WEBVTT - 10-27-25 Bengals Line with Lance McAlister and Dave Lapham 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:04.760 This is Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network. Pay Corps. 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:07.680 Pay Corp is proud to be the official HR software 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:11.560 provider of the Cincinnati Bengals. Kettering Health best Care for 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:15.520 the best Fans. Kettering Health, official healthcare provider of US 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:20.279 Cincinnati Bengals. This is seven hundred WLW, the home of 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:22.200 the best Bengals coverage. 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:24.640 All right, let's get it going on this Monday night. 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:27.000 If it's Monday, it's Bengals on on the Bengals Radio 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:29.720 Network in seven hundred WLW, And that means three hours 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:34.040 of Bengals conversation about to unfold. Unfortunately unfolding a difficult 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:37.199 one to digest. Yesterday thirty nine thirty eight loss to 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:40.280 the Jets, which sets up this weekend against the Chicago 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:43.680 Bears leading into the buy and Dave Lapham, I've had 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:46.960 the word opportunity running through my head all of last 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:49.320 week into yesterday, and man, it could have been a chance. 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:51.720 You take care of business at home against a winless 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:54.680 Jets team, get to four and four, catch your breath 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:57.400 at five hundred, go into this week thinking a win, 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:00.440 get some over five hundred for the BUYE. Jets had 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:03.840 gone through a chaotic week and then to Capri. I 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:06.640 get home last night and I'm watching the Steelers lose 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.520 and it's just another kicking the shin of what could 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:11.160 have been for this Bengals team. 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:13.959 Yeah, there's no question. I mean, it was a missed opportunity. 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:17.040 There no doubt about that. They it was all right there, 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:19.680 all right in front of them, and they got some help. 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:23.000 And you know, you can't you can't ever count on 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:25.039 that in the National Football League. You can't kind of 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:27.039 oh yeah, they'll beat them, they'll beat them. We'll be 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:29.039 good here. You know, you have to take care of 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:31.600 business and the Bengals just have not done that. They've 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:35.200 not taken care of business well enough on a weekly basis, 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:37.880 and right now they find themselves in a tough spot. 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:40.200 Three and five, you know, like you said, they could 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:43.120 have been four and four against an od to seven 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:46.600 Jets team. Aaron Glenn was doing everything he possibly could 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:50.120 to keep that franchise, you know, afloat above water. There 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:52.480 was some negativity that was creeping into the locker room 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:55.720 reading things during the course of the week. There's there's 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:57.760 no question about that. It was a tough week, a 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:02.360 long week for the for the New York Jets, they 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.880 I'll tell you they they were having trouble. Their biggest 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.920 problem is exactly what the Bengals problem is, and that's 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:15.480 inconsistency or inconsistency, and they just are not doing anything consistently. 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:15.840 Well. 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:22.240 It's mind boggling really that both teams have very similar 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:25.639 scenarios as to why they're where they are. I mean, 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:28.239 the Jets now with the victory or one and seven, 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:30.200 the Bengals fall to three and five. 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:33.799 Boy, and we had talked last week sitting these very 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:36.200 seats the start of this one. If you get off 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:39.919 to a good start, ye hit the hit the Jets 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:42.320 with a punch, knock them into the ropes and give 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:44.560 them no reason to get to get up at h 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:47.360 to seven, maybe looking for reasons to to, you know, 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:49.639 hop on the plane early. And they get to a 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:52.079 ten nothing lead, and it was a seventeen to three lead, 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:53.920 and it was thirty one to sixteen, and it was 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:56.360 thirty eight twenty four, and you thought, all right, that 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:00.200 one more blow is gonna deliver the TKL Well, and 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:02.200 the Jets kept getting up and getting up, and then 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:04.960 all of a sudden you get that sinking feeling in 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:07.800 your stomach, like the Jets are not only not going away, 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:10.080 are the Bengals even gonna be able to get a 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:12.200 stop to keep the Jets from winning this football game? 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:14.960 I mean the Jets. You could just see the Jets 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:17.840 confidence as a football team swell, you know, yes, I 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:20.639 mean it just continued to grow even when they were 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:22.960 they were you know they were they got spanked early on, 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:24.840 like you said, they were down three scores, you know, 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:28.160 for a good part of the football game. Uh, and 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:31.160 then the Bengals just could couldn't close it out. I 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:33.880 mean they could never just get over the hump and say, 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:35.920 all right, here's the final drive, here's the nail in 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:36.480 the coffin. 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:36.760 Man. 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:37.840 Once, once we. 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.520 Finish this drive and put this this ball in the 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:43.240 end zone and score seven points, you know you're done. 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:47.000 There's not another life. But the New York Jets found 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:50.280 another life and they came back. And I think that's 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:53.320 the thing too. Uh. Losing the football game is one thing, 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.600 but how you lose the football game sometimes is quite another. 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:59.320 You know, and and and and everybody in that locker room. 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:01.880 We were talking earlier before we came on the air 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:04.200 in the studio here we have at Pecore. 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:08.320 How somber the locker room was, How quiet the locker 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:08.720 room was. 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:11.000 I thought I was walking into a wake, you know, 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.680 I thought, Man, well, I hope it's not awake. I 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:15.960 hope it's not the funeral of the Cincinnati Bengals twenty 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:18.640 twenty five season. I hope they're not burying that bad boy, 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:22.960 because you know, they still, even even as dire as 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.520 it looks, as dark as it looks right now, they 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:28.120 have a shot because, like you said, Lance, what's going 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.400 on with the rest of the division. Yep, nobody wants 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:33.640 to take control of the AFC North. Everybody's like, and 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:38.800 you know, maybe here it is. You're still interested. You know, 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:40.440 I might be interested. 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:41.880 Check back with me. 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:44.440 Yeah, check check back to me in a couple of weeks. 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:47.599 We'll see how this all shakes down. It is crazy. 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:51.080 Here is a reaction from the coach, Zach Taylor after 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:51.480 the game. 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:56.440 Yeah, not acceptable, humbling for us. Certainly never got a 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:58.880 chance to really break that game open, like we felt 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:02.360 like we were capable of, you know, two opportunities there 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:03.720 at the end of the game to close it out 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:06.559 on offense and defensively to get guys on the ground 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.360 and tackling wasn't good enough. So we're not gonna look 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:11.080 at anything and say anything was good enough after that 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:15.640 loss and uh humbling, and and we're gonna have to 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:17.560 really dig deep to bounce back next week. 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:19.240 I don't know. 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:21.240 I mean, I I wish I had that reason for you. 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:24.839 You know, it's just someone's gotta stet them to make 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:26.560 a play. Someone's got to make a play either way, 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:29.680 just to separate that game for us, create turnover, get 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:32.800 it guy on the ground, a third down win, offensively 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:36.880 explosive play in the game. It's never happened for us. 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:39.280 When the defense started to face adversity, you feel like 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:40.360 it's snowballed on that group. 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:42.880 Yeah, we just need somebody to rise up and make 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:45.800 a play. Someone just just hold the ford down, you know. 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:47.679 And and I didn't see enough of that today. 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:49.400 You feel like you've got to kind of improve being 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:51.960 tangibles there and in your first situations like that. 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:54.440 I think someone needs to step up and lead the group. 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:56.520 That's what I'm waiting to see someone step up and 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:58.560 leave the group and and take some accountability over there 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:00.560 and get this thing on the right way. What was 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:05.600 your message that you already had that from the rush. 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:07.080 Defense wise, why do you think they were able to 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:10.160 get They got a lot of momentum. I mean, it's uh, 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:13.480 they were a dangerous team that way. That was certainly 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:15.520 a strength of theirs, you know, with their offensive line, 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:19.919 and so again we just we weren't good enough. You know, 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:21.640 I don't know how many explosives. It felt like it 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:31.000 felt like there was a decent amount of explosives there. 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:31.360 Both captain gave capitalize and also in draft picks on 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:34.560 the defensive line, how disappointing of the pass rush? 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:36.280 Yeah, we need we need somebody to step up and 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:37.520 win some one on ones. 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:41.479 Is it trouble that this the run defense that rolled 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:42.760 back to the preseason. 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.040 Like that's something we certainly got to improve on. 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:48.520 It looks like t was physically upset coming off the 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.080 game through his helmet and pointing back himself. What was 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.240 supposed to happen on last throw? 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:54.720 Was supposed to go to here? 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:57.320 Yeah he was, Yeah, he was an option there. I 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:59.080 don't know what I mean, it was probably just frustrated 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:03.359 last was there a thought of maybe given whatever it was, 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.240 it was a very def decision right there, you know, 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:11.560 and very tough, and Joe was ready to go. I 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:13.760 don't think anything Joe did on that last couple of 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.120 plays was anything that led us to not being able 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:18.600 to win. I thought he he was fine. He threw away, 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:22.239 we were expecting coverage, didn't get it, threw one away 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:25.679 and and the other one to Yoshii. I didn't exactly 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:27.800 see what it looked like, but I didn't feel. 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:29.520 Like Zach, who are some guys you see on the 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:30.520 defense or at least? 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:32.200 Yeah, we just need guys to step up, you know, 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:33.680 We just need some guys to step up. I'm not 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:35.280 gonna sit here name names. We just need guys to 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:35.680 step up. 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:43.680 Thy fours act, did you feel like maybe that's subconsciously 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:46.720 was playing pre bad everything in front of us and 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:47.679 don't allow big plays. 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:50.480 Let you guys going back to Cam in. 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:53.320 The starting laneup. I just gotta guys got to continue 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:57.080 to rise up for us, you know, And so again, 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:59.840 just just continue to find the best combination of guys 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:05.400 got over there. Well, I'm not into ranking losses. I'm 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:07.480 into being frustrated that we lost this game, you know, 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:09.280 and it's uh, it was right there for us to 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:12.560 grab and crease a momentum for ourselves and and we 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:15.720 just we missed the opportunity quite simple. And uh, you 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:17.840 gotta give credits to the Jets many they we had 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:22.640 them down multiple times, big scores, and and we just 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:25.560 never delivered that knockout below. And they just kept hanging 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:27.360 in there, and they made play after play after play 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:30.640 and their confidence rose and and so then they were 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:32.320 able to get that win. And and we saw this 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:34.160 on tape. We saw the five to one score games, 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:37.520 we saw end of games. They had their opportunities and 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:39.600 they just hadn't been able to capitalize them yet. And 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:41.280 here we are worth the team that they got it against. 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:42.000 It's unfortunate. 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:45.320 You got a little moment. 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:51.120 We got some momentum the first down play I I 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:52.800 I got to jog my member. In the second down 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:57.200 play second down, we'd had some success running in that situation. Obviously, 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.800 it's it's not good when you when they're up in 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:03.520 there and they jam it up on end and then 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:05.960 the third down didn't work. You know, we just we 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:06.679 didn't get to go on it. 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:08.439 Things. 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:11.760 What you'll want accomplish the season now, how much, well. 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:13.200 It's it's still on the table. It's still a long season. 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:16.360 You know, this is gonna be a difficult season for 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:17.640 a lot of teams, and so you just got to 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:19.959 be in the thick of it and give yourself an opportunity. 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:21.880 This is one that we had right in our grasp, 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.400 and that's the that's the disappointing part about it. We 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.000 were right there, we had this and so anytime you 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:29.080 got a game like that that you can do and 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:32.120 and we got to get away from us frustrating about 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:37.360 We were just you know, able to lean on it 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:39.200 some with the lead and I felt like we had 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:42.000 good control of the game and stick with it. Thought 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:45.000 our guys up front, we're doing a great job. The 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:48.520 backs were running really well, breaking tackles. Joe did a 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:51.520 great job controlling theme with some some perimeter stuff in 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:53.280 the run game where he got some completions out of 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:55.280 it on some runs to control some of the pressures 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:57.560 they were trying to hit us with. I just thought, 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.719 you guys do a nice Jim Hendrickson heading into the 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:04.240 game and yeah, he was ready to play and hit. 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.880 So we'll see. That's what I think of. 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.480 This, Zach Taylor. After the game, we'll take a first 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:13.280 time out and continue. We'll hear from Joe Flacco as 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:14.959 we are up and running on a Monday night of 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:18.760 Bengals Line of the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:23.160 We're back on Bengals Line of this Monday night of 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:26.240 the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. Thanks for 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:28.600 joining us and hanging out talking a little Bengals football. 