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Speaker 2: We're gonna sort through what transpired yesterday at pay Corps.
Speaker 2: We're gonna look ahead to what could transpire this coming
Speaker 2: Sunday against the Miami Dolphins. I'm Lance, Butacallister. He is
Speaker 2: Dave Lapham, and boy, Dave, had you told me at
Speaker 2: the start of the day, with the Bengals at home
Speaker 2: and playing for their collective playoff lives, had you said
Speaker 2: they'll lose this game, I would have thought, okay, man,
Speaker 2: that would be tough. But it's gonna be hard fought.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be back and forth, there might be some
Speaker 2: points score. There's gonna be dynamic quarterback play. I would
Speaker 2: have said I could see that. Had you told me,
Speaker 2: they won't score and they'll lose twenty four to nothing.
Speaker 2: I would have said, wait a minute, time out. That
Speaker 2: can't possibly happen. And unfortunately it did. Yeah, unfortunately it did.
Speaker 2: I mean uh to uh to pitch a shutout. I mean,
Speaker 2: Baltimore is capable of that. That defensive football teams a
Speaker 2: good when we know that Harbaugh, you know, has has
Speaker 2: made his living as a defensive minded head coach. And uh,
Speaker 2: you know, they they play hard, they believe in the scheme,
Speaker 2: they believe in the system, they play with a lot
Speaker 2: of pride. The Bengals couldn't get anything done. I mean
Speaker 2: there was no consistency, no continuity to what they were
Speaker 2: they were doing. Every once in a while, there'd be
Speaker 2: a big play, uh, but that would go away quickly.
Speaker 2: The effect that that big play would go away quickly,
Speaker 2: and Baltimore would just bowl their necks and bow their
Speaker 2: backs and not allow the Cincinnati Bengals to get another inch. David,
Speaker 2: it is stunning to look at. I'm a big numbers guy,
Speaker 2: and then numbers sometimes mean something and numbers sometimes mean nothing.
Speaker 2: And then there's some numbers that make no sense. And if
Speaker 2: you're loyal, if you hadn't watched the game, and you said,
Speaker 2: wait a minute, the Bengals had the ball for thirty
Speaker 2: nine minutes, Yeah, almost forty minutes to the Ravens twenty.
Speaker 2: The Bengals ran seventy one plays to the Ravens forty,
Speaker 2: and yet the Ravens out gained the Bengals by nineteen
Speaker 2: I mean, think about that. One team had the ball
Speaker 2: for twenty fewer minutes and ran thirty one fewer plays
Speaker 2: and out gained the other team by nineteen yards. That's
Speaker 2: almost impossible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it really is. I mean if the numbers just
Speaker 3: don't add up, it's like, wait a minute, man, that's
Speaker 3: a brain cramp they're waiting to happen. You know. It's
Speaker 3: just the factor that needs to be considered. There is
Speaker 3: field position, you know, average drive start. Where did the
Speaker 3: Baltimore Ravens start their first first and ten, you know,
Speaker 3: and that's where they crossed the Bengals. Really, I mean,
Speaker 3: they took their soul away on those they had the ball.
Speaker 3: Their field position advantage was maybe as as significantly positive
Speaker 3: to their side of things as I've seen in a
Speaker 3: long time in the National Football League. I Mean, it
Speaker 3: was crazy the way that thing unfolded. And you know
Speaker 3: at that at that point, you know your defense has
Speaker 3: already have their backs up against the wall. It's like,
Speaker 3: if they allow one first down, you're in field goal range,
Speaker 3: you know. And and and that's that's a bad place
Speaker 3: to be. That's a tough place to be. And and
Speaker 3: the Cincinnati Bengals could never get out of that. They
Speaker 3: could never flip it, you know, flip the switch, flip
Speaker 3: the coin, so to speak, and put the Ravens on
Speaker 3: a long field. They had long field after long field.
Speaker 3: The Ravens had short field after short field. I think
Speaker 3: that was the biggest difference in the game.
Speaker 2: And a real kicker and again filed under hard to fathom.
Speaker 2: When the Bengals did get into the Ravens territory, they
Speaker 2: got it into the Ravens side of the field five
Speaker 2: different times and got i mean obviously zero points out
Speaker 2: of it. But they get it to the forty and
Speaker 2: half to punt, They get it to the twenty nine
Speaker 2: and throw the interception. They get it to the thirty
Speaker 2: and they turn it over on downs. They get it
Speaker 2: to the seven Joe throws to pick six. They get
Speaker 2: it to the twenty seven and they get stopped on
Speaker 2: fourth and one. I mean, the odds if you turn
Speaker 2: to Vegas and said, all right, what are the odds
Speaker 2: this Bengals offense, We'll get into Ravens territory five different
Speaker 2: times and not score a single point. I don't know
Speaker 2: even how you calculate the odds, because that would be
Speaker 2: seemingly be impossible, right right.
Speaker 3: I mean, fourth down stops and turnovers were huge. You know,
Speaker 3: that's the reason that Baltimore was able to pitch the shutout.
Speaker 3: Really they basically, in my mind, fourth down takeaways on
Speaker 3: downs are pretty much equivalent to turnovers. You know, you
Speaker 3: don't have an opportunity to even try a field goal
Speaker 3: and score points and you're certainly not going to put
Speaker 3: it in the end zone. So you know, the multiple
Speaker 3: possessions where that was the case for the Cincinnati Bengals,
Speaker 3: way too many possessions in one game. That's for damsure.
Speaker 3: I mean, they had enough turnover taken away eight points
Speaker 3: and allowing a pick six and fourth down stops ate
Speaker 3: enough of those for an entire season, at least two
Speaker 3: thirds of the season anyway, and they had it all
Speaker 3: in one football game. And when you add all that up,
Speaker 3: it's just a recipe for Disaster.
Speaker 2: Boy and one drive that really jumped out to me, Dave.
Speaker 2: And it's seventeen to nothing, and so this is still
Speaker 2: certainly the game is in play, you're not out of it,
Speaker 2: and it's seventeen to nothing. The Bengals went on a
Speaker 2: sixteen play trucks crauized eighty five yards and consumed eight
Speaker 2: minutes on the clock. And again, if you're not watching
Speaker 2: the game, you think, wow, sixteen play drive. But as
Speaker 2: you were watching it, you're thinking, wait a minute, they
Speaker 2: need to score multiple times here, and they're taking sixteen
Speaker 2: plays in the time off the clock. And I'm watching
Speaker 2: from one step to the next, and they're in the huddle,
Speaker 2: and I'm thinking, it almost felt like it's seventeen to nothing.
Speaker 2: It's silly to think they just wanted to get the
Speaker 2: game over. But I don't know how you go on
Speaker 2: a sixteen play drive and take eight minutes when you
Speaker 2: need to score multiple times.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and there's not much time left in the football game,
Speaker 3: you know, And yeah, the clock management was curious. Make
Speaker 3: you scratch your head, that's for sure. I don't know
Speaker 3: what Zach was thinking in those situations. Only he can
Speaker 3: answer that question. But yeah, and again field is a factor.
Speaker 3: I mean, when you go on an eighteen play drive,
Speaker 3: you haven't put it in the end zone. You start
Speaker 3: your after your drive. Start was way back there, man,
Speaker 3: I mean you were back at your ten yard line,
Speaker 3: inside your ten yard line. You had a long way
Speaker 3: to go, You at a long distance drive coming up,
Speaker 3: and you just could not quite finish it. That was
Speaker 3: the story of the game. The Cincinnati Bengals just came
Speaker 3: up short in terms of finishing, you know, at inconsistency
Speaker 3: of play and lack of finishing. I think of the
Speaker 3: two big headlines for this football game.
Speaker 2: Let's get immediate reaction after the game inside the locker room.
Speaker 2: Here's Dave with the coach Zach Taylor.
Speaker 4: We had a great play on defense, they gave us
Speaker 4: an opportunity early in the game. And on dolphins. Obviously
Speaker 4: we had the two that that really hurt us.
Speaker 3: Third down another another key, another T. The three t's
Speaker 3: that I had for the game, we're touchdowns, turnovers and
Speaker 3: takeaways and third down. Third down didn't go very well.
Speaker 3: Had some fourth downs that you had to try to convert.
Speaker 3: I mean did okay, but not you know, you were
Speaker 3: putting too many fourth down situations. Talk about the problems
Speaker 3: that you faced on third down.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought early we were good. You know, early
Speaker 4: we put uff in a good spot and drove the
Speaker 4: ball on the field and obviously didn't finish. You know,
Speaker 4: on one we had a turnover that took points off
Speaker 4: the board. Another one we had a sack that that
Speaker 4: took out a field goal range. And so first half
Speaker 4: it was frustrating. We felt like there was opportunity for
Speaker 4: points there and we came away with nothing a halftime
Speaker 4: and obviously finished the game the same way.
Speaker 3: You were going to go from this football game to Miami.
Speaker 3: I don't know how many degrees and just plan that's
Speaker 3: going to be, but it's going to be. It's going
Speaker 3: to be crazy. I know you don't necessarily want to
Speaker 3: talk about the Miami Dolphins. You haven't had time to
Speaker 3: digest the Miami Dolphins, to look at the Miami Dolphins much,
Speaker 3: that's for sure. But I guess what do you think?
Speaker 3: What are the weapons? What makes the Miami Dolphins a
Speaker 3: solid football team?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I just know from what I've I am watching them
Speaker 4: a long time. We'll find out. I know that they're
Speaker 4: always a fast team and they've got a good quarterback
Speaker 4: that gets out quick.
Speaker 3: So your division record, if you'd won out would have
Speaker 3: been five and one, now can be four and two.
Speaker 3: Still pretty solid, still something to be proud of. A
Speaker 3: foreign two record in the division, and still it could
Speaker 3: give you an eight and nine record, So obviously there's
Speaker 3: a lot to play for.
Speaker 5: We just got to win.
Speaker 4: You know, We're gonna come in the building every day
Speaker 4: and focus on finding a win in Miami, finding a
Speaker 4: win after that. It's been disappointing that this is where
Speaker 4: we're at right now. We're all accountable for that, and
Speaker 4: that's obviously a disappointing day. But tomorrow we're gonna have
Speaker 4: to pick ourselves up and find a way to go
Speaker 4: find a win, get some momentum.
Speaker 3: That's what you're talking about there. One win at a time,
Speaker 3: Paul Brown, my first head coach in the National Football League.
Speaker 3: That's what you said. Man, you can't get a hit
Speaker 3: yourself here, no matter what the situation. You got to
Speaker 3: approach it one week at a time. You got to
Speaker 3: try to accumulate one victory at a time. And that's
Speaker 3: where you find yourself right now, isn't it.
Speaker 4: That's well, that's all we can do is takeing one
Speaker 4: game at a time and make the corrections from this
Speaker 4: one and move on to the next one.
Speaker 5: Took as possible.
Speaker 3: Coach, appreciate your time. You don't have to do this.
Speaker 3: I know that sometimes it's difficult to do this. I
Speaker 3: know a lot of times it's very difficult to do this.
Speaker 3: But you're a class act and we appreciate your carbon
Speaker 3: time for us.
Speaker 2: You got it, Zach Taylor. After the game, sum it up.
Speaker 2: We'll take our first time out and continue. You hear
Speaker 2: from QB one Joe Burrow on a rough day all
Speaker 2: around as we navigate through the first of three hours
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Speaker 2: heard from Zach. Let's hear from Joe Burrow. You're at
Speaker 2: a second. He goes twenty five of thirty nine, two
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty five yards, sack three times, two interceptions.
Speaker 2: Fifty eight point two was his rating. Here's Joe after
Speaker 2: the game.
Speaker 6: You go back to Wednesday, there was a lot made
Speaker 6: of your moment if you're having fun or not in Cincinnati,
Speaker 6: so just still let you address it. Are you still
Speaker 6: enjoying playing.
Speaker 7: For the Bengals?
Speaker 6: And what did you make of kind of what happened
Speaker 6: in your comments on Wednesday?
Speaker 8: My comments had nothing to do with Cincinnati. My comments
Speaker 8: had everything to do with me and my mindset in football.
Speaker 9: Do you think that your mindset this week in fact
Speaker 9: in your play today or was it just your player today?
Speaker 6: Three years now of missing the playoffs, typically that results
Speaker 6: in change for most NFL organizations. Do you still have
Speaker 6: confidence in the people in the front office and the
Speaker 6: coaching staff that they can get this roster in a
Speaker 6: place and this team in a place where that wouldn't
Speaker 6: happen next year?
Speaker 7: A lot of confidence because I know how hard people
Speaker 7: work at it.
Speaker 8: We got the right people, uh starts, the players playing better,
Speaker 8: and today was me from the outside.
Speaker 10: Are gonna just say that the organization top to bottom
Speaker 10: front the office doesn't have enough people or the right
Speaker 10: people in place. You honestly feel that they do and why.
Speaker 7: This is a team effort.
Speaker 8: You know, at the end of the day, players got
Speaker 8: to play better on the field.
Speaker 7: Today was me, I gotta be better? What do you
Speaker 7: feel like you could have know better today everything.
Speaker 11: Why was Why was it.
Speaker 3: So tough on there?
Speaker 9: What they made such challenge?
Speaker 7: They're getting good pressure, but you know, some.
Speaker 8: Uncharacter uncharacteristic mental mistakes on my end and some unforced errors.
Speaker 2: Touch on the mindset.
Speaker 12: Do you think those things could be inter twined at all?
Speaker 12: Is to maybe why you didn't go the way you
Speaker 12: wanted to early on? Can you take us through? You
Speaker 12: had a throw to Jamar, it was right for the interception, throw.
Speaker 9: To Jamar in the end zone. The interception where it
Speaker 9: was just those two, those two players just felt.
Speaker 2: Like you gott.
Speaker 8: Yeah the go I felt good about where I put it.
Speaker 8: He got tugged a little bit. You Now, sometimes you
Speaker 8: get those calls, sometimes you don't. But I felt good
Speaker 8: about where I put down one. And then yeah, obviously
Speaker 8: the interception was was a bit high.
Speaker 12: What would you think as you go back on the
Speaker 12: field for the last time, the conditions, you probably would
Speaker 12: not have what was run through your mind as you
Speaker 12: go back.
Speaker 7: After the pick six. I mean, at that point it
Speaker 7: was over, So just protect yourself.
Speaker 4: Joe, out of playoff contention, do you want to play
Speaker 4: the last three games personally?
Speaker 2: I do Joe Burrow after the game and Dave clearly
Speaker 2: he was as hard on himself as you've ever heard
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow. It was a rough day all around for everybody.
Speaker 2: It was a really rough day for Joe, and he
Speaker 2: did not hold back. I love what he said. You know,
Speaker 2: you're you're you're not gonna win NFL games when your
Speaker 2: quarterback plays like I did today. I want everything on
Speaker 2: my plate. That's the position I want to be in.
Speaker 2: And it just it. It wasn't his day, It wasn't
Speaker 2: everybody's day yesterday, but that's certainly far from a typical
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow afternoon.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and uh, you know he uh in in typical
Speaker 3: Joe Burrow fashion, the leader that he is, he said,
Speaker 3: put it on my shoulders. It's all on me, you know.
Speaker 3: I just I did not perform the way that I'm
Speaker 3: capable of performing. And talk to him in the in
Speaker 3: the locker room after the game, not on not taping him,
Speaker 3: but just conversing a little bit, and he was very,
Speaker 3: very disappointed. He was down about his performance, and you know,
Speaker 3: and deservedly so, rightfully so. But I do think one
Speaker 3: thing about Joe Burrow is he does bounce back quickly,
Speaker 3: and I think he will compartmentalize. Now, he'll learn, he'll
Speaker 3: learn from this. There's a lot to learn. There are
Speaker 3: lessons to learn for everybody that played in this football game.
