WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: A Sobering Sunday 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:06.200 Hike and everybody. I'm Dan Horde and this is the 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.840 Bengals Booth Podcast, the Scalped edition, as we'll look back 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:14.200 at a sobering Sunday night in Kansas City as the 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:17.239 Bengals went to Arrowhead Stadium and got taken to the 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:22.279 woodshed by Patrick Showtime, Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:25.680 Coming up, you'll hear radio replays from the game, locker 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:28.880 room interviews with several players, and Dave Lapp them will 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:32.320 join me for postgame analysis. Plus, in this week's fun 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:36.360 Facts interview, I'll talk to Bengals tight end Mason Shrek, 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:39.120 who will tell us what it was like to arrive 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:41.640 at the University of Buffalo right out of high school 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:45.600 and have to try to block Khalil Mack. All of 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:48.000 that is straight ahead, But first, here's a quick reminder 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:50.440 that you can have the latest edition of this podcast 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:54.520 delivered right to your phone, tablet, or computer by subscribing 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:59.440 on iTunes, Stitcher, or pod Bean. It's the greatest invention 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:05.480 since the backspace key. If you are roughly as old 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:09.880 as I am or older, you remember typewriters and white 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:13.040 out yes kids back in the day. If you are 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:16.080 typing something on an actual piece of paper and made 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:18.959 a mistake. You either rip the paper out of the 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:23.200 typewriter and started over, or you opened a little bottle 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:26.959 with this white paint like liquid, took out a tiny 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:30.679 brush and covered up your mistake, then waited for the 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:35.320 liquid to dry before starting to type again. Now you 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:40.560 simply hit the backspace key and continue. It's glorious. Now 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:43.720 let's get to the game. According to the guy who 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:48.480 owns skin Quest Tattoos in Kansas City, people requesting to 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:52.840 have Patrick Mahomes's face tattooed unto their body is becoming 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:56.919 increasingly popular in Kansas City. He estimates he's had twelve 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:00.200 to fifteen requests so far and that number is likely 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.720 to grow after the clinic the twenty three year old 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:06.360 quarterback put on against the Bengals. Of course, it helps 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:09.840 to have weapons like running back Kareem Hunt, who led 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:12.480 the NFL and rushing as a rookie last year and 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:16.720 had one hundred forty one combined rushing and receiving yards. 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:19.400 On Sunday night, on second and ten, he hands it 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:21.639 off to Kareem Hunt, trying to run wide to the 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:25.519 right Drake Kirkpatrick. She slowed him down but didn't tackle him. Now, 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:30.040 Hunt hurdles a Bengal, runs inside to ten and finally 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:32.480 gets brought down at the six yard line. I'll tell 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:36.280 you that's vision and balanced for Kareem Hunt and Drake 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:39.919 Kirkpatrick has him and they pulled both guards. Kirkpatrick kind 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:42.640 of gets around the outside and just basically it was 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:46.440 almost like square dancing dozie dove, just ring him around 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:49.440 and let him go. Here's Bengals linebacker Preston Brown on 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:53.040 the challenge of tackling Kareem Hunt. You gotta really want 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:55.360 to tackle that guy. He's not gonna just except that 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.760 he's gonna tackle. He's gonna keep fighting, jump over you 0:02:57.800 --> 0:02:59.400 try to get as many yards as you can. I mean, 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.040 he wants to square. Every time he gets the ball, 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:03.639 he can tone away. He runs and he can catch 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:06.560 the ball too. Mahomes is under center, he'll drop back 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:10.119 to throw, rolling right, cocks the arm, throws caught near 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:13.120 the two yard line, Hunt extends the ball toward the pylon, 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:16.519 touchdown Kansas City. That was the final play of a 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:19.240 ninety five yard touchdown drive by the Chiefs on their 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:23.919 opening possession, and Kansas City led seven nothing all right, 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.560 We knew the Chiefs were going to score. But last 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:29.720 week the Patriots beat the Chiefs forty three to forty 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:34.160 because New England didn't make mistakes. The Patriots never punted 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:37.320 in the game and didn't have a single penalty enforced 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:41.920 against them. The Bengals were not quite that sharp. They 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:45.720 had eight penalties, they punted five times, and early in 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:48.440 the second quarter they botched a punt when it was 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:51.400 hard to tell what happened. On fourth and nine at 