WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Walking On Sunshine 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.480 Hi, gain everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:13.440 the Bengals Booths Podcast. Uh, I'm walking on Sunshine? Whoa? 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:18.160 And don't it feel good? Addition, as the Bengals advanced 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:21.599 to the AFC Championship Game with a thrilling road win 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:25.040 over the top seeded Tennessee Titans. Coming up, you'll hear 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:28.960 radio replays, postgame comments from players and coaches, and analysis 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:32.320 from my broadcast partner Dave Lapham. 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It's 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:20.200 the greatest thing since the build up when your favorite 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:24.120 team advances in the postseason. One of my favorite things 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:27.680 about the NCAA Basketball tournament is that if your team 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:29.800 wins a couple of games and makes it to the 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:33.119 Sweet sixteen, you get to savor it for several days 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:35.640 leading up to the next round, and if your team 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:37.800 wins two more games and goes to the Final four, 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:41.000 you get to do it again. Well, that's what we 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:43.760 have to look forward to this week leading up to 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:47.320 the AFC Championship game, and who knows, if the Bengals 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:50.000 win again, we could get to savor the two week 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:53.840 build up to the Super Bowl. Sounds awesome, doesn't it. 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:59.280 Now let's get to Saturday's win at Tennessee. The game 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:03.040 could not have started much better for Cincinnati. Ryan Tannehill 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:06.160 under center on first and ten double tight ends in 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:11.200 for Tennessee. Play action fake Tannehill count it neintercepted by 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:14.960 Jesse bay first play of the game, and Jesse Bates, 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:19.560 who intercepted Ryan Tannehill last year, picks him off on 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:23.239 the very first play of this playoff game that gave 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:25.800 the Bengals the ball at the Titans forty two. But 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:29.520 Cincinnati's first play didn't go very well either. Burrow back 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:33.440 to throw under pressure, spinning, twirling and sat for a 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:37.000 three yard loss at the forty five yard line. Last year, 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:40.079 in Burrow's third NFL game, he was sacked eight times 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:43.280 by the Eagles. The Titans top that with nine sacks 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:47.320 on Saturday. Here's DJ Reader on his quarterback. He's tough, 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:50.799 has gone league though. Man, He's tough, just gritty. I 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:53.280 love it, I love I love about him. He's super 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:55.760 tough guy. You know, he doesn't complain. He goes out 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:58.000 here and does his job. I really appreciate Joe. One 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:00.480 play after the sack, Burrow threw a short pass the 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:04.160 Joe Mixon turned into a twenty one yard gain. The 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:07.600 Bengals reached the Titans twenty before settling for a field goal. 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:10.320 Dry Huber, looking back at his young kicker, now turns 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:13.240 his head, extends the right hand, catches the snap. The 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:17.000 kick is on its way. It yes, good him. The 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:20.280 Bengals are on the scoreboard. First, they turned the Jesse 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:24.880 Bates interception into the field goal by Evan McPherson. The 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:28.160 Titans had the King Derrick Henry back at running back, 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:32.360 but failed to score on their first four drives. Meanwhile, 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.800 another big play helped the Bengals double their lead. Three 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:39.320 receivers right, two left, earl clapping his hands, screen pass 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:45.000 caught by Chase printing away traffic forty far sideline fifty, 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:48.440 chumped over a defender at the thirty five and goes 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:53.600 down at the Tennessee Titans twenty eight yard lines. That 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:57.240 was a fifty seven yard reception by Chase, roughly fifty 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:00.320 six of the yards coming after the catch. It led 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:02.400 to a forty five yard field goal and a six 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.520 nothing lead at the end of the first quarter. In 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:09.160 the second, the Titans finally started moving the ball. A 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:11.840 forty one yard pass from Ryan Tannehill to A j 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:15.480 Brown led to the game's first touchdown. Now they're gonna 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:19.120 go wildcat and snap it directly to Derrick Henry. He 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:22.840 catches the snap, he runs left, squares up his shoulders, 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:25.760 and runs it into the end zone for a three 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:29.520 yard Tennessee touchdown that tied the game at six. And 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:31.560 when the Titans lined up for the extra point, the 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:35.600 Bengals got penalized for having twelve men on the field. 