WEBVTT - Bengals Line with Lance McAlister and Dave Lapham -- 1/5/26 0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:05.519 This is Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network. Pay Corps. 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:08.400 Pay Corp is proud to be the official HR software 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:12.320 provider of the Cincinnati Bengals, Kettering ew Best Care for 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:16.239 the Best Fans, Kettering elth official healthcare provider of US 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:21.040 Cincinnati Bengals. This is seven hundred WLW, the home of 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:22.960 the best Bengals coverage. 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:25.640 Let's get it going. Welcome in on this Monday night. 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:28.120 It's Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network in seven 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:31.880 hundred WLW. Lance McAlister Dave Lapham here to wrap up 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:35.720 yesterday and wrap up the season on a Monday where 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:39.159 we dissect twenty to eighteen finally lost to the Cleveland 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:43.920 Browns which closes the season at six and eleven, and today, boy, emotionally, 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:45.480 there were moments in that game in the first half, 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:47.640 I thought what is going on in this game? 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:48.040 Right? 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:50.120 And then there were moments is Burrow leads him down 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:51.959 the field of his chase as I'll be dad, They're 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:54.880 going to win this thing. And then Shador Sanders does 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:56.720 what I didn't think he was capable of doing and 0:00:56.760 --> 0:00:59.200 marches him down the field, and I thought, well, it 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:02.960 is kind of fitting that all the elements, all the ingredients, 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:05.400 all the symptoms of this season through the first sixteen 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:07.520 weeks are kind of stirred together, and we saw them 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:11.479 all pop up at various times, and unfortunately, a twenty 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:12.240 to eighteen loss. 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:18.080 A twenty to eighteen loss, and Zach basically, I'm loose 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:21.319 interpretation here of what he said, but it was like, hey, 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:23.800 you get what you earn and deserve, you know, I mean, 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:28.080 we never put that game away. We turned the football over, 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:32.400 we allowed them to score two defensive touchdowns. Shouldn't have 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:34.360 won that football game. And we didn't win the football 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:37.280 game as a result of our mistakes, you know, turnovers, 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:42.080 not efficient enough on third down. If they didn't turn 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:45.200 the football over and they scored on the possessions that 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:49.520 they gave them with turnovers, who knows what the final 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:52.120 score of this football game could have been. The Cleveland 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:56.280 Browns are below average as a football team. There's no 0:01:56.360 --> 0:02:00.920 question about that. The Cincinnati Bengals had done well. I mean, 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:02.560 they were they were looking to finish with a three 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:04.600 game winning streak, they were looking to finish Foreign Tune 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:07.320 Division and all that went by the boards, and it's 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:09.640 their own doing that. They self destructed. 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:12.800 Here is Zach Taylor with Dave after the game for 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:13.720 immediate reaction. 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:15.919 It's a tough ending for us, you know, to lose 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:19.400 a divisional game versus arrival at home, this is challenging, 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:22.840 and we had our opportunities and we didn't make it happen. 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.760 You you were in the stadium was pretty well rocking. 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:32.440 Uh stadium did a did a pretty nice job. Fans 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:36.640 showed up Cleveland. Some Cleveland fans obviously traveled down from Cleveland, 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:38.919 but I mean people showed up for this football game. 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:42.040 Battle of Ohio. It's always big and it was part 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:44.440 two of the Battle of Ohio. What do you think 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:46.720 was the biggest reason that fell a little bit short? 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:51.640 Well, the two turners touchdowns obviously don't don't help, because 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:53.760 our defense really did a nice job. 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:54.840 They kept him to six points. 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:59.280 Two field goals created turnover and and so that that 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.160 parts frustrating to have two extra points I go away 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:03.520 and have two turnovers for touchdowns. 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:06.080 That's that's a that's a really tough way to lose. 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:09.639 This is going to be a statistical anomaly this game. 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:12.760 I mean it'll be for the season. I don't think 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:15.440 there's anything quite like this football game that anybody else 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:17.760 may have experienced this year. I don't think I've ever 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:19.720 seen anything like it in the years that I've been, 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:23.800 you know, playing in broadcasting for the Cincinnati Bengals. I 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:27.240 mean it, it's it's it's a shame. But you know, 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.480 the thing that it proved to me is what I 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:34.640 think is the most impressive thing I take away from 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:39.800 from this season is this football team never quits. They 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:41.760 have never say die attitude. There are a bunch of 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.960 good people out there and good football players as well. 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:46.720 Yeah, two things can be true. We can have a 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:49.000 disappointing season. I still be really proud of our guys, 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:52.560 go to battle with them any day. And we got 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:54.120 to work hard this offseason. We got to work hard 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:55.960 the soft season. We got to get ourselves back to 0:03:56.000 --> 0:04:00.400 being meaningful conversations, playing meaningful games, because this hurt. You know, 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:01.960 to be done a week eighteen and have to watch 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:04.840 everybody else play and be out of it is not 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:06.600 in our dna, and we're gonna find like hell to 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:07.160 get back in it. 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:10.600 This is always a tough time because as a head coach, 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:13.160 it's the last time you addressed this football team with 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:16.719 this coaching staff. There could be changes within the coaching staff, 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:20.120 within the player roster, whatever the case may be. I 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:24.760 do know from playing experience and that from one year 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:27.560 to the next, there's going to be some different faces 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:28.320 in the locker room. 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:30.320 Yeah, that's how it goes. You know, That's life in 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:34.320 the NFL and doesn't mean I don't enjoy going to 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:36.480 battle with all these guys and understanding that things will 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:39.800 change that. Everybody knows that, and we'll just keep working 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:40.039 through it. 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.400 What do you think is the is the most necessary 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:46.320 component for you to add for this football team to 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:48.440 be a playoff caliber team. 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:52.080 Well, I think that's just that's just part of what 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:55.760 we'll go through in the offseason and make sure we're 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:57.719 putting our best foot forward. 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:02.120 That's what people don't realize and understand is in the offseason, 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:06.680 all the study that goes into evaluating the prior season, 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:10.000 evaluating talent that might be available to you in the 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:13.640 upcoming draft, looking at free agents in the National Football 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.040 League that might be available to you. There's a lot 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:17.039 that goes on, isn't there. 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:19.120 Yeah, And there's a lot that Well there's a time 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:22.000 and place for all that, you know, So we'll decompress, 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:25.360 wrap up this season tomorrow with these guys, make sure 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:27.240 we finish all that the right way, and then you 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:29.760 move to the next phase of you know, getting you 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:31.800 FOOTBA team right for twenty twenty six, and we'll spend 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:32.520 a lot of time on that. 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:33.279 Coach. 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:37.760 As I said, appreciate you here a class act. The 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:41.760 Bengals fans are very fortunate, and they know they're fortunate, 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:44.920 and they look forward to the information you give them 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:48.400 to keep them abreast of their Cincinnati Bengals, their favorite 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:51.159 football team. Appreciate your time, sir, Thank you, Dave, Appreciate you. 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:54.720 Zach Taylor after the game, and boy David winds up 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:57.520 being another one score game, and so much of the 0:05:57.600 --> 0:05:59.960 NFL is one score games. That seems it's a very 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:03.880 parody driven close game. That's twelve times over the last 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:07.279 two seasons they've been so close to winning a game, 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:09.800 but it goes the other way. And that's that's like 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:12.400 the merging of life in the NFL. You teeter and 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:15.000 if you find a way to find the wind up 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:17.159 on this side of it, you make the playoffs most 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:19.320 of the time, and when you don't, you wind up. 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:21.640 Like we are discussing what what wrong in a season? 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:25.120 Yeah, and as a result of that, the you know, 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.920 the Bengals don't make the playoffs again. The fan base 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:32.760 is disturbed. There's unrest in the fan base and deservedly so, 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:37.000 and they want changes. I mean, obviously, Joe Burrow is 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:39.159 playing at a high level and he will continue to 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:42.359 be the Bengals quarterback. Jamar Chase will continue to be 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:46.800 the primary receiver the one number one receiver, and other 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:50.520 side of the of the football field is t Higgins 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:52.760 and he's like one a. I mean, he's a one 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:55.240 with a lot of franchises in the National Football League. 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:58.159 So those three components, I mean, that's that's a nice 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:00.600 start to build a football team. But I'll tell you what, 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:05.919 if I'm anybody else, I'm not going home into the 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:08.920 offseason thinking, yeah, I'll be back. I got this made. 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:10.720 I got this football team made. We're going to come 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:13.520 back and get after it again. It's a young football team. 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:17.000 I think there's some room to grow. There's me down 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:19.120 the bone, but I think some of the young football 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.920 players did develop during the course of the season, for sure, 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:24.360 and they got a lot better as the season went on. 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:28.240 And again they can improve even more, but I do 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:30.240 think there are going to be changes in the personnel. 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:33.760 I think the fifty three men roster as such is 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:35.640 going to look different next year for sure. 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:39.080 Dave to update and case fans missed it earlier in 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:41.840 the day, The team and Mike Brown did issue a 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:45.560 statement earlier today. It reads, in part, we came into 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.239 the season with high expectations, coming off four straight winning 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:50.320 seasons with leaders in place that took us to the 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:53.000 super Bowl at two AFC Championship games. We know this 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:56.200 season has been frustrating and disappointing. The results fell short 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:58.800 of our standards. Our focus is on building a team 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:02.360 that can consistently compete at a high level. After thoughtful consideration, 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:04.840 I am confident that Duke Tobain and Zach Taylor are 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:08.200 the right leaders to guide us forward. He closed by saying, 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:10.280 we are taking a hard look at everything we do 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.760 as we approach this offseason with focused determination to build 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:17.720 a championship caliber roster. We are fully committed to delivering 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:21.520 results that match the pride, passion, and expectations of this 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:24.080 organization and our fans. 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:25.240 Well. 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:27.960 I think you know he probably felt some pressure to 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.920 come out with a statement because of the unrest in 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:34.560 the fan base, and like we talked about the social 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:37.959 media on Mike is one that hits the social media 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:40.480 hard before he goes to bed. But I know, I 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:42.880 know Katie is aware of it, Troy's aware of it, 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:44.720 the daughters, the girls are aware of it. 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:48.880 So very important offseason ahead, now, no question. 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:51.480 I think I think it's a crossroads off season, you know. 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:54.080 I mean, I do think because when you have a 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:57.840 quarterback like Joe Burrow, you don't want to waste seasons. 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:01.280 You don't want to waste opportunities, you know, And I 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:04.240 think that that's what the fans are most frustrated about. 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:06.520 That You've had a guy who could lead you to 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:08.720 a super Bowl and a Super Bowl victory and you've 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:12.680 wasted opportunities. So I think that had enough of that. 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:15.280 Let's move on, make the changes we need to make, 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:17.240 and go out and compete and try to get in 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:19.560 the playoffs and win a super Bowl next year. Perfect segue. 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:20.240 We move on. 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:22.439 You'll hear a little bit from QB one, Joe Burrow 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.559 and more as we dissect yesterday and look ahead of 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:26.959 the off season. We roll on with Bengals Line of 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:33.760 the Bengals Radio Networking seven hundred WLW back on Bengals 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:36.840 Line and the Bengals Radio Networking seven hundred WLW Lance 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:38.800 but can Lester Dave Lapham, thanks for hanging out with 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:41.040 us on this night where we put the season to rest. 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:44.520 Joe Burrow yesterday was twenty nine of thirty nine, two 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.400 hundred and thirty six yards, three touchdowns, quarterback rating of 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:50.119 one oh four point two and was very very reflective 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:52.960 of the season completed and what's ahead for this team? 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:54.280 Here is QB one. 0:09:54.559 --> 0:10:02.320 Yeah, we just beat ourselves today, fall stars, turnovers, Eliot 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:09.880 uh mental airs certainly wasn't high level football today. 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:12.360 Do you think that's. 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:13.840 Because it was the end of the season. 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:16.480 If you think it's just sometimes you have those games 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:18.559 the opponent make sure. 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:25.160 It's tough to say. I mean, we certainly can't have 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:28.600 the mental areas we have today. Why what caused that? 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:32.000 I don't know, I don't know, but I can't happen. 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:35.800 Do You were able to keep Miles Garrett out until 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:38.480 we finally got the one late? How big of the 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:42.800 game part of the game plan was keeping him neutralized 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:43.439 and out of that. 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:45.760 Yeah, you have you have to if you want to 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:50.720 be successful. Against that team. He's the focus of our 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:53.480 game plan every time we plan. It's no secret you 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:58.120 have to and it's challenging because you have to commit 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:01.280 resources to that and that takes away resources from from elsewhere. 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:04.120 But for the most part, I thought we were pretty 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:07.120 good against him today, But you can see how impactful 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:09.679 we have no help on him one time and he 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:11.480 gets one, and that. 