Speaker 1: Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading
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Speaker 1: last night audition as the Bengals lose a primetime shootout
Speaker 1: to the Washington Commanders thirty eight to thirty three. Coming up,
Speaker 1: radio replays, locker room comments and postgame analysis from Dave Lapham. Then,
Speaker 1: in this week's fun Fact segment, you'll meet Bengals newcomer
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Speaker 1: greatest thing. Since the Bengals Ring of Honor reception on
Speaker 1: Saturday night, I had the honor of serving as the
Speaker 1: MC for a special event honoring this year's Ring of
Speaker 1: Honor inductees Tim Crumrie and Corey Dillon, whose names were
Speaker 1: added to the Ring of Honor at halftime of Monday
Speaker 1: night's game. Roughly five hundred season ticket members attended Saturday's event,
Speaker 1: and I hope they enjoyed it as much as I did,
Speaker 1: as former teammates, coaches, and media members shared some great
Speaker 1: stories about Tim and Corey. Kudos to the Bengals for
Speaker 1: putting on a first class event celebrating two of the
Speaker 1: roughest and toughest players to ever wear Bengals stripes. Now
Speaker 1: Time four Radio replays from Monday night's wild game against Washington. Tonight,
Speaker 1: the prime time spotlight shines on Cincinnati, where the atmosphere
Speaker 1: for night games is absolutely electric, as good as it
Speaker 1: gets in the NFL. That's helped the Bengals win six
Speaker 1: straight primetime home games, and they'll look to make it
Speaker 1: seven tonight against the Washington Commanders. And it is time
Speaker 1: for the pig skin to fly. Here in the jungle,
Speaker 1: Borrow under center play action, fake five step drop deep
Speaker 1: before Chase got.
Speaker 2: It half the five touchdown Bengals show Burrow floating a
Speaker 2: beautiful ball downfield Jamar Chase two in the gritty.
Speaker 1: Have the Bengals store a touchdown? How they're opening drive
Speaker 1: second in goal inches away. Jayden dangles in the shotgun,
Speaker 1: standing at the five yard line. The rookie quarterback hands
Speaker 1: it off to Robinson and he knifes through the middle
Speaker 1: of the line for a Washington TV Here's a first
Speaker 1: down handoff and bouncing and why to the left. Fifteen
Speaker 1: ten five touchdown Washington our right handed spike Austin Eckler,
Speaker 1: and Washington has scored touchdowns on its first two drives
Speaker 1: to take a thirteen to seven leave. This will be
Speaker 1: a twenty eight yard field goal attempt from the right
Speaker 1: hash for Evan McPherson, who missed from forty eight yards
Speaker 1: away earlier in this corner a quarter rather, the kick
Speaker 1: is up. This one is good and the Bengals pull
Speaker 1: within four. It is first in goal at the four.
Speaker 1: Daniels fakes a handoff, runs left. Nobody saw it coming.
Speaker 1: The Bengals completely fooled, and Jadan Daniels trots into the
Speaker 1: end zone untouched for a Washington score. He didn't even
Speaker 1: have to really run, he just jogged in. Daniels under center,
Speaker 1: He takes the snap, fakes a handoff, Bobs went into
Speaker 1: the end zone and an offensive lineman makes the catch
Speaker 1: for the Washington touchdown. Trent Scott hauls in the TV
Speaker 1: huge play here. Fourth and goal from the two with
Speaker 1: three h seven to go third quarter, Burrow in the shotgun,
Speaker 1: Yos Bosh and Higgins out to the right, Jamar Chase
Speaker 1: out to the left, Zack Moss in the backfield. Yosi
Speaker 1: Bosh goes in motion. Burrow drops back to throw his pass, caught.
Speaker 3: At the goal line, touchdown Bengals on Drey Yo t
Speaker 3: Bosh has the Bengals go for it on fourth and
Speaker 3: goal from the two and debt how badly needed touchdown?
Speaker 1: Burrow is said, extends the hands, A blitz is coming.
Speaker 1: He gets rid of the ball, throwing it deep. It
Speaker 1: is hot.
Speaker 3: Touchdown.
Speaker 4: Chamar Chase his second touchdown catch his second gritty touchdown
Speaker 4: pass number three for Burrow. Have the Bengals pull within five,
Speaker 4: they will go for two.
Speaker 1: Two minutes and fifteen seconds left, Washington on top thirty
Speaker 1: one twenty six third down and seven at the Bengals
Speaker 1: twenty seven. McNichols in a running back Daniels catches the shotgun.
Speaker 1: Snaw He's gonna float high in deep McLaurin in the
Speaker 1: end zone. He's got the ball? Did he get both
Speaker 1: deep down? They say it's a touchdown?
Speaker 5: Unreal?