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:30.320 Lance McAllister Dave Lapham. 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:32.719 Yes, Sir, Lance shop the Bengals Pro Shop. I'm the 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:36.480 best selection of Bengals merchandise anywhere. Visit the Pro Shop 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:38.839 seven days a week, located on the north side of 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:41.880 pay Court Stadium, or shop online at Bengals dot com. 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:45.000 Joe Flacco twenty one of thirty four, two hundred and 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:48.920 twenty three yards, passing two touchdowns, no picks, quarterback rating 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:52.320 of one hundred point five. Here's Joe after the game. 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:54.920 Joe, just walk us through what happened then of the 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:56.840 fourth quarters back locker. 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:00.880 Yeah, just you know, had some had some ton happened 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:04.000 a little bit. Wasn't feeling probably one hundred percent, so 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:05.079 just trying to make sure I. 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:08.440 Was right good. Yeah, it felt good coming up. 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:10.480 What did you get hurt on the sack? 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:10.679 Was? 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:14.040 Yeah, it just kind of landed a little bit awkward, 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:16.120 feel good right now? 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.560 What kind of changed their quarter a pretty well, all 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:21.679 of a sudden they got those. 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:24.120 Stops quite like well, I mean we still kind of 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:25.800 went down and got the touchdown in the fourth quarter, 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:27.920 but you know, they had two stops come up late. 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:33.880 You know, you put yourself in third and lungs and. 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:35.320 You know, one or two plays don't kind of hit 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.400 like they did early, and you don't convert a third down, 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:40.520 and that's how it goes. I think the drives that 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:42.640 we were scoring well on, you know, there was there 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:45.840 was some conversions big time that we had. But you know, 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:47.520 the drive that we did score in the fourth in 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:49.200 the fourth quarter, we were krying of just rolling through 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:52.400 a little bit. You know, you got to expect at 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:53.920 some point they're gonna come up and play it tough 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:55.120 and you're gonna have to make some plays, and we 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:56.760 just weren't able to do it too. 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:57.040 Much of that. 0:11:57.640 --> 0:11:59.160 There was a couple of times during the game that 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:00.920 you guys should have closed it out. 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:05.079 What do you think we're spend you guys from doing that. Well, 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:05.880 you guys watched it. 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:09.480 I mean, listen, you know this this league is most 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:10.880 of the time, it's going to come down to those 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:15.520 last you know, that last minute or two and uh, 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:18.360 you know, obviously we had a drive before that two 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.080 minute where if we go put points on the board, 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:21.600 then it's a different game, and we just weren't able 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:21.920 to do it. 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:25.160 Do you think us through the final three plays or so, 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:27.360 you guys pick up a first down, it feels like 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:30.120 you're going to move from I think it's close to midfield, 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:31.640 and things kind of stall. 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:33.479 Out of it. 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:35.080 Sometimes it's part of the game. 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:37.040 You know, you don't make you don't make the playdown 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:39.600 stretch that that gets you over the hump and puts 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:41.719 you in field goal range. 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:45.200 Were the years well, actual, I'm just pretty one here. 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:46.720 Was there a conversation with you. 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.760 Exact on a game like ar What was that like 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.120 when you're aging whether you want to be able to 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:52.760 go back in or not? 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:53.640 What was that problem? 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:53.840 Like? 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:55.560 It was so quick, I mean, it was just kind 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:55.920 of like. 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:00.200 There was not much conversating, you know, it was like 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:02.600 it just all happened so quick, and next thing you know, 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:03.480 we're out there and we're going. 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:06.640 So you would I mean, let's say let's say they 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.640 got the stop when you come back out. What happened there? 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:11.599 Again, I wasn't really thinking about that. 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:16.440 I was just thinking about getting back out there. Yeah, yeah, 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:18.400 I don't think so, We'll have to wait and see. 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:21.599 You know what we what we talk about in the 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:22.320 Game of all time? 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:25.000 What makes young guys kind of turn into leaders in 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:26.560 the locker room over the course of time, Like what 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:29.760 enables guys to go in and kind of take those 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:32.960 roles the longer they're in the locker room. 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:35.800 Well, I think the biggest thing is proving it day 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:37.400 in and day out that you're the type of guy 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.920 that's going to show up and work hard and give 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:40.839 it your all and give it one. 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:41.760 Hundred percent every day. 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:45.040 I think, you know, I think those things kind of 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:47.480 start with just your actions. You know, how you show up, 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:49.920 You show up with intention every day, and I think 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:52.520 the more you can do that, then it just slowly happens. 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:54.079 Is that something you. 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:57.600 Think guys old time or is that something that you kind. 0:13:57.480 --> 0:13:59.920 Of Guys can definitely learn from looking at other guys 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:02.040 and seeing how they show up and when they show 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.520 up and you know, kind of the process they go through. 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:06.959 I think you can definitely learn how to you know, 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.720 how to become somebody that comes in and works with 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.920 intention and has you know, and and has detailed what 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:15.320 they do and has passion for what they do. And 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:17.720 I think I think you can definitely feed off of 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.480 that and learn yourself and then become the guy that 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:22.440 you know that other guys are looking to. 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:24.840 Zach said the message to the team after the game, 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.720 someone needs to step up. In an NFL lock room 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:30.160 of adult man, how is that typically received when a 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:31.760 coach is saying someone needs to step up? 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:36.000 Oh yeah, I mean we're all men. Is coaches included 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:39.720 and prideful? 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:44.760 But at the same time, like I think, what makes 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:45.760 you know. 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:51.000 A good football player, a tough grown man is the 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:57.840 ability to look inward and you know, maybe acknowledge some 0:14:57.880 --> 0:14:59.840 of the things that he can get better at. So 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.400 I think that's where it starts in a good locker room, 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:06.480 is when you get that message from your coach, you 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:08.520 take it to heart because your pride, you have pride 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:11.400 in what you do, and you look at yourself and 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:13.960 how you can improve and how you can how you 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:15.800 can take that next step and help everybody around you 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:16.400 do the same thing. 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:19.960 What enable you to really find that success that hadn't 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:20.320 been there. 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:22.600 Yeah, I think listen, I think the fact that we 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:24.440 were able to start well in the passing game and 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:27.480 then they got to worry about that, it. 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:29.160 Opens up a little bit inside. And then you got 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:29.480 to give. 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:31.280 Credit to the offensive line and the running backs just 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:32.520 for kind of doing their thing. 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:36.120 That last year. 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:38.640 I guess jam was saying the last couple of plays, 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:40.040 they were just they were just double on right. 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:40.560 Yeah. 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:42.520 Yeah, Yeah, we were trying to get a double move 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:44.440 on them one time, you know, just because sometimes when 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:46.440 they when they come and double you, you know, they 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:48.880 they got one guy outside, one guy comes inside, he 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:50.360 gets a little low and maybe you can kind of 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:51.120 get over the top. 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:55.600 But you know, I think we expect that a little bit. 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:57.520 You know that they're going to have to do something 0:15:57.560 --> 0:15:57.920 like that. 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:00.440 There was a few third downs throughout the course of 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:02.520 the game where they made sure they doubled him, and 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:04.920 you know, that's a credit to them. 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:05.680 But at the same. 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:07.160 Time, like we know those things are going to happen 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:09.520 with those guys, and you got to find ways to 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:11.000 overcome it a little bit, and for most of the 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:15.320 day we did. It's just you know, in crunch time, 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:16.440 we weren't able to make it happen. 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:20.960 Joe Flacco after the game a day another zero turnover day. 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:23.440 He continues to protect the football and make plays. 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:25.680 I think that's the biggest thing that he's done. Lance 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:29.240 is taking care of the football. He seems to be 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:32.000 allergic to turnovers. You know, he just doesn't want any 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.560 part of them. Doesn't even want to talk about you know. 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:36.520 It's like, well, if I talk, you know, I might 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:41.000 jinx myself here. But but he he has he himself 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:45.080 has given the Bengals a chance to win. And what 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:47.120 more can you ask from your quarterback? You know, I 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:51.120 mean it's been it's been still, you know, less than 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:54.400 two weeks. That's that he's had to try to absorb 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:57.560 and digest what the Cincinnati Bengals playbook and game plan 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:01.360 on a weekly basis is all about. So he is 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:05.760 not anywhere near the biggest reason the Bengals are struggling. 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:08.920 In fact, just the opposite. I think that if more 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:12.440 people were performing to the level that Joel Flacco is 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:14.760 performing at and preparing to the level that Joel Flacco 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:19.000 is preparing, I think they'd be better off. To me, 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:22.880 it's just remarkable that he has given them as much 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:24.200 of an opportunity as he has. 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:27.720 Stell ahead, Let's flip to the defense. Brace yourself. We'll 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:31.360 hear from Geno Stone and more as we continue Bengals 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:34.160 Ont of the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:43.200 continue on talking Bengals, breaking down yesterday's game against the Jets, 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:45.320 and eventually looking ahead to the Chicago Bears. We do 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:47.280 it on the show we call Bengals Line of the 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:51.399 Bengals Radio Network in seven hundred WLW. The numbers that 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:54.440 pop off on the stat sheet seem impossible to comprehend 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:57.439 at five hundred and two yards of total offense by 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:01.439 the Jets yesterday, five two, putting up thirty nine points. 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:03.840 Let's get into the defensive side of the conversation and 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:07.320 get perspective after the game from Bengals Safety. Here's Geno 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:09.520 Stone with Dan Horde and the media need to. 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:10.480 Be throughout the course of the year. 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:14.240 I don't know, I mean, I don't know. 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:15.960 I just I didn't really care about grabbing the liner 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:17.639 on this right now. I think the biggest thing is 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:20.400 we've got to get be better on defense. I feel 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:23.560 like everyone got to step up. Our leaders gotta lead 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:27.920 I mean, I gotta lead more in our group, so 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:29.960 I can put that on myself, and uh, you know 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:31.920 all the other position groups have put it on themselves 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:33.600 to our leaders. But end of the day, we all 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:36.040 gotta come together and we got we gotta want it. 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:36.400 You can't. 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:37.760 You can't go out there and one person be an 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:40.520 individual to do a job right and the other ten eight. 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:42.160 So we all got to do our jobs right together 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:43.480 and then that's that's what all comes down to. 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:44.040 You guys. 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:45.640 You guys have a lot of young guys. 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:47.639 You believe in the young guys, but as it presented 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:50.000 some challenges, just how young this defense is right now? 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:50.639 Me? 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:51.199 Yeah, a little bit. 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:52.800 By the end of the day, Like I mean, I 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:56.720 think Alice put us in gracesituations where it's not too complicated. 0:18:57.359 --> 0:18:58.879 You know at then day, like you gotta just do 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:01.399 your job whatever your job. Isn't that certain players do 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:03.399 your job? And you know, I think we're having a 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:04.919 little hiccups here and there, but you know, at then 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:06.399 the day, there's ten other people in the field. So 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:07.960 one person mess up, you should able to make them right. 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:09.840 No concerning is it that Zach just told us, like 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:11.520 somebody's got to step up on defense, like that was 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:13.560 the biggest thing. When your head coach is saying that, like, 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:15.359 you know, eight weeks into the year, how concerning is 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:17.879 it that, y'all he doesn't feel like somebody stepped up 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:18.240 in that way. 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:20.119 No, we definitely do. I mean someone got to step up. 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:21.840 I mean, I mean I can speak from my group 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:23.080 as much as I can. I mean, I gotta be 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:24.880 a guy steps up. I'm the oldest guy in the room, 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:27.120 so I'll take it on that rule. I make sure 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:28.520 we're wrong right in the back end. But you know, 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:30.639 at the end of the day, as a whole defense 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:33.040 that everyone got to step up and play better. You 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:34.720 can't just think about one person because you know, we're 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:35.439 on the field together. 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:37.280 So it is what it is. 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:38.720 We've got to be better next week. 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:40.800 Did it feel like there were a bunch of situations 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:42.879 in the game where if you just got one stop 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:45.880 here or there, it was gonna be over. 