WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Goin' Down 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:06.400 Hi and everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:13.840 the Bengals boot podcast, the Going Down, Down, Down Down edition, 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:16.159 as we take an in depth look back at the 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:19.680 bengals eighth straight loss to begin the season, a twenty 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:22.560 four to ten defeat in London to the La Rams. 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:26.320 Coming up, you'll hear radio replays, locker room comments from 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:29.000 players and coaches, and Dave lapp them will join me 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:33.520 for postgame analysis. Plus, in this week's fun Facts Conversation, 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:37.360 we'll meet the person under the pads as I'll talk 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:40.160 to a wide receiver who seems to make a spectacular 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:44.199 catch every single week, Odd and Tate. All of that 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:46.800 is straight ahead. But first, here's a quick reminder that 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:50.040 you can have the latest edition of this podcast delivered 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:54.800 right to your phone, tablet, or computer by subscribing iTunes, Stitcher, 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:58.880 Google Play, Spotify, or pod Bean. It's the greatest thing 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:03.920 since flight attendants. I spend a lot of time on planes, 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:07.280 and I have a tremendous amount of respect for flight attendants, 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:10.720 especially after an eight hour flight in the middle of 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:14.319 the night back from London. While most of the passengers slept, 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:17.959 the flight attendants stayed awake, served a couple of meals, 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:21.279 brought the drink cart through the cabin several times, cleaned 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:24.760 up after everybody, and did it all with a smile. 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:28.160 So here's to all of the flight attendants who do 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:31.960 what they can to put the friendly in the friendly skies. 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:35.920 Now let's get to this week's game. In recent weeks, 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:40.040 Zach Taylor has faced abundant criticism over his heavy use 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:43.360 of eleven personnel. In case you're not familiar with the 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:47.320 universal numbering lingo and football, the first digit is for 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:49.800 the number of running backs on the field and the 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:53.000 second digit is for the number of tight ends. So 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:57.760 eleven personnel is one running back, one tight end, and 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:00.920 three wide receivers, and the Bengals have used that grouping 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:04.360 more than any other team in football this year. It 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:07.720 obviously hasn't been working very well, and on Sunday at 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:11.519 Wembley Stadium, the Bengals decided to mix things up. They 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:15.200 made frequent use of multiple tight ends and it had 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:20.119 two positive effects. Number One, Tyler Eifert was a big 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:22.880 weapon in the passing game. Dalton looks to throw his 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:27.000 passage medal cot near midfield by Tyler Eiffert and Tyler 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:30.600 Eifert makes it to the Rams forty two yard line 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:33.880 for a huge gain on third down and five and 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:37.040 an ihop first down. Eiffert finished with six catches for 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:40.840 seventy four yards, but that wasn't the biggest positive. Having 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:43.720 Eiffert and cj Uzamba on the field at the same 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:48.200 time brought the bengals anemic rushing attack to life. Bengals 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:51.160 come out with double tight ends, but Eiffort detaches and 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.040 goes out wide to the right. Here's a run up 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:56.200 the medal mix and breaking tackles as he sprints forward 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.080 between the hash marks for a first down gain. He 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:02.000 runs for eleven now to the thirty six and it's 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:05.680 an ihop first down. Man Old Man, David Long, Junior. 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.080 You are a junior because the senior mixing just ran 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:12.120 you over. Mixing ran for fifty three yards on ten 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:14.840 carries in the first half and for a quarter and 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.840 a half, the Bengals went toe to toe with the 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:20.919 high powered Rams. First and ten. At the Bengals thirty 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.320 one golf back to throw throws over the middle. It 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:26.000 is caught at the five yard line and Reynolds takes 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:29.160 it into the end zone for a Rams touchdown. That 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:32.280 Jared Golf touchdown pass gave the Rams a ten three 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.520 lead in the second quarter. The Bengals answered with a 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:39.040 seventy five yard drive to tie the game. Second and goal, 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:42.200 just short of the one yard line. Dalton is under center. 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:46.200 Everybody bunched in tight. Stanley Morgan goes in motion from 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:48.160 left to right. Now motions back to the left. They 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:50.920 fake up him. They throw the Mixing names, he catches it. 