1 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:06,360 Speaker 1: Hike and everybody. I'm Dan Horde and this is the 2 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 1: Bengals Booth. Podcast one is the Loneliest number addition as 3 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:16,800 Speaker 1: the Bengals try to get off to schneide and get 4 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 1: that elusive first win of the season this Sunday at 5 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 1: home against Jacksonville. Coming up, I'll be joined by my 6 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:27,920 Speaker 1: broadcast partner Dave Lapham as we discuss what, if anything, 7 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 1: the Bengals can do in order to run the ball. 8 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:34,480 Speaker 1: Will also touch on the impending return of AJ Green 9 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:38,919 Speaker 1: and Minshee Mania as the Bengals try to shut down 10 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 1: Jacksonville's impressive rookie quarterback with a great mustache, Gardner Minshew. 11 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:48,559 Speaker 1: My locker room conversation this week is with linebacker Leroy Reynolds, 12 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 1: who knows better than anybody else on the team what 13 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 1: it's like to grind through a terrible start. He began 14 00:00:56,160 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 1: his career in Jacksonville back in twenty thirteen as a rookie, 15 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 1: the Jags started oh and eight. In his second year, 16 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:06,759 Speaker 1: they started oh and six, and then one and ten. 17 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 1: We'll discuss how a player gets through it, and in 18 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 1: this week's No The Faux segment, we'll get the lowdown 19 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 1: on the Jags from a guy who has been writing 20 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 1: about them throughout their history, Gene Frenette from the Florida 21 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:22,959 Speaker 1: Times Union. All of that is straight ahead, But first, 22 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,080 Speaker 1: here's a quick reminder that you can have the latest 23 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:28,400 Speaker 1: edition of this podcast delivered right to your phone, tablet, 24 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: or computer by subscribing on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, 25 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:39,119 Speaker 1: or pod Bean. It's the greatest thing since sports gear 26 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:43,679 Speaker 1: from teams that no longer exist. I celebrated a birthday 27 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:46,560 Speaker 1: this month, and my son gave me an awesome gift 28 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 1: a T shirt from the NBA team of my youth, 29 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 1: the Buffalo Braves. 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Now let's get 37 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:23,239 Speaker 1: to my conversation with Dave Lapham as we discuss the Bengals, 38 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:25,920 Speaker 1: OZ and sixth start and what it's going to take 39 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 1: to get a win over Jacksonville on Sunday Lap. The 40 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 1: Bengals are only averaging fifty six point five rushing yards 41 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:36,959 Speaker 1: per game. Last week in Baltimore, Lamar Jackson had fifty 42 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 1: seven after his first two runs. What if anything, can 43 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:44,839 Speaker 1: the Bengals do to get something out of their running game? 44 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 1: Tradeful Lamar Jackson. I mean, honestly, they're up. They're burning 45 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 1: the midnight oil right now trying to figure that out. 46 00:02:56,160 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 1: You know, it's the problem that they have is and 47 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:03,919 Speaker 1: it's not every snap. You know, people are gonna say, oh, 48 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 1: seven eight in the box and they're doubling Tyler Boyd. 49 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 1: I mean, they don't have that many players. That's not 50 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:11,680 Speaker 1: happening every single snap. But there are down in distances, 51 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 1: you know, conditions of a game where you're trying to 52 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 1: do something and they have the box loaded, the box crowded, 53 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 1: and then you have to throw it and then they 54 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:22,800 Speaker 1: double Tyler Boyd. Well, they don't have seven or eight 55 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:26,399 Speaker 1: in the box when they're dubling Tyler Boyd. It's different circumstances, 56 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:29,080 Speaker 1: different down and distances. But the problem is that you 57 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:32,639 Speaker 1: don't have in my opinion, part of the issue could 58 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 1: be solved by having aj Green and John rossback because 59 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 1: if they can just be threats on the outside stretch 60 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 1: in the football field, it gives you more running lanes. 61 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 1: I mean, it opens the box up, makes everybody play 62 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 1: play deeper, makes the linebackers play deeper off the line 63 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 1: of scrimmage, and then they have to take you know, 64 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 1: start taking drops. Gets the safeties out of there. I mean, 65 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 1: right now, it's it's it's rush hour in there. It's congested, 66 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 1: there's a lot of traffic in there, and you know, 67 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 1: the offensive line to boot isn't getting a whole lot 68 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 1: of push. So it's like running into the Great Wall 69 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 1: of China that has the extra bricks in it. You know, 70 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 1: it's like, oh my gosh, man, it's like beating your 71 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 1: head up against the wall. And you know, you'll try, Okay, 72 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 1: let's try inside zone and maybe okay, let's work the 73 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 1: outside zone. Okay, let's maybe run a gap play kind 74 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,160 Speaker 1: of playing trying to, you know, see if we can 75 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 1: get them without a little bit. Nothing's working. I mean, 76 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 1: it is. It's unbelievable, and I think it's just a 77 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:29,160 Speaker 1: numbers game, you know, a matter of sometimes a matter 78 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:31,440 Speaker 1: of bodies, the number of bodies that are there to 79 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:35,640 Speaker 1: be blocked, and then guys aren't blocking them efficiently enough. 80 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:38,039 Speaker 1: So that's a recipe for disaster. And that's what the 81 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 1: running game is right now. It's disastrous. Lap Last year, 82 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:45,280 Speaker 1: the Bengals fired their defensive coordinator during the season, Tarall Austin, 83 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 1: because things were not going well on defense. Marvin Lewis 84 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:50,359 Speaker 1: acted as his own defensive coordinator for the rest of 85 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 1: the year. This year it's lou Anna Romo and basically 86 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:56,920 Speaker 1: not much has changed. What conclusion should we be drawing 87 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: about the Bengals defense, Well, if I'm a defensive player, 88 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 1: I'm in the mirror and saying it must be me, 89 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 1: you know, because they've they've made some changes, and not 90 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:09,560 Speaker 1: only with coaches, but philosophical changes, you know, with those 91 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 1: coaches and even some schematic stuff. I mean, lou and 92 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:15,840 Speaker 1: Rumo again has tried a lot of different things. Five 93 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:19,600 Speaker 1: man defensive line, five defensive backs, with the five defensive 94 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:21,600 Speaker 1: lineman only one linebacker on the field. He's had all 95 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:24,040 Speaker 1: three linebackers on the field, two linebackers on the field. 96 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 1: You know, he's running every every combination you can run 97 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:34,039 Speaker 1: in the secondary nickel, dime, quarter, half dollar. He's running 98 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:36,160 Speaker 1: every every coin you can run back there. I mean 99 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 1: it's penny whatever. You got a sack at Jeeah coin defenses. 100 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:42,839 Speaker 1: There's such a thing. I'm thinking those coins are counterfeit. 101 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 1: I don't know. It's like it's crazy, but he's he's 102 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 1: you know, it's right now. It's if he felt like 103 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:52,279 Speaker 1: the football team on both sides of the ball. There's 104 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:56,400 Speaker 1: not one thing that coaches can say, this is our identity. 