WEBVTT - Bengals Line with Lance McAlister and Dave Lapham -- 10/13/25 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.720 Wow, this is Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network. 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:06.240 Pay Corps. Pay Corps proud to be the. 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.399 Official HR software provider of the Cincinnati Bengals. Kettering how 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:14.600 best care for the best fans. Kettering Hell official healthcare 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:19.360 provider of US Cincinnati Bengals. This is seven hundred WLW, 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:22.160 the home of the best Bengals coverage. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:24.600 All right, let's get it going. If it's Monday night, 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:26.720 it must be Bengals Line. And that's three hours of 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:29.960 Bengals conversation about to unfold. Welcome into Bengals Line and 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:33.559 the Bengals Radio Network, Lance Pacalister along with Dave Lapham. 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:35.880 We have a game at lambeau Field to break down 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:38.559 from yesterday. We've got a quick turnaround Thursday night look 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:40.519 ahead to those Pittsburgh Steelers. 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:41.760 So let's get to it. 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:44.680 Dave, going in, there was no question the Bengals were 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:46.280 going to be up against it. They were on the 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:49.600 road against a good Packers team, a crazy crash course 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:52.839 for Joe Flacco. I think everybody was looking for signs 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:56.760 of something to build with. First half was then in 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:59.440 the second half, the wheels started to turn a little 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:01.960 bit and while the comeback fall short. I think it 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:05.160 leads everybody thinking, all right, there might be something here 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:06.759 to work with going into Thursday night. 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:09.440 I agree with you, Lance, I think Joe Flacco quitted 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:13.039 himself quite well. You know, I mean, he's a pros 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:16.000 pro in every sense of the word. He prepares like 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:20.480 a pro. He conducts the huddle, he gets the line 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:24.920 of scrimmage, and you know, identifies things, sees things that 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:26.960 like a guy that's been in the league for a while, 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:29.440 and he'd been in the league for a while forty 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:32.160 years old. That's just remarkable to me. That is hard 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:34.320 for me to get my mind around a forty year 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:38.280 old quarterback. That's amazing. And you look at it and 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:41.440 he's the huddle looking the guys that I remember seeing 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:43.679 you when I was in elementary school. You played a 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:45.920 hell of the game, you know, against the Pittsburgh Steelers, 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:51.000 And so it's probably a very surreal experience for a 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:54.000 lot of people on both sides of it. You know, 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:58.360 Dan Pitcher's not that old. His offensive coordinator, I mean, 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:01.840 his position coach is not all it's like, yeah, it's 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:04.360 he's uh, he's but he's been through that multiple times. 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:06.960 He's been through that before. There's there's no doubt about it. 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:11.120 And I thought, honestly, the offense played decently. I I 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.200 really thought that, uh was it good enough to win 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.440 in some cases against some teams, but not this football 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:20.800 team Green Bay Packers up there at lambeau Field at home, 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:23.680 a very raucous place. I mean, the crowd was into it, 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:25.800 There's no question about it. A lot of Bengals fans 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.119 give them a lot of credit. They did drive north Man, 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:30.400 a lot of them traveled, and uh, and they showed 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:33.720 up chance. You could hear the team, no doubt, tea 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:38.280 wash the t uh, the t chants were everywhere. 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:38.639 It was. 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:41.639 It was boisterous. Uh, there's no question about it. And 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:46.920 I thought that, Uh, the inconsistency of the play was 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:50.720 the big thing. You know, first quarter defense plays pretty well. 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:53.200 Offense doesn't show up, second quarter total of the opposite, 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.120 third quarter at flips, fourth quarter at flips again. So 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:58.760 the inconsistency of it, and and uh, you know, in 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:01.080 the NFL you want to play a delete game, and 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:04.680 if one a phase of it, one side of it, 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:08.040 the offensive struggling defense needs to step up and vice versa. 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:15.240 And you know you did that decently, But man, I 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:18.639 just I just think that the inconsistent part of it 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:21.640 is there's so much meat on the bone on both 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:22.880 sides of the line of scrimmage. 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:23.359 That's the thing. 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:26.760 Twenty seven to eighteen. The final score here is immediate 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.680 reaction after the game, Dave with the coach, Zach Taylor. 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.760 Coach, appreciate you taking the time to join us out 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:34.480 at the game as you always do your class act. 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:35.360 Thank you. 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:36.840 Yeah, boss. 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:40.600 Again, It's it's hard when you come in here expect 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:43.360 to win and you come up short. We just got 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:45.040 to put together a full team after both has and 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:46.360 weren't able to do that today. 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:52.400 I thought that your quarterbacks, he's a special obviously forty 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:54.520 year old guy eighteen years in the league to still 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:56.640 be competing the way he competes, he's obviously a special 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:57.720 guy in a lot of ways. 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:00.440 What did he give you today? Yeah, he gave us a. 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:02.640 Lot of confidence. I mean he made some big time throws, 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:06.960 tight windows, able to lead us on several scoring drives 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:10.320 there at the end of the half, potentially piggybacked into 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:12.760 the second half, got us in scoring zones on ever drive, 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:16.200 and I think that really lifted the team. Up and 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:19.120 again it's unfortunate. We're all looking for constellations or silver linings. 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:20.760 But the truth of it is he got here five 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.440 days ago and to play like that on the road, 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:27.560 silent cadence, all the noise, great pass rushers. You know, 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:29.320 that's something we're going to continue to piggyback on and 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:31.080 it'll pay dippendence for us. 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:33.920 Yeah, you just went through a good laundry list of 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:38.159 what he was facing. It is remarkable how well he 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:41.400 did play, to go on a scoring drive every drive 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:43.719 in the second half of this football game against that defense, 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:47.400 very solid unit. They have players everywhere and the fans 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:49.640 making all the noise that are making. You know, like 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:51.320 you said, I had to go silent. Snap count of 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:52.600 what does it say about him? 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:53.200 It says a lot. 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:55.520 I mean, he's he worked to put himself in that position. 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:58.320 He didn't come in here and assume he was gonna 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:00.520 know it all. He really worked and you could see 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:03.440 even the stuff behind the scenes, how much he had 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:05.120 to have done. Because when he walked into a meeting, 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:06.920 he walked into a huddle, he was prepared, He gave 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.280 the guest confidence, he said it all cleanly, and when 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:10.839 he got a quarterback that just walks in and says 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:12.880 that as clean as he does. It gives us guy's confidence, hope, 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:15.800 believe this guy knows what he's doing. And he showed that, 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:18.680 you know, and we'll continue to capitalize on that. 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:21.960 When did you as a coaching staff realize that, I mean, 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.560 obviously he's special, but when did you realize you had 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:26.400 something that was pretty darn unique to work with? 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:28.360 Well, I think you just watch him throw, you watch 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:30.640 him to the football. He's capable of doing it all. 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:34.200 And so again you get a chance to attack all 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:36.960 parts of the field. And I thought our protection for 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:39.320 the most part, did a good job giving him some opportunities. 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:40.760 He got the bottle of his hand what he needed 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:43.359 to avoid some some pressure looks. I mean, these people 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:45.080 have teed off on people now and put a lot 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:47.760 of pressure on quarterbacks, and I thought our redline give 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:49.560 him a chance to make the decisions he. 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:50.080 Needed to make. 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:55.039 Parsons Gary, no sacks, You have no turnovers, no interceptions, 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:57.320 no fumbles. This has a lot of come on the 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:59.080 road a place like this with the crowd, noise and 0:05:59.080 --> 0:05:59.839 everything you're dealing with. 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.800 Yeah, three penalties as well, you know, and I think 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:05.200 the field position. When you look at the field position 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:06.640 battle and reallys sess it, I don't think we did 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:09.440 well enough there. And then that's the key is you're 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:11.520 going to reflect back on how much of a difference 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:12.839 that might have made for us if we've done a 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:15.280 better job there. But we took care of the football. 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:17.760 We're always trying to be plus two in that battle. 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.040 So we only got one off of them three penalties. 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:21.800 So I thought our guys were disciplined on the road 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:25.800 in a tough environment. And so again there's things to 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:28.240 build on. But we don't expect to come in anywhere 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:31.040 and lose, and we're going to continue to find ways 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:34.279 to get in that winning calumn, build some confidence, build 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.279 some momentum. We're right in the think of the division 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:38.240 right now, with a perfect opportunity to ar right in 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:40.080 front of us this Thursday night against Pittsburgh. 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:41.360 No question about a coach. 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:45.839 Thanks for your time, appreciate everything you do for the city, 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:48.400 your team, and the fans. 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:51.520 Awesome thank you Zach after the game, and I think 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.080 Dave to me one of the big things in terms 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:57.520 of reasons for optimism, you could argue the three touchdowns 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:00.880 last week against Detroit. Detroit had the big they were 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:02.720 banged up in the secondary, they just wanted to get 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:04.920 out of there, and there were some garbage time touchdowns. 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.040 So that was debate of how real that really was. 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:08.920 Obviously the coaches didn't think it was real. From what 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:11.280 Jake was able to do this week in the second 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:14.480 half felt more real. That's seven the seventeen play drive, 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:17.480 the way that the fourth down conversions twice for touchdowns, 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:21.040 that felt real, tangible stuff that you could be carried 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:22.720 over going forward with the offense. 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.720 I agree. I agree with you. You know, there were a 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:28.080 lot of things to build on, a lot of things 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:31.720 that they that they did well. Obviously, you've got your 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.880 foundational players. They're not going to go away. We talked 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.680 about t the fans chanting tea. He made some big plays, 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:43.360 big catches. Jamar Chase was I thought spectacular in ten 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:46.760 catches ninety seven yards. I think it was in a touchdown. 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:51.040 He made some unbelievable catches. Some of those like, how 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:53.520 the hell do you do that? How did he do that? 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:57.920 So he's he's in my mind, the best in the league, 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:00.960 and he continues to play that way. I think the 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:06.240 frustration level in the locker room was palatable. A lot 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:08.920 of guys were, you know, man, this is not what 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:12.160 we expected. We thought we'd be off to a much 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.800 better start, you know, and win the first two games. 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:16.760 Zach Taylor had never done that before as a head 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:20.560 coach for the Cincinnati Bengals. But since then, it's sputtered 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:23.680 and stuttered. There's no question the motor is uh is 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:27.679 leaking oil and uh, it's it's it's just the performance again, 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:31.200 is just not consistent enough in all three phases. 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.720 I've never final thought. Before we hear from Joe Flack 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:37.200 on our next segment, I've never scripted an offensive game plan, 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:39.400 of course, but my suggestion would be to scrap the 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.000 Jets sweep on the first play of the game from 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:43.959 my from my game planning aner. 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:47.440 I mean, you know, when you think about it, all 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:49.840 the things they could have done with Joe Flacco, you know, 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:53.520 uh and and okay, let's get I think the biggest 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:55.600 problem they have is they got no running game, no 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:58.320 consistency in the in the running game. I mean that 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:01.680 that part of it is. I mean, it's the average 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:05.400 I think three point four per carry it. It was 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:10.760 atrocious and sixteen carries fifty five big yards three point 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:13.760 four per carry. Chase Brown had forty two of them. 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:16.720 Longest rush of the day thirteen yards. I mean they 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:18.720 couldn't get out of the wrong way in the running game, 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:22.000 and I think that is the thing that they need 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:24.640 to get corrected and corrected quickly. That warm has to 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:25.319 turn right. 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:28.080 Now we are up and running. We've got plenty to 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:30.800 get to over the course of these three hours. Up next, 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:34.320 we'll hear from Joe Cool Joe Flacco as we continue 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:36.680 on Bengals Line of the Bengals Radio Network and seven 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:43.480 hundred WLW. Back out on this Monday night of Bengals 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.480 Line on the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:49.600 im Lance Pacalister. He is Dave Lapham, sorting through yesterday 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:51.960 at lambeau Field, looking ahead to Thursday night at a 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:56.600 showdown against those Pittsburgh Steelers. Joe Flacco yesterday twenty nine 0:09:56.679 --> 0:10:00.400 of forty five, two hundred and nineteen yards, two touchdow down's, 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:04.000 no interceptions. He was sacked once. Quarterback rating of ninety 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:07.360 point nine. Here's the QB with Dave after the game. 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:12.160 Joe, I guess first, first question, I guess the simplest question, 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:13.839 how do you feel? How do you think you played? 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:14.320 Feel well? 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:16.840 I think I I think I settled in a little bit. 