WEBVTT - 12-8-25 Bengals Line 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:04.280 Wow, this is Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network 0:00:04.559 --> 0:00:07.600 pay Corps. Pay Corps proud to be the official HR 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:11.880 software provider of US Cincinnati Bengals. Kettering El best Care 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:15.760 for the best Fans, Kettering Health, official healthcare provider of 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:20.640 US Cincinnati Bengals. This is seven hundred WLW, the home 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:22.720 of the best Bengals coverage. 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:24.920 All right, let's get it going on this Monday night. 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:27.000 Of it's Monday, it must be Bengals Line, and that 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:30.680 means three hours of conversation breaking it all down. You'll 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:33.280 hear from coaches and players. We'll sort through thirty nine 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:36.280 thirty four, a loss in Buffalo yesterday. We'll look ahead 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:39.680 of the Ravens this weekend. Lance Bacallister, Dave Lapham, thanks 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:41.800 for joining us. Settle in. We've got you over the 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:44.839 course of those next three hours. And David, it couldn't 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:47.400 have started any better yesterday with the opening drive and 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:51.040 the way things were clicking. I felt good at fourteen 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:53.000 to three, I felt good at twenty one to eleven. 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:55.280 I felt really good at twenty eight to eighteen. I 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:58.279 allowed myself to run scenarios through my head, and I'm 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:00.400 thinking about what's going on and the rest of the vision, 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:02.880 and then seemingly, in the blink of an eye, it 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:07.320 goes from a ten point lead to an eleven point 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:09.600 deficit and everything changed. 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:11.840 It did, I mean, and it did in like four 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:13.640 and a half five minutes. I mean, it was it 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:17.840 was amazing. Turnovers, you know, I mean, that's the that's 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:21.640 the plague, that's that's what every team wants to avoid 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:25.920 if they possibly can. They want to generate turnovers, cause 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:28.080 turnovers from the opposition, but they certainly don't want to 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:30.440 give the football away like the Bengals did. And for 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:34.000 Joe Burrow to have interceptions on back to back throws, 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:37.760 I haven't really checked with him yet to see if 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.200 that's ever happened to him at any level of football, 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:43.920 whether it be Pop Warner High school, college or the 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:47.120 National Football League. But that that is a rarity for sure. 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:51.280 And the bottom line is you just have to have 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:54.440 to finish drives. I mean, they Bengals had to lead 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:57.120 for three quarters three quarters of the football game, didn't 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:59.560 They didn't spit the bit till till the fourth quarter 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.600 of the of the game. But you have to you 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.720 have to give Buffalo credit. They just they wouldn't go away. 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:09.360 I mean when they got down by three scores, they're like, 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:11.520 you know, this game's not over. We're gonna keep Brian, 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:15.040 We're gonna keep doing what we do. And two quarterbacks 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:19.520 were off the charts, I mean, outstanding what they what 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.400 they are able to accomplish in the in the game yesterday. 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:26.880 But the big difference four touchdown passes Joe Burrow the 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:32.200 two interceptions. Uh you look at Josh Allen, three touchdown passes, 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:34.320 no interceptions. That was the that was the big difference 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:35.959 in the game, and that gave him a quarterback rating 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:39.720 a one thirty nine point seven. Uh perfect is what 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:41.959 one fifty four point seven or something like that or 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:44.800 one fifty seven point four whatever it is. Joe Burrow 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.200 one on six point seven pretty damn strong as well. 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:50.239 But those two interceptions were the difference in the game. 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:53.840 Boy, in a day, against the backdrop of a snow 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.480 globe like environment, with the snow coming down on a 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:59.239 Rockers crowd, you'd saying it was one of the loudest 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:02.639 crowds he's ever heard. You got two heavyweight quarterbacks, you've 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:07.240 got a Bengals lead, and I'm thinking of Steelers are 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:09.840 playing the Ravens. Somebody's gonna lose in that matchup. If 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:12.400 you get to five and eight. Now you're you're really 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:15.800 cooking about possibilities, and just we've seen so many times 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:19.560 that combination of a missed opportunities and the merging of 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:23.639 air so slim. It just everything has to go perfect, 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:26.600 and as you've alluded to it, just it wasn't perfect yesterday. 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:28.640 Yeah. I mean when you're when you're playing against a 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:31.840 playoff caliber team like the Buffalo Bills, like you mentioned 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:34.800 the margin ferres nil, I mean, you have to play 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:37.760 as perfect the football game as you're capable of playing. 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:40.600 And Davids you mentioned the word playoff. I was struck 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:43.760 in and listening to postgame interviews the number of different 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:48.120 players who alluded to the feel yesterday, and that's maybe 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:51.040 reinforces just how missed the opportunity was, because I think 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:54.280 everybody realized that was, in essence, a playoff game for 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:56.200 the Bengals. If you were going to make the playoffs, 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:57.520 you had to win yesterday. 0:03:57.600 --> 0:03:59.960 Yeah, and it was a playoff atmosphere. Like you mention 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:02.200 in the raucous crowd, I mean they were they were 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:03.920 in full throat and they were off the charts. 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:04.160 Man. 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:07.120 Their support for the Buffalo Bills is second to none. 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:08.920 I mean, their psycho that fan base. 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:14.120 It's a good work they were doing yesterday. 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:18.240 Exactly exactly. Yeah, he was. He was kind of scratching 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:20.240 his head over that one a little bit. But you know, 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:21.640 those are the kind of games you have to win 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:23.839 to make the playoffs, and the Bengals came up just short. 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:27.119 Let's uh, let's pick up a reaction immediately after the game. 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:29.440 Here is Dave with the coach, Zach Taylor. 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:33.880 Tough football game against the uh, the Buffalo Bills. Here 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:38.840 in Buffalo, Coach, it was well played, high scoring football game. 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:43.080 Your offense took advantage just about every position they had 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:46.680 other than a couple and uncharacteristically, Joe Borrow gets intercepted 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:50.320 on back to back possessions that obviously were a big 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:53.000 factor in the outcome. What did you think about your 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:53.839 offense overall? 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:55.880 Yeah, we did a great job moving the ball and 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:58.840 found some success in the run game and got what 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:01.159 we needed guys we need in the run game, found 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:03.960 all success in the pass game. They made two great 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:06.200 plays on those turnovers in the fourth quarter and gave 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:08.039 them some momentum. 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:10.960 The run game. I thought that U, samaj p Ron 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.000 and Chase Brown gave you a nice one two punch. 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:17.920 Thought that, Uh Samaji in particular, really I thought showed 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:21.720 some some power. He's got good foot speed to set 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:24.160 the speed, but man, he was he was thumping people 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:26.039 pretty well. He's an all around guy. I mean he 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:29.680 can run the football with power and speed, catch football 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:32.320 out of the backfield, tuck it away and keep the 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:36.320 football safe and gain yards after catch. And also he's 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:38.080 a hell of a blocker. I mean he'll stick his 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:39.640 nose right in there and blitz to pick up on. 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:41.800 He Yeah, he's a great player. That's that's obviously where 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:44.080 we thought to get him back. And he and Chase 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:45.760 in combination with each other, I think are a great 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:47.839 danam of backs. They came from each other really well. 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:49.480 They understand what we're trying to get out of out 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:52.040 of each play that they're in there, and they both 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:54.000 are are huge value for us. 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.719 You completed a high percentage your passes for significant yards 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.640 and four touchdown passes to hell, all of a hell 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:02.640 of a deal. You don't you don't get four touchdown 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:06.200 passes every week. In the National Football League. What about 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:09.799 your passing attack utilized the tight ends. I thought Gasiki 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:12.320 in particularly had a very strong game for you today, 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:12.680 didn't he. 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:14.600 Yeah, he did, and and I thought our offensive line 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:16.680 did a great job. Joe understood the coverages and where 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:19.039 they're trying to do. They do a good job disguising. 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:21.200 They tried to do a great job of taking away Jamar, 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:23.920 so we still want to try to get Jamar and 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:25.599 the ball, which we did in some different ways. But 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:27.200 it opens it up for a lot of other guys. 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:28.760 That's why you saw t you have the game he had. 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:30.839 I guess like he had the game he had. Andre 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:34.400 made some big plays for us, So we're okay doing that. 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:35.479 That's how they want to play a game. 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.200 Yeah, they were playing a lot of combination coverage on 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:40.560 on both Jamar and Tegue and changing it up a 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:44.720 little bit. That's when Gasiki obviously stepped up and took 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.919 advantage of his opportunities and and made plays. Is T. 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:51.560 Higgins he got stung a little bit there. He was 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:53.640 out for their snappers. So he had a pretty good 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:55.520 football game today. See Okay, Yeah he did. 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:58.000 He responded well, and I think they just evaluated him 0:06:58.000 --> 0:06:58.640 and he was good to go. 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:02.600 So let's talk about your your defensive football team. Obviously, 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:05.040 a lot of points were scored, but honestly, I mean, 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:06.760 I'm not saying they played a great game, but I 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.120 thought that there were stretches where they were making plays. 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:13.120 I mean, Josh Allen is a tough guy to deal with. 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:15.960 He can he can throw the football and he's got 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:18.800 good accuracy. Maybe not as good this year as in 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:20.800 past years, but man, he's a big, strong guy that 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:25.960 can run. Big boy. He's uh, he's he's he's a load. 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:28.120 What about Josh Allen? How do you think the defense 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:29.200 did today defending him. 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:31.360 Yeah, he's a tough player obviously, and they got a 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:33.280 great running back, great offensive line in front of him. 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:35.280 I think, you know, it comes down to those those 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:37.560 fourth down plays. There was there was four of them 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.240 to my eye, and they converted on three of them. 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:42.080 We got a huge stop on one at the end 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:45.400 of the second half, and ultimately it's it's like you said, 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:47.080 the guys, there was opportunities there where they did a 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:49.080 great job and first three downs and those fourth downs, 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:50.760 Allen did a great job extent of the play and 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:51.800 find a way to make one. 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:54.920 Speaking of a fourth down, you didn't really have to 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:58.200 do too many because your third down percentage was unbelievable. 0:07:58.400 --> 0:07:59.960 I mean, I think it was like what eight over 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:03.720 eighty percent in the National Football League. To convert like 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:07.400 that on third down, that's that's extraordinary. It doesn't happen 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:09.880 every single week. What was the key to the success 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:10.960 converting on third down? 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:12.760 I thought we had a great point, you know, agree 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.520 and players understood it, executed it, did their jobs, did 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:17.600 a great job protecting up front. Joe did a great 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:20.400 job with any checks he had to make and delivered a. 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:24.680 Balls Zach Taylor after the game. Plenty more to dissect, 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.800 breakdown and analyze as we navigate three hours tonight, we'll 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:31.080 hear from QB one Joe Burrow ahead, He's Dave Lapham, 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:33.280 I glance, but Catleister, thanks for being with us tonight. 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:36.040 It is Bengals Line and the Bengals Radio Network and 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:41.760 seven hundred WLW GAM of moving on his Monday night 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:44.120 at Bengals Line and the Bengals Radio Network and seven 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:47.200 hundred WILW laants but Catlister hanging out with Dave Lapham 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:50.240 Joe Burrow Yesterday twenty five of thirty six passing two 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:53.000 hundred and eighty four yards. He was sacked just one 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:56.440 time through four touchdowns. The two picks final quarterback rating 0:08:56.520 --> 0:09:00.240 of one six point seven. Here's QB one after the game. 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:03.400 Can we get your vantage. 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.280 Point on on what happened on those you interception? 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:10.760 Yeah, great play, great plays by them. Uh, corner blitz 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:13.800 and you know, tryna throw a hot reaction and the 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:17.439 guy jumps up and catches it. Great play. Next one 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:20.920 tip ball lands in the right that guy's hands. 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:22.800 So wow. 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:26.040 Yeah, good plays by Now did. 