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:46.480 Yeah, definitely. 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:48.200 I mean it's really like the last two three drops, 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:50.680 I mean that's all we needed to stop. So that's 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:53.000 really all it was, even even the two points of versions, 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:55.560 but we just need to stop. So, uh, you know, 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:56.760 at the end of the day. I mean the office 0:19:56.760 --> 0:19:58.240 at their job today. We can't say nothing about that. 0:19:58.240 --> 0:19:59.760 I mean they put up almost forty points just so 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:01.680 the you know us as ah, there's a defense, we 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:02.800 definitely gotta step up, do better. 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:03.200 That's all it is. 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:04.840 Is it frustrating that it's the same thing we've been 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:06.480 talking about last year too, where you know the defense 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:07.040 got of struggle. 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:08.720 How frustrating is it's few years in. 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:09.959 A row now and just haven't been able to get 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:10.240 that done. 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:12.480 No, I mean it's definitely frustrated. I mean, like I said, 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:14.240 if someone got we all got to step up. It's 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:15.840 not one person, it's not two people. Whoever it is, 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:18.159 everyone gotta step up. Whoevers on the field gotta step up. 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:21.000 I put myself in there included. So you know, at 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:22.639 the end of the day, we just gotta stopped the run, uh, 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:23.960 get the ball back to the offense, and then we 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:25.720 all got to do our job. Whoever your job is 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:27.320 on that certain play, whatever the call is is do 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:27.760 your job. 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:29.560 What were they doing on offense? 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:32.399 I mean nothing, nothing so tough. I mean we, like 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:34.960 I said, we've got to do our job. Leverage and attack. 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:37.720 That's all it really comes down to you know, that's 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:38.760 that's that's the main thing. 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:40.440 I know everyone loss is frustrating. 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:43.040 Is this one even more frustrating given where you guys wereriving? 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:43.520 What court? 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:44.000 Yeah? 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:45.520 I mean, I I mean I feel like we had 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:46.840 the game under control of the whole time in the 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:48.399 fourth quarter, I feel like it just kind of, you know, 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:51.600 slipped away they I mean, momentiums are you know, a 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:53.040 big thing in this game, and that they had overle 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:54.280 momentum the whole fourth quarter. 0:20:55.040 --> 0:20:56.440 And that's one thing we have to do is try 0:20:56.480 --> 0:20:56.840 to change it. 0:20:56.880 --> 0:20:57.359 And we didn't. 0:20:57.480 --> 0:20:59.679 So you could point to one thing, you know, as 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:02.560 the big problem with the defense today, What would you 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:04.439 pick out of this game and say that's what has 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:04.920 to get better? 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:05.560 Stopping the wrong? 0:21:05.640 --> 0:21:06.400 You go stop the wrong? 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:08.040 Like I said, his message to. 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:09.520 The team after the game was that someone needs to 0:21:09.520 --> 0:21:09.919 step up. 0:21:09.920 --> 0:21:11.280 I know you just said a few times, but as 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:13.400 a football player, you're obviously you're giving it one hundred 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:14.200 and ten percent. 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:16.520 When it says someone steps up. 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:17.520 How do you guys take that when. 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:18.320 Someone needs to step up? 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:20.520 I mean, it's the way you go about your every day. 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:22.520 I mean, you're a pro, you know, it's the way 0:21:22.560 --> 0:21:24.879 you prepare. It's the way you communicate on the fields, 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:27.440 the way communicate with the guys around you. So whatever 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:29.080 it is to get that person that better next to 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:30.720 you better and that make sure everyone's on the same page. 0:21:30.720 --> 0:21:32.680 That's the way you step up on the run defense. 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:34.919 It wasn't a day where it was five yards here, 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:38.879 six yards there. It was the explosive runs. Those are killers, 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:39.280 aren't they? 0:21:39.480 --> 0:21:40.280 Yeah, I mean definitely. 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:42.399 I mean, I gotta I gotta watch the film and 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:44.800 really see it, because I was you always see from the. 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:47.720 iPad ever here and there, So I gotta I gotta. 0:21:47.560 --> 0:21:49.480 Go watch the film and see what really happens. So 0:21:50.200 --> 0:21:51.080 that's the biggest takeaway. 0:21:51.080 --> 0:21:51.600 We gotta do it. 0:21:51.680 --> 0:21:53.119 And like I talked, I told JB, you know, me 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:54.439 and him were the last guys in the back end. 0:21:54.520 --> 0:21:56.040 So at the end of day we came out to score. 0:21:56.040 --> 0:21:56.560 You got him, doun. 0:21:56.960 --> 0:21:59.800 I know you guys, weren't you know, assuming anything going 0:21:59.840 --> 0:22:02.920 in to this game. But it was easy to say, 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:04.720 all right, two home games, a chance to get to 0:22:04.760 --> 0:22:06.640 five and four going into your buy if you could 0:22:06.640 --> 0:22:10.520 win them. How hurtful is it to have not taken 0:22:10.560 --> 0:22:11.800 advantage of this opportunity? 0:22:11.840 --> 0:22:13.960 Today. No, definitely, I mean, I mean that was the goal. 0:22:14.440 --> 0:22:15.600 So at the end of the day, we got a 0:22:15.640 --> 0:22:17.400 google now and that's let's get back to five hundred 0:22:17.880 --> 0:22:18.879 and and improve. 0:22:18.640 --> 0:22:19.080 Them from there. 0:22:19.160 --> 0:22:20.639 So at end of the day, we got one more 0:22:20.720 --> 0:22:22.239 one more game before I buy, So we gotta take 0:22:22.240 --> 0:22:23.000 care prisons next week. 0:22:23.240 --> 0:22:26.200 Did you feel like the defense was progressing and took 0:22:26.240 --> 0:22:27.520 a step backward today? 0:22:27.560 --> 0:22:29.200 Obviously the score would suggest. 0:22:29.000 --> 0:22:29.440 Yeah, definitely. 0:22:29.440 --> 0:22:30.600 I mean we definitely took a huge step back. 0:22:30.600 --> 0:22:31.800 I feel like last week we played it, you know, 0:22:31.920 --> 0:22:34.360 I mean a game that uh, you know, we put 0:22:34.440 --> 0:22:36.200 some something together, but at the same time you can see, 0:22:36.320 --> 0:22:38.360 you know, hiccups here and there. I think this week 0:22:38.359 --> 0:22:40.159 we took a whole step back as a as a 0:22:40.200 --> 0:22:41.879 collective group. You can't put you can't paint fingers that 0:22:41.880 --> 0:22:44.280 Nobody said a collective group. So we all gotta get 0:22:44.320 --> 0:22:45.639 better ready to get back toward tomorrow. 0:22:45.880 --> 0:22:48.640 Benks Gina Gino Stone after the game at day five 0:22:48.720 --> 0:22:51.880 oh two. Had you had you had we said last week, 0:22:51.960 --> 0:22:53.920 Had you had turned to us during the break and said, 0:22:54.119 --> 0:22:55.399 what do you think could the Jets get to five 0:22:55.480 --> 0:22:57.640 hundred yards offense? I think I would have said maybe 0:22:57.640 --> 0:22:59.920 over the next couple of weeks, but not in one 0:23:00.280 --> 0:23:01.480 game like yesterday. 0:23:01.960 --> 0:23:03.920 I would have lost a lot of money making a 0:23:04.000 --> 0:23:05.760 bet with you on that one. You would have been a. 0:23:05.800 --> 0:23:07.080 Rich man telling you. 0:23:08.280 --> 0:23:12.840 That is absolutely mind boggling to me that the New 0:23:12.920 --> 0:23:15.680 York Jets, I mean, they've got players, they're a good 0:23:15.760 --> 0:23:18.680 football team. They're not oh and seven record. You know, 0:23:18.840 --> 0:23:21.080 you think, oh my god, this team sucks. You know, 0:23:21.400 --> 0:23:24.479 they have no chance of winning any game. They've been 0:23:24.560 --> 0:23:26.840 in a few of their games, quite a few of 0:23:26.840 --> 0:23:30.639 their games, I mean one score games. Pittsburgh Steelers they 0:23:30.760 --> 0:23:33.879 lose by two. Buffalo they lost by twenty. They get 0:23:33.920 --> 0:23:37.080 spanked there. Down in Tampa Bay, they lose by two. 0:23:37.480 --> 0:23:41.479 They lose by six. In Miami, Dallas beats them by fifteen. 0:23:41.560 --> 0:23:44.960 You know, better than two scores. Denver a good football team, 0:23:45.240 --> 0:23:47.960 they lose by two. They lose by seven to Carolina. 0:23:48.000 --> 0:23:49.960 So they have a couple of losses that are you know, 0:23:50.119 --> 0:23:54.040 scratch your head puzzling, you know, not tremendous football teams. 0:23:54.960 --> 0:24:01.520 You know, Carolina Panthers in particular. But man, know, five 0:24:01.640 --> 0:24:04.440 hundred and two yards offense? Are you kidding me? And 0:24:04.760 --> 0:24:08.239 the sad thing is how balanced it was. I mean, 0:24:08.280 --> 0:24:10.679 they pounded him on the ground, they did anything they 0:24:10.760 --> 0:24:14.240 wanted to in the air. You know, they have what 0:24:14.359 --> 0:24:16.920 they considered to be a problem. You know at the 0:24:17.000 --> 0:24:21.520 quarterback position. Neither quarterback playing well. Tyrod Taylor, you know, 0:24:21.760 --> 0:24:24.800 was supposed to, you know, be the guy. Well he 0:24:24.880 --> 0:24:29.720 couldn't be the guy. And Justin Fields, who zero touchdowns 0:24:29.760 --> 0:24:33.160 in the last two games before playing the Cincinnati Bengals, well, 0:24:33.520 --> 0:24:36.000 the Bengals were his alixa man because he got well 0:24:36.520 --> 0:24:40.360 and he he threw the ball very well. He threw 0:24:40.440 --> 0:24:43.000 the ball with tremendous accuracy. He knew what he was 0:24:43.040 --> 0:24:44.919 looking at. He seemed to know what the Bengals were 0:24:44.960 --> 0:24:47.120 doing before the snap of the football. He knew where 0:24:47.119 --> 0:24:48.879 they were going to be, where they were going to be, 0:24:49.680 --> 0:24:52.119 how they lined that pre snap, had an inclination of 0:24:52.160 --> 0:24:54.960 notion what they do post snap if they made any 0:24:55.040 --> 0:24:58.880 kind of changes. They were well prepared. You know, there's 0:24:58.920 --> 0:25:00.840 no doubt about it. I mean, they felt like they 0:25:00.960 --> 0:25:03.439 had to win this football game. Aaron Glenn had them 0:25:03.520 --> 0:25:05.520 up in the bits, so to speak, and they went 0:25:05.560 --> 0:25:06.400 out and they got it done. 0:25:06.560 --> 0:25:10.240 And give give Justin Fields a ton of credit for 0:25:10.359 --> 0:25:12.719 how he navigated a week where his owner threw him 0:25:12.800 --> 0:25:15.160 under the bus and then backed the bus up over 0:25:15.280 --> 0:25:18.280 top of him. They went through the uncertainty of if 0:25:18.440 --> 0:25:20.639 Taylor was gonna go or not. They'd split the snaps 0:25:20.680 --> 0:25:22.200 through much of the week, then late in the week 0:25:22.240 --> 0:25:25.320 it becomes justin fields. He was very eloquent in the 0:25:25.359 --> 0:25:27.760 post game yesterday talking about the week that was and 0:25:27.880 --> 0:25:31.800 how he navigated it. And he cleared every with all 0:25:31.840 --> 0:25:34.479 that was thrown at him last week. He navigated all 0:25:34.560 --> 0:25:37.080 of it and was and you talked about the balance. 0:25:37.280 --> 0:25:39.880 They throw it thirty times, they run it thirty seven times, 0:25:40.080 --> 0:25:41.800 they run it for two fifty four on the ground, 0:25:41.800 --> 0:25:43.280 they throw it for two forty eight on the He 0:25:43.720 --> 0:25:45.600 just orchestrated it yesterday. It was beautiful. 0:25:45.680 --> 0:25:48.440 He did. He was the conductor, you know, and he 0:25:49.040 --> 0:25:52.240 had the starring role. There's no question about it. The 0:25:52.720 --> 0:25:58.440 thing about in my mind that hurt the Bengals defensively 0:25:58.560 --> 0:26:02.160 as much or more than anything, is how they did 0:26:02.280 --> 0:26:05.680 run the football. And and already said, you know the 0:26:05.800 --> 0:26:08.159 balance that they had. I mean, it's it's just a 0:26:08.280 --> 0:26:11.520 few yards differential between the run game and the pass game. 0:26:11.920 --> 0:26:12.440 And they had it. 0:26:12.680 --> 0:26:15.040 In my mind a two back set, even when they 0:26:15.280 --> 0:26:17.560 only had one back in the backfield. You know, if 0:26:17.600 --> 0:26:20.680 they were gonna go, you know, five offensive linemen, one 0:26:20.760 --> 0:26:23.400 tight end, four wides. You know, now all of a sudden, 0:26:23.440 --> 0:26:26.479 you got just a quarterback in the shotgun and one 0:26:26.560 --> 0:26:30.040 running back. That's still two running backs because Justin Fields 0:26:30.520 --> 0:26:33.760 ran the ball exceptionally well. The guy is a good 0:26:33.840 --> 0:26:36.840 runner of the football man. Uh, he he reads it well. 0:26:37.680 --> 0:26:41.800 He's confident they blocked for him. They understand that that's 0:26:42.080 --> 0:26:44.480 a part of his football game that can really help 0:26:44.560 --> 0:26:46.920 the team. I mean, third down is tough with him. 0:26:47.040 --> 0:26:49.520 He can he can climb the pocket and if he 0:26:49.560 --> 0:26:51.480 doesn't like what he sees, he's gonna tuck it and run. 0:26:51.560 --> 0:26:55.440 And he out ran a few Cincinnati Bengals yesterday during 0:26:55.480 --> 0:26:58.560 the course of that football game. And uh, he definitely 0:26:58.680 --> 0:27:01.640 has has foot speed. And when you look at him 0:27:02.160 --> 0:27:06.959 and uh uh Breece hall at the tailback position, I mean, 0:27:07.040 --> 0:27:09.680 Bruce Hall Man, how many tackles did he break? You, 0:27:10.240 --> 0:27:12.399 Al Golden, that was a big deal. You know, we 0:27:12.520 --> 0:27:16.040 need to be tackled better. I'm just very disappointed in 0:27:16.520 --> 0:27:18.880 what we're kind of a tackling football team. We've shown 0:27:18.880 --> 0:27:22.760 ourselves to be well. It didn't improve yesterday. You know, 0:27:23.840 --> 0:27:26.640 Justin Fields made a miss, Breece Hall made a miss, 0:27:27.200 --> 0:27:28.199 everybody made a miss. 0:27:29.000 --> 0:27:31.520 Still ahead, let's flip back onto the offensive side of 0:27:31.600 --> 0:27:33.960 things and hear from samaj p Ryan talk about his 0:27:34.160 --> 0:27:36.280 day doing a little bit of everything as he usually 0:27:36.359 --> 0:27:38.200 does and does it like a pro. That is, we 0:27:38.280 --> 0:27:41.000 continue with Bengals Line of the Bengals Radio networking seven 0:27:41.080 --> 0:27:48.560 hundred WLW. We were rolling right along in this Monday 0:27:48.600 --> 0:27:50.920 night at Bengals Line of the Bengals Radio Network and 0:27:51.119 --> 0:27:54.320 seven hundred WLW breaking down yesterday against the Jets, looking 0:27:54.320 --> 0:27:57.400 ahead of the Bears and always fighting time for this Dave, Yes. 0:27:57.400 --> 0:27:59.200 How about a card? Lance? 0:27:59.359 --> 0:28:02.200 How about wealth? How about we talked to Kettering Health 0:28:02.280 --> 0:28:05.679 feature the injury report presented by Kettering Health, the official 0:28:05.760 --> 0:28:08.840 health care provider of the Cincinnati Bengals, providing the best 0:28:08.920 --> 0:28:12.480 care for the best fans. And honestly, when you look 0:28:12.520 --> 0:28:16.080 at it, going into the football game, injury, Uh, the 0:28:16.200 --> 0:28:20.000 Jets were crippled. I mean their best offensive player, well, 0:28:21.080 --> 0:28:24.240 I think he is the best offensive's biggest threat definitely 0:28:24.640 --> 0:28:27.280 for big plays, Garrett Wilson. He was down, you know, 0:28:27.480 --> 0:28:30.800 and Sauce Gardner, the best defensive player on the back end, 0:28:30.880 --> 0:28:33.480 Quinn Williams definitely the best player in the front seven. 0:28:33.880 --> 0:28:36.520 But yet you lose two guys like that, you know, 0:28:36.640 --> 0:28:39.280 one of your best offensive one of your best defensive players, 0:28:39.320 --> 0:28:42.680 if not the best, and uh and you still win 0:28:42.760 --> 0:28:44.520 the football game. I mean that that's gonna make the 0:28:44.600 --> 0:28:48.360 coaching staff feel pretty good. The Bengals, they they probably 0:28:48.440 --> 0:28:50.200 you know, they got nicked up, dinged a little bit, 0:28:50.280 --> 0:28:55.320 nothing terribly awful. I don't think anybody's gonna lose an 0:28:55.320 --> 0:28:58.000 extended period of time. Nobody's certainly out for the season 0:28:58.320 --> 0:29:01.960 for either football team. Fortionally, they did not have to 0:29:02.080 --> 0:29:04.960 experience anything like that. Nobody carted off the field or 0:29:04.960 --> 0:29:08.640 anything of that nature. Guys went into the tent to 0:29:08.720 --> 0:29:11.640 get checked. Some guys had to go into the locker 0:29:11.720 --> 0:29:14.000 room after going into the tent. But they came back 0:29:14.000 --> 0:29:16.240 out and came back out in the football team game 0:29:16.320 --> 0:29:21.720 and field and played well. So you know, bottom line 0:29:21.840 --> 0:29:24.880 is the New York Jets, still with the injuries and 0:29:24.920 --> 0:29:27.040 everything that they had and players they were missing, they 0:29:27.120 --> 0:29:29.800 still out physicaled the Bengals. Now has to be a 0:29:29.880 --> 0:29:31.480 source of concern. No doubt about it. 0:29:31.560 --> 0:29:34.440 Samaj p Ryan did have a nice day. Nine carries 0:29:34.600 --> 0:29:37.160 ninety four yards rushing. That's an average at ten point 0:29:37.240 --> 0:29:40.160 four yards at carry including along and thirty two went 0:29:40.240 --> 0:29:42.840 for a touchdown, had a catch, had a special teams tackle, 0:29:42.920 --> 0:29:46.320 did at all. Here is Dave with Samaj after the game. 0:29:46.720 --> 0:29:49.320 Here in the Bengals locker room was running back Samaj 0:29:49.480 --> 0:29:52.440 p Ryan, who had a heck of a football game 0:29:52.600 --> 0:29:56.320 for the Cincinnati Bengals. I mean you ran the football 0:29:56.400 --> 0:29:59.080 hard man, you always do. I mean you finish every 0:29:59.160 --> 0:30:03.280 single play. When you get opportunities, you uh you take 0:30:03.360 --> 0:30:08.480 full advantage and and uh you finish hard man. Uh yeah, 0:30:08.480 --> 0:30:09.160 I do what I can. 0:30:09.800 --> 0:30:12.000 You know, it's it's unfortunately we didn't get the outcome 0:30:12.040 --> 0:30:14.320 we want it, but you know, at the end of 0:30:14.320 --> 0:30:17.360 the day, it's it's, uh, the only positive is is 0:30:17.440 --> 0:30:18.240 something to build off of. 0:30:18.400 --> 0:30:18.560 You know. 0:30:19.200 --> 0:30:23.240 Offensively, you know, our line is playing great, quarterback is 0:30:23.240 --> 0:30:25.360 playing really good, receivers are playing really good, you know, 0:30:25.760 --> 0:30:30.560 running routes, catching balls, blocking, and uh you know obviously 0:30:30.680 --> 0:30:33.040 us as running backs, you know, we're we're feeding off 0:30:33.080 --> 0:30:34.720 of that, and uh, you know, we just got to 0:30:34.800 --> 0:30:37.920 keep keep pushing forward and you know, it's uh, it's 0:30:37.920 --> 0:30:40.440 a tough loss and unfortunate loss, but you know it's 0:30:40.520 --> 0:30:42.480 only one game, and uh, you know, we just have 0:30:42.560 --> 0:30:45.240 to come back next week and try a little bit harder. 0:30:46.280 --> 0:30:51.200 You put a lot of a lot of yards up 0:30:51.240 --> 0:30:54.200 and points up on the on the scoreboard today. Did 0:30:54.240 --> 0:30:57.560 they do anything different defensively than you anticipated? Because if 0:30:57.560 --> 0:30:59.360 they did, you guys are tested pretty damn well. But 0:30:59.400 --> 0:31:01.840 did they give you any looks that you weren't necessarily 0:31:01.880 --> 0:31:03.200 thinking might might take place? 0:31:04.240 --> 0:31:05.040 Not necessarily. 0:31:05.440 --> 0:31:07.080 We knew they were they were going to come out 0:31:07.480 --> 0:31:09.440 and uh and play hard, and you know, they have 0:31:09.760 --> 0:31:11.640 a great front set and really have a great defense 0:31:11.760 --> 0:31:15.160 all around. So we just had to you know, match 0:31:15.240 --> 0:31:17.840 and exceed their intensity, and uh, you know, for the 0:31:17.920 --> 0:31:20.040 most part we did. But there at the end, they 0:31:20.160 --> 0:31:22.880 just got the better of us, and you know, we 0:31:23.000 --> 0:31:24.520 just have to come out next week and find a 0:31:24.560 --> 0:31:27.120 way to finish that. But you know, yeah, they're they're 0:31:27.280 --> 0:31:31.520 very very simple, sound defense and they play hard. But 0:31:31.920 --> 0:31:34.480 you know, I feel like, you know, we just we 0:31:34.600 --> 0:31:36.200 just came out and matched it for the most part. 0:31:36.880 --> 0:31:39.880 Quentin Williams, their defensive tackle, that dude is a is 0:31:39.920 --> 0:31:42.120 a stud man He's been a multiple time Pro bowler 0:31:42.200 --> 0:31:44.800 for for a good reason. I mean, he's uh, he 0:31:44.920 --> 0:31:47.120 does everything well. He plays the run, stops the run, 0:31:48.040 --> 0:31:51.840 can rush the passer. Was he like a focal point 0:31:52.360 --> 0:31:54.640 when when you were going through your preparation during the week. 0:31:55.960 --> 0:31:57.600 Yeah, you know, he's a player that you know you 0:31:57.760 --> 0:32:00.720 have to have extra hands on, extra eyes on. And 0:32:01.280 --> 0:32:03.440 you know, I feel like, for the most part, you know, 0:32:03.480 --> 0:32:06.320 our old line did a great job specifically did a 0:32:06.360 --> 0:32:08.920 great job at you know, sitting a call is the 0:32:09.000 --> 0:32:12.440 right way to, uh to make sure he becomes less 0:32:12.440 --> 0:32:15.160 of a less of an X factor. And uh, you 0:32:15.240 --> 0:32:18.960 know he's at he's a great player. But I feel 0:32:19.000 --> 0:32:21.600 like we did a great job at at minimizing his production. 