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Speaker 1: first win of the year beating the Jets on the
Speaker 1: road twenty seven to twelve. Coming up, you'll hear radio replays,
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Speaker 1: the greatest thing since New New York City Bagels. Because
Speaker 1: of the UC football schedule, I had to fly to
Speaker 1: New Jersey at the crack of dawn on Sunday. I
Speaker 1: headed to the airport at five am without eating anything
Speaker 1: and by the time I landed in Newark around eight thirty,
Speaker 1: I was famished. So I stopped at a bagel shop
Speaker 1: in the airport. Why is it that bagels in the
Speaker 1: New York City area are so superior to the rest
Speaker 1: of the world. My bagel tasted like it was right
Speaker 1: out of the oven, and it was the size of
Speaker 1: a truck tire. There are bagel shops in Cincinnati that
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Speaker 1: get to Sunday's game. For the past few years, when
Speaker 1: the Bengals have won the coin toss, they have deferred,
Speaker 1: and there's a simple reason to do so. It gives
Speaker 1: you the chance to get back to back scores without
Speaker 1: the other team getting the ball, if you can score
Speaker 1: at the end of the second quarter and score again
Speaker 1: to begin in the third. But the Bengals offense has
Speaker 1: been so anemic in the first half this year that
Speaker 1: Ted Carriss, who joined Joe Burrow as a captain this week,
Speaker 1: was told that if he won the toss, the Bengals
Speaker 1: would take the ball. You know, we hadn't had the
Speaker 1: lead yet in the whole seat in two games, so
Speaker 1: you know that was my orders to do. I'm glad
Speaker 1: I won the toss. Tales never fails. Here we go
Speaker 1: and the Bengals started the game in attack mode. Is
Speaker 1: Burrow through ten passes on an eleven play opening drive,
Speaker 1: a four yard touchdown pass the Tyler Boyd was wiped
Speaker 1: out by a holding penalty, but that didn't kill the drive.
Speaker 1: Burrow drops back to throw, looking back, pedaling, stepping left,
Speaker 1: scrambling left, still looking to throw his pass, caught at
Speaker 1: the goal line. Touchdowns Saba JP Ryan God opened his
Speaker 1: Burrow scrambled, he caught it right at the goal line
Speaker 1: and the Bengal score. It was seven nothing Bengals before
Speaker 1: the Jets got the ball. Here are Joe Burrow and
Speaker 1: Lael Collins on the decision to begin the game on offense.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a good call obviously, you know
Speaker 1: we put seven on the board on the first drive,
Speaker 1: but if you if you go three and out, it's
Speaker 1: a different conversation. So we came out aggressive and then
Speaker 1: paid off for us. Yeah, I think we got to
Speaker 1: take the ball every week to start the game off,
Speaker 1: no matter what. That where we start ahead, we let
Speaker 1: our defense you know, play with the lead all game,
Speaker 1: and I think that's how we're gonna dominate opponents for
Speaker 1: the rest of the season. So was that Was that
Speaker 1: a decision that kind of like everybody and the team's like, look,
Speaker 1: we went in the coin toss, let's take the football man,
Speaker 1: let's get after it. That's the mindset that's out of two,
Speaker 1: you know, the physical attack offense. And that's what we
Speaker 1: did from the jump, and that's what we're gonna do
Speaker 1: from here on up. The Jets answered with a field
Speaker 1: goal to make it seven three, and the Bengals gave
Speaker 1: them the ball right back first and ten Burrow wants
Speaker 1: to throw again, his pass caught by Chase at the
Speaker 1: forty oh He has the ball stripped away and the
Speaker 1: Jets recover it at the forty three yard line. That
Speaker 1: led to another field goal that made it seven six.
Speaker 1: But on Cincinnati's next drive, Jets defensive lineman John Franklin
Speaker 1: Myers was called for unnecessary roughness for a hit on
Speaker 1: Burrow when the Bengals otherwise would have had to punt.
