08.080 --> 1:26:09.679 ever been on yourself after a game. 1:26:09.880 --> 1:26:13.519 Why even I think this is one of the worst 1:26:13.600 --> 1:26:15.080 games that I've I've played. 1:26:17.439 --> 1:26:20.040 You know, I'm honest with myself. 1:26:19.640 --> 1:26:22.559 And my play, and I hold myself to high standard 1:26:22.560 --> 1:26:25.400 and today didn't come close. 1:26:26.560 --> 1:26:29.720 Joe, with playoffs off the table as a competitor, how 1:26:29.760 --> 1:26:32.479 tough will it be now to read mindset and kind 1:26:32.479 --> 1:26:34.960 of get yourself back into winding win again? 1:26:38.360 --> 1:26:40.960 You mentioned the mental mistake on the sack when you 1:26:40.960 --> 1:26:42.800 guys the first draft of the game was that. 1:26:44.439 --> 1:26:45.200 I made the wrong call. 1:26:45.439 --> 1:26:47.880 Joe after the game and Dave, we were talking earlier 1:26:47.880 --> 1:26:50.320 about Joe addressing the team, and in a comment from 1:26:50.400 --> 1:26:54.120 Jordan's Battles jumped out to me Jordan's set up, Joe. 1:26:54.600 --> 1:26:57.600 What Joe said after the game resonates with us. That 1:26:57.680 --> 1:27:00.599 should determine our attitude going into these next few games 1:27:00.640 --> 1:27:02.320 and for the rest of the season. It sends a 1:27:02.439 --> 1:27:05.160 huge message. It shows who he is as a person. 1:27:05.520 --> 1:27:07.639 Maybe he can come off as arrogant to people who 1:27:07.640 --> 1:27:09.840 don't know him, He's really one of the most humble 1:27:09.840 --> 1:27:12.840 guys I've ever met, especially with the status he has 1:27:12.880 --> 1:27:15.599 and the player he is. When he speaks up to 1:27:15.640 --> 1:27:19.360 the team, we hear it and it's like that old E. F. 1:27:19.439 --> 1:27:23.320 Hutton commercial Weddingy Hutton, people listen, that's Joe Burrow. 1:27:23.560 --> 1:27:27.360 Absolutely. I mean, he is the unquestioned leader of the 1:27:27.400 --> 1:27:31.360 football team, and in most instances, the quarterback usually is. 1:27:31.880 --> 1:27:34.200 There are some rare exceptions to the rule, but there 1:27:34.240 --> 1:27:37.439 aren't that many. And as the quarterback goes, so the 1:27:37.439 --> 1:27:40.479 team goes. You know, if the quarterback has got something 1:27:40.520 --> 1:27:45.040 going on off the football field that is affecting him, 1:27:45.160 --> 1:27:48.160 the whole team feels it. Joe Burrow said he does 1:27:48.240 --> 1:27:50.559 have some personal issues that he's dealing with and it's 1:27:50.560 --> 1:27:53.360 not related to the football team, not related to the 1:27:53.400 --> 1:27:56.840 Cincinnati Bengals organization, and he's working his way through it. 1:27:58.320 --> 1:28:01.840 All I can say is having been part of this 1:28:01.960 --> 1:28:04.840 organization for ten years as a player. In forty in 1:28:04.880 --> 1:28:08.360 the broadcast booth, two guys that come to mind, Boomer 1:28:08.400 --> 1:28:12.880 Sison leader, Boomer Sison, when things weren't going well, he 1:28:13.520 --> 1:28:16.000 grabbed the team by the collective throat and said, hey, 1:28:16.320 --> 1:28:20.240 let this is unacceptable. This, this just isn't gonna happen. 1:28:20.320 --> 1:28:22.559 We're not gonna We're not gonna tank our season like this. 1:28:23.160 --> 1:28:29.240 Kenny Anderson same way. Kenny would be very very honest 1:28:29.479 --> 1:28:33.120 in his in his comments and addressing the football team. 1:28:33.560 --> 1:28:36.680 And these guys obviously play at a high level, their 1:28:36.720 --> 1:28:40.639 Pro Bowl players. You know, guys emulate, want to emulate 1:28:40.800 --> 1:28:44.000 what they are and how important they are the community 1:28:44.040 --> 1:28:46.640 and the football team. And they're listening. They listen to 1:28:46.640 --> 1:28:49.519 those guys. So, like you said, Ef Hutton, when when 1:28:49.520 --> 1:28:53.200 Boomer Sison or when Kenny Anderson speaks, people perk up 1:28:53.200 --> 1:28:54.080 and people listen. 1:28:54.560 --> 1:28:57.320 And if there was one player on this team, if 1:28:57.360 --> 1:29:00.720 you were asking me to bet on how somebody respawns, 1:29:00.760 --> 1:29:04.559 I would place my chip on Joe Burrow. Probably not 1:29:04.680 --> 1:29:08.000 sleeping much last night, probably seething a little bit. Yeah, 1:29:08.080 --> 1:29:11.400 your classics see the game unful on your on your 1:29:11.439 --> 1:29:14.920 bedroom ceiling. Yeah, because when when Joe says publicly it 1:29:14.960 --> 1:29:17.800 was a mental mistake by me, that's the stuff that 1:29:18.040 --> 1:29:20.200 just has to grade at him and drive him to 1:29:20.360 --> 1:29:23.400 next week. What would it really surprise anybody if Joe 1:29:23.439 --> 1:29:26.320 next week went out and dropped like a twenty seven 1:29:26.400 --> 1:29:29.120 of thirty one for three hundred and ninety six yards, 1:29:29.160 --> 1:29:31.160 four touchdowns, no interceptions. It would not. 1:29:31.240 --> 1:29:33.439 Wouldn't surprise on your lick, It really wouldn't. I mean, 1:29:33.479 --> 1:29:37.040 I think, you know the great ones, that's the that's 1:29:37.080 --> 1:29:40.200 how they respond, That's how they respond to adversity. Uh, 1:29:40.320 --> 1:29:42.519 they respond by going out and having one of the 1:29:42.520 --> 1:29:45.320 best games of their of their career. And Joe Burrow 1:29:45.439 --> 1:29:47.519 is a great one. You know, Joe Burrow is a 1:29:47.560 --> 1:29:50.479 future Hall of Famer. He's uh, he's one of one. 1:29:50.840 --> 1:29:54.680 They broke the mold and uh, you know he's I 1:29:54.720 --> 1:29:57.120 think he's got the last three football games of the season. 1:29:57.360 --> 1:29:59.320 I think he's gonna put up stupid numbers. I think 1:29:59.360 --> 1:30:01.840 people are gonna be like, what are you kidding me? 1:30:02.280 --> 1:30:04.800 What did he do to close the season out? I 1:30:04.800 --> 1:30:06.519 think he's capable and I think he'll do it. 1:30:06.600 --> 1:30:09.240 All Right, we're rolling through this third hour. We'll do 1:30:09.600 --> 1:30:13.160 fun facts, fantastic fun facts with Dan Horde coming up. Well, 1:30:13.320 --> 1:30:15.519 so take a look at the Miami Dolphins. It's all 1:30:15.560 --> 1:30:18.680 Ahead on Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network and 1:30:18.840 --> 1:30:25.639 seven hundred WLW. Hey welcome back into a Monday night 1:30:25.640 --> 1:30:28.519 of conversation about all things related to the Bengals. We 1:30:28.520 --> 1:30:30.559 do it for three hours each week. We do it 1:30:30.600 --> 1:30:33.240 on Bengals Line of the Bengals Radio Network and seven 1:30:33.280 --> 1:30:35.160 hundred WLW. 1:30:34.479 --> 1:30:37.240 And Lance as we know, Alta Fibers the official Wi 1:30:37.240 --> 1:30:40.720 Fi and Internet provider of the Bengals in Greater Cincinnati's 1:30:40.720 --> 1:30:44.040 fastest Internet with up to two gig symmetrical speeds. 1:30:44.400 --> 1:30:46.720 Each week, we love to take a listen to what 1:30:46.840 --> 1:30:49.680 Dan Horr does with Fantastic Fun Facts. It's a sit 1:30:49.760 --> 1:30:52.479 down conversation with a member of the organization, kind of 1:30:52.479 --> 1:30:54.559 a chance to pull back the curtain and learn more 1:30:54.600 --> 1:30:58.000 about the player more along the lines of the person 1:30:58.720 --> 1:31:02.880 behind inside that helmet. This week it is Taj Brooks, 1:31:02.920 --> 1:31:06.440 the Bengals rookie running back. Here's Dan Horde and Fantastic 1:31:06.600 --> 1:31:07.320 fun Facts. 1:31:08.240 --> 1:31:11.559 No Fantastic fun Facts with. 1:31:11.640 --> 1:31:14.800 Dan ord tied for some fun facts with running Back. 1:31:14.840 --> 1:31:18.360 Taj Brooks, from Manor, Texas, not far from the capital 1:31:18.479 --> 1:31:22.240 city of Austin, describe growing up in Manor and some 1:31:22.280 --> 1:31:24.040 of the things you enjoyed doing when you were young. 1:31:24.479 --> 1:31:27.439 Oh man, the thing I did the most was just 1:31:28.840 --> 1:31:31.720 play football, went to school, and then you don't hung 1:31:31.760 --> 1:31:33.679 out with friends. That was really just the most part. 1:31:33.760 --> 1:31:35.200 And you know, I was kind of kind of a 1:31:35.240 --> 1:31:37.000 country boy at that time too. You know, it was 1:31:37.120 --> 1:31:40.160 Maynor back back in high school. It was a kind 1:31:40.160 --> 1:31:42.040 of a little suburb. Now it's a lot of a 1:31:42.040 --> 1:31:44.040 lot of things growing out there, so but it was 1:31:44.080 --> 1:31:45.600 more country when I was out there, when I was 1:31:45.840 --> 1:31:47.200 growing up and stuff, So it was fun. 1:31:47.760 --> 1:31:50.800 I read somewhere that you rode horses growing up. Was 1:31:50.800 --> 1:31:52.519 that the case? And it's still the case. 1:31:52.720 --> 1:31:54.640 It's a little bit kind of the case now, but 1:31:55.120 --> 1:31:57.519 I try to get not too much. But yeah, I 1:31:57.520 --> 1:31:59.880 grew up. I rode a little bit of horses. It 1:31:59.880 --> 1:32:02.320 was just when I was little. My aunt shout out 1:32:02.360 --> 1:32:04.320 to her. She kind of, you know, just instilled in 1:32:04.400 --> 1:32:06.360 me just just to do it for fun. And it's 1:32:06.360 --> 1:32:09.160 been it's been great ever since. But it's crazy. 1:32:09.160 --> 1:32:11.920 It's just I kind of had like a little reaction. 