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She raised five kids while having a 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:25.919 wide variety of jobs over the years and kept working 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:29.360 until she was eighty. If I am one tenth of 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:33.000 the parent that she is, my son Sam should turn 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:38.640 out okay. So happy birthday, Mom, and thank you for everything. 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.520 Now let's get to the radio calls from a Monday 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:46.440 night loss in Cleveland. Burrow catches the shotgun, snap throws 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:51.040 a palo deflected and intercepted to snap the put down 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:53.960 and the right footed kick. It's block head. It flutters 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:56.760 down to the ten and we'll roll to a stop 0:01:56.880 --> 0:02:00.960 inside the ten. The Bengals block the field goal tried 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:03.720 by Kade York and they'll get a great drive start 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:06.320 as a result at the forty three yard line. B 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:08.320 J Hill, I think is the guy that blocked a 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:13.680 Burrow catches the shotgun staff and he'll be sacked back 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:17.359 at the forty five by you guessed at Miles Garrett. 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:20.120 Now it's an end around and a pass down the 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:23.680 field intercepted. Von Bell picks it off, running up the 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:27.960 sideline into Brown's territory. They'll say he stepped out, but 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:31.320 it is an interception. The Brown's going to some trickery. 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:34.680 It was an end around and then a pass and 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:37.840 Amari Cooper's throw is picked off by Von Bell his 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:41.480 fourth interception of the year, and Logan Wilson put the 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:45.840 pressure on Amari Cooper and made him throw the football 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:49.799 sooner than he wanted to in errantly to boot. Seven 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:53.799 offensive lineman stretched out a straight line. Now they're going 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.959 to snap it directly to Nick Chubb out of a wildcat, 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:00.400 catches at the nine, runs right, cuts up the middle, 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:04.560 and goes into the end zone, standing up seven offensive 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:07.120 lineman and a direct snap to Nip Chubb. The end 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:09.679 result of four yard touchdown for I'll tell you the 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:14.079 Bengals defensive lineet washed that time. Every member of the 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:16.720 defensive line was about four yards in the end zone 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:19.840 were set back to three. He gets hit, ball comes 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:23.120 out crabs by a King Davis ka and the Bengals 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:27.240 will take over near midfield as a King Davis Gaither 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:31.480 comes away with the interception. As Brissette got hit hard 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:34.280 and coughed up the ball. Money back is ready trying 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:38.360 to put Cincinnati on the scoreboard. From forty seven yards away, 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:43.080 the rookie Ademitas fires it back to Huber. Here comes 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:46.200 the kick, a high spinning end over end kick and 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:50.040 it's wide right raw from fifty five yards away. The snap, 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:52.880 the put down, and the kick. It has the distance 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:56.920 and it is good. And the half ends with the 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:01.000 Browns on top eleven zip second goal from the three 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:05.080 per set with a play action fake now running moving 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:07.200 to his left, pump fakes trying to get to the 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:11.960 end zone. Dives touches the pylon, touchdown Cleveland per set 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.640 in the shotgun he catches, He drops back, floats a 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:18.240 fade into the end zone. Easy pitch and catch Amari 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:22.919 Cooper with a touchdown. Trey Flowers flailing in pursuit. Bengals 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.760 go empty with three receivers left and two right on 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:29.280 first and ten from the Cleveland thirteen, two defenders waiting 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:31.680 at the goal line. Burrow drops back. It's a deep drop. 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:34.640 Joe runs away from a possible hit, throws into the 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:39.760 end zone, deflected and caught by Tyler Boyd. Touchdown. BEng 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:43.279 Goals per set with the play clock at three, hands 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:45.040 it off the Chubb running up the middle of the 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:48.599 five and into the end zone. Standing up for the touchdown. 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:51.960 Burrow waits for a shotgun snap with Mixon to his right, 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:55.440 fakes the mix and drops back, throws it deep down field. 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:59.600 Higgins high points the ball, snakes the catch and runs 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:03.160 into the end zone. He was too big and too 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:07.680 strong for Greedy Williams, and the Bengals score on the 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:12.279 forty one yard strike. Bengals chances are slim, but they're 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:14.800 not quite dead yet. They need to convert here. On 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:18.239 fourth and four, trailing by nineteen. In the fourth quarter, 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:24.640 Burrow drops back quick throwback shoulder broken up incomplete intended 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:29.120 for Tyler Boyd. Martin Emerson would the play defensively and 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:32.320 the Bengals turn it over on downs. The final score 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:35.920 again thirty two to thirteen, and the stats were pretty grizzly. 