Speaker 3: Everybody the participate paid it in this debacle. You know,
Speaker 3: you get shut out in the National Football League. Offensively,
Speaker 3: a lot of lessons to learn there, and there's no
Speaker 3: doubt defensively as well. You know, when your offense is struggling,
Speaker 3: you have to pick them up. You know, it's a
Speaker 3: it's basically it's a team game, and you have to
Speaker 3: when one when one side is struggling, one phase is struggling,
Speaker 3: the other one has to lift and raise the boat,
Speaker 3: so to speak. So that's the that's the biggest lesson
Speaker 3: I think learned in this football game. And it's not
Speaker 3: gonna be easy going to Miami, and can tell you that.
Speaker 3: You know there's gonna be a huge temperature swing, there's
Speaker 3: no question, and humidity could be a big issue down
Speaker 3: there as well. So guys better eat right, they better
Speaker 3: get their rest, better take care of their bodies because
Speaker 3: that trip to Miami is no joke.
Speaker 2: First time in Joe's NFL career he's been involved in
Speaker 2: a shutout, the first Bengals home shutout since the opener
Speaker 2: of twenty seventeen, first time Joe's played in a game
Speaker 2: his team was shut out since twenty eighteen at LSU
Speaker 2: against Alabama when Bama was was number one in the country.
Speaker 2: And it also sticks out that his teammates said that
Speaker 2: Joe addressed the team after the game. They didn't go
Speaker 2: into details on what he said, but another thing that
Speaker 2: you look for in a franchise quarterback and your leader,
Speaker 2: gathering guys and speaking, and it is he put it
Speaker 2: on him. But I'm sure the message was to the
Speaker 2: group that we all need to do more. This is
Speaker 2: not acceptable right now exactly.
Speaker 3: I think that you're hitting it right on the head.
Speaker 3: And the great quarterbacks, the great leaders that the Cincinnati
Speaker 3: Bengals have had, and they've been blessed with tremendous quarterback
Speaker 3: play and tremendous people at the quarterback position, and I
Speaker 3: can envision Boomers Iceen and Can Anderson both doing exactly
Speaker 3: what Joe Burrow did. You know, Hey, guys, I played
Speaker 3: like horse dong. You know, there's no question about it.
Speaker 3: I stunk, I was, I was, I sucked, I was awful.
Speaker 3: But you guys weren't much better. You know, I mean, nobody,
Speaker 3: nobody did anything. Uh, you know that football game was atrocious.
Speaker 3: It was it was not not up to snuff, not
Speaker 3: up to standard for for NFL performance. You have to
Speaker 3: you have to play at a higher level than that.
Speaker 3: Let's make sure. Let's let's go learn. Like I was
Speaker 3: talking about before, lesson hard, lesson hard pill to swallow,
Speaker 3: tough pill to swallow. But let's get it down and
Speaker 3: digest it and uh and and live through it. You know,
Speaker 3: your neighbor's going to be all over here, your family
Speaker 3: will probably be all over you gonna be hard to
Speaker 3: find some friends. But that's what it's like, That's what
Speaker 3: life's all about, the National Football League. When you lay
Speaker 3: an egg as big as the one we laid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt. And you know, it's a rough day
Speaker 2: for Joe. There's been days where he's maybe sailed to
Speaker 2: pass or under thrown a pass. But when Joe says
Speaker 2: an opening drive, when he took the sack that took him
Speaker 2: out of field goal range, he said, a mental mistake
Speaker 2: by me. Joe doesn't make mental mistake. You know, it's
Speaker 2: a rough day when Joe's making a mental mistake right on.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, just throw it away. You know
Speaker 3: that those yards, every yard is valuable. He more than
Speaker 3: anybody understands that. And one of those days. You know,
Speaker 3: every once in a while, no matter what your job is,
Speaker 3: you have a day at work where it's like, oh boy,
Speaker 3: I wish this day would end. You know, this day
Speaker 3: can't end fast enough. And that was the case for
Speaker 3: Joe Burrow and the Bengals yesterday.
Speaker 2: No doubt, we've reached the bottom of the hour. Hangtag.
Speaker 2: We'll flip to the defensive side of things here from
Speaker 2: Miles Murphy. He had a nice day, a couple of sacks.
Speaker 2: Talk more about his continuing development as we continue with
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Speaker 2: Lance mccunt, Lester, Dave Black Them. We'll hear from Orlando
Speaker 2: Brown coming up in this hour a little bit later
Speaker 2: on Jamar Chase Head, caraus in so much more. But
Speaker 2: let's talk defense yesterday, and let's start with Miles Murphy
Speaker 2: who turned in a two sack day. He's up to
Speaker 2: four and a half on the season. Here's Miles after
Speaker 2: the game.
Speaker 13: We're in the locker room with Miles Murphy after disappointing
Speaker 13: loss for the Bengals. You had two sacks.
Speaker 14: TJ.
Speaker 13: Slayton was involved in one of those sacks. In any case,
Speaker 13: how difficult were the playing conditions for everybody on both
Speaker 13: sides today?
Speaker 15: I mean, of course it's cold, but it's just a conditions.
Speaker 15: Just you know what you signed up for football. You
Speaker 15: played in any any weather, so just gotta bear with
Speaker 15: it and still just play your keys.
Speaker 14: Played the run, rust passer.
Speaker 15: You know, do we can as a defense?
Speaker 13: Big plays hurt you guys today? Did you feel like
Speaker 13: that was the biggest problem my defense?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 15: Yeah, Limiting the explosives. They're explosive team. They got guys
Speaker 15: all over at quarterback, O line, running back, receivers, So
Speaker 15: you gotta do what you can't do, limit the explosives.
Speaker 14: I felt we felt that we did a good.
Speaker 15: Job against the run, kept them, cut them, contain, cut
Speaker 15: pressure on them.
Speaker 14: But it was just the explosives.
Speaker 16: Uh.
Speaker 15: I was I was one of them. I was one
Speaker 15: of them that gave it the one of the one
Speaker 15: explosive and those are just things that just can't happen.
Speaker 13: Was that on the touchdown pass to al Lee? I
Speaker 13: was on your but I didn't really know what your
Speaker 13: responsibility was there.
Speaker 15: Yeah, the first one I was supposed to Yeah, I
Speaker 15: was supposed to take them on that one. And that's
Speaker 15: just something that can't happen to me and or anyone.
Speaker 15: I just can't happen to give up that explosive play.
Speaker 13: It was a tough game in the sense that Thangals
Speaker 13: had some opportunities early inside the thirty, didn't take advantage Baltimore.
Speaker 13: Baltimore got a score, and then it kind of felt
Speaker 13: like the momentum swung their way, particularly when they got
Speaker 13: that second score late in the second quarter. Describe what
Speaker 13: it was like for you guys, just from a momentum standpoint.
Speaker 15: Really, as a defense, we try to approach every every
Speaker 15: possession of the same like we got to get the
Speaker 15: ball that for our offense, because we know our offense,
Speaker 15: you know, just like there's a we have offenses full
Speaker 15: of explosive guys and who they all they need is
Speaker 15: a chance man, and that's that's what we try to
Speaker 15: do for our offense. Just give them a chance. And
Speaker 15: you know, that's the only thing we can do. Just
Speaker 15: do our just do our job and continue to give
Speaker 15: our give Joe to just continue to give you the ball.
Speaker 15: That's that's all we want to do. That's all we
Speaker 15: can do.
Speaker 13: It obviously doesn't help the playoff math. Where do you
Speaker 13: guys stand now with three games to go?
Speaker 15: What's the same deal? The next next week is the
Speaker 15: biggest game of the year. That's that's my mindset. I
Speaker 15: feel like that's the entire defensive mindset. Just done to
Speaker 15: next week, same mindset. Attack, stop the run, get after
Speaker 15: the quarterback. But nothing changes. We're not just gonna sit
Speaker 15: back and just let whatever happen to us like we're
Speaker 15: gonna still attack set, set edges, do what we can
Speaker 15: and just you know, show show everyone what bangle, what
Speaker 15: bangle football is.
Speaker 13: Appreciate your time, Miles thinking.
Speaker 2: Miles Murphy after the game yesterday, he wasn't perfect. He
Speaker 2: admitted his the role in in the breakdown in the
Speaker 2: thirty yard touchdown. But if we're talking about the graph
Speaker 2: and this team needs young guys to keep getting better
Speaker 2: and Dave, there is clear momentum for the way Miles
Speaker 2: Murphy has come on in the back part of this season.
Speaker 3: Agreed lancetal question about it, And like you said, he
Speaker 3: has four and a half sacks now in the season
Speaker 3: with that two sack performance yesterday, that's number two in
Speaker 3: the team. The only guy that's got more is with
Speaker 3: Joseph a side with five. So you know, Miles Murphy
Speaker 3: is becoming a little bit of a factor off the edge.
Speaker 3: You know, he and Osia both young players. They both
Speaker 3: have immense physical talent. Uh, and when the Bengals scouted them,
Speaker 3: they they are size, speed ratios and everything strength overall
Speaker 3: body strength or off the charts. So now it's a
Speaker 3: matter of making sure that knowing the game, what they're
Speaker 3: what they're expected to do in the game of football,
Speaker 3: understanding football, football IQ, everything that goes along with that.
Speaker 3: And uh, they're very intelligent, both of them have you know,
Speaker 3: raw i Q. So hopefully the football IQ will will
Speaker 3: come along quickly.
Speaker 2: Boy, and he's somebody. Let's let's look ahead and you
Speaker 2: know likelihood that Trey I don't know, Betray Henderson probably
Speaker 2: not here next year. You never know, but you need
Speaker 2: somebody to become a dominant, game changing game wrecking. I
Speaker 2: don't want I don't expect him to immediately jump to
Speaker 2: it all pro next year, but you need the continued
Speaker 2: development of somebody who can be an impact a young,
Speaker 2: impactful guide or defense.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, And if you're a defensive coordinator, Al Golden, he
Speaker 3: wants to have a guy, all right, I know I
Speaker 3: can count on him to pressure the quarterback, not necessarily
Speaker 3: sack them, but pressure him, make him uncomfortable, make him
Speaker 3: make a quicker decision than he wants. To make him
Speaker 3: put the ball in jeopardy at least once a game,
Speaker 3: maybe multiple times a game. And that's that's what he's
Speaker 3: looking for defensively. And so you know, pass rush can
Speaker 3: have an impact different ways other than quarterback sacks. Quarterback
Speaker 3: being taken to the ground. That's the sexy deal that
Speaker 3: everybody's looking for. You know, what kind of quarterback sacks
Speaker 3: do you have? But quarterback pressures are important also, quarterback
Speaker 3: hurries are important also. And the more you can get
Speaker 3: out of these two young guys in that regard in
Speaker 3: those two categories, the better off you're going to be.
Speaker 2: Boy. And while we're on the defensive side of things,
Speaker 2: and and young and needing more from Dimitris Knight Junior
Speaker 2: has a two sack day and has five tackles, and
Speaker 2: and that's something that the linebackers have been in the
Speaker 2: crosshairs in the spotlight a lot this season. But to
Speaker 2: see Dimitri's Knight Junior have a big day's got to
Speaker 2: do a lot for his confidence, exactly.
Speaker 3: And you know he's capable. I mean, you know he's
Speaker 3: Those two sacks put him in the top policy one, two, three, four, five,
Speaker 3: he's in the top five from the team. Now with
Speaker 3: those two quarterback stacks tied for top five, which I mean,
Speaker 3: the Bengals aren't tearing it up in terms of team
Speaker 3: quarterback sacks, that's for sure. But again, young guys, young
Speaker 3: guys at every level, young guys at defensive line, there
Speaker 3: are young players at the linebacker level. There are young
Speaker 3: guys in the back end that are starting to show up.
Speaker 3: And the graph of their contribution and their play is
Speaker 3: going straight up, it really is.
Speaker 2: And if you go back started the game, first three possessions,
Speaker 2: the defense forces a punt, forces a punt, gets the interception,
Speaker 2: and then it's it's such a theme with this defense.
Speaker 2: There'll be good, good, good, and then just ah, really
Speaker 2: awfully bad on a breakdown, and there were plays they
Speaker 2: allowed of thirty two yards thirty twenty nine, twenty eight,
Speaker 2: twenty six, twenty five, twenty two, twenty two. And if
Speaker 2: we go back to time obsessions, the Ravens only had
Speaker 2: forty snaps and yet eight plays went for twenty two
Speaker 2: yards or more. Those are just backbreaking and just our
Speaker 2: steps back from so many steps you try to take forward.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, they're catastrophic, you know. I mean it's like,
Speaker 3: you know, you start to feel good about yourself. Yeah, hey,
Speaker 3: things are we're believers. Man, things are going pretty well,
Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden, bam right in the face. Man,
Speaker 3: you take a shot right in the bridge of the
Speaker 3: nose and get your nose busted all over your face.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's life in the National Football League for sure.
Speaker 3: But man, you know, these young players, they're just gonna
Speaker 3: have to minimize those big plays. Every team in the
Speaker 3: NFL is going to give up big plays. But if
Speaker 3: you give up, you know, three big plays and eight snaps,
Speaker 3: you're in trouble. I mean, I don't care how you
Speaker 3: know who you are, what team you are, you just
Speaker 3: can't afford to give up those kind of glosives.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just looking at the sheet for perspective, Bengals offense
Speaker 2: ran seventy one plays and only had two plays that
Speaker 2: gained twenty or more yards. The Ravens ran forty plays
Speaker 2: and had eight plays that went for over twenty yards.
Speaker 2: Those explosive plays are.
Speaker 3: Just gut punches one out of every five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. That's incredible.
Speaker 3: That's twenty percent of this is Riley taught me right
Speaker 3: how to side for a little bit. I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: twenty percent of your snaps are big plays, explosives. That
Speaker 3: dog's definitely not gonna hunt if you're a defensive football team.
Speaker 3: Did a lot of hunting for the Ravens, there's no question.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And you know, a final thought on young guys
Speaker 2: and you reference Shamar Stewart. I would think final three
Speaker 2: games will be big for him, And it looks like
Speaker 2: the trend is he's probably we wondered he might play
Speaker 2: this week, didn't. If he can play the final three,
Speaker 2: that would be I think huge for his development, his confidence.
Speaker 2: Just to get something on tape that that he can
Speaker 2: feel good about to end the season with, I think
Speaker 2: would mean a lot going into the off season.
Speaker 3: I agree with you. And for the coaching staff, yes,
Speaker 3: you know, it's like get tape, like you said, plays
Speaker 3: from him on tape, or you can really evaluate and say,
Speaker 3: do we need to still address this or are we good?
Speaker 3: Do we see growth and development here? Do we feel
Speaker 3: good about what's going on at the on the edge
Speaker 3: for our defensive football team? And you know, can we
Speaker 3: put resources somewhere else at linebacker or in the back end,
Speaker 3: whatever we need to do on our side of the football.
Speaker 3: Let's uh, let's let's figure it out. Let's let's do
Speaker 3: the evaluating we need to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, especially, it just popped into my head. Joseph Osai
Speaker 2: is going to be in a contract situation. So you're
Speaker 2: weighing Miles Murphy coming on on one end. If you
Speaker 2: feel good over the final three with Shamar and then
Speaker 2: maybe it impacts how you view Osai. Maybe it doesn't,
Speaker 2: But a lot of questions and you just need young
Speaker 2: progress and development. That's the bottom line.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I mean that that is the bottom line. Young
Speaker 3: progress and development is the lifeblood of any organization in
Speaker 3: the NFL.
Speaker 2: When we continue Orlando Round Junior on the offensive line
Speaker 2: and so much more. Thanks for hanging out with us
Speaker 2: tonight it is Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network
Speaker 2: and seven hundred. We keep moving along on this Monday night,
Speaker 2: picking up the pieces from yesterday, and eventually we'll turn
Speaker 2: the attention to those Miami Dolphins coming up in our
Speaker 2: third hour tonight of Bengals Line and the Bengals Radio Network.
Speaker 2: We've heard from Zach, heard from Joe, heard from Miles Murphy.