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:54.840 their own forty four, Clark Harris appeared to snap the 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:59.360 ball directly to the personal protector, Clayton Fedgelum, who didn't 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:02.560 seem to be affecting a fake punt. The disaster gave 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:06.160 the Chiefs the ball the Bengals thirty two. So what 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:10.200 happened Coach Lewis and miscommunication and it shouldn't happen, especially 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:12.800 against the Chiefs, who took advantage of the short field 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:16.559 to make it fourteen nothing. Mahomes under center, drop straight 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:19.640 back to throw a pocket closes, throws off his back foot, 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:24.000 caught at the thirteen yard line. The receiver escapes it's hut, 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.520 charging toward the forward right pilon and he is well 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:29.760 one official is standing at the five. The other gives 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:32.320 the touchdown signal. Now did he step out of bounce 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:35.160 at the five yard line? Is that official marking the ball? No, 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.680 he's not, so it's going to be a touchdown for Hunt. 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:40.920 That was Hunt's second touchdown, grabbed from Mahomes as he 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:44.840 ran right through the arms of Vantes perfect after catching 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:48.640 the ball. Here's Jesse Bates on the Bengals tackling woes. 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:52.760 That's something that we struggled with tonight. And obviously those 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:54.880 guys are our Pro bowlers and they're really good for 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:59.159 a reason, so you know, you just gotta tackle and 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:01.960 get better at it. Ling fourteen nothing, The Bengals finally 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:04.080 looked like the team that entered the game sixth in 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:07.640 the NFL and scoring. Aj Green had four catches for 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:11.320 seventy two yards on a seventy seven yard drive that 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.680 cut the Chiefs lead in half. Dalton the shotgun on 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.279 third down and goal from the four for the Bengals 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:20.280 down by two touchdowns. Andy catches the shotgun snap not 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:25.120 Buyers not at the goal line by you Zama. Touchdown Bengals. 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:28.960 You Zama broke out the macareina after that touchdown catch 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:32.320 because he figured it was game on with the Bengals 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:36.000 only trailing fourteen seven. I wouldn't have danced if if 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:37.600 I hadn't thought that, honestly, I'll just handing the ball 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:40.080 to the the ref and ran off on the sideline. Yeah. 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:41.880 I mean, we drove the ball down the field and scored, 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:43.480 and I was like, all right, nice, here we go. 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:45.599 This is what this is kind of the drive we 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:49.120 needed to spark us and we'll come back and you know, well, 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:52.560 we'll continue scoring. And that just didn't happen. Instead, the 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:56.000 Chiefs dominated the final two and a half quarters. It's 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.279 third down in six as a result of the five 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:01.279 yard penalty. Be homes back to three. Looking over the middle, 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:04.120 cocks the arm, throws it into the end zone and 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:06.960 it's the easiest touchdown he will throw all year. His 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:11.400 tight end, Demetrius Harris, former college basketball player, reels in 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:14.520 a seventeen yard TD. At the half. It was Kansas 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:18.560 City twenty four Cincinnati seven. Here's Preston Brown. They got 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:20.640 a great offense on that side, and Andrew Ree is 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:23.040 doing some stuff to confuse the defense, going to get 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:25.560 schemes a lot of four to the side, five on 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:27.440 one side. A lot of things you don't see in 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:30.240 America football, more Canadian type stuff. How they get everybody 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:32.560 on the side, but they do it well. Kansas City's 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:35.359 first play of the third quarter was a fifty yard 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:40.440 pass that helped make Kareem Hunt's fantasy owners really happy. 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:43.280 Hunt lines up to the right of Patrick Mahomes, who 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:45.520 waits for the shotgun. Snap. Now, Hunt motions to the 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:48.720 quarterbacks left. They give it to Kareem Hunt, looking to 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:52.400 add a rushing touchdown to his two receiving touchdowns, and 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:58.440 he's got it. Kansas City scores again. Man so many 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:02.880 weapons to choose, and the Chiefs beleaguer defense on a 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:05.680 pace to allow the most yards in NFL history going 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:09.400 into the game, even put points on the board against Cincinnati. 