0:32:22.560 --> 0:32:24.320 You and and Chase Brown are a hell of a 0:32:24.400 --> 0:32:26.520 one two punch at the running back position. There's no 0:32:26.720 --> 0:32:29.840 question about it. I mean, I know Zach Taylor has 0:32:30.320 --> 0:32:32.880 talked about it, how fortunate he feels to have two 0:32:32.960 --> 0:32:36.560 players of your caliber, uh carrying the football for the 0:32:36.600 --> 0:32:39.240 Cincinnati Bengals. But you pride yourself on being a complete 0:32:39.280 --> 0:32:40.440 running back. What does that entail? 0:32:40.480 --> 0:32:41.320 What does that involved? 0:32:41.840 --> 0:32:41.959 Uh? 0:32:42.200 --> 0:32:46.200 Just you know, running, blocking, doing whatever I can to 0:32:46.280 --> 0:32:49.360 have the team win, you know, uh most of the 0:32:49.440 --> 0:32:52.640 time or sometimes you know, my my thing is I 0:32:52.680 --> 0:32:54.440 have to go in on third down and and uh 0:32:54.720 --> 0:32:56.880 and pick up key blocks and uh, you know, I 0:32:57.640 --> 0:33:00.480 pride myself on that more than anything. But you know, 0:33:00.600 --> 0:33:02.959 being able to to run the ball and have them 0:33:03.000 --> 0:33:05.480 trust me to run the ball on you know, third downs, 0:33:05.520 --> 0:33:07.960 first down, whatever it is. Uh, that's just icing on 0:33:08.040 --> 0:33:10.240 the cake for me. But you know, I feel like 0:33:10.360 --> 0:33:12.840 if either one of us is in there, shoot even Todds, 0:33:12.880 --> 0:33:14.600 if he's in there, you know we're gonna get the 0:33:14.680 --> 0:33:17.360 job done no matter what, just because you know they 0:33:17.440 --> 0:33:19.240 have the faith in us and we have the confidence 0:33:19.280 --> 0:33:19.800 to go and do it. 0:33:20.360 --> 0:33:23.920 It's interesting you pride yourself on your protection, your plitch 0:33:24.000 --> 0:33:26.480 pick up, because in my eye, you're one of the 0:33:26.560 --> 0:33:28.840 best in the National Football League to do it. Man, Nobody, 0:33:29.040 --> 0:33:31.320 nobody sticks their nose in there any better, any harder 0:33:31.360 --> 0:33:31.680 than you do. 0:33:32.680 --> 0:33:32.800 Uh. 0:33:32.960 --> 0:33:34.880 You know it's Uh, that's what I've had to hang 0:33:34.960 --> 0:33:36.840 my head on the past few years. And you know, 0:33:36.960 --> 0:33:38.760 you just have to have the girl to love it. 0:33:38.960 --> 0:33:41.760 And you know I love it, and it's it's kept 0:33:41.800 --> 0:33:44.400 me in for this long and hopefully it can keep 0:33:44.440 --> 0:33:46.200 me in for a few more years, as long as 0:33:46.280 --> 0:33:46.680 I can. 0:33:47.840 --> 0:33:50.800 Stop being humble, trying, try and drown saying, stop being humble. 0:33:51.480 --> 0:33:52.680 He knows he is. 0:33:52.840 --> 0:33:56.160 He is the best at there's no question. So I guess, 0:33:56.320 --> 0:33:59.000 you know, looking ahead, Uh, could I put this one 0:33:59.040 --> 0:34:00.960 in the review mirrors quick? Please as possible, get a 0:34:01.400 --> 0:34:03.560 get a W next week and then have a buy 0:34:03.720 --> 0:34:06.560 and and uh and come back and and you know, 0:34:06.640 --> 0:34:09.080 win another one, and all of a sudden you're over 0:34:09.200 --> 0:34:10.120 five hundred. 0:34:09.800 --> 0:34:11.000 And still in the hunt big time. 0:34:11.200 --> 0:34:14.840 Absolutely, you know, we it was unfortunate, but you know, 0:34:14.880 --> 0:34:16.640 we have to put it behind us. Tomorrow We're gonna 0:34:16.640 --> 0:34:18.719 watch it and kind of take accountability for it and 0:34:18.880 --> 0:34:21.520 move forward. You know, we have another really good team 0:34:21.560 --> 0:34:23.880 coming in and the Bears, and you know we just 0:34:23.960 --> 0:34:26.680 have to you know, put a game plan together and stick. 0:34:26.520 --> 0:34:28.640 It out and uh, you know, we just have to 0:34:28.680 --> 0:34:29.759 take it one game at a time. 0:34:29.840 --> 0:34:31.640 You know, you can't look too far into the future, 0:34:31.640 --> 0:34:33.160 and you just you know, have to take it day 0:34:33.200 --> 0:34:36.200 by day, week by week. And you know, obviously next 0:34:36.239 --> 0:34:37.759 week for or after that, we got a bye week, 0:34:38.239 --> 0:34:40.319 So this is gonna be it's gonna be a very 0:34:40.320 --> 0:34:41.799 big week for us, and you have to come out 0:34:42.200 --> 0:34:45.000 and hopefully, you know, get back on the right side 0:34:45.000 --> 0:34:46.719 of things, feeling good going into the bye week. 0:34:47.239 --> 0:34:50.560 And and you final question again a lot I guess, 0:34:50.880 --> 0:34:55.880 final question. The makeup of the chemistry, the character and 0:34:55.960 --> 0:35:00.200 this football team is uh is extraordinary and it's time 0:35:00.280 --> 0:35:02.239 to show right now, isn't it. I mean, you know 0:35:02.400 --> 0:35:05.239 that the season can go either way right now, and 0:35:05.280 --> 0:35:07.320 you gotta make sure that it ends up going in 0:35:07.360 --> 0:35:07.960 the right direction. 0:35:08.040 --> 0:35:09.040 And you guys stay in the. 0:35:09.080 --> 0:35:14.080 Hunt absolutely, you know. So like the way that that 0:35:14.200 --> 0:35:16.880 we've built this locker room, we don't let you know, 0:35:17.000 --> 0:35:19.960 things get to us. And we know what kind of 0:35:20.000 --> 0:35:22.360 football team we are, and we are a very connected 0:35:22.400 --> 0:35:23.000 football team. 0:35:23.400 --> 0:35:24.480 So we know what we have to do. 0:35:25.120 --> 0:35:26.520 We just have to go out and go do it. 0:35:26.960 --> 0:35:29.000 Appreciate you somebody absolutely thanks. 0:35:28.800 --> 0:35:31.279 About JP Ryan after the game. We'll talk about his 0:35:31.400 --> 0:35:35.080 individual performance and all around contributions a little bit later on. 0:35:35.320 --> 0:35:38.040 As we continue, we are rolling through a Monday night 0:35:38.120 --> 0:35:41.440 of Bengals conversation on Bengals Line, the Bengals Radio Network, 0:35:41.520 --> 0:35:48.240 and seven hundred wl W. All right down the stretch 0:35:48.320 --> 0:35:51.800 we go. Bengals Line and the Bengals Radio networking seven 0:35:51.880 --> 0:35:55.360 hundred wl W, Lance Bacaist Dave Lapham, Hey. 0:35:55.239 --> 0:35:58.160 Who day Nation, It's time to recognize our high school coaches. 0:35:58.520 --> 0:36:00.719 Nominate your coach to the Bengal Coach of the Week, 0:36:00.960 --> 0:36:04.399 presented by pay Corps. Visit Bengals dot com slash Coach 0:36:04.440 --> 0:36:06.680 of the Week. All right, I rapidly moving first hour 0:36:06.800 --> 0:36:08.880 in the books. Hang tight, We've got two more to 0:36:08.920 --> 0:36:12.279 get to highlighting our number two, Jamar Chase, another big 0:36:12.360 --> 0:36:16.040 day receiving the football. Ted Karas talks O Line, Dimitrius 0:36:16.120 --> 0:36:18.960 Night Junior with fun facts. We'll hear from Jordan Battle 0:36:19.040 --> 0:36:21.520 and here from DJ Turner. All of that lined up 0:36:21.800 --> 0:36:24.239 in our second of three big hours of Bengals Line 0:36:24.280 --> 0:36:27.319 of the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. 0:36:31.719 --> 0:36:34.719 Hey, welcome back to Bengals Line, our number two of three. 0:36:34.960 --> 0:36:37.920 We are cruising through three hours of Bengals conversation tonight 0:36:38.200 --> 0:36:41.440 Bengals on on the Bengals Radio Network. In seven hundred WLW. 0:36:41.600 --> 0:36:43.880 We've talked offense, we've talked defense. Let's get back on 0:36:43.920 --> 0:36:46.160 the offensive side of the ball. And Jamar Chase was 0:36:46.320 --> 0:36:48.920 busy active again yesterday when it was all said and 0:36:49.000 --> 0:36:52.719 done nineteen targets, twelve catches ninety one yards, He had 0:36:52.760 --> 0:36:57.319 a long of seventeen and a visibly frustrated Jamar after 0:36:57.440 --> 0:36:59.920 the game breaking down all that happened. Here's the Bengals 0:37:00.000 --> 0:37:00.840 wide receiver. 0:37:00.719 --> 0:37:03.400 Cham You guys scored thirty eight Normally that's enough to 0:37:03.440 --> 0:37:05.840 get it done. What's your reaction after the game today? 0:37:07.280 --> 0:37:09.120 Didn't put enough on on a boy a second half? 0:37:12.520 --> 0:37:15.080 What did you think of the offense's performance? 0:37:16.120 --> 0:37:18.080 Uh? Run game was tremendous today. Did a lot of 0:37:18.160 --> 0:37:20.120 running the ball? Uh? Up front did good? 0:37:20.640 --> 0:37:20.759 Uh? 0:37:20.840 --> 0:37:21.759 Running backs they good at too. 0:37:23.239 --> 0:37:25.680 Did you sense that the Jets were a desperate team 0:37:25.920 --> 0:37:28.320 considering their record? That they were a desperate team with 0:37:28.400 --> 0:37:29.360 their winless record? 0:37:29.400 --> 0:37:30.919 About a record? We gotta go out there and play. 0:37:30.920 --> 0:37:31.799 It don't matter about a record. 0:37:32.680 --> 0:37:35.560 How disappointed is the entire team to come up short today? 0:37:38.040 --> 0:37:38.600 It is lost? 0:37:38.640 --> 0:37:42.080 Bro more Zach said he's looking for guys to step 0:37:42.160 --> 0:37:44.600 up as leaders in the defense. How much of that 0:37:44.840 --> 0:37:47.080 is on you as a leader in this room to 0:37:47.160 --> 0:37:49.960 kind of surge that charge or help the defense find leaders? 0:37:50.200 --> 0:37:50.319 Ay? 0:37:50.440 --> 0:37:52.320 My job, I'll play offense, not defense. 0:37:52.760 --> 0:37:54.720 How frustrating is it for you to see the defense 0:37:54.719 --> 0:37:55.760 give up thirty nine points. 0:37:56.320 --> 0:37:59.000 Uh, it's it's pretty frustrating. The offense don't need to 0:37:59.040 --> 0:37:59.719 capitalize the day. 0:38:00.560 --> 0:38:02.319 Do you feel like as an offense you're doing all 0:38:02.360 --> 0:38:03.960 you can do when you scored that many points in 0:38:04.040 --> 0:38:04.480 a game like this? 0:38:04.600 --> 0:38:04.719 Uh? 0:38:04.760 --> 0:38:05.600 We love stuff out there. 0:38:08.560 --> 0:38:10.640 This this offense last year at a lot of times 0:38:10.680 --> 0:38:13.600 scored a lot of points, Jamar and lost games. You're 0:38:13.640 --> 0:38:15.839 you're kind of back here again. What needs to change 0:38:15.880 --> 0:38:16.160 in here? 0:38:16.920 --> 0:38:17.040 Uh? 0:38:17.080 --> 0:38:21.120 I don't know, aks that did you do anything? Do 0:38:21.160 --> 0:38:22.399 your tomorm in the second half? 0:38:22.480 --> 0:38:23.200 Covered quires? 0:38:23.320 --> 0:38:23.440 Uh? 0:38:23.840 --> 0:38:24.040 Really? 0:38:24.080 --> 0:38:26.400 Fourth quarter? They just double double the whole time in 0:38:26.400 --> 0:38:29.120 every series pretty much. That's why the run was open 0:38:29.200 --> 0:38:31.359 and was not sure why the run was old so open? 0:38:31.400 --> 0:38:32.880 I think the up front did a good job today. 0:38:33.520 --> 0:38:35.040 What was re view of the last series? 0:38:36.880 --> 0:38:36.920 What? 0:38:37.280 --> 0:38:37.400 Uh? 0:38:37.600 --> 0:38:41.480 What did they do to uh uh dictate the way 0:38:41.520 --> 0:38:43.439 it came out on thirty and fourth down? 0:38:44.560 --> 0:38:44.680 Uh? 0:38:44.800 --> 0:38:46.960 Just double double me and t leftdre one on one 0:38:47.200 --> 0:38:48.320 and you know saying blisses. 0:38:48.880 --> 0:38:50.399 When you lose a game like this, Jamar and you're 0:38:50.480 --> 0:38:52.480 up thirty eight to twenty four, is it stunning for 0:38:52.520 --> 0:38:53.120 you as a player? 0:38:53.160 --> 0:38:53.840 What's your reaction? 0:38:57.600 --> 0:38:58.040 Next question? 0:38:58.239 --> 0:38:58.319 Uh? 0:38:58.400 --> 0:38:58.839 Next question? 0:39:02.000 --> 0:39:03.880 Well, what what what is your lot report to get 0:39:03.960 --> 0:39:04.279 with christ on? 0:39:05.000 --> 0:39:06.400 What's what's the favorite bull doubles? 0:39:07.880 --> 0:39:08.520 Last possession? 0:39:11.600 --> 0:39:13.120 What defensive leaguer defensive played? 0:39:14.880 --> 0:39:18.680 Both felt like you guys picked up the first down 0:39:18.800 --> 0:39:21.359 Chicks Brown runs it and on that last possession of Cola, 0:39:21.480 --> 0:39:23.879 you guys had some more n that just kind of hold. 0:39:24.000 --> 0:39:25.880 Can you pick us through the final sequence there? 0:39:25.960 --> 0:39:26.279 The finals? 0:39:26.360 --> 0:39:26.920 We played. 0:39:28.400 --> 0:39:28.600 Cool. 0:39:35.480 --> 0:39:38.360 I mean we just didn't execute, you know, didn't execute, 0:39:38.400 --> 0:39:39.600 didn't get a pick up the dom. 0:39:39.920 --> 0:39:43.000 Jamarks do frustrating that weekend tick out and seem to 0:39:43.000 --> 0:39:46.200 take the guys popscour over thirty five points on offense 0:39:46.719 --> 0:39:47.520 to win games. 0:39:47.840 --> 0:39:49.840 Do you think like that's a sustainable Uh. 0:39:49.920 --> 0:39:52.160 I don't think that's how that works. I just think 0:39:52.200 --> 0:39:55.320 it's NFL. Everybody's good, everybody's know how to play football. 0:39:55.400 --> 0:39:58.600 Everybody watch his film that I adjust that. 0:39:58.800 --> 0:39:59.960 Just said about the message stuff. 0:40:00.000 --> 0:40:01.520 You know a lot of mom just that somebody used 0:40:01.520 --> 0:40:02.080 to step up. 0:40:02.320 --> 0:40:03.040 What do you think of that? 0:40:04.320 --> 0:40:06.040 I play offense. I don't know what about what the 0:40:06.120 --> 0:40:07.920 defense gotta do. I'm just making sure I'm just chaining 0:40:07.960 --> 0:40:08.560 'em on every play. 0:40:08.719 --> 0:40:10.440 He didn't say deep, Well, probably stall season. 0:40:10.640 --> 0:40:11.480 That's just said somebody. 0:40:13.120 --> 0:40:15.239 I don't know if that no comment for that? 0:40:17.480 --> 0:40:19.719 Marg you still think there was a lot of hope 0:40:19.760 --> 0:40:20.319 for this team? 0:40:20.960 --> 0:40:22.680 Uh huh, we're still good, brouh. We just gotta find 0:40:22.680 --> 0:40:24.880 a way to not put ourselves in positions like this 0:40:25.120 --> 0:40:26.359 and be pissed off. 0:40:27.800 --> 0:40:29.439 Is this a pace that you play after a lost 0:40:29.440 --> 0:40:30.080 and lights and stuff? 0:40:32.120 --> 0:40:32.400 I don't know. 0:40:32.440 --> 0:40:34.480 I don't like losing, so don't matter we lost. 0:40:36.920 --> 0:40:38.759 Were you looking for the ball on that last drive? 0:40:38.840 --> 0:40:40.040 Did you feel like you had. 0:40:39.920 --> 0:40:42.040 An opportunity to make a play over there? 0:40:42.200 --> 0:40:44.160 We called a play for me, but it wasn't. I 0:40:44.280 --> 0:40:46.880 was double double and the leverages were going so I 0:40:46.920 --> 0:40:47.879 couldn't really do much. 0:40:48.600 --> 0:40:50.160 Is it a pressure ating like you over the year? 0:40:50.560 --> 0:40:52.960 Its last year was the same, issuear with the defense. 0:40:52.800 --> 0:40:54.960 Was happening able to get up the as an offensive 0:40:55.040 --> 0:40:55.320 rise it? 0:40:55.719 --> 0:40:58.040 Especially if us any that it's still kind of a problem. 0:40:58.120 --> 0:40:59.840 This deepens this season any like? 0:41:05.760 --> 0:41:07.640 Uh, I'm more frustrated we lost tonight than anything. 0:41:10.360 --> 0:41:11.440 How do you guys think out of it? 0:41:13.520 --> 0:41:13.680 Uh? 0:41:14.000 --> 0:41:16.480 Put our head back down, keep working the best thing 0:41:16.520 --> 0:41:16.800 we could do. 0:41:18.280 --> 0:41:21.759 Yeah, I know everything. Loss is frustrating and hard to 0:41:21.840 --> 0:41:22.959 flush and all of those things. 0:41:23.040 --> 0:41:25.440 But when you give up the leads that you gave 0:41:25.560 --> 0:41:27.840 up today in the fourth quarter, when it seemed like 0:41:27.880 --> 0:41:29.279 it was a a game you guys are gonna win 0:41:29.320 --> 0:41:30.200 by double digits? 0:41:31.640 --> 0:41:33.279 Is that different at all? 0:41:33.360 --> 0:41:34.160 Is it harder to flush? 0:41:34.239 --> 0:41:35.080 Is it harder to get past? 0:41:35.160 --> 0:41:36.239 Or is it always. 0:41:42.280 --> 0:41:42.759 In a moment? 0:41:42.800 --> 0:41:46.120 It's a lot going on, but it's a in the 0:41:46.160 --> 0:41:49.040 moment thing. It's not really worried about really worry about 0:41:49.040 --> 0:41:50.319 what just happened and how to happen. 0:41:50.719 --> 0:41:54.479 So is it hard to wrap your mind around this loss? 0:41:54.520 --> 0:41:56.080 And they didn't have a win coming into it, y'all 0:41:56.120 --> 0:41:57.600 had some good momentum. How hard is it to kind 0:41:57.600 --> 0:41:59.080 of wrap your mind around kind of how this. 0:41:59.120 --> 0:41:59.719 Game should out? 0:42:01.840 --> 0:42:04.080 This game should have been over when it was sixteen 0:42:04.160 --> 0:42:07.160 thirty one, twenty eight, whatever ahead I had. 0:42:07.040 --> 0:42:07.640 It should have been over. 0:42:07.680 --> 0:42:08.279 Ithoud have been over? 0:42:09.239 --> 0:42:10.959 Is that probably one of the most frustrated things about 0:42:11.000 --> 0:42:12.480 why this house that is all that y'all had, if 0:42:12.520 --> 0:42:13.040 they leave. 0:42:12.920 --> 0:42:14.920 And it just just didn't end up pretty much. 0:42:16.320 --> 0:42:17.359 Mine wasn't over. 0:42:17.560 --> 0:42:19.720 I mean, I know it's not just on the defense, 0:42:19.800 --> 0:42:21.239 just on the offense, but why do you think they 0:42:21.920 --> 0:42:22.640 were able to get. 0:42:22.560 --> 0:42:23.400 Back in the out. 0:42:26.200 --> 0:42:28.520 After we scored on the fast job. They went scored 0:42:28.560 --> 0:42:29.480 and they just kept scoring. 0:42:29.760 --> 0:42:33.960 You know, y'all have going back last year, y'all had 0:42:34.080 --> 0:42:37.080 leads in some games and they just kind of dissipated. 0:42:36.560 --> 0:42:37.120 Towards the end. 0:42:37.880 --> 0:42:39.719 Is there a reason why you're preture why some of 0:42:39.760 --> 0:42:41.600 these leads over the years just haven't been able to 0:42:41.680 --> 0:42:43.120 leave y'all haven't been able to see them out. 0:42:43.200 --> 0:42:44.239 Oh, that's exact question. 0:42:44.800 --> 0:42:48.640 Exact that Jamar after the game and Dave, he continues 0:42:48.719 --> 0:42:52.319 the workload, the conditioning. I can't even It's one thing 0:42:52.400 --> 0:42:55.160 to play a lot of snaps, but his playing a 0:42:55.200 --> 0:42:57.360 lot of snaps is also getting a lot of targets 0:42:57.400 --> 0:42:59.160 and getting hit a lot and running a lot. And 0:42:59.280 --> 0:43:01.960 yesterday he plays fifty eight of the fifty nine snaps, 0:43:02.000 --> 0:43:04.759 he's targeted nineteen times. He has twelve more catches. He 0:43:04.880 --> 0:43:08.680 has been a workhorse and he's in he's an incredible shape. 0:43:08.680 --> 0:43:09.920 To do what he's doing, I would. 0:43:09.760 --> 0:43:12.400 Have to think, and you've hit on it. Workhorse is 0:43:12.600 --> 0:43:15.920 exactly the perfect terminology for him. I mean that that 0:43:17.400 --> 0:43:22.640 basically defines him right there. Workhorse And you can't fatigue 0:43:22.680 --> 0:43:26.160 the guy. I mean, he's he's one of those guys 0:43:26.239 --> 0:43:27.719 that just wants more. 0:43:28.000 --> 0:43:28.160 You know. 0:43:29.560 --> 0:43:34.160 His heart rate, Yeah, never goes crazy, it's never never 0:43:34.320 --> 0:43:37.400 up at a at a danger point or whatever the 0:43:37.480 --> 0:43:41.040 case may be. He is marvelously conditioned. Like you say, 0:43:41.120 --> 0:43:43.239 I mean, you look at the guy in the locker room. 0:43:43.280 --> 0:43:45.239 He's chiseled. It's like, oh my god, he looks like 0:43:45.280 --> 0:43:47.560 an anatomy chart. You know that you take a look 0:43:47.600 --> 0:43:51.560 at in high school. And he's got the pectorals, you know, 0:43:51.680 --> 0:43:55.560 and the the ab muscles, and his strength and his 0:43:55.719 --> 0:43:59.839 quads and his hamstrings. It's just it's second to none, 0:44:01.239 --> 0:44:04.560 and just a marvelous player. 0:44:05.080 --> 0:44:05.760 Great find. 0:44:06.239 --> 0:44:06.400 You know. 0:44:06.480 --> 0:44:10.600 The Bengals obviously they had dry on Jamar Chase for 0:44:10.640 --> 0:44:13.120 a while down at LSU, probably even back in the 0:44:13.200 --> 0:44:14.000 high school days. 0:44:14.920 --> 0:44:16.200 And Joe Burrow. 0:44:15.920 --> 0:44:21.680 Obviously basically firmed it up the organization. Yes to Joe Borrow, 0:44:21.760 --> 0:44:23.360 so you play with this guy at LSU. Tell us 0:44:23.400 --> 0:44:26.480 about it. I'm sure he went on and on, waxing 0:44:26.719 --> 0:44:31.279 eloquently about all the attributes that Jamar Chase has to 0:44:31.800 --> 0:44:35.600 win games for you and be a football player that 0:44:35.640 --> 0:44:36.880 will have immense success. 0:44:37.280 --> 0:44:40.160 And they were, and we're talking the last two weeks. 0:44:40.480 --> 0:44:41.640 He has twenty. 0:44:41.920 --> 0:44:43.920 I mean, these are these are like numbers you'd see 0:44:43.960 --> 0:44:46.480 over like a month span, if not more. He has 0:44:46.640 --> 0:44:51.080 twenty eight catches on forty two targets the last two weeks. 0:44:51.200 --> 0:44:54.480 And let's consider that's what Joe Flacco a new quarterback, 0:44:54.600 --> 0:44:57.040 He's learning and Joe's they're each learning each other. And 0:44:57.120 --> 0:45:00.239 there's already a trust in a like a telepathic e've 0:45:00.280 --> 0:45:01.160 going on between the two. 0:45:01.239 --> 0:45:02.319 It's unbelievable. 0:45:02.520 --> 0:45:03.480 It is, it really is. 0:45:03.640 --> 0:45:06.360 I mean, I think you know, Joe Flacco has thrown 0:45:06.480 --> 0:45:10.040 some good receivers during the course of his NFL career, 0:45:10.120 --> 0:45:12.120 but he says that Jamar Chase, when I talked to 0:45:12.200 --> 0:45:13.839 him in the locker room sitting next to them one day, 0:45:14.120 --> 0:45:17.040 said tell me about Jamar the best's I mean, he 0:45:17.640 --> 0:45:20.600 does everything. There's not one thing that there's no hole 0:45:20.680 --> 0:45:22.959 in his game. It's not one thing that he can't. 0:45:23.640 --> 0:45:27.240 I would like to see, though, T Higgins get more involved. 0:45:27.320 --> 0:45:29.920 Only two targets, targets, one catch, a big one, but 0:45:30.040 --> 0:45:33.360 one big one. Yeah, monsters in terms of yards and 0:45:33.480 --> 0:45:37.359 importance of the football game at that particular time. But man, 0:45:38.000 --> 0:45:41.440 T Higgins is a star. He's a star, you know, 0:45:41.680 --> 0:45:44.880 I mean, Jama's a superstar. He's definitely a star and 0:45:45.280 --> 0:45:48.080 borderline superstar. I mean, if you were on another team, 0:45:48.520 --> 0:45:51.399 he'd be a superstar. He'd be their superstar, that's for sure. 0:45:52.080 --> 0:45:54.680 He's got size, he's got length, he's got range, he's 0:45:54.719 --> 0:45:55.360 got everything. 0:45:55.600 --> 0:45:56.200 He can run. 0:45:57.480 --> 0:46:00.000 A contested catch is not fifty to fifty with him, 0:46:00.480 --> 0:46:03.040 it's like eighty five fifteen. You know, he's one of 0:46:03.120 --> 0:46:05.680 those guys that when he goes airborne to make a 0:46:05.760 --> 0:46:08.960 contested catch, he's coming down with the football. Got to 0:46:09.040 --> 0:46:11.880 get him involved, even in the red zone. I mean, 0:46:12.080 --> 0:46:14.040 the Bengals were in the red zone. You scored, you know, 0:46:14.400 --> 0:46:16.239 over thirty points. You're in the red zone a bit, 0:46:16.719 --> 0:46:20.360 and your receivers are going to have opportunities in the 0:46:20.400 --> 0:46:23.279 red zone. And for t Higgins to only have two 0:46:23.360 --> 0:46:26.480 targets the entire game and being in the red zone 0:46:26.520 --> 0:46:29.360 as often as they were, something's wrong there, man. Something 0:46:29.600 --> 0:46:30.400 doesn't jive. 0:46:30.520 --> 0:46:34.000 Boy, And another tough day. I can't figure out, yo. See. 0:46:34.080 --> 0:46:37.720 Sometimes there's there's like last week he makes three catches 0:46:37.760 --> 0:46:41.319 on four targets and yesterday he didn't have a catch 0:46:41.440 --> 0:46:44.520 on three targets. Two weeks ago he had one catch 0:46:44.600 --> 0:46:48.320 on four targets. There's just not a connection and a 0:46:48.520 --> 0:46:51.200 catch rate that it needs to be better with him 0:46:51.280 --> 0:46:51.600 right now. 0:46:51.760 --> 0:46:54.120 Yeah, you usually would be the first one to tell 0:46:54.120 --> 0:46:56.480 you he dropped too many balls. Yeah, I mean, he's 0:46:56.520 --> 0:47:00.239 got to secure the football. That's that's Uh, it's been 0:47:00.239 --> 0:47:02.480 a little bit of a of a problem for him 0:47:02.520 --> 0:47:04.839 the last couple of years or so. He just uh, 0:47:05.360 --> 0:47:10.200 in key moments, the quarterback has to have confidence. If oh, 0:47:10.320 --> 0:47:12.920 he's the one that's opened, they're doublin Jamar, They're doublin 0:47:13.000 --> 0:47:16.320 t You know, this is a must third down conversion. 