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:18.719 I think as an offense, we settled in a little bit, 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:20.599 probably sometime in the second quarter, and came out and 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:23.640 played a good second half. But yeah, it's always disappointing 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:24.960 when you come up short. 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:28.440 So you played them what three weeks ago? I guess 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:31.760 it was. Did you see anything different? Were they running 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:35.280 the same things or the same personnel grouping a little 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:35.960 on their stuff? 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:39.080 I think they obviously pay a little bit close. 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:41.160 Attention to our receivers, you know, so they find different 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:44.439 ways to do that, but ultimately they run their defense. 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.719 So when you say different ways to pay attention to 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:51.280 your receivers, different different coverages, different leverages. 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:52.520 Of the year, they were where they were making sure 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:55.200 seven was shading towards them at times, you know, things 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:55.520 like that. 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:59.960 So with this under your belt, I mean, I thought 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:04.040 you played hell of a football game considering the circumstances. 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:06.800 I've never seen this before. I've never seen anybody do 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:09.560 what you did. Do you have you ever heard of 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:10.720 anybody doing what you did? 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:12.880 Listen, I don't think there's anything in this league, that 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:15.360 hasn't necessarily that hasn't been done. So I'm sure there's 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:18.560 something out there similar to this, but yeah, but. 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.200 Not, but that's for sure. And I thought you played 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:23.000 at an exceptionally high level. I thought you played a 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:26.599 winning football I really do. No turnovers, no turnovers in 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:29.320 the football game, no interceptions, no fumbles lost. I think 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:29.959 that's huge. 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:32.600 When you do those things, you obviously give yourself a chance, 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:34.600 you know, come, you know, down the stretch. 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:36.439 And obviously they're a good football team. 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:38.200 And we didn't necessarily start the way we wanted to, 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:39.680 but I do think we were able to settle in 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.160 and let the game come to us, and and it 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:45.120 did in a way. You know, we were sitting there 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:48.120 twenty four eighteen, you know, and against the good football 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:52.480 team and starting the way we did that. That's this league. 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:56.080 It comes down to the last four minutes pretty much 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:57.760 every game you play in. And I think we gave 0:11:57.800 --> 0:11:59.200 ourselves a chance and we just weren't. 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:01.120 Able to do enough to to kind of get over. 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.960 The home parsons Gary. I think I they got some 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:06.760 relatious pass rushers on the edge and inside as well, 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:08.280 and you guys, you guys contained at all. 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:09.559 Yeah, I think we did a pretty good job. 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:12.400 Anytime you go against those guys, you know you're gonna 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:13.520 for a tough one, but you got to give it 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:16.040 the guys up front, and then not only the guys. 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:17.400 Up front give them, but you got to give it 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:18.520 to the tight. 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:20.320 Ends, the running backs for the way they were able 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.000 to help. I thought they did a great job. 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:24.440 Joe Flacco after the game at Davebead I told you 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:27.760 going in Joe in that much of a crash course 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:30.319 learning of the offense would would produce a game with 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.800 no turnovers and only be sacked one time. Everybody would 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:35.640 have signed up for that, no doubt, no doubt. 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:39.440 I mean those numbers, particularly the the no turnovers, I 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:41.920 mean not giving the football up one time, not not 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:45.800 throwing away possessions. Usually you win those football games and 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:48.480 you and you win them handily. And the Bengals didn't 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:51.400 get that done obviously, so I thought that part of it. 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:55.400 Joe Flacco is turnover adverse. I mean, there's no doubt 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:58.880 about that. He wants to make sure that he's not 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:03.600 reason his football team loses the football game. Although you 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:05.120 know all the fans will look at it and beyond 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.960 the quarterback stock. You know, everybody's stock. Blah blah blah. 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:11.480 Quarterback takes too much heat when things go poorly, and 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:14.120 maybe sometimes not enough credit when it goes well. But 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:17.679 he knows that he understands the game. He's been in 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:20.320 the game for a long time and he knows the 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:24.319 quarterback positions. A has a different cachet and people look 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:27.600 at it a lot differently. It's probably the most interesting 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:31.320 position in all of sports, the way gets credit and 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:33.360 blame and the way that that's handed out. 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:36.319 We were talking before the show. I was struck by 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:38.719 his comments Thursday with the media when he met for 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:41.360 the first time, and not the x's and O stuff, 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.640 but more just how reflective he is on where he 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:46.720 is in his life right now at forty and still 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:48.439 loving the game of football and wanting to play it 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:50.400 as long as he can and the rest of his 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:53.200 life will come when it comes. But they're just something 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:57.520 and in watching him, even in the pregame and during 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:01.360 the game yesterday, there's something very stoic and calm about him, 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:03.960 like icy, like what do you know that I don't know? 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:04.960 The way he's looking at you. 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:08.600 But that comes with that, with with forty years in 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:12.960 life and experience. There there's a common understanding of everything 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:15.000 compared to when you're twenty or twenty five. 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.960 Yeah, yeah, I think. I mean he's so stoic, you know, 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.440 he never changed his expression like we were talking about, 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:22.760 you know, off the air, and I think that that's 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.960 a good thing, honestly, you know. And he puts so 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:28.760 much into this football game studying. I mean, it was 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:32.760 unbelievable the number of hours that he was studying the 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.880 game plan and the playbook with his wife. I mean 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.240 even when they were driving down from Cleveland. You know, 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:41.040 they're in a car and they have a driver that 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:45.200 the Bengals provided and another driver drove their car to Cincinnati. 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:48.360 But I mean he's he's studying, and she's grilling them. 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:49.760 She's asking him questions, and. 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:51.720 She's giving him a play and he's reciting. 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.160 And for you know, give me the formation. I'll give 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.080 you the play, and give me the play and I'll 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:00.360 give you the formation and any attachments to it motion, 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:05.520 anything that goes on there. So I mean it's the family. 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:09.560 The Flacco family committed themselves to trying to make the 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:13.960 first start that Joe Flacco had as a Cincinnati Bengals 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.960 successful one, and I think if the defense and special 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:18.560 teams had held up a little bit better, I think 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:20.280 Joe Flacco would have had a win in Game one. 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:23.560 Yeah, of all the things we talked about going in, 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:27.080 you had you been told no turnovers, only one sack, 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:29.560 you would have taken it. Had somebody said, going in 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:33.280 on a short week, learning the offense, learning his teammates' names, 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:35.240 Joe Flacco is going to be asked to throw it 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:37.400 forty five times, I would have said, well, there's no 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:39.720 way you don't ask him to do that. Drops back 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:41.040 forty six times. 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:44.960 On the day. Unbelievable, twenty nine completions, forty five attempts, 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:48.720 two hundred and nineteen yards, two touchdowns, no picks, Like 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.960 you said, quarterback rating of over ninety ninety point nine, 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:56.240 almost ninety one. The thing is, only sixteen times they 0:15:56.320 --> 0:16:00.360 rushed the football. Chase Brown's the leading ball carrier, nine 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:02.960 rush attempts. They didn't have a ball carry that carried 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:05.720 it double digits in terms of attempts. You know, I mean, 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:08.080 that's that's just not gonna get it done. That's not 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:10.520 gonna cut it, that's not gonna You're not probing enough. 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:13.040 You're not finding out, you know, soft spots in the 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:15.800 defense that you might be able to take advantage of. 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:20.160 Chase Brown average four point seven per lug and along 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:24.520 of thirteen excuse me, thirteen yards. But I mean, like 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:29.119 I was saying, sixteen runs forty five passes. That's an imbalance. 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:32.760 You know, any any game that Joe Flacco's playing in, 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:35.400 if he has to go back, drop back, in the pocket, 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:37.960 and he is a pocket passer, he's not a mobile guy. 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:40.440 He'll be the first to amit that. And particularly at 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:42.520 forty years old. You know, he wasn't mobile when he 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:45.720 was twenty five. At forty years old, he's definitely not mobile. 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:49.000 So to make him throw the football forty five times 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:52.560 in his first game with the team on the road 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:56.960 at Lambeau, that is historic and just the fan base 0:16:57.040 --> 0:17:00.720 is going nuts. I mean, that's a tough task, order man. 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:04.000 I also liked final thought. There were times where it 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:06.159 was obvious he knew the play was going nowhere, and 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:08.639 rather than try to create something and maybe make a mistake, 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:11.040 throw it away, throw it away, throw it in the ground. 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:12.960 Just move on to the next play. That one's not working. 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:15.520 Let's just move to the next one. And that's something 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:18.560 that with the experience. It comes along with the experience. 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:21.200 Absolutely, you know, experience tells him that you don't put 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:23.840 the ball on jeopardy. He's had good coaching, I think 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:25.720 in that regard, probably maybe all the way back to 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.600 high school, high school, college and in the NFL. It's like, 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:32.880 you know, do not give them extra possessions. Don't take 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:35.440 possessions away from us and give them to the opposition. 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:36.400 That's a no no. 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:38.760 We're rolling on this Monday night. We'll go to the 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:42.160 offensive line next here from Orlando Brown on Bengals Line 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:46.439 of the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. We 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:49.000 keep rolling along on this Monday night of Bengals Line. 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:50.960 We do it on the Bengals Radio Network in seven 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:51.960 hundred WLW. 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:54.879 I'm Lance Pactalist. You're doing it with Dave Lepham and 0:17:54.960 --> 0:18:01.400 Lance Kettering. Health the injury report and always hate doing injuries, man. 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:03.760 You don't like talking about guys that got hurt during 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.040 the course of the football game, particularly if they're gonna 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:07.480 be out for an extended period of time. But it 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:10.680 doesn't seem like other than GASICKI, who you know, had 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:15.000 that pectoral injury. Those can be tricky. You know, there's 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:19.000 a big pectoral muscle and then minor muscles that support 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:22.399 that bigger muscle. So depending on what muscle it was, 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:25.520 which one, how serious the injury is. And you know 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:29.840 when they say a polled pectoral, that's by definition of 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.600 bullet is for a second third degree tear. Hopefully it's 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:35.479 not torn, but if there's a depending on the degree 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:38.119 of the of the muscle pull, you know, it might 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:40.280 be a little bit of time. Particularly with the receiver. 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:42.440 You know, it's like we get the hands up over 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:45.560 the head and catch the football periodically and not hopefully 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:48.720 not all the time. But and that injury report, I 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:52.000 think everybody else most hands on deck. The offensive line 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:54.359 was beating up a little bit going into this football game, 0:18:54.400 --> 0:19:00.320 and hopefully they're gonna lick their wounds collectively. And more 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:03.800 people on the football field and more options for the 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:07.760 offensive line coach and head coach to consider and contemplate. 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:10.680 And it's all presented by Kettering Health, the official healthcare 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:13.679 provider of the Cincinnati Bengals, providing the best care for 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:14.399 the best fans. 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:17.399 Wow, we're speaking offensive line. Let's go up front. Here's 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:19.399 Dan with Orlando Brown Junior. 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:21.520 What did Joe show you in the second half? 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:24.240 Oh, man, I mean just who he's been for the 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:26.800 last eighteen years. A tough player that's going to stay. 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:29.880 Of course, you know that's who he is. And and 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:32.480 you know, he just got here a week ago, you know, 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:35.439 I mean barely that, I guess, and it's able to 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:36.800 come out here and call the game like he did 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:38.960 and show up when we needed a most I mean 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:40.280 pass off to him. 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:43.600 It looked like his comfort level grew as the game 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:45.320 went along. Was it like that in the huddle? 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:45.800 Yeah? 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:48.359 Absolutely, And you know, to be honest, I feel like 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:51.280 he was comfortable early, just just getting settled down and 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:52.680 being himself. 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:54.280 And you know, as he gets more. 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:57.920 Time with you know, coach Pitch and coach Taylor, I mean, 0:19:58.160 --> 0:19:58.880 sky's the limit. 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:01.760 The way they I performed in the second half. Does 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:04.720 it give you growing confidence that going home for three 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:06.480 straight home games, you guys can go on a run? 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:08.480 Yeah? Yeah, no, man, I mean we're close. 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:11.000 We're not close enough who we are close, And you know, 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:12.840 we got to figure out a way as a team 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:16.520 to finish, to start faster and be a more effective 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:18.880 early man and a lot of these games that we've 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:21.160 been in. It won't be dogfights in the fourth quarter. 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:22.879 We'll be playing four minute offense. 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:25.320 Is there something you can put your finger on for 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:28.359 the first half and why the first half struggles have happened? 