WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: I've Seen Better Days 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.439 Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:13.560 The Bengals Booth Podcast, the I've Seen Better Days edition 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:17.759 as we perform a postgame autopsy on Sunday's twenty seven 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:22.000 to three loss in Baltimore. Coming up, you'll hear radio replays, 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:25.760 postgame comments from players and coaches, and in depth analysis 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:29.000 from Dave Lapham. And this week's fund Fact segment is 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:32.680 with rookie Akeem Davis Gaither as we discuss a wide 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:37.160 variety of topics, including the Big Chair in his hometown 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:40.400 of Thomasville, North Carolina. If you would like to see 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:42.760 what I'm talking about, just do a Google search for 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:48.319 the Big Chair. The Bengals Booth Podcast is presented by 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:52.160 bud Light Seltzer Refresh the game, and here's a quick 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:54.279 reminder that you can have the latest edition of this 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:57.959 podcast delivered right to your phone, tablet, or computer by 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:02.800 subscribing on iTunes, stick, Google Play, Spotify, or pod Bean. 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:07.800 It's the greatest thing since the reunion of Chad Johnson 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:12.080 and Carson Palmer. Until last week, I had never heard 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:15.959 of a show put together by NFL Films called The Grind. 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:20.720 It features behind the scenes access with former NFL stars. 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:26.120 New episodes appear every Wednesday on the Epics Network Epix, 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:29.440 which I had also never heard of until last week. 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:34.160 While on last Wednesday's episode, Chad Johnson traveled to Idaho 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:39.039 to hang out at Carson Palmer's house and it was tremendous. 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:42.960 They reminisced about their Cincinnati days and then we got 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:46.119 to listen into their conversation as they watched Joe Burrow 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:49.760 lead the Bengals to last week's win over Jacksonville. And 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:52.920 following the game, there was a special two way hookup 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:57.120 that allowed that nine to eighty five combination talked to 0:01:57.160 --> 0:02:01.760 the current nine to eighty five combo Burrow and t Higgins. 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:05.000 If you don't have the Epics Network, a few short 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:07.720 clips have found their way to the Internet. Just search 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:13.440 for Chad Johnson, Carson Palmer, the Grind. Now let's get 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:16.960 to Sunday's game. Last year, the Ravens set an NFL 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:20.120 record by rushing for three thousand, two hundred and ninety 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:23.120 six yards an average of two o six a game. 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:26.920 Lamar Jackson obviously led the way, but he's hardly the 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:30.600 only running threat, as the Bengals found out on Baltimore's 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:34.120 second play. Here's an end around for DuVernay, third round 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:37.080 draft pickrookie runs to the thirty five to forty sideline 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:40.320 fifty Bengals territory forty, and he'll be shoved out of 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:43.520 bounds near the Cincinnati thirty yard line. They mark him 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:46.200 out at the thirty one. That forty two yard end 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:48.919 around led to a forty six yard justin Tucker field goal, 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:52.600 giving Baltimore an early three nothing lead. The second time 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:55.800 Baltimore got the ball, the Ravens converted on third and five, 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:59.840 third and one, third and seven, and third and fourteen 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:03.960 before facing their fifth third down of the drive, third 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:07.239 down and goal. From the five shotgun snap, Lamar Jackson 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:10.399 fires into the end zone, caught by Boyle I make 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:13.880 that Andrews for the Ravens touchdown. It was ten nothing 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:17.040 Ravens after two drives for each team, and things got worse. 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:20.360 On the Bengals third possession, third and ten, the Bengals 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:23.119 hit their own twenty five yard line. Three receivers left, 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:25.480 two right, Burrow waiting for the shotgun snap. He has 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:28.080 the ball, he's in trouble, flings it down field and 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:31.000 it's intercepted. By Peters at the forty two yard line, 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:33.880 running back to the thirty five and Tee Higgins tackles 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:37.960 him at the thirty two. Boys, that's the kind of 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:42.000 mistake you can't make. Joe Burrows desperation. Heave under duress 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:45.480 was intended for AJ Green, the only pass thrown his 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:48.080 way before he spent the second half on the bench 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:50.840 with a hamstring injury. And it was a strange looking 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:54.440 play as AJ didn't jump for the ball. Here's Zach Taylor. 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:56.119 I was sitting right there on the line side of Aja. 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:57.600 I did not think that he could have made that play. 0:03:57.680 --> 0:03:59.240 He probably didn't even know where the ball was to be. 