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:39.800 That gave Titans coach Mike Vrabel an opportunity that he 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:43.120 couldn't pass up a chance to go for two from 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:46.919 the one yard line. Ryan Tannehill takes the staff gives 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:50.719 it to Henry get from behind by Clay Johnston. He 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:54.680 did not get in the win, so the Bengals penalty 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:59.920 helps as Tennessee goes for two and Henry gets tackled. 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.239 The Bengals responded with an eleven play drive that reached 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:07.400 the Titans nineteen yard line, well within McPherson's field goal range, 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:10.760 but a penalty cost him five yards, and what came 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:14.479 next was even worse. Third down in thirteen, the Bengals 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:16.680 need to get down to the eleven yard line. Burrow 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:20.080 can't take a sack here. He's back to throw cocks 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:23.839 the arm. Scrambling left, he gets sacked for a loss 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:26.920 of twelve yards. It could have been disastrous if their 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:31.279 kicker wasn't Evan McPherson a fifty four yard try out 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:33.560 of the hold of Kevin Hooper trying to give the 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:35.480 Bengals the lead in the final two minutes of the 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:38.520 half to snap the pot down the kick it has 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:46.880 the distance, yes, yes, good wow money Mac from fifty 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:50.840 four yards away and the Bengals have taken a nine 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:54.159 to six lead. Here's Zach Taylor on his rookie kicker. 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:56.040 I mean he's got he's got ice in his veins. 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:58.640 There's not much to be said. You know, he's as 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:01.240 cool as it gets. You've got confidence that he's gonna 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:03.320 nail it every single time he steps up there. Joe 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:06.279 Burrow had the same number of sacks in the first half, 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:10.080 five as Joe Mixon had rushing yards, and yet the 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:13.200 Bengals led nine to six. On their opening drive of 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:15.760 the third quarter, the Bengals finally got something out of 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:19.160 their running game as Mixon carried four times for thirty 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.800 four yards on a sixty five yards scoring drive. Bengals 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.040 have taken more than five minutes off the clock on 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:27.680 this drive. They have it at the sixteen of Tennessee. 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:31.640 Burrow under center, Mixon back into running back. It's a 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:33.400 run to the right for mixing cuts back to the 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:35.520 lefties at the team towards the pie round of the 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:40.719 five high stepping into the end zone. Touchdown. Joe Mixon 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:44.280 and my Bengals. Here's mixing on a great cutback that 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:48.440 resulted in a sixteen yards score called stretch right, and 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.560 all of a sudden I just remember them boys was 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:54.960 running over the top the linebackers and safety that was 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:57.760 flowing hard. I put my toe on the ground, the 0:06:57.880 --> 0:06:59.680 number put my toe on the ground again, and I 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:03.400 just backside. It was just like it was open, like 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:08.760 a resie. I ended up going trying to explode and 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:11.920 you know, gets it a zone and I was fortunate 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:15.240 enough to find daylight and everything worked out on that play, 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:17.000 and I thought that was a big difference in the game. 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.360 The Bengals were up sixteen six, but a forty five 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:23.520 yard run by Deonta Foreman put the Titans in position 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:26.040 to answer with a score of their own first and 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:29.720 goal from the ten no passes so far. On this drive, 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:32.720 Foreman stays in a running back. There's a pass the 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:36.520 fuck that you intercepted by Hilton spreading from Tannehill in 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.800 the cornerback is able to make the tackle. Mike Hilton, 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:43.400 jumping up from his slot corner position, patting the ball 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:46.320 into the air, intercepted it and ran it back to 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.040 the thirty nine. So the Bengals dodged a red zone 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:51.920 bullet on Hilton's pick, but after a three and out 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:54.920 by the offense, a forty yard pass from Tannehill to 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:57.920 Brown led to a Randy Bullet field goal that made 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:01.600 it sixteen to nine. Lead was down to a touchdown, 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:06.240 and it soon disappeared. Joe Burrow under center, takes the staff, 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:09.920 