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:30.520 Uh, to watch the film, But you know it always 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:31.920 comes down to finish an execution. 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:34.800 Man. You know it's on us as players to do that. 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:40.159 Jamar Chase ten catches an incredible touchdown catch. At the 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:42.400 end of the game. T had five catches as well. 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:44.840 It looked like Joe did a great job of saying, 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:46.560 all right, we've got two of the best in the league, 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:47.360 let's get him the ball. 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:48.240 Oh yeah, for sure. 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:50.680 And I mean honestly, if I was at quarterback, I'll 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:51.520 take the same approach. 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:54.480 So all right, what are your feelings with a quick 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:56.639 turnaround and a huge game coming up against the division 0:20:56.720 --> 0:20:57.520 rival on Thursday? 0:20:57.640 --> 0:20:59.760 Excited to be home, you know what I mean? So 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:02.280 you got a divisional opponent, let's take care of biness. 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:03.000 Appreciate it. 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:06.560 Thanks Rolando Orlando Brown Junior. After the game, Dave, is 0:21:06.560 --> 0:21:09.000 it fair to say, based on what you saw first 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:12.119 half into the second half? Did the does the arrow 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:14.280 point up for how the offensive line kind of came 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:16.880 along with Joe Flacco and was better in the second half. 0:21:17.200 --> 0:21:19.399 I think so, I think so Lance, you know, and 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:22.399 people are like, oh, yeah, come on, you know, you're 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:24.920 looking for excuses, You're you know, you're getting too picky 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:30.160 you in here. But familiarity with his cadence, with how 0:21:30.200 --> 0:21:34.359 he identifies players or in opposition players I'm talking about 0:21:34.840 --> 0:21:39.800 with respect to fronts, how they're aligned, any adjustments that 0:21:39.840 --> 0:21:43.040 they might make in that alignment. And then also, you know, 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:45.800 learning the language. I mean, you know, you can't if 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:49.320 in fact, he does stumble on something from a formational 0:21:49.320 --> 0:21:51.760 standpoint and calls it something else, because where. 0:21:51.560 --> 0:21:54.920 He's been replacing, everybody's looking like, yeah, what play is that? 0:21:55.000 --> 0:21:58.000 Yeah, it's like, don't don't you know, don't get your 0:21:58.000 --> 0:22:00.960 panties in a bunch of man, you know, don't you know, 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:03.680 don't don't get all wang chunged about it, because it'll 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:06.520 it'll work itself out. And like I said, I thought, 0:22:06.640 --> 0:22:09.360 I thought he was not their biggest problem by far. 0:22:09.480 --> 0:22:12.200 I thought the offensive line in fact, was a bigger 0:22:12.240 --> 0:22:15.359 problem for him and for the outcome of the football game. 0:22:15.840 --> 0:22:18.000 Uh than than uh than Joe Flacco's play. 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:22.040 We talked last week about the offensive line and cohesiveness 0:22:22.040 --> 0:22:25.200 and playing together, and in another shuffle this week, Dylan 0:22:25.200 --> 0:22:27.119 Fairchild is out, so Reisner has to go over to 0:22:27.160 --> 0:22:30.760 the left side, and there's just that's that's a real thing. 0:22:30.840 --> 0:22:33.600 That's just the reality of when the pieces are moving around, 0:22:34.080 --> 0:22:36.040 it's tough to get settled in use. 0:22:36.000 --> 0:22:38.679 To everything exactly. I mean getting used to is a 0:22:38.680 --> 0:22:40.359 good term. And you know, you get used to the 0:22:40.359 --> 0:22:44.160 guy next to you. And you know, when you when 0:22:44.240 --> 0:22:46.680 you played next to a guy for a long period 0:22:46.760 --> 0:22:49.960 of time, a year or multiple years, uh, you know, 0:22:50.000 --> 0:22:51.600 it's like rolling out of bed in the morning. You 0:22:51.600 --> 0:22:54.480 know exactly what to expect. You know, it's like you 0:22:54.800 --> 0:22:58.560 go through the same routine and your practice preparations the 0:22:58.600 --> 0:23:01.560 same on a week to week up based and you 0:23:01.600 --> 0:23:05.200 know there's no uh, no monkey wrenches as such. They're 0:23:05.240 --> 0:23:08.000 still in the infancy stages of getting to know each 0:23:08.040 --> 0:23:11.280 other in terms of, uh play on the football field 0:23:11.680 --> 0:23:15.200 and individually, I mean the kind of people they are, 0:23:15.240 --> 0:23:17.080 the kind of guys they are. Who likes what, who 0:23:17.160 --> 0:23:20.560 doesn't like what? Who likes to make a call in 0:23:20.600 --> 0:23:23.280 a critical situation? What does he usually what's his go 0:23:23.320 --> 0:23:26.040 to call, what does he like to stay away from 0:23:26.040 --> 0:23:28.840 in those instances as well. So there's a lot to learn, 0:23:29.320 --> 0:23:31.760 and uh, there's a lot of cohesion that has to 0:23:31.800 --> 0:23:33.960 go on up front, and they're in the process of 0:23:34.000 --> 0:23:34.800 trying to get that done. 0:23:35.080 --> 0:23:37.320 I think you brought up a great point earlier in 0:23:37.320 --> 0:23:41.040 this segment that is probably not talked about or understood enough, 0:23:41.040 --> 0:23:44.359 and that's the difference in cadence, Kenny Anderson's cadence to 0:23:44.440 --> 0:23:47.639 Turk Schoeder to Buby's sias and there there is something 0:23:47.640 --> 0:23:50.000 to that. It's just not calling the play there. There's 0:23:50.080 --> 0:23:52.920 inflection there. I mean, that's that's a thing exactly. 0:23:53.080 --> 0:23:57.119 Voice inflection pauses, you know, just even the sound of 0:23:57.160 --> 0:23:59.560 the voice. Yeah, you're used to hearing something for a 0:23:59.600 --> 0:24:01.680 long perioderiod of time, and what's that you know, that's 0:24:01.720 --> 0:24:04.520 a little bit different. And then for Joe have to 0:24:04.720 --> 0:24:07.200 again we're talking about a lot of times the same 0:24:07.600 --> 0:24:11.480 the same point, but Lambeau to have to go up there. Yeah, 0:24:11.600 --> 0:24:15.320 your first game with all new players, new coaches, knew everything, 0:24:15.720 --> 0:24:18.800 and you're in Lambeau having to communicate. That's one of 0:24:18.800 --> 0:24:22.840 the tougher places to communicate in all of football, high school, college, 0:24:22.920 --> 0:24:26.280 or the National Football League. So Joe Flacco had himself 0:24:26.359 --> 0:24:28.720 some serious challenges yesterday for sure. 0:24:28.880 --> 0:24:32.440 You know, Micah Parsons was a big storyline going into 0:24:32.440 --> 0:24:34.399 the game. He wound up with three tackles. He's not 0:24:34.560 --> 0:24:36.760 registered as a as a quarterback hit or certainly a 0:24:36.880 --> 0:24:40.639 sack in the game book. But I think his his 0:24:40.800 --> 0:24:43.800 he made his presence felt. But he certainly didn't dominate, 0:24:43.880 --> 0:24:45.200 takeover or wreck the game. 0:24:45.280 --> 0:24:48.600 Yes, exactly exactly. And you know the two things that 0:24:48.640 --> 0:24:50.959 you hit on. He didn't take the game over. It 0:24:51.040 --> 0:24:55.280 wasn't like oh Man, Parsons again at him pretty well, 0:24:56.320 --> 0:24:59.080 and you know, tried to get him to anchor himself 0:24:59.119 --> 0:25:02.320 a little bit if you could. That's I think that's 0:25:02.320 --> 0:25:05.320 the key to success against him or any great pass rusher. 0:25:05.359 --> 0:25:07.520 If you show you can run the ball right at 0:25:07.600 --> 0:25:11.480 him and make him concern himself with that, everything else 0:25:11.480 --> 0:25:12.840 falls into place quite easily. 0:25:12.920 --> 0:25:15.800 Let's talk some defense when we come back. DJ Turner, 0:25:15.920 --> 0:25:18.719 nice game, the DJ Turner game yesterday. More on that 0:25:19.000 --> 0:25:21.120 you'll hear from him as we continue. It's Bengals Line 0:25:21.119 --> 0:25:29.120 of the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. Hey 0:25:29.160 --> 0:25:31.879 we continue on this Monday night talking everything there is 0:25:31.920 --> 0:25:34.120 to talk about related to the Bengals from yesterday against 0:25:34.160 --> 0:25:36.800 the Packers the Thursday night against those Pittsburgh Steelers. The 0:25:36.880 --> 0:25:39.280 show is Bengals Line of the Bengals Radio Network. Thanks 0:25:39.280 --> 0:25:41.159 for hanging out with us tonight. We've talked to offense. 0:25:41.240 --> 0:25:43.200 Let's get back on the other side of the defensive 0:25:43.680 --> 0:25:45.520 side of things for the Bengals yesterday. And what a 0:25:45.600 --> 0:25:49.359 performance by DJ Turner. I think five pass breakups. Officially 0:25:49.920 --> 0:25:53.200 the credit to DJ Turner here is Dan Horde with. 0:25:53.240 --> 0:25:57.640 Dj DJ five passes deflected today, including one that turned 0:25:57.680 --> 0:26:00.440 into an interception. What'd you think of your performs? 0:26:01.760 --> 0:26:03.879 I think that had a good game. It was a 0:26:04.080 --> 0:26:06.440 good game, all right. 0:26:06.800 --> 0:26:10.280 Joe Flacco in his first game in a Bengals uniform, 0:26:10.440 --> 0:26:12.600 seemed like he got more and more comfortable as the 0:26:12.600 --> 0:26:13.280 game went along. 0:26:13.359 --> 0:26:16.720 Did you sense that, No, for sure, he definitely second half, 0:26:16.800 --> 0:26:19.399 definitely got comfortable, gone to a groove, and you know 0:26:19.560 --> 0:26:21.000 it was noticeable for everybody. 0:26:21.400 --> 0:26:23.359 Poor feeling. Does that give you, guys in terms of 0:26:23.560 --> 0:26:25.399 confidence with Joe quarterback going forward? 0:26:25.480 --> 0:26:25.640 Oh? 0:26:25.640 --> 0:26:25.920 Great? 0:26:26.000 --> 0:26:28.600 Like I said, we know we lost, but it's okay. 0:26:28.640 --> 0:26:31.560 You know, we want to stay together, keep building, keep stacking, 0:26:31.800 --> 0:26:34.199 and you know, the offense, they build up momentum going 0:26:34.240 --> 0:26:34.640 to the week. 0:26:34.680 --> 0:26:37.520 So you're not so good that defensive performance today. It 0:26:37.640 --> 0:26:40.680 seemed like he got them into some long third downs 0:26:40.960 --> 0:26:43.439 and they would make a few backbreaking plays. Is that 0:26:43.560 --> 0:26:45.640 Is that really what kind of hurts from a defensive 0:26:45.800 --> 0:26:46.600 perspective today? 0:26:46.960 --> 0:26:47.080 Uh? 0:26:47.160 --> 0:26:49.240 Yeah, we gotta go up to the field, you know. 0:26:49.320 --> 0:26:51.199 But like I said, we want to keep on stacking 0:26:51.720 --> 0:26:52.800 and you know, stay together. 0:26:52.880 --> 0:26:54.960 That's what we're gonna do. And you know, but like 0:26:55.000 --> 0:26:57.200 I said, it is definitely we gotta go out the field. 0:26:57.800 --> 0:27:00.119 Kept a big game on Thursday against the Steelers, and 0:27:00.160 --> 0:27:03.480 it's the start of a three game Homestand is this 0:27:03.560 --> 0:27:05.359 the opportunity to get right back into the hunt. 0:27:05.520 --> 0:27:08.480 Not for sure, definitely looking forward to it. For the 0:27:08.480 --> 0:27:10.160 most part, we got out healthy, so that's a good thing. 0:27:10.240 --> 0:27:13.159 And you know, yeah, I'm going to go back to 0:27:13.160 --> 0:27:16.320 where I started with your performance. Did you feel like 0:27:16.359 --> 0:27:18.120 it was one of your better games? I mean, five 0:27:18.160 --> 0:27:20.359 pass deflections in a game don't happen very often. 0:27:21.200 --> 0:27:23.280 Yeah, I mean, as made the play as I came 0:27:23.359 --> 0:27:23.679 to me. 0:27:24.000 --> 0:27:26.639 That's really the biggest thing I had this week or 0:27:26.720 --> 0:27:28.720 this game was whenever I had episode, I just made 0:27:29.280 --> 0:27:29.840 to play on it. 0:27:30.080 --> 0:27:31.280 I appreciate your time, Thank you. 0:27:32.160 --> 0:27:32.560 It was. 0:27:32.920 --> 0:27:35.200 It was a career day for DJ Turner, and you 0:27:35.280 --> 0:27:39.040 gotta love Dave the fact that he's twenty four years old. 0:27:39.080 --> 0:27:41.399 He's a third year here. If this defense is going 0:27:41.440 --> 0:27:44.560 to get where it wants to go, it needs young 0:27:44.600 --> 0:27:46.719 guys to continue to develop and make plays. 0:27:46.720 --> 0:27:48.520 And that was a big day from DJ Turner. It 0:27:48.560 --> 0:27:50.840 really was. I mean, when you think about it, last 0:27:50.920 --> 0:27:53.399 getting your hand on the football five times, I mean 0:27:53.760 --> 0:27:57.199 breaking passes up. You know a lot of times interceptions 0:27:57.240 --> 0:27:59.720 come on tips. Geno Stones interception came on a chip, 0:28:00.240 --> 0:28:02.359 and you know, and when the ball is you know, 0:28:02.440 --> 0:28:07.119 airborne and fluttering around, it's anybody's football. So Al Golden, 0:28:07.240 --> 0:28:10.240 I'm sure was pleased as punch with the game the 0:28:10.320 --> 0:28:13.679 DJ Turner turned in for him, There's no question about it. 0:28:13.880 --> 0:28:17.359 And he wants more of that. He wants even more 0:28:17.560 --> 0:28:20.960 than he got from the DJ Turner and others. And 0:28:21.560 --> 0:28:24.640 I think the offensive line had trouble establishing the running game, 0:28:24.880 --> 0:28:27.679 and I thought the defensive line had some difficulties stopping 0:28:27.720 --> 0:28:31.240 the run. I mean, the Green Bay Packers thirty three 0:28:31.600 --> 0:28:34.400 times they ran the football, are you kidding? Thirty three 0:28:34.400 --> 0:28:36.720 times one hundred and fifty three yards four point six 0:28:36.800 --> 0:28:39.560 per They rushed for two touchdowns, both of them were 0:28:39.640 --> 0:28:43.600 courtesy of Josh Jacobs. Eighteen rushes ninety three yards. I 0:28:43.640 --> 0:28:45.960 mean he came within a carry of one hundred yard 0:28:46.040 --> 0:28:51.520 day over five yards per sixteen long. I mean, if 0:28:51.520 --> 0:28:54.320 the Bengals don't get better upfront in terms of running 0:28:54.360 --> 0:28:56.600 the football and stopping the run, it's going to be 0:28:56.680 --> 0:28:59.160 a long, long year. 0:28:59.520 --> 0:29:02.600 And to those rush attempts by the Packers and it holds. 0:29:02.680 --> 0:29:04.760 It was basically in line with their season. We talked 0:29:04.800 --> 0:29:07.000 about it last week. They run at thirty three, they 0:29:07.000 --> 0:29:09.560 threw it twenty six going into the game. It was 0:29:09.720 --> 0:29:13.960 right about exactly even passes and rushes. Last year, for 0:29:14.000 --> 0:29:16.360 the first time in twenty two years, they ran it 0:29:16.400 --> 0:29:18.760 more than they passed it. That's just what Matt Lafleur 0:29:18.840 --> 0:29:22.240 has settled on with asking Jordan Loved to do this 0:29:22.440 --> 0:29:24.320 and asking the running game to do this, and you 0:29:24.360 --> 0:29:26.800 put it on the scale and it's it's pretty much balanced. 0:29:26.880 --> 0:29:29.360 Yeah. Matt Lafleur, even though he's a younger coach, he's 0:29:29.400 --> 0:29:32.800 old school man. He believes in having a balanced attack, 0:29:33.280 --> 0:29:35.960 you know, running the football. Yeah, in his mind it's 0:29:36.000 --> 0:29:38.760 a fifty to fifty proposition. You run the ball half 0:29:38.760 --> 0:29:40.600 the time you throw the ball the other half. You know, 0:29:41.160 --> 0:29:44.840 in the running game. In his mindset, when he does 0:29:44.960 --> 0:29:48.360 game planning takes priority because he likes to run the ball. 0:29:48.400 --> 0:29:52.200 In his passing game, he likes play action pass. So 0:29:52.840 --> 0:29:56.640 you can't play action pass. It's useless to you know, 0:29:56.720 --> 0:29:59.520 fake a run to a running back when you haven't 0:29:59.600 --> 0:30:03.360 gotten anything established. I mean, nobody respects it. Everybody's dropping 0:30:03.400 --> 0:30:06.400 back in the coverage right away, so they, you know, 0:30:06.520 --> 0:30:09.720 Lafleur knows for his offense to click, he's got to 0:30:09.720 --> 0:30:10.760 get that running game going. 0:30:10.800 --> 0:30:13.360 First, take a time out, head down the stretch. We 0:30:13.400 --> 0:30:17.000 are cruising through our first hour, first of three tonight. 0:30:17.040 --> 0:30:17.920 Thanks for being with us. 0:30:17.920 --> 0:30:20.920 It's Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network in seven 0:30:21.000 --> 0:30:28.920 hundred WLW. All right, and down the stretch. About to 0:30:28.920 --> 0:30:31.040 put our number one in the books. Tonight, We've got 0:30:31.120 --> 0:30:34.720 three big hours to unfold, talking Bengals. What happened yesterday 0:30:34.760 --> 0:30:37.080 at Lambeau, What could happen Thursday night at pay Corps 0:30:37.280 --> 0:30:40.200 when the Bengals take on those Pittsburgh Steelers. It's Bengals 0:30:40.280 --> 0:30:43.320 line on the Bengals Radio Network Liance Bacallister, Dave Lapham, 0:30:43.440 --> 0:30:46.040 Dave Let's circle back around to the defense. And one 0:30:46.080 --> 0:30:48.560 injury to keep an eye on on that side of 0:30:48.560 --> 0:30:51.360 the ball is Trey Hendrickson goes out in with the 0:30:51.680 --> 0:30:54.560 back injury. We don't see him for the second half. 0:30:55.160 --> 0:30:58.160 And you know, Trey, he may get dinged and leaf 0:30:58.240 --> 0:31:00.560 for a play, but Trey goes back in like mad man. 0:31:00.920 --> 0:31:04.080 The fact he didn't for the entire second half leaves 0:31:04.080 --> 0:31:06.080 me a little bit concerned with a back for a 0:31:06.120 --> 0:31:07.720 quick turnaround on Thursday night. 0:31:07.880 --> 0:31:11.239 Yeah, and back injuries they can be dicey man, I 0:31:11.240 --> 0:31:14.240 mean they really can. It's like, all right, well, is 0:31:14.280 --> 0:31:18.520 it a spinal column issue? Is it vertebrae? What do 0:31:18.560 --> 0:31:22.240 we have going here? You know? And for him to, 0:31:22.880 --> 0:31:26.880 like you said, in a very important football game, for 0:31:26.960 --> 0:31:30.280 him to miss the whole second half, that's significant. And 0:31:31.360 --> 0:31:35.320 he looked like he was flying back okay, fairly comfortably. 0:31:35.760 --> 0:31:38.880 Didn't look like he had any any issues going on 0:31:38.960 --> 0:31:41.800 there in terms of like a brace or a heating 0:31:41.880 --> 0:31:45.720 pad and that type of that type of paraphernalia that 0:31:45.720 --> 0:31:47.520 that you're gonna have to deal with if you do 0:31:47.680 --> 0:31:51.640 have a serious back injury. But again, back injury you 0:31:51.680 --> 0:31:54.440 just don't mess with. You make sure if he does 0:31:54.520 --> 0:31:57.320 have to take a week'd be painful. You know, I 0:31:57.400 --> 0:32:01.200 know he probably definitely wants to play again to Pittsburgh Steelers, 0:32:01.200 --> 0:32:04.800 a big division rival, and uh, he loves sacking the 0:32:04.840 --> 0:32:07.960 quarterback against the Pittsburgh Steelers and Mike Tomlin. There's no 0:32:08.080 --> 0:32:11.160 question about that. And like we were talking about on 0:32:11.320 --> 0:32:13.320 the air and off the year, he is playing the 0:32:13.440 --> 0:32:15.160 run one thousand better. 0:32:15.360 --> 0:32:17.360 I mean, there's no plasure and you know that what 0:32:17.440 --> 0:32:20.320 of the knocks against him this offseason? When the debate 0:32:20.400 --> 0:32:23.440 was do the Bengals pay trade to let go? Some argued, al, 0:32:23.520 --> 0:32:27.000 he's two one dimensional. If you look he's even going 0:32:27.040 --> 0:32:29.240 back to last year, he's become much better and much 0:32:29.240 --> 0:32:30.800 more well rounded as a player. 0:32:30.840 --> 0:32:33.520 For past stand I agree, he's a complete football player, 0:32:33.560 --> 0:32:35.720 you know. I mean he gives you, He gives you 0:32:35.800 --> 0:32:39.760 a production and tremendous effort in both areas against the 0:32:39.800 --> 0:32:43.800 pass and the run, and coaches very much appreciate that. 0:32:43.920 --> 0:32:45.920 You know, if they know on a weekly basis, a 0:32:46.080 --> 0:32:48.360 week in and week out, that this guy's gonna be 0:32:48.400 --> 0:32:50.120 son Wood and he's going to be doing this and 0:32:50.560 --> 0:32:54.600 he's gonna take pride in his profession, which there's no 0:32:54.680 --> 0:32:56.880 doubt that Trey Henderson does that. I mean, he's an 0:32:56.960 --> 0:33:02.960 extremely prideful football player. And so you know, I think 0:33:03.440 --> 0:33:06.240 I think he'll be back sooner rather than later. 0:33:06.840 --> 0:33:10.640 The big boost would come with whether Trake returns or not. 0:33:10.800 --> 0:33:13.360 If they could get Shamar Stewart back on Thursday night, 0:33:13.400 --> 0:33:15.760 and I think it's been four weeks now with the 0:33:15.800 --> 0:33:19.400 ankle to get him back and and then ask more 0:33:19.440 --> 0:33:22.160 of Miles Murphy, whether trades they or not. They need 0:33:22.400 --> 0:33:24.720 they need more from Murphy and they could really use 0:33:24.720 --> 0:33:26.360 Shamar Stewart back absolutely. 0:33:26.480 --> 0:33:30.400 I mean they need more productivity from the group. You know, 0:33:31.280 --> 0:33:35.040 a synergistic effect one plus one equals three. You know, 0:33:35.640 --> 0:33:38.240 had another one at equals five instead of four. You know, 0:33:38.280 --> 0:33:43.680 it's like Shamar Stewart that that. You know, ankle issues 0:33:43.680 --> 0:33:47.480 and foot issues can be hugely problematic. I mean it's 0:33:47.520 --> 0:33:50.680 like you get a big body and gravity's taken all 0:33:50.680 --> 0:33:53.360 that weight you know, down to the to the ankle 0:33:53.400 --> 0:33:57.840 and feet, and uh, sometimes it doesn't want to cooperate. 0:33:57.920 --> 0:33:59.680 You know, it's it's like when you know, what do 0:33:59.720 --> 0:34:03.280 you what do you doing to me? So hopefully he's 0:34:03.320 --> 0:34:06.840 been real good about his therapy, his treatments and all that, 0:34:07.920 --> 0:34:11.240 starting to practice, started to do some things on the field. 0:34:11.640 --> 0:34:14.040 Hopefully that that graft continues to go up. 0:34:14.080 --> 0:34:15.920 You know, while we're talking injuries, and you mentioned Mike 0:34:16.040 --> 0:34:19.880 Sicky in the last segment, while he was injured, Tanner 0:34:19.920 --> 0:34:23.160 Hudson took advantage of an opportunity yesterday really nice gave 0:34:23.160 --> 0:34:25.160 He had four his first four catches of the season 0:34:25.200 --> 0:34:28.600 on five targets. And when I saw four on five targets, 0:34:28.640 --> 0:34:30.680 I remember back to last year. It seemed like every 0:34:30.719 --> 0:34:32.960 single time they threw it to Tanner Hudson, he caught it. 0:34:33.000 --> 0:34:34.840 And I looked it up and they threw it to 0:34:34.920 --> 0:34:37.880 him twenty three times last year he caught it nineteen. 0:34:38.440 --> 0:34:41.720 He's a guy you can count on who hasn't really 0:34:41.880 --> 0:34:44.960 he's been more flying around on the periphery and entered 0:34:44.960 --> 0:34:45.320 the picture. 0:34:45.440 --> 0:34:47.799 Yesterday he did. He had a touchdown catch, you know, 0:34:47.920 --> 0:34:52.200 and yeah, he's one of those guys that he didn't 0:34:52.239 --> 0:34:56.000 have huge production in terms of yards. Four catches for 0:34:57.160 --> 0:34:59.879 ten yards, so you know nothing right home about there. 