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:11.960 From the twenty five, Dalton drops back to throw his 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:15.000 pass over the middle, intercepted, running it back to the 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:19.720 twenty the ten, the five touchdown Ron Parker with a 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:23.200 pick six for the Kansas City Chiefs. Those last two 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:27.440 touchdowns came nine seconds apart and made the score thirty 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:30.840 eight seven in the third quarter. The Chiefs were allowing 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:34.280 nearly twenty nine points a game going in the Bengals 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:37.520 only scored ten on Sunday night. Here are c j 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:42.160 Uzama and offensive lineman Bobby Hart. It's tough SA BETA 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:45.360 team like that, any team, honestly, but I mean a 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:48.200 team like that playing the way that we did offensively 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:50.480 and hurting ourselves what we did. That's a great football team. 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.600 That's definitely, you know, the top one of the top 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:56.920 teams in the AFC. So you know, shoot, we got 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:59.320 this sea how we match up against him? So then 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:01.400 you gotta put at a lot of work to do. 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:03.800 The only question left in the fourth quarter was how 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:08.200 ugly the final score would be. The answer forty five 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:11.680 to ten. Mahomes in the shotgun with Kareem Hunt to 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:15.520 his left, fumbled the snap. Mahomes scoops it up Scramble's left, 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:20.280 throws touchdown right at the forward left pylon, and Tyreek Hill, 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:24.239 who dropped the touchdown pass a few plays ago, gets 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:27.600 his touchdown catch. After all, just like Andy Reid drew 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:30.600 it up fumble the ball. You know, it looked like 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:32.200 he was his zone read. It looked like he wanted 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:34.600 to hand it off to the running back and he 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:37.160 couldn't because he fumbled the football. And then he came 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.440 out to his left. It's like, okay, well, I'm not 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:41.200 even going to do the zone read part of it 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.200 to Kareem Hunt. I have to throw it Patrick. Mahomes 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:47.679 finished with three hundred and fifty eight passing yards, four touchdowns, 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:50.360 and a passer rating of one twenty three point seven. 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:53.720 And here's a final nugget about him. Last year, the 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:56.560 Saints had the eleventh pick in the draft, and head 0:08:56.559 --> 0:09:00.480 coach Sean Payton called Drew Brees to tell him him 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:02.400 there was a good chance they were going to draft 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:06.280 Mahomes to be his successor. They didn't want Breeze to 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:10.800 be blindsided by the news. But then the Chiefs sent 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:13.839 two first round picks and a third round pick to 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:17.120 Buffalo to move up from the twenty seventh pick to 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:21.120 the tenth pick in order to take Mahomes. He could 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:24.360 be sitting the bench in New Orleans right now. Instead, 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:29.439 he's good for business at skin Quest Tattoos. Here are 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:32.000 final thoughts from the locker room on a thirty five 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:36.600 point l from Marvin Lewis, Jesse Bates, and Preston Brown. 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:38.760 You got to commit ourselves to being in will first off, 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.480 move the football by running the football, and you know, 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:43.560 we didn't want to get into a throwing type game 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:48.480 like that. And you know we didn't play well enough 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:50.400 the next two well enough, we had to sustain make 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:52.480 first downs today. That was the key element. This one 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:54.840 is gonna be hard to swallow. Just because is in 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:57.720 front of everyone, everyone was watching him. I think we're 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:01.080 excited to show people what we can do, and we 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:03.800 didn't do that tonight. So you know, like I said, 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:06.280 lat mean this week, we got another opportunity next week 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:08.920 to go in to the bye week with a win, 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:11.559 and you get this thing back roll in the right way. 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:13.920 Everybody in the world is watching the Sunday night game. 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:15.520 You want to go out and have a great showing. 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:17.679 But we just didn't do it enough on defense. I mean, 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:19.600 we know what an offense like that, you got to 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:21.400 hold them to at least twenty one points to have 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:23.480 a shot to win, and their defense is playing out 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:25.360 standing the night. So we had to be better in 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:27.000 their defense, and that's how every game goes, and we 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.240 just weren't the better defense. Now, time to bring in 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:33.360 my broadcast partner Dave Lapham for postgame analysis. Lap coming 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:36.000 into this game, we knew the Bengals were going to 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:39.760 need to play extremely well to knock off the Chiefs 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:44.199 at home, particularly on defense. When you play poorly, it 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:46.800 becomes a blowout. And