WEBVTT - The OTP Daily | January 17 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:14.319 This is the OTP presented by Farm Bureau with Health Plants. 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:16.680 Healthcare coverage from Farm Bureau with Health Plants is like 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:19.040 an extra set of heads. Would you need them? The most? 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:22.640 They've been protecting Tennessee and since nineteen forty seven with 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:26.680 htt Bran and Aby Wells, I am like Keith, five 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:31.120 games in the books, one more to go tonight Tonight, 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:37.199 Rams and Cardinals. Super Wildcard Weekend? Reet, Brian, did you 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:42.159 enjoy Super Wildcard Weekend? From a couple of different perspectives, 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:45.040 from just being able to sit back, watch and see 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:48.920 the other teams scrap it out hundred percent? Yes, really 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:51.640 enjoyed that, and just to kind of see it unfold 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:54.960 for whatever's going to happen with the Titans, which we 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:58.080 now know. Aby Wells, did you watch all five games 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:02.360 to this point? I did watch all five games. I 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:05.440 really enjoyed just kind of posting up on the couch 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:10.000 and watching all the football unfold and knowing that none 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:12.160 of it could hurt me because the Titans didn't play 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:15.520 until the next week. It was great. Well, here's what 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:20.120 we know. The Titans will play on Saturday Saturday at 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:25.000 three thirty Central against the Cincinnati Bengals. As the seeds 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:30.360 all hold in the AFC one, the Titans have a bye. 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:36.200 The four seed is Cincinnati. That game again three thirty Saturday, 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:39.920 Nissan Stadium. We're on the air with Titans countdown at 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:43.720 two Central. Retinamy will have that for you. So let's 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:47.360 take a look at Saturday's opponent, the Cincinnati Bengals. After 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:51.200 going two and fourteen and twenty nineteen and then four 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:55.800 eleven and one in twenty twenty, Cincinnati is eleven and 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:59.720 seven this season under third year coach Sack Taylor. They are, 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:02.920 as mentioned, the number four seed. They get here by 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:06.360 beating the Raiders twenty six to nineteen in the first 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:10.000 AFC Wildcard game. Joe Burrow through for two hundred and 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:14.160 forty four yards two touchdowns, Jamar Chase nine catches for 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:18.440 one hundred and sixteen yards. Joe Mixon seventeen rushes for 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:22.959 forty eight yards. On defense, Jermaine Pratt had the interception 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:27.000 that sealed the game. On Las Vegas final offensive play, 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.880 Trey Hendrickson forced to fumble as he sacked Derek Carr 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:35.359 that set up a Cincinnati's scoring opportunity. Overall, the Bengals 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:40.200 sat car three times. Evan McPherson made four field goals, 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:44.840 the longest coming from forty three yards. Cincinnati the AFC 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:48.799 North champion for the first time since twenty fifteen. They 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:52.440 won the division in week seventeen with a thirty four 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:55.880 to thirty one victory over Kansas City, and then in 0:02:55.960 --> 0:03:01.680 week eighteen they rested twenty of twenty two starters in 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:05.079 the season finale at Cleveland. The Bengals lost that game 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:09.160 twenty one to sixteen, and that snapped a three game 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:12.919 winning stream. Over the course of the season, Cincinnati has 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:17.840 been really good to be Kansas City, they beat Pittsburgh 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:22.200 and Baltimore twice, but they also lost to Chicago and 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:25.720 the New York Jet. So Andy Wells, I start with you. 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:30.680 You hear the background the resume overall of the Cincinnati Bengals. 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:35.400 Are they a big surprise? I think on paper when 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:37.920 you go through their resume, the success that they've had 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:40.680 this year has been surprising. It's not very often you 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:44.040 see teams go from two and fourteen, four and eleven 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:48.040 and one to all of a sudden being eleven and seven. 