WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Rollin', Rollin', Rollin' 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.439 Hi and everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:12.920 The Bengals Booth Podcast. The Roland Roland Roland. Addition, as 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:15.640 the Bengals make it seven wins in their last nine 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:19.640 games by beating the Titans in Nashville twenty to sixteen. 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:23.319 Coming up, you'll hear radio replays, one on one, locker 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:27.800 room interviews and analysis from my broadcast partner Dave Lapham. Then, 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:30.479 in this week's fun fact segment, you'll get to know 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:34.200 the latest Bengals punter from a Cincinnati area high school, 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:39.080 former Lasale lancer and Ohio State Buckeye, Drew Chrisman. The 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:43.400 Bengals Booth Podcast is presented by Alta Fiber, future proof 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:48.000 fiber Internet capable of delivering multi gigabit speeds designed to 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:50.920 take your home, business, and community to a new level. 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:55.520 Elevate your connection with Alta Fiber. Now here's a quick 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.160 reminder that you can have the latest edition of this 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:01.280 podcast delivered right to your phone, own tablet, or computer 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:05.759 by subscribing wherever you get your podcasts. It's the greatest 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:11.920 thing since powerful hotel showers. Our home in Cincinnati was 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:15.720 built in the nineteen twenties and the water pressure isn't great, 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:19.720 especially in the upstairs bathroom. As a result, when I'm 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:22.360 on the road and the shower in my hotel room 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:26.080 has a powerful spray, it's a real treat. And the 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:29.800 team hotel in Nashville was the perfect example. Remember the 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:34.039 Seinfeld episode where Kramer bought a black market showerhead that 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:37.160 was used to wash off elephants at the zoo. Well, 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:40.880 that's what I experienced in Tennessee, and that's probably more 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:45.080 than you ever wanted to know about my shower habits. Now, 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:48.800 let's get to the radio replays from Sunday's win at 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.800 Nissan Stadium. It'll be a forty seven yard field goal 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:54.920 attempt from the left hash for Evan McPherson, four for 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:58.520 four in the playoffs on this field, including the fifty 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:01.320 two yarder at the gun and that sent the Bengals 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:05.640 to the AFC Championship game. Chrisman Catches places the ball down, 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:10.720 the kick has the distance and it is good money. 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:14.800 Mac hits from forty seven and that ties the game 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:18.560 at three. Play action fake by Tannehill sets up a screen. 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:22.679 Henry Catches runs to the thirty thirty five forty five 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:26.400 fifty head of the field at the forty thirty the twenty, 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:29.240 cutting between the hash marks at the top, the ball 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:32.520 is chopped out and the Titans fall on top of 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:36.680 it in the end zone. It's a touchdown for Tennessee, 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:42.080 trailing Burke's trailing. The play fell on the fumble for 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:47.560 the touchdown. Unbelievable play. Another horrible drive starts. The Bengals 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:52.000 begin from their own eight. Burrow looks to pass short 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:54.320 pass caught by p Ryan running to the twenty from 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:57.240 outside the numerals thirty, uses a stiff arm at the 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:00.760 thirty five and goes out of bounds at the forty 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:04.720 thirty two yards on the short pass to Sama J. 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:07.440 P Ryan. Burrow takes the snap, hands it off to 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:10.200 p Ryan, follows blockers to the right, and he will 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:15.560 run into the end zone standing up from the Bengals touchdown. Nice. 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:18.120 I'll tell you what I mean. He I don't think 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:19.920 they got a hand on him, and he would have 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:22.239 scored in touch football. This will be a thirty five 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:26.160 yard try from the left hash the snap, the placement 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:30.639 and the right footed kick. It is no good wide right. 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:35.240 He pushed it badly, so she Dak misses With four 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:38.000 seconds left, in the half. The Bengals trying to take 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:40.480 the lead for the first time today. Two forty one 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:43.320 left in the third, the snap, the placement, the right 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:46.360 footed kick, a high spinning and never end kick. Oh 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:50.040 yeah is good, and the Bengals have taken the lead 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.839 with two thirty five left in the third. On third 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:56.680 and long, Burrow catches the shotgun snap his throat toward 0:03:56.720 --> 0:04:00.480 the sideline, back shoulder throw. Trent in a Law fakes 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:05.080 an amazing catch as he's sliding to the ground. Incredible 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:08.720 grab for a first down at the twenty seven yard line. 