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Speaker 2: that show from five to six. But in any case,
Speaker 2: let's talk about the big news for the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 2: The Bengals have a new quarterback, about it signed yesterday.
Speaker 2: He practiced today wearing an unfamiliar number. He is wearing
Speaker 2: the number sixteen. I am speaking of forty year old
Speaker 2: Joseph Vincent Flacco, who will become the first forty year
Speaker 2: old to ever play for the Cincinnati Bengals. They've never
Speaker 2: had anyone forty and older suit up for them before.
Speaker 2: He's a bet eighteen years in the league. He's had
Speaker 2: some tremendous highs. He led the Ravens to a Super
Speaker 2: Bowl title back in twenty twelve. He was the Super
Speaker 2: Bowl MVP that year, and you might be thinking, well,
Speaker 2: that was a long time ago. He hasn't been very
Speaker 2: good recently. But two years ago he was the NFL
Speaker 2: Comeback Player of the Year when he came on late
Speaker 2: in the season, basically came off the couch for the
Speaker 2: Cleveland Browns and was tremendous in a five game stretch
Speaker 2: that got them to the playoffs. So that's what the
Speaker 2: Bengals are for. They are hoping that he can breathe
Speaker 2: some life into this offense. It's really struggled since Joe
Speaker 2: Burrow went down. Distribute the ball to their great skill
Speaker 2: position talent and get this team back on track. To
Speaker 2: stay in the hut and what has turned out to
Speaker 2: be a topsy turvy AFC.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean the Baltimore Ravens are one in four. You know,
Speaker 4: really good teams in the AFC conference in general, ye
Speaker 4: are just okay.
Speaker 2: You know, Kansas City's two and three and they play
Speaker 2: the Lions this week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, some five hundred team. You know, it's like what
Speaker 4: so it's the season is far from over. And I
Speaker 4: think because of that, the Bengals said, you know, we
Speaker 4: got to go out and we got to get a
Speaker 4: quarterback that's capable of performing at a pretty high level.
Speaker 4: And they targeted Joe Flacco and they got it done.
Speaker 4: They got Joe Flacco here in Cincinnati, and I think
Speaker 4: one of the craziest things is they got a driver
Speaker 4: to drive he and his wife from Cleveland down to Cincinnati,
Speaker 4: and he was his life was just grilling him on formations,
Speaker 4: plays motion, you know, skill patterns that they're going to
Speaker 4: put together, how they're going to put him together, why
Speaker 4: they're going to be putting together. What are they hoping
Speaker 4: to accomplish by running these patterns the way they're going
Speaker 4: to be run. So she was trying to get him
Speaker 4: a big head start, which she did on the Bengals offense.
Speaker 4: Dan Pitcher has spent every waking hour. I mean, I
Speaker 4: think Dan Pitcher and Joe Flack are going to be
Speaker 4: tired of seeing each other. I mean they're spent every
Speaker 4: week an hour basically going over what the Cincinnati Bengals
Speaker 4: hope to accomplish and how they hope to accomplish it.
Speaker 4: I think I think it's exciting news.
Speaker 3: I really do.
Speaker 4: I mean, I took my cap to the to the
Speaker 4: Brown Blackburn family for going out and doing this. It's
Speaker 4: not something they've done in the past. And again, like
Speaker 4: you said, Dan, first forty year old Cincinnati Bengal player
Speaker 4: in franchise history.
Speaker 3: You know that's a landmark.
Speaker 4: Now, I'd like to have other landmarks this season that
Speaker 4: don't have anything to do with the age of players.
Speaker 4: Like to have landmarks wins, regular season wins, playoff wins,
Speaker 4: maybe even a Super Bowl win. At the end of
Speaker 4: the Super Bowl three times. Haven't gotten it done yet.
Speaker 4: I'll see if Joe Flackel can do it.
Speaker 2: The Bengals are alone in second place in the AFC North.
Speaker 2: The first place team is Pittsburgh. The Steelers are three
Speaker 2: and one. They don't really have a quality win yet.
Speaker 2: Right Their quarterback is older than the Bengals quarterback Aaron
Speaker 2: Rodgers is older than Joe Flacco, So I think Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2: There's the jury still out a little bit there. Sure
Speaker 2: you mentioned the Ravens are one in four. They're racked
Speaker 2: by injuries. Don't know what's going to happen with Lamar
Speaker 2: Jackson in the short term. They've got another tough game
Speaker 2: this week. They could very easily be one in five.
Speaker 2: They play the Rams. The Browns are the Browns. So
Speaker 2: if you just look at the AFC North, the Bengals
Speaker 2: are two and three, even if they lose this week
Speaker 2: at Green Bay, and it's obviously a tough game, and
Speaker 2: they've got a quarterback that's gonna practice for a few days.
Speaker 2: Even if they lose that game, their next three games
Speaker 2: are home, all home games against the Steelers on a
Speaker 2: Thursday night. That's an advantage to play Thursday night, short
Speaker 2: week at home. The Jets only winless team left in
Speaker 2: the NFL, right the Bears, who are five hundred but
Speaker 2: not great. If you lose this week and then win
Speaker 2: those three home games, you're a game above five hundred
Speaker 2: going into a buy plenty of relatively easy looking games
Speaker 2: after that, and the possibility that Joe Burrow comes back
Speaker 2: in December.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, I mean you're in high cotton. If you can
Speaker 4: go on that three game winning streak you talk about,
Speaker 4: and if you can beat the Green Bay Packers, you know,
Speaker 4: that's just added added fruit.
Speaker 3: To the to the basket, you know.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's not like the Green Bay Packers are
Speaker 4: you know, heavy heavy favorite Andre Jose gooshin house.
Speaker 3: It's a big guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, how about it spend some time with us on
Speaker 4: his free time and we always do appreciate that. Dan,
Speaker 4: right when when players, no doubt, when players give up
Speaker 4: their free time to come out and be in the
Speaker 4: community and see the see all the Bengal fans, Philip
Speaker 4: Gota come out to support uh, support you and to
Speaker 4: support the team.
Speaker 5: What do you think of the crowd as a packed
Speaker 5: house in here?
Speaker 3: For sure?
Speaker 4: It's awesome, it really is.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a nice little neighborhood too, Like driving in here,
Speaker 5: it's nice.
Speaker 2: There you go. An endorsement for the West Side for
Speaker 2: Andrea Josie By the west Siders are very proud of
Speaker 2: their neighborhood.
Speaker 3: Well, South west Side.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about today. Andre major breaking news that came
Speaker 2: down yesterday. Joe Flacco joining the team. Former Super Bowl MVP,
Speaker 2: A guy with a lot of skins on the wall,
Speaker 2: as they say It's had a great career two years ago,
Speaker 2: had this tremendous finish with Cleveland to lead the Browns
Speaker 2: into the playoff center in the Comeback Player of the
Speaker 2: Year Award. What was your reaction when you read it
Speaker 2: online or got a text or whatever yesterday that Joe
Speaker 2: Flacco is coming in.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I was. I was getting a massage
Speaker 5: and I just heard my phone going and yeah, I
Speaker 5: was like, I got I gotta look at it. And
Speaker 5: I was like, holy smoke, you got Joe. Like I
Speaker 5: used to watch that guy when I was like eight
Speaker 5: years old, like throwing bombs. It was crazy, and like
Speaker 5: I saw him in the facility today. He's a lot
Speaker 5: bigger than you'd think. To man, yes, six six. I
Speaker 5: just remember him throwing to like Jacoby Jones. I mean,
Speaker 5: we don't like them here, But because I was a kid,
Speaker 5: I didn't have allegiance to the Bengals, so that understood.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you he can. He can still sling the football. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean his his arm strength is is about as
Speaker 4: good as there is really in the league. When but
Speaker 4: he had he throws it with touch. He throws what
Speaker 4: comes out of his hand nicely, nice RPMs, nice nice
Speaker 4: fin on the football. And the biggest thing is he's
Speaker 4: extremely accurate. Is yeah, yeah, he can. He can hit
Speaker 4: like if he has to hit your right shoulder, that's
Speaker 4: where he's going to be left him, That's exactly where he's.
Speaker 6: Going to be.
Speaker 4: How big an advantage is when you have a quarterback
Speaker 4: that is that accurate?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean you can definitely.
Speaker 5: I mean he can throw it so far down the
Speaker 5: field that you're scared that you know you're running a
Speaker 5: slanter and under he's.
Speaker 6: Just gonna rip the ball out your face.
Speaker 5: But he guys with like big arms like that you
Speaker 5: never know what's gonna happen. But he has a really
Speaker 5: nice touch, like really easy to catch.
Speaker 6: The ball has a nice spin.
Speaker 5: On it so it's not wobbling, right, and he throw me.
Speaker 5: He threw me a deep ball today too, and I was,
Speaker 5: you know, I just ran under it like it was nothing.
Speaker 6: So it was it was kind of nice to see that.
Speaker 2: Cool talk to Chase Brown, your close friend after practice.
Speaker 2: Asked him about Placo. He said two things impressed him.
Speaker 2: Number One, the deep ball that he threw to you,
Speaker 2: He said, that was very impressive. Secondly, he said, his
Speaker 2: ability to spit out the plays already.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was crazy. It's like he's been here though,
Speaker 5: It's like he's been in the offense.
Speaker 3: Is that right?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I mean the first day to recite the plays right
Speaker 5: back to the offense when Zach gives.
Speaker 6: You the call, it's just is really really impressive because
Speaker 6: you know, we.
Speaker 5: Have cans on it, so you call the first play
Speaker 5: and then you have to call the second play as well,
Speaker 5: and if the defense isn't a certain you know, in
Speaker 5: a certain look, then you have to can to play
Speaker 5: and remember what the second play is. And he was
Speaker 5: doing that.
Speaker 6: Impressed, so I was, I was pretty impressed.
Speaker 4: So we used to call that check with me. You know,
Speaker 4: it come to line of scrimmage with a play and
Speaker 4: you had a second player that if if they came
Speaker 4: up with a defensive front or configuration that didn't like,
Speaker 4: you know, immediately you'd you'd get out of that and
Speaker 4: get into that, uh, that more favorable snap. Right, So
Speaker 4: he's already doing that. He's already like double dipping players
Speaker 4: at the line of scrim Yeah, that's that's very impressive.
Speaker 4: Yet he's a smart guy.
Speaker 3: Isn't he.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's super smart. He's super calm. You know, he's
Speaker 5: in the huddle, it's he's very he's a nonchalant guy.
Speaker 5: You can tell he's been in the league for a
Speaker 5: really long time, and uh, you know, a good a
Speaker 5: good presence to have in the huddle.
Speaker 6: For sure.
Speaker 2: Did you take this move as a sign that the
Speaker 2: front office believes in the rest of the talent on
Speaker 2: the team and that you guys can still ultimately wind
Speaker 2: up where you intended to wind up when the season began.
Speaker 5: Definitely, I think that even even though we lost the
Speaker 5: last game, we scored twenty one points in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 5: and so, you know, there's signs of life there. It's
Speaker 5: just we needed to be more consistent, and uh, you know,
Speaker 5: they felt like Joe was a guy to do that,
Speaker 5: and you know, a guy with that much you know,
Speaker 5: a guy with that much experience under his belt and
Speaker 5: who's been in the big games and who's played everybody. Uh,
Speaker 5: you know, I don't think I think they made a
Speaker 5: good decision.
Speaker 6: There, for sure.