105 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 1: This is when the times get tough, this is what 106 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 1: we're gonna go too. And the times has gotten tough, 107 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 1: and they can't go in anything. They don't have an 108 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:08,320 Speaker 1: identity established on either side of the line of scrimmage yet, 109 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:11,240 Speaker 1: and that is a tough tough thing for a coaching 110 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 1: staff when you're putting together a game plan, and man, 111 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 1: that's why a big part of the reason they haven't 112 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 1: won a football game yet. In crunch time, it's like, oh, 113 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:22,360 Speaker 1: we got this. Now we're gonna We're gonna close it out. 114 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:24,240 Speaker 1: This is what we're doing, this is who we are. 115 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 1: The Bengals get a taste of Minshee mania this Sunday, 116 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:32,680 Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew come into town. The rookie quarterback drafted in 117 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 1: the sixth round by Jacksonville. He was supposed to be 118 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:38,359 Speaker 1: the backup under Nick Foles, and then Foles broke his 119 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 1: collarbone in Week one. Gardner Minshew's passer rating is identical 120 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:45,840 Speaker 1: to Tom Brady's. At this point of his rookie year, 121 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:49,840 Speaker 1: Minshew is playing very, very sound football. The thing that 122 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:54,599 Speaker 1: impresses me most about him Dan just two interceptions, tied 123 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 1: for six fewest in the in the NFL. He's got 124 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:00,600 Speaker 1: nine touchdown passes, tied for leventh in the NFL. That 125 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 1: plus seven touchdown interception ratio is gonna work, you know. 126 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:05,880 Speaker 1: I mean, he's got better than four to one ratio. 127 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 1: So you have to like that about him. And against 128 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:13,520 Speaker 1: Carolina he was twenty six for forty four three hundred 129 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 1: and seventy four yards two touchdowns against the Panthers, who 130 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 1: have a good defensive football team, so they leaned on him, 131 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 1: you know, in those on that occasion, and he has 132 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 1: run the ball. I mean it's not designed runs like 133 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 1: we've seen, you know with Lamar Jackson, but you know, 134 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:30,360 Speaker 1: when he's in trouble, he has tucked it in. Run 135 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 1: twenty one times one hundred and twenty five yards six 136 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 1: yards per twenty one yard rush. So you have to 137 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 1: still respect him. You know, you can't over rush him, 138 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:40,679 Speaker 1: you can't rush by him, you can't distort your rush lane, 139 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 1: you know, because he's going to be looking for those 140 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 1: type of things like guys coming right out of college 141 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:47,400 Speaker 1: do if a couple of reds aren't there, my next 142 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:49,760 Speaker 1: backs option is to try to get something, try to 143 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 1: get with it with my legs. I've heard that he's 144 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 1: squats five fifty. I mean he's he's a he's a 145 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:59,120 Speaker 1: strong kid. His dad is a like a bodybuilder type dude, 146 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 1: you know, a big workout guy. And Minshew's no joke. 147 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 1: I mean, Minshew was going to go to Alabama and 148 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 1: he wanted to be a coach. So he's going to 149 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 1: go to Alabama and learn under the great Sabman. And um, 150 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 1: you know they said, you know, why don't you don't 151 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 1: you hit to Washington State here, come out and play 152 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 1: out here and lead the country in passing. He almost did. 153 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 1: He led the pack twelve in passing. But h I'll 154 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:23,320 Speaker 1: tell you it's a heck of a story. Really is 155 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:25,480 Speaker 1: a heck of a story. And this kid when the 156 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 1: opportunity presented itself. He has stepped up big time. We 157 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 1: know the Bengals have had trouble stopping sideline to sideline 158 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 1: running games. Well that's not the challenge this week. It's 159 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:40,720 Speaker 1: a battering ram coming right at him in Leonard Fournette. 160 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 1: No question, Leonard Fournette is l lodo. I mean, he 161 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:48,640 Speaker 1: is a guy that is just gonna try to run 162 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:51,200 Speaker 1: you over. There's there's not a whole lot of wiggle 163 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:54,280 Speaker 1: to him, but he when he hits creases, he hits. 164 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 1: He hits some violently, he hits some hard. Hit an 165 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 1: eighty one yard run so far this season, I mean 166 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 1: he's um. He had a game against the Denver Broncos 167 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:05,680 Speaker 1: that's the best rushing game in the league so far 168 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 1: this season. He had twenty nine rushes, tied for most 169 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 1: in a single game for twenty and twenty five yards, 170 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:14,160 Speaker 1: the best rushing total in a game this season. So 171 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:18,120 Speaker 1: he has another another hundred yard rushing game against Carolina 172 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 1: twenty three carries, one hundred and eight yards in a touchdown, 173 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 1: so he's capable, obviously, and his five hundred and eighty 174 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:26,480 Speaker 1: four yards a third best in the NFL. He's averaging 175 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:29,679 Speaker 1: over five yards of carry five point one. The Bengals 176 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 1: are giving up five point three per carry, So they 177 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 1: got their work cut out for them in handling Leonard Fournette. 178 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:39,120 Speaker 1: And if they don't, I mean, Fournette makes life a 179 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:42,439 Speaker 1: lot easier for a young quarterback like Minshew. And if 180 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 1: they start gashing the Bengals running the football, Minshew is 181 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 1: going to have a good football game. If they can 182 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:50,360 Speaker 1: somehow control Leonard Fournette and not let him run crazy, 183 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:54,920 Speaker 1: Minshew will have more difficulty solving and handling the room 184 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,079 Speaker 1: was defense, that's the bottom line, that's the fact of 185 00:09:57,160 --> 00:10:01,079 Speaker 1: life in the NFL. Last week saying it's apparently shut 186 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:04,600 Speaker 1: down Jacksonville by playing two deep safeties that gave Gardner 187 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:08,240 Speaker 1: Minshew trouble. But can the Bengals do that considering how 188 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:10,719 Speaker 1: much trouble they're having stopping the run, that's going to 189 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:12,520 Speaker 1: be the big key. Then the onus is on the 190 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:14,839 Speaker 1: front seven. You know, how well are you going to play? 191 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:19,960 Speaker 1: I think that Jacksonville Jaguar's offensive line is big and 192 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:23,880 Speaker 1: physical like they've been facing and at this at this juncture, 193 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 1: if I'm Luna Rouma, I don't know how much confidence 194 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:29,640 Speaker 1: I have doing that. You know, I'm not. It's going 195 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:32,200 Speaker 1: to be an interesting to see how much two DP 196 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:36,439 Speaker 1: does play because at this point in time, they've been gashed, 197 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:39,440 Speaker 1: but they've been gashed by this style of offense. They've 198 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:43,560 Speaker 1: been gashed by, you know, the Houdini mystery magic. You know, 199 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 1: it's like, don't know, they don't