WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Can't Stop The Feeling 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.240 I get everybody on Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.240 The Bengals Booth Podcast. The I Can't stop the Feelance. 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:13.960 We're just dance dance, Dan Can't stop the fee Lance 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:19.120 or just dance Dance Dance addition, as the Bengals clinched 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:21.880 the AFC Norths with a heart stopping, come from behind 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:25.400 win over the Kansas City Chiefs. Coming up, you'll hear 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:29.320 radio replays from the win, postgame comments from players and coaches, 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:33.159 and analysis from my broadcast partner Dave Lapham. 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It's the greatest thing since Marlena van 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:12.600 Huss Marlena sang the national anthem on Sunday, and for 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:16.560 my money, nobody does it better. The twenty six year old, 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:19.960 who was born blind, began singing and playing the piano 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:23.040 at age two and has the voice of an angel. 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:26.320 So Marlena, if you ever want to sing the first 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:29.720 line of a popular song to begin this podcast, it 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:33.319 would be an honor to have you. Now, let's get 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.600 to Sunday's game. It didn't start well for the Bengals 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.640 after the two teams traded punts on their opening drives. 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:42.679 Patrick Mahomes through a pair of touchdown passes to give 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:46.560 Kansas City a fourteen nothing lead. Tyreek Hill motions and 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:48.400 lines up in the slot to the right. Mahomes with 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:50.240 a play action fake. He's going to air it out. 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:53.919 Teep down Field, caught in the end zone for the touchdown, 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:58.240 reeled in by DeMarcus Robinson. Mahomes fakes a handoff. He's 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:00.840 back to throw short pass, has caught at the goal 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:05.600 line Travis Kelsey with a touchdown catch. The Bengals were 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:08.400 down by two touchdowns in the first quarter and needed 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:12.359 a spark. Jamar Chase provided it on second down in 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:16.000 seven from their own twenty eight, trailing fourteen nothing. First quarter, 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:19.800 Burrow catches a shotgun snap, drops back three steps, throws, 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:21.720 got a man wide open at the forty. It is caught. 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:24.919 Chase the barfield come right away to the forty. The 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:30.639 chegs thirty two, chege twenty the ten, the five touchdown, 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:37.040 Bengals seventy two yards Burrow to Chase. The throw from 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:41.000 Burrow covered twelve yards. Jamar ran for the final sixty 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:43.480 after the catch, and it couldn't have come in a 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:46.120 better time. According to Zach Taylor, I would agree with 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.280 you there just because it was it was just pretty 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:50.760 a stand or third down play. He ran what we 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:54.200 call pressure route ten to twelve yards speedout, caught it 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:57.480 as more of a cover two inside hole shot, and 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.160 then put his foot in the ground and outran the 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:02.080 whole defense for touchdown. Are you know? And you can't 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:05.800 coach that, that's just that's just Jamar Chase being Jamar Chase. 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:08.640 But a few minutes later the Chiefs answered with Patrick 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:12.120 Mahomes being Patrick Mahomes, Chiefs at their own thirty five 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:15.360 crowd getting into it. Mahomes back to throw, has time, 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:18.600 He's gonna fire deep down field and it is caught 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.720 at the Bengals thirty and running out of bounds with 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:25.120 a huge gain as McCole Hardman at the Cincinnati eleven 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:28.160 yard line, he's chased out by Hilton. That fifty three 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:30.560 yard pass led to a one yard touchdown run by 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:33.680 Darryl Williams to put the Chiefs back on top by fourteen, 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:36.840 but not for long. First and ten from the eighteen 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:40.440 Burrow throwing it toward the end zone, Chase feats his 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:47.040 man shoulder throw, touchdown Bengals as Jamar Chase goes into 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:50.160 the Gritty Dance for the second time in the first half, 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.560 and the Bengals answer again. The inventor of the dance, 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:57.840 Alan Gritty Davis, was in attendance as Jamar's guest. That 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:01.640 touchdown made it twenty one fourteen, but in the first half, 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:04.680 the Bengals couldn't stop Mahomes. He led the Chiefs on 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:08.080 their fourth straight touchdown drive, ending with another one yard 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:10.840 run by Williams that made it twenty eight fourteen. With 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:14.400 two eighteen left and a half before the game, the 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:17.640 Bengals won the toss and elected to defer, giving them 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:21.120 the chance to end the first half with points before 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:24.839 opening the second half by scoring again. They got three 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:27.880 in the final minute of the half. McPherson is set 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:29.760 the snap to put down the swing of the right 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:33.960 leg and it is beautiful. A forty six yard field 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.760 goal by Evan McPherson made it an eleven point deficit 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:40.040 at halftime. Not ideal, but it could have been worse. 