Speaker 4: You mentioned that you watched Joe Flack on television when
Speaker 4: you were like eight, you know, eight nine years old. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and I'm sure there's I mean, there's a lot of
Speaker 4: guys in the team that are in the same boat
Speaker 4: as you were. A lot of guys about the same
Speaker 4: answer as yourself. Yeah, with the Cincinnati Bengals, and certainly
Speaker 4: is an old foot is not an old football team? Right.
Speaker 4: What's like when you're in the huddle and you look
Speaker 4: at the quarterback and it's like, I remember that guy.
Speaker 4: I remember them talking about that guy when I was
Speaker 4: a kid watching TV. He was the star quarterback. What's
Speaker 4: like playing with the star quarterback?
Speaker 6: It was a little it was cool.
Speaker 5: It was uh we were making jokes of like who's
Speaker 5: gonna ask for as autograph first? Like, oh, like, I'll
Speaker 5: pay you one hundred bucks to go after as for
Speaker 5: his autograph during the meeting or something, just making jokes
Speaker 5: like that.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 6: He's actually such a cool.
Speaker 5: Guy that, you know, once you get over kind of
Speaker 5: you know his history. He you know, talks like a
Speaker 5: literary dude, walks like a regular dude, very down to
Speaker 5: earth guy. I didn't really expect that, to be honest.
Speaker 2: Just before you joined us. We were kind of talking
Speaker 2: about the state of affairs in the AFC North. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Steelers are three and one, but the Jersey and the
Speaker 2: jury's still a little bit out there. The Ravens are
Speaker 2: one and four with a bunch of injuries. The Browns
Speaker 2: are one and four and obviously they've got their issues.
Speaker 2: Obviously this move is intended to put you right back
Speaker 2: in the hunt with a record of two and three
Speaker 2: and nobody running away with a division.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I think they made the right choice.
Speaker 5: They've you know, I mean, he's played for every other
Speaker 5: AFC North team except for the Steelers, right, So it's
Speaker 5: a guy who's been around, who knows what AFC North
Speaker 5: football is like, knows how to beat these teams. And
Speaker 5: I think I think he just I think he has
Speaker 5: it and once he gets really the playbook down, then
Speaker 5: I think are often should be moving like a machine.
Speaker 4: What did you think and what are your teammates? What'd
Speaker 4: your teammates think? When you guys got together in the
Speaker 4: locker room and talked about the fact that the Bengals
Speaker 4: made a deal with the Cleveland Browns AFC North rival.
Speaker 4: Back when I was playing AFC Central Division rival, I mean,
Speaker 4: so the Cleveland Browns to make a deal for for
Speaker 4: Mike Brown to make a deal.
Speaker 3: With ownership of the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 4: For a quarterback when Cleveland knows that they're struggling at
Speaker 4: the quarterback position and really need one, and they provided it.
Speaker 4: How unusual is that?
Speaker 5: It was kind of weird for me because I was like, Okay,
Speaker 5: we must have traded somebody, right, And then I just
Speaker 5: saw we traded our our sixth round pick or fifth.
Speaker 2: Round or something, right, traded the fifth got us sixth right,
Speaker 2: so they basically lost thirty spots.
Speaker 6: In the right and then we got Joe and their pick.
Speaker 5: So I'm not really sure what was set in the
Speaker 5: back end there, right. Uh you know, I guess they
Speaker 5: believe in their young dudes. Well, the starting quarter for
Speaker 5: the for the Browns actually is from Hawaii. I'm rooting
Speaker 5: for I never would have wanted them to beat us,
Speaker 5: but rooting for him.
Speaker 3: So there you go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess I guess it was a little It
Speaker 5: was weird a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, we're gonna take a time out. Our
Speaker 2: special guest is wide receiver Andre Yo c Bosh. When
Speaker 2: we come back, we'll hear from his teammate t Higgins.
Speaker 2: What Tea had to say about number eighty. This is
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Speaker 2: The Bengals taking on the Green Bay Packers this Sunday
Speaker 2: at lambeau Field. Lovely Lombo, Andre Yosi Vosh coming off
Speaker 2: a terrific game for Cincinnati last week, five marches eighty
Speaker 2: two yards against the Detroit Lions, and we're going to
Speaker 2: hear from one of his teammates. This is a comment
Speaker 2: little exchange I had with T Higgins prior to this
Speaker 2: season talking about our special guest tonight, Andre Yosi Vosh.
Speaker 2: Here's tea tea. This time last year, I remember a
Speaker 2: lot of guys were talking about Yosi Vosh and how
Speaker 2: much improvement he had made. You seen another step in
Speaker 2: Andre this year?
Speaker 7: Oh man, hell, you you know Yoshi, I don't he
Speaker 7: teaching me things? And it's it's it's night and day
Speaker 7: from from this from last year to this year. And
Speaker 7: y'all gonna see, y'all gonna see this year, Yoshi's gonna
Speaker 7: really gonna come.
Speaker 4: On this ship.
Speaker 2: He's teaching you things.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: I have to always learn from the other receivers, you.
Speaker 3: Know what I mean.
Speaker 7: I learned from Chase, I learned from Charlie, I learned
Speaker 7: from Jamain, I learned from everybody, and just do anything
Speaker 7: to put, you know, put in my bag.
Speaker 2: So so if he's taking those kinds of strides, knowing
Speaker 2: that the Bengals have the best one two punch in
Speaker 2: the league with you and Jamar, it's this three headed monster.
Speaker 7: Definitely could be you know, That's what we're looking forward
Speaker 7: to doing. Obviously, y'all see him. He's got bigger, and
Speaker 7: he got stronger. He didn't got faster, he's twitchier, and
Speaker 7: he's just he know everything right now.
Speaker 4: And man, it's just it's been great.
Speaker 3: To see.
Speaker 2: What to mean to you and you hear t speaking
Speaker 2: to you that way.
Speaker 6: It's nice to hear it because you know, coming into
Speaker 6: the league.
Speaker 5: Uh, he was someone I looked up to still is
Speaker 5: and it's just a credit to the work that I've
Speaker 5: put in every off.
Speaker 6: Season since I've been in the league. And it's nice
Speaker 6: to hear. But I still have a long way to go.
Speaker 4: So you have worked. I mean I've watched you with
Speaker 4: your workouts. You work hard. You are bigger, faster, stronger, twitchier,
Speaker 4: more flexible. You know, team team notices, the teammates noticed that,
Speaker 4: coaches noticed it.
Speaker 3: What do you do? I mean, you go to Hawaii
Speaker 3: for part of the off season.
Speaker 6: Don't you like for two weeks.
Speaker 3: A couple of weeks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So do you work out with somebody at Hawaii
Speaker 4: or who do you work out with here? Who's been
Speaker 4: who's been the reason or part of the reason that
Speaker 4: your body has transformed into what it's what it is now.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, when I go back to Hawaii, that's that's my
Speaker 5: true vacation time.
Speaker 6: So I'll take two weeks off.
Speaker 5: And just hang out with my family and my friends.
Speaker 5: But I go to train in Atlanta with a receiver coach.
Speaker 5: His name is Drew Lieberman, and he trains guys like
Speaker 5: a tight end. Evan Ingram, Darius Slayton, train with Jacobe Meyers,
Speaker 5: all those guys. So he's really helped me just fundamentally
Speaker 5: with my with my strength and my legs being able
Speaker 5: to cut break and I obviously I just left really
Speaker 5: really hard every day too.
Speaker 6: So all that combined is is good for me.
Speaker 4: Do you think that the off season, I'm you know,
Speaker 4: I remember Paul Brown, the legendary first coach, founder of
Speaker 4: the Cincinnati Bengals. I remember he said to me at
Speaker 4: the end of my rookie year. He said, I recommend
Speaker 4: that you stay in Cincinnati and you work hard. I said, well,
Speaker 4: I'm not going to be staying in Cincinnati. Coach got
Speaker 4: a place back in Massachusetts. But I have a guy
Speaker 4: that that I'm going to be working with. Yeah, and
Speaker 4: he said, well I'll can Can you have him contact
Speaker 4: our strength coach and give you the program that we
Speaker 4: want you to work on and work through. And I said, yeah, sure,
Speaker 4: and that was the smartest thing I ever did. And
Speaker 4: then the next year had first child, stayed in Cincinnati
Speaker 4: and worked out with the Bengal strength and conditioning coach.
Speaker 4: I'm telling you, man, when you when you work hard
Speaker 4: in the offseason and make strides, it carries over the
Speaker 4: regular season.
Speaker 3: Your numbers are going to go up. There's no doubt.
Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely, I think.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm just a guy that is not even
Speaker 5: I'm not comfortable if I'm not working hard. So that's
Speaker 5: kind of how I am. Yeah, you know, I mean
Speaker 5: I'd take those two weeks off, but if I'm not
Speaker 5: working hard, I am not happy.
Speaker 3: Because you're permitted those two weeks.
Speaker 2: You know everybody, and with Drew Lieberman, it's not just
Speaker 2: strength and conditioning. He is a wide receiver guru. You
Speaker 2: and Chase Brown went to see him together, correct, and
Speaker 2: now you've kind of become pied pipers for the Bengals.
Speaker 2: Charlie Jones saw the improvements you guys made. He went
Speaker 2: Kendrick Pryor went correct. So clearly the work that you,
Speaker 2: you and Chase did with Drew has had a big
Speaker 2: impact on the team in general.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think you know, it's the receiver culture can
Speaker 5: be weird because you see all these Instagram videos of
Speaker 5: guys doing cone work and oh that looks nice. Oh
Speaker 5: that guy's so twitchy and he's fast. But a lot
Speaker 5: of that Instagram stuff is just for Instagram. It's like
Speaker 5: it's like we call it, uh, we call it receiver
Speaker 5: aerobics because it's just some guys just doing drills around
Speaker 5: cones and they're not actually getting better.
Speaker 6: And so I've found that.
Speaker 5: I've I found Drew because he was he I was
Speaker 5: like stalking Instagram pages of coaches I wanted to work with,
Speaker 5: and he made Evan Ingram hold a plank for as
Speaker 5: long as he possibly could, and I said, oh, that's
Speaker 5: that's like a little bit different. I think that definitely
Speaker 5: attracted me to him. And then we had a conversation
Speaker 5: and then, uh, yeah, now we have a great relationship.
Speaker 3: So Troy Walter is your wide receiver coach. Uh.
Speaker 4: He works you guys very hard, and he said that
Speaker 4: I love working with Andre Josevac told me because of
Speaker 4: your work ethic, it's like you can never give them
Speaker 4: too much. You know, He'll he'll accomplish it and look
Speaker 4: at you like, is that all there is? Isn't there anymore?
Speaker 4: And he said, you know, he's the hardest, the hardest
Speaker 4: working guy I've ever been around. And he played himself
Speaker 4: in the National Football League and he played with great
Speaker 4: receivers and great quarterbacks, so he knows of what he speaks.
Speaker 4: What does that make me feel like when you hear
Speaker 4: that kind of a compliment from your wide receiver coach
Speaker 4: who played.
Speaker 3: In the NFL.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's I mean, it's great.
Speaker 5: And I have a lot of respect for coach Troit too,
Speaker 5: so we're always talking. I think like as I've grown
Speaker 5: older and started, you know, he really sees my work
Speaker 5: ethic and how much I love the game, he starts
Speaker 5: to respect me more. And so we have a really
Speaker 5: great relationship and I'm glad that he sees I'm glad
Speaker 5: the coaches see it. Because I only have so much
Speaker 5: time in the league, and especially coming into an offense
Speaker 5: with already so many weapons, I figured I had to
Speaker 5: make my way somewhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah, five catches eighty two yards last week against Detroit.