Speaker 1: That proved to be an egregious mistake. Burrow back to
Speaker 1: throw blitz coming throws over the mid caught by Tyler
Speaker 1: Boyd two defenders sprinting down the middle of the field
Speaker 1: of the twenty ten lunches for the end zone touchdown.
Speaker 1: Night singals on the final play of the corner as
Speaker 1: Tyler Boyd pinballed off two defenders and took it to
Speaker 1: the house for the score and the Bengals make the
Speaker 1: Jets pay all out blitz running route to the middle
Speaker 1: of the football field, Tyler Boyd says, I'm not only
Speaker 1: gonna make the catch, I'm gonna break a tackle. I mean,
Speaker 1: the Jets brought seven or eight, they brought the house
Speaker 1: that gave the Bengals of fourteen to six lead at
Speaker 1: the end of the first quarter. As Boyd finished with
Speaker 1: four catches for one hundred five yards, the first time
Speaker 1: he's led the team in receiving yards in the bengals
Speaker 1: last ten games. You know, any one of us can
Speaker 1: go off. You know, he's got to do. Our sammis
Speaker 1: is just let My motto is always just let it come.
Speaker 1: Just let it come, you know. And when a ball
Speaker 1: on my way and I can make the play, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna always make it. Te Higgins also had a big
Speaker 1: day with ninety three yards on five catches. First and
Speaker 1: ten Bengals at the twenty five, Burrow takes a hand
Speaker 1: off to Mixon. He's gonna fling it deep again. Tee
Speaker 1: makes the catch. Penalty flags down as Higgins went up
Speaker 1: and over Sauce Gardner to catch it and te Higgalmet
Speaker 1: is now getting up. That's a helmet your helmet hit,
Speaker 1: that's what the penalty flags for. That forty five yard
Speaker 1: catch and fifteen yard penalty led to a short Evan
Speaker 1: McPherson field goal that made it seventeen six, and when
Speaker 1: the Jets got the ball back, the Bengals immediately took
Speaker 1: it away. Hilton, coming on a slot corner blitz deep
Speaker 1: frog down the middle of the field, intercepted by Logan
Speaker 1: Wilson running back to the near sideline at the fifty
Speaker 1: gets a block from Hilton at the fort he's at
Speaker 1: the third, comes back to the twenty, louse of the
Speaker 1: ball and there's a scramble at the twenty five. Von
Speaker 1: Bell saying that the Bengals recovered and it looks like
Speaker 1: Cincinnati did Trey Flowers with the recovery. It led to
Speaker 1: another Moneymac field goal and a twenty to six lead.
Speaker 1: The Jets ended the half with a fifty two yard
Speaker 1: field goal to make it twenty to nine. The Bengals
Speaker 1: were in the lead for the last twenty four and
Speaker 1: a half minutes of the half, and Burrows says, that
Speaker 1: is a much easier way to play. That's ideal, right,
Speaker 1: Then you can run the ball, you can play action,
Speaker 1: you can run your nakeds. You're not just dropping back
Speaker 1: every play, So those I mean, that's critical going forward
Speaker 1: for the rest of the years. Just coming out fast,
Speaker 1: putting points on the board, staying close. Now you're not
Speaker 1: in two minutes the whole game, and that puts offensive
Speaker 1: line in better positions. It makes it easier to call plays,
Speaker 1: So that was that was critical. Any thoughts of a
Speaker 1: Jets come back in the second half were thwarted by
Speaker 1: Trey Hendrickson. Hendrickson hips Flacco from behind. He's got his
Speaker 1: second sack of the game. The ball came out and
Speaker 1: the Bengals recover a strip sack b J Hill recovered
Speaker 1: at the Jets twenty four and four plays later, the
Speaker 1: lead grew to eighteen. Burrow, clapping his hands, catches the staff,
Speaker 1: pup fakes throws, caught Chase with the catch. Burrow belted
Speaker 1: after the throw HiT's a touchdown for Cincinnati. Burrow threw
Speaker 1: for two hundred and seventy five yards with three touchdowns,
Speaker 1: no picks, and a passer rating of one fourteen point nine.
