WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: I Wanna Go Back 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:06.559 Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:10.959 the Bengals Booth Podcast, the I Want to Go Back 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:16.720 and Do It All over edition as we take an 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:20.960 in depth look back at Super Bowl fifty six. I'll 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:25.079 explain why in just a moment. The Bengals Booth Podcast 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:27.120 is brought to you by pay Core, Proud to be 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:32.320 the Bengals official hr software provider, by Alta Fiber future 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:36.080 proof fiber Internet designed to elevate your home, business and 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:39.839 community to a new level, and by Kettering Health the 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:43.239 best care for the best fans. Kettering Health is the 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:47.040 official healthcare provider of the Bengals. 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Despite the outcome, I really enjoyed it, and 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.760 it got me thinking that there isn't an in depth 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:25.680 audio version, So this week I decided to put one together, 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:29.840 taking the radio broadcast of the game, some interviews, and 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:33.840 a recent look back with Dave Lapham. If the memory 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:37.600 is too painful, I understand, and you can return for 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:41.440 next week's podcast. But if you decide to keep listening, 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:45.720 I think you'll mostly enjoy looking back at Super Bowl 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:49.760 fifty six. Let's start with how The Bengals got there 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:53.359 a pressure pack thirty one yard field goal try by 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:58.119 rookie Evan McPherson in overtime of the AFC Championship game 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:01.400 in Kansas City year yars ago. He was a senior 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:04.960 in high school in tiny Fort Payne, Alabama. Now the 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:08.079 Bengals Super Bowl chances rest on his right foot. 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:10.359 The kick is up, yeh ye. 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:17.920 Good coffin nows Bam, bam bam. 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:24.200 That is unba believable. The Cincinnati Bengals come from behind 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:26.840 on the road. Unbelievable. 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:31.560 Dan, it is no fluke. It is a fact. 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:36.960 The Cincinnati Bengals are headed to Super Bowl fifty six. 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:40.600 They just redefined the word resilient. 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:43.720 After ending a thirty one year drought without a playoff win, 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:45.920 the Bengals were headed to the Super Bowl for the 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:50.800 third time in franchise history, a gratifying moment for team 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:52.400 president Mike Brown. 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:56.960 I am just as pleased as it's possible to be 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:00.400 if you're in my position. This is what you're goal 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.840 is in life, and here we are. We have a 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:07.440 chance to win the big win, and that would be 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:10.800 great if we could pull it off. But it's an 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:14.560 exciting time for me and for all the people here 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:15.960 with the Bengals. 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:19.159 At what point did you think that this team could 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:19.880 be a contender. 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:23.440 Well, Joe Burrow makes you think you can win any 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:28.600 game that you go into, and we have amazing wide outs. 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:32.880 We've got three guys that are just tremendous. That gives 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:37.880 us a live offense. These days in the NFL, the 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:41.640 goal is to score thirty points or more. That's what 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:47.720 you need to win. You can even lose at that figure, 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:52.400 but if you can get there with enough defense to 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:58.039 go with it, you'll prevail. And we did Noise get there. 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:02.760 We did Noise prevail. We went along. Our confidence built 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:06.240 because you could see we could play with anybody, and 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:09.360 then we got to the point where we were winning 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:14.200 these close games and here we are. We'll see what 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:17.880 happens next, but this is a good group of players, 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:22.440 a good group of people, and they look forward to 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:27.040 see what happens out in la. 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:30.880 As Mike mentioned, in just his second season, Joe Burrow 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:35.000 had transformed the franchise. After bouncing back from the gruesome 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:38.080 knee injury he suffered as a rookie, Burrow led the 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:42.000 Bengals to an AFC North title and the first road 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:45.720 playoff wins in franchise history, and he did it with 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:51.640 what NBC announcer Mike Tarico called embraceable cockiness. Here's another 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:54.040 NBC announcer, Chris Collinsworth. 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:58.039 I wish I were as cool as he is, don't you. 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:00.960 I Mean, every once in a while, meet somebody and 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:05.200 you go, I've been living for sixty three years. That 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:08.440 kid's twentever, twenty five years old, and he is one 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:11.719 hundred times cooler than I am. Like, how do you 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:16.080 get that way after twenty five years of your life? 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:16.320 You know? 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:19.120 And the first time I. 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:21.760 Saw him wearing some of those outfits and the rose 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:25.200 colored glasses and all that, and now I'm like, I 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:27.559 want to go buy a pair. Hum if he wins 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:31.120 this game, I'm taking off my NBC blazer and I'm 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:34.040 going to go down and grab that jacket and wear 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:36.760 it off the air and say see you guys next season. 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:41.360 He's special, right, he is? And I think that I'm 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:45.040 trying to make a comparison and maybe Pete Rose, you know, 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:50.400 some home grown talent that comes in here and is 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:56.320 the superstar of the of the favorite franchise and there 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:59.880 just isn't a comparison that I can, and it's hard 0:06:59.880 --> 0:07:03.680 to describe what he means the Cincinnati But I don't 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:07.040 know that there's been a football player on the Cincinnati 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:09.680 Bengals team in its history. 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:11.080 Maybe Greg Cook. 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:14.520 I wasn't around for that, but in its history that 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:18.720 would mean more than what Joe Burrow means to this community. 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.760 Before traveling to LA for the game, Burrow did an 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:26.480 interview with a quarterback who won seven Super Bowls, Tom Brady. 