that's what happened tonight. Yeah. I 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:50.120 think that the Kansas City Chiefs are the fastest offense 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:52.640 in the National Football League, and you can't simulate it 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:54.640 when you're getting ready for him in practice. If you 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:57.199 could simulate it, all those guys as simulators be playing, 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:01.000 so you get a look at where they our, informations, 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:03.760 how they're lined up, window addressing all those kind of 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:06.079 things that Andy Reid might do. But you get in 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:09.199 the game and it's happening on twenty five miles an 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.959 hour as opposed to thirty miles an hour when you 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:13.959 were working against it in practice, in terms of the 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:16.640 comparison and the speed of the players, and I mean, 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:20.800 they were not ready for what attacked them tonight's football game, 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:24.600 and they tackled accordingly. They were never in position to 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.800 make tackles. They missed more tackles, and I think you 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.400 can count you run out of fingers, and you know 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:32.600 it was just you have to tip your cap to 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.559 greatness in the in the Kansa City Chiefs played great 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.080 tonight and the Bengals were far from it. And you 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:41.200 know it wasn't their best performance defensively nor offensively. I 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:43.560 mean the Kansa City Chiefs people were like, oh, it'll 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:45.120 be you know who has the ball last, It's going 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:48.200 to be trade and touchdown after touchdown. Everybody was looking 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:50.840 forward to that on a big national stage of Sunday 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:53.959 night football. In the in the offense, you know, they 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:55.959 laid an egg as well. I mean they were dinosaur 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:59.320 eggs laid by every phase. That's the mystery because going 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:01.000 into the game that are giving up an average of 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:03.120 four hundred and sixty eight yards a game, dead last 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:05.760 in the NFL by twenty eight yards. So it wasn't close. 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.280 The Bengals got two hundred and thirty nine yards of 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:12.520 offense and scored ten points. They get behind, they couldn't 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:15.560 run the football even when they weren't behind, They couldn't 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:20.199 run the football as effectively and efficiently as they wanted 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:22.480 to do it. And then you get behind to this 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:24.400 football team, you have to throw a little bit more 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:25.880 than you want to, and then you get behind by 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:29.840 more and now you're all disjointed, and you know, special 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:32.000 teams coach Lewis when I asked him about him the 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.640 post game. Instead of miscommunication, you know, it shouldn't happen. 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.720 So I think a fake was on, or Clark Harris 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.160 heard something that he thought a fake was on and 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:42.840 he snapped the football to Clayton Federalum and the fake 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:46.200 wasn't on and it got obliterated. And short field, so 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:48.240 you can't, you know, give the Kansas City Chiefs a 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:50.720 short field. Mahomes is drooling over that kind of stuff. 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.640 So instead of complimentary football, it was non complimentary football. 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:58.280 Every phase didn't support the other one. So I mean 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:01.000 it was a stinker, you know, And unfortunately it happened 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:03.520 on Sunday night football in front of the world, you know, 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.160 at least the nation and probably the world. And as 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:09.800 a form of player, that sticks with you because your friends, 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:14.320 your family, You're embarrassed. You're embarrassed. I remember losing nationally 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:17.520 televised games, not like this, just losing the game. You 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:19.920 just have a hard time getting over losing like this. 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:24.480 It's brutal. That's a brutal, brutal night for sure. The 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:28.640 Bengals have Pro Bowlers on defense, Carlos Dunlap Geno Atkins. 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:31.640 Will Jackson looked like a future pro bowler last year. 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.880 Preston Brown tied for the NFL lead in tackles last year, 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:38.680 and yet seven games into the season, the defense really 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:42.080 hasn't played that well. Vantes Burfett has been a pro bowler, 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:45.960 and it's disjointed. It's just not cohesive. It's not being 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:51.959 it's not put together. They've had substitution issues in some games. 