0:47:17.200 --> 0:47:19.680 You know, I've got my tight end available and Yosi 0:47:19.760 --> 0:47:22.640 available available in the middle of the football field. I'm 0:47:22.760 --> 0:47:25.200 leaning toward my tight end because you know, Kasiki and 0:47:25.239 --> 0:47:27.960 others have shown they can catch the ball more consistently. 0:47:28.120 --> 0:47:31.279 So Yosi's gotta, uh, he's got to pick that up. 0:47:31.320 --> 0:47:34.120 He's gotta he's gonna make himself more of a consistent threat. 0:47:34.160 --> 0:47:37.200 Boy, and another guy while we're catching, tossing or talking 0:47:37.320 --> 0:47:40.520 pass catchers, Noah Fense thrown two three times, three catches 0:47:40.560 --> 0:47:43.160 forty one yards. He was effective early yesterday and he's 0:47:43.280 --> 0:47:46.080 really reliable. He was Yeah, he is reliable. 0:47:46.160 --> 0:47:49.680 He caught the ball well, very sure handed, put it away, 0:47:49.800 --> 0:47:53.080 tucked it away immediately. Uh took it out of harm's way, 0:47:53.440 --> 0:47:56.239 and uh did a little bit ran ran well after 0:47:56.320 --> 0:47:58.960 the catch. I mean he's a big body guy, sixteen. Yeah, 0:47:59.080 --> 0:48:01.160 that has a little whig to him. He's got some moves. 0:48:01.920 --> 0:48:03.600 Let's take a time out and come back. More to 0:48:03.640 --> 0:48:06.279 get to in this hour. Third hour spent on the 0:48:06.760 --> 0:48:09.440 recap the Ring of Honor weekend. What a weekend, Holy cow. 0:48:09.520 --> 0:48:13.040 Plus we'll get into the Chicago Bears. You are tuned 0:48:13.120 --> 0:48:16.319 to three hours of Bengals conversation tonight on Bengals Line, 0:48:16.360 --> 0:48:22.839 the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. We're back 0:48:22.880 --> 0:48:25.200 on Bengals out of this Monday even on the Bengals 0:48:25.320 --> 0:48:29.279 Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. Imlance pcalist alongside is 0:48:29.320 --> 0:48:31.240 always a Dave Lapham. 0:48:31.000 --> 0:48:33.359 And Hey Bengals fans. On Fridays, make sure to listen 0:48:33.400 --> 0:48:36.640 to myself and Dan Horde from Bengals pep Rally presented 0:48:36.680 --> 0:48:39.400 by Just Bear Chicken on the air from three to 0:48:39.480 --> 0:48:42.360 six pm on ESPN fifteen thirty. 0:48:42.440 --> 0:48:44.800 Bengals run it for one hundred and eighty one yards. 0:48:44.840 --> 0:48:48.040 They throw it for two twenty three. Let's talk all 0:48:48.120 --> 0:48:51.799 around performance by the offense, maybe specifically the offensive line, 0:48:51.840 --> 0:48:54.560 and let's hear from Ted Karras after the game. 0:48:56.120 --> 0:49:00.600 Numb feeling, horrendous feeling. That's all I have to say 0:49:00.600 --> 0:49:04.760 about that. You feel collectively as a group of offense defense. 0:49:05.200 --> 0:49:09.319 Maybe you guys let up emotionally psychologically when you guys 0:49:09.360 --> 0:49:11.719 were up thirty one, sixteen, thirty eight, twenty four. 0:49:12.680 --> 0:49:13.360 I know I didn't. 0:49:13.440 --> 0:49:15.520 I can't speak for everyone else, but I don't relax 0:49:15.600 --> 0:49:17.920 till it's triple zeros. And obviously it's a three hour 0:49:18.000 --> 0:49:19.320 fight that we lost. 0:49:19.600 --> 0:49:23.000 It's pretty evident. I mean, Zach said postgame he needs 0:49:23.040 --> 0:49:26.040 someone to step up. It's pretty clear on defense that 0:49:26.640 --> 0:49:29.279 leadership is lacking, and that's something that even the head 0:49:29.280 --> 0:49:31.719 coach is searching for. You as the captain year in 0:49:31.800 --> 0:49:33.719 and year out. Is there any way that you can help. 0:49:33.719 --> 0:49:35.880 I know you don't play defense, but you're one of 0:49:35.880 --> 0:49:37.799 the biggest leaders on this team, Like, how how can 0:49:37.880 --> 0:49:40.080 you help fill that void on defense? 0:49:40.080 --> 0:49:40.480 If you can? 0:49:41.200 --> 0:49:42.480 I mean, I can be a leader for the team. 0:49:42.520 --> 0:49:44.920 I'm not out there with the eleven guys on defense, 0:49:45.040 --> 0:49:48.799 so you know, I'm not just gonna blame one thing. 0:49:48.840 --> 0:49:50.360 We can't just blame defensive leadership. 0:49:50.400 --> 0:49:50.799 We got a. 0:49:52.480 --> 0:49:56.279 Look at a lot of different things. Yeah, let the 0:49:56.680 --> 0:49:57.480 let the Jets come in. 0:49:57.480 --> 0:49:58.520 And be horrendous. 0:49:58.880 --> 0:50:02.160 How do you give yourself out? This amaze you guys. 0:50:02.320 --> 0:50:04.480 You guys love asking me that one same way I 0:50:04.520 --> 0:50:06.960 always do. Just coming to work tomorrow, coming to work Wednesday. 0:50:06.960 --> 0:50:09.000 We've got a football game to play, So I'm not 0:50:09.040 --> 0:50:12.640 gonna get quoted with a cliche this week. So but 0:50:13.000 --> 0:50:14.880 we got we got the Bears coming into town, so 0:50:15.200 --> 0:50:15.480 let's go. 0:50:15.880 --> 0:50:17.320 Seemed like the offensive. 0:50:16.920 --> 0:50:18.920 Line, you know, fluction muscles. 0:50:19.000 --> 0:50:21.360 They had almost two hundred yads rushing them. 0:50:21.520 --> 0:50:23.640 You had, you know, quote the game, do what you 0:50:23.680 --> 0:50:24.080 wanted to do. 0:50:24.160 --> 0:50:25.719 It looked like there's a line. 0:50:26.400 --> 0:50:30.800 Yeah, didn't score forty, So doesn't mean. 0:50:34.120 --> 0:50:36.600 This loss change the outlook on the season. 0:50:36.400 --> 0:50:36.839 For you guys. 0:50:38.640 --> 0:50:40.080 I mean, maybe you can go through the numbers. 0:50:40.120 --> 0:50:40.440 I don't know. 0:50:40.719 --> 0:50:43.400 We're gonna we got the Bears coming to town, so 0:50:43.520 --> 0:50:45.520 we're gonna all summack this one for a night. 0:50:47.680 --> 0:50:49.839 And uh get ready for a big week. 0:50:49.960 --> 0:50:51.120 I mean, jeez, we gotta go. 0:50:51.800 --> 0:50:56.439 Ted Carris and as he said, thirty eight points means 0:50:56.520 --> 0:50:59.239 nothing when you when you need to score forty to win. 0:50:59.440 --> 0:51:01.719 But have a said that, I mean this offensive line. 0:51:01.760 --> 0:51:04.200 The last three weeks now, Dave has only allowed one sack, 0:51:04.320 --> 0:51:06.880 two sacks, one sack. For as much as Joe Flacco 0:51:06.960 --> 0:51:08.960 is dropping back and throwing it and the way they're 0:51:09.040 --> 0:51:11.720 taking care of it. For the handwringing about the offensive 0:51:11.760 --> 0:51:14.160 line early in the year, they seem to have settled 0:51:14.160 --> 0:51:17.080 into something that's protecting the quarterback and opening up holes 0:51:17.080 --> 0:51:17.560 on the ground. 0:51:17.680 --> 0:51:19.040 Yeah, I agree, I do agree. 0:51:19.080 --> 0:51:21.719 I think I think they're starting to get starting to 0:51:21.760 --> 0:51:24.080 mesh a little bit, starting to play as a unit, 0:51:24.920 --> 0:51:28.160 you know, five components playing as one. That the real 0:51:28.239 --> 0:51:32.560 good offensive lines in the National Football League's history, you know, 0:51:32.680 --> 0:51:34.360 have done it. It's like you make that fist. You 0:51:34.719 --> 0:51:36.960 you curl the five of the four fingers and wrap 0:51:37.040 --> 0:51:39.759 the thumb, you know, and you have yourself a strong fist. 0:51:39.600 --> 0:51:42.879 Rather than an open handed way. 0:51:44.120 --> 0:51:46.239 You can't really attack the line of scrimmage if you're 0:51:46.280 --> 0:51:49.800 playing your offensive line is playing soft like a like 0:51:49.880 --> 0:51:53.200 an open handed fist. As such, Now you close that 0:51:53.320 --> 0:51:55.799 fist and get some power and some thumb come off 0:51:55.840 --> 0:51:58.200 the football, and that's what that's what they're starting to do. 0:51:58.320 --> 0:52:01.040 I think they're starting to get movement up front. 0:52:01.800 --> 0:52:04.360 I think Chase Brown will tell you in Samajhi and 0:52:04.400 --> 0:52:07.080 p Ron will tell you that the offensive line blocked well. 0:52:07.239 --> 0:52:08.680 In fact, they both said it to me in the 0:52:08.760 --> 0:52:11.600 locker room afterwards, that the offensive line got good movement 0:52:11.760 --> 0:52:14.640 and and uh give them a lot of confidence that 0:52:15.080 --> 0:52:17.399 all they had to do is is you know, make 0:52:17.480 --> 0:52:22.680 it make a right read. It's it's always it's always 0:52:23.120 --> 0:52:26.399 a confidence building When your quarterback doesn't get hit at 0:52:26.719 --> 0:52:28.879 or behind the line of scrimmage, when he can get 0:52:28.920 --> 0:52:31.400 four or five yards down the football field before you 0:52:31.480 --> 0:52:34.240 have to make us first cut, you're talking. You're talking 0:52:34.320 --> 0:52:37.200 turkey there. Now You're you're talking something. Uh you know 0:52:37.320 --> 0:52:42.080 that that that adds some substance to it. So they 0:52:42.160 --> 0:52:44.600 can't rest though, can't rest on their laurels as such, 0:52:44.680 --> 0:52:48.040 because they're they're losing football team. There are three and 0:52:48.120 --> 0:52:51.279 five football team right now, so that's nowhere near good enough. 0:52:51.320 --> 0:52:53.480 But I think they are ramping up in the right direction. 0:52:54.120 --> 0:52:56.880 And I do think that they they are made of 0:52:56.920 --> 0:52:58.640 the right stuff, and they have the right type of 0:52:58.680 --> 0:53:01.440 people who want to be good. They all want to 0:53:01.480 --> 0:53:04.799 be good football players, and they have an offensive line 0:53:04.840 --> 0:53:08.160 coach that's teaching them new techniques and fundamentals that they're 0:53:08.200 --> 0:53:12.480 starting to catch on and implement in an effective manner. 0:53:12.600 --> 0:53:15.279 So I do think their best days are ahead of them. 0:53:15.360 --> 0:53:19.440 Lance last two weeks forty six rushes, three hundred and 0:53:19.640 --> 0:53:24.399 twenty three yar just over seven yards per carry. Nice, 0:53:24.840 --> 0:53:27.080 not nice at all. Take a time out of continue 0:53:27.200 --> 0:53:29.080 so much more to get to. It's Bengals on on 0:53:29.080 --> 0:53:38.120 the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. Hey we 0:53:38.239 --> 0:53:40.360 keep rolling along on this Monday night a Bengals on 0:53:40.440 --> 0:53:43.760 on the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. Sorting 0:53:43.800 --> 0:53:46.200 through yesterday, looking ahead of next week and always find 0:53:46.239 --> 0:53:48.520 a time for the segment we love that Dan Horde 0:53:48.560 --> 0:53:51.520 does each week. It is called Fantastic Fun Facts. This 0:53:51.719 --> 0:53:54.440 week he talks with Demetrius Knight Junior. 0:53:55.480 --> 0:53:59.439 No Fantastic Fun Facts with Dan Ord. 0:54:00.239 --> 0:54:02.839 Time for some fun facts with linebacker Demetrius Knight from 0:54:02.920 --> 0:54:06.000 Locust Grove, Georgia, less than an hour away from Atlanta. 0:54:06.560 --> 0:54:10.360 Your jersey was retired last week. Describe getting that news 0:54:10.719 --> 0:54:13.480 and going home for the ceremony. Yeah, it was a 0:54:14.000 --> 0:54:16.600 true blessing just to just to be in that moment. 0:54:16.680 --> 0:54:19.719 It's not every day you get to retire in an 0:54:19.760 --> 0:54:23.279 old high school high school jersey number. You kind of 0:54:23.840 --> 0:54:26.520 thank you're for your forgotten sometimes when you when yeah, 0:54:26.600 --> 0:54:29.560 you're you're off and doing other things, but just having 0:54:29.640 --> 0:54:33.680 that to be recognized as is nothing but God, you know, nothing, 0:54:33.719 --> 0:54:35.440 nothing but Jesus, and that's what we stand on. 0:54:35.520 --> 0:54:39.759 Over there as strong Christian schools. So uh, glad to 0:54:39.800 --> 0:54:42.040 see that they're still doing their thing in all the 0:54:42.080 --> 0:54:44.520 sports categories. But also good to see that, you know, 0:54:44.600 --> 0:54:46.120 they'll they'll leave a bit, a little bit of my 0:54:46.200 --> 0:54:49.200 legacy to see around. So uh, as my kids continue 0:54:49.239 --> 0:54:51.160 to grow, uh, that'll be something I can you know, 0:54:51.360 --> 0:54:53.719 rubbing rubbing their faces every once in a while as 0:54:53.719 --> 0:54:54.719 they're as they're growing up. 0:54:55.760 --> 0:54:58.319 You're a linebacker now, but you were a four year 0:54:58.360 --> 0:55:01.680 starting quarterback in high school. Give me a camp, what 0:55:01.920 --> 0:55:04.640 college or NFL quarterback where you most like? 0:55:05.520 --> 0:55:08.359 I was definitely most like Cam Newton. I was trying 0:55:08.719 --> 0:55:11.960 to emulate him and everything he did, and then started 0:55:12.000 --> 0:55:14.760 to watch more college guys, started to watch Jalen Hurts 0:55:14.880 --> 0:55:17.440 just knowing that I was a bigger type of quarterback 0:55:17.520 --> 0:55:20.200 and knowing that those are bigger quarterbacks, knowing that they 0:55:20.680 --> 0:55:23.200 can run, but also you know, not just being the run, 0:55:23.280 --> 0:55:26.000 of also being able to, you know, be a lethal 0:55:26.080 --> 0:55:28.120 in the past game. So as I continued to grow 0:55:28.880 --> 0:55:32.080 in my high school career, would you know, put the 0:55:32.400 --> 0:55:35.120 run first mentality behind it and you know, pass first 0:55:35.120 --> 0:55:35.880 and then run second. 0:55:36.280 --> 0:55:37.719 We're chatting with Demetrius Knight. 0:55:38.000 --> 0:55:40.080 Were you heavily recruited out of high school? 0:55:40.560 --> 0:55:42.120 No, sir, not very much. 0:55:43.239 --> 0:55:45.480 Tennessee Tech was pretty much the only offer I had 0:55:46.320 --> 0:55:49.560 going into my junior year and whatnot. And I would 0:55:49.840 --> 0:55:53.440 go to a camp where Paul Johnson was still the 0:55:53.560 --> 0:55:55.759 head coach at Georgia Tech, and he's like, I don't 0:55:55.920 --> 0:55:58.440 I don't understand how you don't have more offers. I'm 0:55:58.480 --> 0:56:00.520 gonna give you a first one. And that pretty much 0:56:00.520 --> 0:56:01.120 sold it for us. 0:56:01.840 --> 0:56:05.000 So he made the offer, you chose Georgia TACK and 0:56:05.080 --> 0:56:06.799 then he left before you got there. 0:56:06.840 --> 0:56:08.040 How difficult was that for you? 0:56:08.840 --> 0:56:10.920 It was pretty pretty difficult, just because I didn't know 0:56:11.239 --> 0:56:13.160 what I was going to get. I was already getting 0:56:13.160 --> 0:56:17.160 comfortable with the former coaching staff and him. 0:56:17.200 --> 0:56:18.640 Of course, that's that's just line. 0:56:18.680 --> 0:56:20.759 That's a business decision that he and his family had 0:56:20.800 --> 0:56:24.000 to make, and I didn't hate him or anything for that. 0:56:24.120 --> 0:56:25.839 That's just just just the way life goes. 0:56:25.960 --> 0:56:29.239 So of course I still wanted to be close to 0:56:29.320 --> 0:56:32.040 my mom and sister, uh not wanted to be too 0:56:32.080 --> 0:56:34.120 far away from them and the due places we were sharing. 0:56:34.239 --> 0:56:36.719 So I was like, of course, I don't know what 0:56:36.840 --> 0:56:39.520 the situation will be. Yeah, I know there's there might 0:56:39.560 --> 0:56:42.080 be a possibility, and I probably won't be quarterback just 0:56:42.120 --> 0:56:44.239 because I know it's a new new group coming in, 0:56:44.400 --> 0:56:47.319 but I at least figured it's it'd still be something 0:56:47.400 --> 0:56:48.040 on the offense. 0:56:48.800 --> 0:56:48.920 Uh. 0:56:49.360 --> 0:56:53.880 That was the complete opposite of the spectrum, but ended 0:56:53.960 --> 0:56:54.839 up working out for the best. 0:56:55.160 --> 0:56:58.799 What was your reaction when they said, Demetrius, you're a linebacker? 0:57:00.840 --> 0:57:01.359 Pretty much? 0:57:01.440 --> 0:57:01.560 Uh? 0:57:02.080 --> 0:57:03.120 World went upside down. 0:57:03.520 --> 0:57:03.640 Uh. 0:57:04.080 --> 0:57:05.040 I didn't know what to think. 0:57:05.200 --> 0:57:08.200 It was kind of unreal, and I just kind of 0:57:08.239 --> 0:57:09.799 went with it for a couple of weeks, thinking, oh, 0:57:09.840 --> 0:57:12.839 they're just they'll see I know good at this linebacker thing, 0:57:12.920 --> 0:57:15.320 and moved me back to to the offense side of 0:57:15.360 --> 0:57:19.960 the ball. If that quarterback and uh, now, how now, 0:57:20.000 --> 0:57:22.160 how God hasn't played God has it playing all the time? 0:57:22.720 --> 0:57:24.680 Of course, you had to go through trials and tribulation 0:57:24.840 --> 0:57:27.680 and perseverance, and you end up here in the in 0:57:27.720 --> 0:57:28.880 the NFL as a linebacker. 0:57:29.600 --> 0:57:31.960 While you were in college, you got married and became 0:57:32.040 --> 0:57:34.400 a dad. What's your wife's name and how did you 0:57:34.520 --> 0:57:34.880 two meet. 0:57:35.760 --> 0:57:39.720 My wife's name is gen C. Gen C Knights, she is. 0:57:41.160 --> 0:57:43.960 She's also from Luggas Grove and we met we went 0:57:44.000 --> 0:57:46.920 on a mission trip together, uh, my junior year, her 0:57:47.040 --> 0:57:50.840 sophomore year. But the whole funny thing is, even though 0:57:50.880 --> 0:57:53.560 we spent a week out in Haiti doing the Lord's work, 0:57:53.640 --> 0:57:55.320 we did not say a word to each other the 0:57:55.520 --> 0:57:58.880 entire trip. I remember sitting at her table with her 0:57:58.920 --> 0:58:01.160 and her friends and I didn't sale word. And then 0:58:02.280 --> 0:58:05.240 COVID would happen and sending to send me home from campus, 0:58:05.320 --> 0:58:08.840 and she's finishing up her her senior year, and you know, 0:58:09.280 --> 0:58:11.880 two boy people at home that happened to remember each 0:58:11.920 --> 0:58:13.880 other and the rest of the history. 0:58:14.880 --> 0:58:17.960 After four years at Georgia Tech, you transferred to Charlotte 0:58:18.120 --> 0:58:21.600 and had a breakout season, earning first team All Conference honors. 0:58:22.240 --> 0:58:24.720 How important was that season and getting you to where. 0:58:24.520 --> 0:58:24.960 You are now? 0:58:25.720 --> 0:58:26.760 Yeah, it was a lot. 0:58:27.000 --> 0:58:30.080 It was very good for me just because it showed 0:58:30.120 --> 0:58:33.160 that I could play the linebacker position. Of course, at 0:58:33.200 --> 0:58:37.080 Georgia Tech, it was ups and downs, his and lows, 0:58:37.160 --> 0:58:40.080 and that made me the player who I was going 0:58:40.160 --> 0:58:44.440 into that situation not knowing who was going to be 0:58:44.520 --> 0:58:46.360 the coach because they're getting it. They ever getting a 0:58:46.400 --> 0:58:48.880 new coach ended up getting coach Coach Posy, coach Biff 0:58:49.560 --> 0:58:52.400 and him coming in was was a great start just 0:58:52.440 --> 0:58:55.600 because everybody got to start from ground zero. There were 0:58:55.640 --> 0:58:58.840 no politics involved. It was come in and you know, 0:58:59.000 --> 0:59:01.000 earn a spot in that That's that's all I wanted 0:59:01.040 --> 0:59:03.160 I did. I wanted everybody to be on on ground 0:59:03.280 --> 0:59:05.720 zero and if someone out you know it plays me 0:59:05.800 --> 0:59:07.520 for the spot, then they just outplay me yet but 0:59:07.800 --> 0:59:10.400 I wanted to have a fair shot and made sure 0:59:10.440 --> 0:59:12.000 that I made every rep count there. 0:59:12.640 --> 0:59:15.200 After great season of Charlotte, you still had one year 0:59:15.320 --> 0:59:19.360 of eligibility left. This is the ni l era. You 0:59:19.440 --> 0:59:21.720 had a wife and a baby at home. Did you 0:59:21.840 --> 0:59:24.080 look for the best financial offer you could find? 0:59:25.200 --> 0:59:28.480 I did, h of course that was there. 0:59:28.600 --> 0:59:31.560 There were other schools that I was gonna take visits too, 0:59:31.680 --> 0:59:33.680 but you know, when you when you have a wife 0:59:34.000 --> 0:59:36.520 it ends up being you know, happy wife, happy life. 0:59:36.600 --> 0:59:38.640 And we're already in North Carolina. 0:59:38.760 --> 0:59:42.040 South Carolina was you know, an hour and some chains away, 0:59:42.720 --> 0:59:44.680 and you know, we've got to pack up a third 0:59:44.760 --> 0:59:47.680 floor apartment and take it somewhere, and she's like, yeah, 0:59:47.840 --> 0:59:50.920 I don't, I don't plan on going anywhere far. So, uh, 0:59:51.560 --> 0:59:53.880 South Carolina might be as far as I'm willing to 0:59:53.920 --> 0:59:56.280 go because that's not bad of a drive. But it's 0:59:56.280 --> 0:59:59.280 also close to family, so you know, you know, that's 0:59:59.360 --> 1:00:00.160 that's perfect me. 1:00:00.320 --> 1:00:00.640 Why not? 1:00:00.960 --> 1:00:03.480 So ended up working out very well for us. 1:00:04.120 --> 1:00:06.480 We learned after the draft that you were a door 1:00:06.600 --> 1:00:08.840 dash driver in college to bring in a few extra 1:00:08.880 --> 1:00:13.080 bucks for your family, even after games that you played 1:00:13.080 --> 1:00:13.600 in correct. 1:00:13.720 --> 1:00:17.760 Absolutely, yeah, that's uh not what you hear every every day. 1:00:17.920 --> 1:00:21.240 That not pretty much heard of. I'm sure they're there 1:00:21.280 --> 1:00:23.560 are probably players at other smaller schools that do the 1:00:23.600 --> 1:00:27.600 same thing. But being at a school like Charlotte, Uh, 1:00:27.760 --> 1:00:31.960 there were opportunities where got to make them count, and 1:00:33.320 --> 1:00:36.720 DoorDash delivered that opportunity to make account where you know, 1:00:36.800 --> 1:00:38.400 we didn't have to scrounge and I didn't have to 1:00:38.440 --> 1:00:41.280 go apply for different jobs at a chick flair so 1:00:41.440 --> 1:00:44.600 which I was definitely trying. I'm applying left and right 1:00:44.720 --> 1:00:49.200 to you know, deliver for for for Amazon. I couldn't 1:00:49.240 --> 1:00:50.160 get through with them. 1:00:50.080 --> 1:00:50.160 But. 1:00:51.880 --> 1:00:53.840 It ended up working out for the best. DoorDash was 1:00:53.960 --> 1:00:56.560 it was quick and easy and you just get on 1:00:56.680 --> 1:00:59.880 there and right away you start making deliveries. And luckily 1:01:00.080 --> 1:01:02.240 for me where you know, you live on a college campus. 1:01:02.360 --> 1:01:05.080 You know college kids love to eat, so that makes 1:01:05.240 --> 1:01:06.840 makes it pretty quick and easy to bring in a. 1:01:06.840 --> 1:01:09.000 Quick But yeah, I've got a student in college and 1:01:09.080 --> 1:01:11.640 I see those door dash bills, so you're absolutely right 1:01:11.680 --> 1:01:15.320 about that. We're visiting the Demetrius night. I'm a sucker 1:01:15.440 --> 1:01:17.640 for an emotional call from a team to a player 1:01:17.760 --> 1:01:20.320 during the NFL Draft, and you got choked up when 1:01:20.320 --> 1:01:24.560 the Bengals called you. Can you articulate the emotions that 1:01:24.680 --> 1:01:25.240 you were feeling. 1:01:26.080 --> 1:01:30.320 Yeah, just just everything that my family and I had 1:01:30.360 --> 1:01:34.040 been through, wife and I have been through and kids, 1:01:35.120 --> 1:01:39.560 just knowing where we were and how unsure we were 1:01:39.880 --> 1:01:42.440 going from from Tech to Charlotte and it's like, okay, 1:01:42.520 --> 1:01:45.560 well you don't really hear about people coming out of 1:01:45.640 --> 1:01:48.040 Charlotte unless you you know, you're Alex high Smith who's 1:01:48.080 --> 1:01:51.080 you know, doing his thing over in Pittsburgh and you know, 1:01:51.200 --> 1:01:54.640 I can make my mark here and ended up doing 1:01:54.760 --> 1:01:57.920 that and U situations changed and you know, like when 1:01:58.000 --> 1:02:01.120 life gets going, it gets going. But uh, that's when 1:02:01.200 --> 1:02:04.160 again you learn how to persevere, lean on the fade, 1:02:04.240 --> 1:02:06.840 lean on the Lord, lean on Jesus and uh and 1:02:07.200 --> 1:02:10.959 and here we are. It's uh, it's never it's never been. 1:02:11.240 --> 1:02:14.160 It's only just one chapter finishing and and and onto 1:02:14.200 --> 1:02:14.560 the next. 1:02:15.360 --> 1:02:17.960 All right, a few wild card topics now for Demetrius Knight. 1:02:18.040 --> 1:02:21.920 Who is your all time favorite athlete in any sport? 1:02:22.960 --> 1:02:23.080 Right? 