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:50.360 That's a pretty substantial jump, and I think a lot 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:53.920 of that is the Joe Burrow effect. I think that 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:57.880 as this twenty twenty one season has gone on, we've 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:00.920 seen a team kind of find their idea entity behind 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:04.800 this quarterback Joe Burrow. We've seen them really find how 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:08.320 their offense clicks and what pieces parts fit in the 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:12.160 right spot to really make them the most effective. And 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:15.040 I think we all started to realize that this team 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:19.080 was picking up smoke when they were they were beating 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:22.400 the Ravens, and then they beat the Steelers, and then 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:25.280 they beat them again, and then you know, they start 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:29.200 to get these wins and all of a sudden you're thinking, oh, well, 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:31.839 this might be an actual team. And they just kept 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:35.400 going and kept going and kept grinding, and all along 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:38.360 the way we've seen Joe Burrow get better and better 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:42.400 and more consistent and make more plays. And so I 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:45.760 think on paper, yes, it's surprising, but if you've watched 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:48.120 them all season long, you're not surprised that they're in 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:50.359 the position that they're in right now. Right, Mike, I 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:55.400 agree with Amy. This team throughout the season, you've noticed 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:58.479 the kind of done them growing up together, including their 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:03.160 head coach Zach who, in there his postgame victory speech 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:07.360 thanked owner Mike Brown for being patient with them, and 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:09.640 they have kind of acquiesced and learned how to do 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:12.599 all this together. And Amy's right to see some of 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.600 the winds that they've notched. And they've done a lot 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:17.560 of good things at home, and that's one of the 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.680 big reasons why I think they won the AFC North 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:23.600 Division for the first time since twenty fifteen. But they've 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:25.839 kind of grown up together. But they have a lot 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:29.279 of youth and a lot of important places. And Amy 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:32.800 is also right about one thing. Joe Burrow the catalyst 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:35.360 to all of it. All right, Rett, take us through 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:39.800 the Cincinnati offensive breakdown, if you would please, yes, sir. 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:43.440 The aforementioned Joe Burrow led the NFL by completing seventy 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:46.760 point four percent of his passes his passer rating one 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:50.680 O eight point three through for thirty four touchdowns, fifteen 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:53.520 of those coming from thirty yards or longer. He's backed 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:57.280 up by journeyman Brandon Allen, who started the Week eighteen 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:00.480 game at Cleveland, who went fifteen of twenty nine for 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:03.800 one hundred thirty six yards and a touchdown while taking 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:07.360 four quarterback sacks. Running Back Joe Mixon made his first 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:10.560 Pro Bowl coming back from an injury plague twenty twenty 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:14.400 season with twelve hundred five yards rushing, three hundred fourteen 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:18.320 receiving yards, sixteen total touchdowns, and his backup is the 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:21.200 two hundred and forty pound veterans and MOJ. P. Ryan, 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:25.080 who is used on third downs in many situations. Twenty 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:28.720 one year old wide receiver and rookie Jamaar Chase caught 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:33.160 a one passes for fourteen hundred fifty five yards thirteen touchdowns. 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.880 Chase has five one hundred yard receiving games, two games 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:40.320 of two hundred yards or more, including two hundred sixty 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:43.440 six against the Kansas City Chiefs on January second. He 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:47.160 was also named to the Pro Bowl. Okridge native t 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:49.919 Higgins will turn twenty three years old this week. He 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:53.479 also had over one thousand yards receiving on seventy four 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.880 catches with six touch years ago. With that, the Bengals 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:59.599 are the first team in NFL history with a four 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.960 thousand yard passer, a one thousand yard rusher, and two 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:07.279 one thousand yard receivers all under the age of twenty six. 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:10.920 The Bengals also have veteran tighter by wide receiver who 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:15.760 were posted sixty seven catches tight end cj Uzoma. He 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:20.000 had forty nine catches, nearly five hundred yards and five touchdowns. Overall, 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:23.800 Cincinnati average three hundred sixty two yards per game, one 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:27.000 hundred three rushing on the ground, two hundred fifty nine 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:30.440 yards passing A good red zone team. They scored thirty 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:34.360 one touchdowns in fifty two trips inside opponents twenty yard line, 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:37.520 and the Bengals average twenty seven points per game. They're 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:40.640 also one of the best teams in the NFL at 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:43.840 scoring at the end of the first half sixty three 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:46.680 points there and also on the first drive of the 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:50.120 second half with fifty five points. They're one achilles heel. 