1:32:11.680 --> 1:32:13.799 To like one of like the horse little blanket sheets, 1:32:13.800 --> 1:32:16.479 and you know, I always I loved animals when I 1:32:16.520 --> 1:32:18.519 was little. I want to be like a vision I 1:32:18.520 --> 1:32:22.479 guess a vegetarian, not a vegetarian veninarian, Excuse me. It 1:32:22.560 --> 1:32:25.280 was just I love watching like the incredible Doctor Poe 1:32:25.320 --> 1:32:26.800 shows and things like that, so I just want to 1:32:26.800 --> 1:32:28.640 see like just the way of living over horse and 1:32:28.680 --> 1:32:31.160 things like that. But it was that's just something that 1:32:31.320 --> 1:32:32.800 I cherished the most when I was growing up. 1:32:33.479 --> 1:32:36.200 Tys. You had an exceptional high school football career, running 1:32:36.240 --> 1:32:39.000 for more than four thousand yards. When did it start 1:32:39.080 --> 1:32:42.479 to become clear that the other kids either couldn't catch 1:32:42.520 --> 1:32:43.680 you or tackle you? 1:32:44.680 --> 1:32:47.479 Really, I want to say a little league? And then 1:32:47.760 --> 1:32:50.599 going into my ninth grade year, that was my first year. 1:32:50.840 --> 1:32:53.400 I was a fresh ninth grade and you really don't 1:32:53.400 --> 1:32:56.000 see that happening in a lot of places and that 1:32:56.120 --> 1:32:58.360 kind of jectory of football. And I'm very thankful for 1:32:58.360 --> 1:33:00.160 the coach that that gave me the opportunity. 1:33:00.760 --> 1:33:03.920 Mayner isn't far from the University of Texas. I've read 1:33:04.160 --> 1:33:07.360 that the Longhorns did not recruit you. Was that the case, 1:33:07.400 --> 1:33:08.760 and if so, was it disappointing? 1:33:09.439 --> 1:33:12.000 It wasn't disappointing, But they recruited me a little bit. 1:33:12.560 --> 1:33:15.840 They kind of wanted me. It was back in twenty yeah, 1:33:15.880 --> 1:33:18.559 back in twenty twenty when it's kind of the COVID 1:33:18.560 --> 1:33:21.280 era and they had a guy, which is he's in 1:33:21.280 --> 1:33:24.360 the league actually right now, so kudos and him and 1:33:24.400 --> 1:33:26.200 things like that, but they had a guy, and I 1:33:26.200 --> 1:33:28.840 feel like text tech was the best for me, coach 1:33:28.920 --> 1:33:31.920 Matt Wells. I got recruited by him, and man, he 1:33:32.000 --> 1:33:34.439 changed my life forever. And then just the inductive of 1:33:34.520 --> 1:33:36.880 just Joey McGuire, just the things that he built there 1:33:36.960 --> 1:33:37.599 has been great. 1:33:37.640 --> 1:33:40.519 So I'm glad I'm a text take raider. 1:33:41.040 --> 1:33:44.760 You initially committed to Tulsa largely because of an assistant 1:33:44.800 --> 1:33:48.000 coach named Justin Hill, who is your running backs coach 1:33:48.120 --> 1:33:51.840 now with the Cincinnati Bengals. Described that relationship going back 1:33:51.880 --> 1:33:52.679 to the tenth grade. 1:33:53.000 --> 1:33:55.080 It was it was a great relationship. It's still great 1:33:55.080 --> 1:33:56.880 to this day. You know, the Jay Hill he does 1:33:56.880 --> 1:33:59.160 a great job with just the coach aspect and then 1:33:59.240 --> 1:34:02.360 just just being a teacher, uh, a great guy you 1:34:02.360 --> 1:34:04.080 can learn from. And then just off the field, a 1:34:04.120 --> 1:34:06.920 great uh, A great family man, a great uh somebody 1:34:06.920 --> 1:34:08.720 you wanna be like, uh when when you wanna grow 1:34:08.800 --> 1:34:10.800 up and things like that. But uh, the relationship is 1:34:10.880 --> 1:34:12.880 has been there Uh, I wanna say it, since my 1:34:12.920 --> 1:34:15.760 freshman year I committed to him and and uh that 1:34:15.800 --> 1:34:18.080 program and it was great. And then uh, he got 1:34:18.080 --> 1:34:20.360 the job here, and I knew, Uh, I knew I 1:34:20.400 --> 1:34:21.439 was kind of gonna be back. 1:34:21.640 --> 1:34:23.400 Uh, not as a Cincinnati being. 1:34:23.439 --> 1:34:24.600 I thought I know I was gonna be back in 1:34:24.640 --> 1:34:27.200 the ropes cause uh I texted him one year, I guess, Uh, 1:34:27.200 --> 1:34:29.000 I guess, congrats, I'm going to the super Bowl. And 1:34:29.040 --> 1:34:30.680 he text me back, He's like, thank you, man. So 1:34:31.080 --> 1:34:33.040 it was just a good, good seeing out of eye. 1:34:33.040 --> 1:34:35.080 And then shoot, I got blessed and I got jobbed here, 1:34:35.160 --> 1:34:35.840 So it all. 1:34:35.800 --> 1:34:37.960 Came for full like a full circle. So it's cool. 1:34:38.400 --> 1:34:41.439 We're visiting with TODJ. Brooks. You ultimately chose to play 1:34:41.439 --> 1:34:43.560 at Texas Tech. As you mentioned you're gonna be in 1:34:43.600 --> 1:34:46.599 their Hall of Fame someday you're their all time leading rusher. 1:34:46.800 --> 1:34:49.120 What did you enjoy most about your five years there? 1:34:49.640 --> 1:34:52.320 Man, It wasn't breaking the records or anything. 1:34:52.400 --> 1:34:54.400 It was just the I want to say, my teammates, 1:34:54.479 --> 1:34:56.519 the guys that I met there, the guys that I 1:34:56.560 --> 1:34:57.040 came in. 1:34:56.960 --> 1:34:58.840 With, uh we built Uh those. 