1:02:23.160 --> 1:02:27.480 Chris Fiano Ronaldo? Uh, soccer fan because of my wife 1:02:27.520 --> 1:02:31.640 and my kids. But that's my wife's favorite watching this game. 1:02:31.680 --> 1:02:34.040 He's pretty good. It's between him and you know, line 1:02:34.080 --> 1:02:36.160 On Messi. Those guys they can get you up on 1:02:36.240 --> 1:02:38.680 your feet, and of course it's always righty at those games. 1:02:38.760 --> 1:02:41.720 So uh, definitely definitely those guys who you know, make 1:02:42.160 --> 1:02:44.640 make a lot of money doing it. So definitely those guys. 1:02:44.800 --> 1:02:46.920 Have you checked out an FC Cincinnati match yet? 1:02:47.560 --> 1:02:50.680 We get them on TV, so we're on TV. We 1:02:50.800 --> 1:02:51.480 always tune in. 1:02:51.600 --> 1:02:53.480 We haven't got to go to one yet, just because 1:02:53.480 --> 1:02:56.840 of the busy schedule, but if we can get around 1:02:56.880 --> 1:02:58.480 to them, we definitely plan on being there. 1:02:58.920 --> 1:03:00.600 You shared with me that you hope to be a 1:03:00.640 --> 1:03:04.440 movie producer someday. How long have you been interested in 1:03:04.600 --> 1:03:06.080 the making of movies. 1:03:07.320 --> 1:03:09.840 I've been interested in that since I was at Georgia Tech. 1:03:10.240 --> 1:03:12.920 That's that kind of supports is why I got the 1:03:13.040 --> 1:03:15.919 degree that I got there. Just so once football is done, 1:03:16.320 --> 1:03:18.000 you know, I won't be one of those guys just 1:03:18.120 --> 1:03:19.920 lingering around not knowing what I want to do. 1:03:20.480 --> 1:03:22.760 I know once football is done, that's that's exactly what 1:03:22.840 --> 1:03:23.280 I want to do. 1:03:23.480 --> 1:03:26.800 And no matter what that has to start from, I 1:03:26.880 --> 1:03:29.680 have to put together movie sets first and work my 1:03:29.760 --> 1:03:31.840 way up to that road. I'll do it just because 1:03:31.960 --> 1:03:34.560 I believe all that's fun. It all works together, just 1:03:34.640 --> 1:03:37.000 like football all works together. All the guys doing there, 1:03:37.040 --> 1:03:39.560 they're one eleven. It's the same thing with movie producing, 1:03:39.640 --> 1:03:42.080 to make you know, a masterpiece essentially. 1:03:42.360 --> 1:03:44.880 All right, final fun fact for Demetrius Knight, and this 1:03:44.960 --> 1:03:49.040 one's kind of deep. If you could meet anybody in history, 1:03:49.720 --> 1:03:52.160 living or deceased, who would that person. 1:03:52.040 --> 1:03:57.200 Be probab to be Jesus himself. I'd love to be 1:03:57.880 --> 1:04:01.320 a fly on the wall just to hear him speak, 1:04:01.880 --> 1:04:04.760 and you know, just to be in the room and 1:04:04.920 --> 1:04:07.280 be in the areas washing them do what he does, 1:04:07.480 --> 1:04:10.280 you know, Washington, do the the miracles that only he 1:04:10.360 --> 1:04:12.280 can do. That that would that would have to be 1:04:12.440 --> 1:04:14.640 number one. And then if I, if I had to, 1:04:14.800 --> 1:04:16.800 number two had to be Noah. When you know he 1:04:16.880 --> 1:04:19.040 told told him to build the arc because I can't 1:04:19.080 --> 1:04:21.880 imagine He's all right, I'll build a big old boat. 1:04:21.960 --> 1:04:24.800 And you know, just to ask him about how did 1:04:24.840 --> 1:04:27.720 he persevere, you know, making making a big old boat, 1:04:27.800 --> 1:04:31.280 going through adversity, being laughed at by people around saying oh, 1:04:31.360 --> 1:04:33.640 it's never gonna rain, and then it until it happens. 1:04:33.720 --> 1:04:36.520 So uh, the definitely have to be Jesus and then uh, 1:04:37.160 --> 1:04:37.800 good old Noah. 1:04:38.440 --> 1:04:41.200 Excellent answers. I appreciate your time, Best of luck the 1:04:41.240 --> 1:04:41.760 rest of the year. 1:04:41.880 --> 1:04:44.880 Yes, I appreciates Dan Horde and Dimitris Knight Junior, the 1:04:44.960 --> 1:04:48.600 star of this week's Fantastic Fun Facts. Those interviews and 1:04:48.760 --> 1:04:51.760 more found on the Bengals Booth podcast and on Bengals 1:04:51.960 --> 1:04:54.680 dot Com. Still ahead, let's get back into the defensive 1:04:54.680 --> 1:04:56.640 side of things. We'll hear from Jordan Battle as we 1:04:56.800 --> 1:04:59.480 navigate our way through our number two if Bengals lying 1:04:59.520 --> 1:05:10.520 on the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred W l W. Hey, 1:05:10.560 --> 1:05:12.680 welcome back to Bengals line of this Monday night of 1:05:12.680 --> 1:05:16.800 the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred W l W lance. 1:05:16.880 --> 1:05:19.800 Alta Fiber is the official Wi Fi and Internet provider 1:05:19.880 --> 1:05:23.720 of the Cincinnati Bengals and Greater Cincinnati's fastest internet with 1:05:23.920 --> 1:05:25.880 up to two gig symmetrical speeds. 1:05:26.320 --> 1:05:28.640 Let's talk more of that Bengals defense. Go to the 1:05:28.760 --> 1:05:31.560 back end and hear from Jordan battle. Here's Jordan with 1:05:31.680 --> 1:05:33.439 Dan Horde and the media after the game. 1:05:33.880 --> 1:05:35.880 It's just tough, you know, and all you gotta do, 1:05:36.040 --> 1:05:37.200 you know, all you supposed to do is, you know, 1:05:37.400 --> 1:05:39.160 in the back end, get them down, you know, savada 1:05:39.520 --> 1:05:43.280 savada down, and you know, just you know, beatles, you know, 1:05:43.360 --> 1:05:44.160 knockdown players. 1:05:44.560 --> 1:05:44.760 You know. 1:05:44.920 --> 1:05:47.200 Uh, my phones got to wrap up ay tikas, you know, 1:05:47.280 --> 1:05:49.280 get all blocks, you know, and not allow them to 1:05:49.360 --> 1:05:51.120 create edges, you know, and not allow them to you know, 1:05:51.320 --> 1:05:53.280 have open gaps, open holes. 1:05:54.480 --> 1:05:57.240 You uh when you I mean, it looks like you 1:05:57.320 --> 1:06:00.600 guys were just to snap away from you can cold 1:06:01.120 --> 1:06:02.959 you never seemed to get this stop being needed. 1:06:03.440 --> 1:06:06.200 Yeah, obviously, Uh, it's the whole second half, you know, 1:06:06.440 --> 1:06:08.880 back back against the walls the defense. You know, I 1:06:08.960 --> 1:06:11.000 only use one stop for the defense for me for 1:06:11.080 --> 1:06:13.480 the offense, and couldn't get it. You know, got to 1:06:13.520 --> 1:06:15.680 be better in the second half, you know, with miss 1:06:15.720 --> 1:06:19.200 tackles and run gaps, getting off the feet on third down. 1:06:19.640 --> 1:06:22.080 It was just what hasn't been good as well this year? 1:06:22.680 --> 1:06:24.720 It's like, overallers, that'll be better than the second half. 1:06:24.880 --> 1:06:27.400 Do you think that's the reason they've you know, we're 1:06:27.440 --> 1:06:29.480 mistackles the reason for the two hundred and fifty five 1:06:29.560 --> 1:06:30.360 yards even. 1:06:30.560 --> 1:06:32.800 For sure, it's the key part, you know, and having 1:06:33.080 --> 1:06:34.920 you know, and having a bunch of rushing yards and 1:06:34.920 --> 1:06:36.760 the office having a bunch of Russian ars, miss tackles, 1:06:37.040 --> 1:06:38.960 you know, this tackles and you know, not being in 1:06:39.000 --> 1:06:41.560 the right gaps and not getting off blocks. A few 1:06:41.600 --> 1:06:43.880 weeks it feels like the run defense in general has 1:06:44.000 --> 1:06:45.760 has struggled a bit more. Is there is there anything 1:06:45.800 --> 1:06:48.040 that you're seeing? Is it is is it basic stuff 1:06:48.120 --> 1:06:48.400 or is it? 1:06:49.240 --> 1:06:49.400 Man? 1:06:49.480 --> 1:06:51.560 The Jets running game is really really tough to stop. 1:06:51.960 --> 1:06:54.720 But it's like you know, they once you know, make tackles, 1:06:54.840 --> 1:06:57.280 you know, uh, wrap up, you know, second guy, you know, 1:06:57.360 --> 1:07:00.920 trying to turn over you know, Uh, the linement issues 1:07:01.680 --> 1:07:04.520 maybe I don't know, gotta watch the tape, but you 1:07:04.560 --> 1:07:07.919 know it's basically what what what you see on the field, 1:07:08.000 --> 1:07:10.400 you know is mostly is you know, mistackles, not getting 1:07:10.440 --> 1:07:12.720 guys on the ground. So uh, that's what I see 1:07:12.800 --> 1:07:16.640 from for now while they have such so many rustling yards. Well, 1:07:16.640 --> 1:07:18.960 I acceid after the game that the message. 1:07:18.560 --> 1:07:20.680 To the team was someone that's to step up. 1:07:20.840 --> 1:07:21.440 How do you take that? 1:07:22.160 --> 1:07:23.960 Uh, you know, stuff you know we do. We have 1:07:24.120 --> 1:07:25.560 to have to you know, somebody on the team, on 1:07:25.600 --> 1:07:26.680 the defense has to step up. 1:07:27.040 --> 1:07:27.240 You know. 1:07:27.440 --> 1:07:29.680 Uh you know, whether that's an older guy or younger guy. 1:07:29.720 --> 1:07:31.280 You know, everybody have a voice, you know, and everybody 1:07:31.280 --> 1:07:34.479 got to understand that. You know, as an NFL player 1:07:34.520 --> 1:07:37.000 on the NFL team, you know, everybody growing, everybody you 1:07:37.080 --> 1:07:39.120 know can be a leader. Everybody has his little skills. 1:07:39.320 --> 1:07:39.480 You know. 1:07:39.560 --> 1:07:40.800 You just have to go out there and do it, 1:07:40.920 --> 1:07:43.120 you know, and my basket against the wall. We need 1:07:43.200 --> 1:07:45.480 somebody to rally us. You know, you try to do it. 1:07:45.520 --> 1:07:47.800 I'm gonna say we don't do it. You know, we obviously, 1:07:47.880 --> 1:07:49.880 you know, there's guys in the hubbles, you know, saying, 1:07:49.920 --> 1:07:52.800 you know, let's let's let's uh not break, you know, 1:07:53.240 --> 1:07:54.680 been when I break, but let's get out the field, 1:07:54.680 --> 1:07:55.960 you know, and get the ball back to the offense. 1:07:56.040 --> 1:07:58.960 But sometimes things don't go away, you know. But all 1:07:59.000 --> 1:08:01.720 we could do is, you know, just toy fo rule, 1:08:01.920 --> 1:08:03.440 you know, Bill said about it, and come back and 1:08:03.720 --> 1:08:04.760 we're focused on next week. 1:08:05.040 --> 1:08:07.440 Jordan battle after the game and Dave. When you give 1:08:07.520 --> 1:08:09.720 up five hundred and two yards of total offense, there's 1:08:09.760 --> 1:08:11.560 bound to be some chunk plays and there were a 1:08:11.600 --> 1:08:14.200 lot of them yesterday. This defense got gashed at times. 1:08:14.800 --> 1:08:18.120 The Jets had eight offensive plays of at least twenty 1:08:18.240 --> 1:08:22.640 three yards. They had runs of fifty thirty five, a 1:08:22.760 --> 1:08:25.680 passive twenty thirty four, a run of twenty seven, a 1:08:25.760 --> 1:08:29.120 passive twenty six, a run of twenty five passive twenty four, 1:08:29.439 --> 1:08:32.280 passive twenty three. We talked about balance. They had four 1:08:32.360 --> 1:08:34.439 running plays at least twenty three yards. They had four 1:08:34.520 --> 1:08:36.880 passing plays at least twenty three yards added all up. 1:08:37.240 --> 1:08:40.000 And that's a problem. Yeah, that's an ass kicking. I mean, 1:08:40.520 --> 1:08:44.160 that's like when you're getting equally gashed. Yes, in the 1:08:44.240 --> 1:08:47.120 running game and the passing game. That's a real big issue. 1:08:47.200 --> 1:08:50.120 That's a problem. Al Golden's probably tearing his hair out 1:08:50.160 --> 1:08:53.639 by the roots, you know. I mean, he's he's definitely 1:08:54.560 --> 1:09:00.920 confused by by what's happening. There were times when I 1:09:01.040 --> 1:09:04.400 was watching that football game and I'm like, is that 1:09:04.520 --> 1:09:09.200 a broken coverage or did somebody just get totally destroyed by. 1:09:09.320 --> 1:09:10.080 A double move? 1:09:10.280 --> 1:09:12.960 Or how is that guy five yards open in every 1:09:13.040 --> 1:09:16.000 single direction? You know that that was that was the 1:09:16.120 --> 1:09:20.160 issue to me, is is you know, our guys are 1:09:20.200 --> 1:09:23.000 guys breaking down, our guys breaking assignments during the course 1:09:23.040 --> 1:09:25.639 of the football game. Are guys trying to do too much? 1:09:26.040 --> 1:09:28.760 You know when when uh, when the Jets or any 1:09:28.800 --> 1:09:31.840 opponent makes a big play, are they saying, I got 1:09:31.920 --> 1:09:33.519 to try to do a little more. I got to 1:09:33.600 --> 1:09:36.519 try to do my job and you know half of 1:09:36.600 --> 1:09:39.479 this other guy's job. You start getting into that mode. 1:09:39.720 --> 1:09:42.080 That's not a good place to be. And now all 1:09:42.120 --> 1:09:46.200 of a sudden, you know, you're everything that the coaching 1:09:46.280 --> 1:09:48.840 staff Al Golden and the staff will put together from 1:09:48.880 --> 1:09:53.839 a game plan and a playbook standpoint is meaningless because 1:09:54.040 --> 1:09:56.000 you know you're not abiding by the rules. You're not 1:09:56.400 --> 1:09:59.600 you're not doing what you're supposed to do. You're not 1:09:59.680 --> 1:10:02.240 full filling your obligation to your team. You're not doing 1:10:02.320 --> 1:10:05.519 your assignment. If all eleven people do their assignment, well 1:10:05.960 --> 1:10:08.600 you know you've got a pretty good defensive day. But 1:10:08.720 --> 1:10:11.280 if guys are freelancing and trying to play hero ball, 1:10:11.600 --> 1:10:12.679 you got trouble man. 1:10:12.680 --> 1:10:13.200 Big trouble. 1:10:13.240 --> 1:10:16.200 What was famous for saying, among many things, he would say, 1:10:16.320 --> 1:10:17.599 farm your own crops. 1:10:17.760 --> 1:10:19.840 Yes, yes, harvest, farm your own crops. 1:10:19.880 --> 1:10:22.200 There you go, yes, and do your job. Do your 1:10:22.240 --> 1:10:22.639 own job. 1:10:22.760 --> 1:10:24.240 It makes a lot of sense. Yes, it makes a 1:10:24.280 --> 1:10:25.839 lot of sense. You don't have to be a football 1:10:26.320 --> 1:10:29.400 you know, have you a doctorate in football to understand 1:10:29.439 --> 1:10:31.360 what he's referencing there? You know, it's a it's a 1:10:31.439 --> 1:10:33.920 team game, always has been, always will be. 1:10:34.040 --> 1:10:37.800 And for the third consecutive week and it reaches a 1:10:37.840 --> 1:10:40.479 point where maybe it just maybe they're just not capable 1:10:40.520 --> 1:10:43.640 of tackling. But I guess I don't understand as a 1:10:44.040 --> 1:10:47.439 far away observer, the the the basics of the football 1:10:47.520 --> 1:10:50.519 game is blocking and tackling. And if you can't tag, 1:10:50.600 --> 1:10:53.160 if you can't do a basic of the tackling and 1:10:53.560 --> 1:10:56.840 there there's not like a magic elixir. You're you're not 1:10:56.920 --> 1:10:59.639 gonna You're not gonna tackle for two hours out of practice. 1:10:59.840 --> 1:11:03.320 We're only tackling today. So how does it get better? 1:11:03.600 --> 1:11:05.479 I just I don't know what the answer is. 1:11:05.640 --> 1:11:08.519 Yeah, it's it just has to be a commitment to it, 1:11:08.640 --> 1:11:11.400 you know. I mean, guys just have to realize, Look, 1:11:12.240 --> 1:11:14.519 we're capable of getting people on the ground and we're 1:11:14.640 --> 1:11:15.160 not doing it. 1:11:15.520 --> 1:11:15.680 You know. 1:11:16.760 --> 1:11:18.840 And to your point of looking at the and seeing 1:11:18.920 --> 1:11:21.800 things in ordering what's going on the the angle's taken. 1:11:21.880 --> 1:11:24.160 So much of tackling is about taking the right angle, 1:11:24.240 --> 1:11:27.639 and they're just there's times where the angle is wrong 1:11:27.720 --> 1:11:30.880 and seeing it from above, you just look that there's 1:11:30.880 --> 1:11:32.479 not gonna be a tackle on this play because the 1:11:32.800 --> 1:11:33.479 angles off. 1:11:33.640 --> 1:11:36.040 Yeah, I mean, it's it's it's scary when you see 1:11:36.080 --> 1:11:41.280 the football geometry ain't happening. Yes, man, taking that that angle, 1:11:41.760 --> 1:11:44.200 he's coming up short. Man, you know, he's not not 1:11:44.320 --> 1:11:45.880 gonna be able to make a play at the point 1:11:45.880 --> 1:11:49.400 of intersection there. Uh, you know, it's it's just not happening. 1:11:49.520 --> 1:11:52.280 So they do they have to they have to. Uh, 1:11:53.240 --> 1:11:55.920 it's tackling. There's a mental part of it, like we're 1:11:55.920 --> 1:12:00.800 talking about, you know, seeing things, gauging speeds, you know, 1:12:01.160 --> 1:12:04.759 making an angle, maybe you have to redirect or redo 1:12:04.840 --> 1:12:06.800 your angle a little bit because of the speed of 1:12:06.880 --> 1:12:09.600 the player. You know, you just you don't take the 1:12:09.680 --> 1:12:13.719 same angle on everybody. Everybody's built differently, everybody runs differently. 1:12:14.360 --> 1:12:17.479 But man, the mental and physical part of it. Both 1:12:17.760 --> 1:12:21.200 areas have to improve or tackling is going to continue 1:12:21.200 --> 1:12:22.120 to be a major problem. 1:12:22.240 --> 1:12:25.040 We continue our journey through our number two tonight of 1:12:25.080 --> 1:12:28.880 Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW, 1:12:34.160 --> 1:12:37.240 our final segment of our second hour, just wait till 1:12:37.320 --> 1:12:40.040 our number three. I have questions about the Ring of 1:12:40.080 --> 1:12:43.839 Honor ceremony. Oh questions about your new jacket, OH questions 1:12:43.840 --> 1:12:46.840 about the Chicago Bears as we look ahead to this 1:12:47.000 --> 1:12:48.800 weekend and more. Let's get to all of that in 1:12:48.920 --> 1:12:51.679 our third hour of Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio 1:12:51.760 --> 1:13:03.840 Network and seven hundred WLW. Thanks for a tagging a 1:13:03.840 --> 1:13:06.799 long and sorting through the weekend it was for Bengals 1:13:06.840 --> 1:13:08.760 football with us. We've got plenty more to get too 1:13:08.880 --> 1:13:12.120 in this hour, alliance McAllister Dave Lapham there was a 1:13:12.160 --> 1:13:15.320 football game. There was also the Ring of honor ceremonies. 1:13:15.400 --> 1:13:19.080 What a presentation yesterday, What a series of events leading 1:13:19.160 --> 1:13:21.839 up to it. Let's turn to our guy, Jeff Hopson 1:13:21.920 --> 1:13:24.879 to set the stage for the inductions. Here's an excellent 1:13:24.920 --> 1:13:28.000 piece that Jeff did in honor of Dave Lapham and 1:13:28.280 --> 1:13:29.360 Lamar Parrish on. 1:13:29.439 --> 1:13:33.880 The fiftieth anniversary of Paul Brown's last and best Bengals team. 1:13:34.439 --> 1:13:37.080 Two of the most steel belted starters from that eleven 1:13:37.120 --> 1:13:40.200 to three group go into the franchise's Ring of honor. 1:13:40.800 --> 1:13:45.040 Lamart Parish, Dion before Dion and Ocho before Ocho with 1:13:45.160 --> 1:13:48.840 his electrifying bursts of flash returns and interceptions as a. 1:13:48.840 --> 1:13:49.880 Pro Bowl cornerback. 1:13:50.360 --> 1:13:54.320 And Dave Lapham, a civic staple for generations of Cincinnatians, 1:13:54.520 --> 1:13:57.200 as the bubbly and beloved radio analyst who has been 1:13:57.320 --> 1:14:00.759 calling it like he sees it for forty season, earning 1:14:00.880 --> 1:14:02.479 the title of mister Bengal. 1:14:02.920 --> 1:14:04.599 Bam Bam bam. 1:14:05.080 --> 1:14:05.800 How about that? 1:14:06.640 --> 1:14:10.320 It ends on a turnover man? How about it? The 1:14:10.439 --> 1:14:12.559 cardiac kids take it for. 1:14:12.680 --> 1:14:15.000 The last staff the Bengals. 1:14:16.000 --> 1:14:20.760 They are running it back, Sam Hover, Bam, bam bam, 1:14:21.000 --> 1:14:27.080 that is unba believable, the Cincinnati Bengals come from behind 1:14:27.200 --> 1:14:27.719 on the road. 1:14:28.560 --> 1:14:31.920 Before he brought his football IQ to the booth, Lapham 1:14:32.000 --> 1:14:35.000 used it as a brainy offensive lineman who served in 1:14:35.040 --> 1:14:38.240 the Bengals trenches for a decade, becoming one of the 1:14:38.320 --> 1:14:41.600 most versatile players ever, starting as a right guard on 1:14:41.720 --> 1:14:44.840 that seventy five playoff team, starting as a left guard 1:14:45.080 --> 1:14:48.240 on the eighty one Super Bowl team, and twice playing 1:14:48.640 --> 1:14:52.280 all five O line positions in the same game. A 1:14:52.439 --> 1:14:55.600 third round draft pick out of Syracuse, Lapham may be 1:14:55.760 --> 1:14:58.600 best known not for a moment during a game, but 1:14:58.720 --> 1:15:01.559 for one of the most famous pre games in NFL history. 1:15:02.040 --> 1:15:02.719 As they got. 1:15:02.680 --> 1:15:05.599 Set to host a nineteen eighty one AFC title game 1:15:05.680 --> 1:15:10.120 in Arctic Riverfront Stadium, the Bengals and Chargers shivered in 1:15:10.200 --> 1:15:14.640 a fifty nine below windshield. Lapham defied the elements, inspiring 1:15:14.760 --> 1:15:17.400 his linemates to go sleeveless in an effort they gained 1:15:17.439 --> 1:15:20.560 a mental edge on the frozen West Coasters, helping the 1:15:20.600 --> 1:15:22.120 Bengals punch their ticket. 1:15:21.920 --> 1:15:23.200 To Super Bowl sixteen. 1:15:23.800 --> 1:15:28.000 Lapham brought that same intellect and creativity into the radio booth, 1:15:28.240 --> 1:15:31.280 drawing fans into the huddle with his lucid x's and o's. 1:15:31.439 --> 1:15:35.240 He kept them with colorful, candid observations as his voice 1:15:35.320 --> 1:15:37.160 became as familiar as an uncle's. 1:15:37.320 --> 1:15:39.360 I'm Dave Lapham in the Bengals locker room, and everybody 1:15:39.439 --> 1:15:41.680 knows who this guy is, but Tyler reifit joins us here. 1:15:42.920 --> 1:15:47.040 Parish's play on many days at Riverfront defied description. His 1:15:47.240 --> 1:15:50.920 thirteen non offensive touchdowns are the third most in the 1:15:51.000 --> 1:15:57.000 twentieth century. His swashbuckling play matched his iconic seventies wardrobe 1:15:57.360 --> 1:15:58.799 and fleet of fast cars. 1:15:59.640 --> 1:16:02.519 For the seventy four Bengals, he was just as sleek. 1:16:02.920 --> 1:16:06.160 He led the NFL, ripping off eighteen point eight yards 1:16:06.200 --> 1:16:09.640 per part return, still the longest average since the John F. 1:16:09.760 --> 1:16:15.120 Kennedy administration. A former running back at Lincoln University, Parish 1:16:15.200 --> 1:16:19.120 had never played defense until Paul Brown pointed him to corner. 1:16:19.439 --> 1:16:22.160 That's where he collected twenty five interceptions in his eight 1:16:22.280 --> 1:16:26.760 Cincinnati seasons, still the fourth most by a Bengals cornerback. 1:16:27.439 --> 1:16:30.880 By the time he retired after his thirteenth season, he 1:16:30.960 --> 1:16:34.160 had been to eight Pro Bowls, most by a cornerback. 1:16:33.880 --> 1:16:36.160 Not in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. 1:16:37.080 --> 1:16:42.000 Leapin Lamar and mister Bengal teammates in seventy five, now 1:16:42.200 --> 1:16:44.840 on and ringmates for all time. 1:16:47.520 --> 1:16:51.080 Jeff Hobson setting the stage for the inductions. Dave, we 1:16:51.560 --> 1:16:54.719 talked about it. You've been thinking about it for months. 1:16:54.920 --> 1:17:00.720 It actually happened. Take me to yesterday in the emotions 1:17:00.880 --> 1:17:04.760 and man, Dad, hordes in your jersey and your your 1:17:05.120 --> 1:17:07.600 son is in your jersey, and your to your grandkids 1:17:07.640 --> 1:17:10.320 are in your jersey, And what a what an incredible 1:17:10.400 --> 1:17:11.200 moment it must have been. 1:17:11.400 --> 1:17:12.080 It was, It was. 1:17:12.439 --> 1:17:14.800 It was an emotional moment, emotional day. 1:17:14.840 --> 1:17:18.280 I mean, you know, to go, uh broadcasting a game 1:17:18.400 --> 1:17:21.040 and be down in the field pregame, be down in 1:17:21.120 --> 1:17:26.479 the field at halftime, going through the ceremonies, I mean, 1:17:26.520 --> 1:17:29.920 it was. It was mind boggling, It really was. It 1:17:30.040 --> 1:17:33.920 was incredibly emotional. It was great for the grandkids. And 1:17:34.000 --> 1:17:35.640 that's what I that's what I was hopeful of that 1:17:35.760 --> 1:17:37.800 they would be able to be a part of it. 1:17:37.960 --> 1:17:40.240 Get down on the field. You know, they're like, buddy, 1:17:40.320 --> 1:17:42.760 we're actually gonna go down on the field at pay 1:17:42.840 --> 1:17:45.360 Course Stadium. Yeah, you guys are gonna do that. You'll 1:17:45.400 --> 1:17:48.680 never forget it. No, we'll never forget that. So it 1:17:48.840 --> 1:17:52.960 was it was great and did we had relatives, friends 1:17:53.000 --> 1:17:58.160 and family come in from all over the country, you know, California, Arizona, 1:17:59.240 --> 1:18:05.040 up in New England, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and uh 1:18:05.240 --> 1:18:08.360 in Maine. It's uh, it's it's really incredible, it really 1:18:08.520 --> 1:18:12.360 is and it meant so much to to uh, to 1:18:12.520 --> 1:18:17.360 myself and my family. The Bengals were great. I mean 1:18:17.400 --> 1:18:20.560 they they really rolled out the red carpet for me. 1:18:20.720 --> 1:18:25.200 Uh at all the different events and ceremonies. It was 1:18:25.400 --> 1:18:29.880 it was really really incredible. The food, the drink, the fun. 1:18:30.640 --> 1:18:30.760 Uh. 1:18:31.479 --> 1:18:34.280 Former teammates that I was able to catch up with 1:18:34.439 --> 1:18:37.400 and swap stories with, you know, and hadn't seen some 1:18:37.520 --> 1:18:39.479 of these guys for such a long period of time 1:18:40.160 --> 1:18:42.519 and uh, you know you see him in a big, 1:18:42.640 --> 1:18:45.720 big hug, big embrace, and all of a sudden, it's 1:18:45.800 --> 1:18:48.320 like it was like, yeah, I just saw this guy yesterday. 