Speaker 2: That statistical games so far this year. Obviously, Jamar and
Speaker 2: t command a lot of attention from opposing defenses. Did
Speaker 2: you feel like that was a step forward in terms of, hey,
Speaker 2: let's use Andre Moore if other teams are going to
Speaker 2: devote so much attention to those two.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I've always internally felt like that. I'm
Speaker 5: not always a guy to like, you know, there's so
Speaker 5: many guys asking for targets and said, okay, here's another
Speaker 5: dude asking for a target. But so I just try
Speaker 5: to get open every every route I can, every winning
Speaker 5: route I need to win, which I do, and if
Speaker 5: I keep constantly putting it on film, people will see it,
Speaker 5: the coaches will see it, and I think that definitely
Speaker 5: last week was a big step forward for me.
Speaker 4: Jamar Chase triple crown receptions, yards, touchdowns led the National
Speaker 4: Football League across the board, established himself as one of
Speaker 4: the greatest of all time, if not the greatest. T
Speaker 4: Higgins six or four plus two hundred and twenty pounds plus,
Speaker 4: very unique, twitchy for such a big guy, incredible hands,
Speaker 4: hand strength good and and then Andre Josi Bosh the
Speaker 4: third receiver. Slot receiver can move either side of the
Speaker 4: football field, and the sock can play outside as well.
Speaker 4: And is that one of the big biggest attributes with
Speaker 4: your wide receiver corps that your quarterbacks appreciate the versatility
Speaker 4: that each and every one of you guys possessed.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's I mean, because me and Jamar
Speaker 5: and team will sometimes play in the slot too, but
Speaker 5: if you have Jamar moving around, it confuses the defense.
Speaker 5: And so I'm the guy I honestly was more comfortable
Speaker 5: on the outside, and then last year was my first
Speaker 5: time in the slot. I mean, I think it's really
Speaker 5: expanding my game, which I'm really grateful for. But if
Speaker 5: you can just move Jamar anywhere on the field, the
Speaker 5: defense will have to shift. You can tell what they're
Speaker 5: trying to do, and it just makes the life of
Speaker 5: the quarterback and the offensive coordinator a lot easier. So
Speaker 5: it's great that we can all we're all so diverse.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, big challenge this week at Green Bay. The
Speaker 2: first two weeks of the season, it looked like the
Speaker 2: Packers had the best defense in the NFL. It's hasn't
Speaker 2: been quite as tough since, but still, the crowd noise
Speaker 2: is going to be intense, and they've got Micah Parsons
Speaker 2: and you guys are gonna have to play well yeah.
Speaker 5: I think we're ready for the challenge. Like I said,
Speaker 5: at the in the fourth quarter of the Lions game,
Speaker 5: we scored twenty one points, so it's it's there for
Speaker 5: the taking. We just need to be more consistent, and
Speaker 5: I think we're making it a big point to just
Speaker 5: you know, really, you know, hammer the details, communicate as
Speaker 5: much as we can take the players that are there.
Speaker 5: And you know, we have a good team. We have
Speaker 5: a bunch of good players on offense. Our defense is
Speaker 5: honestly playing great. I think sometimes like the offense will
Speaker 5: put them in bad situations with short fields and all
Speaker 5: that kind of stuff, so they're really they're holding their
Speaker 5: own for what they've given. And once we all put
Speaker 5: it together, I think people will be People won't right off.
Speaker 6: The Bengals, for sure.
Speaker 4: The Green Bay Packers offensively, like you said, they have
Speaker 4: a lot of a lot of good players. That's a
Speaker 4: solid group, Iden. I mean their quarterback is capable of
Speaker 4: putting up big numbers. I mean he can have big games.
Speaker 4: They seem to just every position. Group might not be loaded,
Speaker 4: but more than solid, you know. So, and then you
Speaker 4: then you add in, like we're just just talking about
Speaker 4: earlier crowd noise. I remember there's a player going up
Speaker 4: there now, and it's no joke playing up there in
Speaker 4: Green Bay with a with an unbelievable amount of crowd noise,
Speaker 4: you can't hear yourself think. I mean, at the end
Speaker 4: of the game, you end up with a with a
Speaker 4: headache for crying out loud. Yeah, you know, because the
Speaker 4: crowd is uh is so deafening in such a pain
Speaker 4: in the butt, uh, And they pride themselves on it,
Speaker 4: no question about it. What's it like playing in that
Speaker 4: in that in those conditions.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the first the first time I ever felt like
Speaker 5: that was last year at Arrowhead and then the Ravens
Speaker 5: Thursday night game where you actually can't you can't hear
Speaker 5: what the right backs saying, right, so you bet you
Speaker 5: gotta hope you hear like one part of the play
Speaker 5: call and hope you remember you ran it on Thursday's practice, right,
Speaker 5: and you're like, okay, Jamar's here, Te's here, all right,
Speaker 5: so he's motioning that means I got.
Speaker 2: To run this. You know.
Speaker 5: It's sometimes it comes down to remembering the play that
Speaker 5: you ran one time on a Wednesday practice, and so
Speaker 5: that's just that's that's why those home and away games.
Speaker 6: I think it makes Copeball really fun.
Speaker 2: To be sure it is going to be fun on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Lambeau is a special place. Bengals haven't been there for
Speaker 2: eight years. They do have three wins on the road
Speaker 2: over the years against the Packers. We'll see if they
Speaker 2: get number four this Sunday at four to twenty five.
Speaker 2: We're going to take a time out when we come back.
Speaker 2: We'll hear from offensive coordinator Dan Pitcher speaking about our
Speaker 2: special guest, andre Yosi Vash. The Bengals Game Plan Show
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Speaker 2: with our special guest in the first hour, Bengals third
Speaker 2: year wide receiver andre Yosi Vash. Let's hear from Bengals
Speaker 2: offensive coordinator Dan Pitcher speaking about tonight's special guest.
Speaker 8: He's the perfect example of a guy that you take
Speaker 8: late in the draft because of his physical gifts.
Speaker 2: He's got tremendous intelligence.
Speaker 8: Right, So you got a smart guy with physical gifts
Speaker 8: coming from a small school entering the big pond, right
Speaker 8: and having to figure out what that means and the
Speaker 8: physicality that comes with that and the consistency that we
Speaker 8: need out of him to be the passing attack that
Speaker 8: we want to be. So he makes a jump from
Speaker 8: year one to two, now from two to three. You
Speaker 8: see the confidence, you see the chest out, you see
Speaker 8: just how he carries himself like he believes that he's
Speaker 8: like those other two guys, and he's making steps to
Speaker 8: get there. And in a lot of other buildings he
Speaker 8: would have the opportunity that at T. Higgins has And
Speaker 8: so when you don't have that same volume, he knows
Speaker 8: that when the ball does come his way, he's got
Speaker 8: to take advantage of it. And I just think you've
Speaker 8: seen the confidence grow, super proud of his progression, and
Speaker 8: I think you're only going to see him continue.
Speaker 3: To get better.
Speaker 2: What was the adjustment like Princeton to the NFL.
Speaker 5: I would say that, I mean, it's not a different game,
Speaker 5: it's just football, but there's definitely a lot more nuance
Speaker 5: and you know, the windows are tighter, you know, it's
Speaker 5: a lot more physical.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 5: They didn't man me up single too much in the
Speaker 5: IVY League, so every time they would we were just
Speaker 5: bombing on them. But I think, you know, if you're
Speaker 5: a good player, good athlete, you should be able to adapt.
Speaker 5: I think it's a different game, but it's principally it's
Speaker 5: the same. So it wasn't too It wasn't too big
Speaker 5: of a jump for me.
Speaker 4: To have your offensive coordinator, Dan Pitcher, fellow IVY leaguer
Speaker 4: by the way, have the amount of confidence that he
Speaker 4: has in you as a football player and more more
Speaker 4: specifically as a wide receiver that it's like, hey, he's
Speaker 4: one of our four. It's I'm good with whatever they do.
Speaker 4: They can't cover everybody, they can't double everybody. You know,
Speaker 4: Yoshi's gonna have one on one matchups. He's gonna crush you.
Speaker 4: He's gonna beat him. He's gonna beat him to death.
Speaker 4: What is it like to have a coordinator that has
Speaker 4: that much confidence in you?
Speaker 5: Well, it's great because I have that confidence in myself too.
Speaker 5: So it's it's just about putting it on film and
Speaker 5: having them see it and then understand like where I
Speaker 5: can win and how I can help the game plan.
Speaker 5: And I think if everyone's on the same page about
Speaker 5: that stuff, it's just going to help our team win.
Speaker 6: So I'm happy with it.
Speaker 2: What was your draft experience? Like Dan reference that you know,
Speaker 2: the Bengals took you in the later round seeing your
Speaker 2: potential right and thought that that would be a good move.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was. It was a long day.
Speaker 5: I was very happy to get drafted because the Bengals
Speaker 5: were the only team that took me on an official visit,
Speaker 5: I guess, but I thought my agent was like, oh,
Speaker 5: you're gonna go from like the fourth to the fifth,
Speaker 5: and so I was waiting for Day three. But day
Speaker 5: three is a long day, sure, and so I was
Speaker 5: waiting hours and hours, and it was pretty much the
Speaker 5: Saints or the Bengals, and the Saints are like.
Speaker 6: We're gonna pick you here, bro, We're gonna pick you here.
Speaker 5: And I was like, I don't know, man, it's been
Speaker 5: like four hours, bro, Like, I don't know if I
Speaker 5: can do it. So I remember, I was so anxious.
Speaker 5: I had to like put my phone down. I told someone,
Speaker 5: if someone calls me, just run the phone out here.
Speaker 5: So I was just playing catch with my dad outside
Speaker 5: because I couldn't watch the TV anymore. I was also
Speaker 5: getting mad because I thought that was better than a
Speaker 5: lot of the other guys.
Speaker 6: But at that point, so many were picked that I
Speaker 6: didn't want to keep up anymore. Right, And once I
Speaker 6: got picked it it was a great weight.
Speaker 5: Off my shoulders and I was happy to be in Cincy.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: That drives you crazy, one. You know you're better When
Speaker 4: guys are coming off the board, it's like, oh, man,
Speaker 4: I could smoke that, dude, Come on, what do you
Speaker 4: what do you guys see.
Speaker 5: They had the IVY They had the IVY League bias.
Speaker 5: I couldn't couldn't fault them for it. Yeah, it's like
Speaker 5: why I picked someone in the IVY League when there's
Speaker 5: someone with similar trades who played in the ACC or something.
Speaker 2: So I understood it, but didn't have similar traits at
Speaker 2: that point. I mean, by then, your traits were far
Speaker 2: superior to the other guys. Yeah, on the board. So
Speaker 2: there was an IVY League bias.
Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely, So I kind of understood that.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you there there's an IVY League bias. I
Speaker 3: know that.
Speaker 4: When I was coming out of high school, all the
Speaker 4: IVY League schools I got recruited by and it.
Speaker 3: Came down to Harvard or Princeton.
Speaker 4: And decided that if I was gonna go to the
Speaker 4: IVY League, it was going to be Harvard, but decided
Speaker 4: not to do it and went to Syracuse, and uh,
Speaker 4: you know it's you get you gotta, you gotta coach
Speaker 4: like Troy Walters who played in the National Football League,
Speaker 4: who was a really good receiver with the Colts and
Speaker 4: others in the National Football League. The ward on him
Speaker 4: was quarterbacks could always rely on he was going to
Speaker 4: run the exact route exactly the way it should be,
Speaker 4: I mean, with precision, never never made a mistake, never
Speaker 4: blew an assignment, Reliable, dependable, accountable, all of those, all
Speaker 4: of those kind of things, all of those abilities that
Speaker 4: are you know, good abilities that you need to have.
