WEBVTT - 10-24-25 - Bengals Pep Rally 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:03.960 This is Bengals pemp Rally, presented by Just Baared Chicken 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:08.080 on the Bengals Radio Network. Paycoor Paycor is proud to 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:12.360 be the official HR software provider of the Cincinnati Bengals. 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:16.920 Kettering Health Best Care for the Best Fans. Kettering Health, 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:22.480 Official healthcare provider of the Cincinnati Bengals. This is ESPN 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:26.960 fifteen thirty, the official home of the Cincinnati Bengals. 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:30.600 Good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to the Bengals pep Rally 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:34.320 show presented by Just Bear Chicken here on ESPN fifteen 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:38.000 thirty in Fox Sports thirteen sixty. It is a Friday 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:40.519 afternoon in the Queens City. It's going to be a 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:45.440 big weekend for Cincinnati football fans. The University of Cincinnati 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:49.240 in duckson new Hall of Fame class tonight. The Bearcats 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:52.320 take on Baylor tomorrow at four. The Bengals have a 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:54.680 home game on Sunday against the New York Jets, and 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:58.520 at halftime of that game, this year's Ring of Honor 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:03.720 class will officially inducted. It consists of Leap and Lamar Parrish, 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:06.800 one of the greatest defensive backs in franchise history and 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:10.679 without question, the greatest punt returner in franchise history. And 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:12.920 of course, the other member of this year's Ring of 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:17.200 Honor class is my broadcast partner in Pal Dave Lapp. 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:19.640 Thank you, siret Thal appreciate it, sir, thank you. 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:23.520 We've been looking forward to this weekend for a long time. 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:27.119 All of the living Ring of Honor inductees are expected 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:31.240 to be here this weekend. Anthony Muno's, Kenny Anderson, Isaac Curtis, 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:36.319 Willie Anderson, Chad Johnson, Boomerasias, and Tim Crmrae, Corey Dillon. 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.400 That is the company that you now keep, my friend. 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:42.959 That's that's high cotton right there. That's a pretty good company. 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:46.800 There's no question about that. Bengal fans, you know, appreciate 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:50.720 all of their careers, everything that they did. Had some 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.480 great Cincinnati Bengal teams that they were a big part 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:58.160 of for sure. Anthony Muno's is in the Hall of 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:01.040 Fame in Canton as well. Which is that double dip 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:03.440 is rare and that doesn't happen very often. That just 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:07.680 shows his greatness. We did a podcast earlier this week 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:09.800 and we were talking about that. You know that he's 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:13.200 one of very very few that can make that claim. 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:18.600 But yeah, it's it's mind boggling. Really. I do appreciate 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:26.320 the Cincinnati Bengals for recognizing teammates and former teammates, former coaches, 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:30.639 head coaches, assistant coaches, everybody that were a big part 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:33.680 of the success of the organization over the years. And 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:37.880 to be inducted this weekend is literally a dream come true. 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:40.720 I mean, when I was a little rug rat, never 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:43.000 really little, I guess, but a rug rat running around, 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:46.839 running around in my younger years. Never, you know, never 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:50.640 thought that I'd be talking with the Great Dan Horde 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:52.280 about going into the Ring of Honor. 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:54.760 No way, It's gonna be awesome. There's a Ring of 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:58.160 Honor reception tomorrow at the stadium from five to seven thirty, 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:01.320 and then again the official Sarah is coming up at 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.120 halftime on Sunday. You and Leap and Lamar Parish will 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:07.080 also be the rulers of the Jungle prior to the game, 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:09.480 the second time that you have been a ruler of 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:12.080 the Jungle, which is pretty cool. Let's talk for a 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.880 moment about the other guy going in. Your former teammate 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:17.840 Leap and Lamar Parish. He and Kenny Riley formed the 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:21.840 greatest cornerback duo this franchise has ever had, and maybe 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.959 any franchise has ever had. Ken Riley is in the 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.840 Pro Football Hall of Fame. He had sixty five interceptions. 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:31.280 Leap and Lamar had forty seven interceptions in his career 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:37.440 and scored thirteen non offensive touchdown between yeah, punt returns, 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:42.680 pick six's, fumble returns, kickoff return, etc. Let's hear from 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:49.920 Bengals owner and team president Mike Brown on Leapin' Lamar Parish. 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:57.040 Lamar deserves more people remembering him than do I don't 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:00.760 know why that's so. During his time here I think 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:04.120 was about seven years he played for us, he was 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:10.400 the most talented cornerback we ever had, and we've had 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:16.280 some great cornerbacks, but he was also the best returner 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:21.640 we ever had. And the one story that we stood 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:25.560 out in my mind about Lamar was when. 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:28.280 We played Washington here. 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:31.160 They had a good team and we had something like 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:36.119 three yards total offense. We didn't move the ball at all. 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:41.280 We won the game went on returns. Lamar, on one 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:46.359 punt return, went into a group of players that looked 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:50.560 like a ball of players that he dove into and 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:53.640 somehow he ran out the back end of all this 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:59.919 accumulated group of players and went on without losing struck 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:04.600 for a touchdown. He could cover like a blanket, The 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:10.080 receivers didn't get open on him, and he could play 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:15.000 the ball. We had on the other side. Kenny was 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:20.960 over there and we had two corners, the equal of 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:21.960 any team ever. 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:26.800 That game that Mike was talking about was in your 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:30.480 rookie year nineteen seventy four against Washington. Lamar at a 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.200 ninety yard punt return touchdown in the game. He also 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:37.440 returned to fumble for a touchdown in that game. Describe 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:39.920 your most vivid memories of your former teammate and now 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:42.719 Ring of Honor fellow Ring of Honor inductee, Lamar Parrish. 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:49.400 Yeah, he was just a dynamic, spectacular athlete. You know, 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:55.839 Mike paints a very good portrait of Lamar Parrish, his abilities. 0:05:56.240 --> 0:06:00.479 He was so athletic. He ran sub four four and 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:03.839 you know, he was a he was a long strider, 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:06.560 but then he could chop his feet, you know, and 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:11.200 take the real quick steps, change direction. Like Mike said, 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:14.279 he covered people like a blanket. I mean, nobody nobody 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:18.080 beat him. Nobody beat him, and he would take the 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:21.240 best receiver and I got him. I'm eliminating him, I'm 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:24.040 neutralizing him. I'm erasing him. In fact, that was the 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:26.960 nickname that we called Lamar Paris the eraser or the 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:30.159 human eraser, because he just he would take take the 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:32.440 best guy and you wouldn't hear from the guy during 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:34.680 the course of the football game. But the thing that 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:38.760 did separate him, like Mike was talking about, from anybody 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:41.560 that I can remember, is his returnability. I mean, it 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:48.360 was ridiculously phenomenal. Uh you know, ninety yard return you 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:52.599 describe against Washington, and I think he made a couple 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:55.640 of guys miss twice on the return. They missed, and 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.160 you know, try to get back into it and he's 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:01.120 making other people miss that they game ground and catch 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:03.840 up with him, and he'd make others miss. He was 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:08.359 he was ridiculous in that area. And that's such a 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:12.360 big deal because you know, offense, defense, special teams takes three, 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:16.360 all three components to win a football game, and Lamar 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:20.160 was a big contributor defensively and then on special teams 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:22.400 as well. I mean, it seemed like some games he 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:24.400 was on the field, the entire field. It was like 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:28.080 number twenty was out there the whole time. And yeah, 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:31.360 he went to a real small school in Nebraska, Lincoln, 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.400 and you know, he made carved out a hell of 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.520 an NFL career for a bunch of years with the Bengals, 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:43.320 then the then Washington Redskins, and the pair we had 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:46.360 at corner he and the late great Kenny Riley, who 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:49.360 was one of my best friends on the team. Loved 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:53.040 Kenny Riley. He was just as good a human being 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:54.960 as you're ever gonna want to meet. And his wife 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:57.640 and kids. I mean, Ken Riley Junior, we know, and 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.960 just a peach of a guy. I mean, you're never 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:04.280 going to meet anybody any better than Ken Riley Junior. 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.720 That tandem. You know, Paul Brown knew what he was 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:11.120 doing when he was going out and evaluating players, and 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:14.160 he knew what he wanted in a cornerback and he 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:16.680 got that in Lamar Parrish and Kenny Riley. 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:18.320 He knew what he was doing when it came to 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:21.200 drafting offensive lineman as well, and he hit it out 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:23.040 of the park with a third round draft pick out 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.840 of Syracuse in nineteen seventy four. I'm obviously speaking of you. 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:30.400 Dave Lappham This is the eighth fifty eighth season of 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:33.640 Bengals history. You've been part of fifty out of the 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:37.479 fifty eight ten as a player, forty now as a broadcaster, 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:40.280 the starting left guard on the Freezer Bowl team and 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:43.600 the Super Bowl sixteen team, the best radio analyst in 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:46.679 the NFL now for forty years running. Again, let's hear 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:49.760 from team president and owner Mike Brown on Dave Lapple. 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:56.160 Dave was smart enough, no one questions that, but that's 0:08:56.280 --> 0:09:00.680 never what stood out about him in mind. He went 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:03.760 beyond that. He was built like a football player. The 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:06.040 first time I ever saw him, he was in his 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:10.400 shorts and a training table at the Blue Gray Game 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:14.320 down in Alabama, and Jesus I looked at him and 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:17.040 then I said, this guy, he's built like they're supposed 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:23.679 to be big over. He was an excellent player and 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:28.840 he could play anywhere he needed him, but it went 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:36.640 beyond that. He has become someone tied to the Bengals 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:41.360 in his own special way. He was a player for us, 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:47.240 and later he was an announcer for us. He can 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:50.120 tell our story. He's been around here close on to 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:54.960 fifty years as a player and as an announcer he 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:59.680 knows all the guys that were here from the beginning on, 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:03.120 and he can tell about them. 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:04.640 He's a good storyteller. 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:08.360 I know this doesn't have much to do with being 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:12.720 in the Ring of Honor, but as a personality, you 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:17.880 like being around him. He's fun and that isn't something 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:22.160 unique with me. Everyone feels that way. They gravitate towards 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:27.559 him because he just makes the occasion happier. 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:31.960 Well, put Mike Brown, you make the occasion happier. 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:34.839 Yeah, that's very nice. That's a very nice statement from 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:38.360 Mike Brown. Did you hear that, Lynn, That's what Mike Brown, 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:40.920 the owner of the Bengal, says about me. So I'm 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:42.680 not as big as sticking the mother as you say. 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:47.000 You're tell of lives out there, you're telling everybody, not 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:53.839 just kidding. But yeah, I honestly can't thank the Brown 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:58.600 Blackburn family enough because, you know, Mike, Mike is is 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:04.840 one who way back in the my sophomore year at 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:09.439 Syracuse was when I started filling out you know, information 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:12.280 sheets and that sort of thing with interested teams that 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:16.800 might you know, Ben Schwartzwalder would say the scout from 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:20.240 the Cincinnati Bengals wants to talk to you after practice 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:22.199 and then he give you form and fill it out 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:26.160 and send it in in a self addressed, stamped envelope 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:30.040 kind of deal. And you know that's kind of where 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:33.080 it started with the Bengals and others. But on Draft Day, 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:35.560 you know, it was the Cincinnati Bengals and the third round, 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.240 the sixtieth pick of the of the draft, and I 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:41.920 was thrilled. I was excited. I remember talking to my parents, 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:44.560 my brother and sister about you know, going out there 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:50.680 and how how good they were playing for Paul Brown. 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:54.800 The legend, I mean, this guy is, you know, he's 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:59.520 way up there in football history, National Football League, collegiate football. 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:02.520 He just high school at Maslon. I mean, he had 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:05.200 successes that were they were unmatched at every level. 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:06.719 Coaching Mount Rushmore. 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:11.720 Absolutely absolutely, and uh he was such a great teacher 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:14.920 of the game. I was very fortunate to have Bill 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:18.360 Tiger Johnson as my first line coach. Mike McCormick, who 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:20.599 played for Paul when Paul was head coach of the 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:25.360 Cleveland Browns. Here's my line coach after that. Roccopiro was 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:29.320 my line coach at Syracuse. A great, great player and 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:31.560 a hell of a line coach as well, So I 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:34.480 got a good foundation there and played with guys like 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:37.839 Stan Walters at Syracuse and against Joe Erman every day 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:40.640 in practice. Who was you know, a first round pick 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:44.560 with the Indianapolis or then the Baltimore Colts coming out 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:48.840 of Syracuse. So uh, it's it's it's really hard to 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:51.320 get my mind around. It's mind boggling that I'm going 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:53.600 to be going into the into the Ring of honor, 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:58.560 you know, like Mike was saying, uh, ten years as 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:01.320 a player forty in the broadcast booth fifty year run. 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:04.000 The club has been around for fifty eight years, so 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:08.720 it's been I've big a part of it for a 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:11.920 good long time. And I think, you know, I've met 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:15.079 just about every player that's played for the Cincinnati Bengals, 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:19.880 are either drafted or a college free agent or unsigned 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:24.559 veteran free agency over the years and the different eras 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:29.040 of the the NFL with the Cincinnati Bengals. So I 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:31.480 consider myself the luckiest man in the world. 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:35.160 There's no question, like Luke Gerrig the luckiest man, absolutely 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:38.079 absolutely yeah, you know him all from Joe Stofa to 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:42.040 John Stofer Rather to Joe Flacco and not enough, they're 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:43.080 roughly the same age. 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:44.240 Yeah, that's right. 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:49.240 That's a good point. That's a good point about Joe Flacco. Man, 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:50.600 the dude's amazing. 