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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to the Bengals pep Rally
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Speaker 2: thirty in Fox Sports thirteen sixty. It is a Friday
Speaker 2: afternoon in the Queens City. It's going to be a
Speaker 2: big weekend for Cincinnati football fans. The University of Cincinnati
Speaker 2: in duckson new Hall of Fame class tonight. The Bearcats
Speaker 2: take on Baylor tomorrow at four. The Bengals have a
Speaker 2: home game on Sunday against the New York Jets, and
Speaker 2: at halftime of that game, this year's Ring of Honor
Speaker 2: class will officially inducted. It consists of Leap and Lamar Parrish,
Speaker 2: one of the greatest defensive backs in franchise history and
Speaker 2: without question, the greatest punt returner in franchise history. And
Speaker 2: of course, the other member of this year's Ring of
Speaker 2: Honor class is my broadcast partner in Pal Dave Lapp.
Speaker 3: Thank you, siret Thal appreciate it, sir, thank you.
Speaker 2: We've been looking forward to this weekend for a long time.
Speaker 2: All of the living Ring of Honor inductees are expected
Speaker 2: to be here this weekend. Anthony Muno's, Kenny Anderson, Isaac Curtis,
Speaker 2: Willie Anderson, Chad Johnson, Boomerasias, and Tim Crmrae, Corey Dillon.
Speaker 2: That is the company that you now keep, my friend.
Speaker 3: That's that's high cotton right there. That's a pretty good company.
Speaker 3: There's no question about that. Bengal fans, you know, appreciate
Speaker 3: all of their careers, everything that they did. Had some
Speaker 3: great Cincinnati Bengal teams that they were a big part
Speaker 3: of for sure. Anthony Muno's is in the Hall of
Speaker 3: Fame in Canton as well. Which is that double dip
Speaker 3: is rare and that doesn't happen very often. That just
Speaker 3: shows his greatness. We did a podcast earlier this week
Speaker 3: and we were talking about that. You know that he's
Speaker 3: one of very very few that can make that claim.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's it's mind boggling. Really. I do appreciate
Speaker 3: the Cincinnati Bengals for recognizing teammates and former teammates, former coaches,
Speaker 3: head coaches, assistant coaches, everybody that were a big part
Speaker 3: of the success of the organization over the years. And
Speaker 3: to be inducted this weekend is literally a dream come true.
Speaker 3: I mean, when I was a little rug rat, never
Speaker 3: really little, I guess, but a rug rat running around,
Speaker 3: running around in my younger years. Never, you know, never
Speaker 3: thought that I'd be talking with the Great Dan Horde
Speaker 3: about going into the Ring of Honor.
Speaker 2: No way, It's gonna be awesome. There's a Ring of
Speaker 2: Honor reception tomorrow at the stadium from five to seven thirty,
Speaker 2: and then again the official Sarah is coming up at
Speaker 2: halftime on Sunday. You and Leap and Lamar Parish will
Speaker 2: also be the rulers of the Jungle prior to the game,
Speaker 2: the second time that you have been a ruler of
Speaker 2: the Jungle, which is pretty cool. Let's talk for a
Speaker 2: moment about the other guy going in. Your former teammate
Speaker 2: Leap and Lamar Parish. He and Kenny Riley formed the
Speaker 2: greatest cornerback duo this franchise has ever had, and maybe
Speaker 2: any franchise has ever had. Ken Riley is in the
Speaker 2: Pro Football Hall of Fame. He had sixty five interceptions.
Speaker 2: Leap and Lamar had forty seven interceptions in his career
Speaker 2: and scored thirteen non offensive touchdown between yeah, punt returns,
Speaker 2: pick six's, fumble returns, kickoff return, etc. Let's hear from
Speaker 2: Bengals owner and team president Mike Brown on Leapin' Lamar Parish.
Speaker 4: Lamar deserves more people remembering him than do I don't
Speaker 4: know why that's so. During his time here I think
Speaker 4: was about seven years he played for us, he was
Speaker 4: the most talented cornerback we ever had, and we've had
Speaker 4: some great cornerbacks, but he was also the best returner
Speaker 4: we ever had. And the one story that we stood
Speaker 4: out in my mind about Lamar was when.
Speaker 3: We played Washington here.
Speaker 4: They had a good team and we had something like
Speaker 4: three yards total offense. We didn't move the ball at all.
Speaker 4: We won the game went on returns. Lamar, on one
Speaker 4: punt return, went into a group of players that looked
Speaker 4: like a ball of players that he dove into and
Speaker 4: somehow he ran out the back end of all this
Speaker 4: accumulated group of players and went on without losing struck
Speaker 4: for a touchdown. He could cover like a blanket, The
Speaker 4: receivers didn't get open on him, and he could play
Speaker 4: the ball. We had on the other side. Kenny was
Speaker 4: over there and we had two corners, the equal of
Speaker 4: any team ever.
Speaker 2: That game that Mike was talking about was in your
Speaker 2: rookie year nineteen seventy four against Washington. Lamar at a
Speaker 2: ninety yard punt return touchdown in the game. He also
Speaker 2: returned to fumble for a touchdown in that game. Describe
Speaker 2: your most vivid memories of your former teammate and now
Speaker 2: Ring of Honor fellow Ring of Honor inductee, Lamar Parrish.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was just a dynamic, spectacular athlete. You know,
Speaker 3: Mike paints a very good portrait of Lamar Parrish, his abilities.
Speaker 3: He was so athletic. He ran sub four four and
Speaker 3: you know, he was a he was a long strider,
Speaker 3: but then he could chop his feet, you know, and
Speaker 3: take the real quick steps, change direction. Like Mike said,
Speaker 3: he covered people like a blanket. I mean, nobody nobody
Speaker 3: beat him. Nobody beat him, and he would take the
Speaker 3: best receiver and I got him. I'm eliminating him, I'm
Speaker 3: neutralizing him. I'm erasing him. In fact, that was the
Speaker 3: nickname that we called Lamar Paris the eraser or the
Speaker 3: human eraser, because he just he would take take the
Speaker 3: best guy and you wouldn't hear from the guy during
Speaker 3: the course of the football game. But the thing that
Speaker 3: did separate him, like Mike was talking about, from anybody
Speaker 3: that I can remember, is his returnability. I mean, it
Speaker 3: was ridiculously phenomenal. Uh you know, ninety yard return you
Speaker 3: describe against Washington, and I think he made a couple
Speaker 3: of guys miss twice on the return. They missed, and
Speaker 3: you know, try to get back into it and he's
Speaker 3: making other people miss that they game ground and catch
Speaker 3: up with him, and he'd make others miss. He was
Speaker 3: he was ridiculous in that area. And that's such a
Speaker 3: big deal because you know, offense, defense, special teams takes three,
Speaker 3: all three components to win a football game, and Lamar
Speaker 3: was a big contributor defensively and then on special teams
Speaker 3: as well. I mean, it seemed like some games he
Speaker 3: was on the field, the entire field. It was like
Speaker 3: number twenty was out there the whole time. And yeah,
Speaker 3: he went to a real small school in Nebraska, Lincoln,
Speaker 3: and you know, he made carved out a hell of
Speaker 3: an NFL career for a bunch of years with the Bengals,
Speaker 3: then the then Washington Redskins, and the pair we had
Speaker 3: at corner he and the late great Kenny Riley, who
Speaker 3: was one of my best friends on the team. Loved
Speaker 3: Kenny Riley. He was just as good a human being
Speaker 3: as you're ever gonna want to meet. And his wife
Speaker 3: and kids. I mean, Ken Riley Junior, we know, and
Speaker 3: just a peach of a guy. I mean, you're never
Speaker 3: going to meet anybody any better than Ken Riley Junior.
Speaker 3: That tandem. You know, Paul Brown knew what he was
Speaker 3: doing when he was going out and evaluating players, and
Speaker 3: he knew what he wanted in a cornerback and he
Speaker 3: got that in Lamar Parrish and Kenny Riley.
Speaker 2: He knew what he was doing when it came to
Speaker 2: drafting offensive lineman as well, and he hit it out
Speaker 2: of the park with a third round draft pick out
Speaker 2: of Syracuse in nineteen seventy four. I'm obviously speaking of you.
Speaker 2: Dave Lappham This is the eighth fifty eighth season of
Speaker 2: Bengals history. You've been part of fifty out of the
Speaker 2: fifty eight ten as a player, forty now as a broadcaster,
Speaker 2: the starting left guard on the Freezer Bowl team and
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl sixteen team, the best radio analyst in
Speaker 2: the NFL now for forty years running. Again, let's hear
Speaker 2: from team president and owner Mike Brown on Dave Lapple.
Speaker 4: Dave was smart enough, no one questions that, but that's
Speaker 4: never what stood out about him in mind. He went
Speaker 4: beyond that. He was built like a football player. The
Speaker 4: first time I ever saw him, he was in his
Speaker 4: shorts and a training table at the Blue Gray Game
Speaker 4: down in Alabama, and Jesus I looked at him and
Speaker 4: then I said, this guy, he's built like they're supposed
Speaker 4: to be big over. He was an excellent player and
Speaker 4: he could play anywhere he needed him, but it went
Speaker 4: beyond that. He has become someone tied to the Bengals
Speaker 4: in his own special way. He was a player for us,
Speaker 4: and later he was an announcer for us. He can
Speaker 4: tell our story. He's been around here close on to
Speaker 4: fifty years as a player and as an announcer he
Speaker 4: knows all the guys that were here from the beginning on,
Speaker 4: and he can tell about them.
Speaker 3: He's a good storyteller.
Speaker 4: I know this doesn't have much to do with being
Speaker 4: in the Ring of Honor, but as a personality, you
Speaker 4: like being around him. He's fun and that isn't something
Speaker 4: unique with me. Everyone feels that way. They gravitate towards
Speaker 4: him because he just makes the occasion happier.
Speaker 2: Well, put Mike Brown, you make the occasion happier.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's very nice. That's a very nice statement from
Speaker 3: Mike Brown. Did you hear that, Lynn, That's what Mike Brown,
Speaker 3: the owner of the Bengal, says about me. So I'm
Speaker 3: not as big as sticking the mother as you say.
Speaker 3: You're tell of lives out there, you're telling everybody, not
Speaker 3: just kidding. But yeah, I honestly can't thank the Brown
Speaker 3: Blackburn family enough because, you know, Mike, Mike is is
Speaker 3: one who way back in the my sophomore year at
Speaker 3: Syracuse was when I started filling out you know, information
Speaker 3: sheets and that sort of thing with interested teams that
Speaker 3: might you know, Ben Schwartzwalder would say the scout from
Speaker 3: the Cincinnati Bengals wants to talk to you after practice
Speaker 3: and then he give you form and fill it out
Speaker 3: and send it in in a self addressed, stamped envelope
Speaker 3: kind of deal. And you know that's kind of where
Speaker 3: it started with the Bengals and others. But on Draft Day,
Speaker 3: you know, it was the Cincinnati Bengals and the third round,
Speaker 3: the sixtieth pick of the of the draft, and I
Speaker 3: was thrilled. I was excited. I remember talking to my parents,
Speaker 3: my brother and sister about you know, going out there
Speaker 3: and how how good they were playing for Paul Brown.
Speaker 3: The legend, I mean, this guy is, you know, he's
Speaker 3: way up there in football history, National Football League, collegiate football.
Speaker 3: He just high school at Maslon. I mean, he had
Speaker 3: successes that were they were unmatched at every level.
Speaker 2: Coaching Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 3: Absolutely absolutely, and uh he was such a great teacher
Speaker 3: of the game. I was very fortunate to have Bill
Speaker 3: Tiger Johnson as my first line coach. Mike McCormick, who
Speaker 3: played for Paul when Paul was head coach of the
Speaker 3: Cleveland Browns. Here's my line coach after that. Roccopiro was
Speaker 3: my line coach at Syracuse. A great, great player and
Speaker 3: a hell of a line coach as well, So I
Speaker 3: got a good foundation there and played with guys like
Speaker 3: Stan Walters at Syracuse and against Joe Erman every day
Speaker 3: in practice. Who was you know, a first round pick
Speaker 3: with the Indianapolis or then the Baltimore Colts coming out
Speaker 3: of Syracuse. So uh, it's it's it's really hard to
Speaker 3: get my mind around. It's mind boggling that I'm going
Speaker 3: to be going into the into the Ring of honor,
Speaker 3: you know, like Mike was saying, uh, ten years as
Speaker 3: a player forty in the broadcast booth fifty year run.
Speaker 3: The club has been around for fifty eight years, so
Speaker 3: it's been I've big a part of it for a
Speaker 3: good long time. And I think, you know, I've met
Speaker 3: just about every player that's played for the Cincinnati Bengals,
Speaker 3: are either drafted or a college free agent or unsigned
Speaker 3: veteran free agency over the years and the different eras
Speaker 3: of the the NFL with the Cincinnati Bengals. So I
Speaker 3: consider myself the luckiest man in the world.
Speaker 2: There's no question, like Luke Gerrig the luckiest man, absolutely
Speaker 2: absolutely yeah, you know him all from Joe Stofa to
Speaker 2: John Stofer Rather to Joe Flacco and not enough, they're
Speaker 2: roughly the same age.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3: That's a good point. That's a good point about Joe Flacco. Man,
Speaker 3: the dude's amazing.
Speaker 2: There is. We're gonna be talking about him quite a
Speaker 2: bit over the next hour and forty five minutes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's something.
Speaker 2: He sure is. All right, We are live today here
Speaker 2: at our Friday afternoon home. It's the on the Rhine Eatery.
Speaker 2: That is the food hall above the downtown Kroger at
Speaker 2: Court and Walnut. Plenty of parking on the street. There's
Speaker 2: also a parking garage attached to this building. Lots of
Speaker 2: inexpensive food items available here. There is a bar in
Speaker 2: the corner, the eighteen eighty three Bars, So you want
Speaker 2: to come out, grab a bite, d have a frosty beverage.
Speaker 2: This is the place to do it on a Friday afternoon.
Speaker 2: And in addition to talking about Lap and Leap and
Speaker 2: Lamar going into the Ring of Honor this weekend, We've
Speaker 2: got a very special guest coming up at five o'clock
Speaker 2: for the final hour of our show, Chase Brown.
Speaker 3: Strong. Chase Brown is he's having a hell of a year.
Speaker 3: I mean, this running back is somebody that has earned
Speaker 3: his keep, as they say, and man, his legs, his
Speaker 3: lower body, he really hits that weight room hard and
Speaker 3: he's got some unbelievably strong clads and hamstrings and calves.
Speaker 3: And this guy, man, he puts his foot in the
Speaker 3: ground when he cuts. It's a island cut on a
Speaker 3: you know, from side to side. He just jump cuts
Speaker 3: as well as anybody in the NFL. And then he
Speaker 3: gets going straight ahead again and yards after contact, yards
Speaker 3: after you know, first being collisioned. He's he's unique. He
Speaker 3: can run, he can catch, runs tremendous routes because of
Speaker 3: all the physical attributes who've already talked about with him.
Speaker 3: And then he catches the heck out of the football.
Speaker 3: And the other thing that he'll do is block. I
Speaker 3: mean he'll stick his nose right in the chest of anybody,
Speaker 3: a big old linebacker or you know, smaller safety or
Speaker 3: whatever the case may be. Whatever needs to be done,
Speaker 3: Chase Brown is all about doing it.
Speaker 2: We've got a lot of friends here today. There are
Speaker 2: members of the Dave Lapham entourage in town this weekend
Speaker 2: of honor ceremony, which is great. Our dear friend Paul
Speaker 2: Hirrens is here today from who day in the UK.
Speaker 3: How about that all the way from England comes Paul.
Speaker 2: Lasky enough to have given you a congratulatory present, Yes,
Speaker 2: when he arrived in town a few days. Absolutely, So
Speaker 2: we're gonna take a time out. When we come back,
Speaker 2: we'll be talking about some news that broke yesterday. Bengals
Speaker 2: linebacker Logan Wilson has requested a trade. We'll hear from
Speaker 2: Zach Taylor about that. Next. This is the Bengals Pepp
Speaker 2: Browley Show, presented by Just Bear Chicken here on ESPN
Speaker 2: fifteen thirty and Fox Sports thirteen sixty thirty two.
Speaker 6: Seconds left, third down and five. Tannehill ready for the
Speaker 6: shotgun snap. He has the ball, He's back to throw,
Speaker 6: looking throws over the middle, Robin interception. The Bengals have
Speaker 6: it at the forty seven yard line. Twenty seconds on
Speaker 6: the clock.
Speaker 7: And the Bengals will have the ball about fifteen yards
Speaker 7: away from Evan McPherson's long field goal range.
Speaker 2: Logan Wilson with the interception on the tip ball.
Speaker 3: Logan Wilson gets the tip interception and Tannehill now.
Speaker 8: One eight down.
Speaker 2: Many great plays that linebacker Logan Wilson has made over
Speaker 2: the years in a Bengals uniform. That one, of course,
Speaker 2: in the playoff game at Tennessee in twenty twenty one
Speaker 2: lead under the game winning field goal as the Bengals
Speaker 2: eventually made it to Super Bowl fifty six. Logan Wilson, however,
Speaker 2: has lost his place in the starting line up. A
Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago, in the Green Bay game, he
Speaker 2: came out. Rookie Barrett Carter started in his place. They
Speaker 2: remained the starters last week in the victory of the
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers, and they will be the starters again on
Speaker 2: Sunday when the Bengals host the New York Jets. Logan
Speaker 2: Wilson is twenty nine years old. He's obviously disappointed. He's
Speaker 2: got a lot of good football left in him, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure he believes he's still worthy of being in
Speaker 2: the starting lineup. So this week he has requested a trade.
