WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Just Once 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:06.480 Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:12.399 the Bengals Boot Podcast. Just once can we figure out 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:17.360 would we keep doing wrong? Edition? As we take an 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:19.880 in depth look back at a heartbreaking twenty one to 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:22.759 seventeen loss in Buffalo that dropped the Bengals to oz 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:26.799 and three this season. Coming up, you'll hear radio replays, 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:30.360 locker room comments from players and coaches, and Dave Lappam 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:33.560 will join me for postgame analysis. Plus, in this week's 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:36.960 fun Facts Conversation, we'll meet the person under the pads 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:39.040 as I'll talk to one of the best stories on 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:42.879 the team this year, Damian Willis, who went from undrafted 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:46.800 and unknown to the opening days starting lineup. All of 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:49.600 that is straight ahead, but first, here's a quick reminder 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:52.120 that you can have the latest edition of this podcast 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:56.360 delivered right to your phone, tablet, or computer by subscribing 0:00:56.640 --> 0:01:01.760 on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or Podbean. It's the 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:07.640 greatest convention since NFL Game Pass. NFL game Pass is 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:10.679 not cheap. It's about one hundred bucks a year, but 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:13.959 it's awesome if you are really into the NFL. It 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:17.319 allows you to watch replays of every game, commercial free. 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:20.560 It gives you access to the all twenty two footage 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:23.520 that the coaches and players watch. It allows you to 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:28.000 listen to any NFL radio broadcast live or listen to 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:33.880 recorded broadcasts. And it gives you access to NFL Films archives. Again, 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:36.920 it costs one hundred bucks a year, but you can 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:39.760 get a seven day free trial if you want to 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:43.880 check out NFL Game Pass. Now let's get to this 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:47.840 week's game in Buffalo. It's no exaggeration to say that 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:51.080 the Bengals had one of the most feeble offensive halves 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:54.720 in their history on Sunday. Sample motions to the left. 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.280 Dalt with a short throw, John Ross with the catch, 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:01.240 escapes the first hip, fumbles the football. Buffalo recovers at 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:03.720 the thirty eight yard line. He's saying he's down, but 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:06.880 the officials are disagreeing. Here's what the Bengals did on 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:13.480 their seven first half drives, punt, punt, punt, fumble, punt, 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:17.840 punt fumble. Cincinnati did not pick up a first down 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:21.120 until there was one fifty seven left in the half. 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:24.240 Here's Andy Dalton. We had no rhythm in the first half. 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.639 We couldn't do anything on first down. We said ourselves 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:30.040 back third down, we weren't converting. It's hard to get 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:32.840 first down at first half. Buffalo got on the scoreboard 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:35.440 late in the first quarter. First down in goal from 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.280 the one. Three tight ends and a full back in 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:41.799 a tight end goes in motion, then reverses direction. Alan 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:45.119 rolling out to the right, throws it into the end zone. Touchdown. 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.880 Tosson knocks with a catch. When Buffalo lined up to 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:51.800 kick the extra point, the Bengals had twelve men on 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:55.000 the field. That penalty gave the Bills the opportunity to 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:57.640 go for a two point conversion from the one yard line, 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:01.680 and they capitalized for an eight nothing lead, So that 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:05.079 penalty was worth a point, and on the ensuing kickoff, 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:09.320 another penalty cost the Bengals seven more. Darius Phillips waiting 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:12.560 at the goal line. This kick not deep, it's returnable. 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:15.280 Phillips from the nine yard line, veering toward the middle 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:17.880 of the field, crosses the twenty, breaks through a tackle 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:20.160 at the thirty, comes to the forty towards the middle 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:22.640 of the field, he's off to the races. There's a 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:26.720 penalty flag back at the forty three. Phillips goes the distance, 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:29.640 but we don't think his touchdown is going to count. 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:33.200 Darius Phillips returned five kickoffs for touchdowns in college, but 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:36.920 a questionable holding penalty on Autumn Tate wiped out what 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:39.920 would have been his first in the NFL. I actually 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:42.640 didn't see the holding yet. But no, like they said 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.400 they said, or did, the NFL been picking up on 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:47.360 the holding cost, So I guess they just may see 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:49.880 anything they think look wrong. Gonna look, they're gonna call it. 