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:02.320 Cut on us with you. Through five games, AJ has 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:06.040 fourteen catches for one hundred nineteen yards, as long as 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:09.920 catch all year was for a fifteen yard gain. We'll 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:12.600 have more on that with Dave Lapham in just a bit. 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:16.359 The Marcus Peters I NT gave the Ravens a short 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:19.119 field and led to their third score in as many 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:23.119 drives to make it seventeen nothing. Early second quarter, first 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:26.360 and goal from the three pistol formation for Lamar Jackson 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:29.720 with mark Ingram behind. Jackson does a three hundred and 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:32.479 sixty degree spin throws into the end zone, caught for 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:37.080 the touchdown by Hollywood Brown. Number fifteen Marquise Hollywood Brown 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:40.160 had six catches for seventy seven yards and a touchdown. 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:44.039 Number eighty nine Mark Andrews also had six catches. His 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:47.320 went for fifty six yards and a touchdown, and they 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:51.080 were targeted on more than half of Lamar Jackson's thirty 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:55.680 seven passes. Here's Jesse Bates. We know where Lamar wants 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:58.240 to go in a fifteen or eighty nine, and I 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:00.760 mean it showed up today as well. That's all I mean, 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:04.040 that's all he was really gone to today was fifteen 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.159 or eighty nine. With a seventeen point lead in the 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:10.279 second quarter, Baltimore unleashed its pass rush, hitting Burrow ten 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:13.359 times and sacking him three times. In the first half. 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:15.719 Burrow has a man on either side as he waits 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:18.760 for the shotgun snap He's back to throw. Pump fakes. Burrow, 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:21.960 with plenty of time now, scrambling left and drilled from 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:25.680 behind by his former college teammate Patrick Queen, who comes 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:28.920 away with a football man. It was a blindside shot. 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:32.080 Joe Burrow had no idea Queen was closing in on 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:35.000 him like he was. And right now, Martindale is smelling 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:38.960 the blood and he's just bringing linebackers, He's bringing defensive backs, 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:41.760 he's bringing everybody. He's bringing one more than the Bengals 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:46.720 can block. Martindale as Baltimore's defensive coordinator, Don Wink, Martindale, 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:50.080 whose blitz happy approach was too much for Joe Burrow 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:52.479 in the Bengals offensive line. He had a good plan. 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:54.800 Let me just st in next to get our plan 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.359 very well. I didn't played very well and we as 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.799 an offense didn't play very well. So he's gotta get fixed. 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:01.880 What can you do better? I mean it does it 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.080 matter a matter of everybody getting on the same page 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:07.320 against those blitz looks or what is it? Well? Personally, 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:08.839 I can get the ball out of my hands faster 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:12.080 I can. Um. You know, I wasn't very accurate today, 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:16.400 which was disappointing to me. You know, I thought we 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:17.880 had a great week of practice and it just didn't 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:20.560 carry over. You talked about getting rid of it quicker, 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:22.720 but what were they doing things to take maybe your 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:25.040 hot reads away where you couldn't do that at times? 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:27.880 You know, they do a good job of popping guys 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:30.600 out into the middle to take away those middle throws 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:35.400 and bringing guys that you don't have account for, and 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:37.640 not bringing the guys you do have account accounting for. 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:39.240 So they had a good plan. You know, they're a 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:41.640 good defense, a really good team. While the Bengals offense 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:45.640 struggled all day, their defense was outstanding for the final 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:49.039 three quarters, holding the Ravens to just one field goal 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:53.360 on Baltimore's final eight drives, not including a kneel down 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.080 in the final play of the game. Jackson finished with 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:59.440 just three yards rushing and one hundred eighty yards passing, 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:01.960 with a past A rating of seventy one point nine. 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.360 Third down and ten. At the Cincinnati twenty seven Lamar 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:08.560 Jackson short pass, it's intercepted, It's picked off by Logan 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:12.480 Wilson at the twenty four yard line, the Rookies second 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:16.480 NFL pick, and the Bengals takeover with one thirteen left 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:19.640 in the half. Here are Jesse Bates and Tyler Boyd. 