Speaker 2: I would not expect it to happen this year. He's
Speaker 2: got another year on his contract next year. Maybe in
Speaker 2: the offseason, but the Bengals are still obviously trying to
Speaker 2: get to the playoffs. Yeah, trying to be in contention
Speaker 2: when Joe Burrow hopefully returns in December. And after those
Speaker 2: two rookies, Logan Wilson's the next guy in. He's still
Speaker 2: getting a decent number of snaps. So even though he's
Speaker 2: requested a trade, I'd be surprised if it happened.
Speaker 3: I agree with you, Dan, I mean, I think he's
Speaker 3: part of their plan for this season. He's gonna be
Speaker 3: if there's an injury to either one of those guys.
Speaker 3: He's the first, he's the third guy. Like you say,
Speaker 3: he's the next guy up. He's in there and he'll
Speaker 3: be taking a ton of snaps at that point in time.
Speaker 3: But you know, they they're running like a four three
Speaker 3: four look with Logan Wilson as the third linebacker. You know,
Speaker 3: then they're also running like a five to two with
Speaker 3: five down lineman two linebackers. Those two linebackers are the
Speaker 3: young guys, and then four in the second there and
Speaker 3: then of course they can runs as many different configurations
Speaker 3: and looks they want with the front seven or you know,
Speaker 3: and then have four in the in the defensive backfield
Speaker 3: that'll be consistent. Then you get nickel and dime packages
Speaker 3: where you know it's all over the board. Then may
Speaker 3: not be that many down linemen left on the football field.
Speaker 3: It's mostly linebackers, defensive backs, you know, lining up in
Speaker 3: different coverages, different blitz packages, different configurations, and Al Golden
Speaker 3: does all of it. But I think you know, Al
Speaker 3: Golden will be the first to tell you that, Hey,
Speaker 3: we Logan Wilson, he's got snaps left in him. We
Speaker 3: know that. You know he's going to help us. He'll
Speaker 3: be involved in some packages that are significant packages that
Speaker 3: we're going to run. You know, they're not throwaway packages.
Speaker 3: They are going to be meaningful in games that we
Speaker 3: go out and win during the course for the season.
Speaker 3: So I agree with you again in summation, Logan Wilson
Speaker 3: ain't going anywhere this year.
Speaker 2: Zach Taylor has obviously talked to Logan Wilson about this situation.
Speaker 2: He talked to him before he was essentially taken out
Speaker 2: of the starting lineup. They have talked since earlier Today,
Speaker 2: Zach Taylor was asked about those conversations with Logan Elson.
Speaker 9: It was more about Barrett than it was about Logan.
Speaker 9: I see a very high ceiling in Barrett. I see
Speaker 9: some great qualities in him that I wanted to see
Speaker 9: more of, And the only way to do that was
Speaker 9: to pickspan in the RAR.
Speaker 3: So that's where's at.
Speaker 2: And I told him, you.
Speaker 9: Know, he's in a position where there's a young player
Speaker 9: that I think has a really high ceiling, and so
Speaker 9: that's the decision.
Speaker 2: I'm Carter started forty games at Clemson, he was a captain,
Speaker 2: he was a four to zero student. He's got great athleticism,
Speaker 2: and the Bengals want to get him on.
Speaker 3: The field exactly. I mean, he's good for him, he's impressed.
Speaker 3: He's done a whole lot of good things. And like
Speaker 3: you've heard right there with Zach's the tape of Zach's interview,
Speaker 3: I mean, the guy's a four ohero student, got extremely
Speaker 3: high football IQ. He's got a mental acuity overall for
Speaker 3: everything he is. He's thirsty for knowledge. He's coaches say,
Speaker 3: and teammates, veteran teammates say. He asks great questions, very
Speaker 3: you know, high level questions that coaches might ask. You know,
Speaker 3: he's that kind of a player. So you know, he's
Speaker 3: got to make room for him. And unfortunately, when you
Speaker 3: have to make room for one, somebody loses an offer
Speaker 3: or something that he's been doing for a number of years.
Speaker 3: Significant staffs and logan Wilson's suffering through that right now.
Speaker 2: One thing that I feel pretty confident about is that
Speaker 2: even though he has requested a trade, Logan Wilson's not
Speaker 2: going to be a problem.
Speaker 3: No, it's not that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is not like a Carlos Dunlap situation back
Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen, where he essentially bad attituded his way
Speaker 2: right out of town, forced their hand to make a
Speaker 2: trade just because he was he had become a gigantic
Speaker 2: pain in the butt. Logan Wilson's not that kind of guy.
Speaker 2: I would not expect anything like that.
Speaker 3: I agree with you one hundred thousand percent. You know,
Speaker 3: I think he's uh, he's he's good people. He's at
Speaker 3: a high, high level person. He's a intelligent uh, got
Speaker 3: great morals, you know, ethics, high standards. He's been raised right,
Speaker 3: He's got a lot of friends in that organization. Teammates, coaches,
Speaker 3: other organizational people. So yeah, I don't think. I don't
Speaker 3: think Logan Wilson is going to be a stick in
Speaker 3: the mud. I don't think Logan Wilson's going to be,
Speaker 3: you know, a jet a detriment to what they're doing.
Speaker 3: He's not going to be in the locker room, a
Speaker 3: cancer in the locker room that when everybody's celebrating, he's
Speaker 3: pouting and sulking. That I don't expect anything like that
Speaker 3: out of Logan Wilson whatsoever.
Speaker 2: So we do know that the rookies will start at
Speaker 2: linebacker on Sunday. We don't know the situation at guard.
Speaker 2: Last week, Jalen Rivers started at right guard. Dylan Fairchild,
Speaker 2: coming back from injury, did not start at left guard
Speaker 2: Dalton Reisner did. Reisner's played really well the last couple
Speaker 2: of weeks. The Bengals had a running game last Thursday,
Speaker 2: so it'll be interesting to see if Telling Fairchild slides
Speaker 2: right back into the starting lineup or if the Bengals
Speaker 2: take the you know what, as long as things are
Speaker 2: rolling right now, let's wait a little while before we
Speaker 2: make that switch.
Speaker 3: It's good to have options, you know, And that's what
Speaker 3: they've got. They've got three guys that they know can
Speaker 3: play the guard position and three guys that can play
Speaker 3: either one of the guard positions, which gives them the
Speaker 3: versatility aspect that every franchise craze. Really. Reiser has graded
Speaker 3: out well. Risner's graded out as one of their most
Speaker 3: effective offensive linemen last week when they ran the ball
Speaker 3: as effectively as they did. So you know, you you
Speaker 3: don't look at that and say, eh, that's dismissed. You know,
Speaker 3: it doesn't count. Yeah, it counts. Playing against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's that's a very good defensive football team.
Speaker 3: They've got a rich history, they've got a culture, they
Speaker 3: have a tradition. They play the run. You know, they're
Speaker 3: as salting that regard. The Bengals ran the ball very
Speaker 3: effectively against him. So do you want to break that
Speaker 3: combination up the rookie Fairchild and rise or do you
Speaker 3: want to, you know, go with another young buck who's
Speaker 3: I think is going to be around for a long time.
Speaker 3: I think he's going to be a great player. He's
Speaker 3: Jalen Rivers is very very gifted physically, big guy, long arms,
Speaker 3: long legs, you know, leverage that he gets he locks
Speaker 3: into people when he's blocking him in the running game,
Speaker 3: passing game, and finishes him. He's got a little bit
Speaker 3: of a nasty disposition to him. You know, he wants
Speaker 3: to win. He wants to win every single snap, every
Speaker 3: single rep. He's been taught well, he's been coached well,
Speaker 3: you know, he's had good coaches at a very young age,
Speaker 3: in the developmental stages and of his of his football career.
Speaker 3: So the Bengals are fortunate they've got they've got options
Speaker 3: at that guard position.
Speaker 2: Dan, for sure, no doubt. All right, we're gonna take
Speaker 2: a time out. Coming up next, the Jet are coming
Speaker 2: to town on Sunday. Their quarterback play has not been
Speaker 2: good so far this year. But don't take my word
Speaker 2: for it. We'll hear from the Jets owner blasting this
Speaker 2: quarterback when we come back. This is the Bengals pep
Speaker 2: Rally Show. We are live at the On the Rhine Eatery.
Speaker 2: It's the food hall on the second floor above the
Speaker 2: downtown Kroger at Court and Walnut. Here on ESPN fifteen
Speaker 2: thirty and Fox Sports thirteen sixty. Dan Horden, Ring of
Speaker 2: Honor inductee Dave Lapham with you this afternoon from the
Speaker 2: On the Rhine Eatery here in downtown Cincinnati, the food
Speaker 2: court above the downtown Kroger at Courton Walnut. Show is
Speaker 2: on the air until six o'clock tonight, and Bengals running
Speaker 2: back Chase Brown will be our special guest from five
Speaker 2: to six says. The Bengals get set to host the
Speaker 2: New York Jets on Sunday. This week's game is presented
Speaker 2: by Fifth Third Bank. The Jets arow and seven. They've
Speaker 2: got a new head coach this year and Aaron Glenn,
Speaker 2: the former defensive coordinator for the Detroit Lions. Things obviously
Speaker 2: have not gone well so far, and Jets owner Woody
Speaker 2: Johnson was asked about his new head coach, Aaron Glenn
Speaker 2: earlier this week.
Speaker 3: What you're confidence level and Aaron to turn it around.
Speaker 10: Well, it looks like he's turning around parts of it.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 10: It's hard when you have a quarterback with you know,
Speaker 10: with a rating that we've got, you know, is I mean,
Speaker 10: he has the ability, but something just is not jibing.
Speaker 10: But if you look at any any head coach of
Speaker 10: the quarterback like that, you're going to see similar results.
Speaker 10: If you are across the league.
Speaker 2: You have to play consistently with.
Speaker 5: You know, at that position.
Speaker 10: And that's what we're going to try to do in
Speaker 10: the remainder of the season. So someone gives you hope,
Speaker 10: then he send you the prom I just think defense,
Speaker 10: special teams are doing better.
Speaker 2: Defense is pretty good. Hope we can just.
Speaker 10: Complete a pass, it would look good.
Speaker 2: Uncommon to here an NFL owner roll the bus over
Speaker 2: his quarterback, but that's what Wody Johnson this did this week. Specifically,
Speaker 2: without saying the name, he is blasting Justin Fields, right,
Speaker 2: the former Ohio State quarterback and former first round draft
Speaker 2: pick by the Bears who is with the Steelers last year.
Speaker 2: He's with the Jets as a free agent this year.
Speaker 2: And there's some truth to what Woody Johnson was saying,
Speaker 2: because the Jets are only averaging one hundred and forty
Speaker 2: one passing yards per game.
Speaker 3: That's amazing in this era of football. One hundred and
Speaker 3: forty one yards passing it. And it's not like, you know,
Speaker 3: Justin Fields. He's shown that he can play quarterback at
Speaker 3: a very high level, and he's got Garrett Wilson, you know,
Speaker 3: as a receiver to get the ball down the football
Speaker 3: field too. I mean, that guy's guys as good as
Speaker 3: there is in the National Football League. You know, he's
Speaker 3: got a good tight end and Mason Taylor's. They aren't
Speaker 3: blessed with a plethra of deep threats and multi talented
Speaker 3: wide receivers. But what he feels like he's done a
Speaker 3: pretty good job in getting targets in athletes for Justin
Speaker 3: Fields and Tyrod Taylor to get the football too. And
Speaker 3: Bresee Hall is a good receiver out of the backfield.
Speaker 3: I mean he's better than most running backs running real good,
Speaker 3: solid routes and catching the football. He's got very good
Speaker 3: soft hands.
Speaker 2: So we do anticipate that Justin Fields will not start
Speaker 2: on Sunday, that it will be the thirty six year
Speaker 2: old veteran Tyrod Taylor. Field was benched at halftime last week.
Speaker 2: Tyrod finished up against Carolina, didn't play very well, no touchdowns,
Speaker 2: two picks. Jets have not scored a touchdown as a
Speaker 2: team in two weeks. But you would expect Tyrod Taylor,
Speaker 2: based on his history at least, to give them a
Speaker 2: little more of a passing threat than Justin Fields has
Speaker 2: given them so far this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you would. I mean his history that you know,
Speaker 3: I mean, he's he's played good football in the past.
Speaker 3: I mean he's he's a competent NFL quarterback. Is he
Speaker 3: a star or no? Is he average? Probably pretty average,
Speaker 3: you know in terms of what there is around the
Speaker 3: National Football League, But a lot of pressure on him.
Speaker 3: There's no question about that, because in this league, your
Speaker 3: football team only goes as far as the quarterback takes it.
Speaker 3: And the Bengals have been blessed to have, you know,
Speaker 3: quarterbacks like Kenny Anderson, boomeras Ize, and Joe Burrow. I mean,
Speaker 3: those three quarterbacks are as good as anybody's role call
Speaker 3: at the quarterback position with any team in the National
Speaker 3: Football League. So you get spoiled a little bit with
Speaker 3: those with those kind of guys under center. And right now,
Speaker 3: the New York Jet Jets are proven the old axiom
Speaker 3: that you only go as far as your quarterback takes you.
Speaker 2: So you mentioned the name Garrett Wilson. The Jets injury
Speaker 2: report for today isn't out yet, but Garrett Wilson has
Speaker 2: not been practicing this week. He missed last week's game
Speaker 2: with a knee injury. We spoke to Rich Domini from ESPN,
Speaker 2: who covers the Jets on Wednesday night. He said he
Speaker 2: didn't expect Garrett Wilson to play, Sauce Gardner is in
Speaker 2: concussion protocol, he is not expected to play. So the
Speaker 2: Jets only have so many great players and two of
Speaker 2: their very best, probably two of their top three, I agree,
Speaker 2: are not expected to play on Sunday.
Speaker 3: I think probably it's they're two top players, you know.
Speaker 3: I mean, uh, when when you're oh and seven like
Speaker 3: they are, and you're down your two top weapons offensively
Speaker 3: and defensively, uh, you know, and offensively of course talking
Speaker 3: about Garrett Wilson, and defensively we're talking about the UC's
Speaker 3: best or one of their finest, Sauce Gardener, I mean
Speaker 3: when you when you're talking about being down your two
Speaker 3: best players and struggling with an one seven record future
Speaker 3: and look all that bright, you know. And Cincinnati Bengals
Speaker 3: are at pay Corps. They play well at pay Corps.
Speaker 3: The fan base is very supportive and in full throat
Speaker 3: at pay Corps. And the New York Jets are facing
Speaker 3: a tough task this week, There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 3: The Cincinnati Bengals feel, like, you know, with a three
Speaker 3: and four mark right now, that they are turning things around,
Speaker 3: the worm is turning, so to speak, and that they
Speaker 3: feel they're a legitimate contender along with a bunch of
Speaker 3: other plus through other teams in the NFL for a
Speaker 3: playoff berth though, and then see what happens after that.
Speaker 2: As for the Bengals, injury. A situation brought to you
Speaker 2: by the Kettering Health Network. Trey Henderson didn't practice today,
Speaker 2: He was limited in the previous practices this week. He
Speaker 2: is officially listed as questionable yeah for the game on Sunday.
Speaker 3: And that's a huge loss of Trey Henderson's not coming
Speaker 3: off the edge, you know, the blind side of you
Speaker 3: get quarterback. The New York Jets are struggling at the
Speaker 3: quarterback position. The thing that you want to do is
Speaker 3: pressure that young those quarterbacks that are having difficulty making
Speaker 3: quick decisions with the football. In my mind, that's the
Speaker 3: biggest thing that quarterback can do for his team is
Speaker 3: decide what to do with the football right now. That's
Speaker 3: what Joe Flackow is doing for the Bengals with all
Speaker 3: of his experience. He sees it before it happens. He's
Speaker 3: getting the ball out. I mean it is getting in
Speaker 3: the air very very quickly. Not the case with the Jets.
Speaker 3: I'll guarantee you. Trey Hendrickson wants to play. It's an
Speaker 3: zero to seven team. He's looking at potentially racking up
Speaker 3: a couple of three sacks. He doesn't want to miss
Speaker 3: this opportunity to get after the quarterback from the blind side,
Speaker 3: and he's one of the best pass rushers, blind side,
Speaker 3: front side, whatever side there is in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Dealing with a hip injury. He apparently said he wanted
Speaker 2: to play last week as well, but the hip did
Speaker 2: not allow that to happen. We'll see what happens on Sunday.
Speaker 2: With Trey officially listed as questionable, We're going to take
Speaker 2: a time out. Coming up next, twenty three year old
Speaker 2: of Marius Mims discusses his forty year old quarterback Jeff Flaco.
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Speaker 2: for more information. Joe Flaco getting set to make his
Speaker 2: second check that third start as the Bengals quarterback second
Speaker 2: at pay Corpse Stadium. He's been awesome so far, particularly
Speaker 2: over the last six quarters. In two games as the
Speaker 2: Bengals starting quarterback, He's completed sixty five percent of his passes,
Speaker 2: five touchdowns, no picks, a passer rating of one hundred,
Speaker 2: and obviously a great victory over Pittsburgh last Thursday. Let's
Speaker 2: hear from right tackle A Marius Vims, all of twenty
Speaker 2: three years old, speaking about his forty year old QB.