1:18:48.400 --> 1:18:51.519 But you know you didn't, well, boy, you and you 1:18:51.640 --> 1:18:55.120 had to uh you did the the ruler of the jungle. 1:18:55.360 --> 1:18:57.080 So you were working the elevator. Did you have like 1:18:57.200 --> 1:19:00.200 secret service and security getting you up and down up 1:19:00.240 --> 1:19:01.760 and because you had to be down on the field 1:19:01.800 --> 1:19:03.439 for the ruler and then back up into the booth. 1:19:03.439 --> 1:19:04.760 Then you had to leave the booth at halftime, go 1:19:04.840 --> 1:19:06.479 down on the field, and go back up. A holy cow, 1:19:06.760 --> 1:19:10.240 yeah it did. I had a Bengal employee that was 1:19:10.720 --> 1:19:14.040 was assign that duty. And man, she did an unbelievable job. 1:19:14.080 --> 1:19:14.600 I mean she was. 1:19:15.080 --> 1:19:18.479 She was rolling us from from the broadcast booth. 1:19:18.600 --> 1:19:18.720 Uh. 1:19:19.760 --> 1:19:21.880 Yid was up there with Dan and the rest of 1:19:21.920 --> 1:19:23.559 the boys. Everybody's up there. 1:19:23.840 --> 1:19:27.400 Uh leaving leaving the booth at halftime and uh and 1:19:27.920 --> 1:19:30.120 rolling out and getting to the elevator and get down 1:19:30.160 --> 1:19:33.280 to that ground floor and uh, get on the get 1:19:33.320 --> 1:19:36.559 on the golf cart, Lamar and I and travel travel 1:19:36.600 --> 1:19:38.679 over to the field, get the get the jackets. 1:19:39.240 --> 1:19:39.360 Uh. 1:19:39.600 --> 1:19:42.080 Listen to what everybody has to say. It was great. 1:19:42.120 --> 1:19:43.960 All we had to do was stand there and open 1:19:44.040 --> 1:19:47.639 the jackets and show the lining. Uh the Bengalo tiger 1:19:47.680 --> 1:19:52.160 stripes lining. Uh in velvet satin kind of kind of material. 1:19:52.240 --> 1:19:55.720 It's very very cool. The the ring of Honor sport coat. 1:19:55.800 --> 1:19:58.360 The jacket is is nice. I mean they tailor made it. 1:19:58.840 --> 1:20:02.080 It fits perfectly. If fits like a glove. And I 1:20:02.160 --> 1:20:04.400 will say leap and Lamar man he looks to me 1:20:04.600 --> 1:20:05.719 like he did when. 1:20:05.600 --> 1:20:06.160 He was playing. 1:20:06.200 --> 1:20:10.360 I mean, like, wow, the guy is the guy is amazing. 1:20:10.439 --> 1:20:14.559 He keeps himself in unbelievable condition and lance. This guy 1:20:15.320 --> 1:20:18.080 his his return abilities. I mean one year he averaged 1:20:19.560 --> 1:20:23.400 almost nineteen yards per punt return, eighteen point per putt return. 1:20:23.800 --> 1:20:26.400 It was nuts to watch this guy. Uh, you know, 1:20:26.680 --> 1:20:30.439 make make everybody look foolish. You don't make everybody look 1:20:30.560 --> 1:20:33.720 like you know, there were Pop Warner League players, not 1:20:33.960 --> 1:20:37.080 NFL players. He could he could take the take them 1:20:37.120 --> 1:20:41.080 the distance. I think he had thirteen touchdowns, thirteen non 1:20:41.160 --> 1:20:42.360 offensive and as. 1:20:42.320 --> 1:20:44.880 We heard Jeff Hopson saying that piece he did. He 1:20:45.120 --> 1:20:46.960 for those who didn't get a chance to see him. 1:20:47.040 --> 1:20:48.439 He was Dion before Dion. 1:20:48.600 --> 1:20:51.160 Absolutely he was yep. And because he was that kind 1:20:51.200 --> 1:20:54.559 of defensive back, he was the eraser. He take take 1:20:54.600 --> 1:20:58.200 the best opponent in the passing game at the wide 1:20:58.200 --> 1:21:01.080 receiver position and eliminate him, you know, just neutralized the guy. 1:21:01.680 --> 1:21:03.719 So uh, all of it now, all of a sudden, 1:21:03.720 --> 1:21:07.000 you've got Chuck Weber, who's our defensive coach, able to 1:21:07.360 --> 1:21:10.360 double team other players and take take other things away 1:21:10.400 --> 1:21:14.599 from h quarterbacks and offensive coordinators and Lamar Parris is. Uh, 1:21:15.120 --> 1:21:17.920 it's a great one. It's about time. I think he 1:21:17.960 --> 1:21:20.120 should have been in a while ago. But now he's 1:21:20.200 --> 1:21:24.360 finally in and and unbelievably well deserved. And boy can 1:21:24.439 --> 1:21:28.840 that man dress. I'm telling you now he he Lamar 1:21:29.000 --> 1:21:32.040 had Lamar has suits, he has hats, he has all 1:21:32.080 --> 1:21:35.559 the accessories. And I remember one time he came into 1:21:35.560 --> 1:21:39.200 the locker room, Uh, with the with the biggest hat 1:21:39.240 --> 1:21:42.880 I've ever seen, huge brim feathers in it. All kinds 1:21:42.920 --> 1:21:48.559 of stuff was coming out of that. Uh, exactly exactly. 1:21:49.400 --> 1:21:54.679 But man, that man can play. And Paul Brown got 1:21:54.760 --> 1:21:58.600 a credit. Paul Brown goes to Lincoln, little tiny university, 1:21:58.800 --> 1:22:03.160 Lincoln University and finds Lamar Parish and Lamar Parish and 1:22:03.240 --> 1:22:07.439 Kenny Riley, another Ring of Honor member for the Cincinnati Bengals. 1:22:07.479 --> 1:22:10.200 Those two, in my mind, were the best secondary, the 1:22:10.280 --> 1:22:13.479 best tandem at the cornerback position in the National Football 1:22:13.560 --> 1:22:14.240 League in their era. 1:22:14.920 --> 1:22:17.400 Dave, let me give you a little perspective in context 1:22:17.479 --> 1:22:22.960 here from what Melrose, Massachusetts to Wakefield Memorial. You're one 1:22:23.040 --> 1:22:27.720 of twelve Cincinnati Bengals in the history of the franchise 1:22:28.160 --> 1:22:31.080 to have your name up on that board and in 1:22:31.160 --> 1:22:32.920 the Ring of Honor. Incredible, it is. 1:22:33.000 --> 1:22:33.599 It's crazy. 1:22:34.240 --> 1:22:36.720 And when we were down on the field and you know, 1:22:36.800 --> 1:22:40.320 you saw the location of these two black covers on 1:22:40.680 --> 1:22:42.599 the Ring of Honor, and you saw the ten other 1:22:42.720 --> 1:22:44.479 names up there, and am I going to be on 1:22:44.560 --> 1:22:46.040 that right side or I'm not going to be on 1:22:46.080 --> 1:22:47.800 the less side? Because when we get down on the field, 1:22:48.200 --> 1:22:50.680 they were very well organized, and it's like, you're going 1:22:50.760 --> 1:22:52.280 to be in the forty five yard line on the 1:22:52.360 --> 1:22:53.840 south side, You're going to be in the forty five 1:22:53.920 --> 1:22:56.080 yard line on the north side. Lamar, you're here, Dave, 1:22:56.120 --> 1:22:58.800 you're here, And I'm wondering, Okay, which way? So is 1:22:58.880 --> 1:23:00.560 it a tip that might name is going to be 1:23:00.880 --> 1:23:04.120 directly in front of me at this at this vantage point? 1:23:04.640 --> 1:23:07.679 So, uh, it was. It was extremely well done. 1:23:07.720 --> 1:23:10.120 And uh boy when when they dropped it, yeah, you 1:23:10.280 --> 1:23:12.960 just I mean I get chills just thinking about when 1:23:13.000 --> 1:23:13.840 the curtain comes down. 1:23:14.000 --> 1:23:14.839 Yeah, oh exactly. 1:23:14.960 --> 1:23:18.640 I mean that I'll never forget that, you know, seeing that, 1:23:19.439 --> 1:23:21.759 seeing that curtain dropping, there's your name and it's spelled 1:23:21.840 --> 1:23:22.400 right and everything. 1:23:23.720 --> 1:23:24.679 That would have been a problem. 1:23:25.880 --> 1:23:29.880 Yeah, but yeah, that I've seen and heard of those 1:23:29.960 --> 1:23:32.760 things happened before, not not here and since then he's 1:23:32.840 --> 1:23:36.240 just just in general. But uh yeah, I just I 1:23:36.360 --> 1:23:40.800 can't thank the Brown Blackburn family enough. Everything was done, 1:23:41.080 --> 1:23:44.840 first class, first rate red carp treatment all the way, 1:23:45.040 --> 1:23:48.400 and my my friends and family are eternally grateful, as 1:23:48.439 --> 1:23:49.200 am I very. 1:23:49.120 --> 1:23:51.800 Well said, very well said. We'll come back finish off 1:23:51.840 --> 1:23:53.599 a little bit on on that and then get into 1:23:53.840 --> 1:23:55.479 a little bit more on this weekend. Here's some more 1:23:55.520 --> 1:23:58.040 from Joe Flacco on yesterday's game. We'll hear from Ben 1:23:58.160 --> 1:24:01.240 Johnson his comments on the Bears loss yesterday in advance 1:24:01.280 --> 1:24:03.920 of the matchup this weekend. All of that as we continue, 1:24:03.960 --> 1:24:09.879 It's Bengals Line of the Hey, We're back on Bengals 1:24:09.960 --> 1:24:12.400 Line on this Monday night on the Bengals Radio Network 1:24:12.560 --> 1:24:14.200 and seven hundred WLW. 1:24:14.600 --> 1:24:16.720 Hey Bengals fans, make sure to catch me and Dan 1:24:16.840 --> 1:24:20.240 Hord every Wednesday this season for Bengals Game Plan presented 1:24:20.280 --> 1:24:22.519 by Bud Light on the air from six to eight 1:24:22.600 --> 1:24:24.840 pm on ESPN fifteen thirty. 1:24:24.960 --> 1:24:27.280 Let's get more of the sounds of yesterday and the 1:24:27.360 --> 1:24:30.040 halftime ceremony, the Ring of Honor ceremonies. Here is a 1:24:30.080 --> 1:24:32.520 little bit of what it sounded like down on the field. 1:24:32.520 --> 1:24:35.200 Helping with today's ceremony. Please direct your attention to the 1:24:35.240 --> 1:24:38.839 field and welcome on behalf of the Bengals organization, members 1:24:38.880 --> 1:24:42.200 of the Brown and Blackburn families, along with current Ring 1:24:42.280 --> 1:24:43.680 of Honor members. 1:24:46.479 --> 1:24:47.280 To the jacket. 1:24:47.360 --> 1:24:49.480 Presenters are Ring of Honor members. 1:24:49.200 --> 1:24:54.000 And teammates of the inductees, Isaac Curtis and Anthony Munios. 1:24:56.680 --> 1:25:02.960 Let the ceremony begin. First, inducting the six time pro bowler, 1:25:03.160 --> 1:25:08.000 dynamic cornerback, an electrifying return specialist, a game changer on 1:25:08.120 --> 1:25:10.679 both sides of the ball, the man who could turn 1:25:10.760 --> 1:25:34.840 any play into a touchdown, Number twenty Lipan Lamar Parrish. Next, 1:25:34.920 --> 1:25:39.120 inducting the tough, relentless offensive lineman, a rock in the trenches, 1:25:39.560 --> 1:25:42.760 Super Bowl twenty three starting guard, a true leader on 1:25:42.920 --> 1:25:46.960 the field and in the radio booth, celebrating fifty years 1:25:47.080 --> 1:25:53.200 with the club, number sixty three, mister Bengal, Dave Lapham, 1:26:04.960 --> 1:26:07.360 and now please turn your attention to the east facade 1:26:07.400 --> 1:26:10.879 of pay Court Stadium as we officially cement these legends 1:26:11.280 --> 1:26:25.479 into the Bengals Ring of Honor. Cincinnati made noise for 1:26:25.640 --> 1:26:30.080 the twenty twenty five Bengals Ring of Honor class Lamar 1:26:30.280 --> 1:26:36.200 Parris and Dave Lapham on behalf of the Bengals organization. 1:26:36.400 --> 1:26:40.320 Congratulations to each of you on this well deserved honor. 1:26:44.439 --> 1:26:52.120 The sounds of Ring of Honor induction yesterday at pay 1:26:52.200 --> 1:26:54.800 Court Stadium, the wrap up of a big weekend and 1:26:54.880 --> 1:26:56.639 I know, let's see, I'm losing track of the nights. 1:26:57.240 --> 1:26:59.479 I know there was a Q and a session inside 1:26:59.520 --> 1:27:02.240 of Paycorn It was you and Anthony and and Kenny 1:27:02.360 --> 1:27:05.360 and and Joe Daneman was there. That was was that 1:27:05.439 --> 1:27:08.120 Friday nighter sitting? I have lost track of nights. Friday night, Yeah, 1:27:08.120 --> 1:27:10.760 that was Friday. Take me through what that experience was 1:27:10.840 --> 1:27:12.559 like and what that gathering was like on Friday. 1:27:12.880 --> 1:27:14.040 Yeah, that was That was great. 1:27:14.160 --> 1:27:17.040 I mean that was open to Bengal fans and you 1:27:17.120 --> 1:27:20.680 know Bengal Gym and uh fans like like Bengal Jim 1:27:21.360 --> 1:27:25.800 whether Nita was there, you know, Uh, it was Uh, 1:27:27.240 --> 1:27:30.519 it was great. It was great catching up with fans 1:27:30.560 --> 1:27:34.519 that you've had a close relationship with over many years 1:27:34.600 --> 1:27:37.559 and and to see them and how excited they were, 1:27:37.720 --> 1:27:40.960 you know about it, and so that that was that 1:27:41.120 --> 1:27:41.519 was great. 1:27:42.000 --> 1:27:42.120 Uh. 1:27:42.320 --> 1:27:46.920 And my you know, I think my grandkids kids were 1:27:46.920 --> 1:27:49.400 a little bit excited about that because there was gonna 1:27:49.400 --> 1:27:52.400 be good food and drink there for sure, but also 1:27:52.760 --> 1:27:54.800 you know, listening to sort they'd love to listen to 1:27:54.920 --> 1:27:57.040 the stories, you know. And when I was talking to 1:27:57.080 --> 1:27:59.960 Anthony and Tim Crumray and old teammates, you know, they're 1:28:00.120 --> 1:28:04.960 or like all ears, you know, listening, and that really happened, buddy, Yeah, yeah, 1:28:05.000 --> 1:28:05.599 it really did. 1:28:06.200 --> 1:28:07.519 So, yeah, it was. 1:28:07.920 --> 1:28:10.320 It was great to catch up with a lot of guys, 1:28:10.439 --> 1:28:12.120 a lot of people. I bet I mean that that 1:28:12.479 --> 1:28:15.840 bar the bond, the connection. It's never broken. You may 1:28:15.880 --> 1:28:18.519 be separated by years of seeing each other, but I 1:28:18.560 --> 1:28:20.439 bet when you get back together, it's like the pieces 1:28:20.560 --> 1:28:20.960 just fit. 1:28:20.880 --> 1:28:24.439 Again absolutely, you know. I mean when we were talking 1:28:25.040 --> 1:28:28.880 about you know, stories, old games that we you know, 1:28:30.200 --> 1:28:33.280 we were a part of and come back victories and 1:28:33.680 --> 1:28:37.040 heartbreaking defeats and all of that, and and you uh, 1:28:37.240 --> 1:28:39.120 you know, you grow, you grow as a player person, 1:28:39.160 --> 1:28:41.680 you grow as an individual, you know, going through those 1:28:41.760 --> 1:28:45.360 kind of things. And it was, you know, Mark Dufner. 1:28:45.400 --> 1:28:47.559 I had hadn't seen Mark Duftner for a while. Duff 1:28:47.640 --> 1:28:50.519 Duff was up and came in for that. So you 1:28:50.600 --> 1:28:54.880 know it was there was somebody it seemed like from uh, 1:28:55.240 --> 1:28:57.479 every era, every year, No, no doubt, that's a good 1:28:57.479 --> 1:29:00.080 way to put it. But you know, I guess, I 1:29:00.120 --> 1:29:03.080 guess the only thing, you know, my high school coaches 1:29:03.200 --> 1:29:05.880 and college coaches that had such a big influence on 1:29:05.920 --> 1:29:08.760 my life, they couldn't make it anyway because unfortunately, I'm 1:29:08.760 --> 1:29:10.920 getting to an age where shoot, I'm seventy three myself, 1:29:10.960 --> 1:29:13.519 so they're gone. Some have been long gone for quite 1:29:13.520 --> 1:29:16.560 a while. My line coach, Rock Alpiro at Syracuse was 1:29:16.600 --> 1:29:18.200 a great line coach me and he was a big 1:29:18.280 --> 1:29:21.720 time Ben Schwartzwelder hired him and and uh, you know, 1:29:22.320 --> 1:29:24.639 said how great a coach he was. And then Ben 1:29:24.800 --> 1:29:27.200 in the Hall of Fame. Twenty five straight non losing 1:29:27.280 --> 1:29:28.799 seasons at Syracuse University. 1:29:28.880 --> 1:29:29.720 That's unbelievable. 1:29:30.240 --> 1:29:34.519 And uh and then you know, everybody flashed back to 1:29:35.040 --> 1:29:38.920 you know, Tiger Johnson, Mike McCormick, all the line coaches 1:29:38.960 --> 1:29:39.400 that I had. 1:29:39.520 --> 1:29:42.200 So yeah, it was, it was fun. It was a 1:29:42.280 --> 1:29:42.800 lot of fun. 1:29:43.680 --> 1:29:47.519 Everything comes pouring back into your into your memory bank, 1:29:47.600 --> 1:29:50.640 for sure. Well, congratulations, thank you. I just for your 1:29:50.720 --> 1:29:53.160 family and just the looks on their faces. 1:29:53.560 --> 1:29:55.880 Yeah, priceless. Yeah, absolutely, you're right about that. 1:29:56.160 --> 1:29:56.280 Man. 1:29:57.080 --> 1:29:59.920 Take a time out and roll on with Joe Flacco's 1:30:00.120 --> 1:30:02.280 reflections of yesterday and we'll look ahead of the Chicago 1:30:02.320 --> 1:30:04.759 Bears and more Bengals Line of the Bengals Radio Network 1:30:04.800 --> 1:30:14.800 and seven hundred WLW. Welcome back to Bengals Line on 1:30:14.880 --> 1:30:17.360 this Monday night on the Bengals Radio Network. In seven 1:30:17.439 --> 1:30:21.400 hundred w l W. Lance Pacallister, along with Dave Lapham 1:30:21.560 --> 1:30:23.920 and Lance Pai Corp is proud to be the official 1:30:24.120 --> 1:30:27.880 HR software provider of the Cincinnati Bengals. Get more from 1:30:28.760 --> 1:30:33.519 QB one Yesterday, Joe Flacco a nice day. Numbers impressive 1:30:33.560 --> 1:30:36.840 and popped off the charts again. No interceptions, sacked only 1:30:36.920 --> 1:30:39.520 one time. Here is more of Joe on what transpired 1:30:39.600 --> 1:30:41.320 yesterday that last yearday. 1:30:41.320 --> 1:30:43.679 I guess Jama was saying the last couple of plays, 1:30:43.720 --> 1:30:44.120 they were. 1:30:43.960 --> 1:30:46.400 Just they were just double on right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 1:30:46.439 --> 1:30:48.280 We're trying to get a double move on them one time, 1:30:48.479 --> 1:30:50.080 you know, just because sometimes when they when they come 1:30:50.160 --> 1:30:52.879 and do w you know, they got one guy outside, 1:30:52.920 --> 1:30:54.680 one guy comes inside, he gets a little low and 1:30:54.760 --> 1:30:56.160 maybe you can kind of get over the top. 1:30:58.240 --> 1:31:00.599 But you know, I think we expect that a little bit. 1:31:01.120 --> 1:31:02.559 You know that they're going to have to do something 1:31:02.640 --> 1:31:02.800 like that. 1:31:03.200 --> 1:31:05.479 There was a few third downs throughout the course of 1:31:05.520 --> 1:31:07.479 the game where they made sure they doubled him, and 1:31:08.920 --> 1:31:10.320 you know that's a credit to them. But at the 1:31:10.320 --> 1:31:11.920 same time, like we know those things are going to 1:31:11.960 --> 1:31:14.200 happen with those guys, and uh, you got to find 1:31:14.240 --> 1:31:15.320 ways to overcome. 1:31:15.000 --> 1:31:16.280 It a little bit, and for most of the day 1:31:16.360 --> 1:31:16.880 we did. 1:31:17.040 --> 1:31:20.880 It's just you know, in crunch time, we weren't able 1:31:20.920 --> 1:31:21.439 to make it happen. 1:31:22.960 --> 1:31:24.840 Extropress game kind of goes on and you feel like 1:31:24.880 --> 1:31:27.280 you're going to have to keep score. Does that feel 1:31:27.320 --> 1:31:30.839 add pressure as a game goes on an execute? 1:31:31.360 --> 1:31:33.000 I think if you let it, then you can. 1:31:33.240 --> 1:31:35.719 But ultimately you just got to focus on your process 1:31:35.800 --> 1:31:39.120 and and and going out there and executing. And I 1:31:39.200 --> 1:31:42.160 think when you can take your mind off of being 1:31:42.479 --> 1:31:45.760 a fan on the sideline or like putting yourself in 1:31:45.840 --> 1:31:47.840 that mode of watching the game just wanting your team 1:31:47.920 --> 1:31:50.960 to win, uh, then you can focus on your job 1:31:51.040 --> 1:31:54.120 at hand and and give yourself the best chance of success. 1:31:54.200 --> 1:31:56.240 I think when you kind of remove yourself and you 1:31:56.320 --> 1:31:57.960 become that fan and you just want to win, and 1:31:58.840 --> 1:32:00.680 that's when you can get caught up and in all 1:32:00.720 --> 1:32:03.040 the wrong things and feel the pressure more than you 1:32:03.120 --> 1:32:04.400 want to, and then you're not going to play the 1:32:04.439 --> 1:32:07.360 way you want to. So it's such a tough thing 1:32:07.479 --> 1:32:10.360 because we all want to win the football game, but 1:32:10.640 --> 1:32:14.200 during during those sixty minutes, you really have to remove 1:32:14.240 --> 1:32:17.360 yourself from those thoughts, you know, from having those thoughts 1:32:17.439 --> 1:32:20.000 and just kind of try to stay even and go 1:32:20.120 --> 1:32:26.240 out there and play the play. That being said, I 1:32:26.240 --> 1:32:28.680 don't think so, No, I really don't think so. I mean, 1:32:28.720 --> 1:32:31.120 we went down and scored, and then they scored and 1:32:31.160 --> 1:32:32.760 we got the ball. In our mindset was go down 1:32:32.800 --> 1:32:35.840 and score again, and we didn't. I mean, I don't 1:32:35.840 --> 1:32:37.800 think there was any I don't think there was any 1:32:37.840 --> 1:32:38.599 stepping off the gas. 1:32:38.680 --> 1:32:41.679 I really don't. Maybe we just didn't execute. I would 1:32:41.680 --> 1:32:43.200 assume we just didn't execute. 1:32:42.800 --> 1:32:45.840 As well as maybe we wanted to on some of 1:32:45.880 --> 1:32:48.040 those on those last six, seven, eight plays, you. 1:32:48.040 --> 1:32:51.519 Know exactly playing offensively, you guys got going for most 1:32:51.560 --> 1:32:51.960 of the game. 1:32:52.640 --> 1:32:54.879 But is there one or two plays for you personally 1:32:55.320 --> 1:32:57.040 that stand out like you wish you could have back 1:32:57.640 --> 1:32:58.280 mm hmm. 1:32:58.880 --> 1:33:00.080 Especially maybe in the fourth. 1:33:00.040 --> 1:33:01.519 Quarter when when things kind of start to go. 1:33:02.120 --> 1:33:05.200 I'd have to look at the film late. I'm trying 1:33:05.240 --> 1:33:07.040 to think there was definitely a play early on I 1:33:07.160 --> 1:33:11.320 was I was probably I threw any completion of jamar 1:33:11.439 --> 1:33:14.040 on on on my right side, going the same way 1:33:14.080 --> 1:33:15.680 we were going in the fourth quarter, So I think 1:33:15.720 --> 1:33:18.200 that was probably the first quarter, and I was probably 1:33:18.200 --> 1:33:20.120 I was a little bit ahead of him on a 1:33:20.320 --> 1:33:22.120 on a one on one route that he had backside, 1:33:22.160 --> 1:33:23.920 and I probably could have waited a little bit longer 1:33:24.000 --> 1:33:25.920 and maybe we would have had a big play out 1:33:25.960 --> 1:33:27.439 of it, and instead we ended up on it. I 1:33:27.560 --> 1:33:29.040 think that was one play I can think of. 1:33:29.360 --> 1:33:32.040 So you played on plenty of teams were defensive carried offenses, 1:33:32.080 --> 1:33:33.639 offensive carried defenses for stretches. 1:33:33.920 --> 1:33:35.639 How do you keep it from the volving into we're 1:33:35.720 --> 1:33:36.400 doing our part and. 1:33:36.400 --> 1:33:37.280 They're not doing theirs? 1:33:38.840 --> 1:33:41.719 I think everybody. I think that SIPs into people's heads, 1:33:41.880 --> 1:33:44.639 you know, like it's hard not to, and I think 1:33:44.720 --> 1:33:47.360 it more subs into that that got the sides heads. 1:33:47.360 --> 1:33:51.200 Who's who feels like they're not necessarily, you know, living 1:33:51.280 --> 1:33:56.080 up to their standard. But this is a team sport 1:33:56.400 --> 1:33:59.759 and we're all in this together. It's not offense defense. 1:33:59.840 --> 1:34:02.000 I mean, at the end of the like, they're out 1:34:02.040 --> 1:34:05.559 there doing their job, but we are one. We feel 1:34:05.600 --> 1:34:13.840 this as one. So I think it's hard to maybe 1:34:13.920 --> 1:34:16.040 not be in your head when when maybe you're that 1:34:16.160 --> 1:34:18.439 side of the ball for a given stretch. 