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:54.880 Though on offense, Mike, they've allowed fifty five quarterback sacks. Aby, 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:58.720 how good is this Bengals offense? Well, I think Rhet 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:00.680 just gave you a lot of good numbers. And the 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.400 thing about them that's so intriguing is not only that 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:05.640 they're good right now, but they are set up to 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:08.600 be good in the future. With so much youth on 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:11.320 this team. This guy's really the limit for this offense. 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:14.640 But I mean, when you listen to Rhet go through 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:18.119 kind of the thumbnail on this offense. You hear names 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:21.440 like Joe Mix and Jamar, Chase te Higgins, Tyler Boyd. 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:24.040 You're watching the game and you think, oh my gosh, 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:26.040 they play for the Bengals too. Oh my gosh, he 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:28.400 plays for the Bengals too. It's all of these names 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:31.480 that if you're playing on fantasy, you want all of 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.160 these guys on your team, and the Bengals have them 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:37.400 in real life on their offense. So I think that 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:40.560 there are so many different options of things that this 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:44.240 offense is able to do, led by Joe Burrow, who 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:48.920 is able to use them all just so expertly, and 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:51.959 he has just grown into that position of being that leader. 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.080 These guys like playing for him, they like being around him. 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:59.520 He's kind of a funny dude who has really kind 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:03.880 of race kind of the position of being the quarterback 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:08.600 for Cincinnati, but in his very own style, so he's 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:10.920 not trying to be someone that he's not. And I 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:14.320 think that that has worked really well with a lot 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:19.480 of potential star power on one offense, and they've drafted 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:23.320 all those guys, right, That's what the key is. They 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:26.439 have taken advantage of the fact that after Marvin Lewis 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:31.920 left they were bad after being pretty good for a 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.040 long stretch of time. As a matter of fact, the 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:37.040 part of Lewis's the head coach. But they have drafted 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:40.679 these guys and in doing so they have hit on 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:43.400 all these draft picks. They have taken advantage of the 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.600 fact that if you are bad, you get to pick 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:50.240 high in every round. And they have gone and played 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.200 Joe Burrow at number one overall in twenty twenty, and 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:58.560 then t Higgins going at number thirty three and twenty 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:02.320 twenty Jamar Chase at number five in this year's draft. 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:04.360 I mean, and on and on and on. They have 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:07.599 done a good job picking players. And then Uzamba to 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:11.240 tight end was with him in twenty fifteen. He was 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:15.120 a draft pick and has developed into a really good player. 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:17.839 So all those draft picks and not having to go 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:21.120 out and spend money on free agents, that enables you 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:24.760 to build a great nucleus, which they have. So the question, 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:30.199 Amy is what about the Bengals defense. Well, Mike, Cincinnati 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:34.360 allowed their opponents just twenty two points and three hundred 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:36.760 and fifty one yards per game, one hundred and three 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:40.720 rushing and two hundred and forty eight passing. The Bengals 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:44.840 gave up thirty two touchdowns on fifty three opponents red 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:48.800 zone trips. Opponents converted about forty two percent of their 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:52.160 third down conversions, but the Bengals are excellent at stopping 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:57.320 opponents on fourth down, allowing just seven successful conversions in 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:02.480 eighteen attempts. Like the Rights, the Bengals have forty two 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:08.120 quarterback sacks, led by Trey Hendrickson's fourteen sacks. He had 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:12.400 at least half a sack in eleven straight games this season. 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:16.160 Hendrickson was a big free agent signing from the Saints, 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:20.000 where he had thirteen point five sacks last season. Hendrickson 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:23.320 didn't just get a new contract from the Bengals, he 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:26.839 also made his first Pro Bowl in twenty twenty one. Now, 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:31.319 Sam Hubbard might be even better at the opposite defensive end, 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:35.000 as he is a superior run defender with sixty two 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:38.840 tackles and has seven point five sacks himself. The Bengals 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:44.959 have several talented interior defensive linemen, including former Brown's Larry 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:50.520 Ogan job They sustained several defensive line injuries, and Saturday's 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:55.480 win over Las Vegas, Ogan Joby suffering a foot injury 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:59.240 second year. Linebacker Logan Wilson leads the team in both 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:02.960 tackles with ninety eight interceptions with four The men who 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:06.120 saved the game for Cincinnati on Sunday, Jermaine Pratt is 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:10.720 another versatile, high intensity linebacker, and then in the secondary, 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:14.400 reliable safety's Bonbbell and Jesse Bates are two of their 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:19.240 defensive leading tacklers. Shadobi, a woozy, came over from Dallas 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:23.440 and has played great at quarterback. Former Steeler Mike Hilton 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.680 is one of the best nickelbacks in the National Football League. 