Speaker 12: Crazy, how patient, how calm he is. Nothing seems to
Speaker 12: overwhelm him. He's seen every look possible. I feel like,
Speaker 12: eighteen years in the league, there's nothing you haven't seen.
Speaker 12: There's not a formation you haven't been in, there's not
Speaker 12: a play you haven't ran.
Speaker 3: So he came in the.
Speaker 12: League when I was four years old, so I grew
Speaker 12: I grew up watching him, So like that was like
Speaker 12: Ravens and the I'm just being honest with I grew
Speaker 12: up watching him in Big Bing go At It and
Speaker 12: that was like the game, always like watching. So it's
Speaker 12: just crazy being in the Hoddle, like you know, him,
Speaker 12: him being my quarterback, you know, like like I'm living on.
Speaker 3: The drains still.
Speaker 12: So like I said, we were rolling with him, and
Speaker 12: you know, I'm just I'm just glad to be a
Speaker 12: part of him.
Speaker 13: Man.
Speaker 12: I'm just glad to you know, I can go out
Speaker 12: here and take them on Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays whatever we.
Speaker 2: Play Sunday this week. Yeah, to New York Jets, what
Speaker 2: was comparable for you in your playing days, what older
Speaker 2: guy was still playing, whether it was with the Bengals
Speaker 2: or on opposing team that you had vividly remembered. I
Speaker 2: watched this guy when I was, you know, eight years old,
Speaker 2: and yeah, I'm on the same field.
Speaker 3: You know. I do remember watching the Bengals play, and
Speaker 3: I do remember watching the two Bobs, Bob Johnson and
Speaker 3: Bob Trumpy. You know, they were veteran players. Bob Johnson
Speaker 3: was the first pick ever, the first pick of the draft,
Speaker 3: when the Cincinnati Bengals drafted him All Americans Center out
Speaker 3: of Tennessee, and he held down the fort for for
Speaker 3: a number of years. Was a great player, I mean,
Speaker 3: very intelligent, and went on to have an unbelievable business
Speaker 3: career in Cincinnati when he was done playing for the
Speaker 3: Cincinnati Bengals. A huge citizen here in our fine community.
Speaker 3: But him Trumpy Trump. He was sive speed, ratio freaking
Speaker 3: nature back in that day. Big guy six y five
Speaker 3: plus probably close to six x turning twenty five hundred
Speaker 3: and thirty pounds, could really run, stretch the field. Safety's
Speaker 3: feared getting in one on one matchups with him because
Speaker 3: his body was so big and he could run so well.
Speaker 3: He'd make contested catch after contested catch on just about anybody,
Speaker 3: Pro Bowlers, whatever the case may be. So those two guys, then,
Speaker 3: from an opponent's standpoint, you know, I always think to
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh Steel as the best team that I was playing
Speaker 3: against in that time in my career. And Joe Green
Speaker 3: was a veteran defensive lineman, and they called him mean
Speaker 3: Joe Green, you know, because he would he would definitely
Speaker 3: do some things post snap every once in a while
Speaker 3: that would or post whistle. I should say that would
Speaker 3: draw the ire of a lot of a lot of
Speaker 3: people and draw the attention the officials, and you know,
Speaker 3: it'd stuck on your hand. He'd you know, kick you
Speaker 3: in the in the privates, whatever the case be, whatever
Speaker 3: had to be done to get your attention. Joe Green
Speaker 3: was not above doing it. But he was a member
Speaker 3: that Steel Curtain defense, Pittsburgh Steel, a defense that was
Speaker 3: so unbelievable. He and Ernie Fatz, Holmes, Dwhite, White, Elsie Greenwood,
Speaker 3: Jack hamm Andy Russell, they were just they were dynamic.
Speaker 3: They had a hell of a football team. So those
Speaker 3: are those are some of the guys, teammates and opponents
Speaker 3: that you know would would probably make my list.
Speaker 2: I know your favorite player as a kid was Bob Lilly. Yeah,
Speaker 2: his final year was your rookie year. Yes, but the
Speaker 2: Bengals didn't play Dallas.
Speaker 3: Correct now didn't play Dallas. But watching him and talking
Speaker 3: to people that played against him, they just could not
Speaker 3: believe how when you hit Bob Lily you felt like
Speaker 3: you were hitting a brick wall, felt like, you know,
Speaker 3: it was like a steel girder or something. He just had.
Speaker 3: He had an unbelievable forum. I used to watch him,
Speaker 3: you know, deliver that forum and just like lift players,
Speaker 3: you know, jack their head back, you get caught with
Speaker 3: a Boby Lily forum on your chin. It was not
Speaker 3: a pleasant experience, etc. And had eight number seventy four
Speaker 3: for the Great Bob Lily and those doomsday defenses of
Speaker 3: the Bob Lily era. So when you're a player and
Speaker 3: you're a member of a defensive football team that has
Speaker 3: some sort of NFL historical nickname to it, like Steel
Speaker 3: Curtain Doomsday defense, there's a reason.
Speaker 2: For that, no doubt. Yeah, all right, we'll take a
Speaker 2: time out. Coming up next, the Bengals had a running
Speaker 2: game last week.
Speaker 3: I'm about it.
Speaker 2: We'll see if they can do it again on Sunday
Speaker 2: and hear from Joe Flacco next. This is the Bengals
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Speaker 2: Night Stripes presented by Ohio cat So. As you know,
Speaker 2: for much of this year, the Bengals have struggled to
Speaker 2: get their running game going in their first six games.
Speaker 2: In five out of the six, they had fifty five
Speaker 2: or fewer rushing yards. Their best performance in the first
Speaker 2: six games was eighty five rushing yards, which isn't particularly good.
Speaker 2: But last week against Pittsburgh it was awesome. One hundred
Speaker 2: and forty two rushing yards on only twenty three carries.
Speaker 2: Chase Brown had his first one hundred yard rushing performance
Speaker 2: of the year. Chase is going to join us for
Speaker 2: the final hour of this show from five to six.
Speaker 2: Let's hear from quarterback Joe Flacco on the emergence of
Speaker 2: a running game last Thursday.
Speaker 14: I think initially the run game did spark us that
Speaker 14: little that thirty yard run we had and that was
Speaker 14: our first scoring drive, I believe, and then the next
Speaker 14: one we came out and have another little chunk run.
Speaker 14: Anytime that you can, you know, get some of those
Speaker 14: games in the running game, it's going to help your
Speaker 14: offense out a lot. So I think in some in
Speaker 14: Thursday's case, the run game definitely helped us out. But
Speaker 14: we just got to, you know, like I said, we
Speaker 14: got to just continue to work at it and have
Speaker 14: faith that you know, we're getting better, and you know,
Speaker 14: one game doesn't necessarily indicate what the next is going
Speaker 14: to be. And and just like I said before about
Speaker 14: you know, the process of it all, I don't think
Speaker 14: we can really worry about that. I think we just
Speaker 14: got to continue to work on getting better and trust
Speaker 14: that we're doing the right things, and then on Sundays
Speaker 14: it'll show up.
Speaker 2: Did anything stand out to you for why the running
Speaker 2: game was better against Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3: I think there was a little bit more persistence to
Speaker 3: stay with it, you know, and and make sure you
Speaker 3: established the run game. I think they knew how important
Speaker 3: it was to be able to be balanced against the
Speaker 3: defense as good as the Pittsburgh Steelers. And you know,
Speaker 3: quite honestly, watching the game and looking at tape before
Speaker 3: the game, this this Pittsburgh Steeler defense is not one
Speaker 3: of the best that Mike Tomlin's ever had. They're not
Speaker 3: dominant like the steel curtain defense is the players that
Speaker 3: they had on those defenses, Joe Green and a company
Speaker 3: like we talked about earlier in the show. So I
Speaker 3: think that if the Bengals want to get where they're
Speaker 3: thinking they can get, and that's a potential playoff birth
Speaker 3: and then win a playoff game and advance and continue
Speaker 3: to work your way through division and conference level and
Speaker 3: make it to a super Bowl, they have to have
Speaker 3: a running game that they can count on. In my mind,
Speaker 3: Chase Brown is a back that can be that guy.
Speaker 3: He can be the Belkow. He can be the workhorse
Speaker 3: running back that they can you know, give the football
Speaker 3: to time after time. I mean, at this point in
Speaker 3: the season, they're averaging less than sixty nine yards per
Speaker 3: game on the ground, sixty eight point nine yards, So
Speaker 3: I mean there's a lot of meat left on the bone.
Speaker 3: I mean, they can rush the ball much better than that.
Speaker 3: And even when they were you know, when we had
Speaker 3: Kenny Anderson a quarterback, the Bengals also had boomeros Ias
Speaker 3: in a quarterback. They had running games. You know, we
Speaker 3: had Pete Johnson, they had James Brooks and Nicky Woods.
Speaker 3: I mean, those guys ran the football and opponent. Opposing
Speaker 3: defenses respected the fact that when you went into the
Speaker 3: football game, you better buckle up your chin strap because
Speaker 3: the Bengals is gonna run the football at you, and
Speaker 3: they were gonna throw it too. They're gonna make plays.
Speaker 3: But balance is the key. It's it's always has been,
Speaker 3: and in my mind, I think it always will be.
Speaker 2: The Jets have a good front on defense, but they
Speaker 2: are giving up quite a few rushing yards one twenty
Speaker 2: nine point three per game. That is twenty third in
Speaker 2: the NFL.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's that surprised me when I saw that number.
Speaker 3: That's a little bit higher than I thought it might
Speaker 3: be because, I mean, you look at the at the personnel.
Speaker 3: Quinn Williams is a stud. I mean that guy Q
Speaker 3: they call him, I mean, he's he's a he's a man.
Speaker 3: He's a man amongst boys. Really not only big, strong, square,
Speaker 3: you know, built load to the ground. He's powerful. Uh,
Speaker 3: he's been in the weight room. He's got some strong legs,
Speaker 3: man clads and hamstrings, his calves and he's he's a
Speaker 3: he's a low. And then you know Sauce Gardner. We
Speaker 3: talk about him as a as a cover guy, and
Speaker 3: you know this Dan from watching him and getting to
Speaker 3: know him at U. See, he'll hit you. I mean
Speaker 3: when he's out there in space, now he'll close He'll
Speaker 3: close ground quickly and strike you man and get you
Speaker 3: on the ground. He doesn't He's not a guy that
Speaker 3: misses a lot of tackles in that secondary.
Speaker 2: Might not have to worry about him on Sunday if
Speaker 2: he misses the guy with a concussion. So it would
Speaker 2: obviously be a big blow to the New York Jet. Sure,
Speaker 2: we still haven't seen their official Friday afternoon injury report,
Speaker 2: but as of yesterday, it seemed unlikely that sas Gardner
Speaker 2: would make the dance this week.
Speaker 3: And that's unfortunate because you know, coming back home where
Speaker 3: he played college football, he's got a lot of friends
Speaker 3: and I'm sure family be coming into town here in
Speaker 3: Cincinnati to watch Sauce Gardner go at the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 3: And of course, when he was at UC I'm sure
Speaker 3: he had a lot of players that he looked up
Speaker 3: to college players always do I know I did with
Speaker 3: NFL players. So unfortunate that he's not gonna be able
Speaker 3: to take advantage of that.
Speaker 2: Coming up next. Well, had to New York can get
Speaker 2: the lowdown on the N seven j Ets Oooh Jets Jets.
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Speaker 2: for halftime on Sunday. The Bengals taking on the New
Speaker 2: York Jets, and let's turn our attention to this week's opponent.
Speaker 2: To do that, we welcome in Brian Costello, who covers
Speaker 2: the Jets for the New York Post. Brian, welcome to
Speaker 2: the show. We appreciate your time. Let's talk about the
Speaker 2: quarterback situation. Aaron Glenn still is not saying whether the
Speaker 2: starting quarterback will be Justin Fields or Tyrod Taylor. What
Speaker 2: do you think is the answer to that question?
Speaker 8: Hey, guys, thanks for having me. I think it has
Speaker 8: to be Tyrod Taylor. You know, Justin Fields really hasn't
Speaker 8: played well outside of the first game of the season.
Speaker 8: The last two weeks have really been terrible. Jets haven't
Speaker 8: scored a touchdown, bench at halftime last week. You know,
Speaker 8: I don't see how you go back to them up
Speaker 8: to that and then throwing their owner Woody Johnson comes
Speaker 8: out Tuesday and really blames the season on Justin Fields
Speaker 8: basically all the struggles. So I think it's very hard
Speaker 8: to see a situation where the Jets turned back the
Speaker 8: field this week. So I fully expect Tyrod Taylor to
Speaker 8: be the quarterback on Sunday.
Speaker 3: So besides the quarterback position. Obviously there's been struggles there.
Speaker 3: How have the New York Jets as a football team
Speaker 3: played I mean, is there a position group that has
Speaker 3: caused the most problems other than the quarterback causing problems?
Speaker 3: Of course that's the most important position, and those problems
Speaker 3: are always the most problematic as such, But is there
Speaker 3: a position group that has played well enough to win?
Speaker 3: Or they all struggled?
Speaker 15: Well? Did anything?
Speaker 8: The quarterback play has been so poor, you know, they've
Speaker 8: given up a ton of sacks in recent weeks. They
Speaker 8: gave up nine to the Broncos two weeks ago in London.
Speaker 8: They give a five last week, you know, but it's
Speaker 8: hard to say is that the offensive line or is
Speaker 8: that because the quarterback is holding the ball too long.
Speaker 8: They really haven't been able to get a running game going.
Speaker 8: But it's like, again, if you can't throw the ball,
Speaker 8: teams are just going to stack the box stop the run.
Speaker 8: So it's been hard offensively to judge that. Defensively, they
Speaker 8: were terrible for a few weeks there. They've they've kind
Speaker 8: of gained their footing. The last two weeks. They've given
Speaker 8: up thirteen points in each game against the Broncos and
Speaker 8: the Panthers, they played better, So that's been that's been
Speaker 8: a big improvement for them. But you know, I wouldn't
Speaker 8: say there's any one position group that's really playing well
Speaker 8: right now.
Speaker 2: We are visiting with Brian Casteller from the New York Post.
Speaker 2: The Jets have a great wide receiver in Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 2: He's had three straight one thousand yard seasons at one
Speaker 2: hundred and one catches. Last year he's out on Sunday
Speaker 2: against the Bengals because of a knee injury. How is
Speaker 2: the receiving corps when you subtract Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 8: Terrible?
Speaker 15: So to put it to put it unt league, I mean,
Speaker 15: I think even you're probably your biggest Bengals fans out
Speaker 15: there would probably hard press to name who.
Speaker 8: The other Jets wide receivers are. You know, they probably
Speaker 8: have heard of Allen Blizzard, the rest of them, just
Speaker 8: you know, Josh Reynolds, Tyler Johnson, you know, Arion Smith's
Speaker 8: a rookie fourth round pick. It's rough, they know they
Speaker 8: you know, coming into the season, wide receiver was probably
Speaker 8: like the biggest question we had is why they didn't
Speaker 8: do more to add to that position. And now with
Speaker 8: Garret Wilson add it's really under the spotlight. They do
Speaker 8: have Mason Taylor's a rookie tight end who shows some promise.
Speaker 8: Brief Hall could be a good receiving running back, but
Speaker 8: they really they just haven't used him very well recently.
Speaker 8: It's been kind of a strange thing to figure out.
Speaker 8: So to me, you know, without Garret Wilson in there,
Speaker 8: you've got to get guys involved who aren't receiver. You
Speaker 8: gotta get the running backs involved, you gotta get tight
Speaker 8: uns involved. And we'll see if they can do that
Speaker 8: on Sunday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I would think they'd throw the ball
Speaker 3: to Briefs, haul out of the backfield a ton screens
Speaker 3: or how a you're going to give him the ball
Speaker 3: in space. I think he's one of their one of
Speaker 3: their best weapons, one of the only weapons left. Really.
Speaker 3: Let's let's uh talk about defense for a little bit.
Speaker 3: Watching tape on Quentin Williams. He's one of the best
Speaker 3: in the league. This dude's is studding to me. He's
Speaker 3: a He's a star interior defensive lineman. Sauce Gardner. Uh here,
Speaker 3: fans in Cincinnati know all about him from his playing
Speaker 3: days at you see all American defensive back at you
Speaker 3: see what else have they got? How How has the
Speaker 3: New York Jets defense played so far?
Speaker 8: Yeah, like I said, they struggled early, you know, sort of.
Speaker 8: You know, new coordinator Steve Wilkes is the coordinator who's
Speaker 8: the veteran coach. So the transition I think has been
Speaker 8: tough for them.
Speaker 15: You know.
Speaker 8: But like you said, Quinn Williams, he's really got and
Speaker 8: he's just he's just disrupted when you watch him, he
Speaker 8: really he don't think a ton of sacks, but he's
Speaker 8: he's gonna mess up plays. He's gonna be in the
Speaker 8: backfield a lot. Uh, They're getting that Quincy Williams, Quinn's brother,
Speaker 8: a linebacker. He's missed the last four games with his
Speaker 8: shoulder injury, so he should be back for this game,
Speaker 8: which I think will help them in the middle. Uh,
Speaker 8: Sauces out with a concussion, So that's gonna be big
Speaker 8: without no Saft Gardener's gonna hurt them. They're gonna have
Speaker 8: Brandon Stevens, who they signed as a free agent from Baltimore,
Speaker 8: who's played, He's been up and down, he's played played okay,
Speaker 8: And then they have a rookie Asy Thomas out of
Speaker 8: Florida states he's gonna start. So it's you know, it's
Speaker 8: been up and down for this defense, and this is
Speaker 8: gonna be a big test for them. Obviously with with
Speaker 8: Chase and Higgins against your you're facing a rookie, he's
Speaker 8: making his first start. That's gonna be tough for them.