trust their eyes. Their 200 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:48,840 Speaker 1: eyes are betraying them because these offenses are doing so 201 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 1: much with personnel informations and motion and all that sort 202 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:55,200 Speaker 1: of thing. I think Jacksonville may be more like Seattle was. 203 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 1: You know, Jacksonville made line up and just say here 204 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:00,360 Speaker 1: we are, come get us. And the Banks played well, 205 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:04,319 Speaker 1: you know against Jacksonville. So you know, hopefully h they 206 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 1: get a break from all these all these college type 207 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:11,319 Speaker 1: offenses that they've been facing, with these quarterbacks that are, um, 208 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 1: you know, the basically the poster child for these type 209 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 1: of offenses from an execution standpoint, running him and go 210 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 1: back to a more traditional, conventional NFL quote, you know, 211 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:26,880 Speaker 1: style offense. We'll see what happens. Jermaine Pratt got increased 212 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:28,839 Speaker 1: playing time last week and made some plays in the 213 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:31,440 Speaker 1: run game, but man, he struggled trying to cover tight 214 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:35,199 Speaker 1: ends and tight ends that, you know, I mean, Andrews 215 00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:38,280 Speaker 1: does not. He's not a blazer, you know when you 216 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:40,480 Speaker 1: say the name Mark Andrews or he's like, oh man, 217 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:43,000 Speaker 1: that's a big boy that can run. I mean, it's 218 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 1: almost like when you when you see him, it's like, 219 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,480 Speaker 1: how does he get open as much as he does? 220 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:51,000 Speaker 1: Because he doesn't have you blazing speed, but he understands 221 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,960 Speaker 1: the game of football. He understands leverage and uh and 222 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:56,360 Speaker 1: they schemed him open, and I think part of it 223 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 1: was Pratt biting on. I don't know what he was 224 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:01,440 Speaker 1: seeing what he was biting on, but he was I 225 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:05,120 Speaker 1: mean a simple, you know, a simple like out move 226 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:08,280 Speaker 1: that seemed like Pratt was in trail position by about 227 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 1: five yards. And he can run, so it's not the 228 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:14,520 Speaker 1: physical part of it. He's just I don't know what 229 00:12:14,559 --> 00:12:17,040 Speaker 1: he was looking at. But you know the one I'm 230 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 1: thinking of when he ran the little out route to 231 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:20,839 Speaker 1: the sideline and then just took it up the football field, 232 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:24,960 Speaker 1: Pratt was nowhere near him, nowhere near him. AJ Green 233 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:28,840 Speaker 1: started practicing in Pad's last week. I don't think he's 234 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:31,560 Speaker 1: going to play this Sunday against Jacksonville, but at this 235 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:34,800 Speaker 1: point I'm thinking why not just wait until after the buye. 236 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:37,520 Speaker 1: I mean, what's the likelihood that Aj Green is going 237 00:12:37,559 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 1: to help you beat the Rams in London anyway? Yeah, 238 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 1: I mean I guess it's I've been saying that for 239 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:46,480 Speaker 1: a while. I felt like, you know, if it's at 240 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:49,720 Speaker 1: this point, why not take the extra week and make 241 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:53,199 Speaker 1: sure you know it's like, okay, is he close? Well? 242 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:56,640 Speaker 1: Why not be positive about it? And you know a 243 00:12:56,679 --> 00:12:58,920 Speaker 1: lot of times players that are coming off an injury 244 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 1: like he is, a lot of times training staffs and 245 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:05,840 Speaker 1: medical people will say, Okay, when you're ready, we're going 246 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:09,839 Speaker 1: to wait another week to be positive you're ready. And 247 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:12,560 Speaker 1: that's been the philosophy I think here in Cincinnati with 248 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:15,120 Speaker 1: every injured player that's ever been injured, I mean they 249 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:18,520 Speaker 1: don't players don't come back fast here compared to other 250 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:22,600 Speaker 1: places in the league. So I think that's the mentality overall. 251 00:13:22,679 --> 00:13:25,560 Speaker 1: And a guy like Aj wouldn't shock me whatsoever if 252 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 1: if we were a boardline or questionable at all. You know, 253 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:31,280 Speaker 1: the temptations huge, because, like we said, if he comes 254 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 1: out in the football field, everything changes. The running came 255 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:37,120 Speaker 1: will to mark my words. I mean, there'll be better 256 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 1: lanes to run the football, other receivers will have more 257 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:45,120 Speaker 1: opportunity to make catches because everything changes, the entire configuration. 258 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:47,800 Speaker 1: The defense takes a tilt toward a player the caliber 259 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:50,320 Speaker 1: of aj Green, So there is a huge temptation to 260 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 1: get him back, but it'd be fool harder to bring 261 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:56,040 Speaker 1: him back so too early, and he has a setback, 262 00:13:56,280 --> 00:13:57,960 Speaker 1: and now he's you know, he's done for the season. 263 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 1: Potentially he hasn't even played a full game for you 264 00:14:00,559 --> 00:14:03,000 Speaker 1: if he gets hurt in that one game. So it 265 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 1: would it would not stun me whatsoever if if he 266 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:09,120 Speaker 1: didn't play until after the bye week. But knowing him, 267 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:12,199 Speaker 1: he really wants to play. I'm sure the coaches obviously 268 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:14,720 Speaker 1: are very h they're panting to get him back out 269 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 1: on the football field, but you certainly you know the 270 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:20,360 Speaker 1: situation they're in. I mean, if you're four and two 271 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:24,600 Speaker 1: right now and you're fighting for your division supremacy, that's 272 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:28,480 Speaker 1: one thing, but your own six, you know, it's like, 273 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 1: why why are you bringing him back potentially too early? 274 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:34,080 Speaker 1: Why are you doing that? So it's going to be 275 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:37,440 Speaker 1: interesting to see how it all plays out. This offensive 276 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:40,480 Speaker 1: line might have been good if everybody was healthy from 277 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:42,680 Speaker 1: the beginning, of the Year. Johnah Williams had left tackle, 278 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:45,440 Speaker 1: Cordy Glenn at left guard. If Billy Price didn't begin 279 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 1: training camp with plantar fasciitis, maybe things would have gone 280 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:51,040 Speaker 1: better for him. But that's not the reality that we're 281 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:54,280 Speaker 1: living in. And now there have been more injuries that 282 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 1: are piling up. John Miller got injured early in the 283 00:14:57,080 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 1: game last week. Andre Smith has been out people listening 284 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 1: to this know the a litany of injuries they're dealing with. 285 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 1: How much has the lack of continuity upfront taking that 286 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 1: offensive line down another notch? It always plays a part. 287 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:13,960 Speaker 1: You know, I've said for years now. You know, an 288 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:17,600 Speaker 1: offensive line when it's performing well is like making a fish. 289 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 1: You don't even think about it. You just curl your forefingers, 290 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:23,880 Speaker 1: wrap your thumb. It just happens, you know, spontaneously, and 291 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 1: there's unspoken word communication when an offensive line is playing 292 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:30,680 Speaker 1: at a good level with each other, understanding what the 293 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 1: other guy is going to do in certain situations. You know, 294 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:36,960 Speaker 1: you don't have to overcommunicate verbally. You can do it 295 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:39,440 Speaker 1: just by you know, body language and little things that 296 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:42,920 Speaker 1: you that you use to communicate. So that that's tough, 297 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:46,880 Speaker 1: But I will say that from day one, not only 298 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:49,920 Speaker 1: of training camp but OTAs, Jim Turner's big thing was 299 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:53,920 Speaker 1: everybody has to play multiple positions for this very reason. 