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:30.280 So let's talk ret. The defense has been put together 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:34.240 in a different way. They've gone and spent money there 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:38.960 in free agency, and it feels like it's money well 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:43.160 spent for Lou and Rumo's unit well. And one of 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:45.960 the first moves they made in the offseason, Mike was 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:50.400 going and plucking away the aforementioned Mike Hilton, the former 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:54.240 Steeler who has had a very nice gear for them, 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:56.720 and it's one of those veterans that you bring in 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:59.160 to help kind of set a tone to go with 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:02.160 a guy all as Sam Hubbard, who was a a 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:04.120 draft pick of their own back in twenty eighteen out 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:07.480 of Ohio State. But yeah, they found some really nice 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:12.120 players to put in all three levels. The thing is is, Mike, 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:15.400 they're little linked up going into this matchup against the Titans, 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:18.880 and especially at the defensive tackle spot. Larry Ogunjobi has 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:23.120 a foot injury, Mike Daniels has a groin injury. Trey Hendrickson, 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:26.840 as Amy mentioned their leading socker as in concussion protocol. 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:29.559 We'll see how that jury report looks like later this week. 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:32.800 But those guys have really done a nice job and 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:34.480 certainly is one of the reasons why they got to 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:37.160 eleven wins this year. All right, let's talk Cincinnati Special 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:42.280 Team's thirteen year punter Kevin Huber is basically Cincinnati's Brett 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:46.760 Curry's steady and great at penning opponents inside the twenty. 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:51.800 The rookie kicker Evan McPherson has blasted nine field goals 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:55.160 from fifty yards or longer after being drafted out of Florida. 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:59.680 They're long snapper Clark Harris, one of the league's best biggles, 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:03.880 were earned game unspectacular. They've used four different punt returners 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:10.199 seven different kickoff returners this season. Their coverage units average 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:14.199 okay A couple other notes. The Bengals were number one 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:18.400 in the NFL in penalty yards, and I mean that 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:21.560 in a good way, not the Raiders way. They average 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:25.440 just thirty seven penalty yards per game and they were 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:30.120 hit with only four penalties on average per contest. Really 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:34.920 really good in that area. Cincinnati's turnover ratio zero twenty 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:39.680 one turnovers, twenty one takeaway so that's a flat line zero. Now, 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:45.320 these two teams played on November first, twenty twenty, in Cincinnati, 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:48.320 and that weekend was not great for the Titans except 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:52.600 Amy Wells got engaged that week. But that's actually Friday 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:55.400 was good, right, Amy, But Sunday not so good. I 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:59.200 had a great stake on Friday, I really did. The 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:02.360 Titans played poorly in a thirty one to twenty loss 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:06.160 to the Bengals. Tennessee was especially bad on defense. Joe 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:09.880 Burrow through for two hundred forty nine yards and two touchdowns. 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:14.200 The Titans didn't sack Burn, the Bengals rushed for one 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:17.040 hundred and eighteen yards, and Joe Mixon didn't even play 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:22.160 in that game. Cincinnati converted ten to fifteen third down 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:26.360 attempts and their only fourth down attempt Bengals kept them 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:30.160 all for nearly thirty six minutes and scored touchdowns on 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:34.440 four of their five red zone possessions. Now, this is 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:39.120 really amazing. Tennessee gained four hundred forty one yards in 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:43.640 that game, but taking out the final kneel down. Basically 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:48.800 at the end, the Titans had only eight offensive possessions 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:53.680 in this game. That meant that every missed opportunity was problematic. 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:58.119 Stephen Gaskowski missed a field goal. Ryan Tannehill was intercepted 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:01.480 by Jesse Bates. Titans had punt three times. It doesn't 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:03.600 sound so bad, but when you only have the ball 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:07.680 eight times, the math simply does not work. Derrick Henry 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:11.320 eighteen carries for one hundred and twelve yards. Titans gained 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:15.560 two eighteen on the ground on just twenty nine rushes. 