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:57.000 Touchdown Bengals as Dalton floats one to Mixing at the 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:01.360 goal line for a Bengals touchdown. Was career touchdown pass 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:04.680 number one ninety seven for the Red Rifle, pulling him 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:09.240 even with Ken Anderson for the Bengals all time franchise record. 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:13.400 But the tie score only lasted for one minute and 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.480 twenty one seconds. Cooper Cup goes in motion. They give 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:18.559 it to him. Now they pitch it back to Golf 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:21.560 for a flea. Flicker throws for Cup wide open. The 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:25.720 Bengals defender falls down. Cooper Cup sprinting down the far 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:29.240 sideline and he will take it to the house. Unreal 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:32.719 Rams touchdown. That's sixty five yard touchdown gave the Rams 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:36.479 a seventeen ten halftime lead. And get these first half 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:40.400 numbers for wide receiver Cooper Cup. He had five catches 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:43.960 and they went for gains of twenty one, twenty five, 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:49.320 thirty one, twenty three and sixty five. That's one hundred 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:52.560 sixty five yards in the half. On the opening drive 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:55.680 of the third quarter, Cup added catches of fifteen and 0:04:56.040 --> 0:05:00.760 forty to finish with seven grabs for two hundred twenty yards. 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:04.680 Several of those catches came with Tony McCrae in coverage. 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:07.560 I talked to him about it after the game. I 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:10.880 could have competed well better against him than I did today. 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.760 He shouldn't have he shouldn't have had the yard as 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:18.080 he had, but he worked for it, so kudos anything 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:21.480 about him in particular that makes him so tough. Smart player, 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.039 understands what you're doing to him. He vet guy. You 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:28.680 can tell he's not only a good athlete, he understands 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:33.640 the game. You are visibly down about the outcome today, 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:37.800 and it's understandable. Why are you taking this one especially 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:42.479 hard personally? Yeah? I feel like I prepare well, just 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:44.920 didn't execute the way I should have executed it today. 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.000 Whenever you take a loss, shoe, look at yourself and 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:51.240 I'm looking at myself right now. Mccraig's honesty is commandable. 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:55.200 But Cooper Cup's huge game wasn't all his fault. I 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:59.400 asked Dave Lapham why Cincinnati could not cover Cup. I 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:01.520 think the bank were their own worst enemy in a 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:05.279 lot of cases, with bad discipline in their own coverages. 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:09.159 He had huge cavities. I mean a guy like that 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:12.360 coming into the game with over fifty catches. He was 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:14.640 second in the NFL and he was fifth in yards, 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:17.200 So you know, it's not like you know that he 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:20.600 can't make play. So for him to be as open 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:23.160 as he was at times, and you know his Bengals 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:26.159 hurt themselves. But the guy is a great player. Shoot, 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:29.039 he's fast, he's good hands, I mean, he's smart, catches 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.200 the heck out of the football. And like I said, 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:34.440 coming in he was in the top five in both 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:37.920 categories and second and catches. So you don't you don't 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:39.960 want to you don't want to have a guy like that, 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.080 you know, get off on you like he did, because 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:45.240 you know he was capable of it coming into the 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:47.960 game based on his Prouder stats. So the Rams were 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:50.920 up by seven at the half and heading into the game, 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:54.479 Los Angeles was twenty one in oh with a halftime 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:58.320 lead under Sean McVeagh. The key to that stat is 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:01.600 adding to halftime leads, which the Rams did on their 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:04.960 opening drive of the third quarter. Sean McVay covering his 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:07.839 mouth with his play sheet as he describes what he 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:10.040 wants into the helmet radio of golf. It's a toss 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:12.480 sweep to the left and Gurley down to the five 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:17.520 toward the pylon. Touchdown Rams. That made a twenty four 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:20.440 to ten and that was it for the Rams offense. 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:24.960 They punted on their final four drives of the game. Unfortunately, 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:28.640 the Bengals couldn't capitalize. Third down and seven, the Bengals 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:31.520 at their own twenty four. Dalton catches the shotgun snap 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:34.920 and he sacked. He'll drop back to throw Andy will 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:38.480 be sacked by Aaron Donald, who pile drives him into 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:41.960 the Wembley turf for a loss of three. Dalton under 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:45.120 pressure and he will be sacked for the fifth time today. 