Speaker 8: I mean, it's pretty amazing. They have no interceptions, guys.
Speaker 8: They they don't have one interception. They have one fumble
Speaker 8: recovery all season. Uh, they went the first night games
Speaker 8: without a turnover. They got one takeaway two weeks ago.
Speaker 8: So hard hard to win football games when you're not
Speaker 8: out taking the ball away. Now, you know, I've seen
Speaker 8: Joe Flacco turn the ball over sometimes he was playing
Speaker 8: with the Jets, So maybe Flacco gives them some opportunities.
Speaker 8: But that that is if you're looking for the biggest
Speaker 8: knock on the Jets defense right now, they just haven't
Speaker 8: taken the ball away at all, and with an offense
Speaker 8: that's struggling like it has, they really he's a short
Speaker 8: field sometimes and they're not getting it well.
Speaker 2: Chatting with Brian Casteller from The New York Post, I
Speaker 2: joked earlier this week, Brian that when Joe Flacca was
Speaker 2: with the Jets, he was still a kid. He was
Speaker 2: only thirty five to thirty seven for those three years.
Speaker 2: Are you surprised by how well he's playing for Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: I know it's a limited sample size, but for the
Speaker 2: last six quarters, he's been incredible.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm surprised how well he's played. You know, he
Speaker 8: he's got an amazing arm. I mean so like he
Speaker 8: reminds me of another old Jets Testa Herdi, who played deep,
Speaker 8: deep into his you know, he played this into his
Speaker 8: forties and he was he never lost that arm strength, right, Like,
Speaker 8: that doesn't That's not something that seems to go away
Speaker 8: for guys that are that strong. So I'm not surprised
Speaker 8: he's throwing the ball well. But yeah, I didn't see this.
Speaker 8: You know, this is happening for Cincinnati, right this he
Speaker 8: and like again, look he did it two years ago
Speaker 8: to Cleveland. He had a good, good run, but with
Speaker 8: the Jets he only won one game. He started nine.
Speaker 8: I think he went one in eight with the Jets.
Speaker 8: You know, he didn't have that many good moments, so
Speaker 8: it's pretty amazing that he has. He's having this this
Speaker 8: you know, renaissance in his career.
Speaker 3: Oh and seven start for the New York Jets this year.
Speaker 3: No team wants to go seven games and not taste
Speaker 3: the sweet nectar of the victory. That's that's tough sledding,
Speaker 3: for sure. What's the locker room been like? Is the
Speaker 3: locker room still does Aaron Glenn still have control of
Speaker 3: the locker room of the players still respecting and trusting
Speaker 3: him like they did before the season started. And are
Speaker 3: you surprised that they started off without a victory in
Speaker 3: seven games?
Speaker 8: Yeah, he's still got the locker room. You know, it's
Speaker 8: a it's not a happy place right now, as you
Speaker 8: can imagine, there's a lot of you know, it's it's
Speaker 8: getting more and more negative as the weeks go on.
Speaker 8: But I don't think they're pointing the finger at him necessarily,
Speaker 8: And I don't feel like there's, you know, a dysfunctional
Speaker 8: locker room. A pretty young team to me, older guys
Speaker 8: are usually the guys that get this gruntled with the coaches,
Speaker 8: So I think they're they're okay in that regard. I
Speaker 8: am surprised that they're own seven. I thought they'd have
Speaker 8: a tough start to the year because uh, you know,
Speaker 8: new quarterback, new coaches. They had, They had some tough
Speaker 8: games to start the year. They played some really good teams.
Speaker 8: But I didn't think they'd lose all these games in
Speaker 8: a row. And it's been surprising how poorly they've looked
Speaker 8: at these games, because even it just hasn't it has
Speaker 8: not looked good. They've taken terms kind of the defenses
Speaker 8: look horrible and the offenses look horrible. They've had some
Speaker 8: games where they just committed too many penalties and turn
Speaker 8: the ball over. So it's been slow so far.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Brian, My final question has to do with your
Speaker 2: Twitter profile. At the top, you say New York jetspet
Speaker 2: reporter for the New York Post. Then you add, I
Speaker 2: don't write the headlines. The Post famously has great headlines
Speaker 2: on the back cover about the local sports teams. Have
Speaker 2: you ever had a coach or a player come up
Speaker 2: to you not realizing that it's not your fault that
Speaker 2: they were lampooned on the back cover.
Speaker 8: Yes, yes, I mean plenty of times.
Speaker 15: It happens.
Speaker 8: Happens quite a bit. And even now our website has great,
Speaker 8: great headlines on the website, and so that I run
Speaker 8: into that and That's why that's there. We once we
Speaker 8: once to put Rex Ryan in a clown suit.
Speaker 15: At one point we had.
Speaker 8: Restaurant in and uh, Tim Tebow and Mark Change and
Speaker 8: clown suits and so that I remember that one the
Speaker 8: same as the reskin and appreciate that one. But yeah,
Speaker 8: it's it's uh, it can be tough sometimes because those
Speaker 8: headlines are the headlines can be rough. And the guys
Speaker 8: who write headlines never have to face the players of
Speaker 8: the coaches, so I get to do that.
Speaker 3: That's tough. That's tough duty, right, They're tough sledding. My
Speaker 3: final question, watching and you're in the locker room, you're
Speaker 3: talking to players, talking to coaches, what do they think
Speaker 3: of the Cincinnati Bengals when they watch tape of the
Speaker 3: Cincinnati Bengals? What do they think of them as a
Speaker 3: football team?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think you obviously they respect the offensive firepower
Speaker 8: with chafen Haigens is basically that you know, you've heard
Speaker 8: that all week. I think they know what Flaco's capable of,
Speaker 8: and defensively that kind of heard is like they feel
Speaker 8: like they're sort of in a similar situation as a
Speaker 8: Jets with a new coordinator and adjusting to that, but
Speaker 8: they're getting better, and so I think there's a healthy
Speaker 8: respect for the Bengals at this point. The jet you're
Speaker 8: on with seven, you're you're not really you're not taking
Speaker 8: anyone lately. So they're they've been respectful, and I think, uh,
Speaker 8: I think they expect a good game from the Bengals
Speaker 8: on sundn.
Speaker 2: Right, and really appreciate your time. Save travels to Cincy
Speaker 2: this weekend.
Speaker 8: All right, guys, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: That is Brian Costello, the beat writer covering the Jets
Speaker 2: for The New York Post. We'll take a time out
Speaker 2: when we come back. It is this week's fun Fact segment,
Speaker 2: where you get to know the person under the pads.
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Speaker 2: We look forward to having Chase Brown as our special
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Speaker 2: the show, but right now it's time for this week's
Speaker 2: Fun Fact segment, presented by Skyline Chilling. Time for some
Speaker 2: fun facts with defensive end Shamar Stewart. Your roots are Jamaican, correct.
Speaker 16: Yes, correct, my mom, everybody, Yeah, everybody, My favorite Jamaican
Speaker 16: ever had the chance to go.
Speaker 11: Yeah, when I was little. I haven't been in like
Speaker 11: it's all of the years. Maybe now it's been a while.
Speaker 2: You grew up near Miami. What do you like most
Speaker 2: about where you're from?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 16: The love for football, Like the city is just like
Speaker 16: it's all about football, like little league games, high school games,
Speaker 16: whatever it is at the whole community showing up, coming
Speaker 16: out to see.
Speaker 2: And yet I've read that when you were really young
Speaker 2: you weren't really a sports kid. Is that true?
Speaker 16: Yeah, no not at all. You know, I was more
Speaker 16: I was more of like a book nerd. Crazy to
Speaker 16: think that, but yeah.
Speaker 2: So what changed? What flipped the switch?
Speaker 16: One of my dettitude teachers in third grade forced me
Speaker 16: to play football like he was not taking over for
Speaker 16: an answer, So he got my grandma's number and basically
Speaker 16: forced me to force me to the part he was coaching.
Speaker 2: That that guy did you a favor.
Speaker 11: Yeah, his son is my best friend to this day.
Speaker 2: Now is it true that you were really the last
Speaker 2: kid picked in gym class when you were about in
Speaker 2: sixth grade? Oh?
Speaker 11: Yeah, for sure. I was terrible. I was horrible. They
Speaker 11: used to say, I have two left hands. Yeah, I
Speaker 11: was terrible.
Speaker 2: We're doing fun facts with Jamar Stewart. When you were
Speaker 2: junior in high school, one of your teammates was Ohio
Speaker 2: state wide receiver Jeremiah Smith. Could you tell then that
Speaker 2: he was going to be that guy?
Speaker 16: I knew he's gonna be great, but he just kept working.
Speaker 16: Now it just blew all everything I thought about him
Speaker 16: out the water. Like that lesson was there since he
Speaker 16: came to my high school, So not a big shock.
Speaker 16: I'll see what he did. Like first couple of weeks
Speaker 16: when he was in full camp, I was like, man,
Speaker 16: Jude's crazy.
Speaker 11: As a freshman in high school.
Speaker 2: It's crazy to me to think that you two guys
Speaker 2: are in the same high school team.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and we weren't winning nothing.
Speaker 3: Crazy crazy right.
Speaker 2: Bad quarterback.
Speaker 11: I'll car with d one. I don't know what it was.
Speaker 2: The other teams must have been really good.
Speaker 11: Man, I guess, so it's crazy.
Speaker 2: We're doing fun Facts from Schamar Stewart. You were one
Speaker 2: of the top recruits in the country. Did you enjoy
Speaker 2: the process having all of those schools and coaches essentially flirt?
Speaker 16: No, no, man, those phone calls just get crazy. I
Speaker 16: used to come home, hey man, call me like one
Speaker 16: Like I got like ten calls from different coaches from
Speaker 16: all across.
Speaker 11: The country like hey man, get back eby wait on it.
Speaker 16: Every asker your phone. I'm like, I don't be wanting
Speaker 16: to talk, Like what are there talk about?
Speaker 2: You ultimately chose to go to Texas A and M.
Speaker 2: What did you enjoy most about your three years with
Speaker 2: the Aggies?
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 16: You know, the coaching staff there, Regis treat you like family,
Speaker 16: you know, even though I'm two thousand miles away from home,
Speaker 16: like I didn't feel like I was missing home very much.
Speaker 16: So and plus I made lifelong friends at A and M,
Speaker 16: so like I feel like I had a home away
Speaker 16: from home, you know.
Speaker 2: So I read that your nickname at Texas A and
Speaker 2: M was the Menace? Is that true? And who gave
Speaker 2: you that nickname?
Speaker 16: I forgot who exactly gave it to me, But I
Speaker 16: got it back in high school, going every day trying
Speaker 16: to get better. So of course I'm a practice hard,
Speaker 16: you know, making hard for our offense, you know, playing
Speaker 16: hard in practice, going to make our offense better.
Speaker 2: And on in the games.
Speaker 16: You know, I'm just all over the field, and I'm
Speaker 16: just a little minutes on the field.
Speaker 2: What does the word menis represent to you?
Speaker 16: Somebody that's always been instructive? So I feel like that
Speaker 16: that defines me very well.
Speaker 2: So I broadcast the Bengals games up the radio. When
Speaker 2: you have a sack, would you like me and my
Speaker 2: broadcast partner Dave Lapham to say a sack by the Menace?
Speaker 3: I would love that.
Speaker 11: I will love that all.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, hopefully there will be a bunch this year.
Speaker 2: You have been compared to a Texas A and m
Speaker 2: legend Miles Garrett for obvious reasons, your similar size, similar
Speaker 2: athletic ability. What do you think of Miles Garrett? What
Speaker 2: do you think of the comparison?
Speaker 16: Man, He's a great player, and I feel like that's
Speaker 16: a blessed because the way he's doing it right now,
Speaker 16: he's cilling the game, and I feel like that's a
Speaker 16: very great, great comparison. I feel like we look we
Speaker 16: match up body wise. No, I'm trying to match someone
Speaker 16: play wise.
Speaker 2: Was it a goal of yours to top the numbers
Speaker 2: that he posted at his combine?
Speaker 5: Kind of?
Speaker 2: Sort of?
Speaker 16: You know, I feel like if I could get what
Speaker 16: you got, people will look at me a different light.
Speaker 16: So I tried my hardest. He got me in some areas,
Speaker 16: and I got him in some areas too.
Speaker 2: You got him in the forty, you got him in
Speaker 2: the broad jump. He got you by one inch in
Speaker 2: the vertical. That's pretty impressive.
Speaker 16: That's crazy because I felt like I jumped out my spine.
Speaker 11: It's crazy.
Speaker 2: All right, we're visiting with Shamar Stewart. Let's get back
Speaker 2: to athletic testing. Those numbers were freakish that you posted
Speaker 2: in Indianapolis. What do you consider to be your greatest
Speaker 2: athletic achievement? Did you dunk get a really early age? Yeah?
Speaker 2: What what stands out to you?
Speaker 13: Uh?
Speaker 5: I dunk.
Speaker 16: I got my first dunk in sixth grade. Sixth grade, yeah,
Speaker 16: five nine. That's amazing. You were the seventeenth overall pick
Speaker 16: in the draft. You'll always be referred to as first
Speaker 16: round draft pick Shamar Stewart. It becomes almost like a title.
Speaker 16: Can you describe the experience of being in Green Bay
Speaker 16: at Lambeau on Draft night? You know, I was really happy,
Speaker 16: you know, I was thankful for a moment, you know,
Speaker 16: me and my family, everybody that had been along with
Speaker 16: me every sip of the way, it was there, so
Speaker 16: you know, you know, I just took the night in
Speaker 16: enjoyed it. Not they didn't really have much expectations, just
Speaker 16: if it was godsp playing. So just wanted to be
Speaker 16: in the moment with everybody.
Speaker 2: I love. You did a phone call with reporters afterward,
Speaker 2: and you didn't specifically remember meeting with the Bengals at
Speaker 2: the combine, and I get it. It's speed dating. You're
Speaker 2: going from team to team to team. It's like, you know,
Speaker 2: fifteen minute meetings with all of these teams. When you
Speaker 2: came into Cincinnati and you saw Zach Taylor and you
Speaker 2: saw El Golden and you saw Jerry Montgomery, did it
Speaker 2: click back in? Did you remember?
Speaker 17: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, those guys.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's kind of hard, like you remember.
Speaker 16: I had twenty two formos, a couple infemos, and then
Speaker 16: I had fifteen thirty visits. So my mind is just
Speaker 16: all over the place. I'm ready for it to be over.
Speaker 16: I'm ready to be in one place. So when I
Speaker 16: see them like, okay, I'm deafmember MIDI yo.
Speaker 2: The next day, you were in Cincinnati for a news
Speaker 2: com French. You were accompanied by your mentor, Mo, the
Speaker 2: man you call dad. How did he come into your life?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 8: He came.
Speaker 16: He became my coach after my freshman year of high school.
Speaker 16: I remember walking and seeing him for the first day.
Speaker 16: I was maybe like two two fifteen maybe he was
Speaker 16: like and I was like two fifteen six four.
Speaker 11: He's like, I don't know who you are, but I'm
Speaker 11: gonna make your best play of country.
Speaker 16: Fast forward five months later, I was the best parent
Speaker 16: in country and ever since that day, I just listened
Speaker 16: to everything he told me.
Speaker 2: Do you know what he saw in you?
Speaker 11: No? But I'm glad he did because I didn't see
Speaker 11: them myself.
Speaker 2: Other than playing football? What are you good at?
Speaker 11: I'm good at video games?
Speaker 16: Wedd in particular, I'm good at playing two K you know,
Speaker 16: call dou used to be my thing for a while.
Speaker 11: I'm trying to explore on the on the game of Horizon.
Speaker 2: On the flip side, is there anything that you are
Speaker 2: really terrible at? Singing?
Speaker 16: Oh, bait, The main one is singing. I'm terrible was singing.
Speaker 16: My voice is not meant for singing. God messing me
Speaker 16: with a lot of things, but singing was not.
Speaker 11: One of them.
Speaker 2: Even in the shower.
Speaker 11: Even in the shower, I'll be terrible.
Speaker 2: Have you given any thought to a sack celebration after.
Speaker 16: I get my first one, I'm a I'm gonna have
Speaker 16: to plan one out for the next one, because like now,
Speaker 16: they're coming in so but the first one, I don't
Speaker 16: got nothing plan for the first one.
Speaker 2: First one is whatever just happens in the moment, and
Speaker 2: then once you've got one under your belt, you can
Speaker 2: start playing.
Speaker 11: I'm making my next one my signature.
Speaker 2: All right, is there a team or an opponent that
Speaker 2: you are most excited to face?
Speaker 16: The Dolphins home team, you know, the East to have
Speaker 16: my favorite player, Tiger Carroll was my favorite player for
Speaker 16: a while being a kid watching those type of people
Speaker 16: on TV and then one now playing against them. You know,
Speaker 16: it's gonna be a big opportunity, you know, because I
Speaker 16: used to look up to those people and being on
Speaker 16: the same fields them at the same time.