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:12.040 He was. 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:15.680 I'm pretty sure it is him that put his put 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:17.800 his hand up and knocked the ball down on the 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:20.480 goal line into an interception. I don't know that for 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.440 sure because I've watched the tape, but it was his side. 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:25.719 It was one of those guys over there. So he's 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:31.040 an aware elite player that you have to revolve your 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:31.680 game plan around. 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:34.199 Really asked you a lot about the future. 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:36.600 I'm sorry for a few future questions. 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:37.600 Last time we get to talk to. 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:38.240 You for a little bit. 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:40.800 How involved do you plan to be? 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:44.880 I know you said quarterback, but you also know your 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:47.520 voice carries a lot of weight here in this organization. 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:51.200 How involved do you plan to be in conversations with 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:56.920 Mike d zach immediately following the season about what you 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:59.280 think and what you want this franchise to do to 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:01.760 make sure this off season goes the way that you 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:02.240 wanted to. 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:08.679 We'll have those meetings the next couple of days. I think. 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:12.559 I think for the most part, we're all on the 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:14.640 same page about what we have to do and where 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.520 we have to go. Without having the meetings. It's tough 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:25.280 to say, but I know they certainly value my opinion. 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:30.720 I think I think about things critically. I think that 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:36.160 I can provide some insight into things going on in 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:40.280 the lockerom and on the field that could help us win, 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:45.200 and so I plan to voice some things, just like 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:47.480 I do every off season, just to follow up on that. 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.319 I know you're not going to share a lot publicly, but. 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:51.840 Whatever you're comfortable shared. 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:54.640 If you had to say, what would you want to 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.480 see most of this off season done by this organization 0:12:57.600 --> 0:12:59.320 to help support you, what would you say? 0:12:59.360 --> 0:12:59.640 It is. 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:11.400 Good. Yeah, it's tough to say right now without talking 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:14.240 to two people, and those meetings will be done the 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:17.600 next few days. I'm very confident in our coaching staff. 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.000 I know those guys work really hard to put us 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:26.440 in good positions, and you know, I always feel well 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:31.800 prepared and putting the best spot to go out and succeed. 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:37.600 So from that standpoint, I think we're in a good spot. 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:39.800 Do you have the same level of confidence in the 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.040 organization as you did at the beginning. 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:44.120 Of the year? Higher or lower? We all want to win. 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:44.959 We all want to win. 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:50.240 Do you think you're the championship mindset is being matched organizationally? 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:51.320 Do you see that? 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:52.240 Do you feel that? 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:59.080 I mean, I sure, hope so. I think I know 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:04.440 everybody's frustrated right now. So it's hard to there's a 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:07.880 there's a there's a disconnect during the season. You know, 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:12.000 we we're all down here and focus on the day 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:15.000 to day and trying to get better, and it's their 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.120 job upstairs focus on the big picture and where we 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:19.560 need to go and who we need to be. So yeah, 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:21.480 I know they're committed to that. 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:24.240 When you guys were winning division titles and going to 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.960 the AFC Championship Game and went to Super Bowl fifty six, 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:30.240 the big reason why some of your free agents that 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:34.160 you guys brought into Nick Stertle, guys, do you think. 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:39.480 For this organization, Yeah, that's that's that's of paramount importance. 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:47.840 I think you have to identify where you're weak and 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.160 figure out a way to be strong in that area. 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:54.720 That's that's the NFL year in and year out. Sometimes it 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:58.600 works out, sometimes it doesn't, but you have to attack 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:01.120 that period with intent to get better. 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:05.840 Pretty surprised, and Eric got the record exact said the 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:07.760 officials hadn't informed him in advance. 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:14.080 Yeah, I mean, was I surprised? No, No, I wasn't surprised. 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:16.280 That's typically how they handle those kinds of situations. 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:18.400 You walk us through that play and that that led 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:20.120 on the on a sack what y'all called it, kind 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:21.000 of how he won? 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:28.080 Do you remember, you know, I'm trying. I'm trying to 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:34.880 remember if we had It's tough to recall right now, 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:41.960 the exact protection ideas on that whether we because certain 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:45.160 certain looks you can't you can't have help on on 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:50.360 ninety five because of the potential pressure responses that they give. 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:53.000 But it's it's tough to it's have to remember the 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:55.200 exact call in that situation off the top of my head. 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:58.880 Going back to some of the earlier questions, you guys 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:01.280 are walking now from being a postseason, does that kind 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:03.600 of where on you and build maybe a little bit 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:06.160 more pressure, you know, on everybody. Let's getting back to 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:07.960 that point when he gets further and further away from 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:09.080 where y'all expect to be. 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:18.440 We certainly where we want our need to be, now 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:26.520 where I expect to be. So yeah, we have figured out. 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:27.360 We got to figure it out. 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:30.080 Joe Burrow after the game on What's Ahead. We'll hear 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:32.160 more from Joe and certainly talk more Joe as we 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:34.640 continue on tonight. Thanks for being here. It's Bengals Line 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:41.360 of the Bengals Radio Network at seven hundred WLW, and 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:43.520 we keep moving along with this Monday Night, A Bengals 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:46.440 Line of the Bengals Radio networking seven hundred WLW. Im 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:48.840 Liions MacAllister hanging out with Dave Lapham for the final 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:52.040 time tonight, sorting through yesterday and sorting through the off 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:55.680 season ahead cam sample yesterday six tackles, two sacks, he 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:58.880 forced to fumble, and he talked about the afternoon after 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:01.000 the games same. 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:03.040 You know, we wanted to set the tempover. You know, 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:04.720 it's the AFC North game. We played them already, we 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:06.240 know what type of game it's gonna be. So I 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:08.040 think we approach with around mindset, just gotta make the 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:08.679 players at the end. 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.480 A lot of young guys on the defensive line today. 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:13.879 We saw it for long periods of time. How do 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:17.680 you think this group, if you Miles Schamar did as group? 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:19.480 Yeah, I think we did good. You know, I always 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:21.399 gotta watch your tape. It's always you know, stuff can 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:22.840 clean up. Not as good as you think, not as 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:24.320 bad as you think. So, I mean, I think the 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:26.320 energy was, their attention to detail was there. We just 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:28.359 got probably small things to clean up to, you know, 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:29.840 not even be in that position at the end of 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:31.359 the game xact contrad up with the. 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:34.240 Fact that it was kind of an appropriate ending to 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:37.920 this game for the season and what it represented. What 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:39.800 do you think you guys can do to make sure 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:41.440 that you can finish next year? 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:44.199 Yeah, I think it's just about playing complementary football at 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:45.959 the right times. You know, it's been times this year 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:47.880 where the offense has been rolling defense you know, had 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:50.000 our issues and or or you know, they have stuff 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:52.280 going on. So just playing a complete game as a team, 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:54.040 you know, I think that's just the mindset going forward. 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:56.080 Do you think the pieces are in this locker room 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:58.280 You're confident that the pieces are in this locker room to. 0:17:58.320 --> 0:17:58.960 Turn it around? 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:00.560 Yeah, I mean, yeah, for sure, cause I think we've 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:02.680 seen it at times offense been rolling, defense and rolling. 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:04.320 So the pieces are here, we just gotta it was 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:06.439 just a consistency thing on my uh in my opinion. 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:07.960 So I think all the pieces are here for sure. 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:11.160 What important is it cam when younger players or guys 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:14.720 without as much experience, when they get a shot they perform. 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:16.560 Yeah, you know, uh, it's important. You know, first of all, 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:18.560 just for confidence. I mean that's half the battle right there. 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:21.119 And then you know, it's a really talented league. So 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:23.920 just getting those experience reps, it's just huge for young guys. 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:26.320 I remember coming in those reps I got my rookie year, 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:27.960 you know, I take them stuff with me. I learned 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:30.080 even to this day, So it's just a big experience. 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:33.040 Then coming in thanks, I'm coming back coming back from 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:35.399 a serious injury. How do you feel like the season 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:37.640 went for you? And and finishing on this kind of a. 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:40.840 Note, Yeah, I mean goal WI is definitely not the 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:43.840 season I wanted to have. I got big expectations for myself. 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:46.600 I think towards the end of the season, playing more, 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:48.280 got to put some good stuff on tape. I think 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:50.560 I ended well. So I'm just happy to you know, 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:52.040 just kind of show them mine. I still can I 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:52.840 still can play ball. 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:56.000 It was a good day for the defense that unfortunately 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:58.959 ended with a disappointing finish. How do you to bal 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:01.160 how do you balance at emotionally? 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:03.280 You know, it's tough, man. I mean we're warriors. We 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:04.600 go out there, we want to win. We want to 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:06.240 do it perfect for four quarters. That's just not the 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:08.760 nature of the game. But you know, but that's how 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:09.920 we want to you know, we want to be out 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:11.520 there with the game in the line, like putting on 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:13.360 our shoulders. So I mean next time, you know, net 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:14.840 season just going forward, just got to find a way to 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:15.440 make those players. 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:20.320 Man, defense got better, maybe not week by week, but 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:23.240 certainly in the second half of the season. How encouraged 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:23.760 are you by that? 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:26.440 You know, it's good. You know, I think I was 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:29.000 consistent his messages. I think our defense coaches did the 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:31.600 hell of a job. Even the offensive guys. You know, 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:33.800 when things aren't going with you know, they're lifting us 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:35.399 up and all that so we can come together and 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:37.040 really play our style of football. 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:38.080 So I think it was just huge. 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:40.680 We're standing right in a stretch of defensive line locker 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:43.040 rooms on our lockers rather on either side of you. 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:46.040 How encouraged are you by the play of some of 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:47.880 your brothers up there in the defensive line. 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:49.760 Yeah, you know, it's good to see, you know, just 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:51.960 most obvious Murph. You know, I know how hard he worked. 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:53.280 You know, I've been here since he was a rookie. 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:56.000 Just so just seeing his growth is huge. Chamar, just 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:58.200 learning week the week, seeing said come in, make some plays. 0:19:58.200 --> 0:19:59.280 So it's just good to see those guys. 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:01.240 I don't know how much put into it, So when 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:03.359 I see the results, I know it's they're happy, and 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:04.080 I'm happy for him. 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:05.240 Appreciate you, Kam, Thank you. 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:08.919 Appreciate So Cam Sample after a very productive day and David, 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:12.040 I think it feels like he's been here a long time, 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:14.880 and he realized he's still only twenty six years old. 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:18.120 He's coming off that achilles injury that wiped out last season. Boy, 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:21.080 if you're looking ahead, you need young guys to keep 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:22.879 getting better. And what a way to go into the 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:24.720 off season for Cam Sample. And you got to feel 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:26.520 good for the way he bounced back from the injury. 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:28.840 Yeah, I agree one hundred thousand percent with that, Lance, 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:32.240 you know, and he's his talent. He's a physical talent. 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:35.960 He has fought the injury bug. You know, just when 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:38.840 things start to look like they're falling into place for him, 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:41.880 he gets nicked up and he's down and having to 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:44.919 go through in some cases surgery and rehab and all 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:47.960 that sort of thing. So you know, that'll definitely slow 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:51.920 your progress progress down in terms of development, particularly when 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:55.119 you're a young player like that. I think, honestly, the 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:58.760 two young guys, Miles Murphy and Cam Sample both of them. 0:20:58.760 --> 0:21:02.399 Miles Murphy's battles injury problems as well, But both of 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:06.240 these guys are physically what you want. I mean, they're specimens. 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:08.919 They get size, they get strength, they get speed, they 0:21:08.960 --> 0:21:11.600 get first step quickness, they get all all the things 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:14.480 that you're looking for. And I think they could be, 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:17.080 you know, a really good tande for the future. Am 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:20.840 I saying? If your first pick in the top ten 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:23.280 looks like Bengal's gonna have the tenth pick of the draft, 0:21:23.320 --> 0:21:27.439 and if there's an edge rusher that is still on 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:30.160 the board and you're like got to take that guy, 0:21:30.320 --> 0:21:33.000 take them, take them. You can never have enough. I mean, 0:21:33.000 --> 0:21:36.320 now you could have a three player rotation in there. 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:39.439 And maybe the tenth pick of the draft gets more 0:21:39.480 --> 0:21:42.199 snaps than the others because he panned out. He's a 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:44.199 tenth pick of the draft and he panned out, but 0:21:44.240 --> 0:21:47.680 there's no guarantees of that, so it'll be it'll be 0:21:47.720 --> 0:21:49.440 interesting to see what the Bengals do in the draft, 0:21:49.480 --> 0:21:51.160 but I think they do have a couple of young 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:55.840 edge rush guys that could be pretty significant and making 0:21:56.119 --> 0:21:57.679 major contributions in the future. 