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:12.839 That is him as him Joe surveys the defense too 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:16.359 deep safeties for Tennessee. Joe catches the shotgun snaff fakes 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:18.880 the p rhyan floated toward the end zone and Higgins, 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:24.159 he's got it. Touchdown Bengals has He used his height 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:27.880 and his size and went up and over the cornerback 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:33.080 in coverage for the touchdown. McCreary he he just outmuscled him. Dan, 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:36.240 You're right, bigger body guy. It was like you called 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:39.160 basketball games so well. He boxed them out. I mean 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:43.120 he got inside position, boxed him out and said I'm bigger, 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:45.479 You're not gonna get over the top of me and 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:50.799 he Boughty position McCreary. Perfectly great throw by Burrow, better 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:54.480 catch by Higgins. Burrow catches a shotgun snaff against the 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:57.800 four man rush. Guyer's deep down field for Higgins. See 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:02.480 Higgins has the football an amazing catch half the eleven 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:07.600 yard line of Tennessee. Oh my gosh, equal opportunity abuse. 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:11.360 Chrispin looks back at his kicker, now twists his head, catches, 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:14.200 puts it down. The kick is up and money back 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:18.960 Kim Cincinnati a seven point lead with one minute and 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:23.239 fifty three seconds to go. There's a penalty flat down 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.600 and the Bengals are saying it's on Tennessee. Yeah, they 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:29.000 may have illegally tried to jump to block it. Might 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:34.520 jump off number ninety seven defense for a hit on 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:40.240 a defense list player half the distance goal automatic Bye, 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:46.080 Lord that Kevin Strong. That's not very strong. Whoop? That 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:48.599 was weak? Do you think it's safe to say the 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:54.719 Bengals of Victoria's Dan Coffin nails my man. Bam bam bam. 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:57.400 Prior to the games, Zach Taylor sent two people to 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:00.839 the fifty yard line for the opening coin toss. Joe Burrow, 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:04.000 who beat the Titans in the playoffs last year despite 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:09.600 getting sacked nine times, and Tennessee native T Higgins. Burrow 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:12.280 through for two hundred and seventy yards with one touchdown, 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:16.080 no interceptions, and a passer rating of ninety one point zero, 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:20.480 and he was only sacked once. Higgins finished with seven 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:24.279 catches for one hundred fourteen yards after having one forty 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:27.560 eight in last week's win at Pittsburgh. I talked to 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:31.400 T after the game. This had to be a special 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:33.359 day for T Higgins. You were out there for the 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:37.080 coin toss as a Tennessee kid, and you ultimately made 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:42.280 the game winning touchdown catch. Describe your afternoon. I feel good, obviously, 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:44.640 you know, just coming off of any any w'm I'm 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.000 gonna feel good. Um, but you know, for me to 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:49.680 come out, you know in my home state, Um, you know, 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.440 being a going out there for the coin toss, you know, 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:54.719 for the first time of my NFL career, and then 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:57.200 coming out and you know after you know, a tough 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:58.960 job that I had in the first half, you know, 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:00.720 coming back out in second half making the big time 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.920 plays that I did. Um, it just shows that you 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:06.520 know that we got a group of guys that don't 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:08.760 give up. Um, you wouldn't let one drop, you know, 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:10.960 you know, bring us down. We just gotta keep going, 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:13.640 you know, and make plays on down the road. Two 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:17.080 times mister football in this state, finalist for mister basketball 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:19.240 in this state. Did you want to put on a 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.520 show for your home state fans? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:25.040 you know idea. Man, It's just you know, um, you know, 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:27.120 I had a lot of family come in. Um, so 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:29.120 you know, just a lot of family in France came 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:31.000 to this game just to watch me play. And you know, 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:33.040 you know, I obviously wanted to put on the show 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:36.200 from our people's and um, a lot of people don't know. 