1:34:58.720 --> 1:35:00.560 Are my brothers for life, and that was probably like 1:35:00.600 --> 1:35:03.840 one of the biggest things that I that I missed 1:35:03.840 --> 1:35:06.599 about college and things like that. But besides the accolades 1:35:06.640 --> 1:35:09.000 that I've broken things, but those that's probably the most 1:35:09.040 --> 1:35:09.679 important ones. 1:35:10.400 --> 1:35:13.280 In addition to your on the field success, you excelled 1:35:13.360 --> 1:35:16.040 in the classroom. You were nominated for the Campbell Award 1:35:16.120 --> 1:35:19.280 last year, which is known as the Academic Heights Been Trophy. 1:35:19.600 --> 1:35:22.480 Did your folks put a big emphasis on the classroom 1:35:22.880 --> 1:35:23.280 For sure. 1:35:23.720 --> 1:35:26.639 My mom and my dad, they pushed me academically as 1:35:26.640 --> 1:35:28.479 well as on the field. You want to be the 1:35:28.479 --> 1:35:31.360 best person in the brain before you get outside and 1:35:31.400 --> 1:35:33.360 get on the field, you know. So that's just it's 1:35:33.360 --> 1:35:35.840 been instilled to me at a young age. My Grandma's 1:35:35.840 --> 1:35:37.639 also instilled in me just you got to you gotta 1:35:37.680 --> 1:35:40.000 be a student before you be an athlete. So just 1:35:40.080 --> 1:35:42.240 learning different ways just to get better with your brain. 1:35:42.280 --> 1:35:45.000 That's just something I always honored as and you know, 1:35:45.160 --> 1:35:47.120 just want to just expand my knowledge more. 1:35:47.720 --> 1:35:49.680 The Bengals selected you in the sixth round of this 1:35:49.800 --> 1:35:53.320 year's draft. Describe that day leading up to getting the 1:35:53.320 --> 1:35:54.559 phone call from Zach Taylor. 1:35:55.080 --> 1:35:56.960 First and foremost, it was just it was a blessing 1:35:57.320 --> 1:36:00.679 I can't think enough to the man above. The Bagels 1:36:00.720 --> 1:36:03.320 got a great guy, a great a great person that's 1:36:03.320 --> 1:36:05.040 gonna come in and impact the way that he can 1:36:05.240 --> 1:36:07.000 if any opportunity that he gets. 1:36:07.320 --> 1:36:08.759 But nah, that that day was amazing. 1:36:09.040 --> 1:36:10.960 I talked to Zach, I talked to Jay Hill, and 1:36:10.960 --> 1:36:13.360 then shoot, after that, it was it was ready to work. 1:36:13.240 --> 1:36:13.400 You know. 1:36:13.479 --> 1:36:16.519 They Nothing wasn't handed, nothing wasn't given. It was just 1:36:16.560 --> 1:36:19.680 come in, learn and just be uh, whenever opportunity for 1:36:19.720 --> 1:36:22.479 this herself, be ready for the opportunity. And I can't wait. 1:36:23.439 --> 1:36:27.360 This was a crazy deep draft for running backs. I'm 1:36:27.360 --> 1:36:29.599 thinking in a normal year you would have gone several 1:36:29.720 --> 1:36:31.800 rounds earlier. How did that affect you? 1:36:32.439 --> 1:36:34.559 I really didn't. Uh, it really didn't affect me. 1:36:34.840 --> 1:36:37.719 I have I have a great team, great agent within 1:36:37.800 --> 1:36:39.240 that well and things like that. 1:36:39.320 --> 1:36:41.679 So they kept me. Uh he kept me, truly honest. 1:36:41.720 --> 1:36:43.519 He's like, man, I feel like you were one of 1:36:43.560 --> 1:36:45.559 the top backs in this class, and you know your 1:36:45.560 --> 1:36:48.000 film proves it. You can take and catch the ball 1:36:48.040 --> 1:36:50.120 great out the backfield, and you know run the ball. 1:36:50.160 --> 1:36:53.120 That's nothing, and Whitey can't question me question you about that. 1:36:53.280 --> 1:36:56.200 So man, that's just it was deep, but I feel 1:36:56.200 --> 1:36:58.320 like I separated myself just off pass protection and then 1:36:58.360 --> 1:36:58.960 catching the ball. 1:36:58.960 --> 1:37:00.679 Where we're at the field. 1:37:01.120 --> 1:37:03.880 Were the guys draft before you? Where you said yourself, Man, 1:37:03.920 --> 1:37:06.040 that guy is good, but I know I'm better than 1:37:06.040 --> 1:37:06.400 he is. 1:37:06.800 --> 1:37:08.840 For sure, you know, just the competitor in me just 1:37:08.880 --> 1:37:11.160 saying that, and then just you know, on draft day 1:37:11.160 --> 1:37:12.840 I kind of wrote and thought about every guy that 1:37:12.880 --> 1:37:15.360 went before me, so not saying when we played him, 1:37:15.400 --> 1:37:17.320 I I just wanna, you know, be the whenever I 1:37:17.320 --> 1:37:17.639 get my. 1:37:17.600 --> 1:37:19.200 Opportunity to be the best back on the field and 1:37:19.240 --> 1:37:20.840 things like that. So I just can't wait for that 1:37:20.880 --> 1:37:21.320 to happen. 1:37:21.680 --> 1:37:24.280 All right. Some wild card topics now for Bengals running 1:37:24.320 --> 1:37:27.840 back Taj Brooks. Who is your all time favorite athlete 1:37:28.600 --> 1:37:30.000 in any sport? 