Speaker 2: Let's go to the other side of the ball, and
Speaker 2: up front Orlando Brown on the day that was for
Speaker 2: the Bengals in the offensive line. Here's Orlando after the game.
Speaker 17: You know, I definitely resonate with was and Joe on
Speaker 17: a filling on that.
Speaker 18: All right, Joe has done so much in his organization,
Speaker 18: so many games he even wanted he came in today.
Speaker 18: This one's on me as a guy who's a leader
Speaker 18: on this team. Do you have Joe's back that like,
Speaker 18: it's a team effort.
Speaker 17: It's not just the quarterday, Yeah, one hundred percent of
Speaker 17: team effort, man. And you know, so many things going
Speaker 17: to being able to win a football game.
Speaker 14: And it's not just about our.
Speaker 17: Quarterback playing well or just our defense playing well. Uh,
Speaker 17: so many things have to go together. And so uh,
Speaker 17: today's losses and just on him, man, you know, zero
Speaker 17: points offensively, We all got a hand in that, and
Speaker 17: whatever that is.
Speaker 3: You know, we'll watch the film.
Speaker 2: We'll we'll learn from, you.
Speaker 17: Know, mistakes that we made and be able to uh,
Speaker 17: you know, focus on that and and make sure those
Speaker 17: things don't happen again.
Speaker 3: But it's never just on a joke.
Speaker 14: Man.
Speaker 18: You know what this locker room has to be a
Speaker 18: third straight year Orlando without making them.
Speaker 17: Playoffs against that, Yeah, it is surprising.
Speaker 13: Man.
Speaker 17: You know, we spend a lot of time uh in
Speaker 17: the off season. Uh, we spend a lot of time
Speaker 17: uh as a as a team, bonding and and and growing.
Speaker 17: And so you know, anytime you don't get the opportunity
Speaker 17: to be in a dance, it's it's frustrating and and
Speaker 17: it sucks, man, And you know it puts it puts everybody, uh,
Speaker 17: you know, in a in a difficult spot. But I
Speaker 17: could tell you over these next three weeks, man, I'm
Speaker 17: so thankful for the ability to play this football game. Uh,
Speaker 17: you know, something always dreamed of as a young kid.
Speaker 17: And so uh man, I'm I'm I'm thankful to be
Speaker 17: playing for this organization. In the city and I'm gonna
Speaker 17: continue to give it everything I got. But it is frustrated.
Speaker 17: It's frustrating not being in the playoffs to get back
Speaker 17: to the.
Speaker 16: Super Bowl expectations you guys have. What do you feel
Speaker 16: like it is the first step to get back?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's a lot of different things.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 17: It's it's hard to sit here and hang my hat
Speaker 17: on one thing. But to me, you know, it just
Speaker 17: it comes down to being able to to win when
Speaker 17: we need to and showing up in these big games
Speaker 17: and these big moments and so uh, you know, I've
Speaker 17: I've been a part of those you know, special teams
Speaker 17: and obviously a lot of guys in this locker room
Speaker 17: were part of it, you know, here in twenty one
Speaker 17: and twenty two being able to push to that point.
Speaker 17: So h it's a lot of things, man that it's
Speaker 17: gonna take for us to get back in that.
Speaker 2: Position, youse.
Speaker 17: Uh, definitely, definitely, you know. But the reality is that
Speaker 17: the NFL, a lot of teams are close.
Speaker 16: You know.
Speaker 17: The way that this league is set up is designed
Speaker 17: for everybody to have an even playing field, with the
Speaker 17: way the draft order, the waiver wire, the cap, uh,
Speaker 17: so you know what's the take to to be able
Speaker 17: to win a Super Bowl? You know, that's that's a
Speaker 17: whole building, that's a whole uh set of players that
Speaker 17: are focused on the task at hand and understand that
Speaker 17: it's one day at a time. You know, you can't
Speaker 17: win the Super Bowl and September. You can't win it
Speaker 17: in April. You gotta go win it when the when
Speaker 17: the game's played in February. So you know, I man,
Speaker 17: once we once we continue to to grow and and
Speaker 17: we get to that point, to me, we'll be able
Speaker 17: to hopefully finish when those that opportunity comes.
Speaker 18: How much is it the test of professionalism next three
Speaker 18: weeks for the guys in here, not having a shot
Speaker 18: to go to the playoffs still play up to the
Speaker 18: standard that you expect.
Speaker 17: Yeah, it's important, man, It's important cause, Uh, I know
Speaker 17: my brothers are relying on me, and you know I'm
Speaker 17: gonna continue to come out here and give them all.
Speaker 5: Why is that important?
Speaker 11: Makes?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean for so many reasons.
Speaker 16: Uh.
Speaker 17: You know, I think there's a lot of people that
Speaker 17: would you know, I don't wanna be dramatic, but.
Speaker 3: Die for this opportunity.
Speaker 17: I mean, you know, and that's that's the reality to me. So, uh,
Speaker 17: you know, anytime I get the opportunity to suit up
Speaker 17: in this game and and go out here and play
Speaker 17: with my brothers, always give.
Speaker 2: It all up. Orlando Brown on the uh, the struggles
Speaker 2: and difficulties yesterday, and and Dave that it's not all
Speaker 2: on the offensive line, and Joe admitted some of his
Speaker 2: mistakes as well. But Joe got sacked three times, he
Speaker 2: got hit ten times. It wasn't the crisp offensive line
Speaker 2: play we've seen in the recent weeks for that group.
Speaker 3: No, I mean three quarterback sacks, ten quarterback hits, and
Speaker 3: that's not even including pressures that weren't hits. Yes, So
Speaker 3: you know, Joe was kind of you know, Ben Gazeera,
Speaker 3: he was, he was on the run, he was on
Speaker 3: the move quite a bit. You hate to see your
Speaker 3: quarterback get sacked, but you don't want your quarterback to
Speaker 3: get hit ten times in the National Football League. Every
Speaker 3: time he gets hit, you know, the odds increased that
Speaker 3: one of them may be very painful. Yes, So you
Speaker 3: want to you want to clean that up. You want
Speaker 3: to address that. You want to make sure three games
Speaker 3: left in the in the regular season, you want Miami,
Speaker 3: Arizona and Cleveland. You want to make sure that you
Speaker 3: minimize the exposure that Joe Burrow has to pressure, resulting
Speaker 3: in the quarterback Harrison quarterback hits.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that game, I think it's fair to say,
Speaker 2: got very chippy. And the longer it went on, the
Speaker 2: more I worried about Joe. You're thinking, all right, this
Speaker 2: is not their day. The last thing you really need
Speaker 2: is a cheap shot, a laid hit, something that's going
Speaker 2: to impact Joe. And it was trending that way multiple
Speaker 2: times yesterday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was. And you know, it's a division battle,
Speaker 3: a heated division battle. Baltimore and Cincinnati. They there's bad
Speaker 3: blood there. They don't really like each other, there's no
Speaker 3: question about that. And uh and and usually more and
Speaker 3: more of the pushing and shoving and chippiness and activity
Speaker 3: after this play is completed happens up front. So those
Speaker 3: are the guys that that need to kind of keep
Speaker 3: their cool, keep their composure, and just take it out
Speaker 3: each other. Uh, from the snap to the whistle, and
Speaker 3: then after that go back to the huddle, line up
Speaker 3: and do it again the next time and go snap
Speaker 3: to whistle, No doubt about it.
Speaker 2: Hey. Coming up in our second hour, we'll hear from
Speaker 2: Jamar Chase and Ted Carris and uh mortiget to as
Speaker 2: we eventually turn to our second hour, three Big Ones
Speaker 2: tonight to break it all down, come back and head
Speaker 2: down the stretch of hour one as we continue with
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Speaker 2: first of three IF Bengals Line of the Bengals Radio
Speaker 2: Network and Lance.
Speaker 3: As always, we have the Kettering Health Report, the Injury Report,
Speaker 3: that's a feature every week where really, I think, as
Speaker 3: I think back, the Bengals didn't have any real severe
Speaker 3: problems coming out of this football game. I don't think
Speaker 3: anybody's gonna miss any big time. We do have a
Speaker 3: bruised shin that you know, that's a little bit of
Speaker 3: an issue for Osai. All of that is presented by
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Speaker 3: providing the best care for the best fans.
Speaker 2: And how about what I'm thinking of it? And it
Speaker 2: points to who he is and no one's ever questioned
Speaker 2: who he is or what he's all about. Some J. P.
Speaker 2: Ryan has carved off at one point and you turn around,
Speaker 2: you look at he's coming right back onto the field,
Speaker 2: and you can just imagine him saying, blankety blank, I'm
Speaker 2: going back into that game.
Speaker 3: He is a tough dude. We were talking about that,
Speaker 3: you know, on the air. He came off the field,
Speaker 3: went into the blue tent, and he was out of
Speaker 3: there quickly.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: You know, I mean, I guess whatever if it was,
Speaker 3: if he got wrong, they cleared the concussion protocol symptoms
Speaker 3: pretty damn quickly, that's for sure. If he had some
Speaker 3: sort of an issue on a sprain or whatever it was,
Speaker 3: it was determined not to be that severe. But that
Speaker 3: dude is tough man, and he is physical. He is
Speaker 3: a horse. I mean he's uh his his quadriceps, his hamstrings,
Speaker 3: his calves strong. I mean he's got unbelievable legs, leg power,
Speaker 3: and he churns those those legs, you know when he
Speaker 3: moves the whole pile when he's when he's pushing runs
Speaker 3: with a good body, lean as well, and he gives
Speaker 3: very little hitting surface. A big, powerful back that has
Speaker 3: good soft hands can catch it and he will block.
Speaker 3: He will uh quarterbacks and Joe Burrow in particular will
Speaker 3: love him. He'll stick his nose right in the chest
Speaker 3: of linebackers and safeties and stone them.
Speaker 2: Ten degrees at kickoff yesterday minus one wind chill, so
Speaker 2: cold yesterday, so cold yesterday the booth windows were closed,
Speaker 2: that they were or on orders closed the booth windows
Speaker 2: or you know what Yd's equipment freezing up or anything
Speaker 2: like that. You know why you had uncomfortable honestly during
Speaker 2: the game, as will so close him and everybody. But
Speaker 2: you know, it's cold when the windows have to be closed,
Speaker 2: and that's the way it was yesterday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what governing body
Speaker 3: makes that decision you and I'm not sure who makes
Speaker 3: the call un closing uh closing the windows at pay Corps.
Speaker 3: But it was toasty. The booth was very comfortable, and
Speaker 3: no question about that. I know it was chili willie
Speaker 3: for the boys out in the field. And I remember
Speaker 3: when it was like in the freezer.
Speaker 2: Ball man, you think about that, I said, you know,
Speaker 2: yesterday and obviously a big deal is made out of
Speaker 2: the weather windshill minus won and I'm looking around one
Speaker 2: wait a minute, I mean, certainly everybody remembers what minus
Speaker 2: fould we think of just saying it out loud minus
Speaker 2: fifty nine wind chill. That doesn't even sound humanly possible,
Speaker 2: and yet it very much was possible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was. It was cruel and unusual punishment. I
Speaker 3: can say that, man, I have never been close to
Speaker 3: that cold at any other point in my lifetime. And
Speaker 3: they came close to calling that game, postponing the game.
Speaker 3: It was like in the in the final hour, really
Speaker 3: they made the determination to just go ahead and let
Speaker 3: it roll out. Yesterday's game was never in any danger
Speaker 3: of you know, postponement, cancelation for twenty four hours or whatever.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that was chili. And I can identify man
Speaker 3: watching the take cares out there and warm ups and
Speaker 3: shorts and T shirt and I'm.
Speaker 2: Thinking there's Ted keeping up the tradition, the old line
Speaker 2: way to go Ted. Yes, we'll hear more from here
Speaker 2: from Ted coming up. In our second era, we turned
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back in about to unfold our two of
Speaker 2: Bengals line and there's Monday Night of the Bengals Radio Network.
Speaker 2: Thanks for hanging out with us. We're sorting through what
Speaker 2: transpired yesterday at pay Court twenty four and nothing over
Speaker 2: the Ravens. We've got the Dolphins to look ahead to
Speaker 2: in our third hour as well. We get busy with
Speaker 2: it in the first hour. Let's begin our two with
Speaker 2: the Jamar Chase, Bengal wide receiver had a ten catch
Speaker 2: day yesterday, ten catches, one hundred and thirty two yards
Speaker 2: a long of thirty four. Here's Jamar with the reaction
Speaker 2: after the game.
Speaker 3: Where did you.
Speaker 10: Think that game got away today? Why was it so
Speaker 10: hard to create offensive rhythm?
Speaker 14: Just wasn't executing a little bit?
Speaker 19: Wasn't pushing the ball on the field when getting putting
Speaker 19: ourselves in position on third down? Or get the ball
Speaker 19: on the field and just get a raison? You know,
Speaker 19: I dropped a I dropped a slam on the first
Speaker 19: series that put us in a position to get a
Speaker 19: t uh field goal or touch down, and Uh, I
Speaker 19: put that on myself dropping that path.
Speaker 5: Did he take us through?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 11: The gobo?
Speaker 5: I think it was on the next drive? Yeah?
Speaker 11: Did he just you not get your head around cause
Speaker 11: he was grabbed.
Speaker 20: Yeah.
Speaker 19: He twist M like he try this some sneaky that
Speaker 19: was pretty pretty good for him, pulled my help and
Speaker 19: you know it caused me to jerk my body and
Speaker 19: uh in two ways, and I just couldn't find a ball.
Speaker 9: Jo was especial league hard on himself and as he
Speaker 9: he had elblities and was one of the worst things
Speaker 9: he ever played.
Speaker 14: What was your thoughts on Joe's cart.
Speaker 19: Uh, I've been knowing Joe for a long time, and
Speaker 19: at the end of the day, I know where he's
Speaker 19: capable of. I know when he's off, I know when
Speaker 19: he's on. But I gotta find a way to help him.
Speaker 19: You know what I'm saying. It he's off on, it
Speaker 19: don't matter. I gotta beat that for him, encourage him, you.
Speaker 14: Know what I'm saying. Just do whatever I can for you.
Speaker 13: At a couple of thirty yard catches, Jamorrow but what's
Speaker 13: their plan to take away the deep ball? Is that
Speaker 13: what Baltimore prioritize.
Speaker 19: I'm not sure what they planning was today, but I'm
Speaker 19: sure it was not for us to score.
Speaker 7: So what'd you been?
Speaker 5: What's it like to see if Beast are called himself
Speaker 5: after a game? I think the most he's ever after.
Speaker 2: Any kind of fuck.
Speaker 19: He just he just really loved the game. Man, he
Speaker 19: just wanna be great. And at think then I could
Speaker 19: respect that from him. But like he told me, don't care.
Speaker 19: I ain't gonna I ain't gonna let him kill himself
Speaker 19: mentally by just one game he played better.
Speaker 13: How hard is it to accept the fact that you're
Speaker 13: officially alarm?
Speaker 14: Hard pill to swallow? But I mean, at the end
Speaker 14: of the day, is where we got a live with.
Speaker 5: How would you sum up this season?
Speaker 9: Howse the the the roller baster or stups and down
Speaker 9: everything that he doesn't know?
Speaker 19: Yeah, we just I don't know. I don't know if
Speaker 19: I mean, I don't know, Man, you gotta find a
Speaker 19: way at the end of the day.
Speaker 14: A complimentary football has been tough for you guys this year.
Speaker 2: Why is it doing so much harder this year than.
Speaker 19: Past season, but that that don't mean nothing, you know
Speaker 19: what I'm saying. As in the day, we still have
Speaker 19: opportunities to put ourselves in a position with the close
Speaker 19: games and we dat them. So uh we just gotta
Speaker 19: you gotta find a way to execute them.
Speaker 14: And when games going.