0:21:57.840 --> 0:22:00.359 That's some defensive talk. Let's get back into the offense 0:22:00.359 --> 0:22:02.280 and a guy who wrapped up one heck of a season, 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:05.080 Chase Brown, will from him as we continue Bengals On 0:22:05.080 --> 0:22:11.600 on the Bengals Radio networking seven hundred WLW. Hey, we 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:13.720 continue on in this Monday night of Bengals Line and 0:22:13.760 --> 0:22:16.960 the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW Lance McAllister 0:22:17.080 --> 0:22:20.240 hanging out with Dave Lapham Chase Brown. Yesterday thirteen carries 0:22:20.480 --> 0:22:23.040 seventy two yards the average five point five a carry 0:22:23.080 --> 0:22:27.320 along of nineteen added in four catches, including another touchdown. 0:22:27.400 --> 0:22:30.760 He's been a touchdown machine. Here's Chase with Dave after 0:22:30.800 --> 0:22:31.200 the game. 0:22:31.480 --> 0:22:33.320 What was the difference in how you were playing down 0:22:33.359 --> 0:22:33.800 the stretch. 0:22:35.480 --> 0:22:38.280 I think we were we were just connecting on all levels. 0:22:38.960 --> 0:22:42.280 We're keeping Joe up Oline, was doing a great job 0:22:42.280 --> 0:22:44.960 in the run blocking, We're making big plays down the field, 0:22:45.000 --> 0:22:49.480 and when that all comes together, that's the Cincinnati Bengals offense. 0:22:49.560 --> 0:22:54.479 So that's what was going right. And I'm honestly grateful 0:22:54.520 --> 0:22:56.520 that we were able to find that because that's, like, 0:22:57.320 --> 0:23:00.159 you know, that's hard to find sometimes, especially with you know, 0:23:00.200 --> 0:23:02.640 the way that we started and the struggles that were going. 0:23:04.040 --> 0:23:06.119 In hindsight, it does feel good to, you know, be 0:23:06.160 --> 0:23:06.920 able to find that. 0:23:07.720 --> 0:23:09.800 We're speaking with Chase Brown, by the way, who's a 0:23:10.040 --> 0:23:12.320 Bengals running back extraordinary, who had a hell of a 0:23:12.359 --> 0:23:15.880 year this year. A thousand yards rushing for the first time. 0:23:16.040 --> 0:23:16.879 What's that feel like? 0:23:17.040 --> 0:23:17.640 Feels great? 0:23:18.240 --> 0:23:21.320 I was ten yards off it last year, got injured 0:23:21.320 --> 0:23:26.240 in Week sixteen against the Broncos. So it feels good 0:23:26.280 --> 0:23:29.359 to finish off the year with you know, that statistical measure, 0:23:29.480 --> 0:23:33.359 but still a lot more that. You know, we want 0:23:33.359 --> 0:23:38.639 to achieve as a team, so you want to be 0:23:38.680 --> 0:23:42.600 in the playoffs, you want to make a long postseason push. 0:23:42.680 --> 0:23:46.800 So that's kind of where I'm at right now. Just 0:23:48.000 --> 0:23:50.679 sucks that we're not doing that. But I guess it 0:23:50.720 --> 0:23:52.440 feels good to hit a thousand. 0:23:52.840 --> 0:23:55.320 And really, like you mentioned nine to ninety the year before, 0:23:55.359 --> 0:23:58.119 almost two thousand yards rushing, what you went over one thousands, 0:23:58.119 --> 0:24:01.480 So about two thousand yards rushing in a two season stretch. 0:24:02.760 --> 0:24:05.480 It speaks to consistency, and I think that's the definition 0:24:05.560 --> 0:24:08.080 of Chase Brown. I think you are as consistent of 0:24:08.200 --> 0:24:11.080 football players not only does this year's team and this 0:24:11.160 --> 0:24:12.920 team has had, but that I've ever seen. I mean, 0:24:13.520 --> 0:24:16.679 you go out and take care of business, try my 0:24:16.720 --> 0:24:20.000 best to do my job. Yeah, I mean, what where 0:24:20.040 --> 0:24:21.639 does that come from? Is that just the way you 0:24:21.680 --> 0:24:23.719 were you were raised, the way you were brought up, 0:24:23.720 --> 0:24:24.879 the way you approach everything. 0:24:25.160 --> 0:24:29.120 I think as a professional, the most important thing is consistency. 0:24:29.400 --> 0:24:29.920 Uh. 0:24:30.400 --> 0:24:31.760 You don't want to go out. 0:24:31.600 --> 0:24:33.399 One year, have a good year, and then come back 0:24:33.440 --> 0:24:35.080 the next one and flunk it. So I think the 0:24:35.080 --> 0:24:36.520 most important thing is putting in. 0:24:36.440 --> 0:24:38.400 The work to be able. 0:24:38.200 --> 0:24:38.920 To be consistent. 0:24:39.119 --> 0:24:42.760 So I think the best part, too, is I think 0:24:42.800 --> 0:24:44.440 the overall quality. 0:24:44.200 --> 0:24:45.400 Of what. 0:24:47.960 --> 0:24:50.360 You know I put out there on tape was much 0:24:50.400 --> 0:24:52.640 better than last year. So I feel like I took 0:24:52.640 --> 0:24:53.359 a step forward. 0:24:55.400 --> 0:24:58.640 But it sucks. 0:24:58.320 --> 0:25:00.480 Because you know, you want to you want to play 0:25:00.480 --> 0:25:03.879 in the postseason. That's kind of probably be how I 0:25:03.920 --> 0:25:06.000 finish everything here is you want to be in the postseason, 0:25:06.000 --> 0:25:07.600 and it sucks that we're not there, And you know 0:25:07.640 --> 0:25:09.440 we'll figure out a way to do that this offseason 0:25:09.480 --> 0:25:11.120 and come back next You're a better team. 0:25:11.600 --> 0:25:14.080 I know you take great pride in your performance. Take 0:25:14.119 --> 0:25:16.560 great pride and being a pro get take great pride 0:25:16.560 --> 0:25:19.720 and being a Cincinnati Bengal. And the thing that, again 0:25:20.320 --> 0:25:23.240 is the most impressive thing to me is how complete 0:25:23.280 --> 0:25:25.040 you are as a running back. I mean, you run 0:25:25.080 --> 0:25:27.800 the ball great, like the numbers show it, but you're 0:25:27.800 --> 0:25:30.280 also a great receiver of the football. You run great routes. 0:25:30.320 --> 0:25:33.280 Joe Burrow trust you, respects you. You catch the football, 0:25:33.280 --> 0:25:35.120 you tuck it away, you don't turn it over. You're 0:25:35.119 --> 0:25:37.199 a great blitz pickup guy. You stick your nose right 0:25:37.200 --> 0:25:42.920 in the chest of linebackers and safeties. What in your mind? 0:25:44.080 --> 0:25:46.760 How proud are you about being a complete football player. 0:25:48.600 --> 0:25:54.720 I think there's what's required here to play running back 0:25:54.720 --> 0:25:57.720 for the CINCINNTI Bengals. You look at everybody in our room. 0:25:58.119 --> 0:25:59.840 We're all able to run the ball. We're all able 0:25:59.880 --> 0:26:02.800 to you know, passertech. We're all able to catch the ball. 0:26:02.920 --> 0:26:07.520 So that's what we take in pride in take pride 0:26:07.520 --> 0:26:10.359 in here is you know everything that you can do. 0:26:10.400 --> 0:26:12.679 You want to be a complete back, but I mean 0:26:12.720 --> 0:26:16.639 we got we have three complete backs and even the 0:26:16.640 --> 0:26:18.320 guys on a practice squad could do it as well. 0:26:18.400 --> 0:26:20.239 So that's that's what we take pride in here as 0:26:20.240 --> 0:26:24.080 a group, and we're going to keep being that, you know, 0:26:24.160 --> 0:26:25.840 as long as we're all here in Cincinnati. 0:26:26.520 --> 0:26:29.240 Chase, congratulations on an outstanding season. I know you gave 0:26:29.280 --> 0:26:31.199 it everything you have with the Cincinnati Bengals and you 0:26:31.200 --> 0:26:31.960 did a hell of a job. 0:26:32.000 --> 0:26:34.119 Thank you, Dave. What a season for Chase Brown. You 0:26:34.160 --> 0:26:37.120 look at the numbers as they added up one thousand 0:26:37.160 --> 0:26:39.080 and nineteen yards on the ground, So cool to get 0:26:39.119 --> 0:26:41.760 over a thousand yesterday. You every four point four yards 0:26:41.760 --> 0:26:45.600 of carry, six touchdowns on the ground, sixty nine catches, 0:26:46.359 --> 0:26:51.119 almost fifteen hundred yards and yards from scrimmage, and a 0:26:51.160 --> 0:26:53.800 total of eleven touchdowns. What a heck of a season 0:26:53.840 --> 0:26:57.600 and a next step up in a level climb for 0:26:57.760 --> 0:26:59.240 Chase Brown. 0:26:58.880 --> 0:26:59.719 No doubt. 0:27:00.359 --> 0:27:03.399 Man. Well, you know when you're talking over eleven hundred 0:27:03.960 --> 0:27:08.159 yards from you know, rushing and now you throw in. 0:27:09.200 --> 0:27:11.320 He's he's a factor in the in the passing game, 0:27:11.520 --> 0:27:15.000 almost another five hundred yards. Eleven touchdowns, man, I mean 0:27:15.000 --> 0:27:18.359 that's a that's a touchdown maker right there. Chase Brown 0:27:18.440 --> 0:27:21.879 is a guy that is has been very blessed. He's 0:27:21.880 --> 0:27:26.640 he's extremely strong. He's he's very interesting in the way 0:27:26.640 --> 0:27:29.000 he's built. He's five nine five ten, probably two hund 0:27:29.480 --> 0:27:34.399 two hundred and fifteen pounds, extremely powerful, extremely quick and explosive. 0:27:34.800 --> 0:27:36.880 His first step quickness is as good as there is 0:27:37.080 --> 0:27:39.600 in the NFL. And he gets downfield in a hurry. 0:27:39.640 --> 0:27:41.560 I mean he gets north and south and he puts 0:27:41.600 --> 0:27:43.840 that foot in the ground and makes that violent cut. 0:27:44.640 --> 0:27:47.520 He's very strong in his thighs, you know, he does, 0:27:47.640 --> 0:27:51.080 works his quads, hamstrings, his cass he works everything very 0:27:51.200 --> 0:27:55.560 very hard, and he's durable. You know. He does doesn't 0:27:55.560 --> 0:27:58.840 miss games, doesn't misplays, and he can do everything. He 0:27:58.880 --> 0:28:00.760 can run it. He can run with Howard from the 0:28:00.800 --> 0:28:03.360 speed he can catch it. He runs good routes out 0:28:03.359 --> 0:28:07.200 of the backfield. Joe Burrow trusts him and respects him 0:28:07.200 --> 0:28:10.280 as a receiver. He catches the ball well, puts it away, 0:28:10.359 --> 0:28:13.399 doesn't drop. It doesn't let people punch it out of 0:28:13.440 --> 0:28:16.840 there and turn over in that regard. But and then 0:28:17.000 --> 0:28:19.320 the big thing is a lot of guys that can 0:28:19.359 --> 0:28:21.960 do the things that he does in terms of running 0:28:22.000 --> 0:28:24.240 and catching. They don't want to block. You know that 0:28:24.359 --> 0:28:26.440 that's part of the game that is foreign to them. 0:28:26.880 --> 0:28:28.040 Chase brown Man, he. 0:28:29.640 --> 0:28:29.959 Likes it. 0:28:30.000 --> 0:28:32.560 He likes the competition. He sticks his nose right in 0:28:32.640 --> 0:28:36.520 the chest of linebackers and safeties and wants to do 0:28:36.560 --> 0:28:37.280 battle with them. 0:28:37.880 --> 0:28:40.760 Still ahead the offensive line, we go up front, Ted 0:28:40.880 --> 0:28:43.040 Carris is we roll on with Bengals Line on the 0:28:43.040 --> 0:28:49.120 Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW Dallas Stretch. 0:28:49.240 --> 0:28:49.480 We go. 0:28:49.600 --> 0:28:52.120 We're flying through our first of three big hours tonight 0:28:52.120 --> 0:28:53.800 at this season wrap up a Bengals Line of the 0:28:53.800 --> 0:28:57.600 Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. Let's go upfront 0:28:57.640 --> 0:29:02.680 offensive Line, Ted Carris after the game, on the performance yesterday, 0:29:02.840 --> 0:29:04.800 the season, and what's a hit for this tea. 0:29:04.960 --> 0:29:06.880 If you had to draw up what the off season 0:29:06.920 --> 0:29:10.200 looks like in terms of what you want the franchise 0:29:10.240 --> 0:29:13.280 to do to try and help support you guys and 0:29:13.360 --> 0:29:15.400 help you get back into the postseason next year, what 0:29:15.400 --> 0:29:16.600 would you say that looks like. 0:29:16.960 --> 0:29:20.160 Well, I would say that this season is the season 0:29:20.280 --> 0:29:25.000 of the would be Kings. We come up a play 0:29:25.040 --> 0:29:28.840 short in about seven games and that's reality in the 0:29:28.920 --> 0:29:33.280 NFL six and eleven, So it's the would be year. 0:29:35.680 --> 0:29:41.000 Very grateful for all my teammates and coaches and didn't 0:29:41.000 --> 0:29:42.760 win the Battle of Ohio today. 0:29:43.760 --> 0:29:45.920 How much belief you just mentioned your coaches. How much 0:29:45.920 --> 0:29:47.640 belief do you have in this coaching staff and what 0:29:47.720 --> 0:29:48.520 gives you that belief? 0:29:49.120 --> 0:29:51.160 I love this coaching staff, I love this program, This 0:29:51.280 --> 0:29:53.000 organization does a great job. 0:29:53.320 --> 0:29:55.480 We have not won enough games these. 0:29:55.440 --> 0:30:03.160 Last three years. That falls on everybody, and I'm excited 0:30:03.160 --> 0:30:04.280 to run it back in twenty six. 0:30:04.680 --> 0:30:07.520 Do you think that's worthwhile doing at this point? 0:30:07.600 --> 0:30:07.800 Ted? 0:30:07.800 --> 0:30:11.680 Because you you're aware, you're a veteran that football, all 0:30:11.680 --> 0:30:15.160 sports are games have changed, things are going to change. 0:30:15.160 --> 0:30:17.120 Do you think there needs to be changed though? 0:30:17.160 --> 0:30:18.120 In this organization? 0:30:19.120 --> 0:30:20.280 Why you approach change? 0:30:21.920 --> 0:30:22.080 Man? 0:30:22.120 --> 0:30:24.680 I mean, like I said earlier, I mean, we're we're 0:30:24.920 --> 0:30:27.800 we're one play away, jays. I mean, it's it is 0:30:27.840 --> 0:30:30.040 what it is. It's that's this is the NFL. So 0:30:30.080 --> 0:30:34.240 you have to finish the game. And we've gosh, I've 0:30:34.240 --> 0:30:36.520 never been a part of so many drives to win 0:30:36.600 --> 0:30:37.520 and then it doesn't. 0:30:37.560 --> 0:30:39.240 I mean, that's just how the ball rolls. 0:30:39.280 --> 0:30:41.680 So no, I'm not gonna sit here and say any 0:30:42.080 --> 0:30:43.480 anything needs to be changed. 0:30:43.520 --> 0:30:44.680 We need to win ball games. 0:30:45.480 --> 0:30:47.320 Had you touched on it twice there about the widow 0:30:47.640 --> 0:30:50.360 kind of Kings or however you said it, Zach said 0:30:50.720 --> 0:30:54.000 that it was fitting the way this game came down 0:30:54.040 --> 0:30:55.560 and the way you guys lost at the end of season. 0:30:55.560 --> 0:30:57.320 How do you change that stigma. 0:30:56.920 --> 0:30:58.640 Going forward if you don't change other things. 0:30:59.400 --> 0:31:02.040 Well, we can't them score twice on defense, I mean 0:31:02.040 --> 0:31:05.400 that's our defense was playing unbelievable today, shutting them down 0:31:05.440 --> 0:31:06.960 and they had twenty yards in the first half and 0:31:07.000 --> 0:31:12.840 we're up, So that's ridiculous. Yeah, we gotta finish out games. 0:31:12.840 --> 0:31:15.040 We gotta be more productive. I thought we had. 0:31:15.080 --> 0:31:18.280 I mean stats are great, score doesn't. So that's it 0:31:18.320 --> 0:31:18.920 is what it is. 0:31:19.040 --> 0:31:22.560 And now I'm gonna sit here and pontificate on what 0:31:22.640 --> 0:31:24.440 i think needs to be changed. I think we need 0:31:24.440 --> 0:31:28.400 to everyone needs a self assess and come back grady 0:31:28.400 --> 0:31:28.560 to go. 0:31:28.600 --> 0:31:31.440 In April, speaking of self assessment, Joe burrow I said 0:31:31.480 --> 0:31:33.240 multiple times this year that this is the best offensive 0:31:33.240 --> 0:31:33.880 line he's played with. 0:31:33.880 --> 0:31:35.880 Why were you guys able to be more successful this season? 0:31:36.680 --> 0:31:40.640 I think we drilled correctly, We got a hand a 0:31:40.680 --> 0:31:43.600 hand in the run game. Guys bought in personal relationships. 0:31:43.600 --> 0:31:43.920 Everyone. 0:31:44.240 --> 0:31:46.880 I've never had so much buy in on personal relationships 0:31:46.880 --> 0:31:52.360 and friendships and going hard and not relaxing until now. 0:31:52.480 --> 0:31:53.000 Now you can. 0:31:52.920 --> 0:31:55.840 Relax at four thirty on a Sunday afternoon. We're not 0:31:55.880 --> 0:31:58.840 on until eight months, really, so I'm really proud of 0:31:58.840 --> 0:31:59.880 this offensive line. 0:32:00.320 --> 0:32:02.840 I think we have some really great young guys. 0:32:02.880 --> 0:32:06.480 I think Dalton Reisner is an absolute perfect fit for 0:32:06.760 --> 0:32:09.320 the Cincinnati Bengals offense, and I hope to see him 0:32:09.360 --> 0:32:09.920 back next year. 0:32:10.000 --> 0:32:11.880 How important would that be if he resigns? 0:32:12.400 --> 0:32:14.120 Excuse man. I think he's a great player, he's a 0:32:14.120 --> 0:32:19.360 great man. He's another veteran presence in a o line 0:32:19.400 --> 0:32:22.160 room and in an offense that can feel at times 0:32:22.200 --> 0:32:25.880 exasperated for a guard. It's very challenging if you watch 0:32:25.920 --> 0:32:27.920 the film where our guards are one on one a lot, 0:32:27.960 --> 0:32:30.400 and he's a one on one specialist. So I'm really 0:32:30.400 --> 0:32:33.600 proud of his season and excited to see what happens 0:32:33.600 --> 0:32:36.200 because he played he played his balls off this year. 0:32:36.240 --> 0:32:39.000 I'll surprised that he's bounced around now that you've played 0:32:39.000 --> 0:32:41.280 a season with him, and that he's bounced around like 0:32:41.280 --> 0:32:43.920 he has around this league, given how talented you just said, he. 0:32:44.000 --> 0:32:45.040 Is very surprised. 0:32:45.040 --> 0:32:48.000 I think we've had kind of a similar career path 0:32:48.040 --> 0:32:49.800 where we have a lot of one year deals. I mean, 0:32:49.800 --> 0:32:51.520 he's had to be on the street a little bit 0:32:51.560 --> 0:32:56.080 longer sometimes and after meeting him, Yeah, I don't know 0:32:56.120 --> 0:32:58.440 when this it's this league, so it's a business. But 0:32:59.400 --> 0:33:03.760 I would say, not only did he meet expectations, he 0:33:03.800 --> 0:33:06.800 exceeded everything I thought who he was as a man, 0:33:06.840 --> 0:33:07.440 as a player. 0:33:07.520 --> 0:33:09.920 So he's a huge part of. 0:33:09.840 --> 0:33:10.520 The OWL line room. 0:33:10.560 --> 0:33:11.520 So I'll hope to see him back. 0:33:11.880 --> 0:33:14.760 Ted Carris after the game and Dave, we talked throughout 0:33:14.800 --> 0:33:18.200 the season about the importance of Ted Kerris, his presence 0:33:18.520 --> 0:33:20.600 not just in the huddle and on that offensive line, 0:33:20.600 --> 0:33:22.440 but in the in the locker room. And I wonder 0:33:22.520 --> 0:33:25.240 also as a former offensive lineman, how big has it 0:33:25.280 --> 0:33:29.120 been that that Ted also has Fairchild and Reisner who've 0:33:29.200 --> 0:33:32.640 kind of solidified the guard positions on each side of him. 0:33:32.640 --> 0:33:34.840 How big is that? Yeah, it is big. You know, 0:33:34.880 --> 0:33:37.920 and the one thing that's one thing that you look for. 0:33:38.000 --> 0:33:40.440 I remember as a player, you know, playing next to 0:33:40.440 --> 0:33:44.120 Anthony Munos was easy because he was the greatest player 0:33:44.120 --> 0:33:47.520 to ever played, first first ballot Hall of Famer, you know. 0:33:47.600 --> 0:33:50.920 I mean, he's he's wearing that gold jacket and he's 0:33:50.920 --> 0:33:55.200 a great ambassador for the Pro Football Hall of Fame 0:33:55.280 --> 0:33:58.000 up there in Canton. Ohiwe But I mean when you 0:33:58.120 --> 0:34:00.560 start playing next to each other for a good number 0:34:00.600 --> 0:34:04.240 of snaps, it's like you know exactly what the other 0:34:04.240 --> 0:34:06.400 guy's going to do. How's he going to handle that 0:34:06.720 --> 0:34:09.800 end penetrating tackle, twisting behind, how's he going to handle 0:34:09.840 --> 0:34:14.719 the opposite tackle penetrating and twisting inside? And those kind 0:34:14.760 --> 0:34:17.880 of things are very very important to be able to 0:34:17.920 --> 0:34:20.680 be on the same page and not questioning and not 0:34:20.760 --> 0:34:23.560 have any doubts, say, how is he going to do that? Now, 0:34:23.640 --> 0:34:25.640 all of a sudden, you're too late. I mean, the 0:34:26.719 --> 0:34:29.640 stunt to twist is unfolded, and you're you're chasing, you're 0:34:29.719 --> 0:34:31.480 chasing it, and you're chasing it right to the quarterback 0:34:31.480 --> 0:34:34.000 who's getting drilled and getting thrown to the ground. So 0:34:34.640 --> 0:34:38.880 I think that Ted is very, very gifted in that 0:34:39.000 --> 0:34:43.160 area in terms of coordinating and communicating up front with 0:34:43.239 --> 0:34:46.719 the offensive line. He's brilliant in terms of doesn't make 0:34:46.719 --> 0:34:50.759 assignment mistakes, and that's that's always key. You don't want 0:34:50.800 --> 0:34:53.160 to be blocking the wrong people or and he makes 0:34:53.200 --> 0:34:55.480 the calls. You don't want to make calls that dictate 0:34:56.000 --> 0:35:00.960 having people block the wrong people. And Joe Burrow Ted krrass, 0:35:01.120 --> 0:35:04.000 Joe Borrow thinks Ted Carrass is finally important to this 0:35:04.040 --> 0:35:04.680 football team. 0:35:04.719 --> 0:35:07.040 Good stuff one hour in the books, More good stuff 0:35:07.040 --> 0:35:09.759 to come. Jamar Chase headlines our number two. That is 0:35:09.840 --> 0:35:13.800 next Bengals line on the Bengals Radio Network seven hundred WLW. 0:35:15.120 --> 0:35:18.640 This is Bengals line on the Bengals Radio network. Pay 0:35:18.680 --> 0:35:22.040 Corps pay Chorus proud to be the official HR software 0:35:22.080 --> 0:35:25.920 provider of the Cincinnati Bengals, kettering El, Best Care for 0:35:26.000 --> 0:35:29.879 the Best Fans, kettering El, official healthcare provider of US 0:35:29.880 --> 0:35:34.680 Cincinnati Bengals. This is seven hundred WLW, the home of 0:35:34.719 --> 0:35:36.600 the best Bengals coverage. 0:35:36.760 --> 0:35:39.120 All right, here we go our number two unfolding on 0:35:39.200 --> 0:35:41.320 a busy Monday night, a Bengals line of the Bengals 0:35:41.400 --> 0:35:44.640 Radio network in seven hundred WLW, sorted through the first 0:35:44.680 --> 0:35:47.360 hour with Zach Taylor and Joe Burrow and cam Sample, 0:35:47.480 --> 0:35:50.319 Chase Brown and Ted Carris Let's lead off our two 0:35:50.480 --> 0:35:54.240 with Jamar Chase Yesterday targeted ten times, had eight catches 0:35:54.560 --> 0:35:57.600 ninety six yards in a touchdowns. In the season wrap up, 0:35:57.760 --> 0:36:01.080 he held court after the game here, or is Jamar Chase? 0:36:01.280 --> 0:36:03.840 You gotta be disciplined on on the penalties like we 0:36:03.880 --> 0:36:04.560 had today? 0:36:05.480 --> 0:36:06.360 You know, just execute. 0:36:06.360 --> 0:36:08.120 That's the biggest thing, Exeque when we have the opportunities 0:36:08.120 --> 0:36:09.200 and our defense gotta make place. 0:36:09.400 --> 0:36:11.280 How disappointed are you with this season? 0:36:12.480 --> 0:36:15.080 It's disappointing the way how I go. Hell yeah, of course, yeah, 0:36:15.960 --> 0:36:19.920 it's disappointing the way how it went. But you know 0:36:19.920 --> 0:36:22.000 it's it's everything happens for a reason at the end 0:36:22.000 --> 0:36:25.200 of the day, and you gotta sit here and just 0:36:26.000 --> 0:36:27.560 think about the season, how I win and just see 0:36:27.560 --> 0:36:28.319 what to see what we're wrong. 0:36:29.760 --> 0:36:32.160 Zach was asked about message to the team right locking 0:36:32.239 --> 0:36:35.000 him and he said, this lost wasting for you guys 0:36:35.000 --> 0:36:35.319 this year. 0:36:35.600 --> 0:36:38.279 What are your thoughts on You said it was fitting? Yeah, well, 0:36:38.360 --> 0:36:38.960 what does that mean? 0:36:39.080 --> 0:36:39.960 Like if that's what we had? 0:36:40.000 --> 0:36:41.920 Zach go to sac said and it was fitting, like 0:36:41.920 --> 0:36:43.080 the way you guys lost the game. 0:36:43.840 --> 0:36:44.719 I don't even know what that means. 0:36:44.719 --> 0:36:46.520 If I'm being honestly, it ain't appropriate. 0:36:46.960 --> 0:36:49.800 He he thought that this was an appropriate way for 0:36:49.920 --> 0:36:53.000 the season, and given how you guys, Yeah, and you 0:36:53.120 --> 0:36:53.839 lost in game. 0:36:53.960 --> 0:36:54.800 See you couldn't finish. 0:36:54.800 --> 0:36:56.640 I gotta keep that question with him. It's not that's 0:36:56.680 --> 0:36:57.279 not something for me. 0:36:57.960 --> 0:37:00.040 You don't sound like you're happy with that description. I 0:37:00.040 --> 0:37:00.760 don't like losing. 0:37:01.080 --> 0:37:03.440 I'm I'm I don't know how this works, you know 0:37:03.480 --> 0:37:05.040 what I'm saying. Maybe that's probably say that for a 0:37:05.120 --> 0:37:06.440 draft pick or something, but I don't. 0:37:06.239 --> 0:37:08.680 Know how that works. So i'm'a stay in my lane. 0:37:08.920 --> 0:37:11.360 How happy are you that this season has finally come. 0:37:11.200 --> 0:37:11.640 To a hand. 0:37:11.719 --> 0:37:13.960 It's been at must less brutal season. 0:37:15.600 --> 0:37:18.520 Uh, it's been a roller coaster I I I think 0:37:18.520 --> 0:37:21.719 I'm just when I was happy about just getting through 0:37:21.760 --> 0:37:22.759 the season and not being injured. 0:37:22.800 --> 0:37:23.800 I think that's the biggest thing for me. 0:37:25.239 --> 0:37:27.960 When you reflect on this season tomorrow, what will you 0:37:28.000 --> 0:37:30.480 take from it personally? 