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:28.800 I think Joe's got some tools that I didn't quite 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:31.200 have when I was his age. So super impressed by 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:34.720 how he's kind of coming to the league and went 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:36.840 to Cincinnati, which has been a tough place to play 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.720 over the years, and you know, two years into his 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:42.160 career after a really tough injury last year, show a 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:45.120 lot of mental and physical toughness coming back and have 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:49.800 an incredible season. So you know, I always love watching quarterbacks, 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.680 and certainly young quarterbacks, because I feel like, you know, 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:56.080 there's certain ways to play the game, and to play 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:59.680 the game at a high level requires a huge commitment. 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.160 I think Joe, even from when I saw him at LSU, 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.480 you know, he makes that commitment. So it's really a 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:08.160 great thing for me to see, as you know, somebody 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:10.280 who's played this game for a long time, so really 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:11.400 happy for Joe and his team. 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:14.760 Joe want to hear those words from Tom. Your reaction is. 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.640 Well, no, I don't know. 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:19.920 I don't know if I can be in the conversation 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.120 with this guy yet, but you know, I'm gonna work 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:24.520 really hard to try, and I think we're off to 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:25.200 a great start. 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:28.520 The Bengals stayed and practiced on the campus of UCLA 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:32.080 the day before the game. Dave Lapham sat down in 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:35.600 an empty hotel conference room to record his final pregame 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:39.160 interview of the year with head coach Zach Taylor, where 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:42.559 they discussed one of the biggest keys to the game. 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:45.800 Aaron Donald. The guy can be mesmerizing. I mean, your 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:47.959 guys can just go to him and stay on him. 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:51.280 He's one of those kind of players. How do you 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:53.560 handle a guy like Aaron Donald? I mean, how big 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:55.439 a game wrecker is this dude? 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:57.240 He's one of the best to ever do it? You know, 0:08:57.320 --> 0:08:59.199 and I know I'm only thirty eight years old. It's 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:00.680 hard for me to say that I didn't watch all 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:02.400 those years before, but I can promise you He's one 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:04.719 of the best to ever do it, and so you've 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:06.360 got to have a great point in place. Our guys 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:07.400 are for the challenge. 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:11.000 The game was played on February thirteenth, twenty twenty two, 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:15.640 at Sofi Stadium in Inglewood, California. I've been asked many 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:18.839 times since what it's like to broadcast a Super Bowl, 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:22.280 and I compare it to the first Jurassic Park movie 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.520 when the actor Sam Neil is riding in the back 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:29.719 of a jeep. When it stops, he looks left, stands up, 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:35.160 fumbles to remove his sunglasses, and then is utterly stunned 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:39.520 by the site of a live dinosaur. That's what broadcasting 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.640 Super Bowl is like for me. You almost can't believe 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:47.600 it's really happening. In any case, here's how our broadcast began. 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:51.600 Fifty four seasons ago, the most innovative coach in sports 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:56.199 history brought professional football to Cincinnati, and today the Cincinnati 0:09:56.200 --> 0:10:00.560 Bengals get their third opportunity to make Paul Brown's a 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:05.400 reality as they face the Los Angeles Rams in Super 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:09.240 Bowl fifty six. Shortly after that, we got to Dave 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:12.520 Lapham's keys to the game, and as is usually the case, 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:14.320 he was right on the money. 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:17.240 Dan, This game's gonna be won and lost the trenches 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:20.200 like they usually are. I'm gonna talk letter t today. 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:24.600 My first tee is trenches. Give Joe Burrow time, another key, 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.920 and obviously space. The Bengals are seven to zero when 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.160 Joe gets sacked two times or less, eleven and two 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:32.520 when he sacked four times or less, two and four 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:36.600 when he sacked five times or more, Give him time, 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:38.400 give him space. 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:43.640 I discuss that pregame analysis with Lap this week. The 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:46.920 offensive line for the Bengals in that Super Bowl Jonah Williams, 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:51.439 Clinton Spain, Trey Hopkins, Achema, Danegy and Isaiah Prince. Who 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:55.679 is in for the injured Riley Reef? Who or what 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:57.960 was your biggest concern going in? 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:03.800 Who biggest concern? Dan was the connection between the five. 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:07.040 You know, it's like blocking your guy. Knowing your assignment 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:10.480 and blocking your guy. That's one thing, But you need 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:13.160 time on task to work well with the guy next 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:14.800 to you. You know, you have to get used to 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:17.480 the steps that he takes. How deep does he set 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.320 you know, when he's climbing a linebacker? How how long 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:23.400 does he double team? Does he want you to totally 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:26.360 consume him before he comes off to the linebacker, or 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:29.640 is he satisfied with you halfway there. I mean there's 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.800 all kinds of little nuances and timing that goes on 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:36.960 between an offensive line performing well in an offensive line, 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:38.160 you know, struggling. 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:38.920 To get it done a little bit. And that was 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:40.160 my biggest concern. 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:42.960 There wasn't anybody that was right next to each other, 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:45.319 that had played with each other for an extended period 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:48.760 of time. I was concerned about that because we're talking 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:52.920 about a Rams defensive front that you know, they had 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:55.640 an all Pro edge rusher and all Pro defensive tackle, 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:58.640 the best pass rusher inside rusher in the game, if 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:01.120 not right there at number two. I mean, they had 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:03.720 they had a lot a lot to deal with. They 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:06.040 had Floyd, they had a lot of people to deal with, 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:09.520 so and they had worked together. I mean, you know 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:12.440 when they're when defensive lines are twisting and stunning and stuff, 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:14.920 you know there's a field there as well. So they 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:17.360 had all that time on task, all those snaps in 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:21.240 their under their belt, and the Bengals offensive front was 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:24.080 lacking in that area. So that was my biggest concern, 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:27.160 not just the one on one of handling Von Miller, 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:31.560 handling Aaron Donald. But the entire you know, unit working 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.120 in concert, I guess was my biggest concern. 