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Speaker 3: Bengals conversation about to unfold. Welcome into Bengals Line and
Speaker 3: the Bengals Radio Network, Lance Pacalister along with Dave Lapham.
Speaker 3: We have a game at lambeau Field to break down
Speaker 3: from yesterday. We've got a quick turnaround Thursday night look
Speaker 3: ahead to those Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 4: So let's get to it.
Speaker 3: Dave, going in, there was no question the Bengals were
Speaker 3: going to be up against it. They were on the
Speaker 3: road against a good Packers team, a crazy crash course
Speaker 3: for Joe Flacco. I think everybody was looking for signs
Speaker 3: of something to build with. First half was then in
Speaker 3: the second half, the wheels started to turn a little
Speaker 3: bit and while the comeback fall short. I think it
Speaker 3: leads everybody thinking, all right, there might be something here
Speaker 3: to work with going into Thursday night.
Speaker 4: I agree with you, Lance, I think Joe Flacco quitted
Speaker 4: himself quite well. You know, I mean, he's a pros
Speaker 4: pro in every sense of the word. He prepares like
Speaker 4: a pro. He conducts the huddle, he gets the line
Speaker 4: of scrimmage, and you know, identifies things, sees things that
Speaker 4: like a guy that's been in the league for a while,
Speaker 4: and he'd been in the league for a while forty
Speaker 4: years old. That's just remarkable to me. That is hard
Speaker 4: for me to get my mind around a forty year
Speaker 4: old quarterback. That's amazing. And you look at it and
Speaker 4: he's the huddle looking the guys that I remember seeing
Speaker 4: you when I was in elementary school. You played a
Speaker 4: hell of the game, you know, against the Pittsburgh Steelers,
Speaker 4: And so it's probably a very surreal experience for a
Speaker 4: lot of people on both sides of it. You know,
Speaker 4: Dan Pitcher's not that old. His offensive coordinator, I mean,
Speaker 4: his position coach is not all it's like, yeah, it's
Speaker 4: he's uh, he's but he's been through that multiple times.
Speaker 4: He's been through that before. There's there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 4: And I thought, honestly, the offense played decently. I I
Speaker 4: really thought that, uh was it good enough to win
Speaker 4: in some cases against some teams, but not this football
Speaker 4: team Green Bay Packers up there at lambeau Field at home,
Speaker 4: a very raucous place. I mean, the crowd was into it,
Speaker 4: There's no question about it. A lot of Bengals fans
Speaker 4: give them a lot of credit. They did drive north Man,
Speaker 4: a lot of them traveled, and uh, and they showed
Speaker 4: up chance. You could hear the team, no doubt, tea
Speaker 4: wash the t uh, the t chants were everywhere.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 4: It was boisterous. Uh, there's no question about it. And
Speaker 4: I thought that, Uh, the inconsistency of the play was
Speaker 4: the big thing. You know, first quarter defense plays pretty well.
Speaker 4: Offense doesn't show up, second quarter total of the opposite,
Speaker 4: third quarter at flips, fourth quarter at flips again. So
Speaker 4: the inconsistency of it, and and uh, you know, in
Speaker 4: the NFL you want to play a delete game, and
Speaker 4: if one a phase of it, one side of it,
Speaker 4: the offensive struggling defense needs to step up and vice versa.
Speaker 4: And you know you did that decently, But man, I
Speaker 4: just I just think that the inconsistent part of it
Speaker 4: is there's so much meat on the bone on both
Speaker 4: sides of the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 5: That's the thing.
Speaker 3: Twenty seven to eighteen. The final score here is immediate
Speaker 3: reaction after the game, Dave with the coach, Zach Taylor.
Speaker 4: Coach, appreciate you taking the time to join us out
Speaker 4: at the game as you always do your class act.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, boss.
Speaker 8: Again, It's it's hard when you come in here expect
Speaker 8: to win and you come up short. We just got
Speaker 8: to put together a full team after both has and
Speaker 8: weren't able to do that today.
Speaker 4: I thought that your quarterbacks, he's a special obviously forty
Speaker 4: year old guy eighteen years in the league to still
Speaker 4: be competing the way he competes, he's obviously a special
Speaker 4: guy in a lot of ways.
Speaker 6: What did he give you today? Yeah, he gave us a.
Speaker 8: Lot of confidence. I mean he made some big time throws,
Speaker 8: tight windows, able to lead us on several scoring drives
Speaker 8: there at the end of the half, potentially piggybacked into
Speaker 8: the second half, got us in scoring zones on ever drive,
Speaker 8: and I think that really lifted the team. Up and
Speaker 8: again it's unfortunate. We're all looking for constellations or silver linings.
Speaker 8: But the truth of it is he got here five
Speaker 8: days ago and to play like that on the road,
Speaker 8: silent cadence, all the noise, great pass rushers. You know,
Speaker 8: that's something we're going to continue to piggyback on and
Speaker 8: it'll pay dippendence for us.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you just went through a good laundry list of
Speaker 4: what he was facing. It is remarkable how well he
Speaker 4: did play, to go on a scoring drive every drive
Speaker 4: in the second half of this football game against that defense,
Speaker 4: very solid unit. They have players everywhere and the fans
Speaker 4: making all the noise that are making. You know, like
Speaker 4: you said, I had to go silent. Snap count of
Speaker 4: what does it say about him?
Speaker 9: It says a lot.
Speaker 8: I mean, he's he worked to put himself in that position.
Speaker 8: He didn't come in here and assume he was gonna
Speaker 8: know it all. He really worked and you could see
Speaker 8: even the stuff behind the scenes, how much he had
Speaker 8: to have done. Because when he walked into a meeting,
Speaker 8: he walked into a huddle, he was prepared, He gave
Speaker 8: the guest confidence, he said it all cleanly, and when
Speaker 8: he got a quarterback that just walks in and says
Speaker 8: that as clean as he does. It gives us guy's confidence, hope,
Speaker 8: believe this guy knows what he's doing. And he showed that,
Speaker 8: you know, and we'll continue to capitalize on that.
Speaker 4: When did you as a coaching staff realize that, I mean,
Speaker 4: obviously he's special, but when did you realize you had
Speaker 4: something that was pretty darn unique to work with?
Speaker 8: Well, I think you just watch him throw, you watch
Speaker 8: him to the football. He's capable of doing it all.
Speaker 8: And so again you get a chance to attack all
Speaker 8: parts of the field. And I thought our protection for
Speaker 8: the most part, did a good job giving him some opportunities.
Speaker 8: He got the bottle of his hand what he needed
Speaker 8: to avoid some some pressure looks. I mean, these people
Speaker 8: have teed off on people now and put a lot
Speaker 8: of pressure on quarterbacks, and I thought our redline give
Speaker 8: him a chance to make the decisions he.
Speaker 5: Needed to make.
Speaker 4: Parsons Gary, no sacks, You have no turnovers, no interceptions,
Speaker 4: no fumbles. This has a lot of come on the
Speaker 4: road a place like this with the crowd, noise and
Speaker 4: everything you're dealing with.
Speaker 8: Yeah, three penalties as well, you know, and I think
Speaker 8: the field position. When you look at the field position
Speaker 8: battle and reallys sess it, I don't think we did
Speaker 8: well enough there. And then that's the key is you're
Speaker 8: going to reflect back on how much of a difference
Speaker 8: that might have made for us if we've done a
Speaker 8: better job there. But we took care of the football.
Speaker 8: We're always trying to be plus two in that battle.
Speaker 8: So we only got one off of them three penalties.
Speaker 8: So I thought our guys were disciplined on the road
Speaker 8: in a tough environment. And so again there's things to
Speaker 8: build on. But we don't expect to come in anywhere
Speaker 8: and lose, and we're going to continue to find ways
Speaker 8: to get in that winning calumn, build some confidence, build
Speaker 8: some momentum. We're right in the think of the division
Speaker 8: right now, with a perfect opportunity to ar right in
Speaker 8: front of us this Thursday night against Pittsburgh.
Speaker 5: No question about a coach.
Speaker 4: Thanks for your time, appreciate everything you do for the city,
Speaker 4: your team, and the fans.
Speaker 3: Awesome thank you Zach after the game, and I think
Speaker 3: Dave to me one of the big things in terms
Speaker 3: of reasons for optimism, you could argue the three touchdowns
Speaker 3: last week against Detroit. Detroit had the big they were
Speaker 3: banged up in the secondary, they just wanted to get
Speaker 3: out of there, and there were some garbage time touchdowns.
Speaker 3: So that was debate of how real that really was.
Speaker 3: Obviously the coaches didn't think it was real. From what
Speaker 3: Jake was able to do this week in the second
Speaker 3: half felt more real. That's seven the seventeen play drive,
Speaker 3: the way that the fourth down conversions twice for touchdowns,
Speaker 3: that felt real, tangible stuff that you could be carried
Speaker 3: over going forward with the offense.
Speaker 4: I agree. I agree with you. You know, there were a
Speaker 4: lot of things to build on, a lot of things
Speaker 4: that they that they did well. Obviously, you've got your
Speaker 4: foundational players. They're not going to go away. We talked
Speaker 4: about t the fans chanting tea. He made some big plays,
Speaker 4: big catches. Jamar Chase was I thought spectacular in ten
Speaker 4: catches ninety seven yards. I think it was in a touchdown.
Speaker 4: He made some unbelievable catches. Some of those like, how
Speaker 4: the hell do you do that? How did he do that?
Speaker 4: So he's he's in my mind, the best in the league,
Speaker 4: and he continues to play that way. I think the
Speaker 4: frustration level in the locker room was palatable. A lot
Speaker 4: of guys were, you know, man, this is not what
Speaker 4: we expected. We thought we'd be off to a much
Speaker 4: better start, you know, and win the first two games.
Speaker 4: Zach Taylor had never done that before as a head
Speaker 4: coach for the Cincinnati Bengals. But since then, it's sputtered
Speaker 4: and stuttered. There's no question the motor is uh is
Speaker 4: leaking oil and uh, it's it's it's just the performance again,
Speaker 4: is just not consistent enough in all three phases.
Speaker 3: I've never final thought. Before we hear from Joe Flack
Speaker 3: on our next segment, I've never scripted an offensive game plan,
Speaker 3: of course, but my suggestion would be to scrap the
Speaker 3: Jets sweep on the first play of the game from
Speaker 3: my from my game planning aner.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, when you think about it, all
Speaker 4: the things they could have done with Joe Flacco, you know,
Speaker 4: uh and and okay, let's get I think the biggest
Speaker 4: problem they have is they got no running game, no
Speaker 4: consistency in the in the running game. I mean that
Speaker 4: that part of it is. I mean, it's the average
Speaker 4: I think three point four per carry it. It was
Speaker 4: atrocious and sixteen carries fifty five big yards three point
Speaker 4: four per carry. Chase Brown had forty two of them.
Speaker 4: Longest rush of the day thirteen yards. I mean they
Speaker 4: couldn't get out of the wrong way in the running game,
Speaker 4: and I think that is the thing that they need
Speaker 4: to get corrected and corrected quickly. That warm has to
Speaker 4: turn right.
Speaker 3: Now we are up and running. We've got plenty to
Speaker 3: get to over the course of these three hours. Up next,
Speaker 3: we'll hear from Joe Cool Joe Flacco as we continue
Speaker 3: on Bengals Line of the Bengals Radio Network and seven
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Speaker 3: im Lance Pacalister. He is Dave Lapham, sorting through yesterday
Speaker 3: at lambeau Field, looking ahead to Thursday night at a
Speaker 3: showdown against those Pittsburgh Steelers. Joe Flacco yesterday twenty nine
Speaker 3: of forty five, two hundred and nineteen yards, two touchdow down's,
Speaker 3: no interceptions. He was sacked once. Quarterback rating of ninety
Speaker 3: point nine. Here's the QB with Dave after the game.
Speaker 4: Joe, I guess first, first question, I guess the simplest question,
Speaker 4: how do you feel? How do you think you played?
Speaker 6: Feel well?
Speaker 10: I think I I think I settled in a little bit.
Speaker 10: I think as an offense, we settled in a little bit,
Speaker 10: probably sometime in the second quarter, and came out and
Speaker 10: played a good second half. But yeah, it's always disappointing
Speaker 10: when you come up short.
Speaker 4: So you played them what three weeks ago? I guess
Speaker 4: it was. Did you see anything different? Were they running
Speaker 4: the same things or the same personnel grouping a little
Speaker 4: on their stuff?
Speaker 6: I think they obviously pay a little bit close.
Speaker 10: Attention to our receivers, you know, so they find different
Speaker 10: ways to do that, but ultimately they run their defense.
Speaker 4: So when you say different ways to pay attention to
Speaker 4: your receivers, different different coverages, different leverages.
Speaker 10: Of the year, they were where they were making sure
Speaker 10: seven was shading towards them at times, you know, things
Speaker 10: like that.
Speaker 4: So with this under your belt, I mean, I thought
Speaker 4: you played hell of a football game considering the circumstances.
Speaker 4: I've never seen this before. I've never seen anybody do
Speaker 4: what you did. Do you have you ever heard of
Speaker 4: anybody doing what you did?
Speaker 10: Listen, I don't think there's anything in this league, that
Speaker 10: hasn't necessarily that hasn't been done. So I'm sure there's
Speaker 10: something out there similar to this, but yeah, but.
Speaker 4: Not, but that's for sure. And I thought you played
Speaker 4: at an exceptionally high level. I thought you played a
Speaker 4: winning football I really do. No turnovers, no turnovers in
Speaker 4: the football game, no interceptions, no fumbles lost. I think
Speaker 4: that's huge.
Speaker 10: When you do those things, you obviously give yourself a chance,
Speaker 10: you know, come, you know, down the stretch.
Speaker 6: And obviously they're a good football team.
Speaker 10: And we didn't necessarily start the way we wanted to,
Speaker 10: but I do think we were able to settle in
Speaker 10: and let the game come to us, and and it
Speaker 10: did in a way. You know, we were sitting there
Speaker 10: twenty four eighteen, you know, and against the good football
Speaker 10: team and starting the way we did that. That's this league.
Speaker 10: It comes down to the last four minutes pretty much
Speaker 10: every game you play in. And I think we gave
Speaker 10: ourselves a chance and we just weren't.
Speaker 6: Able to do enough to to kind of get over.
Speaker 4: The home parsons Gary. I think I they got some
Speaker 4: relatious pass rushers on the edge and inside as well,
Speaker 4: and you guys, you guys contained at all.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think we did a pretty good job.
Speaker 10: Anytime you go against those guys, you know you're gonna
Speaker 10: for a tough one, but you got to give it
Speaker 10: the guys up front, and then not only the guys.
Speaker 6: Up front give them, but you got to give it
Speaker 6: to the tight.
Speaker 10: Ends, the running backs for the way they were able
Speaker 10: to help. I thought they did a great job.
Speaker 3: Joe Flacco after the game at Davebead I told you
Speaker 3: going in Joe in that much of a crash course
Speaker 3: learning of the offense would would produce a game with
Speaker 3: no turnovers and only be sacked one time. Everybody would
Speaker 3: have signed up for that, no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 4: I mean those numbers, particularly the the no turnovers, I
Speaker 4: mean not giving the football up one time, not not
Speaker 4: throwing away possessions. Usually you win those football games and
Speaker 4: you and you win them handily. And the Bengals didn't
Speaker 4: get that done obviously, so I thought that part of it.
Speaker 4: Joe Flacco is turnover adverse. I mean, there's no doubt
Speaker 4: about that. He wants to make sure that he's not
Speaker 4: reason his football team loses the football game. Although you
Speaker 4: know all the fans will look at it and beyond
Speaker 4: the quarterback stock. You know, everybody's stock. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: Quarterback takes too much heat when things go poorly, and
Speaker 4: maybe sometimes not enough credit when it goes well. But
Speaker 4: he knows that he understands the game. He's been in
Speaker 4: the game for a long time and he knows the
Speaker 4: quarterback positions. A has a different cachet and people look
Speaker 4: at it a lot differently. It's probably the most interesting
Speaker 4: position in all of sports, the way gets credit and
Speaker 4: blame and the way that that's handed out.