Speaker 5: Forward, do you still believe in this coaching stuff?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 19: I mean we had great plays today, that was opportunities
Speaker 19: so for us to score and and and kill 'em deep,
Speaker 19: but you know, sometimes we just didn't connected.
Speaker 3: So be it three straight seasons missing the playoffs.
Speaker 11: What kind of changes would you like to see in
Speaker 11: this offseason?
Speaker 19: M You know, if I if I can, if I
Speaker 19: had to say so, it'd probably be be something. But
Speaker 19: I don't know what I could do. So all I
Speaker 19: could do is control what I could control.
Speaker 2: How do you.
Speaker 21: Approach these last three weeks now, you know, being eliminated,
Speaker 21: just playing towards.
Speaker 11: The end of the season.
Speaker 19: Uh, I just gotta be a leader man, be a captain,
Speaker 19: pushing the guys forward and just trying to finish strong.
Speaker 10: What kind of battitude they wanna say after this SAFS playing.
Speaker 14: It's just about finishing strong.
Speaker 19: Had playing many everybody got come in and work we
Speaker 19: all coming in the same thing, doing the same stuff
Speaker 19: every day. Everybody time is being doing being put in
Speaker 19: around the same thing. So we gotta come in and
Speaker 19: just keep pushing it and just finish strong. That's all
Speaker 19: I think we could do. At the end of the day.
Speaker 5: Three years ago, when you guys left the Arrow had
Speaker 5: losing the second ARC Championship, they told you that you
Speaker 5: wouldn't be back, just didn't a plan over the next
Speaker 5: three years. What do you think your.
Speaker 14: Reaction would have been, Uh, I probably wouldn't believe you.
Speaker 12: What's the attribute to think y'all probably missing most to
Speaker 12: get back to that point?
Speaker 14: Could again, what's the.
Speaker 5: Attribute y'all are missing most as a team? More than that?
Speaker 3: More like is there?
Speaker 14: I'm not sure. Man. At the end of the day, offense,
Speaker 14: it's either.
Speaker 19: The offense is clicking or the defense is clicking. One
Speaker 19: of the days we we have never yet to put
Speaker 19: our offense and defense together as one unit and play
Speaker 19: together with.
Speaker 10: So much on the line this week, Jamark, did you
Speaker 10: guys feel mentally prepared to take on the Ravens today?
Speaker 19: I I believe we felt mentally prepared. But it's the
Speaker 19: best of the best that then and it's the NFL.
Speaker 19: And what's the hardest part?
Speaker 2: I play again, when it's that hold out there, what's
Speaker 2: the hardest part?
Speaker 14: Trying trying to breathe, trying to breathe? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Does that make everything.
Speaker 5: You're seeing that much more intense?
Speaker 3: Just tough?
Speaker 2: When everything's aren't going on?
Speaker 5: How much more difficult does it feel when it is
Speaker 5: that cold?
Speaker 19: I mean, you gotta it's football, man, and the day
Speaker 19: it's a physical sport. But the cold don't make it
Speaker 19: no better. And you you gotta be out there, you
Speaker 19: gotta play.
Speaker 13: Does surviving in the ground, like when you're catching the ball?
Speaker 11: Does that change in the cold?
Speaker 6: Does?
Speaker 9: It seemed like that was an Issu're not just for
Speaker 9: anyone in particular, but as a whole.
Speaker 3: The skin.
Speaker 14: Like surviving getting tackled, like knowing how to fall and stuff.
Speaker 9: Like when you're catching the ball and you to make
Speaker 9: you have a completion when you hit the ground.
Speaker 14: I I don't pay attention to I'm not gonna lie you.
Speaker 14: I mean to get in the hit on them. I'm
Speaker 14: not so more.
Speaker 5: You know Joe better than just about anybody.
Speaker 14: What do you do to lift him?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 14: What I from being honest?
Speaker 19: I never I never been in a situation with him
Speaker 19: where I had to uplift him, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 19: But going forward, I might need to because he does
Speaker 19: it to me at the end of the day, and
Speaker 19: you never know what he might be going through, so
Speaker 19: I might I might need to start doing that.
Speaker 13: You know, your bottom line is winning and losing. But
Speaker 13: does the shutout make it worse? Does that rep you
Speaker 13: the wrong way?
Speaker 19: If I'm being honest, I read blown out, then be
Speaker 19: playing in a close game and lose byfield goal, so that.
Speaker 11: Jam Joe burrows a stage.
Speaker 14: I'm not sure. This is my first time.
Speaker 19: You know, probably going to have to if anything, but
Speaker 19: I probably doubt I will, But.
Speaker 14: I don't know.
Speaker 19: We just probably just gonna kick it, chill and just
Speaker 19: try not to talk about football.
Speaker 14: If I'm being honest, Yeah.
Speaker 6: Is it adds like a weird feeling?
Speaker 2: Not really, No, Jamar Chase on a difficult day, he
Speaker 2: was targeted sixteen times. You know it's it. It wasn't
Speaker 2: and Jamar kind of alluded to it. There was there
Speaker 2: were times where he and Joe didn't seem to be
Speaker 2: on the same page, But in the end, it's still
Speaker 2: a ten think about it. It's still a ten catch,
Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty two yard day for Jamar Chase,
Speaker 2: which shows his greatness. He's still able to have a
Speaker 2: day like that when it maybe it wasn't at the
Speaker 2: most proficient level between he and his quarterback.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Jamar referenced it. He said in the locker
Speaker 3: room back to the game. You know, Joe was off.
Speaker 3: Joe wasn't like Joe can be. You know, Joe wasn't precision,
Speaker 3: pinpoint accuracy. I wanted to try to help as as
Speaker 3: much as I possibly could. We've been together for a
Speaker 3: long time, all the way back to the LSU days,
Speaker 3: and probably I don't know about the All Star gamers too,
Speaker 3: not who knows, but they know each other cold, they
Speaker 3: know exactly. They've got kind of esp in terms of
Speaker 3: being on the same page and seeing the game the
Speaker 3: same way, seeing coverage is the same way, seeing defenses
Speaker 3: the same the same way, and they can tell when
Speaker 3: each other's having a good day or a bad day
Speaker 3: or whatever and the reasons for it. So yeah, it
Speaker 3: it definitely was not. It was a big day for Jamar.
Speaker 3: How about targeted sixteen times? Many and really quarterbacks, you know,
Speaker 3: I remember when Kenny would say, you know, when you're
Speaker 3: in struggling, when you're not things aren't going the way
Speaker 3: you anticipated them to go, you look for the guy
Speaker 3: that's your safety net. You look for the guy that,
Speaker 3: no matter what, you know, he's gonna be where he's
Speaker 3: supposed to be when he's supposed to be there, doing
Speaker 3: exactly what he's supposed to do. And uh, Kenny had Trump,
Speaker 3: he loved, he loved to locate Bob Trumpy and you know,
Speaker 3: the pro bowler stepped up for Kenny many times. And
Speaker 3: that's the relationship that Jamar Chase and Joe Borrow have
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 2: I think it's a great point in the trust and
Speaker 2: know he's going to be there, because, let's be honest,
Speaker 2: Yoshi had another yesterday and in Tinsley had a moment
Speaker 2: where he probably should have had a touchdown catch at
Speaker 2: the end zone. And it's only you're only human, if
Speaker 2: you're Joe of if there's enough that you store in
Speaker 2: the back of your mind and you wonder about you
Speaker 2: never have to wonder about throwing the ball to Jamar
Speaker 2: Chase or or somebody. And he wasn't there yesterday. So
Speaker 2: sixteen targets makes a lot of sense. If you're calculating
Speaker 2: in the back of your mind, Am I gonna throw
Speaker 2: it to player A, B or C who maybe not
Speaker 2: in the right spot might make the dry ar? Am
Speaker 2: I just gonna maybe force it a little bit to
Speaker 2: Jamaar because I know where he's gonna be. And it's
Speaker 2: easy to do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is. It's easy to start to fall into
Speaker 3: that trap a little bit. And speaking about T Higgins,
Speaker 3: you know he's from the Florida area originally. For him
Speaker 3: to go down to Miami and play against the Dolphins
Speaker 3: is a big deal. It's a big deal for him,
Speaker 3: for his family, for his friends. Everybody's going to be
Speaker 3: excited to watch T Higgins perform and he who probably
Speaker 3: I'll guarantee you T Higgins is playing on, putting on
Speaker 3: a show. And have you know, like almost a double
Speaker 3: digit catch, you know, maybe seven to ten catches for
Speaker 3: you know, one hundred and twenty five to one hundred
Speaker 3: and forty yards, a couple of touchdowns. I could see
Speaker 3: those kind of numbers for T Higgins in this football
Speaker 3: game against the Dolphins.
Speaker 2: One final thought on Jamar, I thought maybe the most
Speaker 2: telling thing he said after the game was about his
Speaker 2: connection with Joe, and you alluded to how they understand
Speaker 2: each other, and I thought it was pretty powerful when
Speaker 2: Jamar said, I've never been in this situation where I
Speaker 2: have to uplift him, but going forward, I might need to.
Speaker 2: Joe does it to me. At the end of the day,
Speaker 2: you never know what he might be going through, so
Speaker 2: I might need to start doing that. And I think
Speaker 2: that's great recognition of Jamar of his quarterback. His friend
Speaker 2: isn't where he usually is. Where there, it's mentally physically
Speaker 2: and needs needs him now, and I think that's great
Speaker 2: recognition by Jamar of what he has to do now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think you're right, And I think
Speaker 3: you know, Joe made mention after the game that he's
Speaker 3: got some personal things that he's dealing with. It's not
Speaker 3: necessarily football related, it's not organizational related to the Cincinnati Bengals,
Speaker 3: but he has to work through and sort through some things.
Speaker 3: And if anybody can help him do that and forget
Speaker 3: about those things, it's Jamar Chase and t Higgins, yep.
Speaker 3: And I just I think both of them are gonna
Speaker 3: combine for a massive day down there against the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 3: I can see them really saying, Joe, we got your back, buddy.
Speaker 3: You know you've had ours many many times. Yes, you've
Speaker 3: made us look good. Time for us to make you
Speaker 3: look good. We got you, bro.
Speaker 2: Very well, said, very well, said still ahead. Ted Carris
Speaker 2: on the day that was at pay Corps. This is
Speaker 2: Bengals on on the Bengals Radio network and seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 2: Let's keep covidight along on this Monday night of Bengals
Speaker 2: on on the Bengals Radio network in seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 2: And let's get back into the offensive line side of things.
Speaker 2: Ted Carris talking after the game about the day that
Speaker 2: was for the Bengals. Here is the Bengals center.
Speaker 13: Ted, I'll get Baltimore credit. They played well on defense.
Speaker 13: What were some of the things that they did well today?
Speaker 22: Finish in the red zone with turnovers and knocks out
Speaker 22: a field goal range.
Speaker 11: So zero points ridiculous.
Speaker 13: Those first couple of drives which you're alluding to. You
Speaker 13: got to the twenty five the first time, the twenty
Speaker 13: nine the second time and didn't come away with points.
Speaker 13: How much of a momentum swing is that? How much
Speaker 13: does that knock you back?
Speaker 22: I mean, defense gave up seventeen points. That should be
Speaker 22: enough to beat the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 3: So not good enough.
Speaker 13: Third downs were great last week, it was a struggle today.
Speaker 13: Anything stand out off the top of your head.
Speaker 3: Not yet.
Speaker 22: I'm gonna go home and watch it. So, but didn't
Speaker 22: convert enough, obviously, and didn't score enough points.
Speaker 13: Were How big of a factor were the weather conditions?
Speaker 5: Non factor?
Speaker 13: You just got it out. You just got it out. Yeah,
Speaker 13: you beat these guys a week and a half ago, essentially,
Speaker 13: how did that affect the game today? Could you tell
Speaker 13: that they were now hell bent on evening the score?
Speaker 14: I'm sure they were, and so were we.
Speaker 22: So they executed way better than we did and won
Speaker 22: the football game twenty four to nothing.
Speaker 3: So you gotta gotta go take a look at it.
Speaker 11: And then, uh got three weeks left to do something?
Speaker 13: What is the goal the mission for these final three weeks?
Speaker 3: Win?
Speaker 13: It's almost hard to fathom a game where you guys
Speaker 13: don't score. You've been so good offensively. How does it,
Speaker 13: you know, strike you when you look up at the
Speaker 13: end of the game and you got a goosegg on
Speaker 13: the scoreboard?
Speaker 3: It doesn't strike me.
Speaker 22: Well, So we gotta I mean at zero points unacceptable
Speaker 22: at any any level of football in the NFL with
Speaker 22: the most dynamic offense.
Speaker 14: So I gotta go take a look at it.
Speaker 3: And get ready for Miami.
Speaker 2: Ted Carris after the game, and Dave Ted alluded to it.
Speaker 2: Joe alluded to it. The Ravens this time around seemed
Speaker 2: to be able to get pressure without blitzing a lot,
Speaker 2: just four man pressure, which was different than the match
Speaker 2: two weeks ago. It just seemed like they figured out
Speaker 2: something that gave the Bengals some problems from that standpoint.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and uh, the fact that they got significant pressure,
Speaker 3: you know, three quarterback sacks and hit the quarterback hits,
Speaker 3: the knockdowns, the pressures making Joe uncomfortable, making him throw
Speaker 3: the ball before he really wanted to, before he felt
Speaker 3: comfortable with what he saw. That that that's kind of surprising, honestly,
Speaker 3: because you got five to block four and then you're
Speaker 3: gonna have back out of the backfield as a safety valve,
Speaker 3: little safety net, and Joe can get the if he's
Speaker 3: got any problems, get the ball down, check it down
Speaker 3: to him right away. Uh. So, the fact that that
Speaker 3: speaks to not only the pressure that the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 3: put on with their four man rush. Everybody was winning
Speaker 3: more matchups going one on one against the Bengals offensive
Speaker 3: lineman than they lost. They they also had good coverage
Speaker 3: in the back end because you know, Joe is known
Speaker 3: for getting the ball out, getting the ball out quickly.
Speaker 3: I mean it's almost like he seems to and when
Speaker 3: the ball's come in the shotgun, he catches it and
Speaker 3: throws it all one motion. I mean, never really even
Speaker 3: hold on to the football for any any period of time.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it speaks to how well they looked at
Speaker 3: the at the first matchup and said, you know what,
Speaker 3: we're going to change everything. We're we're we've only got
Speaker 3: a little bit of time. You know, we do have
Speaker 3: to game plan obviously for the opponent in between here,
Speaker 3: but we are gonna we're gonna do things a lot
Speaker 3: differently the next time we face the Cincinnati Bengals, and
Speaker 3: it turned out to be real successful.
Speaker 2: By the way. Final thought before the bottom they are
Speaker 2: on Ted Carris and thinking of offensive lineman and the
Speaker 2: cold Uh, there's the legendary story of the vasolene. Do
Speaker 2: our our offensive lineman? And are you allowed today to
Speaker 2: wear vasoline? Or was that banned or outlawed. Did anything
Speaker 2: change after you guys did it?
Speaker 3: That's a good question. I'm not sure how the league
Speaker 3: handled that. I'm not sure if there were any any
Speaker 3: changes to what you were allowed to do from a
Speaker 3: uniform code standpoint. But I don't think yesterday it was
Speaker 3: necessarily you know, so called that you had to resort
Speaker 3: to that.
Speaker 2: It wasn't a vaciline day.
Speaker 3: It might not have been a vacine day, right, what
Speaker 3: might not have been?
Speaker 2: We've reached the bottom of the hour, Hang tight, much
Speaker 2: more to get to. He's Dave Lapham, I'm Lance, but callister.
Speaker 2: This is Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network and
Speaker 2: seven hundred WLW. Hey, welcome back in on this Monday
Speaker 2: night of FENOS on Bengals Radio. If to get seven
Speaker 2: hundred WLW. We've talked to offense, we've talked defense. We're
Speaker 2: making our way through what all took place yesterday at
Speaker 2: pay Corps and let's oh, I know, as I'm thinking
Speaker 2: about it, we left off with the vasiline and you'll
Speaker 2: appreciate this. One of my other broadcast partners, Rocky Boyman,
Speaker 2: has told a story from a defensive side of things.