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:22.720 I think we did a good job defensively, but when 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:24.680 you play it against really good teams like this, the 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:28.240 room for air is just really small. Um, you just 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:31.480 can't you know, I don't I don't care how you know, 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:34.320 our office isn't playing up to our standard, But I 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:36.560 don't care how bad that is. We just have to 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:38.600 keep it close. The defense played a heck of a game, 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:40.000 and for us on the other side, you know, it 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:43.280 wasn't wasn't too pretty. And that's what really hurts me, 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:46.280 you know, because we put the time and we put 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:49.960 so much time in and repetition to this man. It 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:51.920 just didn't work for us. And it was a rude 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:55.040 awakening for Burrow. After throwing for at least three hundred 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:57.360 yards in each of his previous three games, Joe was 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:00.840 nineteen for thirty for one hundred eighty three yards, with 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:05.320 no touchdowns, one interception, two fumbles, and a passer rating 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:09.280 of sixty six point four. Shotgun snap Burrow in trouble 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:13.160 again and sacked again, this time by Humphrey cornerback coming 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:15.800 from the edge back at the thirty five yard line. 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:19.880 Hit number fifteen, sack number seven. Burrow has been sacked 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:23.240 twenty two times already. That's number one in the NFL, 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:27.560 three more than Carson Wentz. So how is Joe dealing 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:29.680 with it? You just deal with it and come back 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:33.440 in fight every play like like I have been. Burrow's 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:37.280 former LSU teammate Patrick Queen scored a defensive touchdown in 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:40.440 the fourth quarter, scooping up a Mike Thomas fumble that 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:44.559 was punched out by Marlon Humphrey his specialty, with Queen 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:46.679 running fifty three yards to the house to make it 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:50.600 twenty seven nothing. The Bengals hadn't been shut out in 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:55.120 fifty one games since who else Baltimore blanked them in 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:59.800 the twenty seventeen season opener. This time, Cincinnati avoided the 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:01.960 good this egg with less than a minute to go. 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:06.439 Randy Bullock twelve or thirteen so far this year. Harris 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:08.720 snaps to Huber, here's the swing of the leg and 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:12.400 the kick is good. So the Bengals avoid the shot 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:15.319 out and they trailed twenty seven to three with thirty 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:18.200 two seconds to go. That was the final, twenty seven 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:22.680 to three. Taylor and Burrow some up a sobering day. 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:24.400 We know where the issues were. We knew we had 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:26.520 to be a fishing on first second down, and we 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:30.040 had three charnovers minus yardage plays, which in some cases 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:32.319 can be really avoidable. And when you do that against 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:34.000 the Baltimore Rags, they're gonna make you pay for it, 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:36.000 and it's gonna feel like that. You know, we're building 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:38.920 a culture here, We're moving in the right direction. Yeah, 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.679 obviously it wasn't great, but now we're gonna look back 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:44.760 on this team in a few years and say, wow, 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:46.680 you know that kind of propelled us forward. You know, 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:48.480 we're gonna keep working hard. We got great people within 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:51.240 the organization on the team and a great coaching stuff, 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:54.280 So you know we're gonna keep working hard, keeping coming 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:56.360 to work every day to twin games. This is a 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:59.880 resilient team. It's a very connected team. It's unfortunate that 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:02.960 we put this performance on the field, playing and coaching. 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:05.160 But again, we're not gonna hit the panic button. We're 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:07.120 gonna regroup and do itis for the Coals. It's off 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:09.880 to Indie next Sunday for the bengals fourth road game 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:13.319 in their first six. The Colts are three and two 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:17.880 after losing to Cleveland thirty two twenty three. And here's 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:21.280 how things look in the AFC North. The Steelers are 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.920 four and zero, the Ravens and Browns are four and one, 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:29.080 and the Bengals are one three and one, the best 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:33.319 division in football so far, The Bengals Booth podcast is 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:37.480 presented by Bud Light Seltzer. It's light and refreshing with 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:40.640 a hint of fruit flavor. Now, let's get some postgame 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:45.800 analysis from my broadcast partner Dave Lapham. All Right, final 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:49.719 score twenty seven to three. It actually felt more lopsided 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.960 than that, and that's pretty lopsided. The Bengals could not 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:56.200 protect Joe Burrow, similar