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:38.000 As you might expect in LA, the game began with 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:40.559 a little Hollywood flare, Ladies. 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:44.800 And gentlemen, it is my honor to say, finally it 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:47.960 is time by the Superbad. 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:56.680 After the Rocks intro, the Bengals won the toss and 0:12:56.720 --> 0:13:00.439 elected to defer. Trey Hendrickson sacked on the ram opening 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:03.640 drive led to a punt, and the Bengals quickly drove 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:06.920 to the Rams forty nine yard line. The Bengals are 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:08.840 going to go for it on fourth in a long 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:12.320 yard at the Los Angeles forty nine. Burrow in the gun, 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:14.960 pe Rne stays in. Joe Burrow drops back to throw 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:19.360 short pass, pat it away. It's incomplete intended for Jamar Chase, 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:22.240 looked like Jalen Ramsey got a hand on it, and 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:26.000 the Bengals fail on fourth down and one, Well. 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:28.440 I'll tell you that's a big momentum turn right there 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:32.720 for the Los Angeles Rams. Bengals dude get positive yards 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:36.600 on first down, but then just stutter, sputter and stall. 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:40.320 So the first big play of the game came on 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:43.760 the Bengals opening drive, fourth down and one at the 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:47.520 Rams forty nine. The Bengals went for it. Joe Burrow 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:50.320 threw an incomplete pass for Jamar Chase. He didn't see 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:52.480 t Higgins who was wide open and would have had 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:56.960 the first down. But going back to the decision in retrospect, 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:58.880 did they get it right going forward on fourth and 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:00.839 one at the Rams forty nine? 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.439 Boy, you can make cases both ways, you know. I mean, 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:08.240 I by nature am old school. I know I am. 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:13.440 I'm more conservative. You know, Joe obviously his clock was 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.079 sped up all game long. There's no doubt. I mean, 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:19.080 he didn't take a lot of sacks until the game, 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:21.640 toward the end of the football game when you'd expect 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:22.440 the Rams. 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:25.280 To turn it up, and they did. But he was 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:26.040 getting the ball out. 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:27.560 He was getting the ball out very quickly, and that 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:29.520 might have been part of the reason, you know that 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:32.600 he didn't catch up with t over there on the backside. 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:37.960 But to answer your question me conservatively, I probably would 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:40.640 have punted and buried him inside the ten yard line. 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.480 But I know analytics day, all the percentages are with 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:45.720 you to go for it. But you know, the analytics 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.880 aren't like Aaron von mill all these guys that you 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:51.760 have to make sure you take care of. I didn't 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:55.360 have a problem with the play selection, but I had 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:58.960 a problem with not a problem. I mean, like I said, 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:03.120 I it it wasn't like, oh my gosh, lost the game, now, 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:08.080 you know, it wasn't that kind of thing. And honestly, Zach, 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:10.600 you've been prett philly aggressive all year long on fourth down. 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:14.280 So as a player, all you want is consistency Dan, 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:16.880 you know, and if you if he pulled his horns 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.000 in in the Super Bowl, now all of a sudden, 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:21.480 you think, geez, what's our coach thinking all year long? 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:24.200 This is the path we've taken. So based on that, 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:28.280 you know, you know, just like with the Detroit Lions, 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:31.120 I mean, they're they're super aggressive. They were super aggressive 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:34.120 in the in the NFC Championship game that they lost. 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:37.360 They converted eighty percent on fourth down in the regular 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:40.760 season and they didn't get it done to in less 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:43.560 than fifty percent in that in that game. So but 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:46.400 as a as a player, it's like my coach was 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:48.600 the same guy. He didn't let the game get too 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:51.480 big for him. He did what he did all season long, 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:52.360 and I'm good with that. 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:56.240 Rams took advantage of the short field, putting together a 0:15:56.280 --> 0:16:00.240 sixth play fifty yard touchdown drive. Third out in a 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:04.440 long two at the Cincinnati seventeen three receivers right two left, 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:07.720 Cooper Cup one of the two receivers out to the left. 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:10.400 Stafford back to throw. He's gonna lob it toward the 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:14.000 end zone. Odell Beckham Junior reaches up and comes down 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:17.280 to the ball. It's a touchdown for the Rams, as 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:21.160 Odell Beckham Junior went up and over Mike Hilton to 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:23.480 haul in the game's first touchdowns. 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:25.040 Just a great throw right there. 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:28.800 Stafford put the ball where Beckham Junior could make a 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:33.640 play on it. Mike Hilton, obviously, his biggest challenge is 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:38.880 verticcality because he's not very tall five foot nine inches. 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:42.960 Odell Beckham Junior took advantage of that and ball put 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:46.640 up players made. Mike Hilton never sees the football, tries 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:48.560 to rip it out of there with the left hand 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:51.680 butt O'Dell Beckham Junior drips it tightly to the turf. 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:55.440 Matthew Stafford's seventh touchdown pass of the postseason. He's only 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:59.120 thrown one interception, now Matt Gay in to attempt the 0:16:59.200 --> 0:16:59.880 extra point. 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:02.720 His kick his perfect. 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:05.800 Rams took a seven to nothing lead on a touchdown 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:10.159 catch by Odell Beckham Junior. He said this year that 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:13.840 he would have had fifteen catches and maybe two hundred 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:16.720 and fifty yards if he didn't tear his ACL in 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:17.679 the second quarter. 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:19.240 Was he right? 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:22.720 Would the Bengals have been in trouble if Obj did 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:23.440 not get hurt? 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:26.000 Well, I'll tell you he got off to a great start. 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:27.640 And they were using them different ways. 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:28.199 You know. 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:30.040 They were lining them up in different spots, they were 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:33.480 emotion them, they were doing everything that they could possibly 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.200 do to make it tough, you know, for the. 