0:35:00.320 --> 0:35:02.680 Eight of them came on on one reception, so he 0:35:02.719 --> 0:35:06.240 had a bunch of you know, little conversions third down conversion, 0:35:06.239 --> 0:35:08.160 third and one get him. The football move to change 0:35:08.160 --> 0:35:14.319 one touchdown catch was short yardage variety. Uh and so. 0:35:15.239 --> 0:35:18.160 But the thing, the thing that all quarterbacks love about him. 0:35:18.239 --> 0:35:21.439 Joe Burrow has talked about it to me more than once, 0:35:22.000 --> 0:35:25.240 and I think Joe Flacco after the game was talking 0:35:25.280 --> 0:35:27.759 about it as well, that he is exactly where he's 0:35:27.760 --> 0:35:29.799 supposed to be when he's supposed to be there. He 0:35:29.920 --> 0:35:32.240 is one of the most reliable guys in that regard 0:35:32.280 --> 0:35:35.760 on the football team. And quarterbacks, believe me, they love 0:35:36.120 --> 0:35:36.879 that big time. 0:35:37.600 --> 0:35:42.120 The defensive line back to talking about Trey Hendrickson and 0:35:42.400 --> 0:35:46.080 Miles Murphy and Shamar Stewart, there were just that there 0:35:46.120 --> 0:35:50.560 were moments where a mistackle or a leak through it 0:35:50.760 --> 0:35:55.040 just opened up the damn and it just you just 0:35:54.880 --> 0:35:57.080 you just needed that to be more. 0:35:56.840 --> 0:35:59.319 Than it than it was yesterday. That's that was a 0:35:59.400 --> 0:36:02.360 topic of conversation on the flight home. The miss tackles. 0:36:02.480 --> 0:36:03.760 I mean, there was a lot of buzz. 0:36:03.880 --> 0:36:05.520 Man, I can't imagine what the number is going to 0:36:05.560 --> 0:36:07.359 be when it comes to do it, I was gonna say, 0:36:07.360 --> 0:36:07.920 it's gotta be double. 0:36:07.960 --> 0:36:10.920 Do I agree with you? I mean, and uh, the 0:36:10.960 --> 0:36:13.680 players were talking about it amongst themselves. The coaches or 0:36:13.760 --> 0:36:16.719 defensive coaches were talking about it. The players and defensive 0:36:16.719 --> 0:36:19.759 coaches were we're talking about it, and uh, you know 0:36:19.920 --> 0:36:23.440 when they when they basically were handing out the computers, 0:36:23.440 --> 0:36:25.920 you know, to watch the video of the of the 0:36:25.920 --> 0:36:28.520 game that that was. That was a big topic of conversation. 0:36:28.600 --> 0:36:31.080 That was one of the most uh, one of their 0:36:31.120 --> 0:36:33.720 poor tackling performances of the season for sure. 0:36:34.000 --> 0:36:38.360 One hour done to our next the second hour headlined 0:36:38.400 --> 0:36:41.160 by Jimar Chase. We'll also hear from Evan McPherson and 0:36:41.320 --> 0:36:43.440 so much more. Thanks for being with us tonight. It's 0:36:43.480 --> 0:36:46.960 Bengals Line of the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. 0:36:48.400 --> 0:36:51.400 This is Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network. 0:36:51.640 --> 0:36:53.680 Pay Corps. Pay Corps pro to. 0:36:53.640 --> 0:36:57.239 Be the official HR software provider of the Cincinnati Bengals, 0:36:57.520 --> 0:37:01.160 Cantering out Best Care for the Best fan kettering Out 0:37:01.320 --> 0:37:05.480 official healthcare provider of us Cincinnati Bengals. This is seven 0:37:05.560 --> 0:37:09.600 hundred WLW, the home of the best Bengals coverage. 0:37:10.440 --> 0:37:12.680 Hey, welcome back to Bengals Line on this Monday night 0:37:12.719 --> 0:37:15.560 on the Bengals Radio Network in seven hundred WLW. I'm 0:37:15.640 --> 0:37:17.280 Lance Pacallister. He's Dave Blapham. 0:37:17.360 --> 0:37:19.600 Dave. Let's start this drive with a car. Let's do 0:37:19.640 --> 0:37:22.280 it to it. Hey, Bengals fans. Shop the Bengals Pro Shop. 0:37:22.560 --> 0:37:25.960 I'm the best selection of Bengal merchandise anywhere. This is 0:37:26.000 --> 0:37:28.080 the Pro Shop, seven days a week, located on the 0:37:28.080 --> 0:37:30.879 north side of pay Court Stadium, or shop online at 0:37:30.880 --> 0:37:31.839 Bengals dot com. 0:37:31.920 --> 0:37:36.600 Jamar Chase yesterday targeted twelve times. He had ten receptions, 0:37:36.719 --> 0:37:39.120 ninety four yards a log of nineteen. It was a 0:37:39.120 --> 0:37:42.080 big one on fourth down. It was for a touchdown. 0:37:42.520 --> 0:37:46.400 Joe Danaman Fox nineteen asked Jamar about the rhythm and 0:37:46.760 --> 0:37:49.560 getting in line and on the same page with Joe 0:37:49.640 --> 0:37:51.720 Flacco and what it was like. Here's Jamar Chase. 0:37:52.160 --> 0:37:55.120 Did it start to develop in I think a lot 0:37:55.160 --> 0:37:57.280 of us were curious, Jamar, to see what your chemistry 0:37:57.280 --> 0:37:59.840 would look like with Joe. Did it start to develop 0:38:00.160 --> 0:38:01.239 and grow in the second half? 0:38:01.239 --> 0:38:06.120 Do you think, uh, yeah, and no, I mean we 0:38:06.160 --> 0:38:08.640 all we all tryna figure out what what we could 0:38:08.840 --> 0:38:11.319 what we what we can get, what we could get to, 0:38:11.640 --> 0:38:13.400 how we get the player play, make us a ball? 0:38:14.360 --> 0:38:16.200 How much time Joe has to get the ball all 0:38:16.239 --> 0:38:17.880 his hands. We were tryna figure it out all in 0:38:17.920 --> 0:38:21.239 that first two possessions, but you know it, it was 0:38:21.239 --> 0:38:22.239 too late when we found out. 0:38:22.760 --> 0:38:24.320 You're two and four, you got a big game against 0:38:24.320 --> 0:38:26.120 Pittsburgh on Thursday, and you have a new quarterback. 0:38:26.200 --> 0:38:27.120 How how do you feel about this. 0:38:27.080 --> 0:38:27.640 Team right now? 0:38:28.520 --> 0:38:28.680 Uh? 0:38:28.719 --> 0:38:30.120 I think we're in a good position right now. I 0:38:30.160 --> 0:38:32.920 think we answered the bell today and just getting ourselves 0:38:32.920 --> 0:38:34.759 back on more mintum on how we wanna attack the 0:38:34.800 --> 0:38:39.520 offense and be and be a prolific offense. Second half, shoulder, 0:38:39.600 --> 0:38:41.799 but first half we gotta do better. And you know, 0:38:41.840 --> 0:38:43.560 next game we gotta start off like second half. 0:38:43.600 --> 0:38:46.080 Can you describe how you made the play you made 0:38:46.080 --> 0:38:47.080 on your touchdown catch? 0:38:48.400 --> 0:38:48.720 Uh? 0:38:48.840 --> 0:38:51.080 Just attacking the ball, you know the ball? 0:38:51.160 --> 0:38:52.279 He shoulder to me. 0:38:54.000 --> 0:38:56.520 DB's were a handsy all day, so he made sure 0:38:56.600 --> 0:38:58.439 that you know, I I came back to the ball 0:38:58.480 --> 0:39:00.799 and you know, try you need to draw the uh, 0:39:00.840 --> 0:39:03.000 the flag drawn to make contested catch up. 0:39:03.120 --> 0:39:04.960 One thing we've seen from Joe when he's out his best. 0:39:05.000 --> 0:39:06.880 You can really push the ball down the field. Is 0:39:06.920 --> 0:39:10.080 that the next part of the chemistry going forward? You 0:39:10.080 --> 0:39:11.640 start pushing it down the fields. 0:39:11.800 --> 0:39:14.879 We we're still building, y, We we can't. We can't 0:39:14.920 --> 0:39:17.080 do everything off top, but we're still building right now 0:39:17.120 --> 0:39:18.759 and we're only gonna get. 0:39:18.640 --> 0:39:19.080 Better from here. 0:39:19.120 --> 0:39:20.719 It's just still the first game and it's more games 0:39:20.719 --> 0:39:21.160 for us to go. 0:39:21.320 --> 0:39:22.640 Or there were so many guys in this room who 0:39:22.680 --> 0:39:24.719 are used to winning. When you lose four in a row, 0:39:24.760 --> 0:39:25.879 how are you handling. 0:39:25.520 --> 0:39:28.960 Its adversity right now? 0:39:29.040 --> 0:39:29.640 But you know. 0:39:31.800 --> 0:39:33.520 What's gonna happen at the end of the day will 0:39:33.520 --> 0:39:37.160 be we can't. You can't sit here in power. Gotta 0:39:37.200 --> 0:39:38.840 go back to work. You gotta gotta fast. We be 0:39:38.840 --> 0:39:42.839 coming up against against the stealers, so you gotta look 0:39:42.840 --> 0:39:44.840 at the film, do corrections, find out what we like 0:39:44.880 --> 0:39:46.799 best with Joe at quarterback, and move on. 0:39:47.080 --> 0:39:49.200 Zach keeps saying he feels like you guys are close. 0:39:49.280 --> 0:39:51.160 He feels like you guys are very much still in this. 0:39:51.280 --> 0:39:52.040 You're shaking your head. 0:39:52.080 --> 0:39:53.320 Yeah, you agree with him? 0:39:53.400 --> 0:39:54.479 Yeah percent? Yeah? 0:39:54.760 --> 0:39:55.120 Why so? 0:39:56.600 --> 0:40:01.000 I mean that's the most it's the most probably offensive 0:40:01.040 --> 0:40:03.040 yards and rushing yards we had for a little minute, 0:40:03.560 --> 0:40:06.600 and it is Joe's first game, and we left a 0:40:06.600 --> 0:40:09.000 lot out there. We didn't really leave a lot out there, 0:40:09.000 --> 0:40:10.920 but we made a lot of plays. We could have 0:40:10.920 --> 0:40:11.799 had more out there. 0:40:11.960 --> 0:40:14.160 Jamar Chase after the game with the media, thanks to 0:40:14.200 --> 0:40:17.399 Joe Daneman for passing along from Fox nineteen and and 0:40:18.360 --> 0:40:24.480 man the telepathic wave between the two. Jamar Chase even 0:40:24.520 --> 0:40:26.960 said there were moments where he told Joe, based on 0:40:27.000 --> 0:40:29.560 the coverage he saw change the play here, and they 0:40:29.960 --> 0:40:33.919 created stuff on their own, which, as Jamar pointed out, 0:40:33.960 --> 0:40:35.359 he had twelve reps with Joe. 0:40:35.280 --> 0:40:37.280 Flaccoy practiced last week because he was sick. 0:40:37.520 --> 0:40:39.640 But the fact that they had the confidence to get 0:40:39.640 --> 0:40:42.160 on a page together and make things happen showed me 0:40:42.200 --> 0:40:43.239 something yesterday. 0:40:42.960 --> 0:40:45.920 No doubt. I mean twelve reps during the week, that's crazy, 0:40:45.920 --> 0:40:49.399 and then twelve targets in the game, targeting as many 0:40:49.400 --> 0:40:51.600 times in the game as he threw to him the 0:40:51.760 --> 0:40:55.839 entire week. But you got two Pro Bowl guys, you know, 0:40:56.160 --> 0:41:01.000 multiple time Pro Bowl guys. So they take great pride 0:41:01.440 --> 0:41:04.160 in their knowledge of the game of football and their 0:41:04.200 --> 0:41:08.560 ability to take that knowledge and execute physically. And they 0:41:08.600 --> 0:41:11.680 both have extreme talents from a physical standpoint, I mean 0:41:11.960 --> 0:41:15.040 Flacco's big talent is his arm strength. I mean he 0:41:15.120 --> 0:41:17.879 can spin it, he can rifle the football. He's got 0:41:17.880 --> 0:41:21.120 a rocket hanging off of that right shoulder. And Jamar 0:41:21.200 --> 0:41:24.600 Chad Chase can catch anything. And he's a big, strong 0:41:24.800 --> 0:41:27.279 body that can run any route in the in the 0:41:27.360 --> 0:41:30.840 route tree. And he takes tremendous pride in that he 0:41:30.920 --> 0:41:32.799 hits the weight room hard. His legs are as strong 0:41:32.800 --> 0:41:35.440 as anybody's on the football team. When he plants his 0:41:35.440 --> 0:41:38.799 foot and cuts violently, I mean he gets separation. And 0:41:38.840 --> 0:41:43.120 for those two guys to be professional enough to look 0:41:43.160 --> 0:41:46.560 at each other on the field and you know, like 0:41:46.600 --> 0:41:48.839 a nod and yeah, what we were talking about when 0:41:48.840 --> 0:41:51.120 we were on the sideline over there talking on the bench, 0:41:51.440 --> 0:41:53.040 this is it. This is what we're talking about. And 0:41:53.280 --> 0:41:55.279 you know, a little knot in the nod back and 0:41:55.360 --> 0:41:58.040 they get on the same page and execute. That's That's 0:41:58.080 --> 0:42:00.520 that's heavy duty stuff, man. That's that's big time and 0:42:01.400 --> 0:42:02.920 coaches have to be thrilled with that. 0:42:03.120 --> 0:42:07.080 I was struck by when Joe was talking about learning 0:42:07.440 --> 0:42:10.440 throwing to Chase and Higgins, things he notices and how 0:42:10.480 --> 0:42:12.640 they snatch the ball and how strong their hands are. 0:42:12.680 --> 0:42:14.120 And he says a lot of times you throw to 0:42:14.160 --> 0:42:15.680 a guy and they'll catch you with their body. He said, 0:42:15.920 --> 0:42:18.840 Tea on that quick slant with his hands, and just 0:42:18.880 --> 0:42:20.560 how strong they are. And it was just it was 0:42:20.600 --> 0:42:22.800 interesting as much as an appreciation we have for the 0:42:22.800 --> 0:42:25.879 Bengals receivers to see the quarterback for the first time 0:42:25.960 --> 0:42:28.600 throwing to him, how it's so obvious to him. 0:42:28.600 --> 0:42:30.879 What. Wow, those guys are really good. 0:42:30.960 --> 0:42:33.719 I mean that fourth and four, the nineteen yard passed 0:42:33.760 --> 0:42:37.160 to Jamar Chase, he wasn't open. He trusted Jamar to 0:42:37.320 --> 0:42:40.799 use his body and strength to snatch and rip through it, 0:42:40.840 --> 0:42:43.040 and it just it was it was amazing to watch. 0:42:43.120 --> 0:42:47.719 Yeah, in the National Football League, sometimes they're not going 0:42:47.760 --> 0:42:49.279 to be open. You gotta trust that they're gonna make 0:42:49.280 --> 0:42:52.359 a playoff for you a contested catch. And Jamar Chase 0:42:52.440 --> 0:42:54.480 is as good as there is in the league with that. 0:42:54.560 --> 0:42:56.600 And Joe Barrow can tell Joe Flack all about that. 0:42:56.640 --> 0:42:58.880 I'm sure he probably already has. I bet that's a 0:42:58.960 --> 0:43:02.480 source too. Haven't really asked Joe Flacco, you know how 0:43:02.560 --> 0:43:06.759 much information that he has garnered and gathered from Joe 0:43:06.800 --> 0:43:09.799 Burrow about the offense about the coaches, what they like 0:43:09.840 --> 0:43:12.560 to call, what they don't like to call, what their 0:43:12.719 --> 0:43:16.520 receivers talents are, what they can do best, and things 0:43:16.520 --> 0:43:19.640 to stay away from. But one thing that both these 0:43:19.719 --> 0:43:23.520 quarterbacks can do. They can pinpoint the football so they 0:43:23.520 --> 0:43:25.640 can hit the right shoulder, they can hit the left hip. 0:43:26.040 --> 0:43:30.919 And that is that's a major major league talent right there. 0:43:31.280 --> 0:43:34.560 And the receivers appreciate it. I mean, you know, they 0:43:34.600 --> 0:43:37.480 know that the quarterback is going to give them an opportunity. 0:43:37.560 --> 0:43:41.160 Even when they feel like they're covered, They're alive. They're 0:43:41.200 --> 0:43:43.280 not dead in the play. The ball could be coming 0:43:43.320 --> 0:43:45.720 their way, so be ready to go make a play. 0:43:45.800 --> 0:43:47.000 And most times they do. 0:43:47.080 --> 0:43:49.279 You know, great minds think alike. As I was just 0:43:49.320 --> 0:43:51.799 about to ask you, I remember a year after year, 0:43:51.840 --> 0:43:54.480 Bob Trump he talking to me about the pinpoint accuracy 0:43:54.640 --> 0:43:57.120 of Ken Anderson and knowing as he's coming out of 0:43:57.120 --> 0:43:59.759 his break, the ball was always he always knew where 0:43:59.760 --> 0:44:02.120 the ball was going to be. And whether it's a 0:44:02.320 --> 0:44:05.520 different quarterback and different RPMs coming out the rotation, whatever 0:44:05.560 --> 0:44:07.960 it is, to be able to count on the quarterback 0:44:08.000 --> 0:44:10.440 to put it where you want it and need it 0:44:10.880 --> 0:44:12.600 is what Kenny Anderson was so good. 0:44:12.400 --> 0:44:17.200 At absolutely my old roomy there Kenny Anderson, and that's 0:44:17.200 --> 0:44:21.640 what every receiver said about him. Man, he puts it 0:44:21.680 --> 0:44:25.440 in the exact same spot every time, and it's like 0:44:25.520 --> 0:44:28.200 not even a centimeter different, you know, it's like unbelieve. 0:44:28.200 --> 0:44:32.960 It's uncanny. And Flacco has that kind of accuracy too, 0:44:33.120 --> 0:44:35.399 not just the short passing it, but the intermediate routes, 0:44:35.400 --> 0:44:38.080 those tough routes to the intermediate routes between a lot 0:44:38.080 --> 0:44:39.960 of times there's a layer with the backers and the 0:44:40.000 --> 0:44:43.600 safeties and corners, and boy, they can just put that football, 0:44:43.680 --> 0:44:45.920 drop that football in there perfectly. And that is an 0:44:45.920 --> 0:44:46.840 immense talent to have. 0:44:47.080 --> 0:44:50.000 Jamar Chase Statfory from the NFL. It was his fiftieth 0:44:50.040 --> 0:44:53.560 career touchdown yesterday. He becomes the third player with at 0:44:53.680 --> 0:44:57.840 least fifty touchdown catches prior to his twenty sixth birthday. 0:44:57.920 --> 0:44:58.200 Wow. 0:44:58.200 --> 0:45:02.560 He joins Randy Moss and Rob Gronkowski. Moss did it 0:45:02.560 --> 0:45:06.440 and had sixty touchdowns before turning twenty six, Gronk fifty 0:45:06.560 --> 0:45:10.960 four before turning twenty six. In Jamar with his fiftieth yesterday, and. 0:45:11.239 --> 0:45:14.520 Both of those guys, well, I don't know about twenty six, 0:45:14.560 --> 0:45:17.040 but they both played with Brady, and Brady was a 0:45:17.080 --> 0:45:20.719 touchdown Makerman as he was he was, he threw touchdown 0:45:20.760 --> 0:45:24.839 pass after touchdown pass, and Randy Moss and Grondkowski. Huh. 0:45:24.880 --> 0:45:27.319 That's a good company. That's that's a good short list 0:45:27.400 --> 0:45:29.160 right there, to be number three of those two dudes. 0:45:29.200 --> 0:45:31.280 By the way, while we're speaking wide receiver, I almost 0:45:31.320 --> 0:45:34.200 feel like we jinked jinkst Yoshi because we talked so 0:45:34.320 --> 0:45:38.239 highly about his breakout game last week and then yesterday, boy, 0:45:38.320 --> 0:45:41.200 it was rough. I don't know if they're officially counted 0:45:41.239 --> 0:45:43.640 as three drops, but it's three. You could argue he dropped, 0:45:43.680 --> 0:45:47.279 no question. I mean, I remember all of them, and 0:45:47.320 --> 0:45:47.879 so does he. 0:45:47.880 --> 0:45:50.000 He's reviewing him in his head as he laid in 0:45:50.040 --> 0:45:51.839 the bed last night. I bet you that was a 0:45:51.880 --> 0:45:54.160 long flight home. You know, when you have those kind 0:45:54.200 --> 0:45:56.799 of games and you know it's like now the key 0:45:56.920 --> 0:45:58.919 is bounced back, don't let it linger, you know, don't 0:45:59.280 --> 0:46:02.560 don't let that, you know, take you down. That's the 0:46:02.560 --> 0:46:05.040 bottom line. Everybody has an off to everybody has a 0:46:05.040 --> 0:46:09.080 bad day. Yosi's was definitely that up in Green Bay. 0:46:09.440 --> 0:46:11.640 And now move on when. 0:46:11.480 --> 0:46:14.160 We continue, we will move on and here from Evan 0:46:14.239 --> 0:46:17.640 McPherson on Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Networking seven 0:46:17.760 --> 0:46:20.399 hundred WLW. 0:46:22.200 --> 0:46:22.920 Hey, we keep. 0:46:22.840 --> 0:46:25.680 Rolling right along on this Monday night of Bengals Line 0:46:25.680 --> 0:46:29.320 on the Bengals Radio Networking seven hundred WLW, Lance McAllister 0:46:29.440 --> 0:46:32.200 Dave Lapham. We've talked to offense, We've talked defense. Let's 0:46:32.200 --> 0:46:35.600 add in some special teams. Evan McPherson delivers the one 0:46:35.680 --> 0:46:38.440 hundredth field goal of his young career. Look like he 0:46:38.480 --> 0:46:40.960 had a record breaker at sixty seven. Well he had. 0:46:41.000 --> 0:46:43.879 It just didn't count because Matt Laflorid called time out 0:46:43.920 --> 0:46:46.439 and then missed on the follow up. But here's Dan 0:46:46.520 --> 0:46:48.879 Horde after the game with the Bengals kicker heaving. 0:46:48.920 --> 0:46:51.759 We've talked many times about your desire to have a 0:46:51.840 --> 0:46:54.920 chance to kick one from sixty plus. Well turned out 0:46:54.920 --> 0:46:58.000 to be an NFL record attempt had you made it 0:46:58.000 --> 0:47:00.040 of sixty seven yards? First, what did you think? I 0:47:00.040 --> 0:47:01.760 think when they called on you from that distance? 0:47:02.640 --> 0:47:04.640 Me and Darren had a conversation. 0:47:05.000 --> 0:47:08.840 I feel like before the drive started and I was 0:47:08.880 --> 0:47:10.040 just like, if you give me to the fifty, I 0:47:10.120 --> 0:47:13.640 feel confident that there's a good chance it's gonna go in. 0:47:14.320 --> 0:47:16.279 So we had a good idea of like what the 0:47:16.320 --> 0:47:19.160 offense just trying to do and get to And so 0:47:19.239 --> 0:47:21.160 as soon as I saw skip past fifty, I was like, 0:47:21.200 --> 0:47:25.759 all right, good to go. It's a lot of excitement. 0:47:26.520 --> 0:47:31.560 You don't get those opportunities often. And to be honest, 0:47:31.600 --> 0:47:34.400 it's like I didn't hit the first one great. I 0:47:34.480 --> 0:47:36.399 kind of towed it a little bit, and that thing 0:47:36.520 --> 0:47:38.760 just took off and it carried, and I was honestly 0:47:38.800 --> 0:47:40.000 a surprise that it got there. 0:47:41.080 --> 0:47:43.840 And then the second one, maybe a little. 0:47:43.600 --> 0:47:45.719 Bit of adrenaline pushed off a little bit harder and 0:47:46.320 --> 0:47:47.480 just got under it a little bit. 0:47:50.520 --> 0:47:55.360 But you know, I feel like in that situation and 0:47:55.400 --> 0:47:56.520 the win that we had. 0:47:56.360 --> 0:47:59.520 Today is you're not gonna get that often, because I, honestly, 0:47:59.560 --> 0:48:01.080 I feel like I was just kind of a gift 0:48:02.640 --> 0:48:07.600 of a kick, like perfect scenario to break the NFL record. 0:48:09.400 --> 0:48:11.680 I just got under it just to touch. 0:48:13.200 --> 0:48:14.600 It was cool to see the first one go in, 0:48:14.640 --> 0:48:18.040 but I wish the second one would have. But uh, 0:48:19.560 --> 0:48:20.680 I guess it'll have to wait. 0:48:21.800 --> 0:48:24.600 Were you thinking, were you cognizant of the fact, all right? 0:48:24.680 --> 0:48:26.839 This is an NFL record potentially. 0:48:27.040 --> 0:48:31.480 Oh yeah, I mean you definitely understand the kick that 0:48:31.520 --> 0:48:37.520 you're going out there to hit. And I realized, you know, 0:48:37.520 --> 0:48:39.040 as soon as we got out there, you know, or 0:48:39.040 --> 0:48:42.840 it's sixty seven yards, just put a good hit on it, 0:48:42.640 --> 0:48:44.480 it should have a good chance of going in. 0:48:45.480 --> 0:48:48.200 But yeah, I was definitely aware of kind of the situation. 0:48:49.280 --> 0:48:50.879 Did you know the time out was likely? 0:48:53.640 --> 0:48:56.600 I feel like whenever they have one, yes, But I 0:48:56.640 --> 0:48:59.120 will say I feel like we got out there at 0:48:59.120 --> 0:49:04.319 tad late. Clock was running down, so as they thought 0:49:04.320 --> 0:49:05.600 they would just let us roll with it and let 0:49:05.680 --> 0:49:06.120 us kick it. 0:49:07.960 --> 0:49:08.160 Yeah. 0:49:08.360 --> 0:49:11.719 Good, But it's nice of them to let me have 0:49:12.120 --> 0:49:19.160 a reset or refresh and just kind of reset the 0:49:19.160 --> 0:49:21.120 clock force and just kind of let us operate and 0:49:21.280 --> 0:49:22.080 how we normally do. 0:49:23.360 --> 0:49:25.040 But I just gonna put a better hit on that one. 0:49:26.719 --> 0:49:31.239 So yeah, I feel like time out, if they have it, 0:49:31.760 --> 0:49:34.200 they would do. But in that situation where the clock was, 0:49:34.239 --> 0:49:35.759 I didn't think it was likely. 0:49:36.719 --> 0:49:39.359 When you saw the first one hit the crossbar and 0:49:39.400 --> 0:49:42.600 bounce over, are you thinking, all right, I know I 0:49:42.640 --> 0:49:43.200 can do this. 0:49:43.600 --> 0:49:46.480 Yeah, definitely, with I feel like with how poor I 0:49:46.560 --> 0:49:50.239 hit it, I thought for sure I was like, oh, 0:49:50.400 --> 0:49:51.800 I just have to get this thing up in the 0:49:51.840 --> 0:49:53.120 air and it'll go in. 0:49:54.040 --> 0:49:56.120 So I was super confident going into the second one. 0:49:56.320 --> 0:49:59.279 Like I said, it's just just pretty tough to make 0:50:00.520 --> 0:50:05.160 to sixty seven yards back to back, but definitely capable 0:50:05.160 --> 0:50:07.279 of doing it and we'll get the next tent. 0:50:07.600 --> 0:50:08.560 How could get another shot? 0:50:08.680 --> 0:50:11.799 Yeah, thank you Evan McPherson. After the game, and boy 0:50:11.840 --> 0:50:14.840 it was. It was a cannon shot off his foot 0:50:14.840 --> 0:50:17.239 at sixty seven yards and I'm thinking yeah, and then 0:50:17.360 --> 0:50:20.560 you sure enough camera pans the battle of the floor. 