Speaker 3: We were talking before the show. I was struck by
Speaker 3: his comments Thursday with the media when he met for
Speaker 3: the first time, and not the x's and O stuff,
Speaker 3: but more just how reflective he is on where he
Speaker 3: is in his life right now at forty and still
Speaker 3: loving the game of football and wanting to play it
Speaker 3: as long as he can and the rest of his
Speaker 3: life will come when it comes. But they're just something
Speaker 3: and in watching him, even in the pregame and during
Speaker 3: the game yesterday, there's something very stoic and calm about him,
Speaker 3: like icy, like what do you know that I don't know?
Speaker 4: The way he's looking at you.
Speaker 3: But that comes with that, with with forty years in
Speaker 3: life and experience. There there's a common understanding of everything
Speaker 3: compared to when you're twenty or twenty five.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I think. I mean he's so stoic, you know,
Speaker 4: he never changed his expression like we were talking about,
Speaker 4: you know, off the air, and I think that that's
Speaker 4: a good thing, honestly, you know. And he puts so
Speaker 4: much into this football game studying. I mean, it was
Speaker 4: unbelievable the number of hours that he was studying the
Speaker 4: game plan and the playbook with his wife. I mean
Speaker 4: even when they were driving down from Cleveland. You know,
Speaker 4: they're in a car and they have a driver that
Speaker 4: the Bengals provided and another driver drove their car to Cincinnati.
Speaker 4: But I mean he's he's studying, and she's grilling them.
Speaker 4: She's asking him questions, and.
Speaker 3: She's giving him a play and he's reciting.
Speaker 4: And for you know, give me the formation. I'll give
Speaker 4: you the play, and give me the play and I'll
Speaker 4: give you the formation and any attachments to it motion,
Speaker 4: anything that goes on there. So I mean it's the family.
Speaker 4: The Flacco family committed themselves to trying to make the
Speaker 4: first start that Joe Flacco had as a Cincinnati Bengals
Speaker 4: successful one, and I think if the defense and special
Speaker 4: teams had held up a little bit better, I think
Speaker 4: Joe Flacco would have had a win in Game one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of all the things we talked about going in,
Speaker 3: you had you been told no turnovers, only one sack,
Speaker 3: you would have taken it. Had somebody said, going in
Speaker 3: on a short week, learning the offense, learning his teammates' names,
Speaker 3: Joe Flacco is going to be asked to throw it
Speaker 3: forty five times, I would have said, well, there's no
Speaker 3: way you don't ask him to do that. Drops back
Speaker 3: forty six times.
Speaker 4: On the day. Unbelievable, twenty nine completions, forty five attempts,
Speaker 4: two hundred and nineteen yards, two touchdowns, no picks, Like
Speaker 4: you said, quarterback rating of over ninety ninety point nine,
Speaker 4: almost ninety one. The thing is, only sixteen times they
Speaker 4: rushed the football. Chase Brown's the leading ball carrier, nine
Speaker 4: rush attempts. They didn't have a ball carry that carried
Speaker 4: it double digits in terms of attempts. You know, I mean,
Speaker 4: that's that's just not gonna get it done. That's not
Speaker 4: gonna cut it, that's not gonna You're not probing enough.
Speaker 4: You're not finding out, you know, soft spots in the
Speaker 4: defense that you might be able to take advantage of.
Speaker 4: Chase Brown average four point seven per lug and along
Speaker 4: of thirteen excuse me, thirteen yards. But I mean, like
Speaker 4: I was saying, sixteen runs forty five passes. That's an imbalance.
Speaker 4: You know, any any game that Joe Flacco's playing in,
Speaker 4: if he has to go back, drop back, in the pocket,
Speaker 4: and he is a pocket passer, he's not a mobile guy.
Speaker 4: He'll be the first to amit that. And particularly at
Speaker 4: forty years old. You know, he wasn't mobile when he
Speaker 4: was twenty five. At forty years old, he's definitely not mobile.
Speaker 4: So to make him throw the football forty five times
Speaker 4: in his first game with the team on the road
Speaker 4: at Lambeau, that is historic and just the fan base
Speaker 4: is going nuts. I mean, that's a tough task, order man.
Speaker 3: I also liked final thought. There were times where it
Speaker 3: was obvious he knew the play was going nowhere, and
Speaker 3: rather than try to create something and maybe make a mistake,
Speaker 3: throw it away, throw it away, throw it in the ground.
Speaker 3: Just move on to the next play. That one's not working.
Speaker 3: Let's just move to the next one. And that's something
Speaker 3: that with the experience. It comes along with the experience.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, you know, experience tells him that you don't put
Speaker 4: the ball on jeopardy. He's had good coaching, I think
Speaker 4: in that regard, probably maybe all the way back to
Speaker 4: high school, high school, college and in the NFL. It's like,
Speaker 4: you know, do not give them extra possessions. Don't take
Speaker 4: possessions away from us and give them to the opposition.
Speaker 4: That's a no no.
Speaker 3: We're rolling on this Monday night. We'll go to the
Speaker 3: offensive line next here from Orlando Brown on Bengals Line
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Speaker 4: I'm Lance Pactalist. You're doing it with Dave Lepham and
Speaker 4: Lance Kettering. Health the injury report and always hate doing injuries, man.
Speaker 4: You don't like talking about guys that got hurt during
Speaker 4: the course of the football game, particularly if they're gonna
Speaker 4: be out for an extended period of time. But it
Speaker 4: doesn't seem like other than GASICKI, who you know, had
Speaker 4: that pectoral injury. Those can be tricky. You know, there's
Speaker 4: a big pectoral muscle and then minor muscles that support
Speaker 4: that bigger muscle. So depending on what muscle it was,
Speaker 4: which one, how serious the injury is. And you know
Speaker 4: when they say a polled pectoral, that's by definition of
Speaker 4: bullet is for a second third degree tear. Hopefully it's
Speaker 4: not torn, but if there's a depending on the degree
Speaker 4: of the of the muscle pull, you know, it might
Speaker 4: be a little bit of time. Particularly with the receiver.
Speaker 4: You know, it's like we get the hands up over
Speaker 4: the head and catch the football periodically and not hopefully
Speaker 4: not all the time. But and that injury report, I
Speaker 4: think everybody else most hands on deck. The offensive line
Speaker 4: was beating up a little bit going into this football game,
Speaker 4: and hopefully they're gonna lick their wounds collectively. And more
Speaker 4: people on the football field and more options for the
Speaker 4: offensive line coach and head coach to consider and contemplate.
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Speaker 3: Wow, we're speaking offensive line. Let's go up front. Here's
Speaker 3: Dan with Orlando Brown Junior.
Speaker 9: What did Joe show you in the second half?
Speaker 11: Oh, man, I mean just who he's been for the
Speaker 11: last eighteen years. A tough player that's going to stay.
Speaker 11: Of course, you know that's who he is. And and
Speaker 11: you know, he just got here a week ago, you know,
Speaker 11: I mean barely that, I guess, and it's able to
Speaker 11: come out here and call the game like he did
Speaker 11: and show up when we needed a most I mean
Speaker 11: pass off to him.
Speaker 9: It looked like his comfort level grew as the game
Speaker 9: went along. Was it like that in the huddle?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Absolutely, And you know, to be honest, I feel like
Speaker 11: he was comfortable early, just just getting settled down and
Speaker 11: being himself.
Speaker 5: And you know, as he gets more.
Speaker 11: Time with you know, coach Pitch and coach Taylor, I mean,
Speaker 11: sky's the limit.
Speaker 9: The way they I performed in the second half. Does
Speaker 9: it give you growing confidence that going home for three
Speaker 9: straight home games, you guys can go on a run?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, no, man, I mean we're close.
Speaker 11: We're not close enough who we are close, And you know,
Speaker 11: we got to figure out a way as a team
Speaker 11: to finish, to start faster and be a more effective
Speaker 11: early man and a lot of these games that we've
Speaker 11: been in. It won't be dogfights in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 11: We'll be playing four minute offense.
Speaker 9: Is there something you can put your finger on for
Speaker 9: the first half and why the first half struggles have happened?
Speaker 11: Uh, to watch the film, But you know it always
Speaker 11: comes down to finish an execution.
Speaker 5: Man. You know it's on us as players to do that.
Speaker 9: Jamar Chase ten catches an incredible touchdown catch. At the
Speaker 9: end of the game. T had five catches as well.
Speaker 9: It looked like Joe did a great job of saying,
Speaker 9: all right, we've got two of the best in the league,
Speaker 9: let's get him the ball.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 11: And I mean honestly, if I was at quarterback, I'll
Speaker 11: take the same approach.
Speaker 9: So all right, what are your feelings with a quick
Speaker 9: turnaround and a huge game coming up against the division
Speaker 9: rival on Thursday?
Speaker 11: Excited to be home, you know what I mean? So
Speaker 11: you got a divisional opponent, let's take care of biness.
Speaker 9: Appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Thanks Rolando Orlando Brown Junior. After the game, Dave, is
Speaker 3: it fair to say, based on what you saw first
Speaker 3: half into the second half? Did the does the arrow
Speaker 3: point up for how the offensive line kind of came
Speaker 3: along with Joe Flacco and was better in the second half.
Speaker 4: I think so, I think so Lance, you know, and
Speaker 4: people are like, oh, yeah, come on, you know, you're
Speaker 4: looking for excuses, You're you know, you're getting too picky
Speaker 4: you in here. But familiarity with his cadence, with how
Speaker 4: he identifies players or in opposition players I'm talking about
Speaker 4: with respect to fronts, how they're aligned, any adjustments that
Speaker 4: they might make in that alignment. And then also, you know,
Speaker 4: learning the language. I mean, you know, you can't if
Speaker 4: in fact, he does stumble on something from a formational
Speaker 4: standpoint and calls it something else, because where.
Speaker 3: He's been replacing, everybody's looking like, yeah, what play is that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like, don't don't you know, don't get your
Speaker 4: panties in a bunch of man, you know, don't you know,
Speaker 4: don't don't get all wang chunged about it, because it'll
Speaker 4: it'll work itself out. And like I said, I thought,
Speaker 4: I thought he was not their biggest problem by far.
Speaker 4: I thought the offensive line in fact, was a bigger
Speaker 4: problem for him and for the outcome of the football game.
Speaker 4: Uh than than uh than Joe Flacco's play.
Speaker 3: We talked last week about the offensive line and cohesiveness
Speaker 3: and playing together, and in another shuffle this week, Dylan
Speaker 3: Fairchild is out, so Reisner has to go over to
Speaker 3: the left side, and there's just that's that's a real thing.
Speaker 3: That's just the reality of when the pieces are moving around,
Speaker 3: it's tough to get settled in use.
Speaker 4: To everything exactly. I mean getting used to is a
Speaker 4: good term. And you know, you get used to the
Speaker 4: guy next to you. And you know, when you when
Speaker 4: you played next to a guy for a long period
Speaker 4: of time, a year or multiple years, uh, you know,
Speaker 4: it's like rolling out of bed in the morning. You
Speaker 4: know exactly what to expect. You know, it's like you
Speaker 4: go through the same routine and your practice preparations the
Speaker 4: same on a week to week up based and you
Speaker 4: know there's no uh, no monkey wrenches as such. They're
Speaker 4: still in the infancy stages of getting to know each
Speaker 4: other in terms of, uh play on the football field
Speaker 4: and individually, I mean the kind of people they are,
Speaker 4: the kind of guys they are. Who likes what, who
Speaker 4: doesn't like what? Who likes to make a call in
Speaker 4: a critical situation? What does he usually what's his go
Speaker 4: to call, what does he like to stay away from
Speaker 4: in those instances as well. So there's a lot to learn,
Speaker 4: and uh, there's a lot of cohesion that has to
Speaker 4: go on up front, and they're in the process of
Speaker 4: trying to get that done.
Speaker 3: I think you brought up a great point earlier in
Speaker 3: this segment that is probably not talked about or understood enough,
Speaker 3: and that's the difference in cadence, Kenny Anderson's cadence to
Speaker 3: Turk Schoeder to Buby's sias and there there is something
Speaker 3: to that. It's just not calling the play there. There's
Speaker 3: inflection there. I mean, that's that's a thing exactly.
Speaker 4: Voice inflection pauses, you know, just even the sound of
Speaker 4: the voice. Yeah, you're used to hearing something for a
Speaker 4: long perioderiod of time, and what's that you know, that's
Speaker 4: a little bit different. And then for Joe have to
Speaker 4: again we're talking about a lot of times the same
Speaker 4: the same point, but Lambeau to have to go up there. Yeah,
Speaker 4: your first game with all new players, new coaches, knew everything,
Speaker 4: and you're in Lambeau having to communicate. That's one of
Speaker 4: the tougher places to communicate in all of football, high school, college,
Speaker 4: or the National Football League. So Joe Flacco had himself
Speaker 4: some serious challenges yesterday for sure.
Speaker 3: You know, Micah Parsons was a big storyline going into
Speaker 3: the game. He wound up with three tackles. He's not
Speaker 3: registered as a as a quarterback hit or certainly a
Speaker 3: sack in the game book. But I think his his
Speaker 3: he made his presence felt. But he certainly didn't dominate,
Speaker 3: takeover or wreck the game.
Speaker 4: Yes, exactly exactly. And you know the two things that
Speaker 4: you hit on. He didn't take the game over. It
Speaker 4: wasn't like oh Man, Parsons again at him pretty well,
Speaker 4: and you know, tried to get him to anchor himself
Speaker 4: a little bit if you could. That's I think that's
Speaker 4: the key to success against him or any great pass rusher.
Speaker 4: If you show you can run the ball right at
Speaker 4: him and make him concern himself with that, everything else
Speaker 4: falls into place quite easily.
Speaker 3: Let's talk some defense when we come back. DJ Turner,
Speaker 3: nice game, the DJ Turner game yesterday. More on that
Speaker 3: you'll hear from him as we continue. It's Bengals Line
Speaker 3: of the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. Hey
Speaker 3: we continue on this Monday night talking everything there is
Speaker 3: to talk about related to the Bengals from yesterday against
Speaker 3: the Packers the Thursday night against those Pittsburgh Steelers. The
Speaker 3: show is Bengals Line of the Bengals Radio Network. Thanks
Speaker 3: for hanging out with us tonight. We've talked to offense.
Speaker 3: Let's get back on the other side of the defensive
Speaker 3: side of things for the Bengals yesterday. And what a
Speaker 3: performance by DJ Turner. I think five pass breakups. Officially
Speaker 3: the credit to DJ Turner here is Dan Horde with.
Speaker 9: Dj DJ five passes deflected today, including one that turned
Speaker 9: into an interception. What'd you think of your performs?
Speaker 12: I think that had a good game. It was a
Speaker 12: good game, all right.
Speaker 9: Joe Flacco in his first game in a Bengals uniform,
Speaker 9: seemed like he got more and more comfortable as the
Speaker 9: game went along.
Speaker 13: Did you sense that, No, for sure, he definitely second half,
Speaker 13: definitely got comfortable, gone to a groove, and you know
Speaker 13: it was noticeable for everybody.
Speaker 9: Poor feeling. Does that give you, guys in terms of
Speaker 9: confidence with Joe quarterback going forward?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: Great?
Speaker 12: Like I said, we know we lost, but it's okay.
Speaker 13: You know, we want to stay together, keep building, keep stacking,
Speaker 13: and you know, the offense, they build up momentum going
Speaker 13: to the week.
Speaker 9: So you're not so good that defensive performance today. It
Speaker 9: seemed like he got them into some long third downs
Speaker 9: and they would make a few backbreaking plays. Is that
Speaker 9: Is that really what kind of hurts from a defensive
Speaker 9: perspective today?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 12: Yeah, we gotta go up to the field, you know.
Speaker 13: But like I said, we want to keep on stacking
Speaker 13: and you know, stay together.