Speaker 1: He was only sacked twice. Here's Ted Carris classic Joey
Speaker 1: b game throne at deep shots and our receivers made
Speaker 1: big plays. So very proud of all the guys. It
Speaker 1: was a team effort. Obviously, our defense played great, and
Speaker 1: you know that's just an all around team win. Greg's
Speaker 1: Airline's fourth field goal of the game, made at twenty
Speaker 1: seven to twelve going to the fourth quarter. The Jets
Speaker 1: got the ball two more times and the Bengals defense
Speaker 1: took it away. Flaco as ready extends the hands, catches
Speaker 1: the shotgun, stacks Gregson's got a hen. The Bengals will
Speaker 1: sack Flaco. Look like the ball came out again because
Speaker 1: of the rush by Trey Hendrickson. Hendrickson was credited with
Speaker 1: two and a half sacks and three forced fumbles. Comes
Speaker 1: with the game to football. I mean, it's a twenty
Speaker 1: two man game, and you know, when you're playing football,
Speaker 1: you're playing for your brothers next to you. It's not
Speaker 1: all about the statistics, I know they'll come. We just
Speaker 1: play hard up front. We rushed the passer effectively, and
Speaker 1: you know, it's just keep chopping wood. I'm not really
Speaker 1: looking at stats and all that stuff. I mean, we
Speaker 1: had two losses and those of the things that were
Speaker 1: important to me, and it meant a lot that we
Speaker 1: got this win. Since Trey doesn't like to toot his
Speaker 1: own horn, let's hear from Logan Wilson. I just can
Speaker 1: see it in his eyes throughout the whole week in preparation.
Speaker 1: It was just he was his time. He was just
Speaker 1: dude for one of his Trey hendrickson days, and today
Speaker 1: was that day. Appropriately, the final nail in the coffin
Speaker 1: was provided by the Bengals defense. Sixty two seconds Tremaine,
Speaker 1: fourth down and one for the Jets. Flacco catches the
Speaker 1: shotgun staff he fires over the middle, let's pat it
Speaker 1: up in the air, is intercepted, and that for the
Speaker 1: first time this year is coffin DALs. I am Jesse
Speaker 1: Bass with the i NTE. The final score twenty seven
Speaker 1: to twelve. Once again, here's Ted Carriss. So you get
Speaker 1: the taste of victory. Man, It's all we worked for.
Speaker 1: It's a culmination of a lot of hard work, um,
Speaker 1: a lot of just a lot of guys making plays today.
Speaker 1: I thought we handled the game plan the right way
Speaker 1: and we got a quick turnaround here, and you know,
Speaker 1: we have a chance to even it up after a
Speaker 1: rough start and get back on track against the team
Speaker 1: that's rolling. So we're excited, we're ready to go. You know,
Speaker 1: there's some things to clean up still in the game.
Speaker 1: I thought we played played pretty good against a really
Speaker 1: good defensive front, and that's just about as good as
Speaker 1: the D line gets in the NFL interior wise. So
Speaker 1: I thought we held up pretty solidum. But let's go
Speaker 1: up next the Thursday night home game against the three
Speaker 1: and oh Miami Dolphins, who beat everybody's Super Bowl favorite
Speaker 1: Buffalo on Sunday. I spent a few minutes with Jesse
Speaker 1: Bates after the game. Before we get to that, we
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Speaker 1: learn more. Now here's Jesse Bates. Jesse, you held the
Speaker 1: Jets without a touchdown, four field goals, you had four takeaways.
Speaker 1: What about the performance of the defense, how would you
Speaker 1: describe it today? Obviously, when a team doesn't score a
Speaker 1: touchdown on you, that's always good. But the main thing
Speaker 1: that is a positive for us, we got turnovers. We
Speaker 1: wanted to turnover battle, and like I said, I think
Speaker 1: we play a really good defense. The past three weeks
Speaker 1: of being able to create some turnovers. You had our
Speaker 1: offense to ball. I thought we did a really good job.