300 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:56,920 Speaker 1: So he was running a lot of combinations. You know, 301 00:15:57,120 --> 00:15:59,840 Speaker 1: every single workout, he was lining guys up in different spots, 302 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 1: every single preseason game, landing guys up in different spots 303 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:07,360 Speaker 1: for this very thing. But with that said, game snaps, 304 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:10,240 Speaker 1: game speed, you know, the only way you can get 305 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:11,960 Speaker 1: those kind of things is to do it over and 306 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,760 Speaker 1: over and over again together with the same people. And 307 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 1: when those people are switching around and it's musical chairs 308 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:20,360 Speaker 1: up there, it adds to the challenge, There is no 309 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 1: doubt about it. It adds to the challenge. It just 310 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:28,000 Speaker 1: there's no substitute for on task, you know, game experience, 311 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:31,280 Speaker 1: there's none. Pro football is a hard sport to play 312 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:33,840 Speaker 1: when things are going well. How do they keep it 313 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:37,560 Speaker 1: fun when a team is l and six. That's a 314 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:43,400 Speaker 1: big challenge, you know. Because the O and eighth season 315 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 1: that I have referred to multiple times, I will say 316 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:52,360 Speaker 1: that my sanctuary was still to come down to Spinney 317 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:55,880 Speaker 1: Field with my teammates because we were all suffering the 318 00:16:55,920 --> 00:16:59,040 Speaker 1: same damn thing, and we were all you know, misery 319 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:02,480 Speaker 1: loves company, you know, so you come down and commiserate 320 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:04,320 Speaker 1: and okay, and we talk about how how are we 321 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:05,919 Speaker 1: gonna how are we gonna get off this night? What 322 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:08,080 Speaker 1: are we gonna do? You know, let's figure out how 323 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:10,280 Speaker 1: we can get something done, because, like I said, I 324 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:12,399 Speaker 1: didn't want to see anybody else, you know, I barely 325 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:14,520 Speaker 1: want to see my wife and kids. I was so embarrassed. 326 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:18,919 Speaker 1: But um so, you know I'd literally that whole that 327 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:21,760 Speaker 1: whole season, even when we started winning some football games, 328 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:24,720 Speaker 1: I was. I was absentee in terms of the neighborhood. 329 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:26,919 Speaker 1: I was nowhere to be found. I was in the 330 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 1: witness protection program. But um it is it still is 331 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:34,800 Speaker 1: your because you know, if you start listening to that. 332 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 1: Guys talk about it all the time. The outside noise 333 00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:39,760 Speaker 1: can be can add pressure. I mean it can just 334 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:42,920 Speaker 1: it can ruin your life. It really can, and it 335 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:45,240 Speaker 1: will make you maybe do some things you might regret doing. 336 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 1: You don't want to do that to people, you know. 337 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:50,119 Speaker 1: But a lot of people don't have much sensitivity for 338 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:53,159 Speaker 1: how you might be feeling, that's for sure, because they're frustrated. 339 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:56,120 Speaker 1: They don't understand how frustrated you are. And you can't 340 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:58,840 Speaker 1: give people knuckle sandwiches. That's not gonna that's not gonna 341 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:01,520 Speaker 1: play well. So you have to be smart about it, 342 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:02,960 Speaker 1: and the best way to do it is to avoid 343 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,879 Speaker 1: that those kind of confrontations, those kind of things. So 344 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:08,960 Speaker 1: it is, it's hard, but it is still the sanctuary. 345 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:12,679 Speaker 1: So we would try to figure out things, you know, 346 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 1: to do, whether it's a you know, offensive lineman playing 347 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:19,399 Speaker 1: a touch football game and you know, one of the 348 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:22,560 Speaker 1: lineman's obviously a quarterback, you know, or whatever, whatever the 349 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:24,639 Speaker 1: case may be, just try to lighten it up a 350 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:28,639 Speaker 1: little bit. But you knew that you better get your 351 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:30,720 Speaker 1: notes to the grindstone as quickly as you possibly can 352 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:33,560 Speaker 1: because there was work to be done. And you know, 353 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:35,919 Speaker 1: the sad the sad thing is sometimes too as far 354 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:39,080 Speaker 1: as an offensive line's concerned, when the team is struggling, 355 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:43,359 Speaker 1: and even when the team is playing well, offensive line 356 00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:47,080 Speaker 1: play a lot of times when it's when it's at 357 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:51,920 Speaker 1: least acceptable, acceptable to great is not a huge difference. 358 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:54,480 Speaker 1: When you're watching tape, it's like you're getting the job 359 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:58,359 Speaker 1: done and plays are being made. Sometimes like you're getting 360 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 1: the job done, plays aren't being made, and it's like 361 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:03,000 Speaker 1: the offensive line play is not hugely different on tape. 362 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:05,399 Speaker 1: But somebody has to make somebody miss, somebody has to 363 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 1: make a great cat, somebody has somebody has to do 364 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:10,440 Speaker 1: something to light a fire. But there are times also 365 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:12,840 Speaker 1: when you watch an offensive line playing, it's like, oh man, 366 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:15,720 Speaker 1: you know, everybody took their turn on getting their butts 367 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:18,680 Speaker 1: royally kicked, and that stands out like a store thimb 368 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:21,040 Speaker 1: as well. So I'm sure they're experiencing all of it 369 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:24,400 Speaker 1: for sure. By the way, our adjacent cubicles at Paul 370 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:28,640 Speaker 1: Brown Stadium, that's my sanctuary these days. All right, let's 371 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:31,920 Speaker 1: get to the keys to victory this Sunday, the Bengals 372 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 1: get off the schneide we say coffin nails bang bang 373 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:37,480 Speaker 1: bang at the end of the game because they do 374 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:40,399 Speaker 1: what against Jacksonville. Well, first thing they have to do, 375 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:44,120 Speaker 1: Dan is somehow figure it away to run the football 376 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:48,440 Speaker 1: and stop Jacksonville from from dominating the football game playing keepaway. 377 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:50,760 Speaker 1: I mean, Jackson's going to look at exactly what Baltimore did, 378 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:52,480 Speaker 1: look at the stats, and then the film's going to 379 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:55,600 Speaker 1: support it. Pound the ball, play keepaway. That's what they're 380 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:58,160 Speaker 1: gonna try to do. Minimize the opportunities the Bengals have 381 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 1: and four Nett's going to be the big, the big deal. 382 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:03,160 Speaker 1: You got to control that guy. Five hundred and eighty 383 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:06,159 Speaker 1: four yards third in the league, five point one to rush. 384 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 1: He's also capable, you know, catching the ball out of 385 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:11,240 Speaker 1: the backfield seven hundred and seventy three scrimmage yards, third 386 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:14,520 Speaker 1: best in the league. So the Bengals are thirty second 387 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:17,840 Speaker 1: in the NFL running the football yards per game thirty second, 388 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:22,040 Speaker 1: are defensive allowed yards allowed per game, thirty second in 389 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:25,640 Speaker 1: yards allowed per rush five point three. Offensively fifty six 390 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:27,680 Speaker 1: and a half is dead last. Three point one is 391 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:32,240 Speaker 1: thirty first. So overall, the Bengals are minus one hundred 392 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:35,679 Speaker 1: and twenty eight rushing yards a game a football field 393 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:39,480 Speaker 1: and a quarter and minus two point two average rush 394 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:42,880 Speaker 1: per attempt minus two point two dead lasts in league. 