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:27.560 You feel like you guys were kind of playing the 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:30.319 exact type of game you wanted to play before. 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:33.040 Those two, like exactly how you would have scripted. 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:35.000 It out to build in. Yeah, we were playing pretty good. 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:38.200 We were playing pretty good. You know, we gotta we 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:39.520 gotta turn over in the red zone. 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:41.800 Uh. 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:43.320 We spout it on a couple drives, but for the 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:46.320 most part, we were moving it pretty good. Uh, we 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:49.120 were in a good spot, a top child. 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:53.119 Then was that first half especially and let them down perspective? 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:57.160 And how did you walk out to the field in 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:57.920 the second. 0:09:57.600 --> 0:09:58.960 Half of when you was going through your mind? 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:02.400 Yeah, we we were executing, We were executing, lamas protecting, 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:05.440 we were making plays. Uh, you know, we d we 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:06.040 were doing a good. 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:09.920 Job, right, You put on differently on that? Then group. 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:18.040 Could have thrown it higher, I guess, but the linebacker 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:20.800 was running out there underneath of it, so if I 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:26.080 threw it higher, he might've gotten involved too. Not really, 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:27.240 that was our reaction to that. 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:28.720 Is this just one of those games? 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:30.880 Did you like the playoff game with the team. 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:32.480 That just was able to make a couple of those plays? 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:33.880 We was gonna wait, did doel like that? And Don 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:34.600 went outstretch. 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:39.360 Yeah, you know it was playoff, a playoff atmosphere. We 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:41.640 know what kind of game it was for us? Did 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:46.240 them too? And then? Uh yeah, it was just it 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.640 was intense out there. Guys are fighting their butts off. 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:52.439 Those show me anything different uh than on than what 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:53.640 you saw a film this week. 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:58.640 They always do do things a little different against us, 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:02.880 but that's what we expected. They were mixing a lot 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:04.839 of things up. They started pressure more in the second half. 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:09.240 I thought we handled it well. Wow, oh yeah, we 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:10.719 we kind of we knew what to expect. We knew 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.800 how they liked to play us from from past meetings. 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:15.960 And uh we had the answers when. 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:19.719 You blobby hard for the team to sign the tachagainst 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.640 the admission to dur this off season, y'all just say, 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:25.240 didn't get much opportunity to see how it all looked. 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:27.920 Is this like what you would envisioned, the type of 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:30.040 office that you guys could be and the type of 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:32.599 outfit that you would be to an opponent when you 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:33.080 guys are. 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.400 All being like you did today, Yeah, we know, we 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:37.000 know what we can be. We know what we can 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:41.760 do and when we execute. Uh, and we were able 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:45.199 to execute today for the most part. And uh, it's 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:45.680 gotta do more. 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:46.520 School was at. 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:50.760 Forward, throwing forward your last four games, your mental al 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:52.920 how'd you approach the last four names? 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:56.840 Just go and play well? Uh, go and have fun 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:00.480 play football. That's what I love to do. So so 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:02.520 I'm gonna keep doing I'm gonna keep doing it at 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:03.040 a high level. 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:04.360 Is a differ to have. 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:07.040 Well, have played atmosphere today, but no one that you 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:08.800 know just might be the only try to get at 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:10.839 that deal of the season. Everyone got to do that 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:13.240 for the last couple of years, and now a frustrating 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:14.200 thing does that. 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:14.840 All of us? 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:19.040 Yeah, obviously we're not where where we wanna be, as 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.599 you know a team or an organization. Four nine is 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:28.120 not not good. Uh, but you know we got four 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:33.480 games to go and show high level execution, high level 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:37.760 play play making. Uh. I'm gonna realize the the opportunity 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.080 to to go out and play play with these guys 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:43.599 and continue to try to put on a show for 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.840 for everybody watching. I hope that, uh that comes across 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:51.000 and I hope that, Uh. I know, I'm gonna continue 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:52.560 to to work hard to put myself in a good 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:53.720 position to make plays. 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:56.920 Is the word thing, Joe that you see most like help? 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:58.160 The whole offense is help. 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:01.720 You can help that you guys that you just might be. 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.040 Out of time now with what out the business. 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:08.040 Yeah, I mean that's uh, that's how the cookie crumbled 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:08.360 this year. 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:09.480 Uh. 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:13.400 You know, obviously I would've loved to have been out 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:16.800 there more and and be able to to make an 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:21.280 impact by that wasn't the case. And you know, I 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:23.280 found my found my bet off to to get back 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.520 to this spot and to be able to be out 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:29.000 there with everybody and for our organization in the city. 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:32.480 So that's what we'm gonna continue to do. I Uh, 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:35.800 I take it very seriously. I I love what I 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:38.480 do and I'm gonna continue to do it. 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:40.640 A play with a game, right, some of the catchers 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:43.080 that Higgins made today, what what do your so many 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:46.440 descriptions as to your relationship with him and how would 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:49.360 you do what to this make spectacular place like that? 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:53.680 Yeah, teas great. Tea's great. Uh and both of those 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:58.839 guys that Jamorrow Tea know that teams are gonna have 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:03.800 different plans to take one of them away. And you 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:08.280 know they did not want Number one to beat them today, 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.760 and so when that happens, then he's got to step 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:17.000 up and make big plays, which he did and something 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:20.320 we would have liked to have back too. Mike g 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:22.120 made a ton of players today. We had guys making 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:25.200 plays all over the field, and you know, unfortunately we 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:26.920 just weren't able to pull it out. 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:29.360 Joe Burrow after the game and Dave I mentioned the 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:31.520 opening drive and it couldn't have started any better. They 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:33.600 win the toss, they decided to take the ball. They 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:37.760 go fourteen plays, sixty seven yards, click eight point fifteen 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:41.160 off the clock. They run seven times, they passed seven times, 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:44.080 They convert four third downs, t had three catches coming 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:47.120 back from the concussion, and everything was rolling right out 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:47.600 of the shoot. 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:50.600 It really was. I mean, to go on a long 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.360 sustained drive like that, you know, out of the box, 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:55.880 the crowd is going nuts. You know, the best way 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.520 to silence them is do exactly what they did. And 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.160 you know, the crowd really really couldn't believe it. But 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:04.560 T Higgins, man, did he have a you know, I guess, 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:06.960 for lack of a better term of coming out party 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:09.520 after that, after that concussion. I mean, he was he 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:13.360 was phenomenal. Targeted eleven times, Joe Burrow was going to 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:17.040 him because Jamar was getting a lot of attention. Man, 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:21.000 he really was. And Higgins six catches ninety two yards 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:24.680 of twenty five yard touchdown another touchdown catch to tow 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:27.800 of Joe Burrow's four touchdown passes went to T Higgins, 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:30.840 and that one handed catch he made for the touchdown 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:32.800 was just, I mean, the thing of beauty. You talk 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:37.400 about eye hand coordination, athleticism and such a big body 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:39.720 guy to be able to do things like that. You know, 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:43.680 you'd expect, you know, a small, little you know, athlete 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:45.520 to be able to do those kind of things, but 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:48.120 to have the range and the size and the strength 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:50.440 that t. Higgins has and to be able to do 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:53.880 what he does in those situations separate him. I mean, 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:55.640 he's a very unique, rare talent. 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:58.080 On the Benford picked six and by the way he 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:00.280 I read this morning, he becomes the first Buffalo Bill 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.760 to score a defensive touchdown and back to back games 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:04.240 in their franchise is history. 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:04.520 Wow. 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.160 What did you see as that play unfolded? And what 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:08.080 a play he made? 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:12.200 Yeah, I think I think Joe basically was shocked that 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:15.680 he jumped so high, you know, I mean, it's the guy. 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:18.480 The guy had uh he had coverage on on that, 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.600 but he was kind of in between should I pressure? 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:25.040 Should I cover? You know, and and he was kind 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.080 of between the rocking and rocking a hard place. And 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:29.600 then Joe kind of was I guess a little bit too. 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:32.000 But and he thought he put enough loft on the ball. 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:35.040 You know, he tried to feather it in there, but uh, man, 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:37.760 ben for just he showed some athletics and man, I 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.560 mean he he skied for that thing, and then it 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:42.560 was it was an easy pick six. There was nobody 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:44.320 that was going to stop him. There's nobody in his way. 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:47.000 Nobody was going to deter him from uh running into 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:50.640 the end zone. But man, that was I'm sure. I'm 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:52.960 sure after right after Joe let that ball go out 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:56.080 of his head and was like, oh no, please no, 0:16:56.720 --> 0:17:01.360 and it good football. Guds didn't no doubt, no doubt, 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:04.040 still ahead. Mike Kasicki had quite a day. We'll talk 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.479 about that here from him as we continue. It's Bengals 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:09.560 Line of the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.560 We continue on on this Monday night at Bengals Line, 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:22.880 Bengals Radio Network at seven hundred WLW. LANs but cantlester 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:26.760 Dave Lap I'm talking about yesterday's defeat at Buffalo thirty 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.080 nine thirty four of the final score. Let's stick on 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:31.400 the offensive side of things for a bit in this hour, 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:35.840 and Mike Kasicki six catches yesterday, six targets, six catches, 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:39.800 eighty six yards and a touchdown. He talks with Dave 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:40.520 after the game. 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:43.880 Mike, what was the what was the reason for your 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:48.440 what was the reason for your success? Did you expect 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:50.800 it during the course of the week when the game 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:54.680 plan was put together? Was it just something that took 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:56.520 place today? The way they covered you the way you 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:58.640 knew you could beat people. What took place today? 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:00.960 Do you think there's always opportunity in the game plan. 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:03.720 It just depends on what comes up and how the 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:07.159 defenses are playing and the flow of the game. So 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:10.639 you know, you always anticipate, you know, going out there 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:11.280 and making plays. 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:12.560 And today, you know, the. 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:13.800 Ball came away a couple of times and I. 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:16.560 Was able to make some plays. This was your This 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:18.359 is a big game for you, man, biggest game of 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:22.639 the year. You are a talented individual in terms of 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:26.719 you got great size. Uh what six 's five? Anyway, 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:29.680 aren't you? And U two hundred and twenty five and 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:33.200 thirty pounds? But can run and you're in the slot 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:36.480 today you were doing a lot of receiver work in 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:39.879 getting matchups mismatches on safeties and corner Is that a 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:40.640 big part of your game? 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:41.280 Yeah. 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:43.920 I mean they just allow me to be me and 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:48.000 go out there and you know, maybe don't always run 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:51.480 their routes the you know, conventional way and how you 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:54.680 draw it up, but uh, you know, Joe allows me 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:56.119 to go out there and make plays, and he trusts 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:57.320 me to be where I'm supposed to be when I'm 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:00.200 spposed to be there, and uh you saw that today. 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:02.760 Mike, I know. Uh, the goal was to win the 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:05.320 last five games of the season, make a run and 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:08.680 go nine and eight. Didn't happen today, you know. So 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:13.359 now you're looking at at uh at what you're looking 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:17.000 at four and eight. So there are five games, four 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:19.320 games left, so you can go eight and nine. I'm 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:22.000 not saying that that's a lock for the playoffs, but 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:23.840 still a possibility, isn't it. 