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Speaker 2: Rocker opening segment talking about Joe Burrow is the hot
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Speaker 2: going with our next guest, who's been all over it
Speaker 2: this week. He covers the Bengals for clnscincywithy dot Com,
Speaker 2: host of the Jungle Roar podcast on YouTube. He's the
Speaker 2: man they call Trags, Mike Petrallion Trags. In the first segment,
Speaker 2: we played the exchange in your question to Joe yesterday
Speaker 2: was a it was a money question. It was a
Speaker 2: money recent bonds and how Joe Burrow answered your question
Speaker 2: about what he would say to others is exactly what
Speaker 2: you want from the face of your franchise, isn't it?
Speaker 3: It is?
Speaker 4: And I just think that's his way of showing leadership.
Speaker 4: And he knows that there is something left to prove
Speaker 4: in this season. Whether or not you think the Bengals
Speaker 4: are capable of running off six straight wins and staying
Speaker 4: relevant in.
Speaker 3: The AFC North race is not the issue to him.
Speaker 3: The issue is.
Speaker 4: I've got to play each and every game.
Speaker 3: I think we have a chance to win a game,
Speaker 3: and that.
Speaker 4: Is what I'm getting paid a lot of money to do.
Speaker 4: And he's not obtuse. He's not oblivious to the role
Speaker 4: that he serves.
Speaker 3: On the team, in the franchise.
Speaker 4: He is totally aware that he's a historic figure in
Speaker 4: the Bengals.
Speaker 3: History already just based.
Speaker 4: On a fifty five million dollar annual contract. So he
Speaker 4: knows that there's an obligation to go out and play
Speaker 4: when he can play fully healthy, and he believes, for
Speaker 4: all intents and purposes, he is with the toe heeled.
Speaker 3: He needs to go out.
Speaker 4: And lead the team to a win, a win they
Speaker 4: desperately need. They've lost four straight, eight of nine. All
Speaker 4: nine of those games came without Joe Burrow as starting quarterback.
Speaker 3: You want some good news.
Speaker 4: The Bengals guys are on a The Bengals are on
Speaker 4: a seven game winning streak with Burrow as the starting quarterback.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 5: Well we'll play to that, So tryon. I've been saying
Speaker 5: all week, I'm fine with Joe Burrow playing as long
Speaker 5: as there's no restrictions on him. You know, like, well,
Speaker 5: we got to cut this from the playbook and we
Speaker 5: don't want him to roll out. What's your indication is
Speaker 5: that going to be the case? That is going to
Speaker 5: be full on Joe Burrow, no restrictions.
Speaker 3: So that's a great question, Rocky.
Speaker 4: And the only bit of trepidation I had yesterday during
Speaker 4: the Borough news conference was when he was asked that
Speaker 4: very question. He's like, well, we'll see, and I'm like, okay, Well,
Speaker 4: that to me is not a great sign because maybe
Speaker 4: he tries to do I think what he's saying there
Speaker 4: is he knows he needs to get rid of the
Speaker 4: ball faster, and maybe that alters the way he plays
Speaker 4: the game a little bit, and maybe that it is
Speaker 4: his tip of the cap that I can't sit back
Speaker 4: in the pocket and continue to take hits like I
Speaker 4: did when I got injured against Jacksonville. That can't happen anymore.
Speaker 4: So maybe that's what he's saying. But I do believe
Speaker 4: that he feels one hundred percent healthy. The only soreness
Speaker 4: he had last week after the two full practices on
Speaker 4: Wednesday and Thursday. And he told me this when I
Speaker 4: asked him, was.
Speaker 3: General body soreness. Well, you would expect.
Speaker 4: That when you haven't had full NFL practice in the.
Speaker 3: Middle of the week in ten weeks, that's going to happen.
Speaker 4: And certainly I think he could have played, no question
Speaker 4: on Sunday against the Patriots. But Zach Taylor read that differently.