1:37:30.640 --> 1:37:34.479 And why I gotta be one or just one? 1:37:34.680 --> 1:37:36.000 You can pick several if you'd like. 1:37:36.080 --> 1:37:39.559 All Right, man, it's tough. I'm gonna go Kobe just 1:37:39.600 --> 1:37:43.960 because the mama mentality. I'm gonna go ray Lewis, just 1:37:44.000 --> 1:37:45.600 because a guy that's gonna come to work each and 1:37:45.600 --> 1:37:47.840 every day and give it his all, and someone that's 1:37:48.000 --> 1:37:50.439 that's gonna embrace you and you know, makes you want 1:37:50.439 --> 1:37:51.960 to do things that you want to that you don't 1:37:51.960 --> 1:37:52.880 want to do, but you're doing. 1:37:53.520 --> 1:37:54.840 And then my last. 1:37:54.600 --> 1:37:59.320 One is probably Barry Sanders, just a guy that's just 1:38:00.160 --> 1:38:02.840 very consistent as being playing a running back, being at 1:38:02.840 --> 1:38:05.240 the plane at the highest level and doing the great 1:38:05.240 --> 1:38:07.040 things that he did in the NFL. Man, it's just 1:38:07.120 --> 1:38:09.120 you always want to put yourself in that role and 1:38:09.200 --> 1:38:11.400 just want to see yourself doing those great things that 1:38:11.439 --> 1:38:11.800 he did. 1:38:12.040 --> 1:38:15.280 So Barry Sanders was before your time. Have you watched 1:38:15.280 --> 1:38:16.639 a lot of the clips on YouTube? 1:38:16.720 --> 1:38:16.840 Oh? 1:38:16.920 --> 1:38:19.920 For sure, I watch him. Then you know the Madden 1:38:19.960 --> 1:38:21.599 You know, I play Madden a lot, so I'm always 1:38:21.640 --> 1:38:25.639 using him. Walter Payton, you know, just Marshall falk Man, 1:38:25.680 --> 1:38:27.080 you can go a list goes down. 1:38:27.160 --> 1:38:27.320 Man. 1:38:27.400 --> 1:38:29.559 What I kind of watch those guys on YouTube and 1:38:29.640 --> 1:38:31.599 just you know, going what they did in the NFL 1:38:31.600 --> 1:38:33.759 and just try to see how my game can imprint 1:38:33.800 --> 1:38:35.400 and how I can take things from their game. 1:38:35.560 --> 1:38:38.120 So we're visiting the taj Brooks. For the last three years, 1:38:38.120 --> 1:38:41.120 you put on a free football clinic back home for kids. 1:38:41.120 --> 1:38:44.160 More than three hundred attended this past year. Why do 1:38:44.240 --> 1:38:44.680 you do that? 1:38:45.160 --> 1:38:48.000 I do it just it's a blessing first and foremost 1:38:48.000 --> 1:38:50.200 for the kids, and you know, just so it's been, 1:38:50.200 --> 1:38:52.559 it's free. It's something that I love, you know, giving 1:38:52.600 --> 1:38:54.760 back to my community, giving back to where I came from. 1:38:54.800 --> 1:38:56.519 And you know, you always want to get back to 1:38:56.520 --> 1:38:59.080 your hometown because they're going to support you no matter what, 1:38:59.240 --> 1:39:01.640 no matter if you're in no matter if you're you know, 1:39:01.640 --> 1:39:03.479 a college coach some day, and no matter whatever you're doing, 1:39:03.479 --> 1:39:05.439 they're gonna always support you. And I always want to 1:39:05.439 --> 1:39:07.559 give my support back to to my high schools and 1:39:07.600 --> 1:39:08.120 things like that. 1:39:08.920 --> 1:39:11.000 We know you're a good running back, we know you're 1:39:11.000 --> 1:39:14.080 a good student. You rode horses as a kid. But 1:39:14.120 --> 1:39:15.840 where do you allow to at? 1:39:16.160 --> 1:39:16.360 Uh? 1:39:16.439 --> 1:39:19.080 To be honest, I'm not a good singer. I will 1:39:19.120 --> 1:39:20.320 not I sing. 1:39:20.479 --> 1:39:23.080 I sing to myself sometimes, but it's just myself and 1:39:23.160 --> 1:39:24.160 probably my girlfriend. 1:39:24.200 --> 1:39:27.000 But besides that, I'm not a great singer at all. 1:39:27.040 --> 1:39:27.960 That's probably the one. 1:39:28.600 --> 1:39:31.280 What do you like to splur? John Man? 1:39:31.800 --> 1:39:34.519 I don't know because I haven't. Man, I'm not I'm 1:39:34.560 --> 1:39:36.400 a big I'm not a big spender. It's just it 1:39:36.439 --> 1:39:40.519 depends like I kind of left my big spending probably 1:39:40.560 --> 1:39:43.439 in my college days, but now it's just more of 1:39:43.600 --> 1:39:46.360 just I don't know, man, it's I don't really splares 1:39:46.400 --> 1:39:49.880 a lot. Second contract, probably buy a home back home, 1:39:50.200 --> 1:39:52.120 you know, buy a home, get something set up off 1:39:52.120 --> 1:39:54.880 of the off season, and you know, get something going 1:39:54.920 --> 1:39:56.040 with the off season, things like that. 1:39:56.120 --> 1:39:57.519 So just buy a home and things like that. 1:39:57.760 --> 1:40:00.400 All right. Final fun fact for Taj Brooks. This one's 1:40:00.400 --> 1:40:04.479 a little bit deep. If you could meet anybody in history, 1:40:05.080 --> 1:40:07.880 living or deceased, who would that person be? 1:40:08.840 --> 1:40:11.639 I want to say one is Nipsey Hustle. Nipsey Hustle, 1:40:11.640 --> 1:40:13.800 excuse me, just the way how powerful he is with 1:40:13.880 --> 1:40:16.240 his voice and the way he carried on his life 1:40:16.240 --> 1:40:22.559 and his legacy. And then two probably my brother Charlie Man. 1:40:22.840 --> 1:40:24.679 Just to talk to him, see how he doing up there. 