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:38.840 But my name is up twice in this studio on 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:42.280 the banner from winning mister football twice. So all right, 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:44.960 let's get to the game winning touchdown catch. Trenton Irwin 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:46.920 makes a great catch on the sideline to extend the 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:50.440 drive on the very next play. After the replay, they 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:52.040 put it up for you and count on you to 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:55.280 make a play. Yeah. Um, you know, just like you said, 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:57.720 we're gonna start off with Ti, Um, I'll standing catch, 0:07:57.760 --> 0:07:59.600 I'll standing you know. That's that's a hard catch. To 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:01.960 make it for him to you know, stay in bounce 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:04.040 with the catch and you know, and complete it through 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:07.160 the ground. Big time play by him. Um. And then 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:08.760 you know that very next play, you know, Joe said 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:10.040 he's gonna give me a shot and he's just gonna 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:12.320 throw it up and be expecting me to make the play. 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:14.440 And that's what I did. I think we saw the 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:17.760 finalist for mister Basketball actually on that catch, because it 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:20.480 was a classic box out a smaller corner and just 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.120 dominate them physically. Definitely had to box him out. Um, 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:24.880 you know that was that was the way he threw 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:27.080 it up. Um, just give me a chance, and you 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:28.920 know you had to use my basketball skills in No. One. 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:32.160 This win has to feel good. That's a tough, physical team. 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.120 They make you earn every inch and you've managed to 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:36.959 come in here twice in ten months and beat them 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:38.920 on their home field. Yeah, for sure, it's a tough, 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:41.640 tough win. Um, But you know, um, we're gonna be still. 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:44.000 We made a lot of mistakes. Still, we're gonna come 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:46.040 back in you know, go over the film, look it over. 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:49.080 Got tough matchup next week and hope we can keep 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:52.840 stacking these w two straight, great games one hundred yards plus. Congratulations. 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:57.040 That's T. Higginson. The Bengals Booth podcast just brought to 0:08:57.080 --> 0:09:00.439 you by pay Corps. More than twenty nine thousand stamers 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:04.800 trust pay Corps to help them recruit, pay, engage, and 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:10.880 retain employees. Learn more at paycorps dot com. Defensively, the 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:14.480 Bengals held NFL rushing leader Derek Henry to a mere 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:18.719 thirty eight yards on seventeen carries. That's two point two 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:23.040 yards per attempt. DJ Reader was literally right in the 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:26.920 middle of that defensive performance, and I joined Jay Morrison 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:30.160 of The Athletic in talking to DJ after the game, 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:33.800 really shutting down the run the whole time. But when 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:35.480 you're playing a guy like Derek Carry, how much is 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:37.000 it in the back of your mind at one player 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:40.040 you're going anytime, I'll saw it on the screen big 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:42.240 or runway train down here, you know what I'm saying. 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:45.400 So I gotta make sure that you limit him. You know, 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:47.000 you try to do your best to frustrat um your 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:48.800 job back and forth a little bit, get a little 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:51.439 frustration and settle in. So that's part of my game. 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:52.880 I don't know if everybody else talks as much as 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:54.360 I do, but I do a lot of talking out there, 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:56.720 so that's a good time. Everybody knows what Joe Burrow 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:58.160 is and he can put a team on her shoulders 0:09:58.160 --> 0:09:59.960 of Karen, do you feel like this defense is now 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.960 poised to show that you guys can carry. We're gonna 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:06.040 do whatever you know, they put whatever situation they put 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:07.400 us in, or wherever we got the ball, We're gonna 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:09.160 go out there and play ball. I think we do 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:12.520 a good job as a team, a whole overall team 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:16.040 and playing off each other. If they're down, we're If 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:17.760 we're down, they're picking us up. And when we get 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.320 it rolling together. We had those blowout games, you know 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:23.400 those those that's just what happened. But we're completely confident 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:25.920 those guys and what they got going. And we play defense. 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:28.480 That's our job, play defense, the special teams and we 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:33.360 just heer the offense on no matter what's going on. Physicality, toughness, execution, 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:35.920 all that. Where does this game rank since you've been 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:38.800 here as far as the defense is performing thin defense? 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:41.240 This one of a good better games, playing as physical 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:44.679 as we can play, not getting down on ourselves when 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:46.680 they had a big play just coming back and fighting 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:48.640 back for the next play. Every play, you know, just 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:52.520 making sure even on that the screen with a touchdown, 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:55.200 to have Cam chase down, punching that ball, get it out. 