Speaker 12: That's what we're gonna do. And you know, but like
Speaker 12: I said, it is definitely we gotta go out the field.
Speaker 9: Kept a big game on Thursday against the Steelers, and
Speaker 9: it's the start of a three game Homestand is this
Speaker 9: the opportunity to get right back into the hunt.
Speaker 13: Not for sure, definitely looking forward to it. For the
Speaker 13: most part, we got out healthy, so that's a good thing.
Speaker 9: And you know, yeah, I'm going to go back to
Speaker 9: where I started with your performance. Did you feel like
Speaker 9: it was one of your better games? I mean, five
Speaker 9: pass deflections in a game don't happen very often.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, as made the play as I came
Speaker 12: to me.
Speaker 13: That's really the biggest thing I had this week or
Speaker 13: this game was whenever I had episode, I just made
Speaker 13: to play on it.
Speaker 9: I appreciate your time, Thank you.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 3: It was a career day for DJ Turner, and you
Speaker 3: gotta love Dave the fact that he's twenty four years old.
Speaker 3: He's a third year here. If this defense is going
Speaker 3: to get where it wants to go, it needs young
Speaker 3: guys to continue to develop and make plays.
Speaker 4: And that was a big day from DJ Turner. It
Speaker 4: really was. I mean, when you think about it, last
Speaker 4: getting your hand on the football five times, I mean
Speaker 4: breaking passes up. You know a lot of times interceptions
Speaker 4: come on tips. Geno Stones interception came on a chip,
Speaker 4: and you know, and when the ball is you know,
Speaker 4: airborne and fluttering around, it's anybody's football. So Al Golden,
Speaker 4: I'm sure was pleased as punch with the game the
Speaker 4: DJ Turner turned in for him, There's no question about it.
Speaker 4: And he wants more of that. He wants even more
Speaker 4: than he got from the DJ Turner and others. And
Speaker 4: I think the offensive line had trouble establishing the running game,
Speaker 4: and I thought the defensive line had some difficulties stopping
Speaker 4: the run. I mean, the Green Bay Packers thirty three
Speaker 4: times they ran the football, are you kidding? Thirty three
Speaker 4: times one hundred and fifty three yards four point six
Speaker 4: per They rushed for two touchdowns, both of them were
Speaker 4: courtesy of Josh Jacobs. Eighteen rushes ninety three yards. I
Speaker 4: mean he came within a carry of one hundred yard
Speaker 4: day over five yards per sixteen long. I mean, if
Speaker 4: the Bengals don't get better upfront in terms of running
Speaker 4: the football and stopping the run, it's going to be
Speaker 4: a long, long year.
Speaker 3: And to those rush attempts by the Packers and it holds.
Speaker 3: It was basically in line with their season. We talked
Speaker 3: about it last week. They run at thirty three, they
Speaker 3: threw it twenty six going into the game. It was
Speaker 3: right about exactly even passes and rushes. Last year, for
Speaker 3: the first time in twenty two years, they ran it
Speaker 3: more than they passed it. That's just what Matt Lafleur
Speaker 3: has settled on with asking Jordan Loved to do this
Speaker 3: and asking the running game to do this, and you
Speaker 3: put it on the scale and it's it's pretty much balanced.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Matt Lafleur, even though he's a younger coach, he's
Speaker 4: old school man. He believes in having a balanced attack,
Speaker 4: you know, running the football. Yeah, in his mind it's
Speaker 4: a fifty to fifty proposition. You run the ball half
Speaker 4: the time you throw the ball the other half. You know,
Speaker 4: in the running game. In his mindset, when he does
Speaker 4: game planning takes priority because he likes to run the ball.
Speaker 4: In his passing game, he likes play action pass. So
Speaker 4: you can't play action pass. It's useless to you know,
Speaker 4: fake a run to a running back when you haven't
Speaker 4: gotten anything established. I mean, nobody respects it. Everybody's dropping
Speaker 4: back in the coverage right away, so they, you know,
Speaker 4: Lafleur knows for his offense to click, he's got to
Speaker 4: get that running game going.
Speaker 3: First, take a time out, head down the stretch. We
Speaker 3: are cruising through our first hour, first of three tonight.
Speaker 4: Thanks for being with us.
Speaker 3: It's Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network in seven
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Speaker 3: Dave Let's circle back around to the defense. And one
Speaker 3: injury to keep an eye on on that side of
Speaker 3: the ball is Trey Hendrickson goes out in with the
Speaker 3: back injury. We don't see him for the second half.
Speaker 3: And you know, Trey, he may get dinged and leaf
Speaker 3: for a play, but Trey goes back in like mad man.
Speaker 3: The fact he didn't for the entire second half leaves
Speaker 3: me a little bit concerned with a back for a
Speaker 3: quick turnaround on Thursday night.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and back injuries they can be dicey man, I
Speaker 4: mean they really can. It's like, all right, well, is
Speaker 4: it a spinal column issue? Is it vertebrae? What do
Speaker 4: we have going here? You know? And for him to,
Speaker 4: like you said, in a very important football game, for
Speaker 4: him to miss the whole second half, that's significant. And
Speaker 4: he looked like he was flying back okay, fairly comfortably.
Speaker 4: Didn't look like he had any any issues going on
Speaker 4: there in terms of like a brace or a heating
Speaker 4: pad and that type of that type of paraphernalia that
Speaker 4: that you're gonna have to deal with if you do
Speaker 4: have a serious back injury. But again, back injury you
Speaker 4: just don't mess with. You make sure if he does
Speaker 4: have to take a week'd be painful. You know, I
Speaker 4: know he probably definitely wants to play again to Pittsburgh Steelers,
Speaker 4: a big division rival, and uh, he loves sacking the
Speaker 4: quarterback against the Pittsburgh Steelers and Mike Tomlin. There's no
Speaker 4: question about that. And like we were talking about on
Speaker 4: the air and off the year, he is playing the
Speaker 4: run one thousand better.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's no plasure and you know that what
Speaker 3: of the knocks against him this offseason? When the debate
Speaker 3: was do the Bengals pay trade to let go? Some argued, al,
Speaker 3: he's two one dimensional. If you look he's even going
Speaker 3: back to last year, he's become much better and much
Speaker 3: more well rounded as a player.
Speaker 4: For past stand I agree, he's a complete football player,
Speaker 4: you know. I mean he gives you, He gives you
Speaker 4: a production and tremendous effort in both areas against the
Speaker 4: pass and the run, and coaches very much appreciate that.
Speaker 4: You know, if they know on a weekly basis, a
Speaker 4: week in and week out, that this guy's gonna be
Speaker 4: son Wood and he's going to be doing this and
Speaker 4: he's gonna take pride in his profession, which there's no
Speaker 4: doubt that Trey Henderson does that. I mean, he's an
Speaker 4: extremely prideful football player. And so you know, I think
Speaker 4: I think he'll be back sooner rather than later.
Speaker 3: The big boost would come with whether Trake returns or not.
Speaker 3: If they could get Shamar Stewart back on Thursday night,
Speaker 3: and I think it's been four weeks now with the
Speaker 3: ankle to get him back and and then ask more
Speaker 3: of Miles Murphy, whether trades they or not. They need
Speaker 3: they need more from Murphy and they could really use
Speaker 3: Shamar Stewart back absolutely.
Speaker 4: I mean they need more productivity from the group. You know,
Speaker 4: a synergistic effect one plus one equals three. You know,
Speaker 4: had another one at equals five instead of four. You know,
Speaker 4: it's like Shamar Stewart that that. You know, ankle issues
Speaker 4: and foot issues can be hugely problematic. I mean it's
Speaker 4: like you get a big body and gravity's taken all
Speaker 4: that weight you know, down to the to the ankle
Speaker 4: and feet, and uh, sometimes it doesn't want to cooperate.
Speaker 4: You know, it's it's like when you know, what do
Speaker 4: you what do you doing to me? So hopefully he's
Speaker 4: been real good about his therapy, his treatments and all that,
Speaker 4: starting to practice, started to do some things on the field.
Speaker 4: Hopefully that that graft continues to go up.
Speaker 3: You know, while we're talking injuries, and you mentioned Mike
Speaker 3: Sicky in the last segment, while he was injured, Tanner
Speaker 3: Hudson took advantage of an opportunity yesterday really nice gave
Speaker 3: He had four his first four catches of the season
Speaker 3: on five targets. And when I saw four on five targets,
Speaker 3: I remember back to last year. It seemed like every
Speaker 3: single time they threw it to Tanner Hudson, he caught it.
Speaker 3: And I looked it up and they threw it to
Speaker 3: him twenty three times last year he caught it nineteen.
Speaker 3: He's a guy you can count on who hasn't really
Speaker 3: he's been more flying around on the periphery and entered
Speaker 3: the picture.
Speaker 4: Yesterday he did. He had a touchdown catch, you know,
Speaker 4: and yeah, he's one of those guys that he didn't
Speaker 4: have huge production in terms of yards. Four catches for
Speaker 4: ten yards, so you know nothing right home about there.
Speaker 4: Eight of them came on on one reception, so he
Speaker 4: had a bunch of you know, little conversions third down conversion,
Speaker 4: third and one get him. The football move to change
Speaker 4: one touchdown catch was short yardage variety. Uh and so.
Speaker 4: But the thing, the thing that all quarterbacks love about him.
Speaker 4: Joe Burrow has talked about it to me more than once,
Speaker 4: and I think Joe Flacco after the game was talking
Speaker 4: about it as well, that he is exactly where he's
Speaker 4: supposed to be when he's supposed to be there. He
Speaker 4: is one of the most reliable guys in that regard
Speaker 4: on the football team. And quarterbacks, believe me, they love
Speaker 4: that big time.
Speaker 3: The defensive line back to talking about Trey Hendrickson and
Speaker 3: Miles Murphy and Shamar Stewart, there were just that there
Speaker 3: were moments where a mistackle or a leak through it
Speaker 3: just opened up the damn and it just you just
Speaker 3: you just needed that to be more.
Speaker 4: Than it than it was yesterday. That's that was a
Speaker 4: topic of conversation on the flight home. The miss tackles.
Speaker 4: I mean, there was a lot of buzz.
Speaker 3: Man, I can't imagine what the number is going to
Speaker 3: be when it comes to do it, I was gonna say,
Speaker 3: it's gotta be double.
Speaker 4: Do I agree with you? I mean, and uh, the
Speaker 4: players were talking about it amongst themselves. The coaches or
Speaker 4: defensive coaches were talking about it. The players and defensive
Speaker 4: coaches were we're talking about it, and uh, you know
Speaker 4: when they when they basically were handing out the computers,
Speaker 4: you know, to watch the video of the of the
Speaker 4: game that that was. That was a big topic of conversation.
Speaker 4: That was one of the most uh, one of their
Speaker 4: poor tackling performances of the season for sure.
Speaker 3: One hour done to our next the second hour headlined
Speaker 3: by Jimar Chase. We'll also hear from Evan McPherson and
Speaker 3: so much more. Thanks for being with us tonight. It's
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Speaker 3: Jamar Chase yesterday targeted twelve times. He had ten receptions,
Speaker 3: ninety four yards a log of nineteen. It was a
Speaker 3: big one on fourth down. It was for a touchdown.
Speaker 3: Joe Danaman Fox nineteen asked Jamar about the rhythm and
Speaker 3: getting in line and on the same page with Joe
Speaker 3: Flacco and what it was like. Here's Jamar Chase.
Speaker 14: Did it start to develop in I think a lot
Speaker 14: of us were curious, Jamar, to see what your chemistry
Speaker 14: would look like with Joe. Did it start to develop
Speaker 14: and grow in the second half?
Speaker 15: Do you think, uh, yeah, and no, I mean we
Speaker 15: all we all tryna figure out what what we could
Speaker 15: what we what we can get, what we could get to,
Speaker 15: how we get the player play, make us a ball?
Speaker 15: How much time Joe has to get the ball all
Speaker 15: his hands. We were tryna figure it out all in
Speaker 15: that first two possessions, but you know it, it was
Speaker 15: too late when we found out.
Speaker 8: You're two and four, you got a big game against
Speaker 8: Pittsburgh on Thursday, and you have a new quarterback.
Speaker 4: How how do you feel about this.
Speaker 9: Team right now?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 15: I think we're in a good position right now. I
Speaker 15: think we answered the bell today and just getting ourselves
Speaker 15: back on more mintum on how we wanna attack the
Speaker 15: offense and be and be a prolific offense. Second half, shoulder,
Speaker 15: but first half we gotta do better. And you know,
Speaker 15: next game we gotta start off like second half.
Speaker 14: Can you describe how you made the play you made
Speaker 14: on your touchdown catch?
Speaker 16: Uh?
Speaker 12: Just attacking the ball, you know the ball?
Speaker 5: He shoulder to me.
Speaker 15: DB's were a handsy all day, so he made sure
Speaker 15: that you know, I I came back to the ball
Speaker 15: and you know, try you need to draw the uh,
Speaker 15: the flag drawn to make contested catch up.
Speaker 14: One thing we've seen from Joe when he's out his best.
Speaker 14: You can really push the ball down the field. Is
Speaker 14: that the next part of the chemistry going forward? You
Speaker 14: start pushing it down the fields.
Speaker 15: We we're still building, y, We we can't. We can't
Speaker 15: do everything off top, but we're still building right now
Speaker 15: and we're only gonna get.
Speaker 12: Better from here.
Speaker 15: It's just still the first game and it's more games
Speaker 15: for us to go.
Speaker 14: Or there were so many guys in this room who
Speaker 14: are used to winning. When you lose four in a row,
Speaker 14: how are you handling.
Speaker 15: Its adversity right now?
Speaker 5: But you know.
Speaker 15: What's gonna happen at the end of the day will
Speaker 15: be we can't. You can't sit here in power. Gotta
Speaker 15: go back to work. You gotta gotta fast. We be
Speaker 15: coming up against against the stealers, so you gotta look
Speaker 15: at the film, do corrections, find out what we like
Speaker 15: best with Joe at quarterback, and move on.
Speaker 14: Zach keeps saying he feels like you guys are close.
Speaker 14: He feels like you guys are very much still in this.
Speaker 14: You're shaking your head.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you agree with him?
Speaker 5: Yeah percent? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Why so?
Speaker 15: I mean that's the most it's the most probably offensive
Speaker 15: yards and rushing yards we had for a little minute,
Speaker 15: and it is Joe's first game, and we left a
Speaker 15: lot out there. We didn't really leave a lot out there,
Speaker 15: but we made a lot of plays. We could have
Speaker 15: had more out there.
Speaker 3: Jamar Chase after the game with the media, thanks to
Speaker 3: Joe Daneman for passing along from Fox nineteen and and
Speaker 3: man the telepathic wave between the two. Jamar Chase even
Speaker 3: said there were moments where he told Joe, based on
Speaker 3: the coverage he saw change the play here, and they
Speaker 3: created stuff on their own, which, as Jamar pointed out,
Speaker 3: he had twelve reps with Joe.
Speaker 4: Flaccoy practiced last week because he was sick.
Speaker 3: But the fact that they had the confidence to get
Speaker 3: on a page together and make things happen showed me
Speaker 3: something yesterday.
Speaker 4: No doubt. I mean twelve reps during the week, that's crazy,
Speaker 4: and then twelve targets in the game, targeting as many
Speaker 4: times in the game as he threw to him the
Speaker 4: entire week. But you got two Pro Bowl guys, you know,
Speaker 4: multiple time Pro Bowl guys. So they take great pride
Speaker 4: in their knowledge of the game of football and their
Speaker 4: ability to take that knowledge and execute physically. And they
Speaker 4: both have extreme talents from a physical standpoint, I mean
Speaker 4: Flacco's big talent is his arm strength. I mean he
Speaker 4: can spin it, he can rifle the football. He's got
Speaker 4: a rocket hanging off of that right shoulder. And Jamar
Speaker 4: Chad Chase can catch anything. And he's a big, strong
Speaker 4: body that can run any route in the in the
Speaker 4: route tree. And he takes tremendous pride in that he
Speaker 4: hits the weight room hard. His legs are as strong
Speaker 4: as anybody's on the football team. When he plants his
Speaker 4: foot and cuts violently, I mean he gets separation. And
Speaker 4: for those two guys to be professional enough to look
Speaker 4: at each other on the field and you know, like
Speaker 4: a nod and yeah, what we were talking about when
Speaker 4: we were on the sideline over there talking on the bench,
Speaker 4: this is it. This is what we're talking about. And
Speaker 4: you know, a little knot in the nod back and
Speaker 4: they get on the same page and execute. That's That's
Speaker 4: that's heavy duty stuff, man. That's that's big time and
Speaker 4: coaches have to be thrilled with that.