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:40.040 The Browns out gained the Bengals four forty to two 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:43.720 twenty nine, topped them in rushing yards one seventy two 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:47.279 to thirty six, and time of possession was roughly thirty 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:52.120 seven minutes to twenty three. To make matters worse, Chitabeyawoogie 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:54.840 left the game with a knee injury. He was taken 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:58.000 to the locker room on a cart and was on crutches, 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:01.960 wearing a bulky knee brace. After the game, Sam Hubbard 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:05.440 addressed his teammate's injury and other issues in front of 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:10.840 his locker. I'm actually the loss of Cheetah hurt oh, unbelievable. 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.760 He's uh, you know that that hurts really bad. He's 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:16.840 an unbelievable player. I wish him all the best, and uh, 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:19.320 we're gonna miss him. If I don't know what happened 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:22.599 or but I saw him on crutches, this is really tough. 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:24.760 What did you say about him that so many guys 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:26.120 wanted to check on him while he was in the 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:28.440 medical tent before he got carted off. Yeah, he's just 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:30.280 you know, if you know anything about Cheetoh, this is 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:33.560 means the world to him. He's one of the most 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:37.160 reliable teammates I've ever played with. And uh, you know, 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:42.160 not much to say, oh than uh, you know, it 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:44.880 means a lot to this team. You guys obviously have 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:46.440 to move on, but how do you keep it from 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:48.720 the being deflating? I mean, you guys are human. You 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:50.880 have to feel for the guy. And yeah, I'm sure 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:52.560 the loss of him meant a lot X and O wise, 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:56.280 but even beyond that is it's something you guys felt, Yeah, definitely, 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:59.760 you know we uh you know, it's never easy, you know, 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.560 down a bunch of our leaders and you know, DJ 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.200 stuff like that, but you know, young guys are gonna 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:09.520 get opportunity step up and we'll rally around that. There's 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:11.400 always the talk that there's a lot of football left 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:13.280 to be played, and obviously not even halfway through the 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:15.040 season yet. But do you look at o and three 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:17.400 in the division? Is that something that you pay attention 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:19.160 to at this point and realize what kind of a 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:20.680 hole that's going to be to climb out of? Yeah, 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:22.360 you have to. At this point we get one more 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:25.360 shot at each team and best chances to go three 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:27.200 and three in the division, and it's kind of getting 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:29.080 crunch time where we don't have any room for air 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:36.400 and uh yeah, it's tough loss, but it's football. You're 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:39.560 gonna face adversity. It's not how you just spawn, Sam, 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:43.520 how do you keep yourself focused moving forward? Myself? I'm 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:50.200 no issues there, I'm I'm all in. So yep, Sam, 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:53.560 what do you know about this team? It's carater. They 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:57.640 lead you to believe that you guys will bounce back collectively. Yeah, 0:07:57.680 --> 0:07:59.200 I know the guys we got in our locker room, 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:04.360 so many leaders, so many you know guys that I mean, 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:08.480 this is some of the best groups a group of 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:11.560 guys that ever been around. And I know that there's 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:14.000 not gonna be any figure pointing. It's gonna be a 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:16.200 lot of people looking at themselves figure out what they 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:18.560 can do individually to get better. And that's how how 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:21.640 you get out of situations like this. I've been here 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:24.840 many times before. He's just perplexing. A game like tonight, though, 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:28.160 when you guys felt like collectively you had things kind 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.080 of figured out more moving forward, and then you have 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:32.839 a speed bump like this. It happens. It's football. You 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.760 can't let it, you know, derail your entire receive season, 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:41.199 and you just gotta take what you did wrong and 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:45.000 fix the corrections and move on to the next It's football. 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:47.520 Just think the game, and think the game at the 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:49.600 end of the half and hitting into the second. Happen 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:51.920 is that we're kind of cut away where they scored 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.360 at the end of a half and then they began. Yeah, 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:56.839 that was tough. I mean, I snapped my finger in 0:08:56.960 --> 0:09:00.440 half on that drive. Had to leave the field. Uh, 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:05.559 I'm not even sure what happened. But uh, yes, it 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:08.800 was a collective of drives after that drive that we 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:11.319 got to make stops as we ask out what happened. 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:14.079 So I just got Actually, I'm not I don't know 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:18.199 if I'm talking in yeah, I'm good to go. I 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:22.240 snapped my finger in half. Certainly doesn't sound pleasant. A 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:25.079 finger on Sam's left hand was in a metal splint 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:29.000 after the game. The Bengals Booth Podcast is presented by 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:34.120 Alta Fiber future Proof Fiber Internet capable of delivering multi 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:37.720 gigabit speeds designed to take your home, business, and community 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:41.720 to a new level. Elevate your connection with Alta Fiber 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:46.000 Without Jamar Chase, the Bengals offense failed to score until 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:49.800 the fourth quarter. While Joe Burrow's final numbers were okay 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:53.240 two hundred thirty two passing yards, two touchdowns, one pick, 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:56.280 and a passer rating of ninety six point four. The 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:59.719 offense failed to take advantage of good field position for 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.600 much of the night. Tee Higgins had that forty one 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:06.120 yard touchdown grab, but only had two other catches for 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:10.400 eight yards. As for Tyler Boyd, aside from his thirteen 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:13.920 yard touchdown grab, he was held to two other catches 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:18.360 for twenty five yards, and the offensive line really struggled. 