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:57.600 Those are huge plays. It says a lot about your defense, 0:10:57.600 --> 0:10:59.240 how gritty they are, the guys you got in your room, 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:01.319 what their makeup is. And you know, I can go 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:03.240 to warld with those guys anytime, that type of group, 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.600 I can go to world with him anytime. Derrick Henry 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:09.240 carried seventeen times. It felt like you guys knocked the 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:13.040 lineback probably on thirteen or fourteen up those seventeen. Was 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:14.760 that the key? That's the job, I mean, that's what 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:16.640 we've talked about all week, you know, just making sure 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:18.440 we're sething a little new line of scrimmage. Don't let 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:19.760 them be their aggressives. We go out there and be 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:22.400 aggressives a day and get it done. That's a team 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:24.960 that makes you earn every inch. Ye Braves gonna make 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:26.560 you do that though. As a coach, you know, I 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:29.560 got so much love and respect for the guy. Um Well. 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:31.360 I came in league, taking me as a young player 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:32.600 and just teaching me how to do it the right way, 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:35.560 teach me how to be about ball, understand ball, what's 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:39.880 going on, situational ball, all that. So I know that 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:41.960 they're gonna take on the characteristics or their head coach, 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:43.880 and he's gonna have those guys prepayers, so they're gonna 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:45.240 make you earn it. They're not just gonna go out 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.760 there and and just wash them down like. They're gonna 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:49.079 make you earn it every time because they got a 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:50.400 lot of pride and the coach has a lot of 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:52.720 pride and a lot of good players over there too. 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:56.040 So to come here twice in ten months against that team, 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.480 that's got to be tremendously satisfied. Yeah, it feels good, man. 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:00.959 You know, I played him all the time when I 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:03.560 was in the other division in Houston. You know, I 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:05.240 hear about the rug game all the time. I still 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:08.840 haven't giving up one hundred of Derek yet in the league, 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.760 So I'm just I'm excited for a challenge every time 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:13.560 he comes in and we gotta play them. I know 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:15.439 it's gonna be a physical game, so I enjoy it. 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:17.600 How many times do you think that's been against Derek? 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:19.400 I don't know. I played him two times a year 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:21.720 when I was in Houston. I think I didn't play 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:26.760 twice and the two times here, no hundies. I want 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.239 this Nation championship. You got me want some Nation championship? 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:32.599 How was it since then hadn't got one? Congrats in 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:36.520 a great game. Thank you. That's DJ Reader, So I 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:40.320 had to look it up. Derrick Henry carried thirty six 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:42.640 times for one hundred and fifty eight yards and three 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:46.800 touchdowns when Alabama beat Clemson for the National championship in 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:50.600 DJ Reader's final college game. But at the pro level, 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:56.160 DJ's defenses have consistently shut Henry down. Now, DJ wasn't 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:59.719 entirely right. Henry did have one hundred nine yards in 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:03.520 a game against Houston back in twenty seventeen, but in 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:07.760 their nine NFL meetings, Henry has only averaged fifty one 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:11.760 yards per game and three point nine yards per carry. 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.840 More evidence the DJ Reader is one of the best 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:18.920 run stoppers in the NFL. The Bengals Booth Podcast is 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:23.080 presented by Kettering Health, the official healthcare provider of the Bengals. 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:26.240 With more than one hundred twenty care facilities and fifteen 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:30.000 hundred care providers, Kettering Health is committed to guiding you 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:33.880 to your best Health. Visit kettering health dot org to 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:38.720 learn more. With Jacksonville upsetting Baltimore on Sunday, the Bengals 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:41.000 and Ravens are now tied for first in the AFC 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:44.839 North at seven and four. The Bengals also moved up 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:48.360 one spot on the AFC playoff totem pole. They are 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:52.880 currently the sixth seed and seven teams get in time 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.640 to hear from head coach Zach Taylor, as Dave Lapham 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:58.040 spent a few minutes with him in the locker room. 