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:25.879 Yeah, that's that's gonna be our best that's gonna be 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:28.920 our only chance. So it starts with Baltimore next week 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:30.960 and that's a big one, Divisional one and at home. 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:32.800 So uh, you know, you go out there and get 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:33.080 that win. 0:19:33.600 --> 0:19:36.679 I know that. Uh the locker room is disappointed, obviously, 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:39.040 but there there's not any quitting any of these guys. 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:41.000 I mean, you guys gave it everything you had out 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:43.600 there today, every single snap. You anticipate that for the 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:44.560 rest of the season, don't you. 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:47.080 Yeah, you know it starts with Zach and you know 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:49.439 the the way that he coaches us, and he does 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:51.480 a phenomenal job, you know, just getting us all ready 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:54.240 to play, and we have great guys on this in 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:57.879 this team, in this locker room that are gonna, you know, 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:00.560 get get out there and be ready to work starting tomorrow. 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:03.280 I know the tight ends had a huge game today. 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:05.680 I know the Cincinnati tight end room is something that 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:08.800 you're proud of. You got a bunch of great teammates 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:10.960 in that in that tight end room. You have a 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:12.600 hell of a coach. To talk about your coach a 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:13.000 little bit. 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:18.000 James is an unbelievable tight end coach has played seven 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:20.080 years in the league, has seen a lot, knows how 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:21.480 to coach, knows how to get the best out of 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:26.040 the guys, uses us all to our strengths and helps 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:27.320 us in you. 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:29.240 Know, every aspect of the game and in life. 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:31.879 Can't say enough good things about James Casey, and you 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:34.040 know the impact that he's had on me in my career. 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:36.240 Mike is sicky on a heck of a day. Was 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:39.200 easily his best day of the year. He had his 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:41.720 high was four catches for thirty five yards in a 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:45.600 game going into yesterday six catches eighty six yards, and 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:48.160 it was a really good day for a guy who 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:51.040 They've got tight ends who all do something, but Mike 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:53.400 is the best of the group and he showed yesterday 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:55.080 the impact he can have on this offense. 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:57.640 Right, I agree with you, Lance, You know you got 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:02.159 tight end that that can block that sample, and he blocks, 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:05.480 probably a little more proficiently than he is his a 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:08.760 weapon in the passing game, although he can get it done. 0:21:08.800 --> 0:21:11.120 I mean he can run routes and catch the football 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:15.800 and do all the things the tight end needs to do. GASICKI, 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:18.479 you know, is a guy that can do it all 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:23.040 really and he blocks, well, he's not a devastating blocker. 0:21:23.240 --> 0:21:27.400 That's not his trademark, that's not his mo. But boy 0:21:27.600 --> 0:21:30.840 is he a great receiver of the football. A lot 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:32.879 of his plays that he made yesterday from the slot, 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:35.520 you know, he ended up almost a member of the 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:38.160 wide receiver corps, like a big six foot five inch, 0:21:38.240 --> 0:21:41.560 you know, two hundred and twenty five pound wide receiver 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:45.439 running really good routes. And Buffalo was paying a lot 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:49.399 of attention to Higgins eventually, and paid a lot of 0:21:49.440 --> 0:21:53.840 attention from Jump Street With Jamar and once t I 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:56.600 think showed them that not only is he back, but 0:21:56.760 --> 0:22:00.119 he's performing an high level, they started paying attention to 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:02.720 him as well. And uh, you know, he did have 0:22:03.440 --> 0:22:07.640 five throws to him. Five targets that weren't weren't executed, 0:22:07.680 --> 0:22:12.240 weren't finished, so they they did probably you know, have 0:22:12.440 --> 0:22:15.720 more success in coverage on t Higgins and Gasiki stepped up, 0:22:15.840 --> 0:22:19.159 you know what, when when needed. This guy is uh 0:22:19.400 --> 0:22:21.720 is somebody that Joe Burrow can count on. Joe Burrow 0:22:21.880 --> 0:22:25.040 loves to throw the football to Mikeasicki. He trusts them, 0:22:25.119 --> 0:22:27.800 and that's that's a big thing with Joe Burrow. Trust 0:22:27.920 --> 0:22:30.800 means that you're always where you're supposed to be when 0:22:30.800 --> 0:22:33.880 you're supposed to be there, and no surprises. And that's 0:22:34.160 --> 0:22:38.240 that's Mikeasicki. He is reliable, dependable, and the hell of 0:22:38.280 --> 0:22:38.640 a talent. 0:22:38.760 --> 0:22:41.240 And you used to I think a keyword when needed, 0:22:41.320 --> 0:22:43.159 because when you have somebody like Tea and you have 0:22:43.240 --> 0:22:45.720 somebody like Jamar, they're going to command attention if you 0:22:45.800 --> 0:22:48.480 don't have somebody else to make a defense pay and 0:22:48.560 --> 0:22:50.560 that's Mike. And I think early in the season when 0:22:50.560 --> 0:22:52.440 they went through that stretch without Mike he had that 0:22:52.520 --> 0:22:54.880 I think it was the peck issue and he wasn't available. 0:22:54.920 --> 0:22:58.480 But without him, it's a different look and it allows 0:22:58.560 --> 0:23:01.120 teams to do things differently. In Mike when he's there. 0:23:01.280 --> 0:23:02.800 He can make defenses. 0:23:02.400 --> 0:23:05.159 Pay absolutely, and you know, and the tight end package 0:23:05.200 --> 0:23:08.480 that the Bengals can use, the third tight ends Tanner Hudson, yep, 0:23:08.680 --> 0:23:10.840 and that package that they can use. He's kind of like, 0:23:11.840 --> 0:23:15.640 you know, he's a good, good receiver. The football runs good. 0:23:15.680 --> 0:23:17.919 Rouse smart on the same page as Joe Borrow. Joe 0:23:17.960 --> 0:23:22.360 Burrow trusts him implicitly as well, and he blocks decently. 0:23:22.400 --> 0:23:24.480 I mean, they can use these guys as full backs, 0:23:24.520 --> 0:23:26.080 they can use them as wing backs, they can use 0:23:26.119 --> 0:23:28.280 them as slot receivers, tight ends at the end of 0:23:28.280 --> 0:23:30.120 the line of scrimmage. They can go two and three 0:23:30.200 --> 0:23:34.159 tight end packages. It gives a lot of versatility to 0:23:34.240 --> 0:23:37.520 the Bengals offense and gives Dan Pitcher and Zach Taylor, 0:23:38.440 --> 0:23:41.479 you know, tools to work with and weapons to employ 0:23:41.720 --> 0:23:43.480 and keep the defense on their toes. 0:23:43.600 --> 0:23:46.680 Boy and the Gasiki touchdown, I want to say that 0:23:46.800 --> 0:23:50.280 capped off a twelve play drive. Buffalo had pulled within three. 0:23:50.920 --> 0:23:53.320 Joe fires to strike down. He's sicky in the end zone. 0:23:53.320 --> 0:23:55.680 It's now a ten point lead with eight forty four 0:23:55.720 --> 0:23:58.160 to go, and you know, I'm writing down Gasiki play. 0:23:58.280 --> 0:24:01.159 They touchdown decides the game and from there. I mean 0:24:01.240 --> 0:24:03.520 that was twenty eight eighteen, and so much happened after 0:24:03.640 --> 0:24:04.960 that in the final eight minutes. 0:24:05.040 --> 0:24:07.200 It's incredible the number of points that went up on 0:24:07.240 --> 0:24:08.960 the board in the last eight minutes. It really is 0:24:09.160 --> 0:24:12.440 was a track meet. And that five yard touchdown past 0:24:12.440 --> 0:24:14.040 you right, Joe Borrow hum that bad boy. 0:24:14.400 --> 0:24:16.919 He put some RPM yes on that one. Did put 0:24:16.960 --> 0:24:17.920 a jugs gun on it. 0:24:18.000 --> 0:24:20.879 He did the Kaski you know, soutam boring plucks it. 0:24:20.960 --> 0:24:21.800 I mean, he is. 0:24:21.960 --> 0:24:24.960 Kasiki is a talent, there's no, uh, no question about it. 0:24:25.000 --> 0:24:28.280 And he he is somebody that Joe really looks to 0:24:28.440 --> 0:24:30.120 in the in the red zone, the low red zone. 0:24:30.600 --> 0:24:33.879 That's uh, you know, that's Kasiki's where he makes his 0:24:33.960 --> 0:24:34.520 bread and butter. 0:24:34.840 --> 0:24:37.320 Let's talk some defense when we come back. He's Dave 0:24:37.400 --> 0:24:39.679 Lapham my glance. But callister, we appreciate you hanging out 0:24:39.720 --> 0:24:42.160 with us tonight. Talk a little Bengals football and Bengals Line, 0:24:42.440 --> 0:24:45.440 the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred wl W. You 0:24:54.880 --> 0:24:57.359 we keep rolling right along on this Monday night at 0:24:57.359 --> 0:25:01.200 Bengals Line and the Bengals Radio networking seven WLW on 0:25:01.280 --> 0:25:03.720 the dock at early thirty nine thirty four, the final 0:25:03.840 --> 0:25:06.480 numbers from Buffalo. Sorting through that, we'll look ahead of 0:25:06.520 --> 0:25:09.040 the Baltimore Ravens as well. We've got fun facts with 0:25:09.160 --> 0:25:11.720 Dan Horde and Joe Flacco later out of our third 0:25:11.760 --> 0:25:14.200 hour as well. But let's jump into the defensive side 0:25:14.240 --> 0:25:17.280 of things. Yesterday, Oron Burks, the veteran linebacker recovered a 0:25:17.320 --> 0:25:20.640 fumble on a big play by DJ Turner. Here's oron 0:25:20.760 --> 0:25:21.720 Burks with Dan. 0:25:21.680 --> 0:25:25.080 Horde, Aaron Burks, you recovered a fumble in the end zone. 0:25:25.200 --> 0:25:28.119 At the moment, it looked like that might be the 0:25:28.240 --> 0:25:31.880 play that ultimately helped Cincinnati win the game. Unfortunately that's 0:25:31.960 --> 0:25:34.240 not the way it played out. But go back to 0:25:34.359 --> 0:25:37.199 that play and how youphorick it must have felt at 0:25:37.200 --> 0:25:39.280 the moment to get a stop inside the five. 0:25:39.600 --> 0:25:42.080 Yeah, obviously, you know, go on stand is a big deal. 0:25:42.200 --> 0:25:44.479 Taking points off the board for them, and just good 0:25:44.480 --> 0:25:46.280 things happen when you running the ball just all pop 0:25:46.359 --> 0:25:48.560 out and hopped on it right away, so give them 0:25:48.600 --> 0:25:50.440 us a chance. And then you know, office turn around 0:25:50.480 --> 0:25:53.200 and got a great drive right after that. So we 0:25:53.359 --> 0:25:54.800 just diden making enough plays to win the game. So 0:25:54.920 --> 0:25:55.879 that's what it comes down to. 0:25:56.080 --> 0:25:57.120 But back to work. 0:25:57.359 --> 0:25:57.919 Back to work this. 0:25:57.960 --> 0:26:02.439 Week, Josh Allen to Unicorn, the way that he can 0:26:02.520 --> 0:26:05.680 extend plays, the forty yard touchdown run that he had. 0:26:05.760 --> 0:26:08.200 I mean sometimes you have to just say a great 0:26:08.240 --> 0:26:09.760 player made plays. 0:26:10.280 --> 0:26:12.159 Yeah, he's a great player, you know, see it all 0:26:12.200 --> 0:26:14.399 over the tape and just being out there with him, 0:26:14.440 --> 0:26:17.520 he's able to improvise and you know, he's just a 0:26:17.560 --> 0:26:19.440 great mind. He's been lead for a while, so he's 0:26:19.440 --> 0:26:21.959 seeing every look, you know. But again, we just got 0:26:22.040 --> 0:26:23.320 to find a way to make more poison. They did 0:26:23.400 --> 0:26:25.040 and then and we weren't able to do that today. 0:26:25.640 --> 0:26:27.600 I think in the last two weeks, you guys have 0:26:27.680 --> 0:26:30.280 showed with Joe Burroyd quarterback, you can go toe to 0:26:30.359 --> 0:26:33.960 toe with anybody. Unfortunately, with the playoff math, it's you 0:26:34.080 --> 0:26:36.680 face long odds to get in. How frustrating is it 0:26:36.800 --> 0:26:39.840 to know that this team's pretty good. Unfortunately we might 0:26:39.880 --> 0:26:41.359 not have a chance to extend our season. 0:26:41.440 --> 0:26:43.399 Yeah, we're just going to control what we can and 0:26:43.520 --> 0:26:45.520 that's weekend a week out, just giving it our best 0:26:45.600 --> 0:26:47.600 and getting out there to put something that we can 0:26:47.640 --> 0:26:50.240 be proud of. So next week we're back on to 0:26:50.280 --> 0:26:52.239 the Ravens and that's that's what we're focused on now. 0:26:52.760 --> 0:26:57.159 Up by ten fourth quarter, were you thinking, you know, 0:26:57.600 --> 0:26:59.080 this one's going to be in the win column. 0:27:00.160 --> 0:27:02.160 I mean we think that the whole game. There's there's 0:27:02.200 --> 0:27:04.040 no quit in this team. And I feel like that 0:27:04.160 --> 0:27:06.280 was the mindset on the sideline. Everybody believe that, you know, 0:27:06.359 --> 0:27:07.639 even at the end, we can find a way to 0:27:07.640 --> 0:27:09.720 get that stopped and often scored to go down score, 0:27:09.800 --> 0:27:12.040 but I just didn't didn't pan out that way. And 0:27:12.119 --> 0:27:13.040 again just expect to work. 0:27:13.400 --> 0:27:15.840 What is kind of the mindset right now for the 0:27:15.960 --> 0:27:18.800 team for where things stand after this lost. 0:27:19.160 --> 0:27:21.400 Yeah, it's frustrating. You know you can give draw every 0:27:21.400 --> 0:27:23.320 week and just come up short, you know, one too 0:27:23.359 --> 0:27:26.560 many times. And again I just keep saying, its back 0:27:26.600 --> 0:27:28.679 to work. It's it's only so much you can control. 0:27:28.800 --> 0:27:31.320 That's in the past now and controlling the what we 0:27:31.359 --> 0:27:32.480 can do moving forward. 0:27:32.720 --> 0:27:33.480 Appreciate your time. 0:27:33.800 --> 0:27:37.359 Oran burks with Dan Horde and that could have been 0:27:37.400 --> 0:27:39.399 one of those moments you circle that's the play of 0:27:39.480 --> 0:27:41.639 the game. They stop a touchdown at the lot it was. 0:27:41.960 --> 0:27:44.080 It was just what you want from your defense. It's 0:27:44.080 --> 0:27:47.159 a scoring opportunity for the Bills. DJ makes the instinctive 0:27:47.240 --> 0:27:49.840 play and strips it away and oron falls on it, 0:27:50.119 --> 0:27:52.840 and you're thinking, all right, this defense has stepped up 0:27:52.880 --> 0:27:54.720 and they and they've saved the football game. 0:27:54.840 --> 0:27:57.840 Absolutely. I mean that's the only turnover the Buffalo Bills had. 0:27:58.800 --> 0:28:01.280 The Bengals had to the Bills had one of the 0:28:01.359 --> 0:28:04.200 Bills go plus one in this kind of a game, 0:28:04.800 --> 0:28:07.440 finishing plus in the turnover department. I think it is 0:28:07.560 --> 0:28:12.119 and was a big deal. But yeah, the defense, I mean, 0:28:12.640 --> 0:28:16.080 they made plays, you know, things would jump out like, 0:28:16.119 --> 0:28:18.240 oh my God, like you were saying, oh my gosh, 0:28:18.320 --> 0:28:20.560 this is it, this is gonna clinch the game. This 0:28:20.720 --> 0:28:25.480 is the play of the game. Then yeah, then I 0:28:25.520 --> 0:28:28.359 got a little surprise for you. Al Golden had to 0:28:28.400 --> 0:28:30.000 be tearing his hair out by the roots, you know, 0:28:30.280 --> 0:28:34.640 because it's on more than half the plays. I thought 0:28:34.680 --> 0:28:38.000 the defense played winning football, you know, and I thought 0:28:38.040 --> 0:28:40.720 they showed signs of improvement. I think they are starting 0:28:40.800 --> 0:28:43.680 to gradually, you know, improve Now. Are they there yet? No, 0:28:44.120 --> 0:28:46.400 they're not there yet. They have miles to go before 0:28:46.440 --> 0:28:48.920 they rest. But I think they're gonna they can be. 0:28:49.160 --> 0:28:50.960 They can be all They're never I don't think they're 0:28:50.960 --> 0:28:53.240 gonna be this group right now. Until they get some 0:28:53.360 --> 0:28:56.520 more snaps and years under their belt. Is not gonna 0:28:56.520 --> 0:28:58.360 be a top three, top five group, but they can 0:28:58.440 --> 0:29:01.120 be a top twelve, top fifty defense and you know, 0:29:01.280 --> 0:29:05.120 get in the top half of the league statistically. And 0:29:05.680 --> 0:29:08.720 if they if they do that with the way this is, 0:29:08.800 --> 0:29:11.480 Bengals offense can score points. I mean thirty nine to 0:29:11.560 --> 0:29:13.920 thirty five. You scored thirty five points in the NFL. 0:29:14.520 --> 0:29:16.520 You stamp it, man, it's a dub, you know, but 0:29:17.080 --> 0:29:17.640 not so fast. 0:29:17.760 --> 0:29:20.520 In fact, along those lines are our friend Paul Dayner 0:29:20.600 --> 0:29:22.920 Junior of the Athletic had this stat going back to 0:29:23.040 --> 0:29:26.360 last season, and boy, oh boy, since the first week 0:29:26.400 --> 0:29:29.080 of last season, teams around the NFL that score at 0:29:29.160 --> 0:29:33.880 least thirty three points have gone one thirty six, ten 0:29:34.520 --> 0:29:37.960 and two. The Bengals in that span, when scoring at 0:29:38.040 --> 0:29:41.640 least thirty three points have gone four and seven. 0:29:42.200 --> 0:29:44.560 So they're responsible for seven of the ten losses to 0:29:44.640 --> 0:29:45.040 the league. 0:29:45.080 --> 0:29:48.240 I think the league separated. I think that's everybody else. 0:29:48.320 --> 0:29:51.200 But either way, I mean, think about that one thirty 0:29:51.240 --> 0:29:53.400 six and that's a winning percentage of a like ninety 0:29:53.440 --> 0:29:55.360 five and the Bengals are four and seven. 0:29:55.480 --> 0:29:58.200 Yeah. Oh, and Bengals have a losing record. The Bengals 0:29:58.240 --> 0:29:59.160 are sub five hundred. 0:29:59.280 --> 0:30:03.120 I mean, and here's speaking of friends. Joel Goodberry or 0:30:03.200 --> 0:30:05.440 our friend Joe Goodberry had a stat on and it's 0:30:05.480 --> 0:30:08.719 impossible to talk linebackers without talking to tight end. How 0:30:08.720 --> 0:30:12.200 about this day. This season, the Bengals defense versus tight 0:30:12.320 --> 0:30:17.280 ends has allowed ninety seven catches for twelve hundred yards 0:30:17.600 --> 0:30:21.840 and fifteen touchdowns to opposing tight ends. Think about that, 0:30:22.360 --> 0:30:25.600 guys just rolled back at his hand. Crazy thirteen games 0:30:25.640 --> 0:30:28.680 in ninety seven catches for twelve hundred yards and fifteen touchdowns. 0:30:28.840 --> 0:30:32.000 They are averaging. Teams are averaging at the tight end 0:30:32.000 --> 0:30:35.040 position against the Bengals ten and a half targets per game, 0:30:35.400 --> 0:30:38.040 seven and a half catches per game, and ninety seven 0:30:38.160 --> 0:30:39.000 yards per game. 0:30:39.120 --> 0:30:43.520 That's amazing. I mean, they're converting over at seventy percent 0:30:43.560 --> 0:30:46.320 of the time in almost one hundred yards to the 0:30:46.400 --> 0:30:49.120 tight ends every single game. And we were talking about 0:30:49.120 --> 0:30:50.840 it at the end of night during the game. It's like, man, 0:30:51.160 --> 0:30:53.360 I mean, the Bengals have struggled to stop the tight 0:30:53.480 --> 0:30:57.040 end forever. It seems like tight ends have hurt the 0:30:57.080 --> 0:31:03.400 Bengals franchise ever since the franchise has been has been formed. 0:31:03.480 --> 0:31:07.120 I mean it is. It's unbelievable and it doesn't have 0:31:07.240 --> 0:31:10.160 to be. You know, a Pro Bowl tight end either. 0:31:10.280 --> 0:31:13.600 You know, if you're capable and you play the tight 0:31:13.720 --> 0:31:16.600 end position, man, you're looking your chops hoping you get 0:31:16.600 --> 0:31:17.960 the Bengals on your schedule. Yeah. 0:31:18.280 --> 0:31:21.320 For the pace of a seventeen game season, that's a 0:31:21.400 --> 0:31:23.720 pace out of the tight ends against the Bengals of 0:31:23.760 --> 0:31:26.960 one hundred and twenty eight catch season for sixteen hundred 0:31:27.040 --> 0:31:29.920 yards and twenty touchdowns. And man, I got to think 0:31:29.920 --> 0:31:32.440 if you're an opposing offensive coordinator, you're sitting down to 0:31:32.440 --> 0:31:34.040 look at the tape each week and go on, we 0:31:34.160 --> 0:31:35.600 are targeting their linebackers. 