Speaker 1: Unreal is right. The Bengals answered with a one yard
Speaker 1: touchdown run by Zack Moss with forty seconds to go,
Speaker 1: but couldn't pull off the onside kick and lost the
Speaker 1: game thirty eight to thirty three. What can you say
Speaker 1: about Washington's ricky quarterback Jaden Daniels. He was almost flawless,
Speaker 1: completing twenty one of twenty three passes for two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty six yards and two touchdowns. He also ran
Speaker 1: for thirty nine yards in another score. After three games,
Speaker 1: Daniels is completing eighty percent of his passes, hasn't thrown
Speaker 1: an interception, and has a passer rating of one to
Speaker 1: eleven point eight. And oh yeah, he's on a pace
Speaker 1: to rush for nearly one thousand yards. The last five
Speaker 1: quarterbacks drafted in the first round by Washington were Dwayne
Speaker 1: Haskins RG three, Jason Campbell, Patrick Ramsey, and Heath Shuler.
Speaker 1: It's early, but it appears that the Commanders have finally
Speaker 1: found their guy. Let's hear what head coach Zach Taylor
Speaker 1: had to say as he spent a few minutes with
Speaker 1: Dave Lapham after the game, Coach, I.
Speaker 5: Don't think I've seen a game where the other team punted,
Speaker 5: neither team turned it over. I mean it was offensively,
Speaker 5: can't ask so much more than that.
Speaker 6: Well, you can.
Speaker 7: I mean, we didn't put enough points on the board,
Speaker 7: and sometimes there's gonna be games where we get help
Speaker 7: take the pressure off the other unit, and that's just
Speaker 7: what one of these games was. And so this is
Speaker 7: a collective effort. You know. We had our opportunities on
Speaker 7: both sides of the ball to create an opportunity for
Speaker 7: ourselves to give ourselves the lead and we just didn't
Speaker 7: capitalize on that today.
Speaker 8: So that's on everybody.
Speaker 5: Red zone, they were three for three touchdowns, Bengals one
Speaker 5: for three touchdowns in the red zone. In a game
Speaker 5: like that, that's a big deal, right, Yeah, it's as
Speaker 5: simple as that. You know.
Speaker 7: We had one where he kind of got derailed on
Speaker 7: a quick play. We thought maybe we'd fumbled the play before,
Speaker 7: and then it screen didn't go away and set ourselves
Speaker 7: back and didn't convert there. I think we missed the
Speaker 7: field goal. And then another one we were just off
Speaker 7: on a third down pass and had to kick it.
Speaker 7: So you know, those points mattered in this game, and
Speaker 7: unfortunately we came up short.
Speaker 5: Joe Burrow throws for three hundred yards, three touchdowns, high
Speaker 5: completion percentage, but I mean Daniels played even better, I
Speaker 5: mean ninety one percent completion percentage and made plays when
Speaker 5: he had to didn't he.
Speaker 7: I thought both quarterbacks were attending today, you know, there
Speaker 7: were there was some plays that that both those guys
Speaker 7: really made to prove that there's some top quarterbacks in
Speaker 7: the league.
Speaker 5: Your running game got on track. Both both your tailbacks
Speaker 5: I mean combined for over well over one hundred yards
Speaker 5: on like less than twenty cares. I think it was
Speaker 5: nineteen carries. I mean, you got some really good production
Speaker 5: out of that run game today.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you would like to give more opportunities, you know,
Speaker 7: it's just I don't know how many possessions it was
Speaker 7: six or seven. It's one of the fewest possion games
Speaker 7: are going to have. And that's kind of what they
Speaker 7: lead the league and fewest possessions, and we knew it
Speaker 7: was gonna be that kind of game. Unfortunately, we didn't
Speaker 7: give ourselves enough opportunities.
Speaker 5: And then I guess you know that they had the
Speaker 5: big one big kick return in the in the U
Speaker 5: in special teams. I mean I thought special teams though
Speaker 5: for the most part missfield Will obviously was big. So
Speaker 5: I guess you know all three areas there was some
Speaker 5: touch leading.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they did enough. You got to give them a
Speaker 7: lot of credit. They're good football team. They're well coach.
Speaker 7: They competed hard, they got a lot of confidence, and
Speaker 7: they made more plays than we did today in all
Speaker 7: three phases.
Speaker 5: Talking to you earlier in the week, I could tell
Speaker 5: you thought that this football team, man, they got something.
Speaker 5: I mean, they got a lot of players, they got
Speaker 5: a lot of weapons. I mean it was it wasn't
Speaker 5: like you know all you know coaches, he's just trying
Speaker 5: to put something out. I could tell that you were
Speaker 5: sincerely like, they got some players.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they had seven possessions last week, seven field goals.