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:52.600 While the Bengals offense floundered in the first half, the 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:57.040 Bills drove up and down the field without adding more touchdowns. 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:00.000 They drove to the sixteen and kicked a field goal. 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:04.000 They drove to the fifteen and Sam Hubbard forced to fumble. 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:07.320 They drove to the twenty seven and settled for another 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:11.440 field goal. Even though first half first downs were eighteen 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.560 to one in time of possession was twenty three minutes 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:18.520 to seven, the Bengals only trailed fourteen nothing at the half. 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:23.080 Here are offensive lineman Andre Smith and John Miller. Coach 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:25.920 challenged us at half time to come out and play 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:28.000 outside out style of football the way we know we 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:31.120 can play, and we went and did that. Challenged you emotionally, 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:34.599 I just knew we could play better. We were in 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:36.799 a tough environment, but we've been in a tough environment 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:40.600 once this season already, and he just challenged us to 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:42.760 come out and play hard and playhouse shales football. And 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:44.640 we did that each others, the whole team. He tries 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:46.760 the whole team to stay together because at the end 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:48.440 of the day, no matter what we go through, you know, 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:51.039 there's always gonna be adversity and things like that. But 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:52.920 you know, I thought we had I thought we did 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:55.320 a good job of coming together, leaning on each other. 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:57.560 We leaked, linked on the defense, they linked on us, 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:00.479 and we got a couple of drives there, and so 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:03.680 it was good as it was accouraging looking forward to 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:05.560 Night's week. The spark that lit the fuse in the 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:08.560 third quarter was provided by the defense. Third down and 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:12.440 seven for Buffalo allan back to throw scrambling in trouble 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:15.880 and he manages to fling the ball down field. That's it, ascempted. 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:19.480 The Bengals are running it back. HiT's Phillips, Darius Phillips 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:22.279 inside the thirty, the twelve, the twenty, and he goes 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:25.400 out of bounds nineteen yard passed that Tyler Reifford put 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:27.880 the ball at the one yard line, first down and 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:30.800 goal from the one for the Bengals, trailing by fourteen 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.359 points with five to fifty five left in the third quarter, 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:36.640 Dalton catches a shotgun snap, hands it to Mixon and 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.840 he will lose. No, it was a fake and Andy 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:43.320 Dalton ran it in. He completely faked out me and 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:47.320 the defense with the zone read fake to Joe Mixon, 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:51.160 and Andy Dalton runs it in for a one yard touchdown, 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:55.919 his nineteenth career rushing touchdown, and the Bengals are on 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:59.640 the scoreboard. A great call by Zach Taylor and a 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:03.000 crow happy one by Dan Horde. The Bengals were only 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.880 down by seven, and just like that, they started to 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:09.440 pick the Bills apart. Cincinnati's next drive went eighty two 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:12.840 yards on eleven plays and ended with a tying score, 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:16.760 inches away from a potential tying touchdown. Early fourth quarter, 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.480 Dalton's under center, he takes the snap, he rolls out 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:23.000 to the right, He's looking for Mixon. He throws touchdown 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:28.000 as Dalton delivers to Joe Mixon, and now the Bengals 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:31.360 are an extra point away from tying this game. Mixon 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:35.200 finished with sixty one rushing yards in thirty four more receiving. 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:39.320 Seventy seven of those ninety five total yards came in 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:41.560 the second half. We're gonna get better. We're gonna get 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:44.919 it right. The sex That is week three and we still, 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:47.719 you know, talking about the same stuff. But you know, 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:49.640 like I said, we figured it out and I'll guarantee 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:51.839 you that something will happen again. With a score tiede 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:53.920 the Bengals got the ball back at their own fifteen 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:57.279 yard line and drove sixty yards before stalling at the 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:00.680 Buffalo twenty five. A forty three yard try for the 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.560 lead from the middle of the field for Randy Bullet. 