0:50:20.600 --> 0:50:23.919 No no, I called time and I was like, yeah, yeah. 0:50:23.920 --> 0:50:26.640 He was sprinting down the field, making sure getting it 0:50:26.719 --> 0:50:29.279 right on top of that official, making sure that he 0:50:29.360 --> 0:50:32.280 acknowledged and gave him, you know, the time out before 0:50:32.520 --> 0:50:36.960 Evan McPherson could could get get that ball off, man, 0:50:37.000 --> 0:50:41.520 I'll tell you that, to hit a football that hard 0:50:42.480 --> 0:50:44.600 and to carry that carry at that distance and to 0:50:44.640 --> 0:50:46.520 get the elevation to get it up over the line 0:50:46.520 --> 0:50:49.279 of scrimmage. Because Green Bay was trying to block that 0:50:49.360 --> 0:50:51.160 bad boy, they felt like, okay, he's gonna have to 0:50:51.200 --> 0:50:53.080 hit a low line drive of two iron instead of 0:50:53.120 --> 0:50:56.160 a wedge, you know, to get it there, and McPherson 0:50:56.200 --> 0:50:59.960 crushed that thing man that had a majestic trajectory to it, 0:51:00.600 --> 0:51:04.920 and hit the crossbar and kick through. But the you know, 0:51:05.040 --> 0:51:08.719 the kick after the timeout. The timeout proved to be 0:51:08.960 --> 0:51:12.320 a very very brilliant move by Lafleura because yep, the 0:51:12.520 --> 0:51:14.880 mac you know, was thinking about it. I guess probably 0:51:14.880 --> 0:51:18.000 a little bit too much and kind of mishit it 0:51:18.120 --> 0:51:19.760 and it fell wolfly short. 0:51:20.120 --> 0:51:23.239 Dave. I saw a stat on ESPN last week that 0:51:23.280 --> 0:51:26.279 I made note of that shows dramatically how the game 0:51:26.320 --> 0:51:31.840 of field goal kickers has changed. In nineteen seventy, kickers 0:51:31.920 --> 0:51:35.400 made fifty nine percent of all their kicks. Right nineteen 0:51:35.440 --> 0:51:40.600 seventy made fifty nine percent. This year, kickers are converting 0:51:40.920 --> 0:51:45.399 seventy three percent from fifty yards or beyond. I mean, 0:51:45.400 --> 0:51:50.600 that's just insane. I mean the days of a horse muleman, 0:51:50.800 --> 0:51:51.360 Jim Breach. 0:51:51.520 --> 0:51:54.960 I mean, it is. The evolution is so different. It's stunning, 0:51:55.120 --> 0:51:57.479 it is it is. It used to be. I mean 0:51:57.920 --> 0:52:00.600 a lot of teams the place kicker who was a 0:52:00.640 --> 0:52:03.560 position player. It was like the you know, the extra 0:52:03.880 --> 0:52:07.239 the last wide receiver or you know maybe uh, you know, 0:52:07.640 --> 0:52:11.080 a last defensive back on on the roster. And uh 0:52:11.200 --> 0:52:17.399 and now when you hear like going to practice and listening, uh, 0:52:17.640 --> 0:52:21.200 getting close to where he's he's uh, you know, crushing 0:52:21.200 --> 0:52:24.680 the football when he's doing his kicking drills. It's unbelievable. 0:52:24.680 --> 0:52:26.719 The noise that it makes, I mean, the thump, the 0:52:26.760 --> 0:52:29.160 thud that it makes when he strikes that football. You know, 0:52:29.200 --> 0:52:30.960 he's compressing the heck, got it, but I guess you 0:52:31.040 --> 0:52:36.120 know whatever physics right now. Yeah, he's laughing, but I 0:52:36.120 --> 0:52:38.840 mean to compress it. And and then the thing just 0:52:38.880 --> 0:52:43.840 springs out like that. It's it's unbelievable. The action reaction 0:52:43.960 --> 0:52:47.160 part of that is is tremendous. And and they have 0:52:47.320 --> 0:52:50.200 that kind of accuracy because they have narrowed the goalpost. 0:52:50.200 --> 0:52:52.920 Now they you know, take them into the as high 0:52:52.960 --> 0:52:56.319 as they can take them. But uh, it's it's it's 0:52:56.360 --> 0:53:00.480 really these guys. It's a specialty specialists, and it is 0:53:01.239 --> 0:53:04.839 it's incredible to the legg strength that they have. I mean, 0:53:05.160 --> 0:53:09.160 Evan McPherson likes to squat with freeways instead of like 0:53:09.239 --> 0:53:11.480 leg extension machines and that kind of thing. Wow, and 0:53:11.520 --> 0:53:12.839 he he loads it up pretty good. 0:53:13.160 --> 0:53:16.080 I look this morning and This is incredible because we 0:53:16.160 --> 0:53:18.959 know how good Jim Breach was. Jim Breach the most 0:53:19.120 --> 0:53:21.200 maybe one of the most clutch kickers of all times 0:53:21.239 --> 0:53:24.280 ever missed it overtime. Absolutely, Jim Breach in his fourteen 0:53:24.400 --> 0:53:28.759 year career made six kicks of fifty yards or more. 0:53:29.440 --> 0:53:34.160 Evan McPherson already has twenty five twenty five in five 0:53:34.280 --> 0:53:36.640 years in Jim And it's no, It's obviously not a 0:53:36.760 --> 0:53:38.840 knock on Jim Breach. It's just that's the way the 0:53:38.880 --> 0:53:41.480 game was, and the football was and kicking was. But 0:53:41.640 --> 0:53:44.480 six and fourteen years for one of the best kickers, 0:53:44.600 --> 0:53:46.919 the best kicker in Bengals history in Jim Breach. 0:53:47.040 --> 0:53:49.680 Yeah, it's just it's nine and day difference. Yeah. And 0:53:49.719 --> 0:53:53.239 he was one of the best kickers in the league. Yes, yeah, 0:53:53.280 --> 0:53:54.160 I mean by far. 0:53:54.480 --> 0:53:57.480 The franchise is all time leading scorer by the gobs 0:53:57.480 --> 0:53:57.920 of points. 0:53:57.960 --> 0:54:01.160 It's not even close. Yeah. I mean, he preacher man, 0:54:01.239 --> 0:54:03.000 he could put points up on the board. There's no 0:54:03.040 --> 0:54:03.600 doubt about it. 0:54:03.600 --> 0:54:05.919 I believe never missed an overtime field. I think nine 0:54:05.960 --> 0:54:08.839 for nine overtime, I think, mister perfect. 0:54:08.560 --> 0:54:12.040 There you go. Yep, that's a that's a big clutch. 0:54:12.400 --> 0:54:14.360 We called him mister Clutch you know. I mean, yes 0:54:14.440 --> 0:54:16.879 he was. He had the clutch gene for sure he did. 0:54:17.080 --> 0:54:24.080 And uh yeah, kickers, it's a it's a special skill set. 0:54:23.600 --> 0:54:26.799 No doubt about that. We'll take a time out. We've 0:54:26.800 --> 0:54:29.439 reached the bottom of the hour. There is much more 0:54:29.480 --> 0:54:32.080 to get to. We are navigating our way through three 0:54:32.120 --> 0:54:34.920 hours tonight of Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network 0:54:35.120 --> 0:54:41.200 and seven hundred WLW. Hey, we're back on Bengals on 0:54:41.280 --> 0:54:43.440 in this Monday night. We are cruising through all the 0:54:43.440 --> 0:54:46.160 conversation off yesterday's lost to the Green Bay Packers will 0:54:46.160 --> 0:54:48.719 eventually set up and look ahead of those Pittsburgh Steelers 0:54:48.719 --> 0:54:51.919 on Thursday night. I'm Lance Pacalister alongside his Day Black. 0:54:52.000 --> 0:54:53.759 When we talked defense and some of the issues and 0:54:53.800 --> 0:54:57.000 some of the the mistackles that hurt boys. Some third 0:54:57.080 --> 0:54:59.360 downs day by I look, they allow a third and 0:54:59.480 --> 0:55:02.879 seven version, they allow a third and six conversion. There 0:55:02.920 --> 0:55:05.360 was a third and ten that led to a thirty 0:55:05.360 --> 0:55:08.160 five yard completion, a third and eight that led to 0:55:08.200 --> 0:55:12.120 a thirty one yard completion. Those are just backbreakers, especially 0:55:12.440 --> 0:55:15.040 in those in the second half where the offense started 0:55:15.080 --> 0:55:17.480 to get going, but then the defense couldn't get the 0:55:17.480 --> 0:55:20.160 stops they needed to give it right back to the offense. 0:55:20.280 --> 0:55:20.560 Yeah. 0:55:20.640 --> 0:55:24.360 I mean, that's that complimentary and non complimentary football that 0:55:24.440 --> 0:55:27.279 we talked about, is uh, you know, is his key. 0:55:29.000 --> 0:55:31.280 The offense starts to crank it up and the defense 0:55:31.320 --> 0:55:35.160 can't shut anything down. I thought, uh, you know, red 0:55:35.239 --> 0:55:39.400 zone problems cropped up big time. I thought tackling was 0:55:39.440 --> 0:55:42.720 poor overall, but in the red zone there were times 0:55:42.719 --> 0:55:45.560 where it was just flat out ugly. I mean, Al 0:55:45.600 --> 0:55:48.640 Golden probably couldn't even you know, he probably covered his 0:55:48.719 --> 0:55:50.799 eyes and didn't want to uncover them looking at what 0:55:50.840 --> 0:55:52.759 he was seeing out there on the football field. And 0:55:53.960 --> 0:55:57.080 you know, I just I just wonder. I don't think 0:55:57.080 --> 0:55:59.440 it couldn't have been that bad at practice. I mean, 0:55:59.640 --> 0:56:02.200 if it was, it was addressed. That's for damn sure. 0:56:02.280 --> 0:56:05.920 They didn't go into the football game, you know, allowing 0:56:06.000 --> 0:56:09.520 that to be the last thing that was on their 0:56:09.600 --> 0:56:13.839 minds and in what they put on tape to go 0:56:13.880 --> 0:56:15.240 into a football game. For sure. 0:56:16.040 --> 0:56:19.440 I'm I'm looking at snaps every Monday morning when the 0:56:19.520 --> 0:56:22.680 official snap or the unofficial snap count comes out. I look, 0:56:22.719 --> 0:56:26.200 and one thing that certainly jumps out that everybody's buzzing about, 0:56:26.200 --> 0:56:29.040 and it was noticeable during the game. Barrett Carter, the rookie, 0:56:29.080 --> 0:56:32.560 plays all sixty one snaps. Dimitris Knight Junior, the rookie 0:56:32.600 --> 0:56:36.680 plays fifty six of the sixty one snaps. Logan Wilson 0:56:36.719 --> 0:56:40.160 plays just twelve snaps, and I believe just one in 0:56:40.200 --> 0:56:44.520 the entire second half. There's clearly a transition going on 0:56:44.760 --> 0:56:48.239 with with youth and throwing him into the deep end 0:56:48.280 --> 0:56:52.120 and and letting them learn. And that's uh there, when 0:56:52.160 --> 0:56:55.320 you're learning, there's stuff you learn that costs you sometimes, 0:56:55.320 --> 0:56:57.960 and it's kind of the balance. You can't get experienced 0:56:57.960 --> 0:57:00.840 without snaps, and it's not always going to be perfect. 0:57:01.160 --> 0:57:03.880 True, that's very true. And uh, you know Al Golden 0:57:04.000 --> 0:57:06.840 going into this football game, one of the big differences 0:57:06.880 --> 0:57:11.680 that he did preparing and showing the Green Bay Packers 0:57:11.800 --> 0:57:14.359 was a four to two five defense and a four 0:57:14.360 --> 0:57:19.000 to three defense four three four. So he used it 0:57:19.760 --> 0:57:22.280 and changed up and mixed it up. He had different 0:57:22.320 --> 0:57:26.160 personnel packages in his mind out there, and I think 0:57:26.200 --> 0:57:29.840 it was effective. I thought Jordan Love at times was 0:57:30.600 --> 0:57:34.080 not quite sure exactly what coverages they were running. Al 0:57:34.160 --> 0:57:37.400 Golden mixed his coverages on the back end accordingly, with 0:57:38.480 --> 0:57:40.880 dependence on how many linebackers were out there on the 0:57:40.880 --> 0:57:42.920 football field and who he was going to leave his 0:57:43.000 --> 0:57:46.120 linebackers in coverage against, whether it be you know, a 0:57:46.120 --> 0:57:48.880 tight end or you know, a back out of the backfield. 0:57:49.320 --> 0:57:51.640 And like you said, you mentioned Bob Trumpy earlier in 0:57:51.680 --> 0:57:54.680 the show. Trump he loved matching up as a tight end, 0:57:54.720 --> 0:57:58.720 you know, against against linebackers and safeties for sure, But 0:57:58.760 --> 0:58:02.120 it was interesting to see a golden make that change, 0:58:02.160 --> 0:58:04.080 and he knew he needed to do something to give 0:58:04.120 --> 0:58:06.040 his defense a shot in the arm, and he thought 0:58:06.120 --> 0:58:07.040 that might do the trick. 0:58:07.360 --> 0:58:10.720 Yeah, when you've got when you've got two rookies, obviously, 0:58:10.760 --> 0:58:13.440 the downside is you don't have as much experience to 0:58:13.560 --> 0:58:16.440 draw from and and and there might be that that 0:58:16.440 --> 0:58:19.400 that look with a veteran maybe to helping out a 0:58:19.440 --> 0:58:22.280 young guy, you know, go here, move here. The communication 0:58:22.520 --> 0:58:24.680 when you got two young guys and you're both learning 0:58:24.680 --> 0:58:27.520 it as you go, there's it's tough to turn and say, 0:58:27.560 --> 0:58:29.480 well what do we do here? And guess the other 0:58:29.480 --> 0:58:31.120 guy's probably turn and say, I don't know, what do 0:58:31.200 --> 0:58:32.000 you think we should do here? 0:58:32.040 --> 0:58:35.800 We're both rookies, right right, and Logan Wilson the green 0:58:35.840 --> 0:58:37.600 dot was taken out of his helmet and given the 0:58:37.640 --> 0:58:40.560 Barrett Carter's helmet. Uh so you know that part of 0:58:40.600 --> 0:58:42.120 it had to be a little bit different for Al 0:58:42.160 --> 0:58:45.360 Golden and Barrett Carter, you know. Uh And and you know, 0:58:45.760 --> 0:58:48.160 I'm sure there might have been times where Al probably 0:58:48.200 --> 0:58:49.120 made a call said. 0:58:49.280 --> 0:58:49.960 Is he got that? 0:58:51.040 --> 0:58:52.880 I mean, give me some kind of innolvement, give me 0:58:52.960 --> 0:58:57.000 like a wink or a lot or something what's going 0:58:57.040 --> 0:59:00.600 on over there? So yeah, at can be a little 0:59:00.640 --> 0:59:01.560 unsettling for sure. 0:59:01.800 --> 0:59:03.720 While we're on the defensive side of things. 0:59:03.920 --> 0:59:04.200 Uh. 0:59:04.120 --> 0:59:08.360 We talked about DJ Turner playing so well, I'll tell 0:59:08.400 --> 0:59:11.760 you the guy I can't figure out Dave and he 0:59:12.200 --> 0:59:14.760 flashed And I go back a year ago at the 0:59:14.760 --> 0:59:16.560 start of the season, there was a thought maybe he's 0:59:16.600 --> 0:59:18.800 headed for a contract extension and this is going to 0:59:18.840 --> 0:59:21.919 be a breakout season. How do you explain what Cam 0:59:22.000 --> 0:59:23.960 Taylor brit Is is dealing with? 0:59:24.440 --> 0:59:26.520 It? Is it confidence? Is it? What? 0:59:26.760 --> 0:59:29.080 Is there anything that jumps out to you of what 0:59:29.200 --> 0:59:32.160 leads to some of the misses sometimes for Cam Taylor britt. 0:59:32.080 --> 0:59:35.080 Yeah, I mean, like you said of the contract, you thought, 0:59:35.600 --> 0:59:37.520 and he probably did. He probably thought, yeah, I mean 0:59:37.520 --> 0:59:39.400 it's coming to him. I'm gonna have a nice little 0:59:39.440 --> 0:59:41.280 Ray is gonna be able to take care of the 0:59:41.280 --> 0:59:45.240 whole family. And then when it doesn't come, maybe he's pressing, 0:59:45.360 --> 0:59:47.240 you know, maybe he's like trying to or maybe he's 0:59:47.280 --> 0:59:50.920 just like you know, and sometimes when you press, your 0:59:50.960 --> 0:59:53.240 mind shuts down. You know, it's like you just can't 0:59:53.560 --> 0:59:56.240 you can't get anything right. You have to calm down, 0:59:56.280 --> 1:00:00.320 you have to compose yourself and and and play. You know, 1:00:00.800 --> 1:00:04.000 sometimes you're trying to play too fast, you know, just chill, 1:00:04.360 --> 1:00:07.160 take it easy. And maybe that's what uh, that's what 1:00:07.240 --> 1:00:09.160 Cam Taylor Brests do. Take a little chill pill. 1:00:09.240 --> 1:00:11.680 Yeah, Kim looked like one of those guys who could 1:00:11.760 --> 1:00:15.280 be a be a playmaker for this and this this 1:00:15.320 --> 1:00:19.480 is a defense outside of Trey, it could use guys 1:00:19.480 --> 1:00:23.200 that evolve into playmakers, difference makers. If you're the other 1:00:23.240 --> 1:00:25.400 team looking on tape, going, oh, we got to be 1:00:25.440 --> 1:00:28.160 aware of that guy. The Bengals need a guy or 1:00:28.160 --> 1:00:30.919 two to step up into that role that flashes he's 1:00:30.920 --> 1:00:33.160 one of those guys like yes, you know. 1:00:33.520 --> 1:00:37.560 Yoh man, this guy it's like he covers the entire 1:00:37.600 --> 1:00:40.000 football field, man, you know, just have a little area. 1:00:40.400 --> 1:00:42.720 They let him, you know, and uh, you know, David 1:00:42.720 --> 1:00:45.200 Foltcher another guy with the Bengals, that it was all 1:00:45.240 --> 1:00:48.080 over the field, cover the field. Dick Lebou realized that 1:00:48.160 --> 1:00:52.439 he had a special talent in terms of David Fulter, 1:00:52.560 --> 1:00:55.760 and let him not freelance, but let him go, let 1:00:55.880 --> 1:00:58.080 him go on his own. If you see something, go 1:00:58.240 --> 1:01:00.200 make the play. You don't make the play though, when 1:01:00.240 --> 1:01:02.040 you come to the sideline, you're gonna hear about it, son, 1:01:02.080 --> 1:01:04.600 you know. And uh and he can get scolded, You 1:01:04.600 --> 1:01:07.240 get scolded a few times. But David Fulcher made a 1:01:07.280 --> 1:01:09.439 lot of plays, and Ronnie Lott did the same. 1:01:09.720 --> 1:01:13.000 But the way that and uh we we we love 1:01:13.360 --> 1:01:16.160 full rock, and the way that Dick Lebou identified his 1:01:16.360 --> 1:01:20.120 skill set and and said I'm going to do this 1:01:20.360 --> 1:01:23.640 with you on the football field, just holy cow. 1:01:23.880 --> 1:01:26.439 Yeah. And and for Dick lebow who was a great 1:01:26.440 --> 1:01:29.760 player himself, Hall of Fame player himself, to decide to 1:01:29.800 --> 1:01:33.480 give David Fulcher that kind of freedom, that says a 1:01:33.520 --> 1:01:36.160 lot about Dick Leabou as a coach. You know, it's like, 1:01:36.240 --> 1:01:38.880 you know, you can you can scheme all you want 1:01:38.960 --> 1:01:42.520 and try to make the perfect call at the perfect time. 1:01:42.880 --> 1:01:45.200 But you got a guy like David fulcher Man, he 1:01:45.240 --> 1:01:47.800 can he can uh make up for a lot of missus. 1:01:47.880 --> 1:01:50.520 Man, take a time out of continue. Let's get back 1:01:50.520 --> 1:01:52.880 into the offensive side of things and look at some 1:01:52.920 --> 1:01:57.640 of these first half struggles offensively. Oh my goodness, Uh, 1:01:57.440 --> 1:01:59.959 the way it's broken down, specifically over the last four 1:02:00.080 --> 1:02:02.000 weeks in the first half. We'll get into that and more. 1:02:02.040 --> 1:02:04.720 He's Dave Lapham, I'm alliance McAllister. It's Bengals Line on 1:02:04.760 --> 1:02:10.040 the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. Hey, welcome 1:02:10.040 --> 1:02:12.400 back to Bengals Line on this Monday night on the 1:02:12.440 --> 1:02:16.560 Bengals Radio Network. In seven hundred WLW, Lance Pacallister alongside 1:02:16.640 --> 1:02:20.800 Dave Lapham sorting through what transpired yesterday at lambeau Field 1:02:20.800 --> 1:02:23.320 in a twenty seven eighteen loss to the Green Bay Packers. 1:02:23.560 --> 1:02:27.880 The offensive struggles in the first half, specifically, Dave continue 1:02:28.440 --> 1:02:31.760 in the last four games first half, scoring three points, 1:02:31.800 --> 1:02:36.080 three points, three points, no points. Graphic from CBS said 1:02:36.120 --> 1:02:39.040 it's the longest streak without a first half touchdown for 1:02:39.080 --> 1:02:43.440 the Bengals since nineteen seventy eight. They've got to figure 1:02:43.440 --> 1:02:46.440 out a way to unlock something earlier in games you've 1:02:46.520 --> 1:02:49.760 just fallen by this defense we know needs some help 1:02:49.800 --> 1:02:52.480 and falling behind early does not help them, now, no 1:02:52.600 --> 1:02:56.280 question about it. And you know, Bill Walsh used to 1:02:56.320 --> 1:02:59.800 script twenty plays, you know, sometimes fifteen, but usually twenty. 1:03:01.200 --> 1:03:03.960 Maybe that's what the Bengals need to do. Maybe the 1:03:04.120 --> 1:03:06.400 Dan pitcher needs to script some plays and stay with 1:03:06.440 --> 1:03:09.760 that script. And you know, because when you're scripting players, 1:03:09.840 --> 1:03:12.880 you're spending a lot of time studying tape and what 1:03:13.120 --> 1:03:16.000 works best on first down? What's my best selection on 1:03:16.400 --> 1:03:18.120 second down? I want to make sure I get to 1:03:18.160 --> 1:03:20.959 this on third down very early, maybe my first third 1:03:21.000 --> 1:03:23.720 down call. So you've got it in front of you 1:03:24.440 --> 1:03:26.800 when you're you know, holding everything else, you're holding your 1:03:26.800 --> 1:03:30.000 clipboard during the course of the game. And I don't know, 1:03:30.080 --> 1:03:34.360 maybe that might be something to try because man, you know, 1:03:34.440 --> 1:03:36.200 you go into the locker room with no points or 1:03:36.240 --> 1:03:40.200 three points on the board. That's disconcerting, man, that's disheartening. 1:03:40.240 --> 1:03:42.360 I mean, everybody's looking at each other like, what the hell, 1:03:42.880 --> 1:03:43.640 what's going on? 1:03:43.800 --> 1:03:44.000 Man? 1:03:44.600 --> 1:03:47.880 You know, shoot, can't we throw the football? Can't somebody 1:03:47.920 --> 1:03:50.560 catch a football down the football field. For us, this 1:03:50.640 --> 1:03:53.560 is too hard. We're making it too hard. You know. 1:03:53.680 --> 1:03:56.840 Let's uh, let's take the burden of responsibility. Uh, you 1:03:56.840 --> 1:03:59.040 know off of us a little bit. Man, Let's uh, 1:03:59.120 --> 1:04:02.479 let's get some to me. It looks like sometimes they're 1:04:02.520 --> 1:04:05.600 just not having fun. You know. It's it's they're grinding 1:04:05.720 --> 1:04:08.760 so hard and trying so hard to do it right 1:04:09.240 --> 1:04:10.320 that it just doesn't happen. 1:04:10.440 --> 1:04:11.880 It was hard to believe. At the end of the 1:04:11.880 --> 1:04:15.800 first quarter the Bengals have been out gained one sixteen 1:04:15.880 --> 1:04:19.720 to one one yard and out possessed thirteen minutes to 1:04:19.800 --> 1:04:20.360 two minutes. 1:04:20.440 --> 1:04:21.080 Yeah, at the end of. 1:04:21.040 --> 1:04:23.320 One quarter, I'm like, that doesn't even look real. It 1:04:23.320 --> 1:04:24.760 looks like a typo on the screen. 1:04:24.880 --> 1:04:27.080 I'm telling you. During the course of the game, you know, 1:04:27.120 --> 1:04:29.640 I kept saying to Dan, like, what the heck? I 1:04:29.720 --> 1:04:32.880 mean you talk about few peopleway I mean, it was 1:04:33.080 --> 1:04:36.040 we were we're talking about it, like, what the hell 1:04:36.120 --> 1:04:38.000 is going on? You know, when are they gonna get 1:04:38.000 --> 1:04:40.520 a first down? When are they gonna move the chains? 1:04:40.920 --> 1:04:43.440 I mean, this is this is unbelievable. This is like, uh, 1:04:45.280 --> 1:04:48.280 it's not even elementary football. It was it was foreign football. 1:04:48.320 --> 1:04:52.440 It was weird the third quarter. 1:04:52.720 --> 1:04:55.840 The drive in the third quarter that went seventeen plays, 1:04:55.880 --> 1:04:57.960 which is just a thing of beauty ten minutes and 1:04:58.040 --> 1:05:00.800 fourteen seconds. And I go go back and look at that, 1:05:01.000 --> 1:05:03.680 and maybe we talk about things you can carry over 1:05:03.720 --> 1:05:06.320 into Thursday night. That drive Dave in the third quarter 1:05:06.400 --> 1:05:10.920 featured seven runs. In those seventeen plays, Brown went for 1:05:10.960 --> 1:05:13.959 five yards, Brown goes for four yards, p Ryan for two, 1:05:14.560 --> 1:05:17.919 p Ryan for six, Brown for nine, p Ryan for one, 1:05:18.080 --> 1:05:21.240 Brown for one. But the seven runs produced twenty eight 1:05:21.320 --> 1:05:26.280 yards on that drive, and maybe maybe it's something that sticks, like, oh, 1:05:26.360 --> 1:05:26.800 look at that. 1:05:26.960 --> 1:05:28.320 We stuck with it. 1:05:28.400 --> 1:05:30.240 We had our best drive of the year and seven 1:05:30.320 --> 1:05:34.200 of the fourteen plays or seventeen plays were runs. So 1:05:34.920 --> 1:05:37.040 something to hang your hat on. 1:05:37.280 --> 1:05:40.120 Yeah, I mean, I'll forever, I'll go to my grave 1:05:40.240 --> 1:05:45.360 saying you know, balance, you're looking for balance in your offense. 