Speaker 4: What's it like being coached by a guy like him
Speaker 4: who knows exactly what it's like, exactly what you're experiencing
Speaker 4: on a day to day basis trying to become the
Speaker 4: best you can be in the NFL.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it makes it a lot easier going to work
Speaker 5: every day because you have somebody who understands you as
Speaker 5: a person, understands what you're going through understands the game.
Speaker 5: And so you know, if you have somebody who's never
Speaker 5: played the position, they'll be like, oh, you're supposed to
Speaker 5: run the round this way against this leverage whatever, but
Speaker 5: they don't really know what they're talking about. Was Troy,
Speaker 5: you can kind of you believe him because he's seen it.
Speaker 5: He's seen a lot of football and he's played the position,
Speaker 5: so he knows when it's a very unfavorable position to win,
Speaker 5: and he knows when you should be winning.
Speaker 6: And I think that this makes life easy.
Speaker 2: All right, We're going to take a time out. When
Speaker 2: we come back, We'll talk to Andre about being a blonde.
Speaker 2: This is the Bengals game plan or Live at game
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Speaker 6: Seats.
Speaker 2: Yose goes high and comes down to the ball, a
Speaker 2: great catch by Yosi Vosh at the twenty two yard
Speaker 2: line of Detroit.
Speaker 4: Yosi Vosh is saying, Hey, you know what, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: get an opportunity to make a play. I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 4: I'm not quitting on this game. I'm not quitting on
Speaker 4: my team.
Speaker 2: That was one of five catches for Andre last week
Speaker 2: against the Detroit Lions, and we're looking for that and
Speaker 2: more this week as the Bengals take on the Green
Speaker 2: Bay Packers at lambeau Field. It's a four to twenty
Speaker 2: five kick this Sunday. Andrea is our special guest tonight
Speaker 2: here in the Bengals Game Plan Show presented by Bud Light.
Speaker 2: We appreciate the full house that we have yes for
Speaker 2: tonight's show. I know a lot of folks loving the
Speaker 2: opportunity to get autographs, some pictures with Andrea Yosi Bach,
Speaker 2: particularly now with these blonde locks. So last year prior
Speaker 2: to training camp, Joe Burrow with the buzz cut platinum blonde. Look,
Speaker 2: you didn't go buzz cut, but you can go kind
Speaker 2: of frosty tips. Yeah, it's getting a little darker now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, a little summertime, Like I was just bored too,
Speaker 5: so I just was like, okay, I'll die.
Speaker 6: I used to die.
Speaker 5: I used to buzz my hair and bleach it actually
Speaker 5: every summer when I was a kid. Yeah, people used
Speaker 5: to call me lemonhead and back when I was a
Speaker 5: kid because that's what I would always do.
Speaker 6: I don't think I'll ever go back to that. But
Speaker 6: those are fun times for sure.
Speaker 4: So you're a very skilled athlete. I mean you're a triathlete, right,
Speaker 4: athlete the catholic.
Speaker 3: So that's ten events, ten events, pull vault, But what
Speaker 3: is there?
Speaker 4: Liked jump, running, broad jump, discus, shop, all of it. Right,
Speaker 4: that's running, running events and all that. Being a track
Speaker 4: and field guy like you have been. And you started
Speaker 4: doing that at a pretty young age, right, I mean
Speaker 4: you you started getting.
Speaker 5: Run and jumping and doing all that stuff.
Speaker 4: Okay, So how has that helped you to become a
Speaker 4: better football player? How does how do those kind of
Speaker 4: that kind of skill set when those kinds of skills
Speaker 4: transfer on a football field.
Speaker 5: I mean, just being able to run and jump, I
Speaker 5: think is a big thing. Just being a fluid It's
Speaker 5: like being a fluid athlete, fast and kind of understanding.
Speaker 5: I think I was blessed with this, but understanding kind
Speaker 5: of like myself in space, like in the air. As
Speaker 5: a pole vaulter, I felt like I picked that up
Speaker 5: really fast, and I was one of the best pall
Speaker 5: vaulters for a decathlete in the country. Really yeah, just
Speaker 5: and I barely even practiced it. I just went and
Speaker 5: did it. So I guess I just was blessed to
Speaker 5: have everything that culminates into being a good athlete. Strong, fast, yeah,
Speaker 5: and a big body.
Speaker 2: You know. I always wonder with people that pull vault, Yeah,
Speaker 2: what's it like the first time, because that's one of
Speaker 2: those things that you can't pitch. You're doing right, sprinting,
Speaker 2: jamming a pole into the ground and jumping over a post,
Speaker 2: you know, twice above your head.
Speaker 5: My well so growing up in Hawaii and my uh,
Speaker 5: we call him uncle, but he was like a very
Speaker 5: close family friend. He he competed for the US in
Speaker 5: the World Championships as a pole vaulter, so I always
Speaker 5: had kind of had him in the back of my head, like, oh,
Speaker 5: be it to Kathy be a pole vaulter.
Speaker 6: I was like, I don't want to do that.
Speaker 5: So I think I first did it maybe like seventh grade.
Speaker 5: He coached at my middle school, and then I stopped
Speaker 5: in eighth grade, and then I picked it back up
Speaker 5: in tenth grade, and then I stopped because I didn't
Speaker 5: really love it that much. It was fun, but I
Speaker 5: just wanted to run, so yeah, it was it was,
Speaker 5: it was, It was good, and I I have a
Speaker 5: whole in in my sophomore year of college. I broke
Speaker 5: the poll and uh so I went to plant and
Speaker 5: I pulled back too much on it. If you pull
Speaker 5: back instead of planning it and pushing up, all the
Speaker 5: force comes back right into the wall and I did
Speaker 5: like a backflip and it was pretty scary.
Speaker 6: Yeah, other than that, it's fun.
Speaker 2: The final event is a distance run.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Is it sixteen hundred meters? Yeah?
Speaker 6: So the indoors one thousand, outdoors fifteen hundred.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So you've competed in these nine things into the catalon, Yeah,
Speaker 2: sprinting four high hurdles, I mean grueling in and of itself.
Speaker 2: And then they save the longest run for last.
Speaker 5: Ye.
Speaker 2: No brutal is that event.
Speaker 6: Nobody wants to be there at that point.
Speaker 5: Everybody's dead tired, and everyone's just it sucks if you're
Speaker 5: like neck and neck with somebody in the in the
Speaker 5: point differential and you actually have to run a fast
Speaker 5: fifteen hundred and you're like, oh my god, like I
Speaker 5: really don't want.
Speaker 6: To do this.
Speaker 5: It's a because you're not supposed to so you're not
Speaker 5: supposed to train it necessarily a lot, because you that's
Speaker 5: you turning your slow twitch muscle, right, So everybody there's
Speaker 5: kind of just lugging around the track until until they're
Speaker 5: finally you're helping.
Speaker 2: You have a big point leader.
Speaker 5: Yeah jog yeah yeah, because even that point jogging it
Speaker 5: is still super tiring.
Speaker 6: So yeah, no, no, yeah, it's not fun. That's not
Speaker 6: fun at all.
Speaker 4: Let me so, have you ever run a marathon? Have
Speaker 4: you been crazy enough to run America?
Speaker 5: Those guys are crazy art, Yeah, they're they're there.
Speaker 3: What's the longest distance race that you've ever run?
Speaker 6: Fifteen?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean in high school I never went over
Speaker 5: four hundreds, so really.
Speaker 6: That was a big I was really scared of.
Speaker 4: That's a gut race though, one lap as fast as
Speaker 4: you can around the track.
Speaker 3: I mean that is a gut check right there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, all the latic acid builds up and you're just
Speaker 5: swinging your arms and hoping you're making it to the
Speaker 5: finish line.
Speaker 4: Yeays are crazy, man. And we have a a Larry Roberts,
Speaker 4: a basketball player track star, and he one of his specialties.
Speaker 3: Was the four hundred yards for the meeting. Unbelievable to
Speaker 3: watch that guy.
Speaker 4: I mean he would draw a crowd because I mean
Speaker 4: he'd win by twenty five yards, I mean blow people away,
Speaker 4: and it's like this guy's a freaking machine man that's
Speaker 4: not a human being.
Speaker 6: Super super impressive to wash guys who can just sprint for.
Speaker 5: A whole last Yeah, it's pretty amazing.
Speaker 6: It's amazing.
Speaker 3: I mean he came out of the gate like it
Speaker 3: was one hundred yard dad.
Speaker 6: And just kept it the whole way, the whole crazy nuts.
Speaker 2: All right, we need to take our final time out
Speaker 2: in this segment. When we come back, we will play
Speaker 2: America's favorite game show. Baby know your school have questions
Speaker 2: about Princeton University. Yes, Sir Corner, this is the Bengals
Speaker 2: Game Plan Show. We are live at game on on
Speaker 2: Chevy and Road. We're here until eight o'clock tonight. Andre
Speaker 2: Yosi Bosch is with us here for a few more minutes.
Speaker 2: We're presented by bud Light on ESPN fifteen thirty. We
Speaker 2: are live tonight. It came on Sports Bar here on
Speaker 2: Chevy at Road. It's the Bengals Game Plan Show presented
Speaker 2: by bud Light. We appreciate the Bengals for being here,
Speaker 2: the bud Light girls for being here. We appreciate the
Speaker 2: many Bengals fans who are with us. Tonight. We packed
Speaker 2: the joint tonight for our special guest, Andre Yosi Bosh.
Speaker 2: A lot of young ladies here tonight.
Speaker 3: One.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure they came see me and you. And
Speaker 2: as long as you know Andre's here, they'll go ahead
Speaker 2: and get an autographed in a picture as well.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 2: All right, this is going to be our final segment
Speaker 2: with Andre, and as is customary, it's time to play
Speaker 2: America's favorite game show. We call it Know Your School. Yes, sir,
Speaker 2: we got five questions about Princeton University. Andre must get
Speaker 2: at least five three.
Speaker 5: Excuse me, at least.
Speaker 2: Three out of five to be correct to be a winner.
Speaker 2: No audience clues, all right, Question number one. Two US
Speaker 2: presidents graduated from Princeton. He is not name neither one
Speaker 2: is the question, so that that does not cost you,
Speaker 2: David not one of them.
Speaker 6: Two presidents.
Speaker 2: Two presidents graduated from Princeton, according to the always reliable Wikipedia,
Speaker 2: And you have to name either one.
Speaker 6: That's that I actually don't know that.
Speaker 2: You'll never forget now, James Madison, Woodrow Wilson. Question, Oh, Taren,
Speaker 2: has the buzzer ready? Tea Tara in the studio. Question
Speaker 2: number two the first ever college football game was Princeton
Speaker 2: versus Rutgers within ten years. When was it played?
Speaker 6: Eighteen?
Speaker 2: That's correct, got the first two numbers, eighteen fIF.
Speaker 5: Seven sixty eighteen sixty nine two.
Speaker 2: That's a where to go. That's a point.
Speaker 3: Nice on the board, baby.
Speaker 2: Question number three, This is often a stumper, but you're
Speaker 2: a Princeton guy, so I like your chances more than most.
Speaker 2: What is the name of the main library on campus? Firestone?
Speaker 2: Ferstone is.
Speaker 4: Demand scholar athlete we're talking about. That's that's student athletes.