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:22.920 Burrow was sacked five times, hit two other times, and 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:26.960 the Bengals longest run was seven yards. I caught up 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:30.520 with a member of that old line. We're in the 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:32.760 locker room with l Collins. You guys have been playing 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:34.840 so well. Unfortunately, it was just one of those nights 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.199 where it didn't seem like anything went well. It is 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:41.079 that how it fell to. You just felt like, you know, 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:44.520 we didn't really get into a rhythm like we wanted to. 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:47.920 Like we respected too, But he's got to get back 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:55.640 to work obviously, not have some more. It's big for us, 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:59.199 you know, so and he's missing a guy like that. 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.120 You know, we all got to step up and do 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.200 a better job at that. I think in the first 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:06.959 half you drove into Brown's territory and five out of 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:09.679 six drives and then just stalled. I mean, when you 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:13.000 have those opportunities and can't capitalize, he usually comes back 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:16.400 to haunt you, doesn't it. Absolutely. I mean, anytime you're 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:18.760 in the territory, you gotta put points up on the board. 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:23.240 It's a bottom line, you know. Wasn't able to do that. Um, 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.199 you know, I definitely think we have the opportunity to 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:30.959 do it. You know, defense there was that opportunity, um 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:35.400 but unfortunately just what nable capitalize on it. How hard 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:38.000 is it to protect in a game against these guys 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:40.800 when you have to pass. That's what we get played 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:44.920 to do. So you know, there's no there's no exceptions 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:46.760 to that. You know, we gotta it's like the Q 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:48.959 big give him time to go through his reads and 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.480 keep him up right. So I gotta go. We gotta 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:54.000 get back to work and do a better job at that. 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:56.760 And know it set part. Performance is never good, never 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.280 feels good. But when it's prime time does that staying 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:04.280 that much more. It doesn't matter prom time, no time, 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:07.439 any time, y'all don't feel you know, I want to 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:10.200 give your best performance and you know we just got 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:12.400 to do a better job at that. You know, collectively 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:15.040 as a group, appreciate your time. Thank you you. That's 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:19.960 Lal Collins. The Bengals Booth Podcast is presented by Kettering Health, 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:23.240 the official healthcare provider of the Bengals. With more than 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:27.360 one hundred twenty care facilities and fifteen hundred care providers. 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:31.000 Kettering Health has committed to guiding you to your best health. 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:35.800 Visit Kettering health dot org to learn more. Seven teams 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:38.600 in the AFC will ultimately make the playoffs, and right 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.240 now the Bengals are tied for the eighth spot with 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:44.520 the Patriots. They're a half game behind the Chargers and 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:47.760 just one game behind the Ravens, Jets, and Dolphins, so 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:50.920 they're far from dead, but with an O and three 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:53.559 record in the division, they might have to be a 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:57.560 wildcard team to make it. Now, let's hear from head 0:12:57.600 --> 0:12:59.719 coach Zach Taylor as he spent a few minutes with 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:02.839 day Lap them after the game. Coach, just one of 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:04.719 the one of those knights Murphy's law. I mean the 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:09.000 first you had I think five possessions that were inside 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:11.840 the fifty yard line at one point, which couldn't finish 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:13.720 any of them. No, we could, you know, the two 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:16.679 turnovers and the missfield goal, heard us there, and we 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:18.880 mixed in two three and ounce and that mix as well. 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.400 And so that's just that's a tough recipe for success. 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:23.760 We got to learn from it. Be able to make 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:25.960 the corrections if there are there something to be made there. 