Speaker 3: I was struck by when Joe was talking about learning
Speaker 3: throwing to Chase and Higgins, things he notices and how
Speaker 3: they snatch the ball and how strong their hands are.
Speaker 3: And he says a lot of times you throw to
Speaker 3: a guy and they'll catch you with their body. He said,
Speaker 3: Tea on that quick slant with his hands, and just
Speaker 3: how strong they are. And it was just it was
Speaker 3: interesting as much as an appreciation we have for the
Speaker 3: Bengals receivers to see the quarterback for the first time
Speaker 3: throwing to him, how it's so obvious to him.
Speaker 4: What. Wow, those guys are really good.
Speaker 3: I mean that fourth and four, the nineteen yard passed
Speaker 3: to Jamar Chase, he wasn't open. He trusted Jamar to
Speaker 3: use his body and strength to snatch and rip through it,
Speaker 3: and it just it was it was amazing to watch.
Speaker 4: Yeah, in the National Football League, sometimes they're not going
Speaker 4: to be open. You gotta trust that they're gonna make
Speaker 4: a playoff for you a contested catch. And Jamar Chase
Speaker 4: is as good as there is in the league with that.
Speaker 4: And Joe Barrow can tell Joe Flack all about that.
Speaker 4: I'm sure he probably already has. I bet that's a
Speaker 4: source too. Haven't really asked Joe Flacco, you know how
Speaker 4: much information that he has garnered and gathered from Joe
Speaker 4: Burrow about the offense about the coaches, what they like
Speaker 4: to call, what they don't like to call, what their
Speaker 4: receivers talents are, what they can do best, and things
Speaker 4: to stay away from. But one thing that both these
Speaker 4: quarterbacks can do. They can pinpoint the football so they
Speaker 4: can hit the right shoulder, they can hit the left hip.
Speaker 4: And that is that's a major major league talent right there.
Speaker 4: And the receivers appreciate it. I mean, you know, they
Speaker 4: know that the quarterback is going to give them an opportunity.
Speaker 4: Even when they feel like they're covered, They're alive. They're
Speaker 4: not dead in the play. The ball could be coming
Speaker 4: their way, so be ready to go make a play.
Speaker 4: And most times they do.
Speaker 3: You know, great minds think alike. As I was just
Speaker 3: about to ask you, I remember a year after year,
Speaker 3: Bob Trump he talking to me about the pinpoint accuracy
Speaker 3: of Ken Anderson and knowing as he's coming out of
Speaker 3: his break, the ball was always he always knew where
Speaker 3: the ball was going to be. And whether it's a
Speaker 3: different quarterback and different RPMs coming out the rotation, whatever
Speaker 3: it is, to be able to count on the quarterback
Speaker 3: to put it where you want it and need it
Speaker 3: is what Kenny Anderson was so good.
Speaker 4: At absolutely my old roomy there Kenny Anderson, and that's
Speaker 4: what every receiver said about him. Man, he puts it
Speaker 4: in the exact same spot every time, and it's like
Speaker 4: not even a centimeter different, you know, it's like unbelieve.
Speaker 4: It's uncanny. And Flacco has that kind of accuracy too,
Speaker 4: not just the short passing it, but the intermediate routes,
Speaker 4: those tough routes to the intermediate routes between a lot
Speaker 4: of times there's a layer with the backers and the
Speaker 4: safeties and corners, and boy, they can just put that football,
Speaker 4: drop that football in there perfectly. And that is an
Speaker 4: immense talent to have.
Speaker 3: Jamar Chase Statfory from the NFL. It was his fiftieth
Speaker 3: career touchdown yesterday. He becomes the third player with at
Speaker 3: least fifty touchdown catches prior to his twenty sixth birthday.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: He joins Randy Moss and Rob Gronkowski. Moss did it
Speaker 3: and had sixty touchdowns before turning twenty six, Gronk fifty
Speaker 3: four before turning twenty six. In Jamar with his fiftieth yesterday, and.
Speaker 4: Both of those guys, well, I don't know about twenty six,
Speaker 4: but they both played with Brady, and Brady was a
Speaker 4: touchdown Makerman as he was he was, he threw touchdown
Speaker 4: pass after touchdown pass, and Randy Moss and Grondkowski. Huh.
Speaker 4: That's a good company. That's that's a good short list
Speaker 4: right there, to be number three of those two dudes.
Speaker 3: By the way, while we're speaking wide receiver, I almost
Speaker 3: feel like we jinked jinkst Yoshi because we talked so
Speaker 3: highly about his breakout game last week and then yesterday, boy,
Speaker 3: it was rough. I don't know if they're officially counted
Speaker 3: as three drops, but it's three. You could argue he dropped,
Speaker 3: no question. I mean, I remember all of them, and
Speaker 3: so does he.
Speaker 4: He's reviewing him in his head as he laid in
Speaker 4: the bed last night. I bet you that was a
Speaker 4: long flight home. You know, when you have those kind
Speaker 4: of games and you know it's like now the key
Speaker 4: is bounced back, don't let it linger, you know, don't
Speaker 4: don't let that, you know, take you down. That's the
Speaker 4: bottom line. Everybody has an off to everybody has a
Speaker 4: bad day. Yosi's was definitely that up in Green Bay.
Speaker 4: And now move on when.
Speaker 3: We continue, we will move on and here from Evan
Speaker 3: McPherson on Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Networking seven
Speaker 3: hundred WLW.
Speaker 4: Hey, we keep.
Speaker 3: Rolling right along on this Monday night of Bengals Line
Speaker 3: on the Bengals Radio Networking seven hundred WLW, Lance McAllister
Speaker 3: Dave Lapham. We've talked to offense, We've talked defense. Let's
Speaker 3: add in some special teams. Evan McPherson delivers the one
Speaker 3: hundredth field goal of his young career. Look like he
Speaker 3: had a record breaker at sixty seven. Well he had.
Speaker 3: It just didn't count because Matt Laflorid called time out
Speaker 3: and then missed on the follow up. But here's Dan
Speaker 3: Horde after the game with the Bengals kicker heaving.
Speaker 9: We've talked many times about your desire to have a
Speaker 9: chance to kick one from sixty plus. Well turned out
Speaker 9: to be an NFL record attempt had you made it
Speaker 9: of sixty seven yards? First, what did you think? I
Speaker 9: think when they called on you from that distance?
Speaker 17: Me and Darren had a conversation.
Speaker 16: I feel like before the drive started and I was
Speaker 16: just like, if you give me to the fifty, I
Speaker 16: feel confident that there's a good chance it's gonna go in.
Speaker 16: So we had a good idea of like what the
Speaker 16: offense just trying to do and get to And so
Speaker 16: as soon as I saw skip past fifty, I was like,
Speaker 16: all right, good to go. It's a lot of excitement.
Speaker 16: You don't get those opportunities often. And to be honest,
Speaker 16: it's like I didn't hit the first one great. I
Speaker 16: kind of towed it a little bit, and that thing
Speaker 16: just took off and it carried, and I was honestly
Speaker 16: a surprise that it got there.
Speaker 17: And then the second one, maybe a little.
Speaker 16: Bit of adrenaline pushed off a little bit harder and
Speaker 16: just got under it a little bit.
Speaker 17: But you know, I feel like in that situation and
Speaker 17: the win that we had.
Speaker 16: Today is you're not gonna get that often, because I, honestly,
Speaker 16: I feel like I was just kind of a gift
Speaker 16: of a kick, like perfect scenario to break the NFL record.
Speaker 17: I just got under it just to touch.
Speaker 16: It was cool to see the first one go in,
Speaker 16: but I wish the second one would have. But uh,
Speaker 16: I guess it'll have to wait.
Speaker 9: Were you thinking, were you cognizant of the fact, all right?
Speaker 9: This is an NFL record potentially.
Speaker 16: Oh yeah, I mean you definitely understand the kick that
Speaker 16: you're going out there to hit. And I realized, you know,
Speaker 16: as soon as we got out there, you know, or
Speaker 16: it's sixty seven yards, just put a good hit on it,
Speaker 16: it should have a good chance of going in.
Speaker 17: But yeah, I was definitely aware of kind of the situation.
Speaker 9: Did you know the time out was likely?
Speaker 16: I feel like whenever they have one, yes, But I
Speaker 16: will say I feel like we got out there at
Speaker 16: tad late. Clock was running down, so as they thought
Speaker 16: they would just let us roll with it and let
Speaker 16: us kick it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 16: Good, But it's nice of them to let me have
Speaker 16: a reset or refresh and just kind of reset the
Speaker 16: clock force and just kind of let us operate and
Speaker 16: how we normally do.
Speaker 17: But I just gonna put a better hit on that one.
Speaker 17: So yeah, I feel like time out, if they have it,
Speaker 17: they would do. But in that situation where the clock was,
Speaker 17: I didn't think it was likely.
Speaker 9: When you saw the first one hit the crossbar and
Speaker 9: bounce over, are you thinking, all right, I know I
Speaker 9: can do this.
Speaker 16: Yeah, definitely, with I feel like with how poor I
Speaker 16: hit it, I thought for sure I was like, oh,
Speaker 16: I just have to get this thing up in the
Speaker 16: air and it'll go in.
Speaker 17: So I was super confident going into the second one.
Speaker 16: Like I said, it's just just pretty tough to make
Speaker 16: to sixty seven yards back to back, but definitely capable
Speaker 16: of doing it and we'll get the next tent.
Speaker 9: How could get another shot?
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you Evan McPherson. After the game, and boy
Speaker 3: it was. It was a cannon shot off his foot
Speaker 3: at sixty seven yards and I'm thinking yeah, and then
Speaker 3: you sure enough camera pans the battle of the floor.
Speaker 4: No no, I called time and I was like, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: He was sprinting down the field, making sure getting it
Speaker 4: right on top of that official, making sure that he
Speaker 4: acknowledged and gave him, you know, the time out before
Speaker 4: Evan McPherson could could get get that ball off, man,
Speaker 4: I'll tell you that, to hit a football that hard
Speaker 4: and to carry that carry at that distance and to
Speaker 4: get the elevation to get it up over the line
Speaker 4: of scrimmage. Because Green Bay was trying to block that
Speaker 4: bad boy, they felt like, okay, he's gonna have to
Speaker 4: hit a low line drive of two iron instead of
Speaker 4: a wedge, you know, to get it there, and McPherson
Speaker 4: crushed that thing man that had a majestic trajectory to it,
Speaker 4: and hit the crossbar and kick through. But the you know,
Speaker 4: the kick after the timeout. The timeout proved to be
Speaker 4: a very very brilliant move by Lafleura because yep, the
Speaker 4: mac you know, was thinking about it. I guess probably
Speaker 4: a little bit too much and kind of mishit it
Speaker 4: and it fell wolfly short.
Speaker 3: Dave. I saw a stat on ESPN last week that
Speaker 3: I made note of that shows dramatically how the game
Speaker 3: of field goal kickers has changed. In nineteen seventy, kickers
Speaker 3: made fifty nine percent of all their kicks. Right nineteen
Speaker 3: seventy made fifty nine percent. This year, kickers are converting
Speaker 3: seventy three percent from fifty yards or beyond. I mean,
Speaker 3: that's just insane. I mean the days of a horse muleman,
Speaker 3: Jim Breach.
Speaker 4: I mean, it is. The evolution is so different. It's stunning,
Speaker 4: it is it is. It used to be. I mean
Speaker 4: a lot of teams the place kicker who was a
Speaker 4: position player. It was like the you know, the extra
Speaker 4: the last wide receiver or you know maybe uh, you know,
Speaker 4: a last defensive back on on the roster. And uh
Speaker 4: and now when you hear like going to practice and listening, uh,
Speaker 4: getting close to where he's he's uh, you know, crushing
Speaker 4: the football when he's doing his kicking drills. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 4: The noise that it makes, I mean, the thump, the
Speaker 4: thud that it makes when he strikes that football. You know,
Speaker 4: he's compressing the heck, got it, but I guess you
Speaker 4: know whatever physics right now. Yeah, he's laughing, but I
Speaker 4: mean to compress it. And and then the thing just
Speaker 4: springs out like that. It's it's unbelievable. The action reaction
Speaker 4: part of that is is tremendous. And and they have
Speaker 4: that kind of accuracy because they have narrowed the goalpost.
Speaker 4: Now they you know, take them into the as high
Speaker 4: as they can take them. But uh, it's it's it's
Speaker 4: really these guys. It's a specialty specialists, and it is
Speaker 4: it's incredible to the legg strength that they have. I mean,
Speaker 4: Evan McPherson likes to squat with freeways instead of like
Speaker 4: leg extension machines and that kind of thing. Wow, and
Speaker 4: he he loads it up pretty good.
Speaker 3: I look this morning and This is incredible because we
Speaker 3: know how good Jim Breach was. Jim Breach the most
Speaker 3: maybe one of the most clutch kickers of all times
Speaker 3: ever missed it overtime. Absolutely, Jim Breach in his fourteen
Speaker 3: year career made six kicks of fifty yards or more.
Speaker 3: Evan McPherson already has twenty five twenty five in five
Speaker 3: years in Jim And it's no, It's obviously not a
Speaker 3: knock on Jim Breach. It's just that's the way the
Speaker 3: game was, and the football was and kicking was. But
Speaker 3: six and fourteen years for one of the best kickers,
Speaker 3: the best kicker in Bengals history in Jim Breach.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just it's nine and day difference. Yeah. And
Speaker 4: he was one of the best kickers in the league. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean by far.
Speaker 3: The franchise is all time leading scorer by the gobs
Speaker 3: of points.
Speaker 4: It's not even close. Yeah. I mean, he preacher man,
Speaker 4: he could put points up on the board. There's no
Speaker 4: doubt about it.
Speaker 3: I believe never missed an overtime field. I think nine
Speaker 3: for nine overtime, I think, mister perfect.
Speaker 4: There you go. Yep, that's a that's a big clutch.
Speaker 4: We called him mister Clutch you know. I mean, yes
Speaker 4: he was. He had the clutch gene for sure he did.
Speaker 4: And uh yeah, kickers, it's a it's a special skill set.
Speaker 3: No doubt about that. We'll take a time out. We've
Speaker 3: reached the bottom of the hour. There is much more
Speaker 3: to get to. We are navigating our way through three
Speaker 3: hours tonight of Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network
Speaker 3: and seven hundred WLW. Hey, we're back on Bengals on
Speaker 3: in this Monday night. We are cruising through all the
Speaker 3: conversation off yesterday's lost to the Green Bay Packers will
Speaker 3: eventually set up and look ahead of those Pittsburgh Steelers
Speaker 3: on Thursday night. I'm Lance Pacalister alongside his Day Black.
Speaker 3: When we talked defense and some of the issues and
Speaker 3: some of the the mistackles that hurt boys. Some third
Speaker 3: downs day by I look, they allow a third and
Speaker 3: seven version, they allow a third and six conversion. There
Speaker 3: was a third and ten that led to a thirty
Speaker 3: five yard completion, a third and eight that led to
Speaker 3: a thirty one yard completion. Those are just backbreakers, especially
Speaker 3: in those in the second half where the offense started
Speaker 3: to get going, but then the defense couldn't get the
Speaker 3: stops they needed to give it right back to the offense.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's that complimentary and non complimentary football that
Speaker 4: we talked about, is uh, you know, is his key.