Speaker 2: Our SEC players never get that one right. Ivy leaguer
Speaker 2: nailed it. Question number four. Name the former Princeton basketball player, Oh,
Speaker 2: I know this one who helped the Tigers go to
Speaker 2: the Final four nineteen sixty five. Later won two NBA
Speaker 2: titles with the New York Next and was a senator
Speaker 2: in New Jersey from nineteen seventy nine to nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 3: Nice, good question.
Speaker 6: Oh lord, uh was a road.
Speaker 2: He was a Rhodes scholar as well. He won an
Speaker 2: Olympic gold medal as well. This is a completely this
Speaker 2: is my Princeton basketball team.
Speaker 5: He was.
Speaker 2: Princeton lost in the semifinals and he was the Final
Speaker 2: four MVP. That's how good he was.
Speaker 6: What is the name Star was? Was?
Speaker 2: The both and last names begin with B.
Speaker 4: His first name technically begins with a W, but the
Speaker 4: nickname is B B B so. And he shot from
Speaker 4: down here, he shot from his hip.
Speaker 9: There you go.
Speaker 2: Was their audience participation final question. You're already a winner?
Speaker 2: You got three right? Named the former Princeton offensive lineman
Speaker 2: played in the NFL for Buffalo, Washington, Dallas, and New England,
Speaker 2: who is currently a color commentator for CBS Sports and
Speaker 2: Westwood One. He also has a podcast.
Speaker 5: The only guy that I know is uh Keith Elias,
Speaker 5: who is a running back. He's a Good Morning Football
Speaker 5: a lineman.
Speaker 2: This guy talks about you all the time. Really yeah.
Speaker 2: He has an eponymous that's the word when it's named
Speaker 2: for you, eponymous podcast podcast. Have I met this guy?
Speaker 2: I think you have zoomed with him. I think he
Speaker 2: may be zoomed. I like that.
Speaker 6: This is bad. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Huh, all right, so I talked to this guy fairly regularly.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to tell him you didn't know. Yeah,
Speaker 2: in fact, they'll tell him you did know. He loves
Speaker 2: you even more Ross Tucker, he was alignman. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I always thought he was a running back, the.
Speaker 2: Ross. Yeah, I didn't know he was an he got
Speaker 2: three right. That was the assignment in.
Speaker 3: Nice. Nice.
Speaker 2: Are you excited to go to Lambeau? That's kind of
Speaker 2: a bucket list thing for fans. Is a players that
Speaker 2: a big deal for you?
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely, It's super historic, So I'm really excited to
Speaker 5: go beat them over there.
Speaker 3: That's what we liked, hear, that's the key.
Speaker 4: I was very fortunate to play at Lambeau as a
Speaker 4: player with the Bengals, but even doubly fortunate because we won.
Speaker 3: Yeah, win the game. It's a great playing flight home.
Speaker 6: Do a Lambou leap.
Speaker 3: Don't win me? No, I was no Lambeau leap. I
Speaker 3: have about a two inch vertical.
Speaker 4: They needed the Lambeau ladder, yeah, right, lap to do
Speaker 4: the Lambar lap the Lambo cream.
Speaker 2: Well, the good news is the tundra will not be frozen.
Speaker 2: Should be a great day, and like you said, it's
Speaker 2: gonna be even better when the Bengals bring home a win.
Speaker 2: Andre Yussi Vas, thank you so much. You're the minion
Speaker 2: here tonight. Thank you. That's Eric and Andre Yossi Vo.
Speaker 3: Thank you, sir, thank you.
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Speaker 2: ESPN fifteen thirty. I'm Dan Horde with Dave Lapham. We
Speaker 2: are live tonight at game on a sports bar on
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Speaker 2: Chevy at Road. Andre Yosi Boss joined us in the
Speaker 2: first hour of our show. We greatly appreciate that, and
Speaker 2: now we really turn our attention to Sunday's game on
Speaker 2: the road against the Green Bay Packers. Huge news yesterday
Speaker 2: broke that the Bengals have made a trade for quarterback
Speaker 2: Joe Flacco and he will start this week against Green Bay.
Speaker 2: Zach Taylor made that official earlier today. Let's hear a
Speaker 2: few of the things that the Bengals head coach had
Speaker 2: to say about his new QBA Joe Blacko.
Speaker 10: Played him a lot, watched him a lot, brings great
Speaker 10: great experience, great leadership. His style fits our style of
Speaker 10: play too, so excited to get him out there. We'll
Speaker 10: start him this week, so he's gonna take all the reps,
Speaker 10: get ready to go. Already spent a lot of time
Speaker 10: meeting with us, getting up to speed, so feel really
Speaker 10: good about where he's at. I mean, it's different than
Speaker 10: a young quarterback coming in trying to learn a system
Speaker 10: and understand what a defense is trying to do to
Speaker 10: challenge you. Not that, but he's played Green Bay this year,
Speaker 10: so he's already gone through a week of prep. So
Speaker 10: that's the nice part. Is now the communication and the
Speaker 10: weekly rhythm is maybe different, unique, but he's already prepared
Speaker 10: for this opponent, so he gets a chance to refresh
Speaker 10: himself on that well at the same time just learning
Speaker 10: our system and our terminology and our burbage and how
Speaker 10: we operate GULFSA knowing that he's playing now, he hasn't
Speaker 10: played there this year and so the crowd and noise
Speaker 10: and all that stuff is different. But at least he's
Speaker 10: got some experience pointing in him.
Speaker 2: He's a great pastor.
Speaker 10: And again, we've got to expand all areas of our
Speaker 10: offense to be better, to be able to efficient run
Speaker 10: the football, protect all that kind of stuff. But the
Speaker 10: number one trait you're looking for is a guy that
Speaker 10: can operate your system in for the football, and Joe
Speaker 10: has always been a tremendous passer in this league and
Speaker 10: I've seen it, and so now we've got treminous weapons
Speaker 10: that he can play around, and so I'm excited to
Speaker 10: watch him do it.
Speaker 2: Lap Jake Browning got three starts, unfortunately, simply didn't play well,
Speaker 2: certainly nothing close to what he showed two years ago
Speaker 2: when he got the opportunity to start seven games. So
Speaker 2: the rumor mill had started to turn. We heard the
Speaker 2: names Russell Wilson and Thomas Winston. They've both been on
Speaker 2: the bench for the New York Giants. Andy Dalton's name
Speaker 2: even popped up. He's backing up with the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 2: I'll be honest, I really had not heard of Joe
Speaker 2: Flacco being a possibility, So that part of it excite
Speaker 2: has surprised me, not the fact that they made a trade,
Speaker 2: but that he turned out to be the guy. What
Speaker 2: was your reaction and what can Joe Flaco do for
Speaker 2: this offense?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: My my initial reaction was, like we talked about earlier,
Speaker 4: I can't believe the Cleveland Browns decided to pull that,
Speaker 4: you know, pull it off, pull the trade. I just don't.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't understand why they They felt the uh, the
Speaker 4: urge to to help the Cincinnati Bengals win football games.
Speaker 4: The Bengals are struggling with the quarterback position. Jake Browning unfortunately,
Speaker 4: you know, the bottom fell out on him a little bit,
Speaker 4: and uh, and he's struggling and in the Cleveland Browns
Speaker 4: give the Bengals the way out and that that was
Speaker 4: just shocking to me.
Speaker 2: It really was.
Speaker 4: With that said, I think that Joe Flacco is going
Speaker 4: to do a really good job. I think that there
Speaker 4: are components here that that Joe can can really take
Speaker 4: advantage of and uh and and and make some make
Speaker 4: some noise in the in the division, in the conference,
Speaker 4: in the league.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 4: I I think I think he's got some magic left
Speaker 4: in that arm. I think he can he can make
Speaker 4: make throws that they were hoping Jake was going to
Speaker 4: be able to make for him and andre Yosi Vash
Speaker 4: talked about the deep ball. I mean, there's still a
Speaker 4: zip on that deep ball. RPM's and that bad boy,
Speaker 4: but it's it's catchable. It's it's you know, it's not
Speaker 4: it's not gonna break your hands.
Speaker 3: It's soft.
Speaker 4: You can tuck it and put it away, secure it,
Speaker 4: keep it from uh, keep from turning it over, and
Speaker 4: then you can concentrate on making moves and lateral movement,
Speaker 4: make people miss the yards after catch, yards after contact,
Speaker 4: score touchdowns.
Speaker 2: So when Jake Browning threw three touchdown passes in the
Speaker 2: fourth quarter last week and led the Bengals on touchdown
Speaker 2: drives on three straight series, I thought to my saying, Okay,
Speaker 2: this is the guy that we saw two years ago.
Speaker 2: Maybe this is a sign that he can get it
Speaker 2: going and you know, still hold things in check and
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow hopefully comes back. Then I heard him at
Speaker 2: his postgame news conference after the game, and he was
Speaker 2: so in his own head, you know, worried about costing
Speaker 2: the team the game. And yeah, I mean, the interception's hurt.
Speaker 2: But when I heard that, my mind kind of changed
Speaker 2: to thinking, I'm not sure that he's going to be
Speaker 2: able to get out of this anytime soon.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think getting in his own head is a
Speaker 4: good comment by you, Dan. You know, football, you're in
Speaker 4: a stude football guy. When guys do that, it's tough.
Speaker 4: It's tough to turn the worm. You know, it's tough
Speaker 4: to work yourself out of that kind of football depression.
Speaker 4: You know as such. You know, you look at tape
Speaker 4: after the game, it's like you're kicking yourself in the butt.
Speaker 4: You know, Oh my god, how did I miss that?
Speaker 4: How did I not see that? Look at he's wide open?
Speaker 4: How can I Why did I throw the ball where
Speaker 4: I threw the football? Why did I put the ball
Speaker 4: in jeopardy By doing what I did, I'm hurting the
Speaker 4: football team. Yeah, I think it was just in his
Speaker 4: own head to the point of man like I said,
Speaker 4: the bottom falling out and what do you do as coaches? Well,
Speaker 4: Zach Taylor and the organization decided Joe flackom make the
Speaker 4: call to Cleveland. Cleveland's willing to make the trade still
Speaker 4: stunning to me, can't believe it, but they did it,
Speaker 4: and hopefully it comes back to kick them in the
Speaker 4: butt multiple times here here.
Speaker 2: So the Bengals are two and three. We mentioned earlier
Speaker 2: that the Ravens are one and four, the Chiefs are
Speaker 2: two and three. The AFC really seems like it's attainable,
Speaker 2: particularly the AFC North, and you definitely had this sense
Speaker 2: in the locker room today that this has given everybody
Speaker 2: a lift. They didn't want to use those words and
Speaker 2: make Jake Browning feel even worse, right, but you could
Speaker 2: feel it in there today. Let's hear from a couple
Speaker 2: of Browns, Orlando Brown Junior and Chase Sprowed about the
Speaker 2: impact that this trade had today and hopefully has going forward.
Speaker 11: I think it's, you know, more so a message too
Speaker 11: from the front office and ownership, you know, letting the
Speaker 11: world know that you know that this is important to us,
Speaker 11: and we do see that we know that, and I
Speaker 11: imagine Joe Burrow will be back to at some point.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I think it shows that they want to win
Speaker 12: and winning as a priority.
Speaker 4: And yeah, I think making that move.
Speaker 12: I saw some stat online or something that they haven't
Speaker 12: made an indivision trade since like nineteen ninety nine. So
Speaker 12: I think it shows their commitment to this locker room,
Speaker 12: the coaching staff, and how much they believe in this team.
Speaker 2: So both Orlando and Chase clearly appreciating the fact that
Speaker 2: the front office didn't say, well, let's just hope it
Speaker 2: gets better, that they made a significant and abrupt move
Speaker 2: to try to change things right now, a.