Speaker 1: And then also, you know, just with our pass rushers
Speaker 1: finally getting on you know, you got got three sacks
Speaker 1: and then we get interceptions. You know that that kind
Speaker 1: of comes along with playing complimentary football on defense. So
Speaker 1: as our rushers continue to get free and get home,
Speaker 1: there will be more opportunities for us, you know, safeties, corners,
Speaker 1: nicols like everybody to get interceptions. We just got to
Speaker 1: capitalize on it. So and an interception for you today
Speaker 1: along with Logan Wilson says, congratulations on that. How important
Speaker 1: was the opening drive winning the toss taking the ball
Speaker 1: which is unusual going down the field to score. How
Speaker 1: important was that to set it telling today? Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was the message throughout the whole week, starting practice fast
Speaker 1: and then starting the game fast as well. So it
Speaker 1: was a mindset that coach Taylor did a really good job.
Speaker 1: He had a plan this week or what we're gonna
Speaker 1: come in here and do. There was a lot of
Speaker 1: commentary during the week along the lines of don't panic practice, Well,
Speaker 1: do what we do now that you've followed that and
Speaker 1: come away with a win? Is that kind of the mood? Now?
Speaker 1: All right, we take we've taken care of business. That's one.
Speaker 1: Anytime you get a win a good um. And we
Speaker 1: got the first one out the way, and you know,
Speaker 1: now it's just just gonna have to keep keep going.
Speaker 1: We got a game him four days, four or five days,
Speaker 1: UM against a really good team that's three and oh,
Speaker 1: so it'll be a great challenge for us, and I
Speaker 1: think it would be ready to prove not to ourselves,
Speaker 1: but you know the whole world what we're about in
Speaker 1: this locker room. So there was never no panic or
Speaker 1: no question about who we were in this locker room
Speaker 1: before we got this first one. You know, the ones
Speaker 1: that we're gonna get in the future. So I just
Speaker 1: gotta continue to practice hard and um execute our offense
Speaker 1: and defensive special team. So final thing following up on
Speaker 1: Trey Hendrickson, did you think this was coming? He didn't
Speaker 1: have a sack coming in three well, two and a
Speaker 1: half sacks and three force fumbles today. You know, Trey,
Speaker 1: he's a maniac. I always call him maniac, and I'm
Speaker 1: just happy to see him get going. I think last
Speaker 1: year he had a sack almost every game, so he
Speaker 1: kind of made up for it today with you know,
Speaker 1: getting two and a half three So, um, I just
Speaker 1: love seeing him, you know, get back there and then
Speaker 1: do it a little celebration, uh, and then for him
Speaker 1: to get two and a half today was great. So
Speaker 1: he's a hardworking man, great person, so I'm not surprised
Speaker 1: um by him continue to do well. Um getting back
Speaker 1: to their quarterback. So congrats down the I NT more importantly,
Speaker 1: congrats down the win. Absolutely appreciate that. That's Jesse Bates.
Speaker 1: No time to hear from head coach Zach Taylor. He
Speaker 1: spent three minutes with Dave Lapham after the game, gratulations.
Speaker 1: Big win, win by two scores in the NFL not
Speaker 1: an easy task now, winning winnings. Winning's difficult in this league,
Speaker 1: especially on the road against the team we got a
Speaker 1: lot of respect for Um. They got his last year.
Speaker 1: So I thought, our guys really did a good job
Speaker 1: answering the bell creens some momentum for ourselves. We just
Speaker 1: needed to rip that band aid off for a first win.
Speaker 1: And and I thought of the guys that are really
Speaker 1: nice up today. Guys are obviously excited about it. I
Speaker 1: mean that music's um, it's hopping out there, a coach,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a little party atmosphere out there, and
Speaker 1: well deserved because you know, you're in both football games.