Speaker 4: The offense starts to crank it up and the defense
Speaker 4: can't shut anything down. I thought, uh, you know, red
Speaker 4: zone problems cropped up big time. I thought tackling was
Speaker 4: poor overall, but in the red zone there were times
Speaker 4: where it was just flat out ugly. I mean, Al
Speaker 4: Golden probably couldn't even you know, he probably covered his
Speaker 4: eyes and didn't want to uncover them looking at what
Speaker 4: he was seeing out there on the football field. And
Speaker 4: you know, I just I just wonder. I don't think
Speaker 4: it couldn't have been that bad at practice. I mean,
Speaker 4: if it was, it was addressed. That's for damn sure.
Speaker 4: They didn't go into the football game, you know, allowing
Speaker 4: that to be the last thing that was on their
Speaker 4: minds and in what they put on tape to go
Speaker 4: into a football game. For sure.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm looking at snaps every Monday morning when the
Speaker 3: official snap or the unofficial snap count comes out. I look,
Speaker 3: and one thing that certainly jumps out that everybody's buzzing about,
Speaker 3: and it was noticeable during the game. Barrett Carter, the rookie,
Speaker 3: plays all sixty one snaps. Dimitris Knight Junior, the rookie
Speaker 3: plays fifty six of the sixty one snaps. Logan Wilson
Speaker 3: plays just twelve snaps, and I believe just one in
Speaker 3: the entire second half. There's clearly a transition going on
Speaker 3: with with youth and throwing him into the deep end
Speaker 3: and and letting them learn. And that's uh there, when
Speaker 3: you're learning, there's stuff you learn that costs you sometimes,
Speaker 3: and it's kind of the balance. You can't get experienced
Speaker 3: without snaps, and it's not always going to be perfect.
Speaker 4: True, that's very true. And uh, you know Al Golden
Speaker 4: going into this football game, one of the big differences
Speaker 4: that he did preparing and showing the Green Bay Packers
Speaker 4: was a four to two five defense and a four
Speaker 4: to three defense four three four. So he used it
Speaker 4: and changed up and mixed it up. He had different
Speaker 4: personnel packages in his mind out there, and I think
Speaker 4: it was effective. I thought Jordan Love at times was
Speaker 4: not quite sure exactly what coverages they were running. Al
Speaker 4: Golden mixed his coverages on the back end accordingly, with
Speaker 4: dependence on how many linebackers were out there on the
Speaker 4: football field and who he was going to leave his
Speaker 4: linebackers in coverage against, whether it be you know, a
Speaker 4: tight end or you know, a back out of the backfield.
Speaker 4: And like you said, you mentioned Bob Trumpy earlier in
Speaker 4: the show. Trump he loved matching up as a tight end,
Speaker 4: you know, against against linebackers and safeties for sure, But
Speaker 4: it was interesting to see a golden make that change,
Speaker 4: and he knew he needed to do something to give
Speaker 4: his defense a shot in the arm, and he thought
Speaker 4: that might do the trick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when you've got when you've got two rookies, obviously,
Speaker 3: the downside is you don't have as much experience to
Speaker 3: draw from and and and there might be that that
Speaker 3: that look with a veteran maybe to helping out a
Speaker 3: young guy, you know, go here, move here. The communication
Speaker 3: when you got two young guys and you're both learning
Speaker 3: it as you go, there's it's tough to turn and say,
Speaker 3: well what do we do here? And guess the other
Speaker 3: guy's probably turn and say, I don't know, what do
Speaker 3: you think we should do here?
Speaker 4: We're both rookies, right right, and Logan Wilson the green
Speaker 4: dot was taken out of his helmet and given the
Speaker 4: Barrett Carter's helmet. Uh so you know that part of
Speaker 4: it had to be a little bit different for Al
Speaker 4: Golden and Barrett Carter, you know. Uh And and you know,
Speaker 4: I'm sure there might have been times where Al probably
Speaker 4: made a call said.
Speaker 5: Is he got that?
Speaker 4: I mean, give me some kind of innolvement, give me
Speaker 4: like a wink or a lot or something what's going
Speaker 4: on over there? So yeah, at can be a little
Speaker 4: unsettling for sure.
Speaker 3: While we're on the defensive side of things.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: We talked about DJ Turner playing so well, I'll tell
Speaker 3: you the guy I can't figure out Dave and he
Speaker 3: flashed And I go back a year ago at the
Speaker 3: start of the season, there was a thought maybe he's
Speaker 3: headed for a contract extension and this is going to
Speaker 3: be a breakout season. How do you explain what Cam
Speaker 3: Taylor brit Is is dealing with?
Speaker 4: It? Is it confidence? Is it? What?
Speaker 3: Is there anything that jumps out to you of what
Speaker 3: leads to some of the misses sometimes for Cam Taylor britt.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, like you said of the contract, you thought,
Speaker 4: and he probably did. He probably thought, yeah, I mean
Speaker 4: it's coming to him. I'm gonna have a nice little
Speaker 4: Ray is gonna be able to take care of the
Speaker 4: whole family. And then when it doesn't come, maybe he's pressing,
Speaker 4: you know, maybe he's like trying to or maybe he's
Speaker 4: just like you know, and sometimes when you press, your
Speaker 4: mind shuts down. You know, it's like you just can't
Speaker 4: you can't get anything right. You have to calm down,
Speaker 4: you have to compose yourself and and and play. You know,
Speaker 4: sometimes you're trying to play too fast, you know, just chill,
Speaker 4: take it easy. And maybe that's what uh, that's what
Speaker 4: Cam Taylor Brests do. Take a little chill pill.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Kim looked like one of those guys who could
Speaker 3: be a be a playmaker for this and this this
Speaker 3: is a defense outside of Trey, it could use guys
Speaker 3: that evolve into playmakers, difference makers. If you're the other
Speaker 3: team looking on tape, going, oh, we got to be
Speaker 3: aware of that guy. The Bengals need a guy or
Speaker 3: two to step up into that role that flashes he's
Speaker 3: one of those guys like yes, you know.
Speaker 4: Yoh man, this guy it's like he covers the entire
Speaker 4: football field, man, you know, just have a little area.
Speaker 4: They let him, you know, and uh, you know, David
Speaker 4: Foltcher another guy with the Bengals, that it was all
Speaker 4: over the field, cover the field. Dick Lebou realized that
Speaker 4: he had a special talent in terms of David Fulter,
Speaker 4: and let him not freelance, but let him go, let
Speaker 4: him go on his own. If you see something, go
Speaker 4: make the play. You don't make the play though, when
Speaker 4: you come to the sideline, you're gonna hear about it, son,
Speaker 4: you know. And uh and he can get scolded, You
Speaker 4: get scolded a few times. But David Fulcher made a
Speaker 4: lot of plays, and Ronnie Lott did the same.
Speaker 3: But the way that and uh we we we love
Speaker 3: full rock, and the way that Dick Lebou identified his
Speaker 3: skill set and and said I'm going to do this
Speaker 3: with you on the football field, just holy cow.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And and for Dick lebow who was a great
Speaker 4: player himself, Hall of Fame player himself, to decide to
Speaker 4: give David Fulcher that kind of freedom, that says a
Speaker 4: lot about Dick Leabou as a coach. You know, it's like,
Speaker 4: you know, you can you can scheme all you want
Speaker 4: and try to make the perfect call at the perfect time.
Speaker 4: But you got a guy like David fulcher Man, he
Speaker 4: can he can uh make up for a lot of missus.
Speaker 3: Man, take a time out of continue. Let's get back
Speaker 3: into the offensive side of things and look at some
Speaker 3: of these first half struggles offensively. Oh my goodness, Uh,
Speaker 3: the way it's broken down, specifically over the last four
Speaker 3: weeks in the first half. We'll get into that and more.
Speaker 3: He's Dave Lapham, I'm alliance McAllister. It's Bengals Line on
Speaker 3: the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. Hey, welcome
Speaker 3: back to Bengals Line on this Monday night on the
Speaker 3: Bengals Radio Network. In seven hundred WLW, Lance Pacallister alongside
Speaker 3: Dave Lapham sorting through what transpired yesterday at lambeau Field
Speaker 3: in a twenty seven eighteen loss to the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 3: The offensive struggles in the first half, specifically, Dave continue
Speaker 3: in the last four games first half, scoring three points,
Speaker 3: three points, three points, no points. Graphic from CBS said
Speaker 3: it's the longest streak without a first half touchdown for
Speaker 3: the Bengals since nineteen seventy eight. They've got to figure
Speaker 3: out a way to unlock something earlier in games you've
Speaker 3: just fallen by this defense we know needs some help
Speaker 3: and falling behind early does not help them, now, no
Speaker 3: question about it. And you know, Bill Walsh used to
Speaker 3: script twenty plays, you know, sometimes fifteen, but usually twenty.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's what the Bengals need to do. Maybe the
Speaker 3: Dan pitcher needs to script some plays and stay with
Speaker 3: that script. And you know, because when you're scripting players,
Speaker 3: you're spending a lot of time studying tape and what
Speaker 3: works best on first down? What's my best selection on
Speaker 3: second down? I want to make sure I get to
Speaker 3: this on third down very early, maybe my first third
Speaker 3: down call. So you've got it in front of you
Speaker 3: when you're you know, holding everything else, you're holding your
Speaker 3: clipboard during the course of the game. And I don't know,
Speaker 3: maybe that might be something to try because man, you know,
Speaker 3: you go into the locker room with no points or
Speaker 3: three points on the board. That's disconcerting, man, that's disheartening.
Speaker 3: I mean, everybody's looking at each other like, what the hell,
Speaker 3: what's going on?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 4: You know, shoot, can't we throw the football? Can't somebody
Speaker 4: catch a football down the football field. For us, this
Speaker 4: is too hard. We're making it too hard. You know.
Speaker 4: Let's uh, let's take the burden of responsibility. Uh, you
Speaker 4: know off of us a little bit. Man, Let's uh,
Speaker 4: let's get some to me. It looks like sometimes they're
Speaker 4: just not having fun. You know. It's it's they're grinding
Speaker 4: so hard and trying so hard to do it right
Speaker 4: that it just doesn't happen.
Speaker 3: It was hard to believe. At the end of the
Speaker 3: first quarter the Bengals have been out gained one sixteen
Speaker 3: to one one yard and out possessed thirteen minutes to
Speaker 3: two minutes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, at the end of.
Speaker 3: One quarter, I'm like, that doesn't even look real. It
Speaker 3: looks like a typo on the screen.
Speaker 4: I'm telling you. During the course of the game, you know,
Speaker 4: I kept saying to Dan, like, what the heck? I
Speaker 4: mean you talk about few peopleway I mean, it was
Speaker 4: we were we're talking about it, like, what the hell
Speaker 4: is going on? You know, when are they gonna get
Speaker 4: a first down? When are they gonna move the chains?
Speaker 4: I mean, this is this is unbelievable. This is like, uh,
Speaker 4: it's not even elementary football. It was it was foreign football.
Speaker 4: It was weird the third quarter.
Speaker 3: The drive in the third quarter that went seventeen plays,
Speaker 3: which is just a thing of beauty ten minutes and
Speaker 3: fourteen seconds. And I go go back and look at that,
Speaker 3: and maybe we talk about things you can carry over
Speaker 3: into Thursday night. That drive Dave in the third quarter
Speaker 3: featured seven runs. In those seventeen plays, Brown went for
Speaker 3: five yards, Brown goes for four yards, p Ryan for two,
Speaker 3: p Ryan for six, Brown for nine, p Ryan for one,
Speaker 3: Brown for one. But the seven runs produced twenty eight
Speaker 3: yards on that drive, and maybe maybe it's something that sticks, like, oh,
Speaker 3: look at that.
Speaker 4: We stuck with it.
Speaker 3: We had our best drive of the year and seven
Speaker 3: of the fourteen plays or seventeen plays were runs. So
Speaker 3: something to hang your hat on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I'll forever, I'll go to my grave
Speaker 4: saying you know, balance, you're looking for balance in your offense.
Speaker 4: You've got to be able to run the football at
Speaker 4: times and you have to be able to throw the
Speaker 4: football at times. Sometimes defenses are going to be well
Speaker 4: prepared and make adjustments and make amazingly good adjustments during
Speaker 4: the course of the game where it's like whoa knoct
Speaker 4: you back a little bit staggers you. You're gonna have
Speaker 4: to be able to make an adjustment along with it.
Speaker 4: And for Joe Flacco to have a seventeen play drive,
Speaker 4: I wonder how many times during the course of his
Speaker 4: story career he's had a seventeen play drive. And to
Speaker 4: do it up there again, we talked about Lambeau and
Speaker 4: how loud it is. That's a that's a heck of
Speaker 4: an accomplishment to deal with the adversity. A good football
Speaker 4: team solid, they've got really good players out there, and
Speaker 4: the crowd noise is like deafening you. You almost got
Speaker 4: a headache, it's so loud. And then you've got to
Speaker 4: sort through everything and have a seventeen play drive. That's extraordinary,
Speaker 4: it really is.
Speaker 3: I love the fact Chase Brown had his longest run
Speaker 3: of the year. It was only thirteen, but it was
Speaker 3: his longest run of the year. And if you look,
Speaker 3: I mean the overall run numbers obviously at three point
Speaker 3: four not good, right, Chase Brown carried nine times for
Speaker 3: forty two. That's four point seven. That just cries out, man,
Speaker 3: if you could, if you could stick with that a
Speaker 3: little bit more. There was a moment in the second quarter.
Speaker 3: They have it third and two on their own forty five,
Speaker 3: and I'm thinking, man, I know, I like I call
Speaker 3: time out and bring my offensive line over and say, guys,
Speaker 3: we're gonna run it the next two times it's on
Speaker 3: and we're gonna get two yards. And if we don't
Speaker 3: get two yards, then you guys can find your own
Speaker 3: way home.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 3: But and then they have Joe throw in Tanner Hudson
Speaker 3: I think loses three on the catch. Yeah, but I
Speaker 3: look at those moments that you're the offensive line, and
Speaker 3: those moments to me just cry out, make your offensive
Speaker 3: line give them something.
Speaker 4: As a goal.
Speaker 3: Guys get this first down on third and two and
Speaker 3: you got two plays to do it on our own
Speaker 3: forty two. And I think that would mean something to
Speaker 3: an offensive line.
Speaker 4: Absolutely. What it would mean is you've got the respect
Speaker 4: of the coaches. You know. It's like, okay, third and two,
Speaker 4: this is automatic. Man. We know, we know you come
Speaker 4: off the line of scrimming and knock people around. We
Speaker 4: know you're gonna knock them back. We have full confidence
Speaker 4: in this. We're not even considering anything else. We're gonna
Speaker 4: run the ball. We'renna run it right between the tackles. Boys,
Speaker 4: here we go, broom get stuffed. You know that that
Speaker 4: just uh, that's unsettling, to say the least. And then
Speaker 4: when when the opposition does that to your defense, yep,
Speaker 4: you know it gets the third and two and you think, okay, guys,
Speaker 4: hey get ready, here we go, we're going back. Maybe not,
Speaker 4: you know, let's let's not get too ready because we
Speaker 4: haven't stopped him on third and two yet the whole game.
Speaker 4: So those are the kind of things that have to
Speaker 4: the worm has to turn quickly in those dynamics.
Speaker 3: And Hick the one run I think it was Chase
Speaker 3: Brown the one run he gets stood up, but the
Speaker 3: pile keeps getting pushed. It was like a big rugby scrum,
Speaker 3: I want to say, for seven eight nine yards And
Speaker 3: I'm thinking it was so cool to see and there
Speaker 3: was so much physicality on that play, like guys keep
Speaker 3: pushing it. I'm like, yes, that it showed you you
Speaker 3: can do. Just stick with it and see you may
Speaker 3: you may run your head into the wall a couple
Speaker 3: of times, but you know how to eventually the damn breaks.