Speaker 7: I saw where they missed their seven touchdowns. You know,
Speaker 7: they had a bunch of penalties in the low red zone,
Speaker 7: so you could see this is a dynamic offense. I
Speaker 7: got a ton of respect for Cliff. He's been doing
Speaker 7: this a long time. He's been calling plays for about
Speaker 7: fifteen years and had some of the most prolific offenses
Speaker 7: this country's ever seen, and so you pair him with
Speaker 7: a quarterback like that, and and I knew that it
Speaker 7: was a very dangerous offense, and we didn't do enough
Speaker 7: to get him off the field and create more opportunities
Speaker 7: for yourself.
Speaker 5: Although you talked about last week, seven possessions, seven field
Speaker 5: goals and then no punts tonight, Trustway punted three times
Speaker 5: in the opener. He hasn't punted since. I mean, he's
Speaker 5: gone two games without puting the football. That's crazy.
Speaker 7: Give them all the credit. They have a lot of confidence.
Speaker 7: They're making a lot of plays. That's on their coaching staff,
Speaker 7: that's on their quarterback, they're all they're all doing what
Speaker 7: they need to do to win.
Speaker 5: Coach, appreciate you giving us your time as always. Yeah,
Speaker 5: thanks sav It was.
Speaker 1: The first NFL game since nineteen forty without a punt
Speaker 1: or turnover. Unfortunately, it's hard to savor a great night
Speaker 1: for the Bengals offense because of the outcome. Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: completed seventy six percent of his passes for three hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty four yards, with three touchdowns, no picks, and
Speaker 1: a passer rating of one twenty seven point five, and
Speaker 1: Jamar Chase had his first big game of the year
Speaker 1: with six catches for one hundred and eighteen yards and
Speaker 1: two touchdowns. Let's hear what Numero uno I had to
Speaker 1: say after the game, Jamor is it almost a sense
Speaker 1: of disbelief to be going three at this point? Uh?
Speaker 9: It doesn't feel good, but I don't know, it happens.
Speaker 9: We just gotta learn from them to move on and
Speaker 9: get ready for the next week.
Speaker 1: The offense obviously was cooking, but there's three possessions where
Speaker 1: you settle for field goal tries. Unfortunately, in a game
Speaker 1: like this that proved costly.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we gotta we gotta go in in that rezone.
Speaker 9: Some we gotta capitalize on this.
Speaker 1: Chair.
Speaker 6: What about your performance?
Speaker 1: One hundred plus yards, two touchdown catches, how'd you feel
Speaker 1: about it?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 9: It was a good overall game, but you know, I'm
Speaker 9: of a team effort, so I've been good to have
Speaker 9: win with that.
Speaker 1: Where do you go from here?
Speaker 9: Come back to work, watch the film corrections, and you know,
Speaker 9: we gotta move on. But we can't have games like
Speaker 9: this one. We gotta we gotta win games like this
Speaker 9: one so we can move on.
Speaker 5: Is there a sense of despiration, Jamar at this point,
Speaker 5: even though it's three games in.
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 9: I never been hid, bro I never I never felt
Speaker 9: this before. So I was the first time for everything.
Speaker 9: But you gotta be on one team, you know what
Speaker 9: I'm saying. Stayed together, stay as a unit. So don't
Speaker 9: know where we're gonna win.
Speaker 6: How good was it to have tea back out there?
Speaker 6: Looked like it certainly benefited.
Speaker 5: You a little bit too.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it was great heaving tea out there. Man, it
Speaker 9: was like old times again, just having fun.
Speaker 1: You know. Jaden Daniels was extremely impressive. I don't know
Speaker 1: how closely he could watch his performance, but yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: one of the more incredible rookie quarterback performances I think
Speaker 1: many of us have seed. What't you think?
Speaker 9: He's a great thing player, not gonna lie. That was
Speaker 9: my first time sitting down and watching him besides the
Speaker 9: spring game. So uh, he's a very outstanding player.
Speaker 1: But no matter what the Bengals tried to do on defense,
Speaker 1: they simply couldn't get Daniels in the Washington offense. Off
Speaker 1: the field, it's two straight weeks for the Commanders with
Speaker 1: no punts and no turnovers. I discussed a tough night
Speaker 1: for the Bengals defense with linebacker Jermaine Pratt. Jermaine, that
Speaker 1: was a very impressive performance by a rookie quarterback, one
Speaker 1: of the best. I've seen. Your thoughts on Jaden Daniels tonight.
Speaker 8: I mean I would say like he processed things, he
Speaker 8: do stuff well. I think he will all the way around,
Speaker 8: and then he's sposively using his legs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it seemed like there were a few instances where
Speaker 1: when you had a chance to possibly get him down,
Speaker 1: he just made a little bit of a juke, got
Speaker 1: a few extra yards and kept the chains going.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I missed the biggest player of the game. I say, well,
Speaker 8: I believe it was fut down. Whatever. I would contain
Speaker 8: him and said, I'll let him complete the past move
Speaker 8: starting right there.