Speaker 1: I mean the NFL, like you said, it's a it's
Speaker 1: a tough, tough dynamic. I thought, complimentary football today. Defense
Speaker 1: take it away, short field, offense score touchdowns, agreed, you know,
Speaker 1: and especially to start the game, their offense got the ball,
Speaker 1: went down, scored, so the defense can play with the
Speaker 1: first lead of the year. Start the second half. We
Speaker 1: challenged the defense find us another turnover. They did, offense
Speaker 1: punch it in with points. So those moments right there
Speaker 1: were key in this game. And uh, and it's always
Speaker 1: good for the defense in the in the game with
Speaker 1: the turnover. You know, the offense started to drive that
Speaker 1: everyone's getting worn out. For Jesse to come up with
Speaker 1: that pick is a big deal. So third down, you
Speaker 1: normally convert on third down. It was third and long
Speaker 1: in some situation you just score touchdowns on those big
Speaker 1: third down conversions. How big was that? Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: big deal. You know, that's TV stepping up making a
Speaker 1: big play for us. And again it's it's he's always
Speaker 1: a guy that's we can count on when a moment's
Speaker 1: big and we need a big bill, we know TV
Speaker 1: is gonna be the one to step up and be
Speaker 1: capable of doing that. So for him to knowly make
Speaker 1: that catch on a great route, but to finish the
Speaker 1: playoff was something that really gave us a huge boost
Speaker 1: right there. I thought a good sign was at the
Speaker 1: end of the football game, as a formal linement, you
Speaker 1: going with big bodies, you get six linemen out there
Speaker 1: and you're just you know, not trying to surprise anybody
Speaker 1: about anything. You're just going and pounding people and you're
Speaker 1: kind of beating into submission and just letting the clock
Speaker 1: wine down. That was a good thing to see. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was that's how you wanted into game, you know,
Speaker 1: and you know, unfortunately we got to execute the kick
Speaker 1: to finish off that drive and really put that game away.
Speaker 1: But I thought our guys up front, we're starting to
Speaker 1: starting to feel the momentum there and getting some good
Speaker 1: push and some Ajo was doing a good job finishing
Speaker 1: it as he subbed in there for Joe, So I
Speaker 1: thought that was a really good way to end it
Speaker 1: for the offense. Trey Hendrickson came up large. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think he forced three fumbles himself, had two and
Speaker 1: a half sacks and three forced fumbles on the day.
Speaker 1: I think it was a crazy day. Great job by him.
Speaker 1: You know, it's he's been close, you know, so many
Speaker 1: times the last two games. And for him to create
Speaker 1: the two three tournivers that he did and BJ cleaning
Speaker 1: up two of them is big that we get that
Speaker 1: from the defensive line and the other team's quarterback field,
Speaker 1: they can feel that guy bringing it on his neck
Speaker 1: and it affects their play. So yeah, I thought Joe
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco was throwing off his back foot a lot today.
Speaker 1: I mean I didn't think he really had time to
Speaker 1: step into his throws and you know, kind of complete
Speaker 1: the mechanics of his throw. I thought the pressure was
Speaker 1: pretty significant all day long. They did a good job,
Speaker 1: you know, a couple more sacks that were closed where
Speaker 1: he got the ball out the last second kind of
Speaker 1: spiked in the ground there. So I thought that our
Speaker 1: defense really did a nice job holding them to four
Speaker 1: fueld goals, two of them started in our territory. I
Speaker 1: thought it was exceptional performance by those guys. They didn't
Speaker 1: take a red zone snap until the very end of
Speaker 1: the football game and still ended up, you know, settling
Speaker 1: for a fuel goal. So I think up until that
Speaker 1: point the deepest penetration that Jets had was the twenty
Speaker 1: five yard line. I mean, when they had to the
Speaker 1: defense just bowed up. Yeah, they've really done that for
Speaker 1: three weeks now. They've played really well. We're going to
Speaker 1: need that to continue. Appreciate you congratulations on a big dub.
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Speaker 1: Thursday night, and the Ravens won in New England on Sunday,
Speaker 1: so after three weeks, Baltimore and Cleveland are tied for
Speaker 1: first at two and one. The Bengals and Steelers are
Speaker 1: a game back at one and two. Now time for
Speaker 1: postgame analysis and this week's Radio Guys recap. The Bengals
Speaker 1: get a badly needed victory by fifteen points in New York.