Speaker 11: You know, it's a great It's a great on achievement.
Speaker 2: Christmas Week in prime time at Miami. That's gonna be
Speaker 2: quite the deal for you.
Speaker 16: Yeah, you know, the whole family's gonna be out there.
Speaker 16: You know, everybody's going to be cheering me on. I'm
Speaker 16: home anticipate I'll be very comfortable.
Speaker 2: Did you go to games there when you were young?
Speaker 11: I want to maybe a couple, not a lot, but
Speaker 11: a couple.
Speaker 2: A couple. More questions for Shamar Stewart. What do you
Speaker 2: like to splur John?
Speaker 16: I don't know, man, I really don't spend money like that.
Speaker 16: I'm really into cars though I'm in the cars. Oh,
Speaker 16: I spend a lot of money on shoes. I'm a sneakerhead.
Speaker 16: That's one of my guilty pressures. But other than that,
Speaker 16: old video games, yeah.
Speaker 2: Car shoes, video games pretty much. Did you buy your
Speaker 2: dream car?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 11: Yes, and what is it?
Speaker 16: I bought a Mercedes Nice I got I got like
Speaker 16: two dream cars, but I got a way a little
Speaker 16: bit because the other dream cars living more expensive.
Speaker 2: I'm a wait, but you had the classy route with
Speaker 2: your first one.
Speaker 3: I like that, Thank you?
Speaker 2: All right. Final fun fact for Shamar Stewart. This one's
Speaker 2: kind of deep. If you could meet anybody in history,
Speaker 2: living or deceased, who would that person be?
Speaker 11: It going to be one person?
Speaker 2: Now you can have more than one.
Speaker 11: Okay.
Speaker 16: I want to meet Tupac and want to meet Bernie
Speaker 16: Bernie Meck. Bernie Meck is hilarious. I used to girl
Speaker 16: watching the TV show and I wish one that could
Speaker 16: meet I could have meet him. But you know, and Tupauc,
Speaker 16: he's just like icon like, his way of thinking was
Speaker 16: just so different.
Speaker 11: I wish I could meet. I wish I could talk
Speaker 11: to him one day.
Speaker 2: Great combo, Mmm see I'll be I'll be tapped in now.
Speaker 2: All right, we appreciate your time. Best of lucky Rookie, year,
Speaker 2: Thanks so much.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: All right. That is first round draft pick Shamar Stewart.
Speaker 2: He returned to action last week against Pittsburgh. Still a
Speaker 2: little limited coming back from an ankle injury, but he
Speaker 2: should be close to one on Sunday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he can play at a much higher level.
Speaker 3: I mean he's he's uh getting familiar with what it
Speaker 3: takes to compete at a high level in the National
Speaker 3: Football League. But he's got a good pedigree. I mean,
Speaker 3: played excellent brand of football in high school, played at
Speaker 3: Texas A and M. He's he's capable. He's extremely capable,
Speaker 3: and he has not he has not peaked yet or
Speaker 3: come close to peak yet. There's a lot of meat
Speaker 3: on that bone.
Speaker 2: We are ready to say the menace after his first
Speaker 2: NFLVE I love all right, We'll take a time out.
Speaker 2: Coming up next. The Bengals opened as a four and
Speaker 2: a half point favorite. This week, it's up to six
Speaker 2: and a half. But they had better not take the
Speaker 2: Jets like No, we'll discuss that here from Zach Taylor
Speaker 2: when we continue. You are listening to the Bengals Pepper
Speaker 2: Rally Show presented by Just Pair checking out ESPN fifteen
Speaker 2: thirty in Fox Sports thirteen sixty. It is a Friday
Speaker 2: afternoon in Cincinnati. The work week is just about done.
Speaker 2: The happy hour is under way as we get ready
Speaker 2: for a big football weekend high school football tonight. The
Speaker 2: twenty first ranked Bearcats host Baylor tomorrow at four, and
Speaker 2: of Noster Bengals take on the New York Jets this
Speaker 2: Sunday at one. Chase Brown is going to join us
Speaker 2: on this show in about twenty five minutes. He will
Speaker 2: be here from five to six. We have quite the
Speaker 2: international audience for the show this afternoon. Scott from Melbourne,
Speaker 2: Australia is here.
Speaker 3: How about it?
Speaker 2: Thank you for being here. Scott. Paul from the United
Speaker 2: Kingdom is here. Paul, our buddy two day in the UK.
Speaker 2: Many members of the Lapham Clan have come from far
Speaker 2: and wide. Yes, we've got friends from Maine and various
Speaker 2: spots in New England. Where is the furthest person traveling
Speaker 2: from to see you go into the Ring of Honor
Speaker 2: this weekend? You know, well, we.
Speaker 3: Got California, we get Arizona, we on Main Hampshire. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they're coming in from all over. That's awesome.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2: Fun events planned tonight tomorrow, and of course the big
Speaker 2: ceremony is coming up on Sunday at halftime.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that. That is uh, something that I am
Speaker 3: still stunned about. Really, you're gonna.
Speaker 2: Get You're gonna get choked up on that field.
Speaker 3: Onside, I probably will. I'll probably be shedding a tear man.
Speaker 3: I think I will be. It's it's a it's a
Speaker 3: lifetime of uh, you know, I guess come comes lifetime
Speaker 3: of preparation and process comes to a conclusion. You know
Speaker 3: that you weren't necessarily expecting. You're hoping for it, but
Speaker 3: certainly weren't expecting it and certainly can't take it for granted.
Speaker 2: I'm a crier. I'll be blubbering in the booth. Hopefully
Speaker 2: will not get too choked up when I'm talking on
Speaker 2: the air. So let's talk about the matchup Bengals taking
Speaker 2: on the O and seven New York Jets. I mentioned earlier.
Speaker 2: The line opened at four and a half. Now the
Speaker 2: Bengals are favored by six and a half. Head coach
Speaker 2: Zach Taylor says his team had better not take this
Speaker 2: opponent lately.
Speaker 9: It would be a shame if anybody thought that, because
Speaker 9: that would mean that they have not watched the tape
Speaker 9: and that they're just Again, I don't think that we
Speaker 9: have those types of guys in the locker room, and
Speaker 9: that's on all of us players and coaches to make
Speaker 9: sure that there's none that mentality because this is a
Speaker 9: really difficult team. Again, like I said, they're well coached,
Speaker 9: they have a lot of talent, and we got to
Speaker 9: be ready for them.
Speaker 2: Yes, they're ow and seven. Five of the seven losses
Speaker 2: have been by one score. They should have beaten the
Speaker 2: Steelers in Week one. They lost that game thirty four
Speaker 2: to thirty two. They lost by seven last week. They
Speaker 2: lost by two to the Broncos two weeks ago. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean the oh to seven is the bottom line,
Speaker 2: but they could easily be three and four, four and
Speaker 2: three something like that right on.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think the National Football League, it's the
Speaker 3: thing that makes it attractive is anybody can beat anybody
Speaker 3: on any given Sunday, and that's what the fans love.
Speaker 3: Gamblers don't necessarily love it as much because they can't
Speaker 3: really count on anything. And the Bengals better not take
Speaker 3: the New York Jets for granted. With the oh and
Speaker 3: seven record as soon as you start to do that,
Speaker 3: now you're playing with dynamite, you're playing with fire, and
Speaker 3: you could lose control of your season quickly.
Speaker 2: Anybody can beat anybody. Keep that in mind.
Speaker 3: They have good players, They have NFL caliber players. Everybody
Speaker 3: on that football team was selected and drafted for a
Speaker 3: reason and or signed as a college free agent, as
Speaker 3: signed as an unrestricted free agent, and free agency veteran
Speaker 3: free agency. Don't think that they're not going to come
Speaker 3: in here and try to knock you off your high
Speaker 3: horse after you just beat the Pittsburgh Steelers, I'll guarantee you.
Speaker 3: Aaron Glenn is saying, hey, they're full of themselves right now.
Speaker 3: The Cincinnati Bengals think there's something special. They think they're
Speaker 3: in high cotton. They beat the Pittsburgh Steelers. That's a
Speaker 3: big division rival for them. Let's go in and knock
Speaker 3: them off. And you know the Jets are capable of
Speaker 3: doing it. Aaron Glenn knows it, Zach Taylor knows it.
Speaker 3: The Bengals better play like it's this game means everything
Speaker 3: everything to their season, because it truly does.
Speaker 2: The Bengals have not turned it over in the last
Speaker 2: two weeks since Joe Flacco has been their starting quarterback.
Speaker 2: The Jets are dead last in that category in the NFL,
Speaker 2: minus nine for the season. That's that's always the most
Speaker 2: important stat I think in any game, but I think
Speaker 2: it's particularly important this week. Don't turn it over against
Speaker 2: the Jets, and I feel really good about the Bengals chances.
Speaker 3: I agree with you, Dan, you know your football. I mean,
Speaker 3: don't give the New York Jets extra opportunities, extra possessions.
Speaker 3: You're playing with fire at that point. They're capable, They're
Speaker 3: capable of hurting you. They're capable of doing some things
Speaker 3: that you weren't necessarily anticipating or expecting. You know, you
Speaker 3: play a clean football game. I'd like to see them
Speaker 3: go at least plus one, but more like plus two
Speaker 3: plus three and win their turnover battle, because I agree
Speaker 3: with you with the turnover ratio is the single most
Speaker 3: important statistic in all football, be it high school, collegiate
Speaker 3: football or the National Football League. You have to hold
Speaker 3: on to each and every one of your possessions and
Speaker 3: maximize them and make sure that you don't give any
Speaker 3: extras to the opponent.
Speaker 2: All right, coming up next, do the Bengals have one
Speaker 2: of the best young cornerbacks in the NFL. We'll discuss
Speaker 2: that next. Yeah, you're listening to the Bengals pep Rowley
Speaker 2: Show here on Fox Sports thirteen sixties, Lapping the ball
Speaker 2: Man back on the Bengals pep Rally Show, presented by
Speaker 2: Jess Bear Chicken live from the on the Ryane Eatery.
Speaker 2: You're in downtown Cincinnati. It's the food hall above the
Speaker 2: downtown Kroger at Corton Walnut. Chase Brown is on his way.
Speaker 2: He will join us for the final hour the show.
Speaker 3: Nice.
Speaker 2: The Jets injury report is officially out. Sauce Gardner out,
Speaker 2: Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 3: Out, Wow, both of them.
Speaker 2: Former Bengal j two fella out about it. Knee Wogu
Speaker 2: one of the best kick returners in the league. He's
Speaker 2: got four career kick return touchdowns. He's out. A couple
Speaker 2: of reserves are also out. So the Jets in a
Speaker 2: much more dire injury state of things than the Bengals
Speaker 2: going into the game this week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's uh, that's some serious, uh devastating blows there.
Speaker 3: The Jets they're they're they've got good personnel. I mean,
Speaker 3: they're a National Football League team. No doubt about it.
Speaker 3: But you you lose your best return guy, you lose
Speaker 3: your best corner, you lose your best receiver, You're gonna
Speaker 3: feel that. I mean, you know, you Priest Holl is
Speaker 3: still a weapon offensively. I mean he can do, you know,
Speaker 3: multiple things for you. But you really have to going
Speaker 3: to a football game in the NFL with more than
Speaker 3: one weapon. You just that if it's one guy, he
Speaker 3: can be neutralized, he can be taken out of the game.
Speaker 3: And that's what the Cincinnati Bengals will be doing. I'm
Speaker 3: sure Al Golden will be like, Breese Hall is not
Speaker 3: going to hurt us, and there's not going to be
Speaker 3: any big plays executed by Breess Hall, you know, by
Speaker 3: hook and by crook, and to make sure that Breess
Speaker 3: Hall does not impact the outcome of this football game.
Speaker 2: I'm sure that DJ Turner would have been matched up
Speaker 2: against Garrett Wilson if Wilson had the green light to play.
Speaker 2: That now longer, no longer will be the case. DJ
Speaker 2: Turner has been awesome lately. He's up to thirteen passes
Speaker 2: defense this year that is number one in the NFL
Speaker 2: by three. Pro Football Focus has him graded as the
Speaker 2: number five cover corner in the NFL at this point
Speaker 2: of the season, so he is really emerging as one
Speaker 2: of the better young corners in the NFL. Let's hear
Speaker 2: from former second round draft pick DJ Turner.
Speaker 18: Miss mencil As keep saying this, the mental aspect of
Speaker 18: it on the field and off the field is just
Speaker 18: everything I've always said. But like last week, I didn't
Speaker 18: get faster or stronger. It's all mental imitate every day
Speaker 18: read write, I do a whole bunch calm out rain noises.
Speaker 18: I mean, I do a whole bunch of some and stuff,
Speaker 18: and then I just, you.
Speaker 2: Know, help prepare for the games lap. We've always known
Speaker 2: about the athleticism. He ran a four two six forty.
Speaker 2: After all, in the NFL Tom Brazy had a broad
Speaker 2: jump of ten feet eleven inches. So the guy is
Speaker 2: an incredible athlete. But now, as he just described, he's
Speaker 2: putting the mental aspect of the game together as well.
Speaker 3: He is. I mean, the thing about DJ Turner, he
Speaker 3: is he's smart. When you when you hear him, you
Speaker 3: can tell that he's intelligent. You can tell that he
Speaker 3: has an interest in a lot of things. I think
Speaker 3: he's inquisitive. I think he asked good questions. His teammates
Speaker 3: and coaches have said, he asked really really good questions,
Speaker 3: and he's he wants to be great. I mean, that's
Speaker 3: that's the biggest thing. That when when players do turn
Speaker 3: the corner and the worm turns for him and they
Speaker 3: start making more plays and and getting after it a
Speaker 3: little bit with a little bit more intensity, and the
Speaker 3: result it's it's because they want to be great. They
Speaker 3: want to be the best in the National Football League,
Speaker 3: and he's got the talents and abilities to do it.
Speaker 3: I mean that forty time you talking about sub four three.
Speaker 3: Come on, now, that's a and jump almost eleven feet
Speaker 3: broad jump almost eleven feet. That's ridiculous. Got some kangaroo
Speaker 3: in them or something. But yeah, he's the thing about
Speaker 3: as well as he's playing, Al Golden feels like he
Speaker 3: can still play a little bit better. But Al Golden
Speaker 3: has said that he agrees in space, he's the best
Speaker 3: tackler they have in the secondary. I mean, he comes
Speaker 3: downhill and fills it, he sees it quickly and and
Speaker 3: makes an immediate move to neutralize it and stop it.
Speaker 3: I think I think he's going to be around a
Speaker 3: long time.
Speaker 2: The other outside corner last week was Josh Newton. Cam
Speaker 2: Taylor Britt has lost his spot in the starting lineup
Speaker 2: and he wasn't even active. He was a game day
Speaker 2: inactive for the game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Clearly they're
Speaker 2: looking to light a fire under Cam Taylor Brett. I
Speaker 2: think he's probably going to be active on Sunday based
Speaker 2: on how he's practiced this week. But we'll find out, Yeah,
Speaker 2: ninety minutes before kickoff.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Nel Golden is the master motivator, you know, I
Speaker 3: mean Cam Taylor Britt. He feels like Cam Taylor Britt
Speaker 3: is not doing everything he's capable of doing. He doesn't
Speaker 3: like the fact that he gambles as much as he does.
Speaker 3: Cam Taylor Britt will take some chances self, admittedly, he'll
Speaker 3: take chances based on his film study and feels like
Speaker 3: if it's better than fifty to fifty, I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 3: gonna try to get it done. He is still in
Speaker 3: the mix. I mean, if there's an injury, he's the guy.
Speaker 3: He's the third corner. Like you said, he'll be the
Speaker 3: one out in the football field, but in nickel packages
Speaker 3: he'll be lined up out there as well. So he's
Speaker 3: gonna have to do a good job and make sure
Speaker 3: that he takes care of his area of responsibility and
Speaker 3: doesn't try to get nosy and go elsewhere and dip
Speaker 3: into other people's areas of responsibility. Do your job. That's
Speaker 3: what it's all about. Playing defense against this football team,
Speaker 3: the New York Jets, is going to be all about.
Speaker 3: Do your job, don't let the football team down. Do
Speaker 3: your job to the best of your ability, and everything
Speaker 3: will be okay.
Speaker 2: The Bengals and Jets Sunday at one o'clock Ring of
Speaker 2: Honor Induction Sunday at pay Course Stadium. Dave Lapham and
Speaker 2: Leaping Lamar Parrish are going in and we'll talk about
Speaker 2: that a little bit more when we come back. This
Speaker 2: is the Bengals pep Rally Show live from the om
Speaker 2: the Ryan Eatery in downtown Cincinnati on Fox Sports thirteen sixty.
Speaker 2: We are back at the on the Rhine Eatery here
Speaker 2: in downtown Cincinnati. It's the food hall on the second
Speaker 2: floor above the downtown Kroger at Corton Walnut. This is
Speaker 2: the Bengals pep Rallley Show, getting you set for Ring
Speaker 2: of Honor Induction Sunday coming up. This week the Bengals
Speaker 2: taking on the New York Jets. We got some interesting
Speaker 2: intel from Nicky Graul from the Bengals, who is here today.
Speaker 2: They actually practiced earlier taking down the curtain, essentially to
Speaker 2: reveal Lapham sixty two and Parish twenty up on the wall.
