WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: One Last Time 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:07.200 Merry Christmas, everybody. I'm Dan Horde and this is the 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:14.319 Bengals Booth Podcast, the one Last Time edition, A little 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:16.560 dose of Hamilton for you there. As we are down 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:20.000 to the final game of the season, the Bengals will 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:22.680 take a six and nine record into it after losing 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:27.160 in Cleveland on Sunday twenty six to eighteen. Coming up, 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:31.160 you'll hear radio replays, locker room comments from key players, 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:35.360 and Dave Lapp them will join me for postgame analysis. Plus, 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:38.400 in this week's fun Facts interview, you'll get to know 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:43.000 quarterback Jeff Driscold. Among other things, we'll discuss the three 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:46.800 years he spent living in Japan between the ages of 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:50.800 eight and ten. All of that is straight ahead, but first, 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:53.159 here's a quick reminder that you can have the latest 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:56.880 edition of this podcast delivered right to your phone, tablet, 0:00:57.000 --> 0:01:01.880 or computer by subscribing on iTunes or pod Bean. It's 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:07.360 the greatest invention since stores that will wrap the gift. 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:11.560 I do some things well, but rapping presence is not 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:14.520 on the list. No matter how hard I try, a 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:20.080 Dan Horde wrapped gift always looks hideous. So thank you 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:23.319 to the stores that make my presence look nice and neat. 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:26.800 Now let's get to football. The first time the Bengals 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:30.520 faced Cleveland four weeks ago, the Browns were unstoppable in 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:33.760 the first half, scoring on their first four drives to 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:37.240 take a twenty eight nothing lead. That was not the 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:40.039 case in the rematch, as the Browns punted on their 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:44.920 first two possessions and did not score in the first quarter. Unfortunately, 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:50.040 the Bengals didn't exactly capitalize. Driscoll wants a shotgun, snap, 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:54.040 stomps the right foot, catches the snap, drops back, that's hit, 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:57.320 fumbles the football and it's recovered by the Bengals at 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:00.680 the forty nine yard line. Joe Schobert with a sack 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:05.160 to dislodge the ball from Driscoll, and Giovanni Bernard fell 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:08.320 on the bouncing pick. The Bengals finished the first half 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:14.880 with minus fifteen yards passing. You heard me, minus fifteen, 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:19.400 and once the Browns started to click offensively, they scored 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:23.040 on five straight drives. Duke Johnson lining up to the 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:25.880 right of Baker Mayfield. Here's a law for Najoku. He 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:29.640 high points the ball and pulls down the touchdown. That 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.400 was the first of three touchdown passes for the first 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:36.440 pick in this year's draft, Baker Mayfield. Here's Bengals rookie 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:39.480 Sam Hubbard. You know he talks a lot, but obviously 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:43.399 he backs it up and the way to get them 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:45.160 to quiet down and beat him, and that's what we 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:48.000 gotta do. One of the reasons Mayfield is thriving is 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:52.440 the creative play calling of new offensive coordinator Freddie Kitchens. 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.839 And he dipped into his bag of tricks the next time. 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.600 The Browns had the ball first and ten from the thirty, 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:01.440 the Browns leading seven nut thing. Here is a double 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:05.440 reverse and now Landry wants to throw guns it deep 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:10.080 down field. It is gone man Calloway running inside the 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:13.400 ten and he will be tackled at the seven yard line. 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:18.040 Make that Perryman on the catch. A double reverse and 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:22.400 Jarvis Landry stepped into a deep ball and gunned it 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:25.880 with a left hand way down field for the completion 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:30.120 to Preshad Perryman. Jarvis Landry's option pass went for a 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:34.120 sixty three yard gain. Here's Will Jackson. They did a 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:36.600 lot of trickery plays which we knew he was gonna get. 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:38.880 We knew he was gonna get that. It's crazy, but 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:42.040 it's a great pass and it's set up the brown 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:46.040 second touchdown. Mayfield fakes a handoff, rolls to the right, 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:49.720 sprinting toward the sideline, throws and it is caught for 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:54.720 a touchdown. Fells with a touchdown catch one of the 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:59.120 three tight ends. Baker. Mayfield sprinting down the field pumping 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:02.480 his arms, and the Browns have taken a thirteen nothing lead. 