Speaker 4: Historic move really, I mean nineteen ninety nine, like Chase
Speaker 4: Brown was saying, it is the last time that you know,
Speaker 4: a team made a move like that within the division.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's that's that's strong, that's a that's a
Speaker 4: big statement, you know, by the front office, by the
Speaker 4: general manager of the organization, ownership.
Speaker 3: It really is.
Speaker 4: I mean, they obviously were not when they when they
Speaker 4: looked at game tape, they didn't like what they saw
Speaker 4: the the you know, and and and Zach Taylor and
Speaker 4: Dan Pitcher, they all and other position coaches must have
Speaker 4: felt like we have to do something because there are
Speaker 4: players to be made out there and we're not making them.
Speaker 4: And and really the guy who is the uh, the
Speaker 4: leader of the orchestra is the quarterback. And the quarterback struggling,
Speaker 4: We're going to make a move there, unfortunately, and uh
Speaker 4: and see if it makes a difference for us.
Speaker 2: Now. I know a lot of people see the acquisition
Speaker 2: of Joe Flacco and they think, well, he's had a
Speaker 2: problem throwing intercessions in his career, and that's fair. But
Speaker 2: on the other hand, Jake was throwing the interceptions but
Speaker 2: also wasn't capitalizing on what was there. Joe Flacco is
Speaker 2: going to get the ball to a wide open Jamar
Speaker 2: Chase up. He's going to make the checkdown quicker than
Speaker 2: Jake had been making it. Yeah, and there might be
Speaker 2: a couple of interceptions, that's part of it, but he
Speaker 2: will take he will take advantage of more of the
Speaker 2: opportunities that unfortunately this year Jake has not been able
Speaker 2: to capitalize on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you know, look, I look at Joe
Speaker 4: Flacco's arm as gunslinger ish, you know, I mean, he
Speaker 4: can he can rip it down the football field, but
Speaker 4: without the negativity that you think about a gun slinger,
Speaker 4: you know, not like not like Winston where he just
Speaker 4: is going to fire no matter what, and and rip
Speaker 4: the ball down the football field and look around and boy,
Speaker 4: everybody see how strong my arm is.
Speaker 3: Man, I just ripped that thing down the football field,
Speaker 3: goodn't I?
Speaker 6: So?
Speaker 4: I mean it's a you know, you need more than
Speaker 4: that to play the quarterback position. A lot of great
Speaker 4: quarterbacks in the NFL did not have Howarzer's hanging off
Speaker 4: of their shoulder. You know, they didn't have a cannon.
Speaker 4: They weren't ripping the ball down the football field like that,
Speaker 4: but they threw with tremendous accuracy. And that's what I think.
Speaker 4: You know, Joe Flacco can do. Flacco can hit you
Speaker 4: in the right shoulder if that's what's necessary down the
Speaker 4: football field, left hip, whatever the case may be. Joe
Speaker 4: Flacco can put the football in tight spots. And when
Speaker 4: you're trying to get the ball down the field against
Speaker 4: tight coverage or decent coverage, that's important.
Speaker 2: Time for a quick time out. When we come back,
Speaker 2: we'll head to Green Bay and talk to the voice
Speaker 2: of the Packers, Wayne Larevie. This is the Bengals Game
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Speaker 2: at four twenty five at lambeau Field Historic lambeau Field,
Speaker 2: Lap and I looking forward to returning to lambeau for
Speaker 2: the first time in eight years, and also looking forward
Speaker 2: to seeing the voice of the Packers. Who's kind enough
Speaker 2: to join us tonight on our show, Wayne Laravi Man, Wayne,
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Bengals Game Plan Show. Appreciate you of
Speaker 2: taking some time out of your schedule to join us tonight.
Speaker 9: Great to be with you, guys. I wish I was
Speaker 9: there in person. It sounds like a good place to be.
Speaker 2: That is accurate, good food, frosty beverages, and a great
Speaker 2: crowd tonight. We appreciate the Bengals fans who are with
Speaker 2: us here tonight. So Wayne, let's start with maybe the
Speaker 2: biggest news in the early portion of the NFL season,
Speaker 2: and that was the Packers trade for Micah Parsons. Gave
Speaker 2: up a Pro bowler and a couple of first round
Speaker 2: draft for pat draft picks. Excuse me, but it makes sense.
Speaker 2: Mike is in his prime, might be the best defensive
Speaker 2: player in the league. He's right up there with Miles
Speaker 2: Garrett and maybe one or two others. What has that
Speaker 2: done for the Green Bay Packers defense and chances of
Speaker 2: winning a Super Bowl?
Speaker 9: Yeah, well, you know what it's made. It's given that
Speaker 9: defense as certain swagger that maybe it didn't have before.
Speaker 9: It was a good defense last year. There's no question,
Speaker 9: a top ten defense, but they feel Micah Parsons can
Speaker 9: maybe push them over the top. He gives them, you know,
Speaker 9: he makes the four man rush effective in terms of
Speaker 9: pass rush, and that's something that they struggled with year ago.
Speaker 9: And Jeff Hafley, the defensive coordinated, at a tremendous job
Speaker 9: of generating pass rush pressure and getting sacked, but he
Speaker 9: had to do it with blitzing and that type of thing.
Speaker 9: They're more prone today to be a four man pass rush,
Speaker 9: and that's what they were hoping to be when all
Speaker 9: this whole thing was put together, and so Micah Parson,
Speaker 9: and he makes the people around him better. You know,
Speaker 9: up until last week, Rashan Gary was leading the league
Speaker 9: in sacks, and you know that's that's the difference. Having
Speaker 9: Parsons on one side and Gary on the other side
Speaker 9: makes Rashan Gary much more effective because he's not facing
Speaker 9: as many double teams right on way.
Speaker 4: And there's no doubt, I mean, I bet when when
Speaker 4: the trade was made for Shawn Garry was probably the
Speaker 4: most appreciative guy in the organization. It's like, man, finally
Speaker 4: I got somebody else on the other side that's gonna
Speaker 4: take take some of the pressure off and he'll be
Speaker 4: facing a lot of the double teams. When I watched
Speaker 4: the Green Bay Packers defense on tape, I'll tell you
Speaker 4: the Parson is pretty stout in the running game.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: He plays the run. He doesn't, you know, he doesn't
Speaker 4: just kind of show up or really not show up
Speaker 4: for a couple of snaps and then hope, hope for
Speaker 4: a third and a long and see if I can
Speaker 4: sack a quarterback and increase my sack numbers. Run a
Speaker 4: big total on sacks for the season. This guy's a
Speaker 4: complete football player. He plays both sides of the Dubney.
Speaker 9: Yeah, he does. And you know that's something he kind
Speaker 9: of got a bad rapt by Kerry Jones about his
Speaker 9: run defense. But you know what we've seen, he's been
Speaker 9: very solid in holding the edge and making plays in
Speaker 9: the running game. So that's helped a lot. I mean,
Speaker 9: the Packers are giving up seventy seven yards rushing, second
Speaker 9: in the league. You know, they had a little bit
Speaker 9: more of a rough day in Dallas. Dallas got a
Speaker 9: season high one hundred and seventeen rushing yards against them,
Speaker 9: But that game was a track meet, so you know,
Speaker 9: I don't know how much you can put into the
Speaker 9: defensive figures of that game.
Speaker 2: The voice of the Packers, Wayne Larabee, is our guest.
Speaker 2: Green Bay opened with very impressive wins over Detroit and Washington.
Speaker 2: Attention was growing. People were talking about this team as
Speaker 2: a real Super Bowl favorite. Then they laid an egg
Speaker 2: in Cleveland. What happened in that Cleveland game.
Speaker 9: You know, Dan, I mean they had control of that game,
Speaker 9: they really did. I mean, they were struggling offensively. Cleveland's
Speaker 9: defensive line dominated the Packers offensive line. The Packers have
Speaker 9: had some injuries in their offensive line, Zach Tom probably
Speaker 9: their best offensive line, been played one play in that
Speaker 9: game and went out with an injury that he came
Speaker 9: into the game with. Meanwhile, you know the left guard,
Speaker 9: you know Banks, whom they acquired from San Francisco, kind
Speaker 9: of a road grader in the running game, Aaron Banks.
Speaker 9: He's missed seven He's missed seven games last year and
Speaker 9: he's missed two now this year. So having components of
Speaker 9: the offensive line down and having to shuffle that line
Speaker 9: against the Cleveland front that you guys saw opening I
Speaker 9: believe it was Opening Day. It's pretty good, pretty good unit,
Speaker 9: and you want to be at your best when you're
Speaker 9: going up against that group. So they struggled offensively, defensively,
Speaker 9: they're in command of that ballgame. And then the special
Speaker 9: teams issue occurred and they had a field goal block
Speaker 9: and boom, all of a sudden, you know, Cincinnati was
Speaker 9: or I should say Cleveland was back in the game
Speaker 9: and snuck away with a win.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Special teams, I mean the all important third third phase offense, defense.
Speaker 4: Special teams. I all have to kind of lean on
Speaker 4: each other, and one is as important as the other.
Speaker 3: There's no question.
Speaker 4: Let's talk a little bit about Joe Flacco. What did
Speaker 4: you think of Joe Flacco in that football game? How
Speaker 4: did he perform against the Green Bay Packers?
Speaker 9: To your eye, Well, you know, and and studying him
Speaker 9: they going into the game. He can still fling it
Speaker 9: and he can still get a downfield. Two things happen
Speaker 9: in Cleveland. Number One, they were just starting to find
Speaker 9: their running back and that kid that they drafted in
Speaker 9: the second round is going to be a really good runner.
Speaker 9: But they really don't have a solid round game. They
Speaker 9: couldn't protect the court. They just can't protect blackout and
Speaker 9: that's the problem that he had. So so much of
Speaker 9: what he was doing leading into that game was check
Speaker 9: down stuff and really short stuff. And then he hit
Speaker 9: a couple of passes against the Packers, but nothing out
Speaker 9: of the ordinary. He struggled. I mean, he did not
Speaker 9: have a great game against the Packers at all. And
Speaker 9: you know, going to Cincinnati now, and if they get
Speaker 9: him up to speed and ready to play this week,
Speaker 9: he's got better people around him to throw the football to.
Speaker 9: I mean, those two guys are number one receivers, both
Speaker 9: of them, and you know, Flacco didn't have anything close
Speaker 9: to that caliber in Cleveland. So if the Bengals can
Speaker 9: protect this guy. He can still get the ball down
Speaker 9: field accurately.
Speaker 2: Dayne Lairbe is our guest. Do you expect the Packers
Speaker 2: O line to be at full strength this week? And
Speaker 2: what about wide receiver Christian Watson? They just opened up
Speaker 2: his twenty one day window to come back from his
Speaker 2: knee injury. Any chance the Bengals have to worry about
Speaker 2: him this week? Boy?
Speaker 9: You know, I gotta tell you, Dan, from what I
Speaker 9: saw a training camp, from what I've seen at practice,
Speaker 9: and they've ramped him up a little bit this week.
Speaker 9: Now that he's actually in practice, I wouldn't count him out.
Speaker 9: But I wouldn't. My gut tells me, though, wait a week,
Speaker 9: you know, let him go through this week and then
Speaker 9: maybe his comeback has been stunning. I mean a training camp,
Speaker 9: it looked like he could practice and play, and you know,
Speaker 9: they held him out obviously, and they had him on
Speaker 9: the reserve list. And now this week these back at
Speaker 9: practice and frankly looks pretty good. To be honest with you, guys,
Speaker 9: I just wonder, if I know the Packers are very
Speaker 9: cautious with their people from a medical standpoint, I still
Speaker 9: think it's a long shot he plays this week, but
Speaker 9: I wouldn't count it out.