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:57.800 They've had assignment mistake issues and games you know, quarterbacks 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.880 are going on double snapcounts to make the tip blitzes 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:05.880 and then there's no check if the quarterback I mean 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:10.640 Ben Roethlisberger fourteen blitzes, he recognized twelve of them, and 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:12.520 you got to check out of it. If he's got 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:14.960 it cold, they don't check out of it. I mean, 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:19.640 it's just it's tough to watch sometimes. They're just they're 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:23.840 not playing cohesively. They're not playing as one unit, you know, offense, 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:29.880 I mean defensive line, linebackers and secondary. You know, it's uh, 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:33.440 they're being there are multiple mistakes being made at every level. 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:39.320 And the miss tackles against the Kansas City Chiefs tackling's effort, 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.760 you know, and uh, I mean, at least getting yourself 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:44.600 in position to make tackles. You're gonna have a few. 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.200 You're not gonna tackle these guys every time, but you 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:49.800 can't miss them every damn time either, And give them 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:52.520 so many yards after catch, so many yards after contact, 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:58.320 spin moves, you know, after contact, so much separation, they 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:01.920 can't close the space. And like we talked about before 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:04.240 the game, they have so many guys that can make 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:05.920 you miss in space and then run away from you, 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:08.320 and they did a lot of it. That's what they did. 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:10.360 They not only made a miss and look silly. Some 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:12.280 guys can do that and don't at breakaway speed, and 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:14.640 other guys are breakaway speed but can't make you miss. 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:17.560 These suckers have both, and they showed it, and they 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:21.280 showcased it. Man, they're a bunch of show dogs. It's 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:23.960 hard not to conclude after a game like this that 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:27.440 the Chiefs are a much better team than the Cincinnati Bengals. Now, 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:29.280 a lot can change over the course of the rest 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:31.680 of the season. The good news for the Bengals is 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:34.560 that the Chiefs are now under their division. The Ravens, 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:38.800 Steelers and Browns are Baltimore loss, Cleveland loss the Steelers 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:41.480 had to buy. The Bengals at four and three are 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:44.080 still obviously in decent shape, but they've got to go 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:46.640 home and take care of business. Yeah, in the Kansas 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:49.440 City Chiefs still have the Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Ravens 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:52.560 to play. They've beaten the Steelers, beating the Bengals, you 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:54.640 have to hope that they sweep the AFC North and 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:57.600 they're very capable of doing that because the Bengals lost 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:00.280 one to them. So now they've lost the division game. 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:03.480 They lost another conference game today. They lost two games 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:05.760 in a row that you know are tough pills to swallow. 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:07.880 You know, you lose a division game at home, that's 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:10.000 like losing two games. Then you go on the road 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.560 and you get blown out. So you lose a heartbreaker 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:14.760 at home to a division rival, and then you get 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:18.080 your doors blown off on Sunday Night football. You get 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:21.240 a regroup and regroup fast. Because Dirt Cutter and Marvin 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:24.800 Lewis were college roommates, but there ain't no sympathy there. 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:27.040 Dirt Cutter will try to do everything you can to 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:31.040 beat Marvin Lewis, and Marvin knows that. And Cincinnati Bengals 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:33.560 better realize it as a football team, Tampa Bay is 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:35.160 not going to be at field the least bit sorry 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:37.160 for him, and they gotta get back on the winning track. 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:38.600 If they can go into the bye week with a 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:41.600 five and three record, you know they're worst case scenari 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:43.360 They're gonna be tied for the division lead at the 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:45.680 halfway mark and they're tracking for a ten and six 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:50.080 season if they duplicate that, and they need the time 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:55.160 to heal up and watching on pregame, Billy Price moving well, 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:58.240 Gievanni Bernard moving well. They're gonna start to get bodies 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:01.080 back and that that's going to be helpful. You know, 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:02.880 if you can be five and three at the bye, 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.240 heal up, start getting some bodies back that can make contributions, 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:09.399 not just guys, but guys that are starting football players 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:12.800 or major contributors in sub packages, you know it's going 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:15.440 to help you. And right now they're limping and creeping 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:18.640 to the bye week for sure. Thanks Lap. Now time 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:21.159 for this week's fun facts segment, as you get to 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:24.480 know the person