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:06.720 Oh Baker Bayfield bought time, bot Time bought time. Cleveland 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:09.680 missed the extra point, but kicker Greg Joseph made his 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:12.880 next attempt, a thirty seven yard field goal with ten 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:15.880 seconds left in the second quarter that made the halftime 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:20.600 score sixteen nothing. Here's Marvin Lewis. When you get a position, 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:22.200 then we're gonna make the play. Because we didn't make 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:23.680 the plays early in the game. That's what I said 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:25.960 at halftime. As they've had they made all the plays. 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:28.239 We're gonna make some place. There was only one scoring 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:31.400 play in the third quarter, and the Bengals didn't make it. 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.880 Mayfield holds up his left fist before catching the shotgun 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:38.359 snap his pass caught over the middle. Higgins, racing inside 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:40.920 the ten the five, extends the ball in his left 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:45.440 arm toward the pylon and it is a touchdown for 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.960 the Cleveland Browns. The Bengals trailed twenty three nothing going 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.760 to the fourth quarter, and their first objective was to 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:54.680 avoid being shut out for the first time since the 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:59.720 two seventeen season opener at home against Baltimore. A fifty 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.560 one yard attempt Harris to snap, Hubert to hold. Here 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:07.000 comes the kick. It's got the distance and it is 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:11.480 yes good, So the Bengals avoid the shutout. As Randy 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:15.239 Bullet connects from fifty one yards away, they are booing 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:19.280 here in Cleveland because the Bengals have managed to score. 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:21.840 Cleveland answered with a field goal to make a twenty 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:24.400 six to three midway through the fourth quarter, and it 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:27.359 certainly didn't look like the Bengals would have a chance 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:30.880 to win, but to their credit, they made it interesting. 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:34.600 Drisco waits for a shotgun snap, Billie Price ready fires 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:37.479 it back. Drisco back to throw good pocket throws toward 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:41.480 the end zone. Usama leaps and pulls it in. It's 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:46.080 a Bengals touchdown with four fifty six to go. Jeff 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:49.599 Driscle's touchdown pass to Cjuzama made it twenty six to 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:52.760 ten and one minute later, the Bengals came up with 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:56.080 a big play on special teams. Here comes the bullets 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:59.400 blocked by Clayton Fetulum, and the Bengals are going to 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:03.039 take over for the twenty three yard line of Cleveland. 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:07.120 As Clayton Vegulum named a first alternate to the Pro Bowl. 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:11.200 Is a special teams ace blocked the coal quit punt 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:15.000 and the Bengals take over deep in Brown's territory. Clayton 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:19.000 Vegelum says Sam Hubbard deserves the credit for the block punt. 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:21.560 We schemed it up pretty well, and it was really 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:23.360 it all happened to the Sam. You know, Sam beat 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:26.080 the snapper across his face and took the PP out 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:27.599 of it. All I had to do is run forward 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:29.760 and take the ball off his foot. So it was 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.080 a great plan and then with Sam and then just 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:34.920 it is a great execute play. The PP, by the way, 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:39.080 stands for personal protector. And three plays after the block punt, 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:42.640 the Bengals found the end zone again, two receivers to 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:45.440 each side of the formation. Second down in goal from 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:49.000 the Cleveland three yard line, Driscoll catches a high shotgun 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:52.240 snap in trouble. Scrambling left throws into the end zone 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:56.840 touchdown Sean Ross running along the back line of the 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:01.919 end zone, and the Bengals have scored back to back tds. Now, 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:04.880 if they go for two, they could make it a 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:08.280 one score game. They could pull within eight if they 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:12.280 can convert a two point conversion. Paul Is placed at 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:15.160 the two yard line. Driscal Is under center, takes the snap, 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:19.440 fakes to mix and looking throws. It is got by 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:23.600 Cody Core for a two point conversion and the Bengals 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:27.600 pull within eight with two minutes and fifty six seconds 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:32.000 to go. Man, where is this been? The Bengals were 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.560 down by eight with two fifty six to go and 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:38.640 no timeouts remaining. Marvin Lewis elected not to go for 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:42.640 an onside kick and the Bengals never got the ball back. 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:46.480 At a short pass by Mayfield to tight end David Najoku, 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:50.360 Jesse Bates gambled and tried to make a diving interception. 