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:19.440 Tannehill through for two thirty three and two touchdowns, and 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:23.720 yet the Titans lose the ball game. Aj Brown probably 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:26.160 going to be motivated for this game. In the game 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:29.800 last year on November first, he caught four passes for 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:34.320 twenty four yards. So, Amy, what do you remember about 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:37.720 that day in Cincinnati from fourteen and a half months ago? 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:41.320 As I read those numbers. Well, I remember being cold. 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:43.760 That's a sideline reporter thing to remember, but it was 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:49.000 like abnormally cold. I remember that there was a little 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:54.200 bit of panic. Panic seems like a lot in retrospect, 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:56.280 but there was a little concern because you have to 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:59.280 remember where the Titans were when they played the Bengals 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:02.480 that game. They had started that season five and oh 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:04.920 lost to the Steelers at home in a close game, 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:08.840 then went on the road thinking the Bengals are a shoeing. 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:10.760 The Bengals were a one win team. They had to 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:12.520 win and they had to tie and that was it. 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:14.639 And so they're thinking, oh, we'll get back on our 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:17.639 feet against the Bengals. Everything will be fine, this is okay, 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:21.520 and then the Titans get shocked and end up losing 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:25.800 that game. So there was a little bit of alarm 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:29.679 bells going off across the fan base. I remember, because 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.280 it was one of those games that Mike you, I 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:37.000 mean you said it. There were missed opportunities. Overall, not 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:40.879 a terrible game by the Tennessee Titans, but opportunities that 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:43.680 really mattered were not taking advantage of. And so people 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:45.920 started to say, well, what's happening to this Titans team. 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:48.920 That's what I remember about this game. But I had 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:51.480 the opportunity to talk to some guys, you know, just 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:54.560 because we knew that some of these games could be 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:56.960 coming up, and so you're talking about all the different 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:00.159 possibilities and everything. And I had mentioned to someone, you know, 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:02.240 do you really look at a game that happened a 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:04.560 year ago. I mean, there's been so much turnover on 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:07.520 this Titans team. And he said yes, and no, I 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:09.400 mean you look and see what they did. You look 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:11.639 and see what we did. But they've had turnover, we 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:15.199 had turnover. They're both different teams. So I'm interested to 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:17.440 see what's going to happen this week. I'm very excited. 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:20.960 But Rhett, it has to be advantageous to the Titans. 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:25.600 At A. They have played against Joe Burrow. B. They 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:30.320 have played against Zach Taylor and his offense, and see 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:33.040 they got to sit back and watch that this weekend. 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:37.119 All of those are very valid points, and I'm sure 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:41.440 they'll pull out some tape from that game in November 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:44.960 first of twenty twenty to reference. In terms of Joe 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:49.359 Burrow's passing ability, the big thing that they didn't have 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:52.280 back then is Jamar Chase. We talked about him fourteen 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:55.840 hundred and fifty five yards and all those touchdowns as 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:57.879 a rook and he is just throw it up and 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:00.680 go get it. I mean, he's something else in this thing. 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:04.240 The thing I remember about that game in twenty twenty 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:08.280 is how they had a makeshift offensive line. I don't 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:10.640 want to say Joe Burrow had already been sacked thirty 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:13.680 or forty times at that point, and how the Titans 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:17.119 defense was unable to get to him. No quarterback sacks 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:18.760 that day. And I think it's going to be a 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:23.720 much different story because you have Jeffrey Simmons second team 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:27.560 All Pro now just finishing up year three and leading 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:32.160 this defense up front with Denico Autry who had a 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:34.359 great year to go with it, Harold Landry who had 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:37.199 a lights out year. Bud Dupree is now back and healthy, 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:39.840 and that allows Kevin Byard back there to do things 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:42.240 the way he's been needing to do them and get 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:44.960 a first team All Pro selection. So I'm very much 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:49.440 looking forward to Shane Bowen's defense against this high powered offense. 