Speaker 1: What can you say about the defense? I know it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's moments after a very difficult game and
Speaker 1: you're frustrated and disappointed. But nobody could have possibly seen
Speaker 1: this coming. What do you think happened?
Speaker 8: We didn't play great. I didn't play great. So if
Speaker 8: I don't play well, I think the defense, hey don't
Speaker 8: play that much? Then will if I don't bring the energy.
Speaker 1: The atmosphere was electric in recent years. You guys have
Speaker 1: risen to the occasion on those primetime games. How disappointing
Speaker 1: is it to not get the job done tonight?
Speaker 8: Every loss is disappointing.
Speaker 6: Piece.
Speaker 8: Obviously, we don't play the game to lose, but we
Speaker 8: got to find a way to get in the win.
Speaker 2: Tall them.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I get our minds right and go find a
Speaker 8: way to win.
Speaker 1: Next for the Bengals a road game in Carolina against
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton and the Panthers. The Red Rifle took over
Speaker 1: for a struggling Bryce Young on Sunday and promptly threw
Speaker 1: for three hundred and nineteen yards with three touchdowns and
Speaker 1: a passer rating of one twenty three point six as
Speaker 1: the Panthers shocked the Raiders thirty six to twenty two.
Speaker 1: That Carolina game looks a lot tougher than it did
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Speaker 1: recapp Jaden Daniels is going to be the toast of
Speaker 1: the NFL for the next several days after what was
Speaker 1: truly one of the most remarkable rookie quarterback performances in
Speaker 1: league history. Twenty one for twenty three, two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty four yards, two touchdown passes, one touchdown run. I'm buying.
Speaker 1: I mean, the kid is incredible.
Speaker 5: I'm telling you he should go kiss Cliff kingsbre Rit
Speaker 5: in the mouth because Cliff Kingsbury is doing everything that
Speaker 5: Jaden Daniels can do and do well. Is not complicated,
Speaker 5: but he knows when to call things, how to call things,
Speaker 5: how to formation it make it look different, but it's
Speaker 5: the same. Cliff Kingsbury is a brilliant offensive mind and
Speaker 5: he showed it at the collegiate level. And I had
Speaker 5: a healthy dose of respect to that guy when he
Speaker 5: was at Texas Town. I was like, man, this guy's
Speaker 5: you know. I mean, all these quarterbacks have some talent,
Speaker 5: but my gosh, man, the numbers they're putting up is
Speaker 5: it's sick. He's got himself a gem to work with,
Speaker 5: and he's doing everything to put Daniels in a good
Speaker 5: position to succeed. And the kid has got talent. I mean,
Speaker 5: you complete over ninety percent a rookie record single game.
Speaker 5: But nothing, nothing was so sophisticated, you know, trying to
Speaker 5: be too clever. It's like, here's a few things I
Speaker 5: want you to do. It's simple stuff. It's it's a
Speaker 5: zone read stuff, stuff run pass option. It's like was
Speaker 5: said during the course of the week, Taylor britt College,
Speaker 5: look damn good tonight at college offense put on a
Speaker 5: clinic out there. Dan. I don't think I've ever seen
Speaker 5: and I don't know, maybe it's happened in high school.
Speaker 5: Neither team punt, neither team turned.
Speaker 6: The football over.
Speaker 5: That was That was a weird game. And then when
Speaker 5: you're in situations like that, obviously every possession you got
Speaker 5: to maximize with points. Bengals go one for three in
Speaker 5: the red zone, Washington goes three for three. Big reason
Speaker 5: why the game went the way it went.
Speaker 1: The Bengals gave up sixteen points in Week one, Kansas
Speaker 1: City only scored nineteen on offense last week, and they really,
Speaker 1: for all intents and purposes, shut down Patrick Mahomes. What
Speaker 1: was like egregious tonight? What were some of the biggest
Speaker 1: mistakes do you think that they made defensively in this game?
Speaker 5: That's good? I mean, honestly, it was like, okay, who
Speaker 5: has the quarterback on the zone? Reas who has the back? Okay? Well,
Speaker 5: the defensive ends crashed for the back. Who's got the quarterback?
Speaker 5: And the quarterback would get out there in the perimeter.
Speaker 5: And I mean, if he's just that athletic where he's
Speaker 5: making everybody miss. I mean some of the times I
Speaker 5: didn't see the quarterback being challenged, the positive yards have
Speaker 5: been picked up, you know, I just I don't know.
Speaker 5: It was not it was not difficult stuff. But he
Speaker 5: is a unique talent. But I said during the game,
Speaker 5: and I still think it, at some point some defense
Speaker 5: is going to light him up more than once in
Speaker 5: a football game, put legal, big hits on him, and
Speaker 5: you know, you'd hate to see that happen where you
Speaker 5: know it results in an injury because he's not I
Speaker 5: guess he's a running back. I mean, the guy has
Speaker 5: the talent of a running back and he seems to
Speaker 5: always make the hits flush, not flush hits. His glancing hits.