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:54.720 It didn't work. Najoku turned it into a sixty six 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:58.320 yard gain down to the Bengals three yard line, and 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:01.200 the Browns elected to run out o clock for an 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:04.600 eight point win. After going one and thirty one over 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.280 the last two years, the Browns improved to seven seven 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:10.200 and one. They also swept the Bengals for the first 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:13.840 time since two thousand and two, the year before Marvin 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:18.200 Lewis became head coach. The Bengals are assured of finishing 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:21.360 with a losing record and in last place in the 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:25.800 AFC North. Here's Joe Mixon. It was very frustrating. Man. 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:29.480 I've never been a part of a losing program, and 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:33.200 you know, I'm never gonna get comfortable with being a 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:35.600 part of it. At the end of the day, man, 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:39.600 you only take it for what it is. This year building, 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:42.160 you know, try to get better, get ready for next year. 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.760 But I mean, we still got another week coming up. 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.480 Like I said, it's a big one, man, But I 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:49.160 promise you we ain't gonna be in this for long. 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:52.439 And that's mixing. By the way, finished with sixty eight 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:56.640 yards on seventeen carries to go over one thousand yards 0:08:56.640 --> 0:09:01.000 for this season, despite facing a Browns defense geared towards 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.920 stopping him. You seen how it was. I mean it's 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:06.920 nine ten man, bucks. I mean, I'll still was busting 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:11.200 out there. So I mean it's it's hard, you know, 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.520 to get through that, but you know, you can only 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:16.319 hope to contain me. You're not gonna stop me, j 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:19.000 which is a diminish the accomplishment of having a thousand 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:20.720 yards that it came in the game in a loss. 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:23.080 I mean, I told you I don't care about the 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:26.360 individual stats, so we can't get to win. I I mean, 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:28.800 I don't give it down with some players, I wouldn't 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:33.000 buy that. With Mixon, I absolutely do. For the second 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.160 straight year, the Bengals will go into the final game 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:38.560 of the season facing questions about the future of Marvin Lewis. 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:42.560 ESPN's Adam Schefter reported on Sunday that if the Denver 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:46.280 Broncos fire head coach vans Joseph, he is expected to 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:50.120 emerge as a candidate for the Bengals defensive coordinator job 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:54.960 and potentially eventually the head coaching job when Marvin decides 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:58.280 he has had enough of coaching again. All of that 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:01.600 was according to Adam Scheff. The Bengals have not said 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:06.360 anything about Marvin's status Following the game. Carlos Dunlap was 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:10.040 asked about the only head coach he's had in nine 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:13.800 NFL seasons. When you have three straight losing seasons, obviously 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:16.160 it's very frustrating. You get the questions about Marvin Lewis, 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:20.640 what is your confidence in him returning next season? I 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.280 don't know. I mean, this is the professional football league. 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:27.800 A lot of things happen. You know, everybody's making business decisions. 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:31.760 I have confidence in the football team and the players 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:33.559 that we have here that we can do what we 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.160 need to do. We've been there before, so you know, 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:39.520 you can make arguments anyway, but you know, I just 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:41.679 want to get back to it, whatever it takes to 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:45.240 get back to where we started off here, the habits 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:47.439 that we created. I want that feeling back, and today 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:49.920 is not the feelings. Regardless of the head coach. Next year, 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:51.600 you feel like this team is built to win again. 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.280 Say what, regardless of the head coach, you feel like 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:56.640 the team is built to win again if we have 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:58.360 the players on this team to do whatever we need 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:02.040 to do. I'm not in charge of deciding who it is. 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:04.280 We've done it with the coast that we have and 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:07.000 we played hard today, So you can look at it 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:09.839 and spending all kinds of different ways as you want to. 