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:53.240 There is. We're gonna be talking about him quite a 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:55.600 bit over the next hour and forty five minutes. 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:56.880 Yeah, he's something. 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:59.880 He sure is. All right, We are live today here 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:03.120 at our Friday afternoon home. It's the on the Rhine Eatery. 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:06.440 That is the food hall above the downtown Kroger at 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:09.280 Court and Walnut. Plenty of parking on the street. There's 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:12.520 also a parking garage attached to this building. Lots of 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:16.520 inexpensive food items available here. There is a bar in 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:19.480 the corner, the eighteen eighty three Bars, So you want 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:22.360 to come out, grab a bite, d have a frosty beverage. 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:25.000 This is the place to do it on a Friday afternoon. 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:27.920 And in addition to talking about Lap and Leap and 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:30.600 Lamar going into the Ring of Honor this weekend, We've 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:33.360 got a very special guest coming up at five o'clock 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:36.720 for the final hour of our show, Chase Brown. 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:41.080 Strong. Chase Brown is he's having a hell of a year. 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:45.760 I mean, this running back is somebody that has earned 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:49.360 his keep, as they say, and man, his legs, his 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:51.760 lower body, he really hits that weight room hard and 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:56.560 he's got some unbelievably strong clads and hamstrings and calves. 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:58.400 And this guy, man, he puts his foot in the 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:01.880 ground when he cuts. It's a island cut on a 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:05.360 you know, from side to side. He just jump cuts 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:07.920 as well as anybody in the NFL. And then he 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:12.200 gets going straight ahead again and yards after contact, yards 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:18.400 after you know, first being collisioned. He's he's unique. He 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:22.200 can run, he can catch, runs tremendous routes because of 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:25.480 all the physical attributes who've already talked about with him. 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:28.000 And then he catches the heck out of the football. 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:30.920 And the other thing that he'll do is block. I 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.960 mean he'll stick his nose right in the chest of anybody, 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:38.440 a big old linebacker or you know, smaller safety or 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:40.760 whatever the case may be. Whatever needs to be done, 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:42.640 Chase Brown is all about doing it. 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:44.480 We've got a lot of friends here today. There are 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:48.880 members of the Dave Lapham entourage in town this weekend 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:53.000 of honor ceremony, which is great. Our dear friend Paul 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:56.640 Hirrens is here today from who day in the UK. 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.680 How about that all the way from England comes Paul. 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:05.320 Lasky enough to have given you a congratulatory present, Yes, 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:07.840 when he arrived in town a few days. Absolutely, So 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:09.960 we're gonna take a time out. When we come back, 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:13.440 we'll be talking about some news that broke yesterday. Bengals 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:16.760 linebacker Logan Wilson has requested a trade. We'll hear from 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.640 Zach Taylor about that. Next. This is the Bengals Pepp 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:23.440 Browley Show, presented by Just Bear Chicken here on ESPN 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:27.840 fifteen thirty and Fox Sports thirteen sixty thirty two. 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:31.160 Seconds left, third down and five. Tannehill ready for the 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:33.960 shotgun snap. He has the ball, He's back to throw, 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:38.080 looking throws over the middle, Robin interception. The Bengals have 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:41.680 it at the forty seven yard line. Twenty seconds on 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:42.560 the clock. 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:46.520 And the Bengals will have the ball about fifteen yards 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:50.480 away from Evan McPherson's long field goal range. 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:53.640 Logan Wilson with the interception on the tip ball. 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:58.440 Logan Wilson gets the tip interception and Tannehill now. 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:00.600 One eight down. 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:05.040 Many great plays that linebacker Logan Wilson has made over 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:07.359 the years in a Bengals uniform. That one, of course, 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:10.200 in the playoff game at Tennessee in twenty twenty one 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:13.160 lead under the game winning field goal as the Bengals 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:17.879 eventually made it to Super Bowl fifty six. Logan Wilson, however, 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:20.280 has lost his place in the starting line up. A 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:22.720 couple of weeks ago, in the Green Bay game, he 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:26.680 came out. Rookie Barrett Carter started in his place. They 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:28.960 remained the starters last week in the victory of the 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:31.959 Pittsburgh Steelers, and they will be the starters again on 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:34.679 Sunday when the Bengals host the New York Jets. Logan 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:38.440 Wilson is twenty nine years old. He's obviously disappointed. He's 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:40.400 got a lot of good football left in him, and 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:43.119 I'm sure he believes he's still worthy of being in 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:48.600 the starting lineup. So this week he has requested a trade. 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:52.520 I would not expect it to happen this year. He's 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:55.199 got another year on his contract next year. Maybe in 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:58.920 the offseason, but the Bengals are still obviously trying to 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:01.480 get to the playoffs. Yeah, trying to be in contention 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:05.359 when Joe Burrow hopefully returns in December. And after those 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:08.840 two rookies, Logan Wilson's the next guy in. He's still 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:11.359 getting a decent number of snaps. So even though he's 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:13.840 requested a trade, I'd be surprised if it happened. 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:15.560 I agree with you, Dan, I mean, I think he's 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:20.000 part of their plan for this season. He's gonna be 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:22.120 if there's an injury to either one of those guys. 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:23.960 He's the first, he's the third guy. Like you say, 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:26.560 he's the next guy up. He's in there and he'll 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:28.760 be taking a ton of snaps at that point in time. 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:33.000 But you know, they they're running like a four three 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:38.000 four look with Logan Wilson as the third linebacker. You know, 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:41.720 then they're also running like a five to two with 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:44.639 five down lineman two linebackers. Those two linebackers are the 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:46.760 young guys, and then four in the second there and 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:50.800 then of course they can runs as many different configurations 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:54.840 and looks they want with the front seven or you know, 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:57.639 and then have four in the in the defensive backfield 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:01.000 that'll be consistent. Then you get nickel and dime packages 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:04.400 where you know it's all over the board. Then may 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:07.800 not be that many down linemen left on the football field. 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:12.040 It's mostly linebackers, defensive backs, you know, lining up in 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:16.560 different coverages, different blitz packages, different configurations, and Al Golden 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:19.320 does all of it. But I think you know, Al 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:21.320 Golden will be the first to tell you that, Hey, 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:25.480 we Logan Wilson, he's got snaps left in him. We 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:27.840 know that. You know he's going to help us. He'll 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:31.080 be involved in some packages that are significant packages that 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:34.080 we're going to run. You know, they're not throwaway packages. 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:36.760 They are going to be meaningful in games that we 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:39.119 go out and win during the course for the season. 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:43.439 So I agree with you again in summation, Logan Wilson 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:44.600 ain't going anywhere this year. 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:49.399 Zach Taylor has obviously talked to Logan Wilson about this situation. 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:52.720 He talked to him before he was essentially taken out 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:56.520 of the starting lineup. They have talked since earlier Today, 0:19:56.720 --> 0:20:00.399 Zach Taylor was asked about those conversations with Logan Elson. 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:04.080 It was more about Barrett than it was about Logan. 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:07.000 I see a very high ceiling in Barrett. I see 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:10.880 some great qualities in him that I wanted to see 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:12.879 more of, And the only way to do that was 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:14.080 to pickspan in the RAR. 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:15.840 So that's where's at. 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:16.920 And I told him, you. 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:19.600 Know, he's in a position where there's a young player 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:22.320 that I think has a really high ceiling, and so 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:23.040 that's the decision. 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:28.640 I'm Carter started forty games at Clemson, he was a captain, 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:31.879 he was a four to zero student. He's got great athleticism, 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:33.480 and the Bengals want to get him on. 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:37.120 The field exactly. I mean, he's good for him, he's impressed. 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:41.639 He's done a whole lot of good things. And like 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:46.400 you've heard right there with Zach's the tape of Zach's interview, 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:50.480 I mean, the guy's a four ohero student, got extremely 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:56.480 high football IQ. He's got a mental acuity overall for 0:20:56.920 --> 0:21:03.280 everything he is. He's thirsty for knowledge. He's coaches say, 0:21:03.560 --> 0:21:07.840 and teammates, veteran teammates say. He asks great questions, very 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:13.239 you know, high level questions that coaches might ask. You know, 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:16.840 he's that kind of a player. So you know, he's 0:21:16.840 --> 0:21:18.720 got to make room for him. And unfortunately, when you 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:22.600 have to make room for one, somebody loses an offer 0:21:22.840 --> 0:21:26.040 or something that he's been doing for a number of years. 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:30.320 Significant staffs and logan Wilson's suffering through that right now. 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:33.960 One thing that I feel pretty confident about is that 0:21:34.040 --> 0:21:37.359 even though he has requested a trade, Logan Wilson's not 0:21:37.440 --> 0:21:38.480 going to be a problem. 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:39.240 No, it's not that. 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:43.240 Yeah, this is not like a Carlos Dunlap situation back 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:47.439 in twenty nineteen, where he essentially bad attituded his way 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:50.080 right out of town, forced their hand to make a 0:21:50.119 --> 0:21:52.400 trade just because he was he had become a gigantic 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:55.160 pain in the butt. Logan Wilson's not that kind of guy. 0:21:55.160 --> 0:21:56.760 I would not expect anything like that. 0:21:56.840 --> 0:21:58.720 I agree with you one hundred thousand percent. You know, 0:21:58.800 --> 0:22:02.320 I think he's uh, he's he's good people. He's at 0:22:02.400 --> 0:22:06.760 a high, high level person. He's a intelligent uh, got 0:22:06.960 --> 0:22:12.800 great morals, you know, ethics, high standards. He's been raised right, 0:22:13.680 --> 0:22:18.360 He's got a lot of friends in that organization. Teammates, coaches, 0:22:18.880 --> 0:22:22.320 other organizational people. So yeah, I don't think. I don't 0:22:22.359 --> 0:22:24.080 think Logan Wilson is going to be a stick in 0:22:24.080 --> 0:22:25.960 the mud. I don't think Logan Wilson's going to be, 0:22:26.440 --> 0:22:29.520 you know, a jet a detriment to what they're doing. 0:22:29.520 --> 0:22:31.760 He's not going to be in the locker room, a 0:22:31.840 --> 0:22:34.520 cancer in the locker room that when everybody's celebrating, he's 0:22:34.600 --> 0:22:38.040 pouting and sulking. That I don't expect anything like that 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:39.520 out of Logan Wilson whatsoever. 0:22:40.240 --> 0:22:42.800 So we do know that the rookies will start at 0:22:42.880 --> 0:22:46.960 linebacker on Sunday. We don't know the situation at guard. 0:22:47.600 --> 0:22:51.560 Last week, Jalen Rivers started at right guard. Dylan Fairchild, 0:22:51.600 --> 0:22:54.600 coming back from injury, did not start at left guard 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:59.480 Dalton Reisner did. Reisner's played really well the last couple 0:22:59.560 --> 0:23:03.040 of weeks. The Bengals had a running game last Thursday, 0:23:03.119 --> 0:23:06.600 so it'll be interesting to see if Telling Fairchild slides 0:23:06.680 --> 0:23:09.320 right back into the starting lineup or if the Bengals 0:23:09.320 --> 0:23:11.240 take the you know what, as long as things are 0:23:11.320 --> 0:23:13.760 rolling right now, let's wait a little while before we 0:23:13.800 --> 0:23:14.560 make that switch. 0:23:14.920 --> 0:23:18.040 It's good to have options, you know, And that's what 0:23:18.080 --> 0:23:20.719 they've got. They've got three guys that they know can 0:23:20.760 --> 0:23:23.359 play the guard position and three guys that can play 0:23:23.400 --> 0:23:26.280 either one of the guard positions, which gives them the 0:23:26.400 --> 0:23:31.760 versatility aspect that every franchise craze. Really. Reiser has graded 0:23:31.800 --> 0:23:34.160 out well. Risner's graded out as one of their most 0:23:34.160 --> 0:23:37.360 effective offensive linemen last week when they ran the ball 0:23:37.359 --> 0:23:41.520 as effectively as they did. So you know, you you 0:23:41.560 --> 0:23:45.399 don't look at that and say, eh, that's dismissed. You know, 0:23:46.800 --> 0:23:50.119 it doesn't count. Yeah, it counts. Playing against the Pittsburgh Steelers. 0:23:50.520 --> 0:23:53.520 I mean, that's that's a very good defensive football team. 0:23:53.800 --> 0:23:56.080 They've got a rich history, they've got a culture, they 0:23:56.080 --> 0:23:58.800 have a tradition. They play the run. You know, they're 0:23:58.800 --> 0:24:01.399 as salting that regard. The Bengals ran the ball very 0:24:01.400 --> 0:24:04.159 effectively against him. So do you want to break that 0:24:04.240 --> 0:24:07.720 combination up the rookie Fairchild and rise or do you 0:24:07.760 --> 0:24:10.919 want to, you know, go with another young buck who's 0:24:11.000 --> 0:24:13.320 I think is going to be around for a long time. 0:24:13.359 --> 0:24:15.800 I think he's going to be a great player. He's 0:24:16.320 --> 0:24:22.919 Jalen Rivers is very very gifted physically, big guy, long arms, 0:24:23.400 --> 0:24:29.480 long legs, you know, leverage that he gets he locks 0:24:29.560 --> 0:24:31.800 into people when he's blocking him in the running game, 0:24:31.800 --> 0:24:35.000 passing game, and finishes him. He's got a little bit 0:24:35.000 --> 0:24:37.080 of a nasty disposition to him. You know, he wants 0:24:37.160 --> 0:24:39.680 to win. He wants to win every single snap, every 0:24:39.680 --> 0:24:42.600 single rep. He's been taught well, he's been coached well, 0:24:43.080 --> 0:24:47.160 you know, he's had good coaches at a very young age, 0:24:47.160 --> 0:24:51.800 in the developmental stages and of his of his football career. 0:24:51.920 --> 0:24:55.280 So the Bengals are fortunate they've got they've got options 0:24:55.320 --> 0:24:56.240 at that guard position. 0:24:56.359 --> 0:24:58.480 Dan, for sure, no doubt. All right, we're gonna take 0:24:58.480 --> 0:25:00.440 a time out. Coming up next, the Jet are coming 0:25:00.480 --> 0:25:03.359 to town on Sunday. Their quarterback play has not been 0:25:03.440 --> 0:25:06.120 good so far this year. But don't take my word 0:25:06.160 --> 0:25:09.440 for it. We'll hear from the Jets owner blasting this 0:25:09.640 --> 0:25:12.640 quarterback when we come back. This is the Bengals pep 0:25:12.720 --> 0:25:15.679 Rally Show. We are live at the On the Rhine Eatery. 0:25:15.800 --> 0:25:18.199 It's the food hall on the second floor above the 0:25:18.280 --> 0:25:22.720 downtown Kroger at Court and Walnut. Here on ESPN fifteen 0:25:22.840 --> 0:25:30.480 thirty and Fox Sports thirteen sixty. Dan Horden, Ring of 0:25:30.520 --> 0:25:33.840 Honor inductee Dave Lapham with you this afternoon from the 0:25:33.880 --> 0:25:36.879 On the Rhine Eatery here in downtown Cincinnati, the food 0:25:36.920 --> 0:25:40.240 court above the downtown Kroger at Courton Walnut. Show is 0:25:40.480 --> 0:25:43.000 on the air until six o'clock tonight, and Bengals running 0:25:43.000 --> 0:25:46.080 back Chase Brown will be our special guest from five 0:25:46.119 --> 0:25:48.119 to six says. The Bengals get set to host the 0:25:48.119 --> 0:25:51.240 New York Jets on Sunday. This week's game is presented 0:25:51.680 --> 0:25:54.560 by Fifth Third Bank. The Jets arow and seven. They've 0:25:54.600 --> 0:25:56.760 got a new head coach this year and Aaron Glenn, 0:25:57.080 --> 0:26:01.160 the former defensive coordinator for the Detroit Lions. Things obviously 0:26:01.200 --> 0:26:06.560 have not gone well so far, and Jets owner Woody 0:26:06.680 --> 0:26:10.120 Johnson was asked about his new head coach, Aaron Glenn 0:26:10.520 --> 0:26:12.000 earlier this week. 0:26:14.000 --> 0:26:16.760 What you're confidence level and Aaron to turn it around. 0:26:17.760 --> 0:26:19.919 Well, it looks like he's turning around parts of it. 0:26:20.840 --> 0:26:21.080 You know. 0:26:21.119 --> 0:26:23.359 It's hard when you have a quarterback with you know, 0:26:24.440 --> 0:26:28.439 with a rating that we've got, you know, is I mean, 0:26:28.480 --> 0:26:31.399 he has the ability, but something just is not jibing. 0:26:31.840 --> 0:26:33.560 But if you look at any any head coach of 0:26:33.600 --> 0:26:35.840 the quarterback like that, you're going to see similar results. 0:26:35.920 --> 0:26:37.200 If you are across the league. 0:26:37.440 --> 0:26:39.080 You have to play consistently with. 0:26:39.640 --> 0:26:41.400 You know, at that position. 0:26:41.520 --> 0:26:45.080 And that's what we're going to try to do in 0:26:45.080 --> 0:26:48.200 the remainder of the season. So someone gives you hope, 0:26:48.280 --> 0:26:50.479 then he send you the prom I just think defense, 0:26:50.520 --> 0:26:51.800 special teams are doing better. 0:26:52.240 --> 0:26:55.320 Defense is pretty good. Hope we can just. 0:26:55.280 --> 0:27:01.560 Complete a pass, it would look good. 0:27:01.960 --> 0:27:06.040 Uncommon to here an NFL owner roll the bus over 0:27:06.080 --> 0:27:10.160 his quarterback, but that's what Wody Johnson this did this week. Specifically, 0:27:10.160 --> 0:27:13.760 without saying the name, he is blasting Justin Fields, right, 0:27:14.160 --> 0:27:16.840 the former Ohio State quarterback and former first round draft 0:27:16.880 --> 0:27:19.600 pick by the Bears who is with the Steelers last year. 0:27:19.880 --> 0:27:22.000 He's with the Jets as a free agent this year. 0:27:22.080 --> 0:27:24.880 And there's some truth to what Woody Johnson was saying, 0:27:24.920 --> 0:27:28.040 because the Jets are only averaging one hundred and forty 0:27:28.040 --> 0:27:29.440 one passing yards per game. 0:27:29.960 --> 0:27:32.879 That's amazing in this era of football. One hundred and 0:27:32.920 --> 0:27:36.360 forty one yards passing it. And it's not like, you know, 0:27:36.800 --> 0:27:41.119 Justin Fields. He's shown that he can play quarterback at 0:27:41.119 --> 0:27:43.879 a very high level, and he's got Garrett Wilson, you know, 0:27:44.160 --> 0:27:46.080 as a receiver to get the ball down the football 0:27:46.080 --> 0:27:48.840 field too. I mean, that guy's guys as good as 0:27:48.840 --> 0:27:51.280 there is in the National Football League. You know, he's 0:27:51.280 --> 0:27:56.480 got a good tight end and Mason Taylor's. They aren't 0:27:57.000 --> 0:28:03.200 blessed with a plethra of deep threats and multi talented 0:28:03.280 --> 0:28:06.600 wide receivers. But what he feels like he's done a 0:28:06.640 --> 0:28:12.560 pretty good job in getting targets in athletes for Justin 0:28:12.600 --> 0:28:15.320 Fields and Tyrod Taylor to get the football too. And 0:28:15.400 --> 0:28:17.960 Bresee Hall is a good receiver out of the backfield. 