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:42.960 Here's Zach Taylor. We weathered the storm. We didn't think 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.560 this was going to be easy. You probably don't think 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:48.160 that you're gonna shut the Chiefs out. They're gonna make plays, 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:51.200 and they've got some of the premier guys at those positions. 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:53.359 And in a lot of the plays they made the 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.360 first half, you know, he created some We were good 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:57.520 initially in coverage and he created some time and they 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:58.960 made some plays down the field, and that was kind 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:01.960 of a message a halftime is they've made some great plays. 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:04.520 We've been in pretty good position, they've made some outstanding plays. 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:07.479 So our time's gonna come. We just gonna calm down, 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:10.040 keep putting the pressure on on offensive scorn points and 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:11.960 let our defense kind of get settled down a little bit. 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:13.760 And that's what they did, and ultimately that's how we 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:16.080 won the game. On their third play of the second half, 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:20.080 the Burrow to Chase combination proved deadly again. Burrow back 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:23.679 to throw, good protection, fires deep down the stee Chase 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:27.159 one open sprinting down feet of the twenty the ten 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:34.600 touchdown BEng on real sixty nine yards Burrow with his 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:39.080 second long touchdown of the day to Jamar Chase had 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:43.120 his third overall the Nubau Uno, a seventy two yarder 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:45.839 in the first quarter and that sixty nine yarder in 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:49.760 the third. The Chiefs tried to frequently blitz Burrow and 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:54.200 play man coverage against Chase, a strategy that failed miserably. 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:56.960 Here's Burrow. You know, if you're gonna flame one on one, 0:05:57.320 --> 0:05:59.000 you know a lot of time, it's gonna be a 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.840 long day for you. And now he's a great player. 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:03.760 He's gonna be a great player for for a long time. 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:06.200 Great person too. He doesn't care if he gets two 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:09.520 hundred and sixty yards and three touchdowns or if he 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:11.640 gets zero yards, and everyone else, you know, makes all 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:14.160 the all the yards. So great guy, having your team. 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:17.039 The Bengals trailed twenty twenty four going to the fourth 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:20.280 quarter and put together their longest drive of the day, 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:24.040 an eighty six yard march that ended with burrows fourth 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:28.159 touchdown pass shotgun snap, Burrow retreats looking, throws into the 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:30.960 back of the end zone. Yea, Tyler Boyds got it. 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:36.400 Ye touchdown Bengals. Hey steer the back pylon. Tyler Boyd 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.240 with great footwork. And now he sits up in the 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:43.880 stands and flocks his boat biceps. Has the Bengals take 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:47.640 the lead for the first time today. That's just field awareness, 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:51.200 that's body control, and on top of everything else, that 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:54.920 is just a perfect throw by number nine. After throwing 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:58.040 for five hundred twenty five yards and four touchdowns last week, 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:00.920 Burrow followed it up with four forty six and four 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:04.640 more tds. In the process, he broke Andy Dalton's team 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:08.839 records for passing yards and touchdowns in a season. After 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:11.880 the game, Zach Taylor was asked if he could put 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:15.480 into words what Burrow means to the franchise. No, I can't. 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:18.560 I don't think anybody can. You know, he's we had 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:20.600 great expectations for him, and so far as say, he's 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:23.760 exceeded the expectations. And of course he's got championships on 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:26.840 his brain. He's not about winning big regular season games. 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:28.600 You know, I know that that's that's why he's here. 