Speaker 1: This is Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network. Pay Corps.
Speaker 1: Pay Corp is proud to be the official HR software
Speaker 1: provider of the Cincinnati Bengals. Kettering Health best Care for
Speaker 1: the best Fans. Kettering Health, official healthcare provider of US
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals. This is seven hundred WLW, the home of
Speaker 1: the best Bengals coverage.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get it going on this Monday night.
Speaker 2: If it's Monday, it's Bengals on on the Bengals Radio
Speaker 2: Network in seven hundred WLW, And that means three hours
Speaker 2: of Bengals conversation about to unfold. Unfortunately unfolding a difficult
Speaker 2: one to digest. Yesterday thirty nine thirty eight loss to
Speaker 2: the Jets, which sets up this weekend against the Chicago
Speaker 2: Bears leading into the buy and Dave Lapham, I've had
Speaker 2: the word opportunity running through my head all of last
Speaker 2: week into yesterday, and man, it could have been a chance.
Speaker 2: You take care of business at home against a winless
Speaker 2: Jets team, get to four and four, catch your breath
Speaker 2: at five hundred, go into this week thinking a win,
Speaker 2: get some over five hundred for the BUYE. Jets had
Speaker 2: gone through a chaotic week and then to Capri. I
Speaker 2: get home last night and I'm watching the Steelers lose
Speaker 2: and it's just another kicking the shin of what could
Speaker 2: have been for this Bengals team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no question. I mean, it was a missed opportunity.
Speaker 3: There no doubt about that. They it was all right there,
Speaker 3: all right in front of them, and they got some help.
Speaker 3: And you know, you can't you can't ever count on
Speaker 3: that in the National Football League. You can't kind of
Speaker 3: oh yeah, they'll beat them, they'll beat them. We'll be
Speaker 3: good here. You know, you have to take care of
Speaker 3: business and the Bengals just have not done that. They've
Speaker 3: not taken care of business well enough on a weekly basis,
Speaker 3: and right now they find themselves in a tough spot.
Speaker 3: Three and five, you know, like you said, they could
Speaker 3: have been four and four against an od to seven
Speaker 3: Jets team. Aaron Glenn was doing everything he possibly could
Speaker 3: to keep that franchise, you know, afloat above water. There
Speaker 3: was some negativity that was creeping into the locker room
Speaker 3: reading things during the course of the week. There's there's
Speaker 3: no question about that. It was a tough week, a
Speaker 3: long week for the for the New York Jets, they
Speaker 3: I'll tell you they they were having trouble. Their biggest
Speaker 3: problem is exactly what the Bengals problem is, and that's
Speaker 3: inconsistency or inconsistency, and they just are not doing anything consistently.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 3: It's mind boggling really that both teams have very similar
Speaker 3: scenarios as to why they're where they are. I mean,
Speaker 3: the Jets now with the victory or one and seven,
Speaker 3: the Bengals fall to three and five.
Speaker 2: Boy, and we had talked last week sitting these very
Speaker 2: seats the start of this one. If you get off
Speaker 2: to a good start, ye hit the hit the Jets
Speaker 2: with a punch, knock them into the ropes and give
Speaker 2: them no reason to get to get up at h
Speaker 2: to seven, maybe looking for reasons to to, you know,
Speaker 2: hop on the plane early. And they get to a
Speaker 2: ten nothing lead, and it was a seventeen to three lead,
Speaker 2: and it was thirty one to sixteen, and it was
Speaker 2: thirty eight twenty four, and you thought, all right, that
Speaker 2: one more blow is gonna deliver the TKL Well, and
Speaker 2: the Jets kept getting up and getting up, and then
Speaker 2: all of a sudden you get that sinking feeling in
Speaker 2: your stomach, like the Jets are not only not going away,
Speaker 2: are the Bengals even gonna be able to get a
Speaker 2: stop to keep the Jets from winning this football game?
Speaker 3: I mean the Jets. You could just see the Jets
Speaker 3: confidence as a football team swell, you know, yes, I
Speaker 3: mean it just continued to grow even when they were
Speaker 3: they were you know they were they got spanked early on,
Speaker 3: like you said, they were down three scores, you know,
Speaker 3: for a good part of the football game. Uh, and
Speaker 3: then the Bengals just could couldn't close it out. I
Speaker 3: mean they could never just get over the hump and say,
Speaker 3: all right, here's the final drive, here's the nail in
Speaker 3: the coffin.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 4: Once, once we.
Speaker 3: Finish this drive and put this this ball in the
Speaker 3: end zone and score seven points, you know you're done.
Speaker 3: There's not another life. But the New York Jets found
Speaker 3: another life and they came back. And I think that's
Speaker 3: the thing too. Uh. Losing the football game is one thing,
Speaker 3: but how you lose the football game sometimes is quite another.
Speaker 3: You know, and and and and everybody in that locker room.
Speaker 3: We were talking earlier before we came on the air
Speaker 3: in the studio here we have at Pecore.
Speaker 4: How somber the locker room was, How quiet the locker
Speaker 4: room was.
Speaker 3: I thought I was walking into a wake, you know,
Speaker 3: I thought, Man, well, I hope it's not awake. I
Speaker 3: hope it's not the funeral of the Cincinnati Bengals twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five season. I hope they're not burying that bad boy,
Speaker 3: because you know, they still, even even as dire as
Speaker 3: it looks, as dark as it looks right now, they
Speaker 3: have a shot because, like you said, Lance, what's going
Speaker 3: on with the rest of the division. Yep, nobody wants
Speaker 3: to take control of the AFC North. Everybody's like, and
Speaker 3: you know, maybe here it is. You're still interested. You know,
Speaker 3: I might be interested.
Speaker 2: Check back with me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, check check back to me in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 4: We'll see how this all shakes down. It is crazy.
Speaker 2: Here is a reaction from the coach, Zach Taylor after
Speaker 2: the game.
Speaker 6: Yeah, not acceptable, humbling for us. Certainly never got a
Speaker 6: chance to really break that game open, like we felt
Speaker 6: like we were capable of, you know, two opportunities there
Speaker 6: at the end of the game to close it out
Speaker 6: on offense and defensively to get guys on the ground
Speaker 6: and tackling wasn't good enough. So we're not gonna look
Speaker 6: at anything and say anything was good enough after that
Speaker 6: loss and uh humbling, and and we're gonna have to
Speaker 6: really dig deep to bounce back next week.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I mean, I I wish I had that reason for you.
Speaker 6: You know, it's just someone's gotta stet them to make
Speaker 6: a play. Someone's got to make a play either way,
Speaker 6: just to separate that game for us, create turnover, get
Speaker 6: it guy on the ground, a third down win, offensively
Speaker 6: explosive play in the game. It's never happened for us.
Speaker 7: When the defense started to face adversity, you feel like
Speaker 7: it's snowballed on that group.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we just need somebody to rise up and make
Speaker 6: a play. Someone just just hold the ford down, you know.
Speaker 6: And and I didn't see enough of that today.
Speaker 8: You feel like you've got to kind of improve being
Speaker 8: tangibles there and in your first situations like that.
Speaker 6: I think someone needs to step up and lead the group.
Speaker 6: That's what I'm waiting to see someone step up and
Speaker 6: leave the group and and take some accountability over there
Speaker 6: and get this thing on the right way. What was
Speaker 6: your message that you already had that from the rush.
Speaker 6: Defense wise, why do you think they were able to
Speaker 6: get They got a lot of momentum. I mean, it's uh,
Speaker 6: they were a dangerous team that way. That was certainly
Speaker 6: a strength of theirs, you know, with their offensive line,
Speaker 6: and so again we just we weren't good enough. You know,
Speaker 6: I don't know how many explosives. It felt like it
Speaker 6: felt like there was a decent amount of explosives there.
Speaker 8: Both captain gave capitalize and also in draft picks on
Speaker 8: the defensive line, how disappointing of the pass rush?
Speaker 6: Yeah, we need we need somebody to step up and
Speaker 6: win some one on ones.
Speaker 8: Is it trouble that this the run defense that rolled
Speaker 8: back to the preseason.
Speaker 6: Like that's something we certainly got to improve on.
Speaker 9: It looks like t was physically upset coming off the
Speaker 9: game through his helmet and pointing back himself. What was
Speaker 9: supposed to happen on last throw?
Speaker 10: Was supposed to go to here?
Speaker 6: Yeah he was, Yeah, he was an option there. I
Speaker 6: don't know what I mean, it was probably just frustrated
Speaker 6: last was there a thought of maybe given whatever it was,
Speaker 6: it was a very def decision right there, you know,
Speaker 6: and very tough, and Joe was ready to go. I
Speaker 6: don't think anything Joe did on that last couple of
Speaker 6: plays was anything that led us to not being able
Speaker 6: to win. I thought he he was fine. He threw away,
Speaker 6: we were expecting coverage, didn't get it, threw one away
Speaker 6: and and the other one to Yoshii. I didn't exactly
Speaker 6: see what it looked like, but I didn't feel.
Speaker 11: Like Zach, who are some guys you see on the
Speaker 11: defense or at least?
Speaker 6: Yeah, we just need guys to step up, you know,
Speaker 6: We just need some guys to step up. I'm not
Speaker 6: gonna sit here name names. We just need guys to
Speaker 6: step up.
Speaker 7: Thy fours act, did you feel like maybe that's subconsciously
Speaker 7: was playing pre bad everything in front of us and
Speaker 7: don't allow big plays.
Speaker 4: Let you guys going back to Cam in.
Speaker 6: The starting laneup. I just gotta guys got to continue
Speaker 6: to rise up for us, you know, And so again,
Speaker 6: just just continue to find the best combination of guys
Speaker 6: got over there. Well, I'm not into ranking losses. I'm
Speaker 6: into being frustrated that we lost this game, you know,
Speaker 6: and it's uh, it was right there for us to
Speaker 6: grab and crease a momentum for ourselves and and we
Speaker 6: just we missed the opportunity quite simple. And uh, you
Speaker 6: gotta give credits to the Jets many they we had
Speaker 6: them down multiple times, big scores, and and we just
Speaker 6: never delivered that knockout below. And they just kept hanging
Speaker 6: in there, and they made play after play after play
Speaker 6: and their confidence rose and and so then they were
Speaker 6: able to get that win. And and we saw this
Speaker 6: on tape. We saw the five to one score games,
Speaker 6: we saw end of games. They had their opportunities and
Speaker 6: they just hadn't been able to capitalize them yet. And
Speaker 6: here we are worth the team that they got it against.
Speaker 6: It's unfortunate.
Speaker 7: You got a little moment.
Speaker 6: We got some momentum the first down play I I
Speaker 6: I got to jog my member. In the second down
Speaker 6: play second down, we'd had some success running in that situation. Obviously,
Speaker 6: it's it's not good when you when they're up in
Speaker 6: there and they jam it up on end and then
Speaker 6: the third down didn't work. You know, we just we
Speaker 6: didn't get to go on it.
Speaker 12: Things.
Speaker 7: What you'll want accomplish the season now, how much, well.
Speaker 6: It's it's still on the table. It's still a long season.
Speaker 6: You know, this is gonna be a difficult season for
Speaker 6: a lot of teams, and so you just got to
Speaker 6: be in the thick of it and give yourself an opportunity.
Speaker 6: This is one that we had right in our grasp,
Speaker 6: and that's the that's the disappointing part about it. We
Speaker 6: were right there, we had this and so anytime you
Speaker 6: got a game like that that you can do and
Speaker 6: and we got to get away from us frustrating about
Speaker 6: We were just you know, able to lean on it
Speaker 6: some with the lead and I felt like we had
Speaker 6: good control of the game and stick with it. Thought
Speaker 6: our guys up front, we're doing a great job. The
Speaker 6: backs were running really well, breaking tackles. Joe did a
Speaker 6: great job controlling theme with some some perimeter stuff in
Speaker 6: the run game where he got some completions out of
Speaker 6: it on some runs to control some of the pressures
Speaker 6: they were trying to hit us with. I just thought,
Speaker 6: you guys do a nice Jim Hendrickson heading into the
Speaker 6: game and yeah, he was ready to play and hit.
Speaker 6: So we'll see. That's what I think of.
Speaker 2: This, Zach Taylor. After the game, we'll take a first
Speaker 2: time out and continue. We'll hear from Joe Flacco as
Speaker 2: we are up and running on a Monday night of
Speaker 2: Bengals Line of the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 2: We're back on Bengals Line of this Monday night of
Speaker 2: the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. Thanks for
Speaker 2: joining us and hanging out talking a little Bengals football.
Speaker 2: Lance McAllister Dave Lapham.
Speaker 3: Yes, Sir, Lance shop the Bengals Pro Shop. I'm the
Speaker 3: best selection of Bengals merchandise anywhere. Visit the Pro Shop
Speaker 3: seven days a week, located on the north side of
Speaker 3: pay Court Stadium, or shop online at Bengals dot com.
Speaker 2: Joe Flacco twenty one of thirty four, two hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty three yards, passing two touchdowns, no picks, quarterback rating
Speaker 2: of one hundred point five. Here's Joe after the game.
Speaker 8: Joe, just walk us through what happened then of the
Speaker 8: fourth quarters back locker.
Speaker 13: Yeah, just you know, had some had some ton happened
Speaker 13: a little bit. Wasn't feeling probably one hundred percent, so
Speaker 13: just trying to make sure I.
Speaker 14: Was right good. Yeah, it felt good coming up.
Speaker 3: What did you get hurt on the sack?
Speaker 10: Was?
Speaker 13: Yeah, it just kind of landed a little bit awkward,
Speaker 13: feel good right now?
Speaker 8: What kind of changed their quarter a pretty well, all
Speaker 8: of a sudden they got those.
Speaker 13: Stops quite like well, I mean we still kind of
Speaker 13: went down and got the touchdown in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 13: but you know, they had two stops come up late.
Speaker 14: You know, you put yourself in third and lungs and.
Speaker 13: You know, one or two plays don't kind of hit
Speaker 13: like they did early, and you don't convert a third down,
Speaker 13: and that's how it goes. I think the drives that
Speaker 13: we were scoring well on, you know, there was there
Speaker 13: was some conversions big time that we had. But you know,
Speaker 13: the drive that we did score in the fourth in
Speaker 13: the fourth quarter, we were krying of just rolling through
Speaker 13: a little bit. You know, you got to expect at
Speaker 13: some point they're gonna come up and play it tough
Speaker 13: and you're gonna have to make some plays, and we
Speaker 13: just weren't able to do it too.
Speaker 14: Much of that.
Speaker 7: There was a couple of times during the game that
Speaker 7: you guys should have closed it out.
Speaker 14: What do you think we're spend you guys from doing that. Well,
Speaker 14: you guys watched it.
Speaker 13: I mean, listen, you know this this league is most
Speaker 13: of the time, it's going to come down to those
Speaker 13: last you know, that last minute or two and uh,
Speaker 13: you know, obviously we had a drive before that two
Speaker 13: minute where if we go put points on the board,
Speaker 13: then it's a different game, and we just weren't able
Speaker 13: to do it.
Speaker 7: Do you think us through the final three plays or so,
Speaker 7: you guys pick up a first down, it feels like
Speaker 7: you're going to move from I think it's close to midfield,
Speaker 7: and things kind of stall.
Speaker 5: Out of it.
Speaker 14: Sometimes it's part of the game.
Speaker 13: You know, you don't make you don't make the playdown
Speaker 13: stretch that that gets you over the hump and puts
Speaker 13: you in field goal range.
Speaker 6: Were the years well, actual, I'm just pretty one here.
Speaker 6: Was there a conversation with you.
Speaker 8: Exact on a game like ar What was that like
Speaker 8: when you're aging whether you want to be able to
Speaker 8: go back in or not?
Speaker 9: What was that problem?
Speaker 15: Like?
Speaker 14: It was so quick, I mean, it was just kind
Speaker 14: of like.
Speaker 13: There was not much conversating, you know, it was like
Speaker 13: it just all happened so quick, and next thing you know,
Speaker 13: we're out there and we're going.
Speaker 8: So you would I mean, let's say let's say they
Speaker 8: got the stop when you come back out. What happened there?
Speaker 14: Again, I wasn't really thinking about that.
Speaker 13: I was just thinking about getting back out there. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 13: I don't think so, We'll have to wait and see.
Speaker 14: You know what we what we talk about in the
Speaker 14: Game of all time?
Speaker 8: What makes young guys kind of turn into leaders in
Speaker 8: the locker room over the course of time, Like what
Speaker 8: enables guys to go in and kind of take those
Speaker 8: roles the longer they're in the locker room.