0:31:35.720 --> 0:31:40.680 Yeah. Absolutely, And you know that Lamar Jackson is doing that. 0:31:41.280 --> 0:31:43.440 He plays against the Bengals twice a year every year. 0:31:43.520 --> 0:31:46.000 He knows what the Bengals are struggling with at the 0:31:46.080 --> 0:31:48.760 tight end position, and he's got a Pro bowler at 0:31:48.800 --> 0:31:51.040 that spot. So I mean he's going to utilize that. Dude. 0:31:51.520 --> 0:31:54.800 And the pair of tight ends that hit the field 0:31:55.280 --> 0:31:59.240 for the Buffalo Bills yesterday, Dalton Kincaid and Dawson Knox, 0:31:59.280 --> 0:32:03.120 the two DK man, they did a job. They did 0:32:03.200 --> 0:32:05.120 a job on the Bengals. They really did, and and 0:32:05.360 --> 0:32:08.320 uh man over and over again when they needed a 0:32:08.400 --> 0:32:11.320 big play. Yep, when when when things were on the line, 0:32:11.680 --> 0:32:13.960 the tight end position got first look. Yeah. 0:32:14.160 --> 0:32:18.160 I was talking to a big fantasy football friend of mine. 0:32:18.200 --> 0:32:20.200 He says, one of the easiest calls in fantasy football 0:32:20.240 --> 0:32:22.239 each week is to start the tight end. Who goes 0:32:22.280 --> 0:32:24.400 against the Bengals? Right, we just and if you don't 0:32:24.440 --> 0:32:26.560 have them, pick them up on the waiver wire. Well, 0:32:26.600 --> 0:32:28.640 head down the stretch on our first hour. Here from 0:32:28.720 --> 0:32:31.840 DJ Turner who made the strip and more. It's Bengals 0:32:31.880 --> 0:32:33.880 on in the Bengals Radio network and seven hundred w 0:32:34.200 --> 0:32:39.480 l W. They hit down the stretch in our first 0:32:39.520 --> 0:32:41.680 hour to out of Bengals on of the Bengals Radio 0:32:41.720 --> 0:32:44.040 network and seven hundred wl you. 0:32:44.200 --> 0:32:47.280 At Lance's time for the cattering health injury report, and 0:32:47.760 --> 0:32:51.800 there really wasn't anything significant. T Higgins got dinged up again, 0:32:52.160 --> 0:32:53.960 hit his head on the turf. I went into the 0:32:54.480 --> 0:32:57.440 into the the blue tent to get to get looked at, 0:32:57.480 --> 0:32:59.360 and he was right back out in the football field. 0:32:59.560 --> 0:33:02.040 Gotta have that blue tent quickly. And you know some 0:33:02.320 --> 0:33:05.560 some minor you know bumps and bruises. I'm trying to 0:33:05.600 --> 0:33:08.400 think of the raven that was rolling his shoulder, you know, 0:33:08.520 --> 0:33:11.320 trying to get that arm loose and keep his shoulder loose. 0:33:11.360 --> 0:33:14.800 But he it was a linebacker. I'm thinking he only 0:33:14.880 --> 0:33:17.800 made me missed a snap or two. So overall, for 0:33:17.880 --> 0:33:20.520 as physical as that game was, as hard as they played, 0:33:20.960 --> 0:33:23.760 they did avoid injury. And that's that's always good news. 0:33:23.800 --> 0:33:26.840 And it's presented by Kettering Healthy, official healthcare provider of 0:33:26.960 --> 0:33:30.040 the Cincinnati Bengals, providing the best care for the best fans. 0:33:30.120 --> 0:33:33.160 Yeah, and for a moment, I thought we'll talk about 0:33:33.200 --> 0:33:34.640 tea later. Out of the hour, he came out of 0:33:34.680 --> 0:33:37.040 the out of the tent. Okay, Joseph o' side left 0:33:37.080 --> 0:33:38.040 briefly with the shin. 0:33:38.320 --> 0:33:40.040 Yeah, he got right, So that was a good thing. 0:33:40.160 --> 0:33:43.280 So yeah, all all things considered, not bad on a 0:33:43.400 --> 0:33:46.280 day like that. Let's pick it up with DJ Turner, 0:33:46.320 --> 0:33:48.440 who turned in a big play in the game, got 0:33:48.480 --> 0:33:50.760 the strip of the goal line yesterday. Here from our 0:33:50.800 --> 0:33:53.200 friend Joe D Joe Danim at Fox nineteen, part of 0:33:53.280 --> 0:33:55.080 its conversation with DJ Turner. 0:33:55.400 --> 0:33:58.600 Okay, hard one to swallow. How much respect do you 0:33:58.720 --> 0:34:01.480 have for a guy like Josh Allen. Look, you guys 0:34:01.560 --> 0:34:03.240 have one of the best quarterbacks in the league. So 0:34:03.440 --> 0:34:06.480 today when you have a game against Josh Allen, how 0:34:06.560 --> 0:34:07.720 difficult of a matchup is it. 0:34:08.640 --> 0:34:09.799 Yeah, it's definitely a difficult one. 0:34:10.520 --> 0:34:14.360 Two top quarterbacks going at it, you know, but we 0:34:14.480 --> 0:34:15.960 got to find a way to get that up. 0:34:16.440 --> 0:34:18.920 Okay, the big play at the goal line when the 0:34:19.000 --> 0:34:21.279 fumble was forced, Can you take us through that play 0:34:21.360 --> 0:34:22.399 and how the play was made? 0:34:22.680 --> 0:34:22.799 Uh? 0:34:22.880 --> 0:34:24.200 Yeah, I mean it was just on a like what 0:34:24.320 --> 0:34:27.399 two or three yard line? Best options getting the ball out? 0:34:29.000 --> 0:34:32.000 It's snowing cold, so you know, it's really what I 0:34:32.120 --> 0:34:32.520 was going for. 0:34:32.880 --> 0:34:34.880 Is that something that is taught for you guys in 0:34:34.960 --> 0:34:36.279 that situation to go for the ball? 0:34:36.400 --> 0:34:38.480 Yeah, for sure, we always try to go for the ball. 0:34:39.080 --> 0:34:41.200 It felt like momentum was on your side in the 0:34:41.280 --> 0:34:43.719 second half. We've seen this team put away these games 0:34:43.800 --> 0:34:46.279 so many different times. When a team makes a play 0:34:46.440 --> 0:34:48.359 like Buffalo did with the pick six, how hard does 0:34:48.360 --> 0:34:51.080 it take that kind of a punch and finish a game. 0:34:51.360 --> 0:34:52.799 Yeah, I mean it's hard, but we just have found 0:34:52.840 --> 0:34:55.799 a way. That's really the biggest thing. Like two good 0:34:55.840 --> 0:34:58.239 teams going you know, stuff gonna happen. We've got to 0:34:58.239 --> 0:35:01.080 find a way, and just find a way. 0:35:01.080 --> 0:35:01.960 He does, just get a dupe. 0:35:02.200 --> 0:35:03.759 A lot of people in this room said this felt 0:35:03.800 --> 0:35:05.759 like a playoff atmosphere today. Did it feel like that 0:35:05.880 --> 0:35:06.000 to you? 0:35:06.719 --> 0:35:10.000 Yeah, I mean I would think so. I haven't played 0:35:10.000 --> 0:35:11.840 in playoff yet, but I would think so. 0:35:12.560 --> 0:35:15.719 Okay, when this team looks at the rest of the 0:35:15.760 --> 0:35:17.400 schedule now and you have four games left and the 0:35:17.560 --> 0:35:19.520 four and nine, there was so much excitement DJ that 0:35:19.600 --> 0:35:21.560 after you beat Baltimore and see if you guys could 0:35:21.640 --> 0:35:23.440 run the table, what do you play for now? 0:35:24.440 --> 0:35:26.640 Wait? Is that want to know? Every week? 0:35:26.719 --> 0:35:27.359 That's the only option. 0:35:29.360 --> 0:35:31.160 We was playing for the same thing we was this week, 0:35:31.560 --> 0:35:35.680 you know. I mean, it's your film, our team. You know, 0:35:35.840 --> 0:35:37.879 I do want to know every week, they don't matter 0:35:38.400 --> 0:35:39.520 circumstance of anything. 0:35:39.760 --> 0:35:41.400 That's what we need to do every. 0:35:41.239 --> 0:35:44.399 Week, DJ Turner. After the game, coming up hour two, 0:35:44.520 --> 0:35:47.759 you'll hear from T Higgins, Jamar Chase, Geno Stone, and 0:35:48.160 --> 0:35:50.840 a whole lot more to sort through from yesterday and 0:35:50.920 --> 0:35:53.840 a thirty nine thirty four loss to those Buffalo Bills. 0:35:53.920 --> 0:35:56.840 It's Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio Network and seven 0:35:56.960 --> 0:36:04.960 hundred WLW. Hey, welcome back again on Bengals on this 0:36:05.080 --> 0:36:07.880 Monday night, about to unpack our number two of our 0:36:08.040 --> 0:36:11.880 journey through Bengals conversation. Bengals fall to the Buffalo Bills 0:36:11.960 --> 0:36:15.560 yesterday thirty nine thirty four, the final score. We've got 0:36:15.600 --> 0:36:18.719 plenty to work through in this hour. Let's get into 0:36:19.040 --> 0:36:21.560 the performance by t Higgins. We talked about the toughness 0:36:21.600 --> 0:36:25.240 he showed yesterday, the return from the concussion. He's targeted 0:36:25.280 --> 0:36:28.040 eleven times. He has six catches ninety two yards, an 0:36:28.080 --> 0:36:30.560 average of fifteen point three a catch a long of 0:36:30.640 --> 0:36:33.759 twenty five at touchdown two touchdowns on the day. Here 0:36:33.920 --> 0:36:37.040 is Tea after the game on the performance and the loss. 0:36:38.239 --> 0:36:40.680 That catch you made that touchdown catch, It didn't even 0:36:40.760 --> 0:36:42.320 not brace the Frida. 0:36:42.680 --> 0:36:46.160 Uh, I mean, man, just try to make a play 0:36:46.200 --> 0:36:46.480 on the ball. 0:36:46.600 --> 0:36:47.200 And was able to. 0:36:48.640 --> 0:36:50.960 See how frustrating is given the fact that he guys 0:36:51.040 --> 0:36:53.360 played pretty much the game you wanted to play for. 0:36:53.719 --> 0:36:58.160 I had to say, yeah, Ages, it's a flipfles sweatch. Yeah. 0:36:58.200 --> 0:37:00.680 Man, it's very frustrating obviously like he wants to lose, 0:37:00.760 --> 0:37:03.319 especially when he was up mostly the whole game. 0:37:03.640 --> 0:37:03.759 Uh. 0:37:03.800 --> 0:37:04.920 Those last two turnovers. 0:37:04.960 --> 0:37:05.719 You know it cost us. 0:37:05.920 --> 0:37:08.919 You can't hand those, but you gotta get it fixed. 0:37:08.960 --> 0:37:09.839 It can be better next week. 0:37:10.560 --> 0:37:12.960 The way you guys started touchdown drives on your first 0:37:12.960 --> 0:37:15.440 three possessions, did it feel like that playoff game all 0:37:15.480 --> 0:37:18.319 over again, the way that you came out and really 0:37:18.360 --> 0:37:19.120 dominated early. 0:37:19.239 --> 0:37:20.040 Yeah, man, it felt good. 0:37:20.840 --> 0:37:23.000 You know, we just gotta keep putting the pressure on 0:37:23.200 --> 0:37:25.880 you know, you know obviously, like I just said to him, Uh, 0:37:25.920 --> 0:37:28.360 those two turnovers at the end cost us. Uh, we 0:37:28.400 --> 0:37:30.440 can't hand those and just keep putting pressure on 'em 0:37:30.480 --> 0:37:31.920 and you know, try to find a win. 0:37:32.480 --> 0:37:35.560 Wasn't that case really where those turnovers were Bengals mistakes? 0:37:35.560 --> 0:37:38.120 I mean, Christian Benford, that was a great play, right. 0:37:38.120 --> 0:37:39.920 Uh, God made a hell of a play. Uh No, 0:37:40.200 --> 0:37:42.040 So you know, I get gotta get pros where where 0:37:42.160 --> 0:37:43.800 when it's due. Uh he made a hell of a 0:37:43.880 --> 0:37:45.400 play and made a good ball. They good play on 0:37:45.440 --> 0:37:47.960 the ball, so you know, and then you know the 0:37:48.000 --> 0:37:50.920 second one, you know, got tipped. You know, tips and overthrows. 0:37:51.640 --> 0:37:54.359 You know, it's it's tough, so it's gotta be better. 0:37:54.600 --> 0:37:56.200 How tough as a tea when you see what the 0:37:56.280 --> 0:37:58.919 offense looks like when you have everybody and you guys 0:37:58.960 --> 0:38:01.799 who out to score thirty plus points, that it might 0:38:01.880 --> 0:38:03.960 be too late in the season to get to where 0:38:03.960 --> 0:38:04.400 you wanna go. 0:38:05.080 --> 0:38:07.839 Uh it's tough, you know. You know, we definitely wanted 0:38:07.880 --> 0:38:10.839 this win today. Uh, but it didn't happen. 0:38:10.960 --> 0:38:14.680 So for you, we we know you came back from 0:38:14.880 --> 0:38:17.040 the concussion or to missing last week. You took some 0:38:17.280 --> 0:38:21.239 hard falls, landing on the ground awkwardly. How difficult was 0:38:21.280 --> 0:38:23.040 it for you to make it all the way through 0:38:23.120 --> 0:38:23.480 this game? 0:38:25.360 --> 0:38:26.840 You know, I'm a I'm a soldier, you know what 0:38:26.840 --> 0:38:29.600 I mean. So soldiers take hits. 0:38:30.120 --> 0:38:32.200 You know, it happens. It's football, It's the name of 0:38:32.239 --> 0:38:35.280 the game. Uh, you gotta get up next play. Mentally, 0:38:35.480 --> 0:38:36.080 did you try. 0:38:36.000 --> 0:38:37.160 To invent somebody to stay in the game? 0:38:37.160 --> 0:38:37.440 Off? 0:38:37.480 --> 0:38:39.799 It looked like they kind of valua val what evaluated 0:38:39.880 --> 0:38:42.000 you a couple of times? I mean, what was kind 0:38:42.000 --> 0:38:43.759 of the conversations you have with the traders. 0:38:44.040 --> 0:38:47.040 Regular Uh, you know, going through the concussion testing things. 0:38:47.160 --> 0:38:48.759 But you know, past those so I was able to 0:38:48.800 --> 0:38:49.600 go back and keep playing. 0:38:49.719 --> 0:38:50.200 Was there aught? 0:38:50.320 --> 0:38:52.320 You know, given the history of you saying, hey, you know, 0:38:52.480 --> 0:38:54.600 maybe wanna not playing this given what happened. I mean, 0:38:54.640 --> 0:38:56.960 how much did you think about maybe sitting out the rest. 0:38:56.800 --> 0:38:57.080 Of the game. 0:38:57.080 --> 0:38:58.080 I didn't think about that at all. 0:38:58.200 --> 0:38:59.920 Why cause I'm a I'm a I'm a team for 0:39:00.400 --> 0:39:02.239 you know what I mean. Uh, my team needed me, 0:39:02.280 --> 0:39:03.600 you know, I feel like they did. So I went 0:39:03.600 --> 0:39:05.520 out there and played, try to dog this out with 0:39:05.560 --> 0:39:05.879 my team. 0:39:06.200 --> 0:39:08.400 Was it getting frustrated that you seem to keep landing 0:39:08.560 --> 0:39:10.800 so hard? I mean, you know, football players, I get it, 0:39:10.920 --> 0:39:12.680 but sometimes you can brace your fall. It felt like 0:39:12.719 --> 0:39:14.839 you had a lot of falls today that you really 0:39:14.840 --> 0:39:15.880 could even brace yourself. 0:39:15.960 --> 0:39:17.439 It's well, man, it's ball. 0:39:18.200 --> 0:39:20.480 I heard Jamar say to you before the game. Hey, 0:39:20.600 --> 0:39:23.440 the weather's not bad? What was it like out there 0:39:23.520 --> 0:39:24.040 for you guys? 0:39:24.320 --> 0:39:25.160 Snow cold? 0:39:25.239 --> 0:39:29.439 To me, I don't like the snow, which Javari trying 0:39:29.480 --> 0:39:31.520 to convince you. Do you think that it's not so bad? 0:39:31.960 --> 0:39:32.120 Nah? 0:39:32.360 --> 0:39:34.600 Uh, I just think the thing was saying that cause 0:39:34.640 --> 0:39:37.440 it was a little colder in Baltimore. So uh that's 0:39:37.440 --> 0:39:38.080 probably while. 0:39:38.040 --> 0:39:40.520 What one had a touchdown catches that just team needs 0:39:40.520 --> 0:39:41.360 to play gotta make it. 0:39:41.760 --> 0:39:44.319 I mean, yeah, you know we knew when I when 0:39:44.400 --> 0:39:46.399 it when it was when it was called I knew 0:39:46.520 --> 0:39:47.920 somebody was gonna have to make a play, So whether 0:39:48.000 --> 0:39:49.920 it came to me or somebody else, play would have 0:39:49.960 --> 0:39:50.319 to be made. 0:39:50.360 --> 0:39:52.480 So what's your talking part about losing this one? 0:39:53.840 --> 0:39:56.239 We needed to win, you know what I mean to 0:39:56.760 --> 0:39:59.480 you know, have better chances of you know, making it. Uh, 0:39:59.560 --> 0:40:00.359 we just need to win. 0:40:00.600 --> 0:40:03.160 So I know how welly y'all played last week, how 0:40:03.200 --> 0:40:04.680 wey y'all played for most of this game, and now 0:40:05.040 --> 0:40:06.759 giving where you're out with the record, how much harder 0:40:06.800 --> 0:40:08.319 does that make call what happened today? 0:40:08.400 --> 0:40:10.560 I mean it makes it hard. 0:40:10.760 --> 0:40:12.879 I mean we got to come back, you know, watch 0:40:12.960 --> 0:40:15.319 your film, correct what we did wrong, and just try 0:40:15.360 --> 0:40:16.080 to be better next week. 0:40:16.920 --> 0:40:19.000 Is starting to feel like the season is slipping away. 0:40:20.000 --> 0:40:23.120 Oh that's exact question. 0:40:24.080 --> 0:40:26.200 T after the game and David thought it was big 0:40:26.280 --> 0:40:29.200 coming off the concussion. They got him involved immediately. He 0:40:29.280 --> 0:40:31.920 had three catches on the opening drive and kind of 0:40:32.239 --> 0:40:35.279 announced that tea was ready and let's go, and it 0:40:35.560 --> 0:40:36.960 was the start of a big day for him. 0:40:37.120 --> 0:40:40.440 Yeah, it really was. The Uh. The Bills had a 0:40:40.520 --> 0:40:42.640 tough time matching up with t and he is He's 0:40:42.719 --> 0:40:47.440 a tough match up. The very few defensive backs have 0:40:47.960 --> 0:40:51.239 big corners the size that can you know, handle and 0:40:51.320 --> 0:40:54.200 battle T Higgins on a snap by snap basis. So 0:40:54.360 --> 0:40:58.200 he is an automatic mismatch. I mean, he is a unique, 0:40:58.280 --> 0:41:01.640 unique guy. He's one of the biggest receivers in the 0:41:01.719 --> 0:41:07.440 National Football League really overall, and he very athletic for 0:41:07.520 --> 0:41:11.120 his size, as we talked about, and he's a weapon. 0:41:11.160 --> 0:41:14.120 He's a guy that loves the game of football too. 0:41:14.160 --> 0:41:17.480 I mean he works. He takes nothing for granted. He 0:41:17.600 --> 0:41:22.279 always wants to get better. He is works hard. He's 0:41:22.600 --> 0:41:24.839 one of the first guys on the field every day, 0:41:24.880 --> 0:41:26.680 one of the last guys to leave. He puts an 0:41:26.680 --> 0:41:29.879 extra time with Joe Burrow. Football is important to this kid. 0:41:30.760 --> 0:41:31.080 It was. 0:41:31.880 --> 0:41:34.400 It was a scary moment when he made the leaping 0:41:34.440 --> 0:41:37.080 attempt and fell and you could see his head smacked 0:41:37.080 --> 0:41:39.280 the guy on the turf like the concussion and bounced 0:41:39.400 --> 0:41:42.120 early and he sat up and on the TV replay 0:41:42.160 --> 0:41:45.200 you saw him point his finger to his helmet indicating 0:41:45.480 --> 0:41:48.000 my head and went to the blue ten. And you're thinking, man, 0:41:48.080 --> 0:41:52.479 that you get one concussion and you worry about things 0:41:52.560 --> 0:41:54.760 piling up from there. But he was able to return. 0:41:54.800 --> 0:41:57.840 It made that beauty of a one handed catch and 0:41:58.480 --> 0:42:01.120 just a really strong perform. It's a on a brutally 0:42:01.239 --> 0:42:03.560 cold day with a hard field, and he got through 0:42:03.600 --> 0:42:04.440 all of it yesterday. 0:42:04.640 --> 0:42:07.759 Yeah. I mean concussions when you when you bang your 0:42:07.800 --> 0:42:11.200 head on the turf, your your eyes they don't they 0:42:11.239 --> 0:42:12.920 don't roll up in the back of your head literally, 0:42:12.960 --> 0:42:15.759 but you lose focus. I mean, you're you're just you're, you're, 0:42:16.360 --> 0:42:19.000 you're out of whack. I mean, you can't sleep, clearly, 0:42:19.080 --> 0:42:22.440 it's you never pass an eye vision test, and it's 0:42:22.520 --> 0:42:25.759 it's like those little swimmers that you know, you go 0:42:25.840 --> 0:42:28.200 through your eyes. You have a little bit of that. 0:42:28.320 --> 0:42:30.520 So you're trying to shake it off and see how 0:42:30.600 --> 0:42:33.360 bad it is. If you have a serious concussion, you're 0:42:33.400 --> 0:42:36.120 going to be, you know, trying to trying to get 0:42:36.160 --> 0:42:40.680 your eyes straight for a while. Fortunately for the Bengals 0:42:40.719 --> 0:42:42.279 and for t Higgins, he was able to shake that 0:42:42.360 --> 0:42:42.640 one off. 0:42:42.719 --> 0:42:44.840 We're gonna hear from Jamar in our next segment. But 0:42:44.920 --> 0:42:47.600 let's uh, while we're talking about the offense. Uh. The 0:42:47.680 --> 0:42:50.720 one thing that I think was surprising was especially considering 0:42:50.960 --> 0:42:53.719 Buffalo's struggles to defend the run. I think going into 0:42:53.760 --> 0:42:55.879 the game they were thirtieth I think they were giving 0:42:55.960 --> 0:42:59.200 up five or five point two yards per caring Bengals 0:42:59.320 --> 0:43:02.720 just never really got the run game untracked. Yesterday Somaj 0:43:02.880 --> 0:43:06.600 p Ryan had some really hard, tough runs. But Chase Brown, 0:43:06.760 --> 0:43:09.360 for his streak of six straight games over one hundred 0:43:09.400 --> 0:43:12.400 yards total yards from scrimmage, he just didn't get it 0:43:12.600 --> 0:43:15.160 going really at all yesterday. 0:43:15.320 --> 0:43:17.640 No, he really didn't, and numbers back it up. I mean, 0:43:17.680 --> 0:43:20.640 the average less than two yards of carry. Twelve carries 0:43:20.680 --> 0:43:23.440 twenty three yards one point nine A long carry of 0:43:23.520 --> 0:43:27.320 five was a touchdown, so he did put a touchdown 0:43:27.400 --> 0:43:30.279 up on the board. But you're right, p Ryan, five 0:43:30.320 --> 0:43:33.520 point two yards per but he only carried it six times, 0:43:34.160 --> 0:43:39.880 six times for thirty one yards. So maybe in hindsight think, okay, 0:43:40.000 --> 0:43:42.400 maybe maybe we should have worked that big horse a 0:43:42.440 --> 0:43:44.920 little bit more and let him beat on the Buffalo 0:43:45.040 --> 0:43:47.640 Bills and wear them down a little bit, and maybe 0:43:47.680 --> 0:43:49.520 that has slowed their pass rush down. If they have 0:43:49.640 --> 0:43:53.279 to concern themselves so much with you know, a big 0:43:53.400 --> 0:43:55.919 guy between the tackles, a big horse like p Rand 0:43:55.960 --> 0:43:57.520 that they can do some damage. 0:43:57.520 --> 0:43:59.320 Boy, and he on the on the opening drive, p 0:43:59.480 --> 0:44:01.960 Ride had that third and six catch and the fight, 0:44:02.160 --> 0:44:04.640 the extra effort to keep that drive alive, which was big. 0:44:04.760 --> 0:44:06.840 He at a third and one conversion, he had a 0:44:06.960 --> 0:44:10.120 nine yard run. And the one thing that appear different 0:44:10.160 --> 0:44:12.800 about Chase Chase Brown, and I don't know if it 0:44:12.880 --> 0:44:15.680 was weather in traction, he just didn't seem to run 0:44:15.880 --> 0:44:18.200 with as much I don't know purpose. There was a 0:44:18.239 --> 0:44:21.320 little more tentative of of like the tap tail, like 0:44:21.400 --> 0:44:23.120 which way am I going? Where am I going? He's 0:44:23.160 --> 0:44:25.480 been decisive in that run where he's been really good 0:44:25.520 --> 0:44:26.600 the previous six weeks. 0:44:26.680 --> 0:44:27.920 Yeah, I know what you mean. It looked like he 0:44:28.080 --> 0:44:30.400 running on eggshells a little bit, you know, And and uh, 0:44:30.719 --> 0:44:34.360 you know, not not quite sure exactly of his footing. 