0:37:35.000 --> 0:37:35.320 I don't know. 0:37:35.360 --> 0:37:37.000 I didn't really take nothing personal from me, you know 0:37:37.000 --> 0:37:37.399 what I'm saying. 0:37:37.400 --> 0:37:38.479 I was this year. 0:37:38.800 --> 0:37:41.520 I didn't put myself first, trying to be a team 0:37:41.600 --> 0:37:43.200 leader and just be a captain and stuff like that. 0:37:43.200 --> 0:37:44.560 So I didn't I didn't put myself. 0:37:44.280 --> 0:37:45.480 First at all. 0:37:45.480 --> 0:37:46.080 Bre you tomorrow. 0:37:46.080 --> 0:37:49.200 What's the process looked like over the next few weeks 0:37:49.600 --> 0:37:51.719 a month or so, now that the season is over. 0:37:52.760 --> 0:37:54.840 I'm gonna go to cant Coon like everybody told me 0:37:54.880 --> 0:37:58.000 to do, and I'm gonna enjoy it myself cause I'm 0:37:58.239 --> 0:38:00.879 I don't have nothing else to do, so taking myself there, 0:38:01.680 --> 0:38:02.319 does Zach and this. 0:38:02.400 --> 0:38:05.160 Coaching staff still have your unmost confidence. 0:38:08.080 --> 0:38:12.040 I am very confident in myself. I'm confident and the 0:38:12.080 --> 0:38:13.439 places they call for me to get open. 0:38:14.600 --> 0:38:17.160 Are you guys who watches the playoffs and Super Bowl? 0:38:17.200 --> 0:38:18.560 Or do you just have to get totally get out 0:38:18.600 --> 0:38:19.759 of football right at this. 0:38:19.760 --> 0:38:23.120 Point, I watched it a little bit. I I get 0:38:23.120 --> 0:38:24.719 mad watching it, but I still watch it a little bit. 0:38:25.920 --> 0:38:28.080 You've known now for a few weeks that you guys 0:38:28.120 --> 0:38:29.200 aren't call the playoffs. 0:38:30.080 --> 0:38:32.400 It's since like it has for a few weeks. 0:38:32.680 --> 0:38:34.520 Is it going to motivate or drive. 0:38:34.400 --> 0:38:37.479 The team so you can't have this again next year? 0:38:38.600 --> 0:38:40.560 I mean everybody should be motivated. 0:38:40.600 --> 0:38:43.399 Who's been on the team the past three years, they 0:38:43.440 --> 0:38:44.840 know how it's been they know what they do. 0:38:46.440 --> 0:38:47.480 At the end of the day. If I can't. 0:38:47.520 --> 0:38:50.160 If I'm gonna say this, if if you're going into 0:38:50.200 --> 0:38:52.200 the off season you're not motivated from what happened this 0:38:52.239 --> 0:38:53.399 past season, shouldn't be on the team. 0:38:53.440 --> 0:38:55.759 You shouldn't play football, period. So that's my that's not 0:38:55.760 --> 0:38:56.360 saying about that. 0:38:56.480 --> 0:38:58.520 Do you think that's the same same can be said 0:38:58.880 --> 0:39:01.840 to the front office and ownership that they have to 0:39:01.840 --> 0:39:03.000 be motivated, they have. 0:39:03.040 --> 0:39:05.120 To be willing to do things to change as well. 0:39:05.200 --> 0:39:10.160 Oh yeah, yeah, can you have any energy, any suggestions, 0:39:10.320 --> 0:39:11.839 any clue not doing that right now? 0:39:13.800 --> 0:39:16.600 Are you happy with your final undress? They're big again 0:39:16.640 --> 0:39:18.080 this year, one hundred and twenty five. 0:39:17.920 --> 0:39:19.840 Catches, fourteen hundred yards. 0:39:19.880 --> 0:39:22.440 I mean catches that I have to Oh, I was 0:39:22.480 --> 0:39:28.160 too off. Yeah, man, I'm guess I'm satisfied. I was 0:39:28.160 --> 0:39:30.480 really wanted to score my last last game, so I mean, 0:39:30.520 --> 0:39:30.919 I'm fine. 0:39:30.960 --> 0:39:31.879 I'm cool. 0:39:32.080 --> 0:39:34.040 It's a good note to end the season and what 0:39:34.120 --> 0:39:36.279 you thought was a team winning touchdown. 0:39:36.000 --> 0:39:37.920 Ken m m. 0:39:38.239 --> 0:39:38.479 Yeah. 0:39:39.440 --> 0:39:41.600 But I wasn't even too happy after, like I was. 0:39:42.239 --> 0:39:43.600 There was a lot going on on my part. 0:39:43.640 --> 0:39:46.040 But you know, as long as I was still there 0:39:46.080 --> 0:39:47.640 for the team and had my energy up that I'm. 0:39:47.560 --> 0:39:50.000 Fine, You're I'm sure what was going on. 0:39:50.400 --> 0:39:51.240 I was a little angry. 0:39:51.320 --> 0:39:54.040 I was pissed why. I can't say, I'm not saying why, 0:39:54.080 --> 0:39:55.960 but I was pissed though, for for sure, I was pissed. 0:39:55.960 --> 0:39:58.240 For sure, there were some people who were upset. 0:39:58.440 --> 0:40:00.600 You seem to be one pointing down the field when 0:40:00.960 --> 0:40:02.760 the Browns were celebrating the sound. 0:40:03.440 --> 0:40:04.719 Yeah, I don't think they can do that. 0:40:05.160 --> 0:40:06.839 I never knew you could let the whole team get 0:40:06.840 --> 0:40:09.040 on your field. That's like, that's like me catching the 0:40:09.480 --> 0:40:11.560 fifth pass and the whole team run on the field. 0:40:11.840 --> 0:40:13.080 We can get flat. We can't. 0:40:13.120 --> 0:40:14.560 You can't do that, you know what I'm saying. But 0:40:14.920 --> 0:40:16.880 congrassing him and everything, but you know, they got to 0:40:16.880 --> 0:40:17.680 call it flagg unplay. 0:40:17.760 --> 0:40:19.200 Like you guys have trying to go in the game. 0:40:19.200 --> 0:40:21.120 We're trying to hurry up too. We couldn't even hurry up. 0:40:21.120 --> 0:40:22.759 The rest was looking at us like we did something 0:40:22.800 --> 0:40:23.520 wrong the whole time. 0:40:23.640 --> 0:40:25.520 So it was I don't know what was going. 0:40:25.400 --> 0:40:26.080 On on our player. 0:40:26.080 --> 0:40:27.719 I can't think you had any kind of explanation of 0:40:27.800 --> 0:40:28.520 why it stopped it? 0:40:28.719 --> 0:40:31.319 Um No, I mean, do you interview the refs. 0:40:32.200 --> 0:40:35.560 Apparently, Zach said the rest told him after the fact 0:40:36.080 --> 0:40:38.319 that they had decided they were going to stop the game, 0:40:38.360 --> 0:40:40.200 but never in full, which you mean stops the game, 0:40:40.320 --> 0:40:42.200 stop the game to let them celebrate them. 0:40:42.680 --> 0:40:44.160 They better stop the game when I do something on 0:40:44.160 --> 0:40:44.760 my background. 0:40:45.000 --> 0:40:46.400 That's all I got to say about. 0:40:46.120 --> 0:40:53.960 That, Dave. Jamar Chase winds up with one hundred and 0:40:54.160 --> 0:40:58.839 twenty five catches for fourteen hundred and twelve yards and 0:40:58.960 --> 0:41:04.160 eight touchdowns. Let's consider those are incredible numbers. He missed 0:41:04.200 --> 0:41:06.839 one game, obviously because of the suspension. He was part 0:41:06.880 --> 0:41:09.120 of the stretch where it was really rough for Jake 0:41:09.160 --> 0:41:11.680 Browning for three weeks when he took over, and through 0:41:11.760 --> 0:41:14.720 all of that, Jamar Chase has one hundred and twenty 0:41:14.800 --> 0:41:17.480 five catches. I mean, I think all season long, we 0:41:17.560 --> 0:41:19.360 knew week to week how good he is. When the 0:41:19.360 --> 0:41:21.880 season ends and you look and see one hundred and 0:41:21.960 --> 0:41:25.120 twenty five after all of that, unbelievable it is. 0:41:25.160 --> 0:41:25.760 It's crazy. 0:41:25.840 --> 0:41:28.480 I mean, one hundred and twenty five catches, twelve hundred 0:41:28.520 --> 0:41:31.520 plus yards, eight touchdowns. 0:41:31.800 --> 0:41:32.480 He is. 0:41:33.000 --> 0:41:33.800 He's a machine. 0:41:33.840 --> 0:41:34.680 I mean, he really is. 0:41:34.719 --> 0:41:40.000 I mean, Jamar Chase is in my mind, the best player, well, 0:41:40.120 --> 0:41:42.239 I'd say, if not the best player, he's in the 0:41:42.239 --> 0:41:44.960 top three to five. But the best wide receiver in 0:41:45.000 --> 0:41:47.040 the National Football League bar none, and I think the 0:41:47.040 --> 0:41:51.200 best wide receiver in Bengals history. He is an athletic freak, 0:41:51.680 --> 0:41:56.440 a freak azoid. His size speed ratio is off the charts. 0:41:56.920 --> 0:42:00.839 He's got unbelievable upper body strength that's in the weight room. 0:42:00.880 --> 0:42:04.719 He loves to lift man. I mean, I think for 0:42:04.800 --> 0:42:09.120 a wide receiver, the wide receiver position, they're kind of 0:42:09.120 --> 0:42:11.279 allergic because the weight and a lot of them, you know, 0:42:11.520 --> 0:42:13.879 they don't want to get in there and get after it. 0:42:14.239 --> 0:42:17.040 But Joey Bosse does a good job, and Jamar Chase 0:42:17.160 --> 0:42:19.680 loves it. He loved it at LSU. He was a 0:42:19.719 --> 0:42:22.839 big weight room guy at LSU free weights. Same here 0:42:22.840 --> 0:42:26.000 at the Cincinnati Bengals. T Higgins has got this cuts 0:42:26.000 --> 0:42:28.040 from the same cloth. He likes to go in there 0:42:28.080 --> 0:42:31.160 and lift weights and he's a big, long, strong body guy. 0:42:31.600 --> 0:42:35.600 So but Joe Borrow and Jamar Chase, they've done it 0:42:35.640 --> 0:42:38.480 since the LSU days, and they know each other cold. 0:42:38.560 --> 0:42:42.919 I mean, Joe knows exactly what Jamar is thinking. Joe 0:42:42.960 --> 0:42:44.880 knows when he throws the football, Jamar is going to 0:42:44.920 --> 0:42:46.480 be where he's supposed to be when he's supposed to 0:42:46.520 --> 0:42:49.000 be there, doing what he's supposed to do. And that 0:42:49.040 --> 0:42:51.680 trust and respect, like we talked about before, is huge. 0:42:52.200 --> 0:42:57.440 And I think I mean Jamar triple crown guy. He 0:42:57.440 --> 0:42:59.440 didn't get the triple Crown, fell short of that in 0:42:59.520 --> 0:43:04.480 terms of the touchdown catches, but this guy is going 0:43:04.560 --> 0:43:08.040 to put up ridiculous numbers, stupid numbers for a long 0:43:08.120 --> 0:43:10.000 time because he takes care of himself. 0:43:10.040 --> 0:43:12.839 Anytime, you've got a wide receiver room with Jamar, Chase 0:43:12.840 --> 0:43:15.480 and t Higgins your set, but you can always use 0:43:15.719 --> 0:43:20.120 that third element, and that's been Andre, that's been Mitch Tinsley. 0:43:20.400 --> 0:43:23.799 If there's a next level of probably consistency for each 0:43:23.840 --> 0:43:26.080 of those who are maybe an outside element brought in, 0:43:27.040 --> 0:43:29.200 they I think they could stand to get even more 0:43:29.239 --> 0:43:30.920 production from that third wide receiver. 0:43:31.040 --> 0:43:33.040 I agree on hundred thousand percent with you, Lance, and 0:43:33.080 --> 0:43:35.040 I think you know they'll probably look at the draft 0:43:35.120 --> 0:43:38.319 and see what might be there and is a little 0:43:38.360 --> 0:43:41.040 bit better than what we're talking about, and then you 0:43:41.200 --> 0:43:43.799 throw the tight end position. Kasiki is such a web. 0:43:43.840 --> 0:43:47.120 I think Kasicki is probably the third option a lot 0:43:47.160 --> 0:43:48.640 of times for Joe, you know, I mean, I think 0:43:48.719 --> 0:43:51.680 he's if the first two are taken away and they're 0:43:52.040 --> 0:43:54.760 say they're playing you know, cover two, and they're rolling 0:43:55.120 --> 0:43:58.240 both safeties out to the wide receivers to take them away. 0:43:58.680 --> 0:44:00.680 Mike is SICKI in the middle of football field's not 0:44:00.719 --> 0:44:03.040 a bad option for Joe Burrow and he likes that. 0:44:03.400 --> 0:44:06.880 And Gasicki's big, tall, you know, like a you know, 0:44:07.360 --> 0:44:09.960 a beacon light, like a lighthouse out in the middle 0:44:09.960 --> 0:44:15.040 of the ocean. And he's got He's very athletic, he 0:44:15.120 --> 0:44:19.239 is flexible, he's tall, he's got length, he's got very 0:44:19.280 --> 0:44:22.560 strong hands. He puts the football away, runs excellent routes. 0:44:23.239 --> 0:44:24.879 The Bengals are blessed to have him at the tight 0:44:24.960 --> 0:44:27.799 end position. They're blessed really with the weapons that they 0:44:27.840 --> 0:44:29.720 have for Joe Borrow to throw to. And it's smart 0:44:29.719 --> 0:44:31.960 to have weapons for Joe Burrow to throw to, because 0:44:32.200 --> 0:44:33.520 he's the best in the business. 0:44:33.840 --> 0:44:36.160 Perfect segue is still ahead into more on the tight 0:44:36.239 --> 0:44:38.440 end position. A guy who kind of flies under the radar, 0:44:38.600 --> 0:44:42.040 just does his job. Drew sample. As we continue with 0:44:42.120 --> 0:44:48.520 Bengals line and the Bengals Radio Network, and seven hundred WLW. Hey, 0:44:48.560 --> 0:44:50.879 welcome back in on Bengals Line and this Monday night, 0:44:50.880 --> 0:44:53.400 we're picking up the pieces from yesterday and putting the 0:44:53.400 --> 0:44:56.520 pieces together for the off season and what's ahead for 0:44:56.520 --> 0:44:58.880 this team on Bengals Line and the Bengals Radio Network 0:44:58.880 --> 0:45:02.520 in seven hundred wil on Lance Pocallister, he is Dave Lapham. 0:45:02.760 --> 0:45:05.279 Let's get perspective a little bit deeper on the tight 0:45:05.360 --> 0:45:07.880 end side of things. Drew Sample after the game, talked 0:45:07.920 --> 0:45:09.480 with Dan Horde and the media. 0:45:09.560 --> 0:45:12.279 You guys didn't let Miles Garrett dominate the game. You 0:45:12.360 --> 0:45:14.520 had a lot to do with that. The Miles Garrett 0:45:14.520 --> 0:45:17.000 factor is real, though. Can you talk about just how 0:45:17.000 --> 0:45:18.400 he impacts the offense? 0:45:19.000 --> 0:45:22.400 Yeah, I mean, obviously he if it's someone you're not, 0:45:23.520 --> 0:45:25.480 he's someone that if you're not aware of on every play, 0:45:25.640 --> 0:45:27.920 he can you know, change the game. And so you know, 0:45:28.000 --> 0:45:30.319 being a divisional opponent, we obviously as seem twice here, 0:45:30.400 --> 0:45:32.840 so you know each game is a challenge with that 0:45:32.920 --> 0:45:35.319 and we understand you know, the game record that he 0:45:35.400 --> 0:45:37.719 is and that he can be and I think you've 0:45:37.760 --> 0:45:41.479 seen that, you know, with his sack numbers everything throughout 0:45:41.520 --> 0:45:43.560 the season, we'll have you know, they'll play teams that 0:45:43.560 --> 0:45:45.319 maybe don't see him as much. Andy'll have you know, 0:45:45.440 --> 0:45:48.719 two three, four sacks or whatever it may be. So 0:45:48.719 --> 0:45:51.120 they don't you know, sometimes they don't understand like how 0:45:51.160 --> 0:45:52.839 big of a you know record he could be. So 0:45:52.920 --> 0:45:55.120 I mean that's that's a part of the plan. They 0:45:55.160 --> 0:45:57.680 have a really good defense, you know, they they challenge you. 0:45:57.719 --> 0:45:59.560 They have good front, seven good dbs. 0:46:00.920 --> 0:46:01.600 You know, we've. 0:46:01.440 --> 0:46:04.240 Typically battled battled with them over the years, and we've 0:46:04.280 --> 0:46:06.160 been fortunate to come out on top the last you know, 0:46:06.200 --> 0:46:07.600 I think four or five times. 0:46:08.280 --> 0:46:09.640 You know, they're able to get us this week. 0:46:10.200 --> 0:46:12.640 You guys throw a lot of short passes, check downs. 0:46:12.640 --> 0:46:15.359 You caught a few of those. I assume you have 0:46:15.480 --> 0:46:18.400 to do that against Cleveland because of that threat. If 0:46:18.440 --> 0:46:21.000 you don't, he is going to get to your quarterback. 0:46:21.080 --> 0:46:21.600 Right Yeah. 0:46:21.640 --> 0:46:23.680 I mean I think some of that too is you know, 0:46:23.719 --> 0:46:25.399 them trying to you know, they play out a man 0:46:25.440 --> 0:46:28.879 mixing coverages, so you're trying to toe the line of like, hey, 0:46:28.960 --> 0:46:31.319 let's go let our guys win, but also understanding that 0:46:31.320 --> 0:46:32.960 they're you know, and Joe does a great job of that, 0:46:33.000 --> 0:46:35.279 having kind of that internal clock and you know, going 0:46:35.280 --> 0:46:37.040 through the progression the way he needs to go through 0:46:37.040 --> 0:46:39.480 it to you know, look for our playmakers and then 0:46:39.520 --> 0:46:41.640 if nothing's there, knowing that he's either got to get 0:46:41.640 --> 0:46:43.480 out or dump it down to the running back, tight end, 0:46:43.520 --> 0:46:46.360 whoever it may be. And I thought, you know, he 0:46:46.400 --> 0:46:48.560 did a good job of that really the whole game. 0:46:49.200 --> 0:46:50.480 You know, was able to kind of spin out a 0:46:51.160 --> 0:46:53.920 one early maybe, and then you know, just kind of 0:46:54.000 --> 0:46:55.279 wasn't able to get out on the one that he 0:46:55.320 --> 0:46:55.640 did get. 0:46:56.360 --> 0:47:00.120 The outcome is obviously disappointing, But as an offense and 0:47:00.200 --> 0:47:02.840 you end the season with what you think at least 0:47:02.920 --> 0:47:05.319 is a game winning drive, is that a good note 0:47:05.400 --> 0:47:05.920 to end on. 0:47:06.760 --> 0:47:09.200 I mean, obviously we didn't win, so that's obviously, you know, 0:47:09.239 --> 0:47:11.279 it's tough. And then when you look at you know, 0:47:11.320 --> 0:47:13.560 I think it was you know, we gave him fourteen points, 0:47:14.840 --> 0:47:16.839 So I mean, yes, there are things within the game 0:47:16.880 --> 0:47:19.560 obviously where you know, you bounce back and you go 0:47:19.600 --> 0:47:21.120 down and you know, you go up at the end. 0:47:21.120 --> 0:47:24.880 Obviously that's great, but you know there's there's definitely just 0:47:24.960 --> 0:47:27.279 a lot of stuff to clean up from our end, 0:47:27.280 --> 0:47:29.399 and and you know, I thought the defense played well 0:47:29.560 --> 0:47:31.919 for you know, ninety percent of the game, so I think, 0:47:32.160 --> 0:47:34.600 I mean that they scored what ten points without our 0:47:34.920 --> 0:47:35.960 fourteen or whatever. 0:47:35.760 --> 0:47:38.280 It was six points on offense for them. 0:47:38.280 --> 0:47:41.160 Right, So you know, I think that's definitely something that 0:47:41.160 --> 0:47:43.479 we got to look at and how we can fix 0:47:43.520 --> 0:47:45.399 those things because obviously that's happened to us a couple 0:47:45.440 --> 0:47:48.800 of times this year. But yeah, I mean, there was 0:47:48.840 --> 0:47:50.480 definitely some good drives in there. There was some good 0:47:50.480 --> 0:47:53.040 stuff and we got into a rhythm, but the turnovers 0:47:53.080 --> 0:47:53.400 killed us. 0:47:53.400 --> 0:47:57.200 For the coaching staff and sideline appeared to be incensed 0:47:57.640 --> 0:48:01.480 when they were allowed to celebrate after my one sack. 0:48:01.880 --> 0:48:04.680 You're not supposed to be allowed to come charging off 0:48:04.680 --> 0:48:07.640 the sideline, did you guys you know, want to snap 0:48:07.680 --> 0:48:08.799 the ball and move there. 0:48:09.120 --> 0:48:12.560 I mean, it's something where initially you just see, got 0:48:12.600 --> 0:48:13.759 a lot of guys on the field, so it's all, 0:48:13.840 --> 0:48:15.440 let's stop the ball, and then you kind of see 0:48:15.480 --> 0:48:17.959 I guess they're celebrating, and then I guess they're letting 0:48:17.960 --> 0:48:20.440 them celebrate. So I mean, obviously it's a great accomplishment, 0:48:20.480 --> 0:48:23.360 but I don't, you know, I'm not gonna I'm not 0:48:23.360 --> 0:48:25.920 gonna comment on that. I mean, I you know, obviously 0:48:26.000 --> 0:48:27.839 that's a you know, big record for him. We were 0:48:27.840 --> 0:48:29.840 trying to obviously not let him get the record, and 0:48:29.840 --> 0:48:32.480 he got it. So I guess if we didn't want that, 0:48:32.520 --> 0:48:34.920 we you know, I don't know. He's a good player 0:48:34.920 --> 0:48:36.680 and obviously had a great year. 0:48:37.640 --> 0:48:40.440 You guys don't want to be in this position next year, 0:48:41.000 --> 0:48:43.880 and there's talent on this team that's gonna put you 0:48:43.920 --> 0:48:46.480 in a position to have a great season next year. 0:48:46.520 --> 0:48:48.520 What's the key? What what must you guys do better 0:48:48.800 --> 0:48:51.080 to avoid missing the playoffs next year? 0:48:51.920 --> 0:48:52.640 It's your question. 0:48:54.360 --> 0:48:56.080 I mean, off the top of my head, I think, uh, 0:48:57.040 --> 0:49:00.960 I think just being maybe more consistent, just whether that's 0:49:01.000 --> 0:49:05.279 throughout games, throughout drives, just you know, we went through 0:49:05.320 --> 0:49:07.759 some really great stretches, were in rhythm and we're you know, 0:49:07.800 --> 0:49:09.799 moving the ball well and everything's kind of clicking. And 0:49:09.840 --> 0:49:11.960 there was obviously games this year too where it was 0:49:12.040 --> 0:49:13.560 hard to get things going, whether that was you know, 0:49:13.600 --> 0:49:14.840 it's hard to get the run game going, or it 0:49:14.840 --> 0:49:16.239 was hard to get the pass game, you know, just 0:49:16.560 --> 0:49:18.640 a collection of things. At one point it felt like 0:49:19.239 --> 0:49:21.680 in our games that we lost or played poorly, and 0:49:21.680 --> 0:49:23.440 that was kind of the The thing is just not 0:49:23.480 --> 0:49:25.960 being able to get in a rhythm and be consistent, 0:49:25.960 --> 0:49:29.640 and even being consistent game to game. You know, obviously 0:49:29.719 --> 0:49:32.840 the NFL is tough and teams play us sometimes differently 0:49:32.880 --> 0:49:36.799 than than other teams. So but I think I think 0:49:36.800 --> 0:49:38.160 that just off the top of my head, just trying 0:49:38.160 --> 0:49:42.360 to be more consistent and trying to you know, obviously 0:49:42.360 --> 0:49:45.400 you always want to limit you know, negative plays, penalties, turnovers, 0:49:45.400 --> 0:49:48.520 things of that nature, and if I like in some 0:49:48.560 --> 0:49:50.160 of our losses that those were kind of things that 0:49:50.239 --> 0:49:53.880 bubbled up a little bit. So I mean, I'm sure everyone, 0:49:54.200 --> 0:49:56.600 you know, everyone hates the taste in our mouth. You know, 0:49:56.640 --> 0:49:59.439 obviously we had a good little two games, lost this game, 0:49:59.440 --> 0:50:01.520 and but we're nowhere near where we want to be. 0:50:01.520 --> 0:50:03.440 And so I think, you know, everyone's gonna look in 0:50:03.480 --> 0:50:07.239 the mirror first, you know, coaches, players, everyone, and then 0:50:07.280 --> 0:50:09.560 you know, we'll come back and reset and come back 0:50:09.560 --> 0:50:11.319 in the offseason and kind of figure out what needs 0:50:11.360 --> 0:50:11.560 to be. 0:50:11.520 --> 0:50:14.040 Done, enjoy some R and R and some family time. 0:50:14.080 --> 0:50:14.440 We'll see it. 0:50:14.520 --> 0:50:14.960 Ot s. 0:50:15.080 --> 0:50:15.560 Yeah, thank you. 0:50:15.680 --> 0:50:17.719 Drew Sample after the game, and Dave I said it 0:50:17.800 --> 0:50:21.720 leading into leading into the end of the last segment. 0:50:21.800 --> 0:50:24.279 Drew Sample is a guy who maybe will never be 0:50:24.320 --> 0:50:27.840 an All pro, won't put up like large numbers in 0:50:28.160 --> 0:50:30.919 a fantasy football tight end. But he's one of those guys, 0:50:30.920 --> 0:50:33.640 it seems like, and every team needs these guys. You 0:50:33.640 --> 0:50:35.440 can just plug him in there and not have to 0:50:35.440 --> 0:50:37.279 worry about him. He's gonna do the things that need 0:50:37.320 --> 0:50:40.439 to be done. They won't be headline grabbing or spectacular, 0:50:40.760 --> 0:50:43.479 but when they aren't done, you say, man, we really 0:50:43.480 --> 0:50:46.120 missed that. He just gets the He's one of those 0:50:46.239 --> 0:50:48.719 little thing, lunch bucket type of guys. That's a long 0:50:48.760 --> 0:50:51.120 way of saying I have much appreciation for him. 0:50:51.880 --> 0:50:54.319 You know, I think I think you've hit on it, 0:50:54.400 --> 0:50:57.480 and that's the bottom line. I think he's he's one 0:50:57.520 --> 0:51:00.920 of those guys that that does the dirty work and 0:51:01.320 --> 0:51:04.120 James Casey loves him, man, because James Casey was that 0:51:04.200 --> 0:51:06.160 kind of guy. You know, he he did, he did 0:51:06.160 --> 0:51:10.680 the dirty work and whatever the team needs. You need 0:51:10.719 --> 0:51:13.360 a guy to line up at the end line of 0:51:13.360 --> 0:51:16.440 scrimmage and be basically a third offensive tackle. That's Drew Sample. 0:51:16.680 --> 0:51:18.719 You have a guy that you want to line up 0:51:18.719 --> 0:51:21.440 at full back and run, uh you know, almost an 0:51:21.480 --> 0:51:25.800 eye formation with isolation blocker up front of the tailback, 0:51:25.840 --> 0:51:27.960 that's Drew Sample. You want a guy that you can 0:51:28.040 --> 0:51:30.719 motion from one side of the formation to the other 0:51:30.760 --> 0:51:33.920 from the tight end positions, Drew Sample. Now put him 0:51:33.920 --> 0:51:36.360 out in the slot and out as a as a 0:51:36.360 --> 0:51:37.520 wide out, an excerasi. 0:51:37.640 --> 0:51:38.760 That's not his strength. 0:51:39.120 --> 0:51:42.080 He can do it, but that's not his Uh, that's 0:51:42.080 --> 0:51:45.080 not basically what Drew Sample is all about. 