Speaker 13: Well, I think the biggest thing is proving it day
Speaker 13: in and day out that you're the type of guy
Speaker 13: that's going to show up and work hard and give
Speaker 13: it your all and give it one.
Speaker 14: Hundred percent every day.
Speaker 13: I think, you know, I think those things kind of
Speaker 13: start with just your actions. You know, how you show up,
Speaker 13: You show up with intention every day, and I think
Speaker 13: the more you can do that, then it just slowly happens.
Speaker 6: Is that something you.
Speaker 8: Think guys old time or is that something that you kind.
Speaker 13: Of Guys can definitely learn from looking at other guys
Speaker 13: and seeing how they show up and when they show
Speaker 13: up and you know, kind of the process they go through.
Speaker 13: I think you can definitely learn how to you know,
Speaker 13: how to become somebody that comes in and works with
Speaker 13: intention and has you know, and and has detailed what
Speaker 13: they do and has passion for what they do. And
Speaker 13: I think I think you can definitely feed off of
Speaker 13: that and learn yourself and then become the guy that
Speaker 13: you know that other guys are looking to.
Speaker 7: Zach said the message to the team after the game,
Speaker 7: someone needs to step up. In an NFL lock room
Speaker 7: of adult man, how is that typically received when a
Speaker 7: coach is saying someone needs to step up?
Speaker 13: Oh yeah, I mean we're all men. Is coaches included
Speaker 13: and prideful?
Speaker 14: But at the same time, like I think, what makes
Speaker 14: you know.
Speaker 13: A good football player, a tough grown man is the
Speaker 13: ability to look inward and you know, maybe acknowledge some
Speaker 13: of the things that he can get better at. So
Speaker 13: I think that's where it starts in a good locker room,
Speaker 13: is when you get that message from your coach, you
Speaker 13: take it to heart because your pride, you have pride
Speaker 13: in what you do, and you look at yourself and
Speaker 13: how you can improve and how you can how you
Speaker 13: can take that next step and help everybody around you
Speaker 13: do the same thing.
Speaker 6: What enable you to really find that success that hadn't
Speaker 6: been there.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I think listen, I think the fact that we
Speaker 13: were able to start well in the passing game and
Speaker 13: then they got to worry about that, it.
Speaker 14: Opens up a little bit inside. And then you got
Speaker 14: to give.
Speaker 13: Credit to the offensive line and the running backs just
Speaker 13: for kind of doing their thing.
Speaker 4: That last year.
Speaker 16: I guess jam was saying the last couple of plays,
Speaker 16: they were just they were just double on right.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Yeah, Yeah, we were trying to get a double move
Speaker 13: on them one time, you know, just because sometimes when
Speaker 13: they when they come and double you, you know, they
Speaker 13: they got one guy outside, one guy comes inside, he
Speaker 13: gets a little low and maybe you can kind of
Speaker 13: get over the top.
Speaker 14: But you know, I think we expect that a little bit.
Speaker 14: You know that they're going to have to do something
Speaker 14: like that.
Speaker 13: There was a few third downs throughout the course of
Speaker 13: the game where they made sure they doubled him, and
Speaker 13: you know, that's a credit to them.
Speaker 14: But at the same.
Speaker 13: Time, like we know those things are going to happen
Speaker 13: with those guys, and you got to find ways to
Speaker 13: overcome it a little bit, and for most of the
Speaker 13: day we did. It's just you know, in crunch time,
Speaker 13: we weren't able to make it happen.
Speaker 2: Joe Flacco after the game a day another zero turnover day.
Speaker 2: He continues to protect the football and make plays.
Speaker 3: I think that's the biggest thing that he's done. Lance
Speaker 3: is taking care of the football. He seems to be
Speaker 3: allergic to turnovers. You know, he just doesn't want any
Speaker 3: part of them. Doesn't even want to talk about you know.
Speaker 3: It's like, well, if I talk, you know, I might
Speaker 3: jinx myself here. But but he he has he himself
Speaker 3: has given the Bengals a chance to win. And what
Speaker 3: more can you ask from your quarterback? You know, I
Speaker 3: mean it's been it's been still, you know, less than
Speaker 3: two weeks. That's that he's had to try to absorb
Speaker 3: and digest what the Cincinnati Bengals playbook and game plan
Speaker 3: on a weekly basis is all about. So he is
Speaker 3: not anywhere near the biggest reason the Bengals are struggling.
Speaker 3: In fact, just the opposite. I think that if more
Speaker 3: people were performing to the level that Joel Flacco is
Speaker 3: performing at and preparing to the level that Joel Flacco
Speaker 3: is preparing, I think they'd be better off. To me,
Speaker 3: it's just remarkable that he has given them as much
Speaker 3: of an opportunity as he has.
Speaker 2: Stell ahead, Let's flip to the defense. Brace yourself. We'll
Speaker 2: hear from Geno Stone and more as we continue Bengals
Speaker 2: Ont of the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW
Speaker 2: continue on talking Bengals, breaking down yesterday's game against the Jets,
Speaker 2: and eventually looking ahead to the Chicago Bears. We do
Speaker 2: it on the show we call Bengals Line of the
Speaker 2: Bengals Radio Network in seven hundred WLW. The numbers that
Speaker 2: pop off on the stat sheet seem impossible to comprehend
Speaker 2: at five hundred and two yards of total offense by
Speaker 2: the Jets yesterday, five two, putting up thirty nine points.
Speaker 2: Let's get into the defensive side of the conversation and
Speaker 2: get perspective after the game from Bengals Safety. Here's Geno
Speaker 2: Stone with Dan Horde and the media need to.
Speaker 10: Be throughout the course of the year.
Speaker 4: I don't know, I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 17: I just I didn't really care about grabbing the liner
Speaker 17: on this right now. I think the biggest thing is
Speaker 17: we've got to get be better on defense. I feel
Speaker 17: like everyone got to step up. Our leaders gotta lead
Speaker 17: I mean, I gotta lead more in our group, so
Speaker 17: I can put that on myself, and uh, you know
Speaker 17: all the other position groups have put it on themselves
Speaker 17: to our leaders. But end of the day, we all
Speaker 17: gotta come together and we got we gotta want it.
Speaker 18: You can't.
Speaker 17: You can't go out there and one person be an
Speaker 17: individual to do a job right and the other ten eight.
Speaker 17: So we all got to do our jobs right together
Speaker 17: and then that's that's what all comes down to.
Speaker 14: You guys.
Speaker 18: You guys have a lot of young guys.
Speaker 8: You believe in the young guys, but as it presented
Speaker 8: some challenges, just how young this defense is right now?
Speaker 19: Me?
Speaker 18: Yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 17: By the end of the day, Like I mean, I
Speaker 17: think Alice put us in gracesituations where it's not too complicated.
Speaker 17: You know at then day, like you gotta just do
Speaker 17: your job whatever your job. Isn't that certain players do
Speaker 17: your job? And you know, I think we're having a
Speaker 17: little hiccups here and there, but you know, at then
Speaker 17: the day, there's ten other people in the field. So
Speaker 17: one person mess up, you should able to make them right.
Speaker 8: No concerning is it that Zach just told us, like
Speaker 8: somebody's got to step up on defense, like that was
Speaker 8: the biggest thing. When your head coach is saying that, like,
Speaker 8: you know, eight weeks into the year, how concerning is
Speaker 8: it that, y'all he doesn't feel like somebody stepped up
Speaker 8: in that way.
Speaker 17: No, we definitely do. I mean someone got to step up.
Speaker 17: I mean, I mean I can speak from my group
Speaker 17: as much as I can. I mean, I gotta be
Speaker 17: a guy steps up. I'm the oldest guy in the room,
Speaker 17: so I'll take it on that rule. I make sure
Speaker 17: we're wrong right in the back end. But you know,
Speaker 17: at the end of the day, as a whole defense
Speaker 17: that everyone got to step up and play better. You
Speaker 17: can't just think about one person because you know, we're
Speaker 17: on the field together.
Speaker 5: So it is what it is.
Speaker 14: We've got to be better next week.
Speaker 12: Did it feel like there were a bunch of situations
Speaker 12: in the game where if you just got one stop
Speaker 12: here or there, it was gonna be over.
Speaker 18: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 17: I mean it's really like the last two three drops,
Speaker 17: I mean that's all we needed to stop. So that's
Speaker 17: really all it was, even even the two points of versions,
Speaker 17: but we just need to stop. So, uh, you know,
Speaker 17: at the end of the day. I mean the office
Speaker 17: at their job today. We can't say nothing about that.
Speaker 17: I mean they put up almost forty points just so
Speaker 17: the you know us as ah, there's a defense, we
Speaker 17: definitely gotta step up, do better.
Speaker 4: That's all it is.
Speaker 8: Is it frustrating that it's the same thing we've been
Speaker 8: talking about last year too, where you know the defense
Speaker 8: got of struggle.
Speaker 6: How frustrating is it's few years in.
Speaker 8: A row now and just haven't been able to get
Speaker 8: that done.
Speaker 17: No, I mean it's definitely frustrated. I mean, like I said,
Speaker 17: if someone got we all got to step up. It's
Speaker 17: not one person, it's not two people. Whoever it is,
Speaker 17: everyone gotta step up. Whoevers on the field gotta step up.
Speaker 17: I put myself in there included. So you know, at
Speaker 17: the end of the day, we just gotta stopped the run, uh,
Speaker 17: get the ball back to the offense, and then we
Speaker 17: all got to do our job. Whoever your job is
Speaker 17: on that certain play, whatever the call is is do
Speaker 17: your job.
Speaker 5: What were they doing on offense?
Speaker 17: I mean nothing, nothing so tough. I mean we, like
Speaker 17: I said, we've got to do our job. Leverage and attack.
Speaker 17: That's all it really comes down to you know, that's
Speaker 17: that's that's the main thing.
Speaker 18: I know everyone loss is frustrating.
Speaker 5: Is this one even more frustrating given where you guys wereriving?
Speaker 5: What court?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 17: I mean, I I mean I feel like we had
Speaker 17: the game under control of the whole time in the
Speaker 17: fourth quarter, I feel like it just kind of, you know,
Speaker 17: slipped away they I mean, momentiums are you know, a
Speaker 17: big thing in this game, and that they had overle
Speaker 17: momentum the whole fourth quarter.
Speaker 15: And that's one thing we have to do is try
Speaker 15: to change it.
Speaker 14: And we didn't.
Speaker 11: So you could point to one thing, you know, as
Speaker 11: the big problem with the defense today, What would you
Speaker 11: pick out of this game and say that's what has
Speaker 11: to get better?
Speaker 4: Stopping the wrong?
Speaker 14: You go stop the wrong?
Speaker 15: Like I said, his message to.
Speaker 20: The team after the game was that someone needs to
Speaker 20: step up.
Speaker 21: I know you just said a few times, but as
Speaker 21: a football player, you're obviously you're giving it one hundred
Speaker 21: and ten percent.
Speaker 14: When it says someone steps up.
Speaker 20: How do you guys take that when.
Speaker 4: Someone needs to step up?
Speaker 17: I mean, it's the way you go about your every day.
Speaker 17: I mean, you're a pro, you know, it's the way
Speaker 17: you prepare. It's the way you communicate on the fields,
Speaker 17: the way communicate with the guys around you. So whatever
Speaker 17: it is to get that person that better next to
Speaker 17: you better and that make sure everyone's on the same page.
Speaker 12: That's the way you step up on the run defense.
Speaker 12: It wasn't a day where it was five yards here,
Speaker 12: six yards there. It was the explosive runs. Those are killers,
Speaker 12: aren't they?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean definitely.
Speaker 17: I mean, I gotta I gotta watch the film and
Speaker 17: really see it, because I was you always see from the.
Speaker 4: iPad ever here and there, So I gotta I gotta.
Speaker 17: Go watch the film and see what really happens. So
Speaker 17: that's the biggest takeaway.
Speaker 4: We gotta do it.
Speaker 17: And like I talked, I told JB, you know, me
Speaker 17: and him were the last guys in the back end.
Speaker 17: So at the end of day we came out to score.
Speaker 14: You got him, doun.
Speaker 12: I know you guys, weren't you know, assuming anything going
Speaker 12: in to this game. But it was easy to say,
Speaker 12: all right, two home games, a chance to get to
Speaker 12: five and four going into your buy if you could
Speaker 12: win them. How hurtful is it to have not taken
Speaker 12: advantage of this opportunity?
Speaker 4: Today. No, definitely, I mean, I mean that was the goal.
Speaker 17: So at the end of the day, we got a
Speaker 17: google now and that's let's get back to five hundred
Speaker 17: and and improve.
Speaker 14: Them from there.
Speaker 17: So at end of the day, we got one more
Speaker 17: one more game before I buy, So we gotta take
Speaker 17: care prisons next week.
Speaker 12: Did you feel like the defense was progressing and took
Speaker 12: a step backward today?
Speaker 10: Obviously the score would suggest.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 18: I mean we definitely took a huge step back.
Speaker 17: I feel like last week we played it, you know,
Speaker 17: I mean a game that uh, you know, we put
Speaker 17: some something together, but at the same time you can see,
Speaker 17: you know, hiccups here and there. I think this week
Speaker 17: we took a whole step back as a as a
Speaker 17: collective group. You can't put you can't paint fingers that
Speaker 17: Nobody said a collective group. So we all gotta get
Speaker 17: better ready to get back toward tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Benks Gina Gino Stone after the game at day five
Speaker 2: oh two. Had you had you had we said last week,
Speaker 2: Had you had turned to us during the break and said,
Speaker 2: what do you think could the Jets get to five
Speaker 2: hundred yards offense? I think I would have said maybe
Speaker 2: over the next couple of weeks, but not in one
Speaker 2: game like yesterday.
Speaker 4: I would have lost a lot of money making a
Speaker 4: bet with you on that one. You would have been a.
Speaker 2: Rich man telling you.
Speaker 3: That is absolutely mind boggling to me that the New
Speaker 3: York Jets, I mean, they've got players, they're a good
Speaker 3: football team. They're not oh and seven record. You know,
Speaker 3: you think, oh my god, this team sucks. You know,
Speaker 3: they have no chance of winning any game. They've been
Speaker 3: in a few of their games, quite a few of
Speaker 3: their games, I mean one score games. Pittsburgh Steelers they
Speaker 3: lose by two. Buffalo they lost by twenty. They get
Speaker 3: spanked there. Down in Tampa Bay, they lose by two.
Speaker 3: They lose by six. In Miami, Dallas beats them by fifteen.
Speaker 3: You know, better than two scores. Denver a good football team,
Speaker 3: they lose by two. They lose by seven to Carolina.
Speaker 3: So they have a couple of losses that are you know,
Speaker 3: scratch your head puzzling, you know, not tremendous football teams.
Speaker 3: You know, Carolina Panthers in particular. But man, know, five
Speaker 3: hundred and two yards offense? Are you kidding me? And
Speaker 3: the sad thing is how balanced it was. I mean,
Speaker 3: they pounded him on the ground, they did anything they
Speaker 3: wanted to in the air. You know, they have what
Speaker 3: they considered to be a problem. You know at the
Speaker 3: quarterback position. Neither quarterback playing well. Tyrod Taylor, you know,
Speaker 3: was supposed to, you know, be the guy. Well he
Speaker 3: couldn't be the guy. And Justin Fields, who zero touchdowns
Speaker 3: in the last two games before playing the Cincinnati Bengals, well,
Speaker 3: the Bengals were his alixa man because he got well
Speaker 3: and he he threw the ball very well. He threw
Speaker 3: the ball with tremendous accuracy. He knew what he was
Speaker 3: looking at. He seemed to know what the Bengals were
Speaker 3: doing before the snap of the football. He knew where
Speaker 3: they were going to be, where they were going to be,
Speaker 3: how they lined that pre snap, had an inclination of
Speaker 3: notion what they do post snap if they made any
Speaker 3: kind of changes. They were well prepared. You know, there's
Speaker 3: no doubt about it. I mean, they felt like they
Speaker 3: had to win this football game. Aaron Glenn had them
Speaker 3: up in the bits, so to speak, and they went
Speaker 3: out and they got it done.