Speaker 1: The offense set the tone today by winning the toss,
Speaker 1: taking the ball, and marching seventy five yards to score. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's the seventh straight win where they've scored first, and
Speaker 1: the sixth straight when where they've scored on their first drive.
Speaker 1: So it's pretty important. I think, figured you need to
Speaker 1: change something up, you know, I mean, just whatever you
Speaker 1: need to do to try to get a W is
Speaker 1: what you need to do. So I thought playing with
Speaker 1: the lead for the first time, you know, it was
Speaker 1: a big deal. And that wasn't an easy drive, you know.
Speaker 1: I had to go ten plays to cover the distance
Speaker 1: they needed to cover, and it was the sign of
Speaker 1: things to come. On third down, some nice are down
Speaker 1: conversions and they had some you know, three of their
Speaker 1: touchdowns were on third down in third and long in
Speaker 1: some cases, So it was kind of a foreshadowing of
Speaker 1: things to come. It was nice to be the sackers
Speaker 1: instead of the sack today just two sacks allowed four
Speaker 1: sacks for the Bengals, including two and a half for
Speaker 1: Trey Hendrickson. I know you talked to LC after the game.
Speaker 1: Would you think of the play of the O line. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I thought that it was it was solid.
Speaker 1: You know, I think, like we was saying during the game,
Speaker 1: I think that the amount of time that they sustained
Speaker 1: their blocks and protection was was a big factor, and
Speaker 1: it allowed Joe to do some of the things he
Speaker 1: wanted to do, you know, to extend and create plays
Speaker 1: when the initial stuff wasn't there. He had some Houdini
Speaker 1: like escapes, There's no question, but the fact that guys
Speaker 1: were still pressing into guys and protecting Joe, I thought
Speaker 1: was was it definitely a step in the right direction.
Speaker 1: And you know ELC got it it out. You know, Uh,
Speaker 1: he's got a issue he's dealing with. I asked him,
Speaker 1: is it is it more pain as more uh stiffness,
Speaker 1: and he said it is what it is, and he's
Speaker 1: just gonna gonna continue to try to operate at the
Speaker 1: best level he can operate at. So it's I thought
Speaker 1: today was a good, good example once again, a complimentary
Speaker 1: football and the defensive takeaways. He gave the offense short fields,
Speaker 1: and the offense didn't waste any time, you know, putting
Speaker 1: points on the board and paying it off. So it
Speaker 1: was all It was all pretty sound in retrospect. Was
Speaker 1: there anything more predictable then Joe Burrow would come out
Speaker 1: sharp and have a good game today, not after the
Speaker 1: way he handled himself during the week. I mean he
Speaker 1: told everybody to uh our e lax, relax, and you
Speaker 1: know Aaron Rodgers did that and played well after he
Speaker 1: did that. So I think I think he realized how close,
Speaker 1: you know, they were in terms of you know, getting
Speaker 1: getting over the top, and they get over the top.
Speaker 1: Went by two scores. In the NFL, doesn't matter who
Speaker 1: the opponent is, you've you've had a pretty good day.
Speaker 1: There's no question. Trey Hendrickson two and a half sacks,
Speaker 1: three worst fumbles. I don't know off the top of
Speaker 1: my head the last time a Bengal had three forrest
Speaker 1: fumbles in the game. But just an extraordinary performance by
Speaker 1: Trey and I can't believe that he wasn't a triple
Speaker 1: team like he was in Dallas. You know, Dallas would
Speaker 1: put a tackle, a tight end, and a back on
Speaker 1: him at times, and they singled him up a lot
Speaker 1: more than I thought he'd be singled up, and he showed, Wow,
Speaker 1: that's not a good decision. So I would expect in
Speaker 1: the future here in the immediate future that Thursday night,
Speaker 1: I would think Trey is going to draw a lot
Speaker 1: of attention after having the type of game that he had.