Speaker 4: When Joe Flacco was in Green Bay, I know you're
Speaker 4: there all the time, talk of the coaches players. What
Speaker 4: was he like in the locker room?
Speaker 3: What was he like with the coaches in the meeting room?
Speaker 3: I mean, what's his personality?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 4: What kind of a teammate is he? What can the
Speaker 4: Cincinnati Bengals expect in those areas?
Speaker 9: What's Flacco?
Speaker 3: Yes? About Joe?
Speaker 9: Yeah, from what I understand, he's a great teammate, and
Speaker 9: you know, he's a veteran presence, and he's somebody that
Speaker 9: saved this season for Cleveland two years ago and just
Speaker 9: you know, they they they're just kind of messed up
Speaker 9: a little bit right now and he wasn't able to
Speaker 9: do that behind that kind of protection. But I think
Speaker 9: that you guys will find he'll be a very good quarterback,
Speaker 9: very good teammate. He'll be a good chemistry piece in
Speaker 9: the locker room. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Wayne Lairvie, appreciate your time. I know it's busy this
Speaker 2: time of year for everybody in the business, and for
Speaker 2: you to take time out on a Wednesday night, we
Speaker 2: greatly appreciate it. Thank you so much.
Speaker 9: Enjoyed it. Dana and Dave hope to see it in
Speaker 9: lambeau Field on Sunday.
Speaker 3: You're the best star. I appreciate you.
Speaker 2: We are looking forward to the visit. That is the
Speaker 2: great voice of the Green Bay Packers, Wayne Laravie. We're
Speaker 2: gonna take a time out. When we come back. We'll
Speaker 2: hear from one of the guys that has to try
Speaker 2: to block Micah Parsons this week, right tackle a Marius MIBs.
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Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers and Thursday Night Football. So we couldn't get
Speaker 2: a current player for the Wednesday night show. We thought
Speaker 2: you would enjoy the guy we do have coming out.
Speaker 2: I know you do, Sam Hubbard. That's gonna be an
Speaker 2: awesome show.
Speaker 3: It will be.
Speaker 4: I mean Sam knows everything there is to know about
Speaker 4: the Pittsburgh Steelers. I mean, he played the Pittsburgh Steelers
Speaker 4: many times and played well. I mean, you know, Pittsburgh
Speaker 4: wants to run the football. Sam Hubbard is a depth
Speaker 4: at stuff in the run. I mean, that's that's that's
Speaker 4: his game. And it's interesting his teammates they miss him.
Speaker 4: I mean, they got a ton of respect for Sam Hubbard,
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Speaker 2: One of the huge challenges this coming Sunday at four
Speaker 2: to twenty five will be blocking Micah Parsons. Picked up
Speaker 2: just before the season by Green Bay from Dallas. He's
Speaker 2: been in the NFL for four years. He's had at
Speaker 2: least twelve sacks in each of his previous NFL seasons.
Speaker 2: The Bengals have faced him twice before. In his rookie year,
Speaker 2: he had two sacks, five quarterback hits. Dallas beat Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: Last year they faced him again, no sacks, no tackles. Man.
Speaker 2: The Bengals beat the Cowboys in Dallas by seven, so
Speaker 2: neutralizing Micah Parsons was a big key to that win.
Speaker 2: He did get some quarterback hits, right, but he didn't
Speaker 2: wreck the game. That's the key. He was mostly matched
Speaker 2: up against the Marius Mimms last year. This year with
Speaker 2: the Packers, he's been moving back and forth a lot,
Speaker 2: so Orlando Brown Junior and Marius Mims are both going
Speaker 2: to get their turns against Michah Parsons. But in any case,
Speaker 2: I talked to Amrius earlier today about that challenge of
Speaker 2: trying to block MICHAEH. Parsons in a Green Bay Packers uniform.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, I think Michael's the best d in
Speaker 13: in the NFL other than Miles Garrett. If you guys me,
Speaker 13: just the guys who I haven't played against, They're gonna
Speaker 13: be a challenge. It always is, especially on the road.
Speaker 13: It's gonna be a game where it's about me again, honestly,
Speaker 13: just just doing what coaches telling me. In practice, and
Speaker 13: you know, how can you know, try to neutralize him
Speaker 13: as much as possible and knowing you know, he's gonna
Speaker 13: make his fair share of plays, you know. I mean,
Speaker 13: it's gonna happen with a guy like that. But really,
Speaker 13: like I said, my mind set is really to just
Speaker 13: you know, go out there and play the game football.
Speaker 13: Do I can play, continue to get better and you know,
Speaker 13: if I let woman like not let one mistake or
Speaker 13: one you know, one small minor, you know, step in
Speaker 13: that game and turn into like.
Speaker 6: The whole game.
Speaker 13: So, like I said, boy against a great player, not
Speaker 13: one of the best players on defense and ever, I mean,
Speaker 13: I think he's a good Like I said, you know
Speaker 13: he's a good player, but I know he's a good player.
Speaker 13: But I said, I'm ready for the challenge, you know,
Speaker 13: like I said, last year, he was with another team
Speaker 13: last year who played in Dallas, and this year is
Speaker 13: gonna be in on Green Bay.
Speaker 3: So it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 2: Last two weeks ago, Marius Mems had a bad game
Speaker 2: against the Denver Broncos. He's not shying away from it.
Speaker 2: He knows he had a bad game. He bounce back
Speaker 2: with what CO just say was his best game of
Speaker 2: the year last week in that game against Detroit. So
Speaker 2: hopefully he's trending in the right direction and he's getting
Speaker 2: going to need to be sharp on Sunday.
Speaker 3: Agreed, Dan.
Speaker 4: Hopefully he carries over the performance that he had in Detroit.
Speaker 4: Because Micah Parsons, like you mentioned, is a game wrecker.
Speaker 3: I mean he can. He can.
Speaker 4: You might be going on a nice drive six plays
Speaker 4: into the drive and then I'll sudden, bam, Micah Parsons
Speaker 4: knocks your back ten yards or eight yards, whatever the
Speaker 4: case may be, and in your face and your off schedule,
Speaker 4: and you're you're in disarray, you know, and now you
Speaker 4: have to.
Speaker 3: Recover and recapture your poise.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: He also is a turnover machine, causing turnovers left and right.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: He's capable of sacking the quarterback obviously that's a big
Speaker 4: loss of yards, taking away from your yard.
Speaker 3: It's total. He's capable of knocking running backs back for
Speaker 3: a loss.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 12: He is.
Speaker 4: He's a tough, tough challenge. I mean, if he decides
Speaker 4: to take an edge on an offensive lineman, he's gonna
Speaker 4: nine times out of ten really win. I mean, the guy,
Speaker 4: the guy is that good. So you're gonna have to
Speaker 4: double him to minimize that total. Now you're you know,
Speaker 4: can you who else can you double? You know, you
Speaker 4: can only double two players on every snap normally, Doubling
Speaker 4: more than that just doesn't make sense. It doesn't work out.
Speaker 4: Numbers aren't your favorite offensively, so he is he's a problem.
Speaker 4: I mean, he causes issues for offensive linemen, tight ends,
Speaker 4: full backs, you know, blocking backs, tailbacks to double block
Speaker 4: on occasion. Offensive coordinators have nightmares the night before game
Speaker 4: worrying about do I have enough end to take care
Speaker 4: of Michael Parsons. We can't let him take control of
Speaker 4: the football game and make it his uh, can't let
Speaker 4: him just take ownership of it. So yeah, it's it's
Speaker 4: definitely a challenge, and it's a big one. It's one
Speaker 4: of the biggest in the National Football League, and it's
Speaker 4: gonna be interesting to see how Amarius Mims and others
Speaker 4: rise to the occasion.
Speaker 2: How do the Dallas Cowboys not keep that guy at
Speaker 2: twenty six years old?
Speaker 4: Come on, come on, Jerry, what the hell? Honestly, that
Speaker 4: that one is a head scratcher, It really is. I mean,
Speaker 4: this guy, if he's probably been responsible for more negative
Speaker 4: players than any other defender in the National Football League.
Speaker 3: He's probably you know, his negative.
Speaker 4: Play total is probably what a couple of players would
Speaker 4: have on another defense for a total number of negative.
Speaker 2: Players, same draft class as Jamar Chase. So it really
Speaker 2: it would have been the same thing as the Bengals
Speaker 2: trading Jamar Chase instead of resigning.
Speaker 4: Unbelievable And for what what they get?
Speaker 2: I know, they got a lie what was the game?
Speaker 2: I mean, they got a row bowler in two first
Speaker 2: round draft picks, so they got a pretty good price.
Speaker 2: And the Packers are also now going to pay him
Speaker 2: forty seven a million forty seven million, forty seven million
Speaker 2: a year. There we go going forward. So it does
Speaker 2: take a big chunk out of your salary cap, but
Speaker 2: so well does He's one of the best defensive players
Speaker 2: in the league now maybe ever, and he's in his prime.
Speaker 4: And same with Jamar Chase. I mean, you know, you
Speaker 4: can make the same argument. You know, why would why
Speaker 4: would the Cincinnati Bengals, you know, retain Jamar Chase?
Speaker 3: Also that very reason. You know, he's he's a big.
Speaker 4: Time playmaker on triple Crown receiver catches, yards, touchdowns, playmaker, extraordinaire.
Speaker 4: Two of the best players in the National Football League
Speaker 4: on the offensive side of the football on the defensive
Speaker 4: side of the football will be uh not necessarily going
Speaker 4: one on one knocking heads with each other, but they'll
Speaker 4: be out there trying to create havoc and and and
Speaker 4: make positive players for their respective football teams.
Speaker 2: Michaeh Parsons ran a four three nine forty crazy at
Speaker 2: the scouting combine. How would you have tried to block
Speaker 2: Michaeh Parsons.
Speaker 3: Man, I mean, he's like two hundred and fifty pounds.
Speaker 2: Two fifty exactly. Let me come on, exactly four four four.
Speaker 3: At two fifty.
Speaker 2: Come on.
Speaker 4: That should be outlawed. That should be illegal. Honestly, it's like,
Speaker 4: how do you block that? Your hope, you hope and pray,
Speaker 4: you pray to the football gods the night before the game,
Speaker 4: and you're on the road, so now you can't hear
Speaker 4: the snap count.
Speaker 3: So now he's getting off.
Speaker 4: His get off is unbelievable when you're running a four
Speaker 4: to three nine and now he's getting off the football
Speaker 4: before you even move, so he's into you and knocking
Speaker 4: you backwards before you know what the hell's going on.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you the offensive tackle is going to earn
Speaker 4: their money on Sunday. It's not going to be an easy,
Speaker 4: easy day.
Speaker 2: Get those play calls in fast, Zach, so that the
Speaker 2: play clock is not winding down to zero and that
Speaker 2: the defensive ends can get a head start against your tackles.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, absolutely, I mean they're gifted enough anyway. Don't make
Speaker 4: it easier for him.
Speaker 2: And that's for sure. All right, We're going to take
Speaker 2: a time out. When we come back, we'll talk about
Speaker 2: the process of getting Joe Flacco ready to start on
Speaker 2: Sunday in a matter of days in a Bengals uniform.