Speaker 2: And give give Justin Fields a ton of credit for
Speaker 2: how he navigated a week where his owner threw him
Speaker 2: under the bus and then backed the bus up over
Speaker 2: top of him. They went through the uncertainty of if
Speaker 2: Taylor was gonna go or not. They'd split the snaps
Speaker 2: through much of the week, then late in the week
Speaker 2: it becomes justin fields. He was very eloquent in the
Speaker 2: post game yesterday talking about the week that was and
Speaker 2: how he navigated it. And he cleared every with all
Speaker 2: that was thrown at him last week. He navigated all
Speaker 2: of it and was and you talked about the balance.
Speaker 2: They throw it thirty times, they run it thirty seven times,
Speaker 2: they run it for two fifty four on the ground,
Speaker 2: they throw it for two forty eight on the He
Speaker 2: just orchestrated it yesterday. It was beautiful.
Speaker 3: He did. He was the conductor, you know, and he
Speaker 3: had the starring role. There's no question about it. The
Speaker 3: thing about in my mind that hurt the Bengals defensively
Speaker 3: as much or more than anything, is how they did
Speaker 3: run the football. And and already said, you know the
Speaker 3: balance that they had. I mean, it's it's just a
Speaker 3: few yards differential between the run game and the pass game.
Speaker 4: And they had it.
Speaker 3: In my mind a two back set, even when they
Speaker 3: only had one back in the backfield. You know, if
Speaker 3: they were gonna go, you know, five offensive linemen, one
Speaker 3: tight end, four wides. You know, now all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: you got just a quarterback in the shotgun and one
Speaker 3: running back. That's still two running backs because Justin Fields
Speaker 3: ran the ball exceptionally well. The guy is a good
Speaker 3: runner of the football man. Uh, he he reads it well.
Speaker 3: He's confident they blocked for him. They understand that that's
Speaker 3: a part of his football game that can really help
Speaker 3: the team. I mean, third down is tough with him.
Speaker 3: He can he can climb the pocket and if he
Speaker 3: doesn't like what he sees, he's gonna tuck it and run.
Speaker 3: And he out ran a few Cincinnati Bengals yesterday during
Speaker 3: the course of that football game. And uh, he definitely
Speaker 3: has has foot speed. And when you look at him
Speaker 3: and uh uh Breece hall at the tailback position, I mean,
Speaker 3: Bruce Hall Man, how many tackles did he break? You,
Speaker 3: Al Golden, that was a big deal. You know, we
Speaker 3: need to be tackled better. I'm just very disappointed in
Speaker 3: what we're kind of a tackling football team. We've shown
Speaker 3: ourselves to be well. It didn't improve yesterday. You know,
Speaker 3: Justin Fields made a miss, Breece Hall made a miss,
Speaker 3: everybody made a miss.
Speaker 2: Still ahead, let's flip back onto the offensive side of
Speaker 2: things and hear from samaj p Ryan talk about his
Speaker 2: day doing a little bit of everything as he usually
Speaker 2: does and does it like a pro. That is, we
Speaker 2: continue with Bengals Line of the Bengals Radio networking seven
Speaker 2: hundred WLW. We were rolling right along in this Monday
Speaker 2: night at Bengals Line of the Bengals Radio Network and
Speaker 2: seven hundred WLW breaking down yesterday against the Jets, looking
Speaker 2: ahead of the Bears and always fighting time for this Dave, Yes.
Speaker 4: How about a card? Lance?
Speaker 3: How about wealth? How about we talked to Kettering Health
Speaker 3: feature the injury report presented by Kettering Health, the official
Speaker 3: health care provider of the Cincinnati Bengals, providing the best
Speaker 3: care for the best fans. And honestly, when you look
Speaker 3: at it, going into the football game, injury, Uh, the
Speaker 3: Jets were crippled. I mean their best offensive player, well,
Speaker 3: I think he is the best offensive's biggest threat definitely
Speaker 3: for big plays, Garrett Wilson. He was down, you know,
Speaker 3: and Sauce Gardner, the best defensive player on the back end,
Speaker 3: Quinn Williams definitely the best player in the front seven.
Speaker 3: But yet you lose two guys like that, you know,
Speaker 3: one of your best offensive one of your best defensive players,
Speaker 3: if not the best, and uh and you still win
Speaker 3: the football game. I mean that that's gonna make the
Speaker 3: coaching staff feel pretty good. The Bengals, they they probably
Speaker 3: you know, they got nicked up, dinged a little bit,
Speaker 3: nothing terribly awful. I don't think anybody's gonna lose an
Speaker 3: extended period of time. Nobody's certainly out for the season
Speaker 3: for either football team. Fortionally, they did not have to
Speaker 3: experience anything like that. Nobody carted off the field or
Speaker 3: anything of that nature. Guys went into the tent to
Speaker 3: get checked. Some guys had to go into the locker
Speaker 3: room after going into the tent. But they came back
Speaker 3: out and came back out in the football team game
Speaker 3: and field and played well. So you know, bottom line
Speaker 3: is the New York Jets, still with the injuries and
Speaker 3: everything that they had and players they were missing, they
Speaker 3: still out physicaled the Bengals. Now has to be a
Speaker 3: source of concern. No doubt about it.
Speaker 2: Samaj p Ryan did have a nice day. Nine carries
Speaker 2: ninety four yards rushing. That's an average at ten point
Speaker 2: four yards at carry including along and thirty two went
Speaker 2: for a touchdown, had a catch, had a special teams tackle,
Speaker 2: did at all. Here is Dave with Samaj after the game.
Speaker 3: Here in the Bengals locker room was running back Samaj
Speaker 3: p Ryan, who had a heck of a football game
Speaker 3: for the Cincinnati Bengals. I mean you ran the football
Speaker 3: hard man, you always do. I mean you finish every
Speaker 3: single play. When you get opportunities, you uh you take
Speaker 3: full advantage and and uh you finish hard man. Uh yeah,
Speaker 3: I do what I can.
Speaker 19: You know, it's it's unfortunately we didn't get the outcome
Speaker 19: we want it, but you know, at the end of
Speaker 19: the day, it's it's, uh, the only positive is is
Speaker 19: something to build off of.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 19: Offensively, you know, our line is playing great, quarterback is
Speaker 19: playing really good, receivers are playing really good, you know,
Speaker 19: running routes, catching balls, blocking, and uh you know obviously
Speaker 19: us as running backs, you know, we're we're feeding off
Speaker 19: of that, and uh, you know, we just got to
Speaker 19: keep keep pushing forward and you know, it's uh, it's
Speaker 19: a tough loss and unfortunate loss, but you know it's
Speaker 19: only one game, and uh, you know, we just have
Speaker 19: to come back next week and try a little bit harder.
Speaker 3: You put a lot of a lot of yards up
Speaker 3: and points up on the on the scoreboard today. Did
Speaker 3: they do anything different defensively than you anticipated? Because if
Speaker 3: they did, you guys are tested pretty damn well. But
Speaker 3: did they give you any looks that you weren't necessarily
Speaker 3: thinking might might take place?
Speaker 14: Not necessarily.
Speaker 19: We knew they were they were going to come out
Speaker 19: and uh and play hard, and you know, they have
Speaker 19: a great front set and really have a great defense
Speaker 19: all around. So we just had to you know, match
Speaker 19: and exceed their intensity, and uh, you know, for the
Speaker 19: most part we did. But there at the end, they
Speaker 19: just got the better of us, and you know, we
Speaker 19: just have to come out next week and find a
Speaker 19: way to finish that. But you know, yeah, they're they're
Speaker 19: very very simple, sound defense and they play hard. But
Speaker 19: you know, I feel like, you know, we just we
Speaker 19: just came out and matched it for the most part.
Speaker 3: Quentin Williams, their defensive tackle, that dude is a is
Speaker 3: a stud man He's been a multiple time Pro bowler
Speaker 3: for for a good reason. I mean, he's uh, he
Speaker 3: does everything well. He plays the run, stops the run,
Speaker 3: can rush the passer. Was he like a focal point
Speaker 3: when when you were going through your preparation during the week.
Speaker 19: Yeah, you know, he's a player that you know you
Speaker 19: have to have extra hands on, extra eyes on. And
Speaker 19: you know, I feel like, for the most part, you know,
Speaker 19: our old line did a great job specifically did a
Speaker 19: great job at you know, sitting a call is the
Speaker 19: right way to, uh to make sure he becomes less
Speaker 19: of a less of an X factor. And uh, you
Speaker 19: know he's at he's a great player. But I feel
Speaker 19: like we did a great job at at minimizing his production.
Speaker 3: You and and Chase Brown are a hell of a
Speaker 3: one two punch at the running back position. There's no
Speaker 3: question about it. I mean, I know Zach Taylor has
Speaker 3: talked about it, how fortunate he feels to have two
Speaker 3: players of your caliber, uh carrying the football for the
Speaker 3: Cincinnati Bengals. But you pride yourself on being a complete
Speaker 3: running back. What does that entail?
Speaker 10: What does that involved?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 19: Just you know, running, blocking, doing whatever I can to
Speaker 19: have the team win, you know, uh most of the
Speaker 19: time or sometimes you know, my my thing is I
Speaker 19: have to go in on third down and and uh
Speaker 19: and pick up key blocks and uh, you know, I
Speaker 19: pride myself on that more than anything. But you know,
Speaker 19: being able to to run the ball and have them
Speaker 19: trust me to run the ball on you know, third downs,
Speaker 19: first down, whatever it is. Uh, that's just icing on
Speaker 19: the cake for me. But you know, I feel like
Speaker 19: if either one of us is in there, shoot even Todds,
Speaker 19: if he's in there, you know we're gonna get the
Speaker 19: job done no matter what, just because you know they
Speaker 19: have the faith in us and we have the confidence
Speaker 19: to go and do it.
Speaker 3: It's interesting you pride yourself on your protection, your plitch
Speaker 3: pick up, because in my eye, you're one of the
Speaker 3: best in the National Football League to do it. Man, Nobody,
Speaker 3: nobody sticks their nose in there any better, any harder
Speaker 3: than you do.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 19: You know it's Uh, that's what I've had to hang
Speaker 19: my head on the past few years. And you know,
Speaker 19: you just have to have the girl to love it.
Speaker 19: And you know I love it, and it's it's kept
Speaker 19: me in for this long and hopefully it can keep
Speaker 19: me in for a few more years, as long as
Speaker 19: I can.
Speaker 3: Stop being humble, trying, try and drown saying, stop being humble.
Speaker 4: He knows he is.
Speaker 3: He is the best at there's no question. So I guess,
Speaker 3: you know, looking ahead, Uh, could I put this one
Speaker 3: in the review mirrors quick? Please as possible, get a
Speaker 3: get a W next week and then have a buy
Speaker 3: and and uh and come back and and you know,
Speaker 3: win another one, and all of a sudden you're over
Speaker 3: five hundred.
Speaker 4: And still in the hunt big time.
Speaker 19: Absolutely, you know, we it was unfortunate, but you know,
Speaker 19: we have to put it behind us. Tomorrow We're gonna
Speaker 19: watch it and kind of take accountability for it and
Speaker 19: move forward. You know, we have another really good team
Speaker 19: coming in and the Bears, and you know we just
Speaker 19: have to you know, put a game plan together and stick.
Speaker 14: It out and uh, you know, we just have to
Speaker 14: take it one game at a time.
Speaker 19: You know, you can't look too far into the future,
Speaker 19: and you just you know, have to take it day
Speaker 19: by day, week by week. And you know, obviously next
Speaker 19: week for or after that, we got a bye week,
Speaker 19: So this is gonna be it's gonna be a very
Speaker 19: big week for us, and you have to come out
Speaker 19: and hopefully, you know, get back on the right side
Speaker 19: of things, feeling good going into the bye week.
Speaker 3: And and you final question again a lot I guess,
Speaker 3: final question. The makeup of the chemistry, the character and
Speaker 3: this football team is uh is extraordinary and it's time
Speaker 3: to show right now, isn't it. I mean, you know
Speaker 3: that the season can go either way right now, and
Speaker 3: you gotta make sure that it ends up going in
Speaker 3: the right direction.
Speaker 4: And you guys stay in the.
Speaker 19: Hunt absolutely, you know. So like the way that that
Speaker 19: we've built this locker room, we don't let you know,
Speaker 19: things get to us. And we know what kind of
Speaker 19: football team we are, and we are a very connected
Speaker 19: football team.
Speaker 10: So we know what we have to do.
Speaker 4: We just have to go out and go do it.
Speaker 3: Appreciate you somebody absolutely thanks.
Speaker 2: About JP Ryan after the game. We'll talk about his
Speaker 2: individual performance and all around contributions a little bit later on.
Speaker 2: As we continue, we are rolling through a Monday night
Speaker 2: of Bengals conversation on Bengals Line, the Bengals Radio Network,
Speaker 2: and seven hundred wl W. All right down the stretch
Speaker 2: we go. Bengals Line and the Bengals Radio networking seven
Speaker 2: hundred wl W, Lance Bacaist Dave Lapham, Hey.
Speaker 3: Who day Nation, It's time to recognize our high school coaches.
Speaker 3: Nominate your coach to the Bengal Coach of the Week,
Speaker 3: presented by pay Corps. Visit Bengals dot com slash Coach
Speaker 3: of the Week. All right, I rapidly moving first hour
Speaker 3: in the books. Hang tight, We've got two more to
Speaker 3: get to highlighting our number two, Jamar Chase, another big
Speaker 3: day receiving the football. Ted Karas talks O Line, Dimitrius
Speaker 3: Night Junior with fun facts. We'll hear from Jordan Battle
Speaker 3: and here from DJ Turner. All of that lined up
Speaker 3: in our second of three big hours of Bengals Line
Speaker 3: of the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Bengals Line, our number two of three.
Speaker 2: We are cruising through three hours of Bengals conversation tonight
Speaker 2: Bengals on on the Bengals Radio Network. In seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 2: We've talked offense, we've talked defense. Let's get back on
Speaker 2: the offensive side of the ball. And Jamar Chase was
Speaker 2: busy active again yesterday when it was all said and
Speaker 2: done nineteen targets, twelve catches ninety one yards, He had
Speaker 2: a long of seventeen and a visibly frustrated Jamar after
Speaker 2: the game breaking down all that happened. Here's the Bengals
Speaker 2: wide receiver.
Speaker 12: Cham You guys scored thirty eight Normally that's enough to
Speaker 12: get it done. What's your reaction after the game today?
Speaker 20: Didn't put enough on on a boy a second half?
Speaker 10: What did you think of the offense's performance?
Speaker 20: Uh? Run game was tremendous today. Did a lot of
Speaker 20: running the ball? Uh? Up front did good?
Speaker 15: Uh?
Speaker 20: Running backs they good at too.
Speaker 12: Did you sense that the Jets were a desperate team
Speaker 12: considering their record? That they were a desperate team with
Speaker 12: their winless record?
Speaker 20: About a record? We gotta go out there and play.
Speaker 20: It don't matter about a record.
Speaker 10: How disappointed is the entire team to come up short today?
Speaker 15: It is lost?
Speaker 11: Bro more Zach said he's looking for guys to step
Speaker 11: up as leaders in the defense. How much of that
Speaker 11: is on you as a leader in this room to
Speaker 11: kind of surge that charge or help the defense find leaders?
Speaker 10: Ay?
Speaker 20: My job, I'll play offense, not defense.
Speaker 11: How frustrating is it for you to see the defense
Speaker 11: give up thirty nine points.
Speaker 20: Uh, it's it's pretty frustrating. The offense don't need to
Speaker 20: capitalize the day.
Speaker 11: Do you feel like as an offense you're doing all
Speaker 11: you can do when you scored that many points in
Speaker 11: a game like this?
Speaker 15: Uh?
Speaker 20: We love stuff out there.
Speaker 11: This this offense last year at a lot of times
Speaker 11: scored a lot of points, Jamar and lost games. You're
Speaker 11: you're kind of back here again. What needs to change
Speaker 11: in here?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 20: I don't know, aks that did you do anything? Do
Speaker 20: your tomorm in the second half?
Speaker 4: Covered quires?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 4: Really?
Speaker 20: Fourth quarter? They just double double the whole time in
Speaker 20: every series pretty much. That's why the run was open
Speaker 20: and was not sure why the run was old so open?
Speaker 20: I think the up front did a good job today.
Speaker 10: What was re view of the last series?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 15: Uh?
Speaker 16: What did they do to uh uh dictate the way
Speaker 16: it came out on thirty and fourth down?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 20: Just double double me and t leftdre one on one
Speaker 20: and you know saying blisses.
Speaker 11: When you lose a game like this, Jamar and you're
Speaker 11: up thirty eight to twenty four, is it stunning for
Speaker 11: you as a player?