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:31.400 He's a he was always playing for championships in high school, 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:35.320 winning championships in college, and his expectation has always been 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:37.160 to elevate this franchise to be able to compete for 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:40.400 championships here. And it's not going to be easy. M 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:42.320 We've got a lot of work to do. We're not 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:45.080 even close yet to doing all those great things, but 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:47.400 certainly a big step in the right direction today. And 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:49.640 then there's no question that Joe is at the forefront 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.640 of leadership on this team, and this team jumps on 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:55.280 his back and he'll carry us as far as at him. 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:57.800 The Bengals had a thirty one twenty eight lead, but 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:01.040 there were nearly twelve minutes remaining, and after punting on 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.840 both of their possessions in the third quarter, the Chiefs 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:07.320 drove to the Bengal sixteen before getting stopped on third 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:09.880 and five. They settled for a field goal to tied 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.880 the game at thirty one. The Bengals got the ball 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:16.239 back with six minutes to go and Burrow took charge. 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:18.600 Burrow extends the hands, Here comes a blitz. He's back 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:21.400 to throw, He's gonna fire down the sideline. He chase 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:24.640 those up and over his defender makes the catch for 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:28.600 another huge game. He had two oh one before that 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:32.400 catch and reels in another big play before going out 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:36.679 abounds at the twenty four of Kansas City Ward in 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:40.800 coverage and Jamar Chase is a man among boys. That 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:44.080 thirty five yard pass put the Bengals well within field 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:47.720 goal range, but a holding penalty and a sack cost 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:52.040 them seventeen yards and made it third and forever, third 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:55.240 down in twenty seven at the forty one of KSEC 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:58.120 thirty one, all is the score. Here comes a blitz. 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:01.960 Burrow is going to throw it four Chase. Chase has 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:05.000 got it. He's got it and goes out the boat 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:08.800 for the first down. Real unreal. At the twelve yard 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:12.800 time he beat char various forward and now Jamar Chase 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:17.240 is getting close to Chad Johnson's all time record for 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:21.000 receiving yards in a game. Chad's record was two sixty 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:24.640 and Jamar broke it with eleven catches for two sixty six, 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:28.280 including one hundred and five yards after the catch. He 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:30.920 also set a new record for receiving yards in a 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.720 season by a rookie in the Super Bowl Era with 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:37.720 one thousand, four hundred twenty nine. That's twenty nine yards 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:40.720 more than the fourteen hundred posted by his former LSU 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:45.080 teammate Justin Jefferson last year. On Draft night, Jamar said 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:47.960 he was going to break every receiving record the Bengals have, 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.600 and it looks like he wasn't kidding around. I mean, 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:53.319 I know I could do it. I mean something, you know, 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:54.840 if you put him onto it, then you can do it, 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:56.080 you know, And that's what I wanted to do. I 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:58.800 came in here with that plan. My rouda donna came 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:00.320 in with that plan, and I'm gonna stick with it. 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:03.120 I'm just I just gotta keep working. Still a long 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.400 way to go. After the game, Chase was shot to 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:09.520 learn that he had seven more receiving yards than Mahomes 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:12.360 had passing yards. I don't think I did that in 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:17.840 a way I did. Oh sorry, sorry, excuse him up. 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:26.000 Apology accepted. After Chase's final catch of the day, three 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:28.559 straight Joe Mixon runs gave the Bengals a first and 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.640 goal at the one with two minutes to go. Burrow 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:35.040 tried a quarterback sneak and got stopped. He tried another 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:38.160 and got stoned again. The Bengals handed it to Mixon 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.040 and he didn't get in. It was fourth and goal 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:43.800 inside the one, and rather than kick a field goal 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:46.560 to take the lead, Zach Taylor went for it and 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:50.280 a pass to Mixon didn't work. He got tackled inside 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:53.960 the one, but there were offsetting penalties and the Bengals 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:56.480 got to try again. The Chiefs crowd the middle of 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:59.160 the defensive line, Burrow back to throw, rolling to the right, 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.600 looking back to the throws into the end zone. Another 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:05.120 homeplate penalty flag in the end zone. A hand of 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:07.559 