fakes a handoff. Barrow wants to throw his brest off 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:13.680 the fingertips a p rhyne. It accepted on a deflection 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:18.560 and the Titans will take over. Amani Hooker catching the 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:22.160 ricochet and Tennessee is going to have it. It wasn't 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:24.960 Burrow's fault, but that ended his streak of two hundred 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:28.920 nine consecutive passes without an i NT and it didn't 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:32.600 take long for the Titans to capitalize. Tannehill drops back 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:36.840 to throw, looking firing toward the end zone. H Brown 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:42.720 comes down with the ball, touchdown Tennessee. There were two 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:47.199 defenders there and Tannehill threat the needle to j Brown. 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:50.679 Brown finished with five catches for one hundred forty two 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:53.160 yards and the teams went to the fourth quarter tied 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:56.640 at thirteen. On the Bengals first drive of the fourth, 0:08:56.960 --> 0:09:00.280 they marched to the Titans thirty two, once again within 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:03.640 McPherson's field goal range. Juche third down in three play 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:08.400 here the Titans showing blitz Burrow ready empty backfield catches 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:13.840 the shotgun snap in trouble. Burrow sat at the fifty 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:21.199 by Butt Dupree and eighteen yard loss. Unbelievable. That eliminated 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:23.880 the field goal possibility and the Bengals had to punt. 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:27.760 The Titans also drove into field goal range, but rather 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:30.520 than letting Bullock try a fifty three yarder for the lead, 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:34.000 Tennessee went for it on fourth and one at the 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:37.080 Cincinnati thirty five. A couple tight ends in. They're gonna 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.920 give it to Derrick Henry looking for a run. He's 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:44.800 he's tackle for a loss. The Bengals defense tackles Henry 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:48.000 for a loss in two and Cincinnati will take over 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:51.920 with seven fourteen to go. How about that? The Bengals 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:54.959 put the ball in Burrow's hands with seven sixteen to go, 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:58.800 but they simply could not protect for him. Burrow has 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.360 the ball, he drops back. He got sacked for the 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:05.480 ninth time, propped down at the Titans forty yard line. 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:09.520 The problem can is that when the defense events are 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:13.400 pressuring the edges, Joe can't step up because Simmons and 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.200 the defensive tackles are pushing me and cherry of blotton. 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:19.400 It's not like the pressures just coming from one spot, 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:23.080 there is no place to step up. And Simmons gets 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:27.559 another one. Burrows sack nine times and hit an additional four. 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:29.079 And they had a great plan. They had a great 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:31.640 rush plan. I made a tough on us. It made 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:35.160 a tough on Menia disguising coverages and and blitzes and 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:37.880 and everything. And they they switched it up the whole game. 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:40.880 They didn't stick to one thing. They know one thing 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:42.360 didn't work. They moved on to the next thing. And 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.000 that was kept us on our toes. More accurately, it 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:48.480 kept him on his back. The Titans got the ball 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:51.079 back with two forty three on the clock, needing only 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:53.920 a field goal to win the game, but Joe Mixon 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:57.120 a shared Tyler Boyd that things were going to work out, 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.439 and Tyler was like, man, we can't too far to 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:01.600 you know, go like this, And I'm like, man, just 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:04.400 just believe, bro, just believe defense is gonna get us 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:07.080 a turnover. We're gonna go in overtime. And sure enough, 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:10.200 literally one play later, literally one play later, we gotta 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:14.119 pick thirty two seconds left, third down in five Tannehill 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:16.640 ready for the shotgun snap. He has the ball, he's 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:20.640 back to throw, looking, throws over the medal prob it intercepted. 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:23.560 The Bengals have it half the forty seven yard line. 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:27.160 Twenty seconds on the clock, and the Bengals will have 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:32.760 the ball about fifteen yards away from Evan McPherson's long 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:37.000 field goal range. Ryan Tannehill's pass was tipped by Eli 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:40.959 Apple and intercepted by linebacker Logan Wilson. Every game in 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:42.600 the playoffs is gonna be close. It's gonna be a 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:45.840 dog fight. That's just the nature of this league. Everyone's 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:48.560 good when he gets to this point, and you just 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:50.680 gotta find ways to win. The Bengals had the ball 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:53.640 at their own forty seven with twenty seconds to go. 