Speaker 2: He used to. Now tell me if you've ever heard
Speaker 2: of this. He used to spray what amounted to like
Speaker 2: pam cooking spray silicon. Yes, so you guys are the
Speaker 2: offensive side couldn't get a hold of it. Have you
Speaker 2: heard of that? Now that's illegal, he's he's I think
Speaker 2: he said, now it's illegal. But they used to just.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. We had defensive players. Bengal teammates
Speaker 3: did it, and defensive players did it that. I was
Speaker 3: playing against h frequently regularly, and it was I mean,
Speaker 3: it'd be like.
Speaker 2: What the heck is that slipping right off?
Speaker 3: If there's some slick stuff right there, boy, it really is.
Speaker 2: That's beautiful looking at guys lockers. Hey, yeah, you got cologne,
Speaker 2: you got the deoder, you got what you've got Pam
Speaker 2: crooking spreads what that cooking spray? For whatever it takes,
Speaker 2: whatever advantage there is to be found, it will eventually
Speaker 2: be found.
Speaker 3: There's no question about it.
Speaker 2: Wayne box Miller yesterday had a chance to talk with
Speaker 2: McKinley Jackson, the Bengals second year defensive lineman, who had
Speaker 2: some interesting thoughts about learning to be a professional, understanding professionalism,
Speaker 2: and kind of knowing the game I thought it was
Speaker 2: worth listening to McKinley. Then, Dave, I want to ask
Speaker 2: you about just learning to be a pro when you
Speaker 2: enter the league. Here is Wayne box Miller with McKinley Jackson.
Speaker 23: Let's talk about the difference so far for you between
Speaker 23: year one and the following year.
Speaker 20: Uh, it's been a big transition just understanding how the
Speaker 20: NFL leads and just understanding the routine. But as far
Speaker 20: as like just you know, playing should at the same
Speaker 20: intelligence go out there. I stted to prove myself and
Speaker 20: you know, do whatever it takes to win.
Speaker 23: You know, you came from a high level college conference
Speaker 23: at CC, you come here. Talk about the preparation that
Speaker 23: gave you. Do you feel like that prepared you a
Speaker 23: little bit more because you were in competition every week
Speaker 23: in that league.
Speaker 20: Nah, competition never dictated my preparation. That's one thing I
Speaker 20: would say, just a preparation just to being around professional
Speaker 20: other professional athletes. And there's thirty one other teams, so
Speaker 20: I mean other guys are preparing to you know, play
Speaker 20: the world the best work CLIs of athletes, So I
Speaker 20: feel like you got to take it upon yourself to
Speaker 20: prepare these situations and you know, it's a weekend and
Speaker 20: we got Uh. It doesn't get any easier and these
Speaker 20: wins are hard fought. So you know, just preparing is
Speaker 20: the biggest thing rather than just just god given ability
Speaker 20: brute strength. Just just the preparation is the biggest thing.
Speaker 23: Talk about the veterans and what they mean to you
Speaker 23: when you come in, because there's so much about this
Speaker 23: game that's different at this level.
Speaker 20: Yeah, you just obviously you want to just look at
Speaker 20: look at them and just if all that shadowt and
Speaker 20: just you know, just keen on what they're doing to
Speaker 20: get to these uh these mark second contract.
Speaker 3: Uh you're eight year nine All pros Pro Bowlers. Uh.
Speaker 20: Some guys been here at a BA Football Champs. So
Speaker 20: it's like, you know, you want to take every circle
Speaker 20: and everything that they give out. You know, it's a
Speaker 20: it's just a place where like no one is bigger
Speaker 20: than the team, and you know what's better than next man?
Speaker 20: So it's nothing but gaming. I can learn from each guy.
Speaker 23: Do you feel a sense of accomplishment as you pick
Speaker 23: up nuggets and different things and you have those aha
Speaker 23: moments like, man, this is really starting to come together
Speaker 23: for me.
Speaker 20: No, I put the person on myself because I mean
Speaker 20: the world is full of critics, so you can't never
Speaker 20: be you can't you can't never be comfortable in this game.
Speaker 20: And it's always send me to work on. So it's
Speaker 20: a sense of accomplishment. I mean, once the ring hitting
Speaker 20: my finger and then these guys feel in the locker room,
Speaker 20: I feel accomplished then. But until then, you know, I'm
Speaker 20: putting my head down and I put my heart head on.
Speaker 23: How do you feel about the players you play with,
Speaker 23: because many of them, when I talk to them, they
Speaker 23: talk about you, and you get that. You don't get words,
Speaker 23: something to forget the eyebrow. I was like, man, they
Speaker 23: really just appreciate who you are and how you play.
Speaker 20: I appreciate that, and I appreciate these guys for sitting
Speaker 20: here just being paid with me, you know, early on,
Speaker 20: like you know, it took me a little bit to
Speaker 20: understand professionalism, especially in this league. And you know, you know,
Speaker 20: once I get it, I get a downpack. Guys are
Speaker 20: really like you know, they trusted me, and I went
Speaker 20: out there and I made players, and you know, hopefully
Speaker 20: I can keep doing that and just just do it
Speaker 20: a high level and keep continuously doing it and making
Speaker 20: plays for this team, helping them. It's get the best
Speaker 20: position to get in the playoffs and then you know
Speaker 20: we go on from there.
Speaker 23: Lastly, I always say to young guys, at some point
Speaker 23: you realize that the game of football gives way to
Speaker 23: the business of football. When did that kind of hit you,
Speaker 23: because it seems like you learned that pretty early.
Speaker 20: Yeah, and yeah, it was a it was a tough spot,
Speaker 20: especially this year, just you know, not getting out there
Speaker 20: and not helping his team, not helping his team and
Speaker 20: just contributing. I mean, no matter if we went on losing,
Speaker 20: it's just that you still want to contribute. And I'm
Speaker 20: just a guy that never never was not able to
Speaker 20: play football unless I was you know, injured in my
Speaker 20: whole life. So this year there's been a testament to
Speaker 20: just uh my faith and just staying patient and you know,
Speaker 20: trusting my coach and schurch on my teammates and you know,
Speaker 20: doing my part as a player, and you know, we can,
Speaker 20: we can. We got out just beend on it and
Speaker 20: you know, hopefully being an impact forul player for this
Speaker 20: team and just uh to continue for us to get
Speaker 20: better and get another winning Well.
Speaker 3: You know, I have no question that's gonna come.
Speaker 23: I see how hard you work, and your peers respect you,
Speaker 23: so thank you so much for spending time with us.
Speaker 5: I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thank you box with McKinley, Jackson and David. I thought
Speaker 2: it was very interesting to hear McKinley, who's in his
Speaker 2: second year and has had his ups and downs and
Speaker 2: moments and not so great moments, but say and admit
Speaker 2: it took him a minute to understand how to be
Speaker 2: a professional on this level. And the more I've thought
Speaker 2: about that, it is one thing for preparation and preparing
Speaker 2: your body and your mind. In college, you get to
Speaker 2: be a pro. You've got a lot more free time,
Speaker 2: you don't have class, you got paid, you got a
Speaker 2: nice paycheck, signing bonus. There is a there's a big
Speaker 2: gap between what it means to be a pro high
Speaker 2: school college to pro. That's a huge jump. And it
Speaker 2: doesn't always doesn't always click with guys right away, does it.
Speaker 3: No, it doesn't. And the best thing to have as
Speaker 3: a mentor, Yes, you know somebody that's done it, done it,
Speaker 3: and has done it well and has done it maybe
Speaker 3: close to the timeframe that you're doing it. If you've
Speaker 3: got a guy that has had success, a modicum of success,
Speaker 3: and he's in his fourth year, for example, you know,
Speaker 3: go pick his brain, Go sit down with him in
Speaker 3: the locker room, or you know, outside the locker room
Speaker 3: at a restaurant having a bite, heat or whatever. And
Speaker 3: what what do you do? Man? How do you how
Speaker 3: do you get ready? How do you look at tape?
Speaker 3: How do you study?
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 3: What are some of the keys? What are some of
Speaker 3: the tips. A guy that was big for me was
Speaker 3: Bob Johnson. Bob Johnson had uh everything in terms of
Speaker 3: being a pros pro. He understood the game of football
Speaker 3: at the highest possible level. He was an offensive Lineman
Speaker 3: of the Year at Tennessee when he was a college
Speaker 3: football player, first pick ever in the Cincinnati Bengals in
Speaker 3: the history of their franchise. So, you know, I read
Speaker 3: about all that stuff about Bob Johnson. When I got
Speaker 3: drafted by the Bengals. I got a media guide and
Speaker 3: started boning up on some teammates and stuff, and then think,
Speaker 3: I'm listen to this dude. I think he might know
Speaker 3: what the hell he's talking about. And he and Bob
Speaker 3: Trumpy were roommates and they were both unbelievable resources for
Speaker 3: me as a rookie that didn't know what the hell
Speaker 3: was going on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I would imagine it takes your your special veterans,
Speaker 2: because I would think there would be some veterans who
Speaker 2: might look and say, well, here comes the young buck,
Speaker 2: and he's gonna take my job. I'm not gonna I'm
Speaker 2: not at all. It says a lot about the veteran
Speaker 2: who is the willing mentor ultimately.
Speaker 3: No question about it. That and that is, that is
Speaker 3: a fact. You know, when you're maybe like Isaac Curtis
Speaker 3: and you have such unique talent, skill talent and skill set,
Speaker 3: I should say, uh, you know an Olympic caliber sprinter
Speaker 3: that had you know, sticky fingers, glue fingers. You know
Speaker 3: that you know that they're going to find a role
Speaker 3: for you, a spot for you. You're going to be
Speaker 3: taking a ton of snaps. So you don't go ahead
Speaker 3: and help a young buck out. You know, there's no
Speaker 3: question about it. But if you're a guy that is
Speaker 3: is basically fighting and scraping to make the football team,
Speaker 3: you're you know, holding your breath on final cutdown day
Speaker 3: year after year. You're not going to give a young rook,
Speaker 3: a young buck that was a high draft pick. Any
Speaker 3: help whatsoever.
Speaker 2: And we're talking, I mean the scope and the scale
Speaker 2: of doing this. It's understanding how important sleep is, how
Speaker 2: important diet is. Always go back to a conversation I
Speaker 2: used to always have with John Thornton, the former Bengal
Speaker 2: of how important it was. On Fridays for him, he
Speaker 2: always had a massage, therapy, acupuncture, and he used to
Speaker 2: always say, I invest in my body. It will cost
Speaker 2: X number of dollars a year for a masseuse and
Speaker 2: for acupunction everything else. But he says that investment translates
Speaker 2: to another year and another year and those that's money,
Speaker 2: and that's that's an investment in my body means I
Speaker 2: get to play longer and I get to make more money.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I mean you get a look at it as
Speaker 3: a business. Yes, it's a it's a it's a business,
Speaker 3: and you don't have to worry about inventory and inventory
Speaker 3: control and all that sort of thing. But your body
Speaker 3: is basically what your whole job is all about. And
Speaker 3: taking care of your body to the best of the
Speaker 3: ability is huge. And if you can get two or
Speaker 3: three more years, that's hundreds of thousands of dollars if
Speaker 3: you can at the end of the season and you're
Speaker 3: making a playoff push and your body is well rested,
Speaker 3: well nourished, you're not tired. You're gonna play it better.
Speaker 2: That's a great point.
Speaker 3: You're gonna play better, and now you're gonna get more,
Speaker 3: you know, quote bonus money. You're gonna get additional money,
Speaker 3: more game checks. You know, as you get to the
Speaker 3: the AFC, NFC championship games. We're talking serious dollars. In
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl is a big payday.
Speaker 2: I give McKinley Jackson credit for the recognition and their
Speaker 2: articulation of that. I didn't understand right away how to
Speaker 2: be a professional, and you hope that lesson learned prolongs
Speaker 2: and extends his career. Sadly, the example on the other
Speaker 2: end is somebody like Jermaine Burton who didn't seemingly wasn't
Speaker 2: able to figure it out, and now he's on the
Speaker 2: street looking for another opportunity, and maybe he learns from
Speaker 2: that lesson. But that's the difference between staying in the
Speaker 2: league and looking for your life's work someplace else.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I mean, you gotta give McKinley Jackson a lot
Speaker 3: of credits from being like introspective, you know, and and
Speaker 3: looking inside himself and being honest with himself and and
Speaker 3: uh doing what he needs to do and finding out
Speaker 3: what he needs to find out to survive in advance
Speaker 3: as a professional. Burton, on the other hand, he just
Speaker 3: never got to figure out like you said, he just uh,
Speaker 3: you know, A plus B did not equal see ever
Speaker 3: for Burton. Unfortunately, when we continue, I have a list.
Speaker 2: I made the mistake of starting to jot down to
Speaker 2: all the Bengals third downs yesterday off basively, and I like,
Speaker 2: and then I got very depressed. I wanted to stop.
Speaker 2: But we'll talk about the third down struggles and more
Speaker 2: as we continue these Dave Blapham My Glance, but callister
Speaker 2: Bengals Line is the show. It's on the Bengals Radio
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Speaker 2: continue on this Monday. I talk at Bengals from all angles,
Speaker 2: and we've got plenty more to get to in our
Speaker 2: third hour tonight as well, look ahead to those Miami
Speaker 2: Dolphins as well. I mentioned the third downs, and I
Speaker 2: guess we must. We must go back through what transpired
Speaker 2: for the Bengals offensively on third down fifteen opportunities. Yesterday
Speaker 2: they converted their very first one to third and two
Speaker 2: and wound up for the game three of fifteen on
Speaker 2: third down yesterday, you wonder you look back and you say,
Speaker 2: how did they not score? How did they get into
Speaker 2: territory plus territory so many times and not score? If
Speaker 2: you're three of fifteen, it's awfully hard to sustain drives
Speaker 2: and put points on the board.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I mean that is that's twenty percent third down conversion.
Speaker 3: That is failure. I mean that is brutal. The first
Speaker 3: third down, third and two, they pick up five yards.
Speaker 3: That's the one they made that you described lance. The second,
Speaker 3: third down, third and four, they get sacked for fifteen yard. Sacked.
Speaker 3: Joe's running around back there trying to create an extent
Speaker 3: and losing yardage.
Speaker 2: And took took him out of field goal.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I mean that was a big mistake right there.
Speaker 3: You know, throw it away, throw it away, take the incompletion.
Speaker 3: You know, at least you can have them McPherson lineup
Speaker 3: and kick a long field goal for you. Third third down,
Speaker 3: third and four, they pick up two, So now it's
Speaker 3: fourth and two. The next third down, third and five, interception.
Speaker 3: Third and nine they pick up seven. Now it's fourth
Speaker 3: and two. They had a third and nineteen. Third and
Speaker 3: nineteen and try to throw the football obviously, and it's incomplete.
Speaker 3: Third and four, throw the football incomplete. Third and one
Speaker 3: they run the ball and they pick it up two yards. Okay,
Speaker 3: first down, how about that? Hall Lujah, Praise the Lord.
Speaker 3: The next one, third and eight failed, they run the football,
Speaker 3: excuse me, throw the football? They pick up two yards.
Speaker 3: Next one, third and one fail, run it, gain nothing, zilch,
Speaker 3: not a squash douche on number eleven, Third and six incomplete,
Speaker 3: pass number twelve, goal to go first in goal. This
Speaker 3: is the pick six. That's the basically basically close the
Speaker 3: game out. Say you know, it's history, Katie, bar the door.
Speaker 3: Third and one, they pick it up, they run the
Speaker 3: ball for six yards. How about that one, that's big.
Speaker 3: Third and seven incomplete or excuse me, run the football,
Speaker 3: don't make it and only pick up three and the
Speaker 3: final one, third and six they throw the football, only
Speaker 3: pick up five yards, and they have a fourth and one.