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.400 Back at the twenty eight yard line. Down by fourteen, 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:50.320 with a little more than five minutes to go, the 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:53.520 Bengals had one last good chance to make it a game, 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:56.840 but they needed a touchdown on fourth and goal from 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.880 the Rams six. Empty backfield for Andy Dalton, who waits 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:03.720 the eleven yard line for the shotgun snap quick throw slamp. 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:07.040 It is caught and the tackle is made. The Bengals 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:10.360 will not convert tackle made it to three yard line 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:13.480 and the Bengals on the past the Stanley Morgan Junior 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.240 do not get in. That was the sixth time this 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.520 year that the Bengals have driven into the red zone 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:22.680 without scoring a single point. Before the game was finished, 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:25.840 they made it seven times from the nine yard line. 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:28.800 Final play of the game, Dalton, looking to throw, scrambling 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.560 to the right eyes in the end zone, cocks the arm, 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:34.520 throws into the back of the end zone, battered away 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:38.400 intended for Auden Tate, and the game is over. The 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:42.720 Bengals remained winless. They are oh and eight for the 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:46.439 sixth time in franchise history. They fall to the Rams 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:49.800 today by the final score of twenty four to ten. 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:53.160 Dalton finished with three hundred twenty nine passing yards and 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:57.120 the Bengals ran for one oh four that's roughly twice 0:08:57.160 --> 0:09:00.200 what they've been getting on the ground per game, but 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:04.840 the combination of goff to cup killed them time to 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:07.439 hear from head coach Zach Taylor, who spent three minutes 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:09.960 with Lap after the game. Got the running game going 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:13.480 a little bit in the first half, and um, you know, 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:15.960 you're using your multiple tight end packages and they were 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:18.080 trying to figure out how to how to match up 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:19.520 with it, and you guys, you guys gashed them a 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:22.480 few times. We did. You know that was encouraging. Um, 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.120 I thought our guys up fun did a great job 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:27.040 backs back Sneward hit it. We're doing an excellent job there. 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:29.280 And then tight ends factored in as well. But that 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:32.199 was certainly good start to the first half. So um. 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:35.680 Obviously they didn't run the ball real well, but Goff 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:37.800 started taking advantage of the middle of the field. It 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:39.840 looked like quite a few times in Cooper Cup. You 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.520 know all about these guys. I mean that guy's he's 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:44.959 something special, isn't he. Yeah, they got a bunch of 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:46.680 talented players and that's why they went to the Super 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:48.160 bowlash year. They got a lot of faith in them. 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:51.800 And you know, it works together. You know, we gotta 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:53.480 make sure we put pressure on there and claps the 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:55.319 pocket so that it didn't have the time to throw 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:57.840 down the field and um never sometimes we have some 0:09:57.880 --> 0:09:59.760 poor zone discipline there on the back end, and we 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:03.120 got better job there. Had a couple of interception opportunities 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:04.920 in a game like this, when they're there, you got 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:06.679 to you gotta catch him right. You can't let them. 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:08.400 You can't let him. So three hands it was gonna 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:09.760 be the difference in winning it losing. You know, we 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:12.000 got to create some turnovers and we certainly had some 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:14.480 opportunities there and guys, I gotta step up and make 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:17.440 those plays. Those can be touchdowns the other way, big explosives, 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:19.079 you know, game changing plays and we gotta find a 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:22.960 way to make them. Alex Erickson ended up with six 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:27.120 catches for ninety seven yards, including that fifty two yard 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:29.520 or up the sideline. Tyler right for six catches for 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:32.439 seventy four yards, So there was some distribution of football 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:34.880 and tight made some big plays for you. They took 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.079 the touchdown away there at the end of the football game, 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:40.240 but it looked like you know, Andy had he set 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:42.880 a record for three hundred yard passing days. He was 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:46.200 thirty thirty five for fifty two three twenty nine yards 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:48.800 and a touchdown, So you guys were moving the football 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:51.439 we were just too many reds and opportunities that got 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:52.679 away from us. You know, we have the two we 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:54.040 ended up inside the tent at the end of the 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:56.480 game with no points and situations we had to go 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:58.520 for and fourth down three points wasn't gonna help us stare. 