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:37.600 For the Luanna rum or to get a handle on 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:39.760 how to take them out of it, you know. 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:42.119 I mean, it wasn't like he was just lining up 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:45.600 in one spot and Luke could you know, roll double 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:47.960 coverage over that way or whatever. They had a good 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:50.320 game plan. I'm not sure he to have the numbers 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:53.400 he's talking about it. I mean, those are those are ludicrous, obviously, 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:56.640 but I mean he was playing his tailoff man. 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:59.720 He was he was getting it done. 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:02.600 I think they would have had difficulty, you know, handling 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:05.560 obj the way, the way he got started in that 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:07.200 football game, There's no question. 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:10.840 The Bengals immediately answered Burrow back. 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:12.920 To throw, wants to float it high and deep four 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:13.800 Chase is it? 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:17.360 The twenty reaches out comes down to the ball at 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:22.520 the eleven yard line, a spectacular finger tip catch by 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:25.840 Numero who know, and the Bengals will have it at 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:29.960 the eleven After a forty six yard bomb from Burrow 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:30.760 to Chase. 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:33.960 It gave the Bengals the ball at the eleven yard line, 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:38.000 but Burrow through three straight in completions on the last 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:41.600 one a penalty could have been called on la third 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:44.600 down and ten at the Rams eleven shotgun snap, Burrow 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:47.359 with a three step drop, fires a fastball over the 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:51.719 middle and it is incomplete intended for t Higgins right 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:52.600 at the goal line. 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:56.159 Ramsey in coverage again, and then we saw Ramsey in 0:18:56.240 --> 0:19:01.840 coverage against Jamar Chase. That time they had him inside 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:03.560 working against t Higgins. 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:06.280 He got away with a jersey grab that wasn't called 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:09.359 stretched cloth normally get penalized for that. 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:10.560 It's jan the Rams. 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:12.960 The Bengals settled for a twenty nine yard field goal 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:17.280 try shooter McPherson swings the right leg a hi spinning 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:21.040 end over end kicked. It is good and the Bengals 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:25.879 are on the scoreboard. Late in the first quarter, Jalen 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:29.239 Ramsey got away with grabbing t Higgins Jersey on an 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:31.760 incomplete pass at the goal line. The Bengals had to 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:34.440 settle for a field goal after that. How did that 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:36.840 compare to the penalty at the end of the game 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:38.360 that was called on Logan Wilson. 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:40.879 I think it was much more egregious, to be honest 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:41.119 with you. 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:43.399 Of course, you know, I'm looking at it through different 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:48.520 colored glasses than the Rams people are, But that I mean, 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:50.399 you can see you can see Jersey tug you know. 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:53.480 I mean Logan Wilson's was it was. 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:58.919 Almost in my mind it was fabricated. I mean, he 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:01.600 had his hands on him, but he wasn't grabbing anything, 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:04.320 and he wasn't past the five yard area, you know 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:08.680 when the penalty flag was thrown, And I mean I 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:12.320 thought that the one that wasn't called on t should 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:14.399 have been, and the one that was called on Logan 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:18.400 was was you know, a little TICKI tack. And honestly, 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:21.879 I know for a fact I've heard this from multiple 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:25.080 league sources that once you get into the playoffs and 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:27.959 deep into the playoffs in the Super Bowl, the league's 0:20:28.000 --> 0:20:30.520 pilst me on it is these teams are here for 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:31.000 a reason. 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:32.679 Keep your flags in your pocket. 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:35.399 It was seven three Rams at the end of the 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:39.399 first quarter. Two minutes into the second, LA scored again, 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:42.640 second down and five from the Cincinnati eleven, the Rams 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:45.240 leading the Bengals seven to three. Here in the second quarter, 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:48.840 Matthew Stafford, under center receiver, goes in motion. They fake 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:51.920 a handof Stafford throwing into the end zone. Cooper Cup 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:54.720 wide open in the back right corner. He makes the 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:58.560 catch for a Rams touchdown. The Rams missed the pat 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:01.760 due to a bobbled snow and led thirteen to three. 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:05.840 The Bengals responded with their best drive of the game, 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:10.280 picking up six first downs before scoring their first touchdown. 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:14.000 Higgins sample and boyd out to the right in a cluster. 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:15.720 The Bengals toss it. 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:16.000 To the right. 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:18.280 Mixons throws into the back of the end zone and 0:21:18.520 --> 0:21:22.040 is caught by T. Higgins. Touchdown. 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:28.159 Bengals Joe Mixon floating one into the back right corner 0:21:28.200 --> 0:21:29.320 of the end zone and T. 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:32.440 Higgins hauls it in for the Bengals touchdown. 0:21:32.600 --> 0:21:36.600 Talked about trickeration as one of the t keys Joe Mixon. 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:40.520 Everybody starts downhill to fill the run. Sweet, they think 0:21:40.520 --> 0:21:42.360 it's gonna be a sweep. They don't need to look 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:45.040 for t Higgins. By the time the recovery is made, 0:21:45.359 --> 0:21:48.639 it's way too late for Nick Scott, and Nick Scott says, 0:21:48.760 --> 0:21:51.679 oh my gosh, Mixon's gonna throw it right over his 0:21:51.680 --> 0:21:55.000 head for testaw great call by Zach Taylor on the trickeration. 0:21:56.400 --> 0:21:59.719 Nixon was involved in seven of the twelve plays on 0:21:59.760 --> 0:22:03.240 that drive. Did Joe Mixon get the ball enough in 0:22:03.320 --> 0:22:03.760 the game? 0:22:04.520 --> 0:22:05.879 Boy? 0:22:06.200 --> 0:22:09.280 As a as a former offensive lineman, I wish that 0:22:09.320 --> 0:22:11.120 they had run him a little bit more, because man, 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:13.560 he was up in the bit then. I remember we 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:17.119 talked about it multiple times how hard he was finishing runs, 0:22:17.680 --> 0:22:19.879 you know, with the body lean and the violence, and 0:22:19.920 --> 0:22:23.600 I mean, he was just he was into it. And 0:22:23.640 --> 0:22:27.560 when you have an offensive line that, like we talked about, 0:22:28.080 --> 0:22:30.120 the best thing to do is, you know, you you've 0:22:30.160 --> 0:22:33.280 got to make sure that they're in in favorable down 0:22:33.320 --> 0:22:36.639 and distance situations, you know, And the best way to 0:22:36.680 --> 0:22:38.760 do that is is make sure you stay with that 0:22:38.800 --> 0:22:43.000 ground game. I thought Frank Pollack did a great job 0:22:43.119 --> 0:22:45.520 getting that group ready, you know, for the Super Bowl. 0:22:46.080 --> 0:22:50.959 U unraveled late, obviously down the stretch in terms of 0:22:51.119 --> 0:22:54.360 having to past protect and you know, being one dimensional. 