Speaker 3: I mean that is third down inefficiency at its past.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's really it's really a sad, sad
Speaker 3: commentary going through that list.
Speaker 2: That means on the day, the fifteen third down opportunities,
Speaker 2: they did not convert one that was beyond a third
Speaker 2: and two. Think about that for a second. They on
Speaker 2: third and four to five yards they went oh for four.
Speaker 2: On third and six or more they went oh for seven.
Speaker 2: They converted nothing that was longer than third and two
Speaker 2: the entire afternoon. I don't even know how that's possible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and let's face it, I mean, third and four,
Speaker 3: third and five, you're gonna have to convert some of those.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: It's the National Football League. I mean, you know, defenses
Speaker 3: get paid to play too. They're gonna You're gonna find
Speaker 3: yourself in third and four. You got to make plays,
Speaker 3: you have to convert. Uh. It just yesterday was a
Speaker 3: nightmare in every sense of the word.
Speaker 2: And the deeper you get, the more yards you need,
Speaker 2: the more you're gonna have to try to try to
Speaker 2: maybe force something, and it leads to the interception or
Speaker 2: leads to a pick. It's just nothing, nothing good happen.
Speaker 2: It's like nothing good happens staying out after midnight. Nothing
Speaker 2: good happens on third and long. Usually good analogy, too
Speaker 2: many bad days. Good analogy, take a time out and continue.
Speaker 2: We'll head down the stretch at our second of three
Speaker 2: big hours tonight. It's Bengals on the Bengals Radio Network
Speaker 2: in seven hundred w l W down the stretch we go,
Speaker 2: final segment of our second of three hours tonight, Bengals
Speaker 2: line of the Bengals Radio Network. Time to squeeze in
Speaker 2: something from outside the Bengals realm of things, and it's
Speaker 2: what has everybody buzzing around the NFL. Philip Rivers Returns
Speaker 2: at the age of forty four. He starts for the
Speaker 2: Colts yesterday, his first game in an NFL game in
Speaker 2: over eighteen hundred days, going back to twenty twenty. He
Speaker 2: led the Colts to a go ahead field goal, a
Speaker 2: sixty yarder with less than a minute to go, but
Speaker 2: then Seattle marches right back down the field and kicks
Speaker 2: a fifty six yarder to win it. But Dave still
Speaker 2: hard to process that. At age forty four, Philip Rivers
Speaker 2: Returns goes eighteen to twenty six, one hundred and twenty yards,
Speaker 2: threw a touchdown a pick on the final play, kind
Speaker 2: of a desperation pass, but man when he threw the
Speaker 2: touchdown and he turned and pumped his fist and just
Speaker 2: I've thought about it all week. Forty four years old
Speaker 2: and he came back and started. Just wasn't the backup
Speaker 2: he started an NFL game yesterday?
Speaker 3: Incredible, it really is. And uh, you know he was
Speaker 3: coaching in high school football and his high school team
Speaker 3: was watching the game as so cool. The kids, Oh,
Speaker 3: they went crazy. I mean they almost did. Jumped through
Speaker 3: the roof. I mean they were they were vertical, man,
Speaker 3: they were skying, and uh, it's just it's an unbelievable, uh,
Speaker 3: unbelievable accomplishment for phil Philip Rivers to be able to
Speaker 3: do that. Now was what kind of football shape was
Speaker 3: he in? Obviously he was able to throw the football,
Speaker 3: probably has uh some tonnage to drop and there's no
Speaker 3: question about that way.
Speaker 2: And how I must feel this morning, Oh gosh, yeah,
Speaker 2: really the first time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And That's what I was going to say about.
Speaker 3: If I'm an offensive lineman and Philip Rivers agrees to
Speaker 3: come back at the age of forty four to help
Speaker 3: us win football games, I'm protecting him with everything that
Speaker 3: I've got, every inch of my life, man, I am.
Speaker 2: I am.
Speaker 3: If Philip Rivers gets hit and I'm responsible for it.
Speaker 3: It's my guy, my my responsibility that put a lock
Speaker 3: on Philip Rivers. I'd have a hard time going back
Speaker 3: to back to the huddle and looking at us, you know,
Speaker 3: and making eye contact. Have been filing my bad. I'm sorry, man.
Speaker 3: You know it won't happen again. That is that's that's
Speaker 3: a tremendous NFL story.
Speaker 2: And I always I look for context and perspective. When
Speaker 2: I thought of this, it blew me away. Philip Rivers
Speaker 2: was taken fourth overall in the two thousand and four drafts.
Speaker 2: How long ago was that The Bengals first round pick
Speaker 2: that year was Chris Perry. I'll think about that, the
Speaker 2: Michigan running back. That's how long ago Philip Rivers was drafted.
Speaker 2: The look on Yid's face says it all. Yes, two
Speaker 2: thousand and four, Chris Perry, the Bengals, and Philip Rivers
Speaker 2: at forty four was back on the football field slinging
Speaker 2: the football yesterday.
Speaker 3: That puts it all in contest.
Speaker 2: And the final note to end the hour, the sad
Speaker 2: news out of Kansas City, man Patrick Mahomes tears acl
Speaker 2: done for this season. They say it might bleed into
Speaker 2: into next season. What an and the Chiefs get eliminated yesterday?
Speaker 2: What What a weird dynamic in the NFL to think
Speaker 2: that the Bengals and Joe Burrow aren't going to be
Speaker 2: in the playoffs, The Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes aren't going
Speaker 2: to be in the playoffs. It's it's not h It's
Speaker 2: not the way it has been. No, it's it's different.
Speaker 2: It's uh.
Speaker 3: And Jerry Jones upset too. The Cowboys and Michael Parsons
Speaker 3: aren't they all are the in the playoffs with his
Speaker 3: a cl injury. So a lot of a lot of
Speaker 3: difficult injuries. Uh, yesterday over the weekend. No National Football League.
Speaker 2: No question. That's two in the books. Let's get to
Speaker 2: our third hour. We'll hear from more from Zach, more
Speaker 2: from Joe, and fun facts with Taj Brooks. It's all
Speaker 2: ahead Bengals one of the Bengals Radio Network and seven
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Speaker 2: Agat twenty four to nothing, the final in a game
Speaker 2: that unfortunately eliminates the Bengals. Here is Zach at the
Speaker 2: podium meeting with the media after the game.
Speaker 4: You know, I think we had five trips, you know,
Speaker 4: to their side of the field and came by with
Speaker 4: no points. And just again that's as a point caller,
Speaker 4: that that starts with me. When you walk with no points,
Speaker 4: there's a huge amount of accountability that I got to
Speaker 4: take for that, but it was just an overall very
Speaker 4: frustrating day. I think we did some things that were
Speaker 4: very unorthodox on offense for us, you know, just penalties,
Speaker 4: silly penalties that were controllable on our end, you know,
Speaker 4: in some possessions where we had opportunites at points and
Speaker 4: didn't walk away with anything. I was was frustrating.
Speaker 9: What are your thoughts on that team's effort.
Speaker 5: Well, I thought, defensively, I saw some really good things.
Speaker 4: I mean, they pressured him, he didn't have a lot
Speaker 4: of time in the pocket with three or four sacks,
Speaker 4: got a turnover, had an opportunity, had another one. I know,
Speaker 4: they got in a zero beater, you know, where were
Speaker 4: something we practiced, we were ready for it, and they
Speaker 4: still got us for a touchdown. So there was some
Speaker 4: held them three points in the second half. You know,
Speaker 4: this was if my memory serves correctly, So there was
Speaker 4: some some effort, you know. That's I didn't see it
Speaker 4: lack of effort. I just saw a lack of attention
Speaker 4: to detail. Maybe on offense that really showed up. That
Speaker 4: was that was disappointing for.
Speaker 16: The reason for so many drop today and how big
Speaker 16: were those drops?
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it was everything you know, it wasn't just drops,
Speaker 4: it was it was I think everybody involved in the offense.
Speaker 5: Has got to got to own up to that performance today.
Speaker 7: Zach Jill had a kind of a unique down demeter
Speaker 7: on Wednesday. Did you notice anything different from him this week?
Speaker 18: You had a lot of condition after Pittsburgh that you
Speaker 18: guys are going to be in this until the very end.
Speaker 7: Is it stunning the fact that you're sitting here three
Speaker 7: weeks ago.
Speaker 4: And it's yeah, I think it's it's frustrating to to
Speaker 4: score zero points get shut out at home. That's that's unacceptable.
Speaker 4: Never a million year is what I've seen that coming,
Speaker 4: you know, But that's that's what happened today. So now
Speaker 4: we've got to look at why that happened, and we've
Speaker 4: got to accountable for it and and keep moving forward.
Speaker 10: Zach, why do you think you in your group of coaches, administration,
Speaker 10: top to bottom are the right group?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I believe in everybody. I believe and every do
Speaker 5: we got.
Speaker 16: You're down seventeen to nothing. I believe that drive the
Speaker 16: day ended in the pick six took like eight minutes.
Speaker 16: Anything you guys could have done there to try to speed.
Speaker 4: That up, we had some personnel issues, certainly with some
Speaker 4: injuries that we were trying to balance there. Moments we
Speaker 4: went tempo, moments we decided huddle and try to make
Speaker 4: sure we got points.
Speaker 5: On the board. The playoff contention sw.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's frustrating. This is a team that I thought
Speaker 4: was a talented team. There's gonna have a chance to
Speaker 4: do big things this year.
Speaker 5: Very similar. Joe was Joe sharp in practice rightily? Yes,
Speaker 5: how do you feel like it?
Speaker 4: I'll let him speak to that, but I know that
Speaker 4: there's some place that he's going to want to come back.
Speaker 7: Two weeks ago.
Speaker 21: You know, you guys were able to do anything at
Speaker 21: will really against Baltimore on Thanksgiving today?
Speaker 7: Did anything surprise you that they I wouldn't say that.
Speaker 4: I would say, you know it, maybe it looked easier
Speaker 4: than it really was. You know, our defense is five turnovers,
Speaker 4: five to nothing. Early on, we kicked a field goals
Speaker 4: in that game when when you'd like to come away
Speaker 4: with teschdowns, they made it really hard. So we knew
Speaker 4: that that wasn't People were going to say that. You
Speaker 4: know that we won how we won, and that was
Speaker 4: easy for us. It wasn't as far from easy you know,
Speaker 4: we scored on two third downs in that game, touchdowns,
Speaker 4: So we knew that this game was going to be
Speaker 4: very difficult, and we put a lot of time and
Speaker 4: effort to the plan and the practice, and I got
Speaker 4: to today.
Speaker 5: Film feeling really good about where we're at.
Speaker 4: And again, we just I'm not going to say that
Speaker 4: there was a single area, particularly an offense, that we're
Speaker 4: going to say that was that was nearly good enough.
Speaker 4: It wasn't even close to good enough anywhere, starting with me,
Speaker 4: and so that that part was frustrating.
Speaker 10: Why is complimentary football being difficult for this team to
Speaker 10: find the season?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's the hard one for me to answer.
Speaker 4: It hasn't been good Enough's what's the where you'll go
Speaker 4: from here? Three games out with way to win? Just
Speaker 4: just approach every single week as if we're still in it.
Speaker 4: So get something to play for and that's our responsibility
Speaker 4: and that's what we're going to continue to do.
Speaker 12: Aside from this overall, leans, what would you like to
Speaker 12: see the most as you finished off the season?
Speaker 5: Wins would be there? The one thing what did you.
Speaker 9: See from guys this week? Obviously as the playoff hom
Speaker 9: was coming in, it was a big game at home.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was important to everybody.
Speaker 4: I didn't see anything, and again this is you told
Speaker 4: me our defense is gonna sack them as many times
Speaker 4: and harass them in the pocket.
Speaker 5: And create a turnover and holding three points.
Speaker 4: In the second half. I'd sign up for that, you know.
Speaker 4: So again, just just wholesale as a team, we weren't
Speaker 4: good enough to do.
Speaker 10: Are going to want to obviously see some changes over
Speaker 10: the next three weeks or.
Speaker 5: So, giving them to vote for twenty twenty six. What
Speaker 5: is your message to the fans?
Speaker 4: Just hang with us. It's been frustrating. We're still portant
Speaker 4: our heart and soul to this thing and find a
Speaker 4: way to win. And it's it's been a frustrating season.
Speaker 4: Understand that.
Speaker 6: Just a follow up on that. I know you're just
Speaker 6: looking at this game, but looking big picture of three
Speaker 6: years of not making the playoffs. What would you like
Speaker 6: to say to the fans that give them a vote
Speaker 6: of confidence that you guys can get this right and
Speaker 6: they won't be feeling like this.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I've got great confidence. I mean, we come to work
Speaker 5: every single day.
Speaker 4: I believe in the guys we got in this locker room,
Speaker 4: coaches and players and frustrating.
Speaker 5: Frustrating season so far. We still got a couple of
Speaker 5: games left.
Speaker 4: Zachlow session tough that we just ended in a pick six,
Speaker 4: didn't get Flaco any time to warm up, and zero
Speaker 4: degree temperature basically, so try to manage it. Just hand
Speaker 4: the ball off their quick game things that would keep
Speaker 4: them out of harm way.
Speaker 5: Obviously tough spot to be in.
Speaker 4: I say, if it was anything other than zero degrees,
Speaker 4: we probably would have quickly made the change and forego
Speaker 4: them warm up. But again, just tried to as we
Speaker 4: called it, kept them out of harm's way with just
Speaker 4: any throw we made the boss coming out quick.
Speaker 21: Now that they are officially eliminated, how do you keep
Speaker 21: players heads in it for the last three weeks to
Speaker 21: keep going every day.
Speaker 4: They're professionals, you know, And that's that's why you build
Speaker 4: the locker room the way you do it, so that
Speaker 4: you don't have to worry about guys like that. You know,
Speaker 4: guys that they know how important this is not only
Speaker 4: for themselves in their career, but for all the work
Speaker 4: this team has put in and through good times and bad,
Speaker 4: go out there and put your best for four And
Speaker 4: I absolutely trust that these guys will do that.
Speaker 2: Zach Taylor on the loss yesterday and what it means
Speaker 2: going forward in the question, everybody's wondering, how what does
Speaker 2: it mean the final three? What do you do with
Speaker 2: the final three? I would think there's a lot of
Speaker 2: guys in this roster who should be thinking, I need
Speaker 2: to put something productive, and iye popping on this tape.
Speaker 2: In my best interest, I better show them something in
Speaker 2: the three games left.
Speaker 3: Bingo Lance, Absolutely, I mean I hope these players are
Speaker 3: thinking along the lines that you are right now, Miami, Arizona, Cleveland.
Speaker 3: Three more opportunities to show your stuff. And you know,
Speaker 3: I guess everybody, all the fans and coaches too, could say,
Speaker 3: what's taking you so long? Why did you wait for
Speaker 3: three games left in the season to show what you're
Speaker 3: capable of? You know, you get paid all season long
Speaker 3: to give us your best performance. Why haven't you given
Speaker 3: us your best performance? Why haven't you prepared yourself on
Speaker 3: a weekly basis to give us your best performance? But
Speaker 3: better late than never, I guess, so you better to
Speaker 3: show up. If you don't show up, we're gonna move on.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: You know we can play football in National Football League
Speaker 3: without you. You know you're not. You're not a multiple
Speaker 3: time Pro Bowl You're not. You're not a guy that
Speaker 3: we're hanging our hat on and have to have. So
Speaker 3: I'm telling you these last three weeks gonna be important
Speaker 3: for a lot of a lot of young players, not
Speaker 3: just with the Bengals, with everybody in the league.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as you were saying that, the words of Marvin
Speaker 2: Lewis resonate in my head. Do your job be a pro?