Speaker 5: But at some point he might catch a flush one
Speaker 5: and it's going to be a horse of a different colors.
Speaker 5: So I mean, I never saw him slide tonight. He
Speaker 5: doesn't slide. It's like this guy. I mean, he turns
Speaker 5: it up. He turns it up the football field and
Speaker 5: he's gonna get everyth you can. Now, you will dance
Speaker 5: out of bounds when he feels it's appropriate. But man,
Speaker 5: when he's on the football field, in the middle of
Speaker 5: the football field, between the hashmarks, between the numbers, he's
Speaker 5: going up the football field. Man, he's trying to maximize.
Speaker 1: The Bengals had t Higgins back tonight, the result thirty
Speaker 1: three points, three touchdown passes for Burrow. Chase had you know,
Speaker 1: less attention on him, wound up having a huge night.
Speaker 1: I guess if you're looking for a positive, that's the
Speaker 1: biggest one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree. And the other positive is twelve carries
Speaker 5: for fifty eight yards for Moss, seven for sixty two
Speaker 5: for Brown. So you got nineteen carries for one hundred
Speaker 5: and twenty yards. Not bad. I mean, you're talking about
Speaker 5: getting the running game going a little bit and I
Speaker 5: think that helped Joe and Chase and Higgins and others.
Speaker 5: You know, there were areas between linebacker and safety that
Speaker 5: they took advantage of in the middle of the football
Speaker 5: field because the game had some had some teeth to it.
Speaker 5: So you know, I think that that that uh, that's
Speaker 5: positive as well. I mean, Joe Burrow over three hundred yards,
Speaker 5: three touchdown passes and complete a high percentage and he's
Speaker 5: like second best quarterback out there on the football field.
Speaker 5: These two LSU Heisman Trophy winners, I mean, did they
Speaker 5: deliver or what? On national TV? And a matchup, second
Speaker 5: matchup ever between Heisman Trophy winners from the same school.
Speaker 5: Can't ask for much more than what those guys put
Speaker 5: out there.
Speaker 1: Trey Hendrickson had a sack tonight. It's the only one
Speaker 1: the Bengals had, and really through three weeks now, he's
Speaker 1: the only guy getting any sort of consistent pressure on quarterbacks.
Speaker 5: I agree, you know, he's there's gonna have to be
Speaker 5: somebody that he must feel like, you know, a lonesome
Speaker 5: soldier out there. It's hard to you know, if you're
Speaker 5: the guy, first guy to pressure the quarterback, it's hard
Speaker 5: to pressure and finalize. You know, it's it's a there
Speaker 5: has to be be somebody that is winning in their
Speaker 5: rush lane integrity, and it doesn't seem to be working
Speaker 5: out that way. I thought he had immense protection tonight,
Speaker 5: and they ran the ball well, so their play action stuff,
Speaker 5: and that's tough. I mean, I know when we had
Speaker 5: our running game going and they would call play action pass,
Speaker 5: I mean we'd look at each other and start grinning
Speaker 5: like yeah, I mean, because they have to honor it.
Speaker 5: You know, they can't just kee off, So that gives
Speaker 5: you a great chance. I mean, you can be the
Speaker 5: aggressor and then separate and now go into pass protection mode.
Speaker 5: And it's like, man, I mean, the pocket's already bigger,
Speaker 5: the pockets already deeper, and you can if you can
Speaker 5: just you know, finish and hang on, you're gonna give
Speaker 5: your quarterback an eternity to throw the football. And some
Speaker 5: of the times it looked like that's exactly what he had.
Speaker 1: I think the overwhelming emotion after this game is disbelief.
Speaker 1: I just can't quite put a finger on why this
Speaker 1: team has gotten out of the gate this way this
Speaker 1: year against that schedule.
Speaker 5: I agree, you know, the two d's disappointment and disbelief, disbelief,
Speaker 5: and it's like something's wrong. What is it? What is
Speaker 5: it that is wrong? Maybe it's more than one thing,
Speaker 5: you know, maybe it's a myriad of things that are wrong,
Speaker 5: and it just has to be wrong by just a
Speaker 5: little bit, you know. I mean, all you can do
Speaker 5: is is go back to work and try to keep
Speaker 5: getting better. And you know, I've been in games where,
Speaker 5: you know, in seasons where the defense has to pick
Speaker 5: up the offense, the offense has to pick up the defense.
Speaker 5: That's just the way it is. That's life in the
Speaker 5: National Football League. So obviously the defense was having a
Speaker 5: hell of a time trying to make stops and get
Speaker 5: things done. But man, to be in a situation like that,
Speaker 5: you have to I mean, the commanders took command. You
Speaker 5: got to give them credit. They go on the road
Speaker 5: on Ring of Honor night, crowds up in the bit
Speaker 5: silence them. Bengal's go up seven nothing, that's the only
Speaker 5: lead they had. I mean, next thing, you know, you're
Speaker 5: down two plus scores in some instances. You know, I
Speaker 5: just you got to you gotta really tip your cap
Speaker 5: to the to the commanders for how they played the game.