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:02.280 That was one hell of football game. I mean, uncharacteristically, 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:05.120 you suffered a lot of penalties that you know, you 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:08.200 were kind of instead of them stopping you're stopping yourself 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:09.600 a little bit. I mean, you guys could have rolled 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:11.040 a lot of points up on these guys, and that's 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:13.439 hard to do. There were some critical penalties in the 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:16.160 first half that really set us back, and that's what 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:18.440 Tennessee's done a great job of opinion in dat making 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:20.480 you to the whole length of the field. We certainly 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.560 didn't help that cause at all, but we still went 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:26.160 in halftime feeling really confident about it being a ten 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:29.080 ten game. Despite losing the penalty battle. Despite losing the 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:31.320 field position battle. We knew things at some point would 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:33.280 take a turn, and they did. You know, I thought 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:35.400 they wanted to coin toss and they decide, you know, 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:38.240 we're going to defer. They get an opportunity to score 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:40.360 at the end of the half, they missed the field goal. 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:43.120 They come out to start the second half three and out. 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:45.360 I thought that sequence was really big in a close 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:47.440 football game like this. Yeah, I think even though we 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:49.800 didn't score after the three and out, we felt like 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:51.240 we had some good momentum. We were able to pin 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:52.720 them in there I think at the ten yard line 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:55.200 after that drive, and then and then start to win 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:56.960 the field position battle and start to push the points 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:59.800 on the board. And so just really pleased with overall 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:03.960 how our team played winning football. I thought that you 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:07.000 were They play very soft coverage on the on the perimeter. 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.080 It looks like quite quite a bit, and you guys 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:11.720 were very patient, took full advantage of it. And then 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:14.120 at some point they're tired of getting picked on and 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:16.480 you're gonna take your shots, and I mean Joe was 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:18.480 very patient and then took his shots when they were there. 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:20.440 I thought it was outstanding. Yeah, that's that's how you 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:22.080 have to against them. You know, that's why they don't 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:24.000 give up big plays. That's part they have one i 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:26.680 think seven of the last eight games. That's your style, 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:29.480 making go to the length of field. No big plays, 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:31.960 make you be patient, and unfortunately we got a quarterback 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:34.360 that's one to do that. They don't give up many 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:36.120 yards in the ground. I mean, they don't give up 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:38.960 many yards per carry. If you guys. The other thing 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:41.720 they started doing, you know, pin and pull, some gap 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:43.840 scheme stuff, mixing things up a little bit on them, 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:45.480 got that running game going a little bit too, I 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:48.280 mean was running hard man. Yeah, we threw everything at 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:49.720 them that we had. You know, I think Frank did 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:51.520 a great job developing the run play this week, and 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:53.840 the guys believed in it, and um, you know, this 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:56.880 team's they're a premier run defense, and so you're going 0:15:56.960 --> 0:16:00.240 to have a couple of zero or negatives, maybe more 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:02.440 than we're used to. But I thought that the run 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:05.200 game allowed us to play on play on time today 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:06.960 and on rhythm and allow us to do the passes 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:08.480 that we wanted to, and so I was really pleased 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:12.240 with that performance. What about stopping Derrick Henry again? In 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.640 the running game. I mean three games in a row now, 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:17.320 I mean Derrick Henry has done really nothing compared to 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:19.600 what he's done to everybody else. What is it about 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:21.640 the Bengals in the formula you guys have. Our defense 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:23.600 isn't afraid of anybody, you know, it's it's they're gonna 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:25.320 roll the ball out there. They got a playoffs. I 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.360 think that's the attitude of our defense right now. And 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:30.320 they had a performance that wasn't surprising to any of us. 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:34.080 No turnovers in the football game, so it was one 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.160 of those who's going to be better, you know. It's 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:39.560 like no extra possessions for any anybody. And it was 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:41.560 just a grind it out day, I mean on the 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:43.720 road to grind it out against a team that had 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:46.240 won what seven out of their last eight games or whatever, 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:48.760 and one that was the number one seed in the 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:52.080 playoffs last year, and felt like, oh yeah, we'll show you. 