Speaker 1: Other than his performance, what stood out about the defense
Speaker 1: and holding the Jets without a touchdown in this game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean they didn't have a red zone snap until
Speaker 1: the very end of the game. Their deepest penetration was
Speaker 1: the twenty five yard line. I think they continue to
Speaker 1: tackle very well, and I thought they're a big objective
Speaker 1: was to squeeze the space between you know, themselves and
Speaker 1: the back or tight end or whoever you know bars
Speaker 1: just looking for completions, getting those completions two of those
Speaker 1: guys and putting themselves in position to make tackles and
Speaker 1: then doing it. You know this, this defensive football team
Speaker 1: doesn't miss many tackles, There's no question about it. And
Speaker 1: I thought they tackled really well. Today. The running game
Speaker 1: by and large wasn't very good until the end of
Speaker 1: the game. And then some JP Ryan had forty seven
Speaker 1: rushing yards on one drive where the holes bigger during
Speaker 1: that stretch. Was he hitting it a little bit better
Speaker 1: differently from Joe? What did you notice during that stretch? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I noticed a real commitment on everybody's everybody's part,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean they went big, They went six
Speaker 1: offensive linemen. They weren't trying to fool anybody. What they
Speaker 1: wanted to do had to lead, wanted to close it out,
Speaker 1: you know, melt the clock, frustrate the jets, just to
Speaker 1: you know, impose their will. And I think that's a
Speaker 1: good sign. It's the running game has been sputtering, to
Speaker 1: be kind, you know, so hopefully a drive like that
Speaker 1: might you know, might ignite some things and U you know,
Speaker 1: sharpen the execution and get some things going to One
Speaker 1: thing I will say about some ajp Rhyan though, man,
Speaker 1: he didn't he made quick decisions and just he went
Speaker 1: after it. He got downhill square to shoulder, pads up
Speaker 1: and and ran you know, behind his pads. There no
Speaker 1: doubt about that. He was thumping people and had a
Speaker 1: twelve yard touchdown catch before that. Yeah, that was that
Speaker 1: was big on third down as well to uh, you know,
Speaker 1: give himself as to make himself an available target for
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow as he's you know, just trying to get
Speaker 1: something done extended creating a play that wasn't the that
Speaker 1: wasn't the way that play was drawn up, but the
Speaker 1: results were pretty darn good. So as far as home
Speaker 1: team advantage or home field advantage goes, the saying is
Speaker 1: Thursday night home games are the biggest advantage. You can
Speaker 1: have short week, you don't have to travel. Well, it
Speaker 1: could come in handy this week because the Dolphins are
Speaker 1: three and l. They beat the Buffalo Bills today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's a that's a huge win for them
Speaker 1: to uh for them to go to Buffalo and uh
Speaker 1: and our Buffalo to go down to Miami and get
Speaker 1: that get that w I mean, m I know, I
Speaker 1: know the Bills were shorthanded defensively. They had some injuries
Speaker 1: in the secondary. I think they were missing one of
Speaker 1: their guys up front as well. But you know, you
Speaker 1: still have to you have to play both sides of
Speaker 1: the ball. And they've got a pretty good quarterback. So
Speaker 1: obviously the Miami Dolphins defense stepped up as well, and
Speaker 1: they got themselves a huge win, I mean the division
Speaker 1: win like that against everybody's Super Bowl favorite. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be They're gonna be sky high. So it'll
Speaker 1: be interesting to see if if they'll have a letdown
Speaker 1: or if they'll, you know, sustain that that level of performance.
Speaker 1: Short week got to travel not a not a short
Speaker 1: flight from Miami. We'll see. Hopefully the Bengals built some
Speaker 1: momentum offer this win and come out and play very
Speaker 1: physical football against the Dolphins. Nice to say, coffin nails
Speaker 1: for the first time this year. It was very nice.