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:12.000 I just know that we have the talent in this 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:13.880 locker room to do it, and we've done it with 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:17.360 the coaches that we have here as well, So it's 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:19.679 not my decision to make. I just want to get 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:21.280 back to it. However, we need to get back to 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.080 it now. Time to bringing my broadcast partner Dave Lapham 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:28.880 for postgame analysis and we start with a depleted Bengals offense, 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:33.040 managing just two hundred and nine total yards multiple times 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:34.760 mentioned during the course of the game. I mean, it 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.079 was like the Bengals weren't a sword fight with a 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.720 pocket knife, you know, in terms of weapons the Browns 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.360 had available to them and as opposed to weapons the 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:44.920 Bengals had available to them. And uh, it took it 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:46.679 took a little too long for the Bengals to open 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:48.839 it up a little bit and get some things going. 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.760 I gotta give credit though, to CJ. Zama and other 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:54.840 guys for you know, fighting to the finish and showing 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:57.079 h you know, showing that they're they're not going to 0:11:57.160 --> 0:12:00.320 quit no matter what. CJ. Zama playing with a badge shoulder. 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.240 As we said, Dan for quite a while. It was 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:04.760 good to see him get rewarded with some players because 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:06.360 you know, it was tough for him out there physically, 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:09.400 I'm sure unlike the first meeting, between these two teams. 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:12.520 The Bengals defense stopped the Browns early in the game, 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:15.719 but once the Browns got rolling, much like that first game, 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:17.760 they had a stretch where they marched right up and 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:20.200 down the field. Yeah, I mean the second quarter belonged 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:23.080 to the to the Cleveland Browns. You know, they've outscored 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:25.439 the Bengals sixteen nothing. I think it was in that 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:29.559 second quarter, maybe sixteen three in the Bengals put Browns 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:32.000 put up sixteen points to second quarter. Bengals put put 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.200 up eighteen points in the fourth quarter of the football 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:37.760 game or something like that. But at any rate, the 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:41.000 Bengals second quarter has been their achilles heel. They've allowed 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:43.439 two hundred points in the second quarter. Now with this 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:47.000 adding today's total to it, and I mean they've scored 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.440 one hundred and fifteen. That's pretty good. They've been outscored 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:52.640 by eighty five points, allowing two hundred points in one quarter. 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:56.400 Fifteen games, fifteen quarters, they've allowed two hundred points. It's 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:59.640 almost incomprehensible. It's really mind boggling. And that's what's put 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:02.199 them in the eight ball. You know, many times down 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:05.160 the stretch here after that four and one start, the 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:09.760 Bengals had minus fifteen yards passing in the first half. 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:11.840 What did they do in the second half to at 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:15.000 least get something going? Yeah, I think I think part 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:17.760 of it was, you know what Greg Williams decided to do. 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:19.800 I mean, when when he was going eight and nine 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.000 guys in the box with one safety deep, you know, 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:24.240 he had ten guys, you know, within five yards of 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:26.280 line screamings because a lot of times with one receiver's 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:29.360 playing press coverage, everybody's up there tight, so it's like 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:31.439 they were operating in a box in a closet, And 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:34.320 that's how the Bengals were kind of playing. And then 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:36.640 he started, you know, with a comfortable lead, he changed 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:39.600 his mindset a little bit and uh, loosening things up 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:42.439 in the Bengals by formation, loosen some things up, and 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:45.599 they took advantage of some opportunities that were presented. I 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:49.200 will have to say, though, honestly, in eight quarters of play, 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:52.400 Baker Mayfield's maybe the most accurate quarterback I've seen this year. 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.839 I mean, some some players were there wide open, but 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:59.480 other plays he made unbelievable throws and his receivers rewarded 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:01.679 him with great catches, and you know, I asked Marvin 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:04.640 about all the all the Gadget plays, uh, you know 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:06.439 the coach Kitchens had and he said, you know, we 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:08.319 worked against all of them. You know, they they'd seen 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:10.079 them all on tape. It was nothing that was a 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:12.880 big surprise. They just got out executed. And when you 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:14.920 think about it, they were in position to make plays 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:17.160 on a lot of them. But you know, Landry made 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:19.200 as good to throw as any quarterback can make. He 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:21.120 threw the ball on the money. They threw it as 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:23.000 far as he could and it was a strike. It 