Speaker 10: What's your reaction?
Speaker 20: Next question?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 20: Next question?
Speaker 18: Well, what what what is your lot report to get
Speaker 18: with christ on?
Speaker 6: What's what's the favorite bull doubles?
Speaker 20: Last possession?
Speaker 10: What defensive leaguer defensive played?
Speaker 6: Both felt like you guys picked up the first down
Speaker 6: Chicks Brown runs it and on that last possession of Cola,
Speaker 6: you guys had some more n that just kind of hold.
Speaker 5: Can you pick us through the final sequence there?
Speaker 17: The finals?
Speaker 4: We played.
Speaker 10: Cool.
Speaker 20: I mean we just didn't execute, you know, didn't execute,
Speaker 20: didn't get a pick up the dom.
Speaker 9: Jamarks do frustrating that weekend tick out and seem to
Speaker 9: take the guys popscour over thirty five points on offense
Speaker 9: to win games.
Speaker 10: Do you think like that's a sustainable Uh.
Speaker 20: I don't think that's how that works. I just think
Speaker 20: it's NFL. Everybody's good, everybody's know how to play football.
Speaker 20: Everybody watch his film that I adjust that.
Speaker 15: Just said about the message stuff.
Speaker 10: You know a lot of mom just that somebody used
Speaker 10: to step up.
Speaker 15: What do you think of that?
Speaker 20: I play offense. I don't know what about what the
Speaker 20: defense gotta do. I'm just making sure I'm just chaining
Speaker 20: 'em on every play.
Speaker 15: He didn't say deep, Well, probably stall season.
Speaker 10: That's just said somebody.
Speaker 20: I don't know if that no comment for that?
Speaker 6: Marg you still think there was a lot of hope
Speaker 6: for this team?
Speaker 20: Uh huh, we're still good, brouh. We just gotta find
Speaker 20: a way to not put ourselves in positions like this
Speaker 20: and be pissed off.
Speaker 8: Is this a pace that you play after a lost
Speaker 8: and lights and stuff?
Speaker 10: I don't know.
Speaker 20: I don't like losing, so don't matter we lost.
Speaker 14: Were you looking for the ball on that last drive?
Speaker 4: Did you feel like you had.
Speaker 14: An opportunity to make a play over there?
Speaker 20: We called a play for me, but it wasn't. I
Speaker 20: was double double and the leverages were going so I
Speaker 20: couldn't really do much.
Speaker 6: Is it a pressure ating like you over the year?
Speaker 6: Its last year was the same, issuear with the defense.
Speaker 12: Was happening able to get up the as an offensive
Speaker 12: rise it?
Speaker 6: Especially if us any that it's still kind of a problem.
Speaker 6: This deepens this season any like?
Speaker 20: Uh, I'm more frustrated we lost tonight than anything.
Speaker 5: How do you guys think out of it?
Speaker 13: Uh?
Speaker 20: Put our head back down, keep working the best thing
Speaker 20: we could do.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know everything. Loss is frustrating and hard to
Speaker 5: flush and all of those things.
Speaker 22: But when you give up the leads that you gave
Speaker 22: up today in the fourth quarter, when it seemed like
Speaker 22: it was a a game you guys are gonna win
Speaker 22: by double digits?
Speaker 5: Is that different at all?
Speaker 6: Is it harder to flush?
Speaker 5: Is it harder to get past?
Speaker 10: Or is it always.
Speaker 6: In a moment?
Speaker 20: It's a lot going on, but it's a in the
Speaker 20: moment thing. It's not really worried about really worry about
Speaker 20: what just happened and how to happen.
Speaker 8: So is it hard to wrap your mind around this loss?
Speaker 8: And they didn't have a win coming into it, y'all
Speaker 8: had some good momentum. How hard is it to kind
Speaker 8: of wrap your mind around kind of how this.
Speaker 5: Game should out?
Speaker 20: This game should have been over when it was sixteen
Speaker 20: thirty one, twenty eight, whatever ahead I had.
Speaker 15: It should have been over.
Speaker 20: Ithoud have been over?
Speaker 8: Is that probably one of the most frustrated things about
Speaker 8: why this house that is all that y'all had, if
Speaker 8: they leave.
Speaker 20: And it just just didn't end up pretty much.
Speaker 6: Mine wasn't over.
Speaker 17: I mean, I know it's not just on the defense,
Speaker 17: just on the offense, but why do you think they
Speaker 17: were able to get.
Speaker 5: Back in the out.
Speaker 20: After we scored on the fast job. They went scored
Speaker 20: and they just kept scoring.
Speaker 8: You know, y'all have going back last year, y'all had
Speaker 8: leads in some games and they just kind of dissipated.
Speaker 14: Towards the end.
Speaker 8: Is there a reason why you're preture why some of
Speaker 8: these leads over the years just haven't been able to
Speaker 8: leave y'all haven't been able to see them out.
Speaker 20: Oh, that's exact question.
Speaker 2: Exact that Jamar after the game and Dave, he continues
Speaker 2: the workload, the conditioning. I can't even It's one thing
Speaker 2: to play a lot of snaps, but his playing a
Speaker 2: lot of snaps is also getting a lot of targets
Speaker 2: and getting hit a lot and running a lot. And
Speaker 2: yesterday he plays fifty eight of the fifty nine snaps,
Speaker 2: he's targeted nineteen times. He has twelve more catches. He
Speaker 2: has been a workhorse and he's in he's an incredible shape.
Speaker 2: To do what he's doing, I would.
Speaker 3: Have to think, and you've hit on it. Workhorse is
Speaker 3: exactly the perfect terminology for him. I mean that that
Speaker 3: basically defines him right there. Workhorse And you can't fatigue
Speaker 3: the guy. I mean, he's he's one of those guys
Speaker 3: that just wants more.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 3: His heart rate, Yeah, never goes crazy, it's never never
Speaker 3: up at a at a danger point or whatever the
Speaker 3: case may be. He is marvelously conditioned. Like you say,
Speaker 3: I mean, you look at the guy in the locker room.
Speaker 3: He's chiseled. It's like, oh my god, he looks like
Speaker 3: an anatomy chart. You know that you take a look
Speaker 3: at in high school. And he's got the pectorals, you know,
Speaker 3: and the the ab muscles, and his strength and his
Speaker 3: quads and his hamstrings. It's just it's second to none,
Speaker 3: and just a marvelous player.
Speaker 4: Great find.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: The Bengals obviously they had dry on Jamar Chase for
Speaker 3: a while down at LSU, probably even back in the
Speaker 3: high school days.
Speaker 2: And Joe Burrow.
Speaker 3: Obviously basically firmed it up the organization. Yes to Joe Borrow,
Speaker 3: so you play with this guy at LSU. Tell us
Speaker 3: about it. I'm sure he went on and on, waxing
Speaker 3: eloquently about all the attributes that Jamar Chase has to
Speaker 3: win games for you and be a football player that
Speaker 3: will have immense success.
Speaker 2: And they were, and we're talking the last two weeks.
Speaker 4: He has twenty.
Speaker 2: I mean, these are these are like numbers you'd see
Speaker 2: over like a month span, if not more. He has
Speaker 2: twenty eight catches on forty two targets the last two weeks.
Speaker 2: And let's consider that's what Joe Flacco a new quarterback,
Speaker 2: He's learning and Joe's they're each learning each other. And
Speaker 2: there's already a trust in a like a telepathic e've
Speaker 2: going on between the two.
Speaker 4: It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2: It is, it really is.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think you know, Joe Flacco has thrown
Speaker 3: some good receivers during the course of his NFL career,
Speaker 3: but he says that Jamar Chase, when I talked to
Speaker 3: him in the locker room sitting next to them one day,
Speaker 3: said tell me about Jamar the best's I mean, he
Speaker 3: does everything. There's not one thing that there's no hole
Speaker 3: in his game. It's not one thing that he can't.
Speaker 3: I would like to see, though, T Higgins get more involved.
Speaker 3: Only two targets, targets, one catch, a big one, but
Speaker 3: one big one. Yeah, monsters in terms of yards and
Speaker 3: importance of the football game at that particular time. But man,
Speaker 3: T Higgins is a star. He's a star, you know,
Speaker 3: I mean, Jama's a superstar. He's definitely a star and
Speaker 3: borderline superstar. I mean, if you were on another team,
Speaker 3: he'd be a superstar. He'd be their superstar, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: He's got size, he's got length, he's got range, he's
Speaker 3: got everything.
Speaker 4: He can run.
Speaker 3: A contested catch is not fifty to fifty with him,
Speaker 3: it's like eighty five fifteen. You know, he's one of
Speaker 3: those guys that when he goes airborne to make a
Speaker 3: contested catch, he's coming down with the football. Got to
Speaker 3: get him involved, even in the red zone. I mean,
Speaker 3: the Bengals were in the red zone. You scored, you know,
Speaker 3: over thirty points. You're in the red zone a bit,
Speaker 3: and your receivers are going to have opportunities in the
Speaker 3: red zone. And for t Higgins to only have two
Speaker 3: targets the entire game and being in the red zone
Speaker 3: as often as they were, something's wrong there, man. Something
Speaker 3: doesn't jive.
Speaker 2: Boy, And another tough day. I can't figure out, yo. See.
Speaker 2: Sometimes there's there's like last week he makes three catches
Speaker 2: on four targets and yesterday he didn't have a catch
Speaker 2: on three targets. Two weeks ago he had one catch
Speaker 2: on four targets. There's just not a connection and a
Speaker 2: catch rate that it needs to be better with him
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you usually would be the first one to tell
Speaker 3: you he dropped too many balls. Yeah, I mean, he's
Speaker 3: got to secure the football. That's that's Uh, it's been
Speaker 3: a little bit of a of a problem for him
Speaker 3: the last couple of years or so. He just uh,
Speaker 3: in key moments, the quarterback has to have confidence. If oh,
Speaker 3: he's the one that's opened, they're doublin Jamar, They're doublin
Speaker 3: t You know, this is a must third down conversion.
Speaker 3: You know, I've got my tight end available and Yosi
Speaker 3: available available in the middle of the football field. I'm
Speaker 3: leaning toward my tight end because you know, Kasiki and
Speaker 3: others have shown they can catch the ball more consistently.
Speaker 3: So Yosi's gotta, uh, he's got to pick that up.
Speaker 3: He's gotta he's gonna make himself more of a consistent threat.
Speaker 2: Boy, and another guy while we're catching, tossing or talking
Speaker 2: pass catchers, Noah Fense thrown two three times, three catches
Speaker 2: forty one yards. He was effective early yesterday and he's
Speaker 2: really reliable. He was Yeah, he is reliable.
Speaker 3: He caught the ball well, very sure handed, put it away,
Speaker 3: tucked it away immediately. Uh took it out of harm's way,
Speaker 3: and uh did a little bit ran ran well after
Speaker 3: the catch. I mean he's a big body guy, sixteen. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that has a little whig to him. He's got some moves.
Speaker 2: Let's take a time out and come back. More to
Speaker 2: get to in this hour. Third hour spent on the
Speaker 2: recap the Ring of Honor weekend. What a weekend, Holy cow.
Speaker 2: Plus we'll get into the Chicago Bears. You are tuned
Speaker 2: to three hours of Bengals conversation tonight on Bengals Line,
Speaker 2: the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. We're back
Speaker 2: on Bengals out of this Monday even on the Bengals
Speaker 2: Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. Imlance pcalist alongside is
Speaker 2: always a Dave Lapham.
Speaker 3: And Hey Bengals fans. On Fridays, make sure to listen
Speaker 3: to myself and Dan Horde from Bengals pep Rally presented
Speaker 3: by Just Bear Chicken on the air from three to
Speaker 3: six pm on ESPN fifteen thirty.
Speaker 2: Bengals run it for one hundred and eighty one yards.
Speaker 2: They throw it for two twenty three. Let's talk all
Speaker 2: around performance by the offense, maybe specifically the offensive line,
Speaker 2: and let's hear from Ted Karras after the game.
Speaker 18: Numb feeling, horrendous feeling. That's all I have to say
Speaker 18: about that. You feel collectively as a group of offense defense.
Speaker 21: Maybe you guys let up emotionally psychologically when you guys
Speaker 21: were up thirty one, sixteen, thirty eight, twenty four.
Speaker 18: I know I didn't.
Speaker 21: I can't speak for everyone else, but I don't relax
Speaker 21: till it's triple zeros. And obviously it's a three hour
Speaker 21: fight that we lost.
Speaker 9: It's pretty evident. I mean, Zach said postgame he needs
Speaker 9: someone to step up. It's pretty clear on defense that
Speaker 9: leadership is lacking, and that's something that even the head
Speaker 9: coach is searching for. You as the captain year in
Speaker 9: and year out. Is there any way that you can help.
Speaker 9: I know you don't play defense, but you're one of
Speaker 9: the biggest leaders on this team, Like, how how can
Speaker 9: you help fill that void on defense?
Speaker 19: If you can?
Speaker 14: I mean, I can be a leader for the team.
Speaker 21: I'm not out there with the eleven guys on defense,
Speaker 21: so you know, I'm not just gonna blame one thing.
Speaker 18: We can't just blame defensive leadership.
Speaker 10: We got a.
Speaker 20: Look at a lot of different things. Yeah, let the
Speaker 20: let the Jets come in.
Speaker 10: And be horrendous.
Speaker 21: How do you give yourself out? This amaze you guys.
Speaker 21: You guys love asking me that one same way I
Speaker 21: always do. Just coming to work tomorrow, coming to work Wednesday.
Speaker 21: We've got a football game to play, So I'm not
Speaker 21: gonna get quoted with a cliche this week. So but
Speaker 21: we got we got the Bears coming into town, so
Speaker 21: let's go.
Speaker 20: Seemed like the offensive.
Speaker 4: Line, you know, fluction muscles.
Speaker 18: They had almost two hundred yads rushing them.
Speaker 14: You had, you know, quote the game, do what you
Speaker 14: wanted to do.
Speaker 10: It looked like there's a line.
Speaker 20: Yeah, didn't score forty, So doesn't mean.
Speaker 7: This loss change the outlook on the season.
Speaker 20: For you guys.
Speaker 6: I mean, maybe you can go through the numbers.
Speaker 23: I don't know.
Speaker 21: We're gonna we got the Bears coming to town, so
Speaker 21: we're gonna all summack this one for a night.
Speaker 18: And uh get ready for a big week.
Speaker 10: I mean, jeez, we gotta go.
Speaker 2: Ted Carris and as he said, thirty eight points means
Speaker 2: nothing when you when you need to score forty to win.
Speaker 2: But have a said that, I mean this offensive line.
Speaker 2: The last three weeks now, Dave has only allowed one sack,
Speaker 2: two sacks, one sack. For as much as Joe Flacco
Speaker 2: is dropping back and throwing it and the way they're
Speaker 2: taking care of it. For the handwringing about the offensive
Speaker 2: line early in the year, they seem to have settled
Speaker 2: into something that's protecting the quarterback and opening up holes
Speaker 2: on the ground.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree, I do agree.
Speaker 3: I think I think they're starting to get starting to
Speaker 3: mesh a little bit, starting to play as a unit,
Speaker 3: you know, five components playing as one. That the real
Speaker 3: good offensive lines in the National Football League's history, you know,
Speaker 3: have done it. It's like you make that fist. You
Speaker 3: you curl the five of the four fingers and wrap
Speaker 3: the thumb, you know, and you have yourself a strong fist.
Speaker 4: Rather than an open handed way.
Speaker 3: You can't really attack the line of scrimmage if you're
Speaker 3: playing your offensive line is playing soft like a like
Speaker 3: an open handed fist. As such, Now you close that
Speaker 3: fist and get some power and some thumb come off
Speaker 3: the football, and that's what that's what they're starting to do.
Speaker 4: I think they're starting to get movement up front.
Speaker 3: I think Chase Brown will tell you in Samajhi and
Speaker 3: p Ron will tell you that the offensive line blocked well.
Speaker 3: In fact, they both said it to me in the
Speaker 3: locker room afterwards, that the offensive line got good movement
Speaker 3: and and uh give them a lot of confidence that
Speaker 3: all they had to do is is you know, make
Speaker 3: it make a right read. It's it's always it's always
Speaker 3: a confidence building When your quarterback doesn't get hit at
Speaker 3: or behind the line of scrimmage, when he can get
Speaker 3: four or five yards down the football field before you
Speaker 3: have to make us first cut, you're talking. You're talking
Speaker 3: turkey there. Now You're you're talking something. Uh you know
Speaker 3: that that that adds some substance to it. So they
Speaker 3: can't rest though, can't rest on their laurels as such,
Speaker 3: because they're they're losing football team. There are three and
Speaker 3: five football team right now, so that's nowhere near good enough.