0:28:18.000 --> 0:28:22.280 I mean he's better than most running backs running real good, 0:28:22.320 --> 0:28:25.120 solid routes and catching the football. He's got very good 0:28:25.160 --> 0:28:25.880 soft hands. 0:28:26.320 --> 0:28:29.600 So we do anticipate that Justin Fields will not start 0:28:29.640 --> 0:28:31.800 on Sunday, that it will be the thirty six year 0:28:31.800 --> 0:28:36.480 old veteran Tyrod Taylor. Field was benched at halftime last week. 0:28:36.840 --> 0:28:40.960 Tyrod finished up against Carolina, didn't play very well, no touchdowns, 0:28:41.000 --> 0:28:43.920 two picks. Jets have not scored a touchdown as a 0:28:43.960 --> 0:28:48.600 team in two weeks. But you would expect Tyrod Taylor, 0:28:49.120 --> 0:28:52.320 based on his history at least, to give them a 0:28:52.440 --> 0:28:55.000 little more of a passing threat than Justin Fields has 0:28:55.000 --> 0:28:56.320 given them so far this year. 0:28:56.480 --> 0:29:00.720 Yeah, you would. I mean his history that you know, 0:29:00.800 --> 0:29:05.520 I mean, he's he's played good football in the past. 0:29:05.520 --> 0:29:08.960 I mean he's he's a competent NFL quarterback. Is he 0:29:09.000 --> 0:29:13.560 a star or no? Is he average? Probably pretty average, 0:29:13.600 --> 0:29:15.960 you know in terms of what there is around the 0:29:16.040 --> 0:29:19.440 National Football League, But a lot of pressure on him. 0:29:19.480 --> 0:29:23.840 There's no question about that, because in this league, your 0:29:23.880 --> 0:29:26.760 football team only goes as far as the quarterback takes it. 0:29:26.880 --> 0:29:29.120 And the Bengals have been blessed to have, you know, 0:29:29.600 --> 0:29:33.200 quarterbacks like Kenny Anderson, boomeras Ize, and Joe Burrow. I mean, 0:29:33.240 --> 0:29:36.040 those three quarterbacks are as good as anybody's role call 0:29:36.520 --> 0:29:39.840 at the quarterback position with any team in the National 0:29:39.920 --> 0:29:44.000 Football League. So you get spoiled a little bit with 0:29:44.040 --> 0:29:48.960 those with those kind of guys under center. And right now, 0:29:49.320 --> 0:29:51.680 the New York Jet Jets are proven the old axiom 0:29:51.760 --> 0:29:55.200 that you only go as far as your quarterback takes you. 0:29:55.320 --> 0:29:58.600 So you mentioned the name Garrett Wilson. The Jets injury 0:29:58.600 --> 0:30:02.160 report for today isn't out yet, but Garrett Wilson has 0:30:02.200 --> 0:30:05.760 not been practicing this week. He missed last week's game 0:30:05.920 --> 0:30:09.320 with a knee injury. We spoke to Rich Domini from ESPN, 0:30:09.440 --> 0:30:12.680 who covers the Jets on Wednesday night. He said he 0:30:12.680 --> 0:30:17.640 didn't expect Garrett Wilson to play, Sauce Gardner is in 0:30:17.720 --> 0:30:21.120 concussion protocol, he is not expected to play. So the 0:30:21.240 --> 0:30:23.760 Jets only have so many great players and two of 0:30:23.800 --> 0:30:26.840 their very best, probably two of their top three, I agree, 0:30:26.880 --> 0:30:28.520 are not expected to play on Sunday. 0:30:28.600 --> 0:30:30.840 I think probably it's they're two top players, you know. 0:30:30.920 --> 0:30:35.040 I mean, uh, when when you're oh and seven like 0:30:35.120 --> 0:30:39.360 they are, and you're down your two top weapons offensively 0:30:39.400 --> 0:30:43.800 and defensively, uh, you know, and offensively of course talking 0:30:43.800 --> 0:30:49.160 about Garrett Wilson, and defensively we're talking about the UC's 0:30:49.200 --> 0:30:52.080 best or one of their finest, Sauce Gardener, I mean 0:30:52.440 --> 0:30:55.360 when you when you're talking about being down your two 0:30:55.360 --> 0:30:59.880 best players and struggling with an one seven record future 0:31:00.120 --> 0:31:03.000 and look all that bright, you know. And Cincinnati Bengals 0:31:03.000 --> 0:31:05.760 are at pay Corps. They play well at pay Corps. 0:31:05.840 --> 0:31:09.080 The fan base is very supportive and in full throat 0:31:09.160 --> 0:31:12.600 at pay Corps. And the New York Jets are facing 0:31:12.600 --> 0:31:15.160 a tough task this week, There's no doubt about it. 0:31:15.200 --> 0:31:18.040 The Cincinnati Bengals feel, like, you know, with a three 0:31:18.040 --> 0:31:22.920 and four mark right now, that they are turning things around, 0:31:23.160 --> 0:31:25.720 the worm is turning, so to speak, and that they 0:31:25.760 --> 0:31:29.920 feel they're a legitimate contender along with a bunch of 0:31:29.960 --> 0:31:32.680 other plus through other teams in the NFL for a 0:31:32.720 --> 0:31:35.000 playoff berth though, and then see what happens after that. 0:31:35.200 --> 0:31:37.719 As for the Bengals, injury. A situation brought to you 0:31:37.760 --> 0:31:42.880 by the Kettering Health Network. Trey Henderson didn't practice today, 0:31:43.080 --> 0:31:46.120 He was limited in the previous practices this week. He 0:31:46.200 --> 0:31:50.760 is officially listed as questionable yeah for the game on Sunday. 0:31:50.960 --> 0:31:54.280 And that's a huge loss of Trey Henderson's not coming 0:31:54.320 --> 0:31:58.080 off the edge, you know, the blind side of you 0:31:58.120 --> 0:32:00.960 get quarterback. The New York Jets are struggling at the 0:32:01.040 --> 0:32:05.280 quarterback position. The thing that you want to do is 0:32:05.480 --> 0:32:10.480 pressure that young those quarterbacks that are having difficulty making 0:32:10.560 --> 0:32:13.120 quick decisions with the football. In my mind, that's the 0:32:13.120 --> 0:32:16.600 biggest thing that quarterback can do for his team is 0:32:16.720 --> 0:32:19.040 decide what to do with the football right now. That's 0:32:19.040 --> 0:32:21.400 what Joe Flackow is doing for the Bengals with all 0:32:21.440 --> 0:32:24.280 of his experience. He sees it before it happens. He's 0:32:24.280 --> 0:32:27.400 getting the ball out. I mean it is getting in 0:32:27.480 --> 0:32:31.400 the air very very quickly. Not the case with the Jets. 0:32:32.000 --> 0:32:35.360 I'll guarantee you. Trey Hendrickson wants to play. It's an 0:32:35.400 --> 0:32:38.959 zero to seven team. He's looking at potentially racking up 0:32:39.000 --> 0:32:41.760 a couple of three sacks. He doesn't want to miss 0:32:41.800 --> 0:32:45.120 this opportunity to get after the quarterback from the blind side, 0:32:45.600 --> 0:32:48.640 and he's one of the best pass rushers, blind side, 0:32:48.640 --> 0:32:50.760 front side, whatever side there is in the NFL. 0:32:51.160 --> 0:32:53.880 Dealing with a hip injury. He apparently said he wanted 0:32:53.920 --> 0:32:56.720 to play last week as well, but the hip did 0:32:56.760 --> 0:32:59.959 not allow that to happen. We'll see what happens on Sunday. 0:33:00.040 --> 0:33:03.280 With Trey officially listed as questionable, We're going to take 0:33:03.320 --> 0:33:05.440 a time out. Coming up next, twenty three year old 0:33:05.480 --> 0:33:09.840 of Marius Mims discusses his forty year old quarterback Jeff Flaco. 0:33:10.240 --> 0:33:12.440 This is the Bengals pep Rally Show. We are live 0:33:12.440 --> 0:33:15.520 at the on the Rhine Eatery in downtown Cincinnati on 0:33:15.760 --> 0:33:23.160 ESPN fifteen thirty and Fox Sports thirteen sixty. Dan Hordan, 0:33:23.320 --> 0:33:26.560 Ring of Bonner Indugdeed Dave lap I'm with you this afternoon. 0:33:26.600 --> 0:33:29.840 It's the Bengals pep Rally Show, presented by Just Bear Chicken. 0:33:29.880 --> 0:33:31.920 We are live at the on the Rhine Eatery in 0:33:31.960 --> 0:33:35.560 downtown Cincinnati. Chase Brown will be our special guest in 0:33:35.640 --> 0:33:37.840 the final hour of the show. If you were going 0:33:37.880 --> 0:33:40.960 to the Bengals Jets game on Sunday, don't forget to 0:33:41.000 --> 0:33:43.960 stop by pregame at the Banks that happens before every 0:33:44.000 --> 0:33:47.280 regular season home game. With live music, outdoor games, and 0:33:47.400 --> 0:33:49.560 plenty to do for all ages. It is the perfect 0:33:49.600 --> 0:33:53.200 pregame stop. Is it Bengals dot Com slash Jungle Zone 0:33:53.640 --> 0:33:57.840 for more information. Joe Flaco getting set to make his 0:33:57.960 --> 0:34:01.280 second check that third start as the Bengals quarterback second 0:34:01.280 --> 0:34:05.320 at pay Corpse Stadium. He's been awesome so far, particularly 0:34:05.320 --> 0:34:08.640 over the last six quarters. In two games as the 0:34:08.640 --> 0:34:12.560 Bengals starting quarterback, He's completed sixty five percent of his passes, 0:34:12.600 --> 0:34:16.360 five touchdowns, no picks, a passer rating of one hundred, 0:34:16.840 --> 0:34:21.160 and obviously a great victory over Pittsburgh last Thursday. Let's 0:34:21.160 --> 0:34:24.920 hear from right tackle A Marius Vims, all of twenty 0:34:24.960 --> 0:34:28.400 three years old, speaking about his forty year old QB. 0:34:34.239 --> 0:34:36.600 Crazy, how patient, how calm he is. Nothing seems to 0:34:36.640 --> 0:34:39.200 overwhelm him. He's seen every look possible. I feel like, 0:34:39.239 --> 0:34:41.399 eighteen years in the league, there's nothing you haven't seen. 0:34:41.560 --> 0:34:43.840 There's not a formation you haven't been in, there's not 0:34:43.880 --> 0:34:44.799 a play you haven't ran. 0:34:44.920 --> 0:34:46.319 So he came in the. 0:34:46.280 --> 0:34:47.960 League when I was four years old, so I grew 0:34:48.000 --> 0:34:49.960 I grew up watching him, So like that was like 0:34:50.160 --> 0:34:52.040 Ravens and the I'm just being honest with I grew 0:34:52.120 --> 0:34:53.520 up watching him in Big Bing go At It and 0:34:53.520 --> 0:34:55.960 that was like the game, always like watching. So it's 0:34:56.000 --> 0:34:57.960 just crazy being in the Hoddle, like you know, him, 0:34:58.840 --> 0:35:02.160 him being my quarterback, you know, like like I'm living on. 0:35:02.160 --> 0:35:02.800 The drains still. 0:35:03.080 --> 0:35:05.200 So like I said, we were rolling with him, and 0:35:05.800 --> 0:35:07.640 you know, I'm just I'm just glad to be a 0:35:07.680 --> 0:35:08.120 part of him. 0:35:08.120 --> 0:35:08.239 Man. 0:35:08.280 --> 0:35:09.600 I'm just glad to you know, I can go out 0:35:09.600 --> 0:35:12.640 here and take them on Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays whatever we. 0:35:12.520 --> 0:35:16.600 Play Sunday this week. Yeah, to New York Jets, what 0:35:16.640 --> 0:35:20.400 was comparable for you in your playing days, what older 0:35:20.480 --> 0:35:22.800 guy was still playing, whether it was with the Bengals 0:35:22.880 --> 0:35:26.520 or on opposing team that you had vividly remembered. I 0:35:26.560 --> 0:35:28.879 watched this guy when I was, you know, eight years old, 0:35:28.920 --> 0:35:30.799 and yeah, I'm on the same field. 0:35:30.920 --> 0:35:34.279 You know. I do remember watching the Bengals play, and 0:35:34.320 --> 0:35:37.080 I do remember watching the two Bobs, Bob Johnson and 0:35:37.160 --> 0:35:40.840 Bob Trumpy. You know, they were veteran players. Bob Johnson 0:35:40.920 --> 0:35:44.120 was the first pick ever, the first pick of the draft, 0:35:44.480 --> 0:35:48.080 when the Cincinnati Bengals drafted him All Americans Center out 0:35:48.080 --> 0:35:51.880 of Tennessee, and he held down the fort for for 0:35:51.920 --> 0:35:55.160 a number of years. Was a great player, I mean, 0:35:55.520 --> 0:35:59.600 very intelligent, and went on to have an unbelievable business 0:35:59.640 --> 0:36:02.800 career in Cincinnati when he was done playing for the 0:36:02.840 --> 0:36:09.239 Cincinnati Bengals. A huge citizen here in our fine community. 0:36:10.719 --> 0:36:17.240 But him Trumpy Trump. He was sive speed, ratio freaking 0:36:17.320 --> 0:36:20.919 nature back in that day. Big guy six y five 0:36:20.960 --> 0:36:24.280 plus probably close to six x turning twenty five hundred 0:36:24.280 --> 0:36:28.680 and thirty pounds, could really run, stretch the field. Safety's 0:36:29.120 --> 0:36:32.040 feared getting in one on one matchups with him because 0:36:32.080 --> 0:36:34.960 his body was so big and he could run so well. 0:36:35.000 --> 0:36:38.880 He'd make contested catch after contested catch on just about anybody, 0:36:39.719 --> 0:36:43.600 Pro Bowlers, whatever the case may be. So those two guys, then, 0:36:43.880 --> 0:36:46.640 from an opponent's standpoint, you know, I always think to 0:36:47.400 --> 0:36:50.160 Pittsburgh Steel as the best team that I was playing 0:36:50.160 --> 0:36:53.080 against in that time in my career. And Joe Green 0:36:53.600 --> 0:36:57.600 was a veteran defensive lineman, and they called him mean 0:36:57.680 --> 0:37:00.000 Joe Green, you know, because he would he would definitely 0:37:00.880 --> 0:37:02.919 do some things post snap every once in a while 0:37:02.960 --> 0:37:06.080 that would or post whistle. I should say that would 0:37:06.640 --> 0:37:09.120 draw the ire of a lot of a lot of 0:37:09.160 --> 0:37:13.360 people and draw the attention the officials, and you know, 0:37:13.400 --> 0:37:15.640 it'd stuck on your hand. He'd you know, kick you 0:37:15.680 --> 0:37:19.280 in the in the privates, whatever the case be, whatever 0:37:19.360 --> 0:37:21.719 had to be done to get your attention. Joe Green 0:37:21.840 --> 0:37:25.399 was not above doing it. But he was a member 0:37:25.480 --> 0:37:28.680 that Steel Curtain defense, Pittsburgh Steel, a defense that was 0:37:28.719 --> 0:37:33.880 so unbelievable. He and Ernie Fatz, Holmes, Dwhite, White, Elsie Greenwood, 0:37:34.680 --> 0:37:40.720 Jack hamm Andy Russell, they were just they were dynamic. 0:37:40.760 --> 0:37:44.080 They had a hell of a football team. So those 0:37:44.120 --> 0:37:47.399 are those are some of the guys, teammates and opponents 0:37:47.440 --> 0:37:50.479 that you know would would probably make my list. 0:37:50.880 --> 0:37:54.320 I know your favorite player as a kid was Bob Lilly. Yeah, 0:37:54.400 --> 0:37:57.520 his final year was your rookie year. Yes, but the 0:37:57.560 --> 0:37:58.880 Bengals didn't play Dallas. 0:37:58.880 --> 0:38:03.360 Correct now didn't play Dallas. But watching him and talking 0:38:03.360 --> 0:38:05.160 to people that played against him, they just could not 0:38:05.320 --> 0:38:10.120 believe how when you hit Bob Lily you felt like 0:38:10.160 --> 0:38:12.480 you were hitting a brick wall, felt like, you know, 0:38:12.560 --> 0:38:15.760 it was like a steel girder or something. He just had. 0:38:16.000 --> 0:38:18.319 He had an unbelievable forum. I used to watch him, 0:38:18.600 --> 0:38:21.360 you know, deliver that forum and just like lift players, 0:38:21.400 --> 0:38:23.719 you know, jack their head back, you get caught with 0:38:23.760 --> 0:38:26.719 a Boby Lily forum on your chin. It was not 0:38:26.800 --> 0:38:29.839 a pleasant experience, etc. And had eight number seventy four 0:38:30.239 --> 0:38:34.200 for the Great Bob Lily and those doomsday defenses of 0:38:35.280 --> 0:38:38.600 the Bob Lily era. So when you're a player and 0:38:38.719 --> 0:38:41.919 you're a member of a defensive football team that has 0:38:42.320 --> 0:38:45.800 some sort of NFL historical nickname to it, like Steel 0:38:45.880 --> 0:38:48.879 Curtain Doomsday defense, there's a reason. 0:38:48.560 --> 0:38:50.680 For that, no doubt. Yeah, all right, we'll take a 0:38:50.680 --> 0:38:53.040 time out. Coming up next, the Bengals had a running 0:38:53.120 --> 0:38:54.000 game last week. 0:38:54.040 --> 0:38:54.640 I'm about it. 0:38:54.840 --> 0:38:56.760 We'll see if they can do it again on Sunday 0:38:56.800 --> 0:38:59.480 and hear from Joe Flacco next. This is the Bengals 0:38:59.640 --> 0:39:03.040 Pepper Valley Show, presented by Just Bear Chicken. Here on 0:39:03.239 --> 0:39:10.360 ESPN fifteen thirty in Fox Sports thirteen sixty. It is 0:39:10.400 --> 0:39:13.719 a Friday night in Cincinnati, and that means Friday Night 0:39:13.800 --> 0:39:17.960 Stripes is coming up, presented by Ohio cat Tonight's venue 0:39:18.040 --> 0:39:21.680 is Mount Healthy High School, and Friday Night Stripes features 0:39:21.680 --> 0:39:25.200 interactive activities for fans ninety minutes before kickoff featuring the 0:39:25.200 --> 0:39:29.040 Football Toss, Bengals giveaways, and photo ops with who Day Again. 0:39:29.080 --> 0:39:32.120 It's coming up at Moody Mount Healthy tonight. It's Friday 0:39:32.200 --> 0:39:35.680 Night Stripes presented by Ohio cat So. As you know, 0:39:35.760 --> 0:39:38.000 for much of this year, the Bengals have struggled to 0:39:38.040 --> 0:39:40.840 get their running game going in their first six games. 0:39:41.200 --> 0:39:43.439 In five out of the six, they had fifty five 0:39:43.560 --> 0:39:47.279 or fewer rushing yards. Their best performance in the first 0:39:47.360 --> 0:39:51.360 six games was eighty five rushing yards, which isn't particularly good. 0:39:51.520 --> 0:39:54.080 But last week against Pittsburgh it was awesome. One hundred 0:39:54.080 --> 0:39:57.120 and forty two rushing yards on only twenty three carries. 0:39:57.480 --> 0:40:00.480 Chase Brown had his first one hundred yard rushing performance 0:40:00.520 --> 0:40:02.319 of the year. Chase is going to join us for 0:40:02.360 --> 0:40:05.040 the final hour of this show from five to six. 0:40:05.480 --> 0:40:09.480 Let's hear from quarterback Joe Flacco on the emergence of 0:40:09.520 --> 0:40:12.200 a running game last Thursday. 0:40:13.360 --> 0:40:15.600 I think initially the run game did spark us that 0:40:15.640 --> 0:40:17.960 little that thirty yard run we had and that was 0:40:18.000 --> 0:40:20.560 our first scoring drive, I believe, and then the next 0:40:20.600 --> 0:40:22.760 one we came out and have another little chunk run. 0:40:23.440 --> 0:40:25.719 Anytime that you can, you know, get some of those 0:40:25.719 --> 0:40:28.839 games in the running game, it's going to help your 0:40:28.880 --> 0:40:30.799 offense out a lot. So I think in some in 0:40:30.880 --> 0:40:34.279 Thursday's case, the run game definitely helped us out. But 0:40:34.320 --> 0:40:35.640 we just got to, you know, like I said, we 0:40:35.960 --> 0:40:38.960 got to just continue to work at it and have 0:40:39.040 --> 0:40:42.799 faith that you know, we're getting better, and you know, 0:40:43.560 --> 0:40:46.359 one game doesn't necessarily indicate what the next is going 0:40:46.440 --> 0:40:49.080 to be. And and just like I said before about 0:40:49.400 --> 0:40:50.960 you know, the process of it all, I don't think 0:40:51.000 --> 0:40:52.440 we can really worry about that. I think we just 0:40:52.480 --> 0:40:55.720 got to continue to work on getting better and trust 0:40:55.719 --> 0:40:58.000 that we're doing the right things, and then on Sundays 0:40:58.000 --> 0:41:00.120 it'll show up. 0:41:00.160 --> 0:41:03.320 Did anything stand out to you for why the running 0:41:03.320 --> 0:41:04.919 game was better against Pittsburgh. 0:41:05.360 --> 0:41:08.000 I think there was a little bit more persistence to 0:41:08.080 --> 0:41:10.200 stay with it, you know, and and make sure you 0:41:10.400 --> 0:41:13.920 established the run game. I think they knew how important 0:41:13.920 --> 0:41:16.640 it was to be able to be balanced against the 0:41:16.680 --> 0:41:19.920 defense as good as the Pittsburgh Steelers. And you know, 0:41:20.000 --> 0:41:23.080 quite honestly, watching the game and looking at tape before 0:41:23.080 --> 0:41:27.040 the game, this this Pittsburgh Steeler defense is not one 0:41:27.080 --> 0:41:30.680 of the best that Mike Tomlin's ever had. They're not 0:41:31.000 --> 0:41:35.319 dominant like the steel curtain defense is the players that 0:41:35.640 --> 0:41:38.680 they had on those defenses, Joe Green and a company 0:41:38.760 --> 0:41:42.120 like we talked about earlier in the show. So I 0:41:42.160 --> 0:41:45.400 think that if the Bengals want to get where they're 0:41:45.680 --> 0:41:50.120 thinking they can get, and that's a potential playoff birth 0:41:50.520 --> 0:41:54.040 and then win a playoff game and advance and continue 0:41:54.080 --> 0:41:58.640 to work your way through division and conference level and 0:41:58.840 --> 0:42:01.279 make it to a super Bowl, they have to have 0:42:01.600 --> 0:42:05.080 a running game that they can count on. In my mind, 0:42:05.120 --> 0:42:08.360 Chase Brown is a back that can be that guy. 0:42:08.719 --> 0:42:10.880 He can be the Belkow. He can be the workhorse 0:42:10.960 --> 0:42:13.840 running back that they can you know, give the football 0:42:13.840 --> 0:42:16.960 to time after time. I mean, at this point in 0:42:17.000 --> 0:42:20.480 the season, they're averaging less than sixty nine yards per 0:42:20.560 --> 0:42:23.279 game on the ground, sixty eight point nine yards, So 0:42:23.960 --> 0:42:25.799 I mean there's a lot of meat left on the bone. 0:42:25.840 --> 0:42:28.920 I mean, they can rush the ball much better than that. 0:42:29.600 --> 0:42:31.839 And even when they were you know, when we had 0:42:31.920 --> 0:42:35.240 Kenny Anderson a quarterback, the Bengals also had boomeros Ias 0:42:35.320 --> 0:42:38.840 in a quarterback. They had running games. You know, we 0:42:38.880 --> 0:42:43.280 had Pete Johnson, they had James Brooks and Nicky Woods. 0:42:43.640 --> 0:42:48.600 I mean, those guys ran the football and opponent. Opposing 0:42:48.640 --> 0:42:51.560 defenses respected the fact that when you went into the 0:42:51.560 --> 0:42:54.920 football game, you better buckle up your chin strap because 0:42:55.200 --> 0:42:57.400 the Bengals is gonna run the football at you, and 0:42:57.440 --> 0:42:59.560 they were gonna throw it too. They're gonna make plays. 0:42:59.719 --> 0:43:03.080 But balance is the key. It's it's always has been, 0:43:03.360 --> 0:43:05.600 and in my mind, I think it always will be. 0:43:05.760 --> 0:43:08.480 The Jets have a good front on defense, but they 0:43:08.520 --> 0:43:11.520 are giving up quite a few rushing yards one twenty 0:43:11.600 --> 0:43:14.840 nine point three per game. That is twenty third in 0:43:14.920 --> 0:43:15.480 the NFL. 0:43:16.120 --> 0:43:19.600 Yeah, that's that's that surprised me when I saw that number. 0:43:19.640 --> 0:43:21.520 That's a little bit higher than I thought it might 0:43:21.560 --> 0:43:24.520 be because, I mean, you look at the at the personnel. 0:43:24.960 --> 0:43:28.759 Quinn Williams is a stud. I mean that guy Q 0:43:29.560 --> 0:43:32.359 they call him, I mean, he's he's a he's a man. 0:43:32.920 --> 0:43:37.960 He's a man amongst boys. Really not only big, strong, square, 0:43:38.480 --> 0:43:41.560 you know, built load to the ground. He's powerful. Uh, 0:43:41.600 --> 0:43:43.920 he's been in the weight room. He's got some strong legs, 0:43:43.960 --> 0:43:48.560 man clads and hamstrings, his calves and he's he's a 0:43:48.680 --> 0:43:53.040 he's a low. And then you know Sauce Gardner. We 0:43:53.080 --> 0:43:55.560 talk about him as a as a cover guy, and 0:43:55.600 --> 0:43:58.160 you know this Dan from watching him and getting to 0:43:58.160 --> 0:44:00.839 know him at U. See, he'll hit you. I mean 0:44:00.880 --> 0:44:03.520 when he's out there in space, now he'll close He'll 0:44:03.520 --> 0:44:07.239 close ground quickly and strike you man and get you 0:44:07.280 --> 0:44:09.560 on the ground. He doesn't He's not a guy that 0:44:09.760 --> 0:44:13.000 misses a lot of tackles in that secondary. 0:44:13.239 --> 0:44:15.400 Might not have to worry about him on Sunday if 0:44:15.400 --> 0:44:17.640 he misses the guy with a concussion. So it would 0:44:17.640 --> 0:44:20.640 obviously be a big blow to the New York Jet. Sure, 0:44:20.680 --> 0:44:24.680 we still haven't seen their official Friday afternoon injury report, 0:44:24.760 --> 0:44:28.680 but as of yesterday, it seemed unlikely that sas Gardner 0:44:28.840 --> 0:44:30.200 would make the dance this week. 0:44:30.239 --> 0:44:33.520 And that's unfortunate because you know, coming back home where 0:44:33.560 --> 0:44:35.800 he played college football, he's got a lot of friends 0:44:36.160 --> 0:44:39.160 and I'm sure family be coming into town here in 0:44:39.239 --> 0:44:44.680 Cincinnati to watch Sauce Gardner go at the Cincinnati Bengals. 0:44:44.719 --> 0:44:46.799 And of course, when he was at UC I'm sure 0:44:46.840 --> 0:44:49.319 he had a lot of players that he looked up 0:44:49.320 --> 0:44:53.040 to college players always do I know I did with 0:44:54.360 --> 0:44:57.640 NFL players. So unfortunate that he's not gonna be able 0:44:57.640 --> 0:44:58.640 to take advantage of that. 0:44:58.840 --> 0:45:00.719 Coming up next. 