395 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 1: Minus und twenty eight yards a game, dead last in 396 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:47,399 Speaker 1: the league. You can't allow that to continue to happen. 397 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:49,640 Speaker 1: That's what Jacksonville is going to try to do. Then, 398 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:54,840 Speaker 1: ball security, you know, Jacksonville, they've only got two takeaways, 399 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:56,479 Speaker 1: tied for the fewest in the league. They won an 400 00:20:56,600 --> 00:21:00,240 Speaker 1: interception tied for second fewest because Denver and half one 401 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:03,159 Speaker 1: yet or Arizona doesn't have one yet, that's who doesn't. 402 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:06,119 Speaker 1: They have a fumble recovery tied for fewists in the NFL. 403 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:08,560 Speaker 1: Two takes amazing with that defense that they have. In 404 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:10,840 Speaker 1: the last two games, the Bengals have only given the 405 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:13,679 Speaker 1: ball up one time, so it's been even in the 406 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:16,720 Speaker 1: turnover ratio. There were no turnovers in the Arizona game. 407 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:19,440 Speaker 1: Each team had won in the Baltimore game. So ball 408 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:20,840 Speaker 1: security is going to be a big deal in that 409 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:24,000 Speaker 1: football game. And then inside the twenty gonna call it 410 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:27,359 Speaker 1: the red zone for the defense. Red zone for the defense, 411 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:30,240 Speaker 1: how about green zone for the offense? I mean red stop? 412 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:32,760 Speaker 1: How about green Why don't you go do something in 413 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 1: the red zone in the scoring zone for the offensive 414 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:39,480 Speaker 1: football team? They're thirty one point three percent scoring touchdowns 415 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:42,159 Speaker 1: in the red zone now is dead last five touchdowns 416 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:46,680 Speaker 1: in sixteen opportunities, five tds, thirtieth four times they haven't 417 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:50,640 Speaker 1: scored a point, tied for fifth worst scenario there. Jacksonville's 418 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:52,920 Speaker 1: offense has struggled as well, thirty eight point nine percent 419 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:56,000 Speaker 1: twenty ninth in the NFL, but they've only not scored 420 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:58,560 Speaker 1: points one time. Their second in the NFL in terms 421 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:01,800 Speaker 1: of scoring points when you get in the red zone. Defensively, 422 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:04,760 Speaker 1: both teams have done a lot better. I mean, Cincinnati's 423 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:08,639 Speaker 1: sixth best in the NFL touchdown percentage in Jacksonville's fifth best. 424 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:11,879 Speaker 1: Bengals three times no points tied for tenth best in 425 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:15,639 Speaker 1: the league, Jacksonville four times no points allowed, tied for 426 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 1: sixth best in the NFL. So they've played good red 427 00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:23,639 Speaker 1: zone defense both teams have, and neither team has played 428 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:26,959 Speaker 1: very good scoring zone offense. It's been read and they 429 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:30,199 Speaker 1: have to turn the traffic signal to Green. Who's going 430 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:32,440 Speaker 1: to be able to be the traffic cop and turn 431 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:35,639 Speaker 1: the traffic signal to Green in the scoring zone and 432 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:40,680 Speaker 1: score some damn touchdowns. Green means go, yes, let's get 433 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:45,480 Speaker 1: it done this Sunday against Jacksonville. Thanks Lap. There are 434 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:48,879 Speaker 1: two undefeated teams left in the NFL, the Patriots and 435 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:51,960 Speaker 1: forty nine ers, and there are two winless teams left 436 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:56,760 Speaker 1: in the NFL, the Bengals and Dolphins. Linebacker Leroy Reynolds 437 00:22:57,119 --> 00:23:00,200 Speaker 1: was with one of the undefeated teams in training camp, 438 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,760 Speaker 1: the forty nine ers, and is now playing for the Bengals. 439 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:06,760 Speaker 1: I talked to him in the locker room this week, 440 00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:09,400 Speaker 1: we're in the locker room with Bengals linebacker le Roy 441 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:12,960 Speaker 1: Reynolds in training camp with San Francisco and then becoming 442 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:15,520 Speaker 1: a Bengal in week two? Do you have all of 443 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:17,680 Speaker 1: your stuff? Are you still living out of a suitcase 444 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:20,919 Speaker 1: after a month? I mean, well I was transitioning, so 445 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:25,320 Speaker 1: I'm still transitioning, but yeah, just you know, suitcasing, it 446 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:29,720 Speaker 1: bag still in the truck. We're talking to Leroy Reynolds. 447 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:32,639 Speaker 1: You've played for five different teams, six if you include 448 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:35,239 Speaker 1: San Francisco from training camp this year. How do you 449 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:37,119 Speaker 1: go about fitting in with a new team in a 450 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:41,359 Speaker 1: new city. Just being myself, always being myself, being true 451 00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:43,800 Speaker 1: to will always been as a player as a leader. 452 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:48,320 Speaker 1: I just kind of carry that and you know where 453 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,439 Speaker 1: I'm wherever I am, just take that with me and 454 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:53,680 Speaker 1: try to leave as ample and be the best me 455 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:56,600 Speaker 1: I can be. So just being myself. We're visiting little 456 00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:59,240 Speaker 1: Roy Reynolds. San Francisco is off to a great start. 457 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:01,080 Speaker 1: Did you see that coming when you were with that 458 00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:03,959 Speaker 1: team during training camp? You know for sure? I think 459 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:07,919 Speaker 1: that you know, they did a great job competing, did 460 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:10,240 Speaker 1: a great job getting better each and every day, So 461 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:13,720 Speaker 1: you know, it's just a reflection of the work they 462 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:16,560 Speaker 1: put in, and it was obvious like, well, you know, 463 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:17,879 Speaker 1: there was a lot of work getting put in. So 464 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 1: you see those guys being playing well, being successful, getting 465 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:24,399 Speaker 1: after it. So yeah, I noticed that. Definitely. One of 466 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:27,040 Speaker 1: your previous stops was Atlanta and you played in the 467 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:29,119 Speaker 1: Super Bowl for the Falcons team that made it in 468 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 1: the twenty sixteen season. My broadcast partner Dave Lapham was 469 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 1: on the Bengals for a Super Bowl team and he 470 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,000 Speaker 1: describes the feelings like he felt like he could lift 471 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,400 Speaker 1: the stadium when he ran out there for the starting lineups. 472 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:43,160 Speaker 1: Do you remember the adrenaline rush and what was going 473 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:47,639 Speaker 1: through your mind? Yeah, and I was a real feeling. 474 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:51,199 Speaker 1: I still remember the lights flashing off a kickoff. You know, 475 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:53,639 Speaker 1: as a kid, you always see that on TV, you know, 476 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:56,000 Speaker 1: the lights flicking from everybody taking picture. So I still 477 00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:58,640 Speaker 1: remember that. I just remember how the grass felt, how 478 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:02,080 Speaker 1: good it felt. I just felt like the right day 479 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 1: probably gives you the overwhelming desire to get back. Oh, definitely, definitely, definitely, 480 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:09,359 Speaker 1: that's definitely what I want to do. Especially in my career. 