to the Philadelphia game a couple 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:58.160 of weeks ago, even though though that one ended in 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:03.280 a tie fifteen hits the Ravens seven quarterback sacks. Through 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:06.199 five games, Joe Burrow has been hit fifty times. According 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:10.680 to official NFL stats, he's been sacked twenty two. That 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:14.320 would project to one hundred and sixty hits and seventy 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:17.880 point four sacks. The NFL single season record for a 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:21.320 quarterback is seventy six, when David Carr was the number 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:25.000 one overall picking a rookie. And that's uh, David Carr's 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:26.920 career didn't last very long, and you don't want that 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:29.720 to be the case for Joe Burrow. You know, the 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.160 mental part of it, the confidence part of it, everything 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:34.320 that goes along with it. It's just you know, you 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:37.440 start taking these blindside shots and it's just you know, 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:39.880 you start to lose confidence and what's happening around you. 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:42.240 And it's human nature. I don't care who you are, 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:44.679 I mean, would how would you like it if you're 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:48.680 standing in depotet or you're running, you're running a ten 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:52.320 yards sideline to sideline in the field and somebody just 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:55.120 hits you with something in your back and you don't 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:56.600 know when it's going to happen. You don't know how 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:58.160 it's going to happen, but it's going to happen at 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:01.040 some point. That's kind of what it feels like. I mean, 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:04.559 it's it's it's not a pleasant scenario. So I'm gonna 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:07.480 have to start doing things to protect him. Maybe he 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.360 should start thinking about protect himself a little bit better too, 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:13.760 you know at times and and uh, there's that balancing 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:16.679 act between when do I extend and create as opposed 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:19.240 to just live for another play and don't try to 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.560 make too much out of something out of nothing, you know, 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:26.280 something that's not there. So it's it's it's a learning 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:29.920 process I think for all involved. Bottom line is everybody 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:32.600 just has to get better though, because you know, if 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:36.760 you this Ravens defense. Once there was blood in the water. 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:41.800 You talk about sharks that are frenzied. I mean it 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:46.080 was like everybody was begging. I mean they were going 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:49.560 up and they were begging Martindale, bring me, blitz me, 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:51.959 let me have a piece of this action. I mean 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:53.839 it was like, you know, they put seven or eight 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:55.560 guys up to the line of scrimmage. You don't know 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:58.079 which ones are coming, so you call a protection to 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:02.240 what you think might protect a certain look, and they 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:04.400 do something totally different. They bring the guys that you 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:06.640 haven't accounted for, and the guys you have accounted for 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:09.679 drop off into coverage. And that's what's so tough about them. 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:11.839 And when they get a lead, they do it over 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:14.960 and over and over. When it's third and six or 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.640 seven or more, They're gonna do it until you can 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:19.560 until you beat it. If you beat it with some 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:22.840 kind of blitz breaker, you know, some sort of a 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.079 blitz beat or blitz breaker, at some point in time, 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:29.000 you know he may reconsider we talked about before the 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:31.200 game in the Thursday night game, Andy Dalton and AJ 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:34.920 Green personally with pre snapper Reeds and cited just and 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:39.160 all that beat the blitz and Martin deal stopped blitzing 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:43.480 for quarter and a half. Totally uncharacteristic. But this one man, 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:46.320 once he get up seventeen nothing and started, you know, 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:50.680 testing the waters, he found them to be delightful. I'm 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:52.920 not sure that an assistant coach has ever been on 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:55.760 a TV screen more than Don Wing Martindale was during 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:58.000 the course of that game. By the way, he is 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:02.439 not related to Winston Martindale. Member of the American TV 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:04.960 Game Show Hall of Fame. There is such a thing. 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:09.680 But here's what really helped this wink Martindale. The Bengals 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:14.280 faced third and ten twice, third and eleven twice, third 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:17.959 and twenty one, third and twenty four, third and twenty five. 