0:44:34.400 --> 0:44:37.080 And Samaj is not that way. He'll just batter you. 0:44:37.320 --> 0:44:39.040 You know, you may hit him, but he's gonna hit you. 0:44:39.239 --> 0:44:40.880 He's going to hit you. And the thing I like 0:44:40.920 --> 0:44:45.200 about Samaj watching him always has a forward body lean, 0:44:45.320 --> 0:44:48.560 never runs upright, always has a body lean. He's going 0:44:48.640 --> 0:44:50.640 to smack you, and and uh, and he's going to 0:44:50.840 --> 0:44:53.600 give you little hitting surface because when you're on a 0:44:54.040 --> 0:44:56.520 forty five degree incline light to rape boy, it's like 0:44:56.640 --> 0:44:58.600 it's hard to get you know, a big hit on him. 0:44:58.960 --> 0:45:01.720 So for his big a bu he is, his running 0:45:01.800 --> 0:45:05.160 style is uh is pretty dynamic. I mean it's a 0:45:05.239 --> 0:45:07.520 one two punch. He's got a tough running style to 0:45:07.560 --> 0:45:09.000 tackle and he's a big old horse behind it. 0:45:09.080 --> 0:45:09.279 Yeah. 0:45:09.280 --> 0:45:11.440 They always say low man wins we get you know 0:45:11.560 --> 0:45:13.600 how you're like leaning like I can't get under you. 0:45:13.880 --> 0:45:16.880 Yeah, and if and if you do try to lower everything, 0:45:16.920 --> 0:45:17.640 he'll run you over. 0:45:17.920 --> 0:45:18.080 You know. 0:45:18.280 --> 0:45:21.000 So it's like, damn, I'm the damnified doing damnified don't 0:45:21.000 --> 0:45:21.600 here with this guy. 0:45:21.680 --> 0:45:23.759 He's got like a built in He's the type of 0:45:23.800 --> 0:45:25.960 running back there's always like a built in extra yard 0:45:26.000 --> 0:45:28.200 because he's always falling forward. So when you get him, 0:45:28.239 --> 0:45:30.359 he's he's, you know, tackle on one more yard gain. 0:45:30.560 --> 0:45:32.520 Yeah, so it is. I mean when he when he 0:45:32.600 --> 0:45:35.160 gets tackled for no gain, you don't really see him 0:45:35.160 --> 0:45:36.759 get tackled for lost. Well, when you see him get 0:45:36.760 --> 0:45:39.480 tackled for no gain, it's like, man, as an offensive line, 0:45:39.560 --> 0:45:41.120 you go back to him and say, man, we sucked 0:45:41.160 --> 0:45:45.560 on that play because I exactly if if p Ryan 0:45:45.640 --> 0:45:48.040 can't get in the yards off and and nobody is yeah. 0:45:47.960 --> 0:45:49.960 No doubt, no doubt. All right, still ahead. We heard 0:45:50.000 --> 0:45:52.520 from t in this segment. Let's hear from Jamar on 0:45:52.719 --> 0:45:55.160 his day as we roll through Bengals Lite on this 0:45:55.280 --> 0:45:58.799 Monday night on the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. 0:46:06.840 --> 0:46:08.680 We keep moving with things along on this plenty and 0:46:08.719 --> 0:46:11.120 that Offendals line the Bengals. We're new network at seven 0:46:11.160 --> 0:46:14.000 hunter WLW lands for chemist day, blap them hanging out 0:46:14.040 --> 0:46:17.320 sorting through yesterday. Let's talk Jamar Chase targeted eight times, 0:46:17.840 --> 0:46:21.640 five catches forty four yards along of sixteen. Here's Jamar 0:46:21.920 --> 0:46:22.600 after the game. 0:46:22.760 --> 0:46:25.040 Pick six was one of the bigger plays of the game. 0:46:25.640 --> 0:46:29.120 Is that just a risk on that play that if 0:46:29.160 --> 0:46:31.040 a guy makes a great play like that, there's just 0:46:31.600 --> 0:46:33.680 you tip your cap and you say great play and 0:46:33.800 --> 0:46:34.040 move on. 0:46:35.680 --> 0:46:38.680 Yeah, pretty much great play called by him first time 0:46:38.719 --> 0:46:40.919 doing a safety blitz on from my side the whole 0:46:40.960 --> 0:46:42.799 game pretty much just show cloud the whole game. 0:46:42.800 --> 0:46:43.440 Whinside love it. 0:46:43.520 --> 0:46:46.680 So how difficult is it because then they come back 0:46:46.719 --> 0:46:48.960 with another interception to take that kind of a body 0:46:49.000 --> 0:46:50.520 blow and still try to finish. 0:46:50.280 --> 0:46:50.880 A game of the win. 0:46:51.880 --> 0:46:53.560 Just not a good play about dlining their hands out' 0:46:53.600 --> 0:46:54.480 make an ampag on the play. 0:46:56.080 --> 0:46:58.160 I feel like in the last two weeks, you guys 0:46:58.200 --> 0:47:00.560 showed what this team can be. 0:47:01.400 --> 0:47:02.719 Nah, I feel like we did it a whole Yeah, 0:47:02.800 --> 0:47:03.879 not just last two weeks. 0:47:04.719 --> 0:47:07.120 But when you have the whole offense healthy the way 0:47:07.160 --> 0:47:09.239 you've had now and you've see the the amount of 0:47:09.280 --> 0:47:11.799 points you're putting up, is it harder to swallow Jamar 0:47:11.920 --> 0:47:14.880 knowing that if you had Joe and the whole offense 0:47:14.920 --> 0:47:16.640 the whole year, maybe you wouldn't be in this position. 0:47:17.719 --> 0:47:18.960 Uh. Hard to say at the end of the day. 0:47:19.320 --> 0:47:20.759 Uh, we can't really look at him and put all 0:47:20.760 --> 0:47:22.800 the pressure on him for making plays and trying to 0:47:22.840 --> 0:47:23.759 be perfect play the game. 0:47:23.800 --> 0:47:25.560 But uh, we gotta look at ourselves. 0:47:25.560 --> 0:47:29.000 We gotta look at the uh the other quarterbacks, the defense, 0:47:29.080 --> 0:47:30.719 the backups, everybody else that has to play. 0:47:30.719 --> 0:47:32.719 They rolling and step into the game when they when 0:47:32.760 --> 0:47:33.359 they number called. 0:47:34.440 --> 0:47:36.400 How much you matt a Uh admiration do you have 0:47:36.520 --> 0:47:39.160 for Tea coming back from his concussion and playing the 0:47:39.200 --> 0:47:41.839 way he did and well the hard hits that uh 0:47:42.000 --> 0:47:42.720 he felt today? 0:47:43.640 --> 0:47:47.080 Uh, nothing less. I expect nothing less from him, you 0:47:47.160 --> 0:47:48.320 know what I'm saying. He's one of the best in 0:47:48.360 --> 0:47:51.479 the nation, and I expected a lot. 0:47:51.400 --> 0:47:53.239 Of guys in here said that today felt like a 0:47:53.280 --> 0:47:56.160 playoff game. You've played in playoff games, you played these 0:47:56.200 --> 0:47:57.080 guys in playoff games. 0:47:57.120 --> 0:47:58.440 Did it feel like that kind of atmosphere? 0:47:59.040 --> 0:47:59.200 Nah? 0:47:59.800 --> 0:48:01.680 Nah, I just not really. 0:48:02.480 --> 0:48:04.840 Did go show you anything different from than what you 0:48:04.880 --> 0:48:08.200 saw film this week? Did they show you anything different? 0:48:08.680 --> 0:48:10.319 No, but you saw the film during that week. 0:48:10.480 --> 0:48:10.520 No. 0:48:11.280 --> 0:48:14.600 The exactly what they did all week on film played 0:48:14.840 --> 0:48:19.040 six strong, six quarters two, So they did. 0:48:19.160 --> 0:48:22.440 They did the usual people will take you out though, right, 0:48:22.480 --> 0:48:23.520 I mean that was there game. 0:48:25.120 --> 0:48:28.000 I mean I guess it was just cloud nothing. I 0:48:28.040 --> 0:48:29.080 don't normally see. 0:48:29.960 --> 0:48:33.200 Four nine Jamar. What now do you guys look forward 0:48:33.239 --> 0:48:33.800 to and play for? 0:48:34.680 --> 0:48:36.640 Just keep playing man, finishtone. That's the best we could do. 0:48:38.560 --> 0:48:41.319 I'm sorry I was late, but we'll pubs review of the. 0:48:41.640 --> 0:48:45.919 Of the pick six good play by then. I guess 0:48:45.920 --> 0:48:48.520 he was Woodson right, Caplitz. 0:48:48.280 --> 0:48:51.120 Jamar after the game and Dave they we talked a 0:48:51.160 --> 0:48:53.440 little bit earlier, alluded to the fact that they put 0:48:53.520 --> 0:48:56.640 up a lot of tension towards Uh Jamar. I think 0:48:56.680 --> 0:48:59.880 he had one catch going into the fourth quarter, then 0:49:00.120 --> 0:49:02.239 got hot for a little bit of a stretch and 0:49:02.360 --> 0:49:04.680 looking at the numbers. Christian Benford who had the big 0:49:04.760 --> 0:49:08.760 pick six saw from Next Gen. Christian Benford had sixteen 0:49:08.880 --> 0:49:12.360 matchups against Jamar Chase yesterday. Jamar was thrown at just 0:49:12.560 --> 0:49:16.359 twice in those sixteen matchups, no receptions and the pick six. 0:49:16.440 --> 0:49:19.240 So Benford had a big day against a big time receiver. 0:49:19.440 --> 0:49:20.000 He really did. 0:49:20.120 --> 0:49:22.680 And that's what teams are starting to do, not just 0:49:22.760 --> 0:49:26.919 the Buffalo Bills, but everybody, particularly division opponents. They're putting 0:49:26.960 --> 0:49:29.920 a shadow on Chase, a guy like Benford who is 0:49:30.000 --> 0:49:33.240 their best cover corner, and then they'll compliment and supplement 0:49:33.320 --> 0:49:35.960 it with okay, a safety rolling over the top or 0:49:36.400 --> 0:49:38.960 a nickel corner who's you know, backing off from the 0:49:39.040 --> 0:49:41.400 nickel corner position and taking the deep part of the 0:49:41.440 --> 0:49:44.920 football field as well. So they're doing some combination coverages 0:49:45.000 --> 0:49:50.320 to combat Jamar Chase's greatness. But man, he you know, 0:49:50.400 --> 0:49:53.719 you figure if he's one on one the snaps that 0:49:53.800 --> 0:49:57.759 he is one on one, somebody else has to win. Yes, 0:49:58.000 --> 0:50:01.600 But what they're doing is they're saying, Okay, well we're 0:50:01.640 --> 0:50:04.520 not We're not taking another guy and putting him on Jamar. 0:50:04.840 --> 0:50:07.200 So we can put him on Higgins, we can put 0:50:07.239 --> 0:50:08.960 him on against sticky. We can do it with the 0:50:09.000 --> 0:50:11.600 Yoci vosh if we so desire. Uh, he's got to 0:50:11.640 --> 0:50:13.320 prove himself a little bit more, I think before he 0:50:13.440 --> 0:50:19.040 falls into that category. But you know, the defensive coordinators 0:50:19.040 --> 0:50:21.160 there are no dummies, man. They're always saying I thinking 0:50:21.200 --> 0:50:23.760 a step ahead. There's no question about that. But bottom 0:50:23.840 --> 0:50:26.480 line is Benford played the game of his life. 0:50:26.520 --> 0:50:26.600 Man. 0:50:26.680 --> 0:50:27.560 He played his ass off. 0:50:27.680 --> 0:50:31.400 Yeah. You a quick thought on Yoshi. And it's as 0:50:31.480 --> 0:50:34.839 he continues to develop, it would seem the the gap 0:50:34.960 --> 0:50:38.280 that he has to close is he'll make a nice play, 0:50:38.680 --> 0:50:41.080 but he'll have a drop. Yeah, he'll making a just 0:50:41.320 --> 0:50:44.840 closing that gap of inconsistency to make it more consent. 0:50:44.960 --> 0:50:46.799 That seems like the only thing he's lacking right now, 0:50:46.880 --> 0:50:49.319 because he'll do some things he say wow, look at 0:50:49.360 --> 0:50:51.640 that and look at the body, the way he angled 0:50:51.680 --> 0:50:53.160 his body and the strength he showed. 0:50:53.360 --> 0:50:55.160 Then he'll have a drop and you say, how do 0:50:55.280 --> 0:50:56.000 you do that? 0:50:56.400 --> 0:50:56.600 Yeah? 0:50:56.840 --> 0:51:00.719 Yeah, that's he is. He's a rare I mean, he 0:51:01.000 --> 0:51:02.719 can do a lot of things. He might be as 0:51:02.800 --> 0:51:06.440 gifted an athlete. He's probably the guy on the football 0:51:06.480 --> 0:51:09.200 team that could do the pentathlon and heptathlon and all 0:51:09.280 --> 0:51:11.400 that sort of thing. I mean, the guy can do anything. 0:51:11.480 --> 0:51:13.040 You can high jump, he can pull vault, he can 0:51:13.120 --> 0:51:15.440 run sprints, you can run distance. I mean he is 0:51:16.480 --> 0:51:18.760 and honestly and truly he is gifted in that regard. 0:51:19.880 --> 0:51:24.600 But you're right, consistency making the catch and making the 0:51:24.680 --> 0:51:28.759 catch at clutch times, you know, being more clutch. Joe 0:51:28.840 --> 0:51:31.920 Burrow is human, and Joe Burrow, if you drop one, 0:51:32.239 --> 0:51:34.800 Joe is going to be like, you know, I was 0:51:34.880 --> 0:51:36.880 kind of counting on that one. I don't think I 0:51:36.920 --> 0:51:38.400 could throw the ball any better. Man. I hit you 0:51:38.520 --> 0:51:40.000 right in the numbers, right and right in the chest, 0:51:40.080 --> 0:51:43.680 and he didn't finish it for me, So I might 0:51:43.760 --> 0:51:45.319 be going in another direction the next time. 0:51:45.480 --> 0:51:48.080 Final thought on Chase. He becomes the fourth player all 0:51:48.239 --> 0:51:51.359 time with at least one thousand receiving yards and five 0:51:51.520 --> 0:51:54.800 touchdowns in each of his first five seasons. The company 0:51:54.880 --> 0:52:00.439 he's in, aj Green, Justin Jefferson, and Randy Moss bad 0:52:00.520 --> 0:52:02.719 company for guys with at least a thousand yards and 0:52:02.800 --> 0:52:06.480 five touchdowns in each of their first five seasons. 0:52:06.560 --> 0:52:08.279 Man, that's a that's a heck of a roll call 0:52:08.400 --> 0:52:12.160 right there, and it is Hall of Famers future Hall 0:52:12.200 --> 0:52:15.839 of Famers, each and every one. There's no doubt about that. So, boy, 0:52:16.719 --> 0:52:19.080 Jamar Chase season some high cotton there, man, that's a 0:52:19.280 --> 0:52:21.400 that's a hell of a start to a season. 0:52:21.440 --> 0:52:24.680 He's sitting on four now, four hundred and eighty six 0:52:24.920 --> 0:52:28.239 catches in his fifth season, not even done. Still four 0:52:28.320 --> 0:52:31.440 games left, four hundred and eighty six catches for jam. 0:52:31.520 --> 0:52:34.640 Chase, four games left. If he catches fourteen balls and 0:52:34.680 --> 0:52:37.719 four games, which you think is honest a foregone conclusion, 0:52:38.480 --> 0:52:41.480 that'll be five hundred catches, one hundred a year. What 0:52:42.160 --> 0:52:46.040 one hundred catches a year? Just plug them in, man, unbelievable, amazing. 0:52:46.239 --> 0:52:48.200 Stuck some more defense on the other side as we 0:52:48.280 --> 0:52:52.200 continue here from Geno Stone and more. He's Dave Blapham. 0:52:52.280 --> 0:52:55.080 I'm Glance Pacallister. We thank you for being with us tonight, 0:52:55.280 --> 0:52:58.440 Bengals On and the Bengals Radio Network and seven hundred WLW. 0:53:06.840 --> 0:53:09.399 All Right, we are rolling through this Monday night talking 0:53:09.760 --> 0:53:11.799 everything related to the Bengals. We'll look ahead of those 0:53:11.840 --> 0:53:15.000 Baltimore Ravens in our third segment tonight in a second 0:53:15.080 --> 0:53:18.480 matchup between those two teams. It's Bengals Line, Bengals Radio Network, 0:53:18.600 --> 0:53:19.719 I'm Alliance pacaister. 0:53:19.840 --> 0:53:22.040 He would be Dave Blapham, Yes, sir Lance, and we 0:53:22.160 --> 0:53:24.640 certainly want to remind people of shop the Bengals Pro 0:53:24.719 --> 0:53:27.879 Shop find the best selection of Bengal merchandise anywhere. Visit 0:53:27.960 --> 0:53:30.200 the Pro Shops seven days a week, located on the 0:53:30.280 --> 0:53:32.440 north side of Pity Course Stadium, or shop online at 0:53:32.480 --> 0:53:33.319 Bengals dot com. 0:53:33.600 --> 0:53:36.480 Let's flip it back on the other side of the script. 0:53:36.640 --> 0:53:40.680 Let's talk defense and Geno Stone Bengals safety on their 0:53:40.719 --> 0:53:43.200 performance yesterday. Here's Gino after the game. 0:53:43.760 --> 0:53:48.000 How difficult is it when momentum shifts the way it 0:53:48.160 --> 0:53:50.160 did in the fourth quarter, a couple of picks all 0:53:50.200 --> 0:53:51.759 of a sudden, you guys were in control and then 0:53:51.800 --> 0:53:53.440 you're not in control. How hard is that as a 0:53:53.440 --> 0:53:55.880 football player with momentum on the road shifts like that. 0:53:56.000 --> 0:53:58.480 Yeah, No, definitely difficult, But us things you try to 0:53:58.520 --> 0:54:02.000 overcome if you want to really good team. So you know, 0:54:02.120 --> 0:54:04.759 I think we still handle that situation. Well, I think 0:54:04.800 --> 0:54:06.360 we would have held him three points instead of let 0:54:06.480 --> 0:54:06.799 him score. 0:54:06.880 --> 0:54:07.200 Things like that. 0:54:07.320 --> 0:54:09.959 We've been a different situation. But yeah, it's definitely difficult though. 0:54:10.160 --> 0:54:12.200 You play with one of the best quarterbacks in the league, 0:54:12.239 --> 0:54:14.640 but Buffalo has one as well. How difficult of a 0:54:14.760 --> 0:54:17.520 matchup is Josh Allen for a defensive player. 0:54:17.640 --> 0:54:19.520 No, he's definitely difficult. I mean he I think he 0:54:19.600 --> 0:54:21.279 works best at you extending the players and things like that. 0:54:21.560 --> 0:54:23.960 He's a really smart guy and really athletics. So once 0:54:24.000 --> 0:54:25.479 he gets out the pocket he can make things happen 0:54:25.960 --> 0:54:28.400 in the show today. So you know, that's there's things 0:54:28.440 --> 0:54:30.160 we have to limit. We still do as good a 0:54:30.239 --> 0:54:30.640 job of Dan. 0:54:31.080 --> 0:54:32.400 I think at the beginning we did, but not that 0:54:33.160 --> 0:54:35.800 that final third down. You know, the threat is he 0:54:35.920 --> 0:54:38.080 could run it, he could throw it. How difficult is 0:54:38.160 --> 0:54:40.400 that when he has both of those options. 0:54:40.600 --> 0:54:42.480 Yeah, it means definitely difficult. But I play. 0:54:42.520 --> 0:54:44.600 You know, you just got to execute. I think we 0:54:44.719 --> 0:54:46.759 had a good plan for it, and uh. 0:54:47.160 --> 0:54:47.799 It was a good call. 0:54:47.840 --> 0:54:49.360 And he's got to execute everyone. 0:54:49.520 --> 0:54:50.439 Everyone got to do those jobs. 0:54:50.680 --> 0:54:52.120 There was a lot of excitement in this room. You 0:54:52.160 --> 0:54:55.279 guys winning Baltimore. There's the thought that you guys can 0:54:55.360 --> 0:54:57.080 run the table and maybe make the playoffs. But now 0:54:57.120 --> 0:54:59.680 with four and nine, what's the feeling inside this room? 0:54:59.719 --> 0:55:01.680 But what you guys can still accomplish. 0:55:01.280 --> 0:55:01.560 This's gout. 0:55:01.640 --> 0:55:02.239 He's gotta finish. 0:55:02.400 --> 0:55:03.080 I mean, that's all it is. 0:55:03.120 --> 0:55:06.200 I mean, we's got you know, don't don't think about 0:55:06.239 --> 0:55:08.320 anything ahead of the next week or whoever it is. 0:55:08.480 --> 0:55:11.040 Just got worry about each day, just getting better as 0:55:11.040 --> 0:55:12.920 a pro each day. So that's the only thing we 0:55:12.960 --> 0:55:14.479 can go look forward to right now, and like everything 0:55:14.560 --> 0:55:16.080 else saying to you know, playoff from there. 0:55:17.239 --> 0:55:20.840 Geno Stone after the game, and uh man, Josh Allen 0:55:21.120 --> 0:55:27.719 is such a such a problem from so many different aspects. 0:55:27.760 --> 0:55:29.840 I mean, you watch him and you see what he 0:55:29.960 --> 0:55:32.719 did to roll out and buy time, to extend to 0:55:32.800 --> 0:55:36.359 play and throw a fourth down the touchdown. You watch 0:55:36.440 --> 0:55:38.480 him take off on the on the the back breaking 0:55:38.600 --> 0:55:40.799 forty yard run, and you look at him and he's 0:55:40.840 --> 0:55:43.520 what he's listened at six five, two thirty seven. And 0:55:43.600 --> 0:55:46.040 I keep thinking of trying to think of a cop 0:55:46.120 --> 0:55:49.480 of a quarterback who can run like he does. They're 0:55:49.520 --> 0:55:53.280 saying he's not like blazing fast, but he gets gone 0:55:53.440 --> 0:55:55.920 and he's big enough and strong enough to shed tackles. 0:55:55.960 --> 0:55:57.959 But I just watch him and I say, I don't 0:55:57.960 --> 0:55:59.880 even know who to compare him to. He's just so 0:56:00.440 --> 0:56:01.360 dang impressive. 0:56:01.600 --> 0:56:03.320 He is, he really is. I mean, he is a 0:56:03.440 --> 0:56:06.520 He's a specimen and he can do anything you want 0:56:07.400 --> 0:56:11.480 at the quarterback position. He can throw deep, he can 0:56:11.560 --> 0:56:14.879 throw intermediate short, he's got accuracy. He struggled a little 0:56:14.920 --> 0:56:17.520 bit with his accuracy yesterday and he's had a little 0:56:17.520 --> 0:56:19.000 bit of an off year in that regard. But he 0:56:19.120 --> 0:56:22.440 can when he's on man, he's pinpoint. He can roll 0:56:22.560 --> 0:56:25.720 to the right, like you said, and you know, tucket 0:56:25.800 --> 0:56:29.640 and run or hurt you. The thing with him that 0:56:29.800 --> 0:56:32.480 defensive players hate is when you're in no man's land, 0:56:32.920 --> 0:56:35.280 you know, and it's like he's approaching the line of scrimmage, 0:56:35.320 --> 0:56:37.280 and do I drop coverage and come up and smack 0:56:37.360 --> 0:56:39.399 this guy because I don't want him to get ahead 0:56:39.400 --> 0:56:41.960 of steam, or do I stay in coverage and you know, 0:56:42.120 --> 0:56:44.040 pay the price when I try to come up there 0:56:44.080 --> 0:56:47.080 and hit this dude. So he is, he's a weapon man. 0:56:47.160 --> 0:56:50.239 He's a two way guy, and he can roll to 0:56:50.320 --> 0:56:53.960 his right, rolls to his left equally effectively. And a 0:56:54.040 --> 0:56:56.640 lot of times quarterbacks that are right handed rolling the left, 0:56:56.680 --> 0:56:59.719 they can't get back across their body properly with the 0:57:00.160 --> 0:57:03.920 good mechanics in the arm swing to complete passes down 0:57:03.960 --> 0:57:05.759 the football field. But he does man. He throws the 0:57:05.800 --> 0:57:09.319 ball very very well, rolling to his left. So there's 0:57:09.360 --> 0:57:11.839 not much that Josh Allen, if anything, that this guy 0:57:11.920 --> 0:57:12.239 can't do. 0:57:12.640 --> 0:57:16.800 He's completing seventy percent of his passes. He's rushed for 0:57:17.000 --> 0:57:20.640 four hundred and eighty seven yards. In that rushing total, 0:57:20.880 --> 0:57:24.320 he's rushed for thirty seven first downs. Yeah, he's rushed 0:57:24.360 --> 0:57:27.600 for twelve touchdowns. And you add all that up, and 0:57:27.840 --> 0:57:30.439 you would think that would leave him susceptible to getting 0:57:30.560 --> 0:57:32.800 beaten up and banged up and bruised and maybe missing 0:57:32.880 --> 0:57:33.280 some games. 0:57:33.560 --> 0:57:33.720 Dave. 0:57:33.760 --> 0:57:36.000 The only time he's missed games he missed four games 0:57:36.040 --> 0:57:38.760 his rookie season, had a UCL strain in his elbow. 