0:10:58.520 --> 0:10:59.719 And then we had plenty of times there on the 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:03.120 red on fringe where we went backwards and either got 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.559 knocked out of field goal range or took ourselves out 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:07.840 of fourth and go for it situation. So that was hard. 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:10.120 That's the difference in winning and losing. And that one drive, 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:12.600 I think he had four straight fourth down conversions. I mean, 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:16.079 you just kept kept going forward and making the conversience, 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:17.760 except like you said, when it was in the deep 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:20.600 in the deep red zone, and you know that that 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:23.240 obviously becomes a different dynamic a little bit. Yeah, you 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:25.360 guys had a lot of confidence what we're asking to do, 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:29.480 and so when you feel that energy, there's situations where 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:30.800 we felt like we needed to go for it to 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:32.400 give ourselves the best chance one of the game, and 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:35.480 our guys stepped up and executed. I played on a 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:37.520 team that started all eight coach in the in the 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:40.720 late seventies and our mindset at the bye, there wasn't 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:43.560 really a buye. But at the halfway point we said, okay, 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.760 didn't go right in the first half, So that's one 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:49.400 season that's over with. Let's start the second half and 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.960 make this the second season and see if we can 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:53.960 win some football games. We ended up winning half of them, 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:56.640 went four and four. Is that kind of the mindset now? 0:11:57.080 --> 0:11:59.160 It is, you know, And we still got to take 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:01.800 it one game at a time, starting with a divisional 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:04.640 game at home, which is which is one we'd certainly 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:06.280 want to get after they got us on the road, 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:08.439 and the pie comes at the right time, you know, 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:09.959 we get a chance to get some guys healthy, get 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:12.040 our depth back and make a charge here on the 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:14.000 second half of the season. And I know guys are 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:16.360 believing that we're close. We're there. We can we can 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:18.520 break through this barrier man and start winning a lot 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:20.679 of football games. And we're close. We just gotta get 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:23.760 it done. Bengals are oh and eight for the first 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.960 time since OH eight in the second half of that 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:29.720 season they went four to three and one and then 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:33.760 one the AFC North in two thousand and nine. Now 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.920 time for some postgame analysis as Dave Lapham and I 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:41.280 discussed the bengals fifteenth loss in their last sixteen games. 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:43.640 A few things stood out to me after this game. 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:47.640 Lap number one, too many third and long conversions for 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:52.839 the Rams against the Bengals defense. Number two squandered opportunities 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:57.040 to intercept passes unofficially three of those today. And number 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:01.240 three too much Cooper Cup twenty saiving yards the Bengals 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:04.560 could not stop. Number eighteen for the Rams. He's the 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:06.080 one that made a lot of those third and long 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.520 plays too. I mean, he was, he was phenomenally. He 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:10.760 had what seven catches for two hundred and twenty yards, 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:14.440 over thirty one yards of catch, sixty five yard touchdown. 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:18.160 He was. He was magic out there, particularly in the 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:21.480 first half. You know, I thought that originally in the 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:25.760 first half the Rams had some problems matching up with 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:27.920 the two tight end formation and running game. The running 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.560 game got started pretty well. Joe Mixon had over fifty 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:34.040 yards rushing in that in that first half. And then 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:37.400 you know, again, kind of the circumstances the game dictate 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:39.280 you had to get away from that a little bit. 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:41.760 And and he throws it fifty two times. I mean, 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:43.560 he throws for over three hundred yards to set a 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:47.120 record for three hundred yard passing games in the franchise history. 