1:05:45.400 --> 1:05:47.760 You've got to be able to run the football at 1:05:47.800 --> 1:05:49.240 times and you have to be able to throw the 1:05:49.280 --> 1:05:52.280 football at times. Sometimes defenses are going to be well 1:05:52.320 --> 1:05:57.720 prepared and make adjustments and make amazingly good adjustments during 1:05:57.760 --> 1:06:00.240 the course of the game where it's like whoa knoct 1:06:00.240 --> 1:06:04.560 you back a little bit staggers you. You're gonna have 1:06:04.560 --> 1:06:06.560 to be able to make an adjustment along with it. 1:06:06.680 --> 1:06:10.960 And for Joe Flacco to have a seventeen play drive, 1:06:11.200 --> 1:06:13.080 I wonder how many times during the course of his 1:06:13.440 --> 1:06:17.360 story career he's had a seventeen play drive. And to 1:06:17.440 --> 1:06:20.280 do it up there again, we talked about Lambeau and 1:06:20.320 --> 1:06:23.000 how loud it is. That's a that's a heck of 1:06:23.000 --> 1:06:26.680 an accomplishment to deal with the adversity. A good football 1:06:26.720 --> 1:06:30.080 team solid, they've got really good players out there, and 1:06:30.840 --> 1:06:33.600 the crowd noise is like deafening you. You almost got 1:06:33.640 --> 1:06:35.720 a headache, it's so loud. And then you've got to 1:06:35.760 --> 1:06:41.200 sort through everything and have a seventeen play drive. That's extraordinary, 1:06:41.200 --> 1:06:41.760 it really is. 1:06:41.880 --> 1:06:44.160 I love the fact Chase Brown had his longest run 1:06:44.200 --> 1:06:45.760 of the year. It was only thirteen, but it was 1:06:45.800 --> 1:06:47.640 his longest run of the year. And if you look, 1:06:47.840 --> 1:06:50.600 I mean the overall run numbers obviously at three point 1:06:50.640 --> 1:06:53.880 four not good, right, Chase Brown carried nine times for 1:06:53.880 --> 1:06:57.720 forty two. That's four point seven. That just cries out, man, 1:06:57.760 --> 1:06:59.280 if you could, if you could stick with that a 1:06:59.320 --> 1:07:01.600 little bit more. There was a moment in the second quarter. 1:07:02.440 --> 1:07:05.360 They have it third and two on their own forty five, 1:07:05.800 --> 1:07:09.360 and I'm thinking, man, I know, I like I call 1:07:09.480 --> 1:07:11.880 time out and bring my offensive line over and say, guys, 1:07:12.080 --> 1:07:13.880 we're gonna run it the next two times it's on 1:07:13.960 --> 1:07:15.720 and we're gonna get two yards. And if we don't 1:07:15.720 --> 1:07:17.520 get two yards, then you guys can find your own 1:07:17.560 --> 1:07:18.000 way home. 1:07:18.080 --> 1:07:18.280 Right. 1:07:18.400 --> 1:07:22.600 But and then they have Joe throw in Tanner Hudson 1:07:22.600 --> 1:07:25.160 I think loses three on the catch. Yeah, but I 1:07:25.400 --> 1:07:27.400 look at those moments that you're the offensive line, and 1:07:27.520 --> 1:07:31.160 those moments to me just cry out, make your offensive 1:07:31.200 --> 1:07:33.120 line give them something. 1:07:33.080 --> 1:07:33.720 As a goal. 1:07:33.880 --> 1:07:36.640 Guys get this first down on third and two and 1:07:36.680 --> 1:07:38.360 you got two plays to do it on our own 1:07:38.400 --> 1:07:40.680 forty two. And I think that would mean something to 1:07:40.760 --> 1:07:41.640 an offensive line. 1:07:41.680 --> 1:07:45.600 Absolutely. What it would mean is you've got the respect 1:07:45.600 --> 1:07:48.479 of the coaches. You know. It's like, okay, third and two, 1:07:49.200 --> 1:07:51.960 this is automatic. Man. We know, we know you come 1:07:52.000 --> 1:07:54.120 off the line of scrimming and knock people around. We 1:07:54.160 --> 1:07:56.920 know you're gonna knock them back. We have full confidence 1:07:56.920 --> 1:07:59.720 in this. We're not even considering anything else. We're gonna 1:07:59.760 --> 1:08:01.960 run the ball. We'renna run it right between the tackles. Boys, 1:08:01.960 --> 1:08:07.080 here we go, broom get stuffed. You know that that 1:08:07.320 --> 1:08:12.520 just uh, that's unsettling, to say the least. And then 1:08:12.800 --> 1:08:16.120 when when the opposition does that to your defense, yep, 1:08:16.200 --> 1:08:18.960 you know it gets the third and two and you think, okay, guys, 1:08:18.960 --> 1:08:21.120 hey get ready, here we go, we're going back. Maybe not, 1:08:21.280 --> 1:08:24.479 you know, let's let's not get too ready because we 1:08:24.479 --> 1:08:27.080 haven't stopped him on third and two yet the whole game. 1:08:27.160 --> 1:08:29.960 So those are the kind of things that have to 1:08:30.400 --> 1:08:33.519 the worm has to turn quickly in those dynamics. 1:08:33.560 --> 1:08:35.759 And Hick the one run I think it was Chase 1:08:35.800 --> 1:08:38.200 Brown the one run he gets stood up, but the 1:08:38.240 --> 1:08:40.960 pile keeps getting pushed. It was like a big rugby scrum, 1:08:41.200 --> 1:08:43.960 I want to say, for seven eight nine yards And 1:08:44.000 --> 1:08:46.320 I'm thinking it was so cool to see and there 1:08:46.400 --> 1:08:49.280 was so much physicality on that play, like guys keep 1:08:49.360 --> 1:08:53.519 pushing it. I'm like, yes, that it showed you you 1:08:53.560 --> 1:08:56.320 can do. Just stick with it and see you may 1:08:56.560 --> 1:08:58.360 you may run your head into the wall a couple 1:08:58.400 --> 1:09:01.479 of times, but you know how to eventually the damn breaks. 1:09:01.840 --> 1:09:04.840 You built some momentum and confidence and everything starts clicking. 1:09:05.000 --> 1:09:10.000 Yeah, And honestly, I thought yesterday might have been the 1:09:10.000 --> 1:09:14.200 most physical game they play overall, you know, offense, defense, 1:09:14.280 --> 1:09:17.280 and special teams, all three phases that they all had 1:09:17.320 --> 1:09:20.360 their moments and then they had moments of disappointment and 1:09:21.280 --> 1:09:24.320 ineffective play. That's for sure. It certainly was not perfect, 1:09:24.800 --> 1:09:28.479 far from perfect. But you know, maybe the worms turning 1:09:28.520 --> 1:09:30.080 a little bit in the graphs are going up. 1:09:30.240 --> 1:09:33.080 I would take that absolutely. We'll head down the stretch 1:09:33.120 --> 1:09:35.920 in our second hour tonight. Thanks for tagging along with 1:09:36.000 --> 1:09:38.840 us tonight for the Bengals Conversation. We do it on 1:09:38.880 --> 1:09:42.880 Bengals Line and the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. 1:09:45.680 --> 1:09:47.800 All right, we are cruising down the stretch, about to 1:09:47.800 --> 1:09:50.080 put our number two in the books tonight on Bengals 1:09:50.120 --> 1:09:52.920 Line and the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. 1:09:53.040 --> 1:09:56.080 Lancemcallister and Dave Lapham. We were talking about the Bengals 1:09:56.120 --> 1:09:57.720 running the ball. Let's flip it back to the other 1:09:57.760 --> 1:09:59.280 side day for the Bengals are gonna have to be 1:09:59.320 --> 1:10:02.799 better at stopping the run. Green Bay pounds it thirty 1:10:02.840 --> 1:10:05.160 three times for one hundred and fifty three yards, and 1:10:05.200 --> 1:10:07.879 you know darn well that Mike Tomlin and The Steelers 1:10:07.920 --> 1:10:10.439 are not going to shy away from pounding the football. 1:10:10.520 --> 1:10:14.040 Even with limited success early, They're gonna keep coming at you. 1:10:14.080 --> 1:10:16.040 The Bengals got to figure out a way to clean 1:10:16.080 --> 1:10:16.639 that up. 1:10:16.640 --> 1:10:19.639 No doubt. I mean, Mike Tomlin and his coaching staff 1:10:19.960 --> 1:10:22.320 on the offensive side of things, looking at that tape 1:10:22.320 --> 1:10:25.439 and like, all right, thirty three times for over one 1:10:25.479 --> 1:10:28.519 hundred and fifty yards, that's us. That's Pittsburgh steel of football. 1:10:28.600 --> 1:10:32.639 Let's go do it. Let's replicate that. And Pittsburgh's always 1:10:32.640 --> 1:10:35.599 had a big, physical offensive line. Those dudes all hit 1:10:35.640 --> 1:10:38.679 the weight room, man, They've they've all got guns, man. 1:10:38.720 --> 1:10:43.040 They've all all been doing their curls and their bench presses, 1:10:43.080 --> 1:10:46.080 and they get strong legs as well. I mean they 1:10:46.080 --> 1:10:49.240 come off the football and they knock people back, and 1:10:49.520 --> 1:10:54.519 they have multiple schematics in their run game. They'll they'll 1:10:54.880 --> 1:10:58.919 pin and pull trap you. They'll run counters, they'll run sweeps, 1:10:59.360 --> 1:11:02.280 they'll run you know, just dive plays and uh, you know, 1:11:02.360 --> 1:11:08.120 straight line blocking patterns between the tackles. So the Bengals 1:11:08.400 --> 1:11:11.040 al golden and the Cincinnati Bengals defensive unit is going 1:11:11.080 --> 1:11:14.880 to have a plethra of run scheme to digest and 1:11:15.320 --> 1:11:17.519 understand and be able to react to. 1:11:18.040 --> 1:11:20.800 And David goes back to what we talked about last week, 1:11:20.880 --> 1:11:24.080 and if you can run the ball, the ability to 1:11:24.160 --> 1:11:27.120 tick time off the clock, kill the clock, keep your 1:11:27.800 --> 1:11:30.479 is just keep your defense out of jeopardy, keep them 1:11:30.479 --> 1:11:33.040 on the sidelines, establish a run, work on the clock, 1:11:33.360 --> 1:11:36.679 matriculate the ball down the field, wear the other team down. 1:11:36.800 --> 1:11:38.599 There's just so much that happens. 1:11:39.280 --> 1:11:41.800 It's so simple, but there's so much good that can 1:11:41.800 --> 1:11:44.160 happen when you can run the ball, and so much 1:11:44.200 --> 1:11:46.480 it does to damage the opposition. 1:11:46.560 --> 1:11:50.040 It's just, oh yeah, man, I hear you. I agree 1:11:50.040 --> 1:11:54.240 with you one hundred thou Marvin Lewis was right next 1:11:54.240 --> 1:11:58.360 to us during the broadcast. He was doing a cable 1:11:58.400 --> 1:12:02.320 television broadcast, and UH talk to him a little bit 1:12:02.360 --> 1:12:04.800 before the game, and and he always talked about when 1:12:04.800 --> 1:12:07.439 he was a coach of the Bengals. Look, we have 1:12:07.479 --> 1:12:10.360 to build an identity. We have to establish an identity, 1:12:10.560 --> 1:12:13.640 and I want that identity to be physical physicality. I 1:12:13.680 --> 1:12:16.280 want that to be a f C. That time a 1:12:16.400 --> 1:12:19.040 f C Central, but now it's AFC North. I want 1:12:19.040 --> 1:12:21.439 that to every every other team in the league is 1:12:21.479 --> 1:12:22.680 going to be oh man, We've got to go to 1:12:22.720 --> 1:12:25.200 that division and play those guys. You know, it's like 1:12:25.920 --> 1:12:28.719 they know they're in for a very very long day 1:12:29.120 --> 1:12:31.639 in terms of knocking heads and uh and and getting 1:12:31.640 --> 1:12:36.520 after people. So but you know, you go into Pittsburgh, 1:12:36.880 --> 1:12:39.719 Mike Tomlin is gonna do two things. Run the ball. 1:12:40.040 --> 1:12:44.160 Stop the run. He believes that's the beginning of of 1:12:44.280 --> 1:12:47.599 everything that that goes on on either side of the football. 1:12:47.640 --> 1:12:52.160 And he he's a he's a guy that uh loves 1:12:52.160 --> 1:12:55.240 the game of football, loves the physicality of the game 1:12:55.240 --> 1:12:57.240 of football, and he instills that in his players. 1:12:57.439 --> 1:12:59.040 And I I go back to what you said about 1:12:59.040 --> 1:13:01.920 Matt Lafleur. Matt floor is a young, bright mind in 1:13:01.960 --> 1:13:05.439 the game. And yet he understood he's got a young 1:13:06.120 --> 1:13:09.560 stud quarterback and Georgiana Love. And yet he got a 1:13:09.640 --> 1:13:12.559 win with his quarterback only throwing at twenty six times 1:13:12.960 --> 1:13:15.879 because his offense was able to run at effectively thirty 1:13:15.920 --> 1:13:18.000 three times. What a what a world to live in 1:13:18.040 --> 1:13:20.559 if you're Jordan Love, where you can just drop back 1:13:20.600 --> 1:13:23.360 to past twenty six times, have your very productive two 1:13:23.439 --> 1:13:25.680 hundred and fifty nine yard day and a touchdown, and 1:13:25.760 --> 1:13:28.840 watch your offense click on the ground and win time 1:13:28.840 --> 1:13:30.240 of possession, and that. 1:13:30.240 --> 1:13:32.479 Those numbers you just read right there remind me of 1:13:32.520 --> 1:13:36.360 Mike Tomlin with Ben Roethlisberger. Yes, I mean the same thing, yep. 1:13:36.439 --> 1:13:38.200 I mean you got a guy that can throw the 1:13:38.200 --> 1:13:42.479 football like Ben Roethlisberger. But first things first, we're gonna 1:13:42.479 --> 1:13:45.800 pound the rock. We're gonna anchor you, We're gonna let 1:13:45.840 --> 1:13:48.479 you know that we're here to play football today, and 1:13:48.800 --> 1:13:50.920 you better get ready because here we come. 1:13:51.280 --> 1:13:53.320 Here, we come with our number three tonight at a 1:13:53.360 --> 1:13:55.000 busy third hour. You're gonna hear a little bit more 1:13:55.040 --> 1:13:57.599 from Zach, from Joe Flacco. We're gonna hear fun facts 1:13:57.600 --> 1:14:00.400 with Will Wagner, even a little bit of Mike Tom's 1:14:00.400 --> 1:14:03.400 thoughts on yesterday's win for the Steelers as we head 1:14:03.479 --> 1:14:05.800 down the stretch to the eight o'clock hour. 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Will eventually turn this hour into the 1:14:42.520 --> 1:14:45.120 more of the Pittsburgh Steelers as we head down the stretch. 1:14:45.479 --> 1:14:46.520 I'm Lance McAllister. 1:14:46.720 --> 1:14:50.240 He is Dave Lapham and hey, Bengals fans, make sure 1:14:50.280 --> 1:14:52.839 to catch me and Dan Horde every Wednesday this season 1:14:52.880 --> 1:14:55.840 for Bengals game Plan presented by Bud Light on the 1:14:55.880 --> 1:14:59.560 air from six to eight pm on ESPN fifteen thirty. 1:14:59.360 --> 1:15:02.920 Twenty seven eighteen. The final yesterday. Here's more from Zach 1:15:03.040 --> 1:15:05.840 on what happened and what's ahead for this football team. 1:15:05.960 --> 1:15:06.680 Right, you know, just. 1:15:08.320 --> 1:15:12.640 Sick after that loss because Ea chaff You know, I 1:15:12.840 --> 1:15:14.800 thought the defense in the first half gave us a chance. 1:15:14.840 --> 1:15:18.040 The offense had those four possessions that Dendre generated any 1:15:18.080 --> 1:15:20.559 offense and give us a chance there to take a lead, 1:15:20.640 --> 1:15:22.840 take a tie into halftime, and then second half offense 1:15:22.920 --> 1:15:25.639 came out. I thought played well, and you know, defense 1:15:25.680 --> 1:15:28.240 just couldn't couldn't quite get off the field. So when 1:15:28.240 --> 1:15:30.439 we talked about complimentary football, that's what we're talking about. 1:15:30.560 --> 1:15:34.679 And it wasn't overall good enough. You see pieces that 1:15:34.680 --> 1:15:37.479 that we can lean into and continue to grow. But 1:15:37.479 --> 1:15:39.920 but losing this game on the road, there's no conservation there. 1:15:39.960 --> 1:15:41.920 We expected to win. I thought we should have won 1:15:41.960 --> 1:15:44.160 the game. Credit to them, they did all the things 1:15:44.200 --> 1:15:46.400 that they needed to do to get this win, and 1:15:46.720 --> 1:15:49.040 we just we came up short. And that's just a 1:15:49.120 --> 1:15:50.840 cumulative tam effort over the course of the game. 1:15:51.680 --> 1:15:52.360 Xach Colene of. 1:15:52.400 --> 1:15:56.759 The early struggles offensively, but was just getting Joe getting used. 1:15:56.600 --> 1:15:58.320 To being out there his first time playing. 1:15:58.360 --> 1:15:59.840 You accounted some of that to that. 1:16:00.240 --> 1:16:00.760 I don't want to. 1:16:00.760 --> 1:16:02.360 I don't want to put it there. You know, I 1:16:02.360 --> 1:16:04.400 thought he was definitely ready as he came in the game, 1:16:04.479 --> 1:16:07.000 and and just part of it is you hear me 1:16:07.000 --> 1:16:08.800 say a lot, getting that first first down and getting 1:16:08.800 --> 1:16:10.760 the flow there, and we went three for three three 1:16:10.760 --> 1:16:13.920 and outs and those first four drafts, and I think 1:16:14.520 --> 1:16:16.800 before the half that certainly gave us some confidence. Even 1:16:16.800 --> 1:16:18.640 though we came up with no points. We got into 1:16:18.680 --> 1:16:20.439 a rhythm. We found some things in the past game 1:16:20.800 --> 1:16:22.559 we were able to compliment it with a run game. 1:16:22.960 --> 1:16:26.000 So we fell coming into halftime. The defense had done 1:16:26.120 --> 1:16:28.080 enough to keep us in that game. Whenknew getting the 1:16:28.080 --> 1:16:29.800 ball to start the half, we're gonna have a shot there, 1:16:29.800 --> 1:16:32.680 and so I definitely think we walked into halftime with 1:16:32.800 --> 1:16:35.040 some confidence, as loud asy as it is to say 1:16:35.040 --> 1:16:37.000 that with zero points on the board, but that was 1:16:37.040 --> 1:16:38.880 the truth, and you definitely saw that coming out in 1:16:38.920 --> 1:16:43.679 the second half. There was rhythm well, just again getting 1:16:43.680 --> 1:16:46.040 the getting the first first out, and I felt like 1:16:46.080 --> 1:16:47.920 we had a good plan coming out, good flow. We 1:16:47.920 --> 1:16:49.280 were able to get some of the stuff we wanted 1:16:49.280 --> 1:16:51.160 to get to. Early in the game, we just didn't 1:16:51.160 --> 1:16:53.120 have any place, you know, we had we had really 1:16:53.120 --> 1:16:55.400 no normal down plays. I felt like maybe four or five, 1:16:55.960 --> 1:16:57.439 So you don't get a chance all this stuff, your 1:16:57.479 --> 1:16:59.760 game plan you're ready for, you don't. You just can't 1:16:59.760 --> 1:17:01.439 act it until you get that first down and get 1:17:01.439 --> 1:17:03.280 into a flow. In the second half, we were able 1:17:03.320 --> 1:17:05.000 to do that a little bit more and the guys 1:17:05.000 --> 1:17:06.400 were feeling it. They came off the ball and they 1:17:06.400 --> 1:17:11.439 played well for us. I think that was that says 1:17:11.439 --> 1:17:12.960 more about Barrett than anything else. 1:17:13.120 --> 1:17:13.320 You know. 1:17:13.360 --> 1:17:16.840 It's Barrett has just been an ascending player and it's 1:17:16.880 --> 1:17:18.160 time to see what he can do, you know, in 1:17:18.200 --> 1:17:20.559 a full time role. You know, we've given him bits 1:17:20.600 --> 1:17:22.479 and pieces over time, and and it's just time to 1:17:22.520 --> 1:17:23.479 throw them in the fire. 1:17:23.439 --> 1:17:23.880 Let him go. 1:17:24.200 --> 1:17:27.439 And Ocan still got his role, he'll play. I got 1:17:27.439 --> 1:17:29.240 a lot of confidence in Logan as well. This was 1:17:29.280 --> 1:17:32.000 just more about giving Barrett an opportunity to see to 1:17:32.040 --> 1:17:34.479 see how much potential we can get out of MS 1:17:34.479 --> 1:17:35.160 the season gets going. 1:17:36.760 --> 1:17:37.800 He was definitely ready for it. 1:17:37.880 --> 1:17:40.200 Yeah, yeah, I mean, obviously I can't assess the play 1:17:40.280 --> 1:17:43.000 right now without without seeing it. But his mindset has 1:17:43.000 --> 1:17:45.800 always been one that I believed in, and I thought 1:17:45.800 --> 1:17:47.360 he had a great mentality all week and and then 1:17:47.400 --> 1:17:49.080 obviously we'll assess the tape and see how it went. 1:17:50.840 --> 1:17:55.880 And Trey was a bad contusion and Kissecki was a 1:17:55.920 --> 1:17:57.519 pack I don't know how serious either one. 1:17:57.400 --> 1:17:59.680 Of them were. 1:18:01.040 --> 1:18:03.479 I thought certainly he had a lot of confidence, got 1:18:03.520 --> 1:18:06.360 into a rhythm. There's time where you getting those games 1:18:06.360 --> 1:18:08.720 where you're having to throw the ball there at the 1:18:08.800 --> 1:18:10.960 end to get back in it. 1:18:10.960 --> 1:18:12.759 It's not all stuff that's on the call sheet. 1:18:12.880 --> 1:18:14.400 I mean we're having add a lib a little bit 1:18:14.720 --> 1:18:17.360 as you were exploring how they're playing our guys. 1:18:17.840 --> 1:18:19.280 You have to adjust as the game goes. 1:18:19.560 --> 1:18:22.479 I thought he did an unbelievable job handling that just 1:18:22.560 --> 1:18:25.000 a description of a play at times, and he just 1:18:25.000 --> 1:18:27.320 made it work and found ways to get the balls 1:18:27.360 --> 1:18:29.080 to our guys, you know, and he knows where to 1:18:29.120 --> 1:18:30.080 find Jamar and tea and. 1:18:30.720 --> 1:18:34.439 Five days from the trade to start or encoursed by 1:18:34.479 --> 1:18:35.080 the chemistry. 1:18:35.360 --> 1:18:38.040 Yeah, I think you have to be. I mean, we're 1:18:38.080 --> 1:18:40.160 disappointed we didn't win the game. We didn't come here 1:18:40.200 --> 1:18:42.479 to lose the game. We came in here with enough 1:18:43.400 --> 1:18:45.760 to win. And I think if obviously, if we've done 1:18:45.760 --> 1:18:48.720 a better job complimenting each other, better job with the 1:18:48.720 --> 1:18:51.800 field position battle, we would have given ourselves a much 1:18:51.840 --> 1:18:55.839 better opportunity. Turnovers one and nothing, penalties we had three. 1:18:56.200 --> 1:18:57.479 I mean a lot of things. We came in here 1:18:57.520 --> 1:18:58.680 and said we're going to have to do to win 1:18:58.720 --> 1:19:02.920 the game. We did and we just again it was 1:19:02.920 --> 1:19:05.479 it was it was too little in each half, by 1:19:05.560 --> 1:19:06.200 by each unit. 1:19:06.240 --> 1:19:11.120 There the final drive of eating tomorrow A lot for. 1:19:11.080 --> 1:19:14.360 A better term. Yeah, I thought he did a great job. 1:19:14.600 --> 1:19:18.200 He did a great job with the protections, did a 1:19:18.240 --> 1:19:20.200 great job handling the whole offense. And that's that's a 1:19:20.240 --> 1:19:23.680 credit to him, and it's you can't just walk in 1:19:23.720 --> 1:19:25.880 there with nothing, you know, and going to Lambeau and 1:19:26.160 --> 1:19:28.160 expect to meet the Green Bay Packers with nothing. So 1:19:29.120 --> 1:19:31.200 we tried to find ways to get as much in 1:19:31.240 --> 1:19:33.640 as we could, and we were able to do that 1:19:33.680 --> 1:19:36.320 because the confidence that he really gave us each day 1:19:36.320 --> 1:19:38.719 that passed as he recided the play calls and meetings 1:19:38.720 --> 1:19:41.400 and in practice he was handling it all. And I 1:19:41.400 --> 1:19:43.400 know he's played a lot of ball, but it doesn't matter, 1:19:43.520 --> 1:19:44.679 you know, when you go in here and you're learning 1:19:44.680 --> 1:19:47.400 a new offense and new receivers, and you know, Jamar 1:19:47.640 --> 1:19:49.840 really was was limited, you know, two of the days 1:19:49.880 --> 1:19:52.360 this week, and you know that's to go out there 1:19:52.360 --> 1:19:54.040 and have that sort of connection, it's pretty impressive. 1:19:57.040 --> 1:20:00.760 It's very common thread that your biggers learned about the 1:20:00.760 --> 1:20:01.920 most of why they are. 1:20:03.520 --> 1:20:07.080 Yeah, I think that's the best way to say it, 1:20:07.160 --> 1:20:09.800 you know, is it's hard to say there's a common thread. 1:20:09.920 --> 1:20:11.920 The common thread is we're not scoring and we're not 1:20:11.960 --> 1:20:15.320 moving the ball well enough to say that each game 1:20:15.360 --> 1:20:17.400 has been the same. It is not true. You know, 1:20:17.479 --> 1:20:22.519 one game with turnovers, another game's penalties. This one, we 1:20:22.640 --> 1:20:26.120 just we just lacked rhythm early on and just got 1:20:26.120 --> 1:20:27.080 to find a way to start faster. 1:20:27.120 --> 1:20:29.479 There go ahead, just as animated as a senior after 1:20:29.520 --> 1:20:30.040 the two. 1:20:29.920 --> 1:20:32.640 Wins, and well, we just we had a hope. We 1:20:32.640 --> 1:20:33.519 expected to win the game. 1:20:33.600 --> 1:20:35.559 You know, when you come here to Lambo and you 1:20:35.640 --> 1:20:37.519 put pressure on them, you know, you go, you go 1:20:37.600 --> 1:20:41.240 for two, make it down six, And now they got 1:20:41.240 --> 1:20:42.920 pressure on them, and so I think it just gave 1:20:42.920 --> 1:20:45.880 our team some energy, gave me confidence that we're gonna 1:20:45.880 --> 1:20:47.640 win the game. When that stuff happens for us, you 1:20:47.720 --> 1:20:49.479 just you feel like we're gonna go win. And so 1:20:49.960 --> 1:20:54.000 I think that's just frustrated right now because we we 1:20:54.000 --> 1:20:56.000 we weren't able to pull out. And these guys are 1:20:56.000 --> 1:20:57.920 deserved that this is This is a team I know 1:20:57.960 --> 1:21:00.040 we've we've lost several games in a row. Now we 1:21:00.080 --> 1:21:03.080 don't feel that and I mean this is a positive thing. 