0:57:39.200 --> 0:57:41.640 But he's now in his eighth season. He hasn't missed 0:57:41.640 --> 0:57:42.960 a game since his rookie season. 0:57:43.120 --> 0:57:44.720 Yeah, I mean those numbers. 0:57:44.800 --> 0:57:47.360 I mean that is thirty seven first downs rushing for 0:57:47.440 --> 0:57:48.560 your quarterbacks. 0:57:48.640 --> 0:57:52.320 And twelve touchdowns. I mean that's uh. Well, he's won 0:57:52.400 --> 0:57:55.360 an MVP. He's tracking for another one, A legitimate candidate, 0:57:55.440 --> 0:57:58.640 there's no question. Usually the MVP does go to somebody 0:57:58.680 --> 0:58:01.080 that either wins the suit Ball or gets to the 0:58:01.160 --> 0:58:03.120 Super Bowl or at least the AFC Championship. 0:58:03.160 --> 0:58:03.320 Game. 0:58:03.400 --> 0:58:06.439 So you know, time will tell. With respect to Josh Allen, 0:58:06.720 --> 0:58:10.400 there are other candidates you know that are a vying 0:58:10.440 --> 0:58:14.440 for that opportunity. But man, you know, a two time MVP, 0:58:14.640 --> 0:58:16.880 now you're talking to some high cotton. There's you know, 0:58:17.000 --> 0:58:19.600 if you win an MVP, it's a hell of an accomplishment. 0:58:19.600 --> 0:58:21.160 I mean, you think of all the guys that play 0:58:21.200 --> 0:58:24.640 football in the world, and you're the guy that was 0:58:24.720 --> 0:58:27.160 the best at that sport in the world and to 0:58:27.240 --> 0:58:29.880 do it two times, man, that's that's a hell of 0:58:29.880 --> 0:58:30.640 an accomplishment. 0:58:30.760 --> 0:58:34.880 Boy, late, when the Bengals got the sack and pushed 0:58:34.960 --> 0:58:37.560 him to third and fifteen, and I'm thinking, oh, right, 0:58:37.760 --> 0:58:39.440 they're going to get a stop here, and I'll be damn, 0:58:39.480 --> 0:58:41.640 they're gonna get Joe the ball back and Joe's going 0:58:41.720 --> 0:58:45.240 to win this game. And then Josh Allen goes forty 0:58:45.360 --> 0:58:48.480 yards of one of those plays that just it slows 0:58:48.560 --> 0:58:52.160 down into slow motion as you say no, no, and 0:58:52.400 --> 0:58:56.600 just watch him run and I don't know, I have 0:58:56.680 --> 0:58:57.800 to look at the all twenty two. 0:58:57.960 --> 0:58:59.040 What did you see? 0:58:59.080 --> 0:59:01.720 What broke down? Everybody wants to know if there was 0:59:01.760 --> 0:59:03.840 a spy? Why not a spy? If there wasn't. What 0:59:03.960 --> 0:59:05.600 did you see on a play that breaks down to 0:59:05.640 --> 0:59:08.880 the point that Josh Allen goes forty yards to just 0:59:09.000 --> 0:59:09.760 break their back? 0:59:10.200 --> 0:59:11.960 Well, I don't think there was a spy on the play. 0:59:12.000 --> 0:59:13.760 If there was, the guy should be cut and they 0:59:13.760 --> 0:59:15.520 shouldn't have let him get on the bus and go 0:59:15.600 --> 0:59:19.960 to the airport or let him fly home, because man, 0:59:20.040 --> 0:59:22.240 when he took off, there was nobody within five yards 0:59:22.280 --> 0:59:26.480 of him anywhere. I mean, it was unbelievable. So, yeah, 0:59:27.520 --> 0:59:29.880 they a broken coverage is all I can think of. 0:59:30.000 --> 0:59:33.320 Somebody just went and attack a route that they shouldn't 0:59:33.400 --> 0:59:38.040 had no business going and getting nosy about man, Yeah, 0:59:38.240 --> 0:59:41.320 third and fifteen, forty yard touchdown? Are you kidding me? 0:59:41.840 --> 0:59:44.800 He also had another third and fifteen, scrambled for seventeen 0:59:44.920 --> 0:59:49.040 yards and moved the chains. You convert third and fifteen 0:59:49.440 --> 0:59:53.520 twice running the football as a quarterback in the National 0:59:53.600 --> 0:59:57.920 Football League. That is a unique weapon, to say the least. 0:59:57.760 --> 0:59:59.560 You know, and it goes back to what we've said 0:59:59.560 --> 1:00:02.000 about the defense. They will show flashes and they'll make 1:00:02.040 --> 1:00:04.280 a strip of the goal line like DJ Turner. You say, 1:00:04.320 --> 1:00:06.320 all right, they're starting to get it, and they'll just 1:00:06.520 --> 1:00:08.680 make a play that just makes you want to pull 1:00:08.720 --> 1:00:11.320 your hair out. They'll take a bad angle, Miles Murphy 1:00:11.440 --> 1:00:14.840 rushes inside and leaves Josh Allen to the outside. Uh 1:00:15.080 --> 1:00:17.840 DJ had a pass interference. DA's had hands to the face. 1:00:18.200 --> 1:00:22.000 They just there's that most inopportune moment. There'll be a breakdown, 1:00:22.160 --> 1:00:25.080 either trying too hard or being in the wrong spot 1:00:25.200 --> 1:00:27.320 or taking a bad angle, and it just makes you 1:00:27.400 --> 1:00:28.200 want to throw things. 1:00:28.520 --> 1:00:30.560 You know, I think you made a great call. There 1:00:30.560 --> 1:00:34.280 a great point trying too hard because this group they're 1:00:34.320 --> 1:00:37.360 not folding their tent. They're not quitting on the football team. 1:00:37.400 --> 1:00:41.160 They're not quitting on Al Golden. And that's that's the 1:00:41.320 --> 1:00:42.960 that's the tough thing to watch them, because I mean, 1:00:43.320 --> 1:00:45.439 watch them bust their ass in practice and they work 1:00:45.480 --> 1:00:48.600 at it. Man, Al Golden works them hard, and you know, 1:00:48.680 --> 1:00:50.640 you think, okay, this is the week. You know they're 1:00:50.680 --> 1:00:53.680 gonna really put it together this week. They maybe a shutout, Hey, 1:00:53.760 --> 1:00:55.680 pitch a shut out. When's the last time that happened? 1:00:55.720 --> 1:00:58.360 He Hey, pitch a shut out. Hold them to a 1:00:58.600 --> 1:01:01.680 you know, a touchdown or touchdown, a field goal, seven, 1:01:01.760 --> 1:01:04.960 ten points, whatever, and it just it just never materializes. 1:01:05.040 --> 1:01:10.600 It's got to be unbelievably frustrating that you know, what's 1:01:10.640 --> 1:01:12.800 it going to take to break that stretch. 1:01:13.360 --> 1:01:16.400 It's a great question. Sixty four thousand dollars question. Yep, 1:01:16.560 --> 1:01:19.800 Still ahead. Let's go offensive line here from Orlando Brown 1:01:19.840 --> 1:01:21.400 and talk about the day that was for that O 1:01:21.600 --> 1:01:25.440 line that allowed just one sack. 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And it felt like there 1:02:03.880 --> 1:02:06.480 were times, or Landa where you had the game in 1:02:06.600 --> 1:02:08.600 control of the second half. Did you feel like you 1:02:08.720 --> 1:02:10.920 guys were imposing your well offensively. 1:02:11.200 --> 1:02:12.840 Yeah, you know, sometimes it's hard for me from an 1:02:12.840 --> 1:02:15.200 offensive line perspective. I'm just trying to keep Joe Clean 1:02:15.640 --> 1:02:18.120 be physical in the run game, you know, in terms 1:02:18.120 --> 1:02:18.720 of momentum. 1:02:19.240 --> 1:02:20.640 It's hard to tell you, you know what I mean. 1:02:20.880 --> 1:02:23.480 I don't have a for sure answer, but I think 1:02:24.720 --> 1:02:26.440 just in terms of what I was feeling from my 1:02:26.520 --> 1:02:29.240 perspective up front, I feel like we were handling them 1:02:29.240 --> 1:02:29.680 pretty well. 1:02:29.840 --> 1:02:31.760 Part thing is, you see what it looks like now 1:02:31.800 --> 1:02:34.920 when you have the entire offense healthy back together and 1:02:35.040 --> 1:02:37.320 it might be too late for you guys to go 1:02:37.360 --> 1:02:39.560 where you want to go. Is that the hardest part 1:02:39.640 --> 1:02:42.000 to say that, look what it looks like, but we 1:02:42.120 --> 1:02:43.280 might not have the time to do it. 1:02:43.560 --> 1:02:45.640 Yeah, no, man, I mean, you know, I think what's 1:02:45.640 --> 1:02:48.920 important is the character of our team, and especially when 1:02:48.960 --> 1:02:50.680 I look at the front of the room in terms 1:02:50.720 --> 1:02:54.920 of guys like Joe, jamar T, myself, to you know, 1:02:55.040 --> 1:02:56.720 leaders of the offense. Just a bunch of guys that 1:02:56.800 --> 1:02:58.960 love the game of football, that want to fight, you know, 1:02:59.000 --> 1:03:00.480 that love to come out here and play for the city, 1:03:00.600 --> 1:03:04.600 this organization and for each other. And to me, you know, 1:03:04.680 --> 1:03:07.200 things things will come around, you know, it's it's it's 1:03:07.200 --> 1:03:08.400 an interesting part about football. 1:03:08.440 --> 1:03:10.320 This is always important to keep perspective. You know, you 1:03:10.440 --> 1:03:11.960 never necessarily know how things. 1:03:11.840 --> 1:03:14.760 Are gonna go. You always uh got to attack. You 1:03:14.760 --> 1:03:16.800 can't necessarily fill it out. But that's the beauty of 1:03:16.840 --> 1:03:17.160 the sport. 1:03:17.920 --> 1:03:20.440 When the team has back to back interceptions like that, 1:03:20.560 --> 1:03:22.200 how hard is it to take that kind of a 1:03:22.280 --> 1:03:24.040 punch and win a game? 1:03:24.280 --> 1:03:26.960 Yeah, yeah, it's that's tough, man, that's tough. And you know, 1:03:27.080 --> 1:03:29.960 we'll we'll learn from our mistakes and and you know, 1:03:30.120 --> 1:03:31.440 be able to I guess you could. 1:03:31.240 --> 1:03:32.520 Say grow or figure that out. 1:03:33.000 --> 1:03:36.920 Orlando Brown breaking it all down, Joe Burrow through it 1:03:37.000 --> 1:03:40.120 thirty six times with sack just once, if I remember correctly, 1:03:40.200 --> 1:03:43.040 that was the was the blind side sack he took 1:03:43.120 --> 1:03:44.520 on a It was on a blitz and it took 1:03:44.520 --> 1:03:46.400 them out of field goal range. And that's the only time. 1:03:46.760 --> 1:03:48.560 I mean, I think you can make it. I don't 1:03:48.560 --> 1:03:50.160 even think there's an argument to it. The way this 1:03:50.360 --> 1:03:52.680 offensive line and I know they didn't run it great yesterday, 1:03:52.720 --> 1:03:54.760 but the way they've settled in as a group in 1:03:54.880 --> 1:03:58.720 this stretch here of late is it's been pretty solid, 1:03:58.800 --> 1:03:59.160 hasn't it. 1:03:59.280 --> 1:04:01.400 I agree, lance solid is a good word for it. 1:04:01.480 --> 1:04:04.440 Maybe a cut above solid, you know, is it? Uh, 1:04:04.520 --> 1:04:07.320 you know, pro Bowl level outstanding no, not not there yet, 1:04:07.360 --> 1:04:12.080 but go against that Buffalo Bills defensive front and literally 1:04:12.240 --> 1:04:15.520 not give up a sack other than a free runner 1:04:15.640 --> 1:04:19.760 Blitzer off the slot corner. And Joe never saw him, 1:04:19.800 --> 1:04:21.920 like he said, blindside, never got his eyes to that 1:04:22.080 --> 1:04:25.240 backside at all. And man, that was another play he made. 1:04:25.520 --> 1:04:27.160 The fact that he held on that football, to me 1:04:27.360 --> 1:04:30.480 was amazing. He took a shot man and and he 1:04:31.000 --> 1:04:32.920 you know, was able to tucket man put it, put 1:04:32.960 --> 1:04:35.280 it away and not not lose the football, put it 1:04:35.280 --> 1:04:39.800 in jeopardy that way. But I talking to the coaches, 1:04:40.040 --> 1:04:42.600 uh and and UH talking to the players after the game, 1:04:42.640 --> 1:04:44.520 they were pretty happy with their protection. And the guy 1:04:44.560 --> 1:04:48.000 that was happiest was Joe Burrow. He said, laugh, I'm 1:04:48.040 --> 1:04:51.640 telling you, man out the pass protection was outstanding them 1:04:51.640 --> 1:04:53.720 and the the the way you want it done. The 1:04:53.800 --> 1:04:56.760 tackles kept the pocket wide, the guard and two guards 1:04:56.800 --> 1:04:59.280 in center kept the pocket depth. For me, he said, 1:04:59.280 --> 1:05:01.720 I was able to really there were times where he 1:05:01.840 --> 1:05:03.520 was in the pocket, you know, pat in the football 1:05:03.560 --> 1:05:05.480 looking down the football field. And when you can do 1:05:05.600 --> 1:05:08.880 that in today's NFL, that's that's pretty good stuff. So 1:05:09.680 --> 1:05:12.360 I do think that the offensive line is getting better 1:05:12.480 --> 1:05:15.280 and better. And I do think Orlando Brown and Marius 1:05:15.360 --> 1:05:18.880 Mimms had a big game pass protecting at the tackle 1:05:18.920 --> 1:05:22.720 possession position, and it starts there. Ted Carrits did a 1:05:22.760 --> 1:05:27.960 great job of not only blocking but leading the football team, 1:05:28.000 --> 1:05:30.600 making all the calls and Buffalo runs a lot of stuff, 1:05:30.720 --> 1:05:32.720 you know, they were they were changing things up a 1:05:32.760 --> 1:05:35.080 little bit, and he did a great job of sorting 1:05:35.160 --> 1:05:39.200 it out. And Bobby Babbage has some significant pressure packages 1:05:39.240 --> 1:05:41.320 that you know, take a little bit to make sure, 1:05:41.560 --> 1:05:43.440 you know, you get the right people blocked up and 1:05:43.600 --> 1:05:44.600 and Ted did a good job. 1:05:44.840 --> 1:05:46.840 David there there was a stretch in a time where 1:05:46.840 --> 1:05:49.480 they were asking it awful lot of two rookie guards 1:05:49.520 --> 1:05:52.800 with Fairchild and Rivers. Rivers hurt his ankle and Dalton 1:05:52.840 --> 1:05:55.240 Reisner was plucked back in it. And I think people 1:05:55.320 --> 1:05:58.640 forget Dalton was signed really late in camp and on 1:05:58.800 --> 1:06:01.280 the fly joined this and like on the fly, they 1:06:01.360 --> 1:06:03.720 plugged him in and I'm sure that was a struggle 1:06:03.800 --> 1:06:05.440 for him and he got dinged up a little bit. 1:06:05.720 --> 1:06:08.920 Since he's been back in and filling in for Rivers, 1:06:09.760 --> 1:06:11.880 it seems like Dalton Reisner, is it fair to say 1:06:11.920 --> 1:06:13.760 he's been a piece that's helped settle things down. 1:06:13.920 --> 1:06:16.360 I think so Lance. And part of it is it's 1:06:16.400 --> 1:06:17.920 a real good call by you. Part of it is 1:06:17.960 --> 1:06:19.880 he's a veteran. You know, he's been around, he's been 1:06:20.600 --> 1:06:24.000 he's been to multiple wars, you know, talking talking to him, 1:06:24.560 --> 1:06:27.720 he has a very high football IQ. Ted Carriss has 1:06:27.760 --> 1:06:31.160 a very high football IQ. Fairchild is is you know, 1:06:31.480 --> 1:06:33.400 it's got a great football i Q. But he's a 1:06:33.480 --> 1:06:36.080 young buck you know, rookie try and still learning. But 1:06:36.200 --> 1:06:38.720 he played, you know Georgia man, he played high level 1:06:38.760 --> 1:06:44.280 of football. He is not overmatch physically whatsoever. So I 1:06:44.600 --> 1:06:46.600 think I think the future is bright. I really do. 1:06:46.800 --> 1:06:49.240 I think that. Uh, you know, Marius Mims is a 1:06:49.320 --> 1:06:52.680 young buck man and he is a big, strong horse. 1:06:52.760 --> 1:06:56.840 You know, Marius Mims, Dylan Fairchild. They've got some pieces. 1:06:56.880 --> 1:06:59.479 They got some young pieces that they're they're putting together 1:06:59.520 --> 1:07:00.960 and building that offensive line. 1:07:01.520 --> 1:07:05.120 All right, when we come back, could we spend a 1:07:05.160 --> 1:07:09.440 couple of minutes maybe on Jermaine Burton? Yes, O, good 1:07:09.480 --> 1:07:11.800 way to put it. That is ahead Bengals on on 1:07:11.840 --> 1:07:24.720 the Bengals Radio network and seven hundred WLW. All right 1:07:24.800 --> 1:07:28.000 down the stretch we go Bengals Line and the Bengals 1:07:28.160 --> 1:07:30.800 Radio network in seven hundred WLW is we prepared to 1:07:30.840 --> 1:07:33.440 put our second hour in the books, Big third hour 1:07:33.520 --> 1:07:35.680 to follow. Here more from Zach, here, more from Joe, 1:07:36.200 --> 1:07:39.080 and we'll do our fantastic fun facts with Joe Flacco 1:07:39.120 --> 1:07:40.640 as well. By the way, and I just looked at 1:07:40.640 --> 1:07:41.760 it on of my notes and I meant to bring 1:07:41.800 --> 1:07:43.959 it up. You know, the one guy yesterday who didn't 1:07:44.000 --> 1:07:46.240 break a sweat and probably got bored was the Bills 1:07:46.280 --> 1:07:49.800 punter Mitch Wishnowski. Did not punt it all yesterday, not 1:07:49.960 --> 1:07:53.080 a single punt yesterday. The Bills have used three different 1:07:53.080 --> 1:07:56.080 punters this year, including Brad Robbins of one time Bengal, 1:07:56.160 --> 1:07:58.200 but Mitch yesterday did not have to. 1:07:58.440 --> 1:07:58.560 Uh. 1:07:59.120 --> 1:08:01.320 I was probably forget about breaking his sweat. He was 1:08:01.360 --> 1:08:03.880 probably just freezing his tail off, just sitting there saying, guys, 1:08:04.040 --> 1:08:06.040 let me run around, put me on the field for 1:08:06.120 --> 1:08:08.560 at least a punt. But I guess he's okay, not punning. 1:08:08.800 --> 1:08:10.720 Yeah, he's okay, not punning for sure, And yeah, I 1:08:10.840 --> 1:08:13.720 just keep running the offense and he's the holder. So 1:08:13.960 --> 1:08:16.120 like a lot of punners, a lot of punters are holders. 1:08:16.160 --> 1:08:18.920 For their for their teammate, their place kicker. So he did. 1:08:19.000 --> 1:08:22.799 He did a phenomenal job holding and that's uh his contribution. 1:08:22.920 --> 1:08:24.840 When he called home, talked to his parents to go, yeah, 1:08:25.400 --> 1:08:25.960 did you see me? 1:08:26.360 --> 1:08:27.320 You see the see me? 1:08:27.400 --> 1:08:29.920 Hold that thing? I man, I caught it and spun 1:08:30.040 --> 1:08:31.840 that ball the laces and I spun him away from 1:08:31.840 --> 1:08:32.160 the kicker. 1:08:32.200 --> 1:08:34.320 I did a hell of a job his pro football 1:08:34.360 --> 1:08:35.479 focus great is great. 1:08:35.600 --> 1:08:37.679 Absolutely, it's a perfect score. 1:08:39.040 --> 1:08:41.320 All right. Uh, well you can laugh about that, and no, 1:08:42.120 --> 1:08:43.960 my head's gonna hurt. And we're going to talk about 1:08:44.000 --> 1:08:46.800 Jermaine and Burton, who unfortunately was suspended yesterday, did not 1:08:46.920 --> 1:08:50.360 travel with the team, and Dave, a third round pick 1:08:50.479 --> 1:08:53.320 last year, the eightieth overall. Who I thought about this 1:08:53.479 --> 1:08:55.920 this morning. What an opportunity to think. You come out 1:08:55.960 --> 1:08:58.439 of college, you get drafted in the third round, you 1:08:58.560 --> 1:09:01.360 go to Cincinnati, you're you're you're giving Joe Burrow to 1:09:01.479 --> 1:09:04.280 work with and and Tea and Jamar to learn from, 1:09:04.520 --> 1:09:08.840 and you talk about squandering opportunity after opportunity. 1:09:09.560 --> 1:09:12.439 Boy, when they drafted him, they thought, here's our third 1:09:12.720 --> 1:09:16.439 receiver and the three receiver package, and they were they 1:09:16.479 --> 1:09:20.120 were unbelievably excited about adding him to the mix, and 1:09:20.560 --> 1:09:23.240 good reason. I mean, he is a gifted athlete. This guy, 1:09:23.400 --> 1:09:25.559 his size, speed, ray show is as good as anybody 1:09:25.640 --> 1:09:29.000 in the National Football League. He's a physical marvel. You know, 1:09:29.080 --> 1:09:30.439 a lot of a lot of guys on the team, 1:09:30.439 --> 1:09:33.320 a lot of defensive backs say that he's he's he's 1:09:33.360 --> 1:09:35.240 as good as anybody that got on the roster. 1:09:35.120 --> 1:09:35.280 You know. 1:09:36.520 --> 1:09:40.160 But man, he's immature. Just can't get it figured out. 1:09:40.880 --> 1:09:43.840 Just uh, he's late more than he's on time. 1:09:44.080 --> 1:09:44.240 You know. 1:09:44.720 --> 1:09:49.519 It's I remember Paul Brown used to say, when you're 1:09:49.960 --> 1:09:54.040 showing me things like that, not taking notes and meetings, 1:09:54.120 --> 1:09:57.519 showing up late doing you are telling me the game's 1:09:57.560 --> 1:09:59.880 not important enough to you. And when the game's not 1:10:00.000 --> 1:10:01.920 important enough to you, I don't have time for you. 1:10:02.400 --> 1:10:09.160 So it's sad to see him. Yes, just let a career, 1:10:09.280 --> 1:10:12.880 potential career that could be really good, just go away, 1:10:13.120 --> 1:10:18.439 you know, not materialize, never get started. And what could 1:10:18.479 --> 1:10:21.599 have been, you know what could have been if there 1:10:21.640 --> 1:10:24.200 are so many guys in college football right now that 1:10:24.320 --> 1:10:27.200 if you said, hey, who what wide receiver out here 1:10:27.280 --> 1:10:29.759 wants to be the third guy to h to Jamar 1:10:29.920 --> 1:10:31.720 Chase and t Higgins with Joe Borrow throwing you in 1:10:31.760 --> 1:10:34.720 the football. Everybody had raised one hand, both hands, jump 1:10:34.800 --> 1:10:36.679 up and down or whatever. Me me, I'm I'm ready 1:10:36.720 --> 1:10:40.920 to pick on, pick me out and that that has 1:10:41.000 --> 1:10:43.400 been presented to him, and he said no thanks. 1:10:43.760 --> 1:10:46.639 Yeah, And boy, when I think of him, I always 1:10:46.680 --> 1:10:49.000 go back to the draft day vision. They had the 1:10:49.080 --> 1:10:50.920 camera in the Bengals draft room at the time and 1:10:51.200 --> 1:10:53.519 and Zach you know, slapped the table and was hugging 1:10:53.600 --> 1:10:56.320 and there there was genuine exciting Yeah, that pick was 1:10:56.400 --> 1:10:59.479 made of We got him. We've got a talent that 1:10:59.640 --> 1:11:02.200 we can put to use. And it just I mean, 1:11:02.600 --> 1:11:06.320 he's played fourteen games, he has four catches, he's been 1:11:06.439 --> 1:11:12.280 inactive all this season, and it's just man, and there's 1:11:12.320 --> 1:11:14.240 been there's been a lot going on in his life 1:11:14.240 --> 1:11:17.360 at various levels, for various things that I'm not privy to, 1:11:17.479 --> 1:11:19.439 and I don't want to spect you right right, It's 1:11:19.520 --> 1:11:24.200 just whatever it is. You one hope it gets fixed 1:11:24.280 --> 1:11:28.160 in two. You just wonder if the organization can continue 1:11:28.200 --> 1:11:32.800 to wait and and just deal with everything that is 1:11:33.080 --> 1:11:34.240 piling up on his plate. 