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:49.760 But uh, you know, he much rather would run it 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:51.800 fifty two times and win the football game. I can 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:56.240 tell you that right now. So you know, obviously, you know, 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:58.559 not enough, not enough points. You can't can't win in 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:01.520 the NFL scoring ten points, you can't win in the NFL. 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:03.880 Given up, you know, third and ten or more as 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:07.160 many times has occurred, and uh, you know that honestly, 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:11.240 there was some some discipline problems with zone coverages, you know, 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:14.720 in the back end of things that that caused some problems. 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:17.600 For sure, it's hard to be encouraged by a fourteen 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:20.760 point loss, but one building block for the Bengals was 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:23.720 the fact that they outrushed the Rams. We know about 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:26.800 that running game disparity this year that's been so bad 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.600 for the Bengals. Well they did outrush one of the 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:32.800 NFL's better rushing teams. Yeah, they're not running out like 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:35.520 they have in the last couple of years, but you know, 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:37.720 I'm sure they wanted to run involve better than they 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:41.280 did tonight. Um and the Bengals did show some life 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:43.840 that ground game, Like I said with the first half, 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:46.600 particularly with the two tight ends set that I think, 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:49.520 you know, Rams had to make some adjustments with a 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:50.920 little bit and how they were going to come out 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:55.720 and handle it. So unfortunately, again you know, too little, 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:59.040 too little, too late kind of scenario. And the problem 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:02.360 was in the red zone again, a couple of opportunities 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.480 down the stretch of the game where come away with 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:06.680 no points and a couple of red zone opportunities, want 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:10.400 to overturn touchdown catched and you know rightfully so, I mean, 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:12.920 the ball didn't move, the ball didn't bounce, but it 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:14.880 was that close to be in a touchdown for aud 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:16.440 and Tat and that would have said another record for 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:19.200 Andy Dalton if that had happened. But again, these records 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:21.240 ring hollow to him if they don't win football games. 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:22.840 He would be the first one to say that. I know. 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:26.560 In fact, he said it in the postgame show. Zach 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:29.040 Taylor's message to the team after the game. We got 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:31.160 to treat it like were zero and zero going to 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:33.960 the buy come back as if it were the first game. 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:37.080 Obviously it's not, but that's what they have to try 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:39.880 to put into their minds and start the second half 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:42.640 of the season in much better form. Yeah, I mean, 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:45.520 you just got a reboot basically, you know, And that's 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:49.080 what everybody was, you know, echoing Zack's comments, and you know, 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.920 after the game in the postgame locker room, and and 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:54.120 you know, I mentioned to Zach Wan to talk to him. 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:56.520 I said, I've been there and I lived on don't 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:59.040 know on eight team, and we basically said, all right. 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:01.080 There was no buy back then, but we said, we're 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:03.480 at the halfway point. Hasn't worked out. We got to 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:05.760 put that aside as seasons over with. It was the 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:08.600 worst season we ever experienced. I start a second season 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:10.880 and see what we can do. And we ended up 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:13.600 four and four. And his response was, that's exactly what 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:16.200 we're talking about doing. But you know, we're not looking 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:18.560 at eight games, an overall eight game record. We got 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:21.520 we gotta go beat the Baltimore Ravens, who is a 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:24.080 division opponent. They spanked us in Baltimore. We want to 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:26.000 we want to get off, you know, off on the 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:27.800 right track to start the second half of the season 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:30.160 with a division win. And you know, that's the mindset 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:32.720 you have to take. And right now, during the bye week, 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:36.720 I think as much as try to get healthy physically, 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:39.000 you got to get healthy mentally and come back with 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:41.600 that frame of mind. And and you know, maybe they'll 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:43.880 start to get some players back that they desperately need 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:47.000 to add to their depth, you know, and some guys 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:48.960 who played more snaps than they thought they would probably 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:50.960 in the first half of the season. If they get 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.960 some guys returning, that could be beneficial down the stretch. 