Speaker 3: But I think they are ramping up in the right direction.
Speaker 3: And I do think that they they are made of
Speaker 3: the right stuff, and they have the right type of
Speaker 3: people who want to be good. They all want to
Speaker 3: be good football players, and they have an offensive line
Speaker 3: coach that's teaching them new techniques and fundamentals that they're
Speaker 3: starting to catch on and implement in an effective manner.
Speaker 3: So I do think their best days are ahead of them.
Speaker 2: Lance last two weeks forty six rushes, three hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty three yar just over seven yards per carry. Nice,
Speaker 2: not nice at all. Take a time out of continue
Speaker 2: so much more to get to. It's Bengals on on
Speaker 2: the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. Hey we
Speaker 2: keep rolling along on this Monday night a Bengals on
Speaker 2: on the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. Sorting
Speaker 2: through yesterday, looking ahead of next week and always find
Speaker 2: a time for the segment we love that Dan Horde
Speaker 2: does each week. It is called Fantastic Fun Facts. This
Speaker 2: week he talks with Demetrius Knight Junior.
Speaker 1: No Fantastic Fun Facts with Dan Ord.
Speaker 12: Time for some fun facts with linebacker Demetrius Knight from
Speaker 12: Locust Grove, Georgia, less than an hour away from Atlanta.
Speaker 12: Your jersey was retired last week. Describe getting that news
Speaker 12: and going home for the ceremony. Yeah, it was a
Speaker 12: true blessing just to just to be in that moment.
Speaker 12: It's not every day you get to retire in an
Speaker 12: old high school high school jersey number. You kind of
Speaker 12: thank you're for your forgotten sometimes when you when yeah,
Speaker 12: you're you're off and doing other things, but just having
Speaker 12: that to be recognized as is nothing but God, you know, nothing,
Speaker 12: nothing but Jesus, and that's what we stand on.
Speaker 22: Over there as strong Christian schools. So uh, glad to
Speaker 22: see that they're still doing their thing in all the
Speaker 22: sports categories. But also good to see that, you know,
Speaker 22: they'll they'll leave a bit, a little bit of my
Speaker 22: legacy to see around. So uh, as my kids continue
Speaker 22: to grow, uh, that'll be something I can you know,
Speaker 22: rubbing rubbing their faces every once in a while as
Speaker 22: they're as they're growing up.
Speaker 12: You're a linebacker now, but you were a four year
Speaker 12: starting quarterback in high school. Give me a camp, what
Speaker 12: college or NFL quarterback where you most like?
Speaker 22: I was definitely most like Cam Newton. I was trying
Speaker 22: to emulate him and everything he did, and then started
Speaker 22: to watch more college guys, started to watch Jalen Hurts
Speaker 22: just knowing that I was a bigger type of quarterback
Speaker 22: and knowing that those are bigger quarterbacks, knowing that they
Speaker 22: can run, but also you know, not just being the run,
Speaker 22: of also being able to, you know, be a lethal
Speaker 22: in the past game. So as I continued to grow
Speaker 22: in my high school career, would you know, put the
Speaker 22: run first mentality behind it and you know, pass first
Speaker 22: and then run second.
Speaker 10: We're chatting with Demetrius Knight.
Speaker 12: Were you heavily recruited out of high school?
Speaker 5: No, sir, not very much.
Speaker 22: Tennessee Tech was pretty much the only offer I had
Speaker 22: going into my junior year and whatnot. And I would
Speaker 22: go to a camp where Paul Johnson was still the
Speaker 22: head coach at Georgia Tech, and he's like, I don't
Speaker 22: I don't understand how you don't have more offers. I'm
Speaker 22: gonna give you a first one. And that pretty much
Speaker 22: sold it for us.
Speaker 12: So he made the offer, you chose Georgia TACK and
Speaker 12: then he left before you got there.
Speaker 10: How difficult was that for you?
Speaker 22: It was pretty pretty difficult, just because I didn't know
Speaker 22: what I was going to get. I was already getting
Speaker 22: comfortable with the former coaching staff and him.
Speaker 5: Of course, that's that's just line.
Speaker 22: That's a business decision that he and his family had
Speaker 22: to make, and I didn't hate him or anything for that.
Speaker 5: That's just just just the way life goes.
Speaker 22: So of course I still wanted to be close to
Speaker 22: my mom and sister, uh not wanted to be too
Speaker 22: far away from them and the due places we were sharing.
Speaker 22: So I was like, of course, I don't know what
Speaker 22: the situation will be. Yeah, I know there's there might
Speaker 22: be a possibility, and I probably won't be quarterback just
Speaker 22: because I know it's a new new group coming in,
Speaker 22: but I at least figured it's it'd still be something
Speaker 22: on the offense.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 5: That was the complete opposite of the spectrum, but ended
Speaker 5: up working out for the best.
Speaker 12: What was your reaction when they said, Demetrius, you're a linebacker?
Speaker 5: Pretty much?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 5: World went upside down.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: I didn't know what to think.
Speaker 22: It was kind of unreal, and I just kind of
Speaker 22: went with it for a couple of weeks, thinking, oh,
Speaker 22: they're just they'll see I know good at this linebacker thing,
Speaker 22: and moved me back to to the offense side of
Speaker 22: the ball. If that quarterback and uh, now, how now,
Speaker 22: how God hasn't played God has it playing all the time?
Speaker 22: Of course, you had to go through trials and tribulation
Speaker 22: and perseverance, and you end up here in the in
Speaker 22: the NFL as a linebacker.
Speaker 12: While you were in college, you got married and became
Speaker 12: a dad. What's your wife's name and how did you
Speaker 12: two meet.
Speaker 5: My wife's name is gen C. Gen C Knights, she is.
Speaker 22: She's also from Luggas Grove and we met we went
Speaker 22: on a mission trip together, uh, my junior year, her
Speaker 22: sophomore year. But the whole funny thing is, even though
Speaker 22: we spent a week out in Haiti doing the Lord's work,
Speaker 22: we did not say a word to each other the
Speaker 22: entire trip. I remember sitting at her table with her
Speaker 22: and her friends and I didn't sale word. And then
Speaker 22: COVID would happen and sending to send me home from campus,
Speaker 22: and she's finishing up her her senior year, and you know,
Speaker 22: two boy people at home that happened to remember each
Speaker 22: other and the rest of the history.
Speaker 12: After four years at Georgia Tech, you transferred to Charlotte
Speaker 12: and had a breakout season, earning first team All Conference honors.
Speaker 12: How important was that season and getting you to where.
Speaker 10: You are now?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was a lot.
Speaker 22: It was very good for me just because it showed
Speaker 22: that I could play the linebacker position. Of course, at
Speaker 22: Georgia Tech, it was ups and downs, his and lows,
Speaker 22: and that made me the player who I was going
Speaker 22: into that situation not knowing who was going to be
Speaker 22: the coach because they're getting it. They ever getting a
Speaker 22: new coach ended up getting coach Coach Posy, coach Biff
Speaker 22: and him coming in was was a great start just
Speaker 22: because everybody got to start from ground zero. There were
Speaker 22: no politics involved. It was come in and you know,
Speaker 22: earn a spot in that That's that's all I wanted
Speaker 22: I did. I wanted everybody to be on on ground
Speaker 22: zero and if someone out you know it plays me
Speaker 22: for the spot, then they just outplay me yet but
Speaker 22: I wanted to have a fair shot and made sure
Speaker 22: that I made every rep count there.
Speaker 12: After great season of Charlotte, you still had one year
Speaker 12: of eligibility left. This is the ni l era. You
Speaker 12: had a wife and a baby at home. Did you
Speaker 12: look for the best financial offer you could find?
Speaker 5: I did, h of course that was there.
Speaker 22: There were other schools that I was gonna take visits too,
Speaker 22: but you know, when you when you have a wife
Speaker 22: it ends up being you know, happy wife, happy life.
Speaker 5: And we're already in North Carolina.
Speaker 22: South Carolina was you know, an hour and some chains away,
Speaker 22: and you know, we've got to pack up a third
Speaker 22: floor apartment and take it somewhere, and she's like, yeah,
Speaker 22: I don't, I don't plan on going anywhere far. So, uh,
Speaker 22: South Carolina might be as far as I'm willing to
Speaker 22: go because that's not bad of a drive. But it's
Speaker 22: also close to family, so you know, you know, that's
Speaker 22: that's perfect me.
Speaker 4: Why not?
Speaker 5: So ended up working out very well for us.
Speaker 12: We learned after the draft that you were a door
Speaker 12: dash driver in college to bring in a few extra
Speaker 12: bucks for your family, even after games that you played
Speaker 12: in correct.
Speaker 22: Absolutely, yeah, that's uh not what you hear every every day.
Speaker 22: That not pretty much heard of. I'm sure they're there
Speaker 22: are probably players at other smaller schools that do the
Speaker 22: same thing. But being at a school like Charlotte, Uh,
Speaker 22: there were opportunities where got to make them count, and
Speaker 22: DoorDash delivered that opportunity to make account where you know,
Speaker 22: we didn't have to scrounge and I didn't have to
Speaker 22: go apply for different jobs at a chick flair so
Speaker 22: which I was definitely trying. I'm applying left and right
Speaker 22: to you know, deliver for for for Amazon. I couldn't
Speaker 22: get through with them.
Speaker 10: But.
Speaker 22: It ended up working out for the best. DoorDash was
Speaker 22: it was quick and easy and you just get on
Speaker 22: there and right away you start making deliveries. And luckily
Speaker 22: for me where you know, you live on a college campus.
Speaker 22: You know college kids love to eat, so that makes
Speaker 22: makes it pretty quick and easy to bring in a.
Speaker 12: Quick But yeah, I've got a student in college and
Speaker 12: I see those door dash bills, so you're absolutely right
Speaker 12: about that. We're visiting the Demetrius night. I'm a sucker
Speaker 12: for an emotional call from a team to a player
Speaker 12: during the NFL Draft, and you got choked up when
Speaker 12: the Bengals called you. Can you articulate the emotions that
Speaker 12: you were feeling.
Speaker 22: Yeah, just just everything that my family and I had
Speaker 22: been through, wife and I have been through and kids,
Speaker 22: just knowing where we were and how unsure we were
Speaker 22: going from from Tech to Charlotte and it's like, okay,
Speaker 22: well you don't really hear about people coming out of
Speaker 22: Charlotte unless you you know, you're Alex high Smith who's
Speaker 22: you know, doing his thing over in Pittsburgh and you know,
Speaker 22: I can make my mark here and ended up doing
Speaker 22: that and U situations changed and you know, like when
Speaker 22: life gets going, it gets going. But uh, that's when
Speaker 22: again you learn how to persevere, lean on the fade,
Speaker 22: lean on the Lord, lean on Jesus and uh and
Speaker 22: and here we are. It's uh, it's never it's never been.
Speaker 22: It's only just one chapter finishing and and and onto
Speaker 22: the next.
Speaker 12: All right, a few wild card topics now for Demetrius Knight.
Speaker 12: Who is your all time favorite athlete in any sport?
Speaker 16: Right?
Speaker 22: Chris Fiano Ronaldo? Uh, soccer fan because of my wife
Speaker 22: and my kids. But that's my wife's favorite watching this game.
Speaker 22: He's pretty good. It's between him and you know, line
Speaker 22: On Messi. Those guys they can get you up on
Speaker 22: your feet, and of course it's always righty at those games.
Speaker 22: So uh, definitely definitely those guys who you know, make
Speaker 22: make a lot of money doing it. So definitely those guys.
Speaker 10: Have you checked out an FC Cincinnati match yet?
Speaker 5: We get them on TV, so we're on TV. We
Speaker 5: always tune in.
Speaker 22: We haven't got to go to one yet, just because
Speaker 22: of the busy schedule, but if we can get around
Speaker 22: to them, we definitely plan on being there.
Speaker 12: You shared with me that you hope to be a
Speaker 12: movie producer someday. How long have you been interested in
Speaker 12: the making of movies.
Speaker 22: I've been interested in that since I was at Georgia Tech.
Speaker 22: That's that kind of supports is why I got the
Speaker 22: degree that I got there. Just so once football is done,
Speaker 22: you know, I won't be one of those guys just
Speaker 22: lingering around not knowing what I want to do.
Speaker 5: I know once football is done, that's that's exactly what
Speaker 5: I want to do.
Speaker 22: And no matter what that has to start from, I
Speaker 22: have to put together movie sets first and work my
Speaker 22: way up to that road. I'll do it just because
Speaker 22: I believe all that's fun. It all works together, just
Speaker 22: like football all works together. All the guys doing there,
Speaker 22: they're one eleven. It's the same thing with movie producing,
Speaker 22: to make you know, a masterpiece essentially.
Speaker 12: All right, final fun fact for Demetrius Knight, and this
Speaker 12: one's kind of deep. If you could meet anybody in history,
Speaker 12: living or deceased, who would that person.
Speaker 22: Be probab to be Jesus himself. I'd love to be
Speaker 22: a fly on the wall just to hear him speak,
Speaker 22: and you know, just to be in the room and
Speaker 22: be in the areas washing them do what he does,
Speaker 22: you know, Washington, do the the miracles that only he
Speaker 22: can do. That that would that would have to be
Speaker 22: number one. And then if I, if I had to,
Speaker 22: number two had to be Noah. When you know he
Speaker 22: told told him to build the arc because I can't
Speaker 22: imagine He's all right, I'll build a big old boat.
Speaker 22: And you know, just to ask him about how did
Speaker 22: he persevere, you know, making making a big old boat,
Speaker 22: going through adversity, being laughed at by people around saying oh,
Speaker 22: it's never gonna rain, and then it until it happens.
Speaker 5: So uh, the definitely have to be Jesus and then uh,
Speaker 5: good old Noah.
Speaker 12: Excellent answers. I appreciate your time, Best of luck the
Speaker 12: rest of the year.
Speaker 2: Yes, I appreciates Dan Horde and Dimitris Knight Junior, the
Speaker 2: star of this week's Fantastic Fun Facts. Those interviews and
Speaker 2: more found on the Bengals Booth podcast and on Bengals
Speaker 2: dot Com. Still ahead, let's get back into the defensive
Speaker 2: side of things. We'll hear from Jordan Battle as we
Speaker 2: navigate our way through our number two if Bengals lying
Speaker 2: on the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred W l W. Hey,
Speaker 2: welcome back to Bengals line of this Monday night of
Speaker 2: the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred W l W lance.
Speaker 3: Alta Fiber is the official Wi Fi and Internet provider
Speaker 3: of the Cincinnati Bengals and Greater Cincinnati's fastest internet with
Speaker 3: up to two gig symmetrical speeds.
Speaker 2: Let's talk more of that Bengals defense. Go to the
Speaker 2: back end and hear from Jordan battle. Here's Jordan with
Speaker 2: Dan Horde and the media after the game.
Speaker 18: It's just tough, you know, and all you gotta do,
Speaker 18: you know, all you supposed to do is, you know,
Speaker 18: in the back end, get them down, you know, savada
Speaker 18: savada down, and you know, just you know, beatles, you know,
Speaker 18: knockdown players.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 18: Uh, my phones got to wrap up ay tikas, you know,
Speaker 18: get all blocks, you know, and not allow them to
Speaker 18: create edges, you know, and not allow them to you know,
Speaker 18: have open gaps, open holes.
Speaker 16: You uh when you I mean, it looks like you
Speaker 16: guys were just to snap away from you can cold
Speaker 16: you never seemed to get this stop being needed.
Speaker 18: Yeah, obviously, Uh, it's the whole second half, you know,
Speaker 18: back back against the walls the defense. You know, I
Speaker 18: only use one stop for the defense for me for
Speaker 18: the offense, and couldn't get it. You know, got to
Speaker 18: be better in the second half, you know, with miss
Speaker 18: tackles and run gaps, getting off the feet on third down.
Speaker 18: It was just what hasn't been good as well this year?
Speaker 18: It's like, overallers, that'll be better than the second half.
Speaker 16: Do you think that's the reason they've you know, we're
Speaker 16: mistackles the reason for the two hundred and fifty five
Speaker 16: yards even.