0:22:54.400 --> 0:22:57.800 But man, my old you know, my old axidom is 0:22:58.800 --> 0:23:01.600 you can't make yourself want dimensional. You know, if they 0:23:01.600 --> 0:23:04.600 make you one dimensional, that's that's one thing. But if 0:23:04.640 --> 0:23:07.720 you decide to make yourself one dimensional, different dynamic. 0:23:08.920 --> 0:23:10.919 There was no more scoring in the first half as 0:23:10.920 --> 0:23:13.879 the Bengals came up with a takeaway just before the 0:23:13.920 --> 0:23:16.639 two minute warning. Lock running two twelve left and a 0:23:16.640 --> 0:23:20.480 half third down and fourteen empty backfield shotgun snap Stafford 0:23:20.520 --> 0:23:24.920 from the pocket, looking scrambling left, squares his shoulders, points deep, 0:23:25.119 --> 0:23:28.840 fires toward the end zone. In intercepted in the end zone. 0:23:28.840 --> 0:23:32.080 It is picked up by Jesse Bates and the Bengals. 0:23:32.080 --> 0:23:33.960 We'll get the ball at the twenty year to Fez. 0:23:34.040 --> 0:23:36.200 They intercept Matthew Stafford. 0:23:36.359 --> 0:23:39.880 Van Jefferson was the intended receiver, and the Bengals rushed 0:23:39.920 --> 0:23:43.680 three and dropped eight into coverage and Stafford bought time, 0:23:43.760 --> 0:23:47.000 got out of pocket and he directed his receiver down 0:23:47.040 --> 0:23:50.200 the football field. Jesse Bates saw him being a traffic 0:23:50.240 --> 0:23:53.520 cop as well, and he played it perfectly. He ended 0:23:53.600 --> 0:23:56.760 up being the intended receiver. First turnover of the day 0:23:57.240 --> 0:23:58.760 goes to the Bengals defense. 0:23:58.960 --> 0:24:01.679 Now, after the intert the Bengals would have had the 0:24:01.720 --> 0:24:04.920 ball at the twenty, but they got penalized ten yards 0:24:05.200 --> 0:24:08.880 because a player came off the bench and joined in 0:24:08.920 --> 0:24:12.800 the celebration, not a uniform, a guy wearing a Bengals hoodie. 0:24:12.840 --> 0:24:15.119 I think that might have been Vernon Hargraves, who is 0:24:15.160 --> 0:24:18.000 inactive for the game today and he just cost his 0:24:18.080 --> 0:24:21.560 team ten yards. If that's not Vernon Hargraves, I apologize, 0:24:21.560 --> 0:24:23.800 but that's who it looked like with a brief look 0:24:23.840 --> 0:24:25.080 at the video monitor. 0:24:25.160 --> 0:24:27.639 Well it makes sense to Dan, he's the only defensive 0:24:27.680 --> 0:24:29.680 back that's deactivated. 0:24:29.960 --> 0:24:33.280 Two years later. Are you ticked off, amused? 0:24:33.640 --> 0:24:34.919 Or a combination of both? 0:24:35.480 --> 0:24:39.920 More kicked off than the muse. Yeah, it's like, come on, bro, 0:24:40.119 --> 0:24:41.480 you know, I understand you're excited. 0:24:41.520 --> 0:24:42.080 I understand. 0:24:42.280 --> 0:24:44.600 Come on, man, you got to be smarter than that. 0:24:45.160 --> 0:24:49.120 I mean, the only the only thing that you can 0:24:49.160 --> 0:24:52.399 do on the sideline is something stupid like that to 0:24:52.480 --> 0:24:55.840 hurt your football team, and why why do it? Oh 0:24:55.960 --> 0:25:01.080 my gosh, yeah, that's a critical that's critical. Ten yards 0:25:01.160 --> 0:25:03.440 there too. I mean, you know, now, all of a sudden, 0:25:03.640 --> 0:25:05.760 eighty yards is tough enough. You got to go ninety 0:25:06.040 --> 0:25:09.440 against that defensive football team with a makeshift offensive line 0:25:09.440 --> 0:25:11.800 and all the things we've been talking about. Every yard 0:25:11.840 --> 0:25:15.560 is precious, every first down is valuable, Every first down 0:25:15.680 --> 0:25:18.080 is gold against a team like that, And you give 0:25:18.200 --> 0:25:20.680 up a first down in terms of yards because you 0:25:20.760 --> 0:25:26.000 got a dude in street clothes celebrating on the football field. Man, 0:25:26.359 --> 0:25:28.120 if I had a rope long enough, I already yanked 0:25:28.200 --> 0:25:30.159 him back to the sideline myself. I mean, man, I 0:25:30.200 --> 0:25:32.359 couldn't believe it. 0:25:30.800 --> 0:25:34.720 It was thirteen to ten rams at the half as 0:25:34.800 --> 0:25:39.240 Doctor Dre Snoop Dog Eminem and others entertained. The seventy 0:25:39.320 --> 0:25:43.800 thousand plus in attendance, including a member of the Bengals. 0:25:44.040 --> 0:25:47.439 Money Mack watched the whole halftime show. Money Mack's a 0:25:47.480 --> 0:25:48.920 big fan, and he came. 0:25:49.240 --> 0:25:50.199 He watched. 0:25:50.240 --> 0:25:53.280 I guess the darn near the whole thing. That's his 0:25:53.440 --> 0:25:56.200 that's right his demo, man, that's right in his groove. 0:25:57.560 --> 0:26:00.280 Were you able to watch and enjoy the halftime show 0:26:00.320 --> 0:26:01.480 like Evan McPherson did. 0:26:04.520 --> 0:26:08.879 Uh, I'll tell you damn until until you're there live. 0:26:09.640 --> 0:26:11.600 You know, halftime is long in the Super Bowl when 0:26:11.600 --> 0:26:14.080 you're watching them on TV. Well, when you're there live, 0:26:14.520 --> 0:26:18.000 Oh my goodness, that bad boy takes forever, doesn't it. 0:26:18.040 --> 0:26:18.600 I mean it was. 0:26:18.960 --> 0:26:21.560 It was incredible, the length of that uh length of 0:26:21.560 --> 0:26:22.480 that halftime show. 0:26:23.160 --> 0:26:23.439 It was. 0:26:23.480 --> 0:26:25.840 It was well done, There's no question about it. But 0:26:26.359 --> 0:26:28.119 Evn had a better seat than us. Man, he was 0:26:28.200 --> 0:26:28.639 right there. 0:26:28.920 --> 0:26:33.720 I'll be honest, I barely saw the halftime show between 0:26:34.520 --> 0:26:38.280 running to the bathroom. Yeah, recapping the first half, trying 0:26:38.280 --> 0:26:41.240 to get your thoughts together for you know, broadcasting the 0:26:41.280 --> 0:26:44.119 second half as well as you possibly could. I was 0:26:44.200 --> 0:26:46.240 kind of aware of what artists were out there, but 0:26:46.280 --> 0:26:47.879 I didn't hear hardly any of it. 0:26:48.359 --> 0:26:50.800 I didn't really hear it either all that well. But 0:26:50.880 --> 0:26:52.840 I saw what was going on. 0:26:53.280 --> 0:26:55.920 And it was pretty you know, it's pretty uh, pretty 0:26:56.000 --> 0:26:59.600 high profile, no question about it. That was that was 0:26:59.640 --> 0:27:02.480 funny see him out there just soaking it all in. Man, 0:27:02.560 --> 0:27:04.160 it is classic. It was classic. 0:27:05.040 --> 0:27:06.920 Before we get to the second half, here's a quick 0:27:06.960 --> 0:27:09.320 reminder that the Bengals booth podcast is brought to you 0:27:09.640 --> 0:27:12.760 by pay Corps, proud to be the Bengals official HR 0:27:12.920 --> 0:27:17.959 software provider, by Alta Fiber future Proof Fiber Internet designed 0:27:17.960 --> 0:27:20.680 to elevate your home, business, and community to a new level, 0:27:21.200 --> 0:27:25.280 and by Kettering Health the best care for the best fans. 0:27:25.640 --> 0:27:29.520 Kettering Health is the official healthcare provider of the Bengals. 0:27:30.200 --> 0:27:33.920 The third quarter began with a bang. Joe Burrow under 0:27:33.960 --> 0:27:36.280 center on first and ten from the twenty five. The 0:27:36.320 --> 0:27:39.360 ball is on the right hash Joe Mixon in the backfield. 0:27:39.359 --> 0:27:41.760 He had forty rushing yards in the first half. They 0:27:41.840 --> 0:27:44.800 fake to him Burrow and now scrambling fires deep down 0:27:44.880 --> 0:27:46.000 field for Higgins. 0:27:46.280 --> 0:27:49.880 Chuck Sick pushes over his defender, catches the ball, runt 0:27:49.920 --> 0:27:50.879 it into the end zone. 0:27:51.040 --> 0:27:56.440 There's no, no, no, A seventy five yard touchdown. Burrow two. 0:27:56.520 --> 0:28:00.760 Higgins as he knocked over Jane Ramsey ran it into 0:28:00.800 --> 0:28:03.120 the end zone to get the Bengals the lead. 0:28:03.840 --> 0:28:06.960 Jalen Ramsey couldn't find the football and by the time 0:28:07.000 --> 0:28:10.040 he did, t Higgins found the ball coming side of 0:28:10.119 --> 0:28:11.600 him and Joe Burrow. 0:28:11.760 --> 0:28:15.120 How about giving the Bengals lead a one play. 0:28:15.400 --> 0:28:19.639 Dry It looked like t Higgins grabbed the face mats 0:28:19.960 --> 0:28:23.359 of Jalen Ramsey threw used it to throw him to 0:28:23.440 --> 0:28:23.960 the side. 0:28:24.320 --> 0:28:27.240 It was not called, and the Bengals had the lead. 0:28:28.240 --> 0:28:31.320 Should it have been offensive pass interference? 0:28:32.119 --> 0:28:34.520 I'm glad that he kept his flag in his pocket 0:28:34.520 --> 0:28:37.040 because he didn't call defensive pass interference. So while the 0:28:37.200 --> 0:28:41.040 offensive passing appearance, I mean, if you're gonna do it, 0:28:41.240 --> 0:28:42.200 do it both ways. 0:28:43.840 --> 0:28:45.600 You can make an argument that it could have been 0:28:45.600 --> 0:28:47.320 called in each instance. 0:28:48.000 --> 0:28:51.280 And like I said, you know, championship games with the 0:28:51.320 --> 0:28:55.160 players decide the game. I'm sure the Rams fans are 0:28:55.640 --> 0:28:58.760 obviously to this day still fuming that that wasn't called. 0:29:00.080 --> 0:29:01.680 But he deserved it. 0:29:01.800 --> 0:29:04.760 Have to get and grab like that earlier, I think 0:29:04.800 --> 0:29:07.360 he deserved an opportunity to use his hands a little 0:29:07.400 --> 0:29:07.760 bit too. 0:29:08.560 --> 0:29:12.000 The Bengals led seventeen to thirteen, and on the very 0:29:12.160 --> 0:29:16.240 next play got the ball right back Stafford in the shotgun. 0:29:17.560 --> 0:29:20.360 He's got acres to his left. Odell Beckham Junior is 0:29:20.400 --> 0:29:23.320 not back into the game. Stafford throws over the middle 0:29:23.360 --> 0:29:24.800 and it is intercepted. 0:29:25.160 --> 0:29:28.640 It was deflected off Cooper Cup and it's picked off. 0:29:28.840 --> 0:29:32.280 The Bengals will take over at the thirty two Chita. 0:29:32.000 --> 0:29:36.600 Bay O Wooja on the deflection off Cooper Cup and 0:29:36.720 --> 0:29:39.920 the Bengals have the lead and the ball at the 0:29:40.000 --> 0:29:40.960 Rams thirty two. 0:29:41.200 --> 0:29:43.440 They quickly drove to the twelve yard line before the 0:29:43.520 --> 0:29:46.920 Rams pass rush began to take over the game. Third 0:29:46.920 --> 0:29:49.160 down and four from the twelve of the Rams shotgun snap, 0:29:49.240 --> 0:29:51.840 Burrow cuts the arm and gets smashed to the ground. 0:29:52.680 --> 0:29:56.200 Burrow gets sacked back at the twenty yard line Aaron 0:29:56.240 --> 0:30:00.160 Donald with his second sack of this drive, and the 0:30:00.160 --> 0:30:02.200 Bengals will have to settle for the field goal try 0:30:02.400 --> 0:30:03.520 by Evan McPherson. 0:30:03.640 --> 0:30:05.160 Boy, I'll tell you Joe's upset. 