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Lamar 0:45:44.960 --> 0:45:47.440 Parris and my broadcast partner Dave Lapham going into the 0:45:47.440 --> 0:45:51.320 Bengals Ring of Honor on Sunday. The celebration has begun 0:45:51.400 --> 0:45:53.320 here at the on the Rye Eatery for the Bengals 0:45:53.520 --> 0:45:56.279 pep Rally Show presented by Just Baired Chicken. We've got 0:45:56.360 --> 0:46:00.800 the Lapham entourage, inn we do. It's awesome. I know 0:46:01.800 --> 0:46:04.640 friends and family coming in this weekend. We can't wait 0:46:04.680 --> 0:46:07.560 for halftime on Sunday. The Bengals taking on the New 0:46:07.640 --> 0:46:10.920 York Jets, and let's turn our attention to this week's opponent. 0:46:11.040 --> 0:46:13.840 To do that, we welcome in Brian Costello, who covers 0:46:13.880 --> 0:46:16.400 the Jets for the New York Post. Brian, welcome to 0:46:16.440 --> 0:46:18.600 the show. We appreciate your time. Let's talk about the 0:46:18.680 --> 0:46:23.239 quarterback situation. Aaron Glenn still is not saying whether the 0:46:23.239 --> 0:46:27.279 starting quarterback will be Justin Fields or Tyrod Taylor. What 0:46:27.360 --> 0:46:30.360 do you think is the answer to that question? 0:46:32.000 --> 0:46:34.279 Hey, guys, thanks for having me. I think it has 0:46:34.320 --> 0:46:38.760 to be Tyrod Taylor. You know, Justin Fields really hasn't 0:46:38.760 --> 0:46:41.080 played well outside of the first game of the season. 0:46:41.200 --> 0:46:44.040 The last two weeks have really been terrible. Jets haven't 0:46:44.040 --> 0:46:47.840 scored a touchdown, bench at halftime last week. You know, 0:46:47.840 --> 0:46:49.360 I don't see how you go back to them up 0:46:49.400 --> 0:46:53.080 to that and then throwing their owner Woody Johnson comes 0:46:53.120 --> 0:46:57.800 out Tuesday and really blames the season on Justin Fields 0:46:57.800 --> 0:47:00.480 basically all the struggles. So I think it's very hard 0:47:00.520 --> 0:47:03.680 to see a situation where the Jets turned back the 0:47:03.719 --> 0:47:06.680 field this week. So I fully expect Tyrod Taylor to 0:47:06.680 --> 0:47:09.279 be the quarterback on Sunday. 0:47:09.520 --> 0:47:13.200 So besides the quarterback position. Obviously there's been struggles there. 0:47:14.239 --> 0:47:16.919 How have the New York Jets as a football team 0:47:16.960 --> 0:47:20.439 played I mean, is there a position group that has 0:47:20.440 --> 0:47:24.960 caused the most problems other than the quarterback causing problems? 0:47:25.000 --> 0:47:27.680 Of course that's the most important position, and those problems 0:47:27.680 --> 0:47:31.560 are always the most problematic as such, But is there 0:47:31.640 --> 0:47:33.759 a position group that has played well enough to win? 0:47:34.080 --> 0:47:35.080 Or they all struggled? 0:47:37.200 --> 0:47:39.480 Well? Did anything? 0:47:39.520 --> 0:47:43.200 The quarterback play has been so poor, you know, they've 0:47:43.239 --> 0:47:45.759 given up a ton of sacks in recent weeks. They 0:47:45.800 --> 0:47:49.440 gave up nine to the Broncos two weeks ago in London. 0:47:49.920 --> 0:47:52.480 They give a five last week, you know, but it's 0:47:52.520 --> 0:47:55.480 hard to say is that the offensive line or is 0:47:55.480 --> 0:47:57.680 that because the quarterback is holding the ball too long. 0:47:58.480 --> 0:48:00.560 They really haven't been able to get a running game going. 0:48:00.640 --> 0:48:03.440 But it's like, again, if you can't throw the ball, 0:48:03.520 --> 0:48:05.799 teams are just going to stack the box stop the run. 0:48:05.840 --> 0:48:09.080 So it's been hard offensively to judge that. Defensively, they 0:48:09.120 --> 0:48:12.919 were terrible for a few weeks there. They've they've kind 0:48:12.920 --> 0:48:15.919 of gained their footing. The last two weeks. They've given 0:48:16.000 --> 0:48:18.920 up thirteen points in each game against the Broncos and 0:48:18.960 --> 0:48:21.880 the Panthers, they played better, So that's been that's been 0:48:21.880 --> 0:48:25.080 a big improvement for them. But you know, I wouldn't 0:48:25.080 --> 0:48:27.480 say there's any one position group that's really playing well 0:48:27.560 --> 0:48:28.000 right now. 0:48:28.600 --> 0:48:31.080 We are visiting with Brian Casteller from the New York Post. 0:48:31.680 --> 0:48:34.080 The Jets have a great wide receiver in Garrett Wilson. 0:48:34.120 --> 0:48:36.520 He's had three straight one thousand yard seasons at one 0:48:36.600 --> 0:48:39.800 hundred and one catches. Last year he's out on Sunday 0:48:39.800 --> 0:48:42.799 against the Bengals because of a knee injury. How is 0:48:42.840 --> 0:48:46.160 the receiving corps when you subtract Garrett Wilson. 0:48:48.080 --> 0:48:48.480 Terrible? 0:48:49.280 --> 0:48:52.960 So to put it to put it unt league, I mean, 0:48:53.480 --> 0:48:57.120 I think even you're probably your biggest Bengals fans out 0:48:57.160 --> 0:48:59.600 there would probably hard press to name who. 0:48:59.480 --> 0:49:02.279 The other Jets wide receivers are. You know, they probably 0:49:02.280 --> 0:49:05.279 have heard of Allen Blizzard, the rest of them, just 0:49:05.440 --> 0:49:11.320 you know, Josh Reynolds, Tyler Johnson, you know, Arion Smith's 0:49:11.320 --> 0:49:14.840 a rookie fourth round pick. It's rough, they know they 0:49:15.160 --> 0:49:19.840 you know, coming into the season, wide receiver was probably 0:49:20.760 --> 0:49:23.200 like the biggest question we had is why they didn't 0:49:23.640 --> 0:49:26.239 do more to add to that position. And now with 0:49:26.360 --> 0:49:29.799 Garret Wilson add it's really under the spotlight. They do 0:49:29.960 --> 0:49:33.520 have Mason Taylor's a rookie tight end who shows some promise. 0:49:34.040 --> 0:49:36.560 Brief Hall could be a good receiving running back, but 0:49:36.600 --> 0:49:40.160 they really they just haven't used him very well recently. 0:49:40.200 --> 0:49:42.919 It's been kind of a strange thing to figure out. 0:49:43.000 --> 0:49:46.480 So to me, you know, without Garret Wilson in there, 0:49:46.520 --> 0:49:50.040 you've got to get guys involved who aren't receiver. You 0:49:50.040 --> 0:49:52.000 gotta get the running backs involved, you gotta get tight 0:49:52.120 --> 0:49:54.200 uns involved. And we'll see if they can do that 0:49:54.239 --> 0:49:54.840 on Sunday. 0:49:55.200 --> 0:49:56.879 Yeah, I mean, I would think they'd throw the ball 0:49:56.920 --> 0:49:59.480 to Briefs, haul out of the backfield a ton screens 0:49:59.600 --> 0:50:01.439 or how a you're going to give him the ball 0:50:01.480 --> 0:50:03.600 in space. I think he's one of their one of 0:50:03.640 --> 0:50:06.120 their best weapons, one of the only weapons left. Really. 0:50:06.480 --> 0:50:10.359 Let's let's uh talk about defense for a little bit. 0:50:11.160 --> 0:50:14.040 Watching tape on Quentin Williams. He's one of the best 0:50:14.080 --> 0:50:16.200 in the league. This dude's is studding to me. He's 0:50:16.239 --> 0:50:21.400 a He's a star interior defensive lineman. Sauce Gardner. Uh here, 0:50:21.520 --> 0:50:24.440 fans in Cincinnati know all about him from his playing 0:50:24.520 --> 0:50:27.200 days at you see all American defensive back at you 0:50:27.320 --> 0:50:30.600 see what else have they got? How How has the 0:50:30.640 --> 0:50:32.680 New York Jets defense played so far? 0:50:34.800 --> 0:50:38.279 Yeah, like I said, they struggled early, you know, sort of. 0:50:38.800 --> 0:50:42.120 You know, new coordinator Steve Wilkes is the coordinator who's 0:50:42.120 --> 0:50:45.160 the veteran coach. So the transition I think has been 0:50:45.200 --> 0:50:47.000 tough for them. 0:50:47.360 --> 0:50:47.600 You know. 0:50:47.719 --> 0:50:50.640 But like you said, Quinn Williams, he's really got and 0:50:50.719 --> 0:50:53.680 he's just he's just disrupted when you watch him, he 0:50:54.040 --> 0:50:56.640 really he don't think a ton of sacks, but he's 0:50:56.680 --> 0:50:58.560 he's gonna mess up plays. He's gonna be in the 0:50:58.600 --> 0:51:02.680 backfield a lot. Uh, They're getting that Quincy Williams, Quinn's brother, 0:51:02.680 --> 0:51:05.840 a linebacker. He's missed the last four games with his 0:51:05.920 --> 0:51:08.799 shoulder injury, so he should be back for this game, 0:51:08.840 --> 0:51:11.640 which I think will help them in the middle. Uh, 0:51:12.000 --> 0:51:14.600 Sauces out with a concussion, So that's gonna be big 0:51:15.040 --> 0:51:18.040 without no Saft Gardener's gonna hurt them. They're gonna have 0:51:18.120 --> 0:51:21.640 Brandon Stevens, who they signed as a free agent from Baltimore, 0:51:21.640 --> 0:51:24.800 who's played, He's been up and down, he's played played okay, 0:51:24.920 --> 0:51:28.600 And then they have a rookie Asy Thomas out of 0:51:28.600 --> 0:51:33.319 Florida states he's gonna start. So it's you know, it's 0:51:33.360 --> 0:51:35.440 been up and down for this defense, and this is 0:51:35.440 --> 0:51:37.680 gonna be a big test for them. Obviously with with 0:51:37.840 --> 0:51:41.399 Chase and Higgins against your you're facing a rookie, he's 0:51:41.440 --> 0:51:43.880 making his first start. That's gonna be tough for them. 0:51:43.920 --> 0:51:47.560 I mean, it's pretty amazing. They have no interceptions, guys. 0:51:47.600 --> 0:51:50.680 They they don't have one interception. They have one fumble 0:51:50.760 --> 0:51:54.520 recovery all season. Uh, they went the first night games 0:51:54.520 --> 0:51:56.879 without a turnover. They got one takeaway two weeks ago. 0:51:57.320 --> 0:51:59.759 So hard hard to win football games when you're not 0:51:59.800 --> 0:52:04.040 out taking the ball away. Now, you know, I've seen 0:52:04.120 --> 0:52:06.919 Joe Flacco turn the ball over sometimes he was playing 0:52:06.960 --> 0:52:10.040 with the Jets, So maybe Flacco gives them some opportunities. 0:52:10.440 --> 0:52:12.640 But that that is if you're looking for the biggest 0:52:12.719 --> 0:52:15.600 knock on the Jets defense right now, they just haven't 0:52:15.640 --> 0:52:17.800 taken the ball away at all, and with an offense 0:52:17.840 --> 0:52:21.200 that's struggling like it has, they really he's a short 0:52:21.200 --> 0:52:23.480 field sometimes and they're not getting it well. 0:52:23.600 --> 0:52:25.719 Chatting with Brian Casteller from The New York Post, I 0:52:25.800 --> 0:52:28.480 joked earlier this week, Brian that when Joe Flacca was 0:52:28.480 --> 0:52:30.120 with the Jets, he was still a kid. He was 0:52:30.160 --> 0:52:33.840 only thirty five to thirty seven for those three years. 0:52:34.040 --> 0:52:37.040 Are you surprised by how well he's playing for Cincinnati. 0:52:37.040 --> 0:52:39.239 I know it's a limited sample size, but for the 0:52:39.320 --> 0:52:41.120 last six quarters, he's been incredible. 0:52:43.640 --> 0:52:46.600 Yeah, I'm surprised how well he's played. You know, he 0:52:47.080 --> 0:52:49.920 he's got an amazing arm. I mean so like he 0:52:50.000 --> 0:52:53.640 reminds me of another old Jets Testa Herdi, who played deep, 0:52:53.760 --> 0:52:55.960 deep into his you know, he played this into his 0:52:56.000 --> 0:52:59.600 forties and he was he never lost that arm strength, right, Like, 0:53:00.200 --> 0:53:02.760 that doesn't That's not something that seems to go away 0:53:02.840 --> 0:53:05.720 for guys that are that strong. So I'm not surprised 0:53:05.760 --> 0:53:08.279 he's throwing the ball well. But yeah, I didn't see this. 0:53:09.040 --> 0:53:12.440 You know, this is happening for Cincinnati, right this he 0:53:12.520 --> 0:53:14.080 and like again, look he did it two years ago 0:53:14.080 --> 0:53:16.200 to Cleveland. He had a good, good run, but with 0:53:16.280 --> 0:53:19.399 the Jets he only won one game. He started nine. 0:53:19.440 --> 0:53:21.040 I think he went one in eight with the Jets. 0:53:22.080 --> 0:53:24.040 You know, he didn't have that many good moments, so 0:53:24.080 --> 0:53:26.759 it's pretty amazing that he has. He's having this this 0:53:27.680 --> 0:53:29.720 you know, renaissance in his career. 0:53:30.680 --> 0:53:33.359 Oh and seven start for the New York Jets this year. 0:53:33.400 --> 0:53:36.840 No team wants to go seven games and not taste 0:53:36.880 --> 0:53:39.920 the sweet nectar of the victory. That's that's tough sledding, 0:53:39.960 --> 0:53:43.319 for sure. What's the locker room been like? Is the 0:53:43.320 --> 0:53:47.719 locker room still does Aaron Glenn still have control of 0:53:47.760 --> 0:53:50.800 the locker room of the players still respecting and trusting 0:53:50.840 --> 0:53:53.719 him like they did before the season started. And are 0:53:54.040 --> 0:53:57.040 you surprised that they started off without a victory in 0:53:57.160 --> 0:53:57.880 seven games? 0:53:59.760 --> 0:54:02.480 Yeah, he's still got the locker room. You know, it's 0:54:02.480 --> 0:54:04.920 a it's not a happy place right now, as you 0:54:04.960 --> 0:54:07.279 can imagine, there's a lot of you know, it's it's 0:54:07.280 --> 0:54:09.520 getting more and more negative as the weeks go on. 0:54:09.719 --> 0:54:13.120 But I don't think they're pointing the finger at him necessarily, 0:54:13.160 --> 0:54:16.520 And I don't feel like there's, you know, a dysfunctional 0:54:16.560 --> 0:54:20.080 locker room. A pretty young team to me, older guys 0:54:20.080 --> 0:54:22.680 are usually the guys that get this gruntled with the coaches, 0:54:22.800 --> 0:54:25.680 So I think they're they're okay in that regard. I 0:54:25.719 --> 0:54:28.120 am surprised that they're own seven. I thought they'd have 0:54:28.160 --> 0:54:31.800 a tough start to the year because uh, you know, 0:54:31.880 --> 0:54:35.200 new quarterback, new coaches. They had, They had some tough 0:54:35.239 --> 0:54:37.600 games to start the year. They played some really good teams. 0:54:38.520 --> 0:54:40.279 But I didn't think they'd lose all these games in 0:54:40.320 --> 0:54:45.240 a row. And it's been surprising how poorly they've looked 0:54:45.280 --> 0:54:48.319 at these games, because even it just hasn't it has 0:54:48.400 --> 0:54:52.239 not looked good. They've taken terms kind of the defenses 0:54:52.280 --> 0:54:54.880 look horrible and the offenses look horrible. They've had some 0:54:54.960 --> 0:54:57.719 games where they just committed too many penalties and turn 0:54:57.760 --> 0:55:00.640 the ball over. So it's been slow so far. 0:55:01.000 --> 0:55:04.200 Yeah, Brian, My final question has to do with your 0:55:04.239 --> 0:55:08.040 Twitter profile. At the top, you say New York jetspet 0:55:08.080 --> 0:55:10.400 reporter for the New York Post. Then you add, I 0:55:10.520 --> 0:55:15.080 don't write the headlines. The Post famously has great headlines 0:55:15.080 --> 0:55:18.799 on the back cover about the local sports teams. Have 0:55:18.880 --> 0:55:22.040 you ever had a coach or a player come up 0:55:22.080 --> 0:55:24.680 to you not realizing that it's not your fault that 0:55:24.760 --> 0:55:28.040 they were lampooned on the back cover. 0:55:28.680 --> 0:55:30.920 Yes, yes, I mean plenty of times. 0:55:30.960 --> 0:55:31.520 It happens. 0:55:31.680 --> 0:55:35.520 Happens quite a bit. And even now our website has great, 0:55:35.719 --> 0:55:37.920 great headlines on the website, and so that I run 0:55:38.000 --> 0:55:41.480 into that and That's why that's there. We once we 0:55:41.520 --> 0:55:43.640 once to put Rex Ryan in a clown suit. 0:55:43.920 --> 0:55:45.520 At one point we had. 0:55:45.440 --> 0:55:48.480 Restaurant in and uh, Tim Tebow and Mark Change and 0:55:48.560 --> 0:55:50.840 clown suits and so that I remember that one the 0:55:50.880 --> 0:55:53.319 same as the reskin and appreciate that one. But yeah, 0:55:53.360 --> 0:55:56.960 it's it's uh, it can be tough sometimes because those 0:55:57.000 --> 0:55:59.520 headlines are the headlines can be rough. And the guys 0:55:59.560 --> 0:56:01.680 who write headlines never have to face the players of 0:56:01.760 --> 0:56:05.040 the coaches, so I get to do that. 0:56:05.040 --> 0:56:08.560 That's tough. That's tough duty, right, They're tough sledding. My 0:56:08.680 --> 0:56:12.759 final question, watching and you're in the locker room, you're 0:56:12.800 --> 0:56:15.520 talking to players, talking to coaches, what do they think 0:56:15.560 --> 0:56:18.319 of the Cincinnati Bengals when they watch tape of the 0:56:18.360 --> 0:56:20.800 Cincinnati Bengals? What do they think of them as a 0:56:20.840 --> 0:56:23.080 football team? 0:56:23.400 --> 0:56:26.719 Yeah, I think you obviously they respect the offensive firepower 0:56:26.760 --> 0:56:29.160 with chafen Haigens is basically that you know, you've heard 0:56:29.160 --> 0:56:32.480 that all week. I think they know what Flaco's capable of, 0:56:33.560 --> 0:56:35.920 and defensively that kind of heard is like they feel 0:56:35.920 --> 0:56:38.560 like they're sort of in a similar situation as a 0:56:38.719 --> 0:56:41.880 Jets with a new coordinator and adjusting to that, but 0:56:41.880 --> 0:56:45.320 they're getting better, and so I think there's a healthy 0:56:45.360 --> 0:56:48.160 respect for the Bengals at this point. The jet you're 0:56:48.160 --> 0:56:51.240 on with seven, you're you're not really you're not taking 0:56:51.280 --> 0:56:55.000 anyone lately. So they're they've been respectful, and I think, uh, 0:56:55.200 --> 0:56:57.120 I think they expect a good game from the Bengals 0:56:57.120 --> 0:56:57.959 on sundn. 0:56:58.360 --> 0:57:00.880 Right, and really appreciate your time. Save travels to Cincy 0:57:00.960 --> 0:57:01.480 this weekend. 0:57:03.000 --> 0:57:04.399 All right, guys, thanks for having me. 0:57:04.600 --> 0:57:04.960 Thank you. 0:57:05.120 --> 0:57:08.040 That is Brian Costello, the beat writer covering the Jets 0:57:08.080 --> 0:57:09.879 for The New York Post. We'll take a time out 0:57:09.880 --> 0:57:13.080 when we come back. It is this week's fun Fact segment, 0:57:13.120 --> 0:57:15.840 where you get to know the person under the pads. 0:57:15.880 --> 0:57:18.840 This is the Bengals pep Rally Show presented by Just 0:57:19.040 --> 0:57:21.960 Bear Chicken, live from the on the Rhine Eatery in 0:57:22.120 --> 0:57:26.000 downtown Cincinnati, where Chase Brown will join us in forty 0:57:26.240 --> 0:57:29.760 five minutes. He're out ESPN fifteen thirty in Fox Sports 0:57:29.800 --> 0:57:37.040 thirteen sixty, Ken hordand Ring of Honor inductee Dave Lapham 0:57:37.080 --> 0:57:39.800 with you this afternoon on The Bengals pep Rally Show 0:57:39.880 --> 0:57:42.080 presented by Just Bear Chicken. We are live at the 0:57:42.160 --> 0:57:44.840 on the Rhine Eatery. It's the food hall above the 0:57:44.880 --> 0:57:47.800 downtown Kroger at Court and Walnut. The show is on 0:57:47.840 --> 0:57:50.640 the air until six o'clock tonight. Come out and get 0:57:50.640 --> 0:57:53.240 a picture with Chase Brown. He'll be here from five 0:57:53.280 --> 0:57:57.080 to six, happy to sign autographs during the commercial breaks. 0:57:57.320 --> 0:57:59.840 We look forward to having Chase Brown as our special 0:58:00.080 --> 0:58:02.440 guest as we get your set for the Bengals and 0:58:02.520 --> 0:58:05.440 Jets coming up on Sunday at one o'clock at pay 0:58:05.480 --> 0:58:08.000 Corpse Stadium. More on the matchup still to come on 0:58:08.000 --> 0:58:10.440 the show, but right now it's time for this week's 0:58:10.480 --> 0:58:15.200 Fun Fact segment, presented by Skyline Chilling. Time for some 0:58:15.240 --> 0:58:21.040 fun facts with defensive end Shamar Stewart. Your roots are Jamaican, correct. 0:58:20.800 --> 0:58:24.760 Yes, correct, my mom, everybody, Yeah, everybody, My favorite Jamaican 0:58:25.160 --> 0:58:26.240 ever had the chance to go. 0:58:26.640 --> 0:58:28.320 Yeah, when I was little. I haven't been in like 0:58:28.920 --> 0:58:31.320 it's all of the years. Maybe now it's been a while. 0:58:32.440 --> 0:58:35.120 You grew up near Miami. What do you like most 0:58:35.400 --> 0:58:36.760 about where you're from? 0:58:37.720 --> 0:58:38.160 Uh? 0:58:38.200 --> 0:58:42.640 The love for football, Like the city is just like 0:58:42.680 --> 0:58:45.919 it's all about football, like little league games, high school games, 0:58:46.120 --> 0:58:49.880 whatever it is at the whole community showing up, coming 0:58:49.920 --> 0:58:50.720 out to see. 0:58:51.120 --> 0:58:53.360 And yet I've read that when you were really young 0:58:53.400 --> 0:58:55.640 you weren't really a sports kid. Is that true? 0:58:56.080 --> 0:58:58.360 Yeah, no not at all. You know, I was more 0:58:59.080 --> 0:59:02.240 I was more of like a book nerd. Crazy to 0:59:02.280 --> 0:59:06.920 think that, but yeah. 0:59:05.000 --> 0:59:07.320 So what changed? What flipped the switch? 0:59:07.600 --> 0:59:10.440 One of my dettitude teachers in third grade forced me 0:59:10.440 --> 0:59:12.400 to play football like he was not taking over for 0:59:12.440 --> 0:59:16.920 an answer, So he got my grandma's number and basically 0:59:16.920 --> 0:59:19.160 forced me to force me to the part he was coaching. 0:59:19.200 --> 0:59:21.240 That that guy did you a favor. 0:59:21.480 --> 0:59:23.440 Yeah, his son is my best friend to this day. 0:59:24.400 --> 0:59:27.240 Now is it true that you were really the last 0:59:27.360 --> 0:59:29.960 kid picked in gym class when you were about in 0:59:30.080 --> 0:59:31.000 sixth grade? Oh? 0:59:31.080 --> 0:59:33.560 Yeah, for sure. I was terrible. I was horrible. They 0:59:33.640 --> 0:59:37.240 used to say, I have two left hands. Yeah, I 0:59:37.280 --> 0:59:37.800 was terrible. 0:59:39.080 --> 0:59:41.640 We're doing fun facts with Jamar Stewart. When you were 0:59:41.720 --> 0:59:44.960 junior in high school, one of your teammates was Ohio 0:59:45.080 --> 0:59:50.280 state wide receiver Jeremiah Smith. Could you tell then that 0:59:50.360 --> 0:59:52.280 he was going to be that guy? 0:59:53.200 --> 0:59:56.080 I knew he's gonna be great, but he just kept working. 0:59:56.120 --> 0:59:59.320 Now it just blew all everything I thought about him 0:59:59.320 --> 1:00:02.800 out the water. Like that lesson was there since he 1:00:02.840 --> 1:00:05.800 came to my high school, So not a big shock. 1:00:05.880 --> 1:00:07.680 I'll see what he did. Like first couple of weeks 1:00:07.720 --> 1:00:09.360 when he was in full camp, I was like, man, 1:00:10.400 --> 1:00:11.000 Jude's crazy. 1:00:11.080 --> 1:00:12.720 As a freshman in high school. 1:00:13.080 --> 1:00:14.840 It's crazy to me to think that you two guys 1:00:14.880 --> 1:00:16.160 are in the same high school team. 1:00:16.840 --> 1:00:18.840 Yeah, and we weren't winning nothing. 1:00:19.280 --> 1:00:21.520 Crazy crazy right. 1:00:21.560 --> 1:00:22.400 Bad quarterback. 1:00:23.320 --> 1:00:26.480 I'll car with d one. I don't know what it was. 1:00:26.880 --> 1:00:28.600 The other teams must have been really good. 1:00:28.520 --> 1:00:31.080 Man, I guess, so it's crazy. 1:00:31.320 --> 1:00:33.680 We're doing fun Facts from Schamar Stewart. You were one 1:00:33.720 --> 1:00:36.280 of the top recruits in the country. Did you enjoy 1:00:36.360 --> 1:00:40.720 the process having all of those schools and coaches essentially flirt? 1:00:41.880 --> 1:00:45.520 No, no, man, those phone calls just get crazy. I 1:00:45.600 --> 1:00:49.400 used to come home, hey man, call me like one 1:00:49.600 --> 1:00:52.120 Like I got like ten calls from different coaches from 1:00:52.160 --> 1:00:52.960 all across. 1:00:52.640 --> 1:00:54.800 The country like hey man, get back eby wait on it. 1:00:55.080 --> 1:00:57.760 Every asker your phone. I'm like, I don't be wanting 1:00:57.800 --> 1:01:00.520 to talk, Like what are there talk about? 1:01:01.000 --> 1:01:03.200 You ultimately chose to go to Texas A and M. 1:01:03.280 --> 1:01:05.840 What did you enjoy most about your three years with 1:01:05.880 --> 1:01:06.440 the Aggies? 1:01:07.000 --> 1:01:07.240 Man. 1:01:07.280 --> 1:01:10.360 You know, the coaching staff there, Regis treat you like family, 1:01:10.400 --> 1:01:12.960 you know, even though I'm two thousand miles away from home, 1:01:13.080 --> 1:01:15.479 like I didn't feel like I was missing home very much. 1:01:15.560 --> 1:01:18.560 So and plus I made lifelong friends at A and M, 1:01:18.600 --> 1:01:20.480 so like I feel like I had a home away 1:01:20.480 --> 1:01:21.360 from home, you know. 1:01:21.960 --> 1:01:24.000 So I read that your nickname at Texas A and 1:01:24.160 --> 1:01:27.920 M was the Menace? Is that true? And who gave 1:01:27.960 --> 1:01:28.680 you that nickname? 1:01:29.200 --> 1:01:31.080 I forgot who exactly gave it to me, But I 1:01:31.120 --> 1:01:33.640 got it back in high school, going every day trying 1:01:33.640 --> 1:01:35.720 to get better. So of course I'm a practice hard, 1:01:35.880 --> 1:01:39.480 you know, making hard for our offense, you know, playing 1:01:39.480 --> 1:01:41.200 hard in practice, going to make our offense better. 1:01:41.760 --> 1:01:43.160 And on in the games. 1:01:43.200 --> 1:01:46.040 You know, I'm just all over the field, and I'm 1:01:46.080 --> 1:01:47.240 just a little minutes on the field. 