Speaker 3: You built some momentum and confidence and everything starts clicking.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And honestly, I thought yesterday might have been the
Speaker 4: most physical game they play overall, you know, offense, defense,
Speaker 4: and special teams, all three phases that they all had
Speaker 4: their moments and then they had moments of disappointment and
Speaker 4: ineffective play. That's for sure. It certainly was not perfect,
Speaker 4: far from perfect. But you know, maybe the worms turning
Speaker 4: a little bit in the graphs are going up.
Speaker 3: I would take that absolutely. We'll head down the stretch
Speaker 3: in our second hour tonight. Thanks for tagging along with
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Speaker 3: All right, we are cruising down the stretch, about to
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Speaker 3: Lancemcallister and Dave Lapham. We were talking about the Bengals
Speaker 3: running the ball. Let's flip it back to the other
Speaker 3: side day for the Bengals are gonna have to be
Speaker 3: better at stopping the run. Green Bay pounds it thirty
Speaker 3: three times for one hundred and fifty three yards, and
Speaker 3: you know darn well that Mike Tomlin and The Steelers
Speaker 3: are not going to shy away from pounding the football.
Speaker 3: Even with limited success early, They're gonna keep coming at you.
Speaker 3: The Bengals got to figure out a way to clean
Speaker 3: that up.
Speaker 4: No doubt. I mean, Mike Tomlin and his coaching staff
Speaker 4: on the offensive side of things, looking at that tape
Speaker 4: and like, all right, thirty three times for over one
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty yards, that's us. That's Pittsburgh steel of football.
Speaker 4: Let's go do it. Let's replicate that. And Pittsburgh's always
Speaker 4: had a big, physical offensive line. Those dudes all hit
Speaker 4: the weight room, man, They've they've all got guns, man.
Speaker 4: They've all all been doing their curls and their bench presses,
Speaker 4: and they get strong legs as well. I mean they
Speaker 4: come off the football and they knock people back, and
Speaker 4: they have multiple schematics in their run game. They'll they'll
Speaker 4: pin and pull trap you. They'll run counters, they'll run sweeps,
Speaker 4: they'll run you know, just dive plays and uh, you know,
Speaker 4: straight line blocking patterns between the tackles. So the Bengals
Speaker 4: al golden and the Cincinnati Bengals defensive unit is going
Speaker 4: to have a plethra of run scheme to digest and
Speaker 4: understand and be able to react to.
Speaker 3: And David goes back to what we talked about last week,
Speaker 3: and if you can run the ball, the ability to
Speaker 3: tick time off the clock, kill the clock, keep your
Speaker 3: is just keep your defense out of jeopardy, keep them
Speaker 3: on the sidelines, establish a run, work on the clock,
Speaker 3: matriculate the ball down the field, wear the other team down.
Speaker 4: There's just so much that happens.
Speaker 3: It's so simple, but there's so much good that can
Speaker 3: happen when you can run the ball, and so much
Speaker 3: it does to damage the opposition.
Speaker 4: It's just, oh yeah, man, I hear you. I agree
Speaker 4: with you one hundred thou Marvin Lewis was right next
Speaker 4: to us during the broadcast. He was doing a cable
Speaker 4: television broadcast, and UH talk to him a little bit
Speaker 4: before the game, and and he always talked about when
Speaker 4: he was a coach of the Bengals. Look, we have
Speaker 4: to build an identity. We have to establish an identity,
Speaker 4: and I want that identity to be physical physicality. I
Speaker 4: want that to be a f C. That time a
Speaker 4: f C Central, but now it's AFC North. I want
Speaker 4: that to every every other team in the league is
Speaker 4: going to be oh man, We've got to go to
Speaker 4: that division and play those guys. You know, it's like
Speaker 4: they know they're in for a very very long day
Speaker 4: in terms of knocking heads and uh and and getting
Speaker 4: after people. So but you know, you go into Pittsburgh,
Speaker 4: Mike Tomlin is gonna do two things. Run the ball.
Speaker 4: Stop the run. He believes that's the beginning of of
Speaker 4: everything that that goes on on either side of the football.
Speaker 4: And he he's a he's a guy that uh loves
Speaker 4: the game of football, loves the physicality of the game
Speaker 4: of football, and he instills that in his players.
Speaker 3: And I I go back to what you said about
Speaker 3: Matt Lafleur. Matt floor is a young, bright mind in
Speaker 3: the game. And yet he understood he's got a young
Speaker 3: stud quarterback and Georgiana Love. And yet he got a
Speaker 3: win with his quarterback only throwing at twenty six times
Speaker 3: because his offense was able to run at effectively thirty
Speaker 3: three times. What a what a world to live in
Speaker 3: if you're Jordan Love, where you can just drop back
Speaker 3: to past twenty six times, have your very productive two
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty nine yard day and a touchdown, and
Speaker 3: watch your offense click on the ground and win time
Speaker 3: of possession, and that.
Speaker 4: Those numbers you just read right there remind me of
Speaker 4: Mike Tomlin with Ben Roethlisberger. Yes, I mean the same thing, yep.
Speaker 4: I mean you got a guy that can throw the
Speaker 4: football like Ben Roethlisberger. But first things first, we're gonna
Speaker 4: pound the rock. We're gonna anchor you, We're gonna let
Speaker 4: you know that we're here to play football today, and
Speaker 4: you better get ready because here we come.
Speaker 3: Here, we come with our number three tonight at a
Speaker 3: busy third hour. You're gonna hear a little bit more
Speaker 3: from Zach, from Joe Flacco. We're gonna hear fun facts
Speaker 3: with Will Wagner, even a little bit of Mike Tom's
Speaker 3: thoughts on yesterday's win for the Steelers as we head
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Speaker 3: Twenty seven eighteen. The final yesterday. Here's more from Zach
Speaker 3: on what happened and what's ahead for this football team.
Speaker 17: Right, you know, just.
Speaker 8: Sick after that loss because Ea chaff You know, I
Speaker 8: thought the defense in the first half gave us a chance.
Speaker 8: The offense had those four possessions that Dendre generated any
Speaker 8: offense and give us a chance there to take a lead,
Speaker 8: take a tie into halftime, and then second half offense
Speaker 8: came out. I thought played well, and you know, defense
Speaker 8: just couldn't couldn't quite get off the field. So when
Speaker 8: we talked about complimentary football, that's what we're talking about.
Speaker 8: And it wasn't overall good enough. You see pieces that
Speaker 8: that we can lean into and continue to grow. But
Speaker 8: but losing this game on the road, there's no conservation there.
Speaker 8: We expected to win. I thought we should have won
Speaker 8: the game. Credit to them, they did all the things
Speaker 8: that they needed to do to get this win, and
Speaker 8: we just we came up short. And that's just a
Speaker 8: cumulative tam effort over the course of the game.
Speaker 9: Xach Colene of.
Speaker 14: The early struggles offensively, but was just getting Joe getting used.
Speaker 4: To being out there his first time playing.
Speaker 5: You accounted some of that to that.
Speaker 7: I don't want to.
Speaker 8: I don't want to put it there. You know, I
Speaker 8: thought he was definitely ready as he came in the game,
Speaker 8: and and just part of it is you hear me
Speaker 8: say a lot, getting that first first down and getting
Speaker 8: the flow there, and we went three for three three
Speaker 8: and outs and those first four drafts, and I think
Speaker 8: before the half that certainly gave us some confidence. Even
Speaker 8: though we came up with no points. We got into
Speaker 8: a rhythm. We found some things in the past game
Speaker 8: we were able to compliment it with a run game.
Speaker 8: So we fell coming into halftime. The defense had done
Speaker 8: enough to keep us in that game. Whenknew getting the
Speaker 8: ball to start the half, we're gonna have a shot there,
Speaker 8: and so I definitely think we walked into halftime with
Speaker 8: some confidence, as loud asy as it is to say
Speaker 8: that with zero points on the board, but that was
Speaker 8: the truth, and you definitely saw that coming out in
Speaker 8: the second half. There was rhythm well, just again getting
Speaker 8: the getting the first first out, and I felt like
Speaker 8: we had a good plan coming out, good flow. We
Speaker 8: were able to get some of the stuff we wanted
Speaker 8: to get to. Early in the game, we just didn't
Speaker 8: have any place, you know, we had we had really
Speaker 8: no normal down plays. I felt like maybe four or five,
Speaker 8: So you don't get a chance all this stuff, your
Speaker 8: game plan you're ready for, you don't. You just can't
Speaker 8: act it until you get that first down and get
Speaker 8: into a flow. In the second half, we were able
Speaker 8: to do that a little bit more and the guys
Speaker 8: were feeling it. They came off the ball and they
Speaker 8: played well for us. I think that was that says
Speaker 8: more about Barrett than anything else.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 8: It's Barrett has just been an ascending player and it's
Speaker 8: time to see what he can do, you know, in
Speaker 8: a full time role. You know, we've given him bits
Speaker 8: and pieces over time, and and it's just time to
Speaker 8: throw them in the fire.
Speaker 7: Let him go.
Speaker 8: And Ocan still got his role, he'll play. I got
Speaker 8: a lot of confidence in Logan as well. This was
Speaker 8: just more about giving Barrett an opportunity to see to
Speaker 8: see how much potential we can get out of MS
Speaker 8: the season gets going.
Speaker 7: He was definitely ready for it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, I mean, obviously I can't assess the play
Speaker 8: right now without without seeing it. But his mindset has
Speaker 8: always been one that I believed in, and I thought
Speaker 8: he had a great mentality all week and and then
Speaker 8: obviously we'll assess the tape and see how it went.
Speaker 8: And Trey was a bad contusion and Kissecki was a
Speaker 8: pack I don't know how serious either one.
Speaker 4: Of them were.
Speaker 8: I thought certainly he had a lot of confidence, got
Speaker 8: into a rhythm. There's time where you getting those games
Speaker 8: where you're having to throw the ball there at the
Speaker 8: end to get back in it.
Speaker 7: It's not all stuff that's on the call sheet.
Speaker 8: I mean we're having add a lib a little bit
Speaker 8: as you were exploring how they're playing our guys.
Speaker 7: You have to adjust as the game goes.
Speaker 8: I thought he did an unbelievable job handling that just
Speaker 8: a description of a play at times, and he just
Speaker 8: made it work and found ways to get the balls
Speaker 8: to our guys, you know, and he knows where to
Speaker 8: find Jamar and tea and.
Speaker 16: Five days from the trade to start or encoursed by
Speaker 16: the chemistry.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think you have to be. I mean, we're
Speaker 8: disappointed we didn't win the game. We didn't come here
Speaker 8: to lose the game. We came in here with enough
Speaker 8: to win. And I think if obviously, if we've done
Speaker 8: a better job complimenting each other, better job with the
Speaker 8: field position battle, we would have given ourselves a much
Speaker 8: better opportunity. Turnovers one and nothing, penalties we had three.
Speaker 8: I mean a lot of things. We came in here
Speaker 8: and said we're going to have to do to win
Speaker 8: the game. We did and we just again it was
Speaker 8: it was it was too little in each half, by
Speaker 8: by each unit.
Speaker 4: There the final drive of eating tomorrow A lot for.
Speaker 8: A better term. Yeah, I thought he did a great job.
Speaker 8: He did a great job with the protections, did a
Speaker 8: great job handling the whole offense. And that's that's a
Speaker 8: credit to him, and it's you can't just walk in
Speaker 8: there with nothing, you know, and going to Lambeau and
Speaker 8: expect to meet the Green Bay Packers with nothing. So
Speaker 8: we tried to find ways to get as much in
Speaker 8: as we could, and we were able to do that
Speaker 8: because the confidence that he really gave us each day
Speaker 8: that passed as he recided the play calls and meetings
Speaker 8: and in practice he was handling it all. And I
Speaker 8: know he's played a lot of ball, but it doesn't matter,
Speaker 8: you know, when you go in here and you're learning
Speaker 8: a new offense and new receivers, and you know, Jamar
Speaker 8: really was was limited, you know, two of the days
Speaker 8: this week, and you know that's to go out there
Speaker 8: and have that sort of connection, it's pretty impressive.
Speaker 4: It's very common thread that your biggers learned about the
Speaker 4: most of why they are.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think that's the best way to say it,
Speaker 8: you know, is it's hard to say there's a common thread.
Speaker 8: The common thread is we're not scoring and we're not
Speaker 8: moving the ball well enough to say that each game
Speaker 8: has been the same. It is not true. You know,
Speaker 8: one game with turnovers, another game's penalties. This one, we
Speaker 8: just we just lacked rhythm early on and just got
Speaker 8: to find a way to start faster.
Speaker 4: There go ahead, just as animated as a senior after
Speaker 4: the two.
Speaker 7: Wins, and well, we just we had a hope. We
Speaker 7: expected to win the game.
Speaker 8: You know, when you come here to Lambo and you
Speaker 8: put pressure on them, you know, you go, you go
Speaker 8: for two, make it down six, And now they got
Speaker 8: pressure on them, and so I think it just gave
Speaker 8: our team some energy, gave me confidence that we're gonna
Speaker 8: win the game. When that stuff happens for us, you
Speaker 8: just you feel like we're gonna go win. And so
Speaker 8: I think that's just frustrated right now because we we
Speaker 8: we weren't able to pull out. And these guys are
Speaker 8: deserved that this is This is a team I know
Speaker 8: we've we've lost several games in a row. Now we
Speaker 8: don't feel that and I mean this is a positive thing.
Speaker 8: These guys expect to win. They believe in each other.
Speaker 8: We are going to break through and we are going
Speaker 8: to be in the thick of this thing and we
Speaker 8: are going to find some wins. We're gonna hang tight together,
Speaker 8: and it's gonna come sooner rather than later.
Speaker 7: I can promise you that. And you just know, just
Speaker 7: looking at these guys and what they're made of.
Speaker 8: And the lack of finger pointing, and the accountability they've
Speaker 8: all had, and the confidence in.
Speaker 7: The house, all having each other.
Speaker 8: We just had a tough stretch and we haven't created
Speaker 8: the plays that we need to create to win the game.
Speaker 8: But I've been around long enough to know that we
Speaker 8: have the ingredients and we're gonna figure it out, and
Speaker 8: we're gonna find a way to be right in the
Speaker 8: thick of this thing when it matters.
Speaker 2: Most ninety six hours or so, what was your message?
Speaker 8: You don't have a lot of time to lick your
Speaker 8: wounds here. You know, it's it's more of a mental
Speaker 8: week this week. But what a tremendous opportunity. Look at
Speaker 8: where our division's at. What a tremendous opportunity to go
Speaker 8: get the team that's leading it right now, and our
Speaker 8: first opportunity at home in prime time. They got a
Speaker 8: short week, We got a short week, So it's it's
Speaker 8: a fair playing field, and and they're gonna come in
Speaker 8: here with a lot of confidence obviously the way that
Speaker 8: they've won their games, and we're gonna find a way
Speaker 8: to get up for it and do everything we can
Speaker 8: to find a win.
Speaker 9: Do you think that's second hand can.
Speaker 5: Potentially turn.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think it's got more of a chance to
Speaker 8: do that than not. You know, when when you've you've
Speaker 8: got confidence. I'm careful because we didn't. We didn't do
Speaker 8: enough to win there, but but there is confidence on
Speaker 8: offense with Joe just showing up that that we can
Speaker 8: continue to play off that'll we entirely do different defense,
Speaker 8: different structure, and again we just got to come together
Speaker 8: as a team, figure it out and find a way
Speaker 8: to win.
Speaker 14: Two specific players.
Speaker 9: While Mars touchdown, which team this kind.
Speaker 8: Of Yeah, I thought DJ showed up big time. I
Speaker 8: thought he made a lot of players on the ball.
Speaker 8: He operates with a lot of confidence, he practices hard,
Speaker 8: it's important to him. We've seen a lot of leadership
Speaker 8: qualities from him, and so I was was excited to
Speaker 8: see DJ. I'm not surprised. I was excited, not surprised
Speaker 8: that he did a great job getting Sands some balls
Speaker 8: and he was there.
Speaker 7: It's the key moments.