0:51:45.600 --> 0:51:45.719 Uh. 0:51:45.800 --> 0:51:51.040 That's for Gasiki and others. But I do think that 0:51:51.040 --> 0:51:54.279 that Drew Sample is has a definite role on this 0:51:54.320 --> 0:51:56.280 football team. And I think he's one of those guys 0:51:56.280 --> 0:51:59.759 that he's an unsung hero. Bottom line, I think his 0:51:59.800 --> 0:52:03.759 teammates would say that, yeah, you know, we're not the 0:52:03.800 --> 0:52:06.160 same football team without Drew Sample. 0:52:07.000 --> 0:52:10.480 He he's part of a room. And we mentioned Mike 0:52:10.520 --> 0:52:12.399 is sicky and Tanner Hudson is Yeah. 0:52:12.560 --> 0:52:12.640 Right. 0:52:12.800 --> 0:52:15.239 I felt bad yesterday. On a final note, I hate 0:52:15.239 --> 0:52:17.840 it ended on a negative note. No Offan fumbled for 0:52:17.880 --> 0:52:20.480 the third time this year, and each one has been 0:52:20.520 --> 0:52:24.200 returned for a touchdown, which seems like a statistical impossibility. 0:52:24.400 --> 0:52:25.320 That's mind blowing. 0:52:26.239 --> 0:52:26.600 It is. 0:52:26.640 --> 0:52:29.759 It's mind blowing. It's it's almost like, stay away from 0:52:29.760 --> 0:52:30.839 Noah Man. He's got some. 0:52:30.840 --> 0:52:31.960 Bad juju going on. 0:52:32.040 --> 0:52:34.680 You know, it's like jeez, every time it's on the ground, 0:52:34.719 --> 0:52:36.920 he's picked up and going the other way for a touchdown. 0:52:37.280 --> 0:52:40.080 That is uh, that's crazy. No offense, he doesn't he 0:52:40.120 --> 0:52:42.719 doesn't want to be that answer that guy that said 0:52:42.760 --> 0:52:44.919 the answer to the trivia question, you know, because yes, 0:52:45.000 --> 0:52:46.759 that is that's a good trivia question. 0:52:46.600 --> 0:52:48.520 No doubt. All right, hang tag more to get to 0:52:48.560 --> 0:52:51.759 we'll hear from Joseph Osai as we continue Bengals Line 0:52:51.800 --> 0:52:56.600 of the Bengals Radio Network in seven hundred WLW. We 0:52:56.680 --> 0:52:59.000 keep moving right along on this Monday night of Bengals 0:52:59.000 --> 0:53:02.040 Line at the Bengals Radio networking seven hundred double l W. Wait, 0:53:02.080 --> 0:53:04.439 flip the tweet offense and defense. Let's go back to 0:53:04.480 --> 0:53:07.200 the defense and to the edge. Wayne box Miller in 0:53:07.239 --> 0:53:10.279 the pregame made Joseph o side part of his conversation. 0:53:10.400 --> 0:53:13.200 He wrapped up unfortunately with an injury yesterday and I playing, 0:53:13.200 --> 0:53:15.400 but wrapped up a heck of a season overall with 0:53:15.560 --> 0:53:19.920 five sacks in a season that takes him into free agency. 0:53:20.000 --> 0:53:23.360 Here is Joseph Osai on the season with the Wayne 0:53:23.360 --> 0:53:23.920 box Miller. 0:53:24.200 --> 0:53:25.759 I got to tell you, man, I've been looking at 0:53:25.760 --> 0:53:29.800 the pictures online and the fashion and that the dapper approach. 0:53:29.880 --> 0:53:31.520 Talk to me about that style. 0:53:31.239 --> 0:53:33.759 Man, Man, I appreciate that. There's definitely a lot of 0:53:33.760 --> 0:53:35.920 I thought that goes into that. With my team, you know, 0:53:35.960 --> 0:53:38.080 I got a tailor and then I got a couple 0:53:38.120 --> 0:53:40.960 of guys in New York that keep me, keep me fresh, 0:53:41.040 --> 0:53:44.719 you know what I mean. So, yeah, it's a preparation work. 0:53:44.719 --> 0:53:46.480 We're doing the off season, so there's not a lot 0:53:46.480 --> 0:53:49.440 to do in during the season. And then during the season, 0:53:49.760 --> 0:53:51.560 my Taylor will pop down every now and then. 0:53:52.560 --> 0:53:53.360 His name is Pharaoh. 0:53:53.360 --> 0:53:55.520 Actually plugging him right now, you know, I want to 0:53:55.520 --> 0:53:57.759 get my guy some recognition. His name is Pharaoh, and 0:53:58.880 --> 0:54:01.080 he'll pop down even now and during the season and 0:54:01.160 --> 0:54:04.040 checking with me, clean up some measurements and and just 0:54:04.040 --> 0:54:05.680 to make sure we're on the same page with the 0:54:05.800 --> 0:54:06.400 with the outfits. 0:54:07.120 --> 0:54:09.720 Is that something that maybe is a post career type 0:54:09.719 --> 0:54:11.360 move to get into this, you. 0:54:11.440 --> 0:54:12.160 Know what I mean? 0:54:13.719 --> 0:54:14.439 You know what I mean? 0:54:14.560 --> 0:54:16.080 It could it could be, It could be. 0:54:16.120 --> 0:54:19.040 You know, there's there's obviously, uh the blessing that one 0:54:19.040 --> 0:54:21.880 of the many blessings of this game is when you 0:54:21.880 --> 0:54:24.120 get out the game, you have so many different avenues 0:54:24.440 --> 0:54:26.640 to you could you could you could tap into uh, 0:54:26.640 --> 0:54:29.520 based on the connections and the things you dapped into 0:54:30.960 --> 0:54:34.040 when when you were playing. So that's that's could be 0:54:34.080 --> 0:54:37.239 one of them. We'll have to see circumstances, situation. If 0:54:37.239 --> 0:54:39.520 I'm raising the family, it'll be a little tougher, you know, 0:54:39.880 --> 0:54:43.000 as if if I wasn't. So uh, we'll see, we'll see. 0:54:43.000 --> 0:54:44.759 It's it's I'm definitely keeping that door open. 0:54:44.800 --> 0:54:44.960 Though. 0:54:45.480 --> 0:54:47.319 One thing I remember about you when you got here 0:54:47.400 --> 0:54:49.520 is talk about the relationship with your sister and the house. 0:54:49.560 --> 0:54:51.000 She inspired you, and is. 0:54:50.920 --> 0:54:53.239 She still sending you quotes and keeping you going now 0:54:53.280 --> 0:54:53.560 and there? 0:54:53.560 --> 0:54:55.719 And now see she's expanding that to the to the 0:54:55.760 --> 0:54:58.319 family because you know, my little brothers, one of them 0:54:58.400 --> 0:55:00.000 was in the CFL he just got done. And then 0:55:00.000 --> 0:55:01.760 in case she just got picked up by the dolphin. 0:55:01.800 --> 0:55:03.440 She was saying, Bible coats in there and she was 0:55:03.440 --> 0:55:06.879 saying all that. And she even I think last year 0:55:07.000 --> 0:55:08.880 she wrote on my mirror with some posted you know, 0:55:09.000 --> 0:55:10.560 some affirmations. 0:55:09.920 --> 0:55:10.520 All that stuff. 0:55:10.560 --> 0:55:12.200 So she's she's great, man. 0:55:12.280 --> 0:55:14.319 She is talk about how to helps you. 0:55:14.360 --> 0:55:16.920 I mean, you know, you're a faithfeeled person. I'm a 0:55:17.000 --> 0:55:20.759 faithfuled person and having that information reminders that you're not 0:55:20.840 --> 0:55:22.600 walking this walk along, walking. 0:55:22.360 --> 0:55:25.520 Along, and one of them just say it says open 0:55:25.560 --> 0:55:29.560 your eyes and realize that God has not left you. 0:55:29.640 --> 0:55:31.480 He has been with you this whole time. So you know, 0:55:31.640 --> 0:55:34.160 just again, when when you're down and you can know 0:55:34.200 --> 0:55:36.960 those words by heart, but it's different when you when 0:55:37.000 --> 0:55:38.680 you're down and then you're in the bathroom and you 0:55:38.719 --> 0:55:40.480 read it, or when you're down and you look on 0:55:40.520 --> 0:55:43.640 your phone and you read it. So I'm super big 0:55:43.640 --> 0:55:45.800 on mentor I know DJ DJ has even helped me 0:55:45.840 --> 0:55:48.799 take it a step further this year with meditation, you know, 0:55:49.520 --> 0:55:52.239 and just positively speaking to yourself because even though you're 0:55:52.280 --> 0:55:54.320 not saying it out loud in your head, you're speaking 0:55:54.360 --> 0:55:56.920 to yourself all day every day, so you hear yourself 0:55:56.920 --> 0:55:59.200 the most. So why not be positive? Why not let 0:55:59.200 --> 0:56:02.960 that voice ahead all day be positive? And those affirmations 0:56:02.960 --> 0:56:07.360 of speaking speaking positivity. Just I don't know how to 0:56:07.400 --> 0:56:09.440 explain it. I don't know the science behind it. 0:56:09.320 --> 0:56:11.680 But it works to works. 0:56:12.800 --> 0:56:16.120 Yeah, sure, yeah we do, so it works. And just again, 0:56:16.440 --> 0:56:19.000 I would say another thing, who is having a partner 0:56:19.440 --> 0:56:22.080 doesn't have to be an intimate partner, but just having 0:56:22.080 --> 0:56:24.960 a partner that you can share that with and keep 0:56:25.040 --> 0:56:27.319 keep keep each other accountable, uplift each other. Because you're 0:56:27.320 --> 0:56:30.160 not supposed to have the answers twenty four seven, three 0:56:30.239 --> 0:56:32.800 hundred and sixty five days a year. You're not supposed 0:56:32.840 --> 0:56:36.560 to have the answers all the time. But someone on 0:56:36.600 --> 0:56:38.360 a day where you're feeling down could get you up. 0:56:38.480 --> 0:56:39.759 Or in a day when someone else is feeling now, 0:56:39.840 --> 0:56:41.439 you can get them up. And you know what I mean, 0:56:41.560 --> 0:56:44.000 just human beings, we're not meant to be alone. We're 0:56:44.040 --> 0:56:47.560 meant to have a little congregation and little community. So 0:56:48.200 --> 0:56:51.000 find find that community. Find find one or two people 0:56:51.040 --> 0:56:52.640 that you can be in community with. 0:56:52.800 --> 0:56:54.480 All right, I do something new this year called the 0:56:54.480 --> 0:56:57.160 Gratitude Games. All that year, three people you're grateful for, 0:56:57.880 --> 0:57:00.719 two things that have impacted you, and then one thing 0:57:00.719 --> 0:57:03.319 you're hopeful for. So if I say three people that 0:57:03.440 --> 0:57:04.759 impacted you, who would that be? 0:57:04.880 --> 0:57:08.160 Three people that impacted me? I'm just gonna go ahead 0:57:08.200 --> 0:57:10.040 and say, with my NFL career, three people that have 0:57:10.120 --> 0:57:13.520 impacted me. I would go with Trey Hendrickson, with the 0:57:13.560 --> 0:57:16.760 way he's took me under his wing. I would go 0:57:16.840 --> 0:57:20.760 with Sam Hubbard. He showed me how to come in 0:57:20.880 --> 0:57:23.400 day in and day out and and give give the 0:57:23.440 --> 0:57:27.880 same effort. Thirdly, I would say Coach Duff, my coach 0:57:28.040 --> 0:57:31.560 last year. He's just the positivity he brought every day, 0:57:31.640 --> 0:57:37.080 the affirmations you brought every day, the the the consistency 0:57:37.160 --> 0:57:39.480 he brought every day, you know. And I can go on. 0:57:39.600 --> 0:57:41.440 I can go with bj I can go with cam 0:57:41.840 --> 0:57:43.840 the community of cam Sample. I can go with my 0:57:43.880 --> 0:57:46.840 friends down in downtown at Frankie Ships and Savories, you. 0:57:46.760 --> 0:57:47.080 Know, I can. 0:57:47.120 --> 0:57:48.360 I can go on. And I can go with my 0:57:48.360 --> 0:57:50.360 girlfriend and go with my sister and my family. 0:57:50.400 --> 0:57:53.560 So I got a village. 0:57:54.000 --> 0:57:54.680 I got a village. 0:57:54.680 --> 0:57:56.600 And that's why I'm so thankful and grateful to God, 0:57:56.760 --> 0:58:00.160 you know, for this blessing and my walk is though 0:58:00.160 --> 0:58:02.680 it's been tough, you know, Like I said, it's helped 0:58:02.680 --> 0:58:05.320 me build a village of people that can that could 0:58:05.320 --> 0:58:05.880 be there with me. 0:58:06.240 --> 0:58:08.840 Yea, let's talk about two things that have impacted you. 0:58:08.960 --> 0:58:10.120 Two things that impacted me. 0:58:10.120 --> 0:58:13.840 I would say my one, my injuries. Good. 0:58:13.840 --> 0:58:16.480 You know, anything good or bad once you're a child 0:58:16.520 --> 0:58:20.320 of God, it is for your good, it's for your betterment. 0:58:21.560 --> 0:58:22.360 I think in the Bible. 0:58:22.400 --> 0:58:25.080 Don't quote me, uh specifically, but it says it says, 0:58:26.000 --> 0:58:29.120 be thankful when you when you face. 0:58:31.840 --> 0:58:35.160 Be thankful James one, Chapter one, consider yourself, you know 0:58:35.200 --> 0:58:36.640 what I mean, when you go through times. 0:58:37.160 --> 0:58:39.480 So I really try to sit with that and all 0:58:39.480 --> 0:58:42.880 my everything I go through, my injuries, my my whatever 0:58:42.920 --> 0:58:45.480 in life that impacts me in in a way because 0:58:45.520 --> 0:58:47.720 it helps me grow, like I come out of it stronger, 0:58:48.040 --> 0:58:52.320 I would say that. And just my new relationship, you know, 0:58:52.400 --> 0:58:56.800 I just I'm recently, I recently you know I have 0:58:56.800 --> 0:58:59.160 a girlfriend. Now, you know, I try I call my wife. 0:58:59.280 --> 0:58:59.919 You know what I'm saying. 0:59:00.080 --> 0:59:02.480 Quote me, unquote me, I don't know, Uh, I call 0:59:02.520 --> 0:59:04.720 it my wife. But because that's truly what it is. 0:59:04.960 --> 0:59:08.000 We the way we are involved in each other's life 0:59:08.000 --> 0:59:10.760 and how we how she builds me up, How she 0:59:10.800 --> 0:59:14.160 builds me up, how she how she's willing to stand 0:59:14.160 --> 0:59:16.520 in that gap for me, how she's willing to make 0:59:16.520 --> 0:59:18.720 sure I'm okay with being vulnerable with her, you know 0:59:18.720 --> 0:59:21.600 what I mean, and then at times helping me learn 0:59:21.640 --> 0:59:25.560 how to be stronger for her. So she's been a 0:59:25.600 --> 0:59:27.800 huge impact in my life. And that's why right now, 0:59:27.840 --> 0:59:30.920 which is that's my girlfriend, but I call it my 0:59:30.960 --> 0:59:32.520 wife because she has all the attributes. 0:59:32.600 --> 0:59:33.960 She's not waiting till just. 0:59:34.080 --> 0:59:37.360 A ring on it to to to do the things 0:59:37.360 --> 0:59:39.640 that really matter, you know what I mean. So she's 0:59:39.680 --> 0:59:42.960 been a really big impact. And yeah, that's. 0:59:42.880 --> 0:59:46.040 It all right, bro. Always appreciation man, man, thank. 0:59:45.880 --> 0:59:46.360 You for having me. 0:59:46.440 --> 0:59:50.560 Joseph Osai summing up his season and Dave, he's twenty eight, 0:59:50.640 --> 0:59:52.560 twenty six. He's one of those guys who feels like 0:59:52.560 --> 0:59:55.840 he's been around for a long time. He's four years 0:59:55.840 --> 0:59:58.840 in and he still is only twenty five years old. 0:59:59.000 --> 1:00:01.480 It's gonna be a free agent and boy, you talk 1:00:01.520 --> 1:00:05.640 about young and productive, and it's gonna be an interesting 1:00:05.720 --> 1:00:08.080 He's gonna he's gonna command a lot of money, and 1:00:08.880 --> 1:00:10.840 if he were like an outside player, I think the 1:00:10.880 --> 1:00:13.480 Bengals would be looking at him saying we need somebody 1:00:13.560 --> 1:00:16.840 like that. So it makes for an interesting dynamic this offseason. 1:00:16.840 --> 1:00:18.919 I agree with you, Lancey right on the money right there. 1:00:18.920 --> 1:00:21.920 I mean, he's he's going to get a lot of interest. 1:00:21.960 --> 1:00:23.240 I mean a lot of teams are going to be 1:00:23.360 --> 1:00:26.960 contacting his representation, uh to see what what the deal is. 1:00:26.960 --> 1:00:30.360 But I think Joseph aside really likes Jerry Montgomery, the 1:00:30.400 --> 1:00:33.480 defensive line coach. He likes Cincinnati, he likes Zach Taylor. 1:00:33.480 --> 1:00:36.000 He likes the way the organization is being run. He 1:00:36.120 --> 1:00:39.040 likes the way he's being treated. And you look at it. 1:00:39.520 --> 1:00:43.080 Joseph A Side, Miles Murphy can sample. We haven't talked 1:00:43.080 --> 1:00:47.040 about Shamar Stewart. I mean, here's another young stud that's 1:00:47.160 --> 1:00:49.600 you know, got a lot of meat on the bone left. 1:00:49.640 --> 1:00:54.160 I mean, he he's far from the finished product. Isaiah Fosky. 1:00:54.240 --> 1:00:57.600 You know they they just brought in. He's he's on 1:00:57.880 --> 1:01:00.040 you know, a fifty three men roster guy. Will he 1:00:59.880 --> 1:01:01.960 be one of the guys next year, particularly if they 1:01:02.040 --> 1:01:05.200 draft a guy maybe not Cedric Johnson. I mean, he's 1:01:05.280 --> 1:01:10.080 developing still, he's showing, he's making plays. They do have 1:01:11.040 --> 1:01:14.680 some young talent that they can grow and develop on 1:01:14.720 --> 1:01:19.040 the edge, and that's an area that every NFL franchise 1:01:19.320 --> 1:01:22.840 wants to have a lot of depth at that defensive 1:01:22.920 --> 1:01:25.640 end position because it's one of the most important positions 1:01:25.640 --> 1:01:27.800 on the whole football team. Boy, it's such a great 1:01:27.840 --> 1:01:30.360 point about depth because if you can pull i know, 1:01:30.520 --> 1:01:32.600 whatever it is, five or six snaps away from a 1:01:32.680 --> 1:01:34.640 number of guys and give them to another guy and 1:01:34.680 --> 1:01:37.080 that just lightens your load a little bit. You're fresher 1:01:37.160 --> 1:01:37.720 late in the game. 1:01:37.760 --> 1:01:40.360 It's huge, it is, and you know, when you're not 1:01:40.400 --> 1:01:42.200 on the field and you're not getting hurt, you know, 1:01:42.720 --> 1:01:45.000 it removes that injury factor. And when you are on 1:01:45.080 --> 1:01:48.360 the field rested a little bit more because of snap's 1:01:48.440 --> 1:01:53.000 being alleviated, that minimizes the injury risk as well. So 1:01:53.720 --> 1:01:55.800 you can never have enough good edge rushers. 1:01:56.360 --> 1:01:59.120 When we continue back up front on the other side 1:01:59.120 --> 1:02:01.320 of the ball, or Land No Brown on the day 1:02:01.440 --> 1:02:04.200 and the season and the off season ahead as we continue, 1:02:04.200 --> 1:02:06.680 He's Dave lapham My Blaance Pacallister. Hey, thanks for hanging 1:02:06.680 --> 1:02:09.080 out with us tonight, Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio 1:02:09.120 --> 1:02:18.120 Network and seven hundred doublw Hey. We are moving right 1:02:18.160 --> 1:02:21.200 along on this Monday night. We do it every Monday, 1:02:21.240 --> 1:02:23.880 our final Monday of the year. Unfortunately, would have loved 1:02:23.880 --> 1:02:25.880 to playoff run, but it is what it is. So 1:02:25.960 --> 1:02:28.760 we break down the season it was, and part of 1:02:28.760 --> 1:02:31.480 that is Orlando Brown on the performance of the offensive line. 1:02:31.640 --> 1:02:34.040 Orlando after the game met with the media with his 1:02:34.400 --> 1:02:36.960 two kids on his lap and talked about what took 1:02:37.000 --> 1:02:38.840 place this season and what's ahead. 1:02:39.000 --> 1:02:40.800 You know, I hate that obviously I was a guy 1:02:40.840 --> 1:02:44.480 that yeah he broke the record on but yeah, yeah, 1:02:44.480 --> 1:02:46.080 I feel like overall, man, we had a good plan. 1:02:46.240 --> 1:02:48.520 I mean, big guys, I probably gone out of so 1:02:48.640 --> 1:02:49.760 many times in year career. 1:02:49.960 --> 1:02:51.320 That's got to be a guy you have a lot. 1:02:51.160 --> 1:02:53.520 Of man, I mean, oh yeah, a ton of respect. Man. 1:02:54.080 --> 1:02:56.240 You know, it's it's it's weird. You know, we we 1:02:56.280 --> 1:02:57.600 graduated high school the same year. 1:02:58.160 --> 1:02:58.880 You were, same age. 1:02:58.920 --> 1:03:01.320 He came out of college a year but just being 1:03:01.360 --> 1:03:03.160 in Baltimore, Casey and here, I mean, man, I might 1:03:03.200 --> 1:03:04.080 have played him twelve times. 1:03:04.080 --> 1:03:05.880 This might have been my twelfth time planer. Man, So 1:03:06.240 --> 1:03:07.240 a toend of respect for him. 1:03:07.320 --> 1:03:09.240 You know, he's a guy that works hard, does everything 1:03:09.280 --> 1:03:11.360 the right way, and he's great. 1:03:11.440 --> 1:03:13.680 Us saying what did you think of what happened? 1:03:13.680 --> 1:03:16.400 Because I don't think anybody knew that their entire bench 1:03:16.480 --> 1:03:17.960 was going to run onto the field while you guys 1:03:18.000 --> 1:03:20.240 are trying to drive and score go ahead touchdown. 1:03:20.560 --> 1:03:21.920 Did that surprise you when that happened? 1:03:22.200 --> 1:03:25.800 No, man, I think, just based off my experience, when 1:03:25.880 --> 1:03:28.880 records are broken, it's normally some type of celibatory effects. 1:03:30.560 --> 1:03:32.360 You can't. Okay, you gotta hold on the segment. 1:03:32.840 --> 1:03:35.120 I wanted to ask you because you understand the standard 1:03:35.400 --> 1:03:37.480 inside this room that it's you guys should be playing 1:03:37.480 --> 1:03:40.200 in the playoffs, if you should be competing for championships. 1:03:41.760 --> 1:03:44.800 How disappointing is it that you're going to be watching 1:03:45.040 --> 1:03:46.760 next week in the playoffs instead of playing. 1:03:48.000 --> 1:03:51.680 I don't know a little on seconds, it's disappointed, man. 1:03:52.080 --> 1:03:53.520 Like I said, I feel like we're a team that 1:03:54.520 --> 1:03:56.360 we got the star power and the firepower to be 1:03:56.360 --> 1:04:01.040 playing here meaningful, meaningful football in January, and so the 1:04:01.080 --> 1:04:02.920 fact that we haven't been for the last three years 1:04:02.960 --> 1:04:03.560 is tough. 1:04:03.560 --> 1:04:06.520 It's frustrating. But we've got to figure it out. 1:04:06.720 --> 1:04:06.880 You know. 1:04:06.880 --> 1:04:09.760 It's too many times I think over the course. 1:04:09.520 --> 1:04:11.960 Of the season that we didn't do enough, and so 1:04:12.360 --> 1:04:14.120 whatever that is we got to find. 1:04:14.120 --> 1:04:15.720 We got to find a medium and. 1:04:15.880 --> 1:04:18.840 Get better and be able to come away with wins 1:04:18.840 --> 1:04:19.680 in those situations. 1:04:20.120 --> 1:04:24.200 Orlando Brown after the game, Dave Orlando is thirty and 1:04:24.600 --> 1:04:27.800 his offensive lineman get older. I would imagine you try 1:04:27.800 --> 1:04:30.040 to compensate a little bit for age and maybe a 1:04:30.040 --> 1:04:32.200 loss of a step or so, and he seems to 1:04:32.200 --> 1:04:33.760 have gotten caught a couple of time. He's got that 1:04:33.800 --> 1:04:36.680 real quick jump off the line, and I think he's 1:04:36.760 --> 1:04:39.400 led the team in penalties with ten. He's been called 1:04:39.440 --> 1:04:42.600 for some false starts. What do you make of his 1:04:42.800 --> 1:04:45.280 performance at that age? Going forward? How do you feel 1:04:45.480 --> 1:04:47.560 how do you feel about him and this offensive line 1:04:47.600 --> 1:04:48.200 going forward? 1:04:48.320 --> 1:04:51.360 Yeah, I think Orlando Brown has got a great resource 1:04:51.520 --> 1:04:54.200 for his future years that he's got left in the 1:04:54.280 --> 1:04:57.320 National Football League. And his dad, Zeus Brown, who played, 1:04:57.400 --> 1:04:59.959 you know a long time, very different style of player. 1:05:00.120 --> 1:05:02.560 Zous Brown is a massive man. I'm telling you what 1:05:02.680 --> 1:05:05.240 and not that Orlando Brown's not. But I mean Zeus 1:05:05.240 --> 1:05:07.080 Brown could lift the world. It looked like he's like 1:05:07.200 --> 1:05:10.919 Atlas man. He's crazy and uh, you know, Orlando Brown says, 1:05:10.960 --> 1:05:13.400 that's my hero. I mean, my dad's my hero man 1:05:13.440 --> 1:05:15.840 because I mean he played the game in the National 1:05:15.840 --> 1:05:17.840 Football League at the level that I aspired to be. 1:05:18.000 --> 1:05:22.000 And I do think that Orlando Brown is a great 1:05:22.080 --> 1:05:25.280 leader of men, There's no question about that. Uh. 1:05:25.360 --> 1:05:26.280 He's a He's a. 1:05:26.120 --> 1:05:30.320 Great dad, great husband, great teammate, a leader of the 1:05:30.360 --> 1:05:34.320 football team, you know, captain type guy. He's got that 1:05:34.400 --> 1:05:39.680 type of personality. I think Jerry Montgomery likes him a 1:05:39.720 --> 1:05:42.680 lot as a as a football player and as a 1:05:42.680 --> 1:05:46.520 person as a leader. I do think that that Orlando 1:05:47.040 --> 1:05:50.440 probably feels like he could do a little bit more 1:05:50.640 --> 1:05:54.400 for his football team, uh than what took place this year, 1:05:54.400 --> 1:05:56.760 because they didn't make the playoffs and that's his ultimate goal. 1:05:57.160 --> 1:05:59.040 He is the epitome of a team player, There's no 1:05:59.160 --> 1:06:02.560 question about that. And if the Cincinnati Bengals don't make 1:06:02.600 --> 1:06:05.280 the playoffs, he feels like he slighted the football team. 1:06:05.480 --> 1:06:09.240 He mentioned during that conversation that Miles Garrett got him. 1:06:09.720 --> 1:06:12.520 Garrett has gotten a lot of people in his career, obviously, 1:06:12.600 --> 1:06:14.720 But I want to ask you before we wrap up 1:06:14.760 --> 1:06:17.640 this segment, because you've mentioned him before and I love 1:06:17.720 --> 1:06:20.800 your stories. Koy Bacon should not be lost in the 1:06:21.200 --> 1:06:24.840 history of Bengals pass rushers for what he did. Believe 1:06:24.880 --> 1:06:27.320 it was nineteen seventy six and unofficially before it was 1:06:27.360 --> 1:06:31.000 recognized twenty two sacks. Was what was Koy Bacon like 1:06:31.040 --> 1:06:32.240 to watch as a pass rusher? 