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:25.760 was it was dropped into perfect spot. So got to 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:27.840 give the Browns credit. You know, they made plays and 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.400 the Bengals didn't, and they won the football game. Beast 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.560 wide receiver arms since Bahabbit sent out Yeah, I'm telling 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:35.720 you he just he did. He can he can chuck 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:38.280 it in the lefty too. I mean he's like a 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:42.680 snake stabler of of of wide receivers. It was in 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.240 Michael Vick, you know, throwing the ball. It was it 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:48.760 was impressive to watch that play. But they you know, 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:51.760 Cleveland's a good football team. And eight quarters they didn't 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.120 allow a quarterback sack. They didn't turn the football over 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:56.360 I'm gonna win you a lot of football games. They'll 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:58.720 go hand in hand. When you're not getting consistent pressure 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:00.600 from the quarterback, He's not gonna put the ball in jeopardy. 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:04.240 In Baker Mayfield didn't. He had time envisioned to top rate, 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:06.840 and when you give him that, he's deadly. He puts 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:09.560 the ball in tight spots. Next week, season finale in 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:12.720 Pittsburgh has been flexed from one in the afternoon to 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:16.520 four twenty five, and it's become a must win game 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:20.360 for the Steelers just to make the playoffs. After losing 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:23.000 to the Saints on Sunday, Pittsburgh is a half game 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:27.040 behind Baltimore in the AFC North and a half game 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:30.600 behind both Tennessee and Indianapolis in the battle for the 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:34.800 last wild card spot. Those two teams face each other 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:39.400 next week, so unless they tie, the winner is guaranteed 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:43.480 to finish ahead of the Steelers. Therefore, for the Steelers 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:46.640 to make the playoffs, they have to beat the Bengals 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:51.120 and hope that the Cleveland Browns can upset the Ravens 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:55.760 in Baltimore. It's hard to believe, but the Steelers could 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:59.200 miss the playoffs. They were six two and one before 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:02.960 dropping or out of their last five games. Now time 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:05.040 for this week's fun facts segment, where you get to 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:08.880 know the person under the pads. In this case, it's 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:11.520 the twenty five year old that took over at quarterback 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:14.880 when Andy Dalton broke his thumb. Time for some fun 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:18.040 facts with Bengals quarterback Jeff Driscoll. Your hometown has listed 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:21.480 as oviatoh, Florida, near Orlando, but you moved around a 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:23.880 lot as a kid, right, Yeah, So my dad was 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:28.040 in the Navy, long military background, both grandparents in the Navy. 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:31.200 Dad in the Navy, and so he was stationed in 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:34.080 Jacksonville I was born, and then his final tour was 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:37.080 in Japan. So I lived there when I was eight, nine, ten, 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:41.120 and then he retired in Ovido, which is right outside Orlando. 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:43.640 Tell me a little bit about that experience in Japan. 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:45.720 Did you live on a naval base where you know, 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.240 apartment with a family. How did that work out? The 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:51.440 waiting list to live on There was two navy bases 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:54.920 in the town. We were in Sassebo, and so we 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:57.080 had to live off the base for about a year 0:16:57.080 --> 0:17:00.200 and a half and they called him chose each and 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:01.800 had their own neighborhood and it was called a chow 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:04.440 and and we lived in a house for you know, 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:07.040 about a year and a half, and there was a 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:10.000 high school bus stop right outside our house, so we 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:12.200 would always see the Japanese kids when they were getting 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:14.200 out of school and stuff in their uniform. So it 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:17.359 was different. But you know, I enjoyed it, but definitely 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.240 happy to move back to the back to the States, 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:21.840 for sure. We're doing fun facts with Jeff driscoll. Your 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:23.639 dad signed you up for a little league, which is 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:26.320 like a full time job in Japan, and he says 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:28.800 you towered over the Japanese kids so much that they 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:31.560 called you Godzilla. Was that the case? Yeah, I was 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:33.960 a little bit bigger than the other kids my age there. 