Speaker 2: We are excited about that. Here's where I get choked up, Buddy.
Speaker 2: Let me just say, the broadcasting games with you for
Speaker 2: the last fifteen years, all right, I'm going to get
Speaker 2: it together here has been one of the great joys
Speaker 2: of my life, professional and otherwise. We've had so much
Speaker 2: fun together, No question, we developed a great friendship. I
Speaker 2: tell the story all the time. The first game we
Speaker 2: did together was a preseason game in two thousand and eleven.
Speaker 2: Bengals traveled to Detroit. Yes, final score was Lions thirty four,
Speaker 2: Bengals three. I got on the bus after the game,
Speaker 2: and you've never seen so many long faces. Everybody was
Speaker 2: convinced this was going to be a terrible year. And
Speaker 2: I was giddy because the chemistry was immediate. It was
Speaker 2: we had so much fun, and so I'm like beaming
Speaker 2: from ear to ear because it was awesome and I
Speaker 2: knew we were going to have a great partnership on
Speaker 2: the air, and it has been and I could not
Speaker 2: be more thrilled that you are getting this honor. It
Speaker 2: is so well deserved, not only for your ten great
Speaker 2: years as a player, and you were a great player.
Speaker 2: I hope people realize that, but also for the last
Speaker 2: forty years, there's not a better analyst on the radio
Speaker 2: in the NFL, and furthermore, a better ambassador for this franchise.
Speaker 2: You've been just incredible at representing the city and the
Speaker 2: franchise and your family with class and treat people wonderfully.
Speaker 2: And I'm just throwed for you, Dan. I can't thank
Speaker 2: you enough. Really, I mean, I'm glad they're applauding because
Speaker 2: what you say is so meaningful and it means a
Speaker 2: lot to me. I can tell you that doing games
Speaker 2: with you, like you mentioned, use the word joy, it's
Speaker 2: a joy. I mean, I can't believe get paid for it.
Speaker 2: You know, it's like it's like you do. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: like your hobby. It's like a hobby.
Speaker 3: You know, it's man and honestly, you know, working with
Speaker 3: your best friend, that's you know, that is cherry on
Speaker 3: top of the icing, on top of the cake. You know,
Speaker 3: it's like, how lucky, how fortunate can a guy be?
Speaker 3: And to do it for ten years as a player
Speaker 3: of forty years in the broadcast booth for the organization
Speaker 3: is great, but fifteen years with you has taken it
Speaker 3: to another level. In the broadcast booth, there's nothing. Nothing
Speaker 3: comes close to doing games with Dan Horde, be it
Speaker 3: at pay Court Stadium or anywhere on the road. Travels
Speaker 3: that uh, that broadcast booth and up to the elevator
Speaker 3: we go, and to whatever floor it may be, and
Speaker 3: it's gonna be another just fun day, man packed with
Speaker 3: uh stories to be told.
Speaker 2: No doubt about it. We've had some great adventures. We've
Speaker 2: got an opportunity to call a Super Bowl together. Hopefully
Speaker 2: we'll do that again and this time the Bengals will
Speaker 2: come out on top. Yep, you've played in one. You
Speaker 2: broadcast too. They're getting closer every time, from five points
Speaker 2: to four points to three points. I hope we don't
Speaker 2: have to have two point and one point losses. First,
Speaker 2: I know, let's let's move right to the Bengals victory
Speaker 2: and ce Lombardi Trophy in this town.
Speaker 3: That would be nice. I mean, you know, Cincinnati deserves it.
Speaker 3: You deserve it. I feel like I, uh, you deserve fate.
Speaker 3: I've paid the two my dudes as well. It's gonna happen.
Speaker 3: I really have a few this group of people, this
Speaker 3: group of guys, players, coaches, everybody's on the same page
Speaker 3: in that regard. I know Zach Taylor really wants it
Speaker 3: desperately to happen. I think it will. I think it's
Speaker 3: gonna happen.
Speaker 2: I do too. I've always felt from the day they
Speaker 2: drafted Joe Burrow that the Bengals would win a Super
Speaker 2: Bowl in the Borough era. They came close. They got
Speaker 2: there in his second season, and he's going to be
Speaker 2: healthy again fairly soon. We see him at the lock
Speaker 2: in the locker room every day. He's recuperating. That boot's
Speaker 2: gonna be off. He'll be working on that tow and
Speaker 2: hopefully we'll be playing in the final few weeks of
Speaker 2: the regular season this year, and if the Bengals are
Speaker 2: able to make it to the playoffs, nobody in the
Speaker 2: NFL wants to face Joe Burrow in January February.
Speaker 3: Nobody agreed, nobody, And he's capable of coming back. He's
Speaker 3: doing everything he possibly can physically and mentally, and Joe
Speaker 3: Slaco has talked about what an impact Joe Burrow has
Speaker 3: had on him in terms of helping him master the
Speaker 3: offenses quickly as he has and you know the tooth.
Speaker 3: That one trait that both these guys have in common,
Speaker 3: in my mind is patience. I don't think anybody is
Speaker 3: more patient than Joe Burrow on the field in the pocket,
Speaker 3: and the same with Joe Flacco. So the Bengals I
Speaker 3: think have got I mean, what a one two punch
Speaker 3: at the quarterback position when Joe Burrow does come back healthy.
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me? Joe Burrow starting games for you
Speaker 3: for whatever reason, Joe Flacco has to come in and
Speaker 3: finish games. There's not a better one two punch, a
Speaker 3: one two combination in the National Football League than those
Speaker 3: two gentlemen right.
Speaker 2: There, all right, two hours in the books, one hour
Speaker 2: to go. Chase Brown will be joining us shortly. You
Speaker 2: are listening to the Bengals Pep Browley Show, presented by
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Speaker 2: Yes, our number three of the Bengals pep Rally Show
Speaker 2: presented by just Paar Chicken. I'm Dan Hord, live from
Speaker 2: the On the Ride eatery here in downtown Cincinnati. It's
Speaker 2: a Friday afternoon. We've got a home game coming up
Speaker 2: on Sunday as the Bengals host the winless New York Jets.
Speaker 2: Cincinnati favored by six and a half, the Bengals trying
Speaker 2: to even the record at four and four. They've got
Speaker 2: another home game coming up next week against the good
Speaker 2: but not great team, the Chicago Bears. So maybe, just maybe,
Speaker 2: the Bengals can put together a three game winning streak,
Speaker 2: a three straight home games against the Steelers, Jets, and Bears,
Speaker 2: get to a game over five hundred and five and
Speaker 2: four and take that into their bye week the following week. Normally,
Speaker 2: on this show, Dave Lapham and I are together for
Speaker 2: three hours. We have let Lap go a little bit
Speaker 2: early today because he's got a lot going on this weekend,
Speaker 2: including a family celebration tonight. Friends and family coming in
Speaker 2: from all over the country to celebrate Lap as he
Speaker 2: goes into the Bengals Ring of Honor this weekend. So
Speaker 2: he's got the family celebration tonight. The Bengals have the
Speaker 2: team celebration for Lap and Lamar Paris coming up tomorrow night,
Speaker 2: that is from five to seven point thirty at pay
Speaker 2: Corps Stadium, and then of course on Sunday, it is
Speaker 2: the big day, the Ring of Honor induction, as Lap
Speaker 2: and Lamar will officially be inducted at halftime of that
Speaker 2: game as promised. Chase Brown is our special guest today
Speaker 2: here at the on the Rhine Eatery, and the Bengals
Speaker 2: run back is arriving as we speak with his infant
Speaker 2: son in hand. How cute is that we appreciate Chase
Speaker 2: coming out and spending some time with us on this
Speaker 2: Friday afternoon as the Bengals get set to take on
Speaker 2: the New York Jets this Sunday at one o'clock. Chase
Speaker 2: coming off a tremendous game last Thursday against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 2: Eleven carries one hundred and eight yards. Carries in that
Speaker 2: game of thirty seven and twenty seven yards. The blocking
Speaker 2: was great. Everything went great, and it was fun to
Speaker 2: see you go off like that. Congratulations on a great game.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's always nice when you have space to go
Speaker 13: out there and make some plays. O line stuffed up big,
Speaker 13: But what was even more impressive was Flocco's.
Speaker 5: Ability to get the ball out quickly.
Speaker 13: The way that we were able to pick up protections
Speaker 13: and then spit the ball out on the perimeter kind
Speaker 13: of keeps the defense on their heels. And when you're
Speaker 13: able to do that, you control what's going on.
Speaker 2: I've been broadcasting Bengals game for fifteen years. I have
Speaker 2: called a lot of Joe Flacco games. I know what
Speaker 2: Joe Flacco is capable of doing, but I've got to
Speaker 2: be honest. To come in under these circumstances and play
Speaker 2: at this level is astounding to me. NFL offenses are
Speaker 2: so complicated. For the dude to show up on a
Speaker 2: Tuesday practice for the first time on a Wednesday, go
Speaker 2: out and have a tremendous second half against Green Bay
Speaker 2: on the road, and then play in a short week
Speaker 2: and ball out against the Steelers. No doubt, I've never
Speaker 2: seen anything like it.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I haven't either, but I will give him. I'll
Speaker 13: say this, he's played football in the NFL for eighteen years.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 13: I think I've been playing football for less time than that.
Speaker 13: So he's been in the NFL longer than I've been
Speaker 13: playing football. So that's one thing to keep in mind.
Speaker 13: So he with that, he brings a ton of experience,
Speaker 13: He knows what he's looking for. He probably, you know,
Speaker 13: when we get set, he probably looks out and you
Speaker 13: know exactly what the defense is doing. So so much wisdom,
Speaker 13: so much skill, and so much experience. And I think
Speaker 13: that's what you're seeing right now is just a confident
Speaker 13: player that's playing in this league for a really long
Speaker 13: time and has really stepped up in a big way
Speaker 13: and helped.
Speaker 5: Us get rolling.
Speaker 2: So on the Wednesday after his first practice, I was
Speaker 2: among several reporters that gathered in front of your locker
Speaker 2: to ask you about him, and you sounded so impressed
Speaker 2: by his ability to spit out the plays after arriving
Speaker 2: the night before yeah.
Speaker 5: I don't know if people know this.
Speaker 13: I mean you've probably seen quarterback and you have an
Speaker 13: idea of what the play calls are like, or you've
Speaker 13: you know, followed some sort of thing where you've heard
Speaker 13: quarterbacks call the play. It's not easy, let alone listen
Speaker 13: for your job within all the words that he's saying. So,
Speaker 13: you know, first walk through, he comes in and he
Speaker 13: is just reciting the plays like he's been here all
Speaker 13: year long.
Speaker 5: I'm like, how's he doing this? Like he just got
Speaker 5: here this morning.
Speaker 13: I think like, yeah, so kudo's him for that, because
Speaker 13: that's that's not easy.
Speaker 2: He is Joe Calm, Joe calm, Joe Burrow's Joe cool,
Speaker 2: Joe Flaco's Joe Calm.
Speaker 13: Yeah, and then when Joe Burrow plays in the NFL
Speaker 13: for whatever eighteen years, he'll.
Speaker 5: Become Joe Calm.
Speaker 2: He can eventually become Joe Calm as well. All right,
Speaker 2: I want to turn the clock back a little bit.
Speaker 2: This is your third year with the Cincinnati Bengals. There
Speaker 2: have been some tremendous moments and tremendous games. I think
Speaker 2: the first moment that many people will remember that kind
Speaker 2: of caught the nation's attention. Happened in December of your
Speaker 2: rookie year against the Indianapolis Colts. Let's listen. Back rookie
Speaker 2: Chase Brown checks in for the first time at running
Speaker 2: back after nine carries for sixty one yards last week,
Speaker 2: they fake it to him. Now they screen it to him,
Speaker 2: all sorts of running room and blockers in front. He's
Speaker 2: fine to the thirty, the twenty, the ten cuts back,
Speaker 2: a man.
Speaker 7: Miss half, the five touchdown Bengals Chase Brown showing his
Speaker 7: speed as he flies down the field for.
Speaker 2: The Bengals touchdown. You hit twenty two point zero five
Speaker 2: miles an hour on that screen against the Colts. Was that,
Speaker 2: in any way a play that that kind of put
Speaker 2: you on the map in your own mind?
Speaker 5: I think so. I think you know.
Speaker 13: I was able to do a little bit during camp,
Speaker 13: but as a rookie year, you're kind of scratching and
Speaker 13: clawing for opportunities, so.
Speaker 5: Every rep you get is huge.
Speaker 13: But I can remember the week before, a couple of
Speaker 13: weeks before we were we were playing Thursday night or
Speaker 13: Monday night in Jacksonville, and I was able to pop
Speaker 13: off a couple of runs. So and something I took
Speaker 13: away from that was there's this one run I broke away.
Speaker 5: I'm like, I was kind of indecisive.
Speaker 13: I'm like, oh, I didn't know if I should cut
Speaker 13: back in or if I should just try and run
Speaker 13: up the sideline. So I told my the next time
Speaker 13: I get the opportunity to just run as fast as
Speaker 13: I can, That's what I'm going to do. And then
Speaker 13: when that screen came around, I turned around like, there's
Speaker 13: so much space, like, just go and twenty two point
Speaker 13: twenty two point zero five was the result of odd
Speaker 13: in a touchdown.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think you would have been guilty of
Speaker 2: speeding in a school zone in the state of Ohio.
Speaker 2: I think the speed limit is twenty so you exceeded
Speaker 2: the speed limit.
Speaker 5: Hopefully they give me some grace two miles.
Speaker 3: Per hour over.
Speaker 2: Well, there are a lot of Bengals fans in the
Speaker 2: police department, sheriff's department, so we'll definitely cut you some slack.
Speaker 2: That carried over to last season, particularly the second half
Speaker 2: of the year after Zach Boss suffered a neck injury.
Speaker 2: You became the quote unquote bell cow in the running game,
Speaker 2: and over the last eight games of the season, or
Speaker 2: your last eight games of the season, you missed the finale,
Speaker 2: but you averaged one hundred and twenty combined rushing and
Speaker 2: receiving yards. You were as productive as basically anybody in
Speaker 2: the league for that eight game straight.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 13: No, we were playing really good football with then the
Speaker 13: year and uh, you know with the way that Jamar
Speaker 13: and t and Dray and Joe especially, I mean it
Speaker 13: it's like a it's a it's a beautiful thing. When
Speaker 13: everything's operating at a high level, it's like a it's
Speaker 13: like a well oiled machine, like a like a car,
Speaker 13: you know what I mean. So when everything's when everything's
Speaker 13: operating at a high level, I mean, everybody's doing well.
Speaker 5: And I think that's what you saw last weeks.
Speaker 13: The Steelers is like I said earlier, we were able
Speaker 13: to get the ball on the perimeter. It's like you
Speaker 13: have a running back that plays receiver and if you're
Speaker 13: just throwing the ball on a quick now.
Speaker 5: Route, he's gonna do something with it.
Speaker 13: And then you have T Higgins, you have Dre, Noah Fan,
Speaker 13: you have all these guys that.
Speaker 5: You know we're getting the ball to.
Speaker 13: And when you're unpredictable like that, it just opens up
Speaker 13: everything else. So you saw that a lot at the
Speaker 13: end of last year, and you saw that on Thursday night.
Speaker 13: So that's what we're trying to go into this week with.
Speaker 13: Just carry that momentum and do everything we can to
Speaker 13: bring that into all these games coming.
Speaker 2: On twenty three. Targets for Jamar last week sixteen catches
Speaker 2: a franchise history. The guy cannot be tired out seemingly
Speaker 2: I don't know every play and just keep feeding him
Speaker 2: the ball.
Speaker 13: Yeah, no, when he's been doing a really good job,
Speaker 13: like we we talk all the time. But yeah, I
Speaker 13: mean he's just he's Jamar Chase, like best, best in
Speaker 13: the league, best in the world.
Speaker 2: Tell us about the little cutie that you walked in
Speaker 2: carrying in your arms.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's my son.
Speaker 13: He was born in January. It's my girlfriend, Jasmine, and
Speaker 13: that's Oceans. So he has.
Speaker 5: No idea what's going on that he was born in January.
Speaker 2: Well behaved, Yeah, no, he is.
Speaker 5: He is as long as he's fed and.
Speaker 2: Sounds like me.
Speaker 5: He's happy.
Speaker 2: So long as I'm fed, I'm happy.
Speaker 5: Right likewise, No, but truly one of the biggest blessings.
Speaker 13: Fatherhood has been, you know, a journey so far, but
Speaker 13: in all the good ways possible.
Speaker 2: It's the best. If your experience is anything like mine,
Speaker 2: For the next twelve years, it's going to be awesome.
Speaker 2: Then when he's thirteen, there'll be a little spell where
Speaker 2: you're no longer his hero, and then after a few
Speaker 2: years it comes around again and you are the apple
Speaker 2: of his eye. Okay, well that's how it kind of
Speaker 2: works for many.
Speaker 5: I'll let you know when he turns thirteen.
Speaker 2: All right, sounds good. We're gonna take a time out.
Speaker 2: Our special guest, Bengals running back Chase Brown. We are
Speaker 2: live at the on the Rhine Eatery here in downtown Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: the Bengals pep Rally Show on Fox Sports thirteen sixty.