0:30:05.400 --> 0:30:07.840 He had an opportunity there and he was like, you know, 0:30:08.320 --> 0:30:10.080 he did a good job holding onto the football. 0:30:10.120 --> 0:30:12.400 I thought that ball was going to be problematic. A 0:30:12.480 --> 0:30:13.320 bull rush that time. 0:30:13.360 --> 0:30:16.640 Agnegy just gets bowled by Aaron Donald and Joe Burrow 0:30:16.840 --> 0:30:19.239 passed it. When he cocked the football and brought it 0:30:19.280 --> 0:30:20.600 back down, it was over. 0:30:20.800 --> 0:30:22.680 This will be a thirty eight yard field goal try 0:30:22.680 --> 0:30:25.440 from the middle of the field for Evan McPherson. Clark 0:30:25.480 --> 0:30:28.040 Harris will snap it back to Kevin Huber Hubert looking 0:30:28.080 --> 0:30:30.680 back at his kicker now turns his head, extends the 0:30:30.760 --> 0:30:32.560 right hand, catches the ball, puts it down. 0:30:32.840 --> 0:30:36.040 McPherson's kick lofted and it is good. 0:30:36.280 --> 0:30:40.719 Yes, he remains perfect in the postseason, and the Bengals 0:30:41.000 --> 0:30:45.600 have scored seventeen straight to take a twenty to thirteen leave. 0:30:46.320 --> 0:30:49.640 That was the last time the Bengals scored, and protecting 0:30:49.720 --> 0:30:53.400 Burrow was the problem. At one point. He was sacked 0:30:53.880 --> 0:30:57.880 four times in a span of six offensive snaps. 0:30:58.320 --> 0:31:01.720 The first half, I thought the Bengals offensive line was very, 0:31:01.960 --> 0:31:05.240 very proficient and productive. But here in the second half, 0:31:05.280 --> 0:31:07.920 the Los Angeles Rams, they're. 0:31:07.680 --> 0:31:08.719 More bull rushing. 0:31:09.080 --> 0:31:10.800 In the first half, they were trying a lot of 0:31:10.840 --> 0:31:13.400 moves in here in the second half, they've decided a 0:31:13.400 --> 0:31:16.520 halftime let's just power rush and bull rush these guys, 0:31:16.520 --> 0:31:17.200 and it's working. 0:31:17.360 --> 0:31:19.920 Five sacks for the Rams in this Super Bowl, second 0:31:20.000 --> 0:31:23.720 down and eleven, Burrow catches a shotgunsnap, looks to throw, 0:31:23.880 --> 0:31:28.120 force to scramble, sacked again as he goes down inside 0:31:28.160 --> 0:31:28.680 the five. 0:31:29.040 --> 0:31:30.320 It's starting to get ugly. 0:31:31.640 --> 0:31:34.640 The Bengals failed to score on their last five drives 0:31:34.640 --> 0:31:38.000 of the game, and Burrow got sacked a bunch. Defensive 0:31:38.000 --> 0:31:41.440 coordinator Raheem Morris started rushing five to create more one 0:31:41.440 --> 0:31:44.320 on one opportunities for Aaron Donald, von Miller, et cetera. 0:31:44.680 --> 0:31:47.240 What stood out to you about the Rams pass rush 0:31:47.400 --> 0:31:48.800 in the second half in particular. 0:31:49.360 --> 0:31:52.160 Yeah, I thought Raheem Morris might go to that five 0:31:52.240 --> 0:31:55.920 man rush a little sooner than he did. But it 0:31:55.960 --> 0:32:00.280 was effective definitely, because obviously there's only five offensive line 0:32:00.080 --> 0:32:02.200 and when you have five man pass rush, you know, 0:32:02.200 --> 0:32:04.920 you got everybody singled up. Now you can chiple the 0:32:04.960 --> 0:32:06.480 tight you know, you can double with the tight end, 0:32:06.560 --> 0:32:08.560 chip of the back and all those good things. You 0:32:08.600 --> 0:32:12.960 can still have seven blockers for five rushers. But when 0:32:13.000 --> 0:32:16.760 you particularly with the interior, if you've got everybody covered 0:32:16.840 --> 0:32:20.240 up on the inside in the center, there's no uncovered center, 0:32:20.280 --> 0:32:22.360 no uncovered guard to help it all. And you have 0:32:22.400 --> 0:32:25.600 a pass rusher like Aaron Donald in there, man, that 0:32:25.680 --> 0:32:28.080 puts a lot of pressure on that one on one matchup. 0:32:28.120 --> 0:32:32.160 And you know, I thought that that was that was 0:32:32.200 --> 0:32:35.600 a good move by Raheem Morris, particularly, you know when 0:32:35.640 --> 0:32:38.280 they they had the lead, and now the Bengals are 0:32:38.680 --> 0:32:41.000 the clocks winding down, there's only going to be a 0:32:41.000 --> 0:32:43.800 few more possessions in the game. That was a wise 0:32:43.840 --> 0:32:45.920 move by Raheem Morris, and that's why is the Atlantic 0:32:46.200 --> 0:32:47.040 Falcons head coach. 0:32:47.120 --> 0:32:50.920 Now, I guess a Rams field goal made it twenty 0:32:50.920 --> 0:32:54.680 to sixteen midway through the third quarter. The Bengals defense 0:32:54.800 --> 0:32:59.160 then forced three straight three and outs, but the offense 0:32:59.480 --> 0:33:03.000 kept giving the ball back to La and finally, with 0:33:03.120 --> 0:33:07.240 six thirteen to go, the Rams began their game winning drive. 0:33:07.760 --> 0:33:11.160 It reached a critical point right away. This could be 0:33:11.240 --> 0:33:14.360 the game. Five oh seven left and the Rams ready 0:33:14.360 --> 0:33:16.680 to go for it. On fourth and one at their 0:33:16.720 --> 0:33:20.360 own thirty, Stafford under center. They're going to go with 0:33:20.440 --> 0:33:23.080 that end a round and it's going to work, as 0:33:23.160 --> 0:33:25.200 Cooper Cup will run it out to the thirty seven 0:33:25.320 --> 0:33:29.600 yard lives. The first big play on that game winning 0:33:29.680 --> 0:33:32.520 drive fourth and one at their own thirty, They gave 0:33:32.520 --> 0:33:34.840 it to Cooper Cup on a jet sweep for a 0:33:34.880 --> 0:33:37.920 first down. Von Bell was unblocked down the play, but 0:33:38.000 --> 0:33:41.120 didn't quite have the angle to make the tackle. Is 0:33:41.160 --> 0:33:43.920 that the play that lou An Arumo replays in his 0:33:44.040 --> 0:33:44.880 head to this day? 0:33:45.560 --> 0:33:47.640 I bet that's that's one of them. Dan, I mean, 0:33:48.560 --> 0:33:50.960 uh man, I was just hoping he'd slip or something. 0:33:51.000 --> 0:33:53.280 I mean when they when they ran that play, that play, 0:33:53.880 --> 0:33:57.080 I honestly, it caught me with my pants down. You know, 0:33:57.160 --> 0:33:59.920 I wasn't thinking, you know, a jet sweep by Cooper 0:34:00.120 --> 0:34:05.200 up on fourth and one. Wasn't wasn't considering that whatsoever. Uh, 0:34:05.360 --> 0:34:08.120 you know, I run into the perimeter like that. I 0:34:08.160 --> 0:34:10.279 mean that that's running sideways for a good bit of 0:34:10.280 --> 0:34:13.080 time on a fourth and one situation. That's having a 0:34:13.080 --> 0:34:15.719 lot of a lot of faith and confidence as an 0:34:15.760 --> 0:34:18.800 offensive Coordinator's not gonna be any penetration, you know, anywhere, 0:34:18.840 --> 0:34:21.319 and people are gonna win their blocks on the edge 0:34:21.360 --> 0:34:22.680 and you know, and get it done. 0:34:23.000 --> 0:34:25.879 You know, kudos to them. That was a. 0:34:27.360 --> 0:34:30.520 I think a play that lou An Rumo probably didn't think, 0:34:30.719 --> 0:34:33.239 Oh boy, yeah, this is this is this is it. 0:34:33.320 --> 0:34:34.920 This is what we have to This is what we 0:34:34.960 --> 0:34:36.160 have to take care of. This is one of the 0:34:36.160 --> 0:34:38.640 primary things. I bet it was down the list of 0:34:38.760 --> 0:34:41.200 things that he was considering that they'd run. It was 0:34:41.280 --> 0:34:44.359 just a good call by them and executed very well 0:34:44.400 --> 0:34:44.759 as well. 0:34:45.880 --> 0:34:50.120 After that run, Cooper Cup caught four passes on the 0:34:50.120 --> 0:34:53.080 final drive. Stafford in the gun acres to his left 0:34:53.080 --> 0:34:55.440 shot gun snap. Stafford looking to throw inches up in 0:34:55.440 --> 0:34:58.320 the pocket. Oh, this pass caught over the metal Cooper 0:34:58.440 --> 0:35:01.360 Cup inside the thirty and he gets tackled at the 0:35:01.400 --> 0:35:06.239 Cincinnati twenty four yard Live the longest gain on the 0:35:06.280 --> 0:35:09.920 game winning drive was Matthew Stafford's no look pass to 0:35:10.040 --> 0:35:12.880 Cooper Cup to manipulate Von Bell, who is in the 0:35:12.880 --> 0:35:15.200 middle of the field on that play. We couldn't really 0:35:15.280 --> 0:35:18.120 see that watching it live. Do you remember seeing the 0:35:18.200 --> 0:35:21.440 replay later and marveling at the no look pass by Stafford? 0:35:21.840 --> 0:35:22.560 Absolutely? 0:35:23.120 --> 0:35:25.480 You know, it wasn't the first time that he'd done it, 0:35:26.239 --> 0:35:28.160 done it many times in practice and had done it 0:35:28.160 --> 0:35:30.480 in games before, but to do it in the Super Bowl, 0:35:31.160 --> 0:35:33.560 it's gussie guts you to pull that bad boy off, 0:35:33.600 --> 0:35:35.279 you know. I mean you have to have you have 0:35:35.360 --> 0:35:38.239 to have total faith in your preparation and your repetitions 0:35:38.280 --> 0:35:42.000 and all of that sort of thing. And Patrick Maholmes 0:35:42.000 --> 0:35:46.040 and others have taken it to another level. But yeah, 0:35:46.080 --> 0:35:49.640 that was that was That was a gutsy, a gutsy 0:35:49.760 --> 0:35:53.719 move by by Matthew Stafford, And to see it unfold 0:35:53.920 --> 0:35:59.840 on replay like that, it was something that definitely. 0:35:59.520 --> 0:36:02.480 Was highlight for the La Rams in that football game. 0:36:02.520 --> 0:36:05.719 No doubt coming out of the two minute warning. The 0:36:05.800 --> 0:36:08.680 Rams had it first in goal at the eight. Matthew 0:36:08.719 --> 0:36:11.879 Stafford threw an incomplete pass in the end zone, then 0:36:11.960 --> 0:36:15.560 through another where we mentioned something on the radio broadcast 0:36:15.920 --> 0:36:20.680 that wasn't shown or mentioned on TV. Stafford catches a 0:36:20.719 --> 0:36:24.640 shotgun snap, retreats to the seventeen short pass incomplete intended 0:36:24.640 --> 0:36:28.160 for Henderson covered by Jermaine Pratt. 0:36:28.680 --> 0:36:30.799 Looks like Sean McVay is. 0:36:30.880 --> 0:36:33.360 Arguing that he was held, but there's no penalty flag 0:36:33.400 --> 0:36:35.040 in its third and goal from the eight. 0:36:35.520 --> 0:36:39.440 Yeah, McVeigh wanted a call on Jermaine Pratt going over 0:36:39.480 --> 0:36:43.080 the back, but no call, and really the. 0:36:43.040 --> 0:36:44.560 Ball was thrown into the ground. 0:36:44.840 --> 0:36:47.719 Jermaine Pratt did a nice job of leveraging the back 0:36:47.760 --> 0:36:48.600 out of the backfield. 0:36:48.719 --> 0:36:52.320 The Bengals had two defenders around Cooper Cup. They're trying 0:36:52.360 --> 0:36:55.480 to eliminate him in the red zone on third and 0:36:55.520 --> 0:36:56.160 goal from the. 0:36:56.120 --> 0:36:58.560 Eighth, particularly with no Beckham junior out there. 