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:08.920 Harris will snap, Huber will hold the snap, the put down, 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:10.800 the swing of the leg, the kick is on its 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:14.880 way and it is good. Yeah, And the Bengals have 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:18.720 taken the lead with four minutes and fifty four seconds 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.960 to go on a forty three yard field goal by 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:25.040 Randy Bullet. For the second time in their first three games, 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:27.560 the Bengals had a fourth quarter lead, but as was 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:31.040 the case in Seattle, they could not protect it. A 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:34.800 forty nine yard pass to tight end slash freight train 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:38.680 Dawson Knox put the Bills at the Bengals twenty two 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:42.280 in Quarterback Josh Allen took over from there with two 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:45.640 scrambles and a designed run that helped put the ball 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.400 on the one yard line. Third down in goal inside 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:51.680 the one, Alan takes the snap, hands off to Gore, 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:53.840 and he knights into the end zone for a go 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:57.080 ahead touchdown with one minute and fifty seconds to go. 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:00.600 Seventy eight year old Frank Gore scored the go ahead touchdown, 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:03.679 but alan scrambling was the key in the red zone. 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:07.400 Here's Sam Hubbard. Yeah, he's very big, very fast, very elusive, 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:10.720 and he's really hard to bring down. You know, he's 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.320 run all over the place. We were worn out trying 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:15.800 to chase him down, but he's a great player. With 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:19.280 one fifty left, the Bengals drove from their own twenty 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:23.760 five to Buffalo's twenty eight, needing a touchdown since they 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:27.040 were down by four. Twenty one seconds left. The Bengals 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:29.680 down by four. On third and four, Dalton's back to pass, 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:34.080 he fires too high, It's deflected and intercepted at the 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:37.520 ten yard line. The fast for Autumn take was high 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:40.760 and the ricochet goes to Tredavious White. To give the 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:46.360 Buffalo Bills the win man the final score Buffalo twenty one, 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:52.520 Cincinnati seventeen. Here are Andy Dalton, Joe Mixon, and John Miller. Yeah, 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:54.240 you know we're in these games. We put ourselves in 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:56.040 position to have a chance to win at the end, 0:08:56.400 --> 0:09:00.280 and you know we have to make the play. You know, 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:02.360 I've got through a better ball at the end. You know, 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:04.920 we get down there, we got another chance to Um, 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:07.520 you know, it's score touchdown to win, to win this one. 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:09.400 So I mean there's a couple of plays in each 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:11.560 game that you know, if you had back, you know, 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:15.439 you make certain plays then um, you know then that 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:17.400 that could change the outcome of the game. And you 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:19.079 never know when that play is gonna be the one 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:21.560 that's gonna do it. But um, you know, for us, 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:24.320 I think we we gotta just focus on us, focus 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:26.920 on what we're doing, and um do everything we can 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:28.760 to be playing our best football come next week. And 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:32.760 I was definitely frustrating, Um it's come up short like that. 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:35.280 I mean, it's it hurt. But at the end of 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:37.400 the day, we put ourselves in that bond on the offense, 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:40.200 so you know, but I put that on ourselves the defense. 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:42.760 You know, they played that out today. So you know, 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:45.240 for us, we just gotta you know, keep on trying 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:48.440 to start fast and you know, getting each and everybody involved. 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.320 I mean, I felt like in the second half we 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:51.880 came out of bothering, you know what I'm saying. That's 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:54.640 how it should have been the whole damn game. But 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:56.800 I mean, I mean, he's gonna put this one behind 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.040 us and you know, get on the road, get ready 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:02.400 for the whole time. I kept believing and saying goes 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:04.240 for the rest of his team. You know, not a 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:05.800 doubt of nine mind. We was gonna come out here 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.240 would a win. And uh, you know, unfortunately that did happen. 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:10.320 We didn't do enough early on the officer side of 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:13.320 the ball. But that's that's that's life in the NFL. 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.720 You know, you lose game by by one point, two points, 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:17.360 three points. You know, every every game is gonna be 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:19.720 a battle, every game is gonna be physical every game. 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:21.240 You know, you gotta come out, you gotta bring it, 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:23.680 and we just came up on the sort of ends. 