Speaker 8: Jama's touchdown catch is unbelievable, you know, it's it's really
Speaker 8: I can't even tell you the description of the route
Speaker 8: we ran there, because that was one of those here's
Speaker 8: what he's gonna do, and let's do it and I'll
Speaker 8: see how it played out. I know they had, you know,
Speaker 8: tight coverage underneath and the safety leaning over the top,
Speaker 8: and Joe gave me a chance and somehow Joe Jamar
Speaker 8: just found a way to make a huge play for
Speaker 8: us that that again gave us a lot of energy
Speaker 8: and gave us a chance. Yeah, I'm careful with the
Speaker 8: silver lining because our expectation is not to be in
Speaker 8: the spot we're in right now, but it's where we are,
Speaker 8: and so we we have to continue to move forward
Speaker 8: and the way it's shaken out, we're still right there
Speaker 8: with the perfect opportunity in front of us. So our
Speaker 8: guys understand that you don't have to I don't feel
Speaker 8: like I got a tiptoe around how I say everything. Hey,
Speaker 8: we're we're we've we've lost several games in a row
Speaker 8: and we're still a good team.
Speaker 7: I don't feel like you have to tip, So you
Speaker 7: don't have to treat them like that. They understand.
Speaker 5: They know what we have.
Speaker 8: I know it's probably dark outside the building, but they
Speaker 8: don't really feel that. I think there's a lot of
Speaker 8: confidence here that we're the team that we set out
Speaker 8: to be in training camp in the off season, and
Speaker 8: we're gonna find those opportunities and we'll be right there
Speaker 8: when it matters.
Speaker 3: Most Zach Taylor Assessing yesterday and looking ahead to Thursday night.
Speaker 3: We'll look ahead the Steelers more in depth as we
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Speaker 3: Let's get more perspective on yesterday's performance from the new guy,
Speaker 3: Joe Flacco after the game with the media.
Speaker 10: Well, I thought as an offense, we settled in, you know,
Speaker 10: probably sometime in the second quarter, and not that we
Speaker 10: were able to get over the hump in that quarter,
Speaker 10: but we we came out and played a good a
Speaker 10: good second half, you know. But usually against a good
Speaker 10: football team, it's playing one good half isn't going to
Speaker 10: be good enough. But we gave ourselves a chance down
Speaker 10: the end, and and I think we did some good things,
Speaker 10: but just not enough early on. Oh listen, I think
Speaker 10: we settled down a little bit, started getting a little
Speaker 10: girthm I think that first drive really helped. I mean,
Speaker 10: anytime you can keep a defense, it's not easy when
Speaker 10: you have to go twenty plays to score a touchdown,
Speaker 10: but anytime you can keep a defense on the field
Speaker 10: that long, it is to your advantage. I think you
Speaker 10: can wear them out a little bit. And you know,
Speaker 10: we it's not like we ran the ball for a
Speaker 10: ton of yards. We did have some pretty good runs
Speaker 10: in terms for first down conversions, and you know, you
Speaker 10: could start to you could start to feel the physicality
Speaker 10: of of of us kind of pick up as the
Speaker 10: game went on the.
Speaker 4: Run, like you still getting used to be on a
Speaker 4: new team.
Speaker 10: I probably settled down a little bit, for sure. I
Speaker 10: thought that there was at least one or two where
Speaker 10: I where I could have taken just quicker the short one.
Speaker 10: But also, listen, they're a good defense, you know, so
Speaker 10: you got to give them a little bit of credit.
Speaker 10: And it's just kind of how it was that.
Speaker 15: Make that catch that you want to catch, man makes
Speaker 15: that catch for you then you make me two points.
Speaker 10: Yeah that listen, you're still I mean, after after the
Speaker 10: two point version, I was pretty pumped up. But in
Speaker 10: the moment, you're just trying to keep it simple. Take
Speaker 10: it for what it played, one play at a time.
Speaker 2: Yuh y.
Speaker 10: You know, I kind of kept telling myself that on
Speaker 10: the sideline today. You know, don't get don't get too
Speaker 10: high in this environment. Just kind of no matter what
Speaker 10: the scoreboard says and and what's going on, just remember
Speaker 10: to keep continue to play each play and and look,
Speaker 10: I mean there's a league if you if you're able
Speaker 10: to do that consistently, then you're gonna put yourself in
Speaker 10: it down the stretch.
Speaker 5: What any difference do you've seen how that Jamor and
Speaker 5: your game games and catch?
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, I mean I I came over the sideline
Speaker 10: a couple of times. It was telling Jake like just
Speaker 10: the way they plucked the ball out of the air,
Speaker 10: like I threw a I threw like a quick out
Speaker 10: route to j to to Jamar and I didn't get
Speaker 10: the ball great and it it was like a an
Speaker 10: awful spiral and he still just caught it like with
Speaker 10: both hands. And then the one one that I can
Speaker 10: think about to t uh. We hit 'em on a
Speaker 10: like little like inside slant route for a third down
Speaker 10: on I think on that first drive of the second half,
Speaker 10: and a lot of guys would go down and kind
Speaker 10: of catch it with their body and slide and and
Speaker 10: he just plucked it right out of the air with
Speaker 10: with both hands.
Speaker 6: It's pretty impressive to see those guys.
Speaker 4: Go fourth down. That was that an act with.
Speaker 10: Too fourth down for the touchdown? Which one was that
Speaker 10: the one in the back of the end zone?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 9: The one?
Speaker 5: The uh the one that you're married?
Speaker 2: Were they both fourth down?
Speaker 5: Yep?
Speaker 18: Uh?
Speaker 10: They came up and pressed him. We had, you know,
Speaker 10: so we had we we we we were able to
Speaker 10: take a shot. And I mean listen, obviously, when when
Speaker 10: he gets one on one, you y y y, you'd
Speaker 10: be you know, I think you'd be wrong a lot
Speaker 10: to not go his way. Obviously, you're jumping into an
Speaker 10: a team in a situations the fourth loss. You have
Speaker 10: those losses, but you see after today only recently need
Speaker 10: that you guys.
Speaker 2: Can for sure for sure.
Speaker 10: I mean, listen, this is a long season, and I
Speaker 10: I know it's easy to be down on yourself in
Speaker 10: hard times, but you know, playing with confidence shows, so
Speaker 10: we gotta find a way to kind of get some
Speaker 10: of that back.
Speaker 5: But I I I think we do have the ability
Speaker 5: to do that.
Speaker 10: Listen, we got a big week coming up, and you
Speaker 10: know the D these division games are are always good matchups,
Speaker 10: and uh, going in and playing a good game this
Speaker 10: upcoming week could help a lot with that. I think
Speaker 10: today probably helped a little bit. But y, you know,
Speaker 10: you still wanna win.
Speaker 17: The game in the same half though that you guys
Speaker 17: have a home times.
Speaker 7: Ye hope.
Speaker 10: So I mean you you're always looking for ways to
Speaker 10: to play with confidence. I think, uh, you know, they
Speaker 10: talk about learning how to win, and good football teams
Speaker 10: know how to do that. That's because they always believe
Speaker 10: they can win. And and listen, I I've only been
Speaker 10: here for a week, but I I think these guys
Speaker 10: in the locker room got a good head on their
Speaker 10: shoulders and I'm excited to get to work with them.
Speaker 7: That's your question.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's act's been great man, level headed, and I
Speaker 10: I mean, obviously it's been a lot of help for
Speaker 10: me this week, just putting the game plan together, not
Speaker 10: trying to get too complicated with things like fun.
Speaker 6: I think sometimes like.
Speaker 10: Bec wasn't starting in this league's a big deal. I
Speaker 10: think sometimes you can make it too big of a
Speaker 10: deal in your head. So I think for me this
Speaker 10: time around, it was just hey man, you're playing a game,
Speaker 10: and it's it just goes in line with that. Let
Speaker 10: the game come to you a little bit. Just play
Speaker 10: each play, do what you're supposed to do on that play.
Speaker 10: Even though it is a big deal, try to downplay
Speaker 10: it a little bit so you can go out there
Speaker 10: and have fun and and and play your best.
Speaker 4: I was a communication y.
Speaker 10: I think it was pretty good. I mean, there was
Speaker 10: a couple of plays where out there. I remember one
Speaker 10: play I think we actually ended up kind of getting
Speaker 10: what we wanted, but I we got I think that
Speaker 10: they got pass interference on Jamar down the right sideline
Speaker 10: or holding or whatever they ended up calling, but I
Speaker 10: definitely didn't call the right play, and I said, so
Speaker 10: that's why I kind of signaled out to Jamar.
Speaker 6: Just hey, you run this route.
Speaker 10: I know, I know we can get that done. But overall,
Speaker 10: I think it went pretty well.
Speaker 18: That has gone through, you know, stretching this team has
Speaker 18: currently going through, or anything that you can say to
Speaker 18: this group.
Speaker 5: That has as.
Speaker 10: It's tough to like generally say something to like the team,
Speaker 10: but I think as like you can see individuals throughout
Speaker 10: the course of a game or in the locker room
Speaker 10: right now, I think it can be very helpful to
Speaker 10: go up to individuals that maybe feel like they're having
Speaker 10: a hard time or whatever it may be, and give them,
Speaker 10: you know, give them that that vote of confidence. Listen,
Speaker 10: sometimes you get so focused on what you didn't do well,
Speaker 10: and you think everybody's looking at you. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 10: everybody's looking at me, and I didn't do this well.
Speaker 10: Nobody's looking at you. Man, everybody's worried about what they're doing.
Speaker 10: And I think good football teams are made up of
Speaker 10: guys that can do that, that are so focus and
Speaker 10: what they're they're doing that everything else comes together. So
Speaker 10: it's just a reminder of some of those guys that
Speaker 10: may be feeling that way, like, hey, man, like nobody's
Speaker 10: paying that much attention. Like you just keep doing what
Speaker 10: you're doing, Like the next play is the most important,
Speaker 10: so in the next game to a certain level. So
Speaker 10: I think if we can keep that mindset, will be
Speaker 10: all right.
Speaker 3: Joe Flacco assessing the performance yesterday, completing twenty nine passes
Speaker 3: for two hundred and nineteen yards, a couple of touchdowns,
Speaker 3: no interceptions, and a ninety point nine QB rating.
Speaker 4: Not bad at all. Oh.
Speaker 3: Sure, we are ramping things up and headed down the
Speaker 3: stretch on this Monday night. Fun facts still ahead and
Speaker 3: more on the Steelers. So we continue with Bengals Line
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Speaker 3: Horde's weekly fun Fact segment. It's a chance to get
Speaker 3: behind the scenes with a Bengal. This week it's Will Wagner,
Speaker 3: the long snapper. Here's Dan with Will.
Speaker 2: No fantastic fun facts with Dan Ord.
Speaker 9: Time for some fun facts with rookie long snapper Will
Speaker 9: Wagner from Alpharetta, Georgia, near Atlanta. How did you get
Speaker 9: your start as a long snapper.
Speaker 18: I played center like from sixth grade or actually not
Speaker 18: like fourth grade till I was senior in high school.
Speaker 18: And like, my brother played at Mercer University and he
Speaker 18: was a linebacker. And one of the things is like
Speaker 18: I want to play college ball because just watching him
Speaker 18: play every Saturday, I was like, this is something I
Speaker 18: want to do.
Speaker 4: Im.
Speaker 18: Like, he was an all state linebacker in Georgia, so
Speaker 18: I wanted to follow in his footsteps. I knew I
Speaker 18: wasn't gonna be like six', four so like being a
Speaker 18: sinner would be really hard for. Me SO i was
Speaker 18: like a long snap, too how ABOUT i go to
Speaker 18: some of these camps and, uh that's that's really HOW i,
Speaker 18: started BECAUSE i wanted to play college.
Speaker 9: Ball aside from long snapping at football, practices did you
Speaker 9: do it on your? Own did you have a target
Speaker 9: in the backyard or anything like?
Speaker 7: That?
Speaker 18: Oh, Yeah LIKE i had a target in our side,
Speaker 18: yard And i'd go out there almost like every other
Speaker 18: day and go snap like twenty balls into it and then,
Speaker 18: yeah and then also at practice as, well so, yeah
Speaker 18: almost every other Day i'd be.
Speaker 9: Snapping if you go on, YouTube there are a bunch
Speaker 9: of long snap trick shot type videos where guys are
Speaker 9: snapping through the window of a moving car or you,
Speaker 9: know trying to hit some sort of tiny target a
Speaker 9: long distance. Away have you tried anything along those.
Speaker 18: Lines, Yeah i've done the bottle.
Speaker 5: CAP i did.
Speaker 18: THAT i did that one rusher in. College people saw
Speaker 18: it and there was, like why can you do?
Speaker 5: THAT i was, like, yeah it's like show.
Speaker 18: Us and it took me like three tries and we're
Speaker 18: using like like a regular water, bottle so it was
Speaker 18: a small bottle cap and they're, like oh my. God
Speaker 18: so that's pretty much the only One i've. Done i've
Speaker 18: seen people like snap it off of the stadium into
Speaker 18: a trash.
Speaker 5: CAN i haven't really done.
Speaker 9: That we'll have to do the open window moving car.
Speaker 18: Sometimes, yeah, yeah, Yeah i'll volunteer my. Car it's twenty
Speaker 18: fourteen to coma things almost beating.
Speaker 9: It, well it's about the same as. Mine we're visiting
Speaker 9: with long Snapper Will. Wagner, so as you, said the
Speaker 9: dream was to play college, football and you did for
Speaker 9: six years At. Michigan Long snappers typically don't get a
Speaker 9: scholarship to begin. With if you go to the school
Speaker 9: and you turn out to be the, guy you get.
Speaker 9: One how did that process go for?
Speaker 18: You SO i got there in twenty. NINETEEN i didn't
Speaker 18: start until twenty, twenty and then after the only twenty,
Speaker 18: SEASON i didn't get put on. Scholarship so but then
Speaker 18: after the twenty twenty one that, SPRING i got put on.
Speaker 18: Scholarship SO i started for two seasons BEFORE i got
Speaker 18: put on, scholarship and THEN i was on scholarship the
Speaker 18: rest of the.
Speaker 9: Time michigan's not. Cheap, oh it's not cheap at.
Speaker 18: All, no my dad helped me very, much so with the.
Speaker 9: Loans how excited was he when you got the news
Speaker 9: that you were going on? Scholarship and how excited were?
Speaker 6: You?
Speaker 4: Oh he was so.
Speaker 18: Excited it's, like, oh thank, GOD i can retire.
Speaker 5: Early now.
Speaker 9: We're doing fun. Facts who Have bengals long Snapper Will.
Speaker 9: Wagner you had a red shirt year and then THE
Speaker 9: covid exception. Year, so AS i, mentioned you got to
Speaker 9: spend six years with The. Wolverine you played in fifty three.
Speaker 9: Games you were part of a national championship. Team describe
Speaker 9: what it means to have been part of a fifteen
Speaker 9: AND o team that won it.
Speaker 4: ALL i, mean it's a.
Speaker 18: BLESSING i mean that that whole season just felt like a.
Speaker 18: Dream like you, go like we were own into Like
Speaker 18: Ohio state, game And i'm, like we're winning as, Well
Speaker 18: like you just kind of knew that just because because
Speaker 18: of the culture THAT i was, there and like you,
Speaker 18: know you got some dogs on the, team and you're,
Speaker 18: like they're gonna ball, Out they're gonna bawl. Out SO i,
Speaker 18: mean it was just a pleasure to be on that,
Speaker 18: team be a part of.
Speaker 9: History you Beat Ohio state the last four times you
Speaker 9: played The. Buckeyes how obnoxious are you when you are
Speaker 9: Around Ohio state?
Speaker 5: People how obnoxious AM?
Speaker 18: I i don't rub it, IN i caress it Then
Speaker 18: i'm not too. Obnoxious but if they throw something at,
Speaker 18: Me i'll throw it.
Speaker 9: BACK i am going to remember THAT i caress it.
Speaker 9: In that's a good. One your head coach was the
Speaker 9: famously Quirky Jim. Harbaugh what's your Best harbas.