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:30.120 The two turnovers just unfortunate because it's it's an open 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.520 receiver on a tipped ball, and it's another one he's 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:33.960 going to throw it an open receiver and they get 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:35.400 his risk right as he's going to throw it. So 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:39.439 those are tough ones. So do you think it was 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:42.360 lack of execution on your end of it? Was what 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:44.040 the what they did on their end of it? A 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:46.240 combination of both. How do you assess it? Yeah, the 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:47.800 two three and ounce, you know, I think we had 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:49.199 a big drop there on one of those drives to 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:52.760 an open receiver. And you know so again in just 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:54.920 getting two yards on first down of a second to 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:56.440 eight and then two yards of a third and five, 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:59.200 and just wasn't enough moving the ball forward to put 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:00.920 us in better positions like we had been the last 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:02.679 couple of weeks. And when they got a pass for 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:04.960 us like they do, it makes it difficult because then 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.280 you got to use guys in protection and you get 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:08.839 a few guys out, And so they did a good 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.240 job putting us in those situations and we couldn't get 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:14.520 it done. You made mention of first down winning four 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:16.560 out of five. You guys had a good run going 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:18.920 on first down tonight. It wasn't there. I know your 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:21.360 first twelve plays on first down its twenty four yards 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:23.920 and they were averaging like eight or nine on their 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:26.360 first downs. They handled first down pretty well. Yeah, we 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:28.040 just didn't go a good enough job, you know, and 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:31.880 uh search with us as coaches and asking the players 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:34.160 to execute it. So again, we got to rebound quickly 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:35.800 in a six day week, and I'm confident our guys 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:39.000 we'll be able to do that. So injuries, I mean, 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.560 Cheeto that one. That one looked like it's it's not 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:43.120 good in the reaction to some of the guys in 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:45.520 the locker room. And he has such an impact on 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:47.640 so many guys. There's a lot of emotions in there 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:49.200 in the locker room. That's the tough part of the 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:51.880 National Football League, isn't it is? You know, he's he's 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.040 one of our best and just every way that he 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:57.680 goes about his life football, he's worked so hard to 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:00.200 put himself in this position to be a premier cornerless lee, 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:02.640 which he is, and uh, you know, he's a big 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:04.880 part of the heart of this team. And so we're 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.400 gonna have to rally behind him and other guys are 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:09.600 gonna have to step up. And that's a tough one. 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:13.920 Really tough. I mean on the back end with him down. 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.840 I mean you you were playing Ducks Hill out there 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.640 at outside corner and against Cooper, and that's that's a 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:23.000 that's a tough, tough scenario. Welcome to the NFL. Yeah, Yeah, 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:24.560 it's tough, you know. And so we're just a lot 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:25.840 of guys are gonna have to step up and make 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:27.960 some plays, and we're gonna be calling a lot of 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:31.040 guys to do it. A home game against Carolina is 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.640 up next, and it's been a rough year for the Panthers, 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:36.520 who are two and six. Head coach Matt Roll was 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:40.360 fired and has been replaced by Steve Wilkes. Baker Mayfield 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:43.320 has been benched, and PJ Walker will make his fourth 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:47.600 straight start at quarterback. Last Sunday, Walker through a touchdown 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:52.080 pass that traveled sixty seven point six yards in the air. 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:56.400 That's the longest completion by air distance since the NFL 0:15:56.520 --> 0:16:01.120 started tracking that stat in two thousand sixteen. In other words, 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:04.760 he's got a strong arm. Now, time for the radio 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:08.600 guys recap lap. I don't think anybody saw it coming. 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:10.800 The Bengals played their worst game of the year. The 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.400 Browns probably played their best and when that's the case 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.280 in the NFL, it does not look good. No, you're right, 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:19.280 and you know, as the old saying goes, sometimes you 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:21.000 get the bear. A lot of times the bear gets you. 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:25.560 And that's what happened today. I mean, every phase had 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:29.480 had contributions to the defeat. There's no doubt about it. 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.560 And you know it happens. And what you have to 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:35.280 do is you have to put it aside. You can't 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:38.000 let one game like this turn into two or three 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:42.800 where the problems become persistent. I think this group has 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:46.160 that type of mentality, Like you know, it happened. We 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:49.240 just got to have selective mnees. You put it aside 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.840 and and move on to the next one. If you don't, 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:55.520 it can gall you up pretty quickly. And it's tough 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:58.240 on a short week too, It's very tough. And then 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:01.600 you know the compound by the fact that Cheeto's injury 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:05.120 it looks very severe and a lot of guys were 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:09.280 mourning that injury, no question about it, in terms of 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:12.480 emotion and tears and everything else. I mean, this guy 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:15.919 is somebody that has about a high level of respects 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:17.480 as you can have in the locker room. There's no 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:22.040 question if people didn't appreciate him, Andy lie Apple to 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:24.880 a lesser extent, we saw their value in this game 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:29.760 when when Jacoby Purcette had to throw, guys are wide open, Yeah, 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:32.200 they were wide open. He almost threw for three hundred yards. 