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.400 After three weeks, Zach Taylor is still looking for his 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:29.280 first win as a head coach. He spent three minutes 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:32.120 with Dave Lapham after the game. They're not discouraged. I 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:36.480 still see guys with their headhouse high and they're playing 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:39.240 for each other, and that's all we wanted from them 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:42.280 at halftime around fourteen. Nothing. The offense hasn't done anything. 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:45.480 The defense has really played really solid, and it finally 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:47.600 came together in the second half and and guys were 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:49.920 playing off each other, encouraging each other. We felt like 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:51.480 we were gonna win the game. That was the brief 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:53.160 on the sidelines that we were gonna win the game, 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:55.200 and unfortunate at the end we didn't get it done. 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:57.400 But it doesn't change the fact that I'm proud of 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:59.240 the group we got in the locker room and wouldn't 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:03.000 change changing about for anything. The rhythm was never found 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:04.480 in the first half, but you found it in the 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:06.600 second half. What do you think was the impetus, what 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:08.600 was the what was the key to find in that rhythm? 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:10.079 Do you think you just couldn't get a first down? 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:11.719 You know, we went an all week. Our goal was 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:14.480 first down efficiency, and we were inefficiental first down then 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:17.000 the first quarter. That's one of the best defenses we'll 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.960 face there. They're well Coach they got great players, and 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:21.640 so if they got you behind the sticks again like 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.040 San Francisco did, then it's hard for us to overcome 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:26.160 that sometimes, and we just didn't get that done the 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:27.920 first half. Then the second half we did a great job. 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:29.840 Everyone on the same page and doing their job, got 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:31.840 the ball moving. You can be a little more creative 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:34.480 with what you want to do and attack them more 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.000 than they were bringing the fight to us in the 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:38.800 first half, and I thought the guys were spinding well 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:41.320 in the second half. There were so many players in 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:44.280 every game in a game like this, the kickoffer turns 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:46.760 nullified by a dicey holding called the guy turns his 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:48.840 back on audumn tape. I don't know what the hell 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.560 he's supposed to do, but they call it. And the 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:54.400 two point conversion, you know, twelve minute in the field, 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:56.800 they go for two. If they don't do that, you know, 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:58.439 you might kick a field goal there to tie the 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:00.400 football game up. So there's so many plays you never 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:03.160 know what play is going to be a big determining 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:04.720 factor in the game. You can play every game if 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:06.880 we play as hard as you can, don't you. Yeah, 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:09.280 I mean that's if we'd won that game. Buffalo say 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:10.439 the same thing. You know that there's a couple of 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:12.080 plays I got away from him. So that's the way 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:14.319 it goes. And our guys, we just got to get 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:16.880 it done and it's coming. Our guys believe the dam's 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:19.079 gonna break. The wins are gonna come if we keep 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:20.880 playing like we're playing and we can put it together 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:23.000 for the entire game. We're a good football team and 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:24.720 I know that the players and the coaches believe that, 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:26.360 and we're gonna stay the course and get it done. 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:30.040 Joel Mixon ran hard today, caught that screen pass. You 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:31.920 got him out out the gate on that screen pass. 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:33.960 Looks like it might might go to the house. I mean, 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:38.199 some things started to unfold that when all assembled, you think, man, 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:40.400 this might look pretty darn Good's We just gotta get 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:44.480 it all assembled. That's the key. And it again goes 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:46.120 back to we gotta play better in the first quarter 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:47.800 and if we can get that going, then we'll be 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:49.600 in good shape. But again, our guys are gonna stay 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:51.080 the course. We know that we can get these things 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.640 picks and the wins will come. Red zone, they were 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:55.280 really good in the red zone. You guys, you know 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:57.040 knocked him around a little bit in the red zone. 