Speaker 5: And uh once. Once they got control, I thought, man,
Speaker 5: go down the field and at first drive and score.
Speaker 5: I mean, this is what Tampa Bay did, you know,
Speaker 5: And go down and score again. Take command, take early
Speaker 5: command of the football game. Commanders said, not gonna happen again.
Speaker 5: We learned our lesson. We're gonna come right down the
Speaker 5: field and score, and then we're gonna we're gonna take
Speaker 5: control and command of the football game. And you got
Speaker 5: to tip your cap to them. They really did.
Speaker 1: They haven't punted in two games. Subtract three one play
Speaker 1: kneel downs to run out clock, and they've scored on
Speaker 1: fourteen consecutive drives against Tampa Bay, the Giants, and the Bengals.
Speaker 1: Fourteen consecutive drives.
Speaker 5: That's high school stuff. I mean, like I said, I
Speaker 5: don't maybe in high school there might have been a
Speaker 5: game where neither team punted, neither team turned it over.
Speaker 5: I'm sure there is, and I guess probably in college
Speaker 5: would happened. You know, I just can't remember games like that.
Speaker 5: I can't remember being in games like that. Trest Way,
Speaker 5: he's stealing. Man punted three times in the open.
Speaker 1: He hasn't very busy as a whole.
Speaker 5: He is he has. He's worked his hands, but he
Speaker 5: hasn't worked his leg and feet. Man, It's that's incredible.
Speaker 5: Three punts and three football games. That's gonna win you
Speaker 5: a lot of games right there.
Speaker 1: Well, bring on Andy Dalton in the Panthers. Try to
Speaker 1: get off the schneider and get that first win.
Speaker 5: Yeah, gona go down to Carolina line up and uh
Speaker 5: go against Big Red and Boyd. He lighted up. I
Speaker 5: mean he threw for over three hundred yards and three
Speaker 5: touchdowns himself. I mean he and Joe Burrow they are
Speaker 5: on the same wavelength this weekend. So it could be
Speaker 5: another duel. It could be another game where, man, if
Speaker 5: you don't score in the regil, if you have to
Speaker 5: settle for a field goal, you might be in trouble.
Speaker 5: I mean it could be another shootout, man who knows,
Speaker 5: or probably in a ten to seven or something.
Speaker 1: That would be appropriate.
Speaker 5: It really would. I mean, that's football, and that's why
Speaker 5: everybody loves it. It is crazy. Just when you think
Speaker 5: you might have it figured out, you're nowhere close to
Speaker 5: figuring it out.
Speaker 1: We'll try to figure some things out at the Bengals
Speaker 1: Game Plan show on Wednesday night. If you live in
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati area. We'll be at Patrick's Sports Bar on
Speaker 1: Crookshank Road from six to eight, or you can always
Speaker 1: listen on ESPN fifteen thirty or search for ESPN fifteen
Speaker 1: thirty on the free iHeartMedia app. Now, time for this
Speaker 1: week's fun Fact segment, where you get to know the
Speaker 1: person under the pads. Time for some fun facts at
Speaker 1: running back Zach Moss from High Lee Gardens, Florida, near Miami.
Speaker 1: What were some of your favorite things about growing up there?
Speaker 6: Uh, just being outside every day.
Speaker 10: Miami is like the perfect place for great weather usually
Speaker 10: around all year round, So just being outside, you know,
Speaker 10: playing sports with my friends and cousins and things like that.
Speaker 10: Have a big family, So just remember all those days
Speaker 10: just being outside, playing the streets.
Speaker 6: Right the part.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you mentioned your cousins because you have two
Speaker 1: older cousins who had long careers as NFL wide receivers,
Speaker 1: Santana Moss, who was a pro bowler and Sonorius Moss,
Speaker 1: who won a Super Bowl Ring. Did having family members
Speaker 1: in the NFL make that dream seem more attainable to you?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think definitely. You know.
Speaker 10: On top of that, I think also just being in Miami.
Speaker 10: You know, we have a very very rich talent of
Speaker 10: pro players either basketball or football, So you know that
Speaker 10: always was in the back of our minds just playing
Speaker 10: seeing guys that are from our neighborhoods go off and
Speaker 10: do a lot of good things. So you know, it
Speaker 10: made it real easy to think that could be us
Speaker 10: as well. And you know, God took the rest of it.
Speaker 1: Being from that state. There are a lot of great
Speaker 1: college football programs around, but you chose to go more
Speaker 1: than two thousand miles from home and went to Utah.