1:21:03.400 --> 1:21:06.639 These guys expect to win. They believe in each other. 1:21:07.320 --> 1:21:09.600 We are going to break through and we are going 1:21:09.680 --> 1:21:11.200 to be in the thick of this thing and we 1:21:11.240 --> 1:21:14.320 are going to find some wins. We're gonna hang tight together, 1:21:14.760 --> 1:21:16.519 and it's gonna come sooner rather than later. 1:21:16.520 --> 1:21:18.280 I can promise you that. And you just know, just 1:21:18.320 --> 1:21:20.000 looking at these guys and what they're made of. 1:21:19.960 --> 1:21:22.599 And the lack of finger pointing, and the accountability they've 1:21:22.600 --> 1:21:24.160 all had, and the confidence in. 1:21:24.120 --> 1:21:24.960 The house, all having each other. 1:21:25.000 --> 1:21:27.920 We just had a tough stretch and we haven't created 1:21:27.960 --> 1:21:30.439 the plays that we need to create to win the game. 1:21:30.520 --> 1:21:32.760 But I've been around long enough to know that we 1:21:32.840 --> 1:21:37.000 have the ingredients and we're gonna figure it out, and 1:21:37.040 --> 1:21:38.600 we're gonna find a way to be right in the 1:21:38.640 --> 1:21:40.640 thick of this thing when it matters. 1:21:40.400 --> 1:21:44.559 Most ninety six hours or so, what was your message? 1:21:45.360 --> 1:21:46.920 You don't have a lot of time to lick your 1:21:46.920 --> 1:21:49.519 wounds here. You know, it's it's more of a mental 1:21:49.560 --> 1:21:52.760 week this week. But what a tremendous opportunity. Look at 1:21:52.800 --> 1:21:55.800 where our division's at. What a tremendous opportunity to go 1:21:55.800 --> 1:21:57.920 get the team that's leading it right now, and our 1:21:57.960 --> 1:22:00.320 first opportunity at home in prime time. They got a 1:22:00.320 --> 1:22:02.559 short week, We got a short week, So it's it's 1:22:02.600 --> 1:22:04.920 a fair playing field, and and they're gonna come in 1:22:04.960 --> 1:22:07.360 here with a lot of confidence obviously the way that 1:22:07.400 --> 1:22:10.080 they've won their games, and we're gonna find a way 1:22:10.080 --> 1:22:12.640 to get up for it and do everything we can 1:22:12.680 --> 1:22:13.160 to find a win. 1:22:13.280 --> 1:22:16.440 Do you think that's second hand can. 1:22:15.960 --> 1:22:16.840 Potentially turn. 1:22:19.200 --> 1:22:21.160 Yeah, I think it's got more of a chance to 1:22:21.200 --> 1:22:23.519 do that than not. You know, when when you've you've 1:22:23.560 --> 1:22:26.720 got confidence. I'm careful because we didn't. We didn't do 1:22:26.840 --> 1:22:29.840 enough to win there, but but there is confidence on 1:22:30.000 --> 1:22:32.720 offense with Joe just showing up that that we can 1:22:32.760 --> 1:22:35.080 continue to play off that'll we entirely do different defense, 1:22:35.120 --> 1:22:37.320 different structure, and again we just got to come together 1:22:37.360 --> 1:22:38.559 as a team, figure it out and find a way 1:22:38.560 --> 1:22:38.760 to win. 1:22:40.280 --> 1:22:42.240 Two specific players. 1:22:42.280 --> 1:22:45.880 While Mars touchdown, which team this kind. 1:22:45.720 --> 1:22:50.479 Of Yeah, I thought DJ showed up big time. I 1:22:50.560 --> 1:22:52.040 thought he made a lot of players on the ball. 1:22:52.640 --> 1:22:54.840 He operates with a lot of confidence, he practices hard, 1:22:54.920 --> 1:22:57.360 it's important to him. We've seen a lot of leadership 1:22:57.400 --> 1:23:00.600 qualities from him, and so I was was excited to 1:23:00.640 --> 1:23:03.360 see DJ. I'm not surprised. I was excited, not surprised 1:23:04.080 --> 1:23:05.760 that he did a great job getting Sands some balls 1:23:05.760 --> 1:23:06.240 and he was there. 1:23:06.280 --> 1:23:07.080 It's the key moments. 1:23:07.840 --> 1:23:10.960 Jama's touchdown catch is unbelievable, you know, it's it's really 1:23:12.360 --> 1:23:14.400 I can't even tell you the description of the route 1:23:14.479 --> 1:23:16.679 we ran there, because that was one of those here's 1:23:16.720 --> 1:23:18.160 what he's gonna do, and let's do it and I'll 1:23:18.200 --> 1:23:19.760 see how it played out. I know they had, you know, 1:23:19.880 --> 1:23:22.040 tight coverage underneath and the safety leaning over the top, 1:23:22.120 --> 1:23:24.599 and Joe gave me a chance and somehow Joe Jamar 1:23:24.760 --> 1:23:26.519 just found a way to make a huge play for 1:23:26.680 --> 1:23:28.479 us that that again gave us a lot of energy 1:23:28.479 --> 1:23:33.640 and gave us a chance. Yeah, I'm careful with the 1:23:33.680 --> 1:23:36.680 silver lining because our expectation is not to be in 1:23:36.720 --> 1:23:39.200 the spot we're in right now, but it's where we are, 1:23:39.439 --> 1:23:41.679 and so we we have to continue to move forward 1:23:42.160 --> 1:23:46.559 and the way it's shaken out, we're still right there 1:23:46.680 --> 1:23:49.240 with the perfect opportunity in front of us. So our 1:23:49.280 --> 1:23:51.760 guys understand that you don't have to I don't feel 1:23:51.760 --> 1:23:54.000 like I got a tiptoe around how I say everything. Hey, 1:23:54.120 --> 1:23:56.720 we're we're we've we've lost several games in a row 1:23:56.840 --> 1:23:58.720 and we're still a good team. 1:23:58.720 --> 1:24:00.160 I don't feel like you have to tip, So you 1:24:00.160 --> 1:24:02.080 don't have to treat them like that. They understand. 1:24:02.400 --> 1:24:03.120 They know what we have. 1:24:04.240 --> 1:24:07.320 I know it's probably dark outside the building, but they 1:24:07.360 --> 1:24:09.439 don't really feel that. I think there's a lot of 1:24:09.479 --> 1:24:11.320 confidence here that we're the team that we set out 1:24:11.360 --> 1:24:13.760 to be in training camp in the off season, and 1:24:14.120 --> 1:24:16.439 we're gonna find those opportunities and we'll be right there 1:24:16.640 --> 1:24:17.480 when it matters. 1:24:17.240 --> 1:24:21.120 Most Zach Taylor Assessing yesterday and looking ahead to Thursday night. 1:24:21.200 --> 1:24:23.360 We'll look ahead the Steelers more in depth as we 1:24:23.439 --> 1:24:26.439 continue Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network in seven 1:24:26.520 --> 1:24:28.160 hundred WLW. 1:24:31.040 --> 1:24:33.360 Good Coach for the Bengals Coach of the Week presented 1:24:33.400 --> 1:24:36.200 by pay Corps Visit Bengals dot Com Slash Coach of 1:24:36.240 --> 1:24:36.479 the Week. 1:24:36.560 --> 1:24:39.599 Let's get more perspective on yesterday's performance from the new guy, 1:24:39.760 --> 1:24:41.960 Joe Flacco after the game with the media. 1:24:42.200 --> 1:24:44.720 Well, I thought as an offense, we settled in, you know, 1:24:44.800 --> 1:24:46.560 probably sometime in the second quarter, and not that we 1:24:46.680 --> 1:24:48.200 were able to get over the hump in that quarter, 1:24:48.280 --> 1:24:51.280 but we we came out and played a good a 1:24:51.360 --> 1:24:55.040 good second half, you know. But usually against a good 1:24:55.040 --> 1:24:58.080 football team, it's playing one good half isn't going to 1:24:58.120 --> 1:24:59.720 be good enough. But we gave ourselves a chance down 1:24:59.760 --> 1:25:01.800 the end, and and I think we did some good things, 1:25:01.920 --> 1:25:06.720 but just not enough early on. Oh listen, I think 1:25:06.720 --> 1:25:08.519 we settled down a little bit, started getting a little 1:25:08.520 --> 1:25:10.160 girthm I think that first drive really helped. I mean, 1:25:10.200 --> 1:25:12.360 anytime you can keep a defense, it's not easy when 1:25:12.360 --> 1:25:14.679 you have to go twenty plays to score a touchdown, 1:25:14.800 --> 1:25:17.040 but anytime you can keep a defense on the field 1:25:17.080 --> 1:25:19.320 that long, it is to your advantage. I think you 1:25:19.360 --> 1:25:21.320 can wear them out a little bit. And you know, 1:25:21.400 --> 1:25:23.920 we it's not like we ran the ball for a 1:25:23.960 --> 1:25:25.759 ton of yards. We did have some pretty good runs 1:25:26.040 --> 1:25:28.519 in terms for first down conversions, and you know, you 1:25:28.560 --> 1:25:30.560 could start to you could start to feel the physicality 1:25:30.680 --> 1:25:33.040 of of of us kind of pick up as the 1:25:33.120 --> 1:25:34.600 game went on the. 1:25:34.600 --> 1:25:38.800 Run, like you still getting used to be on a 1:25:38.880 --> 1:25:39.280 new team. 1:25:39.439 --> 1:25:42.760 I probably settled down a little bit, for sure. I 1:25:42.800 --> 1:25:44.960 thought that there was at least one or two where 1:25:44.960 --> 1:25:48.479 I where I could have taken just quicker the short one. 1:25:49.400 --> 1:25:51.240 But also, listen, they're a good defense, you know, so 1:25:51.320 --> 1:25:53.000 you got to give them a little bit of credit. 1:25:53.080 --> 1:25:57.880 And it's just kind of how it was that. 1:26:00.920 --> 1:26:02.920 Make that catch that you want to catch, man makes 1:26:03.000 --> 1:26:05.000 that catch for you then you make me two points. 1:26:05.120 --> 1:26:09.400 Yeah that listen, you're still I mean, after after the 1:26:09.520 --> 1:26:11.840 two point version, I was pretty pumped up. But in 1:26:11.960 --> 1:26:15.880 the moment, you're just trying to keep it simple. Take 1:26:15.960 --> 1:26:17.639 it for what it played, one play at a time. 1:26:19.200 --> 1:26:19.519 Yuh y. 1:26:19.640 --> 1:26:21.040 You know, I kind of kept telling myself that on 1:26:21.080 --> 1:26:23.360 the sideline today. You know, don't get don't get too 1:26:23.439 --> 1:26:27.360 high in this environment. Just kind of no matter what 1:26:27.479 --> 1:26:30.559 the scoreboard says and and what's going on, just remember 1:26:30.600 --> 1:26:33.400 to keep continue to play each play and and look, 1:26:33.439 --> 1:26:35.000 I mean there's a league if you if you're able 1:26:35.040 --> 1:26:37.439 to do that consistently, then you're gonna put yourself in 1:26:37.479 --> 1:26:38.080 it down the stretch. 1:26:38.200 --> 1:26:40.640 What any difference do you've seen how that Jamor and 1:26:41.080 --> 1:26:42.320 your game games and catch? 1:26:44.080 --> 1:26:46.840 Yeah, yeah, I mean I I came over the sideline 1:26:46.840 --> 1:26:48.760 a couple of times. It was telling Jake like just 1:26:48.800 --> 1:26:50.760 the way they plucked the ball out of the air, 1:26:51.040 --> 1:26:53.080 like I threw a I threw like a quick out 1:26:53.120 --> 1:26:57.040 route to j to to Jamar and I didn't get 1:26:57.040 --> 1:26:59.040 the ball great and it it was like a an 1:26:59.080 --> 1:27:02.040 awful spiral and he still just caught it like with 1:27:02.200 --> 1:27:04.519 both hands. And then the one one that I can 1:27:04.560 --> 1:27:06.760 think about to t uh. We hit 'em on a 1:27:07.120 --> 1:27:10.080 like little like inside slant route for a third down 1:27:10.400 --> 1:27:12.160 on I think on that first drive of the second half, 1:27:13.439 --> 1:27:14.960 and a lot of guys would go down and kind 1:27:14.960 --> 1:27:16.519 of catch it with their body and slide and and 1:27:16.640 --> 1:27:18.320 he just plucked it right out of the air with 1:27:18.520 --> 1:27:19.080 with both hands. 1:27:19.120 --> 1:27:20.679 It's pretty impressive to see those guys. 1:27:20.520 --> 1:27:23.360 Go fourth down. That was that an act with. 1:27:25.000 --> 1:27:28.439 Too fourth down for the touchdown? Which one was that 1:27:28.479 --> 1:27:29.479 the one in the back of the end zone? 1:27:29.520 --> 1:27:29.640 Oh? 1:27:29.680 --> 1:27:29.920 The one? 1:27:30.000 --> 1:27:31.120 The uh the one that you're married? 1:27:31.320 --> 1:27:32.240 Were they both fourth down? 1:27:32.439 --> 1:27:32.639 Yep? 1:27:35.040 --> 1:27:35.160 Uh? 1:27:35.439 --> 1:27:37.519 They came up and pressed him. We had, you know, 1:27:37.720 --> 1:27:39.600 so we had we we we we were able to 1:27:39.640 --> 1:27:42.840 take a shot. And I mean listen, obviously, when when 1:27:42.880 --> 1:27:45.000 he gets one on one, you y y y, you'd 1:27:45.080 --> 1:27:48.240 be you know, I think you'd be wrong a lot 1:27:48.320 --> 1:27:51.840 to not go his way. Obviously, you're jumping into an 1:27:52.479 --> 1:27:56.160 a team in a situations the fourth loss. You have 1:27:57.080 --> 1:28:00.920 those losses, but you see after today only recently need 1:28:01.000 --> 1:28:01.679 that you guys. 1:28:01.479 --> 1:28:03.040 Can for sure for sure. 1:28:03.120 --> 1:28:05.920 I mean, listen, this is a long season, and I 1:28:06.040 --> 1:28:07.960 I know it's easy to be down on yourself in 1:28:08.080 --> 1:28:12.320 hard times, but you know, playing with confidence shows, so 1:28:12.479 --> 1:28:14.240 we gotta find a way to kind of get some 1:28:14.360 --> 1:28:14.880 of that back. 1:28:15.040 --> 1:28:19.120 But I I I think we do have the ability 1:28:19.120 --> 1:28:19.360 to do that. 1:28:19.439 --> 1:28:23.360 Listen, we got a big week coming up, and you 1:28:23.439 --> 1:28:26.280 know the D these division games are are always good matchups, 1:28:26.320 --> 1:28:30.840 and uh, going in and playing a good game this 1:28:31.000 --> 1:28:32.599 upcoming week could help a lot with that. I think 1:28:32.640 --> 1:28:34.280 today probably helped a little bit. But y, you know, 1:28:34.400 --> 1:28:35.280 you still wanna win. 1:28:35.200 --> 1:28:37.439 The game in the same half though that you guys 1:28:37.439 --> 1:28:38.480 have a home times. 1:28:41.240 --> 1:28:41.559 Ye hope. 1:28:41.600 --> 1:28:43.360 So I mean you you're always looking for ways to 1:28:43.560 --> 1:28:46.920 to play with confidence. I think, uh, you know, they 1:28:47.000 --> 1:28:49.120 talk about learning how to win, and good football teams 1:28:49.200 --> 1:28:50.920 know how to do that. That's because they always believe 1:28:51.000 --> 1:28:53.840 they can win. And and listen, I I've only been 1:28:53.880 --> 1:28:55.519 here for a week, but I I think these guys 1:28:55.560 --> 1:28:56.720 in the locker room got a good head on their 1:28:56.720 --> 1:28:58.439 shoulders and I'm excited to get to work with them. 1:29:05.120 --> 1:29:05.760 That's your question. 1:29:07.360 --> 1:29:13.439 Yeah, it's act's been great man, level headed, and I 1:29:13.640 --> 1:29:15.000 I mean, obviously it's been a lot of help for 1:29:15.080 --> 1:29:18.080 me this week, just putting the game plan together, not 1:29:18.240 --> 1:29:21.320 trying to get too complicated with things like fun. 1:29:23.760 --> 1:29:24.680 I think sometimes like. 1:29:26.200 --> 1:29:29.080 Bec wasn't starting in this league's a big deal. I 1:29:29.160 --> 1:29:31.360 think sometimes you can make it too big of a 1:29:31.439 --> 1:29:33.280 deal in your head. So I think for me this 1:29:33.400 --> 1:29:36.519 time around, it was just hey man, you're playing a game, 1:29:36.960 --> 1:29:39.400 and it's it just goes in line with that. Let 1:29:39.439 --> 1:29:41.200 the game come to you a little bit. Just play 1:29:41.240 --> 1:29:43.000 each play, do what you're supposed to do on that play. 1:29:44.600 --> 1:29:47.719 Even though it is a big deal, try to downplay 1:29:47.720 --> 1:29:48.920 it a little bit so you can go out there 1:29:48.960 --> 1:29:50.840 and have fun and and and play your best. 1:29:51.080 --> 1:29:52.560 I was a communication y. 1:29:52.640 --> 1:29:53.800 I think it was pretty good. I mean, there was 1:29:53.840 --> 1:29:55.680 a couple of plays where out there. I remember one 1:29:55.720 --> 1:29:57.559 play I think we actually ended up kind of getting 1:29:57.640 --> 1:29:59.800 what we wanted, but I we got I think that 1:29:59.840 --> 1:30:02.759 they got pass interference on Jamar down the right sideline 1:30:02.800 --> 1:30:05.200 or holding or whatever they ended up calling, but I 1:30:05.280 --> 1:30:07.720 definitely didn't call the right play, and I said, so 1:30:07.840 --> 1:30:09.760 that's why I kind of signaled out to Jamar. 1:30:09.640 --> 1:30:10.639 Just hey, you run this route. 1:30:10.760 --> 1:30:13.960 I know, I know we can get that done. But overall, 1:30:14.040 --> 1:30:15.280 I think it went pretty well. 1:30:16.320 --> 1:30:19.080 That has gone through, you know, stretching this team has 1:30:19.160 --> 1:30:21.439 currently going through, or anything that you can say to 1:30:21.560 --> 1:30:22.200 this group. 1:30:22.040 --> 1:30:23.519 That has as. 1:30:26.160 --> 1:30:29.080 It's tough to like generally say something to like the team, 1:30:29.479 --> 1:30:32.240 but I think as like you can see individuals throughout 1:30:32.240 --> 1:30:34.040 the course of a game or in the locker room 1:30:34.080 --> 1:30:35.960 right now, I think it can be very helpful to 1:30:36.000 --> 1:30:38.000 go up to individuals that maybe feel like they're having 1:30:38.040 --> 1:30:39.880 a hard time or whatever it may be, and give them, 1:30:40.800 --> 1:30:43.200 you know, give them that that vote of confidence. Listen, 1:30:44.479 --> 1:30:48.320 sometimes you get so focused on what you didn't do well, 1:30:48.520 --> 1:30:50.759 and you think everybody's looking at you. Oh my gosh, 1:30:50.920 --> 1:30:52.680 everybody's looking at me, and I didn't do this well. 1:30:52.960 --> 1:30:55.360 Nobody's looking at you. Man, everybody's worried about what they're doing. 1:30:55.400 --> 1:30:57.560 And I think good football teams are made up of 1:30:57.720 --> 1:31:00.120 guys that can do that, that are so focus and 1:31:00.240 --> 1:31:02.960 what they're they're doing that everything else comes together. So 1:31:03.479 --> 1:31:05.680 it's just a reminder of some of those guys that 1:31:05.840 --> 1:31:09.200 may be feeling that way, like, hey, man, like nobody's 1:31:09.200 --> 1:31:11.160 paying that much attention. Like you just keep doing what 1:31:11.240 --> 1:31:14.519 you're doing, Like the next play is the most important, 1:31:14.640 --> 1:31:17.360 so in the next game to a certain level. So 1:31:17.400 --> 1:31:18.880 I think if we can keep that mindset, will be 1:31:18.880 --> 1:31:19.120 all right. 1:31:19.240 --> 1:31:23.200 Joe Flacco assessing the performance yesterday, completing twenty nine passes 1:31:23.280 --> 1:31:25.680 for two hundred and nineteen yards, a couple of touchdowns, 1:31:26.000 --> 1:31:31.000 no interceptions, and a ninety point nine QB rating. 1:31:31.160 --> 1:31:32.280 Not bad at all. Oh. 1:31:32.400 --> 1:31:35.040 Sure, we are ramping things up and headed down the 1:31:35.080 --> 1:31:37.640 stretch on this Monday night. Fun facts still ahead and 1:31:37.680 --> 1:31:40.000 more on the Steelers. So we continue with Bengals Line 1:31:40.040 --> 1:31:42.480 and the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. 1:31:46.560 --> 1:31:47.720 We continue on in this. 1:31:47.960 --> 1:31:51.120 Monday night at Bengals Line the Bengals Radio Network. It's 1:31:51.120 --> 1:31:55.120 seven hundred WLW Lance Pcallister hanging out with Dave Lappholm, Yes, 1:31:55.200 --> 1:31:58.000 Sir Lance, and Alta Fiber, the official Wi Fi and 1:31:58.120 --> 1:32:02.080 Internet provider of the Bengals in Greater Cincinnati's fastest Internet 1:32:02.120 --> 1:32:05.000 with up to two gig symmetrical speeds. We love Dan 1:32:05.080 --> 1:32:07.479 Horde's weekly fun Fact segment. It's a chance to get 1:32:07.560 --> 1:32:11.360 behind the scenes with a Bengal. This week it's Will Wagner, 1:32:11.439 --> 1:32:13.519 the long snapper. Here's Dan with Will. 1:32:14.640 --> 1:32:18.639 No fantastic fun facts with Dan Ord. 1:32:19.320 --> 1:32:21.679 Time for some fun facts with rookie long snapper Will 1:32:21.720 --> 1:32:26.120 Wagner from Alpharetta, Georgia, near Atlanta. How did you get 1:32:26.160 --> 1:32:27.839 your start as a long snapper. 1:32:28.479 --> 1:32:33.439 I played center like from sixth grade or actually not 1:32:33.640 --> 1:32:37.439 like fourth grade till I was senior in high school. 1:32:37.479 --> 1:32:41.960 And like, my brother played at Mercer University and he 1:32:42.120 --> 1:32:44.920 was a linebacker. And one of the things is like 1:32:45.560 --> 1:32:48.360 I want to play college ball because just watching him 1:32:48.400 --> 1:32:51.000 play every Saturday, I was like, this is something I 1:32:51.120 --> 1:32:51.479 want to do. 1:32:51.800 --> 1:32:51.960 Im. 1:32:52.000 --> 1:32:56.840 Like, he was an all state linebacker in Georgia, so 1:32:57.160 --> 1:32:59.080 I wanted to follow in his footsteps. I knew I 1:32:59.160 --> 1:33:02.080 wasn't gonna be like six', four so like being a 1:33:02.160 --> 1:33:07.160 sinner would be really hard for. Me SO i was 1:33:07.240 --> 1:33:10.160 like a long snap, too how ABOUT i go to 1:33:10.240 --> 1:33:14.720 some of these camps and, uh that's that's really HOW i, 1:33:14.960 --> 1:33:16.439 started BECAUSE i wanted to play college. 1:33:16.520 --> 1:33:20.840 Ball aside from long snapping at football, practices did you 1:33:21.000 --> 1:33:23.439 do it on your? Own did you have a target 1:33:23.560 --> 1:33:25.120 in the backyard or anything like? 1:33:25.240 --> 1:33:25.280 That? 1:33:25.560 --> 1:33:28.880 Oh, Yeah LIKE i had a target in our side, 1:33:29.000 --> 1:33:32.320 yard And i'd go out there almost like every other 1:33:32.479 --> 1:33:36.280 day and go snap like twenty balls into it and then, 1:33:36.520 --> 1:33:40.479 yeah and then also at practice as, well so, yeah 1:33:40.520 --> 1:33:41.640 almost every other Day i'd be. 1:33:41.680 --> 1:33:44.320 Snapping if you go on, YouTube there are a bunch 1:33:44.400 --> 1:33:47.720 of long snap trick shot type videos where guys are 1:33:47.760 --> 1:33:50.720 snapping through the window of a moving car or you, 1:33:50.800 --> 1:33:52.840 know trying to hit some sort of tiny target a 1:33:52.880 --> 1:33:56.040 long distance. Away have you tried anything along those. 1:33:56.120 --> 1:33:57.840 Lines, Yeah i've done the bottle. 1:33:57.920 --> 1:33:58.640 CAP i did. 1:33:58.720 --> 1:34:02.479 THAT i did that one rusher in. College people saw 1:34:02.520 --> 1:34:03.880 it and there was, like why can you do? 1:34:04.000 --> 1:34:07.519 THAT i was, like, yeah it's like show. 1:34:07.600 --> 1:34:10.559 Us and it took me like three tries and we're 1:34:10.640 --> 1:34:12.920 using like like a regular water, bottle so it was 1:34:12.920 --> 1:34:15.519 a small bottle cap and they're, like oh my. God 1:34:17.160 --> 1:34:20.679 so that's pretty much the only One i've. Done i've 1:34:20.720 --> 1:34:23.160 seen people like snap it off of the stadium into 1:34:23.200 --> 1:34:23.559 a trash. 1:34:23.640 --> 1:34:24.519 CAN i haven't really done. 1:34:24.600 --> 1:34:27.800 That we'll have to do the open window moving car. 1:34:28.080 --> 1:34:32.760 Sometimes, yeah, yeah, Yeah i'll volunteer my. Car it's twenty 1:34:32.840 --> 1:34:36.120 fourteen to coma things almost beating. 1:34:36.160 --> 1:34:39.200 It, well it's about the same as. Mine we're visiting 1:34:39.240 --> 1:34:41.720 with long Snapper Will. Wagner, so as you, said the 1:34:41.800 --> 1:34:44.120 dream was to play college, football and you did for 1:34:44.240 --> 1:34:48.280 six years At. Michigan Long snappers typically don't get a 1:34:48.400 --> 1:34:50.960 scholarship to begin. With if you go to the school 1:34:51.040 --> 1:34:52.599 and you turn out to be the, guy you get. 1:34:52.680 --> 1:34:54.200 One how did that process go for? 1:34:54.280 --> 1:34:57.160 You SO i got there in twenty. NINETEEN i didn't 1:34:57.280 --> 1:35:00.479 start until twenty, twenty and then after the only twenty, 1:35:00.560 --> 1:35:04.120 SEASON i didn't get put on. Scholarship so but then 1:35:04.160 --> 1:35:06.600 after the twenty twenty one that, SPRING i got put on. 1:35:06.680 --> 1:35:10.519 Scholarship SO i started for two seasons BEFORE i got 1:35:10.560 --> 1:35:12.280 put on, scholarship and THEN i was on scholarship the 1:35:12.320 --> 1:35:12.640 rest of the. 1:35:12.720 --> 1:35:15.559 Time michigan's not. Cheap, oh it's not cheap at. 1:35:15.600 --> 1:35:21.200 All, no my dad helped me very, much so with the. 1:35:21.640 --> 1:35:24.720 Loans how excited was he when you got the news 1:35:24.760 --> 1:35:26.800 that you were going on? Scholarship and how excited were? 1:35:26.840 --> 1:35:26.880 You? 1:35:27.160 --> 1:35:27.680 Oh he was so. 1:35:27.880 --> 1:35:31.559 Excited it's, like, oh thank, GOD i can retire. 