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:57.160 How did they handle Aaron die in your opinion, I 0:16:57.240 --> 0:16:59.200 thought I thought pretty well. I mean he had the one, 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.440 the one big, you know, tackle for loss. But I 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:05.960 think it takes a village to handle him. And I 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:08.040 think they recruited everybody in the village, you know, I 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:11.679 think everybody had had a hand in it. And you know, 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:14.440 even even when you with that said, when you're doing that, 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:17.080 it creates one on ones for foul or another guys 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.560 that just you know, rockers, they all take advantage of 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:24.520 their opportunities and they love having a teammate like Aaron Donald. 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:26.680 That's gonna every time you come to the line of experiments. 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:29.320 You have to identify him the quarterback. Everybody has to 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:31.240 identify him and make sure you give four hands and 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:34.200 four eyes on the guy prior to that game. Lap 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:36.920 we were standing on the pitch, as they would say, 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:39.520 at Wembley Stadium and watched A J. Green go through 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:42.919 a pretty aggressive workout. I suspect he'll be back for 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:44.879 the next game against Baltimore. What do you think I 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:47.119 do too? I mean, I think so, And you know, 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:49.320 I think there's a there's a laundry list of guys 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:51.760 that might be able to come back. You know, when 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:54.160 you look at it, dark Quest and arms at the hamstring, 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:57.040 maybe that's aggressive depending on the severity of the hamstring 0:17:57.080 --> 0:17:59.800 and where it's pulled. The higher up at the hamstring, 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:02.359 the worst the issue is. So I'm not sure about that. 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:05.040 Draker Patrick with his knee, Carl Lawson with his hamstring, 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:07.760 John Miller with the groin. I mean, there's a there's 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:09.960 a few guys that you know might be able to 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:12.879 make their way back. So obviously the depth will be 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:15.800 significantly better down the stretch of start getting some of 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:18.919 these guys back, and uh, you know they're can Obviously 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:21.800 real good football players are the guys have probably played 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:25.159 snaps that they weren't expecting necessarily to play in the 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:27.240 positions that they're playing them in. But that's just going 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:29.760 to add to the overall depth of the football team 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:31.879 for the second half of the season and during the 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:33.920 bye week. Man, it's a two step process. You get 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:36.399 yourself physically right, you know, with treatment and rest, and 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:38.480 mentally right, you know, you got to get your mind 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:40.760 right to come back and turn it around in the 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:43.280 second half of the season and you can get some ws, 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:46.200 get some victories under their belts. The Bengals have had 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:49.720 five previous oh and eight starts in their history. On 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:52.800 four of the five previous times that happened, they won 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:55.359 game number nine, So we'll see if they can do 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:58.320 it this time around. Back home at Paul Brown Stadium 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:01.920 against the Ravens and a couple of weeks. Ravens are 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:03.960 five and two and currently have a two and a 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:07.359 half game lead in the AFC north over Pittsburgh. The 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:09.840 two and four Steelers have a home game on Monday 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:13.919 night against the Windless Dolphins. Now time for this week's 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:16.240 fun Facts interview, where we get to know the person 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:20.200 under the pads. This week, it's a member of last 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:24.000 year's rookie class who has to be among the NFL 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:28.560 leaders in spectacular catches so far this season. Time for 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:31.639 some fun Facts with wide receiver Auden Tate born in 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:35.120 South Carolina, but went to high school and college in Florida. 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:38.240 When people ask you where you're from, what do you say? 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:44.000 From Armo, South Carolina, live in Tampa Bay, Parsley, but 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:47.360 from Irma, South Carolina. Why did you move to Florida 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:50.080 when you were a kid. My dad's a pastor. You 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:53.400 wanted to start to church down in Tampa Bay. You're 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:56.480 six five. Were you always the tallest kid in the neighborhood? 0:19:57.080 --> 0:20:00.720 Ni him on Grossberts about nine grade. Before that, I 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:03.160 played like running back and point guard and stuff like that. 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:06.399