481 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 1: A lot of guys aren't able to reach that point. 482 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:13,959 Speaker 1: Something grateful enough to be able to reach there. But 483 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,120 Speaker 1: I would love to go back for sure. We're talking 484 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:18,840 Speaker 1: to linebacker Leroy Reynolds. So you've had the high of 485 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:21,119 Speaker 1: going to a super Bowl with the Falcons and you 486 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:23,640 Speaker 1: also experience with the Bengals are going through right now 487 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,360 Speaker 1: early in your career with Jacksonville as a rookie, you're 488 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:28,840 Speaker 1: on a team that started the season oh and eight. 489 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:32,840 Speaker 1: How do you fight through that? UM and just having pride? 490 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:35,040 Speaker 1: You know what we do? I think and all guys do, 491 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,000 Speaker 1: all the guys in the locker room do. I think? UM? 492 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:40,639 Speaker 1: Just being UM at a level where you know we 493 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 1: can compete, get better, and and and and win games. UM. 494 00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:50,200 Speaker 1: So I think that's the mentality. Uh. There's so many 495 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:51,920 Speaker 1: factors that play into it. But I think they're really 496 00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:54,600 Speaker 1: good teams that I've played on. It starts with veteran leadership. 497 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:57,400 Speaker 1: From the day you arrived here. You've been a core 498 00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:00,720 Speaker 1: member of the special teams. What are the qualities that 499 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 1: a great Special Teams player has to have? UM spend 500 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:10,480 Speaker 1: a competitor, UM, willing to go out and play the 501 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:13,840 Speaker 1: tough down. UM. You know you're usually running sixty seventy 502 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:17,399 Speaker 1: yards on the play, um, all outspeed, and you're usually 503 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:20,000 Speaker 1: battle somebody while you're doing it. So it's just one 504 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:23,040 Speaker 1: of those gut checks. Um, you just gotta out out 505 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:25,760 Speaker 1: will the man. UM. So for me, that's always been 506 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,360 Speaker 1: my my pedigree, being able to out wield the man 507 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 1: and out work them to you know, to get to 508 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:32,520 Speaker 1: the ball or prevent him from getting to the ball. 509 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:35,800 Speaker 1: So I try to take pride in that, UM and 510 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:38,239 Speaker 1: just try to get better. Coach Darren's done a good 511 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 1: job just implementing me, getting me acclimated, and I'm still 512 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:44,639 Speaker 1: just getting better learning the system of playing around, you know, 513 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:46,960 Speaker 1: with the guys that I have. UM plays a great 514 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:49,440 Speaker 1: special teams player. He's done it for a while, and 515 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 1: just from his leadership he's been, you know, welcome me 516 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:53,639 Speaker 1: in and allowed me to kind of, you know, do 517 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:57,240 Speaker 1: my thing as well. Final question for linebacker Leroy Reynolds. 518 00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,879 Speaker 1: You have a saying on your Twitter profile and I 519 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:02,600 Speaker 1: seen you wearing a T shirt with this hunt as well, 520 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:08,680 Speaker 1: All Gas No Breaks. Explain the meaning behind all gas 521 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:13,800 Speaker 1: No Breaks? Um, Well, it's more so again like the mentality, UM, 522 00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:17,879 Speaker 1: it's about effort, always mean about effort. It's between you 523 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:22,440 Speaker 1: and you learn that at a young age. So for me, it's, 524 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:25,760 Speaker 1: you know, go all out every chance you get. Play 525 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:30,480 Speaker 1: with effort, play with passion, play with energy and be 526 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,720 Speaker 1: kind of um give all of yourself. So for me, 527 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 1: it's just the possibility of going all out now holding 528 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,840 Speaker 1: back and emptying your tank. So all gas, no bricks, 529 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:42,560 Speaker 1: appreciate your time. Best the Fluck this week, I'm problem. 530 00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:46,280 Speaker 1: Thank you appreciate. That's Leroy Reynolds. Now time for this 531 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:48,600 Speaker 1: week's Know the Faux Interview as we do a deep 532 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:52,080 Speaker 1: dive into the Bengals upcoming opponent with somebody that knows 533 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:56,240 Speaker 1: the team. This week it's columnist Gane for Nette from 534 00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:59,119 Speaker 1: the Florida Times Union. You can find him online at 535 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 1: Jacksonville dot com. He joined Lapping Me on the Bengals 536 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:04,800 Speaker 1: Game Plan Show and we started with the big news 537 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:08,440 Speaker 1: out of Jacksonville this week, the trade of Jalen Ramsey 538 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,720 Speaker 1: to the La Rams for two first round draft picks 539 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:15,120 Speaker 1: and a fourth I asked Jean a two part question, 540 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:19,240 Speaker 1: if the Jags did the right thing and how the 541 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:22,320 Speaker 1: locker room reacted to the trade. The first part, I'd 542 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:28,040 Speaker 1: say absolutely, I mean Dalen was becoming not necessarily a 543 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:30,960 Speaker 1: big distraction, but I would say a headache to both 544 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:35,200 Speaker 1: the coaching staff and the front office. From the coaching 545 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:38,560 Speaker 1: staff standpoint, just a limbo status nees week of not 546 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:42,240 Speaker 1: knowing whether he would play or not play his back 547 00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:44,160 Speaker 1: the element had become somewhat of a little bit of 548 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:48,160 Speaker 1: a charade, not that he didn't have a back intrigue, 549 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:51,600 Speaker 1: but whether he was really going all out to recover 550 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:55,000 Speaker 1: from it, to get himself ready to play. And as 551 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,760 Speaker 1: far as the locker room goes, now, they were they 552 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:03,080 Speaker 1: were all alling the line. You know, you know they 553 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 1: can deal with this. It's not a big faction. You know, 554 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:09,400 Speaker 1: they understand part of the the business, what have you. But 555 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,000 Speaker 1: I do think that some degree to has to be 556 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:15,280 Speaker 1: a little bit of relief. I think it's find me 557 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:20,160 Speaker 1: a resolution to all that. Do you think the problem 558 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:27,000 Speaker 1: um that Ramsey had was Tom Coughlin and not Doug 559 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:31,080 Speaker 1: Marone or Tom Coughlin and Doug Marone or not Tom coflin, 560 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:34,479 Speaker 1: but Doug Marone. I mean what what where was his problem? 561 00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:38,680 Speaker 1: What was Jalen Ramsey's problem? Did he ever declare what 562 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:42,600 Speaker 1: his uh his big issue was? Well? I think everybody 563 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,520 Speaker 1: it seems to feel like it was with Tom Coughlin 564 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:48,760 Speaker 1: more than anything else. To listen to. Dylan Ramsey's a 565 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:53,960 Speaker 1: fantastic player, but he's also an impulsive, narcissistic off the 566 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:59,280 Speaker 1: door prayer is right. As I wrote for the Morph paper, 567 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:03,600 Speaker 1: he's the second g Stiva behind Antonio Brown. And you know, 568 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:07,680 Speaker 1: when you create some of the things that Dalen has created, 569 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:09,680 Speaker 1: and there's been a lot of stuff over the course 570 00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:12,880 Speaker 1: of three and a half years, you know, this kind 571 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:16,280 Speaker 1: of stuff fills up and I think the la rams 572 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,240 Speaker 1: over the course of time. I'm going to find out 573 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:22,400 Speaker 1: what the Jaguar found out, and that is Dalen Ramsey. 