Speaker 18: For sure, it's the key part, you know, and having
Speaker 18: you know, and having a bunch of rushing yards and
Speaker 18: the office having a bunch of Russian ars, miss tackles,
Speaker 18: you know, this tackles and you know, not being in
Speaker 18: the right gaps and not getting off blocks. A few
Speaker 18: weeks it feels like the run defense in general has
Speaker 18: has struggled a bit more. Is there is there anything
Speaker 18: that you're seeing? Is it is is it basic stuff
Speaker 18: or is it?
Speaker 24: Man?
Speaker 18: The Jets running game is really really tough to stop.
Speaker 18: But it's like you know, they once you know, make tackles,
Speaker 18: you know, uh, wrap up, you know, second guy, you know,
Speaker 18: trying to turn over you know, Uh, the linement issues
Speaker 18: maybe I don't know, gotta watch the tape, but you
Speaker 18: know it's basically what what what you see on the field,
Speaker 18: you know is mostly is you know, mistackles, not getting
Speaker 18: guys on the ground. So uh, that's what I see
Speaker 18: from for now while they have such so many rustling yards. Well,
Speaker 18: I acceid after the game that the message.
Speaker 5: To the team was someone that's to step up.
Speaker 10: How do you take that?
Speaker 18: Uh, you know, stuff you know we do. We have
Speaker 18: to have to you know, somebody on the team, on
Speaker 18: the defense has to step up.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 18: Uh you know, whether that's an older guy or younger guy.
Speaker 18: You know, everybody have a voice, you know, and everybody
Speaker 18: got to understand that. You know, as an NFL player
Speaker 18: on the NFL team, you know, everybody growing, everybody you
Speaker 18: know can be a leader. Everybody has his little skills.
Speaker 15: You know.
Speaker 18: You just have to go out there and do it,
Speaker 18: you know, and my basket against the wall. We need
Speaker 18: somebody to rally us. You know, you try to do it.
Speaker 18: I'm gonna say we don't do it. You know, we obviously,
Speaker 18: you know, there's guys in the hubbles, you know, saying,
Speaker 18: you know, let's let's let's uh not break, you know,
Speaker 18: been when I break, but let's get out the field,
Speaker 18: you know, and get the ball back to the offense.
Speaker 18: But sometimes things don't go away, you know. But all
Speaker 18: we could do is, you know, just toy fo rule,
Speaker 18: you know, Bill said about it, and come back and
Speaker 18: we're focused on next week.
Speaker 2: Jordan battle after the game and Dave. When you give
Speaker 2: up five hundred and two yards of total offense, there's
Speaker 2: bound to be some chunk plays and there were a
Speaker 2: lot of them yesterday. This defense got gashed at times.
Speaker 2: The Jets had eight offensive plays of at least twenty
Speaker 2: three yards. They had runs of fifty thirty five, a
Speaker 2: passive twenty thirty four, a run of twenty seven, a
Speaker 2: passive twenty six, a run of twenty five passive twenty four,
Speaker 2: passive twenty three. We talked about balance. They had four
Speaker 2: running plays at least twenty three yards. They had four
Speaker 2: passing plays at least twenty three yards added all up.
Speaker 2: And that's a problem. Yeah, that's an ass kicking. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's like when you're getting equally gashed. Yes, in the
Speaker 2: running game and the passing game. That's a real big issue.
Speaker 2: That's a problem. Al Golden's probably tearing his hair out
Speaker 2: by the roots, you know. I mean, he's he's definitely
Speaker 2: confused by by what's happening. There were times when I
Speaker 2: was watching that football game and I'm like, is that
Speaker 2: a broken coverage or did somebody just get totally destroyed by.
Speaker 4: A double move?
Speaker 3: Or how is that guy five yards open in every
Speaker 3: single direction? You know that that was that was the
Speaker 3: issue to me, is is you know, our guys are
Speaker 3: guys breaking down, our guys breaking assignments during the course
Speaker 3: of the football game. Are guys trying to do too much?
Speaker 3: You know when when uh, when the Jets or any
Speaker 3: opponent makes a big play, are they saying, I got
Speaker 3: to try to do a little more. I got to
Speaker 3: try to do my job and you know half of
Speaker 3: this other guy's job. You start getting into that mode.
Speaker 3: That's not a good place to be. And now all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, you know, you're everything that the coaching
Speaker 3: staff Al Golden and the staff will put together from
Speaker 3: a game plan and a playbook standpoint is meaningless because
Speaker 3: you know you're not abiding by the rules. You're not
Speaker 3: you're not doing what you're supposed to do. You're not
Speaker 3: full filling your obligation to your team. You're not doing
Speaker 3: your assignment. If all eleven people do their assignment, well
Speaker 3: you know you've got a pretty good defensive day. But
Speaker 3: if guys are freelancing and trying to play hero ball,
Speaker 3: you got trouble man.
Speaker 4: Big trouble.
Speaker 2: What was famous for saying, among many things, he would say,
Speaker 2: farm your own crops.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, harvest, farm your own crops.
Speaker 2: There you go, yes, and do your job. Do your
Speaker 2: own job.
Speaker 3: It makes a lot of sense. Yes, it makes a
Speaker 3: lot of sense. You don't have to be a football
Speaker 3: you know, have you a doctorate in football to understand
Speaker 3: what he's referencing there? You know, it's a it's a
Speaker 3: team game, always has been, always will be.
Speaker 2: And for the third consecutive week and it reaches a
Speaker 2: point where maybe it just maybe they're just not capable
Speaker 2: of tackling. But I guess I don't understand as a
Speaker 2: far away observer, the the the basics of the football
Speaker 2: game is blocking and tackling. And if you can't tag,
Speaker 2: if you can't do a basic of the tackling and
Speaker 2: there there's not like a magic elixir. You're you're not
Speaker 2: gonna You're not gonna tackle for two hours out of practice.
Speaker 2: We're only tackling today. So how does it get better?
Speaker 2: I just I don't know what the answer is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it just has to be a commitment to it,
Speaker 3: you know. I mean, guys just have to realize, Look,
Speaker 3: we're capable of getting people on the ground and we're
Speaker 3: not doing it.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: And to your point of looking at the and seeing
Speaker 2: things in ordering what's going on the the angle's taken.
Speaker 2: So much of tackling is about taking the right angle,
Speaker 2: and they're just there's times where the angle is wrong
Speaker 2: and seeing it from above, you just look that there's
Speaker 2: not gonna be a tackle on this play because the
Speaker 2: angles off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's it's it's scary when you see
Speaker 3: the football geometry ain't happening. Yes, man, taking that that angle,
Speaker 3: he's coming up short. Man, you know, he's not not
Speaker 3: gonna be able to make a play at the point
Speaker 3: of intersection there. Uh, you know, it's it's just not happening.
Speaker 3: So they do they have to they have to. Uh,
Speaker 3: it's tackling. There's a mental part of it, like we're
Speaker 3: talking about, you know, seeing things, gauging speeds, you know,
Speaker 3: making an angle, maybe you have to redirect or redo
Speaker 3: your angle a little bit because of the speed of
Speaker 3: the player. You know, you just you don't take the
Speaker 3: same angle on everybody. Everybody's built differently, everybody runs differently.
Speaker 3: But man, the mental and physical part of it. Both
Speaker 3: areas have to improve or tackling is going to continue
Speaker 3: to be a major problem.
Speaker 2: We continue our journey through our number two tonight of
Speaker 2: Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW,
Speaker 2: our final segment of our second hour, just wait till
Speaker 2: our number three. I have questions about the Ring of
Speaker 2: Honor ceremony. Oh questions about your new jacket, OH questions
Speaker 2: about the Chicago Bears as we look ahead to this
Speaker 2: weekend and more. Let's get to all of that in
Speaker 2: our third hour of Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio
Speaker 2: Network and seven hundred WLW. Thanks for a tagging a
Speaker 2: long and sorting through the weekend it was for Bengals
Speaker 2: football with us. We've got plenty more to get too
Speaker 2: in this hour, alliance McAllister Dave Lapham there was a
Speaker 2: football game. There was also the Ring of honor ceremonies.
Speaker 2: What a presentation yesterday, What a series of events leading
Speaker 2: up to it. Let's turn to our guy, Jeff Hopson
Speaker 2: to set the stage for the inductions. Here's an excellent
Speaker 2: piece that Jeff did in honor of Dave Lapham and
Speaker 2: Lamar Parrish on.
Speaker 25: The fiftieth anniversary of Paul Brown's last and best Bengals team.
Speaker 25: Two of the most steel belted starters from that eleven
Speaker 25: to three group go into the franchise's Ring of honor.
Speaker 25: Lamart Parish, Dion before Dion and Ocho before Ocho with
Speaker 25: his electrifying bursts of flash returns and interceptions as a.
Speaker 5: Pro Bowl cornerback.
Speaker 25: And Dave Lapham, a civic staple for generations of Cincinnatians,
Speaker 25: as the bubbly and beloved radio analyst who has been
Speaker 25: calling it like he sees it for forty season, earning
Speaker 25: the title of mister Bengal.
Speaker 18: Bam Bam bam.
Speaker 8: How about that?
Speaker 4: It ends on a turnover man? How about it? The
Speaker 4: cardiac kids take it for.
Speaker 2: The last staff the Bengals.
Speaker 24: They are running it back, Sam Hover, Bam, bam bam,
Speaker 24: that is unba believable, the Cincinnati Bengals come from behind
Speaker 24: on the road.
Speaker 25: Before he brought his football IQ to the booth, Lapham
Speaker 25: used it as a brainy offensive lineman who served in
Speaker 25: the Bengals trenches for a decade, becoming one of the
Speaker 25: most versatile players ever, starting as a right guard on
Speaker 25: that seventy five playoff team, starting as a left guard
Speaker 25: on the eighty one Super Bowl team, and twice playing
Speaker 25: all five O line positions in the same game. A
Speaker 25: third round draft pick out of Syracuse, Lapham may be
Speaker 25: best known not for a moment during a game, but
Speaker 25: for one of the most famous pre games in NFL history.
Speaker 2: As they got.
Speaker 25: Set to host a nineteen eighty one AFC title game
Speaker 25: in Arctic Riverfront Stadium, the Bengals and Chargers shivered in
Speaker 25: a fifty nine below windshield. Lapham defied the elements, inspiring
Speaker 25: his linemates to go sleeveless in an effort they gained
Speaker 25: a mental edge on the frozen West Coasters, helping the
Speaker 25: Bengals punch their ticket.
Speaker 18: To Super Bowl sixteen.
Speaker 25: Lapham brought that same intellect and creativity into the radio booth,
Speaker 25: drawing fans into the huddle with his lucid x's and o's.
Speaker 25: He kept them with colorful, candid observations as his voice
Speaker 25: became as familiar as an uncle's.
Speaker 3: I'm Dave Lapham in the Bengals locker room, and everybody
Speaker 3: knows who this guy is, but Tyler reifit joins us here.
Speaker 25: Parish's play on many days at Riverfront defied description. His
Speaker 25: thirteen non offensive touchdowns are the third most in the
Speaker 25: twentieth century. His swashbuckling play matched his iconic seventies wardrobe
Speaker 25: and fleet of fast cars.
Speaker 18: For the seventy four Bengals, he was just as sleek.
Speaker 25: He led the NFL, ripping off eighteen point eight yards
Speaker 25: per part return, still the longest average since the John F.
Speaker 25: Kennedy administration. A former running back at Lincoln University, Parish
Speaker 25: had never played defense until Paul Brown pointed him to corner.
Speaker 25: That's where he collected twenty five interceptions in his eight
Speaker 25: Cincinnati seasons, still the fourth most by a Bengals cornerback.
Speaker 25: By the time he retired after his thirteenth season, he
Speaker 25: had been to eight Pro Bowls, most by a cornerback.
Speaker 4: Not in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Speaker 25: Leapin Lamar and mister Bengal teammates in seventy five, now
Speaker 25: on and ringmates for all time.
Speaker 2: Jeff Hobson setting the stage for the inductions. Dave, we
Speaker 2: talked about it. You've been thinking about it for months.
Speaker 2: It actually happened. Take me to yesterday in the emotions
Speaker 2: and man, Dad, hordes in your jersey and your your
Speaker 2: son is in your jersey, and your to your grandkids
Speaker 2: are in your jersey, And what a what an incredible
Speaker 2: moment it must have been.
Speaker 11: It was, It was.
Speaker 4: It was an emotional moment, emotional day.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, to go, uh broadcasting a game
Speaker 3: and be down in the field pregame, be down in
Speaker 3: the field at halftime, going through the ceremonies, I mean,
Speaker 3: it was. It was mind boggling, It really was. It
Speaker 3: was incredibly emotional. It was great for the grandkids. And
Speaker 3: that's what I that's what I was hopeful of that
Speaker 3: they would be able to be a part of it.
Speaker 3: Get down on the field. You know, they're like, buddy,
Speaker 3: we're actually gonna go down on the field at pay
Speaker 3: Course Stadium. Yeah, you guys are gonna do that. You'll
Speaker 3: never forget it. No, we'll never forget that. So it
Speaker 3: was it was great and did we had relatives, friends
Speaker 3: and family come in from all over the country, you know, California, Arizona,
Speaker 3: up in New England, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and uh
Speaker 3: in Maine. It's uh, it's it's really incredible, it really
Speaker 3: is and it meant so much to to uh, to
Speaker 3: myself and my family. The Bengals were great. I mean
Speaker 3: they they really rolled out the red carpet for me.
Speaker 3: Uh at all the different events and ceremonies. It was
Speaker 3: it was really really incredible. The food, the drink, the fun.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 3: Former teammates that I was able to catch up with
Speaker 3: and swap stories with, you know, and hadn't seen some
Speaker 3: of these guys for such a long period of time
Speaker 3: and uh, you know you see him in a big,
Speaker 3: big hug, big embrace, and all of a sudden, it's
Speaker 3: like it was like, yeah, I just saw this guy yesterday.
Speaker 2: But you know you didn't, well, boy, you and you
Speaker 2: had to uh you did the the ruler of the jungle.
Speaker 2: So you were working the elevator. Did you have like
Speaker 2: secret service and security getting you up and down up
Speaker 2: and because you had to be down on the field
Speaker 2: for the ruler and then back up into the booth.
Speaker 2: Then you had to leave the booth at halftime, go
Speaker 2: down on the field, and go back up. A holy cow,
Speaker 2: yeah it did. I had a Bengal employee that was
Speaker 2: was assign that duty. And man, she did an unbelievable job.
Speaker 10: I mean she was.
Speaker 4: She was rolling us from from the broadcast booth.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: Yid was up there with Dan and the rest of
Speaker 4: the boys. Everybody's up there.
Speaker 3: Uh leaving leaving the booth at halftime and uh and
Speaker 3: rolling out and getting to the elevator and get down
Speaker 3: to that ground floor and uh, get on the get
Speaker 3: on the golf cart, Lamar and I and travel travel
Speaker 3: over to the field, get the get the jackets.
Speaker 22: Uh.
Speaker 4: Listen to what everybody has to say. It was great.
Speaker 3: All we had to do was stand there and open
Speaker 3: the jackets and show the lining. Uh the Bengalo tiger
Speaker 3: stripes lining. Uh in velvet satin kind of kind of material.
Speaker 3: It's very very cool. The the ring of Honor sport coat.
Speaker 3: The jacket is is nice. I mean they tailor made it.
Speaker 3: It fits perfectly. If fits like a glove. And I
Speaker 3: will say leap and Lamar man he looks to me
Speaker 3: like he did when.
Speaker 4: He was playing.
Speaker 3: I mean, like, wow, the guy is the guy is amazing.
Speaker 3: He keeps himself in unbelievable condition and lance. This guy
Speaker 3: his his return abilities. I mean one year he averaged
Speaker 3: almost nineteen yards per punt return, eighteen point per putt return.
Speaker 3: It was nuts to watch this guy. Uh, you know,
Speaker 3: make make everybody look foolish. You don't make everybody look
Speaker 3: like you know, there were Pop Warner League players, not
Speaker 3: NFL players. He could he could take the take them
Speaker 3: the distance. I think he had thirteen touchdowns, thirteen non
Speaker 3: offensive and as.
Speaker 2: We heard Jeff Hopson saying that piece he did. He
Speaker 2: for those who didn't get a chance to see him.
Speaker 2: He was Dion before Dion.
Speaker 3: Absolutely he was yep. And because he was that kind
Speaker 3: of defensive back, he was the eraser. He take take
Speaker 3: the best opponent in the passing game at the wide
Speaker 3: receiver position and eliminate him, you know, just neutralized the guy.