the face penalty gave the Bengals a first down at 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:10.480 the one with forty six seconds to go. The Chiefs 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:13.079 were out of timeouts, so the Bengals took the clock 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:16.480 down to two seconds and called on Evan Money mac 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:20.000 McPherson to attempt the game winner two seconds left. This 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:21.880 will be a twenty yard attempt from the middle of 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:24.920 the field to send the Bengals into the postseason. Kevin 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:27.599 huber Is ready catches the snap, puts it down. The 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:34.880 kick is on the day. Yeah, he's good. The Cincinnati 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:42.000 Bengals clinch the AFC North and prove they can beat 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:47.920 anybody as they rally from fourteen down on three separate 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:53.680 occasions and beats the Kansas City Chiefs thirty four, two 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:58.040 thirty one. They beat the AFC West Champs six times 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:02.920 in a row. They beat the perennial champs in so doing. 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:07.319 How about that, sports fans, So a five year playoff 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.120 drought is over. The Bengals will open the playoffs at 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:13.719 home after capturing the AFC North with one game to go. 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:17.400 Right now, they're the number three playoff seed in the AFC, 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:21.160 but the Bengals could climb to number one and get 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:24.400 a buy if three things happen in the final week. 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:28.680 The Bengals beat the Browns, the top seeded Titans lose 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:32.760 at Houston, and the second seeded Chiefs lose at Denver. 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:35.560 Here's Zach Taylor. You gotta play your best football at 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:37.560 the end of the season going to the playoffs, and 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:40.160 right now I think we're playing pretty good football. The 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:42.280 confidence is really high in the locker room. You don't 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:43.839 want to take a team into the playoffs. That's just 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:47.559 feeling like, oh man, we fit a loll and And again, 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:49.720 I think these guys are really good. Spot mentally right now. 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.080 Taylor was a little choked up at the beginning of 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:55.200 his postgame news conference, and Joe Burrow is thrilled for 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:58.240 his head coach. I had my first meeting with Zach 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:01.200 at the combine. I knew, I knew exactly what kind 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:02.840 of coach that we had, and I knew exactly where 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:06.800 I wanted to be. He's a great offensive mind and 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:08.880 a great leader of men. You know, he's a great job. 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:11.280 I couldn't have asked for a better situation. And lead 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:14.679 it to two Ohio kids, Burrow and Sam Hubbard, to 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:17.920 describe what it all means to Cincinnati, I would say 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:21.040 it means more because I'm from Ohio. I know the 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:24.160 history of the Bengals, you know, I know the ownership 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:27.040 that we have has taken a lot of heat. But they, 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:28.679 I mean, they do a great job and have done 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.240 a great job building this team. And so you know, 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:34.160 a lot of credit to the Brown family for doing that. 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:37.520 And like I said, they did a great job hiring Zach. 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.040 Couldn't have asked for a better situation from ownership all 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:42.800 the way down. Yeah. I just had one of the 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:45.839 people involved in the organization tell me how happy Mike 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:48.320 Brown was, you know is on the verge of tiers, 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.560 and that just is really a special feeling because you know, 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:55.240 it really is a great family run organization. They take 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:58.360 care of us, and to get this win for the city, 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:01.880 this team, it's it means. As he did after winning 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:04.800 the National Championship a couple of years ago, Burrow lit 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:08.040 up a victory cigar after the game, one that was 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:11.440 mysteriously left in front of his locker by Joe. Mixon 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:13.920 actually answered me a couple of weeks ago and I 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:15.840 came in and it was sitting on my chessboard and 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:17.960 I didn't really know who gave it to me until today, 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:19.320 and he said, I gave it to you a couple 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:21.720 of weeks ago. I said, oh, thanks, Joe, appreciate perfect timing. 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:24.040 The Bengals are ten and six and head to Cleveland 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:27.200 next week. The Browns have been eliminated from playoff contention 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:30.800 and faced the Steelers on Monday night in Pittsburgh. The 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:34.360 Bengals Booth podcast is presented by Ultimate Bengals, the free 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:37.960 to play fantasy football game. Ultimate Bengals will be awarding 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.880 a weekly winner during the course of the season with tickets, 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:45.520 autograph merchandise and money can't buy experiences all up for grabs. 