1:11:34.360 --> 1:11:37.400 It's just, yeah, I mean, how many chances will he get? 1:11:37.560 --> 1:11:37.720 You know? 1:11:37.840 --> 1:11:40.760 I mean, it's like maybe some of the things you're 1:11:40.800 --> 1:11:43.559 talking about off the football field with his life, problems 1:11:43.600 --> 1:11:47.720 with his family or friends, whatever the case may be. Okay, well, 1:11:47.840 --> 1:11:50.760 let's give him another chance. Let's see if it can 1:11:50.840 --> 1:11:53.000 work his way through this and work his way out 1:11:53.040 --> 1:11:55.920 of it and you know, focus on the game of 1:11:55.960 --> 1:11:57.800 football and do what he needs to do to be 1:11:57.840 --> 1:12:00.880 a productive football player for the Cincinnati Bank in the 1:12:00.960 --> 1:12:04.280 National Football League. But man, how many times? How many 1:12:04.400 --> 1:12:07.880 chances can you afford to give a guy? And it's 1:12:07.960 --> 1:12:10.320 a sad state of affairs, it really is. It's a 1:12:10.360 --> 1:12:11.200 tough story, no. 1:12:11.280 --> 1:12:15.080 Doubt, no doubt. We've completed two hours. Our third to follow. 1:12:15.160 --> 1:12:17.120 You'll hear a little bit more on Zach. You'll hear 1:12:17.200 --> 1:12:20.679 from Joe and Moore on Bengals Line, the Bengals Radio 1:12:20.800 --> 1:12:30.240 Network and seven hundred WLW. Hey, we're back on Bengals 1:12:30.320 --> 1:12:32.759 Line on this Monday night of the Bengals Radio Network 1:12:32.800 --> 1:12:36.000 in seven hundred WLWYM Lance Bacabister, He's Dave Lappan. 1:12:36.040 --> 1:12:38.439 Thanks for being with us and Bengals fans, make sure 1:12:38.479 --> 1:12:40.799 to catch me and Dan Hord every Wednesday this season 1:12:40.880 --> 1:12:43.360 for a Bengals game plan presented by bud Light on 1:12:43.439 --> 1:12:47.000 the air from six to eight pm on ESPN fifteen thirty. 1:12:47.040 --> 1:12:49.559 We heard a little bit from QB one Joe Burrow 1:12:49.720 --> 1:12:51.800 early in the show. Let's pick up the rest of 1:12:51.920 --> 1:12:55.800 his reflections on yesterday's defeat and what is ahead of 1:12:55.840 --> 1:12:59.560 the remaining four games of the season. Here's Joe Burrow. 1:13:00.080 --> 1:13:02.960 Playing the guy in a game with a guy like Josh. 1:13:03.160 --> 1:13:04.439 I mean, do you feel like you have to. 1:13:04.640 --> 1:13:05.800 Do you feel like you got a match him? 1:13:05.920 --> 1:13:06.880 Or what was it like? 1:13:07.120 --> 1:13:07.240 Right? 1:13:07.520 --> 1:13:08.280 Try to keep gable? 1:13:08.479 --> 1:13:10.760 Yeah, we knew what kind of game it was gonna be. Uh, 1:13:11.560 --> 1:13:16.040 obviously he's a great player and makes plays in all 1:13:16.120 --> 1:13:19.720 kinds of situations. And you know, I think the last 1:13:19.760 --> 1:13:22.880 play was the epitome of who he is as a player. 1:13:24.160 --> 1:13:24.280 Uh. 1:13:25.120 --> 1:13:28.760 You gotta account for for everything with him, and he 1:13:28.800 --> 1:13:29.639 did a great job today. 1:13:29.880 --> 1:13:32.080 Oh oh, the next four game, you said, well, potationally 1:13:32.160 --> 1:13:34.080 not like you. What do you do you what would 1:13:34.080 --> 1:13:35.479 you hope to see over the next four game to 1:13:35.520 --> 1:13:38.960 show you that this thing games billion or constant teams pass. 1:13:39.560 --> 1:13:39.880 I don't know. 1:13:39.960 --> 1:13:42.280 We're just gonna go out and try to execute and 1:13:42.320 --> 1:13:45.720 play well and win games. You know, we'll look at 1:13:45.720 --> 1:13:47.840 all the big picture stuff when it's all set and down. 1:13:47.880 --> 1:13:48.160 This year. 1:13:48.560 --> 1:13:49.519 This is like a lot of games. 1:13:49.600 --> 1:13:51.720 You guys have been in shootouts where you come when 1:13:51.720 --> 1:13:53.720 you score, like your plays and you don't get there. 1:13:54.200 --> 1:13:56.519 How do you indulem utily you being in so many 1:13:56.640 --> 1:13:58.280 of He's where thirty. 1:13:58.240 --> 1:14:02.479 Four isn't enough. Yeah, I mean, you know that might've 1:14:04.560 --> 1:14:09.720 I think I've matured this year and gain some perspective 1:14:09.800 --> 1:14:13.000 on on and everything when I was out and I'm 1:14:13.040 --> 1:14:15.040 just grateful to to be out there and be able 1:14:15.120 --> 1:14:18.040 to be a quarterback in the NFL and be one 1:14:18.080 --> 1:14:20.320 of the best. You know, I'm I don't take that 1:14:20.640 --> 1:14:24.200 for granted, and I work really hard to, like I said, 1:14:24.240 --> 1:14:26.599 put myself in a position to to do that. It's 1:14:26.600 --> 1:14:29.040 just like everybody else in there. So that's what I'm 1:14:29.040 --> 1:14:31.280 gonna do. I'm I'm a I'm a player, and I'm 1:14:31.320 --> 1:14:33.720 gonna go and try to play as good as I 1:14:33.840 --> 1:14:36.800 can and see where we're at. See where we're at. 1:14:37.040 --> 1:14:39.479 The first touchdowns are tea that that's which. 1:14:40.240 --> 1:14:42.000 That Eve gonna make you catch. 1:14:42.280 --> 1:14:44.000 No, I've seen him make that catch a million times. 1:14:44.760 --> 1:14:44.880 Uh. 1:14:46.400 --> 1:14:47.720 You know that's one where you just put some air 1:14:47.800 --> 1:14:50.000 on and let Tea go and make a play, and 1:14:50.080 --> 1:14:51.320 that's a that's what he does. 1:14:51.439 --> 1:14:52.479 What did he say about Tea. 1:14:52.360 --> 1:14:54.160 That you know, you you really bought to you every 1:14:54.160 --> 1:14:56.200 you can go to stay in the game, really use 1:14:56.200 --> 1:14:57.080 a ad of it that you wanted. 1:14:57.120 --> 1:15:05.160 What was Yeah too, he's a tough guy. I think 1:15:05.200 --> 1:15:08.160 he's gotten tougher over the years. You know, back in 1:15:08.240 --> 1:15:11.080 the day, he would get hit and I'd hold my 1:15:11.120 --> 1:15:12.680 breath cause he would lay there for a second and 1:15:12.760 --> 1:15:14.800 then he'd pop back up. I think everybody remembers that. 1:15:15.800 --> 1:15:18.360 Now this pop up game is pretty good, and so 1:15:18.439 --> 1:15:21.760 that's good to see. Doesn't doesn't scare me quite as much. 1:15:22.920 --> 1:15:25.719 But he's as tough as they come, and he's gonna 1:15:25.720 --> 1:15:27.799 continue to make big time plays in big time spots. 1:15:27.960 --> 1:15:31.240 That's that's who he is, or or stuff like that. 1:15:32.680 --> 1:15:35.040 That kind of your mentality about then, what's that say 1:15:35.080 --> 1:15:35.200 to you? 1:15:35.960 --> 1:15:38.160 Yeah, well, it gives me a lot of confidence throwing 1:15:38.200 --> 1:15:40.800 them the ball in a lot of different situations. You know, 1:15:40.920 --> 1:15:43.000 there's I'm gonna protect him with the ball as good 1:15:43.120 --> 1:15:45.320 as much as I can, you know, over the middle 1:15:45.360 --> 1:15:48.720 and in vulnerable positions. But you know, sometimes in big 1:15:48.800 --> 1:15:50.599 spots you're gonna have to fit a ball in there 1:15:50.680 --> 1:15:53.559 where you know receiver's gonna know that he's gonna get hit. 1:15:54.360 --> 1:15:56.360 And when you have guys like Tea and the n A, 1:15:56.680 --> 1:15:59.360 all of our guys, really it gives you a lot 1:15:59.360 --> 1:16:01.320 of confidence to uh try to fit it fit that 1:16:01.439 --> 1:16:04.160 ball in those windows because they can handle it. 1:16:04.320 --> 1:16:07.040 You talked about the perspective from being out and and 1:16:07.200 --> 1:16:10.240 maybe how that's helped shape how you view this season. 1:16:10.720 --> 1:16:12.560 Is it a hard balance between you, I believe on 1:16:12.600 --> 1:16:14.160 the things two menus that you get paid a lot 1:16:14.200 --> 1:16:14.479 of money. 1:16:14.560 --> 1:16:16.599 Plate it's getting you're out there playing in the snow 1:16:16.800 --> 1:16:19.160 a game against you know from. 1:16:19.080 --> 1:16:21.880 The top quarterbacks, you're having fun. You don't come out 1:16:21.920 --> 1:16:22.200 to win. 1:16:22.760 --> 1:16:25.840 To enjoy that moment while also knowing you're out where 1:16:25.880 --> 1:16:27.720 you want to be. Is that a hard balance to 1:16:28.080 --> 1:16:30.200 make sure that you, you know, remember these moments, but 1:16:30.400 --> 1:16:32.519 it doesn't a shadow where you feel about what you 1:16:32.560 --> 1:16:34.599 guys have made you so that you're playing in the playoffs. 1:16:34.960 --> 1:16:37.560 Yeah, it, you know it had That's that's been a 1:16:37.560 --> 1:16:40.439 struggle for the last couple of years. But I've grown 1:16:40.479 --> 1:16:46.160 and and matured and understood the position that you know, 1:16:46.240 --> 1:16:51.400 we find ourselves in and certainly the last ten weeks 1:16:53.120 --> 1:16:54.559 UH has has shown me a lot. 1:16:55.080 --> 1:16:55.200 Uh. 1:16:56.720 --> 1:16:58.200 Like I said, I'm just happy to be out there. 1:17:01.479 --> 1:17:05.360 You know, we we want to win games and be 1:17:05.400 --> 1:17:09.720 in the playoffs and and do everything that you know, 1:17:09.840 --> 1:17:13.280 we say that we're capable of doing. But you know, 1:17:13.320 --> 1:17:14.439 when I came back, I knew it was gonna be 1:17:14.439 --> 1:17:17.920 an uphill battle. We were we were three and eight 1:17:17.920 --> 1:17:22.479 at that point. That's certainly not a playoff caliber position 1:17:22.760 --> 1:17:28.400 to be in. And you know, really we're we're still 1:17:28.439 --> 1:17:30.280 not out of it. We're gonna be We're gonna be 1:17:30.320 --> 1:17:33.479 three games back. I don't know who who won between 1:17:33.520 --> 1:17:38.519 the Ravens and the Steelers. Somebody have some information for 1:17:38.640 --> 1:17:42.479 me who did Steelers one. I think that makes it 1:17:42.520 --> 1:17:45.759 a little tougher that that probably lowers our our chances 1:17:45.800 --> 1:17:48.519 even more. But you know, that's how the cookie crumbles. 1:17:48.600 --> 1:17:50.040 I knew, like I said, I knew it was gonna 1:17:50.040 --> 1:17:51.920 be an uphill battle for us when when I was 1:17:51.960 --> 1:17:55.559 coming back, And that's not you know, that wasn't really 1:17:55.640 --> 1:17:59.599 in my thought process too much. And I just want 1:17:59.640 --> 1:18:03.360 to come back and put on a show and play 1:18:03.400 --> 1:18:04.560 well in front of everybody. 1:18:04.840 --> 1:18:07.800 The city Sydney guys touchdown to him and. 1:18:09.360 --> 1:18:10.719 Had came over out of practice. 1:18:14.200 --> 1:18:18.559 Yeah, it was Yeah, that was a fun one. 1:18:18.680 --> 1:18:18.800 Uh. 1:18:19.920 --> 1:18:22.160 You know, we saw a look in practice and you know, 1:18:22.280 --> 1:18:25.800 talked about it after and it was just like, Mike, 1:18:25.840 --> 1:18:27.519 if you get that log, go ahead and do that. 1:18:28.600 --> 1:18:31.160 That's what he did and this is exactly how it 1:18:31.280 --> 1:18:35.160 played out in practice, you know, slightly different, but very similar, 1:18:35.200 --> 1:18:37.400 and so would be able to execute that. It was, 1:18:37.960 --> 1:18:38.439 that's fine. 1:18:39.280 --> 1:18:41.519 Joe Burrow after the game and Dave we were talking 1:18:41.800 --> 1:18:44.519 in the first segment about what's ahead and and commitment 1:18:44.560 --> 1:18:47.080 to it. And Joe was asked yesterday about, you know, 1:18:47.200 --> 1:18:51.200 four games left, playoff odds that have diminished a little bit. 1:18:51.320 --> 1:18:54.360 But Joe said, look, I I worked my butt off 1:18:54.439 --> 1:18:57.840 to come back. Some would say, now, okay, we saw 1:18:57.960 --> 1:19:00.439 you your healthy, let's not risk anything in the four 1:19:00.760 --> 1:19:03.160 Joseph the mindset, I didn't work my tail off to 1:19:03.240 --> 1:19:05.479 get back here, so I can sit the final four games. 1:19:05.520 --> 1:19:08.000 Whether we've got one percent chance of making the playoffs 1:19:08.080 --> 1:19:10.679 or ninety seven, I'm playing football. That's Joe Burrow. 1:19:10.840 --> 1:19:13.439 Love the man, Yes, I mean love everything about him. 1:19:13.920 --> 1:19:16.320 And his teammates do too. I mean, you know they're 1:19:16.360 --> 1:19:18.400 gonna go to battle, and they're gonna go go to 1:19:18.479 --> 1:19:20.280 battle with Joe Burrow, and Joe Burrow is gonna go 1:19:20.320 --> 1:19:22.240 to battle with them and they are gonna fight their 1:19:22.320 --> 1:19:25.519 tails off. So you know, make no mistake about it, 1:19:25.720 --> 1:19:28.639 Joe Burrows is here to play football. He gets paid 1:19:28.680 --> 1:19:32.120 handsomely to play football, and even if he didn't, he's 1:19:32.200 --> 1:19:35.840 just one of those guys that loves the games. He's 1:19:36.040 --> 1:19:41.280 all about football. It's it. It's part of his life. 1:19:41.360 --> 1:19:42.920 I mean, it's a big part of his life. He 1:19:43.080 --> 1:19:48.080 just everything he does is geared toward becoming more proficient 1:19:48.200 --> 1:19:49.040 and better at the game. 1:19:49.400 --> 1:19:49.640 It is. 1:19:50.400 --> 1:19:52.439 It's hard to believe, and it's part of the you know, 1:19:52.640 --> 1:19:56.800 Joe famously said the window is his career and Dave 1:19:56.840 --> 1:19:59.600 were looking at sadly and frustratingly, this could be the 1:19:59.680 --> 1:20:03.360 third straight year. With a lot of circumstances unfolding and injuries, 1:20:03.479 --> 1:20:05.880 it's gonna be the third straight year Joe Burrow is 1:20:06.000 --> 1:20:09.000 not going to be in the playoffs. And that's tough 1:20:09.080 --> 1:20:12.400 to digest when you start thinking Joe's age in twenty nineties, 1:20:12.439 --> 1:20:15.719 not old, but man, three years in a window without 1:20:15.760 --> 1:20:16.920 the playoffs. 1:20:17.680 --> 1:20:21.160 And really around the league I mean there's a bunch 1:20:21.200 --> 1:20:24.040 of head coaches and offensive coordinators and quarterback coaches saying 1:20:24.560 --> 1:20:25.160 I'll take them. 1:20:25.280 --> 1:20:25.640 Yep, you know. 1:20:26.120 --> 1:20:28.040 I'll raise my hand, I raise both my hands. I'll 1:20:28.120 --> 1:20:30.400 jump up and down. Are you kidding me? A talent 1:20:30.520 --> 1:20:34.760 like Joe Burrow? We cannot find the right quarterback. That's 1:20:34.840 --> 1:20:37.479 the only component we have missing. We've got a bunch 1:20:37.520 --> 1:20:40.160 of ingredients. But man, you gotta have that one man. 1:20:40.200 --> 1:20:43.320 You gotta have the foundational guy. And Joe Burrow's a 1:20:43.400 --> 1:20:45.519 foundational guy. He's one of the best guys to ever 1:20:45.960 --> 1:20:46.200 do it. 1:20:46.320 --> 1:20:49.679 We'll take them, no doubt. Still ahead on the quarterback theme, 1:20:49.960 --> 1:20:53.160 how about fantastic fun facts with Joe Flacco. You're gonna 1:20:53.240 --> 1:20:55.360 love this from day a Horde. It's Bengals On in 1:20:55.360 --> 1:21:19.960 the Bengals Radio Network in seven hundred WLW. Hey, thanks 1:21:20.000 --> 1:21:22.360 for tagging along with us tonight as we make our 1:21:22.400 --> 1:21:24.920 way through three hours of Bengals conversation. We do it 1:21:24.960 --> 1:21:29.480 every Monday Night with Bengals On and the Bengals Radio Network. 1:21:29.439 --> 1:21:32.200 And Lance Alta Fiber is the official Wi Fi and 1:21:32.320 --> 1:21:35.479 Internet provider of the Bengals in Greatest Cincinnati's fastest Internet 1:21:35.760 --> 1:21:38.080 with up to two gig symmetrical speeds. 1:21:38.600 --> 1:21:41.479 We love the weekly segment that Dan Horde does called 1:21:41.600 --> 1:21:44.040 Fantastic Fun Facts, a chance to kind of pull back 1:21:44.080 --> 1:21:47.519 the curtain and learn more about the player and about 1:21:47.560 --> 1:21:50.759 the person. This week in the spotlight is the Bengals 1:21:50.800 --> 1:21:54.760 backup quarterback Joe Flacco. Here stay in Hord Fantastic Fun 1:21:54.880 --> 1:21:57.120 Facts and Joe no. 1:21:58.640 --> 1:22:01.000 Fantastic Fun Facts with Dan Ord. 1:22:01.800 --> 1:22:04.639 Time for some fun facts with Joe Flacco from Audubon, 1:22:04.960 --> 1:22:08.560 New Jersey, which is basically a suburb of Philly. Just 1:22:08.680 --> 1:22:11.880 cross the Delaware River and you're there. You're from a 1:22:11.920 --> 1:22:14.960 big family. How big? And what did your folks do 1:22:15.040 --> 1:22:15.479 for a living? 1:22:16.240 --> 1:22:20.479 I'm the oldest of six, got four brothers and a sister. 1:22:21.080 --> 1:22:25.920 My mom stayed at home and was, you know, responsible 1:22:25.960 --> 1:22:29.759 for raising us and the people we are and basically 1:22:30.040 --> 1:22:33.280 running the entire family. And then my dad had his 1:22:33.360 --> 1:22:34.920 own mortgage business with a couple guys. 1:22:35.960 --> 1:22:37.920 I'm one of five, so I can identify with what 1:22:38.040 --> 1:22:41.000 your mom did for the family. You're six six. Where 1:22:41.040 --> 1:22:41.760 did you get your height? 1:22:42.240 --> 1:22:46.000 I'm not sure. We joke around, you know, old fashioned 1:22:46.240 --> 1:22:46.920 the milkman. 1:22:48.240 --> 1:22:48.360 You know. 1:22:48.520 --> 1:22:51.519 My mom's like, you know, like five six. Maybe she's 1:22:51.560 --> 1:22:55.840 five seven. My dad's maybe five eleven, So not quite 1:22:55.880 --> 1:22:56.800 sure where it comes from. 1:22:58.080 --> 1:23:00.639 Did you have to work hard at being at sports 1:23:00.840 --> 1:23:02.200 or did it pretty much come naturally. 1:23:03.320 --> 1:23:04.960 I think you always had. I think when you have 1:23:05.080 --> 1:23:07.840 an interest in sports from an early age, you just 1:23:08.000 --> 1:23:10.439 naturally work hard at it. It's just what you like 1:23:10.520 --> 1:23:13.280 to do. So it's tough to say. I feel like 1:23:13.320 --> 1:23:15.680 I've always been good at it. I feel like it 1:23:15.880 --> 1:23:19.040 came naturally. But at the same time, I've always been 1:23:19.080 --> 1:23:20.960 interested in it, so it was something that I was 1:23:21.000 --> 1:23:24.880 always doing, always developing. So yeah, it's tough to probably say. 1:23:25.080 --> 1:23:28.760 Honestly, you started your college football career at Pitt. You 1:23:28.880 --> 1:23:30.960 red shirted your first year, and then you were a 1:23:31.000 --> 1:23:34.400 backup your second year. Is that what you expected or 1:23:34.560 --> 1:23:37.280 were you disappointed that you didn't get a faster opportunity. 1:23:37.880 --> 1:23:41.240 I don't know exactly what I expected. I probably expected 1:23:41.320 --> 1:23:43.800 to go in and start as as quickly as I can. 1:23:44.439 --> 1:23:46.400 At some point I was hoping to get an opportunity. 1:23:46.520 --> 1:23:51.439 I think I was not okay, but okay with my 1:23:51.560 --> 1:23:54.080 second year being where I was, But by that third year, 1:23:54.120 --> 1:23:56.920 I really wanted I really wanted to be playing football. 1:23:57.320 --> 1:23:59.040 And it wasn't looking like that was going to happen, 1:23:59.120 --> 1:24:01.160 and that's kind of what led to go to go 1:24:01.240 --> 1:24:01.759 to Delaware. 1:24:02.160 --> 1:24:03.360 Why did you choose Delaware? 1:24:03.960 --> 1:24:05.800 Well, really, I mean there was no portal back in 1:24:05.840 --> 1:24:09.200 the day, and I got recruited, but like, I wasn't 1:24:09.240 --> 1:24:11.320 like a huge recruit, so it was tough to really 1:24:11.400 --> 1:24:14.120 find out if anybody wanted me. And you know what, 1:24:14.360 --> 1:24:17.160 my it wasn't like I really had very many options 1:24:17.280 --> 1:24:19.160 or a decision to make. But Delaware was a team 1:24:19.200 --> 1:24:20.760 that recruited me a little bit out of high school 1:24:20.760 --> 1:24:22.960 as a smaller school that probably understood that I wasn't 1:24:23.160 --> 1:24:26.400 going to go there. But Casey Keeler was known for 1:24:26.479 --> 1:24:29.280 kind of getting some transfers and my high school coach 1:24:29.360 --> 1:24:32.360 my senior year played for him. Played for Casey at 1:24:32.479 --> 1:24:34.400 Rowan I don't know if it was rowing then or 1:24:34.439 --> 1:24:37.679 Glassboro State in South Jersey, so there was a little 1:24:37.680 --> 1:24:39.040 bit of a connection there and I kind of found 1:24:39.040 --> 1:24:41.000 out that they were interested in having me and ended 1:24:41.120 --> 1:24:44.360 up like late summer, you know, deciding to go there 1:24:44.640 --> 1:24:46.439 really because at that point it was the only option, 1:24:47.920 --> 1:24:50.360 you know, but they did have a rich tradition in football, 1:24:50.479 --> 1:24:53.280 and you know, the state of Delaware cares a lot 1:24:53.320 --> 1:24:55.080 about the Blue Hens, so it was a cool place 1:24:55.160 --> 1:24:55.280 to go. 1:24:55.920 --> 1:24:57.880 You wound up being the eighteenth pick in the draft 1:24:58.000 --> 1:25:01.920 by Baltimore, the second quarterback selected your year. What was 1:25:01.960 --> 1:25:03.880 it like to get that phone call from Ozzie Newsom? 1:25:05.000 --> 1:25:07.240 Getting that call was surreal. I mean, sitting there with 1:25:07.280 --> 1:25:12.719 your family and something that you've kind of envisioned since 1:25:12.760 --> 1:25:15.240 you can remember, and probably wasn't as really as I 1:25:15.560 --> 1:25:17.719 think it was. But from the time I can remember, 1:25:18.680 --> 1:25:20.760 you know, I wanted to be a professional athlete. You know, 1:25:20.840 --> 1:25:24.240 probably started with baseball and went to football and baseball 1:25:24.360 --> 1:25:27.840 and ended up at football. So to get that call 1:25:28.080 --> 1:25:32.720 is obviously very special. It's something you can probably take 1:25:32.760 --> 1:25:36.800 for granted at certain times just because it seemed like, 1:25:37.960 --> 1:25:40.200 I don't know, it's at different times you kind of 1:25:40.400 --> 1:25:42.280 feel like it's going to happen at some point, But 1:25:43.240 --> 1:25:48.120 looking back, it's one of those things that it's always 1:25:48.160 --> 1:25:49.840 going to be really special because it's something that you 1:25:50.320 --> 1:25:52.120 envisioned doing from the time you were seven or eight 1:25:52.200 --> 1:25:52.559 years old. 1:25:53.600 --> 1:25:55.920 We're visiting the Joe Flacco. You took the Ravens to 1:25:56.000 --> 1:25:58.200 the playoffs each of your first four years. You want 1:25:58.280 --> 1:26:00.920 a playoff game every year, and then in year five 1:26:01.080 --> 1:26:04.160 he led Baltimore to the super Bowl title. There are 1:26:04.320 --> 1:26:07.600 thirty five quarterbacks who have led their team to a 1:26:07.640 --> 1:26:10.799 super Bowl title. When I express it in those terms, 1:26:11.720 --> 1:26:12.760 what does that say to you? 1:26:13.720 --> 1:26:15.519 You know, it's one of those times where you don't 1:26:15.560 --> 1:26:17.559 as a player. I don't think you do sit back 1:26:17.600 --> 1:26:20.000 and reflect enough on how special it is to get 1:26:20.040 --> 1:26:23.320 to do what we do. I don't think you you know, 1:26:24.240 --> 1:26:27.280 I don't, and I'm not somebody that does it either. 