574 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:25,840 Speaker 1: As great a player as he is, that he will help. 575 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:30,480 Speaker 1: He will help your team on the field, also provides 576 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:33,840 Speaker 1: at a off the field, and you know he kind 577 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:36,920 Speaker 1: of wears you out. He wears coasting staff out and 578 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:41,520 Speaker 1: wears the media out. Where's everybody out? Our guest is 579 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 1: Jean Frenette, a columnist from Jacksonville. If Ramsey has been 580 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:47,640 Speaker 1: a pain in the New York in the you know 581 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:51,240 Speaker 1: what so far this year, Gardner Minshew has been the 582 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,680 Speaker 1: opposite one of the great stories in the NFL so 583 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,720 Speaker 1: far this season. Have you seen enough of them Jean 584 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,400 Speaker 1: to have a strong opinion as to whether he is 585 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:03,440 Speaker 1: for real or well, I guess, I guess My question 586 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:05,480 Speaker 1: to you is, what do you define as for real? 587 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:07,360 Speaker 1: If you define it as a guy who can be 588 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,920 Speaker 1: a sut starter in the NFL, I would say, yeah, 589 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:13,400 Speaker 1: I guess I would say somebody that you would want 590 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:17,200 Speaker 1: to be your quarterback long term. Well, I don't know 591 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:19,480 Speaker 1: if the sample size is big ing up yet for that, 592 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:23,560 Speaker 1: but he definitely has been far more impressive than than 593 00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:26,560 Speaker 1: I or anybody else they anticipated he would be. Now, 594 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,640 Speaker 1: last week, you know, he had sort of his you know, 595 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:33,440 Speaker 1: his kryptonite game in the New Orleans Saints found ways 596 00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:36,800 Speaker 1: to just really keep him from ever getting into any 597 00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:39,120 Speaker 1: kind of a rhythm, and he didn't get a whole 598 00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:41,360 Speaker 1: lot of help from his receivers in that regard. They 599 00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:44,440 Speaker 1: did as just a whole lot what the safecist is doing. 600 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:47,680 Speaker 1: And I'm sure the Cincinnati Bengals this week are going 601 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:49,200 Speaker 1: to try to do some of the same things the 602 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:51,800 Speaker 1: Saints did, which would play a lot of Twoman and 603 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:56,000 Speaker 1: safety help over the top and forced the Jaguars to 604 00:31:56,360 --> 00:32:00,440 Speaker 1: receivers to adjust, you know, try to find the holes 605 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,960 Speaker 1: over the middle as they called them. But you know, 606 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:06,720 Speaker 1: the NFL is a test from big sex games. Some 607 00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:08,840 Speaker 1: weeks you have, some week you have it. You get 608 00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:11,360 Speaker 1: the better of your opponent of the weeks, the better 609 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:14,480 Speaker 1: of you. And we'll see how Gardner meant to react 610 00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:20,120 Speaker 1: coming off the game where the better of him? One 611 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:25,000 Speaker 1: more question on the Jalen Ramsey um scenario. Do you 612 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:30,800 Speaker 1: do you anticipate any uh after shock and during the 613 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:33,960 Speaker 1: course of this whole thing, a leader like Calais Campbell, 614 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,800 Speaker 1: where was he? Where was his stance on this? I mean, 615 00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:39,680 Speaker 1: did he ever have any any kind of discussion with 616 00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:42,520 Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey that you're aware of, or did did he 617 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:47,840 Speaker 1: try to you know exactly, you know, appease uh and uh? 618 00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:50,960 Speaker 1: I don't know, be a buffer in the situation between 619 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:53,800 Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey and the front office and the coaching staff 620 00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:57,960 Speaker 1: or did he just let it play out? No, players 621 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:04,040 Speaker 1: do that. They just go interfol. Players respect another player's 622 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:06,880 Speaker 1: face when it comes to business off the field. I 623 00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,040 Speaker 1: mean they just do. I mean it is not the 624 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:12,720 Speaker 1: player's flight to get in to be some sort of 625 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:17,080 Speaker 1: intermediary to bluing the front office and a teammate. That's 626 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:19,880 Speaker 1: about their job and they don't want that. I mean, 627 00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:23,200 Speaker 1: that's something that they know is out of bounds. You know, 628 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,480 Speaker 1: so did so did Jalen Ramsey? Did Jalen Rant I 629 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:29,560 Speaker 1: don't mean to couch, but did Jalen Ramsey Uh at 630 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:33,360 Speaker 1: that point not take anything out on the teammates? I mean, 631 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:36,720 Speaker 1: what was what was the teammate's posture in this whole thing? 632 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,320 Speaker 1: They just said, Okay, we understand you want to go 633 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:42,760 Speaker 1: go ahead. We're not going to have any issue with 634 00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:46,520 Speaker 1: what you're doing here to disrupt our team. Yeah, that's 635 00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:50,800 Speaker 1: pretty much it. Because listen, regardless of what drama might 636 00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:52,840 Speaker 1: be going on with a star player in the team, 637 00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:56,040 Speaker 1: all those two other guys that locker room have a 638 00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:58,719 Speaker 1: job to do. They have they have film to study, 639 00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:02,360 Speaker 1: they have preparations to do from the next game. Getting 640 00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:04,920 Speaker 1: caught up in somebody else's drama, it's not gonna do 641 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:07,040 Speaker 1: this dem any good and it's not gonna do the 642 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:10,200 Speaker 1: team any good. So you know, there was no there 643 00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:13,239 Speaker 1: was no like, you know, interception on the part of 644 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:17,399 Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey. This was strictly jailing acting out on his own. 645 00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:21,319 Speaker 1: He's a very impulsive guy and once he had it 646 00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:23,239 Speaker 1: in his head that he wanted out there was not 647 00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:26,640 Speaker 1: gonna be anything to use mine and if not, probably 648 00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:29,880 Speaker 1: a coincidence because forty eight hours after he didn't play 649 00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:33,239 Speaker 1: in a game was the older was expected it to play. 650 00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:36,399 Speaker 1: All of a sudden, he wass traded and shipped out right. 651 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,879 Speaker 1: Gene Fournette from the Florida Times Union is our guest Gene. 652 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:42,879 Speaker 1: It seems to me when people talk about the best 653 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:47,000 Speaker 1: running backs in the NFL, they rarely mentioned Leonard Fournette. 654 00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:50,480 Speaker 1: Should he be in the conversation. His stats this year 655 00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:55,080 Speaker 1: are awesome? Um, yeah, he has to some degree out. 656 00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:57,239 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna make I'm 657 00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:00,440 Speaker 1: not gonna make him an elite NFL back yet. I 658 00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:04,799 Speaker 1: don't think. I don't think he has the always has 659 00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:09,160 Speaker 1: the instinct and the cutting ability and things like that 660 00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:11,920 Speaker 1: of an elite NFL running back. But if you give 661 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:14,120 Speaker 1: him a hole to get through and to let him 662 00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:17,720 Speaker 1: get in the second level, then yeah, uh it's great. 