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:49.120 Find Ultimate Bengals in the App Store and Google Play. 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:53.280 Now time for postgame analysis with my broadcast partner Dave 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:56.880 Lapham So Lap the Bengals not only wrapped up the 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.080 AFC North, but they beat a team that was the 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.000 number one playoffs in the a FC and had an 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:03.640 eight game winning streak in Kansas City. What does that 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:07.120 say about the Bengals ability now to possibly have a 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:09.280 run in the postseason. Yeah, I mean, I think it 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:12.240 says a lot. I think the Kansas City Chiefs are 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:15.520 obviously playing for the number one seed, you know. Now 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:18.320 there's no guarantee of that, you know, depending on how 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:21.280 how things unfold. So it wasn't like the game didn't 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:24.080 mean anything to them, and they obviously had to overcome 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:26.640 some issues up front with their offensive line. The Bengals 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:30.320 did as well, and this was a classic game of 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:35.040 even really really good football teams going to lose football 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:40.560 games if they make critical mistakes a serious, very important 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:43.520 moments of the football game in Kansas City, honestly, down 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:45.800 the stretch made more mistakes than the Bengals did, So 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.520 I think it is it does signal that we're here. 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:53.160 We can beat anybody if we play our type of 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:59.920 football and play smart, intense football and don't don't make 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:03.200 mistakes that are going to hurt you. Jamar Chase had 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:06.480 the best performance by a Bengals wide receiver ever eleven catches, 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:09.600 two hundred and sixty six yards, three touchdowns. What amazed 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:14.880 you most how very rarely was he wide open. I 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:20.840 mean he and Barrow have that innate connection where if 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:25.280 you're even that guy's lost, I mean Jamar Chase and 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.200 Joe Barrow is going to throw the football if Jamar 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:30.920 Chase is just anywhere close to being even with a guy, 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:33.000 never mind beating a guy, and he's going to throw 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.160 it to a spot that Jamar Chase knows he's going 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:36.640 to throw it too, and Jamar Chase is going to 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:39.480 make a play in the football. And just his ability 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:41.760 after the catches I think what jumped out to me today. 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:44.280 I mean, they played so much just straight man on him, 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:47.960 and it really wasn't terrible coverage. But he is so physical. 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:50.760 I mean guys bounce off him when they he just 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:53.720 he just throws people around. He's a man amongst boys 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:57.200 in that regard and his yards after catch on the 0:16:57.240 --> 0:16:59.520 seventy yard touchdown. I know, we're sixty yards right there. 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:01.320 I don't know how many of his two yre and 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:04.400 sixty plus yards were after the catch, but I'd say 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:07.000 at least half of them, you know, maybe close to 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:11.000 two thirds of those bad boys or after catch. And 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:16.639 it's just it's remarkable the trust that's been built between 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:20.320 Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase. I mean, Joe Burrow throw 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:23.520 will throw him the football in the process of him 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:25.680 running a route where it's like, why did he think 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:27.320 that Jamar Chase was going to be able to make 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:31.399 that play? And he basically when he sees man coverage, 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:36.520 he believes Jamar Chase is inmunicipal. Last week, Burrow through 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:39.879 for five to twenty five and four touchdowns. His passer 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:42.359 rating today was even better than it was last week, 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:45.920 one forty eight today one forty three point two last week. 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:49.879 Should we be looking at Joe Burrow as an MVP candidate. 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:53.680 He's making a push, I think, I mean, there's there's 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:55.960 no question about it. The Bengals, for the first time 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:58.440 all season, have a three game winning streak of the 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:01.160 most opportune time to have it, and it clinches them 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:05.760 the AFC North, I think he should be in the conversation. 