Speaker 3: So uh, all of it now, all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: you've got Chuck Weber, who's our defensive coach, able to
Speaker 3: double team other players and take take other things away
Speaker 3: from h quarterbacks and offensive coordinators and Lamar Parris is. Uh,
Speaker 3: it's a great one. It's about time. I think he
Speaker 3: should have been in a while ago. But now he's
Speaker 3: finally in and and unbelievably well deserved. And boy can
Speaker 3: that man dress. I'm telling you now he he Lamar
Speaker 3: had Lamar has suits, he has hats, he has all
Speaker 3: the accessories. And I remember one time he came into
Speaker 3: the locker room, Uh, with the with the biggest hat
Speaker 3: I've ever seen, huge brim feathers in it. All kinds
Speaker 3: of stuff was coming out of that. Uh, exactly exactly.
Speaker 3: But man, that man can play. And Paul Brown got
Speaker 3: a credit. Paul Brown goes to Lincoln, little tiny university,
Speaker 3: Lincoln University and finds Lamar Parish and Lamar Parish and
Speaker 3: Kenny Riley, another Ring of Honor member for the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 3: Those two, in my mind, were the best secondary, the
Speaker 3: best tandem at the cornerback position in the National Football
Speaker 3: League in their era.
Speaker 2: Dave, let me give you a little perspective in context
Speaker 2: here from what Melrose, Massachusetts to Wakefield Memorial. You're one
Speaker 2: of twelve Cincinnati Bengals in the history of the franchise
Speaker 2: to have your name up on that board and in
Speaker 2: the Ring of Honor. Incredible, it is.
Speaker 4: It's crazy.
Speaker 3: And when we were down on the field and you know,
Speaker 3: you saw the location of these two black covers on
Speaker 3: the Ring of Honor, and you saw the ten other
Speaker 3: names up there, and am I going to be on
Speaker 3: that right side or I'm not going to be on
Speaker 3: the less side? Because when we get down on the field,
Speaker 3: they were very well organized, and it's like, you're going
Speaker 3: to be in the forty five yard line on the
Speaker 3: south side, You're going to be in the forty five
Speaker 3: yard line on the north side. Lamar, you're here, Dave,
Speaker 3: you're here, And I'm wondering, Okay, which way? So is
Speaker 3: it a tip that might name is going to be
Speaker 3: directly in front of me at this at this vantage point?
Speaker 4: So, uh, it was. It was extremely well done.
Speaker 2: And uh boy when when they dropped it, yeah, you
Speaker 2: just I mean I get chills just thinking about when
Speaker 2: the curtain comes down.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh exactly.
Speaker 3: I mean that I'll never forget that, you know, seeing that,
Speaker 3: seeing that curtain dropping, there's your name and it's spelled
Speaker 3: right and everything.
Speaker 2: That would have been a problem.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, that I've seen and heard of those
Speaker 3: things happened before, not not here and since then he's
Speaker 3: just just in general. But uh yeah, I just I
Speaker 3: can't thank the Brown Blackburn family enough. Everything was done,
Speaker 3: first class, first rate red carp treatment all the way,
Speaker 3: and my my friends and family are eternally grateful, as
Speaker 3: am I very.
Speaker 2: Well said, very well said. We'll come back finish off
Speaker 2: a little bit on on that and then get into
Speaker 2: a little bit more on this weekend. Here's some more
Speaker 2: from Joe Flacco on yesterday's game. We'll hear from Ben
Speaker 2: Johnson his comments on the Bears loss yesterday in advance
Speaker 2: of the matchup this weekend. All of that as we continue,
Speaker 2: It's Bengals Line of the Hey, We're back on Bengals
Speaker 2: Line on this Monday night on the Bengals Radio Network
Speaker 2: and seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 3: Hey Bengals fans, make sure to catch me and Dan
Speaker 3: Hord every Wednesday this season for Bengals Game Plan presented
Speaker 3: by Bud Light on the air from six to eight
Speaker 3: pm on ESPN fifteen thirty.
Speaker 2: Let's get more of the sounds of yesterday and the
Speaker 2: halftime ceremony, the Ring of Honor ceremonies. Here is a
Speaker 2: little bit of what it sounded like down on the field.
Speaker 23: Helping with today's ceremony. Please direct your attention to the
Speaker 23: field and welcome on behalf of the Bengals organization, members
Speaker 23: of the Brown and Blackburn families, along with current Ring
Speaker 23: of Honor members.
Speaker 2: To the jacket.
Speaker 4: Presenters are Ring of Honor members.
Speaker 23: And teammates of the inductees, Isaac Curtis and Anthony Munios.
Speaker 23: Let the ceremony begin. First, inducting the six time pro bowler,
Speaker 23: dynamic cornerback, an electrifying return specialist, a game changer on
Speaker 23: both sides of the ball, the man who could turn
Speaker 23: any play into a touchdown, Number twenty Lipan Lamar Parrish. Next,
Speaker 23: inducting the tough, relentless offensive lineman, a rock in the trenches,
Speaker 23: Super Bowl twenty three starting guard, a true leader on
Speaker 23: the field and in the radio booth, celebrating fifty years
Speaker 23: with the club, number sixty three, mister Bengal, Dave Lapham,
Speaker 23: and now please turn your attention to the east facade
Speaker 23: of pay Court Stadium as we officially cement these legends
Speaker 23: into the Bengals Ring of Honor. Cincinnati made noise for
Speaker 23: the twenty twenty five Bengals Ring of Honor class Lamar
Speaker 23: Parris and Dave Lapham on behalf of the Bengals organization.
Speaker 23: Congratulations to each of you on this well deserved honor.
Speaker 2: The sounds of Ring of Honor induction yesterday at pay
Speaker 2: Court Stadium, the wrap up of a big weekend and
Speaker 2: I know, let's see, I'm losing track of the nights.
Speaker 2: I know there was a Q and a session inside
Speaker 2: of Paycorn It was you and Anthony and and Kenny
Speaker 2: and and Joe Daneman was there. That was was that
Speaker 2: Friday nighter sitting? I have lost track of nights. Friday night, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that was Friday. Take me through what that experience was
Speaker 2: like and what that gathering was like on Friday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was That was great.
Speaker 3: I mean that was open to Bengal fans and you
Speaker 3: know Bengal Gym and uh fans like like Bengal Jim
Speaker 3: whether Nita was there, you know, Uh, it was Uh,
Speaker 3: it was great. It was great catching up with fans
Speaker 3: that you've had a close relationship with over many years
Speaker 3: and and to see them and how excited they were,
Speaker 3: you know about it, and so that that was that
Speaker 3: was great.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: And my you know, I think my grandkids kids were
Speaker 3: a little bit excited about that because there was gonna
Speaker 3: be good food and drink there for sure, but also
Speaker 3: you know, listening to sort they'd love to listen to
Speaker 3: the stories, you know. And when I was talking to
Speaker 3: Anthony and Tim Crumray and old teammates, you know, they're
Speaker 3: or like all ears, you know, listening, and that really happened, buddy, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: it really did.
Speaker 4: So, yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: It was great to catch up with a lot of guys,
Speaker 2: a lot of people. I bet I mean that that
Speaker 2: bar the bond, the connection. It's never broken. You may
Speaker 2: be separated by years of seeing each other, but I
Speaker 2: bet when you get back together, it's like the pieces
Speaker 2: just fit.
Speaker 3: Again absolutely, you know. I mean when we were talking
Speaker 3: about you know, stories, old games that we you know,
Speaker 3: we were a part of and come back victories and
Speaker 3: heartbreaking defeats and all of that, and and you uh,
Speaker 3: you know, you grow, you grow as a player person,
Speaker 3: you grow as an individual, you know, going through those
Speaker 3: kind of things. And it was, you know, Mark Dufner.
Speaker 3: I had hadn't seen Mark Duftner for a while. Duff
Speaker 3: Duff was up and came in for that. So you
Speaker 3: know it was there was somebody it seemed like from uh,
Speaker 3: every era, every year, No, no doubt, that's a good
Speaker 3: way to put it. But you know, I guess, I
Speaker 3: guess the only thing, you know, my high school coaches
Speaker 3: and college coaches that had such a big influence on
Speaker 3: my life, they couldn't make it anyway because unfortunately, I'm
Speaker 3: getting to an age where shoot, I'm seventy three myself,
Speaker 3: so they're gone. Some have been long gone for quite
Speaker 3: a while. My line coach, Rock Alpiro at Syracuse was
Speaker 3: a great line coach me and he was a big
Speaker 3: time Ben Schwartzwelder hired him and and uh, you know,
Speaker 3: said how great a coach he was. And then Ben
Speaker 3: in the Hall of Fame. Twenty five straight non losing
Speaker 3: seasons at Syracuse University.
Speaker 4: That's unbelievable.
Speaker 3: And uh and then you know, everybody flashed back to
Speaker 3: you know, Tiger Johnson, Mike McCormick, all the line coaches
Speaker 3: that I had.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it was, it was fun. It was a
Speaker 4: lot of fun.
Speaker 3: Everything comes pouring back into your into your memory bank,
Speaker 3: for sure. Well, congratulations, thank you. I just for your
Speaker 3: family and just the looks on their faces.
Speaker 4: Yeah, priceless. Yeah, absolutely, you're right about that.
Speaker 15: Man.
Speaker 2: Take a time out and roll on with Joe Flacco's
Speaker 2: reflections of yesterday and we'll look ahead of the Chicago
Speaker 2: Bears and more Bengals Line of the Bengals Radio Network
Speaker 2: and seven hundred WLW. Welcome back to Bengals Line on
Speaker 2: this Monday night on the Bengals Radio Network. In seven
Speaker 2: hundred w l W. Lance Pacallister, along with Dave Lapham
Speaker 2: and Lance Pai Corp is proud to be the official
Speaker 2: HR software provider of the Cincinnati Bengals. Get more from
Speaker 2: QB one Yesterday, Joe Flacco a nice day. Numbers impressive
Speaker 2: and popped off the charts again. No interceptions, sacked only
Speaker 2: one time. Here is more of Joe on what transpired
Speaker 2: yesterday that last yearday.
Speaker 6: I guess Jama was saying the last couple of plays,
Speaker 6: they were.
Speaker 13: Just they were just double on right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 13: We're trying to get a double move on them one time,
Speaker 13: you know, just because sometimes when they when they come
Speaker 13: and do w you know, they got one guy outside,
Speaker 13: one guy comes inside, he gets a little low and
Speaker 13: maybe you can kind of get over the top.
Speaker 14: But you know, I think we expect that a little bit.
Speaker 14: You know that they're going to have to do something
Speaker 14: like that.
Speaker 13: There was a few third downs throughout the course of
Speaker 13: the game where they made sure they doubled him, and
Speaker 13: you know that's a credit to them. But at the
Speaker 13: same time, like we know those things are going to
Speaker 13: happen with those guys, and uh, you got to find
Speaker 13: ways to overcome.
Speaker 14: It a little bit, and for most of the day
Speaker 14: we did.
Speaker 13: It's just you know, in crunch time, we weren't able
Speaker 13: to make it happen.
Speaker 8: Extropress game kind of goes on and you feel like
Speaker 8: you're going to have to keep score. Does that feel
Speaker 8: add pressure as a game goes on an execute?
Speaker 14: I think if you let it, then you can.
Speaker 13: But ultimately you just got to focus on your process
Speaker 13: and and and going out there and executing. And I
Speaker 13: think when you can take your mind off of being
Speaker 13: a fan on the sideline or like putting yourself in
Speaker 13: that mode of watching the game just wanting your team
Speaker 13: to win, uh, then you can focus on your job
Speaker 13: at hand and and give yourself the best chance of success.
Speaker 13: I think when you kind of remove yourself and you
Speaker 13: become that fan and you just want to win, and
Speaker 13: that's when you can get caught up and in all
Speaker 13: the wrong things and feel the pressure more than you
Speaker 13: want to, and then you're not going to play the
Speaker 13: way you want to. So it's such a tough thing
Speaker 13: because we all want to win the football game, but
Speaker 13: during during those sixty minutes, you really have to remove
Speaker 13: yourself from those thoughts, you know, from having those thoughts
Speaker 13: and just kind of try to stay even and go
Speaker 13: out there and play the play. That being said, I
Speaker 13: don't think so, No, I really don't think so. I mean,
Speaker 13: we went down and scored, and then they scored and
Speaker 13: we got the ball. In our mindset was go down
Speaker 13: and score again, and we didn't. I mean, I don't
Speaker 13: think there was any I don't think there was any
Speaker 13: stepping off the gas.
Speaker 14: I really don't. Maybe we just didn't execute. I would
Speaker 14: assume we just didn't execute.
Speaker 13: As well as maybe we wanted to on some of
Speaker 13: those on those last six, seven, eight plays, you.
Speaker 10: Know exactly playing offensively, you guys got going for most
Speaker 10: of the game.
Speaker 7: But is there one or two plays for you personally
Speaker 7: that stand out like you wish you could have back
Speaker 7: mm hmm.
Speaker 6: Especially maybe in the fourth.
Speaker 18: Quarter when when things kind of start to go.
Speaker 13: I'd have to look at the film late. I'm trying
Speaker 13: to think there was definitely a play early on I
Speaker 13: was I was probably I threw any completion of jamar
Speaker 13: on on on my right side, going the same way
Speaker 13: we were going in the fourth quarter, So I think
Speaker 13: that was probably the first quarter, and I was probably
Speaker 13: I was a little bit ahead of him on a
Speaker 13: on a one on one route that he had backside,
Speaker 13: and I probably could have waited a little bit longer
Speaker 13: and maybe we would have had a big play out
Speaker 13: of it, and instead we ended up on it. I
Speaker 13: think that was one play I can think of.
Speaker 8: So you played on plenty of teams were defensive carried offenses,
Speaker 8: offensive carried defenses for stretches.
Speaker 7: How do you keep it from the volving into we're
Speaker 7: doing our part and.
Speaker 10: They're not doing theirs?
Speaker 13: I think everybody. I think that SIPs into people's heads,
Speaker 13: you know, like it's hard not to, and I think
Speaker 13: it more subs into that that got the sides heads.
Speaker 13: Who's who feels like they're not necessarily, you know, living
Speaker 13: up to their standard. But this is a team sport
Speaker 13: and we're all in this together. It's not offense defense.
Speaker 13: I mean, at the end of the like, they're out
Speaker 13: there doing their job, but we are one. We feel
Speaker 13: this as one. So I think it's hard to maybe
Speaker 13: not be in your head when when maybe you're that
Speaker 13: side of the ball for a given stretch.
Speaker 14: But man, like I always try to tell people like,
Speaker 14: I'm not.
Speaker 13: I'm so consumed with doing my job, and everybody should
Speaker 13: be so consumed with doing their job that they're not
Speaker 13: worried about what other guys are doing and how guys
Speaker 13: you know, to put the binders on and go do
Speaker 13: your job. And I think when everybody can do that,
Speaker 13: that's when you turn out. That's when you get out
Speaker 13: of those things. There's no judging, you know, your brothers
Speaker 13: for not playing up to their expectations, their support and
Speaker 13: trying to give those guys confidence, because that's what it
Speaker 13: is a lot of times, you know, you need to
Speaker 13: play this game with confidence. And if you lose a
Speaker 13: little bit of that because you think your brothers are
Speaker 13: kind looking at you like, oh, come on, like can't
Speaker 13: you just do this, that's not a good feeling to have.
Speaker 13: And hopefully we can all get across that that's not
Speaker 13: how we should be feeling towards our teammates.
Speaker 9: Did the Jets do anything different with Tea after the
Speaker 9: touchdown you hit them because it seemed like.
Speaker 2: The ball was going his way.
Speaker 4: Did they take something away from or is it just
Speaker 4: kind of there.
Speaker 10: Were other players?
Speaker 14: So yeah, you have to go back. We have to
Speaker 14: go back.
Speaker 13: And look, I don't really think that we threw the
Speaker 13: ball a ton in the second half. I mean to
Speaker 13: be honest with you, I could be wrong in that,
Speaker 13: but I feel like we more kind of got the
Speaker 13: run game going and you know, had to throw it
Speaker 13: in like little situations here and there.
Speaker 14: But I just feel like it was just the way
Speaker 14: the game went.
Speaker 13: I don't think it was Obviously they're going to do
Speaker 13: things to double those guys at times, but overall, I
Speaker 13: don't think it was like this huge, this vastly different
Speaker 13: plant Joe Flacco.