663 00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:21,280 Speaker 1: But I don't see. You know, even though the yards 664 00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,320 Speaker 1: per carry is much better than it has said his 665 00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:28,000 Speaker 1: path and he's clearly such for focused and better conditions 666 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,719 Speaker 1: coping getting the season, I don't think he's gonna lead 667 00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:32,879 Speaker 1: NFL back. I do think he can be a very 668 00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:37,480 Speaker 1: good one month. Looking at Fournette's numbers, you had a 669 00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:40,239 Speaker 1: huge game against Denver two in twenty five yards, most 670 00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:42,520 Speaker 1: in the NFL in a single game. He had another 671 00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:45,200 Speaker 1: one hundred and eight yards against Carolina. So he has 672 00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:47,960 Speaker 1: a big game and then maybe not so much. Is 673 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,920 Speaker 1: it the lack of consistency that you have an issue with? Two? 674 00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,160 Speaker 1: And I mean a DJ Chark the same way he'll 675 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:55,839 Speaker 1: have He has a couple of big games, but then not, 676 00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:57,680 Speaker 1: you know, on on a weekly basis. I mean it's 677 00:35:57,719 --> 00:35:59,480 Speaker 1: kind of a yo yo thing. Is that? Is that 678 00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:02,759 Speaker 1: an issue in your mind? Or are you okay with that? Well? 679 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:04,879 Speaker 1: I don't think DJ Shart is a yelo at all. 680 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,160 Speaker 1: He's been pretty good all year until this past week. 681 00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:10,120 Speaker 1: Letter from that's a little bit of a different story, 682 00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:13,000 Speaker 1: of course. You know letters much more can uh? You know, 683 00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:16,200 Speaker 1: dependent on the offensive line creating those planes for him. 684 00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:19,160 Speaker 1: A receiver, you know, you're not so much dependent on 685 00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:22,279 Speaker 1: an entire judic to help you look to it. You're 686 00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:24,319 Speaker 1: dependent on a running game though, so you can have 687 00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:27,200 Speaker 1: an opportunity to get opened down the field. That can 688 00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:30,120 Speaker 1: help you, that's for sure. But I mean DJ Chart 689 00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:33,719 Speaker 1: got got double teams pretty consistently last year for the 690 00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:36,560 Speaker 1: first time all chiever. So if a decent wants to 691 00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:39,360 Speaker 1: take away a receiver, they can do that. The question 692 00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:43,279 Speaker 1: is can the team make the decents pay for for 693 00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:46,879 Speaker 1: you know, stating a lot of you know, a lot 694 00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:49,920 Speaker 1: of players the way of one of one guy, and 695 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,560 Speaker 1: the Jaguars weren't able to do that last week. But 696 00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:55,759 Speaker 1: if they do that another week, then maybe then maybe 697 00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:59,680 Speaker 1: DJA Shock will getting more opportunities we had last week. Yeah, 698 00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:03,640 Speaker 1: when you running back like Fournette and a receiver like Chart, Okay, 699 00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,480 Speaker 1: you just count the number of players in the box. Well, 700 00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:08,520 Speaker 1: I can put eight in the box and stuff Fournette. 701 00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:11,640 Speaker 1: Chark's gonna eat. I gotta I gotta double Chart, so 702 00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:13,680 Speaker 1: I can't put it in the box. Fournette should eat. 703 00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:15,880 Speaker 1: So they should play off each other. I mean, you 704 00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,239 Speaker 1: can't have eaten the box and double the receiver and 705 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,359 Speaker 1: you don't have many players out in the football field. 706 00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:22,960 Speaker 1: So I mean those guys should, you know, kind of 707 00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,919 Speaker 1: benefit off each other depending on what the defense tries 708 00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:28,799 Speaker 1: to take away. It'll be interesting to see. It's gonna 709 00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:32,879 Speaker 1: be a count the box. Yeah, well, let's not put 710 00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:35,719 Speaker 1: DJ Shark in the same category as like a Julio's 711 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:39,799 Speaker 1: Jones or or put Leonard Fournette in the same category 712 00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:43,759 Speaker 1: as an Elliott Just yeah, okay, they're good. They're very 713 00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:48,080 Speaker 1: good good receivers. BJ Chark has improved over last year 714 00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:51,600 Speaker 1: more than anybody I've ever seen twenty five years covering 715 00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,920 Speaker 1: the Jaguars from first years. The seven year DJ Stark 716 00:37:55,320 --> 00:38:00,040 Speaker 1: uprovement has been phenomenal and letters much better all of 717 00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:02,680 Speaker 1: mean he was last year. The other parts of the 718 00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:07,520 Speaker 1: offense for the offense of mind walking together as they 719 00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:11,319 Speaker 1: meeting those opportunities at that points sisted the Jags so far, 720 00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:13,840 Speaker 1: and you've got a quarterback kids who I have to 721 00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:16,800 Speaker 1: commend and done really well. Let's not forget that, and 722 00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:20,120 Speaker 1: a couple of different lousions the game that they won 723 00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:24,440 Speaker 1: as far as the Denver Broncos game, so you know 724 00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:28,800 Speaker 1: one or two points look at the Bengals, Yeah, no, 725 00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:33,920 Speaker 1: you're right, I mean could be huckdown right, Yeah exactly. 726 00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:36,600 Speaker 1: I mean, you know it's lost by a point, three points, 727 00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:39,480 Speaker 1: four points, and six points. So you know four of 728 00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:42,960 Speaker 1: their losses are by a touchdown less than a touchdown. 729 00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:46,600 Speaker 1: You may let me ask you this, how are people 730 00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:49,360 Speaker 1: running the football for five point two yards? Because the 731 00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:52,280 Speaker 1: Bengals at five point three yards a kind of staggering 732 00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:53,960 Speaker 1: to me. I mean, they're a bunch of game, but 733 00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:56,960 Speaker 1: five points to a care I mean, what in your eye, 734 00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:00,480 Speaker 1: what's been the problem with stopping the run? Well, they 735 00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:04,600 Speaker 1: had one really horrific game at Carolina. Okay, give up 736 00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:07,440 Speaker 1: two hundred and eighty five yards jushing and McCaffrey went 737 00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:11,279 Speaker 1: off on them, and so that's us the numbers a 738 00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:15,920 Speaker 1: little bit. But the dec has been talk about incomesistence. 739 00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:19,720 Speaker 1: This decents has been you know, jekylin high the entire season. 740 00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:24,280 Speaker 1: It has three really either terrific ors to that game. 741 00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:26,880 Speaker 1: So you don't do one week to the next, what 742 00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:30,359 Speaker 1: decents you're gonna get? That's part of the problem right there. 743 00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:33,759 Speaker 1: All thanks to Jean for Nette. And here's a quick 744 00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:36,200 Speaker 1: reminder that if you live in the Cincinnati area and 745 00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:40,200 Speaker 1: listen to this podcast before Friday afternoon at three, we 746 00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:42,520 Speaker 1: hope you'll join Lapp and Wayne box Miller for the 747 00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:45,320 Speaker 1: Bengals pep Rally Show on Friday from three to six 748 00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:49,760 Speaker 1: at Buffalo Wings and rings in Fairfield. Their special guest 749 00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:52,480 Speaker 1: in the final hour of the show will be Bengals 750 00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:56,360 Speaker 1: cornerback Tony McCray and there will be plenty of giveaways 751 00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:59,200 Speaker 1: as well. That's going to do it for this episode 752 00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:02,359 Speaker 1: of the podcast. 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