1:01:48.040 --> 1:01:50.960 What does the word menis represent to you? 1:01:51.960 --> 1:01:56.600 Somebody that's always been instructive? So I feel like that 1:01:56.600 --> 1:01:57.840 that defines me very well. 1:01:58.320 --> 1:02:01.000 So I broadcast the Bengals games up the radio. When 1:02:01.040 --> 1:02:03.960 you have a sack, would you like me and my 1:02:04.040 --> 1:02:07.840 broadcast partner Dave Lapham to say a sack by the Menace? 1:02:08.160 --> 1:02:08.880 I would love that. 1:02:09.960 --> 1:02:11.800 I will love that all. 1:02:11.760 --> 1:02:13.680 Right, Well, hopefully there will be a bunch this year. 1:02:14.200 --> 1:02:16.760 You have been compared to a Texas A and m 1:02:16.880 --> 1:02:21.440 legend Miles Garrett for obvious reasons, your similar size, similar 1:02:21.440 --> 1:02:24.280 athletic ability. What do you think of Miles Garrett? What 1:02:24.320 --> 1:02:25.360 do you think of the comparison? 1:02:25.600 --> 1:02:27.960 Man, He's a great player, and I feel like that's 1:02:27.960 --> 1:02:30.680 a blessed because the way he's doing it right now, 1:02:30.720 --> 1:02:33.680 he's cilling the game, and I feel like that's a 1:02:33.800 --> 1:02:37.120 very great, great comparison. I feel like we look we 1:02:37.200 --> 1:02:39.959 match up body wise. No, I'm trying to match someone 1:02:40.000 --> 1:02:40.560 play wise. 1:02:42.000 --> 1:02:44.400 Was it a goal of yours to top the numbers 1:02:44.400 --> 1:02:46.160 that he posted at his combine? 1:02:46.640 --> 1:02:46.920 Kind of? 1:02:46.960 --> 1:02:47.280 Sort of? 1:02:47.720 --> 1:02:50.120 You know, I feel like if I could get what 1:02:50.240 --> 1:02:51.840 you got, people will look at me a different light. 1:02:52.240 --> 1:02:55.480 So I tried my hardest. He got me in some areas, 1:02:55.480 --> 1:02:56.800 and I got him in some areas too. 1:02:57.280 --> 1:02:58.960 You got him in the forty, you got him in 1:02:59.000 --> 1:03:00.880 the broad jump. He got you by one inch in 1:03:00.920 --> 1:03:02.320 the vertical. That's pretty impressive. 1:03:02.320 --> 1:03:06.600 That's crazy because I felt like I jumped out my spine. 1:03:07.320 --> 1:03:08.040 It's crazy. 1:03:08.320 --> 1:03:10.840 All right, we're visiting with Shamar Stewart. Let's get back 1:03:10.880 --> 1:03:15.560 to athletic testing. Those numbers were freakish that you posted 1:03:15.560 --> 1:03:19.400 in Indianapolis. What do you consider to be your greatest 1:03:19.520 --> 1:03:24.800 athletic achievement? Did you dunk get a really early age? Yeah? 1:03:24.880 --> 1:03:26.080 What what stands out to you? 1:03:26.720 --> 1:03:26.880 Uh? 1:03:27.200 --> 1:03:27.640 I dunk. 1:03:28.000 --> 1:03:31.760 I got my first dunk in sixth grade. Sixth grade, yeah, 1:03:31.880 --> 1:03:37.760 five nine. That's amazing. You were the seventeenth overall pick 1:03:37.800 --> 1:03:41.520 in the draft. You'll always be referred to as first 1:03:41.600 --> 1:03:44.920 round draft pick Shamar Stewart. It becomes almost like a title. 1:03:45.200 --> 1:03:47.840 Can you describe the experience of being in Green Bay 1:03:48.240 --> 1:03:52.200 at Lambeau on Draft night? You know, I was really happy, 1:03:52.240 --> 1:03:54.040 you know, I was thankful for a moment, you know, 1:03:54.160 --> 1:03:56.720 me and my family, everybody that had been along with 1:03:56.840 --> 1:03:58.600 me every sip of the way, it was there, so 1:03:58.720 --> 1:04:01.760 you know, you know, I just took the night in 1:04:02.560 --> 1:04:05.760 enjoyed it. Not they didn't really have much expectations, just 1:04:06.120 --> 1:04:09.040 if it was godsp playing. So just wanted to be 1:04:09.200 --> 1:04:10.680 in the moment with everybody. 1:04:10.800 --> 1:04:13.960 I love. You did a phone call with reporters afterward, 1:04:14.000 --> 1:04:18.200 and you didn't specifically remember meeting with the Bengals at 1:04:18.200 --> 1:04:21.439 the combine, and I get it. It's speed dating. You're 1:04:21.480 --> 1:04:24.080 going from team to team to team. It's like, you know, 1:04:24.360 --> 1:04:27.280 fifteen minute meetings with all of these teams. When you 1:04:27.320 --> 1:04:30.680 came into Cincinnati and you saw Zach Taylor and you 1:04:30.720 --> 1:04:33.480 saw El Golden and you saw Jerry Montgomery, did it 1:04:33.520 --> 1:04:34.880 click back in? Did you remember? 1:04:35.000 --> 1:04:35.400 Oh? 1:04:35.520 --> 1:04:36.640 Yeah, those guys. 1:04:36.920 --> 1:04:40.280 Yeah, it's kind of hard, like you remember. 1:04:40.600 --> 1:04:43.880 I had twenty two formos, a couple infemos, and then 1:04:43.920 --> 1:04:48.360 I had fifteen thirty visits. So my mind is just 1:04:48.440 --> 1:04:50.200 all over the place. I'm ready for it to be over. 1:04:50.360 --> 1:04:53.840 I'm ready to be in one place. So when I 1:04:53.840 --> 1:04:56.600 see them like, okay, I'm deafmember MIDI yo. 1:04:57.600 --> 1:04:59.800 The next day, you were in Cincinnati for a news 1:04:59.800 --> 1:05:02.880 com French. You were accompanied by your mentor, Mo, the 1:05:02.880 --> 1:05:05.680 man you call dad. How did he come into your life? 1:05:06.320 --> 1:05:06.520 Oh? 1:05:06.800 --> 1:05:07.360 He came. 1:05:07.680 --> 1:05:10.680 He became my coach after my freshman year of high school. 1:05:11.520 --> 1:05:13.440 I remember walking and seeing him for the first day. 1:05:14.440 --> 1:05:19.720 I was maybe like two two fifteen maybe he was 1:05:19.800 --> 1:05:22.200 like and I was like two fifteen six four. 1:05:22.320 --> 1:05:23.480 He's like, I don't know who you are, but I'm 1:05:23.520 --> 1:05:24.760 gonna make your best play of country. 1:05:25.360 --> 1:05:27.200 Fast forward five months later, I was the best parent 1:05:27.240 --> 1:05:31.200 in country and ever since that day, I just listened 1:05:31.200 --> 1:05:32.000 to everything he told me. 1:05:32.240 --> 1:05:34.720 Do you know what he saw in you? 1:05:34.720 --> 1:05:36.840 No? But I'm glad he did because I didn't see 1:05:36.840 --> 1:05:37.360 them myself. 1:05:38.560 --> 1:05:41.640 Other than playing football? What are you good at? 1:05:41.880 --> 1:05:43.760 I'm good at video games? 1:05:44.800 --> 1:05:48.040 Wedd in particular, I'm good at playing two K you know, 1:05:48.360 --> 1:05:50.080 call dou used to be my thing for a while. 1:05:50.640 --> 1:05:53.400 I'm trying to explore on the on the game of Horizon. 1:05:53.880 --> 1:05:56.240 On the flip side, is there anything that you are 1:05:56.320 --> 1:05:59.280 really terrible at? Singing? 1:06:00.160 --> 1:06:04.440 Oh, bait, The main one is singing. I'm terrible was singing. 1:06:04.480 --> 1:06:07.240 My voice is not meant for singing. God messing me 1:06:07.280 --> 1:06:08.800 with a lot of things, but singing was not. 1:06:08.760 --> 1:06:09.760 One of them. 1:06:09.800 --> 1:06:10.600 Even in the shower. 1:06:10.840 --> 1:06:12.440 Even in the shower, I'll be terrible. 1:06:14.240 --> 1:06:18.760 Have you given any thought to a sack celebration after. 1:06:18.560 --> 1:06:22.160 I get my first one, I'm a I'm gonna have 1:06:22.200 --> 1:06:24.560 to plan one out for the next one, because like now, 1:06:24.800 --> 1:06:26.960 they're coming in so but the first one, I don't 1:06:26.960 --> 1:06:28.080 got nothing plan for the first one. 1:06:28.240 --> 1:06:30.880 First one is whatever just happens in the moment, and 1:06:30.920 --> 1:06:32.600 then once you've got one under your belt, you can 1:06:32.640 --> 1:06:33.200 start playing. 1:06:33.560 --> 1:06:35.480 I'm making my next one my signature. 1:06:35.680 --> 1:06:39.400 All right, is there a team or an opponent that 1:06:39.480 --> 1:06:40.840 you are most excited to face? 1:06:41.640 --> 1:06:46.120 The Dolphins home team, you know, the East to have 1:06:46.160 --> 1:06:48.960 my favorite player, Tiger Carroll was my favorite player for 1:06:49.000 --> 1:06:51.880 a while being a kid watching those type of people 1:06:51.880 --> 1:06:54.960 on TV and then one now playing against them. You know, 1:06:55.360 --> 1:06:57.480 it's gonna be a big opportunity, you know, because I 1:06:57.520 --> 1:07:00.560 used to look up to those people and being on 1:07:00.560 --> 1:07:01.920 the same fields them at the same time. 1:07:02.600 --> 1:07:04.880 You know, it's a great It's a great on achievement. 1:07:05.680 --> 1:07:10.760 Christmas Week in prime time at Miami. That's gonna be 1:07:10.880 --> 1:07:11.800 quite the deal for you. 1:07:12.080 --> 1:07:14.080 Yeah, you know, the whole family's gonna be out there. 1:07:14.720 --> 1:07:16.800 You know, everybody's going to be cheering me on. I'm 1:07:16.840 --> 1:07:19.520 home anticipate I'll be very comfortable. 1:07:19.960 --> 1:07:21.600 Did you go to games there when you were young? 1:07:22.160 --> 1:07:24.640 I want to maybe a couple, not a lot, but 1:07:24.720 --> 1:07:25.080 a couple. 1:07:25.760 --> 1:07:28.320 A couple. More questions for Shamar Stewart. What do you 1:07:28.400 --> 1:07:29.440 like to splur John? 1:07:30.640 --> 1:07:32.480 I don't know, man, I really don't spend money like that. 1:07:32.840 --> 1:07:36.920 I'm really into cars though I'm in the cars. Oh, 1:07:37.000 --> 1:07:39.040 I spend a lot of money on shoes. I'm a sneakerhead. 1:07:39.960 --> 1:07:44.280 That's one of my guilty pressures. But other than that, 1:07:44.320 --> 1:07:46.960 old video games, yeah. 1:07:47.040 --> 1:07:50.000 Car shoes, video games pretty much. Did you buy your 1:07:50.080 --> 1:07:50.480 dream car? 1:07:51.360 --> 1:07:51.680 Yes? 1:07:52.440 --> 1:07:53.840 Yes, and what is it? 1:07:54.320 --> 1:07:57.480 I bought a Mercedes Nice I got I got like 1:07:57.720 --> 1:07:59.840 two dream cars, but I got a way a little 1:07:59.840 --> 1:08:02.280 bit because the other dream cars living more expensive. 1:08:02.280 --> 1:08:04.880 I'm a wait, but you had the classy route with 1:08:04.920 --> 1:08:05.400 your first one. 1:08:05.440 --> 1:08:06.400 I like that, Thank you? 1:08:07.000 --> 1:08:09.600 All right. Final fun fact for Shamar Stewart. This one's 1:08:09.680 --> 1:08:13.840 kind of deep. If you could meet anybody in history, 1:08:14.520 --> 1:08:17.000 living or deceased, who would that person be? 1:08:18.240 --> 1:08:19.200 It going to be one person? 1:08:19.760 --> 1:08:21.040 Now you can have more than one. 1:08:21.560 --> 1:08:21.920 Okay. 1:08:22.479 --> 1:08:25.559 I want to meet Tupac and want to meet Bernie 1:08:25.680 --> 1:08:28.519 Bernie Meck. Bernie Meck is hilarious. I used to girl 1:08:28.600 --> 1:08:31.639 watching the TV show and I wish one that could 1:08:31.680 --> 1:08:35.479 meet I could have meet him. But you know, and Tupauc, 1:08:35.520 --> 1:08:37.519 he's just like icon like, his way of thinking was 1:08:37.560 --> 1:08:38.200 just so different. 1:08:38.720 --> 1:08:40.200 I wish I could meet. I wish I could talk 1:08:40.200 --> 1:08:40.800 to him one day. 1:08:41.000 --> 1:08:44.920 Great combo, Mmm see I'll be I'll be tapped in now. 1:08:46.680 --> 1:08:49.200 All right, we appreciate your time. Best of lucky Rookie, year, 1:08:49.280 --> 1:08:50.120 Thanks so much. 1:08:50.040 --> 1:08:50.439 Thank you. 1:08:51.400 --> 1:08:54.240 All right. That is first round draft pick Shamar Stewart. 1:08:54.320 --> 1:08:56.880 He returned to action last week against Pittsburgh. Still a 1:08:56.920 --> 1:08:59.360 little limited coming back from an ankle injury, but he 1:08:59.360 --> 1:09:01.880 should be close to one on Sunday. 1:09:02.040 --> 1:09:05.400 Yeah, and he can play at a much higher level. 1:09:05.400 --> 1:09:09.800 I mean he's he's uh getting familiar with what it 1:09:09.840 --> 1:09:12.639 takes to compete at a high level in the National 1:09:12.680 --> 1:09:15.200 Football League. But he's got a good pedigree. I mean, 1:09:15.800 --> 1:09:18.840 played excellent brand of football in high school, played at 1:09:18.840 --> 1:09:23.519 Texas A and M. He's he's capable. He's extremely capable, 1:09:23.560 --> 1:09:27.439 and he has not he has not peaked yet or 1:09:27.479 --> 1:09:29.760 come close to peak yet. There's a lot of meat 1:09:29.800 --> 1:09:30.360 on that bone. 1:09:30.520 --> 1:09:33.000 We are ready to say the menace after his first 1:09:33.120 --> 1:09:36.320 NFLVE I love all right, We'll take a time out. 1:09:36.400 --> 1:09:38.560 Coming up next. The Bengals opened as a four and 1:09:38.600 --> 1:09:41.120 a half point favorite. This week, it's up to six 1:09:41.280 --> 1:09:43.920 and a half. But they had better not take the 1:09:44.040 --> 1:09:48.160 Jets like No, we'll discuss that here from Zach Taylor 1:09:48.200 --> 1:09:51.479 when we continue. You are listening to the Bengals Pepper 1:09:51.520 --> 1:09:55.360 Rally Show presented by Just Pair checking out ESPN fifteen 1:09:55.439 --> 1:10:00.920 thirty in Fox Sports thirteen sixty. It is a Friday 1:10:00.960 --> 1:10:04.000 afternoon in Cincinnati. The work week is just about done. 1:10:04.080 --> 1:10:06.679 The happy hour is under way as we get ready 1:10:06.680 --> 1:10:10.000 for a big football weekend high school football tonight. The 1:10:10.080 --> 1:10:13.439 twenty first ranked Bearcats host Baylor tomorrow at four, and 1:10:13.439 --> 1:10:16.320 of Noster Bengals take on the New York Jets this 1:10:16.479 --> 1:10:19.400 Sunday at one. Chase Brown is going to join us 1:10:19.400 --> 1:10:21.840 on this show in about twenty five minutes. He will 1:10:21.840 --> 1:10:24.439 be here from five to six. We have quite the 1:10:24.520 --> 1:10:29.040 international audience for the show this afternoon. Scott from Melbourne, 1:10:29.040 --> 1:10:30.160 Australia is here. 1:10:30.240 --> 1:10:30.800 How about it? 1:10:30.840 --> 1:10:33.599 Thank you for being here. Scott. Paul from the United 1:10:33.680 --> 1:10:36.800 Kingdom is here. Paul, our buddy two day in the UK. 1:10:37.880 --> 1:10:41.120 Many members of the Lapham Clan have come from far 1:10:41.200 --> 1:10:44.559 and wide. Yes, we've got friends from Maine and various 1:10:44.600 --> 1:10:49.040 spots in New England. Where is the furthest person traveling 1:10:49.120 --> 1:10:51.400 from to see you go into the Ring of Honor 1:10:51.400 --> 1:10:52.680 this weekend? You know, well, we. 1:10:52.680 --> 1:10:56.880 Got California, we get Arizona, we on Main Hampshire. Yeah, 1:10:57.840 --> 1:10:59.880 they're coming in from all over. That's awesome. 1:11:00.040 --> 1:11:00.720 Yeah, I love it. 1:11:01.720 --> 1:11:04.840 Fun events planned tonight tomorrow, and of course the big 1:11:04.880 --> 1:11:07.320 ceremony is coming up on Sunday at halftime. 1:11:07.560 --> 1:11:11.840 Yeah, that's that. That is uh, something that I am 1:11:13.040 --> 1:11:15.000 still stunned about. Really, you're gonna. 1:11:14.760 --> 1:11:16.799 Get You're gonna get choked up on that field. 1:11:16.600 --> 1:11:19.120 Onside, I probably will. I'll probably be shedding a tear man. 1:11:19.160 --> 1:11:21.720 I think I will be. It's it's a it's a 1:11:21.720 --> 1:11:27.080 lifetime of uh, you know, I guess come comes lifetime 1:11:27.160 --> 1:11:30.680 of preparation and process comes to a conclusion. You know 1:11:30.760 --> 1:11:34.680 that you weren't necessarily expecting. You're hoping for it, but 1:11:34.800 --> 1:11:37.920 certainly weren't expecting it and certainly can't take it for granted. 1:11:38.280 --> 1:11:42.240 I'm a crier. I'll be blubbering in the booth. Hopefully 1:11:42.439 --> 1:11:44.760 will not get too choked up when I'm talking on 1:11:44.840 --> 1:11:48.160 the air. So let's talk about the matchup Bengals taking 1:11:48.200 --> 1:11:52.040 on the O and seven New York Jets. I mentioned earlier. 1:11:52.080 --> 1:11:54.000 The line opened at four and a half. Now the 1:11:54.040 --> 1:11:57.000 Bengals are favored by six and a half. Head coach 1:11:57.080 --> 1:12:00.800 Zach Taylor says his team had better not take this 1:12:00.880 --> 1:12:01.719 opponent lately. 1:12:05.960 --> 1:12:08.040 It would be a shame if anybody thought that, because 1:12:08.080 --> 1:12:09.759 that would mean that they have not watched the tape 1:12:09.840 --> 1:12:12.400 and that they're just Again, I don't think that we 1:12:12.439 --> 1:12:13.800 have those types of guys in the locker room, and 1:12:14.120 --> 1:12:16.280 that's on all of us players and coaches to make 1:12:16.280 --> 1:12:20.320 sure that there's none that mentality because this is a 1:12:20.360 --> 1:12:22.920 really difficult team. Again, like I said, they're well coached, 1:12:22.960 --> 1:12:25.600 they have a lot of talent, and we got to 1:12:25.640 --> 1:12:26.479 be ready for them. 1:12:27.360 --> 1:12:31.160 Yes, they're ow and seven. Five of the seven losses 1:12:31.200 --> 1:12:33.600 have been by one score. They should have beaten the 1:12:33.640 --> 1:12:36.720 Steelers in Week one. They lost that game thirty four 1:12:36.720 --> 1:12:39.040 to thirty two. They lost by seven last week. They 1:12:39.160 --> 1:12:42.800 lost by two to the Broncos two weeks ago. So yeah, 1:12:42.920 --> 1:12:44.880 I mean the oh to seven is the bottom line, 1:12:44.920 --> 1:12:47.760 but they could easily be three and four, four and 1:12:47.840 --> 1:12:49.439 three something like that right on. 1:12:49.720 --> 1:12:54.200 I mean, I think the National Football League, it's the 1:12:54.680 --> 1:12:58.920 thing that makes it attractive is anybody can beat anybody 1:12:59.000 --> 1:13:02.080 on any given Sunday, and that's what the fans love. 1:13:03.320 --> 1:13:06.040 Gamblers don't necessarily love it as much because they can't 1:13:06.080 --> 1:13:11.559 really count on anything. And the Bengals better not take 1:13:11.600 --> 1:13:14.240 the New York Jets for granted. With the oh and 1:13:14.320 --> 1:13:16.880 seven record as soon as you start to do that, 1:13:18.000 --> 1:13:22.599 now you're playing with dynamite, you're playing with fire, and 1:13:22.680 --> 1:13:24.719 you could lose control of your season quickly. 1:13:25.760 --> 1:13:28.280 Anybody can beat anybody. Keep that in mind. 1:13:28.320 --> 1:13:32.559 They have good players, They have NFL caliber players. Everybody 1:13:32.560 --> 1:13:36.479 on that football team was selected and drafted for a 1:13:36.520 --> 1:13:39.880 reason and or signed as a college free agent, as 1:13:39.880 --> 1:13:43.040 signed as an unrestricted free agent, and free agency veteran 1:13:43.080 --> 1:13:47.120 free agency. Don't think that they're not going to come 1:13:47.160 --> 1:13:49.479 in here and try to knock you off your high 1:13:49.560 --> 1:13:52.960 horse after you just beat the Pittsburgh Steelers, I'll guarantee you. 1:13:53.040 --> 1:13:56.200 Aaron Glenn is saying, hey, they're full of themselves right now. 1:13:56.439 --> 1:13:59.080 The Cincinnati Bengals think there's something special. They think they're 1:13:59.120 --> 1:14:01.840 in high cotton. They beat the Pittsburgh Steelers. That's a 1:14:01.840 --> 1:14:04.639 big division rival for them. Let's go in and knock 1:14:04.640 --> 1:14:07.599 them off. And you know the Jets are capable of 1:14:07.600 --> 1:14:11.360 doing it. Aaron Glenn knows it, Zach Taylor knows it. 1:14:11.800 --> 1:14:18.200 The Bengals better play like it's this game means everything 1:14:18.439 --> 1:14:20.360 everything to their season, because it truly does. 1:14:21.120 --> 1:14:23.479 The Bengals have not turned it over in the last 1:14:23.479 --> 1:14:26.480 two weeks since Joe Flacco has been their starting quarterback. 1:14:26.680 --> 1:14:29.280 The Jets are dead last in that category in the NFL, 1:14:29.360 --> 1:14:32.479 minus nine for the season. That's that's always the most 1:14:32.479 --> 1:14:34.400 important stat I think in any game, but I think 1:14:34.439 --> 1:14:38.160 it's particularly important this week. Don't turn it over against 1:14:38.160 --> 1:14:40.519 the Jets, and I feel really good about the Bengals chances. 1:14:40.560 --> 1:14:42.760 I agree with you, Dan, you know your football. I mean, 1:14:43.560 --> 1:14:47.640 don't give the New York Jets extra opportunities, extra possessions. 1:14:48.200 --> 1:14:53.679 You're playing with fire at that point. They're capable, They're 1:14:53.680 --> 1:14:56.080 capable of hurting you. They're capable of doing some things 1:14:56.840 --> 1:15:01.439 that you weren't necessarily anticipating or expecting. You know, you 1:15:01.600 --> 1:15:04.840 play a clean football game. I'd like to see them 1:15:04.880 --> 1:15:09.000 go at least plus one, but more like plus two 1:15:09.080 --> 1:15:12.120 plus three and win their turnover battle, because I agree 1:15:12.160 --> 1:15:15.360 with you with the turnover ratio is the single most 1:15:15.400 --> 1:15:19.799 important statistic in all football, be it high school, collegiate 1:15:19.800 --> 1:15:23.559 football or the National Football League. You have to hold 1:15:23.600 --> 1:15:25.920 on to each and every one of your possessions and 1:15:26.040 --> 1:15:28.479 maximize them and make sure that you don't give any 1:15:28.520 --> 1:15:29.559 extras to the opponent. 1:15:30.120 --> 1:15:32.760 All right, coming up next, do the Bengals have one 1:15:32.760 --> 1:15:36.799 of the best young cornerbacks in the NFL. We'll discuss 1:15:36.840 --> 1:15:39.519 that next. Yeah, you're listening to the Bengals pep Rowley 1:15:39.600 --> 1:15:47.040 Show here on Fox Sports thirteen sixties, Lapping the ball 1:15:47.160 --> 1:15:50.280 Man back on the Bengals pep Rally Show, presented by 1:15:50.360 --> 1:15:52.719 Jess Bear Chicken live from the on the Ryane Eatery. 1:15:53.080 --> 1:15:55.559 You're in downtown Cincinnati. It's the food hall above the 1:15:55.560 --> 1:15:59.679 downtown Kroger at Corton Walnut. Chase Brown is on his way. 1:16:00.240 --> 1:16:02.599 He will join us for the final hour the show. 1:16:03.120 --> 1:16:03.360 Nice. 1:16:03.439 --> 1:16:08.200 The Jets injury report is officially out. Sauce Gardner out, 1:16:09.280 --> 1:16:10.520 Garrett Wilson. 1:16:10.560 --> 1:16:11.960 Out, Wow, both of them. 1:16:12.200 --> 1:16:16.880 Former Bengal j two fella out about it. Knee Wogu 1:16:16.960 --> 1:16:18.840 one of the best kick returners in the league. He's 1:16:18.880 --> 1:16:21.920 got four career kick return touchdowns. He's out. A couple 1:16:21.920 --> 1:16:24.720 of reserves are also out. So the Jets in a 1:16:24.800 --> 1:16:28.439 much more dire injury state of things than the Bengals 1:16:28.479 --> 1:16:30.240 going into the game this week. 1:16:30.479 --> 1:16:34.559 Yeah, that's uh, that's some serious, uh devastating blows there. 1:16:36.000 --> 1:16:39.439 The Jets they're they're they've got good personnel. I mean, 1:16:39.479 --> 1:16:42.400 they're a National Football League team. No doubt about it. 1:16:42.439 --> 1:16:46.519 But you you lose your best return guy, you lose 1:16:46.600 --> 1:16:50.200 your best corner, you lose your best receiver, You're gonna 1:16:50.200 --> 1:16:52.880 feel that. I mean, you know, you Priest Holl is 1:16:52.920 --> 1:16:56.320 still a weapon offensively. I mean he can do, you know, 1:16:56.439 --> 1:17:00.240 multiple things for you. But you really have to going 1:17:00.240 --> 1:17:01.880 to a football game in the NFL with more than 1:17:01.920 --> 1:17:05.680 one weapon. You just that if it's one guy, he 1:17:05.760 --> 1:17:08.000 can be neutralized, he can be taken out of the game. 1:17:08.560 --> 1:17:10.960 And that's what the Cincinnati Bengals will be doing. I'm 1:17:10.960 --> 1:17:14.160 sure Al Golden will be like, Breese Hall is not 1:17:14.200 --> 1:17:15.720 going to hurt us, and there's not going to be 1:17:15.720 --> 1:17:21.080 any big plays executed by Breess Hall, you know, by 1:17:21.080 --> 1:17:23.439 hook and by crook, and to make sure that Breess 1:17:23.520 --> 1:17:26.360 Hall does not impact the outcome of this football game. 1:17:26.640 --> 1:17:29.479 I'm sure that DJ Turner would have been matched up 1:17:29.560 --> 1:17:32.719 against Garrett Wilson if Wilson had the green light to play. 1:17:32.800 --> 1:17:35.639 That now longer, no longer will be the case. DJ 1:17:35.760 --> 1:17:39.200 Turner has been awesome lately. He's up to thirteen passes 1:17:39.240 --> 1:17:41.719 defense this year that is number one in the NFL 1:17:42.080 --> 1:17:45.200 by three. Pro Football Focus has him graded as the 1:17:45.280 --> 1:17:48.639 number five cover corner in the NFL at this point 1:17:48.680 --> 1:17:51.439 of the season, so he is really emerging as one 1:17:51.479 --> 1:17:54.280 of the better young corners in the NFL. Let's hear 1:17:54.800 --> 1:17:57.519 from former second round draft pick DJ Turner. 1:17:59.080 --> 1:18:02.120 Miss mencil As keep saying this, the mental aspect of 1:18:02.160 --> 1:18:05.280 it on the field and off the field is just 1:18:05.560 --> 1:18:09.240 everything I've always said. But like last week, I didn't 1:18:09.240 --> 1:18:12.519 get faster or stronger. It's all mental imitate every day 1:18:12.840 --> 1:18:18.640 read write, I do a whole bunch calm out rain noises. 1:18:18.720 --> 1:18:21.200 I mean, I do a whole bunch of some and stuff, 1:18:22.920 --> 1:18:24.040 and then I just, you. 1:18:24.080 --> 1:18:27.439 Know, help prepare for the games lap. We've always known 1:18:27.479 --> 1:18:30.400 about the athleticism. He ran a four two six forty. 