Speaker 2: After the game, the sack and the hit and the
Speaker 2: short when you saw him warming on the sideline and
Speaker 2: then run the line room, I had grave concerns. But
Speaker 2: he comes running back out like Willis Reid and was
Speaker 2: there for the final drive and it looks like fingers
Speaker 2: crossed he have hearted any serious injury.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it definitely looks that way when he
Speaker 3: first came off the football field, and then he goes
Speaker 3: in the blue tent and then he goes to the
Speaker 3: locker room.
Speaker 4: It's like, what is up?
Speaker 3: But you know, you had Jake Browning warming up and
Speaker 3: then all of a sudden outcomes, you know, Joe Flacco.
Speaker 4: Like here in the in the movie. It was a
Speaker 4: perfect script, you know.
Speaker 5: And here he comes.
Speaker 4: He's in the tunnel, He's coming back. You know, Joe Flacco.
Speaker 3: He's going to play. Joe Flacco is going to finish
Speaker 3: the game. It was it was something to see he
Speaker 3: I think he wanted to finish what he started. I mean,
Speaker 3: he was playing at a high level and he wanted
Speaker 3: to try to win that football game. And I do
Speaker 3: think that the Cincinnati Bengals are in pretty good shape
Speaker 3: with him at that quarterback position for the duration of
Speaker 3: the season if needed. If Joe Burrow can't make it back,
Speaker 3: you know, the hope is that he might make it
Speaker 3: back for the last month of the season potentially.
Speaker 2: But and Joe walking around yesterday on the sidelines, Joe
Speaker 2: Burrow with helped the walking boot on, which was encouraged.
Speaker 3: Very encouraging, and he was very very intent on focusing
Speaker 3: on what was going on in the football game, what
Speaker 3: they were doing defensively. He knew the game plan intimately.
Speaker 3: He knows the playbook obviously intimately. So he was making
Speaker 3: suggestions to Dan Pitcher and the coaching staff with the
Speaker 3: hits that he was wearing the headset on the sideline
Speaker 3: and communicating up top and had conversation with Joe Flacco
Speaker 3: as Joe came off the football field and sat on
Speaker 3: the bench next to him and talked about things that
Speaker 3: they both saw and did they see it the same
Speaker 3: way or if they saw it differently, why was it
Speaker 3: that they did see it differently? He was, I'm sure
Speaker 3: a huge help. And when he does come back, it's
Speaker 3: gonna be the best one two punch, one two combination
Speaker 3: of quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: In the NFL, no doubt.
Speaker 3: I mean to have Joe Burrow who was taking the
Speaker 3: team to the Super Bowl, didn't but has taken him there,
Speaker 3: and I think he can take him back and win
Speaker 3: the damn thing. And I'd love to see that. Never
Speaker 3: happened in Bengals history. Three times gone to the Super Bowl,
Speaker 3: but oh for three and I think Joe Flacco, if needed,
Speaker 3: could you know, win a Super Bowl as well for
Speaker 3: the Cincinnati Bengals. I mean, I think he's that caliber quarterback.
Speaker 3: He still has unbelievable lom strength. I mean the ball
Speaker 3: comes off his hand easily, fluidly, smoothly, with a lot
Speaker 3: of RPMs.
Speaker 4: Man he he spins the rock.
Speaker 2: Up next, let's take a look at those Chicago Bears.
Speaker 2: You'll hear head coach Ben Johnson's opening comments yesterday following
Speaker 2: a thirty to sixteen loss at the Baltimore Ravens. The
Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson lists Baltimore Ravens yesterday. That is next on
Speaker 2: Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 2: We continue on back end of our third and final
Speaker 2: hour tonight. We'll get into the Chicago Bears. Here at
Speaker 2: a second. It's Bengals Line of the Bengals Radio Network
Speaker 2: in seven hundred WLW. I'm Lance Pcavlster're always hanging out
Speaker 2: with the Ring of Honor inductee David Lapov.
Speaker 3: Yes, Sir Lance, and Bengals Friday Night Stripes Tour presented
Speaker 3: by how Kat is back for all locations this season,
Speaker 3: go to Bengals dot com slash community.
Speaker 2: Next up for the Bengals the Chicago Bears Sunday pay
Speaker 2: Corpse Stadium. Bears are four and three overall. They had
Speaker 2: a four game winning streak snapped yesterday, losing at Baltimore
Speaker 2: thirty to sixteen the final score. Ben Johnson is the
Speaker 2: first year coach of the Chicago Bears. Here are his
Speaker 2: opening thoughts on yesterday's game.
Speaker 26: In terms of the game, give Baltimore a lot of credit.
Speaker 26: You know, they came out and they played a physical
Speaker 26: brand of football, just like you would expect. You know,
Speaker 26: they were hungry, they were determined, and truth be told,
Speaker 26: I expected a little bit more out of our squad
Speaker 26: to counter that on up, so we fell short. You know,
Speaker 26: it's our first game in a while, really all season
Speaker 26: that we didn't have a takeaway and so when that happens,
Speaker 26: you really got to play a clean game, and and
Speaker 26: we didn't. You know, we're double digits and penalties once again,
Speaker 26: we're not scoring in the red zone. You know, we
Speaker 26: couldn't couldn't quite get off the field as often as
Speaker 26: we like on defense. So they had some good drives
Speaker 26: they I think time and possession wise, they did a
Speaker 26: nice job controlling the game. And like I said, we
Speaker 26: fell short. But our guys, we're gonna, we're gonna get
Speaker 26: this thing cleaned up. I know, I know they understand
Speaker 26: how important it is that that we play cleaner as
Speaker 26: a team and we compliment each phase better than what
Speaker 26: we did today.
Speaker 15: And so that will be our mission here this week.
Speaker 15: Go ahead and open it up and.
Speaker 27: Offensively with the emptysistency what's most urgent to you right
Speaker 27: now and getting that set of the ball humming a
Speaker 27: little bit better.
Speaker 26: Yeah, you know, I think you see flashes of some
Speaker 26: explosive plays and some really good things happen, but the
Speaker 26: penalties to me is what stands out first and foremost.
Speaker 15: You know, we still have some of the pre snap issues.
Speaker 26: There's occasional not getting lined up quite right, there's occasional
Speaker 26: not not getting the motion quite right, and so that
Speaker 26: stuff does, it adds up and it hurts us. We
Speaker 26: get away with it occasionally, but it's just not the
Speaker 26: way you win in this league. And so I think,
Speaker 26: you know, I really put it on the leaders there
Speaker 26: in that locker room to get this get this ship
Speaker 26: going in the right direction. In that regard us coaches,
Speaker 26: we've been pounding that drum now for a while and
Speaker 26: we haven't gotten the results we wanted, so it's it's
Speaker 26: on the leaders here on this team to get us right.
Speaker 27: We knew at the end of the first half with
Speaker 27: the intentional grounding and then you guys had to kind
Speaker 27: of scramble to get the kick off there.
Speaker 26: Yeah, I thought, I thought we had a chance there
Speaker 26: for points before half. We had a good, good opportunity
Speaker 26: to do that, and the intentional grounding certainly didn't help.
Speaker 26: And so now we're in a position third and long
Speaker 26: with no timeouts where we know, if it's a clock
Speaker 26: running and we're short of the line of game that
Speaker 26: we'll need to get our hurt cane unit out there,
Speaker 26: our field goal team out there real quick. So I
Speaker 26: thought the execution of all that was nice, but that's
Speaker 26: a really long field goal and so it's a low
Speaker 26: percentage deal, something that we would like to avoid, so
Speaker 26: that that intentional grounding certainly hurt us.
Speaker 8: Did the Ravens in hunt we do anything that you
Speaker 8: might not have expected or was did they just do
Speaker 8: it well and it was tough to defend?
Speaker 15: Yeah, you know, I thought, I thought.
Speaker 26: I thought coach Monkin always does a great job just
Speaker 26: schematically mixing things up and and like I said before,
Speaker 26: they play a physical brand of football, and so that
Speaker 26: showed up that offensive line was getting after it. And
Speaker 26: you know, I thought our defensive line it was quite
Speaker 26: a battle there throughout the game. You know, we were
Speaker 26: intent on not letting twenty two get started. I thought
Speaker 26: for the most part, we did a pretty good job
Speaker 26: of that. But then you know, Huntley hurt us with
Speaker 26: both his arm and his legs. You know, we let
Speaker 26: him get some big ones on the ground, and then
Speaker 26: he threw some accurate balls there in the air. And
Speaker 26: so I think one point he was like twelve or
Speaker 26: thirteen or something like that coming out of halftime. So yeah,
Speaker 26: he played really well and we didn't do enough to
Speaker 26: affect him.
Speaker 14: And what was your advantage point on the interception that
Speaker 14: cale through there?
Speaker 26: Yeah, I didn't quite see it. I'll have to check
Speaker 26: it out on film just one more time. Just in
Speaker 26: my mind, there might have been another option that we
Speaker 26: could have gotten.
Speaker 27: Gotten to any sense of we're having on the last
Speaker 27: three plays of the game up. So you get down there,
Speaker 27: it's a desperate situation, but you've got a completion short
Speaker 27: of the goal line, a quarterback sneak, and then a
Speaker 27: fourth down player.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I don't like my call and the quarterback sneak.
Speaker 26: I could have gotten into something better there, But yeah,
Speaker 26: I mean we have plays set up to go tempo
Speaker 26: down there, and I probably didn't do enough job in
Speaker 26: that that.
Speaker 27: Department did the participation saga with Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 14: What was your reaction to that yesterday and as it.
Speaker 26: Unfolded, Yeah, we we always uh prepare for like I
Speaker 26: said earlier in that we were preparing for Lamar and
Speaker 26: then you know, when we found out that he wasn't playing,
Speaker 26: then you know, get ready for the next guy.
Speaker 2: Bears fall yesterday thirty to sixteen. Another big day of
Speaker 2: penalties for the Bears. I think they had eleven more
Speaker 2: and Dave no matter how we look at the Chicago
Speaker 2: Bears and Caleb Williams as their second year quarterback, the Bengals, somehow,
Speaker 2: someway are going to have to figure out how to
Speaker 2: create a pass rush and put some kind of pressure
Speaker 2: on Caleb Williams because it was once again non existing yesterday.
Speaker 3: It was it was non existing yesterday, and when they
Speaker 3: did get some heat, you had a mobile quarterback that
Speaker 3: hurt him, you know, I mean, they just they could
Speaker 3: not pin in a guy like Justin Fields, and Caleb
Speaker 3: Williams has got every bit of that. I mean, this
Speaker 3: guy's a bigger body guy.
Speaker 4: He can run.
Speaker 3: I think that sometimes he gives up on plays too
Speaker 3: soon and tucks the ball and runs. And then sometimes
Speaker 3: he holds onto the ball for like, you know, five
Speaker 3: or six seconds and it's like, man, what are you
Speaker 3: doing and takes a sack. So I think he's still
Speaker 3: learning how to play the quarterback position at the level
Speaker 3: that it takes to play at the in the National
Speaker 3: Football League. But man, hey, you go back to his
Speaker 3: career USC. The dude, the dude has been a player.
Speaker 3: I mean he's been a player at every level that
Speaker 3: he's he's played at. He's a very highly recruited high
Speaker 3: school quarterback, goes to uh USC has a storied career there.
Speaker 3: Anthony Munoz knows him and was telling me that he
Speaker 3: is just a great kid. He said, very very coachable
Speaker 3: and uh you know, great with his teammates, A real leader.
Speaker 3: So the Bengals going to their hands full. I mean,
Speaker 3: Caleb Williams, uh in, the Chicago Bears historically want to
Speaker 3: run the football. They want to make take the pressure
Speaker 3: off their quarterback with a sound running game. They're going
Speaker 3: to try to do that, and then defensively, they're going
Speaker 3: to try to shut your running game down. And you know,
Speaker 3: no matter who's playing quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals, and
Speaker 3: it's going to be Joe Flacco, you've got to hope
Speaker 3: that there's a sound running game to support what Joe
Speaker 3: Flacco can do with that. Howardz Are hanging off his
Speaker 3: right shoulder.
Speaker 2: The Bears have committed twenty eight more penalties than their
Speaker 2: opponents for three hundred more yards and penalty yards. In fact,
Speaker 2: they've had double digit penalties three times this season, and
Speaker 2: they've had more penalties in a game in five of
Speaker 2: their seven games versus their opponents. So that's been a
Speaker 2: big problem for him. Back to Caleb Williams and and
Speaker 2: they al Golden blitzed a little bit more yesterday. I wondered, Dave,
Speaker 2: do you have if you can't in light of in
Speaker 2: lieu of not getting pressure, do you have to blitz more?
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess that's the yin and yang to
Speaker 2: pick your post. Blitzing opens yourself up on the back end.
Speaker 2: Do you have to blitz more if you don't get pressure?
Speaker 2: With Trey and Shamar Stewart and Joseph Osai and Miles Murphy.
Speaker 2: Do you what do you do?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean, if you're not getting enough out of your
Speaker 3: front four, you don't have no choice, man. I mean,
Speaker 3: you gotta you gotta make make the quarterback heart, you
Speaker 3: gotta hire him. You got to make them uncomfortable. You
Speaker 3: gotta make them uncertain, unsure, you know. And and Caleb
Speaker 3: Williams is a guy that can be affected by a
Speaker 3: good pass rush. Any quarterback really can. But you know,
Speaker 3: like we talked about earlier, I mean, he sometimes holds
Speaker 3: onto the ball quite quite a while, so your sack
Speaker 3: numbers could increase when you're going against a quarterback like
Speaker 3: Caleb Williams. And it's to me, in this football game,
Speaker 3: it is going to be once again, who is more
Speaker 3: effective and consistent in sound running the football. Both of
Speaker 3: these quarterbacks need a sound ground game, a solid ground
Speaker 3: game to support their talents throwing the football.
Speaker 2: And the Bears are giving up five point three yards
Speaker 2: of carry on the ground. Opponents have already rushed for
Speaker 2: over a thousand yards against the Bears this season. Let's
Speaker 2: go three yards, Let's go last absolutely, here we go well,
Speaker 2: we'll go down the stretch. It's Begals Lote of the
Speaker 2: Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. All right, final
Speaker 2: segment of the Night of Bengals lone of the Bengals
Speaker 2: Radio Network. In seven hundred WL up you Lance McAllister
Speaker 2: Dave Lapham, Dave, the opportunity now presented the Chicago Bears
Speaker 2: at home going into the bye What a difference if
Speaker 2: you can get a win here to go onto the
Speaker 2: buy versus losing this one and sitting on the by
Speaker 2: and thinking about it and looking at the dire situation.
Speaker 2: But as we said, there's still an opportunity in the
Speaker 2: division in the AFC. Just get a win to get
Speaker 2: to the buy and then figure things out the rest
Speaker 2: of the way.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I mean, you know, to get to that bye week,
Speaker 3: and then the Bengals coaching staff will do a phenomenal
Speaker 3: job of kind of looking back and what do we
Speaker 3: do right?
Speaker 18: Do wrong?
Speaker 4: Exactly?
Speaker 3: I mean, what can we what can we learn from
Speaker 3: how we approached this defensive football team and this defensive configuration,
Speaker 3: this schematic. What are we looking at coming up? What
Speaker 3: kind of players? How are we going to have to
Speaker 3: handle those players? How do we neutralize those players. What
Speaker 3: position are those players playing? You know, that makes a
Speaker 3: big difference as well. So a lot of work to
Speaker 3: do and the players. You know, make sure you take
Speaker 3: care of yourself, make sure your your diet is right,
Speaker 3: and you don't over indulge with eating and drinking and
Speaker 3: uh come back uh looking a little pussy, a little
Speaker 3: out of shape and uh and and have potential issues
Speaker 3: and and be more susceptible to injury. And then guys
Speaker 3: that are injured a little bit. Uh, make sure that
Speaker 3: you stay with your rehab. Uh, don't shake your responsibilities
Speaker 3: there because the Bengals need everybody they possibly can acquire
Speaker 3: and accumulate going down the stretch.
Speaker 4: No doubt about it.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Final thoughts, congratulations once again on the ring of honor.
Speaker 2: I'm very happy for you and your family.
Speaker 3: Appreciate it. Lance means a lot coming from you. You Uh,
Speaker 3: you know what you're you're talking about, you know what
Speaker 3: you're looking at. So I uh, I'm looking at a
Speaker 3: ring of honor. Remember right now, baby, he is David Man.
Speaker 2: I'm Lance McAllister. It's Bengels Line on the Bengals Radio
Speaker 2: Network and seven hundred a w l W