Speaker 2: And man, if i'm whether it's coaches on this staff
Speaker 2: or I'm coaches or front office on another team, maybe
Speaker 2: there's a Bengal who's a free agent potentially, I know,
Speaker 2: darn well. If I'm evaluating a Bengal, I'm going back
Speaker 2: and looking at these final three games to see how
Speaker 2: did they play when the season was over. Did they
Speaker 2: pack it in, did they have the car running to
Speaker 2: warm up the car for the offseason? How did they
Speaker 2: look when when they didn't maybe have the the incentive
Speaker 2: of a playoff chasing them? Because that's an evaluation point
Speaker 2: for me. If I'm looking at players, how do they
Speaker 2: play these last three weeks?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Because not every team in the NFL is going
Speaker 3: to make the playoffs. Yeah, you know, there's gonna be
Speaker 3: some teams that aren't. And if you're on that football team,
Speaker 3: you're expected to still give effort. I mean, they're selling
Speaker 3: tickets to the games, they're taking fans money, uh to
Speaker 3: to watch you play football. Give them a fair shake.
Speaker 3: Go out there and and and play like you can play.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm wondering too. Sometimes you know a guy
Speaker 3: doesn't play well at an organization because you know there's
Speaker 3: they're what they've decided to do offensively or defensively didn't
Speaker 3: necessarily fit that skill set that player has. Maybe another
Speaker 3: team in the league has uh some sort of a
Speaker 3: defensive or offensive schematic that fits better. You better show
Speaker 3: up and play and show that you could benefit by
Speaker 3: them taking you on that football team. You know, uh,
Speaker 3: keep your keep your career alive. It's a lot of money, man,
Speaker 3: a lot of money's at stake.
Speaker 2: Still ahead. More from Jill Burrow on yesterday, and the
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Speaker 2: We heard from Zach Taylor after the game yesterday. Let's
Speaker 2: hear a little bit more from QB one on a
Speaker 2: rough day. Here is Joe Burrow.
Speaker 7: Joe, today was the offense.
Speaker 5: Other games it's been the defense.
Speaker 13: Why has complimentary football been so hard for this team
Speaker 13: to find this year?
Speaker 7: We haven't been a good football team. You know bad football.
Speaker 7: Bad football teams do losing things, and.
Speaker 8: You know, if you're wanting to compete for championships and
Speaker 8: in the playoffs, then.
Speaker 7: Number one, your quarterback has to play better than I
Speaker 7: did today. How far does that gap feel right now?
Speaker 8: Chill between this team and what's expected of the championship level.
Speaker 7: Not that far, not that far.
Speaker 5: This is the worst you felt after loss.
Speaker 7: Probably losing losing socks.
Speaker 6: I know you're taking a lot of responsibility for today's game,
Speaker 6: but one of the main things that has come out
Speaker 6: of this season is how much is on your plate
Speaker 6: and the record when you were out when you were
Speaker 6: out and last week's perfect example the turnovers, you guys
Speaker 6: lose the game. Do you feel like there's too much
Speaker 6: weight on you where it feels like if you're not perfect,
Speaker 6: the team is good enough around you to pick you up.
Speaker 7: You know, I want everything on my plate.
Speaker 8: I want That's a position I want to be in,
Speaker 8: and you know, I feel confident all those guys locker room,
Speaker 8: Like I said today, nobody there's not a team in
Speaker 8: the NFL that would have won.
Speaker 7: The game today if if I was the quarterbacks.
Speaker 10: Teams record is headed in the wrong direction. Do you
Speaker 10: think your play is slipping down the slope in the
Speaker 10: wrong direction over the last couple of years?
Speaker 8: You know, I feel very confident in how I played
Speaker 8: obviously today in my opinion, is an outliar. I think
Speaker 8: I've been consistently great for.
Speaker 7: Years and years and years. Did they change up its
Speaker 7: all from thanks Giving? The really different that way? Maybe
Speaker 7: don't think it's giving.
Speaker 8: I said they blitzed, They blitzed less. Their front four
Speaker 8: was able to get a little more pressure, So credit
Speaker 8: to them.
Speaker 12: What kind of on that first act the fifty yard
Speaker 12: on the third down going there in what kind of
Speaker 12: happened there?
Speaker 5: Ye, Is it the same thing on the pick six?
Speaker 3: Is that kind of it?
Speaker 12: It looks like it was a similar pressure that they
Speaker 12: had on the gap.
Speaker 2: Was that the same or now I have.
Speaker 7: To see the film on that one.
Speaker 12: We'll see what This is the hardest I think you've
Speaker 12: ever been on yourself after a game.
Speaker 8: Why even I think this is one of the worst
Speaker 8: games that I've I've played.
Speaker 7: You know, I'm honest with myself.
Speaker 8: And my play, and I hold myself to high standard
Speaker 8: and today didn't come close.
Speaker 21: Joe, with playoffs off the table as a competitor, how
Speaker 21: tough will it be now to read mindset and kind
Speaker 21: of get yourself back into winding win again?
Speaker 9: You mentioned the mental mistake on the sack when you
Speaker 9: guys the first draft of the game was that.
Speaker 7: I made the wrong call.
Speaker 2: Joe after the game and Dave, we were talking earlier
Speaker 2: about Joe addressing the team, and in a comment from
Speaker 2: Jordan's Battles jumped out to me Jordan's set up, Joe.
Speaker 2: What Joe said after the game resonates with us. That
Speaker 2: should determine our attitude going into these next few games
Speaker 2: and for the rest of the season. It sends a
Speaker 2: huge message. It shows who he is as a person.
Speaker 2: Maybe he can come off as arrogant to people who
Speaker 2: don't know him, He's really one of the most humble
Speaker 2: guys I've ever met, especially with the status he has
Speaker 2: and the player he is. When he speaks up to
Speaker 2: the team, we hear it and it's like that old E. F.
Speaker 2: Hutton commercial Weddingy Hutton, people listen, that's Joe Burrow.
Speaker 3: Absolutely. I mean, he is the unquestioned leader of the
Speaker 3: football team, and in most instances, the quarterback usually is.
Speaker 3: There are some rare exceptions to the rule, but there
Speaker 3: aren't that many. And as the quarterback goes, so the
Speaker 3: team goes. You know, if the quarterback has got something
Speaker 3: going on off the football field that is affecting him,
Speaker 3: the whole team feels it. Joe Burrow said he does
Speaker 3: have some personal issues that he's dealing with and it's
Speaker 3: not related to the football team, not related to the
Speaker 3: Cincinnati Bengals organization, and he's working his way through it.
Speaker 3: All I can say is having been part of this
Speaker 3: organization for ten years as a player. In forty in
Speaker 3: the broadcast booth, two guys that come to mind, Boomer
Speaker 3: Sison leader, Boomer Sison, when things weren't going well, he
Speaker 3: grabbed the team by the collective throat and said, hey,
Speaker 3: let this is unacceptable. This, this just isn't gonna happen.
Speaker 3: We're not gonna We're not gonna tank our season like this.
Speaker 3: Kenny Anderson same way. Kenny would be very very honest
Speaker 3: in his in his comments and addressing the football team.
Speaker 3: And these guys obviously play at a high level, their
Speaker 3: Pro Bowl players. You know, guys emulate, want to emulate
Speaker 3: what they are and how important they are the community
Speaker 3: and the football team. And they're listening. They listen to
Speaker 3: those guys. So, like you said, Ef Hutton, when when
Speaker 3: Boomer Sison or when Kenny Anderson speaks, people perk up
Speaker 3: and people listen.
Speaker 2: And if there was one player on this team, if
Speaker 2: you were asking me to bet on how somebody respawns,
Speaker 2: I would place my chip on Joe Burrow. Probably not
Speaker 2: sleeping much last night, probably seething a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 2: your classics see the game unful on your on your
Speaker 2: bedroom ceiling. Yeah, because when when Joe says publicly it
Speaker 2: was a mental mistake by me, that's the stuff that
Speaker 2: just has to grade at him and drive him to
Speaker 2: next week. What would it really surprise anybody if Joe
Speaker 2: next week went out and dropped like a twenty seven
Speaker 2: of thirty one for three hundred and ninety six yards,
Speaker 2: four touchdowns, no interceptions. It would not.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't surprise on your lick, It really wouldn't. I mean,
Speaker 3: I think, you know the great ones, that's the that's
Speaker 3: how they respond, That's how they respond to adversity. Uh,
Speaker 3: they respond by going out and having one of the
Speaker 3: best games of their of their career. And Joe Burrow
Speaker 3: is a great one. You know, Joe Burrow is a
Speaker 3: future Hall of Famer. He's uh, he's one of one.
Speaker 3: They broke the mold and uh, you know he's I
Speaker 3: think he's got the last three football games of the season.
Speaker 3: I think he's gonna put up stupid numbers. I think
Speaker 3: people are gonna be like, what are you kidding me?
Speaker 3: What did he do to close the season out? I
Speaker 3: think he's capable and I think he'll do it.
Speaker 2: All Right, we're rolling through this third hour. We'll do
Speaker 2: fun facts, fantastic fun facts with Dan Horde coming up. Well,
Speaker 2: so take a look at the Miami Dolphins. It's all
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Speaker 2: Each week, we love to take a listen to what
Speaker 2: Dan Horr does with Fantastic Fun Facts. It's a sit
Speaker 2: down conversation with a member of the organization, kind of
Speaker 2: a chance to pull back the curtain and learn more
Speaker 2: about the player more along the lines of the person
Speaker 2: behind inside that helmet. This week it is Taj Brooks,
Speaker 2: the Bengals rookie running back. Here's Dan Horde and Fantastic
Speaker 2: fun Facts.
Speaker 1: No Fantastic fun Facts with.
Speaker 13: Dan ord tied for some fun facts with running Back.
Speaker 13: Taj Brooks, from Manor, Texas, not far from the capital
Speaker 13: city of Austin, describe growing up in Manor and some
Speaker 13: of the things you enjoyed doing when you were young.
Speaker 24: Oh man, the thing I did the most was just
Speaker 24: play football, went to school, and then you don't hung
Speaker 24: out with friends. That was really just the most part.
Speaker 24: And you know, I was kind of kind of a
Speaker 24: country boy at that time too. You know, it was
Speaker 24: Maynor back back in high school. It was a kind
Speaker 24: of a little suburb. Now it's a lot of a
Speaker 24: lot of things growing out there, so but it was
Speaker 24: more country when I was out there, when I was
Speaker 24: growing up and stuff, So it was fun.
Speaker 13: I read somewhere that you rode horses growing up. Was
Speaker 13: that the case? And it's still the case.
Speaker 24: It's a little bit kind of the case now, but
Speaker 24: I try to get not too much. But yeah, I
Speaker 24: grew up. I rode a little bit of horses. It
Speaker 24: was just when I was little. My aunt shout out
Speaker 24: to her. She kind of, you know, just instilled in
Speaker 24: me just just to do it for fun. And it's
Speaker 24: been it's been great ever since. But it's crazy.
Speaker 11: It's just I kind of had like a little reaction.
Speaker 24: To like one of like the horse little blanket sheets,
Speaker 24: and you know, I always I loved animals when I
Speaker 24: was little. I want to be like a vision I
Speaker 24: guess a vegetarian, not a vegetarian veninarian, Excuse me. It
Speaker 24: was just I love watching like the incredible Doctor Poe
Speaker 24: shows and things like that, so I just want to
Speaker 24: see like just the way of living over horse and
Speaker 24: things like that. But it was that's just something that
Speaker 24: I cherished the most when I was growing up.
Speaker 13: Tys. You had an exceptional high school football career, running
Speaker 13: for more than four thousand yards. When did it start
Speaker 13: to become clear that the other kids either couldn't catch
Speaker 13: you or tackle you?
Speaker 24: Really, I want to say a little league? And then
Speaker 24: going into my ninth grade year, that was my first year.
Speaker 24: I was a fresh ninth grade and you really don't
Speaker 24: see that happening in a lot of places and that
Speaker 24: kind of jectory of football. And I'm very thankful for
Speaker 24: the coach that that gave me the opportunity.
Speaker 13: Mayner isn't far from the University of Texas. I've read
Speaker 13: that the Longhorns did not recruit you. Was that the case,
Speaker 13: and if so, was it disappointing?
Speaker 24: It wasn't disappointing, But they recruited me a little bit.
Speaker 24: They kind of wanted me. It was back in twenty yeah,
Speaker 24: back in twenty twenty when it's kind of the COVID
Speaker 24: era and they had a guy, which is he's in
Speaker 24: the league actually right now, so kudos and him and
Speaker 24: things like that, but they had a guy, and I
Speaker 24: feel like text tech was the best for me, coach
Speaker 24: Matt Wells. I got recruited by him, and man, he
Speaker 24: changed my life forever. And then just the inductive of
Speaker 24: just Joey McGuire, just the things that he built there
Speaker 24: has been great.
Speaker 11: So I'm glad I'm a text take raider.
Speaker 13: You initially committed to Tulsa largely because of an assistant
Speaker 13: coach named Justin Hill, who is your running backs coach
Speaker 13: now with the Cincinnati Bengals. Described that relationship going back
Speaker 13: to the tenth grade.
Speaker 24: It was it was a great relationship. It's still great
Speaker 24: to this day. You know, the Jay Hill he does
Speaker 24: a great job with just the coach aspect and then
Speaker 24: just just being a teacher, uh, a great guy you
Speaker 24: can learn from. And then just off the field, a
Speaker 24: great uh, A great family man, a great uh somebody
Speaker 24: you wanna be like, uh when when you wanna grow
Speaker 24: up and things like that. But uh, the relationship is
Speaker 24: has been there Uh, I wanna say it, since my
Speaker 24: freshman year I committed to him and and uh that
Speaker 24: program and it was great. And then uh, he got
Speaker 24: the job here, and I knew, Uh, I knew I
Speaker 24: was kind of gonna be back.
Speaker 11: Uh, not as a Cincinnati being.
Speaker 24: I thought I know I was gonna be back in
Speaker 24: the ropes cause uh I texted him one year, I guess, Uh,
Speaker 24: I guess, congrats, I'm going to the super Bowl. And
Speaker 24: he text me back, He's like, thank you, man. So
Speaker 24: it was just a good, good seeing out of eye.
Speaker 24: And then shoot, I got blessed and I got jobbed here,
Speaker 24: So it all.
Speaker 11: Came for full like a full circle. So it's cool.
Speaker 13: We're visiting with TODJ. Brooks. You ultimately chose to play
Speaker 13: at Texas Tech. As you mentioned you're gonna be in
Speaker 13: their Hall of Fame someday you're their all time leading rusher.
Speaker 13: What did you enjoy most about your five years there?
Speaker 11: Man, It wasn't breaking the records or anything.
Speaker 24: It was just the I want to say, my teammates,
Speaker 24: the guys that I met there, the guys that I
Speaker 24: came in.
Speaker 11: With, uh we built Uh those.
Speaker 24: Are my brothers for life, and that was probably like
Speaker 24: one of the biggest things that I that I missed
Speaker 24: about college and things like that. But besides the accolades
Speaker 24: that I've broken things, but those that's probably the most
Speaker 24: important ones.
Speaker 13: In addition to your on the field success, you excelled
Speaker 13: in the classroom. You were nominated for the Campbell Award
Speaker 13: last year, which is known as the Academic Heights Been Trophy.
Speaker 13: Did your folks put a big emphasis on the classroom
Speaker 13: For sure.
Speaker 24: My mom and my dad, they pushed me academically as
Speaker 24: well as on the field. You want to be the
Speaker 24: best person in the brain before you get outside and
Speaker 24: get on the field, you know. So that's just it's
Speaker 24: been instilled to me at a young age. My Grandma's
Speaker 24: also instilled in me just you got to you gotta
Speaker 24: be a student before you be an athlete. So just
Speaker 24: learning different ways just to get better with your brain.
Speaker 24: That's just something I always honored as and you know,
Speaker 24: just want to just expand my knowledge more.
Speaker 13: The Bengals selected you in the sixth round of this
Speaker 13: year's draft. Describe that day leading up to getting the
Speaker 13: phone call from Zach Taylor.