Speaker 18: Story so there's like one practice where we HAD i
Speaker 18: think we had like two people like break a wrists
Speaker 18: in like one practice and then like the team meeting
Speaker 18: the next. Morning sometimes he just goes on these tangents
Speaker 18: and he's just Like he's, like, GUYS i don't know
Speaker 18: what to. Say we had two people break the wrist,
Speaker 18: yesterday and.
Speaker 5: There's only there's only one way to prevent.
Speaker 9: That.
Speaker 18: Milk you gotta drink your. MILK i have a cup every.
Speaker 18: Day and then he brought in his sign that was
Speaker 18: like a got milk, sign and he put it over
Speaker 18: like the milk dispenser in the in the eating.
Speaker 9: Room did you drink milk as a?
Speaker 18: Result oh, yeah, yeah looks milk is nature.
Speaker 9: STEROID i didn't realize it was a miracle. Drug we're
Speaker 9: visiting With Will. Wagner he graduated with a degree in
Speaker 9: mechanical engineering and in a scouting report on nfl dot
Speaker 9: com before the draft that, says quote engineering background fuels
Speaker 9: a thoughtful. Approach how do you use engineering and snapping of?
Speaker 18: FOOTBALL i feel, like especially with, engineers it's not like
Speaker 18: you like mindfully like that's gonna. Happen it's more like
Speaker 18: you mindlessly, like oh, damn that snap was.
Speaker 5: High it was LIKE i THINK i extended my.
Speaker 18: Hips and, like but it wasn't really the. Hips it
Speaker 18: was that your hips extended early and your follow through came.
Speaker 18: High so it's more of like kind of knowing how
Speaker 18: motion happens and like what happens when something else. Happens
Speaker 18: it's an engineering. School we did a ton of like,
Speaker 18: linkages and that's all long snapping.
Speaker 4: Is it's just.
Speaker 18: Linkages SO i actually did a report on. It i'm
Speaker 18: like a dynamic of report among long, snapping and LIKE
Speaker 18: i calculated the power that i'd like produce from it
Speaker 18: from throwing the ball between my, legs and it was,
Speaker 18: LIKE i think it was two kill wats or something
Speaker 18: like that of your.
Speaker 9: POWER i hope your professor was. Impressed gave me a
Speaker 9: be all, right a few wild card topics to wrap
Speaker 9: this up, With Will, wagner are you a science? Nerd
Speaker 9: yes very much.
Speaker 18: SO i love just like learning new, things especially with like.
Speaker 9: Science who's your all time favorite athlete in any?
Speaker 18: Sport Probably Michael, Phelps and the reason is that there's
Speaker 18: there's a story to. It SO i was getting TREATMENT
Speaker 18: i tore MY acl twenty twenty, two AND i was
Speaker 18: getting treatment AND i fell asleep in the training room
Speaker 18: And Michael phelps was coming to Our Penn state. Game
Speaker 18: he's gonna be honorary, captain And i'm passed out on
Speaker 18: the training. Table i'm getting like stem And, ice and my,
Speaker 18: buddy who actually tore his ac on the same, play was,
Speaker 18: Like wax get, Up, wax get up right. Now And i'm, like,
Speaker 18: no WHY i need to do, that and he's like
Speaker 18: and then he brings out his dad. Voice he, Goes
Speaker 18: wax get, up AND i go all, right AND i
Speaker 18: look up and It's Michael phelps and he's got his
Speaker 18: hand out for, me And i'm just, like oh my, GOD.
Speaker 9: I was Going Mike.
Speaker 18: Phelps. Yeah it's just like and he's definitely probably one
Speaker 18: of the most of the athletes it's ever, met Like,
Speaker 18: ben no, doubt SO i think you'd definitely be one of.
Speaker 9: Them Wags get up was good. Advice When Darren simmons
Speaker 9: contacted you to let you know that you won the
Speaker 9: long snapper, job he initially SAID i need you to
Speaker 9: bring your iPad to my, office making it sound like
Speaker 9: you were possibly getting. Cut did your heart sink before
Speaker 9: you got the good.
Speaker 18: News it's actually kind of a funny story to that.
Speaker 18: Too SO i actually saw col the previous song snapper
Speaker 18: that was battling with right before, that AND i was,
Speaker 18: like oh my, gosh have you heard? Anything and he
Speaker 18: goes it's like you've won the.
Speaker 5: Job AND i was, like oh.
Speaker 18: Damn talk for five minutes to, him, like, hey you're,
Speaker 18: Greatname you're gonna end up, somewhere which he ended up
Speaker 18: on The. Eagles so we. TALKED i talked to him
Speaker 18: for like five.
Speaker 5: MINUTES i was, like oh, gosh and.
Speaker 18: THEN i WENT i went to go to my locker
Speaker 18: and THEN i get a call From darren and he says,
Speaker 18: that And i'm just LIKE.
Speaker 17: I was.
Speaker 18: THINKING i was, like did he lie to?
Speaker 5: Me like Did?
Speaker 18: Gal and then he goes to go over The cleveland scouting.
Speaker 18: REFORT i was, like, oh thank. God it was a
Speaker 18: ton of. Emotion one he told ME i had the.
Speaker 3: Job and more of that conversation with Between dan And
Speaker 3: will on The Bengals booth podcast or At bengals Dot.
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Speaker 4: Yesterday they moved to four and one on the. SEASON
Speaker 4: i bought some opening, thoughts initial thoughts on a twenty
Speaker 4: three to nine win over The browns from the head.
Speaker 4: Coach Here's mike Tomlin.
Speaker 19: Man it's great to win in The. North good start
Speaker 19: for us in divisional. PLAY i appreciate how the guys
Speaker 19: came off the By we didn't warm up to. It
Speaker 19: we had certain agendas that we thought were critical to
Speaker 19: making this game unfold the way we desired for. Dunfold
Speaker 19: we thought they played behind the. Runner we wanted to
Speaker 19: do a good job of minimizing, him AND i think
Speaker 19: we did. That when you do, that then you're in
Speaker 19: favorable one dimensional passing circumstances for your, defense AND i
Speaker 19: think that was reflected in the pressure that we were
Speaker 19: able to put on the quarterback on the other side
Speaker 19: of the. Ball we were able to stay on schedule
Speaker 19: and minimize those one dimensional, moments to Minimize Miles garritts
Speaker 19: impact on the, game and so like some of those
Speaker 19: agendas man that we, had we were able to get,
Speaker 19: accomplished AND i think that's why we engineered. Victory one
Speaker 19: area where we certainly fell short is a penalty. Component
Speaker 19: we scout crews just like we scout. Teams we noticed
Speaker 19: crew throws a lot of, penalties and we dropped the
Speaker 19: ball in terms of our preparedness.
Speaker 4: There i'll accept responsibility for. That we got to be.
Speaker 19: Better you can't beat anybody when you're beating, yourself and
Speaker 19: it just felt like at times we did that.
Speaker 4: Today and so we got to own. That we'll get
Speaker 4: a short.
Speaker 19: Week we're chasing ANOTHER Afc North pelt here in a
Speaker 19: short number of, days and so we respect the. Process
Speaker 19: we got to work fast here in preparation For thursday.
Speaker 19: Night got some bumps and bruises associated with. Play the
Speaker 19: only one that's worth mention of any significance Is miles Killer.
Speaker 19: Brew he's got a significant knee. Injury AND i have
Speaker 19: more updates for, You i'm, sure and they're not too
Speaker 19: distant future about the details of.
Speaker 4: That, Questions aside.
Speaker 10: From those kind of a couple of leaky moments In,
Speaker 10: ireland what's been a difference with your defense the last
Speaker 10: two weeks with the pressure and, EVERYTHING.
Speaker 19: I just think we're getting a full complement of our weapons.
Speaker 4: Back you.
Speaker 19: Know you know In, ireland, man we got twenty five.
Speaker 19: Back this week we got fifty six, back twenty four.
Speaker 19: Back everybody goes through. Injuries i'm not seeking comfort in
Speaker 19: the lack of, availability but if you're asking, me why
Speaker 19: is it starting to look the way that we. Desire
Speaker 19: we got a full complement of, talent and when we
Speaker 19: put this band, together we feel like we can do
Speaker 19: Things like you saw, Today.
Speaker 3: Steelers win twenty three to nine over The. Browns they
Speaker 3: led nine nothing at the. Half they've beaten The browns
Speaker 3: twenty two consecutive times In, pittsburgh the last that goes
Speaker 3: back to Pre Ben. Roethlisberger believe it or, not The
Speaker 3: steelers are now four in one in the division. OVER
Speaker 3: i saw a note over the last three, weeks The
Speaker 3: steelers are two and o and they had to buy
Speaker 3: because of the international. Game right over the last three,
Speaker 3: weeks or The steelers have gone too and, oh The
Speaker 3: browns have gone oh in, three The ravens have gone
Speaker 3: oh in, three and The bengals have gone oh in.
Speaker 3: Three and yet having said all That Thursday night is
Speaker 3: a huge opportunity day for The bengals is as dire
Speaker 3: as a four game winning streak may. Feel you get
Speaker 3: a chance to beat The steelers at Home thursday, night
Speaker 3: and you're back on.
Speaker 4: In this race in the. Division i'm telling, YOU i,
Speaker 4: mean for The Pittsburgh steelers to have two wins in
Speaker 4: the rest of the division not have one. Unbelieable that's,
Speaker 4: incredible it really. Is but that's That's Mike. Tomlin Mike
Speaker 4: tomlin's always uh always had, success always had great, players
Speaker 4: always knew how to utilize those great. PLAYERS i, mean
Speaker 4: he's still got people on the on the defensive side
Speaker 4: of the football Like Cam, hayward stud great. PLAYER i
Speaker 4: MEAN Tj, watt are you kidding? Me maybe is go
Speaker 4: to pass. Rusher he And Trey hendrickson are the two
Speaker 4: guys that most people look to and and, say these
Speaker 4: these two guys are the pass rushers of their. Era you,
Speaker 4: know it's it's. Incredible, defensively he always has multiple Players
Speaker 4: Joey Porter junior on the back end as Well alex
Speaker 4: High smith at at the outside linebacker. POSITION i mean
Speaker 4: they are. Loaded they are loaded, defensively and you, know
Speaker 4: when you go into a football game Against Mike, tomlin
Speaker 4: you have to remember two. Things he's going to try
Speaker 4: to kick your. Ass, Defensively he's going to try to
Speaker 4: knock you around the football, field and he's going to
Speaker 4: try to run the ball right down your throat and
Speaker 4: and uh and not apologize while doing. IT i, mean
Speaker 4: he's he's has a very very physical approach to the
Speaker 4: game of. Football he played it himself at the collegiate.
Speaker 4: Level he played you, know youth football obviously in high
Speaker 4: school and college, football and not not all coaches in
Speaker 4: THE nfl did play the game at that. Level suit he,
Speaker 4: understands you, know but he's expecting out of his, players
Speaker 4: and he's trying to be very fear in his.
Speaker 3: Expectation AND i see once again a, Theme dave of.
Speaker 3: Balance Yesterday Aaron rodgers threw it thirty, times they ran
Speaker 3: it twenty eight. Times they only average three point, six
Speaker 3: but they kept running the football for twenty eight, times
Speaker 3: and it's part of winning time of. Position and back
Speaker 3: to your point on the, defense you mentioned so many different.
Speaker 3: Names that's what makes them so. Good guess what gets
Speaker 3: all the. Headlines but they had six sacks. Yesterday Of Dylan.
Speaker 3: Gabriel five different players contributed in those six.
Speaker 4: Sacks That's steeler. Defense it. Is It's steeler. Defense it's great,
Speaker 4: Coaching the scheme. Works they believe in. It they've been
Speaker 4: doing it. Forever tomlin's been there for a million. Years
Speaker 4: he hasn't had a losing, season for crying out. Loud
Speaker 4: AND i don't know how. Many it's just that organization
Speaker 4: is the envy of most in THE. Nfl and The
Speaker 4: rooney family And Mike. Brown there's a heavy dose respect
Speaker 4: there between the organizations because they're, friends you, know off
Speaker 4: the football, field they're pretty good. Friends their dads were
Speaker 4: basically pioneers and foundation builders of The National Football, League
Speaker 4: Art rooney And Paul. Brown AND i BELIEVE i.
Speaker 3: HAVEN'T i haven't seen the stat, Yet but are we
Speaker 3: thinking That thursday night forty one year Old Aaron rodgers
Speaker 3: forty year Old Joe? Flacco are we working under the
Speaker 3: assumption that would be the oldest combined age of your
Speaker 3: two starting. QUARTERBACKS i would think it has to be a.
Speaker 4: RECORD i would, THINK i, MEAN i mean it's gonna
Speaker 4: come out in the. Staff, yeah, SURE i.
Speaker 3: Mean far have played late in his, career BUT i
Speaker 3: don't know he would have gone A brady, Obviously George
Speaker 3: blanda played. Lateness BUT i can't believe there's been another
Speaker 3: matchup of eighty one years combined age of the two starting.
Speaker 4: QUARTERBACKS i think it's the safe, Assumption, LANCE i really do.
Speaker 4: That that's. Unbelievable by the, WAY i was looking at
Speaker 4: the four fists of a deck of our, CENTURY i.
Speaker 3: Was looking Up George blayt of the sporting that guy
Speaker 3: he played until he was forty, eight now kicking, most
Speaker 3: but he he threw passes in games when he was
Speaker 3: forty one and then had a.
Speaker 4: Couple of and his coach he had the perfect head,
Speaker 4: Coach John.
Speaker 5: Madden.
Speaker 4: YEAH i mean it's Like John. Madden football had to
Speaker 4: be fun And John madden was all about, fun and
Speaker 4: so Was George Blanded and talking to some of Those raider, teammates,
Speaker 4: man he liked to tip the adult beverage. Man he
Speaker 4: would definitely have fun during the course of the. Week
Speaker 4: as the game got, closer he kind of settled down
Speaker 4: a little, bit but he enjoyed. Himself he enjoyed himself
Speaker 4: for a long.
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Speaker 3: Right so final thoughts and not looking, ahead but golden
Speaker 3: Opportunity thursday and against The steelers in the start of
Speaker 3: a three game homestand it's rare you get three straight
Speaker 3: at home and It's, steelers It's, jets It's. Bears i'm
Speaker 3: not Putting kurts before, horses, right but.
Speaker 4: Man get this one and get some momentum and then
Speaker 4: a chance to go on a, run no, Question, LANCE i,
Speaker 4: Mean i'm in full concert with what you just laid out. There.
Speaker 4: Man it's, uh get it done against against the arch,
Speaker 4: rival division, Rival Pittsburgh, steelers like we talked, about used
Speaker 4: to be THE Afc, central now THE Afc. North But
Speaker 4: pittsburgh's got a commanding lead in the early stages. Here
Speaker 4: you got to bite into that lead a little bit
Speaker 4: and uh and and, physicality that's the that's the name
Speaker 4: of the game when you play The Pittsburgh, steelers because
Speaker 4: you're gonna have to go up To pittsburgh and play,
Speaker 4: them and, uh you Know Mike, tomlin he's got a long,
Speaker 4: memory And i'd like to have him remember a loss
Speaker 4: for a long period of. Time that would be good
Speaker 4: because you, know the others are. Handleable you, know The.
Speaker 4: Jets you could take care of. Business three straight home
Speaker 4: games starting with The pittsburgh and then a buye so
Speaker 4: for a, month angles can stay In, cincinnati not have
Speaker 4: to get on a, plane travel, anywhere get on a,
Speaker 4: bush increase the. Travel. Shoot we had an hour bus
Speaker 4: ride up there In Green. Bay it was crazy getting
Speaker 4: to get into that hotel and into the stadium from the.
Speaker 4: Hotel it was a it was a weekend to, remember
Speaker 4: actually to forget because the game didn't turn out very.
Speaker 4: Well but it is like you, said you, know it
Speaker 4: is a chance to get back on, track to get,
Speaker 4: right to get things back in the right.
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