1:18:30.439 --> 1:18:32.840 After all, in the NFL Tom Brazy had a broad 1:18:32.920 --> 1:18:35.040 jump of ten feet eleven inches. So the guy is 1:18:35.080 --> 1:18:38.280 an incredible athlete. But now, as he just described, he's 1:18:38.320 --> 1:18:42.000 putting the mental aspect of the game together as well. 1:18:42.160 --> 1:18:47.680 He is. I mean, the thing about DJ Turner, he 1:18:47.720 --> 1:18:50.120 is he's smart. When you when you hear him, you 1:18:50.160 --> 1:18:52.880 can tell that he's intelligent. You can tell that he 1:18:54.320 --> 1:18:56.519 has an interest in a lot of things. I think 1:18:56.560 --> 1:18:59.799 he's inquisitive. I think he asked good questions. His teammates 1:18:59.840 --> 1:19:02.520 and coaches have said, he asked really really good questions, 1:19:03.360 --> 1:19:06.800 and he's he wants to be great. I mean, that's 1:19:06.880 --> 1:19:10.240 that's the biggest thing. That when when players do turn 1:19:10.320 --> 1:19:12.439 the corner and the worm turns for him and they 1:19:12.520 --> 1:19:15.280 start making more plays and and getting after it a 1:19:15.320 --> 1:19:17.800 little bit with a little bit more intensity, and the 1:19:17.840 --> 1:19:21.720 result it's it's because they want to be great. They 1:19:21.760 --> 1:19:23.840 want to be the best in the National Football League, 1:19:24.240 --> 1:19:26.240 and he's got the talents and abilities to do it. 1:19:26.280 --> 1:19:28.839 I mean that forty time you talking about sub four three. 1:19:29.040 --> 1:19:33.200 Come on, now, that's a and jump almost eleven feet 1:19:33.200 --> 1:19:36.679 broad jump almost eleven feet. That's ridiculous. Got some kangaroo 1:19:36.720 --> 1:19:41.360 in them or something. But yeah, he's the thing about 1:19:41.600 --> 1:19:44.600 as well as he's playing, Al Golden feels like he 1:19:44.640 --> 1:19:47.080 can still play a little bit better. But Al Golden 1:19:47.120 --> 1:19:51.599 has said that he agrees in space, he's the best 1:19:51.600 --> 1:19:53.840 tackler they have in the secondary. I mean, he comes 1:19:53.840 --> 1:19:57.720 downhill and fills it, he sees it quickly and and 1:19:58.080 --> 1:20:01.439 makes an immediate move to neutralize it and stop it. 1:20:01.920 --> 1:20:03.680 I think I think he's going to be around a 1:20:03.720 --> 1:20:04.280 long time. 1:20:04.920 --> 1:20:08.280 The other outside corner last week was Josh Newton. Cam 1:20:08.360 --> 1:20:11.080 Taylor Britt has lost his spot in the starting lineup 1:20:11.080 --> 1:20:14.120 and he wasn't even active. He was a game day 1:20:14.160 --> 1:20:17.160 inactive for the game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Clearly they're 1:20:17.160 --> 1:20:20.040 looking to light a fire under Cam Taylor Brett. I 1:20:20.200 --> 1:20:23.439 think he's probably going to be active on Sunday based 1:20:23.439 --> 1:20:26.639 on how he's practiced this week. But we'll find out, Yeah, 1:20:26.840 --> 1:20:28.240 ninety minutes before kickoff. 1:20:28.439 --> 1:20:31.000 Yeah. Nel Golden is the master motivator, you know, I 1:20:31.040 --> 1:20:34.639 mean Cam Taylor Britt. He feels like Cam Taylor Britt 1:20:34.720 --> 1:20:39.000 is not doing everything he's capable of doing. He doesn't 1:20:39.080 --> 1:20:41.439 like the fact that he gambles as much as he does. 1:20:42.280 --> 1:20:46.360 Cam Taylor Britt will take some chances self, admittedly, he'll 1:20:46.360 --> 1:20:50.200 take chances based on his film study and feels like 1:20:50.280 --> 1:20:52.439 if it's better than fifty to fifty, I'm gonna I'm 1:20:52.479 --> 1:20:56.960 gonna try to get it done. He is still in 1:20:57.000 --> 1:20:59.000 the mix. I mean, if there's an injury, he's the guy. 1:20:59.080 --> 1:21:01.400 He's the third corner. Like you said, he'll be the 1:21:01.400 --> 1:21:05.600 one out in the football field, but in nickel packages 1:21:05.680 --> 1:21:08.120 he'll be lined up out there as well. So he's 1:21:08.160 --> 1:21:11.040 gonna have to do a good job and make sure 1:21:11.080 --> 1:21:14.320 that he takes care of his area of responsibility and 1:21:14.400 --> 1:21:19.120 doesn't try to get nosy and go elsewhere and dip 1:21:19.160 --> 1:21:24.040 into other people's areas of responsibility. Do your job. That's 1:21:24.040 --> 1:21:28.439 what it's all about. Playing defense against this football team, 1:21:28.720 --> 1:21:30.799 the New York Jets, is going to be all about. 1:21:31.200 --> 1:21:35.080 Do your job, don't let the football team down. Do 1:21:35.200 --> 1:21:37.200 your job to the best of your ability, and everything 1:21:37.200 --> 1:21:37.879 will be okay. 1:21:38.280 --> 1:21:41.640 The Bengals and Jets Sunday at one o'clock Ring of 1:21:41.880 --> 1:21:45.800 Honor Induction Sunday at pay Course Stadium. Dave Lapham and 1:21:45.880 --> 1:21:48.280 Leaping Lamar Parrish are going in and we'll talk about 1:21:48.320 --> 1:21:50.800 that a little bit more when we come back. This 1:21:51.000 --> 1:21:53.639 is the Bengals pep Rally Show live from the om 1:21:53.720 --> 1:22:00.000 the Ryan Eatery in downtown Cincinnati on Fox Sports thirteen sixty. 1:22:00.520 --> 1:22:02.559 We are back at the on the Rhine Eatery here 1:22:02.560 --> 1:22:05.360 in downtown Cincinnati. It's the food hall on the second 1:22:05.400 --> 1:22:09.080 floor above the downtown Kroger at Corton Walnut. This is 1:22:09.520 --> 1:22:13.120 the Bengals pep Rallley Show, getting you set for Ring 1:22:13.200 --> 1:22:16.280 of Honor Induction Sunday coming up. This week the Bengals 1:22:16.320 --> 1:22:18.680 taking on the New York Jets. We got some interesting 1:22:18.800 --> 1:22:22.400 intel from Nicky Graul from the Bengals, who is here today. 1:22:22.680 --> 1:22:28.600 They actually practiced earlier taking down the curtain, essentially to 1:22:28.720 --> 1:22:33.479 reveal Lapham sixty two and Parish twenty up on the wall. 1:22:34.040 --> 1:22:39.599 We are excited about that. Here's where I get choked up, Buddy. 1:22:40.880 --> 1:22:45.640 Let me just say, the broadcasting games with you for 1:22:45.640 --> 1:22:47.479 the last fifteen years, all right, I'm going to get 1:22:47.520 --> 1:22:49.280 it together here has been one of the great joys 1:22:49.320 --> 1:22:51.760 of my life, professional and otherwise. We've had so much 1:22:51.800 --> 1:22:55.160 fun together, No question, we developed a great friendship. I 1:22:55.240 --> 1:22:57.000 tell the story all the time. The first game we 1:22:57.080 --> 1:23:00.000 did together was a preseason game in two thousand and eleven. 1:23:00.680 --> 1:23:04.519 Bengals traveled to Detroit. Yes, final score was Lions thirty four, 1:23:04.600 --> 1:23:08.880 Bengals three. I got on the bus after the game, 1:23:09.320 --> 1:23:13.000 and you've never seen so many long faces. Everybody was 1:23:13.040 --> 1:23:15.960 convinced this was going to be a terrible year. And 1:23:16.040 --> 1:23:20.559 I was giddy because the chemistry was immediate. It was 1:23:20.680 --> 1:23:23.559 we had so much fun, and so I'm like beaming 1:23:23.600 --> 1:23:25.920 from ear to ear because it was awesome and I 1:23:25.960 --> 1:23:28.240 knew we were going to have a great partnership on 1:23:28.280 --> 1:23:30.559 the air, and it has been and I could not 1:23:30.720 --> 1:23:33.760 be more thrilled that you are getting this honor. It 1:23:33.840 --> 1:23:36.920 is so well deserved, not only for your ten great 1:23:36.960 --> 1:23:39.479 years as a player, and you were a great player. 1:23:39.760 --> 1:23:42.439 I hope people realize that, but also for the last 1:23:42.439 --> 1:23:45.800 forty years, there's not a better analyst on the radio 1:23:45.840 --> 1:23:49.920 in the NFL, and furthermore, a better ambassador for this franchise. 1:23:49.960 --> 1:23:53.760 You've been just incredible at representing the city and the 1:23:53.800 --> 1:23:58.080 franchise and your family with class and treat people wonderfully. 1:23:58.160 --> 1:24:01.200 And I'm just throwed for you, Dan. I can't thank 1:24:01.240 --> 1:24:07.519 you enough. Really, I mean, I'm glad they're applauding because 1:24:09.160 --> 1:24:13.320 what you say is so meaningful and it means a 1:24:13.400 --> 1:24:16.920 lot to me. I can tell you that doing games 1:24:16.920 --> 1:24:19.880 with you, like you mentioned, use the word joy, it's 1:24:19.880 --> 1:24:23.720 a joy. I mean, I can't believe get paid for it. 1:24:23.760 --> 1:24:28.559 You know, it's like it's like you do. Yeah, it's 1:24:28.600 --> 1:24:30.040 like your hobby. It's like a hobby. 1:24:30.160 --> 1:24:33.680 You know, it's man and honestly, you know, working with 1:24:33.720 --> 1:24:38.439 your best friend, that's you know, that is cherry on 1:24:38.479 --> 1:24:40.240 top of the icing, on top of the cake. You know, 1:24:40.320 --> 1:24:44.559 it's like, how lucky, how fortunate can a guy be? 1:24:45.280 --> 1:24:48.800 And to do it for ten years as a player 1:24:48.840 --> 1:24:52.040 of forty years in the broadcast booth for the organization 1:24:52.800 --> 1:24:56.360 is great, but fifteen years with you has taken it 1:24:56.400 --> 1:24:59.880 to another level. In the broadcast booth, there's nothing. Nothing 1:25:00.160 --> 1:25:04.120 comes close to doing games with Dan Horde, be it 1:25:04.160 --> 1:25:07.839 at pay Court Stadium or anywhere on the road. Travels 1:25:07.960 --> 1:25:11.519 that uh, that broadcast booth and up to the elevator 1:25:11.560 --> 1:25:14.160 we go, and to whatever floor it may be, and 1:25:14.760 --> 1:25:18.920 it's gonna be another just fun day, man packed with 1:25:19.160 --> 1:25:22.040 uh stories to be told. 1:25:22.520 --> 1:25:25.000 No doubt about it. We've had some great adventures. We've 1:25:25.000 --> 1:25:27.960 got an opportunity to call a Super Bowl together. Hopefully 1:25:28.000 --> 1:25:30.519 we'll do that again and this time the Bengals will 1:25:30.560 --> 1:25:32.960 come out on top. Yep, you've played in one. You 1:25:33.080 --> 1:25:36.519 broadcast too. They're getting closer every time, from five points 1:25:36.520 --> 1:25:39.080 to four points to three points. I hope we don't 1:25:39.120 --> 1:25:41.679 have to have two point and one point losses. First, 1:25:41.760 --> 1:25:44.160 I know, let's let's move right to the Bengals victory 1:25:44.600 --> 1:25:46.840 and ce Lombardi Trophy in this town. 1:25:47.000 --> 1:25:50.800 That would be nice. I mean, you know, Cincinnati deserves it. 1:25:51.320 --> 1:25:54.479 You deserve it. I feel like I, uh, you deserve fate. 1:25:54.520 --> 1:25:58.759 I've paid the two my dudes as well. It's gonna happen. 1:25:58.840 --> 1:26:02.720 I really have a few this group of people, this 1:26:02.760 --> 1:26:06.240 group of guys, players, coaches, everybody's on the same page 1:26:06.479 --> 1:26:09.240 in that regard. I know Zach Taylor really wants it 1:26:09.320 --> 1:26:11.880 desperately to happen. I think it will. I think it's 1:26:11.880 --> 1:26:12.400 gonna happen. 1:26:13.360 --> 1:26:17.400 I do too. I've always felt from the day they 1:26:17.479 --> 1:26:20.360 drafted Joe Burrow that the Bengals would win a Super 1:26:20.400 --> 1:26:23.599 Bowl in the Borough era. They came close. They got 1:26:23.600 --> 1:26:26.680 there in his second season, and he's going to be 1:26:26.720 --> 1:26:29.120 healthy again fairly soon. We see him at the lock 1:26:29.200 --> 1:26:32.519 in the locker room every day. He's recuperating. That boot's 1:26:32.520 --> 1:26:35.200 gonna be off. He'll be working on that tow and 1:26:35.280 --> 1:26:37.760 hopefully we'll be playing in the final few weeks of 1:26:37.840 --> 1:26:40.760 the regular season this year, and if the Bengals are 1:26:40.960 --> 1:26:43.600 able to make it to the playoffs, nobody in the 1:26:43.720 --> 1:26:47.680 NFL wants to face Joe Burrow in January February. 1:26:47.960 --> 1:26:54.280 Nobody agreed, nobody, And he's capable of coming back. He's 1:26:54.280 --> 1:26:57.439 doing everything he possibly can physically and mentally, and Joe 1:26:57.439 --> 1:27:00.840 Slaco has talked about what an impact Joe Burrow has 1:27:00.880 --> 1:27:04.600 had on him in terms of helping him master the 1:27:04.680 --> 1:27:09.599 offenses quickly as he has and you know the tooth. 1:27:09.760 --> 1:27:13.559 That one trait that both these guys have in common, 1:27:13.600 --> 1:27:16.360 in my mind is patience. I don't think anybody is 1:27:16.360 --> 1:27:19.479 more patient than Joe Burrow on the field in the pocket, 1:27:19.479 --> 1:27:23.360 and the same with Joe Flacco. So the Bengals I 1:27:23.360 --> 1:27:27.160 think have got I mean, what a one two punch 1:27:27.200 --> 1:27:31.120 at the quarterback position when Joe Burrow does come back healthy. 1:27:31.160 --> 1:27:34.160 Are you kidding me? Joe Burrow starting games for you 1:27:35.240 --> 1:27:37.400 for whatever reason, Joe Flacco has to come in and 1:27:37.439 --> 1:27:40.760 finish games. There's not a better one two punch, a 1:27:40.840 --> 1:27:43.720 one two combination in the National Football League than those 1:27:43.760 --> 1:27:44.679 two gentlemen right. 1:27:44.560 --> 1:27:47.400 There, all right, two hours in the books, one hour 1:27:47.479 --> 1:27:49.920 to go. Chase Brown will be joining us shortly. 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I'm Dan Hord, live from 1:28:33.840 --> 1:28:37.000 the On the Ride eatery here in downtown Cincinnati. It's 1:28:37.040 --> 1:28:39.320 a Friday afternoon. We've got a home game coming up 1:28:39.560 --> 1:28:43.320 on Sunday as the Bengals host the winless New York Jets. 1:28:43.360 --> 1:28:46.400 Cincinnati favored by six and a half, the Bengals trying 1:28:46.400 --> 1:28:48.960 to even the record at four and four. They've got 1:28:49.000 --> 1:28:51.920 another home game coming up next week against the good 1:28:52.000 --> 1:28:56.120 but not great team, the Chicago Bears. So maybe, just maybe, 1:28:56.240 --> 1:28:58.880 the Bengals can put together a three game winning streak, 1:28:59.200 --> 1:29:02.240 a three straight home games against the Steelers, Jets, and Bears, 1:29:02.640 --> 1:29:04.920 get to a game over five hundred and five and 1:29:04.960 --> 1:29:09.519 four and take that into their bye week the following week. Normally, 1:29:09.560 --> 1:29:12.040 on this show, Dave Lapham and I are together for 1:29:12.120 --> 1:29:15.240 three hours. We have let Lap go a little bit 1:29:15.280 --> 1:29:18.479 early today because he's got a lot going on this weekend, 1:29:18.520 --> 1:29:22.080 including a family celebration tonight. Friends and family coming in 1:29:22.120 --> 1:29:25.200 from all over the country to celebrate Lap as he 1:29:25.240 --> 1:29:28.200 goes into the Bengals Ring of Honor this weekend. So 1:29:28.240 --> 1:29:32.640 he's got the family celebration tonight. The Bengals have the 1:29:32.680 --> 1:29:37.439 team celebration for Lap and Lamar Paris coming up tomorrow night, 1:29:37.880 --> 1:29:40.000 that is from five to seven point thirty at pay 1:29:40.040 --> 1:29:43.040 Corps Stadium, and then of course on Sunday, it is 1:29:43.960 --> 1:29:47.400 the big day, the Ring of Honor induction, as Lap 1:29:47.439 --> 1:29:51.479 and Lamar will officially be inducted at halftime of that 1:29:51.680 --> 1:29:56.759 game as promised. Chase Brown is our special guest today 1:29:56.840 --> 1:29:59.719 here at the on the Rhine Eatery, and the Bengals 1:29:59.760 --> 1:30:04.479 run back is arriving as we speak with his infant 1:30:04.600 --> 1:30:08.880 son in hand. How cute is that we appreciate Chase 1:30:08.920 --> 1:30:11.000 coming out and spending some time with us on this 1:30:11.080 --> 1:30:14.000 Friday afternoon as the Bengals get set to take on 1:30:14.080 --> 1:30:17.960 the New York Jets this Sunday at one o'clock. Chase 1:30:18.000 --> 1:30:22.200 coming off a tremendous game last Thursday against the Pittsburgh Steelers. 1:30:22.680 --> 1:30:26.840 Eleven carries one hundred and eight yards. Carries in that 1:30:26.880 --> 1:30:30.960 game of thirty seven and twenty seven yards. The blocking 1:30:31.080 --> 1:30:34.000 was great. Everything went great, and it was fun to 1:30:34.000 --> 1:30:36.439 see you go off like that. Congratulations on a great game. 1:30:36.560 --> 1:30:36.920 Thank you. 1:30:37.040 --> 1:30:39.640 Yeah, it's always nice when you have space to go 1:30:39.680 --> 1:30:42.639 out there and make some plays. O line stuffed up big, 1:30:42.720 --> 1:30:45.800 But what was even more impressive was Flocco's. 1:30:45.320 --> 1:30:47.320 Ability to get the ball out quickly. 1:30:48.560 --> 1:30:50.520 The way that we were able to pick up protections 1:30:50.760 --> 1:30:52.880 and then spit the ball out on the perimeter kind 1:30:52.880 --> 1:30:55.559 of keeps the defense on their heels. And when you're 1:30:55.600 --> 1:30:57.639 able to do that, you control what's going on. 1:30:58.439 --> 1:31:02.160 I've been broadcasting Bengals game for fifteen years. I have 1:31:02.320 --> 1:31:05.439 called a lot of Joe Flacco games. I know what 1:31:05.520 --> 1:31:07.760 Joe Flacco is capable of doing, but I've got to 1:31:07.800 --> 1:31:11.160 be honest. To come in under these circumstances and play 1:31:11.200 --> 1:31:15.880 at this level is astounding to me. NFL offenses are 1:31:15.960 --> 1:31:18.760 so complicated. For the dude to show up on a 1:31:18.800 --> 1:31:22.240 Tuesday practice for the first time on a Wednesday, go 1:31:22.280 --> 1:31:25.000 out and have a tremendous second half against Green Bay 1:31:25.040 --> 1:31:27.479 on the road, and then play in a short week 1:31:27.880 --> 1:31:30.880 and ball out against the Steelers. No doubt, I've never 1:31:30.920 --> 1:31:31.920 seen anything like it. 1:31:32.040 --> 1:31:37.679 Yeah, I haven't either, but I will give him. I'll 1:31:37.680 --> 1:31:40.719 say this, he's played football in the NFL for eighteen years. 1:31:40.760 --> 1:31:41.480 Correct. 1:31:41.720 --> 1:31:44.240 I think I've been playing football for less time than that. 1:31:44.520 --> 1:31:47.559 So he's been in the NFL longer than I've been 1:31:47.560 --> 1:31:50.240 playing football. So that's one thing to keep in mind. 1:31:50.280 --> 1:31:53.360 So he with that, he brings a ton of experience, 1:31:54.080 --> 1:31:58.160 He knows what he's looking for. He probably, you know, 1:31:58.200 --> 1:31:59.840 when we get set, he probably looks out and you 1:31:59.840 --> 1:32:04.160 know exactly what the defense is doing. So so much wisdom, 1:32:04.360 --> 1:32:07.599 so much skill, and so much experience. And I think 1:32:07.600 --> 1:32:10.240 that's what you're seeing right now is just a confident 1:32:10.240 --> 1:32:11.960 player that's playing in this league for a really long 1:32:12.000 --> 1:32:15.760 time and has really stepped up in a big way 1:32:15.800 --> 1:32:16.640 and helped. 1:32:16.400 --> 1:32:18.040 Us get rolling. 1:32:18.840 --> 1:32:22.960 So on the Wednesday after his first practice, I was 1:32:23.000 --> 1:32:25.559 among several reporters that gathered in front of your locker 1:32:25.800 --> 1:32:29.440 to ask you about him, and you sounded so impressed 1:32:29.479 --> 1:32:33.599 by his ability to spit out the plays after arriving 1:32:33.640 --> 1:32:34.840 the night before yeah. 1:32:34.840 --> 1:32:36.760 I don't know if people know this. 1:32:36.920 --> 1:32:39.800 I mean you've probably seen quarterback and you have an 1:32:39.840 --> 1:32:42.320 idea of what the play calls are like, or you've 1:32:42.720 --> 1:32:45.080 you know, followed some sort of thing where you've heard 1:32:45.280 --> 1:32:49.200 quarterbacks call the play. It's not easy, let alone listen 1:32:49.439 --> 1:32:52.600 for your job within all the words that he's saying. So, 1:32:53.960 --> 1:32:56.639 you know, first walk through, he comes in and he 1:32:56.880 --> 1:32:59.559 is just reciting the plays like he's been here all 1:32:59.640 --> 1:33:00.000 year long. 1:33:00.600 --> 1:33:02.439 I'm like, how's he doing this? Like he just got 1:33:02.439 --> 1:33:03.080 here this morning. 1:33:03.080 --> 1:33:07.920 I think like, yeah, so kudo's him for that, because 1:33:07.920 --> 1:33:08.719 that's that's not easy. 1:33:08.920 --> 1:33:12.559 He is Joe Calm, Joe calm, Joe Burrow's Joe cool, 1:33:12.680 --> 1:33:13.920 Joe Flaco's Joe Calm. 1:33:14.000 --> 1:33:16.559 Yeah, and then when Joe Burrow plays in the NFL 1:33:16.720 --> 1:33:19.000 for whatever eighteen years, he'll. 1:33:18.760 --> 1:33:19.439 Become Joe Calm. 1:33:19.520 --> 1:33:22.479 He can eventually become Joe Calm as well. All right, 1:33:22.520 --> 1:33:24.080 I want to turn the clock back a little bit. 1:33:24.160 --> 1:33:27.200 This is your third year with the Cincinnati Bengals. There 1:33:27.200 --> 1:33:30.960 have been some tremendous moments and tremendous games. I think 1:33:31.040 --> 1:33:34.280 the first moment that many people will remember that kind 1:33:34.320 --> 1:33:38.120 of caught the nation's attention. Happened in December of your 1:33:38.160 --> 1:33:43.880 rookie year against the Indianapolis Colts. Let's listen. Back rookie 1:33:43.960 --> 1:33:46.799 Chase Brown checks in for the first time at running 1:33:46.840 --> 1:33:50.479 back after nine carries for sixty one yards last week, 1:33:50.680 --> 1:33:52.920 they fake it to him. Now they screen it to him, 1:33:53.160 --> 1:33:56.120 all sorts of running room and blockers in front. He's 1:33:56.160 --> 1:33:59.599 fine to the thirty, the twenty, the ten cuts back, 1:34:00.240 --> 1:34:00.639 a man. 1:34:00.600 --> 1:34:07.760 Miss half, the five touchdown Bengals Chase Brown showing his 1:34:08.040 --> 1:34:11.320 speed as he flies down the field for. 1:34:11.479 --> 1:34:17.000 The Bengals touchdown. You hit twenty two point zero five 1:34:17.040 --> 1:34:21.040 miles an hour on that screen against the Colts. Was that, 1:34:21.160 --> 1:34:24.120 in any way a play that that kind of put 1:34:24.240 --> 1:34:25.679 you on the map in your own mind? 1:34:26.840 --> 1:34:28.920 I think so. I think you know. 1:34:28.960 --> 1:34:30.559 I was able to do a little bit during camp, 1:34:30.600 --> 1:34:32.840 but as a rookie year, you're kind of scratching and 1:34:32.840 --> 1:34:34.240 clawing for opportunities, so. 1:34:36.240 --> 1:34:38.160 Every rep you get is huge. 1:34:38.760 --> 1:34:40.439 But I can remember the week before, a couple of 1:34:40.479 --> 1:34:43.600 weeks before we were we were playing Thursday night or 1:34:43.680 --> 1:34:46.599 Monday night in Jacksonville, and I was able to pop 1:34:46.600 --> 1:34:50.920 off a couple of runs. So and something I took 1:34:50.960 --> 1:34:53.479 away from that was there's this one run I broke away. 1:34:53.520 --> 1:34:55.720 I'm like, I was kind of indecisive. 1:34:55.840 --> 1:34:57.160 I'm like, oh, I didn't know if I should cut 1:34:57.160 --> 1:34:58.720 back in or if I should just try and run 1:34:58.760 --> 1:35:00.519 up the sideline. So I told my the next time 1:35:00.520 --> 1:35:02.559 I get the opportunity to just run as fast as 1:35:02.560 --> 1:35:04.840 I can, That's what I'm going to do. And then 1:35:04.840 --> 1:35:07.760 when that screen came around, I turned around like, there's 1:35:07.800 --> 1:35:12.640 so much space, like, just go and twenty two point 1:35:14.120 --> 1:35:16.240 twenty two point zero five was the result of odd 1:35:16.360 --> 1:35:17.280 in a touchdown. 1:35:17.400 --> 1:35:19.760 So yeah, I think you would have been guilty of 1:35:20.000 --> 1:35:22.360 speeding in a school zone in the state of Ohio. 1:35:22.439 --> 1:35:25.640 I think the speed limit is twenty so you exceeded 1:35:25.760 --> 1:35:26.519 the speed limit. 1:35:26.680 --> 1:35:29.320 Hopefully they give me some grace two miles. 1:35:29.000 --> 1:35:29.519 Per hour over. 1:35:29.600 --> 1:35:31.240 Well, there are a lot of Bengals fans in the 1:35:31.240 --> 1:35:35.040 police department, sheriff's department, so we'll definitely cut you some slack. 1:35:35.760 --> 1:35:38.880 That carried over to last season, particularly the second half 1:35:38.960 --> 1:35:41.719 of the year after Zach Boss suffered a neck injury. 1:35:42.040 --> 1:35:45.920 You became the quote unquote bell cow in the running game, 1:35:46.080 --> 1:35:48.880 and over the last eight games of the season, or 1:35:48.920 --> 1:35:51.559 your last eight games of the season, you missed the finale, 1:35:51.840 --> 1:35:55.519 but you averaged one hundred and twenty combined rushing and 1:35:55.600 --> 1:35:58.760 receiving yards. You were as productive as basically anybody in 1:35:58.800 --> 1:35:59.920 the league for that eight game straight. 1:36:00.200 --> 1:36:00.400 Yeah. 1:36:00.479 --> 1:36:02.360 No, we were playing really good football with then the 1:36:02.439 --> 1:36:05.639 year and uh, you know with the way that Jamar 1:36:05.880 --> 1:36:10.880 and t and Dray and Joe especially, I mean it 1:36:11.040 --> 1:36:13.840 it's like a it's a it's a beautiful thing. When 1:36:13.880 --> 1:36:16.880 everything's operating at a high level, it's like a it's 1:36:16.880 --> 1:36:19.639 like a well oiled machine, like a like a car, 1:36:19.800 --> 1:36:23.760 you know what I mean. So when everything's when everything's 1:36:24.400 --> 1:36:27.479 operating at a high level, I mean, everybody's doing well. 1:36:27.479 --> 1:36:29.040 And I think that's what you saw last weeks. 