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:08.040 You know, there's like, okay, comeback player of the Year 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:12.720 Dak Prescott obviously is like the lock, the lock on it. 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:15.320 Joe Borrow, what about Joe Barrow? Are you kidding me? 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:18.800 I mean that guy should get a lot of consideration MVP. 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:21.719 You know, there's maybe a couple of candidates are more 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:23.919 of a lock. But he's in the conversation for a 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:26.880 lot of things. I think the way he's playing football 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:31.720 right now, and honestly, I'm not sure that he shouldn't 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:36.359 be in the conversation for highest IQ in the National 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:42.640 Football League. This guy, he is very, very difficult to fluster. 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:50.040 I mean, he's always calm, never confused. If he is confused, 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:53.200 he certainly doesn't give any indication with the outward appearance 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:56.719 that he is and that is that's so calming for teammates. 0:18:57.080 --> 0:18:59.479 I'm sure his demeanor in the huddle must be like 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:03.400 such a confidence builder, you know, I mean, we weren't 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:04.760 the types that we're coming to the huddle and be 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:07.320 a swashblower. All right, We're gonna go kick their butts collectively. 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:09.760 You know, he'd be that kind of guy. I think 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:12.880 Kenny and Joe Burrow's demeanor are very similar and that 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:16.520 you know that their computer like mind is on point, 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:19.240 and it's like this guy's in total command right now. 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:21.159 All I have to do is do our job and 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:24.119 good things are going to happen. And picturing Matt Damon 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:27.600 and Goodwill hunting with like the mathematical formulas and stuff 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:30.760 dancing in the air burrowin Chase are the headliners, and 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:33.560 for good reason. But how about the defense Because Kansas 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:35.760 City scored on four straight drives in the first half, 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:38.679 had twenty eight points at halftime, scored three points the 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:41.200 rest of the way. Yeah, and I think I think 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:45.480 that part of it is the offense supporting that. But 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:48.080 the defense did a good job. I mean, defense responded 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:50.800 in the second half. And in Kansas City gives you 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:53.320 a lot. I mean, Andy Reid gives you a lot 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:57.399 of things to think about, and they're difficult. You know, 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:01.399 he's specific to he does and how how he gained 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:04.320 plans people open and he changes things on a week 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:07.600 to week basis, and he just he makes you adjust 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:09.920 that you know that you go when you go into 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:11.919 a football game, it's not like, oh, I know exactly 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:13.280 what Andy Reid is going to do, and here's how 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:15.880 I'm going to stop it. It's it's that high level 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:19.200 chess match. You know, he's he's in the category with Belichick. 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:22.560 I love when when Bill Belichick and Andy Reid go 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:26.040 head to head, because Belichick will Bill Belichick will say, 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:29.679 I just like Andy Reid is uh, he's he's a 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:33.000 he's an unbelievable scheme guy, you know. And and it's 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:36.240 it's like two master chess players going at it head 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:40.359 to head and um, adjust adjusted the adjustment and man, 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:44.240 check not checkmate, no, just check. It's it's really fun 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:47.040 to watch that. And I think I think he he 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:49.399 puts a lot on your plate. And I think for 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:52.639 the defense to make the adjustments they made at halftime 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:54.800 or big. And I think that's a good indicator too, 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:59.080 because you're down fourteen points three different times too. You know, 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:02.040 the Scus the only team that had clinched a playoff 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:05.240 spot in the AFC, and you beat them. Have to 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:08.639 being you know, after trailing by fourteen points, not once, 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:11.840 not twice, but three different times, you know, you think 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:14.600 you're mounting to come back. Oh the answer, Oh, they're 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:16.760 not rid of you, yet you're mounted another comeback, they answer, 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:19.879 and man to do it three times and then ultimately 0:21:20.480 --> 0:21:23.120 take your first lead in the fourth quarter and win 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:26.320 the thing that's saying a lot. I don't know about you. 0:21:26.640 --> 0:21:29.040 I'm happy the Bengals don't have to go to Cleveland 0:21:29.080 --> 0:21:31.520 desperately needing a win to make it to the postseason. 0:21:31.560 --> 0:21:34.800 It's nice now to go there playing for playoff position. 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:37.360 Right now, the Bengals are the number three seed. Tennessee 0:21:37.400 --> 0:21:40.399