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:22.520 That is not gonna work against the Baltimore Ravens, third 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:24.840 and twenty one, third and twenty four, third and twenty 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:28.800 five penalties. You're self destructing, You're staying to the Ravens. 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:32.200 We're not only gonna let you blitz us'na, We're gonna 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:35.400 say it's we have a quarter of the football field 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.440 to cover if we just to get back to the 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.080 line of scrimmage. So you're stupid if you don't blitz 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:42.920 us I mean it's like, oh, man, I don't care 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:45.960 who you're playing against. If you're third and twenty plus, 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:49.440 it's a no win situation against the Ravens, you might 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:51.560 as well just take a knife and slit yourself. I mean, 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:55.720 it's like it's suicidal and you can't be in those situations. 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:58.080 You don't want to be in third and seven or more, 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:02.200 never mind third and twenty or more. So yeah, I mean, 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:05.320 at that point, Wink Martindale is saying, well, I know 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:07.160 Halloween's not to the end of the month, but I'm 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:09.720 gonna it's like taking candy from a baby. I'm gonna 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:11.680 go make my candy right now. I'm gonna get after 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:14.880 the Bengals and blitz them to death if they're gonna 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:17.840 help like that until this football team, this football team 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:21.480 is nowhere near good enough to help the opponent. I mean, 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:27.200 there's there's absolutely it's nonsensical to think that they can 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:31.160 put themselves in situations like that. Nonsensical. By the way, 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:34.720 is the original Wink Martindale up there on a level 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:38.000 with Bob Barker and Alex Trebek on the All Time 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:40.440 Game Show host or is he on that next here 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:45.120 with Pat Say Tech, Bob Eubanks and others. I got 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:50.320 them on level two max Max Max. Alex Trebek still, 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:53.720 I mean, battling cancer in his eighties, still getting it done, 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:56.920 my hero Barker and Trebek. That is that is a 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:00.200 level above all. Right, let's talk about the defense. His 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:04.000 performance obviously didn't start great. Ravens scored on their first 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.440 three drives. That that second drive that went for a 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:09.440 touchdown third down as a killer. They converted five times 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:12.240 on third down, including third and fourteen. But after the 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:15.800 first three drives of the game, three points for the 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:19.840 Ravens offense on their last eight drives. That's getting it done. 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:24.080 It is getting it done. And Luanna roumoin company take 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:28.080 a bow. You know, they spied the quarterback with at 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:30.840 various levels, with guys that can tackle them, you know, 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:33.680 spy with the linebacker they can run. Logan Wilson. Phillips 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:35.920 was kind of in some blitz packages, was kind of 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:38.560 like spying on his own. He would delay the blitz 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:42.280 and and just really give Lamar Jackson a lot of problems. 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:45.720 Took away the outside running game, and when he tried 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:47.720 to extend plays in the passing game, there was somebody 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:49.680 all over him. I mean, they had a hell of 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.720 a game plan. They really did. To think that Lamar Jackson, 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:55.080 the leading rusher on the football team, ended the game 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:56.880 with three yards rushing, where it was like fifth or 0:16:56.920 --> 0:17:00.800 sixth leading rusher on the football team. Speaks volumes. I mean, 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:05.359 they took away a massive part of the Baltimore Ravens 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:09.520 offensive productivity, Lamar Jackson's legs, and they made him, you know, 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:12.159 have to throw the football. And you know, my thought was, 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:14.120 I hope he has to throw twenty five times more. 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:15.840 He basically did that in the first half. I think 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:17.800 it was close to twenty five to finish with thirty 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:20.679 seven throws. Yeah, that's that's that's perfect, that's right in 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:23.000 And they gave up twenty points. I mean one of 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:25.560 the last touchdown was an unscripted score against the Bengals 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:28.720 offense when Humphrey punched it out and Patrick Queen picked 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:30.399 it up and ran to the house with it. That 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:33.240 has nothing to do with the defensive football team. So 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:37.080 they played winning football. You hold the Baltimore Ravens to 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:41.439 twenty points in Baltimore, that's winning football. The problem is 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:44.480 to give up seventeen on the first three drives that 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:47.119 made life easier for Don Wink Martindale and made to 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:49.719 make the decisions that he made to make it harder 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:52.480 on the offense to try to generate anything. I mean, 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:54.800 you can't let them jump out to that kind of lead. 