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.040 They were one for three at one point. I thin 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:02.160 guess they ended up two four. Um, your first two 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:04.080 times in the red zone, you guys, you guys finished 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:06.319 and uh you were. You were taking it to them 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:09.520 in some phases of it. But unfortunately, as you know, 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:11.640 I mean as well as anybody in this league, if 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:13.800 you dig a fourteen point hole in the road, that's tough. 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:16.720 Laden it is. It was. It was a tough environment. 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:18.199 They had a great crowd, it was allowed, it was 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:19.920 tough to communicate. I thought our guys did a good 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:21.840 job hanging in there, off from some wine. Gave up 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.120 two sacks, you know, and it's they got. They got 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:25.520 a heck of a pass for us, heck of a 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.440 blitz package. Um, and they've effected a lot of quarterbacks. 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:29.920 And I thought, I guys held in there for the 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:31.680 for the second time in a tough environment and held 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:33.960 their own and um again, we just we we got 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:35.240 to find a way to win one of these ones. 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.840 Since their four and one start last year, the Bengals 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:42.360 are two and twelve and they've dropped their last seven 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:46.240 on the road. Time for postgame analysis with lap in 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:49.760 the NFL. You can't on the road anywhere. Really in 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:53.319 the NFL, you can't dig a fourteen point hole at halftime. 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:56.880 And even with that said, they almost came back and 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.200 had the league and almost won the football game. But 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:03.560 self destruction has to stop. I mean, they're they're not 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:05.720 good enough. They don't have a margin for error to 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.160 overcome some of the things, you know, that continue to 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:09.880 happen to them. You can't have twelve men in the 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:12.319 field on an extra point and give them the ball 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:14.079 at the one yard line instead of you know where 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.640 they're going to kick the extra point and give up 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:19.280 two points. If they don't do that, Bengals are in 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:21.600 position to kick a potential game tying field goal at 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:24.320 the end of the game. You know, I feel bad 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:26.760 for Audent Tape because I think he got hosed by this. 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:30.280 You know, the officials, you've got to really focus on 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:33.360 calling holding penalties. And if the official doesn't see the 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:35.600 whole thing, he's blocking a guy. The guy turns his 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:39.080 back to pursue Phillips who's breaking for a touchdown, and 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.480 all the official sees is the hand and the Audent 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:43.800 tass hand in his back, and it's in the framework 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:46.240 of the body that's presented to him. You know, it's like, 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:47.880 I don't know what he's supposed to do. Really, I 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.640 don't know what else he's supposed to do, but you 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.400 know they're going to call it, and I just try 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:56.040 not to put yourself in that situation so that that's 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:59.520 taken off the board, you know, a kickoff or turn touchdown. 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:01.880 So there are so many plays in a game like this, 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:04.480 there's gonna be a million players. Players are gonna I 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:06.720 remember I did lay wake at night and look at 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:09.640 the ceiling, and it was like I was watching film, 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:13.240 you know, sixteen millimeter back down on my ceiling over 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.120 and over again, and plays like off, I just held 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:17.000 that block a little longer, done this or done that. 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.760 And I'm sure everybody that played in the football game 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:21.240 is going to have a player too where they can 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:25.720 feel the same way. The running game was better, not great, 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:28.520 but at least it was somewhat productive. But stopping the 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:31.480 run remains a huge problem. One hundred and seventy five 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:34.680 yards for Buffalo in this game. Yeah, and a thirty 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.560 six year old running back, you know, is hammering it 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:39.960 up in there. I have nothing but respect for Frank Gore. 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:42.520 I mean he is. It's ridiculous to think about what 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:44.320 that guy is still doing at the level that he's 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:46.480 doing it at. You know, a bunch of against a 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:49.960 bunch of young guys that are you know, playing playing 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:53.920 in the National Football League. Good for him, Josh Allen. 