Speaker 2: This is the Bengals pep Rally Show, live from the
Speaker 2: on the Rhine Eatery here in downtown Cincinnati. Our special
Speaker 2: guest in the final hour of the show today, Chase
Speaker 2: Brown graciously signing autographs during the commercial breaks, posing for pictures,
Speaker 2: et cetera. If you were in the area, come out
Speaker 2: and join us. We're here until six o'clock tonight. This
Speaker 2: is the first time I have seen the Chase Brown
Speaker 2: bobblehead giving out at Skyline. What do you think of
Speaker 2: your bobblehead image.
Speaker 5: It's funny it Uh, it looks good.
Speaker 3: It looks good.
Speaker 5: I think they did a good job.
Speaker 2: So he had some bobblehead Yes, yeah, does your brother
Speaker 2: have one?
Speaker 5: And Philly? I don't know. I don't know. I'll have
Speaker 5: to ask him.
Speaker 2: You got the one up on them?
Speaker 5: Is there skyline in Philly?
Speaker 2: I don't think so well, but they heads.
Speaker 5: There's probably one on like NFL dot com or something
Speaker 5: like that.
Speaker 2: Guy might be he's got the super Bowl ring, You've
Speaker 2: got the bobbleheads. Hopefully you'll both have.
Speaker 5: Both, yes, sometimes eventually.
Speaker 2: Chase Brown is our guest in his third year with
Speaker 2: the Cincinnati Bengals. His offensive coordinator is Dan Pitcher. Let's
Speaker 2: hear from Pitch on Chase Brown.
Speaker 19: There are guys that that it just becomes just how
Speaker 19: they carry themselves, how how the look in their eye
Speaker 19: when you talk to him, how you see him go
Speaker 19: about their day in the building. Uh, it just becomes
Speaker 19: apparent very very early that like this guy's obsessive about
Speaker 19: his preparation, there's a whatever, there's something motivating him that's
Speaker 19: unusual even at this level of highly.
Speaker 2: Highly motivated people. And I would put him in that bucket.
Speaker 2: Preparation that accurate.
Speaker 13: Yeah, that's that's that's what I am. I want to
Speaker 13: be great at what I do and uh, you know,
Speaker 13: I don't take this opportunity in the NFL lightly like
Speaker 13: I want to.
Speaker 5: I want to do big things. So there's a lot
Speaker 5: that comes with that.
Speaker 13: And yeah, my my daily routine, my preparation, my film preparation,
Speaker 13: like everything that goes into a game week is you know,
Speaker 13: has been planned and thought about well before this season
Speaker 13: even started. So you know, I'm doing everything I can
Speaker 13: to be the best version of myself on Sundays. And
Speaker 13: you know, that's really nice a pitch to UH to
Speaker 13: recognize that and say those words.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as he said, there's something beyond the norm that
Speaker 2: motivates you. What is that?
Speaker 13: Yeah, that's a great question. I just want to prove
Speaker 13: it to myself that you know, I.
Speaker 2: Can be.
Speaker 13: I can be a dominant player in this league. And
Speaker 13: you know that's why I'm still chasing. And that's that's
Speaker 13: what motivates me, is the best version of myself. And
Speaker 13: you know, the little the little checklist that I go
Speaker 13: through every single day, it feels like I'm I'm taking
Speaker 13: a step forward every single time. I I do everything,
Speaker 13: whether it's you know, getting in the tubs, you know.
Speaker 5: Watching the blitz tape, watching.
Speaker 13: The run tape, and just mentally going into every single
Speaker 13: day with the mindset that I'm going to try and
Speaker 13: help this team win and they're gonna get the best
Speaker 13: ursion of me on a daily basis.
Speaker 2: Is it a literal checklist? Do you actually have a
Speaker 2: list of things that you make sure that you do?
Speaker 13: Yeah, so I made this list. I made this list
Speaker 13: well before the season. I sat down with my trainer,
Speaker 13: slash like mental coach, like he's kind of all in one,
Speaker 13: but you know, we we went through things that you
Speaker 13: know you can kind of go over and you can
Speaker 13: do on a daily basis to to I guess not
Speaker 13: like settle your mind, but it's it's just things that
Speaker 13: you do too.
Speaker 5: To be successful.
Speaker 13: Because there's so many things that you know, you could
Speaker 13: I could have gone into this season saying yeah, I
Speaker 13: want to I want to have a Pro Bowl. I
Speaker 13: want to you know, I want to go for fifteen
Speaker 13: hundred all purpose yards. But that's so there's so much
Speaker 13: that goes into doing that, and you know that starts
Speaker 13: with Okay, how how are you gonna prepare on a
Speaker 13: daily basis. How are you taking care of your body,
Speaker 13: how are you watching film? How are you preparing yourself
Speaker 13: to go out and do those things. So that's what
Speaker 13: we talked about, and that's kind of how we broke
Speaker 13: it down. And yeah, there there's a list, but I
Speaker 13: kind of have it memorized now, and uh, you know,
Speaker 13: every day I just go through it.
Speaker 2: Is that trainer, mental coach, the wide receiver guru that
Speaker 2: you visited with, and yeah, Lieberman.
Speaker 5: Is yeah, Drew, Drew, Yeah, you know Drew.
Speaker 13: So, yeah, Drew and I have been working for two
Speaker 13: years now and he's doing a lot.
Speaker 5: He's done a lot.
Speaker 13: He's helped me, you know, become a much better player
Speaker 13: than I was when I first got into league. So
Speaker 13: I have so much respect for the guy too, just
Speaker 13: the way that he handles himself and he handles himself
Speaker 13: as a trainer because you work with a ton of people,
Speaker 13: and uh, you never know what to expect out of
Speaker 13: some of these trainers that you know, you work within
Speaker 13: the off season because they're not even that you know,
Speaker 13: prepared themselves. But he is one person that is legitimately,
Speaker 13: you know, one of the most prepared people I've ever
Speaker 13: been around, so learned a lot from him, going to
Speaker 13: continue to work with him, but yeah, it's been it's
Speaker 13: been a blessing.
Speaker 2: Describe your friendship with Andre and how the two of
Speaker 2: you have pushed each other.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Dre and I are are.
Speaker 13: So we came into the league later draft picks, the
Speaker 13: fifth I think he was a sixth on pick, and
Speaker 13: we kind of connected on that initially knowing that, you know,
Speaker 13: our opportunities weren't promised and you know, our you know,
Speaker 13: are you know, making the team wasn't promise, So everything
Speaker 13: that we did on a daily basis was important. The
Speaker 13: way that you know, we we handled ourselves when we
Speaker 13: got opportunities in practice, what are we making of those?
Speaker 13: And then what are you gonna do with that first
Speaker 13: off season? Because I think there's like I think that
Speaker 13: second season, that second training camp will tell you a
Speaker 13: lot about a player, like are they going to continue
Speaker 13: to take steps forward or are they going to regress?
Speaker 5: And I think I think that there's a lot to
Speaker 5: take away from that.
Speaker 13: And we were two guys that made the most of
Speaker 13: that offseason, came into camp ready and then when we
Speaker 13: both got our opportunities, you know, we've been able to do.
Speaker 11: A lot with them.
Speaker 2: I still can't figure out why you lasted until the
Speaker 2: fifth round. You probably can't either, but you put up
Speaker 2: monster numbers at Illinois. You crushed it the scouting combine
Speaker 2: decent size, two hundred and ten pounds. Did you ever
Speaker 2: get any intel for why you were not taken earlier?
Speaker 13: Honestly, I haven't put much thought on into that. I
Speaker 13: don't really care to be honest, Like where I went,
Speaker 13: I'm a true believer that you know, God works behind
Speaker 13: the scenes all the time. So I think you know
Speaker 13: me going the fifth round was you know the reason
Speaker 13: why I'm here. It's the reason why I'm here, right,
Speaker 13: And there's an opportunity to be made of And you
Speaker 13: know I've been putting the position to make plays and
Speaker 13: I couldn't be more grateful for that.
Speaker 5: So I think I'm in the perfect spot.
Speaker 2: The Running Game obviously got off to a slow start
Speaker 2: this season. Last week it was tremendous, But I really
Speaker 2: thought a couple of weeks before that we saw progress. No,
Speaker 2: the Denver Game team had eighty five yards, but the
Speaker 2: efficiency was better Green Game, Green, Gray Game that the
Speaker 2: efficiency was even better than that, And then we saw
Speaker 2: it kind of culminate with this huge game against the
Speaker 2: Steelers on Thursday night. Could you feel could you see
Speaker 2: it that it was moving.
Speaker 13: In the right direction and kind of tell every single
Speaker 13: week that we're taking steps forward. Early against Cleveland, like
Speaker 13: you know, we struggled in some areas, but I think
Speaker 13: that the main thing and the biggest takeaway from all
Speaker 13: of that was just not to panic. I don't I think,
Speaker 13: and this isn't a shot against like the general public.
Speaker 13: I mean, you've been around football for a long time
Speaker 13: and you understand that you just don't panic in situations
Speaker 13: like that.
Speaker 5: You're you don't.
Speaker 13: You don't start pointing fingers, you you don't start blaming
Speaker 13: the coordinator. You don't blame the old line, you don't
Speaker 13: blame the running backs. Like you know, everybody in that
Speaker 13: locker room is there for a reason. And that team,
Speaker 13: the team that we put together this year, I mean
Speaker 13: we were we we've been successful, we've all been together.
Speaker 13: This is like it feels like there's not a single
Speaker 13: face on that old line or in that locker room
Speaker 13: that I haven't seen for at least two years now.
Speaker 5: So we have all the right pieces. It's really about execution.
Speaker 13: Acution is a big part of it, and kind of
Speaker 13: got off to a rocky start against Cleveland, like we
Speaker 13: we started off that first drive unbelievable, but took a
Speaker 13: step back and then you know, Joe gets hurt. There
Speaker 13: was a lot going on. So the one thing I
Speaker 13: respect the most is we weren't pointing fingers. We were
Speaker 13: all looking for ways to make this run game better,
Speaker 13: to to get better as an offense, because I think
Speaker 13: overall efficiency wasn't that good. But you know when I think,
Speaker 13: I think when you when you look at those first
Speaker 13: six games and then you take away a couple of them.
Speaker 13: So the first four games, four to five games, we
Speaker 13: weren't able to really stress the perimeter, and then you know,
Speaker 13: you go look at Green Bay where we get into
Speaker 13: a little bit of a mo drome. We're getting the
Speaker 13: ball out quick and Jamar is getting yeap yards after catch,
Speaker 13: and we're kind of we're kind of spitting the ball
Speaker 13: out all over the place and we're putting the defense
Speaker 13: on their heels.
Speaker 5: We're picking up.
Speaker 13: These exotic blitzes, and you know, we're starting to be
Speaker 13: more efficient in the run the game because you know
Speaker 13: that the defense isn't able to predict what we're doing.
Speaker 13: Like as an offense, we were less predictable. And then
Speaker 13: you go fast forward to the Steelers game and it's
Speaker 13: like we were in.
Speaker 5: Total control the entire time.
Speaker 13: Like you obviously with that if you go back and
Speaker 13: watch a film, the execution was off the charge, like
Speaker 13: everybody did a great job. Like Dult stepped in and
Speaker 13: I mean he was he was doing Everybody was doing
Speaker 13: really well. So I think that's a big thing. It's
Speaker 13: a team sport. When the receivers are doing well, we're
Speaker 13: doing well. When we're doing well, they're doing well. So
Speaker 13: I think that's the story of the first six games is.
Speaker 5: We just gotta be better.
Speaker 13: We gotta, we gotta, we gotta, we gotta play as
Speaker 13: a unit, we gotta, we gotta be efficient on early downs.
Speaker 13: And if we're doing that, you know that's the result
Speaker 13: you're gonna get offensively, You're gonna see an efficient, fast paced,
Speaker 13: explosive offense.
Speaker 2: I think blitz pick up is the most underrated skill
Speaker 2: in football because you know, on the one hand, you
Speaker 2: picture it as all right, you're probably a smaller guy
Speaker 2: trying to block a bigger guy, which in and of
Speaker 2: itself is challenging, but I think the mental aspect of
Speaker 2: knowing where it is coming from takes so much prep
Speaker 2: and practice and ability, and to do it as well
Speaker 2: as you're doing it, I think is pretty incredible.
Speaker 13: Yeah, Coach Coach Hill, my running backs coach. He does
Speaker 13: the protection plan every single week. So as a running
Speaker 13: back unit, we take a lot of pride in protection. Like,
Speaker 13: I think one thing that stands out the most with
Speaker 13: him especially is and he says all the time, it's
Speaker 13: like last year it was like, you know, keep number
Speaker 13: nine safe, Everything's gonna be good, and that's kind of
Speaker 13: been the story. But he takes a ton of pride
Speaker 13: in you know, how we protect, how physical we are
Speaker 13: stepping up on these blocks, and yeah, he's not settling
Speaker 13: for you know, soft blocking. So I I figured that
Speaker 13: out early on, and you know, last year I was
Speaker 13: able to kind of step into that third down role
Speaker 13: and there's a lot of opportunity that came out of that.
Speaker 13: And this year I've been able to you know, step
Speaker 13: up and continue to take steps forward in that area
Speaker 13: of my game. So but a huge, a huge tribute
Speaker 13: to him for that because it's not easy, like, especially
Speaker 13: as a rookie coming in. I think that's probably the
Speaker 13: hardest thing. That was the hardest thing for me at least,
Speaker 13: was you know, learning the.
Speaker 5: The call, the protection calls.
Speaker 13: You know, whether it was a four man sword or
Speaker 13: a three man sword, which side was the sword side,
Speaker 13: which on the man's side. You know, all these different
Speaker 13: protections that we have in and you know, once I
Speaker 13: was able to learn that, could play a lot faster
Speaker 13: and could step on those books a lot better.
Speaker 2: Chase Brown is our guest. We are live at the
Speaker 2: on the Ryan Eatery here in downtown Cincinnati. It's the
Speaker 2: Bengals pep Rowley Show presented by Just Pared Chicken. We'll
Speaker 2: take the time out and come back with more with
Speaker 2: number thirty and just the mom but here on five
Speaker 2: Sports thirteen sixty, the Bengals line up in a pistol
Speaker 2: formation with Chase Brown behind Joe Burrow. All goes in motion.
Speaker 2: They give it to Chase Brown. He's got the first
Speaker 2: two or to them into the field.
Speaker 7: Ten five rolls into the end zone, touchdown Bengals with
Speaker 7: one fifty two to go, and that is coffin nails.
Speaker 11: Bam bam bam Chase Brown.
Speaker 3: Once he crossed the line of scrimmage. It's almost like
Speaker 3: he stuck his hand up to say goodbye.
Speaker 2: Chase Brown, our special guest today last year and a
Speaker 2: win over the New York Giants at thirty yard touchdown
Speaker 2: run essentially put the game away. As you probably know,
Speaker 2: Chase was born in Canada. Grew up not far from Toronto,
Speaker 2: right London, Ontario.
Speaker 5: Yup, it's right there. You know the area.
Speaker 2: So how excited are you about the World Series? Are you?
Speaker 13: It's great, no Toronto going. I didn't watch it, like,
Speaker 13: we didn't sit there and watch it. But all my
Speaker 13: buddies back home we're paying tension and they followed the
Speaker 13: whole series and uh, I really didn't know what to expect,
Speaker 13: like uh and uh when I saw them one, it
Speaker 13: was a big time. But I was Actually my brother
Speaker 13: and I were able to go visit the clubhouse in
Speaker 13: the summer, great time.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 13: Tem of good guys in that locker room and they
Speaker 13: were giving us gear and so much round. It's it's
Speaker 13: so crazy what the clubhouse is like. It's like a
Speaker 13: different Their work day seems so much different than ours
Speaker 13: and the way that they like travel like it's just
Speaker 13: they're telling me stories and I'm like yeah.
Speaker 2: We we have a curt we have a curfew, and
Speaker 2: obviously we don't travel with their families, but their families travel.
Speaker 13: With them and they you know, stay in in the
Speaker 13: same hotel and it's.
Speaker 5: Just so much different like between all like with an
Speaker 5: all sports, it's different.
Speaker 13: So uh, yeah, it was cool get to meet them
Speaker 13: and see the whole clubhouse, and you know, fast forward
Speaker 13: to now them being the World Series.
Speaker 5: It kind of it's big time. I mean, anytime a.
Speaker 13: To a Canadian team makes it to that big championship game,
Speaker 13: it's huge.
Speaker 5: Like when the Raptors won the.
Speaker 13: NBA Finals, I mean they about destroyed Toronto, down street
Speaker 13: lights and flipping garbage cans and just doing the most
Speaker 13: so tons of energy up there. I know the city
Speaker 13: is really proud. Every Canadian is probably following.
Speaker 5: So no, it's awesome.
Speaker 2: And since the Montreal Expos are no longer in Montreal,
Speaker 2: it is truly Canada's team. There used to be you know,
Speaker 2: two splitting up the attention, but now the entire country
Speaker 2: will be rooting for the Blue Jays.
Speaker 13: Yes, yes, and then you have all the hockey teams
Speaker 13: up there too, so hopefully hopefully going to see all
Speaker 13: three of those Toronto teams to make it, so you know,
Speaker 13: Toronto Raptors, Blue Jays win it, then the Leafs.
Speaker 5: That's the last one.