1:40:25.000 --> 1:40:28.280 He passed away in twenty nineteen during a gun violence accident, 1:40:28.840 --> 1:40:30.920 So just meet him and just top it up with him. 1:40:30.960 --> 1:40:33.360 That would probably be my two. Like most coming back 1:40:33.400 --> 1:40:35.040 and just topping it up, So that probably be my 1:40:35.439 --> 1:40:36.120 things right there. 1:40:36.479 --> 1:40:38.320 Taj, appreciate your time, best off like the rest of 1:40:38.320 --> 1:40:38.599 the year. 1:40:38.680 --> 1:40:40.880 Yes, sorry, thank you, Taj Brooks. This week in the 1:40:40.880 --> 1:40:44.960 Spotlight for fantastic fun facts. More of that with the 1:40:45.200 --> 1:40:48.439 Bengals Booth Podcast. Check it out where you get your podcast. 1:40:48.439 --> 1:40:49.920 And you know, we were talking earlier about the final 1:40:49.960 --> 1:40:53.320 three games and opportunities. Taj Brooks had four kick returns yesterday. 1:40:53.400 --> 1:40:56.040 We don't we hope Samaj p Ryan's okay this week 1:40:56.400 --> 1:40:59.559 after he was dinged up. But any opportunity for somebody 1:40:59.600 --> 1:41:01.600 like a time Brooks, whether it's kick returns or a 1:41:01.600 --> 1:41:04.360 couple of carries, that's important for him over the final 1:41:04.400 --> 1:41:05.320 three games of the season. 1:41:05.400 --> 1:41:08.280 It is it is. You know, you're there's always a 1:41:08.400 --> 1:41:11.479 valuation going on, you know, and in position coaches are 1:41:11.800 --> 1:41:14.679 taking a look at their players and okay, are they 1:41:14.720 --> 1:41:18.600 are they? Is there a play worthy of getting more opportunity? 1:41:18.880 --> 1:41:20.200 Should we give them more snaps? 1:41:20.200 --> 1:41:20.320 Now? 1:41:20.320 --> 1:41:23.040 They are only three games left. But if if he 1:41:23.120 --> 1:41:25.559 were to say, you know, uh, light it up against 1:41:25.600 --> 1:41:29.679 the Miami Dolphins and give him more opportunity, see see 1:41:29.720 --> 1:41:32.559 what he does. See see how he he handles maybe 1:41:32.600 --> 1:41:36.080 a little bit more burden of responsibility against Arizona and Cleveland, 1:41:36.120 --> 1:41:37.800 to see how he responds. 1:41:37.840 --> 1:41:40.960 Still ahead, those Miami Dolphins will put them in the 1:41:41.000 --> 1:41:43.920 spotlight as we head down the stretch. Bengals Line, Bengals 1:41:44.080 --> 1:41:55.760 Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. We continue on in 1:41:55.840 --> 1:41:59.320 this Monday Night Bengals Line. Bengals Radio Network and seven 1:41:59.400 --> 1:42:03.559 hundred w W. I am Lance McCalister. He is Dave Lapham. 1:42:03.720 --> 1:42:05.960 Yes, Sir Lance in pay Corp is proud to be 1:42:06.040 --> 1:42:09.759 the official HR software provider of the Cincinnati Bengals. 1:42:09.840 --> 1:42:12.880 Next up, those Miami Dolphins. They are six and seven. 1:42:12.920 --> 1:42:16.200 They're still in playoff contention. They are in action tonight 1:42:16.400 --> 1:42:19.559 against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Monday Night Football. So a 1:42:19.560 --> 1:42:21.679 short week for them in the turnaround against the Bengals. 1:42:21.680 --> 1:42:25.880 But the Dolphins are clinging to playoff hopes, desperate playoff hopes. 1:42:25.880 --> 1:42:29.320 They've won four straight. Their season had gotten sideways, but 1:42:29.320 --> 1:42:32.759 then they reeled off a win over Buffalo thirty to thirteen. 1:42:32.800 --> 1:42:35.599 They beat the Commander sixteen thirteen, They beat the Saints 1:42:35.600 --> 1:42:38.439 twenty one seventeen, and they beat up the Jets last 1:42:38.439 --> 1:42:42.000 week thirty four to ten. So four straight. They're playing football, 1:42:42.040 --> 1:42:45.760 and they're playing good football, and they're in desperation mode 1:42:45.840 --> 1:42:46.240 right now. 1:42:46.800 --> 1:42:50.040 Tell you the turnaround game thirty thirteen over Buffalo. We 1:42:50.120 --> 1:42:53.200 know how good Buffalo can play. I mean Buffalo came 1:42:53.640 --> 1:42:57.639 in and I mean spanked us, really really did a number, 1:42:57.680 --> 1:42:59.680 did a job. That's a good football team. They have 1:42:59.680 --> 1:43:02.000 a hell a quarterback. They've got a lot of good 1:43:02.000 --> 1:43:05.720 football players in that organization. There's no question about it. 1:43:05.880 --> 1:43:09.000 So you know, don't fall don't sleep on the Miami Dolphins. 