0:36:58.880 --> 0:37:01.080 Cup one of three receivers out to the left, single 0:37:01.120 --> 0:37:03.560 receiver out to the right. Stafford, waiting for the shotgun 0:37:03.600 --> 0:37:05.680 snap from the eight yard line, catches a high snap, 0:37:05.719 --> 0:37:07.560 drops back to throw his pass off of the. 0:37:07.480 --> 0:37:09.600 Medal swatted down by Logan Wilson. 0:37:09.760 --> 0:37:13.640 There's a penalty flag down as he reached around Cooper 0:37:13.719 --> 0:37:15.840 Cup and swatted the pass down. 0:37:16.000 --> 0:37:19.839 They're calling holding on Logan Wilson. Not interference, They're called 0:37:20.040 --> 0:37:21.200 they're calling holding. 0:37:21.280 --> 0:37:23.160 Right of the past holding. 0:37:23.880 --> 0:37:28.960 Take that snipper fifty five, no matter. 0:37:28.920 --> 0:37:29.239 What's that? 0:37:29.680 --> 0:37:32.840 Not not the yardage, but it's it's a new set 0:37:32.840 --> 0:37:33.480 of downs. 0:37:34.520 --> 0:37:37.920 On the play before the Logan Wilson pass interference call, 0:37:38.000 --> 0:37:40.680 there was an incomplete pass to a Rams running back 0:37:41.280 --> 0:37:44.200 and we mentioned on the radio broadcast that Sean McVay 0:37:44.320 --> 0:37:48.080 was complaining to the officials that Jermaine Pratt should have 0:37:48.200 --> 0:37:51.640 been flagged. It wasn't mentioned on TV. They didn't show 0:37:52.120 --> 0:37:55.399 McVeigh on the sidelines. Al Michaels and Chris collins Worth 0:37:55.480 --> 0:37:56.560 didn't talk about. 0:37:56.320 --> 0:37:57.280 It, but we did. 0:37:57.760 --> 0:38:00.920 Do you think McVeigh planted a seed that led to 0:38:01.000 --> 0:38:02.720 the call on Wilson on the next play? 0:38:03.320 --> 0:38:07.839 Absolutely, you know, I mean, referees a human and he 0:38:07.920 --> 0:38:11.480 probably you know, was debating if he saw it, and 0:38:11.480 --> 0:38:13.799 I think he did, if he you know, should I 0:38:13.840 --> 0:38:17.480 shouldn't I? And then when McVeigh went absolutely, you know, 0:38:17.680 --> 0:38:22.919 ballistic and getting after him about it. You know, human 0:38:23.040 --> 0:38:25.759 nature is. You know, I got to I got to 0:38:25.800 --> 0:38:28.120 make the restitution for that, the old makeup call kind 0:38:28.160 --> 0:38:28.439 of thing. 0:38:28.719 --> 0:38:29.879 And man, that was a tough one. 0:38:30.120 --> 0:38:34.000 Logan Wilson paid a big price for, you know, for 0:38:34.520 --> 0:38:38.800 McVeigh politicking as effectively as he did about his partner 0:38:38.920 --> 0:38:43.440 Jermaine Pratt not being not being called. I think I 0:38:43.480 --> 0:38:46.960 think that that did have an influence. So you know, 0:38:47.120 --> 0:38:49.880 he's thinking, all right, well, jeez, I was fifty to 0:38:49.880 --> 0:38:53.280 fifty on calling that one. I didn't fifty to fifty 0:38:53.320 --> 0:38:57.040 on this one, because, yeah, he talked himself into into 0:38:57.640 --> 0:38:58.520 a holding penalty. 0:38:58.560 --> 0:38:59.040 I think he. 0:38:59.800 --> 0:39:02.960 I think he basically talked himself and seeing something that 0:39:03.040 --> 0:39:05.640 Logan Wilson was doing with his hands that he really wasn't, 0:39:06.040 --> 0:39:08.640 you know. And it's like, man, that was a crusher 0:39:08.719 --> 0:39:11.080 going to call that thing in the end zone like that. 0:39:11.200 --> 0:39:11.880 It was nuts. 0:39:12.920 --> 0:39:16.640 Prior to that flag, each team had been penalized twice 0:39:16.840 --> 0:39:21.520 the entire game. On the next play, offsetting penalties were called, 0:39:21.760 --> 0:39:24.600 and on the play after that, Eli Apple was called 0:39:24.600 --> 0:39:28.200 for pass interference, giving the Rams first in goal at 0:39:28.200 --> 0:39:31.720 the one. Here's what Mike Hilton had to say after 0:39:31.800 --> 0:39:32.480 the game. 0:39:32.520 --> 0:39:34.600 Vb's on both sides were grabbing and you know, a 0:39:34.600 --> 0:39:36.680 little pool here and there, and they were like, I said, way, 0:39:36.719 --> 0:39:38.480 We're fine with it throughout the first three quarters, but 0:39:39.080 --> 0:39:41.840 French time, you know, they got flag heavy and we 0:39:42.000 --> 0:39:43.120 just put us in BASD situation. 0:39:43.400 --> 0:39:45.319 Zach Taylor took the high road. 0:39:45.560 --> 0:39:46.040 It's tough. 0:39:46.200 --> 0:39:48.319 I thought it was a really well officiated game, to 0:39:48.320 --> 0:39:50.920 be quite honest with you, and sometimes it comes down 0:39:50.960 --> 0:39:53.200 to the moments like those. I don't have a great 0:39:53.200 --> 0:39:55.080 look at it, but but I thought the officials did 0:39:55.080 --> 0:39:55.640 a nice show up. 0:39:55.760 --> 0:39:58.920 In Super Bowl twenty three, it was Montana to Taylor 0:39:59.200 --> 0:40:02.759 with thirty four seconds to go. This time it was 0:40:02.840 --> 0:40:06.439 Stafford to Cup, second down in goal from the one. 0:40:06.480 --> 0:40:09.480 As the Rams look for a go ahead touchdown. Stafford 0:40:09.560 --> 0:40:12.879 is under center, takes the snap, floats a fade into 0:40:12.920 --> 0:40:16.200 the end zone, and it is caught for a touchdown 0:40:16.600 --> 0:40:20.200 to give the Rams the lead. Cooper Cup with the 0:40:20.320 --> 0:40:23.760 catch and the Rams have pulled ahead with one twenty 0:40:23.800 --> 0:40:26.799 five to go. Down by three, the Bengals got the 0:40:26.800 --> 0:40:29.200 ball back at their own twenty five with one twenty 0:40:29.280 --> 0:40:32.040 five to go and two timeouts remaining. 0:40:32.200 --> 0:40:34.479 Burrow ready for the shotgun snap. He has the ball. 0:40:34.640 --> 0:40:37.440 Burrow's quick pass chase with a catch, running away from 0:40:37.480 --> 0:40:39.680 Ramsey to the forty and he runs out of bounds 0:40:39.760 --> 0:40:42.720 to stop the clock at the forty two yard line. 0:40:42.719 --> 0:40:46.520 A seventeen yard play to begin this critical drive first 0:40:46.520 --> 0:40:48.719 and ten Bengals from their own forty two, they need 0:40:48.760 --> 0:40:50.799 to get about twenty more yards. Burrow back to throw 0:40:50.800 --> 0:40:51.480 against the blitz. 0:40:51.480 --> 0:40:52.759 His bo caught at. 0:40:52.680 --> 0:40:56.640 The fifty Tyler Boyd with the catch as the Bengals 0:40:56.680 --> 0:40:58.160 pick up a quick eight. 0:40:58.719 --> 0:41:02.080 Tell you be one of those situations where the Rams 0:41:02.080 --> 0:41:04.400 are saying we left Joe Burrow. 0:41:04.320 --> 0:41:07.799 Too much time, But that was not the case. On 0:41:07.920 --> 0:41:11.400 second and one, Burrow threw an incomplete deep ball for chase. 0:41:11.920 --> 0:41:15.480 On third and one, samajp Ryan was stopped by Aaron 0:41:15.560 --> 0:41:18.480 Donald for no gain, forcing the Bengals to call the 0:41:18.520 --> 0:41:22.160 time out. With forty three seconds to go, Burrow and 0:41:22.239 --> 0:41:26.600 the shotgun samajp Ryan to his right. Burrow ready for 0:41:26.640 --> 0:41:29.560 the shotgun snap on fourth of the yard long couch. 0:41:29.640 --> 0:41:32.839 Joe has the ball, drops back to throw, He gets hit, 0:41:33.160 --> 0:41:36.080 he gets rid of the ball. It's incomplete intended for 0:41:36.160 --> 0:41:39.400 p Ryan and the Los Angeles Rams are going to 0:41:39.440 --> 0:41:40.239 win the Super Bowl. 0:41:40.600 --> 0:41:41.440 Boy, the Rams. 0:41:41.920 --> 0:41:44.560 They have the four down stop in the first quarter 0:41:45.040 --> 0:41:46.479 and a four down stop at. 0:41:46.360 --> 0:41:47.560 The end of the football game. 0:41:47.920 --> 0:41:52.800 They didn't have any true takeaways, no Fumber recoveries, no interceptions, 0:41:53.120 --> 0:41:58.040 but stopping the Bengals on downs twice. And who made 0:41:58.080 --> 0:42:01.560 the sack Aaron Donald. That's his third sack of the day. 0:42:01.640 --> 0:42:03.279 Well, it's not a sack because he threw the ball. 0:42:03.320 --> 0:42:06.480 Okay, Well, the pressure in the basically equivalent to that 0:42:06.560 --> 0:42:10.720 fourth down. Just throwing it out into space stops anything 0:42:10.719 --> 0:42:14.160 from happening. But he two quarterback sacks and then the 0:42:14.160 --> 0:42:16.799 biggest play of the game, precious Joe Burrow. 0:42:16.520 --> 0:42:18.000 And spins him around like a top. 0:42:18.520 --> 0:42:21.680 That's a big, big effort by Aaron Donald, and I 0:42:21.719 --> 0:42:23.280 think he has a shot to be MVP. 0:42:24.239 --> 0:42:24.680 Agreed. 0:42:24.920 --> 0:42:27.239 Cooper Cup will certainly be a candidate as well for 0:42:27.320 --> 0:42:30.359 his heroics on the final drive. As Aaron Donald ran 0:42:30.400 --> 0:42:33.840 toward the sideline, he pointed toward his ring finger. He 0:42:33.920 --> 0:42:38.600 is going to have a Super Bowl ring. On the 0:42:38.640 --> 0:42:42.120 Bengals final drive, Joe Mixon was not on the field 0:42:42.600 --> 0:42:46.160 and it was considered a big deal immediately after the game, 0:42:46.680 --> 0:42:50.080 but then the following season, Sama JP Ryan was fantastic, 0:42:50.160 --> 0:42:53.960 and I guess people stopped complaining about it. Looking back, now, 0:42:54.520 --> 0:42:55.160 what do you think. 0:42:55.480 --> 0:42:59.640 I think that samajp Ryan was real effective as a 0:42:59.640 --> 0:43:03.960 blitz pick up, a chip guy. You know, past protection 0:43:04.200 --> 0:43:07.799 was a strength a forte of his and at that 0:43:07.920 --> 0:43:11.360 point in time, it wasn't one of Joe's. And Joe's 0:43:11.400 --> 0:43:13.880 worked on it diligently, and Joe's very effective now, I 0:43:13.960 --> 0:43:17.719 mean Joe's Joe's much more consistent and blitz pick up 0:43:17.760 --> 0:43:23.080 and helping offensive lineman with defensive lineman, pass rush and 0:43:23.400 --> 0:43:25.640 that sort of thing. And I think the way the 0:43:25.680 --> 0:43:28.880 game was going, like you mentioned, down the stretch, Joe's 0:43:28.920 --> 0:43:31.879 getting sacked a lot, so that last job of the thing, 0:43:31.880 --> 0:43:33.319 and they're just going to be teeing off. I mean, 0:43:33.320 --> 0:43:35.680 they're not even going to play the run whatsoever. We 0:43:35.800 --> 0:43:39.440 need to get our best past protecting group in there, 0:43:39.440 --> 0:43:42.520 our best pass protecting tight end, our best pass protecting 0:43:42.600 --> 0:43:45.719 running back to help our offensive line. That you know, 0:43:46.080 --> 0:43:49.600 is from a matchup standpoint, like we talked about through 0:43:49.600 --> 0:43:51.799 the entire podcast, you know, on the short end of 0:43:52.440 --> 0:43:55.240 a couple of couple of matchups and like you mentioned, 0:43:55.320 --> 0:43:58.720 Daniel Raheem Morris is bringing five and you know your 0:43:59.080 --> 0:44:01.520 bring somebody off the ad or a safety blitz or something. 