1:35:31.600 --> 1:35:32.280 Early now. 1:35:33.640 --> 1:35:36.400 We're doing fun. Facts who Have bengals long Snapper Will. 1:35:36.479 --> 1:35:38.760 Wagner you had a red shirt year and then THE 1:35:38.840 --> 1:35:40.920 covid exception. Year, so AS i, mentioned you got to 1:35:40.960 --> 1:35:44.880 spend six years with The. Wolverine you played in fifty three. 1:35:45.000 --> 1:35:47.920 Games you were part of a national championship. Team describe 1:35:47.960 --> 1:35:50.160 what it means to have been part of a fifteen 1:35:50.200 --> 1:35:51.200 AND o team that won it. 1:35:51.240 --> 1:35:53.080 ALL i, mean it's a. 1:35:53.160 --> 1:35:56.960 BLESSING i mean that that whole season just felt like a. 1:35:57.040 --> 1:36:00.600 Dream like you, go like we were own into Like 1:36:00.680 --> 1:36:03.960 Ohio state, game And i'm, like we're winning as, Well 1:36:04.560 --> 1:36:08.120 like you just kind of knew that just because because 1:36:08.160 --> 1:36:10.519 of the culture THAT i was, there and like you, 1:36:10.600 --> 1:36:13.080 know you got some dogs on the, team and you're, 1:36:13.280 --> 1:36:17.880 like they're gonna ball, Out they're gonna bawl. Out SO i, 1:36:17.960 --> 1:36:19.519 mean it was just a pleasure to be on that, 1:36:19.640 --> 1:36:21.120 team be a part of. 1:36:21.240 --> 1:36:24.680 History you Beat Ohio state the last four times you 1:36:24.760 --> 1:36:27.880 played The. Buckeyes how obnoxious are you when you are 1:36:27.880 --> 1:36:28.840 Around Ohio state? 1:36:28.920 --> 1:36:30.720 People how obnoxious AM? 1:36:30.760 --> 1:36:34.200 I i don't rub it, IN i caress it Then 1:36:37.840 --> 1:36:40.519 i'm not too. Obnoxious but if they throw something at, 1:36:40.600 --> 1:36:41.080 Me i'll throw it. 1:36:41.160 --> 1:36:44.240 BACK i am going to remember THAT i caress it. 1:36:44.320 --> 1:36:47.320 In that's a good. One your head coach was the 1:36:47.800 --> 1:36:51.759 famously Quirky Jim. Harbaugh what's your Best harbas. 1:36:51.840 --> 1:36:58.400 Story so there's like one practice where we HAD i 1:36:58.439 --> 1:37:00.479 think we had like two people like break a wrists 1:37:01.040 --> 1:37:03.760 in like one practice and then like the team meeting 1:37:03.800 --> 1:37:07.040 the next. Morning sometimes he just goes on these tangents 1:37:07.080 --> 1:37:10.120 and he's just Like he's, like, GUYS i don't know 1:37:10.120 --> 1:37:14.519 what to. Say we had two people break the wrist, 1:37:14.600 --> 1:37:15.439 yesterday and. 1:37:16.360 --> 1:37:18.120 There's only there's only one way to prevent. 1:37:18.200 --> 1:37:18.240 That. 1:37:19.080 --> 1:37:23.439 Milk you gotta drink your. MILK i have a cup every. 1:37:23.600 --> 1:37:28.280 Day and then he brought in his sign that was 1:37:28.360 --> 1:37:30.720 like a got milk, sign and he put it over 1:37:30.880 --> 1:37:34.280 like the milk dispenser in the in the eating. 1:37:34.400 --> 1:37:36.880 Room did you drink milk as a? 1:37:36.920 --> 1:37:42.080 Result oh, yeah, yeah looks milk is nature. 1:37:42.160 --> 1:37:46.920 STEROID i didn't realize it was a miracle. Drug we're 1:37:47.000 --> 1:37:50.040 visiting With Will. Wagner he graduated with a degree in 1:37:50.120 --> 1:37:53.439 mechanical engineering and in a scouting report on nfl dot 1:37:53.479 --> 1:37:57.599 com before the draft that, says quote engineering background fuels 1:37:57.720 --> 1:38:02.880 a thoughtful. Approach how do you use engineering and snapping of? 1:38:02.920 --> 1:38:06.920 FOOTBALL i feel, like especially with, engineers it's not like 1:38:07.800 --> 1:38:11.880 you like mindfully like that's gonna. Happen it's more like 1:38:12.040 --> 1:38:15.800 you mindlessly, like oh, damn that snap was. 1:38:15.880 --> 1:38:18.080 High it was LIKE i THINK i extended my. 1:38:18.160 --> 1:38:20.960 Hips and, like but it wasn't really the. Hips it 1:38:21.080 --> 1:38:23.760 was that your hips extended early and your follow through came. 1:38:23.840 --> 1:38:28.040 High so it's more of like kind of knowing how 1:38:28.200 --> 1:38:31.920 motion happens and like what happens when something else. Happens 1:38:32.320 --> 1:38:35.240 it's an engineering. School we did a ton of like, 1:38:35.320 --> 1:38:37.639 linkages and that's all long snapping. 1:38:37.800 --> 1:38:38.240 Is it's just. 1:38:38.680 --> 1:38:43.080 Linkages SO i actually did a report on. It i'm 1:38:43.200 --> 1:38:47.680 like a dynamic of report among long, snapping and LIKE 1:38:47.800 --> 1:38:51.280 i calculated the power that i'd like produce from it 1:38:51.800 --> 1:38:54.400 from throwing the ball between my, legs and it was, 1:38:54.479 --> 1:38:56.559 LIKE i think it was two kill wats or something 1:38:56.640 --> 1:38:57.479 like that of your. 1:38:57.640 --> 1:39:01.479 POWER i hope your professor was. Impressed gave me a 1:39:01.560 --> 1:39:06.519 be all, right a few wild card topics to wrap 1:39:06.600 --> 1:39:09.639 this up, With Will, wagner are you a science? Nerd 1:39:10.320 --> 1:39:11.840 yes very much. 1:39:11.880 --> 1:39:16.040 SO i love just like learning new, things especially with like. 1:39:16.160 --> 1:39:19.880 Science who's your all time favorite athlete in any? 1:39:20.280 --> 1:39:26.639 Sport Probably Michael, Phelps and the reason is that there's 1:39:27.360 --> 1:39:30.679 there's a story to. It SO i was getting TREATMENT 1:39:31.240 --> 1:39:32.920 i tore MY acl twenty twenty, two AND i was 1:39:32.960 --> 1:39:37.080 getting treatment AND i fell asleep in the training room 1:39:37.720 --> 1:39:40.280 And Michael phelps was coming to Our Penn state. Game 1:39:40.320 --> 1:39:45.400 he's gonna be honorary, captain And i'm passed out on 1:39:45.479 --> 1:39:51.040 the training. Table i'm getting like stem And, ice and my, 1:39:51.479 --> 1:39:54.120 buddy who actually tore his ac on the same, play was, 1:39:54.200 --> 1:39:59.080 Like wax get, Up, wax get up right. Now And i'm, like, 1:39:59.240 --> 1:40:02.720 no WHY i need to do, that and he's like 1:40:03.240 --> 1:40:06.720 and then he brings out his dad. Voice he, Goes 1:40:07.080 --> 1:40:11.439 wax get, up AND i go all, right AND i 1:40:11.600 --> 1:40:13.479 look up and It's Michael phelps and he's got his 1:40:13.560 --> 1:40:16.759 hand out for, me And i'm just, like oh my, GOD. 1:40:18.720 --> 1:40:19.240 I was Going Mike. 1:40:19.320 --> 1:40:23.640 Phelps. Yeah it's just like and he's definitely probably one 1:40:23.680 --> 1:40:25.600 of the most of the athletes it's ever, met Like, 1:40:25.760 --> 1:40:28.439 ben no, doubt SO i think you'd definitely be one of. 1:40:28.520 --> 1:40:32.280 Them Wags get up was good. Advice When Darren simmons 1:40:32.400 --> 1:40:35.120 contacted you to let you know that you won the 1:40:35.200 --> 1:40:38.320 long snapper, job he initially SAID i need you to 1:40:38.360 --> 1:40:41.640 bring your iPad to my, office making it sound like 1:40:41.760 --> 1:40:45.559 you were possibly getting. Cut did your heart sink before 1:40:45.600 --> 1:40:46.120 you got the good. 1:40:46.200 --> 1:40:48.880 News it's actually kind of a funny story to that. 1:40:49.080 --> 1:40:53.040 Too SO i actually saw col the previous song snapper 1:40:53.160 --> 1:40:56.400 that was battling with right before, that AND i was, 1:40:56.520 --> 1:41:00.160 like oh my, gosh have you heard? Anything and he 1:41:00.240 --> 1:41:01.680 goes it's like you've won the. 1:41:01.800 --> 1:41:03.080 Job AND i was, like oh. 1:41:03.520 --> 1:41:08.120 Damn talk for five minutes to, him, like, hey you're, 1:41:08.160 --> 1:41:10.320 Greatname you're gonna end up, somewhere which he ended up 1:41:10.520 --> 1:41:15.559 on The. Eagles so we. TALKED i talked to him 1:41:15.600 --> 1:41:15.960 for like five. 1:41:16.000 --> 1:41:17.479 MINUTES i was, like oh, gosh and. 1:41:17.520 --> 1:41:22.439 THEN i WENT i went to go to my locker 1:41:22.760 --> 1:41:25.240 and THEN i get a call From darren and he says, 1:41:25.320 --> 1:41:26.160 that And i'm just LIKE. 1:41:28.200 --> 1:41:28.400 I was. 1:41:28.520 --> 1:41:30.360 THINKING i was, like did he lie to? 1:41:30.479 --> 1:41:32.240 Me like Did? 1:41:32.320 --> 1:41:37.200 Gal and then he goes to go over The cleveland scouting. 1:41:37.240 --> 1:41:40.000 REFORT i was, like, oh thank. God it was a 1:41:40.200 --> 1:41:43.560 ton of. Emotion one he told ME i had the. 1:41:43.680 --> 1:41:46.160 Job and more of that conversation with Between dan And 1:41:46.240 --> 1:41:49.360 will on The Bengals booth podcast or At bengals Dot. 1:41:49.720 --> 1:41:51.080 Com love that. 1:41:51.320 --> 1:41:54.400 Segment, STILL i had more on Those Pittsburgh steelers and 1:41:54.880 --> 1:41:56.960 we head down the stretch On Bengals line and The 1:41:56.960 --> 1:42:05.479 Bengals Radio network and seven HUNDRED. Wlw we're rolling right 1:42:05.520 --> 1:42:08.120 along on This monday Night Bengals line on The Bengals 1:42:08.320 --> 1:42:11.519 Radio network and seven HUNDRED. WLW I amlliance Back. Allister 1:42:11.680 --> 1:42:13.480 he Is Dave lappam. 1:42:13.439 --> 1:42:16.320 And Bengals Friday Night Stripes tour presented by A Hole 1:42:16.439 --> 1:42:19.479 katt is back for all locations this. Season go To 1:42:19.520 --> 1:42:22.720 bengals Dot Com Slash. Community steelers pick up a win. 1:42:23.000 --> 1:42:26.960 Yesterday they moved to four and one on the. SEASON 1:42:27.320 --> 1:42:30.120 i bought some opening, thoughts initial thoughts on a twenty 1:42:30.200 --> 1:42:31.880 three to nine win over The browns from the head. 1:42:31.920 --> 1:42:33.280 Coach Here's mike Tomlin. 1:42:34.640 --> 1:42:37.439 Man it's great to win in The. North good start 1:42:37.479 --> 1:42:41.599 for us in divisional. PLAY i appreciate how the guys 1:42:41.680 --> 1:42:43.439 came off the By we didn't warm up to. It 1:42:44.040 --> 1:42:46.560 we had certain agendas that we thought were critical to 1:42:47.320 --> 1:42:49.920 making this game unfold the way we desired for. Dunfold 1:42:50.760 --> 1:42:54.360 we thought they played behind the. Runner we wanted to 1:42:54.400 --> 1:42:56.439 do a good job of minimizing, him AND i think 1:42:56.960 --> 1:43:00.120 we did. That when you do, that then you're in 1:43:00.200 --> 1:43:03.160 favorable one dimensional passing circumstances for your, defense AND i 1:43:03.200 --> 1:43:05.360 think that was reflected in the pressure that we were 1:43:05.360 --> 1:43:07.880 able to put on the quarterback on the other side 1:43:07.880 --> 1:43:09.360 of the. Ball we were able to stay on schedule 1:43:09.400 --> 1:43:13.439 and minimize those one dimensional, moments to Minimize Miles garritts 1:43:13.439 --> 1:43:15.720 impact on the, game and so like some of those 1:43:15.760 --> 1:43:17.720 agendas man that we, had we were able to get, 1:43:17.720 --> 1:43:20.840 accomplished AND i think that's why we engineered. Victory one 1:43:20.880 --> 1:43:24.200 area where we certainly fell short is a penalty. Component 1:43:25.080 --> 1:43:27.960 we scout crews just like we scout. Teams we noticed 1:43:28.000 --> 1:43:30.600 crew throws a lot of, penalties and we dropped the 1:43:30.640 --> 1:43:32.080 ball in terms of our preparedness. 1:43:32.120 --> 1:43:34.680 There i'll accept responsibility for. That we got to be. 1:43:34.760 --> 1:43:38.640 Better you can't beat anybody when you're beating, yourself and 1:43:38.760 --> 1:43:40.400 it just felt like at times we did that. 1:43:40.520 --> 1:43:44.280 Today and so we got to own. That we'll get 1:43:44.280 --> 1:43:44.559 a short. 1:43:44.600 --> 1:43:48.160 Week we're chasing ANOTHER Afc North pelt here in a 1:43:48.520 --> 1:43:51.400 short number of, days and so we respect the. Process 1:43:52.120 --> 1:43:54.519 we got to work fast here in preparation For thursday. 1:43:54.600 --> 1:43:58.760 Night got some bumps and bruises associated with. Play the 1:43:58.840 --> 1:44:02.000 only one that's worth mention of any significance Is miles Killer. 1:44:02.080 --> 1:44:05.200 Brew he's got a significant knee. Injury AND i have 1:44:05.320 --> 1:44:07.840 more updates for, You i'm, sure and they're not too 1:44:07.920 --> 1:44:10.120 distant future about the details of. 1:44:10.280 --> 1:44:13.560 That, Questions aside. 1:44:13.160 --> 1:44:15.160 From those kind of a couple of leaky moments In, 1:44:15.240 --> 1:44:17.960 ireland what's been a difference with your defense the last 1:44:18.080 --> 1:44:19.960 two weeks with the pressure and, EVERYTHING. 1:44:20.320 --> 1:44:22.639 I just think we're getting a full complement of our weapons. 1:44:22.720 --> 1:44:23.000 Back you. 1:44:23.080 --> 1:44:27.479 Know you know In, ireland, man we got twenty five. 1:44:27.600 --> 1:44:30.639 Back this week we got fifty six, back twenty four. 1:44:30.720 --> 1:44:34.680 Back everybody goes through. Injuries i'm not seeking comfort in 1:44:35.040 --> 1:44:37.639 the lack of, availability but if you're asking, me why 1:44:37.760 --> 1:44:39.479 is it starting to look the way that we. Desire 1:44:39.880 --> 1:44:42.760 we got a full complement of, talent and when we 1:44:42.840 --> 1:44:44.519 put this band, together we feel like we can do 1:44:45.200 --> 1:44:46.480 Things like you saw, Today. 1:44:46.560 --> 1:44:49.160 Steelers win twenty three to nine over The. Browns they 1:44:49.240 --> 1:44:51.639 led nine nothing at the. Half they've beaten The browns 1:44:51.720 --> 1:44:55.240 twenty two consecutive times In, pittsburgh the last that goes 1:44:55.320 --> 1:44:58.519 back to Pre Ben. Roethlisberger believe it or, not The 1:44:58.600 --> 1:45:02.160 steelers are now four in one in the division. OVER 1:45:02.439 --> 1:45:04.840 i saw a note over the last three, weeks The 1:45:04.920 --> 1:45:07.120 steelers are two and o and they had to buy 1:45:07.200 --> 1:45:09.840 because of the international. Game right over the last three, 1:45:09.920 --> 1:45:11.760 weeks or The steelers have gone too and, oh The 1:45:11.840 --> 1:45:14.080 browns have gone oh in, three The ravens have gone 1:45:14.120 --> 1:45:15.880 oh in, three and The bengals have gone oh in. 1:45:15.960 --> 1:45:19.200 Three and yet having said all That Thursday night is 1:45:19.240 --> 1:45:22.639 a huge opportunity day for The bengals is as dire 1:45:22.680 --> 1:45:25.240 as a four game winning streak may. Feel you get 1:45:25.280 --> 1:45:28.599 a chance to beat The steelers at Home thursday, night 1:45:28.800 --> 1:45:30.240 and you're back on. 1:45:30.760 --> 1:45:32.800 In this race in the. Division i'm telling, YOU i, 1:45:32.880 --> 1:45:36.000 mean for The Pittsburgh steelers to have two wins in 1:45:36.040 --> 1:45:38.880 the rest of the division not have one. Unbelieable that's, 1:45:38.920 --> 1:45:42.360 incredible it really. Is but that's That's Mike. Tomlin Mike 1:45:42.439 --> 1:45:47.799 tomlin's always uh always had, success always had great, players 1:45:48.280 --> 1:45:50.880 always knew how to utilize those great. PLAYERS i, mean 1:45:50.920 --> 1:45:53.000 he's still got people on the on the defensive side 1:45:53.000 --> 1:45:56.640 of the football Like Cam, hayward stud great. PLAYER i 1:45:56.680 --> 1:46:00.080 MEAN Tj, watt are you kidding? Me maybe is go 1:46:00.160 --> 1:46:02.040 to pass. Rusher he And Trey hendrickson are the two 1:46:02.120 --> 1:46:05.760 guys that most people look to and and, say these 1:46:05.840 --> 1:46:09.160 these two guys are the pass rushers of their. Era you, 1:46:09.240 --> 1:46:15.280 know it's it's. Incredible, defensively he always has multiple Players 1:46:15.360 --> 1:46:19.479 Joey Porter junior on the back end as Well alex 1:46:19.600 --> 1:46:22.680 High smith at at the outside linebacker. POSITION i mean 1:46:23.120 --> 1:46:26.120 they are. Loaded they are loaded, defensively and you, know 1:46:26.520 --> 1:46:28.679 when you go into a football game Against Mike, tomlin 1:46:29.160 --> 1:46:31.559 you have to remember two. Things he's going to try 1:46:31.600 --> 1:46:33.400 to kick your. Ass, Defensively he's going to try to 1:46:33.479 --> 1:46:35.720 knock you around the football, field and he's going to 1:46:35.760 --> 1:46:37.600 try to run the ball right down your throat and 1:46:37.920 --> 1:46:41.400 and uh and not apologize while doing. IT i, mean 1:46:41.520 --> 1:46:45.000 he's he's has a very very physical approach to the 1:46:45.040 --> 1:46:48.000 game of. Football he played it himself at the collegiate. 1:46:48.080 --> 1:46:50.960 Level he played you, know youth football obviously in high 1:46:51.000 --> 1:46:54.040 school and college, football and not not all coaches in 1:46:54.080 --> 1:46:57.080 THE nfl did play the game at that. Level suit he, 1:46:57.439 --> 1:47:02.200 understands you, know but he's expecting out of his, players 1:47:02.200 --> 1:47:03.479 and he's trying to be very fear in his. 1:47:03.560 --> 1:47:06.400 Expectation AND i see once again a, Theme dave of. 1:47:06.600 --> 1:47:10.160 Balance Yesterday Aaron rodgers threw it thirty, times they ran 1:47:10.240 --> 1:47:13.240 it twenty eight. Times they only average three point, six 1:47:13.320 --> 1:47:16.360 but they kept running the football for twenty eight, times 1:47:16.439 --> 1:47:19.439 and it's part of winning time of. Position and back 1:47:19.479 --> 1:47:22.040 to your point on the, defense you mentioned so many different. 1:47:22.120 --> 1:47:25.160 Names that's what makes them so. Good guess what gets 1:47:25.200 --> 1:47:28.000 all the. Headlines but they had six sacks. Yesterday Of Dylan. 1:47:28.040 --> 1:47:31.559 Gabriel five different players contributed in those six. 1:47:31.640 --> 1:47:34.720 Sacks That's steeler. Defense it. Is It's steeler. Defense it's great, 1:47:34.800 --> 1:47:38.000 Coaching the scheme. Works they believe in. It they've been 1:47:38.040 --> 1:47:40.840 doing it. Forever tomlin's been there for a million. Years 1:47:41.200 --> 1:47:43.840 he hasn't had a losing, season for crying out. Loud 1:47:43.920 --> 1:47:47.600 AND i don't know how. Many it's just that organization 1:47:47.840 --> 1:47:50.880 is the envy of most in THE. Nfl and The 1:47:51.400 --> 1:47:55.360 rooney family And Mike. Brown there's a heavy dose respect 1:47:55.400 --> 1:47:59.800 there between the organizations because they're, friends you, know off 1:47:59.840 --> 1:48:03.960 the football, field they're pretty good. Friends their dads were 1:48:04.560 --> 1:48:08.439 basically pioneers and foundation builders of The National Football, League 1:48:08.520 --> 1:48:12.519 Art rooney And Paul. Brown AND i BELIEVE i. 1:48:12.720 --> 1:48:15.760 HAVEN'T i haven't seen the stat, Yet but are we 1:48:15.920 --> 1:48:20.400 thinking That thursday night forty one year Old Aaron rodgers 1:48:20.560 --> 1:48:23.120 forty year Old Joe? Flacco are we working under the 1:48:23.120 --> 1:48:25.920 assumption that would be the oldest combined age of your 1:48:25.960 --> 1:48:27.960 two starting. QUARTERBACKS i would think it has to be a. 1:48:27.960 --> 1:48:30.200 RECORD i would, THINK i, MEAN i mean it's gonna 1:48:30.200 --> 1:48:31.760 come out in the. Staff, yeah, SURE i. 1:48:31.800 --> 1:48:33.720 Mean far have played late in his, career BUT i 1:48:33.760 --> 1:48:36.040 don't know he would have gone A brady, Obviously George 1:48:36.080 --> 1:48:38.960 blanda played. Lateness BUT i can't believe there's been another 1:48:39.040 --> 1:48:42.519 matchup of eighty one years combined age of the two starting. 1:48:42.560 --> 1:48:45.479 QUARTERBACKS i think it's the safe, Assumption, LANCE i really do. 1:48:45.680 --> 1:48:49.320 That that's. Unbelievable by the, WAY i was looking at 1:48:49.360 --> 1:48:51.720 the four fists of a deck of our, CENTURY i. 1:48:51.840 --> 1:48:54.280 Was looking Up George blayt of the sporting that guy 1:48:54.720 --> 1:48:57.519 he played until he was forty, eight now kicking, most 1:48:57.760 --> 1:49:00.200 but he he threw passes in games when he was 1:49:00.320 --> 1:49:02.120 forty one and then had a. 1:49:02.120 --> 1:49:05.120 Couple of and his coach he had the perfect head, 1:49:05.160 --> 1:49:05.679 Coach John. 1:49:05.760 --> 1:49:06.000 Madden. 1:49:06.080 --> 1:49:10.200 YEAH i mean it's Like John. Madden football had to 1:49:10.240 --> 1:49:13.439 be fun And John madden was all about, fun and 1:49:13.760 --> 1:49:17.080 so Was George Blanded and talking to some of Those raider, teammates, 1:49:17.600 --> 1:49:22.880 man he liked to tip the adult beverage. Man he 1:49:23.360 --> 1:49:25.840 would definitely have fun during the course of the. Week 1:49:25.880 --> 1:49:28.840 as the game got, closer he kind of settled down 1:49:28.840 --> 1:49:32.160 a little, bit but he enjoyed. Himself he enjoyed himself 1:49:32.160 --> 1:49:32.559 for a long. 1:49:32.640 --> 1:49:34.920 Time there you, go well down the, street put the 1:49:34.920 --> 1:49:37.120 wraps on at Next bengals line of The Bengals Radio 1:49:37.160 --> 1:49:43.960 networking seven HUNDRED. Wlw all, right final, segment final thoughts 1:49:44.000 --> 1:49:46.000 on This monday night And bengals line and The Bengals 1:49:46.120 --> 1:49:48.800 Radio networking seven HUNDRED wlw. 1:49:49.120 --> 1:49:51.559 And Lance Pai. Corp is proud to be the OFFICIAL 1:49:51.800 --> 1:49:54.840 hr software provider of This Cincinnati Bengal all. 1:49:54.760 --> 1:49:57.920 Right so final thoughts and not looking, ahead but golden 1:49:57.960 --> 1:50:00.519 Opportunity thursday and against The steelers in the start of 1:50:00.560 --> 1:50:03.400 a three game homestand it's rare you get three straight 1:50:03.439 --> 1:50:06.840 at home and It's, steelers It's, jets It's. Bears i'm 1:50:06.880 --> 1:50:09.320 not Putting kurts before, horses, right but. 1:50:09.479 --> 1:50:11.680 Man get this one and get some momentum and then 1:50:11.720 --> 1:50:14.200 a chance to go on a, run no, Question, LANCE i, 1:50:14.240 --> 1:50:17.559 Mean i'm in full concert with what you just laid out. There. 1:50:17.640 --> 1:50:20.680 Man it's, uh get it done against against the arch, 1:50:20.800 --> 1:50:24.680 rival division, Rival Pittsburgh, steelers like we talked, about used 1:50:24.720 --> 1:50:27.439 to be THE Afc, central now THE Afc. North But 1:50:27.800 --> 1:50:30.320 pittsburgh's got a commanding lead in the early stages. Here 1:50:30.360 --> 1:50:32.559 you got to bite into that lead a little bit 1:50:33.080 --> 1:50:36.000 and uh and and, physicality that's the that's the name 1:50:36.040 --> 1:50:39.160 of the game when you play The Pittsburgh, steelers because 1:50:39.479 --> 1:50:41.080 you're gonna have to go up To pittsburgh and play, 1:50:41.120 --> 1:50:44.000 them and, uh you Know Mike, tomlin he's got a long, 1:50:44.120 --> 1:50:46.880 memory And i'd like to have him remember a loss 1:50:46.920 --> 1:50:48.599 for a long period of. Time that would be good 1:50:48.640 --> 1:50:51.640 because you, know the others are. Handleable you, know The. 1:50:52.040 --> 1:50:55.760 Jets you could take care of. Business three straight home 1:50:55.840 --> 1:50:58.560 games starting with The pittsburgh and then a buye so 1:50:58.720 --> 1:51:01.760 for a, month angles can stay In, cincinnati not have 1:51:01.880 --> 1:51:04.360 to get on a, plane travel, anywhere get on a, 1:51:04.400 --> 1:51:07.800 bush increase the. Travel. Shoot we had an hour bus 1:51:07.960 --> 1:51:12.040 ride up there In Green. Bay it was crazy getting 1:51:12.080 --> 1:51:14.960 to get into that hotel and into the stadium from the. 1:51:15.040 --> 1:51:17.320 Hotel it was a it was a weekend to, remember 1:51:17.400 --> 1:51:19.640 actually to forget because the game didn't turn out very. 1:51:19.680 --> 1:51:22.680 Well but it is like you, said you, know it 1:51:22.840 --> 1:51:25.720 is a chance to get back on, track to get, 1:51:25.960 --> 1:51:28.479 right to get things back in the right. 1:51:28.600 --> 1:51:31.640 Perspective thank you for listening. Tonight we're back at it 1:51:32.000 --> 1:51:34.160 next week to do it. Again this has Been Bengals 1:51:34.240 --> 1:51:36.439 line on The Bengals radio network in seven HUNDRED. 1:51:36.560 --> 1:51:41.360 Wlw this Was Bengals line on The bengals radio network Pay. 1:51:41.439 --> 1:51:44.200 Corps Pay corps is proud to be the OFFICIAL hr 1:51:44.360 --> 1:51:48.639 software provider OF Us Cincinnati. 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