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:37.679 And like you said, full time job, we practiced. I mean, 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:39.200 like I said, eight nine and ten years old, we 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:42.200 practiced from nine to five on Saturday and Sundays with 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:44.600 an hour lunch break. So it was a wild different 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:46.960 animal over there. No wonder the Red Sox drafted you 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:50.000 with that kind of work ethic, Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:53.679 So I got burnt out a little bit there, all right, 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:55.640 I know you're not going to do it for me here. 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:59.000 But can you still sing Silent Night in Japanese? I 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:01.040 can say it, but like you said, I'm not gonna 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:04.000 do it. I can. I don't know if it's right, 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:06.879 but from what I remember that those are the words. 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:09.520 But like you said, no chance I'm singing it. With 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:12.720 your dad's naval background, safe to assume that discipline was 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:16.280 pretty strict in the Driscoll household. Yeah, I mean no, 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:19.280 I'd no more, no less than you know, most other 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:22.120 kids my age. And you know, I think my dad 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:24.680 did or my parents did a did a really good 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:28.119 job of instilling disciplined and values like that when me 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:30.879 and my brother were young. So I'm sure that had 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:32.719 to do a little bit with the navy and how 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:35.440 he was brought up as well. Your brother, Jason was 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:38.520 a college quarterback, had a great run at Florida Atlantic 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:40.399 a couple of years ago. They won eleven games, they 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:43.200 won a bowl game. How competitive were you two guys 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:45.920 as kids? Yeah? Very competitive. You know, like any other 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:50.400 older brother younger brother combination. You're always gonna compete in everything. 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:52.440 And the big brother is gonna beat up on a 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:53.920 little brother a little bit, but it's only going to 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:55.600 help him out in the long run. And yeah, Jason 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:58.920 had had a real nice career at FAU and you 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:01.720 enjoyed his time there or visiting with Jeff Driscoll. You 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:04.159 became the starting quarterback at your high school as a 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:07.080 ninth grader, had a great high school career, National Player 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:09.600 of the Year your senior year. I'm trying to picture 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:12.520 what recruiting must have been like when you are one 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:16.399 of the top high school quarterbacks in the country. It 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:18.960 was crazy, you know, you see all this stuff on 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:21.800 Instagram and social media now with all these kids who 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:25.440 have boxes and boxes and boxes a mail and offers 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:27.440 from people that they never talked to. And you know, 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:30.440 I kind of had that same recruiting story, and you know, 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:32.920 you don't really know when you're that age, you don't 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:36.040 really understand it, and you think it's really cool, but 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:38.679 at the end of the day, you know you want 0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:40.200 to go to somewhere that fits and you can. You 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:42.320 can only play for one team, so it doesn't matter 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:43.879 how many you get, and you just got to make 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:46.000 the most out of your opportunities. But yeah, the recruiting 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:49.400 process was nuts. I picture the first few letters being awesome, 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:52.440 and then just the whole thing becoming overwhelming. Yeah, I 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:54.760 mean you definitely hit it on the head. You know, 0:19:54.800 --> 0:19:56.800 the first letter you get, you think you're going there, 0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:01.919 and that's not how it played out. But it definitely 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:05.000 got to be a lot, and I was ready for 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:07.040 it to be over, to be honest with you. You 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:10.160 committed to Florida to play for Urban Meyer and then 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:14.000 he left. He resigned cited health problems. Eventually year later 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:16.600 wound up coaching at Ohio State. But I mean one 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:19.040 of the reasons why you choose the school, I assume 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:21.800 has a lot to do with the coach. When that happens, 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:25.320 how tough is it? Yeah, I mean it's tough. You know, 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:28.200 they they spend a lot of time with you and 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:32.399 your family, and you know, you kind of get to 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:36.080 know him as people, and then you play for somebody else. 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:38.000 It's tough, but that's I mean, that's the business of it. 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:40.399 And you know, maybe as a seventeen year old kid, 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:42.480 you don't understand that, but when you look back on it, 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:46.119 you know, you totally understand that that things happen and 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:49.000 you move forward and you know it worked out just 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:51.240 how it was supposed to. So your sophomore year, you 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:53.480