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Speaker 2: Bengals and the Green Bay Packers Sunday at Lembou Field
Speaker 2: in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The smallest city in the US
Speaker 2: that has a major professional sports team. Got a big
Speaker 2: stadium though eighty thousand plus. It's going to be packed,
Speaker 2: it always is. We'll see if the Bengals can go
Speaker 2: on the road to Joe Flackwood quarterback and pull off
Speaker 2: the upset this Sunday. It's certainly been an interesting twenty
Speaker 2: four hours or so for Joe flack go and for
Speaker 2: the Bengals. The trade went down yesterday, Joe Flacco and
Speaker 2: his wife drove from Cleveland to Cincinnati. They actually had
Speaker 2: somebody else drive them, Yeah, so that Joe could be
Speaker 2: on the phone with Zach Taylor and other members of
Speaker 2: the Bengals coaching staff going over the offense, talking about
Speaker 2: the play calls and so forth. They put those few
Speaker 2: hours to use over the phone.
Speaker 3: They didn't do a.
Speaker 2: Zoom, didn't do a FaceTime. They did a traditional phone
Speaker 2: call and talked about things. And then Joe Flacco was
Speaker 2: in the building today. He took all of the number
Speaker 2: one reps at quarterback as they are trying to hasten
Speaker 2: the process to get him ready to start on Sunday.
Speaker 2: He's got a couple of former teammates on the Bengals roster.
Speaker 2: Flacco played for the Denver Broncos in twenty nineteen. His
Speaker 2: teammates included offensive lineman Dalton Reisner and tight end Noah Fant.
Speaker 2: In fact, Noah's first NFL touchdown catch was thrown by
Speaker 2: Joe Flacco in any case. I asked his former teammate
Speaker 2: Dalton Reisner today, do you think Joe Flacco will be
Speaker 2: able to get up to speed in a few days
Speaker 2: and be able to play well on Sunday. Here's Dalton's answer.
Speaker 3: I do believe that he can do that.
Speaker 14: He is a sixteen year I don't want to out
Speaker 14: speak sixteen or seventeen year vet in this league. I
Speaker 14: think he's fifty nine years old, right, something like that,
Speaker 14: And I'm just kidding, he's like forty regardless.
Speaker 2: He's a guy that's.
Speaker 14: Gonna come in here and be a vet and know
Speaker 14: how to do that, and he's gonna be on top
Speaker 14: of his p's and q's. He's gonna learn the offense.
Speaker 14: He's about to go out there and command it and
Speaker 14: put his best foot forward to help us win.
Speaker 2: Lapp just how hard is what Joe Flacco is being
Speaker 2: asked to do? Come in on a Wednesday, start on
Speaker 2: a Sunday at quarterback.
Speaker 4: Brutally tough. I think it's a major, major challenge. I mean,
Speaker 4: there's no two ways about it.
Speaker 3: I just think I think.
Speaker 4: The difficulty meter it's peg you know, yeah, it's it
Speaker 4: really is. I mean, he has no prior knowledge or
Speaker 4: has never even looked at a playbook a game plan. Now,
Speaker 4: the advantage he has is all that experience, all those years,
Speaker 4: all those different systems, there's going to be familiarity. He's
Speaker 4: going to see concepts, he's going to see formations, he's
Speaker 4: gonna see personnel groupings that will remind him of something
Speaker 4: that happened. It's something that he utilized from a game
Speaker 4: planning standpoint elsewhere in his NFL career. And it's significant
Speaker 4: with the number of teams that he's been with, a
Speaker 4: number of different game plans in playbooks that he's been
Speaker 4: exposed to, it's really crazy. So I think he's the
Speaker 4: most unique quarterback in that regard in the National Football League.
Speaker 4: There's nobody like him, really, and he's gonna be able
Speaker 4: to tell his grandkids, you know, NFL stories, and he's
Speaker 4: going to be one of the big NFL stories.
Speaker 3: He'll be able to.
Speaker 4: Tell his grandkids about the fact that he went to
Speaker 4: Cincinnati on a Tuesday and started a quarterback against a
Speaker 4: team that he already had played against on Sunday.
Speaker 2: You know, Well, that's the other thing I'm wondering, So
Speaker 2: how much does the fact that he played against this team,
Speaker 2: the Green Bay Packers, three weeks ago, how helpful as that?
Speaker 2: And I can't imagine there's ever been a quarterback to
Speaker 2: beat the same team twice in three weeks with two
Speaker 2: different teams. There's no way that's ever happened before.
Speaker 3: Agreed, it's impossible.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've never heard of anything close to it.
Speaker 2: But how helpful is it that he just faced Green Bay?
Speaker 4: I think immentally, you know, I mean, I think he's
Speaker 4: going to be able to retain a lot of information
Speaker 4: that he was up at night, you know, and during
Speaker 4: the course of the day in meetings, position meetings with
Speaker 4: the quarterback coach, meetings with the offensive coordinator, team meetings
Speaker 4: with the offensive side of the football, going out there
Speaker 4: to practice, taking reps uh on all areas of the
Speaker 4: game plan out in the out in the field in
Speaker 4: terms of, you know, your regular offensive package, red zone,
Speaker 4: low red zone packages, third down packages. He's going to
Speaker 4: have a lot of that information rolling around in his
Speaker 4: brain and and he's just gonna have to corral it
Speaker 4: uh in and piece it in with the nomenclature in
Speaker 4: the in the words that you know, identify what he
Speaker 4: needs to what needs to be triggered for him to
Speaker 4: execute it here in Cincinnati. So I think it's a big,
Speaker 4: a big plus. I think I think he's uh He's
Speaker 4: definitely been challenged. But I'll tell you, Dan, I did
Speaker 4: get a chance to sit down uh in in the
Speaker 4: locker area with him and listen to him talk to
Speaker 4: his teammates, and I asked him a few questions, and
Speaker 4: the dude is smart. I mean, he has immense football
Speaker 4: IQ is. He's no Dodo bird Man. This guy is
Speaker 4: nobody's school. He ain't no dummy. So I do think
Speaker 4: that the Green Bay Packers, they're gonna have to mix
Speaker 4: things up. Their defensive coordinator, their defensive coaches, their players
Speaker 4: are gonna have to think, you know, we're gonna have
Speaker 4: to do things a little bit differently, present things to
Speaker 4: him a little bit differently because he is a smart
Speaker 4: guy and he beat us, and he's gonna remember what
Speaker 4: he did to beat us. So it's not gonna be
Speaker 4: any walk.
Speaker 2: In the park. A common refrain on ESPN and elsewhere
Speaker 2: has been a the Bengals offensive line has really struggled.
Speaker 2: They needed to go out and get a mobile guy.
Speaker 2: I understand that thought. But on the other hand, Joe's
Speaker 2: not gonna hold the ball forever. His offensive linemen are
Speaker 2: going to know where he's going to be, and it
Speaker 2: actually might result in fewer sacks, not more.
Speaker 3: It could, It could, Dan, I like the way you're thinking.
Speaker 3: You know, you're my kind of football guy. You know,
Speaker 3: I do think.
Speaker 4: I do think the offensive line already has a tremendous
Speaker 4: amount of respect for him. What I saw in the
Speaker 4: locker room today, they respect and trust Joe Flacco. I
Speaker 4: think they think that he's going to bring out the
Speaker 4: best in them. Like you said, Dan, I mean, he's
Speaker 4: not a he's not a guy that's you know, unbelievably
Speaker 4: mobile with tremendous lateral movement.
Speaker 3: But he gets the ball out quickly. It's gone. It's
Speaker 3: you know, he makes us read boom. He goes through
Speaker 3: his progression.
Speaker 4: It is out and it's out with smart pms, it's
Speaker 4: out with some zip on it, and he's saw on
Speaker 4: it accurately. He's hitting tight spots down the football field
Speaker 4: as well as anybody.
Speaker 2: In the NFL. All right, we're gonna take our final
Speaker 2: time out. When we come back, we will talk about
Speaker 2: one thing that we are definitely looking forward to this
Speaker 2: Sunday going to lambeau Field. There's nothing quite like it
Speaker 2: in the NFL. It's a bucket list experience. If you've
Speaker 2: never been, we'll discuss that next. And here from a
Speaker 2: I used to work there for nine years. This is
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Speaker 2: Most of all, thank you to the Bengals fans to
Speaker 2: coming out tonight where to appreciate all of you, Love
Speaker 2: all of you. All right, We are headed to lambeau
Speaker 2: Field this Sunday at four to twenty five. There's a
Speaker 2: sign at lambeau near the security entrance that reads, quote,
Speaker 2: this is somebody's bucket list. And that's how I felt
Speaker 2: the first time we went there. We went there eight
Speaker 2: years ago. I had heard about it. The history. You know,
Speaker 2: it opened in the nineteen fifties. The streets nearby are
Speaker 2: named for Packers legends. The street addresses Lombardi ave for
Speaker 2: lambeau Field. So it's really cool. It's something that every
Speaker 2: football fan should experience if you can. The Bengals defensive
Speaker 2: line coach Jerry Montgomery coach there for nine years, and
Speaker 2: I talked to him earlier today about returning to lambeau Field.
Speaker 2: You definitely feel the history.
Speaker 15: It's an unbelievable place to work and unbelievable place to
Speaker 15: play a football game.
Speaker 2: You walk through the tunnels and you feel it. It's neat.
Speaker 15: Even practicing there, there's an air about it. So and
Speaker 15: what's cool is when you pull in and you see
Speaker 15: now it's a little different now because people have tore
Speaker 15: down those homes and built massive places across the street.
Speaker 15: They're big tailgate places. But it's just it's a really
Speaker 15: neat environment. It's probably as close to college environment as
Speaker 15: you'll feel in most places. But yeah, neat venue, a
Speaker 15: lot of history and cool place. It is a cool place.
Speaker 15: Cool for me as a broadcast. But what was it
Speaker 15: like for you to play there?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I was going to say, Dan, it was the most
Speaker 4: surreal experience that I had at that stage of my
Speaker 4: professional career because I was a young player and going
Speaker 4: to historic Lambeau, Like Coach Richardson said, I mean, they're
Speaker 4: going through those hallways and those tunnels. I mean, the
Speaker 4: history is unbelievable. And then you, uh, you know, you
Speaker 4: work your way out of the tunnel and the fans
Speaker 4: are throwing every answer that they can throw, liquid or solid.
Speaker 4: Nothing that's gonna hurt you, but just you know, bothersome
Speaker 4: stuff and they're just they're on your case. Man, they're
Speaker 4: on your case big time, and you could.
Speaker 3: Run running out of there through that tunnel if you
Speaker 3: were in the units being introduced.
Speaker 4: The offense was introduced when when I was playing there,
Speaker 4: and you know, spread out to the fifty yard line
Speaker 4: and peel off to the sideline and it's it's it's amazing.
Speaker 4: And then the national anthems playing. Your heart's just racing,
Speaker 4: it's beating.
Speaker 3: One hundred miles, one hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 4: And then you go out on the football field and
Speaker 4: I mean you're playing against good football players.
Speaker 3: I mean the Green Bay Packers were good.
Speaker 4: I mean Lombardi obviously, they were historic, Paul Horning, Jim Taylor,
Speaker 4: Forrest greg I mean, they had they had, they had players.
Speaker 4: You know, they have great linebackers, great members of the secondary.
Speaker 4: They had it all.
Speaker 3: They had it all, and you know, I went away
Speaker 3: for a little while.
Speaker 4: Now it's starting to come back, and I think that
Speaker 4: the crowd is so appreciative of the return of excellence
Speaker 4: that the organization's experiencing. It's a it's it's a big
Speaker 4: party up there. It's a big tailgate party.
Speaker 2: There's no question we will see it on Sunday at
Speaker 2: four twenty five and don't forget to join us Friday
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