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:57.160 Burrow catches a shotgun snap blitz coming Chow with time 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:00.200 throws for Chase got it and on a bounce at 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:04.080 the thirty five of Tennessee fifteen seconds on the clock. 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:07.280 That's enough to be within the long field goal range 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:11.920 of McPherson. Eighteen seconds on the clock. Now, ideally you'd 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.880 love to get about ten more yards and the Bengals 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:17.320 have two time outs to work with. The Bengals ran 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:21.280 it twice but didn't gain anything. They trusted McPherson to 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:25.000 deliver from fifty plus after he went nine for eleven 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:28.960 from long range during the regular season. McPherson ready, from 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:33.360 fifty two yards away. Clark Harris will snap it back 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.760 to Kevin Hubert for the win. The snap, the put down, 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.360 the swing of the right leg. It's on its way. 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:49.480 It is good. Coffin nels Bam. That is unbelievable. Fifty 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:53.920 four and fifty two with the gun. That is unrealisim 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:57.839 right there? In? The Bengals advanced to the Final four. 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:03.160 If She Chip Chip game, damn AFC Championship Game. It 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:07.000 was the fourth game ending game winner of mc pherson's 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:10.040 rookie year. Yeah, that's a kicker's dream is to, you know, 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:13.040 have the game on your shoulders and just to go 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:16.280 out there and execute the way that we have all practice. 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:18.320 You know. That's that's what I told Kevin right before 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:20.679 the kick. I'm like, all right, we do this, we 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:22.400 did this in practice, Let's do it one more time. 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:24.560 And you know that's kind of what was going through 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:26.520 my mind and all on you is just hit it, 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:28.760 hit it clean, and it was going to get there. 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:32.319 His teammates like Joe Burrow, had no doubt that Nick 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:36.760 Fearless would come through, Like guys unbelievable, he said. So 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:39.160 he was talking to Brandon as he was going out 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:41.920 to kick. He'd give a little warm up swing and 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:44.160 he said, it looks like we're going to the AFC 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:46.040 Championship right before he went out there to kick it. 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:49.000 And when you have a kicker, I mean, we knew 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:51.640 exactly what we had as soon as he walked into 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:54.000 the building in camp, and we just saw how he 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:56.320 carried himself. You know exactly how a kicker is going 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:59.120 to perform when obviously everyone at this level can kick 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:02.880 through the rights, but it's how you handle yourself in 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:06.640 the locker room that shows us that you have the 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:08.120 confidence to go out there and make a kick like 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.400 this and perform the way he did in a game 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:12.400 like this. And we knew exactly what kind of guy 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:14.920 we had in camp. And the Bengals know exactly what 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:18.840 they have in Joey franchise. Here are Zach Taylor and 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:21.200 Joe Mixon. If I had the answer for why Joe 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:24.760 Burrows good at what he does, then then I don't know. 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:26.920 I'd sell that a bottle up and sell it. But um, 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:30.200 he's just special that allows us to continue to call 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:32.440 things the way we call because even after a sack 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:35.320 or a negative play, you still feel like we're always 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:37.400 going to get it back with the weapons that we got. 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:39.840 Joe's ability to put it, put a hit behind him 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:41.320 and move on to the next boy and find him 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:43.880 one of his his freak shows he likes to call him. Uh, 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:45.880 you know, makes our job a lot easier to play callers. 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:49.160 And that boy, Joey Be, he's a he's a bad 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:52.600 he's a bad man to say the least. He's a 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:56.160 bad man. And I'm just I'm so happy for him 0:14:56.200 --> 0:15:00.240 because he's been through Uh, he's overcome and U he 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:02.240 was in a slouch with us. I mean it wasn't 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:06.160 multiple years like me, Tyler and CJ. But he's been here, 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:09.440 he's he's witnessed it. And when I was on the sideline, 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:13.560 probably about like ten fifteen seconds left, I believe when 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:16.400 we took the ball back, Joey B went out there. 