1:34:19.160 --> 1:34:21.920 But man, like I always try to tell people like, 1:34:22.040 --> 1:34:22.320 I'm not. 1:34:24.320 --> 1:34:27.599 I'm so consumed with doing my job, and everybody should 1:34:27.600 --> 1:34:29.519 be so consumed with doing their job that they're not 1:34:29.720 --> 1:34:32.559 worried about what other guys are doing and how guys 1:34:32.640 --> 1:34:35.040 you know, to put the binders on and go do 1:34:35.160 --> 1:34:37.200 your job. And I think when everybody can do that, 1:34:37.640 --> 1:34:39.439 that's when you turn out. That's when you get out 1:34:39.439 --> 1:34:44.320 of those things. There's no judging, you know, your brothers 1:34:44.720 --> 1:34:49.920 for not playing up to their expectations, their support and 1:34:51.320 --> 1:34:53.560 trying to give those guys confidence, because that's what it 1:34:53.680 --> 1:34:55.439 is a lot of times, you know, you need to 1:34:55.479 --> 1:34:57.840 play this game with confidence. And if you lose a 1:34:57.880 --> 1:34:59.760 little bit of that because you think your brothers are 1:34:59.840 --> 1:35:02.439 kind looking at you like, oh, come on, like can't 1:35:02.479 --> 1:35:05.360 you just do this, that's not a good feeling to have. 1:35:05.520 --> 1:35:09.600 And hopefully we can all get across that that's not 1:35:09.720 --> 1:35:12.120 how we should be feeling towards our teammates. 1:35:13.880 --> 1:35:16.200 Did the Jets do anything different with Tea after the 1:35:16.240 --> 1:35:18.080 touchdown you hit them because it seemed like. 1:35:18.120 --> 1:35:19.400 The ball was going his way. 1:35:19.439 --> 1:35:21.160 Did they take something away from or is it just 1:35:21.280 --> 1:35:22.040 kind of there. 1:35:21.960 --> 1:35:22.639 Were other players? 1:35:22.680 --> 1:35:25.000 So yeah, you have to go back. We have to 1:35:25.040 --> 1:35:25.280 go back. 1:35:25.320 --> 1:35:27.120 And look, I don't really think that we threw the 1:35:27.200 --> 1:35:29.200 ball a ton in the second half. I mean to 1:35:29.280 --> 1:35:30.800 be honest with you, I could be wrong in that, 1:35:31.320 --> 1:35:32.680 but I feel like we more kind of got the 1:35:32.760 --> 1:35:34.880 run game going and you know, had to throw it 1:35:34.960 --> 1:35:37.760 in like little situations here and there. 1:35:38.439 --> 1:35:41.400 But I just feel like it was just the way 1:35:41.439 --> 1:35:41.960 the game went. 1:35:42.920 --> 1:35:45.479 I don't think it was Obviously they're going to do 1:35:45.560 --> 1:35:48.360 things to double those guys at times, but overall, I 1:35:48.360 --> 1:35:51.200 don't think it was like this huge, this vastly different 1:35:51.240 --> 1:35:52.599 plant Joe Flacco. 1:35:52.800 --> 1:35:55.920 After the game, the sack and the hit and the 1:35:56.000 --> 1:35:58.800 short when you saw him warming on the sideline and 1:35:58.880 --> 1:36:02.120 then run the line room, I had grave concerns. But 1:36:02.520 --> 1:36:04.880 he comes running back out like Willis Reid and was 1:36:04.920 --> 1:36:07.439 there for the final drive and it looks like fingers 1:36:07.479 --> 1:36:09.679 crossed he have hearted any serious injury. 1:36:10.200 --> 1:36:13.600 Yeah, I think it definitely looks that way when he 1:36:13.640 --> 1:36:15.519 first came off the football field, and then he goes 1:36:15.560 --> 1:36:16.840 in the blue tent and then he goes to the 1:36:16.880 --> 1:36:17.320 locker room. 1:36:17.360 --> 1:36:18.320 It's like, what is up? 1:36:18.920 --> 1:36:21.920 But you know, you had Jake Browning warming up and 1:36:22.000 --> 1:36:24.599 then all of a sudden outcomes, you know, Joe Flacco. 1:36:25.160 --> 1:36:27.400 Like here in the in the movie. It was a 1:36:27.520 --> 1:36:28.439 perfect script, you know. 1:36:29.040 --> 1:36:30.040 And here he comes. 1:36:30.080 --> 1:36:34.679 He's in the tunnel, He's coming back. You know, Joe Flacco. 1:36:34.760 --> 1:36:37.000 He's going to play. Joe Flacco is going to finish 1:36:37.080 --> 1:36:40.200 the game. It was it was something to see he 1:36:40.360 --> 1:36:42.240 I think he wanted to finish what he started. I mean, 1:36:42.280 --> 1:36:44.759 he was playing at a high level and he wanted 1:36:44.800 --> 1:36:47.080 to try to win that football game. And I do 1:36:47.240 --> 1:36:50.439 think that the Cincinnati Bengals are in pretty good shape 1:36:50.479 --> 1:36:53.240 with him at that quarterback position for the duration of 1:36:53.320 --> 1:36:56.639 the season if needed. If Joe Burrow can't make it back, 1:36:57.120 --> 1:36:59.000 you know, the hope is that he might make it 1:36:59.080 --> 1:37:01.719 back for the last month of the season potentially. 1:37:01.800 --> 1:37:04.599 But and Joe walking around yesterday on the sidelines, Joe 1:37:04.600 --> 1:37:07.480 Burrow with helped the walking boot on, which was encouraged. 1:37:07.240 --> 1:37:12.479 Very encouraging, and he was very very intent on focusing 1:37:12.600 --> 1:37:15.000 on what was going on in the football game, what 1:37:15.120 --> 1:37:19.800 they were doing defensively. He knew the game plan intimately. 1:37:20.840 --> 1:37:23.479 He knows the playbook obviously intimately. So he was making 1:37:23.560 --> 1:37:26.519 suggestions to Dan Pitcher and the coaching staff with the 1:37:26.600 --> 1:37:28.519 hits that he was wearing the headset on the sideline 1:37:28.520 --> 1:37:33.200 and communicating up top and had conversation with Joe Flacco 1:37:33.280 --> 1:37:35.200 as Joe came off the football field and sat on 1:37:35.280 --> 1:37:37.760 the bench next to him and talked about things that 1:37:37.880 --> 1:37:40.599 they both saw and did they see it the same 1:37:40.680 --> 1:37:43.560 way or if they saw it differently, why was it 1:37:44.120 --> 1:37:47.720 that they did see it differently? He was, I'm sure 1:37:47.760 --> 1:37:50.960 a huge help. And when he does come back, it's 1:37:51.000 --> 1:37:53.519 gonna be the best one two punch, one two combination 1:37:53.600 --> 1:37:54.560 of quarterbacks. 1:37:54.200 --> 1:37:55.320 In the NFL, no doubt. 1:37:55.360 --> 1:37:58.160 I mean to have Joe Burrow who was taking the 1:37:58.200 --> 1:38:01.640 team to the Super Bowl, didn't but has taken him there, 1:38:02.240 --> 1:38:03.800 and I think he can take him back and win 1:38:03.880 --> 1:38:05.880 the damn thing. And I'd love to see that. Never 1:38:05.960 --> 1:38:08.920 happened in Bengals history. Three times gone to the Super Bowl, 1:38:09.040 --> 1:38:12.719 but oh for three and I think Joe Flacco, if needed, 1:38:12.840 --> 1:38:15.880 could you know, win a Super Bowl as well for 1:38:16.000 --> 1:38:18.920 the Cincinnati Bengals. I mean, I think he's that caliber quarterback. 1:38:19.000 --> 1:38:21.960 He still has unbelievable lom strength. I mean the ball 1:38:22.080 --> 1:38:26.880 comes off his hand easily, fluidly, smoothly, with a lot 1:38:26.960 --> 1:38:27.640 of RPMs. 1:38:27.680 --> 1:38:29.840 Man he he spins the rock. 1:38:30.520 --> 1:38:33.080 Up next, let's take a look at those Chicago Bears. 1:38:33.160 --> 1:38:36.479 You'll hear head coach Ben Johnson's opening comments yesterday following 1:38:36.560 --> 1:38:39.519 a thirty to sixteen loss at the Baltimore Ravens. The 1:38:40.200 --> 1:38:43.920 Lamar Jackson lists Baltimore Ravens yesterday. That is next on 1:38:44.040 --> 1:38:47.360 Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. 1:38:54.479 --> 1:38:57.160 We continue on back end of our third and final 1:38:57.280 --> 1:38:59.519 hour tonight. We'll get into the Chicago Bears. Here at 1:38:59.520 --> 1:39:02.000 a second. It's Bengals Line of the Bengals Radio Network 1:39:02.040 --> 1:39:05.120 in seven hundred WLW. I'm Lance Pcavlster're always hanging out 1:39:05.160 --> 1:39:07.599 with the Ring of Honor inductee David Lapov. 1:39:07.680 --> 1:39:10.599 Yes, Sir Lance, and Bengals Friday Night Stripes Tour presented 1:39:10.640 --> 1:39:13.840 by how Kat is back for all locations this season, 1:39:13.920 --> 1:39:16.160 go to Bengals dot com slash community. 1:39:16.560 --> 1:39:19.400 Next up for the Bengals the Chicago Bears Sunday pay 1:39:19.479 --> 1:39:22.800 Corpse Stadium. Bears are four and three overall. They had 1:39:22.800 --> 1:39:26.040 a four game winning streak snapped yesterday, losing at Baltimore 1:39:26.160 --> 1:39:29.680 thirty to sixteen the final score. Ben Johnson is the 1:39:29.720 --> 1:39:32.080 first year coach of the Chicago Bears. Here are his 1:39:32.320 --> 1:39:34.559 opening thoughts on yesterday's game. 1:39:34.760 --> 1:39:38.599 In terms of the game, give Baltimore a lot of credit. 1:39:38.760 --> 1:39:41.040 You know, they came out and they played a physical 1:39:41.080 --> 1:39:43.880 brand of football, just like you would expect. You know, 1:39:44.080 --> 1:39:48.639 they were hungry, they were determined, and truth be told, 1:39:48.800 --> 1:39:50.679 I expected a little bit more out of our squad 1:39:51.000 --> 1:39:54.920 to counter that on up, so we fell short. You know, 1:39:55.000 --> 1:39:57.800 it's our first game in a while, really all season 1:39:57.840 --> 1:40:01.559 that we didn't have a takeaway and so when that happens, 1:40:02.160 --> 1:40:04.320 you really got to play a clean game, and and 1:40:05.000 --> 1:40:07.639 we didn't. You know, we're double digits and penalties once again, 1:40:07.760 --> 1:40:11.080 we're not scoring in the red zone. You know, we 1:40:11.160 --> 1:40:13.599 couldn't couldn't quite get off the field as often as 1:40:13.640 --> 1:40:16.080 we like on defense. So they had some good drives 1:40:16.840 --> 1:40:19.600 they I think time and possession wise, they did a 1:40:19.680 --> 1:40:23.519 nice job controlling the game. And like I said, we 1:40:23.800 --> 1:40:27.519 fell short. But our guys, we're gonna, we're gonna get 1:40:27.520 --> 1:40:30.719 this thing cleaned up. I know, I know they understand 1:40:30.840 --> 1:40:34.120 how important it is that that we play cleaner as 1:40:34.160 --> 1:40:37.320 a team and we compliment each phase better than what 1:40:37.400 --> 1:40:37.960 we did today. 1:40:38.080 --> 1:40:40.320 And so that will be our mission here this week. 1:40:40.439 --> 1:40:41.559 Go ahead and open it up and. 1:40:41.680 --> 1:40:44.760 Offensively with the emptysistency what's most urgent to you right 1:40:44.840 --> 1:40:47.040 now and getting that set of the ball humming a 1:40:47.080 --> 1:40:47.599 little bit better. 1:40:47.880 --> 1:40:50.840 Yeah, you know, I think you see flashes of some 1:40:51.000 --> 1:40:55.360 explosive plays and some really good things happen, but the 1:40:55.600 --> 1:40:58.040 penalties to me is what stands out first and foremost. 1:40:58.120 --> 1:41:00.479 You know, we still have some of the pre snap issues. 1:41:01.960 --> 1:41:04.840 There's occasional not getting lined up quite right, there's occasional 1:41:05.000 --> 1:41:08.280 not not getting the motion quite right, and so that 1:41:08.439 --> 1:41:11.080 stuff does, it adds up and it hurts us. We 1:41:11.120 --> 1:41:13.920 get away with it occasionally, but it's just not the 1:41:13.960 --> 1:41:16.760 way you win in this league. And so I think, 1:41:17.600 --> 1:41:19.240 you know, I really put it on the leaders there 1:41:19.240 --> 1:41:22.599 in that locker room to get this get this ship 1:41:22.720 --> 1:41:24.840 going in the right direction. In that regard us coaches, 1:41:24.880 --> 1:41:26.800 we've been pounding that drum now for a while and 1:41:27.520 --> 1:41:29.559 we haven't gotten the results we wanted, so it's it's 1:41:29.600 --> 1:41:32.599 on the leaders here on this team to get us right. 1:41:32.880 --> 1:41:34.560 We knew at the end of the first half with 1:41:34.680 --> 1:41:36.559 the intentional grounding and then you guys had to kind 1:41:36.600 --> 1:41:38.320 of scramble to get the kick off there. 1:41:38.680 --> 1:41:40.360 Yeah, I thought, I thought we had a chance there 1:41:40.479 --> 1:41:45.040 for points before half. We had a good, good opportunity 1:41:45.040 --> 1:41:48.120 to do that, and the intentional grounding certainly didn't help. 1:41:49.479 --> 1:41:51.599 And so now we're in a position third and long 1:41:51.720 --> 1:41:55.320 with no timeouts where we know, if it's a clock 1:41:55.439 --> 1:41:58.400 running and we're short of the line of game that 1:41:58.720 --> 1:42:00.800 we'll need to get our hurt cane unit out there, 1:42:00.960 --> 1:42:02.600 our field goal team out there real quick. So I 1:42:02.640 --> 1:42:05.639 thought the execution of all that was nice, but that's 1:42:05.680 --> 1:42:07.680 a really long field goal and so it's a low 1:42:07.720 --> 1:42:10.800 percentage deal, something that we would like to avoid, so 1:42:11.000 --> 1:42:12.840 that that intentional grounding certainly hurt us. 1:42:13.880 --> 1:42:15.920 Did the Ravens in hunt we do anything that you 1:42:16.080 --> 1:42:18.880 might not have expected or was did they just do 1:42:19.040 --> 1:42:21.679 it well and it was tough to defend? 1:42:21.880 --> 1:42:22.960 Yeah, you know, I thought, I thought. 1:42:23.880 --> 1:42:26.200 I thought coach Monkin always does a great job just 1:42:26.240 --> 1:42:30.679 schematically mixing things up and and like I said before, 1:42:30.720 --> 1:42:32.720 they play a physical brand of football, and so that 1:42:32.840 --> 1:42:36.360 showed up that offensive line was getting after it. And 1:42:36.960 --> 1:42:39.439 you know, I thought our defensive line it was quite 1:42:39.439 --> 1:42:42.760 a battle there throughout the game. You know, we were 1:42:43.120 --> 1:42:46.800 intent on not letting twenty two get started. I thought 1:42:47.080 --> 1:42:48.680 for the most part, we did a pretty good job 1:42:48.720 --> 1:42:51.439 of that. But then you know, Huntley hurt us with 1:42:51.479 --> 1:42:53.640 both his arm and his legs. You know, we let 1:42:53.760 --> 1:42:56.200 him get some big ones on the ground, and then 1:42:56.560 --> 1:42:58.800 he threw some accurate balls there in the air. And 1:42:58.960 --> 1:43:02.200 so I think one point he was like twelve or 1:43:02.240 --> 1:43:05.679 thirteen or something like that coming out of halftime. So yeah, 1:43:05.920 --> 1:43:07.960 he played really well and we didn't do enough to 1:43:08.040 --> 1:43:08.559 affect him. 1:43:09.040 --> 1:43:10.960 And what was your advantage point on the interception that 1:43:11.040 --> 1:43:11.720 cale through there? 1:43:13.280 --> 1:43:16.080 Yeah, I didn't quite see it. I'll have to check 1:43:16.120 --> 1:43:18.920 it out on film just one more time. Just in 1:43:19.080 --> 1:43:22.040 my mind, there might have been another option that we 1:43:22.080 --> 1:43:22.599 could have gotten. 1:43:22.800 --> 1:43:25.040 Gotten to any sense of we're having on the last 1:43:25.040 --> 1:43:26.680 three plays of the game up. So you get down there, 1:43:26.720 --> 1:43:29.679 it's a desperate situation, but you've got a completion short 1:43:29.680 --> 1:43:31.280 of the goal line, a quarterback sneak, and then a 1:43:31.439 --> 1:43:32.080 fourth down player. 1:43:32.160 --> 1:43:34.679 Yeah, I don't like my call and the quarterback sneak. 1:43:34.840 --> 1:43:38.160 I could have gotten into something better there, But yeah, 1:43:38.320 --> 1:43:40.400 I mean we have plays set up to go tempo 1:43:40.520 --> 1:43:43.880 down there, and I probably didn't do enough job in 1:43:43.960 --> 1:43:44.280 that that. 1:43:44.360 --> 1:43:48.759 Department did the participation saga with Lamar Jackson. 1:43:48.840 --> 1:43:51.160 What was your reaction to that yesterday and as it. 1:43:51.240 --> 1:43:55.920 Unfolded, Yeah, we we always uh prepare for like I 1:43:55.960 --> 1:43:57.920 said earlier in that we were preparing for Lamar and 1:43:58.000 --> 1:44:00.679 then you know, when we found out that he wasn't playing, 1:44:00.720 --> 1:44:02.639 then you know, get ready for the next guy. 1:44:02.800 --> 1:44:05.640 Bears fall yesterday thirty to sixteen. Another big day of 1:44:05.880 --> 1:44:08.200 penalties for the Bears. I think they had eleven more 1:44:08.240 --> 1:44:10.200 and Dave no matter how we look at the Chicago 1:44:10.320 --> 1:44:14.200 Bears and Caleb Williams as their second year quarterback, the Bengals, somehow, 1:44:14.320 --> 1:44:16.040 someway are going to have to figure out how to 1:44:16.240 --> 1:44:18.880 create a pass rush and put some kind of pressure 1:44:19.000 --> 1:44:23.400 on Caleb Williams because it was once again non existing yesterday. 1:44:23.560 --> 1:44:26.280 It was it was non existing yesterday, and when they 1:44:26.360 --> 1:44:29.400 did get some heat, you had a mobile quarterback that 1:44:30.000 --> 1:44:32.880 hurt him, you know, I mean, they just they could 1:44:32.920 --> 1:44:37.280 not pin in a guy like Justin Fields, and Caleb 1:44:37.320 --> 1:44:40.080 Williams has got every bit of that. I mean, this 1:44:40.160 --> 1:44:41.400 guy's a bigger body guy. 1:44:41.960 --> 1:44:42.559 He can run. 1:44:44.040 --> 1:44:47.320 I think that sometimes he gives up on plays too 1:44:47.400 --> 1:44:50.839 soon and tucks the ball and runs. And then sometimes 1:44:50.880 --> 1:44:52.720 he holds onto the ball for like, you know, five 1:44:52.840 --> 1:44:54.720 or six seconds and it's like, man, what are you 1:44:54.800 --> 1:44:57.840 doing and takes a sack. So I think he's still 1:44:57.960 --> 1:45:01.120 learning how to play the quarterback position at the level 1:45:01.680 --> 1:45:03.479 that it takes to play at the in the National 1:45:03.520 --> 1:45:06.519 Football League. But man, hey, you go back to his 1:45:06.920 --> 1:45:09.200 career USC. The dude, the dude has been a player. 1:45:09.280 --> 1:45:11.000 I mean he's been a player at every level that 1:45:11.080 --> 1:45:14.439 he's he's played at. He's a very highly recruited high 1:45:14.439 --> 1:45:18.559 school quarterback, goes to uh USC has a storied career there. 1:45:19.400 --> 1:45:22.600 Anthony Munoz knows him and was telling me that he 1:45:22.800 --> 1:45:26.240 is just a great kid. He said, very very coachable 1:45:26.360 --> 1:45:29.479 and uh you know, great with his teammates, A real leader. 1:45:30.160 --> 1:45:32.200 So the Bengals going to their hands full. I mean, 1:45:32.520 --> 1:45:37.000 Caleb Williams, uh in, the Chicago Bears historically want to 1:45:37.040 --> 1:45:39.599 run the football. They want to make take the pressure 1:45:39.640 --> 1:45:42.280 off their quarterback with a sound running game. They're going 1:45:42.360 --> 1:45:44.280 to try to do that, and then defensively, they're going 1:45:44.320 --> 1:45:47.120 to try to shut your running game down. And you know, 1:45:47.160 --> 1:45:49.720 no matter who's playing quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals, and 1:45:49.760 --> 1:45:52.679 it's going to be Joe Flacco, you've got to hope 1:45:52.800 --> 1:45:55.800 that there's a sound running game to support what Joe 1:45:55.880 --> 1:45:58.160 Flacco can do with that. Howardz Are hanging off his 1:45:58.280 --> 1:45:58.799 right shoulder. 1:45:58.880 --> 1:46:02.360 The Bears have committed twenty eight more penalties than their 1:46:02.400 --> 1:46:06.880 opponents for three hundred more yards and penalty yards. In fact, 1:46:07.080 --> 1:46:11.160 they've had double digit penalties three times this season, and 1:46:11.240 --> 1:46:13.439 they've had more penalties in a game in five of 1:46:13.520 --> 1:46:16.360 their seven games versus their opponents. So that's been a 1:46:17.400 --> 1:46:20.280 big problem for him. Back to Caleb Williams and and 1:46:20.479 --> 1:46:25.720 they al Golden blitzed a little bit more yesterday. I wondered, Dave, 1:46:25.800 --> 1:46:27.640 do you have if you can't in light of in 1:46:27.720 --> 1:46:30.679 lieu of not getting pressure, do you have to blitz more? 1:46:30.760 --> 1:46:32.479 I mean, I guess that's the yin and yang to 1:46:32.520 --> 1:46:35.280 pick your post. Blitzing opens yourself up on the back end. 1:46:35.479 --> 1:46:37.559 Do you have to blitz more if you don't get pressure? 1:46:37.640 --> 1:46:41.559 With Trey and Shamar Stewart and Joseph Osai and Miles Murphy. 1:46:41.720 --> 1:46:42.240 Do you what do you do? 1:46:42.479 --> 1:46:42.679 Yeah? 1:46:42.800 --> 1:46:44.559 I mean, if you're not getting enough out of your 1:46:44.600 --> 1:46:46.720 front four, you don't have no choice, man. I mean, 1:46:47.280 --> 1:46:50.760 you gotta you gotta make make the quarterback heart, you 1:46:50.800 --> 1:46:53.360 gotta hire him. You got to make them uncomfortable. You 1:46:53.439 --> 1:46:58.800 gotta make them uncertain, unsure, you know. And and Caleb 1:46:58.840 --> 1:47:01.560 Williams is a guy that can be affected by a 1:47:01.600 --> 1:47:04.840 good pass rush. Any quarterback really can. But you know, 1:47:04.960 --> 1:47:08.080 like we talked about earlier, I mean, he sometimes holds 1:47:08.120 --> 1:47:11.720 onto the ball quite quite a while, so your sack 1:47:11.880 --> 1:47:15.080 numbers could increase when you're going against a quarterback like 1:47:15.200 --> 1:47:18.960 Caleb Williams. And it's to me, in this football game, 1:47:19.000 --> 1:47:21.639 it is going to be once again, who is more 1:47:21.760 --> 1:47:25.560 effective and consistent in sound running the football. Both of 1:47:25.600 --> 1:47:29.280 these quarterbacks need a sound ground game, a solid ground 1:47:29.320 --> 1:47:32.160 game to support their talents throwing the football. 1:47:31.880 --> 1:47:34.960 And the Bears are giving up five point three yards 1:47:35.040 --> 1:47:38.000 of carry on the ground. Opponents have already rushed for 1:47:38.040 --> 1:47:40.599 over a thousand yards against the Bears this season. Let's 1:47:40.640 --> 1:47:43.920 go three yards, Let's go last absolutely, here we go well, 1:47:44.240 --> 1:47:46.439 we'll go down the stretch. It's Begals Lote of the 1:47:46.439 --> 1:47:55.240 Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. All right, final 1:47:55.400 --> 1:47:57.879 segment of the Night of Bengals lone of the Bengals 1:47:58.040 --> 1:48:01.000 Radio Network. In seven hundred WL up you Lance McAllister 1:48:01.280 --> 1:48:06.080 Dave Lapham, Dave, the opportunity now presented the Chicago Bears 1:48:06.120 --> 1:48:08.800 at home going into the bye What a difference if 1:48:08.840 --> 1:48:12.080 you can get a win here to go onto the 1:48:12.160 --> 1:48:15.080 buy versus losing this one and sitting on the by 1:48:15.200 --> 1:48:18.479 and thinking about it and looking at the dire situation. 1:48:18.680 --> 1:48:21.040 But as we said, there's still an opportunity in the 1:48:21.080 --> 1:48:23.960 division in the AFC. Just get a win to get 1:48:23.960 --> 1:48:25.880 to the buy and then figure things out the rest 1:48:25.920 --> 1:48:26.240 of the way. 1:48:26.400 --> 1:48:29.080 Absolutely, I mean, you know, to get to that bye week, 1:48:29.120 --> 1:48:32.600 and then the Bengals coaching staff will do a phenomenal 1:48:32.720 --> 1:48:36.920 job of kind of looking back and what do we 1:48:37.000 --> 1:48:37.360 do right? 1:48:37.920 --> 1:48:38.240 Do wrong? 1:48:38.400 --> 1:48:38.799 Exactly? 1:48:39.000 --> 1:48:41.960 I mean, what can we what can we learn from 1:48:42.320 --> 1:48:46.760 how we approached this defensive football team and this defensive configuration, 1:48:46.920 --> 1:48:49.600 this schematic. What are we looking at coming up? What 1:48:49.800 --> 1:48:52.320 kind of players? How are we going to have to 1:48:52.400 --> 1:48:55.000 handle those players? How do we neutralize those players. What 1:48:55.160 --> 1:48:58.120 position are those players playing? You know, that makes a 1:48:58.160 --> 1:49:01.000 big difference as well. So a lot of work to 1:49:01.080 --> 1:49:03.439 do and the players. You know, make sure you take 1:49:03.479 --> 1:49:06.360 care of yourself, make sure your your diet is right, 1:49:06.520 --> 1:49:09.760 and you don't over indulge with eating and drinking and 1:49:10.280 --> 1:49:12.800 uh come back uh looking a little pussy, a little 1:49:12.840 --> 1:49:15.719 out of shape and uh and and have potential issues 1:49:15.760 --> 1:49:19.240 and and be more susceptible to injury. And then guys 1:49:19.280 --> 1:49:21.600 that are injured a little bit. Uh, make sure that 1:49:21.760 --> 1:49:25.080 you stay with your rehab. Uh, don't shake your responsibilities 1:49:25.120 --> 1:49:28.679 there because the Bengals need everybody they possibly can acquire 1:49:28.760 --> 1:49:30.720 and accumulate going down the stretch. 1:49:30.640 --> 1:49:31.479 No doubt about it. 1:49:31.680 --> 1:49:31.800 Uh. 1:49:32.040 --> 1:49:34.679 Final thoughts, congratulations once again on the ring of honor. 1:49:34.720 --> 1:49:36.160 I'm very happy for you and your family. 1:49:36.280 --> 1:49:39.160 Appreciate it. Lance means a lot coming from you. You Uh, 1:49:39.800 --> 1:49:42.120 you know what you're you're talking about, you know what 1:49:42.160 --> 1:49:44.960 you're looking at. So I uh, I'm looking at a 1:49:45.160 --> 1:49:48.920 ring of honor. Remember right now, baby, he is David Man. 1:49:49.040 --> 1:49:52.280 I'm Lance McAllister. It's Bengels Line on the Bengals Radio 1:49:52.360 --> 1:49:54.240 Network and seven hundred a w l W