Speaker 2: So it's been a while.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So when I was just graduating from college, one of
Speaker 2: my first jobs was a minor league baseball broadcaster and
Speaker 2: the team that I worked for was the top affiliate
Speaker 2: for the Toronto Blue Jays. So when they won their
Speaker 2: back to back World Series in the early nineties, those
Speaker 2: were guys that I had gotten to know in my
Speaker 2: early fledgling broadcasting career, so I was a huge Blue
Speaker 2: Jays fan back then. I actually got to do a
Speaker 2: few Blue Jays games very early in my career. So
Speaker 2: because I was doing the minor league team, I would
Speaker 2: go up to Toronto every September after our season was
Speaker 2: finished nice and the Blue Jays announcers would put me on,
Speaker 2: which was a huge thrill. You know, I was in
Speaker 2: my early twenties. It was my dreams. So I have
Speaker 2: this affinity for the Blue Jays.
Speaker 5: What do you think about Toronto?
Speaker 2: Were you able to love Toronto? So I grew up
Speaker 2: a little bit south of Buffalo and my family, I'm
Speaker 2: one of five kids. We would go to Toronto on
Speaker 2: vacation pretty much every Easter.
Speaker 5: Nice.
Speaker 2: The Harlem Globe Trotters always played Easter. We would go
Speaker 2: see the Globe Trotters. We would go, you know, see
Speaker 2: sporting events and stuff. So I am a big Toronto fan.
Speaker 5: That's great. That's great. Well I'm a big Toronto fan
Speaker 5: as well, so we have something in common.
Speaker 2: This conversation is becoming about me, which is not the intent.
Speaker 2: I will say one more thing though. The first professional
Speaker 2: football game I ever saw was not NFL. It was CFL.
Speaker 2: Who was playing Hamilton Tiger Cats.
Speaker 5: Oh that's like an hour from my health Go. Yeah, nice.
Speaker 2: Did you play Canadian rules football as a kid or
Speaker 2: did you always play America rules?
Speaker 5: That's a great. Yeah.
Speaker 13: So it's interesting and I hope they make the change
Speaker 13: because I think football, just like all other sports worldwide,
Speaker 13: should have the same rules.
Speaker 5: But obviously, if people don't know.
Speaker 13: They're the the CFL, there's a Canadian version of football,
Speaker 13: which is it's still football, but the rules are different.
Speaker 13: Like you have three downs instead of four, The field
Speaker 13: is wider and longer. The end zones are huge, like
Speaker 13: I mean like when you're when you're in the red zone.
Speaker 13: It's really like you're.
Speaker 5: At midfield, like you could you could call like those.
Speaker 2: They're twenty yards right, drive to start twenty yards.
Speaker 13: They're huge, like you could at twenty yards like, yeah,
Speaker 13: you don't need much finesse to to win.
Speaker 5: And it ends on that big. So eventually, I really
Speaker 5: hope they do, uh change the.
Speaker 13: Rules to just like the Americans like, and I think
Speaker 13: that'd be so much better because then when you know,
Speaker 13: kids are being scouted up there and evaluated to you know,
Speaker 13: maybe playing a college in the US, they're not like, oh, like,
Speaker 13: you know, this kid isn't that good, and like he's
Speaker 13: he's playing on this huge field and he has all
Speaker 13: this space to do everything, and yeah, that's just that's
Speaker 13: just something I hope they change.
Speaker 2: Did you follow the CFL or did you follow the NFL?
Speaker 13: Growing up, always NFL CFO was the goal at one point,
Speaker 13: and then the NFL. You know, the NFL was always
Speaker 13: a goal. I think for every young kid, the NFL
Speaker 13: is always a goal. But when you're growing up in Canada,
Speaker 13: it's hard to see like you're not you know, it's
Speaker 13: not like I'm trying to find a good example. But
Speaker 13: when my brother and I moved down to Florida, You're
Speaker 13: just you're You're around all these different high schools, and
Speaker 13: every single one of those high schools have somebody that
Speaker 13: has some sort of relationship to the NFL, whether it's
Speaker 13: a player or a cousin or grandpa and uncle. Like,
Speaker 13: you know, the NFL is just such a big thing
Speaker 13: down here, and as it should be, like it's it's
Speaker 13: America's game. So when we were at when when we
Speaker 13: had the opportunity to to get around that and indulge
Speaker 13: in that American football culture.
Speaker 5: Changes a lot. It just felt like it felt like
Speaker 5: the NFL was like a real thing.
Speaker 13: And then you go to college and you know, you're
Speaker 13: you're you're building your confidence up, you're trying to find
Speaker 13: ways to make plays in college, and then you start
Speaker 13: making those plays and then the NFL is like right there.
Speaker 5: So I think when I started making plays in college.
Speaker 17: I would sit there and think to myself that, you know,
Speaker 17: I could really make this football didn't work, And you
Speaker 17: know I was able to do that and still have
Speaker 17: a ton of football ahead and so many more things
Speaker 17: I want to achieve in this league and do.
Speaker 5: But it's really just getting that.
Speaker 13: First opportunity in your foot in the door and once
Speaker 13: you have that, I mean, I mean, make the.
Speaker 5: Most of it.
Speaker 2: Chase Brown is our guest. We're going to take a
Speaker 2: time out. When we come back, we'll hear from his
Speaker 2: head coach, Zach Taylor talking about our special guest this afternoon,
Speaker 2: Bengals running back Chase Brown. This is the Bengals pep
Speaker 2: Rowley Show. We're live at the on the Rye Eatery,
Speaker 2: the food Haul above the downtown Kroger at Court and Walnut.
Speaker 2: We're here until six o'clock tonight on Fox Sports thirteen sixty.
Speaker 5: Black Up.
Speaker 2: Extend the ball. Brown up the middle of the field
Speaker 2: of the thirty racing of the thirty five, tends to
Speaker 2: the forty far side line, forty five fifty forty five
Speaker 2: and finally tackled at the Pittsburgh thirty nine yard line.
Speaker 2: Cameron Hayward running down the field along with Patrick Queen.
Speaker 2: That's a thirty seven yard run on the first play
Speaker 2: of the drive for Chase Brown. One of two long
Speaker 2: runs for Chase Brown last week, a thirty seven and
Speaker 2: a twenty seven and a one hundred and eight yard
Speaker 2: rushing performance in the win of the Pittsburgh Steelers. You've
Speaker 2: got the Jets coming to town on Sunday. Let's talk
Speaker 2: a little bit about this challenge. The Jets are zero
Speaker 2: and seven. That speaks for itself. But they've got a
Speaker 2: lot of good players on defense, particularly upfront. Do you
Speaker 2: view that as the strength of the defense you're facing
Speaker 2: this week?
Speaker 13: Yeah, they have a lot of good players, and I
Speaker 13: think their team that are judged way too much by
Speaker 13: their record. If you look at this series of game
Speaker 13: that they played a lot more close and they lose,
Speaker 13: they lose those games on the very last drive and
Speaker 13: we're talking like, you know, less than seven points games
Speaker 13: that they could have been.
Speaker 5: So yeah, so it's like you know.
Speaker 13: You you you look at that and you think of
Speaker 13: us last season. We we I mean, unfortunately we lost
Speaker 13: games like that a lot last year too. So I
Speaker 13: just see them as a team that, you know, I
Speaker 13: have a lot of good players, have a ton of talent.
Speaker 13: They're gonna play hard every single week is the NFL,
Speaker 13: Like it's your job to go out.
Speaker 5: There and perform. But you know, we're not.
Speaker 3: We're not.
Speaker 13: We're not gonna take them lately like we we know that,
Speaker 13: you know we're gonna we gotta start fast. Number One obviously,
Speaker 13: but you can't take them lately like you. You can't
Speaker 13: look at their record and be like, this is gonna
Speaker 13: be an easy week, because the next thing you know,
Speaker 13: you get punched in the face.
Speaker 2: Right, you have a loss.
Speaker 13: Right, So everybody's working really hard in the building, and
Speaker 13: I'm excited to get out there finally play. I feel
Speaker 13: there's so much build up every single week to the
Speaker 13: Sunday games when you have a full week to prepare.
Speaker 5: And around this time you try to go out there
Speaker 5: and play.
Speaker 2: Did you do anything fun during your mini bie after
Speaker 2: a Thursday night game.
Speaker 5: I'm just like everybody else, man, Like I go home,
Speaker 5: I watched Netflix.
Speaker 13: I changed diapers, So you know, I'm not that much
Speaker 13: different than you know anybody in here.
Speaker 5: I just played football. That's the only difference.
Speaker 20: Well, I didn't change any diapers, so you didn't change diapers.
Speaker 20: My son is nineteen, so thankfully I'm not changing any diapers.
Speaker 20: That's good and he's a college student who's out of town.
Speaker 20: But good that you guys could relax after a win.
Speaker 20: Had that game wound up a Pittsburgh win, you still
Speaker 20: would have kicked back a little bit. But it's tough
Speaker 20: to really enjoy it unless you have that Thursday night victory.
Speaker 13: Right, No doubt exactly, because you're just moving on to
Speaker 13: the next game. But yeah, it was nice to relax
Speaker 13: a little bit. I don't think people realize how much
Speaker 13: work goes into a Thursday night game though, Like you,
Speaker 13: you think about a full week of preparation that is
Speaker 13: condensed into basically three days. So yeah, there's there's a
Speaker 13: lot of work. And I know the coaches have it
Speaker 13: worse than us because we we we get we get
Speaker 13: out around you know, the one that we got out
Speaker 13: at like eight pm, that's pretty good.
Speaker 5: And uh, but the coaches, I know they're in there.
Speaker 13: They're they're working in the game plan, they're they're working
Speaker 13: on all these installs of protection plan and X, Y
Speaker 13: and Z.
Speaker 5: All the things that they have to do. So it's
Speaker 5: not like the preparation.
Speaker 13: Changes, but it's just a short period of time. So yeah,
Speaker 13: there's a lot that goes into those Thursday night games.
Speaker 13: But on the back end of it, you know, you
Speaker 13: get to enjoy the long weekend.
Speaker 2: So so this is Ring of Honor Induction weekend. Two
Speaker 2: guys that played long before you were born are going
Speaker 2: into the Bengals Ring of Honor this week former cornerback
Speaker 2: Lamar Parrish and my broadcast partner Dave Lapham. Obviously, you've
Speaker 2: gotten to know Lap during your three years with the Bengals.
Speaker 2: I love the fact that when Laps in the locker room,
Speaker 2: there's instantaneous respect because he spent a twelve years playing
Speaker 2: pro football, ten in the NFL, and anybody that plays
Speaker 2: for that long has credibility with current players because he
Speaker 2: understands what you guys are going through, no doubt.
Speaker 5: No doubt.
Speaker 13: I mean he can he can relate to us, relate
Speaker 13: to us differently than than anybody else because he's been in.
Speaker 5: Our shot before. Yeah, Lap, Lap's awesome.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 13: I remember, I don't know if he spoke or I
Speaker 13: don't I don't remember where I heard him talk. Maybe
Speaker 13: it was in a team meeting. It's in a team meeting.
Speaker 13: I think he spoke to us or something like that.
Speaker 13: He's talking about like he was talking about how he
Speaker 13: would like park his car. He tried to park his
Speaker 13: car more perfectly every single day, and eventually, you know,
Speaker 13: you know what I mean. It just started with that
Speaker 13: and the little details. He always talked with the little
Speaker 13: details and anyways that story resonated with me, and I
Speaker 13: kind of think about.
Speaker 5: It every single day when I go park my car.
Speaker 13: It's like, you know, let me park my car perfectly
Speaker 13: because you know that's the right thing to do, and
Speaker 13: you know, if you do if you if you do that, well,
Speaker 13: it's like how you do anything is how you do everything.
Speaker 13: Like if you're you're kind of just you know, like
Speaker 13: when you're doing the signatures, if you're doing a lazy signature,
Speaker 13: that that.
Speaker 5: Could carry on to another area of your life that
Speaker 5: you may not even realize.
Speaker 13: So I think how you do everything is important, even
Speaker 13: parking your car. So that's interesting that I still wouldn't
Speaker 13: be Yeah.
Speaker 2: I parallel parked in front of a coffee shop today.
Speaker 2: It was perfect and I didn't even realize that was inspired.
Speaker 2: I'm a broadcast partner. Dave Lappham, all right, we need
Speaker 2: to take one more time out. When we come back,
Speaker 2: we will play America's favorite game show, Know Your School.
Speaker 2: I have five questions about the University of Illinois. Chase
Speaker 2: has to get at least three rights to be declared
Speaker 2: a winner. This is the Bengals pep Rally Show presented
Speaker 2: by Just Bear Chicken on Fox Sports thirteen sixty, the
Speaker 2: final segment of the Bengals pep Rally Show from the
Speaker 2: on the Rhine Eatery. You're at downtown Cincinnati. It's the
Speaker 2: food hall on the second floor above the downtown Kroger
Speaker 2: at Court and Walnut. We'll be back next Friday. I'll
Speaker 2: be out of town with the UC Bearcats. Wayne box
Speaker 2: Miller will take my place next Friday afternoon. Our special
Speaker 2: guest on the Friday show next week will be defensive
Speaker 2: tackle Chris Jenkins. Our special guest on the Wednesday show
Speaker 2: next week will be linebacker Barrett Carter. So if you'd
Speaker 2: like to get an autograph, get a picture with Barrett
Speaker 2: or Chris Jenkins. They will be our guests on Wednesday,
Speaker 2: Barrett Carter and Friday with Chris Jenkins. Our special guest
Speaker 2: today and we really appreciate his time. It's running back
Speaker 2: Chase Brown. Time to play America's favorite game show. We
Speaker 2: call it Know Your School. I have come up with
Speaker 2: five questions about your alma mater, the University of Illinois.
Speaker 2: You must get at least three rights to be declared
Speaker 2: a winner. Are you ready, Chase Brown? Yes? Question number one.
Speaker 2: Illinois has two retired numbers fifty for a linebacker and
Speaker 2: seventy seven for a halfback and return and specialist. Name
Speaker 2: either Illinois player who had his number grange and you
Speaker 2: got him both. Boom boom, he's showing off kissing red grains.
Speaker 2: All right, you were one for one. Question number two
Speaker 2: for good luck. During exam season, many Illinois students rub
Speaker 2: the nose of what statue.
Speaker 5: As a statue.
Speaker 2: It's a statue of a famous person on campus.
Speaker 5: On campus. Well, I obviously never did this.
Speaker 13: So.
Speaker 5: You maybe I would.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say you didn't need the luck.
Speaker 5: Where is it on campus?
Speaker 2: It's just inside the main quad according to the Illinois website.
Speaker 13: Just inside the main quad, I mean Alma Mater's right
Speaker 13: there in the corner. So when you walk in, man,
Speaker 13: I'm taking the.
Speaker 2: One is a bust of Abe Lincoln. Really yeah, apparently
Speaker 2: his nose is discolored from all of the people that
Speaker 2: rub it for good line. Right, you're one for two.
Speaker 2: This one's tough. I think this next one, but we'll
Speaker 2: see if you can get it, according to the According
Speaker 2: to Fightingelini dot com, Illinois has four fight songs. Name
Speaker 2: any of them. The Orange Hail to the Orange is correct.
Speaker 3: Boom.
Speaker 2: All right, two questions ago. You only need to get
Speaker 2: one right to be a winner. Name the Illinois graduate
Speaker 2: with the initials h h who founded one of the
Speaker 2: world's most famous magazines with a bonus hint. Visiting his
Speaker 2: mansion near Beverly Hills was the dream of many single men.
Speaker 2: Hugh Hefner is correct. All right, you're already a winner.
Speaker 2: But we'll ask the fifth and final question. See if
Speaker 2: you can go four for five. This former Illinois football
Speaker 2: player is currently in his tenth NFL season, playing for
Speaker 2: his third NFL team. He won two Super Bowl rings
Speaker 2: with his first team and is a four time captain
Speaker 2: with his current team.
Speaker 5: He's in his tenth season.
Speaker 2: He's in his tenth season.
Speaker 5: He is Okay, So we played for Casey.
Speaker 2: No, No, he has not played for k C.
Speaker 5: Well, he's still in the NFL.
Speaker 2: He's still in the league.
Speaker 5: Oh, it's probably Ted.
Speaker 2: There you go, a little bit of a question. I
Speaker 2: definitely would have passed it along to Ted if he
Speaker 2: did not get that question. But you got it. You
Speaker 2: went four for five. You know your school. Congratulations Jakes Brown.
Speaker 5: There we go. It feels good.
Speaker 2: All right, we are just about a time, just about
Speaker 2: out of time. We want to thank you for spending
Speaker 2: an hour with us this afternoon. It's been awesome to
Speaker 2: have you on this franchise. You have obviously played extremely well,
Speaker 2: but you have represented city of Cincinnati and the Cincinnati
Speaker 2: Bengals extremely well. Can thank you enough? Best of luck
Speaker 2: on Sunday, Thanks and beyond all right, let's hear it
Speaker 2: for Chase Brown and special thanks to our crew. Thanks
Speaker 2: to our engineer Mike Mills. Thanks to laugh before he
Speaker 2: had to leave. Thanks to Nicky Graul from the Bengals
Speaker 2: for coming out and helping us with the autographs. Thanks
Speaker 2: to a Nick and the gang here at the on
Speaker 2: the Rhine Eatery. Again. On Wednesday night, our special guest
Speaker 2: is going to be Barrett Carter, and next Friday afternoon,
Speaker 2: our special guest in the final hour of that show
Speaker 2: will be Chris Jenkins. For Dave Lapham, I'm Dan Hord.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much for listening. You've been listening to the
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