Speaker 10: Why Originally I was committed to the University of Miami
Speaker 10: at first, and then I ended up decommitted from there
Speaker 10: and chose Utah.
Speaker 6: I think mainly because two reasons.
Speaker 10: Coach Dennis Erison, who was a University of Miami head
Speaker 10: coach back in the day who won as a championship
Speaker 10: there was the runner back coach at Utah, so kind
Speaker 10: of swayed me pretty easily being able to play for
Speaker 10: a legend like that. And then two of my teammates
Speaker 10: that I played with in high school and that I
Speaker 10: knew for a while as well as friends growing up
Speaker 10: in Miami, Tyler Huntley and Damari Simpkins. They both ended
Speaker 10: up committed early and enrolling early into Utah and always
Speaker 10: just told me about it and kind of could see
Speaker 10: me fitting in there. So you know, for me, it
Speaker 10: didn't really matter where I was, how far I was.
Speaker 10: I just wanted to go somewhere and play early, and
Speaker 10: you know, Utah gave me a great chance to do.
Speaker 1: At your high school and college teammate, Tyler Huntley played
Speaker 1: a significant role in Bengals history. It was his fumble
Speaker 1: in the playoff game against Baltimore that Sam Hubbard scooped
Speaker 1: up and ran back ninety eight yards for the game
Speaker 1: winning score, The so called fumble in the jungle, As
Speaker 1: his longtime friend, did that one break your heart?
Speaker 10: That was crazy, definitely, I think because it was on
Speaker 10: the one yard line and had a chance to score.
Speaker 10: I don't remember what what the score was, but I
Speaker 10: knew I think it would have went up.
Speaker 6: So you know, that was rough to see him go
Speaker 6: through that.
Speaker 10: But now, being a Bengals fan, you know you I
Speaker 10: see the highlight a few times already, so it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: I read that on your recruiting visit to Utah, they
Speaker 1: took you snowmobiling. Had you ever even seen snow.
Speaker 10: Now, I've never seen snow. That was second time ever
Speaker 10: traveling out of the state of Florida. So that was
Speaker 10: a super super culture shock, mountain, snow, elevation, the whole nine.
Speaker 10: Just a totally different way of life from growing up Miami.
Speaker 1: For sure, visiting the Zach Moss. You had a tremendous
Speaker 1: career at Utah. You're still the schools all time, leading
Speaker 1: Russier by a wide margin. What did you enjoy most
Speaker 1: about your four years there?
Speaker 6: It was it was a lot of, you know, great things.
Speaker 10: I think the main thing was being able to go
Speaker 10: somewhere and mature by myself.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 10: Obviously, I think if I would have stayed in miamifs so,
Speaker 10: I would have had a lot of people there with
Speaker 10: me to kind of fall back on through hard times
Speaker 10: or whatever. I had two surgeries while I was out there,
Speaker 10: So being able to go through that and grow up
Speaker 10: and kind of go through life immature, like I said,
Speaker 10: by myself made me, you know, definitely who I am
Speaker 10: today played a big part of that. And also meeting
Speaker 10: my wife out there was huge. Obviously, that's my whole
Speaker 10: entire life. Now I gotta sign and everything, like that, so,
Speaker 10: you know, that was the biggest decision of my life.
Speaker 1: After your great college career, you were drafted in the
Speaker 1: third round by the Buffalo Bills, number eighty six overall.
Speaker 1: Describe your draft experience it was.
Speaker 10: It was definitely an awkward one, I think mainly because
Speaker 10: it was COVID that year, so didn't have a chance
Speaker 10: to go back home be around family and loved ones
Speaker 10: and things like that and kind of share that moment
Speaker 10: with everybody as well. So, you know, I had to
Speaker 10: do it in LA with my agents, my wife, and
Speaker 10: my brothers and sisters and my mom, which was you know,
Speaker 10: that's the core of my family right there. So it
Speaker 10: was still cool in that experience, but you know, definitely
Speaker 10: missed out on that part of things, something I was always,
Speaker 10: i think in the back of my mind thinking about
Speaker 10: that I'll be able to do one day.
Speaker 1: You joined a Buffalo team that was really good. You
Speaker 1: made it to the AFC Championship Game as a rookie,
Speaker 1: and then in year two, Buffalo had the painful loss
Speaker 1: to Kansas City in the playoffs where you took the
Speaker 1: lead with thirteen seconds to go, kicked off and wound
Speaker 1: up losing that game. In ot how long does a
Speaker 1: game like that stick with you.
Speaker 6: That was a rough game.
Speaker 10: It's definitely something that you really can't describe unless you
Speaker 10: were there. The atmosphere was crazy. We ended up coming out,
Speaker 10: obviously on the loser end of it, but definitely just
Speaker 10: a great sports experience. And you know you're in history,
Speaker 10: but you know, definitely on the wrong side of it.