1:06:33.400 --> 1:06:38.000 Coy Bacon was unique. The dude was hell on wheels. Man, 1:06:38.040 --> 1:06:40.840 tell me he was just one of those guys that 1:06:40.960 --> 1:06:43.920 had natural strength. I mean he didn't. He wasn't a 1:06:43.920 --> 1:06:45.880 weight room guy. I don't think I ever saw him 1:06:45.920 --> 1:06:46.200 in there. 1:06:46.320 --> 1:06:46.400 Now. 1:06:46.400 --> 1:06:48.479 I was in the weight room pretty regularly, just about 1:06:48.480 --> 1:06:52.440 every day really. But he could lift the stadium, you know, 1:06:52.720 --> 1:06:58.760 just he was just naturally gifted strong. He was born 1:06:58.840 --> 1:07:01.480 to play football, There's no doubt about it. And I 1:07:01.520 --> 1:07:04.600 remember Tiger Johnson saying, yeah, Coy Bacon, he's just one 1:07:04.600 --> 1:07:06.880 of those guys. That man, he can roll out of 1:07:06.920 --> 1:07:09.600 bed and just you know, his eyes half closed and 1:07:09.880 --> 1:07:12.480 rush the passer and get himself five sacks. He's a 1:07:12.480 --> 1:07:15.200 five sack guy. He's a handful of sack guy. And 1:07:15.680 --> 1:07:22.040 he was immense, he really was. And twenty two sacks 1:07:22.080 --> 1:07:25.600 back then, look at it. Fourteen game season, that's the thing. 1:07:25.760 --> 1:07:28.040 And they didn't throw it as much. You know, maybe 1:07:28.080 --> 1:07:31.480 twenty twenty five is a game in fourteen games as 1:07:31.480 --> 1:07:34.120 opposed to like forty forty five and you know, in 1:07:34.240 --> 1:07:38.000 seventeen games now. So the ratio there is like, you know, 1:07:38.200 --> 1:07:42.040 off the charts. And he was something else, and he 1:07:42.240 --> 1:07:45.160 liked to celebrate. He liked his he liked his bourbon, 1:07:45.240 --> 1:07:47.920 his whiskey. He was a man's man in that regard 1:07:47.960 --> 1:07:53.160 to and Koy Bacon, one of those guys that he 1:07:53.640 --> 1:07:57.200 would defend himself. Put up the dukes very quickly. You 1:07:57.240 --> 1:07:59.160 didn't want to necessarily get caught in a room by 1:07:59.160 --> 1:08:02.040 yourself with Koyen Courty Baker and the dukes were put up. 1:08:02.240 --> 1:08:04.600 I love it, I love it. Down the stretcher will 1:08:04.640 --> 1:08:06.800 go to close out our first hour or second hour. 1:08:06.840 --> 1:08:09.320 Already here from T Higgins up next Bengals line on 1:08:09.360 --> 1:08:14.400 the Bengals Radio Networking seven hundred double l W down 1:08:14.520 --> 1:08:17.400 the stretch we go, final segment of our number two type. 1:08:17.400 --> 1:08:20.679 We've saved time for T Higgins. Six catches yesterday, sixty 1:08:20.720 --> 1:08:23.960 seven yards and a touchdown. Here's t after the game. 1:08:24.240 --> 1:08:26.880 Obviously it's tough, you know, you know we put was 1:08:26.920 --> 1:08:28.840 able to put a job together at the end. But 1:08:29.320 --> 1:08:31.320 you know, got to look back at you know, the 1:08:31.320 --> 1:08:34.040 first half. Man, we two turnods, touchdowns. We don't have 1:08:34.040 --> 1:08:35.519 those turnovers. We win the game, you know what I mean? 1:08:35.840 --> 1:08:39.639 But you know I want I can't even say get 1:08:39.640 --> 1:08:41.640 back to practice and fix it. But at the end 1:08:41.640 --> 1:08:44.240 of the season, you know, it was good to have 1:08:44.280 --> 1:08:46.920 a you know, a last job like that to to 1:08:47.360 --> 1:08:48.439 end the season, you know what I'm saying. 1:08:48.680 --> 1:08:50.320 So yeah, I'll take that. Bouse. 1:08:51.320 --> 1:08:52.760 Is this three years in a row, tea not to 1:08:52.760 --> 1:08:53.439 make the playoffs. 1:08:53.560 --> 1:08:54.000 It's tough. 1:08:54.040 --> 1:08:55.840 Obviously we played a game to go in championships, you 1:08:55.880 --> 1:08:57.719 know I mean, so it's tough. 1:08:58.320 --> 1:08:59.439 We can't just all. 1:08:59.360 --> 1:09:00.880 We gotta do is just come back next year and 1:09:00.920 --> 1:09:01.559 try to do it, you know. 1:09:01.560 --> 1:09:01.880 What I mean. 1:09:01.880 --> 1:09:04.200 So you're one of the guys that has an important 1:09:04.280 --> 1:09:07.120 voice on this team. Joe's talked about change, Jamar is 1:09:07.200 --> 1:09:09.400 hinted at change. Do you feel like there's a lot 1:09:09.400 --> 1:09:10.960 of change needed for this team to get back to 1:09:10.960 --> 1:09:11.600 where you need to go? 1:09:11.920 --> 1:09:13.520 Above my pay grade. 1:09:13.720 --> 1:09:18.280 I do my job, catch boss from Joe and try 1:09:18.360 --> 1:09:18.840 to try to. 1:09:18.760 --> 1:09:20.960 Help the team win games. Man, that's above my pay grade. 1:09:21.120 --> 1:09:24.439 What it looks like he's gonna be able to get 1:09:24.439 --> 1:09:25.639 you guys out of all. 1:09:25.640 --> 1:09:26.400 Back in controls. 1:09:27.479 --> 1:09:29.400 You know, just just gotta have just got to believe 1:09:29.400 --> 1:09:30.320 in them, you know what I mean. At the end 1:09:30.360 --> 1:09:32.760 of the day, we believe him. 1:09:32.800 --> 1:09:36.200 This year obviously we fell short, and you just gotta 1:09:36.200 --> 1:09:38.280 come back next year and just just keep believing in 1:09:38.280 --> 1:09:39.400 this philosophy. 1:09:39.960 --> 1:09:43.040 That I feel like they didn't have their stritting corners 1:09:43.040 --> 1:09:46.000 out there. Half the ward went down. Uh, did they 1:09:46.040 --> 1:09:49.639 do anything to take away the arm wall? They played 1:09:49.640 --> 1:09:50.759 a lot of a lot of cloud. 1:09:51.120 --> 1:09:52.559 Uh, we got a lot of a lot of cloud 1:09:52.560 --> 1:09:56.400 in in Bursa who was able to still get a 1:09:56.439 --> 1:09:58.880 few de boss, But yeah, that's what they did. 1:09:59.160 --> 1:10:02.200 Each was that about his message to the team after 1:10:02.200 --> 1:10:03.479 the game, and he said that it was kind of 1:10:03.479 --> 1:10:05.040 fitting this loss the way it went. 1:10:05.240 --> 1:10:06.160 What are your thoughts on that? 1:10:06.560 --> 1:10:06.680 Oh? 1:10:06.760 --> 1:10:09.559 Yeah, I agree what I'm saying. 1:10:09.560 --> 1:10:10.960 I gonna repeat what he said because I don't know 1:10:11.000 --> 1:10:13.840 if he said that's y'all, but it was definitely fitting too. 1:10:14.200 --> 1:10:16.719 Is to make sure this stuff can happen again next year. 1:10:17.040 --> 1:10:20.120 Win win, At the end of the day, we just 1:10:20.120 --> 1:10:21.080 got a way to find a way to win. 1:10:21.280 --> 1:10:23.800 T Higgins wrapping up the season and Dave to wrap 1:10:23.880 --> 1:10:27.680 up his season fifty nine catches, eight and forty six yards, 1:10:27.680 --> 1:10:32.400 eleven touchdowns and uh, man again, back to what I 1:10:32.439 --> 1:10:35.280 said earlier. Any team that's got Jamar Chase on one 1:10:35.360 --> 1:10:38.240 side and T Higgins on the other end and Joe 1:10:38.240 --> 1:10:41.479 Burrow in between him, you've got a chance. It's just 1:10:41.720 --> 1:10:44.400 you got to take advantage of it. But man, what 1:10:44.400 --> 1:10:46.080 what a trio and what a season? By Tea with 1:10:46.160 --> 1:10:47.160 eleven touchdowns. 1:10:47.240 --> 1:10:49.719 Yeah, that's the thing. I mean, Chase Brown's got eleven 1:10:49.800 --> 1:10:53.920 touchdowns combined with his rushing and receiving touchdowns and T 1:10:54.080 --> 1:10:56.560 Higgins with eleven receiving touchdowns. That's a hell of a 1:10:56.600 --> 1:10:59.040 one to two punch right there in terms of scoring 1:10:59.080 --> 1:11:03.080 twenty two touchdown between the two of those guys. That's 1:11:03.120 --> 1:11:06.000 pretty prolific, that really is. But T Higgins, the thing 1:11:06.000 --> 1:11:09.920 about him not only a great player, you know that's 1:11:10.040 --> 1:11:12.439 just been blessed. The Good Lord blessed him. He knows 1:11:12.479 --> 1:11:17.160 he's been blessed. He's very humble, extremely popular with his teammates. 1:11:17.680 --> 1:11:19.760 You know, he never has a bad thing to say 1:11:19.800 --> 1:11:22.160 about anybody. They don't have a bad thing to say 1:11:22.160 --> 1:11:25.200 about him. He's just a delight to be around in 1:11:25.200 --> 1:11:27.840 the locker room. And you know that you can't put 1:11:27.840 --> 1:11:35.439 a value on that. To coaches, ownership, everybody loves to 1:11:35.520 --> 1:11:37.920 have players that are not going to be causing any 1:11:38.000 --> 1:11:40.400 kind of problems out in their community or anywhere else, 1:11:40.760 --> 1:11:43.280 and T Higgins is a great example of that. 1:11:43.439 --> 1:11:45.599 Still ahead on our third hour tonight, a little bit 1:11:45.600 --> 1:11:47.559 more on Zach on the season, a little bit more 1:11:47.600 --> 1:11:50.439 from Joe on the season. We've got fantastic fun facts 1:11:50.439 --> 1:11:53.160 we'll hear from bj Hill and we'll wrap it all 1:11:53.240 --> 1:11:55.439 up as we turn the corner to our third and 1:11:55.479 --> 1:11:57.760 final hour tonight. The show is Bengals Line. It's on 1:11:57.800 --> 1:12:01.200 the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred at WLW. 1:12:03.880 --> 1:12:06.919 This is Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network. 1:12:07.160 --> 1:12:07.839 Pay Corps. 1:12:08.040 --> 1:12:10.799 Pay Corp is proud to be the official HR software 1:12:10.840 --> 1:12:14.720 provider of US Cincinnati Bengals. Kettering now best care for 1:12:14.760 --> 1:12:18.599 the best fans. Kettering now official healthcare provider of US 1:12:18.640 --> 1:12:23.400 Cincinnati Bengals. This is seven hundred WLW, the home of 1:12:23.479 --> 1:12:25.240 the best Bengals coverage. 1:12:25.360 --> 1:12:27.559 All right, let's go. Let's open up our third and 1:12:27.680 --> 1:12:30.280 final hour tonight of Bengals Line of the Bengals Radio 1:12:30.280 --> 1:12:33.840 Network in seven hundred WLW. Thank you for tagging along 1:12:33.880 --> 1:12:36.439 with us tonight. I'm Lance McAllister. He is Dave Lapham. 1:12:36.600 --> 1:12:39.439 We've been sorting through yesterday, looking back through the season, 1:12:39.439 --> 1:12:41.160 and we'll spend some time looking ahead of the off 1:12:41.240 --> 1:12:43.559 season as well. Let's getting a little bit more from Zach. 1:12:43.720 --> 1:12:46.960 He addressed the season as a whole, in the importance 1:12:47.000 --> 1:12:50.360 of this off season after the game Zach would to look. 1:12:50.240 --> 1:12:52.120 At why you loss is one, what's the biggest reason? 1:12:52.360 --> 1:12:56.000 Sof it was it was a strange game obviously to 1:12:56.040 --> 1:12:59.519 give them fourteen points, and I felt like we had 1:12:59.520 --> 1:13:01.200 pretty good troll early in the game and had a 1:13:01.280 --> 1:13:03.879 chance to really you know, create a lot of separation 1:13:04.000 --> 1:13:06.760 and gave them fourteen points and then the defense gives 1:13:06.840 --> 1:13:09.360 up six total, you know, two field goals, and and 1:13:09.400 --> 1:13:12.960 that's got to be enough to win. And you know, 1:13:12.960 --> 1:13:14.840 you just look at there, there's little things that got us. 1:13:14.880 --> 1:13:18.080 We've missed two extra points, had two turnovers for touchdowns, 1:13:19.840 --> 1:13:21.120 and then they had a two minute drive to win 1:13:21.160 --> 1:13:25.280 the game. And it's just frustrating, and it's it's it's 1:13:25.280 --> 1:13:26.360 just frustrating. 1:13:25.920 --> 1:13:26.559 That's the biggest thing. 1:13:26.600 --> 1:13:28.160 And and then that we weren't able just to finish 1:13:28.160 --> 1:13:30.760 it in some area, finished that game and and find 1:13:30.760 --> 1:13:32.360 a way to get a win. What did you tell 1:13:33.600 --> 1:13:36.680 that's it's a little bit fitting, to be honest with you, 1:13:36.760 --> 1:13:40.120 and in terms of how our season's gone. And it 1:13:40.120 --> 1:13:44.640 doesn't make it right, doesn't make it It's just you know, 1:13:46.240 --> 1:13:50.080 several times we we've had games where we played well 1:13:50.360 --> 1:13:52.800 in different areas and we just we just haven't found 1:13:52.840 --> 1:13:54.639 a way to put it all together. And then there's 1:13:54.640 --> 1:13:56.439 been games in the last couple of weeks we had, 1:13:57.000 --> 1:13:58.760 but this is one we need to finish off, you know, 1:13:58.760 --> 1:14:01.800 a individual game, and this is how these divisional games go, 1:14:02.280 --> 1:14:06.400 and it usually comes down to a play at the end, 1:14:07.200 --> 1:14:09.640 one score game, and we just we weren't able to 1:14:09.680 --> 1:14:10.120 finish it all. 1:14:10.280 --> 1:14:12.200 What was a kind of what Cleveland was able to 1:14:12.240 --> 1:14:13.320 do to be successful and their. 1:14:13.280 --> 1:14:17.000 Final well, I mean they hit a couple of throws 1:14:17.000 --> 1:14:19.160 over there in the flat and then got a couple 1:14:19.160 --> 1:14:21.400 of chunks, and I thought we did a good job 1:14:21.439 --> 1:14:23.320 stopping them for two plays and then and then they 1:14:23.320 --> 1:14:24.720 get the one that would just kind of get them, 1:14:24.800 --> 1:14:28.080 you know, ten yards a get closer and put them a. 1:14:28.040 --> 1:14:29.680 Field goal range, and then their kicker did a great 1:14:29.720 --> 1:14:30.439 job finishing off. 1:14:31.640 --> 1:14:34.120 Wouldn't think it's been this year about not being able. 1:14:33.920 --> 1:14:35.120 To close out games. 1:14:35.240 --> 1:14:38.160 Yeah, it's like you said, common Beam, there's something that 1:14:38.200 --> 1:14:40.000 you FULI on the offseason. 1:14:39.600 --> 1:14:41.240 That you could that's something that we're going to look, 1:14:41.280 --> 1:14:43.160 you know, to see here today and do that answer. 1:14:43.880 --> 1:14:48.559 It's challenging and and so we reflect back. Obviously obviously 1:14:48.680 --> 1:14:53.040 we had the answer. We would have pointed today. So 1:14:53.120 --> 1:14:54.000 that's just something we got. 1:14:53.920 --> 1:14:54.439 To really look at. 1:14:54.600 --> 1:14:56.120 Was there a thought of, I know you needed the touchdown, 1:14:56.120 --> 1:14:58.080 but the thought of taking more time off the clock 1:14:58.560 --> 1:14:58.960 it's hard. 1:14:59.040 --> 1:15:01.479 Yeah, there's always you'd love to score for one second left, 1:15:01.520 --> 1:15:04.640 but it's it's challenging if you if you run it 1:15:04.680 --> 1:15:06.880 and you waisted down on a zero yard game just 1:15:06.880 --> 1:15:08.879 just for the sake of running the clock is challenging. 1:15:08.960 --> 1:15:10.880 So we've been in that situation a lot. 1:15:11.080 --> 1:15:13.200 Or sometimes we don't score on the first play and 1:15:13.200 --> 1:15:15.200 we do that, let's get points on the board, go 1:15:15.200 --> 1:15:16.360 get a stop and win the game, and. 1:15:16.280 --> 1:15:19.439 Just work out what makes it so tough. 1:15:22.000 --> 1:15:24.920 Incredibly to mean, he's he's the best player in on 1:15:25.000 --> 1:15:26.600 the defense side of the ball. He's the best player, and 1:15:26.680 --> 1:15:29.160 he recks every single play. You gotta account for him. 1:15:29.560 --> 1:15:31.120 They got a really good defensive line. They got a 1:15:31.160 --> 1:15:33.040 really good defense. Round I'm not gonna just minimize it 1:15:33.080 --> 1:15:34.599 and say that a good defensive line. It's a really 1:15:34.640 --> 1:15:37.760 good defense that's been challenging for every team they've played 1:15:37.760 --> 1:15:39.880 all season. You know, you just look at the last 1:15:39.880 --> 1:15:43.439 couple of games they played. They do a great job. 1:15:43.479 --> 1:15:45.920 They make it hard. You got to earn everything. I 1:15:45.960 --> 1:15:48.320 thought we we found some success at different points in 1:15:48.320 --> 1:15:51.640 the game and and you know, just weren't able to 1:15:51.640 --> 1:15:53.679 score more than the eighteen or whatever we scored. 1:15:54.840 --> 1:15:56.559 Happened a year that you know, you guys have had 1:15:57.000 --> 1:15:59.200 to ending of this game. You know, defense is a 1:15:59.280 --> 1:16:02.640 chance to make a play and the season on a 1:16:02.680 --> 1:16:04.120 high note. What kind of a taste does the leave 1:16:04.280 --> 1:16:06.040 just you know, having it in the way that it 1:16:06.080 --> 1:16:06.880 has so many times. 1:16:06.960 --> 1:16:08.479 Yeah, not a good one. Not a good taste. 1:16:08.800 --> 1:16:12.439 A long conversation with the officials after the Garrett sack. 1:16:13.479 --> 1:16:14.519 What was going on there? 1:16:14.680 --> 1:16:16.840 What was There's five minutes left in our season. 1:16:16.920 --> 1:16:20.120 We're playing for our lives here and I was never 1:16:20.160 --> 1:16:22.560 told that we're going to stop the game, and in 1:16:22.640 --> 1:16:25.559 a critical moment like that, and the refs just said 1:16:25.600 --> 1:16:27.120 that they made a decision that they were going to 1:16:27.120 --> 1:16:28.800 stop the game, and they said they tried to do 1:16:28.800 --> 1:16:31.840 it as quickly as possible. I didn't feel that we 1:16:31.840 --> 1:16:33.559 didn't sub We're trying to be on the ball and 1:16:33.600 --> 1:16:36.800 go and play with tempo, and the Empire just held 1:16:36.840 --> 1:16:38.720 the ball so that we couldn't do anything. And I'm 1:16:38.800 --> 1:16:40.800 yelling at Joe, get on the ball. We didn't sub 1:16:40.960 --> 1:16:45.360 we're going and then we couldn't play, And so again 1:16:45.400 --> 1:16:48.040 trying to get an answer was not easy. They just 1:16:48.040 --> 1:16:49.800 said that they made a decision as a as a 1:16:49.840 --> 1:16:52.240 crew to stop the game when that happened. I guess 1:16:52.240 --> 1:16:54.080 it didn't matter when it happened. It just they were 1:16:54.080 --> 1:16:57.800 going to stop the game. And I was never informed that. 1:16:57.800 --> 1:16:59.080 They didn't say one word. We meet with them in 1:16:59.080 --> 1:17:00.920 the ninety minute meeting before the game, they never said 1:17:00.960 --> 1:17:01.640 one word about that. 1:17:03.960 --> 1:17:06.280 How did you kind of did you approach this like 1:17:06.320 --> 1:17:08.280 a normal game for Burrow in terms. 1:17:08.040 --> 1:17:08.760 Of Week E team. 1:17:09.120 --> 1:17:10.719 You obviously played the full share of reps. 1:17:11.080 --> 1:17:14.000 Yes, yes, we we We played that game to win 1:17:14.040 --> 1:17:18.240 the game, and and every decision we made, and you know, 1:17:18.240 --> 1:17:20.840 I know I was made at the sack record. And 1:17:22.360 --> 1:17:24.960 he's earned that. He has earned that. He has earned 1:17:25.000 --> 1:17:29.000 that because and I say that because we we weren't. 1:17:29.040 --> 1:17:30.479 We weren't saying we we don't want to walk out 1:17:30.479 --> 1:17:31.920 of here without him break. We just want to win 1:17:31.960 --> 1:17:33.640 the game. So we're gonna call whatever we did to 1:17:33.680 --> 1:17:37.519 win it. And but to his credit, I mean, the 1:17:37.560 --> 1:17:40.840 guy never he rarely has one on ones ever ever, 1:17:41.320 --> 1:17:45.000 And so for him to be able to do that 1:17:45.240 --> 1:17:49.240 and get that record. I didn't track the other times 1:17:49.240 --> 1:17:51.800 those records were broken, but this was unbelievable that he 1:17:51.840 --> 1:17:53.680 was able to do that with with everything that is 1:17:53.720 --> 1:17:56.800 put on him on the tape and minimized. And they 1:17:56.800 --> 1:17:59.960 don't play with leads, you know, typically, and I'm trying 1:18:00.000 --> 1:18:01.479 take a shot out and that's just the truth of 1:18:01.479 --> 1:18:01.880 it this year. 1:18:02.040 --> 1:18:05.479 So that's a credit to him. Man, He's he's earned that. 1:18:06.120 --> 1:18:08.080 Why did you choose to bring flac going on the quarterbacks? 1:18:09.320 --> 1:18:10.240 Just to bit your body there? 1:18:10.439 --> 1:18:12.160 They were really loading up the front if you saw 1:18:12.160 --> 1:18:14.599 some of the short yards plays, and Flacco is obviously 1:18:14.760 --> 1:18:16.760 a much bigger body rhythm on. 1:18:16.720 --> 1:18:19.160 The drive to put you all ahead late. What kind 1:18:19.160 --> 1:18:20.960 of baby it enables you'll to have the rhythm there 1:18:21.040 --> 1:18:23.160 wait in the second half that you maybe did earlier. 1:18:22.800 --> 1:18:23.120 In the house. 1:18:23.920 --> 1:18:25.800 I don't think we had a lot of possessions really, 1:18:25.880 --> 1:18:27.280 you know. I think that was I don't know what 1:18:27.320 --> 1:18:28.800 possession that was in the drive We had won in 1:18:28.800 --> 1:18:30.960 the third quarter if I remember correctly, and finished, you know, 1:18:31.000 --> 1:18:34.960 the quarter ended with one and so it just didn't 1:18:35.439 --> 1:18:37.120 didn't feel like there was We had a lot of 1:18:37.320 --> 1:18:38.240 plays in the second half. 1:18:38.280 --> 1:18:39.760 We had a bunch of the first half, and I 1:18:39.760 --> 1:18:40.479 was a man saying. 1:18:41.520 --> 1:18:45.040 Zach went over a thousand yards rushing today. He also 1:18:45.120 --> 1:18:48.559 caught a touchdown pass. Is he one of the very 1:18:48.600 --> 1:18:50.479 biggest highlights for you from Yeah? 1:18:50.520 --> 1:18:53.120 He I thought he had an outstanding season and very 1:18:53.120 --> 1:18:56.720 dependable for us. Has really worked hard to be the 1:18:56.720 --> 1:18:59.000 player that he is, and so for the production to 1:18:59.040 --> 1:19:02.720 match that. I'm really proud to Chase, proud of the 1:19:02.720 --> 1:19:04.479 guys up front, you know that have helped pave the 1:19:04.520 --> 1:19:08.200 way for those rushing yards, probably Justin Hill. You know, 1:19:08.360 --> 1:19:11.280 Justin's done a great job getting that room, getting getting 1:19:11.280 --> 1:19:16.280 them Narissa full potential. So I was, let me see these, 1:19:16.320 --> 1:19:20.920 these milestones and achievements are bittersweet when when it happens 1:19:20.960 --> 1:19:23.160 like this, but at the same time, when a player 1:19:23.200 --> 1:19:24.960 puts a lot into his work and his craft, his 1:19:25.040 --> 1:19:28.560 career and you're happy to see them Tempriso's milestones that 1:19:28.640 --> 1:19:29.519 will be with them forever. 1:19:29.840 --> 1:19:32.920 I know you suggested this, We're hinted at this before, 1:19:33.000 --> 1:19:35.880 but how confident are you that there's a brain power 1:19:35.880 --> 1:19:39.080 in the building, both coaching staff, administration, all of it 1:19:39.160 --> 1:19:41.800 together to make sure this doesn't happen next year. 1:19:41.840 --> 1:19:44.519 I'm very confident why why. 1:19:44.880 --> 1:19:47.400 We have really good people and I enjoyed working with them, 1:19:47.400 --> 1:19:52.960 and missing is all of us equally, and I just 1:19:53.280 --> 1:19:54.160 I trust everybody. 1:19:54.320 --> 1:19:57.360 Zach Taylor. With reflections on what went right and what 1:19:57.400 --> 1:19:59.919 went wrong this season and the importance of this offseason, 1:20:00.080 --> 1:20:03.200 boy Dave, the AFC North is going to be interesting altogether. 1:20:03.320 --> 1:20:06.559 What the Bengals do. The Steelers have managed to make 1:20:06.600 --> 1:20:09.160 the playoffs again. I'll be danged if they didn't make 1:20:09.200 --> 1:20:12.400 the playoffs shunting last night. But the Ravens have had 1:20:12.400 --> 1:20:15.360 their issues and struggles and Cleveland has moved on from 1:20:15.400 --> 1:20:18.479 Kevin Stefanski. Today, It's going to be a really interesting 1:20:18.520 --> 1:20:19.640 division this offseason. 1:20:19.840 --> 1:20:22.320 It really is. I mean it's going to be anybody's division. 