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:56.400 You know he will force things, he will make mistakes, 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:58.520 but his legs were a big factor in the football 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:00.640 game as well as the throwing arm. The guy got 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:03.400 him out of trouble with some scrambles. He was elusive 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:05.200 for such a big guy who was big and strong 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:07.400 talking to guys and lock him. They're like, man, you 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:08.600 know he get your hand on him. You're not going 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:10.120 to pull him down. Just getting your hand on him. 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:13.040 You gotta wrap that big old bear up. And he 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:15.000 heard him. He made made a lot of players that 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:18.000 keep that kept Buffalo Bills drives alive. Although you know, 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:21.000 he gave Phillips an opportunity and he's so much confidence. 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:22.920 Even when he's fallen backwards, he's going to try to 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.360 fire a thing in there and he'll give guys shots. 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:29.560 But I think he's coming on. He's advancing. But again, 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:31.520 you have to take care of your business. You just 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:34.280 Buffalo is good enough to beat you in Buffalo. You 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:36.560 don't want to help them. You don't want to make 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:39.280 it easier for them. And in too many instances the 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:41.640 Bengals made it easier for him, and I thought Dan 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.720 in the first half, the defense sucked it up. They 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:47.400 were on the field forever, so many snaps in this 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:49.920 heat and humidity. There was a breeze, but man, they're 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:52.520 on the field a long time. And to hold Buffalo 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:55.720 to fourteen points. They were so dynamic in the red zone, 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:58.760 you know, for so many games now and hold them 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:01.880 to you know, one touchdown or two touchdowns at the 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:04.320 end they scored late, but two touchdowns and four red 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:06.320 zone opportunities of field goal and they didn't score on 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:09.800 one opportunity. I mean, that's that's that's pretty pretty good 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:12.560 job by the defense, really, with their backs against the walls, 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:15.560 sucking enough. So there there's a lot of things you 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:18.600 can draw upon, you know, and and build upon, but 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:21.600 at some point got to win a game. Offensive snaps 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:24.640 in the first half were forty six to nineteen. Time 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:27.399 of possession about twenty three minutes to seven minutes. So 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:30.040 let's talk about the comeback. In the second half. We 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:32.000 both spent some time in the locker room after the game. 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:35.080 It sounds like Zach Taylor was pretty fiery, both at 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:38.480 halftime and after the game. I think so. I didn't 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:40.320 hear any of the half of them, but I heard 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:42.600 some of the some of the post game, and um, 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:45.000 everything he said was right on the money. I mean 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:47.080 it was it was all fact, it was all true. 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:53.360 And you know, obviously admonished him for building the big deficit. 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:56.240 I mean, that's a fourteen point hole is tough to 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:58.359 climb out of on the road. But the fact that 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:01.800 they did and took a lead, and you know, if things, 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:06.720 if things, the timing and everything falls into place, they're close. 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:09.520 They're close to being a pretty good football team. But man, 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:11.720 they were so just joined it offensively in the first half. 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:13.879 They couldn't get a first down. Literally, they could not 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:17.760 cobble the first down one minute and fifty seven seconds left. Incredible. 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:20.919 You know, that's that's just not this group really and uh, 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:24.400 you know, but you learn something from every football game. 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:26.400 A lot of times, you learn a bunch of things 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:29.040 from every football game. And hopefully the lessons they learned 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:30.879 and this football game will stand them in good stead 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:34.320 when they go to Pittsburgh Monday night. You know, it's 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:37.480 interesting they would have had the opportunity had they held 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:39.439 on with the lead with less than five minutes to go, 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:43.199 to potentially go to Pittsburgh without Ben Roethlisberger playing, have 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:45.200 a home game against the Cardinals, who had the worst 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:47.399 record in the league last year. This is really a 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:50.439 pivotal swing game. Yeah, it was. It was. It was 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:54.360 a big football game. And you know, we thought Buffalo 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:57.160 is a good football team, but they're not a dominant 0:18:57.160 --> 0:18:59.320 football team at this point in time. I mean, they 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:02.800