1:43:09.000 --> 1:43:11.720 The Miami Dolphins are capable of putting together, you know, 1:43:11.800 --> 1:43:16.120 a game that like where did that come from? McDaniel 1:43:16.120 --> 1:43:18.519 has done a great job because you know, other than 1:43:18.520 --> 1:43:20.040 two of they don't have a whole lot of names. 1:43:20.040 --> 1:43:22.519 It's like, oh yeah, that guy, that guy, Oh wow. 1:43:22.800 --> 1:43:25.599 I mean, they've got a lot of good, solid football 1:43:25.640 --> 1:43:30.040 players that understand what what McDaniel wants to do and 1:43:30.080 --> 1:43:33.240 how he wants to get it done. And he's he's 1:43:33.240 --> 1:43:36.439 stocked him himself in the organization in that regard, and 1:43:36.640 --> 1:43:37.680 they're playing well for him. 1:43:37.760 --> 1:43:40.360 Yeah, and you better better tackle well eight chan they're 1:43:40.400 --> 1:43:42.800 they're running back is rushed for over eleven hundred yards, 1:43:42.800 --> 1:43:46.080 he's averaging almost five point eight yards of carry's got 1:43:46.120 --> 1:43:50.120 seven touchdowns, so he'll be something on the ground. And yeah, 1:43:50.120 --> 1:43:53.320 they're they're they're getting right at the right time. And again, 1:43:53.439 --> 1:43:57.280 desperation drives a football team and they're certainly trying to okay, 1:43:57.280 --> 1:43:59.320 and the weather will be you mentioned the weather earlier. 1:43:59.360 --> 1:44:02.880 I looked at up up Uh, Saturday, the high is 1:44:02.920 --> 1:44:05.240 going to be in the neighborhood of eighty one degrees, 1:44:05.439 --> 1:44:08.519 maybe some early showers, but we're gonna go from ten 1:44:08.560 --> 1:44:12.879 degrees yesterday to perhaps high seventies into the low eighties 1:44:13.200 --> 1:44:15.480 on Sunday in Miami. Quite a contrast. 1:44:15.520 --> 1:44:19.680 Yeah, quite, that's dramatic, man, it really is. I mean 1:44:19.720 --> 1:44:23.760 that you go from bone chilling cold to like, hey, 1:44:24.160 --> 1:44:26.759 it's gonna be sweating freely. Man, there's no question. 1:44:27.439 --> 1:44:29.120 Uh, you know what, you know what I just thought 1:44:29.200 --> 1:44:32.160 of because everything goes back to the Freezer Bowl. It 1:44:32.200 --> 1:44:34.080 makes me think of when you guys played the Chargers 1:44:34.080 --> 1:44:36.599 in the Freezer Bowl the week before they had beaten, 1:44:36.640 --> 1:44:39.080 of all things, Miami and the and that the game 1:44:39.120 --> 1:44:41.599 where Kellen Winslow is held off the field and he's 1:44:41.680 --> 1:44:44.240 dehydrated and was so hot, and then the next week 1:44:44.280 --> 1:44:46.800 goes welcome to the Freezer Bowl and Cincinnati. 1:44:46.960 --> 1:44:51.280 Yeah really, and uh, I guess I guess, Ah, maybe 1:44:51.280 --> 1:44:55.599 a gauge for how how different those weather conditions were. 1:44:55.840 --> 1:44:59.439 The Gatorade, the gatorade in Cincinnati was frozen. The gateor 1:44:59.479 --> 1:45:02.120 raade down down there in Miami was a little bit 1:45:02.160 --> 1:45:04.439 warm as you kind of swashed it around your mouth. 1:45:05.800 --> 1:45:09.160 Beautiful. I before coming in, I happened to look it 1:45:09.240 --> 1:45:12.719 up and Bengals and Dolphins, And of course you played 1:45:12.760 --> 1:45:14.479 the Dolphins a number of times and played in the 1:45:14.479 --> 1:45:18.080 Orange Bowl. And I'm thinking of in your first year 1:45:18.120 --> 1:45:20.160 you had a Monday nighter there. But the coaches on 1:45:20.200 --> 1:45:23.679 the sidelines. Just to think Don Shula and Paul Brown 1:45:23.760 --> 1:45:27.599 really on the same field across from each other, that's 1:45:27.680 --> 1:45:30.639 just iconic, Iman, that's football big time. 1:45:30.720 --> 1:45:33.880 Oh and remember Don Shula played for Paul Brown with 1:45:33.960 --> 1:45:37.439 the Cleveland Brown He played in the secondary and Don 1:45:37.479 --> 1:45:41.880 Shula was a Paul Brown said, a very very intelligent 1:45:41.920 --> 1:45:44.519 football player. Boy, that's a shock, you know, a guy 1:45:44.560 --> 1:45:47.720 that ends up going into coaching and accumulates all the 1:45:47.760 --> 1:45:50.439 wins that Don Shula accumulated. Man, there's no doubt that 1:45:50.479 --> 1:45:52.280 he was a smart football player as a player. 1:45:52.479 --> 1:45:55.120 Man. And I looked up and I'm sure these names 1:45:55.160 --> 1:45:58.839 will ring a bell in your days of playing the Dolphins. 1:45:59.320 --> 1:46:04.400 A Verned, Yes, Bona Khani, Bob Bombhauer and aj Dewey. 1:46:04.600 --> 1:46:06.400 Guys like that. Oh, those are some names. 