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:19.400 And I'll tell everybody all the time what surprised me 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:22.640 the most about Joe Burrow And at this point it's 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:25.320 definitely not surprising because if he does it time and 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:28.920 time again, is his poise under pressure. The final score 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:34.840 Cincinnati nineteen, Tennessee sixteen. I'm still dreaming right now. To 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:37.680 be honest, I'm still dreaming. I feel like I'm on 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:41.200 cloud I'm in the highest clouds you've ever imagine. I'm 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:43.760 just I'm so I'm so blessed to be here, to 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:47.200 be a part of this. I'm special, So thankful for 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:49.600 my teammates, so thankful for the fans, for all the 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:52.600 support they came down here. It's just man, Like I said, 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:54.960 I'm on an all time high right now. Maybe not 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:58.280 an all time high. After all, the Bengals are one 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:01.720 win from going to the Super Here's Logan Wilson. That 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:02.880 was like one of the first season that said in 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.240 the locker room. I was like, dude, we're one game away. 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:08.760 One game obviously we got a big game in front 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:11.120 of us, but um, it's a huge opportunity for us. 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:15.160 The rallying Chris Sin's training camp has been why not us? 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:18.560 But not be more? The captain spoke to the team 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:22.440 the night before the game, and Burrows message was, it 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:25.560 is us. I'm tired of the underdog. Narrative, and we're 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:28.360 a really really good team. We're here, We're here to 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:30.680 make noise, and no teams are gonna have to pay 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.000 attention to us. We're, like I said, a really good 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:36.440 team with really good players and coaches, and we're coming forward. 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:38.880 All the final thoughts, I'm one of the biggest wins 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:42.880 in franchise history come from Evan McPherson and Zach Taylor. 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:46.240 Our team's kind of creating our own legacy, obviously, and 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:49.280 I think this, this Bengal team will be remembered forever 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:52.640 um and just the excitement that we brought to the 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:55.640 city of Cincinnati, I think is awesome. And this, I mean, 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:58.440 the city's on fire. They'll probably burned down tonight and 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:01.120 then it'll it'll definitely and down next week, and then 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:04.639 we'll have a We'll have a whole city, you know, 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:08.280 fly out to fly out to California, hopefully in support 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:10.359 us in the Super Bowl. So, like I said, we're 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:12.240 gonna taking a one game at a time, go wherever 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:15.199 we got to go next week, execute and hopefully come 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:17.040 out with a win. This win's for everybody, you know, 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:20.200 This wins for everybody's involved in this. I would imagine 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:22.639 there's some pretty good celebrations going back home. The orange 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:24.639 in the crowd today was tremendous. I mean, it just 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:27.720 felt like driving into the game. It was so cool 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:30.120 to see so many Bengal fans that came down. Let's 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:31.879 find a way to get them to either Kansas City 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.359 or Buffalo. We'll find that out tomorrow. But we just 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:36.720 got such a tremendous fan base that supports this team 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:39.119 through thick and thin. Pappy, we're able to deliver some 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:41.440 wins for him. The Bills in Chiefs meet at six 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:45.359 thirty on Sunday night. The oddsmakers say the Bengals will 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:49.199 be a six and a half point underdog against either opponent. 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:53.080 The Bengals Booth podcast is presented by Ultimate Bengals, the 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:56.879 free to play fantasy football game. This year, Ultimate Bengals 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:59.080 awarded a weekly winner during the course of the season 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:03.640 with tickets, autograph merchandise, and money can't buy experiences all 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.760 up for grabs. Find Ultimate Bengals in the app Store 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:10.919 and Google Play. Now time for postgame analysis with my 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:16.159 broadcast partner Dave Lapham Lap. The Cincinnati Bengals are headed 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:20.520 to the a FC Championship Game a year after winning 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:24.680 four games, two years after winning two, amazing a two 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:27.520 year record of six twenty five and one, and they're 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:30.560 going to the AFC Championship game. I'm telling you, Dan, 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:32.320 and all started with you and the Bear Cash. You know, 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:35.520 going to that college football playoff man set a high bar. 