Speaker 24: First and foremost, it was just it was a blessing
Speaker 24: I can't think enough to the man above. The Bagels
Speaker 24: got a great guy, a great a great person that's
Speaker 24: gonna come in and impact the way that he can
Speaker 24: if any opportunity that he gets.
Speaker 11: But nah, that that day was amazing.
Speaker 24: I talked to Zach, I talked to Jay Hill, and
Speaker 24: then shoot, after that, it was it was ready to work.
Speaker 23: You know.
Speaker 24: They Nothing wasn't handed, nothing wasn't given. It was just
Speaker 24: come in, learn and just be uh, whenever opportunity for
Speaker 24: this herself, be ready for the opportunity. And I can't wait.
Speaker 13: This was a crazy deep draft for running backs. I'm
Speaker 13: thinking in a normal year you would have gone several
Speaker 13: rounds earlier. How did that affect you?
Speaker 11: I really didn't. Uh, it really didn't affect me.
Speaker 24: I have I have a great team, great agent within
Speaker 24: that well and things like that.
Speaker 11: So they kept me. Uh he kept me, truly honest.
Speaker 24: He's like, man, I feel like you were one of
Speaker 24: the top backs in this class, and you know your
Speaker 24: film proves it. You can take and catch the ball
Speaker 24: great out the backfield, and you know run the ball.
Speaker 24: That's nothing, and Whitey can't question me question you about that.
Speaker 24: So man, that's just it was deep, but I feel
Speaker 24: like I separated myself just off pass protection and then
Speaker 24: catching the ball.
Speaker 11: Where we're at the field.
Speaker 13: Were the guys draft before you? Where you said yourself, Man,
Speaker 13: that guy is good, but I know I'm better than
Speaker 13: he is.
Speaker 24: For sure, you know, just the competitor in me just
Speaker 24: saying that, and then just you know, on draft day
Speaker 24: I kind of wrote and thought about every guy that
Speaker 24: went before me, so not saying when we played him,
Speaker 24: I I just wanna, you know, be the whenever I
Speaker 24: get my.
Speaker 11: Opportunity to be the best back on the field and
Speaker 11: things like that. So I just can't wait for that
Speaker 11: to happen.
Speaker 13: All right. Some wild card topics now for Bengals running
Speaker 13: back Taj Brooks. Who is your all time favorite athlete
Speaker 13: in any sport?
Speaker 11: And why I gotta be one or just one?
Speaker 13: You can pick several if you'd like.
Speaker 24: All Right, man, it's tough. I'm gonna go Kobe just
Speaker 24: because the mama mentality. I'm gonna go ray Lewis, just
Speaker 24: because a guy that's gonna come to work each and
Speaker 24: every day and give it his all, and someone that's
Speaker 24: that's gonna embrace you and you know, makes you want
Speaker 24: to do things that you want to that you don't
Speaker 24: want to do, but you're doing.
Speaker 11: And then my last.
Speaker 24: One is probably Barry Sanders, just a guy that's just
Speaker 24: very consistent as being playing a running back, being at
Speaker 24: the plane at the highest level and doing the great
Speaker 24: things that he did in the NFL. Man, it's just
Speaker 24: you always want to put yourself in that role and
Speaker 24: just want to see yourself doing those great things that
Speaker 24: he did.
Speaker 13: So Barry Sanders was before your time. Have you watched
Speaker 13: a lot of the clips on YouTube?
Speaker 14: Oh?
Speaker 24: For sure, I watch him. Then you know the Madden
Speaker 24: You know, I play Madden a lot, so I'm always
Speaker 24: using him. Walter Payton, you know, just Marshall falk Man,
Speaker 24: you can go a list goes down.
Speaker 16: Man.
Speaker 24: What I kind of watch those guys on YouTube and
Speaker 24: just you know, going what they did in the NFL
Speaker 24: and just try to see how my game can imprint
Speaker 24: and how I can take things from their game.
Speaker 13: So we're visiting the taj Brooks. For the last three years,
Speaker 13: you put on a free football clinic back home for kids.
Speaker 13: More than three hundred attended this past year. Why do
Speaker 13: you do that?
Speaker 24: I do it just it's a blessing first and foremost
Speaker 24: for the kids, and you know, just so it's been,
Speaker 24: it's free. It's something that I love, you know, giving
Speaker 24: back to my community, giving back to where I came from.
Speaker 24: And you know, you always want to get back to
Speaker 24: your hometown because they're going to support you no matter what,
Speaker 24: no matter if you're in no matter if you're you know,
Speaker 24: a college coach some day, and no matter whatever you're doing,
Speaker 24: they're gonna always support you. And I always want to
Speaker 24: give my support back to to my high schools and
Speaker 24: things like that.
Speaker 13: We know you're a good running back, we know you're
Speaker 13: a good student. You rode horses as a kid. But
Speaker 13: where do you allow to at?
Speaker 17: Uh?
Speaker 11: To be honest, I'm not a good singer. I will
Speaker 11: not I sing.
Speaker 24: I sing to myself sometimes, but it's just myself and
Speaker 24: probably my girlfriend.
Speaker 11: But besides that, I'm not a great singer at all.
Speaker 11: That's probably the one.
Speaker 13: What do you like to splur? John Man?
Speaker 24: I don't know because I haven't. Man, I'm not I'm
Speaker 24: a big I'm not a big spender. It's just it
Speaker 24: depends like I kind of left my big spending probably
Speaker 24: in my college days, but now it's just more of
Speaker 24: just I don't know, man, it's I don't really splares
Speaker 24: a lot. Second contract, probably buy a home back home,
Speaker 24: you know, buy a home, get something set up off
Speaker 24: of the off season, and you know, get something going
Speaker 24: with the off season, things like that.
Speaker 11: So just buy a home and things like that.
Speaker 13: All right. Final fun fact for Taj Brooks. This one's
Speaker 13: a little bit deep. If you could meet anybody in history,
Speaker 13: living or deceased, who would that person be?
Speaker 24: I want to say one is Nipsey Hustle. Nipsey Hustle,
Speaker 24: excuse me, just the way how powerful he is with
Speaker 24: his voice and the way he carried on his life
Speaker 24: and his legacy. And then two probably my brother Charlie Man.
Speaker 24: Just to talk to him, see how he doing up there.
Speaker 24: He passed away in twenty nineteen during a gun violence accident,
Speaker 24: So just meet him and just top it up with him.
Speaker 11: That would probably be my two. Like most coming back
Speaker 11: and just topping it up, So that probably be my
Speaker 11: things right there.
Speaker 13: Taj, appreciate your time, best off like the rest of
Speaker 13: the year.
Speaker 2: Yes, sorry, thank you, Taj Brooks. This week in the
Speaker 2: Spotlight for fantastic fun facts. More of that with the
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Speaker 2: And you know, we were talking earlier about the final
Speaker 2: three games and opportunities. Taj Brooks had four kick returns yesterday.
Speaker 2: We don't we hope Samaj p Ryan's okay this week
Speaker 2: after he was dinged up. But any opportunity for somebody
Speaker 2: like a time Brooks, whether it's kick returns or a
Speaker 2: couple of carries, that's important for him over the final
Speaker 2: three games of the season.
Speaker 3: It is it is. You know, you're there's always a
Speaker 3: valuation going on, you know, and in position coaches are
Speaker 3: taking a look at their players and okay, are they
Speaker 3: are they? Is there a play worthy of getting more opportunity?
Speaker 3: Should we give them more snaps?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: They are only three games left. But if if he
Speaker 3: were to say, you know, uh, light it up against
Speaker 3: the Miami Dolphins and give him more opportunity, see see
Speaker 3: what he does. See see how he he handles maybe
Speaker 3: a little bit more burden of responsibility against Arizona and Cleveland,
Speaker 3: to see how he responds.
Speaker 2: Still ahead, those Miami Dolphins will put them in the
Speaker 2: spotlight as we head down the stretch. Bengals Line, Bengals
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Speaker 2: this Monday Night Bengals Line. Bengals Radio Network and seven
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Speaker 2: Next up, those Miami Dolphins. They are six and seven.
Speaker 2: They're still in playoff contention. They are in action tonight
Speaker 2: against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Monday Night Football. So a
Speaker 2: short week for them in the turnaround against the Bengals.
Speaker 2: But the Dolphins are clinging to playoff hopes, desperate playoff hopes.
Speaker 2: They've won four straight. Their season had gotten sideways, but
Speaker 2: then they reeled off a win over Buffalo thirty to thirteen.
Speaker 2: They beat the Commander sixteen thirteen, They beat the Saints
Speaker 2: twenty one seventeen, and they beat up the Jets last
Speaker 2: week thirty four to ten. So four straight. They're playing football,
Speaker 2: and they're playing good football, and they're in desperation mode
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 3: Tell you the turnaround game thirty thirteen over Buffalo. We
Speaker 3: know how good Buffalo can play. I mean Buffalo came
Speaker 3: in and I mean spanked us, really really did a number,
Speaker 3: did a job. That's a good football team. They have
Speaker 3: a hell a quarterback. They've got a lot of good
Speaker 3: football players in that organization. There's no question about it.
Speaker 3: So you know, don't fall don't sleep on the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 3: The Miami Dolphins are capable of putting together, you know,
Speaker 3: a game that like where did that come from? McDaniel
Speaker 3: has done a great job because you know, other than
Speaker 3: two of they don't have a whole lot of names.
Speaker 3: It's like, oh yeah, that guy, that guy, Oh wow.
Speaker 3: I mean, they've got a lot of good, solid football
Speaker 3: players that understand what what McDaniel wants to do and
Speaker 3: how he wants to get it done. And he's he's
Speaker 3: stocked him himself in the organization in that regard, and
Speaker 3: they're playing well for him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you better better tackle well eight chan they're
Speaker 2: they're running back is rushed for over eleven hundred yards,
Speaker 2: he's averaging almost five point eight yards of carry's got
Speaker 2: seven touchdowns, so he'll be something on the ground. And yeah,
Speaker 2: they're they're they're getting right at the right time. And again,
Speaker 2: desperation drives a football team and they're certainly trying to okay,
Speaker 2: and the weather will be you mentioned the weather earlier.
Speaker 2: I looked at up up Uh, Saturday, the high is
Speaker 2: going to be in the neighborhood of eighty one degrees,
Speaker 2: maybe some early showers, but we're gonna go from ten
Speaker 2: degrees yesterday to perhaps high seventies into the low eighties
Speaker 2: on Sunday in Miami. Quite a contrast.
Speaker 3: Yeah, quite, that's dramatic, man, it really is. I mean
Speaker 3: that you go from bone chilling cold to like, hey,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be sweating freely. Man, there's no question.
Speaker 2: Uh, you know what, you know what I just thought
Speaker 2: of because everything goes back to the Freezer Bowl. It
Speaker 2: makes me think of when you guys played the Chargers
Speaker 2: in the Freezer Bowl the week before they had beaten,
Speaker 2: of all things, Miami and the and that the game
Speaker 2: where Kellen Winslow is held off the field and he's
Speaker 2: dehydrated and was so hot, and then the next week
Speaker 2: goes welcome to the Freezer Bowl and Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: Yeah really, and uh, I guess I guess, Ah, maybe
Speaker 3: a gauge for how how different those weather conditions were.
Speaker 3: The Gatorade, the gatorade in Cincinnati was frozen. The gateor
Speaker 3: raade down down there in Miami was a little bit
Speaker 3: warm as you kind of swashed it around your mouth.
Speaker 2: Beautiful. I before coming in, I happened to look it
Speaker 2: up and Bengals and Dolphins, And of course you played
Speaker 2: the Dolphins a number of times and played in the
Speaker 2: Orange Bowl. And I'm thinking of in your first year
Speaker 2: you had a Monday nighter there. But the coaches on
Speaker 2: the sidelines. Just to think Don Shula and Paul Brown
Speaker 2: really on the same field across from each other, that's
Speaker 2: just iconic, Iman, that's football big time.
Speaker 3: Oh and remember Don Shula played for Paul Brown with
Speaker 3: the Cleveland Brown He played in the secondary and Don
Speaker 3: Shula was a Paul Brown said, a very very intelligent
Speaker 3: football player. Boy, that's a shock, you know, a guy
Speaker 3: that ends up going into coaching and accumulates all the
Speaker 3: wins that Don Shula accumulated. Man, there's no doubt that
Speaker 3: he was a smart football player as a player.
Speaker 2: Man. And I looked up and I'm sure these names
Speaker 2: will ring a bell in your days of playing the Dolphins.
Speaker 2: A Verned, Yes, Bona Khani, Bob Bombhauer and aj Dewey.
Speaker 2: Guys like that. Oh, those are some names.
Speaker 3: Some names big time, no doubt. Aj Dewey out of it,
Speaker 3: out of LSU, Bob Bombhouer, Yeah, that that Kim Bokamper
Speaker 3: memories man boy. Yes. And Nick Bonakhani that little sucker. Man,
Speaker 3: I'm telling you he was like five eleven and you
Speaker 3: couldn't get under his pads. I mean that sucker would
Speaker 3: we would bring it went to Notre Dame and uh,
Speaker 3: you know I hate Notre Dame, but Bonakhani was. He
Speaker 3: was a heck of a football player. There's no doubt.
Speaker 2: We'll head down the stretch, put the raps on it,
Speaker 2: and uh send you on your way. It's Bengals On
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Speaker 2: All right, here we go. Let's put the raps on it.
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Speaker 2: By the way, along those lines, and I just thought
Speaker 2: of it now, I can't remember where I've heard him.
Speaker 2: You've had Sam Hubbard, And you're having Sam Hubbard this
Speaker 2: week again since your Wednesday Friday show Friday, somebody shows Friday.
Speaker 2: How cool was it to catch up with Sam Hubbard?
Speaker 2: Very cool?
Speaker 3: I mean he is uh, he is mister Ohio football,
Speaker 3: Moeler High School, Ohio State, Cincinnati Bengals. I mean, he
Speaker 3: is the Cincinnati kid, you know, the the rumble fumble
Speaker 3: I should say, in the Jungle, a moment where he goes,
Speaker 3: you know, coast to coast plus one hundred and two yards,
Speaker 3: incredible moment. And the thing I really respect about Sam
Speaker 3: Hubbard is he is He's as humble as humble can be. Man,
Speaker 3: humble pie all the way, you know, and he just
Speaker 3: and he he's very very thoughtful, introspective. You ask him
Speaker 3: a question and you can see, you know, he registers
Speaker 3: to question registers, He thinks about it before saying anything.
Speaker 3: He doesn't want to put his foot in his mouth.
Speaker 3: He is Uh, he's great. He has been an unbelievable
Speaker 3: symbol of greatness for the Bengals organization.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I wonder, I don't know, maybe he doesn't
Speaker 2: know what he's going to do next, but he's one
Speaker 2: of those guys. Whatever he does he will be successful.
Speaker 3: At Absolutely, he's got a foundation that's that's killing it,
Speaker 3: and it's it's helping kids that are hungry, you know,
Speaker 3: and don't have can't get enough food, they can't get
Speaker 3: three square meals at home. So he's helping the community
Speaker 3: in that regard. And uh, that's that's part of his uh,
Speaker 3: you know, the golden rule, that's part of his upbringing
Speaker 3: is help others that need help.
Speaker 2: Man, no doubt, no doubt. All right, we have put
Speaker 2: this one in the books, thankfully in many aspects because
Speaker 2: that was difficult to watch at times. Yesterday was really
Speaker 2: frustrating to watch yesterday. But the beauty of the NFL
Speaker 2: is there's next week, there's the Miami Dolphins. Let's gather
Speaker 2: here on Monday night and talk about, uh, the the
Speaker 2: bounce back of Joe Burrow and the Bengals. Does that
Speaker 2: sound like a play on Dave Lapham.
Speaker 3: Sounds like a huge plan, a big game for Joe Burrow.
Speaker 3: Intua will struggle.
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