1:20:22.360 --> 1:20:25.240 It was this year, and the Bengals I think would 1:20:25.280 --> 1:20:26.479 have been right in the thick of it if they 1:20:26.479 --> 1:20:31.160 didn't suffer the injuries that they suffered and couldn't play 1:20:31.240 --> 1:20:34.880 with enough consistency. And that's what the Pittsburgh Steelers and 1:20:34.920 --> 1:20:38.519 the Baltimore Ravens did. They battled, and they had their 1:20:38.600 --> 1:20:40.519 ups and their downs, but you know, they were the 1:20:40.560 --> 1:20:44.000 more consistent football team or a more consistent football team 1:20:44.040 --> 1:20:46.439 than the Bengals, and they end up battling for the 1:20:47.000 --> 1:20:49.840 division title, but nobody ran away with it. And I 1:20:49.840 --> 1:20:52.120 don't think that's gonna happen happen next year. I think 1:20:52.800 --> 1:20:56.599 the Bengals if they can have a good offseason with 1:20:56.680 --> 1:21:00.240 these young players, particularly the rookies and first second your 1:21:00.280 --> 1:21:03.679 players going into their third year. I remember vividly as 1:21:03.680 --> 1:21:06.920 a player how important those offseasons were in terms of 1:21:07.000 --> 1:21:10.479 growth and development. And you know, as a rookie, you 1:21:10.479 --> 1:21:13.000 don't know what you don't know, and it's like, man, 1:21:13.000 --> 1:21:16.000 you're just overwhelmed. You're just trying to survive. And then 1:21:16.040 --> 1:21:19.519 you understand, Oh, I see what the National Football League's about. Now, 1:21:19.520 --> 1:21:20.920 now I'm going to hit the weight room. I'm going 1:21:21.000 --> 1:21:23.599 to make sure that I understand everything mentally, and I'm 1:21:23.600 --> 1:21:25.439 going to be ready to play my second year. And 1:21:25.640 --> 1:21:27.639 if you're a second year player going into your third, 1:21:27.680 --> 1:21:29.840 it's the same thing, and you want to make bigger 1:21:29.880 --> 1:21:32.080 contributions for your football team. So it's going to be 1:21:32.080 --> 1:21:33.400 interesting to see who steps up. 1:21:33.640 --> 1:21:35.880 That was Zach Taylor on What's Ahead. Let's hear more 1:21:35.920 --> 1:21:38.000 from Joe Burrow and What's Ahead as we continue with 1:21:38.040 --> 1:21:40.639 Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred 1:21:40.800 --> 1:21:45.720 WLW back on Bengals Line Bengals Radio Network. It's seven 1:21:45.760 --> 1:21:49.320 hundred WLW Lance Bacallister, he is Dave Lapham. 1:21:49.080 --> 1:21:53.120 Yes, Sir Lance, And this portion of Bengals Line is 1:21:53.160 --> 1:21:56.280 presented by Kettering Health, the official healthcare provider of the 1:21:56.320 --> 1:21:59.559 Cincinnati Bengals, providing the best care for the best fans. 1:21:59.640 --> 1:22:03.000 Joe a very reflective of this season and the importance 1:22:03.040 --> 1:22:05.960 of the off season. Let's listen in more from QB one. 1:22:07.040 --> 1:22:08.880 I don't think I had to catch in the second 1:22:08.920 --> 1:22:12.720 half until that last right anyway, again, you opened it 1:22:12.800 --> 1:22:13.760 up or anything. 1:22:16.880 --> 1:22:19.519 No, not not particularly what we wanted to come in 1:22:19.520 --> 1:22:23.320 and run ball, try to mitigate the effect of their 1:22:23.520 --> 1:22:25.479 of their rush, and I think we ran it well. 1:22:26.120 --> 1:22:27.120 We got to a point in the game that we 1:22:27.120 --> 1:22:29.360 couldn't really do that anymore, so then we start dropping 1:22:29.400 --> 1:22:32.439 back and throwing it a little more, and that we affected. 1:22:33.439 --> 1:22:35.559 I think I don't think they did a top corners shot. 1:22:37.200 --> 1:22:40.200 Really did that? Did you try to take advantage of 1:22:40.200 --> 1:22:42.680 that or or was it kind of that they went 1:22:42.720 --> 1:22:45.599 into Yeah, I think we did take advantage of that. 1:22:45.920 --> 1:22:47.439 For the most part, I think we moved the ball 1:22:47.439 --> 1:22:51.240 well all day. You know, it came down to to 1:22:51.720 --> 1:22:53.240 them making a plan on a goal on the little 1:22:53.280 --> 1:22:55.439 goal line, putting their hand up, getting a tip, and 1:22:55.479 --> 1:23:01.280 then we fumbled and gave them another seven points. So 1:23:01.479 --> 1:23:03.800 they without those two corners out there, they certainly called 1:23:03.800 --> 1:23:06.320 the game a little differently than they would have otherwise. 1:23:08.360 --> 1:23:12.040 And I also thought we responded well to that and 1:23:12.080 --> 1:23:15.320 had the answers to those coverages as we were facing. 1:23:15.720 --> 1:23:18.720 Talked about needing to find a way to be on 1:23:18.760 --> 1:23:21.479 the field more. When you've reflected on this season with 1:23:21.680 --> 1:23:24.960 so many of your injuries in fluke, what do you 1:23:25.000 --> 1:23:26.960 mean by that and what can you do if you 1:23:26.960 --> 1:23:27.639 can do anything? 1:23:27.680 --> 1:23:29.680 Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I don't I 1:23:29.720 --> 1:23:32.160 don't know if there's anything I can do about that. 1:23:33.000 --> 1:23:35.400 I work really hard to be great at this and 1:23:35.560 --> 1:23:38.639 try to put myself in a good position and put 1:23:38.680 --> 1:23:44.280 the team in a good position. So whatever that looks like, 1:23:44.439 --> 1:23:46.760 I'm not sure. I'm gonna certainly think critically about that 1:23:47.320 --> 1:23:50.160 and maybe make some changes. 1:23:50.200 --> 1:23:50.559 Maybe not. 1:23:50.600 --> 1:23:53.400 Maybe I decide that what I'm doing is great and 1:23:53.920 --> 1:23:56.960 put myself in a good position, and you know, things happen, 1:23:57.840 --> 1:23:59.840 but certainly we'll think about it. 1:24:00.200 --> 1:24:01.160 How are you feeling right now? 1:24:01.320 --> 1:24:05.080 Yeah, I feel good. I feel good. Yeah, I feel 1:24:05.080 --> 1:24:06.960 good mentally and physically. 1:24:07.240 --> 1:24:11.240 How would you rate your performances since you've been back 1:24:11.320 --> 1:24:14.000 and do you feel like you are given one hundred? 1:24:15.960 --> 1:24:17.559 Yeah, I'm really proud of what I did this year. 1:24:17.760 --> 1:24:20.920 I'm really proud of what I did this year. Came 1:24:20.960 --> 1:24:24.479 back from an injury faster than any human ever has. 1:24:24.960 --> 1:24:27.160 I'm really proud of that. I think I came back 1:24:27.160 --> 1:24:31.519 and played some really good football. I had one bad game, 1:24:32.400 --> 1:24:34.880 and you know you certainly don't want any of those, 1:24:34.920 --> 1:24:37.040 but I'm certainly not going to lose my mind over that. 1:24:37.160 --> 1:24:40.400 I think you know, when I came back, I played 1:24:41.080 --> 1:24:44.679 some really high level football, and you know, I'm certainly 1:24:44.680 --> 1:24:45.720 proud of what I did this year. 1:24:45.760 --> 1:24:47.519 Would you want to win Comeback Player of the Year. 1:24:47.560 --> 1:24:48.880 I don't know if you could win it after being 1:24:48.880 --> 1:24:49.599 out in the same season. 1:24:50.520 --> 1:24:51.200 Next year. 1:24:53.760 --> 1:24:57.040 Maybe next year you look at where your career is 1:24:57.080 --> 1:24:59.400 six years in. Is it easier or more difficult to 1:24:59.720 --> 1:25:01.639 blot out the questions of what could have been? If 1:25:01.800 --> 1:25:03.559 you know you don't miss so much time with injuries 1:25:03.600 --> 1:25:04.760 in those six years. 1:25:05.640 --> 1:25:08.639 Yeah, we're at where we're at. I'm at where what's 1:25:08.640 --> 1:25:12.120 happened has happened. Certainly don't want to miss as much 1:25:12.160 --> 1:25:15.960 time as I have, but uh, that's that's where I'm at. 1:25:16.000 --> 1:25:21.960 So all you can do is evaluate the position that 1:25:21.960 --> 1:25:23.320 you're in and try to get better from there. 1:25:23.720 --> 1:25:26.200 Joe Zach was likely talked about kind of the pursuit 1:25:26.240 --> 1:25:29.400 of happiness more than you ever have. Why has there 1:25:29.400 --> 1:25:31.200 been such a big feed for you over the course 1:25:31.200 --> 1:25:31.759 of the season. 1:25:34.520 --> 1:25:35.600 You know, I think if you want to play this 1:25:35.640 --> 1:25:37.720 game for a long time, you got to enjoy what 1:25:37.760 --> 1:25:42.000 you do and who you do it with. And you know, 1:25:42.080 --> 1:25:49.439 injuries certainly take a toll on that. And I just 1:25:49.439 --> 1:25:56.800 think in life, I certainly don't want to let let 1:25:56.880 --> 1:25:59.400 losing and where our team is at at the moment, 1:26:00.160 --> 1:26:02.840 you know, affect all the other areas of my life. 1:26:03.240 --> 1:26:05.360 Certainly not happy with where. 1:26:05.160 --> 1:26:05.760 We're at, but. 1:26:07.400 --> 1:26:10.880 You know, I'm not going to let that fact. Who 1:26:10.960 --> 1:26:14.880 I am and what I do and how I think 1:26:14.880 --> 1:26:15.360 about things. 1:26:15.560 --> 1:26:16.439 Has that been a big shift? 1:26:16.439 --> 1:26:17.679 I think a lot of times a lot of people 1:26:17.840 --> 1:26:20.000 will say it's been such a big part of your 1:26:20.000 --> 1:26:21.840 life as it is. Have you been trying to maybe 1:26:22.200 --> 1:26:25.000 separate how much happiness you get from playing the game 1:26:25.040 --> 1:26:26.880 and how much it affects the rest of you. 1:26:26.960 --> 1:26:27.759 Is that pretty fairness? 1:26:27.720 --> 1:26:28.240 Say you think? 1:26:28.320 --> 1:26:28.479 Yeah? 1:26:28.479 --> 1:26:33.840 I think? I think so. I think so. You know, 1:26:33.880 --> 1:26:37.519 I work really hard at this, So it's certainly a 1:26:37.560 --> 1:26:42.519 hard pull to swallow when I'm getting injured the way 1:26:42.520 --> 1:26:45.360 that I am and we're losing the way that we are, 1:26:47.720 --> 1:26:51.280 and so you know, I haven't gotten that joy out 1:26:51.320 --> 1:26:58.280 of this that I used to from. You know, the 1:26:58.360 --> 1:27:02.000 joy that I got was winning, and uh, we certainly haven't. 1:27:02.479 --> 1:27:05.800 I haven't had that success that we expect. And so 1:27:06.560 --> 1:27:10.439 I'm not just gonna sit around and mope and be 1:27:10.560 --> 1:27:13.760 miserable to be around from loved ones and all of that. 1:27:13.920 --> 1:27:17.120 So I think it's just growth and maturity. Is there 1:27:17.160 --> 1:27:18.200 anything different you're gonna do? 1:27:18.240 --> 1:27:19.920 Maybe this offseason as you get to Greg, you thought 1:27:19.920 --> 1:27:21.120 about that for yet? 1:27:22.680 --> 1:27:26.120 Yes, I have thought about it, but not not critically 1:27:26.120 --> 1:27:28.880 to the point of change. Yet. 1:27:30.960 --> 1:27:31.880 What's the next week like? 1:27:34.720 --> 1:27:41.240 Relax, relax, be around friends and family and stay up late, 1:27:42.840 --> 1:27:46.559 stay in bed late late. Uh who knows? Right now, 1:27:46.600 --> 1:27:49.960 I'm not I got I got no no obligations for 1:27:50.000 --> 1:27:54.360 a while. So I'll just go to sleep when I 1:27:54.400 --> 1:27:55.800 get tired. I guess who knows. 1:27:56.439 --> 1:27:56.639 Yeah. 1:27:56.840 --> 1:27:59.400 Zach was asked about his message to the team after 1:27:59.439 --> 1:28:02.400 the game and the way you guys lost this game. 1:28:02.439 --> 1:28:03.840 He said it was a little bit fitting. What are 1:28:03.840 --> 1:28:07.360 your thoughts on that. Yeah, that's certainly a microcosm of 1:28:07.360 --> 1:28:13.160 how things have gone across two years. We certainly expect 1:28:13.200 --> 1:28:15.439 to win that game, and we didn't make the place 1:28:15.479 --> 1:28:17.720 to do it. And you can say that for for 1:28:17.800 --> 1:28:19.320 a lot of for a lot of games over the 1:28:19.400 --> 1:28:20.000 last two years. 1:28:20.760 --> 1:28:24.680 Uh, Joe two part question for me, won out of 1:28:24.720 --> 1:28:27.800 the offensive line grow this year and also with having 1:28:27.880 --> 1:28:29.679 Joe Flack all around you pick his brains. 1:28:30.640 --> 1:28:33.599 Yeah, I think the Old Lion had their best year 1:28:33.640 --> 1:28:36.000 since I've been here. Uh. You know, I didn't get 1:28:36.040 --> 1:28:38.559 to experience much of it at the beginning of the year, 1:28:38.560 --> 1:28:40.840 but since I've come back, I think it's the best 1:28:40.880 --> 1:28:43.719 that they've been. I think we've run it the best 1:28:43.960 --> 1:28:46.519 that we've run it since I've been here as well, 1:28:46.560 --> 1:28:49.080 and I think that has opened up certain aspects of 1:28:49.120 --> 1:28:53.679 our offense. And I really enjoyed having Joe in the room, 1:28:54.280 --> 1:28:57.719 getting to know him and you know, sharing laughs and stories. 1:28:57.720 --> 1:29:00.839 And and all all that we had a great quarterback 1:29:00.880 --> 1:29:03.280 room this year and that you know, I didn't get 1:29:03.320 --> 1:29:06.720 to take as much part in it as I would 1:29:06.760 --> 1:29:08.840 have liked. But you know, when I wasn't there, I 1:29:08.920 --> 1:29:09.519 had a lot of fun. 1:29:09.920 --> 1:29:12.439 A lot guys come back from offseason workouts, and Joe 1:29:12.520 --> 1:29:14.439 Flacco's back in that room with. 1:29:14.520 --> 1:29:16.760 That that might gappy. Yeah, I'd love that. I think 1:29:18.080 --> 1:29:19.639 Number one, he played well when he was in there, 1:29:19.960 --> 1:29:22.280 and he has fun to watch, and you know, he 1:29:22.320 --> 1:29:26.519 brings a certain perspective that you don't. It's certainly unique. 1:29:26.680 --> 1:29:28.679 You don't get to be around guys that have played 1:29:28.720 --> 1:29:30.519 as long as he does and seen as much football 1:29:31.160 --> 1:29:33.840 as he has, and uh, you know, I think he 1:29:33.880 --> 1:29:35.400 would be valuable for us. We do. 1:29:35.520 --> 1:29:37.200 Seems like you gotta close a couple of times before 1:29:37.200 --> 1:29:40.000 he got that sacked, not just maybe United, just to 1:29:40.040 --> 1:29:41.880 David throughout the month times to face the how much 1:29:41.960 --> 1:29:44.599 just going against really tess that you know that internal 1:29:44.680 --> 1:29:46.799 clock more and as far as your reads and everything 1:29:46.840 --> 1:29:49.439 to make sure that you're going to the right place 1:29:49.439 --> 1:29:50.960 that you know where you need to be, just in case, 1:29:51.000 --> 1:29:54.080 because you know, that's a guy that's just like everybody said, 1:29:54.080 --> 1:29:56.320 he's just so much more athletic than most guys out there. 1:29:56.400 --> 1:30:01.120 Yeah, I certainly don't go into a play thinking about it, 1:30:01.200 --> 1:30:05.439 but my natural instincts kick in and you're feeling quickly often, 1:30:05.840 --> 1:30:09.400 and you know that certainly affects how far you can 1:30:09.400 --> 1:30:12.120 push the ball down the field, the protections that you 1:30:12.120 --> 1:30:14.479 can call, the plays that you can call, and how 1:30:14.560 --> 1:30:16.160 quickly you want to get the bough out of your hands. 1:30:17.760 --> 1:30:19.040 You know, he's the best of what he does, and 1:30:20.120 --> 1:30:23.200 you try to mitigate that as much as you can 1:30:23.280 --> 1:30:25.800 with your play callity, your protection plan, and then how 1:30:25.800 --> 1:30:26.639 the quarterback plays. 1:30:26.760 --> 1:30:30.040 I'llbe these next eight months for the organization, just to 1:30:30.040 --> 1:30:31.880 make sure that this drought ends at three so that 1:30:32.120 --> 1:30:33.840 it doesn't go to forts eighty yr computer for the 1:30:33.920 --> 1:30:35.599 vision again, trying to get back to the playoffs, back 1:30:35.600 --> 1:30:36.879 the actelly game, et cetera. 1:30:37.200 --> 1:30:38.080 As big as it gets. 1:30:38.560 --> 1:30:41.200 Joe Burrow on the importance of the offseason, and boy, 1:30:41.240 --> 1:30:43.479 he talk about somebody who's been through a lot and 1:30:43.560 --> 1:30:45.880 fought so hard to get back and then the disappointment 1:30:45.880 --> 1:30:48.120 of not making the playoffs, and as he said, he'll 1:30:48.200 --> 1:30:50.120 unplug for a little bit, sleep a little bit, sleep 1:30:50.160 --> 1:30:52.040 in late for a little bit, but man, you know 1:30:52.120 --> 1:30:55.080 he's just gonna be there. It's going to be a 1:30:55.160 --> 1:30:59.519 grind and just the desire to get back and get 1:30:59.600 --> 1:31:00.840 back in the playoffs. 1:31:00.880 --> 1:31:03.920 Absolutely, And you hit it with a great word. You 1:31:04.080 --> 1:31:06.760 chose their lanser, your word choice of grind because he 1:31:06.920 --> 1:31:09.400 is a grinder. I mean, I got a lot of 1:31:09.400 --> 1:31:11.760 respect for Joe man. He puts his nose to the 1:31:11.760 --> 1:31:15.080 grindstone and he works and he works hard. There's no 1:31:15.160 --> 1:31:18.439 prima donna and Joe Burrow. He gets down in dirty man. 1:31:18.560 --> 1:31:22.960 He's down with his teammates, with his boys working out, 1:31:23.000 --> 1:31:26.160 and I think they appreciate that and and they enjoy 1:31:26.240 --> 1:31:29.360 that the camaraderie of it, because you do build bonds 1:31:29.439 --> 1:31:32.200 in that regard when you're working hard and in the 1:31:32.280 --> 1:31:36.000 offseason getting ready, you know, to put together a big 1:31:36.040 --> 1:31:39.080 season and go to the playoffs and win a Super Bowl. 1:31:39.120 --> 1:31:42.920 So I think Joe Burrow likes everything about the game, 1:31:43.120 --> 1:31:46.479 the tangible, the intangible, everything that goes along with being 1:31:46.520 --> 1:31:49.120 a professional football player. And Joe is definitely a pros pro. 1:31:49.360 --> 1:31:52.080 Still ahead, our final fun facts of the Year, Dan 1:31:52.160 --> 1:31:54.880 Horde with Keyshawn Williams, who made a nice impression when 1:31:54.880 --> 1:31:57.000 the Bengals had a nam late in the season that 1:31:57.080 --> 1:31:59.200 as we continue with Bengals lone of the Bengals Radio 1:31:59.240 --> 1:32:09.200 Network Hunter WLW. Hey, we keep moving it right along 1:32:09.240 --> 1:32:11.719 in our third hour tonight of Bengals Line the Bengals 1:32:11.840 --> 1:32:14.200 Radio networking on seven hundred WLW. 1:32:14.520 --> 1:32:17.559 Last time to shop the Bengals Pro Shop and find 1:32:17.560 --> 1:32:20.479 the best selection of Bengal merchandise anywhere. Visit the pro 1:32:20.560 --> 1:32:22.920 Shops seven days a week located on the north side 1:32:22.920 --> 1:32:26.080 of Pey Course Stadium, or shop online at Bengals dot com. 1:32:26.120 --> 1:32:28.479 Time for our final fun Facts of the year. We've 1:32:28.520 --> 1:32:30.960 loved this segment Each week with Dan Hordy pulls back 1:32:31.000 --> 1:32:33.080 the curtain and we learn a little bit more about 1:32:33.120 --> 1:32:35.200 a Bengals player. And this one was a late ad 1:32:35.320 --> 1:32:38.200 late stages of the season. A waiverclaim from the Pittsburgh 1:32:38.240 --> 1:32:41.800 Steelers made a nice impression, returning punts and returning kicks. 1:32:41.960 --> 1:32:45.200 Here's Dan horde Fun Facts with Keyshawn Williams. 1:32:46.320 --> 1:32:49.680 No Fantastic fun Facts. 1:32:49.400 --> 1:32:52.479 With Dan ord Todd for some fun facts with wide 1:32:52.520 --> 1:32:56.000 receiver and return specialist Keyshawn Williams from the City of 1:32:56.040 --> 1:33:00.800 Brotherly Love, Philadelphia, PA. What do you love about your hometown, just. 1:33:00.760 --> 1:33:03.360 To support and love that I get from a lot 1:33:03.360 --> 1:33:05.200 of people in a city that know me, don't know me. 1:33:05.520 --> 1:33:06.960 It just showed me a lot of love and support 1:33:07.000 --> 1:33:08.240 along my journey. 1:33:08.520 --> 1:33:11.879 Philadelphia obviously has teams in all of the major sports. 1:33:11.960 --> 1:33:14.559 Did you get to attend games as a kid growing up? 1:33:14.800 --> 1:33:16.360 I went to a few for these games, a few 1:33:16.360 --> 1:33:18.120 Sixers games. I've never been to an Eagles game. I 1:33:18.120 --> 1:33:19.639 did go to some training camp practices. 1:33:20.160 --> 1:33:22.000 So when you go to an Eagles game, it'll be 1:33:22.040 --> 1:33:22.840 as a competitor. 1:33:23.200 --> 1:33:24.599 Yeah, my first time in the stadium. 1:33:24.640 --> 1:33:27.759 It will be that key shot. According to your bio, 1:33:27.880 --> 1:33:31.120 you played football, basketball, and ran track as a kid. 1:33:31.320 --> 1:33:33.759 When did you decide to focus on football. 1:33:34.400 --> 1:33:37.040 I decided to focus on football my junior year. That 1:33:37.080 --> 1:33:41.559 got my first offer from the Temple. And but before 1:33:41.600 --> 1:33:43.880 that offer, I just knew I was going to coffee basketball. 1:33:43.960 --> 1:33:47.080 So that kind of cuick changing the shift in my 1:33:47.120 --> 1:33:48.200 mindset at that moment. 1:33:48.560 --> 1:33:50.280 What was it like to get that first offer? 1:33:51.120 --> 1:33:52.240 It was everything, you know. 1:33:52.280 --> 1:33:56.000 I got it on Thanksgiving with my family and it 1:33:56.160 --> 1:33:59.000 just was a symbol of all the hard work and 1:33:59.160 --> 1:34:01.200 the dedication for severiance throughout my life. 1:34:01.240 --> 1:34:04.320 Of that time we're visiting with Kayshawn Williams. Your high 1:34:04.360 --> 1:34:09.240 school was Chestnut Hill Academy. It sounds prestigious and preppy. 1:34:09.600 --> 1:34:11.320 How would you describe it, Well. 1:34:11.280 --> 1:34:12.160 Exactly like that. 1:34:12.400 --> 1:34:15.519 It was in private school, independent school, and interact very 1:34:15.560 --> 1:34:17.439 competitive football basketball wise. 1:34:18.080 --> 1:34:20.080 But you know, my mom invested. 1:34:19.640 --> 1:34:22.320 In my moss academics at a very young age, and 1:34:22.360 --> 1:34:23.720 I was able to get into that school in a 1:34:23.720 --> 1:34:26.320 full academic scholarship. I just so happened to be also 1:34:26.720 --> 1:34:28.440 freely talented at football basketball. 1:34:28.439 --> 1:34:32.080 So sounds like it prepared you well for college absolutely. 1:34:32.120 --> 1:34:35.360 You know, going into Wake Forest as a eighteen year 1:34:35.360 --> 1:34:39.880 old is also a prestigious academic university and it definitely 1:34:39.880 --> 1:34:42.160 prepared me for the life of U student an athlete there. 1:34:42.840 --> 1:34:45.519 Zach Taylor started his college career at Wake Forest. You 1:34:45.600 --> 1:34:49.120 spent your first four college seasons at wake Forest. Why 1:34:49.160 --> 1:34:51.360 did you choose Wake Just. 1:34:51.360 --> 1:34:55.760 The balance of academics and also powerful football. You know, 1:34:55.800 --> 1:34:57.519 it's the best of both worlds in terms of what 1:34:57.560 --> 1:34:59.479 I was getting and what I wanted. You know, also 1:34:59.520 --> 1:35:03.759 my mama, he's being extremely only about academics and importance 1:35:03.800 --> 1:35:05.760 of education. That was just something I wanted to do, 1:35:06.080 --> 1:35:08.439 so be able to corporate both sides, and one was 1:35:08.439 --> 1:35:09.280 a perfect situation. 1:35:09.840 --> 1:35:13.000 You finished your college career with one season at Indiana, 1:35:13.400 --> 1:35:15.760 and we're part of one of the most remarkable turnarounds 1:35:15.760 --> 1:35:18.400 in college football history, from three and nine the year 1:35:18.400 --> 1:35:21.040 before you got there, to eleven wins in a trip 1:35:21.080 --> 1:35:23.719 to the College Football Playoff last year under head coach 1:35:24.040 --> 1:35:29.960 Kurt Signetti. Help us understand what's made Kurt Signetti so successful. 1:35:30.840 --> 1:35:33.559 His mom said, he believes everything he says. When he 1:35:34.080 --> 1:35:35.920 went up there on Big Tim Media Day and so 1:35:36.120 --> 1:35:40.040 the nation that will be here again and December, you 1:35:40.040 --> 1:35:41.439 know a lot of people looked at him crazy. And 1:35:41.479 --> 1:35:43.519 you know when I visited, when I was in a portal, 1:35:44.000 --> 1:35:45.400 you know, he pitched the same thing he told to 1:35:45.439 --> 1:35:47.040 me what he said on Big Tim Media Day. And 1:35:47.520 --> 1:35:49.439 you know, he just has his mindset where he can 1:35:49.680 --> 1:35:53.800 make you believe in yourself even when others doubt. And 1:35:53.960 --> 1:35:56.080 you know, if you trust him and you you just 1:35:56.439 --> 1:35:58.840 align with what he has going on, it turns out 1:35:58.880 --> 1:35:59.479 to be successful. 1:35:59.479 --> 1:36:00.559 And you see his track record. 1:36:00.600 --> 1:36:02.840 He's been susfeared where he went, so it's hard to, 1:36:02.960 --> 1:36:04.320 you know, not believe in a guy like that. 1:36:04.840 --> 1:36:09.280 Just google him as he said, you had five catches 1:36:09.280 --> 1:36:12.080 in the college football playoff game against Notre Dame. Was 1:36:12.080 --> 1:36:14.240 that the highlight of your football career so far? 1:36:15.680 --> 1:36:17.840 No, I wouldn't say it's the highlight of my football career, 1:36:17.880 --> 1:36:20.600 but it was definitely a big moment for me. 1:36:20.680 --> 1:36:22.080 You know, you when you're younger, you. 1:36:22.040 --> 1:36:24.280 Dream of those moments of playing in college fotball playoff 1:36:24.320 --> 1:36:26.960 games and making plays to help your team win the game. 1:36:27.560 --> 1:36:29.479 But you know, I just feel like every day I 1:36:29.479 --> 1:36:32.240 continue to play this game at this level was the 1:36:32.240 --> 1:36:34.639 best day. So you know, I'm just grateful for everything. 1:36:35.040 --> 1:36:36.960 Key Shawn, you signed as a free agent with the 1:36:36.960 --> 1:36:40.240 Pittsburgh Steelers and in the preseason opener this year, you 1:36:40.320 --> 1:36:44.240 caught a touchdown pass against Jacksonville. How significant was that 1:36:44.280 --> 1:36:45.080 moment for you? 1:36:46.080 --> 1:36:49.400 It was extremely significant. You know, it was a reassurance moment. 