1:36:29.080 --> 1:36:32.439 The Steelers is like I said earlier, we were able 1:36:32.439 --> 1:36:33.920 to get the ball on the perimeter. It's like you 1:36:33.920 --> 1:36:36.400 have a running back that plays receiver and if you're 1:36:36.439 --> 1:36:38.120 just throwing the ball on a quick now. 1:36:38.080 --> 1:36:39.640 Route, he's gonna do something with it. 1:36:39.680 --> 1:36:42.760 And then you have T Higgins, you have Dre, Noah Fan, 1:36:42.840 --> 1:36:44.080 you have all these guys that. 1:36:45.720 --> 1:36:46.880 You know we're getting the ball to. 1:36:47.200 --> 1:36:49.760 And when you're unpredictable like that, it just opens up 1:36:49.800 --> 1:36:53.120 everything else. So you saw that a lot at the 1:36:53.200 --> 1:36:55.280 end of last year, and you saw that on Thursday night. 1:36:55.360 --> 1:36:57.840 So that's what we're trying to go into this week with. 1:36:58.040 --> 1:37:01.360 Just carry that momentum and do everything we can to 1:37:01.960 --> 1:37:03.519 bring that into all these games coming. 1:37:03.320 --> 1:37:07.960 On twenty three. Targets for Jamar last week sixteen catches 1:37:08.040 --> 1:37:13.240 a franchise history. The guy cannot be tired out seemingly 1:37:13.320 --> 1:37:16.280 I don't know every play and just keep feeding him 1:37:16.320 --> 1:37:16.639 the ball. 1:37:16.760 --> 1:37:18.479 Yeah, no, when he's been doing a really good job, 1:37:18.560 --> 1:37:22.160 like we we talk all the time. But yeah, I 1:37:22.160 --> 1:37:25.040 mean he's just he's Jamar Chase, like best, best in 1:37:25.080 --> 1:37:26.120 the league, best in the world. 1:37:26.880 --> 1:37:29.559 Tell us about the little cutie that you walked in 1:37:29.800 --> 1:37:30.840 carrying in your arms. 1:37:30.960 --> 1:37:32.000 Yeah, that's my son. 1:37:32.040 --> 1:37:36.880 He was born in January. It's my girlfriend, Jasmine, and 1:37:36.920 --> 1:37:41.040 that's Oceans. So he has. 1:37:40.880 --> 1:37:43.519 No idea what's going on that he was born in January. 1:37:43.560 --> 1:37:45.080 Well behaved, Yeah, no, he is. 1:37:45.160 --> 1:37:47.240 He is as long as he's fed and. 1:37:47.920 --> 1:37:48.479 Sounds like me. 1:37:49.200 --> 1:37:49.799 He's happy. 1:37:49.920 --> 1:37:51.360 So long as I'm fed, I'm happy. 1:37:51.479 --> 1:37:56.200 Right likewise, No, but truly one of the biggest blessings. 1:37:57.800 --> 1:38:00.519 Fatherhood has been, you know, a journey so far, but 1:38:01.320 --> 1:38:03.759 in all the good ways possible. 1:38:03.800 --> 1:38:06.920 It's the best. If your experience is anything like mine, 1:38:07.520 --> 1:38:10.479 For the next twelve years, it's going to be awesome. 1:38:11.160 --> 1:38:14.240 Then when he's thirteen, there'll be a little spell where 1:38:15.560 --> 1:38:17.880 you're no longer his hero, and then after a few 1:38:17.960 --> 1:38:20.799 years it comes around again and you are the apple 1:38:20.840 --> 1:38:23.080 of his eye. Okay, well that's how it kind of 1:38:23.160 --> 1:38:23.680 works for many. 1:38:23.800 --> 1:38:25.320 I'll let you know when he turns thirteen. 1:38:26.479 --> 1:38:28.439 All right, sounds good. We're gonna take a time out. 1:38:28.439 --> 1:38:31.840 Our special guest, Bengals running back Chase Brown. We are 1:38:31.880 --> 1:38:34.920 live at the on the Rhine Eatery here in downtown Cincinnati, 1:38:35.200 --> 1:38:40.560 the Bengals pep Rally Show on Fox Sports thirteen sixty. 1:38:40.840 --> 1:38:43.360 This is the Bengals pep Rally Show, live from the 1:38:43.479 --> 1:38:46.559 on the Rhine Eatery here in downtown Cincinnati. Our special 1:38:46.600 --> 1:38:48.920 guest in the final hour of the show today, Chase 1:38:48.960 --> 1:38:53.360 Brown graciously signing autographs during the commercial breaks, posing for pictures, 1:38:53.360 --> 1:38:55.200 et cetera. If you were in the area, come out 1:38:55.240 --> 1:38:58.040 and join us. We're here until six o'clock tonight. This 1:38:58.120 --> 1:39:01.120 is the first time I have seen the Chase Brown 1:39:01.160 --> 1:39:03.800 bobblehead giving out at Skyline. What do you think of 1:39:03.840 --> 1:39:05.000 your bobblehead image. 1:39:05.280 --> 1:39:07.679 It's funny it Uh, it looks good. 1:39:07.800 --> 1:39:08.640 It looks good. 1:39:08.680 --> 1:39:09.599 I think they did a good job. 1:39:09.720 --> 1:39:12.240 So he had some bobblehead Yes, yeah, does your brother 1:39:12.280 --> 1:39:12.799 have one? 1:39:13.080 --> 1:39:15.479 And Philly? I don't know. I don't know. I'll have 1:39:15.520 --> 1:39:15.920 to ask him. 1:39:16.000 --> 1:39:16.920 You got the one up on them? 1:39:16.920 --> 1:39:18.000 Is there skyline in Philly? 1:39:18.000 --> 1:39:20.360 I don't think so well, but they heads. 1:39:20.520 --> 1:39:22.400 There's probably one on like NFL dot com or something 1:39:22.439 --> 1:39:22.560 like that. 1:39:22.640 --> 1:39:25.000 Guy might be he's got the super Bowl ring, You've 1:39:25.000 --> 1:39:27.599 got the bobbleheads. Hopefully you'll both have. 1:39:27.680 --> 1:39:29.720 Both, yes, sometimes eventually. 1:39:30.479 --> 1:39:32.960 Chase Brown is our guest in his third year with 1:39:33.040 --> 1:39:37.120 the Cincinnati Bengals. His offensive coordinator is Dan Pitcher. Let's 1:39:37.120 --> 1:39:39.120 hear from Pitch on Chase Brown. 1:39:41.720 --> 1:39:44.960 There are guys that that it just becomes just how 1:39:45.000 --> 1:39:47.519 they carry themselves, how how the look in their eye 1:39:47.560 --> 1:39:49.920 when you talk to him, how you see him go 1:39:49.960 --> 1:39:53.520 about their day in the building. Uh, it just becomes 1:39:53.680 --> 1:39:57.639 apparent very very early that like this guy's obsessive about 1:39:57.800 --> 1:40:02.280 his preparation, there's a whatever, there's something motivating him that's 1:40:02.640 --> 1:40:05.480 unusual even at this level of highly. 1:40:05.200 --> 1:40:08.040 Highly motivated people. And I would put him in that bucket. 1:40:11.320 --> 1:40:13.080 Preparation that accurate. 1:40:14.000 --> 1:40:18.439 Yeah, that's that's that's what I am. I want to 1:40:18.479 --> 1:40:21.280 be great at what I do and uh, you know, 1:40:21.320 --> 1:40:25.160 I don't take this opportunity in the NFL lightly like 1:40:25.240 --> 1:40:25.960 I want to. 1:40:26.000 --> 1:40:28.040 I want to do big things. So there's a lot 1:40:28.080 --> 1:40:28.720 that comes with that. 1:40:28.960 --> 1:40:38.240 And yeah, my my daily routine, my preparation, my film preparation, 1:40:38.439 --> 1:40:43.200 like everything that goes into a game week is you know, 1:40:43.320 --> 1:40:45.439 has been planned and thought about well before this season 1:40:45.439 --> 1:40:48.200 even started. So you know, I'm doing everything I can 1:40:48.320 --> 1:40:50.600 to be the best version of myself on Sundays. And 1:40:50.840 --> 1:40:54.680 you know, that's really nice a pitch to UH to 1:40:54.880 --> 1:40:57.360 recognize that and say those words. 1:40:57.479 --> 1:41:01.000 Yeah, as he said, there's something beyond the norm that 1:41:01.160 --> 1:41:02.599 motivates you. What is that? 1:41:03.280 --> 1:41:06.880 Yeah, that's a great question. I just want to prove 1:41:06.920 --> 1:41:08.479 it to myself that you know, I. 1:41:08.439 --> 1:41:08.800 Can be. 1:41:12.840 --> 1:41:14.840 I can be a dominant player in this league. And 1:41:14.880 --> 1:41:16.760 you know that's why I'm still chasing. And that's that's 1:41:16.800 --> 1:41:20.800 what motivates me, is the best version of myself. And 1:41:21.479 --> 1:41:24.080 you know, the little the little checklist that I go 1:41:24.200 --> 1:41:27.719 through every single day, it feels like I'm I'm taking 1:41:27.720 --> 1:41:30.960 a step forward every single time. I I do everything, 1:41:30.960 --> 1:41:35.840 whether it's you know, getting in the tubs, you know. 1:41:35.880 --> 1:41:38.880 Watching the blitz tape, watching. 1:41:38.600 --> 1:41:44.000 The run tape, and just mentally going into every single 1:41:44.080 --> 1:41:47.200 day with the mindset that I'm going to try and 1:41:47.479 --> 1:41:50.760 help this team win and they're gonna get the best 1:41:50.960 --> 1:41:52.320 ursion of me on a daily basis. 1:41:52.600 --> 1:41:55.400 Is it a literal checklist? Do you actually have a 1:41:55.439 --> 1:41:57.200 list of things that you make sure that you do? 1:41:57.360 --> 1:41:59.840 Yeah, so I made this list. I made this list 1:41:59.840 --> 1:42:05.519 well before the season. I sat down with my trainer, 1:42:05.600 --> 1:42:08.599 slash like mental coach, like he's kind of all in one, 1:42:08.760 --> 1:42:12.160 but you know, we we went through things that you 1:42:12.200 --> 1:42:14.800 know you can kind of go over and you can 1:42:14.840 --> 1:42:20.240 do on a daily basis to to I guess not 1:42:20.360 --> 1:42:23.479 like settle your mind, but it's it's just things that 1:42:23.520 --> 1:42:24.280 you do too. 1:42:25.920 --> 1:42:26.679 To be successful. 1:42:26.680 --> 1:42:28.599 Because there's so many things that you know, you could 1:42:28.640 --> 1:42:30.280 I could have gone into this season saying yeah, I 1:42:30.280 --> 1:42:31.479 want to I want to have a Pro Bowl. I 1:42:31.520 --> 1:42:33.920 want to you know, I want to go for fifteen 1:42:34.000 --> 1:42:36.800 hundred all purpose yards. But that's so there's so much 1:42:36.840 --> 1:42:39.599 that goes into doing that, and you know that starts 1:42:39.640 --> 1:42:42.160 with Okay, how how are you gonna prepare on a 1:42:42.240 --> 1:42:44.719 daily basis. How are you taking care of your body, 1:42:44.760 --> 1:42:48.519 how are you watching film? How are you preparing yourself 1:42:48.880 --> 1:42:51.559 to go out and do those things. So that's what 1:42:51.600 --> 1:42:53.160 we talked about, and that's kind of how we broke 1:42:53.200 --> 1:42:56.080 it down. And yeah, there there's a list, but I 1:42:56.160 --> 1:42:59.559 kind of have it memorized now, and uh, you know, 1:42:59.600 --> 1:43:01.160 every day I just go through it. 1:43:01.200 --> 1:43:05.320 Is that trainer, mental coach, the wide receiver guru that 1:43:05.360 --> 1:43:09.720 you visited with, and yeah, Lieberman. 1:43:09.400 --> 1:43:11.400 Is yeah, Drew, Drew, Yeah, you know Drew. 1:43:11.439 --> 1:43:14.599 So, yeah, Drew and I have been working for two 1:43:14.680 --> 1:43:16.920 years now and he's doing a lot. 1:43:16.960 --> 1:43:17.479 He's done a lot. 1:43:17.520 --> 1:43:21.240 He's helped me, you know, become a much better player 1:43:21.320 --> 1:43:22.960 than I was when I first got into league. So 1:43:24.200 --> 1:43:25.880 I have so much respect for the guy too, just 1:43:25.880 --> 1:43:28.679 the way that he handles himself and he handles himself 1:43:28.680 --> 1:43:30.840 as a trainer because you work with a ton of people, 1:43:31.040 --> 1:43:33.760 and uh, you never know what to expect out of 1:43:34.360 --> 1:43:36.280 some of these trainers that you know, you work within 1:43:36.280 --> 1:43:38.559 the off season because they're not even that you know, 1:43:38.600 --> 1:43:41.520 prepared themselves. But he is one person that is legitimately, 1:43:42.720 --> 1:43:44.439 you know, one of the most prepared people I've ever 1:43:44.439 --> 1:43:47.400 been around, so learned a lot from him, going to 1:43:47.439 --> 1:43:50.040 continue to work with him, but yeah, it's been it's 1:43:50.040 --> 1:43:50.639 been a blessing. 1:43:51.000 --> 1:43:53.479 Describe your friendship with Andre and how the two of 1:43:53.520 --> 1:43:54.559 you have pushed each other. 1:43:54.920 --> 1:43:57.000 Yeah, Dre and I are are. 1:43:57.280 --> 1:44:00.160 So we came into the league later draft picks, the 1:44:00.200 --> 1:44:02.720 fifth I think he was a sixth on pick, and 1:44:03.479 --> 1:44:08.720 we kind of connected on that initially knowing that, you know, 1:44:08.720 --> 1:44:12.280 our opportunities weren't promised and you know, our you know, 1:44:12.560 --> 1:44:16.240 are you know, making the team wasn't promise, So everything 1:44:16.280 --> 1:44:18.120 that we did on a daily basis was important. The 1:44:18.120 --> 1:44:21.120 way that you know, we we handled ourselves when we 1:44:21.160 --> 1:44:23.320 got opportunities in practice, what are we making of those? 1:44:23.360 --> 1:44:24.639 And then what are you gonna do with that first 1:44:24.680 --> 1:44:29.640 off season? Because I think there's like I think that 1:44:29.800 --> 1:44:32.880 second season, that second training camp will tell you a 1:44:32.880 --> 1:44:35.599 lot about a player, like are they going to continue 1:44:35.640 --> 1:44:38.080 to take steps forward or are they going to regress? 1:44:38.160 --> 1:44:41.400 And I think I think that there's a lot to 1:44:41.439 --> 1:44:42.160 take away from that. 1:44:42.400 --> 1:44:45.439 And we were two guys that made the most of 1:44:45.439 --> 1:44:48.120 that offseason, came into camp ready and then when we 1:44:48.160 --> 1:44:50.720 both got our opportunities, you know, we've been able to do. 1:44:50.720 --> 1:44:51.320 A lot with them. 1:44:51.880 --> 1:44:54.800 I still can't figure out why you lasted until the 1:44:54.800 --> 1:44:57.680 fifth round. You probably can't either, but you put up 1:44:57.720 --> 1:45:01.240 monster numbers at Illinois. You crushed it the scouting combine 1:45:02.320 --> 1:45:05.639 decent size, two hundred and ten pounds. Did you ever 1:45:05.680 --> 1:45:09.240 get any intel for why you were not taken earlier? 1:45:10.000 --> 1:45:11.760 Honestly, I haven't put much thought on into that. I 1:45:11.800 --> 1:45:13.960 don't really care to be honest, Like where I went, 1:45:15.760 --> 1:45:18.679 I'm a true believer that you know, God works behind 1:45:18.680 --> 1:45:20.519 the scenes all the time. So I think you know 1:45:21.680 --> 1:45:24.720 me going the fifth round was you know the reason 1:45:24.760 --> 1:45:26.559 why I'm here. It's the reason why I'm here, right, 1:45:26.640 --> 1:45:29.680 And there's an opportunity to be made of And you 1:45:29.680 --> 1:45:31.880 know I've been putting the position to make plays and 1:45:32.280 --> 1:45:33.559 I couldn't be more grateful for that. 1:45:33.760 --> 1:45:35.120 So I think I'm in the perfect spot. 1:45:36.320 --> 1:45:38.559 The Running Game obviously got off to a slow start 1:45:38.600 --> 1:45:42.559 this season. Last week it was tremendous, But I really 1:45:42.560 --> 1:45:46.400 thought a couple of weeks before that we saw progress. No, 1:45:46.680 --> 1:45:49.600 the Denver Game team had eighty five yards, but the 1:45:49.600 --> 1:45:52.640 efficiency was better Green Game, Green, Gray Game that the 1:45:52.680 --> 1:45:55.880 efficiency was even better than that, And then we saw 1:45:55.880 --> 1:45:58.240 it kind of culminate with this huge game against the 1:45:58.240 --> 1:46:00.559 Steelers on Thursday night. Could you feel could you see 1:46:00.640 --> 1:46:01.479 it that it was moving. 1:46:01.320 --> 1:46:03.080 In the right direction and kind of tell every single 1:46:03.120 --> 1:46:07.920 week that we're taking steps forward. Early against Cleveland, like 1:46:08.040 --> 1:46:12.000 you know, we struggled in some areas, but I think 1:46:12.000 --> 1:46:15.200 that the main thing and the biggest takeaway from all 1:46:15.240 --> 1:46:18.559 of that was just not to panic. I don't I think, 1:46:19.520 --> 1:46:21.679 and this isn't a shot against like the general public. 1:46:21.880 --> 1:46:26.200 I mean, you've been around football for a long time 1:46:26.360 --> 1:46:30.040 and you understand that you just don't panic in situations 1:46:30.040 --> 1:46:30.280 like that. 1:46:30.360 --> 1:46:31.000 You're you don't. 1:46:31.080 --> 1:46:34.599 You don't start pointing fingers, you you don't start blaming 1:46:34.640 --> 1:46:36.639 the coordinator. You don't blame the old line, you don't 1:46:36.680 --> 1:46:39.559 blame the running backs. Like you know, everybody in that 1:46:39.600 --> 1:46:42.280 locker room is there for a reason. And that team, 1:46:42.400 --> 1:46:45.400 the team that we put together this year, I mean 1:46:45.640 --> 1:46:48.559 we were we we've been successful, we've all been together. 1:46:48.640 --> 1:46:51.000 This is like it feels like there's not a single 1:46:51.040 --> 1:46:53.760 face on that old line or in that locker room 1:46:53.800 --> 1:46:55.559 that I haven't seen for at least two years now. 1:46:55.640 --> 1:46:59.360 So we have all the right pieces. It's really about execution. 1:47:00.000 --> 1:47:03.600 Acution is a big part of it, and kind of 1:47:03.600 --> 1:47:05.679 got off to a rocky start against Cleveland, like we 1:47:05.680 --> 1:47:11.120 we started off that first drive unbelievable, but took a 1:47:11.160 --> 1:47:12.880 step back and then you know, Joe gets hurt. There 1:47:13.120 --> 1:47:16.880 was a lot going on. So the one thing I 1:47:16.920 --> 1:47:19.160 respect the most is we weren't pointing fingers. We were 1:47:19.240 --> 1:47:22.320 all looking for ways to make this run game better, 1:47:22.439 --> 1:47:25.160 to to get better as an offense, because I think 1:47:25.200 --> 1:47:30.080 overall efficiency wasn't that good. But you know when I think, 1:47:30.160 --> 1:47:32.559 I think when you when you look at those first 1:47:33.360 --> 1:47:37.040 six games and then you take away a couple of them. 1:47:37.080 --> 1:47:40.160 So the first four games, four to five games, we 1:47:40.160 --> 1:47:43.760 weren't able to really stress the perimeter, and then you know, 1:47:43.800 --> 1:47:45.960 you go look at Green Bay where we get into 1:47:46.000 --> 1:47:47.439 a little bit of a mo drome. We're getting the 1:47:47.479 --> 1:47:50.160 ball out quick and Jamar is getting yeap yards after catch, 1:47:50.160 --> 1:47:52.120 and we're kind of we're kind of spitting the ball 1:47:52.160 --> 1:47:53.960 out all over the place and we're putting the defense 1:47:54.000 --> 1:47:54.479 on their heels. 1:47:54.479 --> 1:47:55.200 We're picking up. 1:47:56.680 --> 1:47:59.240 These exotic blitzes, and you know, we're starting to be 1:47:59.240 --> 1:48:00.960 more efficient in the run the game because you know 1:48:01.080 --> 1:48:05.360 that the defense isn't able to predict what we're doing. 1:48:05.360 --> 1:48:07.160 Like as an offense, we were less predictable. And then 1:48:07.200 --> 1:48:09.800 you go fast forward to the Steelers game and it's 1:48:09.840 --> 1:48:10.720 like we were in. 1:48:10.760 --> 1:48:12.400 Total control the entire time. 1:48:12.560 --> 1:48:17.960 Like you obviously with that if you go back and 1:48:18.000 --> 1:48:21.640 watch a film, the execution was off the charge, like 1:48:21.720 --> 1:48:25.120 everybody did a great job. Like Dult stepped in and 1:48:25.200 --> 1:48:29.080 I mean he was he was doing Everybody was doing 1:48:29.120 --> 1:48:31.920 really well. So I think that's a big thing. It's 1:48:31.960 --> 1:48:36.080 a team sport. When the receivers are doing well, we're 1:48:36.080 --> 1:48:38.080 doing well. When we're doing well, they're doing well. So 1:48:38.400 --> 1:48:40.920 I think that's the story of the first six games is. 1:48:42.880 --> 1:48:43.760 We just gotta be better. 1:48:43.800 --> 1:48:46.080 We gotta, we gotta, we gotta, we gotta play as 1:48:46.080 --> 1:48:48.519 a unit, we gotta, we gotta be efficient on early downs. 1:48:48.560 --> 1:48:52.400 And if we're doing that, you know that's the result 1:48:52.400 --> 1:48:56.280 you're gonna get offensively, You're gonna see an efficient, fast paced, 1:48:56.640 --> 1:48:57.639 explosive offense. 1:48:58.439 --> 1:49:02.240 I think blitz pick up is the most underrated skill 1:49:02.840 --> 1:49:06.680 in football because you know, on the one hand, you 1:49:06.760 --> 1:49:09.720 picture it as all right, you're probably a smaller guy 1:49:09.760 --> 1:49:12.160 trying to block a bigger guy, which in and of 1:49:12.200 --> 1:49:15.760 itself is challenging, but I think the mental aspect of 1:49:15.840 --> 1:49:19.679 knowing where it is coming from takes so much prep 1:49:20.280 --> 1:49:23.080 and practice and ability, and to do it as well 1:49:23.120 --> 1:49:24.960 as you're doing it, I think is pretty incredible. 1:49:25.120 --> 1:49:28.439 Yeah, Coach Coach Hill, my running backs coach. He does 1:49:28.479 --> 1:49:32.320 the protection plan every single week. So as a running 1:49:32.320 --> 1:49:34.800 back unit, we take a lot of pride in protection. Like, 1:49:34.840 --> 1:49:37.840 I think one thing that stands out the most with 1:49:37.960 --> 1:49:40.639 him especially is and he says all the time, it's 1:49:40.720 --> 1:49:43.760 like last year it was like, you know, keep number 1:49:43.800 --> 1:49:46.360 nine safe, Everything's gonna be good, and that's kind of 1:49:46.400 --> 1:49:50.280 been the story. But he takes a ton of pride 1:49:50.320 --> 1:49:52.800 in you know, how we protect, how physical we are 1:49:53.680 --> 1:49:57.799 stepping up on these blocks, and yeah, he's not settling 1:49:57.920 --> 1:50:00.640 for you know, soft blocking. So I I figured that 1:50:00.680 --> 1:50:04.240 out early on, and you know, last year I was 1:50:04.240 --> 1:50:05.960 able to kind of step into that third down role 1:50:06.080 --> 1:50:07.880 and there's a lot of opportunity that came out of that. 1:50:07.920 --> 1:50:11.080 And this year I've been able to you know, step 1:50:11.200 --> 1:50:13.639 up and continue to take steps forward in that area 1:50:13.680 --> 1:50:17.599 of my game. So but a huge, a huge tribute 1:50:17.600 --> 1:50:21.080 to him for that because it's not easy, like, especially 1:50:21.120 --> 1:50:23.080 as a rookie coming in. I think that's probably the 1:50:23.120 --> 1:50:26.320 hardest thing. That was the hardest thing for me at least, 1:50:26.439 --> 1:50:34.120 was you know, learning the. 1:50:30.400 --> 1:50:32.280 The call, the protection calls. 1:50:32.400 --> 1:50:35.120 You know, whether it was a four man sword or 1:50:35.120 --> 1:50:37.400 a three man sword, which side was the sword side, 1:50:37.400 --> 1:50:39.360 which on the man's side. You know, all these different 1:50:39.360 --> 1:50:42.840 protections that we have in and you know, once I 1:50:42.880 --> 1:50:44.880 was able to learn that, could play a lot faster 1:50:45.240 --> 1:50:47.439 and could step on those books a lot better. 1:50:47.880 --> 1:50:49.920 Chase Brown is our guest. We are live at the 1:50:50.000 --> 1:50:52.519 on the Ryan Eatery here in downtown Cincinnati. It's the 1:50:52.520 --> 1:50:55.479 Bengals pep Rowley Show presented by Just Pared Chicken. We'll 1:50:55.520 --> 1:50:57.920 take the time out and come back with more with 1:50:58.000 --> 1:50:59.960 number thirty and just the mom but here on five 1:51:00.120 --> 1:51:05.080 Sports thirteen sixty, the Bengals line up in a pistol 1:51:05.120 --> 1:51:08.599 formation with Chase Brown behind Joe Burrow. All goes in motion. 1:51:08.680 --> 1:51:10.559 They give it to Chase Brown. He's got the first 1:51:10.640 --> 1:51:12.479 two or to them into the field. 1:51:12.680 --> 1:51:19.280 Ten five rolls into the end zone, touchdown Bengals with 1:51:19.560 --> 1:51:24.680 one fifty two to go, and that is coffin nails. 1:51:24.720 --> 1:51:27.799 Bam bam bam Chase Brown. 1:51:28.200 --> 1:51:30.880 Once he crossed the line of scrimmage. It's almost like 1:51:30.920 --> 1:51:32.920 he stuck his hand up to say goodbye. 1:51:33.960 --> 1:51:36.519 Chase Brown, our special guest today last year and a 1:51:36.560 --> 1:51:39.479 win over the New York Giants at thirty yard touchdown 1:51:39.560 --> 1:51:42.760 run essentially put the game away. As you probably know, 1:51:43.080 --> 1:51:47.720 Chase was born in Canada. Grew up not far from Toronto, 1:51:47.840 --> 1:51:48.960 right London, Ontario. 1:51:49.080 --> 1:51:50.559 Yup, it's right there. You know the area. 1:51:50.640 --> 1:51:53.360 So how excited are you about the World Series? Are you? 1:51:53.760 --> 1:51:56.519 It's great, no Toronto going. I didn't watch it, like, 1:51:56.920 --> 1:51:58.559 we didn't sit there and watch it. But all my 1:51:58.600 --> 1:52:01.040 buddies back home we're paying tension and they followed the 1:52:01.040 --> 1:52:04.759 whole series and uh, I really didn't know what to expect, 1:52:04.840 --> 1:52:07.640 like uh and uh when I saw them one, it 1:52:07.680 --> 1:52:09.320 was a big time. But I was Actually my brother 1:52:09.360 --> 1:52:11.680 and I were able to go visit the clubhouse in 1:52:11.720 --> 1:52:13.439 the summer, great time. 1:52:13.840 --> 1:52:14.320 Uh. 1:52:14.720 --> 1:52:16.439 Tem of good guys in that locker room and they 1:52:16.479 --> 1:52:19.040 were giving us gear and so much round. It's it's 1:52:19.040 --> 1:52:22.080 so crazy what the clubhouse is like. It's like a 1:52:22.120 --> 1:52:25.160 different Their work day seems so much different than ours 1:52:25.840 --> 1:52:28.439 and the way that they like travel like it's just 1:52:28.680 --> 1:52:31.120 they're telling me stories and I'm like yeah. 1:52:30.960 --> 1:52:36.000 We we have a curt we have a curfew, and 1:52:36.280 --> 1:52:39.160 obviously we don't travel with their families, but their families travel. 1:52:38.880 --> 1:52:42.280 With them and they you know, stay in in the 1:52:42.320 --> 1:52:46.080 same hotel and it's. 1:52:45.880 --> 1:52:48.479 Just so much different like between all like with an 1:52:48.520 --> 1:52:49.519 all sports, it's different. 