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:53.520 You know, you guys knocked the style of the the playoffs 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:56.480 will show you what does this winn't mean? It doesn't. 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:59.600 It's just the next game for us. It's our team 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.080 and has so much confidence right now and so much 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:03.920 belief that we're doing things. The right way. We're putting 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:07.000 in the work to be successful on Sunday. They we're 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:09.320 not paying attention to necessary who the opponent is, it's 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:12.160 whoever's on the schedule next. Yeah, they're a good team. 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:13.640 They got to come see us. We got a really 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:15.879 good team too, And that's just the confidence we're operating 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:19.520 with right now. It's funny. Last year you beat Tennessee 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:22.280 on the road, and then you beat Kansas City. Now 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:24.240 you've beat in Tennessee on the road. Now you have Kennisty, 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:25.960 but it's at home. But it's the same, it's the 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:28.679 same sequence. I mean, I know it's one game at 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:29.920 a time. You want to be one to know as 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:32.280 many many times you can, But do you have any 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:34.680 flashbacks at all as you're preparing for this stretch? Now? 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:36.680 Every game every year is so different. I got to 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:38.399 look at their personnel. I don't even know what personnel 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:40.640 they got this year, you know. So I'm sure there's 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:42.280 there's a lot of new faces over there. We got 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:44.320 some new faces and so it's a totally different game. 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:48.160 Speaking of new faces, a big thing. One quarterback sack 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:50.399 on the day there was some pressure. Joe had the 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:53.760 intentional grounding but I mean, overall, I thought the offensive 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:56.200 line really handled things well. I thought they did a 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:59.360 great job. You know, last year we felt how physical, 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:01.320 how much this d line can get on you. I 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:03.159 thought this year our guys really stepped up and had 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:06.119 the right attitude for this game. The two time Tennessee 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:09.120 High School Player of the Year Te Higgins comes back 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:11.080 to the state of Tennessee and shows out how big 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:13.240 was that. Yeah, that's what he does, you know when 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:16.000 his numbers called epso makes plays and he made two 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:17.639 on those last two drives that were just huge for 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:19.520 us to get that one. And so I'm really proud 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:23.000 of the job t did today. Coach, congratulations, got your 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:26.440 team ready to play a big time game on the 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:30.680 road against a big time opponent. Seven and four. Nice. Yeah, 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:33.320 it's a good feeling. Appreciate you, all right, Thank you. 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:36.320 So it's a home game against the Chiefs next Sunday 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:38.639 at four to twenty five, and CBS will send the 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:42.080 a team of Jim Nance and Tony Romo. Kansas City 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:44.760 has the best record in the AFC at nine and two, 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:47.760 and we'll roll into town with a five game winning streak. 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:52.600 The Chiefs open as a three point favorite. Patrick Mahomes 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:56.160 leads the NFL with twenty nine touchdown passes. Joe Burrow 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:59.439 and Josh Allen are tied for second with twenty three. 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:04.200 Now time for the radio guys recap lap. Let's start 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:06.520 with the job the Bengals did on Derrick Henry. I've 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:08.280 been saying, I haven't looked this up, but I'd like 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:10.280 to know how many times he had seventeen carries in 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:13.040 a game and couldn't even get to forty yards. That's amazing. 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:16.639 I mean, honestly, it's three games now against Derrick Henry. 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:18.720 They've been able to handle him. You know, he had 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:21.320 one the one screen got out on him and got 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:24.840 unfortunately you know, Marta because his scrimmage yards would have 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:28.159 been nothing as well. But that's seventy yard reception that 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:31.119 he had and then fumbled the ball. That'll that'll, you know, 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:34.960 make his his average per touch in terms of scrimmage 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:37.440 yards look a lot different. But on a snap by 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:40.320 snap basis man, the defensive line took control the line 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:44.480