Speaker 10: But at the end of the day, still the history.
Speaker 10: So anytime you get to create history, no matter what happens,
Speaker 10: I think, win or loss, you know you learn something
Speaker 10: from it.
Speaker 1: The following year, about two months into the season, you
Speaker 1: got traded to Indianapolis. You've built bonds with teammates, you're
Speaker 1: comfortable in Buffalo, and then suddenly you're playing for a
Speaker 1: different team a week later. How challenging is that?
Speaker 6: It was definitely challenging to some degree.
Speaker 10: You can't really dwell on it too much when you're
Speaker 10: in season, when things are still moving and stuff like that.
Speaker 10: But you know, it was something I always knew what
Speaker 10: was going to happen. Essentially that some degree it just
Speaker 10: didn't work out my time in Buffalo, But you know,
Speaker 10: I had a lot of people do a lot of
Speaker 10: good things. My wife mainly was super supportive during that time,
Speaker 10: being able to you know, transition our homes from Buffalo
Speaker 10: to Indie, you know, well also allowing me to just
Speaker 10: go ahead and continue to focus on foot which was big.
Speaker 10: And you know, all the people in Indie with the
Speaker 10: staff that helped her with that as well, was great.
Speaker 6: But you know, it was this business you never really
Speaker 6: played for.
Speaker 10: I don't know too many people who played for one
Speaker 10: team in their life, no matter how it happens, cut
Speaker 10: trade or just scignce somewhere else whatever. So knew it
Speaker 10: was part of business. And you know, I got grateful
Speaker 10: for my time in Buffalo and uh, definitely grateful for
Speaker 10: the time.
Speaker 6: And I had an Indian as well.
Speaker 1: You joined the Bengals this year as a free agent.
Speaker 1: Did you enjoy the free agency process because in the
Speaker 1: draft you have no choice?
Speaker 6: Uh, yeah, I think it was. It was a very
Speaker 6: very good experience.
Speaker 10: Obviously, my first time ever doing that, so you know,
Speaker 10: didn't really know what to expect, didn't really know.
Speaker 6: How things were going to shake out and things like that.
Speaker 10: Just had to put a lot of my trust and
Speaker 10: my agents to you know, make sure you know, they
Speaker 10: were doing whatever they need to do. On that side
Speaker 10: of it and have my inputs when I needed to.
Speaker 10: But I think my faith allowed me to just be
Speaker 10: able to relax and be cool throughout it all and
Speaker 10: just enjoy that time that I had you off season
Speaker 10: with my son and my wife in our home and
Speaker 10: just you know, be able to get ready for a
Speaker 10: new season somewhere.
Speaker 1: All Right, a few wild card topics now for Zach Moss.
Speaker 1: Who is your all time favorite athlete in any sport?
Speaker 6: Easy? Kobe Bryant for sure.
Speaker 10: I think just obviously everybody knows his mentality that he
Speaker 10: attacked every day with the way he chose to go
Speaker 10: about his life and things like that. I think for
Speaker 10: me as a kid, it was kind of quiet. Definitely
Speaker 10: as a kid, so Kobe was kind of a loner
Speaker 10: to some degree, so I just gravitated towards how he
Speaker 10: did things and you know, went about his work.
Speaker 1: What do you like to splur John Shoes.
Speaker 10: Big shoe guy. I've been collecting shoes ever since seventh grade.
Speaker 10: So anytime I get a chance to buy a shoe
Speaker 10: or get a shoe that was unable to get when
Speaker 10: I was younger or in college, you know, I definitely
Speaker 10: try to add that to my collection for sure.
Speaker 1: Do you have any unusual talents?
Speaker 10: Unusual talents? No, this is my only real talent. People
Speaker 10: always always do something and people ask that question and
Speaker 10: I'm like, dang, I have nothing, but no, not really.
Speaker 10: I just this is my real one talent, and I
Speaker 10: just tried to be as well round as I can
Speaker 10: in area other aspect.
Speaker 1: Final question for Zach Moss. This one's kind of deep.
Speaker 1: If you could meet anybody in history, living or deceased,
Speaker 1: who would that person be.
Speaker 10: I think being able to meet my mom's dad would
Speaker 10: have been pretty cool.
Speaker 6: Obviously.
Speaker 10: I think people go with a lot of celebrities and
Speaker 10: stuff like that, and I think for me, not being
Speaker 10: able to meet my mom's dad, you know, you kind
Speaker 10: of miss on kind of like who your mom was
Speaker 10: as a kid and things like that, so that would
Speaker 10: have been pretty cool. I know she talks about him
Speaker 10: a lot and mental lots her, so being able to
Speaker 10: meet him would have been nice.
Speaker 1: You're off the hot seat. I appreciate your time. Best
Speaker 1: of luck this year.
Speaker 6: I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Boss had ninety eight combined rushing and receiving yards and
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