Speaker 4: He was like, well, if he's still sore, I don't
Speaker 4: want him on the field. And that's where I think
Speaker 4: there is some legitimate criticism of the decision that Bengals
Speaker 4: made not to play him, because had Burrow played that
Speaker 4: game last week, I do think, and I know many
Speaker 4: have argued, they could have won that game. And then
Speaker 4: you're talking about a team that is coming into Baltimore
Speaker 4: four and seven.
Speaker 3: Not three and eight.
Speaker 2: Trag's you're around this group, you talked with him this week.
Speaker 2: Is it is it fair to say there is a
Speaker 2: different vibe. Is there a collective bounce of the step
Speaker 2: of this locker room.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's no question there's a different vibe, and the guys,
Speaker 4: especially the players, can feel it. I know certainly. Chase
Speaker 4: Brown made reference to that early in the week on Monday.
Speaker 4: He said, Look, when Joe's in the room, we all
Speaker 4: know we've got a chance. He has a certain expectation
Speaker 4: of us to go out and perform, and we usually
Speaker 4: respond to that expectation. Jamar Chase has always said that,
Speaker 4: and I think there's an expectation throughout the building that
Speaker 4: this team is going to go out and play to
Speaker 4: a different level on Thursday night Tomorrow night. I will
Speaker 4: also add this before I forget, let's not forget about
Speaker 4: the improvement of the defense over the last two weeks.
Speaker 4: They allowed twenty points to the Steelers and they allowed
Speaker 4: nineteen points to the Patriots. Those are not bad numbers,
Speaker 4: especially to the Patriots, and when you take a look
Speaker 4: at the way the Ravens have been playing offensively lately,
Speaker 4: it ain't great and Lamar Jackson is not putting up
Speaker 4: the numbers that he has in years past. If the
Speaker 4: defense can continue its momentum, continue to play like it
Speaker 4: has shown over the last couple of weeks. The Bengals
Speaker 4: definitely have a fighters chance tomorrow night.
Speaker 5: So me, let's elaborate on the defense, because I agree
Speaker 5: they have been better or certainly last week in your
Speaker 5: conversations with the team. What do you attribute that to?
Speaker 5: Is that an under better understanding of the of the
Speaker 5: scheme by some guys like Barrett Carter had sixteen tackles
Speaker 5: last week? Is that more of a will of one
Speaker 5: to two and guys frankly getting pissed off and getting
Speaker 5: tired of people making fun of them for not being
Speaker 5: tough and tackling or is it just an experienced level?
Speaker 4: Is it it's more of the latter, Rocky, I think
Speaker 4: it's guys finally saying enough is enough. But what leads
Speaker 4: to that, well, just saying screw it and going out
Speaker 4: on the field and playing faster. And several guys, including
Speaker 4: Chris Jenkins Junior, told me that the team is playing
Speaker 4: with a lot more aggressiveness and speed and not worrying about,
Speaker 4: you know, where their exact position.
Speaker 3: Is along the defensive line.
Speaker 4: They're just saying I'm gonna take my spot and bull
Speaker 4: rush forward. I'm not gonna worry about anything else except
Speaker 4: playing my position, my responsibility, and you know, it's kind
Speaker 4: of a different take on do your job, but that's
Speaker 4: what the Bengals defense has been doing it certainly along
Speaker 4: the defensive line, and I think those two defensive stops
Speaker 4: they got in the red zone last week against the
Speaker 4: Patriots are critical to the.
Speaker 3: Confidence of the unit.
Speaker 4: I think they know that they can stop a very
Speaker 4: high powered and very capable Patriots offense from scoring one
Speaker 4: touchdown in nine tries inside the ten yard line and
Speaker 4: then hold them to a field goal inside the two
Speaker 4: yard line in another key situation in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 4: That can only give them confidence going forward.
Speaker 2: Tregs, you continue pumping out the tremendous contents. For those
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