1:52:49.600 --> 1:52:52.760 So uh, yeah, it was cool get to meet them 1:52:52.760 --> 1:52:55.479 and see the whole clubhouse, and you know, fast forward 1:52:55.520 --> 1:52:56.920 to now them being the World Series. 1:52:56.960 --> 1:52:59.720 It kind of it's big time. I mean, anytime a. 1:52:59.800 --> 1:53:05.080 To a Canadian team makes it to that big championship game, 1:53:05.640 --> 1:53:06.200 it's huge. 1:53:06.240 --> 1:53:09.439 Like when the Raptors won the. 1:53:09.320 --> 1:53:16.639 NBA Finals, I mean they about destroyed Toronto, down street 1:53:16.720 --> 1:53:21.280 lights and flipping garbage cans and just doing the most 1:53:21.360 --> 1:53:24.599 so tons of energy up there. I know the city 1:53:24.680 --> 1:53:27.879 is really proud. Every Canadian is probably following. 1:53:28.000 --> 1:53:28.960 So no, it's awesome. 1:53:29.040 --> 1:53:31.719 And since the Montreal Expos are no longer in Montreal, 1:53:31.760 --> 1:53:34.080 it is truly Canada's team. There used to be you know, 1:53:34.200 --> 1:53:37.599 two splitting up the attention, but now the entire country 1:53:37.600 --> 1:53:39.280 will be rooting for the Blue Jays. 1:53:39.360 --> 1:53:41.479 Yes, yes, and then you have all the hockey teams 1:53:41.520 --> 1:53:43.840 up there too, so hopefully hopefully going to see all 1:53:43.840 --> 1:53:46.360 three of those Toronto teams to make it, so you know, 1:53:46.439 --> 1:53:49.679 Toronto Raptors, Blue Jays win it, then the Leafs. 1:53:49.720 --> 1:53:50.479 That's the last one. 1:53:50.680 --> 1:53:51.840 So it's been a while. 1:53:52.320 --> 1:53:52.519 Yeah. 1:53:52.880 --> 1:53:56.479 So when I was just graduating from college, one of 1:53:56.520 --> 1:54:00.280 my first jobs was a minor league baseball broadcaster and 1:54:00.400 --> 1:54:03.080 the team that I worked for was the top affiliate 1:54:03.120 --> 1:54:05.840 for the Toronto Blue Jays. So when they won their 1:54:05.840 --> 1:54:08.680 back to back World Series in the early nineties, those 1:54:08.760 --> 1:54:11.680 were guys that I had gotten to know in my 1:54:12.080 --> 1:54:15.840 early fledgling broadcasting career, so I was a huge Blue 1:54:15.880 --> 1:54:18.880 Jays fan back then. I actually got to do a 1:54:18.880 --> 1:54:22.519 few Blue Jays games very early in my career. So 1:54:22.680 --> 1:54:26.160 because I was doing the minor league team, I would 1:54:26.240 --> 1:54:29.519 go up to Toronto every September after our season was 1:54:29.520 --> 1:54:32.360 finished nice and the Blue Jays announcers would put me on, 1:54:32.480 --> 1:54:34.000 which was a huge thrill. You know, I was in 1:54:34.040 --> 1:54:36.960 my early twenties. It was my dreams. So I have 1:54:37.080 --> 1:54:38.360 this affinity for the Blue Jays. 1:54:38.400 --> 1:54:39.680 What do you think about Toronto? 1:54:39.760 --> 1:54:42.680 Were you able to love Toronto? So I grew up 1:54:42.720 --> 1:54:46.160 a little bit south of Buffalo and my family, I'm 1:54:46.200 --> 1:54:48.920 one of five kids. We would go to Toronto on 1:54:49.040 --> 1:54:51.120 vacation pretty much every Easter. 1:54:51.680 --> 1:54:51.960 Nice. 1:54:52.000 --> 1:54:55.480 The Harlem Globe Trotters always played Easter. We would go 1:54:55.520 --> 1:54:57.640 see the Globe Trotters. We would go, you know, see 1:54:57.640 --> 1:55:01.160 sporting events and stuff. So I am a big Toronto fan. 1:55:01.320 --> 1:55:04.200 That's great. That's great. Well I'm a big Toronto fan 1:55:04.240 --> 1:55:05.960 as well, so we have something in common. 1:55:06.000 --> 1:55:09.160 This conversation is becoming about me, which is not the intent. 1:55:09.320 --> 1:55:11.680 I will say one more thing though. The first professional 1:55:11.800 --> 1:55:15.360 football game I ever saw was not NFL. It was CFL. 1:55:15.400 --> 1:55:17.440 Who was playing Hamilton Tiger Cats. 1:55:17.520 --> 1:55:21.240 Oh that's like an hour from my health Go. Yeah, nice. 1:55:21.520 --> 1:55:24.200 Did you play Canadian rules football as a kid or 1:55:24.240 --> 1:55:25.840 did you always play America rules? 1:55:26.080 --> 1:55:27.080 That's a great. Yeah. 1:55:27.120 --> 1:55:30.160 So it's interesting and I hope they make the change 1:55:30.320 --> 1:55:35.320 because I think football, just like all other sports worldwide, 1:55:35.400 --> 1:55:36.880 should have the same rules. 1:55:38.520 --> 1:55:40.720 But obviously, if people don't know. 1:55:40.600 --> 1:55:46.680 They're the the CFL, there's a Canadian version of football, 1:55:46.720 --> 1:55:48.960 which is it's still football, but the rules are different. 1:55:49.000 --> 1:55:52.560 Like you have three downs instead of four, The field 1:55:52.640 --> 1:55:55.760 is wider and longer. The end zones are huge, like 1:55:56.840 --> 1:56:00.880 I mean like when you're when you're in the red zone. 1:56:00.920 --> 1:56:01.840 It's really like you're. 1:56:01.680 --> 1:56:05.240 At midfield, like you could you could call like those. 1:56:05.480 --> 1:56:08.280 They're twenty yards right, drive to start twenty yards. 1:56:08.280 --> 1:56:12.680 They're huge, like you could at twenty yards like, yeah, 1:56:12.680 --> 1:56:14.480 you don't need much finesse to to win. 1:56:14.880 --> 1:56:18.280 And it ends on that big. So eventually, I really 1:56:18.360 --> 1:56:21.640 hope they do, uh change the. 1:56:21.720 --> 1:56:25.440 Rules to just like the Americans like, and I think 1:56:25.480 --> 1:56:27.640 that'd be so much better because then when you know, 1:56:28.320 --> 1:56:31.680 kids are being scouted up there and evaluated to you know, 1:56:31.720 --> 1:56:34.600 maybe playing a college in the US, they're not like, oh, like, 1:56:35.240 --> 1:56:37.440 you know, this kid isn't that good, and like he's 1:56:37.520 --> 1:56:39.560 he's playing on this huge field and he has all 1:56:39.600 --> 1:56:43.800 this space to do everything, and yeah, that's just that's 1:56:43.800 --> 1:56:44.880 just something I hope they change. 1:56:45.120 --> 1:56:48.160 Did you follow the CFL or did you follow the NFL? 1:56:48.200 --> 1:56:53.320 Growing up, always NFL CFO was the goal at one point, 1:56:53.360 --> 1:56:56.960 and then the NFL. You know, the NFL was always 1:56:56.960 --> 1:56:58.720 a goal. I think for every young kid, the NFL 1:56:58.760 --> 1:57:01.960 is always a goal. But when you're growing up in Canada, 1:57:02.240 --> 1:57:04.840 it's hard to see like you're not you know, it's 1:57:04.840 --> 1:57:07.760 not like I'm trying to find a good example. But 1:57:08.920 --> 1:57:11.920 when my brother and I moved down to Florida, You're 1:57:12.000 --> 1:57:14.960 just you're You're around all these different high schools, and 1:57:16.120 --> 1:57:19.240 every single one of those high schools have somebody that 1:57:19.400 --> 1:57:22.840 has some sort of relationship to the NFL, whether it's 1:57:23.120 --> 1:57:25.440 a player or a cousin or grandpa and uncle. Like, 1:57:26.120 --> 1:57:28.600 you know, the NFL is just such a big thing 1:57:28.680 --> 1:57:32.760 down here, and as it should be, like it's it's 1:57:32.800 --> 1:57:36.120 America's game. So when we were at when when we 1:57:36.160 --> 1:57:40.160 had the opportunity to to get around that and indulge 1:57:40.200 --> 1:57:42.320 in that American football culture. 1:57:43.560 --> 1:57:46.600 Changes a lot. It just felt like it felt like 1:57:46.680 --> 1:57:48.040 the NFL was like a real thing. 1:57:48.280 --> 1:57:51.440 And then you go to college and you know, you're 1:57:51.480 --> 1:57:54.080 you're you're building your confidence up, you're trying to find 1:57:54.080 --> 1:57:56.600 ways to make plays in college, and then you start 1:57:56.600 --> 1:57:59.000 making those plays and then the NFL is like right there. 1:57:59.160 --> 1:58:05.240 So I think when I started making plays in college. 1:58:05.000 --> 1:58:10.040 I would sit there and think to myself that, you know, 1:58:10.160 --> 1:58:13.760 I could really make this football didn't work, And you 1:58:13.800 --> 1:58:15.920 know I was able to do that and still have 1:58:15.920 --> 1:58:18.560 a ton of football ahead and so many more things 1:58:18.600 --> 1:58:20.240 I want to achieve in this league and do. 1:58:21.360 --> 1:58:23.720 But it's really just getting that. 1:58:23.680 --> 1:58:28.160 First opportunity in your foot in the door and once 1:58:28.200 --> 1:58:30.720 you have that, I mean, I mean, make the. 1:58:30.680 --> 1:58:31.200 Most of it. 1:58:32.080 --> 1:58:34.160 Chase Brown is our guest. We're going to take a 1:58:34.200 --> 1:58:35.920 time out. When we come back, we'll hear from his 1:58:35.920 --> 1:58:40.440 head coach, Zach Taylor talking about our special guest this afternoon, 1:58:40.520 --> 1:58:43.040 Bengals running back Chase Brown. This is the Bengals pep 1:58:43.080 --> 1:58:45.320 Rowley Show. We're live at the on the Rye Eatery, 1:58:45.400 --> 1:58:48.240 the food Haul above the downtown Kroger at Court and Walnut. 1:58:48.320 --> 1:58:51.839 We're here until six o'clock tonight on Fox Sports thirteen sixty. 1:58:53.440 --> 1:58:53.880 Black Up. 1:58:54.360 --> 1:58:56.480 Extend the ball. Brown up the middle of the field 1:58:56.480 --> 1:58:58.800 of the thirty racing of the thirty five, tends to 1:58:58.840 --> 1:59:02.560 the forty far side line, forty five fifty forty five 1:59:02.840 --> 1:59:07.600 and finally tackled at the Pittsburgh thirty nine yard line. 1:59:07.880 --> 1:59:11.920 Cameron Hayward running down the field along with Patrick Queen. 1:59:12.360 --> 1:59:15.040 That's a thirty seven yard run on the first play 1:59:15.080 --> 1:59:17.600 of the drive for Chase Brown. One of two long 1:59:17.720 --> 1:59:20.400 runs for Chase Brown last week, a thirty seven and 1:59:20.440 --> 1:59:22.840 a twenty seven and a one hundred and eight yard 1:59:22.920 --> 1:59:26.120 rushing performance in the win of the Pittsburgh Steelers. You've 1:59:26.120 --> 1:59:28.360 got the Jets coming to town on Sunday. Let's talk 1:59:28.360 --> 1:59:31.280 a little bit about this challenge. The Jets are zero 1:59:31.320 --> 1:59:34.160 and seven. That speaks for itself. But they've got a 1:59:34.160 --> 1:59:38.040 lot of good players on defense, particularly upfront. Do you 1:59:38.200 --> 1:59:41.200 view that as the strength of the defense you're facing 1:59:41.240 --> 1:59:41.760 this week? 1:59:41.960 --> 1:59:45.080 Yeah, they have a lot of good players, and I 1:59:45.120 --> 1:59:48.880 think their team that are judged way too much by 1:59:48.880 --> 1:59:51.320 their record. If you look at this series of game 1:59:51.360 --> 1:59:54.640 that they played a lot more close and they lose, 1:59:54.880 --> 1:59:57.120 they lose those games on the very last drive and 1:59:57.160 --> 2:00:00.320 we're talking like, you know, less than seven points games 2:00:00.320 --> 2:00:00.840 that they could have been. 2:00:03.040 --> 2:00:04.320 So yeah, so it's like you know. 2:00:04.280 --> 2:00:07.440 You you you look at that and you think of 2:00:07.520 --> 2:00:11.240 us last season. We we I mean, unfortunately we lost 2:00:11.520 --> 2:00:14.920 games like that a lot last year too. So I 2:00:15.040 --> 2:00:18.000 just see them as a team that, you know, I 2:00:18.080 --> 2:00:20.480 have a lot of good players, have a ton of talent. 2:00:21.400 --> 2:00:23.720 They're gonna play hard every single week is the NFL, 2:00:23.800 --> 2:00:25.160 Like it's your job to go out. 2:00:25.040 --> 2:00:28.920 There and perform. But you know, we're not. 2:00:29.000 --> 2:00:29.240 We're not. 2:00:29.280 --> 2:00:31.960 We're not gonna take them lately like we we know that, 2:00:34.000 --> 2:00:36.600 you know we're gonna we gotta start fast. Number One obviously, 2:00:36.760 --> 2:00:40.240 but you can't take them lately like you. You can't 2:00:40.280 --> 2:00:41.960 look at their record and be like, this is gonna 2:00:41.960 --> 2:00:43.840 be an easy week, because the next thing you know, 2:00:43.840 --> 2:00:44.760 you get punched in the face. 2:00:44.840 --> 2:00:45.600 Right, you have a loss. 2:00:45.680 --> 2:00:50.720 Right, So everybody's working really hard in the building, and 2:00:50.760 --> 2:00:52.880 I'm excited to get out there finally play. I feel 2:00:52.920 --> 2:00:54.560 there's so much build up every single week to the 2:00:54.600 --> 2:00:57.360 Sunday games when you have a full week to prepare. 2:00:58.880 --> 2:01:00.640 And around this time you try to go out there 2:01:00.680 --> 2:01:01.000 and play. 2:01:01.160 --> 2:01:03.440 Did you do anything fun during your mini bie after 2:01:03.440 --> 2:01:04.360 a Thursday night game. 2:01:05.400 --> 2:01:09.200 I'm just like everybody else, man, Like I go home, 2:01:09.280 --> 2:01:10.280 I watched Netflix. 2:01:11.000 --> 2:01:14.720 I changed diapers, So you know, I'm not that much 2:01:14.760 --> 2:01:16.280 different than you know anybody in here. 2:01:16.360 --> 2:01:18.560 I just played football. That's the only difference. 2:01:18.720 --> 2:01:21.720 Well, I didn't change any diapers, so you didn't change diapers. 2:01:21.880 --> 2:01:24.919 My son is nineteen, so thankfully I'm not changing any diapers. 2:01:24.960 --> 2:01:27.720 That's good and he's a college student who's out of town. 2:01:27.800 --> 2:01:30.480 But good that you guys could relax after a win. 2:01:30.960 --> 2:01:34.880 Had that game wound up a Pittsburgh win, you still 2:01:34.880 --> 2:01:36.720 would have kicked back a little bit. But it's tough 2:01:36.720 --> 2:01:40.160 to really enjoy it unless you have that Thursday night victory. 2:01:40.040 --> 2:01:42.160 Right, No doubt exactly, because you're just moving on to 2:01:42.200 --> 2:01:44.880 the next game. But yeah, it was nice to relax 2:01:44.920 --> 2:01:48.040 a little bit. I don't think people realize how much 2:01:48.360 --> 2:01:51.480 work goes into a Thursday night game though, Like you, 2:01:51.480 --> 2:01:54.400 you think about a full week of preparation that is 2:01:54.520 --> 2:02:02.560 condensed into basically three days. So yeah, there's there's a 2:02:02.600 --> 2:02:04.720 lot of work. And I know the coaches have it 2:02:04.840 --> 2:02:06.840 worse than us because we we we get we get 2:02:06.880 --> 2:02:09.280 out around you know, the one that we got out 2:02:09.320 --> 2:02:10.960 at like eight pm, that's pretty good. 2:02:11.320 --> 2:02:14.880 And uh, but the coaches, I know they're in there. 2:02:14.920 --> 2:02:17.280 They're they're working in the game plan, they're they're working 2:02:17.320 --> 2:02:20.160 on all these installs of protection plan and X, Y 2:02:20.240 --> 2:02:20.520 and Z. 2:02:20.560 --> 2:02:22.480 All the things that they have to do. So it's 2:02:22.480 --> 2:02:23.920 not like the preparation. 2:02:23.600 --> 2:02:26.280 Changes, but it's just a short period of time. So yeah, 2:02:26.320 --> 2:02:29.320 there's a lot that goes into those Thursday night games. 2:02:29.360 --> 2:02:31.960 But on the back end of it, you know, you 2:02:32.000 --> 2:02:33.280 get to enjoy the long weekend. 2:02:33.360 --> 2:02:36.680 So so this is Ring of Honor Induction weekend. Two 2:02:36.760 --> 2:02:39.280 guys that played long before you were born are going 2:02:39.280 --> 2:02:41.839 into the Bengals Ring of Honor this week former cornerback 2:02:41.880 --> 2:02:45.520 Lamar Parrish and my broadcast partner Dave Lapham. Obviously, you've 2:02:45.520 --> 2:02:48.360 gotten to know Lap during your three years with the Bengals. 2:02:49.720 --> 2:02:52.560 I love the fact that when Laps in the locker room, 2:02:52.600 --> 2:02:57.040 there's instantaneous respect because he spent a twelve years playing 2:02:57.040 --> 2:03:00.720 pro football, ten in the NFL, and anybody that plays 2:03:00.760 --> 2:03:04.280 for that long has credibility with current players because he 2:03:04.400 --> 2:03:06.960 understands what you guys are going through, no doubt. 2:03:06.880 --> 2:03:07.360 No doubt. 2:03:07.400 --> 2:03:11.120 I mean he can he can relate to us, relate 2:03:11.160 --> 2:03:13.760 to us differently than than anybody else because he's been in. 2:03:13.720 --> 2:03:16.640 Our shot before. Yeah, Lap, Lap's awesome. 2:03:16.720 --> 2:03:16.880 Man. 2:03:17.040 --> 2:03:20.080 I remember, I don't know if he spoke or I 2:03:20.120 --> 2:03:22.120 don't I don't remember where I heard him talk. Maybe 2:03:22.120 --> 2:03:23.600 it was in a team meeting. It's in a team meeting. 2:03:23.640 --> 2:03:25.120 I think he spoke to us or something like that. 2:03:25.440 --> 2:03:27.960 He's talking about like he was talking about how he 2:03:28.000 --> 2:03:31.840 would like park his car. He tried to park his 2:03:31.880 --> 2:03:36.080 car more perfectly every single day, and eventually, you know, 2:03:36.720 --> 2:03:38.160 you know what I mean. It just started with that 2:03:38.800 --> 2:03:41.440 and the little details. He always talked with the little 2:03:41.440 --> 2:03:45.120 details and anyways that story resonated with me, and I 2:03:45.200 --> 2:03:46.280 kind of think about. 2:03:46.040 --> 2:03:47.720 It every single day when I go park my car. 2:03:47.760 --> 2:03:50.160 It's like, you know, let me park my car perfectly 2:03:50.240 --> 2:03:52.760 because you know that's the right thing to do, and 2:03:53.080 --> 2:03:55.080 you know, if you do if you if you do that, well, 2:03:55.120 --> 2:03:58.400 it's like how you do anything is how you do everything. 2:03:58.480 --> 2:04:01.760 Like if you're you're kind of just you know, like 2:04:01.800 --> 2:04:04.720 when you're doing the signatures, if you're doing a lazy signature, 2:04:04.800 --> 2:04:05.200 that that. 2:04:05.160 --> 2:04:07.960 Could carry on to another area of your life that 2:04:08.080 --> 2:04:09.320 you may not even realize. 2:04:09.360 --> 2:04:13.360 So I think how you do everything is important, even 2:04:13.400 --> 2:04:16.240 parking your car. So that's interesting that I still wouldn't 2:04:16.240 --> 2:04:17.320 be Yeah. 2:04:17.000 --> 2:04:19.320 I parallel parked in front of a coffee shop today. 2:04:19.400 --> 2:04:22.080 It was perfect and I didn't even realize that was inspired. 2:04:22.440 --> 2:04:25.360 I'm a broadcast partner. Dave Lappham, all right, we need 2:04:25.400 --> 2:04:27.680 to take one more time out. When we come back, 2:04:27.760 --> 2:04:32.440 we will play America's favorite game show, Know Your School. 2:04:32.560 --> 2:04:35.760 I have five questions about the University of Illinois. Chase 2:04:35.800 --> 2:04:38.640 has to get at least three rights to be declared 2:04:39.120 --> 2:04:42.080 a winner. This is the Bengals pep Rally Show presented 2:04:42.080 --> 2:04:50.760 by Just Bear Chicken on Fox Sports thirteen sixty, the 2:04:50.920 --> 2:04:54.880 final segment of the Bengals pep Rally Show from the 2:04:54.960 --> 2:04:58.240 on the Rhine Eatery. You're at downtown Cincinnati. It's the 2:04:58.240 --> 2:05:00.920 food hall on the second floor above the downtown Kroger 2:05:00.920 --> 2:05:04.040 at Court and Walnut. We'll be back next Friday. I'll 2:05:04.040 --> 2:05:06.520 be out of town with the UC Bearcats. Wayne box 2:05:06.600 --> 2:05:10.120 Miller will take my place next Friday afternoon. Our special 2:05:10.160 --> 2:05:13.480 guest on the Friday show next week will be defensive 2:05:13.520 --> 2:05:17.360 tackle Chris Jenkins. Our special guest on the Wednesday show 2:05:17.520 --> 2:05:20.720 next week will be linebacker Barrett Carter. So if you'd 2:05:20.760 --> 2:05:23.200 like to get an autograph, get a picture with Barrett 2:05:23.480 --> 2:05:26.400 or Chris Jenkins. They will be our guests on Wednesday, 2:05:26.560 --> 2:05:30.200 Barrett Carter and Friday with Chris Jenkins. Our special guest 2:05:30.200 --> 2:05:32.640 today and we really appreciate his time. It's running back 2:05:32.720 --> 2:05:37.160 Chase Brown. Time to play America's favorite game show. We 2:05:37.240 --> 2:05:38.960 call it Know Your School. I have come up with 2:05:39.040 --> 2:05:42.720 five questions about your alma mater, the University of Illinois. 2:05:42.720 --> 2:05:45.919 You must get at least three rights to be declared 2:05:46.240 --> 2:05:51.760 a winner. Are you ready, Chase Brown? Yes? Question number one. 2:05:51.880 --> 2:05:56.840 Illinois has two retired numbers fifty for a linebacker and 2:05:57.080 --> 2:06:01.760 seventy seven for a halfback and return and specialist. Name 2:06:01.960 --> 2:06:06.440 either Illinois player who had his number grange and you 2:06:06.480 --> 2:06:12.120 got him both. Boom boom, he's showing off kissing red grains. 2:06:12.120 --> 2:06:15.240 All right, you were one for one. Question number two 2:06:16.360 --> 2:06:21.880 for good luck. During exam season, many Illinois students rub 2:06:21.960 --> 2:06:24.760 the nose of what statue. 2:06:25.680 --> 2:06:29.240 As a statue. 2:06:29.280 --> 2:06:32.400 It's a statue of a famous person on campus. 2:06:32.560 --> 2:06:36.000 On campus. Well, I obviously never did this. 2:06:35.920 --> 2:06:36.080 So. 2:06:37.600 --> 2:06:38.520 You maybe I would. 2:06:40.400 --> 2:06:41.840 I'm gonna say you didn't need the luck. 2:06:44.360 --> 2:06:45.440 Where is it on campus? 2:06:45.600 --> 2:06:51.200 It's just inside the main quad according to the Illinois website. 2:06:51.320 --> 2:06:54.720 Just inside the main quad, I mean Alma Mater's right 2:06:54.720 --> 2:06:58.760 there in the corner. So when you walk in, man, 2:06:58.760 --> 2:06:59.280 I'm taking the. 2:06:59.440 --> 2:07:04.000 One is a bust of Abe Lincoln. Really yeah, apparently 2:07:04.040 --> 2:07:06.480 his nose is discolored from all of the people that 2:07:06.640 --> 2:07:08.800 rub it for good line. Right, you're one for two. 2:07:10.720 --> 2:07:12.680 This one's tough. I think this next one, but we'll 2:07:12.680 --> 2:07:15.040 see if you can get it, according to the According 2:07:15.040 --> 2:07:21.080 to Fightingelini dot com, Illinois has four fight songs. Name 2:07:21.320 --> 2:07:25.080 any of them. The Orange Hail to the Orange is correct. 2:07:25.200 --> 2:07:25.800 Boom. 2:07:26.600 --> 2:07:29.640 All right, two questions ago. You only need to get 2:07:29.680 --> 2:07:34.120 one right to be a winner. Name the Illinois graduate 2:07:35.080 --> 2:07:39.760 with the initials h h who founded one of the 2:07:39.760 --> 2:07:45.120 world's most famous magazines with a bonus hint. Visiting his 2:07:45.280 --> 2:07:49.440 mansion near Beverly Hills was the dream of many single men. 2:07:51.360 --> 2:07:56.120 Hugh Hefner is correct. All right, you're already a winner. 2:07:56.200 --> 2:07:58.360 But we'll ask the fifth and final question. See if 2:07:58.400 --> 2:08:01.920 you can go four for five. This former Illinois football 2:08:01.960 --> 2:08:05.440 player is currently in his tenth NFL season, playing for 2:08:05.480 --> 2:08:09.080 his third NFL team. He won two Super Bowl rings 2:08:09.080 --> 2:08:11.879 with his first team and is a four time captain 2:08:12.280 --> 2:08:16.120 with his current team. 2:08:16.160 --> 2:08:17.240 He's in his tenth season. 2:08:17.400 --> 2:08:18.520 He's in his tenth season. 2:08:19.800 --> 2:08:22.840 He is Okay, So we played for Casey. 2:08:23.040 --> 2:08:24.960 No, No, he has not played for k C. 2:08:25.640 --> 2:08:26.920 Well, he's still in the NFL. 2:08:26.960 --> 2:08:27.880 He's still in the league. 2:08:27.920 --> 2:08:29.520 Oh, it's probably Ted. 2:08:30.080 --> 2:08:34.840 There you go, a little bit of a question. I 2:08:34.920 --> 2:08:37.040 definitely would have passed it along to Ted if he 2:08:37.160 --> 2:08:39.520 did not get that question. But you got it. You 2:08:39.600 --> 2:08:43.720 went four for five. You know your school. Congratulations Jakes Brown. 2:08:43.800 --> 2:08:45.240 There we go. It feels good. 2:08:46.560 --> 2:08:49.000 All right, we are just about a time, just about 2:08:49.040 --> 2:08:50.760 out of time. We want to thank you for spending 2:08:50.760 --> 2:08:54.000 an hour with us this afternoon. It's been awesome to 2:08:54.080 --> 2:08:58.280 have you on this franchise. You have obviously played extremely well, 2:08:58.280 --> 2:09:01.480 but you have represented city of Cincinnati and the Cincinnati 2:09:01.520 --> 2:09:04.440 Bengals extremely well. Can thank you enough? Best of luck 2:09:04.480 --> 2:09:06.840 on Sunday, Thanks and beyond all right, let's hear it 2:09:06.840 --> 2:09:12.400 for Chase Brown and special thanks to our crew. Thanks 2:09:12.400 --> 2:09:14.840 to our engineer Mike Mills. Thanks to laugh before he 2:09:14.920 --> 2:09:17.720 had to leave. Thanks to Nicky Graul from the Bengals 2:09:17.920 --> 2:09:20.320 for coming out and helping us with the autographs. Thanks 2:09:20.320 --> 2:09:23.000 to a Nick and the gang here at the on 2:09:23.160 --> 2:09:27.120 the Rhine Eatery. Again. On Wednesday night, our special guest 2:09:27.680 --> 2:09:30.400 is going to be Barrett Carter, and next Friday afternoon, 2:09:30.440 --> 2:09:33.240 our special guest in the final hour of that show 2:09:33.480 --> 2:09:37.440 will be Chris Jenkins. For Dave Lapham, I'm Dan Hord. 2:09:37.480 --> 2:09:40.280 Thanks so much for listening. 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