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:57.359 If if they get a lead, it can't be a 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:00.679 three score lead in a quarter. Literally, they were up 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:05.240 seventeen points six seconds into the second quarter. That's brutal, brutal. 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:07.880 So you know, the only the only negative, the only 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:10.440 knock on the defense would be that that allowed them 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:12.919 to cumulate that kind of lead, you know, early in 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:15.879 the game. But again, the offense didn't know anything to 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:18.760 you to help their own situation. They didn't score, you know, 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:22.320 I mean, they didn't score till in the last minute 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:24.480 of the football the last few seconds of the football game. 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:26.600 I mean. It was a tough, tough day, a tough 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:29.800 day at the office for everybody involved on the offensive 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:32.359 side of things for the Bengals. So we had our 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:35.400 first mini controversy of the season on Thursday when Carlos 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:39.679 Dunlap complained to reporters about his removal from the starting 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:42.480 lineup although he played reasonably well today. And now we've 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:46.159 got this postgame controversy that has sprung up regarding AJ Green. 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:49.880 I didn't see it while we were broadcasting the game, 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:52.520 but there's a clip on the internet where he appears 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:56.760 to be saying, just trade me. According to lip readers, 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:59.200 it dangerous to try to do that. Who knows if 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:02.760 that's really what he was saying. Aj was only targeted once. 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:05.440 That was an interception where he never saw the throw. 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:09.280 Then he reaggravated the hamstringer or maybe it's the other 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:11.400 leg I don't know, but he sat out the rest 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:13.680 of the game. I hate to see this with Aj Green, 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:18.760 I mean, the epitome of class. Nothing that would anything 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:22.560 negative about his tenure with the Bengals. But if he 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:26.919 did say just trade me, I'm not sure what he 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:29.520 would be upset about. Where the Bengals are concerned. They're 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:33.920 they're paying him, obviously on the franchise tag. They're playing him, 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:36.399 paying him and playing him, and so far he just 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:39.000 has not been able to get open and consistently catch 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:41.479 the ball. Yeah. I mean, they're paying him almost eighteen 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:44.920 million bucks for the season. It's a pretty good job. 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:49.119 I'll take that work. Not Dougal Hunt, you know, I 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:52.440 mean frustration we saw it boil over with Carlos Dunlap. 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:56.320 Now it's boiling over with aj Green. Everybody's frustrated, though, 0:19:56.520 --> 0:20:00.160 And I know those guys experienced the five straight playoff games, 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:03.600 five straight playoff seasons, I should say, and you you, 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:06.200 you know, the bar gets set at a certain height 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:09.040 and then all of a sudden, the team starts to struggle. 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:11.479 And uh, you know, for as good as it was 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:15.520 in the record setting five straight seasons going to the postseason, 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:19.800 it's been record setting in the opposite direction here in 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:23.200 this phase a bit. So you know, that's when frustration 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:29.400 bill's over. And my thing is, it's easy to play 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:32.000 and be happy and satisfied when you win in football games. 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:35.199 The true test is when you're in the situation that 0:20:35.240 --> 0:20:37.719 you're in right now and you're still getting paid. You're 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:40.960 getting paid to perform, you're getting paid to give, you know, 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:43.680 put your best foot forward and give everything you've got, 0:20:43.720 --> 0:20:46.120 you know, to the organization for the for the betterment 0:20:46.160 --> 0:20:50.440 of the entire organization. So I understand it's tough. Been there. 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:52.919 I was on four and twelve football teams. I was 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:55.800 on twelve and four football teams. I understand, and I 0:20:55.840 --> 0:20:58.680 know it's it's night and day, it's North and South Pole. 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:04.239 But believe me, I mean you got to. You have 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:06.520 to pride yourself from the fact that, no matter what, 0:21:07.119 --> 0:21:10.000 you were giving full effort, in giving everything you possibly 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:13.760 could from a contribution standpoint to help turn it around 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:16.240 when it was poor and to sustain a level of 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:18.920 excellence when it was good. That's what you're getting paid 0:21:18.920 --> 0:21:24.240 to do. Right now. Unfortunately, these two teams are not close. 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:27.040 Baltimore had the best record in the NFL during the 0:21:27.080 --> 0:21:30.439 regular season last year fourteen and two. They had twelve 0:21:30.440 --> 0:21:32.800