1:36:49.520 --> 1:36:52.320 You know, coming out of the draft, you know, undrafted, 1:36:52.760 --> 1:36:55.559 you know, not being a guy with anybody has high 1:36:55.600 --> 1:36:58.720 expectations for us in terms of productivity, in terms of 1:36:58.800 --> 1:37:01.000 future wise with the league. But you know, to go 1:37:01.000 --> 1:37:03.080 out there and do what I know I was capable 1:37:03.160 --> 1:37:05.000 of and show up when my name was called, like 1:37:05.560 --> 1:37:08.320 just be an opportunist. Who always praised myself on being 1:37:08.920 --> 1:37:11.040 you know, it just meant everything. 1:37:11.880 --> 1:37:14.520 Did Not getting drafted put a chip on your shoulder. 1:37:15.080 --> 1:37:17.880 Most definitely, But at the same time, you know, I 1:37:18.000 --> 1:37:20.280 like to be a guy who's realistic. You know, understood 1:37:20.280 --> 1:37:22.439 that was a high possibility going into the draft. But 1:37:22.880 --> 1:37:25.479 like I said, I'm an opportunist. You know, I knew 1:37:25.479 --> 1:37:26.760 as long as I was able to get my foot 1:37:26.760 --> 1:37:29.200 in the door and make it on some team, I 1:37:29.240 --> 1:37:30.680 know I'll pay away for myself at the end of 1:37:30.720 --> 1:37:31.040 the day. 1:37:31.760 --> 1:37:34.240 So you played in eight games for the Pittsburgh Steelers, 1:37:34.240 --> 1:37:36.080 and then a few weeks ago, when they were trying 1:37:36.120 --> 1:37:38.840 to move you from the roster the practice squad to 1:37:38.880 --> 1:37:41.160 make a room for a veteran guy that they picked up, 1:37:41.280 --> 1:37:45.559 the Bengals jumped in and claimed you off waivers. How 1:37:45.840 --> 1:37:49.400 difficult is it to change teams at this stage of 1:37:49.439 --> 1:37:50.040 the season. 1:37:50.960 --> 1:37:55.600 It's definitely not ideal. But you know, my goal is 1:37:55.640 --> 1:37:58.439 to be on an active roster, contributing to a team. 1:37:58.560 --> 1:38:01.080 And you know, I'm glad that the Bengal was able 1:38:01.120 --> 1:38:02.800 to see something in me that they decided that they 1:38:02.800 --> 1:38:05.040 wanted to bring me on to help their team win games. 1:38:05.640 --> 1:38:06.880 And you know, I'm extremely grateful. 1:38:06.920 --> 1:38:08.839 You know, it was it was an unexpected turn of events, 1:38:08.880 --> 1:38:10.680 but you know, this was part of the business, and 1:38:10.720 --> 1:38:12.840 you know, like I like to be a realist, I 1:38:12.880 --> 1:38:14.920 understood how to I'm starting to understand how the business works. 1:38:14.920 --> 1:38:15.960 So there's no hard feelings. 1:38:16.000 --> 1:38:18.760 You know, I understand that Pittsburgh gave me the first 1:38:18.760 --> 1:38:20.880 opportunity to make my make a name for myself in 1:38:20.920 --> 1:38:23.360 this league, and if it wasn't for them, I probably 1:38:23.360 --> 1:38:26.760 wouldn't be here either. So you know, it was difficult 1:38:27.160 --> 1:38:29.360 and hard to process, but you know, it's just you 1:38:29.400 --> 1:38:29.920 gotta roll. 1:38:29.800 --> 1:38:30.439 With the punches. 1:38:30.840 --> 1:38:32.559 Have you even fully unpacked yet? 1:38:32.920 --> 1:38:35.840 Now I'm living out of a suitcase. I'm living out 1:38:35.840 --> 1:38:37.560 of a suitcase right now. But you know, it was 1:38:37.600 --> 1:38:40.240 only a short three weeks, you know, finishing up this week, 1:38:41.640 --> 1:38:43.400 but you know it's been a fun three weeks. 1:38:43.680 --> 1:38:46.840 Did you know anybody here from college or working out 1:38:46.920 --> 1:38:47.840 or anywhere along the. 1:38:47.800 --> 1:38:50.360 Way outside of the big names of the guys you 1:38:50.400 --> 1:38:53.640 hear on TV. No, I didn't know anybody personally, but 1:38:53.800 --> 1:38:56.519 you know, I'm I'm kind of used to, you know, 1:38:56.640 --> 1:38:58.800 jumping in the rooms and you know, just going and 1:38:58.960 --> 1:39:02.160 proving myself to whoever is there and making a name 1:39:02.200 --> 1:39:03.840 for myself that people want to get to know who 1:39:03.880 --> 1:39:04.160 I am. 1:39:04.280 --> 1:39:08.759 So no problem, We're doing fun facts with Keyshawn Williams. 1:39:08.840 --> 1:39:10.880 I read a pre draft scouting report that said the 1:39:10.920 --> 1:39:15.000 following quote. He has proven very difficult to bring down, 1:39:15.640 --> 1:39:17.479 and we've seen that in your first few games of 1:39:17.560 --> 1:39:19.559 the Bengals. You had a twenty eight yard punt return 1:39:19.600 --> 1:39:22.160 in the first game, of forty three yard punt return 1:39:22.200 --> 1:39:24.599 in the second game. You got a game ball after 1:39:24.680 --> 1:39:27.960 that game. Do you think you have an innate ability 1:39:28.160 --> 1:39:29.240 to make people miss? 1:39:30.720 --> 1:39:32.479 I think I do. I mean, you kind of have 1:39:32.560 --> 1:39:34.400 to have that ability to play. 1:39:34.200 --> 1:39:37.320 This game at my size and at my position has 1:39:37.320 --> 1:39:40.760 always been an important part of my game. Being able 1:39:40.800 --> 1:39:43.040 to use my lateral quickness to make people miss in 1:39:43.040 --> 1:39:46.240 short area spaces and you know, just using that to 1:39:46.280 --> 1:39:48.080 the best of my ability to give me an advantage 1:39:48.080 --> 1:39:48.559 on a field. 1:39:49.040 --> 1:39:52.479 Do you enjoy returning punts? It takes a certain type 1:39:52.479 --> 1:39:54.559 of person to have the willingness to go back there 1:39:54.600 --> 1:39:57.639 and be ready to run it back with guys bearing 1:39:57.680 --> 1:39:58.240 down on them. 1:39:58.520 --> 1:40:01.320 Absolutely, I enjoy. I love returning punds. 1:40:01.320 --> 1:40:02.920 You catch the ball in space and once you get 1:40:02.960 --> 1:40:05.719 the balls you versus everybody else is like a backyard 1:40:05.720 --> 1:40:08.000 football when you were a kid playing in the backyard. 1:40:08.080 --> 1:40:10.280 So you know, something I've been doing my whole life, 1:40:10.320 --> 1:40:12.479 and something will I hope I continue to keep doing 1:40:12.520 --> 1:40:13.479 for good the amount of time? 1:40:14.080 --> 1:40:16.200 All right, Time for a few wild card topics now 1:40:16.200 --> 1:40:19.799 with Keyshawn Williams. Who is your all time favorite athlete 1:40:19.880 --> 1:40:21.440 in any sport? 1:40:21.600 --> 1:40:25.599 And why My favorite all time athlete is Russell Westbrook. 1:40:26.040 --> 1:40:29.519 Just his mentality in terms of how he plays, you know, aggressive, strong, 1:40:29.680 --> 1:40:30.759 finishing at the room. 1:40:30.600 --> 1:40:32.960 With a lot of enthusiasm. 1:40:33.120 --> 1:40:34.720 You know, it's a sciding guy for me to watch, 1:40:34.800 --> 1:40:37.160 especially when I was a basketball player in my basketball days. 1:40:37.479 --> 1:40:39.799 All right, that's a good segue to my next question. 1:40:39.920 --> 1:40:42.519 You're only five to nine, but you had a thirty 1:40:42.600 --> 1:40:45.880 nine inch vertical at your pro day. Can you dunk? 1:40:46.320 --> 1:40:46.519 Yeah? 1:40:46.520 --> 1:40:47.840 I can catch it. I could, don't you know? Throw 1:40:47.880 --> 1:40:50.400 me a little oop the room, Greazer, get it in 1:40:50.439 --> 1:40:51.160 there for sure. 1:40:51.920 --> 1:40:53.479 Does it have to be an oop? Or if you're 1:40:53.520 --> 1:40:54.960 on a breakaway, can you throw them down? 1:40:55.160 --> 1:40:56.760 You give me a breakaway and I'm feeling good that 1:40:56.840 --> 1:40:58.200 day I get up there him put it in a 1:40:58.280 --> 1:40:58.880 room for sure. 1:41:00.360 --> 1:41:03.720 All right, you are named key Sean. There are some 1:41:03.880 --> 1:41:07.080 famous Keyshawn's out there. Keyshawn Johnson was probably the first 1:41:07.080 --> 1:41:10.799 famous football Keyshawn. Did your folks name you after anybody? 1:41:10.880 --> 1:41:11.880 Or did they just like the name? 1:41:12.280 --> 1:41:13.760 You let my mom tell us you would say she 1:41:13.840 --> 1:41:16.800 named me after Keyshawn Johnson, actually, but I believe it 1:41:16.840 --> 1:41:18.920 was just a combination of my parents. Who names My 1:41:19.000 --> 1:41:22.439 dad's name's Kenneth, my mom's name Sean took the key 1:41:22.439 --> 1:41:24.640 off and put it in from hers and then yeah, 1:41:24.880 --> 1:41:27.240 but I guess the football correlation always let her to 1:41:27.280 --> 1:41:29.439 believe was he has some type of impact on that, 1:41:29.520 --> 1:41:30.639 So sure, I'll give it to her. 1:41:30.800 --> 1:41:33.559 I guess that's why you wound up playing professional football. 1:41:34.000 --> 1:41:37.280 All right, As I mentioned off the top, you're from Philadelphia. 1:41:37.439 --> 1:41:41.919 Famous Philadelphia foods include the cheese steak, the roast pork sandwich, 1:41:42.240 --> 1:41:44.840 the soft pretzel. What's the first thing you want to 1:41:44.880 --> 1:41:46.000 eat when you go home? 1:41:46.560 --> 1:41:48.800 I'm definitely going to Max's and give me a cheese steak, 1:41:48.800 --> 1:41:50.960 either Max or Eshcabibbles and I'm going to give me 1:41:51.000 --> 1:41:52.120 a cheese steak for sure. 1:41:52.479 --> 1:41:55.280 All right, So Max's is that like where the locals go? 1:41:55.360 --> 1:41:57.080 Because it's an out of town or we hear about 1:41:57.120 --> 1:41:58.040 Gino's and Pats. 1:41:58.360 --> 1:42:00.840 Yeah, Gino's and passes. More of a worthy spot. 1:42:01.439 --> 1:42:04.520 Maxis has become pretty popular because it was on the 1:42:04.640 --> 1:42:09.000 Kevin Hart documentary. But Ishka Bibbels is another big spot 1:42:09.080 --> 1:42:10.000 that I like to go to. 1:42:10.520 --> 1:42:11.439 So that's my favorite. 1:42:11.640 --> 1:42:13.880 All right, next time I'm in Philly, Max's or ish 1:42:13.920 --> 1:42:17.760 Ka Bibbles. Final fun fact for Kaishawn Williams. And this 1:42:17.800 --> 1:42:21.559 one's kind of deep. If you could meet anybody in history, 1:42:22.200 --> 1:42:24.680 living or deceased, who would that person be? 1:42:25.640 --> 1:42:25.840 For me? 1:42:25.840 --> 1:42:28.559 It'll be my grandmama on my dad's side. She passed 1:42:28.560 --> 1:42:32.599 when I was two years old. You know, whether conscience 1:42:32.680 --> 1:42:35.400 yet or got to meet her personally, but you know, 1:42:35.439 --> 1:42:36.920 I heard a lot of stories of the woman she 1:42:37.080 --> 1:42:39.519 was and what she stood for and how much she 1:42:40.240 --> 1:42:46.080 believed and protected her grandchildren, her children, her niate nephews, nieces, 1:42:46.120 --> 1:42:48.880 and you know I would love to meet her and 1:42:48.960 --> 1:42:50.960 let her allow her to you know, see the man 1:42:51.040 --> 1:42:54.400 I've become from the two year old kids she saw. 1:42:55.320 --> 1:42:58.160 She would be very proud. There's no doubt about that. Kayshawn, 1:42:58.200 --> 1:43:01.360 Congratulations on your great start with Cincinnati appreciate your time, 1:43:01.360 --> 1:43:03.320 best of love going forward, Appreciate you for having me. 1:43:03.360 --> 1:43:06.280 Thank you Keishawan Williams part of fun Facts this week, 1:43:06.280 --> 1:43:08.320 and thanks to Dan Horde for being a part of 1:43:08.320 --> 1:43:12.160 that with his fun Facts each week here on Bengals Line. 1:43:12.160 --> 1:43:15.280 Still ahead, BJ Hill in final thoughts on the season, 1:43:15.320 --> 1:43:17.799 We are cruising tonight on Bengals Line and the Bengals 1:43:17.880 --> 1:43:23.439 Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. Hey, welcome back into 1:43:23.479 --> 1:43:26.000 Bengals Line on this Monday night on the Bengals Radio 1:43:26.040 --> 1:43:29.040 Network at seven hundred WLW. I am Lance McAlister. 1:43:29.200 --> 1:43:32.320 He is Dave Blappham and last Alta Fibers, the official 1:43:32.360 --> 1:43:34.840 Wi Fi and Internet provider of the Bengals in Greater 1:43:34.920 --> 1:43:38.799 Cincinnati's fastest Internet with up to two gig symmetrical speeds. 1:43:38.880 --> 1:43:42.000 BJ Hill yesterday eight tackles. He had a sack. It 1:43:42.040 --> 1:43:44.000 was an easy sack. It was the easiest sack he'll 1:43:44.040 --> 1:43:45.960 ever had. He just hey in the box score, it's 1:43:45.960 --> 1:43:49.000 a sack, so you take it. And BJ Hill talked 1:43:49.040 --> 1:43:51.599 after the game about the season and what's ahead. 1:43:51.840 --> 1:43:54.400 BJ. Eight tackles and a sack today. You had a 1:43:54.439 --> 1:43:57.920 terrific game. The defense in general had a terrific game. Unfortunately, 1:43:57.920 --> 1:44:00.280 when you needed that stop at the end, I didn't 1:44:00.320 --> 1:44:02.640 quite get it. How disappointing is it to end the 1:44:02.680 --> 1:44:03.679 season on that note. 1:44:03.840 --> 1:44:06.880 It's definitely disappointing. That's definitely been playing really good ball 1:44:06.920 --> 1:44:09.679 the last couple of weeks. I know, we just got 1:44:09.680 --> 1:44:12.920 to make a play done in the stretch. Yeah, it sucks, 1:44:13.000 --> 1:44:15.080 but you know we learned from the move on here 1:44:15.120 --> 1:44:15.760 with next year. 1:44:16.160 --> 1:44:20.840 Five sacks today, constant pressure on Shador Sanders. Did you 1:44:20.920 --> 1:44:24.240 feel like the defense showed in this final game kind 1:44:24.280 --> 1:44:26.080 of the progress you've made in the last half of 1:44:26.080 --> 1:44:26.519 the season. 1:44:26.600 --> 1:44:28.559 Yeah, I think so. I'm excited for the future of 1:44:28.560 --> 1:44:28.920 this team. 1:44:28.960 --> 1:44:29.120 Man. 1:44:29.160 --> 1:44:31.840 We got a lot of good young guys here on 1:44:31.920 --> 1:44:34.400 the team, so, man, the future is very bright for us. 1:44:35.640 --> 1:44:38.759 They had two defensive touchdowns when you had the early 1:44:38.840 --> 1:44:41.240 lead in this game. What kind of an emotional blow 1:44:41.439 --> 1:44:41.960 is that. 1:44:42.680 --> 1:44:44.200 You know, you just put the ball down mentality for 1:44:44.240 --> 1:44:46.160 the defense, I don't know what happens. We just got 1:44:46.160 --> 1:44:47.519 to go out there and get stops. 1:44:48.640 --> 1:44:50.800 You want to keep playing. You hit this point of 1:44:50.840 --> 1:44:52.640 the year, and obviously you've been on teams that have 1:44:52.680 --> 1:44:55.200 made it to the Super Bowl in the NFC Championship game. 1:44:55.760 --> 1:44:58.479 Is it kind of strange for the season to be done. 1:44:58.800 --> 1:45:00.920 Yeah, for sure, especially when we got great group of guys, 1:45:02.560 --> 1:45:04.679 like especially like all the time we got in here. 1:45:05.040 --> 1:45:07.599 We just fell short a little bit. But like I said, 1:45:07.800 --> 1:45:10.840 stuff happens. You let me move on and you learn 1:45:10.880 --> 1:45:13.640 from it. Don't make excuses on you on it, and 1:45:13.960 --> 1:45:14.559 just you get better. 1:45:14.920 --> 1:45:17.960 You've taken a big leadership role on defense, particularly in 1:45:18.000 --> 1:45:20.280 the second half of the season. How much did you 1:45:20.280 --> 1:45:22.400 see some of these young guys grow a lot? 1:45:22.479 --> 1:45:26.840 Man? I can name so many young guys that I 1:45:26.960 --> 1:45:28.920 grew up during the season. Man, you got we had 1:45:28.960 --> 1:45:33.200 two rooky linebackers that grew up real fast, Miles Murphy, 1:45:33.840 --> 1:45:35.360 Chris jan because even though he got heard, he grew 1:45:35.439 --> 1:45:38.280 up like Jay Blackly. We've got so many guys that 1:45:38.439 --> 1:45:40.719 stepped up and play really good football. 1:45:41.560 --> 1:45:44.200 Appreciate your time, enjoy the off season. We'll see you 1:45:44.200 --> 1:45:44.559 soon or not. 1:45:44.720 --> 1:45:45.240 Sounds good. 1:45:45.520 --> 1:45:48.160 Bj hill on the year, thirty years old, played in 1:45:48.240 --> 1:45:52.160 all seventeen games this season. I think we both appreciate 1:45:52.200 --> 1:45:54.800 what he contributes to the team, and I think part 1:45:54.800 --> 1:45:57.400 of the off season will be interesting. I still think 1:45:57.400 --> 1:46:00.240 they could use another body in the middle special somebody 1:46:00.240 --> 1:46:02.280 who could get pressure in the face of the quarterback. 1:46:02.320 --> 1:46:03.559 That would be ideal, wouldn't it. 1:46:03.720 --> 1:46:04.479 I agree with you. 1:46:04.280 --> 1:46:08.240 You know, bj Hill is probably, if not the best 1:46:09.439 --> 1:46:12.240 take along to call roll. He's probably number two with 1:46:12.439 --> 1:46:16.559 interior pass rush, and let's face it, that's that's where 1:46:16.640 --> 1:46:19.519 you can do some damage because you know, a quarterback 1:46:19.640 --> 1:46:22.280 like Sanders is a great example. You know, he's maybe 1:46:22.320 --> 1:46:23.680 six to two. They listen them at six to two. 1:46:23.720 --> 1:46:24.080 I don't know. 1:46:24.160 --> 1:46:26.320 I don't know if he is or not. But you 1:46:26.400 --> 1:46:29.400 get a defensive tackle in the face of the quarterback 1:46:29.520 --> 1:46:31.479 number one, they can't see, they can't see the middle 1:46:31.479 --> 1:46:33.200 of the football field. They have to get out to 1:46:33.240 --> 1:46:35.479 the perimeter and get out to the edges and throw 1:46:35.479 --> 1:46:38.600 it to the sidelines. And then they're also concerned with 1:46:38.640 --> 1:46:41.639 following through and hitting their hand on shoulder pads, helmets, 1:46:41.640 --> 1:46:44.519 that sort of thing, and sustaining injuries to their fingers 1:46:44.520 --> 1:46:47.600 in hand and things of that nature. So if you 1:46:47.640 --> 1:46:50.920 can get a big interior defensive tackle that can play 1:46:50.920 --> 1:46:54.520 the run, stuff the run and push the pocket into 1:46:54.560 --> 1:46:58.160 the quarterback's face, man, you get yourself a fined and 1:46:58.560 --> 1:47:01.280 they're they're hard to find. There don'll grow on trees. 1:47:01.840 --> 1:47:05.519 But if that's the case, if there's with the tenth 1:47:05.560 --> 1:47:07.960 pick of the draft, that there's a better interior defensive 1:47:08.000 --> 1:47:11.400 lineman than edge rush guy, there's been a run. Say, 1:47:11.479 --> 1:47:16.840 for example, as I'm using this is theoretical, it might happen, 1:47:16.920 --> 1:47:19.880 might not. But say on draft day, boy, there's a run. 1:47:19.920 --> 1:47:22.320 Three or four of the top edge rushers are gone, 1:47:22.400 --> 1:47:25.960 but the second best interior defensive tackle is available. I 1:47:25.960 --> 1:47:28.720 think the Bengals make that pick and are pleased to 1:47:28.760 --> 1:47:29.120 do it. 1:47:29.080 --> 1:47:31.160 No doubt, no doubt about that. Hey, let's head down 1:47:31.160 --> 1:47:34.240 the stretch, Final segment, Final Thoughts, Bengals Line on the 1:47:34.240 --> 1:47:41.639 Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW down the Stretch 1:47:41.720 --> 1:47:44.720 week Go Final segment of the year on Bengals Line 1:47:44.720 --> 1:47:47.839 of the Bengals Radio Network, and final Card of the Year. 1:47:48.080 --> 1:47:50.240 Lance We know pay Corp Is proud to be the 1:47:50.280 --> 1:47:53.759 official HR software provider of the Cincinnati Bengals. 1:47:53.840 --> 1:47:56.479 Dave in conclusion, I think we've set it up pretty 1:47:56.479 --> 1:47:59.240 well over the course of three hours. They're gonna have 1:47:59.520 --> 1:48:02.800 some money to spend wisely this offseason. They're gonna have 1:48:02.800 --> 1:48:05.839 the tenth pick in the draft. We've assessed the areas 1:48:05.840 --> 1:48:08.080 of need and now it falls on the plate of 1:48:08.120 --> 1:48:10.360 and the Bengals did announce today that Duke Tobin will 1:48:10.479 --> 1:48:12.880 address the media later in the week on Friday afternoon. 1:48:12.920 --> 1:48:15.200 It'll be interesting to hear what he says. But they 1:48:15.280 --> 1:48:17.600 have to come up with a plaan and thread the 1:48:17.640 --> 1:48:21.920 needle because you just can't miss the playoffs next year again. 1:48:21.880 --> 1:48:24.679 Exactly Lance, because like we've talked about, you got Joe 1:48:24.720 --> 1:48:27.639 Burrow Man. When you have Joe Burrow at the helm, 1:48:27.640 --> 1:48:30.679 when you have him at the quarterback position, you are 1:48:30.920 --> 1:48:34.680 a favorite man. You're in high cotton. You have a 1:48:34.720 --> 1:48:38.000 great chance to make the playoffs, win playoff games, and 1:48:38.000 --> 1:48:40.400 go to the Super Bowl. So you have the tenth 1:48:40.400 --> 1:48:42.080 pick of the draft, not only in the first round, 1:48:42.080 --> 1:48:44.639 but every round, so you know, every single round you're 1:48:44.640 --> 1:48:47.439 gonna have whoever's left on the board. If there hasn't 1:48:47.439 --> 1:48:50.519 been a run at that position group in the round prior, 1:48:50.760 --> 1:48:55.479 there's gonna be opportunity to assess multiple guys that might 1:48:55.520 --> 1:48:58.120 be available in the second round or the third round 1:48:58.240 --> 1:49:01.439 or whatever round we're talking about. So this is a 1:49:01.520 --> 1:49:04.439 very important draft for Duke Tobin and the Cincinnati Bengals 1:49:04.439 --> 1:49:07.000 and the coaching staff and everybody involved. And I do 1:49:07.040 --> 1:49:09.760 think there's going to be a shift. There's going to 1:49:09.800 --> 1:49:12.000 be some changes, some player changes in the fifty three 1:49:12.120 --> 1:49:13.479 man roster. I think there has to be. 1:49:13.760 --> 1:49:16.439 And the way the NFL is set up, it's the 1:49:16.439 --> 1:49:20.320 beauty of the league. Through scheduling, through salary cap, through change. 1:49:20.640 --> 1:49:22.680 You see teams like the Patriots who went four and 1:49:22.760 --> 1:49:25.600 thirteen last year, they go fourteen and three this year. Ye, 1:49:25.880 --> 1:49:29.960 Jacksonville four and thirteen last year, thirteen and four this year, right, 1:49:30.000 --> 1:49:33.400 the Bears five and twelve last year, eleven and six 1:49:33.479 --> 1:49:36.799 this year. Things change, Things happened fast in the NFL, 1:49:36.840 --> 1:49:41.080 and the tools are there. If used properly, you can 1:49:41.160 --> 1:49:43.800 flip from the bottom to the top in one offseason. 1:49:43.880 --> 1:49:46.360 And again, looking at those examples, what do they have 1:49:46.439 --> 1:49:48.200 in common? They all of a quarterback. Yes they do, 1:49:48.400 --> 1:49:52.599 and you know, okay, so they basically flip the script yep, 1:49:52.600 --> 1:49:57.040 from four to thirteen to thirteen and four in two scenarios, 1:49:57.080 --> 1:49:59.839 five and twelve to eleven and six in another. Why 1:50:00.200 --> 1:50:03.400 because they have the most important thing in all of sports. 1:50:03.439 --> 1:50:05.599 They do have the quarterback. They have the guy at 1:50:05.600 --> 1:50:08.839 the helm, the leader of the pack, and the Cincinnati 1:50:08.880 --> 1:50:10.839 Bengals certainly have one of the best in the NFL. 1:50:11.120 --> 1:50:14.599 Final thoughts, It's been at times a very fun season. 1:50:14.640 --> 1:50:17.000 At times it's been a very frustrating season. At times 1:50:17.040 --> 1:50:19.880 I've wanted to pull my hair out. But gathering here 1:50:19.920 --> 1:50:23.360 on Mondays with you and Yid we are a threesome 1:50:23.400 --> 1:50:27.080 that we operated like a well oiled machine out and 1:50:27.160 --> 1:50:29.320 day by say this every year. It is an honor 1:50:29.400 --> 1:50:31.040 for me to be able to sit with you and 1:50:31.120 --> 1:50:34.000 learn each week from you. I can't imagine doing it 1:50:34.000 --> 1:50:37.400 with anybody else. It is a pleasure and I've enjoyed 1:50:37.439 --> 1:50:39.000 it again. I look forward to next year. Lance. 1:50:39.040 --> 1:50:41.920 I appreciate those comments and thoughts very much. I think 1:50:42.240 --> 1:50:45.880 you're a heck of a broadcaster and an even better 1:50:45.920 --> 1:50:48.360 person man. Getting to know you over the years has 1:50:48.400 --> 1:50:50.840 been my pleasure, There's no question about that. And the 1:50:50.880 --> 1:50:54.280 Yid Man hardest working guy in all sports. I'm telling 1:50:54.320 --> 1:51:00.800 you it burns more hours up than anybody. You guys 1:51:00.840 --> 1:51:02.800 are pros pros and it's a lot of fun working 1:51:02.840 --> 1:51:03.679 with you every week. 1:51:03.960 --> 1:51:06.240 That will do it. That is our final edition. We 1:51:06.360 --> 1:51:09.679 thank you for joining us and tagging along this week 1:51:09.720 --> 1:51:11.920 through all the weeks of the season. Look forward to 1:51:11.920 --> 1:51:14.519 catching up with you in Week one next season. This 1:51:14.600 --> 1:51:17.479 has been Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network at 1:51:17.520 --> 1:51:19.280 seven hundred WLW. 1:51:19.800 --> 1:51:23.639 This was Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network. Pay Corps. 1:51:23.760 --> 1:51:26.679 Pay Corps is proud to be the official HR software 1:51:26.720 --> 1:51:30.840 provider of US Cincinnati Bengals. 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