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:38.800 Bengals had to at least match it. So they are 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:42.000 going to the final four here in the National Football 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:47.200 League playoff format and it's really exciting. I mean, these 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:51.000 guys they truly believe. I mean, they think they're good 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:54.000 enough to win a world championship. And I'm not going 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:57.400 to sell them short. I mean they are extremely confident 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:00.280 and I think they feed off the confidence to their 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:03.760 quarterback and it's an earned confidence by the quarterback and 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:06.640 the players know that it's an earn confidence and they 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:09.040 feel good right now. And leave it to Joe Burrow 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:13.680 to send a new message. I'm tired of the underdog narrative. 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:15.960 We are a good team with good coaches and we 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:18.840 can win it all. Bingo. I mean that that says 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:22.800 it all, and uh that that's what I'm talking about about. 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:26.560 You know a guy who it's one thing to say it, 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:28.399 but then you go it up, go out, and you 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:34.160 back it up with supreme play and execution and toughness 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:38.280 and competitiveness. I mean, Joe Burrow get sacked nine times, 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:41.400 really eleven, one get nullified by penalty and one get 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:45.479 nullified by time time out, and get hit a myriad 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:48.239 of times. I mean this this guy a good thing. 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:51.560 He's young, because he's gonna be sore, and for him 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:55.000 to and to just fight through all that. I think 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:57.080 right in the middle of all those times being sacked, 0:19:57.080 --> 0:19:59.080 when he ran for that first down and dove head 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:01.560 first to do it, and it's I don't care, I'm 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:03.920 giving my body up. We gotta make this first down. 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:06.320 He wants to make sure he makes it not slide 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:09.080 and have a count on an official to spot the 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:11.480 ball properly. It's like, I'm going as far as I 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:13.560 can and getting the ball out there as as far 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:15.440 as I can get it out there, and I'm getting 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:17.520 this damn first down and we're going to score. I 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:21.320 mean that stuff is contagious. Teammates feet off of that stuff. 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:24.560 So when you have a guy that can deliver a 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:28.159 good message verbally and then backs it up physically with 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:30.679 a high level of execution on a snap by snap 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:34.720 basis man the sky's the limit. Let's go back to 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:37.280 the final minute of the game. The Titans have the ball. 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:40.000 They're trying to make sure that the Bengals don't get 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:42.600 the ball back, so they're not using their own timeouts. 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:45.920 They were trying to go with the either we attempt 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:48.760 to kick to win it or nobody does strategy. But 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:51.439 they throw a pass that gets deflected by Eli Apple 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:54.080 and intercepted by Logan Wilson at the forty seven yard 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:57.639 line with twenty seconds to go. An eighteen yard pass 0:20:57.720 --> 0:21:00.040 to Chase, who gets out of bounds, leads to the 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:02.720 field goal opportunity from fifty two yards away for Evan 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:06.920 nick Pherson. Yeah, and uh and Joe Burrow. There were 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:09.240 times when he did get a good pocket and he 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:12.119 had time in space, and when he has time and 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:16.119 space and can see the football field, it's deadly. It's deadly. 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:20.040 And they ran cover two man and the place to 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:23.440 attack that cover two is up. The sideline safety can't 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:25.800 get there fast enough. From the middle of the football field, 0:21:25.920 --> 0:21:29.760 corner's gone underneath coverage. And they did it perfectly. I mean, 0:21:29.920 --> 0:21:34.280 Chase ran an extremely effective route and Borrow as usual 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:38.520 puts the ball on the money. So it's it's uh, 0:21:38.720 --> 0:21:41.639 it's extraordinary. So many guys stepped up and made so 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:45.439 many big plays. All the interception, including the interception you 0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:51.080 know that, Uh that Mike hil Yeah, no, that that 0:21:51.920 --> 0:21:55.359 include Hooker. Yeah, every interception the Bengals had and the 0:21:55.440 --> 0:21:58.360 interception the Hooker had with Tennessee. They were all very 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:00.920 big athletic plays. It wasn't just run of the mill, 0:22:00.920 --> 0:22:03.360 you know, easy interception hit you right in him. They 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:06.480