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:35.119 Cooper has one hundred and thirty and uh, you know 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:38.280 you rush for over one hundred with Chubb. I mean 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:43.359 that's that's the trifecta quarterback. Three hundred yards and one 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:46.600 hundred by a receiver and a hundred by a running 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:49.040 back is like the triple crown. And they came within 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:52.000 just a few yards of doing that. So credit down, 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:54.600 they played well, like you said, the and the Bengals 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:58.320 certainly didn't. The Bengals, um, we're fighting an uphill battle 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:01.840 all the way. And once they fell behind by three scores. 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:05.119 The way Cleveland can run the football, man, you know, 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:07.879 it's like now you have to Cleveland knows you have 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:10.080 to throw it every down. They're tea and off. Now 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:13.760 you have to take extra people and help the line block, 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:15.679 and now you have less receivers in the route. Now 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:17.560 you're playing to play, trying to play that game of 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:19.879 when are we going to put extra blockers in what 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:21.160 are we going to put them out in the route? 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:23.560 And and you get a whole whole bunch of things 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:26.880 that just compound and h pretty soon you're you're you're 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:31.240 losing by three scores. Goes without saying that when the 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:34.040 Cleveland Browns know you're going to pass, as you were saying, 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:36.320 they're going to tee off. But even before that was 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:38.520 the case in this game, they got too much pressure 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:40.520 on Joe Burrows more like the first two games of 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:42.639 the season than the last five. Yeah, they did. They 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:45.359 just they decided that they were going to be aggressive 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:48.679 in terms of getting up the football field and if 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:50.520 they run, so be it. You know, we'll try to 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:52.280 make a play on the run as we're as we're 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:54.080 moving up the football field. It's going to be an 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:57.879 aggressive posture. And they brought talkie talkie a few times 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:01.800 on run blitzes. They brought them down a distance situations, 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:05.000 particularly with the way the game was unfolding, where you know, 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:07.520 if you do decide to run a drawer or whatever, 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:11.880 he's still going to be in position to make a play. So, yeah, 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:14.480 they they definitely got the upper hand and then took 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:16.840 advantage of it with the play calling and the execution 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:19.080 of the play calling, No doubt about it. It was. 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:23.600 They were overwhelming in terms of rushing the passer six 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:26.359 possessions in the first half. They drove past the fifty 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:28.560 on five out of the six and failed to score. 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:31.440 How big of a factor was Chase his absence in 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:34.840 the inability to keep on driving and score points. Yeah, 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:36.480 I mean, I hate, I hate to put it on 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:39.399 one thing, but maybe the biggest player that Miles Garrett 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:41.960 made was tipping that pass because it was there and 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:44.159 Higgins still try to make a play on it and 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:48.160 he'd second tip and then the interception, so it's tip tip, doink, doink. 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:52.119 But he was wide open. And if the Bengals score 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:57.280 points on that drive, you know it. I'm I'm not 0:19:57.359 --> 0:19:59.159 going to say it would have changed the outcome of 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:01.919 the game, but it would have in a different football game. Um, 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:04.520 there's no two ways about that, I think. And you 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:07.480 know when that that was the first, uh, that was 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:09.720 the first bit of tragedy adversity to deal with, and 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:12.520 then it just started snowballing and compounding. So if you're 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:16.399 able to avoid that one who knows, who knows? You know, 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:21.080 just um, just one of those days things just didn't 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:24.000 go Sam Hubbard said after the game, Listen, we went 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:26.240 into the bye last year with a five and four record. 0:20:26.400 --> 0:20:28.359 That's the goal. Now when next week, get to the 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:30.720 buy five and four. Yeah, get to the buy five 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:33.760 and four of it right now. Three of those four 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:37.040 losses or division losses, and that's that's the thing that Yeah, 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:39.680 that's the thing that's tough right now. It's like, you know, 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:43.320 down the stretch, you've got other tough opponents you're going 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:45.440 to be playing as well as the division opponents you're 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:48.280 already lost to, so you've got to sweep them as 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:50.560 well as uh, you know, try to handle business with 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:55.679 other other tough opponents. So you've definitely definitely backed yourself 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:58.399 into a corner. It was very little margin for ever, 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:01.840 if any, that's for sure. It's amazing, isn't it. Eight 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:06.080 days ago, after that victory against the Atlanta Falcons, it 0:21:06.160 --> 0:21:09.800 seemed like, oh man, this team is on fire, they're 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:12.520 ready to take off. And now in this locker room 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:15.320