1:26:27.479 --> 1:26:29.280 I don't think we sit back and look at what 1:26:29.360 --> 1:26:31.320 we just did or what we've done over the last 1:26:31.360 --> 1:26:35.280 five years. And the older I get, I think it's 1:26:35.360 --> 1:26:37.880 kind of important to do that, because when you don't 1:26:37.960 --> 1:26:41.200 do that, no matter what you do for a living, 1:26:41.439 --> 1:26:45.759 it can turn into a job to you know at times, 1:26:46.439 --> 1:26:49.360 and I think when you hit me with stuff like that, 1:26:49.640 --> 1:26:51.679 and when you're able to sit around some family members 1:26:51.720 --> 1:26:54.400 and friends and tell stories and kind of have those 1:26:54.439 --> 1:26:56.840 little moments where you do remind yourself of how lucky 1:26:56.880 --> 1:27:00.679 you are, it puts things back in perspective and allows 1:27:00.760 --> 1:27:02.960 you to enjoy it a lot more. I think when 1:27:03.000 --> 1:27:06.080 you don't do those things, which I don't naturally like 1:27:06.200 --> 1:27:09.160 think about those things unless I am telling stories, which 1:27:09.160 --> 1:27:09.600 I like to do. 1:27:11.200 --> 1:27:11.240 It. 1:27:11.479 --> 1:27:14.000 It's pretty damn cool. I mean, you have to go 1:27:14.120 --> 1:27:16.519 back and put yourself in the shoes of when you 1:27:16.600 --> 1:27:19.040 were a young kid slash teenager and you were hoping 1:27:19.080 --> 1:27:22.400 to be in this position one day. And you know, 1:27:22.479 --> 1:27:24.720 when you hear things like that from other people, you 1:27:24.840 --> 1:27:27.400 do turn back into that kid, and you can put 1:27:27.439 --> 1:27:30.560 it in that kind of view and that perspective and 1:27:30.840 --> 1:27:31.519 really enjoy it. 1:27:32.439 --> 1:27:35.720 After eleven years in Baltimore, you've bounced around since, with 1:27:35.880 --> 1:27:38.680 six teams over the last seven years. I suppose on 1:27:38.760 --> 1:27:41.120 one hand, it's nice to be a guy that plays 1:27:41.200 --> 1:27:43.679 for one team his entire career. On the other hand, 1:27:43.760 --> 1:27:47.280 you've made so many friends and seeing how different teams 1:27:47.360 --> 1:27:50.120 do it. Has that been enjoyable in a certain way 1:27:50.400 --> 1:27:50.760 for sure? 1:27:51.120 --> 1:27:53.040 Yeah, it's a good way to put it, you know. 1:27:53.320 --> 1:27:55.400 I think ultimately it would have been great to play 1:27:55.439 --> 1:27:58.720 twenty years in one spot, you know, and call it 1:27:58.800 --> 1:28:02.840 a day. But that's not my life. This is my life, 1:28:03.000 --> 1:28:04.680 and you got to look at the positives in it. 1:28:04.840 --> 1:28:06.760 And I do think there are a lot of positives 1:28:06.800 --> 1:28:09.880 in going from team to team and meeting different coaches 1:28:09.920 --> 1:28:12.479 and seeing how different coaches do it, and meeting different players, 1:28:12.560 --> 1:28:17.040 and seeing different locker rooms, and just enjoying different cities, 1:28:17.240 --> 1:28:20.880 you know, getting to see different parts of the country 1:28:20.960 --> 1:28:23.120 and actually live there for a little bit of time. 1:28:25.120 --> 1:28:29.760 I think because I have played a good amount and 1:28:30.320 --> 1:28:33.200 am a little bit older now I can enjoy those things. 1:28:33.400 --> 1:28:35.680 I think if you were to tell me that, if 1:28:35.720 --> 1:28:36.760 you were to tell me there was going to be 1:28:36.800 --> 1:28:38.840 positives in that when I was twenty three, I probably 1:28:38.840 --> 1:28:40.840 wouldn't have believed you and wouldn't have wanted to do that. 1:28:41.080 --> 1:28:44.160 But there have been positives. Yeah, Listen, I wish the 1:28:44.240 --> 1:28:46.479 last seven years, you know, with all those positives, I 1:28:46.560 --> 1:28:48.559 do wish the last seven years were probably a little 1:28:48.600 --> 1:28:52.439 bit different than that. But definitely a lot of cool 1:28:52.479 --> 1:28:54.120 things about doing what I've gotten to do in the 1:28:54.200 --> 1:28:54.840 last few years. 1:28:55.479 --> 1:28:58.479 You've got five kids. They were too young or not 1:28:58.680 --> 1:29:01.840 born when you won the Super so earlier this year, 1:29:02.000 --> 1:29:04.360 when you beat the Steelers on Thursday night, when you 1:29:04.439 --> 1:29:07.639 threw for four seventy against the Bears. Now your kids 1:29:07.680 --> 1:29:10.000 are old enough to watch it and appreciate it. Is 1:29:10.120 --> 1:29:12.720 that the best part about still playing at forty. 1:29:13.080 --> 1:29:15.800 It's definitely a cool part of it, it really is. 1:29:16.479 --> 1:29:18.320 And they just want more. You know, you do one game, 1:29:18.360 --> 1:29:19.400 they want more, they want more. 1:29:19.520 --> 1:29:19.680 You know. 1:29:22.600 --> 1:29:25.320 It's very I think a couple of years ago. I 1:29:25.400 --> 1:29:27.680 think in twenty three when I got signed and went 1:29:27.720 --> 1:29:30.200 to Cleveland and that was like the first real time 1:29:30.280 --> 1:29:34.840 that they actually cared, you know, in twenty nineteen. Yeah, 1:29:35.080 --> 1:29:37.040 like by the time I left Baltimore, like they had 1:29:37.080 --> 1:29:39.000 they were, you know, six years old. I think I 1:29:39.120 --> 1:29:42.320 was at six or something like that. Like you'd think 1:29:42.320 --> 1:29:43.800 they'd be old enough to kind of get it a 1:29:43.840 --> 1:29:46.599 little bit, but they don't, not until they're nine, ten, eleven, 1:29:46.680 --> 1:29:50.519 you know. And twenty three was the first time where 1:29:50.680 --> 1:29:53.639 like even though I signed late, like when I signed there, 1:29:53.760 --> 1:29:55.720 I was the guy and I got to go win 1:29:56.080 --> 1:29:58.240 and play some good games. That was the first real 1:29:58.360 --> 1:30:01.040 time that they understand of what was going on and 1:30:01.200 --> 1:30:05.160 got to be a part of it. And that's I 1:30:05.240 --> 1:30:08.439 think that was the cool part. Is you always enjoy 1:30:09.560 --> 1:30:12.960 sharing these things and with and having the people that 1:30:13.080 --> 1:30:16.800 you really love and care about be a part of 1:30:16.880 --> 1:30:21.200 it with you. And when it's your kids, that's just 1:30:21.280 --> 1:30:24.760 a whole other level of like love and care that 1:30:24.840 --> 1:30:30.760 you have for somebody, And it definitely did make it 1:30:30.960 --> 1:30:32.800 pretty special. I think it was special for them, but 1:30:33.120 --> 1:30:35.680 you know, like whatever, they're kids, they're gonna you know, 1:30:35.800 --> 1:30:37.760 it was definitely special for me because I think, just 1:30:38.000 --> 1:30:40.040 like I said, the more people that you care about 1:30:40.080 --> 1:30:41.880 that you get to bring in on this thing and 1:30:42.080 --> 1:30:44.840 enjoy it with, it just makes it that much sweeter. 1:30:44.840 --> 1:30:46.679 If it was just me hanging out there, and yeah, 1:30:46.720 --> 1:30:48.519 it would have been fun with my teammates and all that, 1:30:48.680 --> 1:30:50.120 but then you go home to an empty house and 1:30:50.160 --> 1:30:54.200 you kind of Okay, it's over. When you have people 1:30:54.320 --> 1:30:56.760 to enjoy it with, that mean a lot to you. 1:30:57.000 --> 1:30:59.439 It definitely means something else. So that was my first 1:30:59.479 --> 1:31:01.960 taste of it, and and yeah, it was pretty cool. 1:31:02.880 --> 1:31:06.040 He went viral several weeks ago for discussing the joys 1:31:06.080 --> 1:31:09.720 of going to a restaurant alone. How did your wife 1:31:09.800 --> 1:31:10.120 take that? 1:31:10.920 --> 1:31:14.720 She laughed, just like everybody else. Yeah, she You know, 1:31:15.200 --> 1:31:17.240 we're so past that point where it's like what. 1:31:17.280 --> 1:31:17.800 Are you doing? 1:31:18.040 --> 1:31:19.400 You're doing this and I'm doing that. 1:31:19.880 --> 1:31:24.120 You know, we've gone through those stages where you may 1:31:24.240 --> 1:31:26.000 want to feel a certain way about what the other 1:31:26.120 --> 1:31:31.519 person's doing. You know, we're so past that thankfully, And 1:31:31.640 --> 1:31:33.479 I and I and I think she's at the point too, 1:31:33.720 --> 1:31:36.559 like she wants to see me have success and she's 1:31:37.080 --> 1:31:39.400 she's she's partaking in that success. I mean, she's a 1:31:39.479 --> 1:31:43.400 huge part of that. So you know, if people are 1:31:43.439 --> 1:31:46.080 getting a good laugh out of eye interviews or anything 1:31:46.160 --> 1:31:47.680 like that, I think she's kind of enjoying it. 1:31:47.720 --> 1:31:48.519 For the most part too. 1:31:49.360 --> 1:31:52.120 Final fun fact, this one's kind of deep. If you 1:31:52.200 --> 1:31:56.880 could meet anyone in history, living or deceased, who would 1:31:56.920 --> 1:31:57.519 that person be? 1:31:58.320 --> 1:32:03.640 Wow, I'm good at these questions. I don't know if 1:32:03.680 --> 1:32:06.679 I have anybody specific. You know, we were just talking 1:32:06.720 --> 1:32:09.800 about all the unknowns that are in this world, and man, 1:32:09.880 --> 1:32:11.880 what would you like answers to? And you know, what 1:32:11.920 --> 1:32:13.519 would it be cool if you knew the answers to. 1:32:14.439 --> 1:32:17.080 I mean, shoot, I'd love to go back to when 1:32:17.120 --> 1:32:20.639 those pyramids are built then talk to somebody from that time, 1:32:21.800 --> 1:32:23.760 you know, and see what was the deal with that. 1:32:24.520 --> 1:32:26.479 But it's hard for me to pick out somebody specific. 1:32:27.000 --> 1:32:29.639 I'll cut your break because you've answered every other question 1:32:29.720 --> 1:32:32.360 beautifully and it's been a real treat to see you 1:32:32.439 --> 1:32:34.280 play and to see you lead this team. 1:32:34.360 --> 1:32:35.960 Thanks so much, Joe, I appreciate it. 1:32:36.080 --> 1:32:36.320 Thank you. 1:32:36.640 --> 1:32:38.599 I say it every time I hear Joe Flacco talk. 1:32:38.760 --> 1:32:42.960 I loved until he came here. My exposure to Joe 1:32:43.040 --> 1:32:45.720 Flacco was just like sound bites when he played on 1:32:45.840 --> 1:32:47.920 various teams. You'd hear a comment after a game. But 1:32:48.320 --> 1:32:51.240 the more he talks and the more reflective you understand 1:32:51.400 --> 1:32:54.439 he is. And you said it a couple of weeks ago, Dave, 1:32:55.040 --> 1:32:57.080 there is in your mind. I think a lot of 1:32:57.080 --> 1:32:59.760 people's minds there's a spot for Joe Flacco on this 1:33:00.080 --> 1:33:04.479 roster next season, assuming there's comfort here on both sides, 1:33:04.520 --> 1:33:06.960 and assuming there's not an opportunity to start someplace else. 1:33:07.120 --> 1:33:08.800 I think we both could see Joe Flacco on this 1:33:08.840 --> 1:33:09.439 team next year. 1:33:09.439 --> 1:33:13.000 Oh absolutely, He'd be the ideal number two quarterback for 1:33:13.080 --> 1:33:20.559 the Cincinnati Bengals. I mean, he's already made some serious friends, yeah, 1:33:20.720 --> 1:33:24.280 relationships on this football team. I mean, Joe Flacco is 1:33:25.160 --> 1:33:28.880 really a good person. I mean, married, so, a husband, 1:33:29.160 --> 1:33:33.960 father of five. He's a busy guy. And the fact 1:33:34.080 --> 1:33:36.240 is when he went in the football to play football 1:33:36.280 --> 1:33:38.880 games in the absence of Joe Borrow, he did well. 1:33:39.240 --> 1:33:43.200 He performed well, and I think that what he has 1:33:43.280 --> 1:33:46.879 done this year and how he's integrated himself with everybody, 1:33:46.960 --> 1:33:49.479 with the coaches, with the players, with the system, how 1:33:49.520 --> 1:33:52.240 they want to play football. He fits what they want 1:33:52.360 --> 1:33:56.760 in a quarterback. I'd be surprised if he doesn't have 1:33:56.880 --> 1:33:59.599 a better option, like you said, Lance, because I think 1:33:59.640 --> 1:34:01.800 he's played well off where other teams in the league 1:34:01.840 --> 1:34:04.400 are gonna be like now, he's you know, he's long 1:34:04.439 --> 1:34:06.560 in the tooth, forty years old. That's an issue, but 1:34:07.560 --> 1:34:09.000 you know, the guy can still spin it. 1:34:09.080 --> 1:34:09.200 Man. 1:34:09.320 --> 1:34:11.080 He's proven he can still throw it and throw it 1:34:11.160 --> 1:34:13.519 well and did a good job for the Cincinnati Bengals. 1:34:14.280 --> 1:34:16.040 I think the Bengal would be thrilled to have Joe 1:34:16.120 --> 1:34:19.719 Burrow Joe Flacko back in training camp next year, backing 1:34:19.760 --> 1:34:20.439 up Joe Burrow. 1:34:20.800 --> 1:34:23.200 Yeah, that's the only problem. There's two Joes, and I 1:34:23.320 --> 1:34:25.760 always catch myself which I start to say one and 1:34:25.880 --> 1:34:28.599 I meet the other and we come back and change 1:34:28.640 --> 1:34:31.680 his name. Still ahead, let's talk about those Ravens. You'll 1:34:31.720 --> 1:34:34.680 hear John Harbaugh's opening thoughts from their loss yesterday to 1:34:34.720 --> 1:34:38.080 the Steelers, and we'll look ahead to the rematch against Baltimore. 1:34:38.160 --> 1:34:40.840 That is next Bengals line on the Bengals Radio Network 1:34:40.880 --> 1:34:54.360 and seven hundred WLW Cruise and right along with this 1:34:54.600 --> 1:34:57.160 Monday Night at Bengals line on the Bengals Radio Network 1:34:57.200 --> 1:34:59.479 in seven hundred WLW. 1:34:59.160 --> 1:35:01.320 And Lance pay Corp. Was proud to be the official 1:35:01.560 --> 1:35:04.439 HR software provider of the Cincinnati Bengals. 1:35:04.520 --> 1:35:07.479 Next up, Baltimore Ravens. Tough luck losers yesterday at home 1:35:07.560 --> 1:35:10.160 twenty seven to twenty two to the Steelers. Ravens dropped 1:35:10.160 --> 1:35:13.080 to six and seven. Controversy late when a touchdown was 1:35:13.439 --> 1:35:16.240 overturned that the Ravens looked like they had taken the lead, 1:35:16.640 --> 1:35:18.599 but it's a rule of no catch and they fall 1:35:18.680 --> 1:35:21.760 twenty seven to twenty two. Here's John Harball after the game. 1:35:22.240 --> 1:35:25.880 All right, good game, tough loss. Fought to the end 1:35:28.560 --> 1:35:31.519 four games last Season's not over. Fighting for THEFC North 1:35:31.560 --> 1:35:34.960 for the next four games. That's where we stand. What questions, 1:35:35.000 --> 1:35:36.040 Jee on. 1:35:36.080 --> 1:35:39.360 The replay, it looked like Isaiah had got in two 1:35:39.439 --> 1:35:41.640 feet down. What was the explanation that was given to 1:35:41.680 --> 1:35:42.519 you on the sideline? 1:35:42.600 --> 1:35:44.559 Yeah, the explanation was a third foot didn't get down 1:35:44.600 --> 1:35:45.519 before the ball came out. 1:35:45.600 --> 1:35:46.240 That's what they said. 1:35:47.439 --> 1:35:48.879 Do you believe it should have been touchdown? 1:35:49.280 --> 1:35:50.920 Uh, you know what, I believe a lot of things 1:35:50.920 --> 1:35:54.040 I think, I think to play with I think the 1:35:54.080 --> 1:35:56.080 Aaron Rodgers play, I mean just com of rules here. 1:35:56.080 --> 1:35:57.080 It's not an officiating issue. 1:35:57.120 --> 1:35:57.840 It comes from New York. 1:35:57.920 --> 1:36:00.240 But you know when you when you when you're making 1:36:00.320 --> 1:36:02.439 a catch, you have to you have to you have 1:36:02.560 --> 1:36:05.080 to survive the ground. You know, he he didn't survive 1:36:05.120 --> 1:36:06.880 the ground. He's no doubt, he's not down by contact. 1:36:06.920 --> 1:36:07.599 He was catching. 1:36:07.680 --> 1:36:09.720 He was catching the ball on the way down with 1:36:09.840 --> 1:36:12.200 another person. So you got to you gotta make a 1:36:12.280 --> 1:36:13.599 catch there and survive the ground. I don't know why 1:36:13.600 --> 1:36:14.880 it was ruled the way it was on that one. 1:36:15.800 --> 1:36:18.800 So all those things, I'm sure we'll they'll explain to us. 1:36:18.880 --> 1:36:20.479 But they had plenty of time to look at and 1:36:20.520 --> 1:36:22.200 they're the ones who are the experts on the rules. 1:36:22.280 --> 1:36:23.240 So that's how it works. 1:36:23.320 --> 1:36:24.760 How was the Rogers playing that? 1:36:24.840 --> 1:36:26.439 He was just down with the progression of the book? 1:36:30.160 --> 1:36:32.640 John, what did you see on the Travis Jones so. 1:36:32.800 --> 1:36:35.880 Kindly on the field goal that I didn't see heading 1:36:35.960 --> 1:36:38.960 that contact, That's what I did not see. So but 1:36:39.120 --> 1:36:40.640 you you need to have head and head in that 1:36:40.760 --> 1:36:44.360 career of contact there and it's gotta be forceful, you know, contact, 1:36:45.560 --> 1:36:48.639 not incident contact. I didn't see any contact myself. 1:36:50.000 --> 1:36:52.599 John, How do you, you know, talk to the players 1:36:52.800 --> 1:36:54.880 when you know, in a game where you feel like 1:36:55.320 --> 1:36:56.880 some calls might not go on your way? How do 1:36:56.960 --> 1:36:59.400 you how do you address and kind of take this 1:36:59.520 --> 1:37:01.000 loss in and try to explain that. 1:37:01.000 --> 1:37:01.360 To you men? 1:37:01.400 --> 1:37:01.800 Your players? 1:37:01.840 --> 1:37:03.320 Yeah, I mean the players. The players don't you know, 1:37:03.439 --> 1:37:05.280 they know they've been in the NFL. They know how 1:37:05.320 --> 1:37:08.120 this stuff works, you know, And I tell them basically, 1:37:08.160 --> 1:37:09.640 we're not We're not. We're don't make any excuses. We 1:37:09.640 --> 1:37:11.200 don't put fingers. That's not what we do here. 1:37:11.360 --> 1:37:11.760 We never have. 1:37:12.560 --> 1:37:14.519 We walk out of here with our chest out and 1:37:14.760 --> 1:37:16.640 or chin up, you know, and we look to the 1:37:16.720 --> 1:37:17.160 next game. 1:37:17.320 --> 1:37:17.479 You know. 1:37:17.680 --> 1:37:20.800 We are fighting still for everything that we want to accomplish, 1:37:20.880 --> 1:37:22.960 you know. So it's been it's tough. It's been a tough, 1:37:23.040 --> 1:37:27.560 challenging road for sure, but that's where we're you know, 1:37:27.640 --> 1:37:29.960 and we will keep fighting and we believe we can 1:37:30.000 --> 1:37:30.400 get it done. 1:37:30.600 --> 1:37:33.120 Ravens six and seven and Davids. We look to the 1:37:33.600 --> 1:37:36.479 rematch and think about what happened to the first one. 1:37:36.560 --> 1:37:39.599 Odds are the Ravens won't turn it over five times again. 1:37:39.960 --> 1:37:41.800 Odds are the Bengals won't be as bad as one 1:37:41.880 --> 1:37:44.400 for six in the red zone like they were, And 1:37:44.479 --> 1:37:47.040 odds are probably that Baltimore is not gonna get it's 1:37:47.080 --> 1:37:49.680 gonna feed Derek Henry more than the ten times in 1:37:49.760 --> 1:37:50.559 the first matchup. 1:37:50.760 --> 1:37:53.679 That's that's the crazy thing. I mean, because this guy, 1:37:53.960 --> 1:37:56.200 you talk about it, Piecet, you talk about an animal 1:37:56.360 --> 1:37:59.479 and pushing six to three, pushing two hundred and fifty 1:37:59.479 --> 1:38:02.920 pounds and can fly. I mean, it's that God blessed 1:38:02.960 --> 1:38:07.200 him with unique talents and there's broke them mold you 1:38:07.280 --> 1:38:11.960 know when they when they uh produced Derrick Henry, that 1:38:12.120 --> 1:38:15.760 was the end no more. He is something else and 1:38:16.680 --> 1:38:19.080 he wears you out. He just grinds on you, wears 1:38:19.120 --> 1:38:23.160 you down just and not going to wear you down 1:38:23.200 --> 1:38:26.160 though with only ten carries and and and the thing 1:38:26.240 --> 1:38:30.800 about him is a big power back like him. Uh, 1:38:30.920 --> 1:38:33.000 he can make you miss you know, and run away 1:38:33.040 --> 1:38:35.200 from you. And then if you you know, if you 1:38:35.280 --> 1:38:39.720 really play softly to you know, wait for the next 1:38:39.840 --> 1:38:42.320 move to make you miss move, he'll lower the pad 1:38:42.439 --> 1:38:44.720 level and just flatten your butt. Man, He'll run your 1:38:44.760 --> 1:38:47.680 ass over and and smile while he's doing it. He 1:38:47.760 --> 1:38:51.479 loves doing it. So yeah, they're they're an interesting football team. 1:38:51.600 --> 1:38:54.719 And uh, I have a lot of respect for Harball. 1:38:54.960 --> 1:38:58.960 I think he does a phenomenal job and and he 1:39:00.160 --> 1:39:03.360 players love to play for John Harbaugh. He is a 1:39:03.439 --> 1:39:04.320 players head coach. 1:39:04.680 --> 1:39:07.719 You better keep an eye on and tackle Mark Andrews. 1:39:08.040 --> 1:39:13.759 Yes, yes, another, Oh my god, Well down the Stretch 1:39:13.840 --> 1:39:16.559 Final thoughts next Bengals line on the Bengals Radio Network 1:39:16.600 --> 1:39:18.120 and seven hundred wl W. 1:39:25.840 --> 1:39:28.559 Right down the Stretch Final Thoughts up the night day. 1:39:28.680 --> 1:39:33.040 Four games to go. The scenario is simple, I don't know. Simple. 1:39:33.160 --> 1:39:35.400 You gotta win the final four. The Steelers have to 1:39:35.479 --> 1:39:38.600 lose three of their final four and the Ravens have 1:39:38.720 --> 1:39:41.880 to lose at least two of their four, and uh 1:39:42.000 --> 1:39:45.040 then the Bengals would win tiebreakers. But let's just focus 1:39:45.120 --> 1:39:47.560 on beating the Ravens. We'll go from there. How that 1:39:48.600 --> 1:39:52.080 sounds like a plan, because winning four when you've only 1:39:52.120 --> 1:39:54.040 won four to this point is a big hurdle. 1:39:54.120 --> 1:39:58.120 So let's just work on one very good point, very strong, and. 1:39:58.120 --> 1:40:01.040 Then we'll talk next week. He is dab five of 1:40:01.120 --> 1:40:03.880 my plants. McAllister, This has been Bengals Line on the 1:40:04.080 --> 1:40:08.120 Bengals Radio network and seven hundred WLW. 1:40:13.200 --> 1:40:16.920 This was Bengals Line on the Bengals Radio network. 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