under the pads. Time for some fun 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:27.720 facts with Bengals tight end Mason Shrek from Madina, Ohio, 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:30.199 about a half hour south of Cleveland. How do you 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:33.920 describe your hometown. It's a small hometown, but it was 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:36.160 a great place to grow up. What do your folks 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:39.400 do for a living. My dad is a insurance salesman, 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:41.520 risk management and insurance. My mom is just to stay 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:45.000 at home on aside from football, what were you into 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:48.040 as a kid? A lot of golf, Just a lot 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:49.879 of different sports. But my dad and my brother are 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:51.600 a big golfer, so whenever I get the chance, I 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:53.360 go out and play a lot of golf. I saw 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:55.679 an interview somewhere where you said that you dreamed of 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:59.280 being a professional football player, basketball player, or golfer. So 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:02.040 you must be at the final of the three. Yeah. 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:03.719 I didn't know what it was going to be growing up. 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:05.720 I just know that I love playing sports, and you 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:08.280 know that I want to be a professional athlete. Doing 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:11.359 fun facts with Mason Shrek. You were a high school quarterback. 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:13.239 Did you get to throw it much or did your 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:16.320 team mostly run? I had four head coaches in four years, 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:19.239 so I did a little bit of everything. My senior year, 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:20.840 I threw it a lot. My junior year, I threw 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:22.600 it about seven times a game, but we were pretty 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:25.119 good that year. So it didn't matter. Was it beneficial 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:26.960 and in terms of learning a lot of football to 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:29.280 have that many head coaches, Yeah, it made the transition 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:31.639 to tight end that much easier just knowing, you know, 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:34.200 the whole scheme of the game. It really helped out. 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:37.480 For college. You went to the University of Buffalo. Why, 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:40.399 they originally had offered me as a quarterback, and I 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:43.719 want to play Division one football. And I got there. 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:45.400 I saw a lot of potential in the guys and 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:48.760 there's no better than going up against Khalil Mackie first day, 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:53.639 So describe that it was a rude awakening for me. 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:55.240 I didn't really know who he was at the time, 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:57.240 so my first day, it was a long day. Actually 0:18:57.280 --> 0:18:59.479 went in the locker room after called my mom and said, Mom, 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:01.720 I don't think I'm gonna make it here. But once 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:03.399 I kind of found out who he was, you know, 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:05.840 it made it that much better for me. So, Khalil 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:09.120 mack almost ended your career as it started. What did 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:12.359 you study there and what interest might you have after 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:16.439 football is finished? Um? I studied communications. You know, I 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:17.920 don't really know what I want to do yet. I'm 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:19.560 trying to, you know, ride this thing out as long 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:22.040 as possible and then cross that bridge when it gets here. 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:24.920 Hopefully that is many many years to come. We're doing 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:28.040 fun facts with Mason Shrek. You got drafted late in 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:31.720 the draft by the Bengals last year, and you almost 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:34.640 or I guess you had agreed to sign with another 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:37.400 team when you got the phone call from the Bengals. Yeah, 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:39.760 my agent had a contract in place, and you know, 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:40.960 we had it set up that I was going to 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:43.080 go to Philly if it wasn't here, And you know, 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:44.760 I'm just so happy that I was drafted. I was 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:46.520 a dream come true for me. So you know, I 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:49.800 love to be in Cincinnati. When the phone rang, did 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:52.000 you think it was Philly or did you know the 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:54.320 Bengals or the Cincinnati area code? Yeah? I saw the 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:57.280 five one three area code and actually talked through the 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:00.879 scout Andrew Andrew Johnson before, so I kind of I 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:02.159 kind of had a feeling that it was going to 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:04.280 be Cincinnati. But when I saw the five one three number, 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:06.560 my heart dropped. And you know, as obviously coach Lewis, 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:08.000 So that was it was a dream come to you 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:10.760 in a day. I'll never forget, you said an interview interview. 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:15.360 You cried, Yeah I did. Uh yeah, I'm pretty emotional guy. 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:18.800 So when that happened, it was pretty pretty special. And 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:20.840