1:46:06.439 --> 1:46:09.320 Some names big time, no doubt. Aj Dewey out of it, 1:46:09.600 --> 1:46:13.920 out of LSU, Bob Bombhouer, Yeah, that that Kim Bokamper 1:46:14.800 --> 1:46:20.280 memories man boy. Yes. And Nick Bonakhani that little sucker. Man, 1:46:20.320 --> 1:46:23.000 I'm telling you he was like five eleven and you 1:46:23.040 --> 1:46:25.240 couldn't get under his pads. I mean that sucker would 1:46:25.800 --> 1:46:28.040 we would bring it went to Notre Dame and uh, 1:46:28.280 --> 1:46:32.960 you know I hate Notre Dame, but Bonakhani was. He 1:46:33.120 --> 1:46:34.960 was a heck of a football player. There's no doubt. 1:46:35.479 --> 1:46:37.760 We'll head down the stretch, put the raps on it, 1:46:37.960 --> 1:46:40.519 and uh send you on your way. It's Bengals On 1:46:40.640 --> 1:46:43.560 on the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred W l W. 1:46:47.160 --> 1:46:49.200 All right, here we go. Let's put the raps on it. 1:46:49.360 --> 1:46:53.920 Final segment tonight of Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network. 1:46:53.680 --> 1:46:56.120 And Bengals fans make sure to catch me and Dan 1:46:56.200 --> 1:46:59.799 Horde every Wednesday this season for Bengals Game Plan presented 1:46:59.800 --> 1:47:02.040 by Bud Light on the air from six to eight 1:47:02.120 --> 1:47:04.559 pm on ESPN fifteen thirty. 1:47:04.680 --> 1:47:06.639 By the way, along those lines, and I just thought 1:47:06.680 --> 1:47:09.080 of it now, I can't remember where I've heard him. 1:47:09.120 --> 1:47:11.640 You've had Sam Hubbard, And you're having Sam Hubbard this 1:47:11.760 --> 1:47:15.519 week again since your Wednesday Friday show Friday, somebody shows Friday. 1:47:15.600 --> 1:47:17.479 How cool was it to catch up with Sam Hubbard? 1:47:17.960 --> 1:47:18.360 Very cool? 1:47:18.479 --> 1:47:23.439 I mean he is uh, he is mister Ohio football, 1:47:23.960 --> 1:47:27.960 Moeler High School, Ohio State, Cincinnati Bengals. I mean, he 1:47:28.120 --> 1:47:32.000 is the Cincinnati kid, you know, the the rumble fumble 1:47:32.040 --> 1:47:34.320 I should say, in the Jungle, a moment where he goes, 1:47:34.400 --> 1:47:37.040 you know, coast to coast plus one hundred and two yards, 1:47:37.439 --> 1:47:41.400 incredible moment. And the thing I really respect about Sam 1:47:41.479 --> 1:47:44.519 Hubbard is he is He's as humble as humble can be. Man, 1:47:44.840 --> 1:47:47.400 humble pie all the way, you know, and he just 1:47:49.439 --> 1:47:53.680 and he he's very very thoughtful, introspective. You ask him 1:47:53.680 --> 1:47:58.080 a question and you can see, you know, he registers 1:47:58.120 --> 1:48:01.880 to question registers, He thinks about it before saying anything. 1:48:01.920 --> 1:48:03.400 He doesn't want to put his foot in his mouth. 1:48:03.960 --> 1:48:08.439 He is Uh, he's great. He has been an unbelievable 1:48:09.200 --> 1:48:11.240 symbol of greatness for the Bengals organization. 1:48:11.439 --> 1:48:14.559 Yeah, and I wonder, I don't know, maybe he doesn't 1:48:14.600 --> 1:48:16.240 know what he's going to do next, but he's one 1:48:16.280 --> 1:48:19.760 of those guys. Whatever he does he will be successful. 1:48:19.280 --> 1:48:22.800 At Absolutely, he's got a foundation that's that's killing it, 1:48:23.680 --> 1:48:26.160 and it's it's helping kids that are hungry, you know, 1:48:26.280 --> 1:48:29.200 and don't have can't get enough food, they can't get 1:48:29.240 --> 1:48:32.240 three square meals at home. So he's helping the community 1:48:32.320 --> 1:48:35.439 in that regard. And uh, that's that's part of his uh, 1:48:35.760 --> 1:48:37.679 you know, the golden rule, that's part of his upbringing 1:48:37.960 --> 1:48:39.439 is help others that need help. 1:48:39.479 --> 1:48:42.240 Man, no doubt, no doubt. All right, we have put 1:48:42.320 --> 1:48:45.120 this one in the books, thankfully in many aspects because 1:48:45.120 --> 1:48:48.240 that was difficult to watch at times. Yesterday was really 1:48:48.280 --> 1:48:50.599 frustrating to watch yesterday. But the beauty of the NFL 1:48:50.720 --> 1:48:53.280 is there's next week, there's the Miami Dolphins. Let's gather 1:48:53.400 --> 1:48:55.720 here on Monday night and talk about, uh, the the 1:48:55.880 --> 1:48:57.960 bounce back of Joe Burrow and the Bengals. Does that 1:48:58.040 --> 1:48:59.439 sound like a play on Dave Lapham. 1:48:59.600 --> 1:49:02.839 Sounds like a huge plan, a big game for Joe Burrow. 1:49:03.000 --> 1:49:04.520 Intua will struggle. 1:49:04.920 --> 1:49:07.599 Thanks for hanging out with us tonight. This has been 1:49:07.680 --> 1:49:12.120 Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio network. In seven hundred WLW. 1:49:13.000 --> 1:49:16.719 This was Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio network. 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