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:52.280 That's one of the big big matchups going into this 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:54.880 I'm very much looking forward to this game. Well, if 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:58.560 you want an example a of what the Titans defensive 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:03.840 problems were in twenty that game was in off the 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:07.280 field on third down, not able to sack the quarterback. 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:10.359 That's why they did all these things in the offseason 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:13.760 to change it up. And so we'll see what are 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:17.960 the differences in terms of how they approach this going 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:21.520 against the Cincinnati Bengal team that's one of the youngest 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:24.840 teams in the league and just doesn't care. They don't care, 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:28.479 They're not scared. When do they have to be scared of? Now? 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:31.040 They have plenty of moxie. You're right. I mean, they've 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:34.000 got they've got swagger, and it starts with Joe Burrow. 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:37.119 I mean that guy. He's you know, you see his 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:40.879 pictures of him sitting in the locker room and smoking cigars, 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:42.680 you know, like he did at LSU after the point 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:45.320 of the National Championship game, and it just kind of 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:49.200 emanates from him. M Yeah, I don't think they're scared 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:52.000 of anything. All right, let's get some weekend playoff thoughts. 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:57.280 San Francisco twenty three, Dallas seventeen. Ret. Brian, you go first, Well, 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:00.560 it's this simple. San Francisco forty now just came out 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:04.520 like a ball of fire. I mean, Deebo Samuel did 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:08.320 Deebo Samuel things. I mean, that guy. It's unbelievable what 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:10.359 they've done with him at the running back position. And 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:13.560 it was really out of kind of necessity, as Elijah Mitchell, 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:17.200 the rookie from Louisiana Lafayette, had some injury concerns throughout 0:21:17.240 --> 0:21:20.920 the year, and they immediately went right down through a 0:21:21.040 --> 0:21:24.199 dagger done there, seven to nothing and then you know 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:28.720 here they go from there, and you know, Dak Prescott 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:33.200 and this Cowboys offense just never could get anything going. 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:36.159 I don't did ceedee lamb ever end up with a 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:38.560 catching that game, because I don't, at one point deep 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:41.760 into it, he didn't even have one. But if he did, 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:43.760 it wasn't much. It wasn't even as close as what 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:45.720 it appeared to me on the scoreboard. Did you enjoy 0:21:45.800 --> 0:21:49.199 this one? I did enjoy this one. It was a 0:21:49.200 --> 0:21:53.080 game that I enjoyed in the last probably three minutes, 0:21:53.200 --> 0:21:56.200 because it got really exciting there at the end. I mean, 0:21:56.600 --> 0:21:59.720 Dak Prescott's trying to do some of the things that 0:21:59.760 --> 0:22:03.080 we've seen him do before, which is just throw it 0:22:03.160 --> 0:22:06.080 up there. Let someone go get it and score some points. 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:08.919 And I mean they were moving that ball for a 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:11.280 while and it was getting really excited. And there was 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:14.680 a minute a minute where I thought, Dallas is gonna 0:22:14.720 --> 0:22:17.280 do this. They're gonna come back and they're gonna score, 0:22:17.400 --> 0:22:19.400 and that's gonna be the ball game, and it's gonna 0:22:19.440 --> 0:22:21.959 be a walk off and Tony Romo is gonna just 0:22:22.760 --> 0:22:24.800 fly out of the booth. I mean, this is gonna 0:22:24.800 --> 0:22:29.560 be crazy. But I mean, ultimately, they couldn't get out 0:22:29.600 --> 0:22:31.840 of their own way. They couldn't they couldn't get the 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:35.240 job done. And that's kind of the story for Dallas 0:22:35.320 --> 0:22:39.280 as of late. Yeah, for the last twenty something years, 0:22:39.800 --> 0:22:44.359 recent memory. Yeah, unfortunately for the Cowboys. I mean it continues. 0:22:44.680 --> 0:22:48.760 Read how good were Jim Nanson Tony Romo on the telecast? 0:22:49.040 --> 0:22:51.199 You know? I mean they're the number one team for 0:22:51.240 --> 0:22:56.160 a reason on CBS, and the chemistry they've got together 0:22:56.240 --> 0:23:00.359 is really good. Anyway, Just the thing about Tony, you 0:23:00.400 --> 0:23:02.760 could tell he was just feeling so much for his 0:23:02.800 --> 0:23:05.280 old team and want to get them over the top, 0:23:05.320 --> 0:23:09.879 and it just didn't happen. But there's certainly certainly a 0:23:10.000 --> 0:23:12.920 reason why they are the number one team for CBS 0:23:12.960 --> 0:23:16.640 on television. Good stuff. I love listening to them together 0:23:16.680 --> 0:23:19.879 and in those final moments. I mean, you know, I 0:23:19.920 --> 0:23:23.400 thought their reaction to the last play was just perfect. 0:23:23.920 --> 0:23:28.160 They were kind of like everybody else what just happened? Yeah, 0:23:28.160 --> 0:23:30.920 why would they do that? Yeah? They bring a human 0:23:30.960 --> 0:23:33.800 element to it, and that's a perfect example. All right. 0:23:33.840 --> 0:23:35.919 So I want to know, Amy, how much of the 0:23:36.000 --> 0:23:39.840 Tampa Bay thirty one to fifteen went over Philly? Did 0:23:39.880 --> 0:23:42.359 you watch? I'll be honest, Mike, I didn't watch the 0:23:42.560 --> 0:23:44.960 entire game. I'm just gonna lay it out here for 0:23:45.000 --> 0:23:48.159 the OT people. I realized what was happening pretty early, 0:23:48.880 --> 0:23:52.399 and you know, I got some stuff done around the house. 0:23:52.600 --> 0:23:55.679 But I think we can all agree that Tom Brady 0:23:55.760 --> 0:24:00.320