0:44:01.560 --> 0:44:05.160 Now all of a sudden, boys like you gotta have 0:44:05.200 --> 0:44:07.360 bodies in there that can pick it up effectively. 0:44:07.440 --> 0:44:09.080 I think that was part of the thinking on that. 0:44:10.680 --> 0:44:14.000 As we all saw later on replay. On that final play, 0:44:14.200 --> 0:44:17.600 Jalen Ramsey slipped and Jamar Chase is wide open deep. 0:44:18.120 --> 0:44:20.280 But if you look at Joe Burrow, he was looking 0:44:20.400 --> 0:44:23.560 left on that play, not right, and he pump faked. 0:44:24.160 --> 0:44:26.080 It looked to me like his first read was T 0:44:26.320 --> 0:44:32.040 Higgins and c J Uzama's guy left. CJ double teamed T. 0:44:32.840 --> 0:44:36.360 That led to the the pump fake and then ultimately 0:44:36.480 --> 0:44:39.120 Aaron Donald was able to get to Joe Burrow. Is 0:44:39.120 --> 0:44:39.960 that how you saw it? 0:44:40.400 --> 0:44:40.840 Yeah? 0:44:40.920 --> 0:44:43.640 I did, Dan, And uh, you know it's like T 0:44:43.800 --> 0:44:45.560 had already hit him for that bomb. You know, he'd 0:44:45.560 --> 0:44:48.520 already hit him once deep. So they're thinking, you know, okay, 0:44:48.560 --> 0:44:51.040 we got to make sure that Raheemors made sure that 0:44:51.080 --> 0:44:53.879 he had some sort of an adjustment where his guy 0:44:53.960 --> 0:44:56.440 wasn't out there on an island to be overpowered. 0:44:55.920 --> 0:44:58.440 By the by the size of the T. Higgins none. 0:44:58.480 --> 0:45:01.120 Only the size speed ratio is crazy. 0:45:02.680 --> 0:45:05.640 But yeah, I mean it was just the luck of 0:45:05.719 --> 0:45:09.000 the luck of the play call and the matchup. You know, 0:45:09.239 --> 0:45:13.000 looking left initially and blindside, he gets such a great 0:45:13.040 --> 0:45:17.239 pass rush pump. They no chance to no chance to 0:45:17.239 --> 0:45:21.759 get anything else done. It's just that's life in the 0:45:21.840 --> 0:45:27.640 National Football League, man, it's it's sometimes defensive and offensive 0:45:27.640 --> 0:45:30.360 coordinators players lay awake at night and see on the 0:45:30.400 --> 0:45:33.399 screen all the times where they had poor technique or whatever, 0:45:33.520 --> 0:45:37.920 and let them getting beaten. Offensive defensive coordinators, man, they 0:45:37.920 --> 0:45:39.880 get a roll of decks in their head. I should 0:45:39.880 --> 0:45:41.440 have called this play instead of that one, this play 0:45:41.480 --> 0:45:43.279 instead of this one at this time of the game. 0:45:43.320 --> 0:45:45.279 I should have set this play up better by calling this. 0:45:45.640 --> 0:45:48.719 I mean, you can second guess yourself to death. It's 0:45:48.480 --> 0:45:51.279 that's that's why the game is so so intriguing. 0:45:52.239 --> 0:45:56.560 Final score the Rams twenty three the Bengals twenty. Cooper 0:45:56.600 --> 0:46:00.160 Cup was named the MVP, but it easily could have 0:46:00.200 --> 0:46:03.480 been Donald as La tied a Super Bowl record by 0:46:03.560 --> 0:46:07.600 sacking Joe Burrow seven times. Here are Burrow and Zach 0:46:07.680 --> 0:46:09.160 Taylor after the game. 0:46:09.440 --> 0:46:12.799 They have a really good front, you know, Aaron Donald 0:46:12.880 --> 0:46:15.719 von Miller and Leonard Floyd are you know, three of 0:46:15.760 --> 0:46:16.920 the best players in the league. 0:46:17.239 --> 0:46:17.640 You know, you do. 0:46:18.600 --> 0:46:20.440 We expected that they were going to get some pressure, 0:46:20.520 --> 0:46:22.600 so you know, they did a good job. They did 0:46:22.640 --> 0:46:26.320 a good job. You know, I was disappointing my performance overall. 0:46:26.320 --> 0:46:28.279 I thought I could have played better, give us a 0:46:28.280 --> 0:46:30.799 better chance to win. But you know, you live and 0:46:30.800 --> 0:46:31.120 you learn. 0:46:31.280 --> 0:46:34.360 Every tape we've watched they hit every single quarterback, almost 0:46:34.360 --> 0:46:36.320 on every single snap, and so it's a challenge. I 0:46:36.320 --> 0:46:38.359 thought our guys a tremendous job early in the game 0:46:38.400 --> 0:46:41.160 managing that as the game gets on, you know, they 0:46:41.160 --> 0:46:43.640 did a good job creating that pressure. And so when 0:46:43.640 --> 0:46:46.080 we had some negative plays in first and ten, you know, 0:46:46.200 --> 0:46:48.239 running the ball in second thirteen is gonna be pretty tough. 0:46:48.360 --> 0:46:52.240 It was a bitterly disappointing ending to an incredible season. 0:46:52.880 --> 0:46:53.880 Here's Sam Hubbard. 0:46:53.920 --> 0:46:57.120 We made a lot of people happy, and you know, 0:46:57.160 --> 0:47:01.200 we came up short. But you know, I think people really, 0:47:01.320 --> 0:47:05.520 you know, enjoyed cheering for us this year, and you 0:47:05.520 --> 0:47:08.280 know the support that we felt I felt from them. 0:47:08.200 --> 0:47:11.280 Was amazing, And all I want to do is just keep. 0:47:11.120 --> 0:47:15.160 Playing hard for them and take that next step as 0:47:15.200 --> 0:47:19.600 you watch that rams colored confetti low to the ground. 0:47:20.520 --> 0:47:22.880 Did it take you right back to Super Bowl sixteen? 0:47:24.000 --> 0:47:24.400 Bingo? 0:47:25.320 --> 0:47:26.239 Did it? 0:47:26.239 --> 0:47:29.000 It did? And and you know it's funny. Dan. 0:47:29.920 --> 0:47:34.560 The first thing, you know, like that experience and other experiences, 0:47:34.640 --> 0:47:37.440 and to this day when I think about Super Bowl sixteen, 0:47:37.520 --> 0:47:40.920 I think about it quite often. The first thing you 0:47:40.960 --> 0:47:42.960 think about when you when you lose a football game 0:47:43.080 --> 0:47:46.480 like that is the mistakes. You know, win a football game, 0:47:46.560 --> 0:47:50.239 the mistakes go away. Lose a football game, mistakes magnify. 0:47:50.760 --> 0:47:54.720 The bigger the game, the more it holds true. Make plays, 0:47:54.760 --> 0:47:57.279 avoid mistakes. That's the that's the bottom line. 0:47:58.480 --> 0:48:01.600 There was a big party after the game at poly Pavilion, 0:48:01.680 --> 0:48:02.000 where U. 0:48:02.040 --> 0:48:02.400 C l a. 0:48:02.520 --> 0:48:07.680 Basketball plays. Nelly performed Joe Burrow's favorite rapper, kid Cut. 0:48:07.680 --> 0:48:11.760 He performed Is there a party of any sort after 0:48:12.080 --> 0:48:16.000 Super Bowl sixteen when you played the forty nine ers. 0:48:15.960 --> 0:48:20.279 I'd call it a gathering. It was not a It 0:48:20.360 --> 0:48:22.759 was not like a party atmosphere. It was like and 0:48:22.960 --> 0:48:25.440 I didn't even want to go, and Lyn's like, we 0:48:25.560 --> 0:48:27.480 got to go, come on, you, you got to go. 0:48:28.320 --> 0:48:29.560 Like I don't know. 0:48:30.239 --> 0:48:33.839 I'm not in any mood to, but it was it 0:48:33.880 --> 0:48:36.560 was very Uh. I'd say solemn is a good way 0:48:36.600 --> 0:48:39.719 to put it. You know, nobody was, uh. But as 0:48:40.080 --> 0:48:41.719 the evening war on a little bit, and I didn't 0:48:41.760 --> 0:48:44.000 stay there long as the hour war on, I think 0:48:44.080 --> 0:48:46.400 that I was there. It's like you start to reflect 0:48:46.440 --> 0:48:49.239 on you know, yeah, this didn't go like we had 0:48:49.280 --> 0:48:51.719 hoped or anticipate of a man, there are so many 0:48:51.760 --> 0:48:53.520 things when you sit back and take some time to 0:48:53.560 --> 0:48:57.320 think about it, you know, climb the ladder of success, 0:48:57.360 --> 0:48:59.719 like you know, one achieved one goal at a time, 0:49:00.160 --> 0:49:03.239 win the division, you know, win a playoff game, win 0:49:03.280 --> 0:49:06.560 the AFC Championship in fifty nine below weather, and all 0:49:06.600 --> 0:49:09.600 these great memories, and it's all spoiled by losing the 0:49:09.680 --> 0:49:13.520 damn Super Bowl. Because I can attest to the fact 0:49:13.560 --> 0:49:16.279 that as a player, people only going to remember one team, 0:49:16.840 --> 0:49:18.840 team that won it, and the team that lost it. 0:49:18.880 --> 0:49:21.440 You're a loser, man, and it just it spoils your 0:49:21.480 --> 0:49:22.080 whole season. 0:49:22.080 --> 0:49:23.000 It's unbelievable. 0:49:23.280 --> 0:49:25.440 The next time we do one of these detailed Super 0:49:25.440 --> 0:49:28.160 Bowl recaps, it's going to be after the Bengals first win. 0:49:28.840 --> 0:49:30.480 Love it, my man, love it. 0:49:30.520 --> 0:49:33.560 And you know, Dan's let's face it, the Bengals are 0:49:33.600 --> 0:49:37.920 still right there. They played both Super Bowl participants on 0:49:37.960 --> 0:49:40.719 the road and beat the forty nine ers by two 0:49:40.719 --> 0:49:47.359 scores and lost by eight points to Kansas City with 0:49:47.520 --> 0:49:51.760 you know, with their backup quarterback and had very multiple 0:49:51.880 --> 0:49:54.600 chances to win that football game. Jake Browning, you know, 0:49:55.080 --> 0:49:58.759 competed exceptionally. Well, they're right there with anybody. I mean, 0:49:59.080 --> 0:50:02.320 got to keep number nine healthy. When he's healthy. Things 0:50:02.400 --> 0:50:05.200 like super Bowls we're talking about are right there. 0:50:05.280 --> 0:50:05.480 Man. 0:50:06.480 --> 0:50:09.720 Super Bowl fifty six did not result in a victory 0:50:09.760 --> 0:50:14.240 parade in Cincinnati, but it did electrify the fan base. 0:50:14.800 --> 0:50:17.520 For the last word, here's Mike Brown. 0:50:18.080 --> 0:50:21.759 This is a wonderful moment for me. What our goal 0:50:22.280 --> 0:50:26.600 is beyond winning on the field. That's how you get 0:50:26.680 --> 0:50:29.600 to the next goal, which is to excite the city 0:50:29.680 --> 0:50:34.880 and get our supporters feeling happy about how it's going, 0:50:35.120 --> 0:50:39.239 enjoying it, getting involved in the ways they do that 0:50:39.480 --> 0:50:44.160 for me is a real treat. I am enjoying that 0:50:44.280 --> 0:50:46.520 part of it as much as anything. 0:50:46.960 --> 0:50:48.880 And that's going to do it. For this episode of 0:50:48.880 --> 0:50:51.520 the Bengals Booth podcast brought to you by pay Corps, 0:50:51.600 --> 0:50:55.960 proud to be the Bengals official HR software provider. By 0:50:56.080 --> 0:51:01.080 Alta Fiber, future proof fiber Internet designed to elevate your home, business, 0:51:01.080 --> 0:51:04.760 and community to a new level, and by Kettering Health 0:51:05.080 --> 0:51:08.799 the best care for the best fans. 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