Speaker 1: It was Let's do it about ten more times. That'd
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Speaker 1: Facts interview, where you get to know the person under
Speaker 1: the pads. Time for some fun facts with long snapper
Speaker 1: cal Ada Midas from Pittsburgh and Central Catholic High school
Speaker 1: alma mater of Dan Marino. Is there a Dan Marino
Speaker 1: shrine at Central Catholic. I won't quite say shrine, but
Speaker 1: there's there's certainly a lot of respect given to his
Speaker 1: name in the Central community, for sure. Understandably why now,
Speaker 1: you were a full back tight end in addition to
Speaker 1: being a long snapper and good enough to have some
Speaker 1: smaller college offers. Correct didn't reel in the offers because
Speaker 1: I had some injuries my senior year that kept some
Speaker 1: schools from pulling the trigger on me. But going into
Speaker 1: that season, attended a lot of camps and had a
Speaker 1: pretty wide variety of interest from D one, Double A
Speaker 1: and higher level D two schools. He told me back
Speaker 1: in OTAs that your dad deserves credit for convincing you
Speaker 1: to become a long snapper. What was his pitch, basically
Speaker 1: pretty much that you know, the team that I was
Speaker 1: playing on, realistically was a pretty stacked high school team,
Speaker 1: and you know, I was realistic, knew my limitations as
Speaker 1: a tight end fullback, and he said, hey, I know
Speaker 1: you have big dreams about wanting to play football as
Speaker 1: long as possible, and this is a way to continue
Speaker 1: to do it. And you know, I'm still playing football,
Speaker 1: so he certainly gets credit for that. How often did
Speaker 1: you practice and how did you practice to get good
Speaker 1: at this? Yeah? So, I mean obviously during practice. We
Speaker 1: had a good guy named Roy Phillis who helped us
Speaker 1: out during practice in high school, just learning the ropes
Speaker 1: with the kickers, punters and snappers. And then in addition
Speaker 1: to that, just kind of spent a lot of time
Speaker 1: actually with my dad at the local elementary school field
Speaker 1: just repping it out and you know, doing all sorts
Speaker 1: of different things to work on snapping under pressure. And
Speaker 1: I remember him just here and there, you know, banging
Speaker 1: pots and pans. They're doing some interesting stuff to try
Speaker 1: to distract me while snapping. But just got a lot
Speaker 1: of reps in with him, and my brothers as well,
Speaker 1: always helped out. We're doing fun facts with cal Adamidas.
Speaker 1: I typed long snap trick shots into goo Google and
Speaker 1: got nearly twenty five million results. Do you have a
Speaker 1: favorite that you've seen and have you ever tried anything, well,
Speaker 1: you know, just to stroke his ego a little bit,
Speaker 1: I'll definitely say. You know, Clark Harris's world's longest snap
Speaker 1: is certainly an impressive, impressive snap. But you know, I've
Speaker 1: never done a ton of the trick shots. I've always
Speaker 1: just kind of focused on snapping it to the punter
Speaker 1: of the holder. But it is fun to watch those
Speaker 1: videos every now and then, I know, And like there
Speaker 1: was a challenge where guys would snap it and try
Speaker 1: to hit like the cap off of a bottle. I
Speaker 1: thought that was pretty cool. But I'd probably say those
Speaker 1: two were the most impressive to me I've seen through
Speaker 1: the window of a moving car. That's a pretty good one.
Speaker 1: You might want to try. Yeah, and now you're giving
Speaker 1: me a list of things to work on in my
Speaker 1: free time. Cal you spent five years at PITT. You
Speaker 1: majored in economics. If pro football had not worked out,
Speaker 1: did you have a plan B career wise? In my
Speaker 1: fifth year at PIT, I was able to start my
Speaker 1: MBA at their business their Graduate business school, and that's
Speaker 1: certainly something I want to complete in the near future.
Speaker 1: In the off time with football is completely that NBA.
Speaker 1: But you know, I have to say my minor was history,
Speaker 1: American history, and that was probably what I was more
Speaker 1: actually passionate about as a student. Um so, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to I guess have my you know, feat in
Speaker 1: both pools a little bit there, But uh, I can't
Speaker 1: say I know exactly what I wanted to do, But
Speaker 1: I just knew wanted to finish up that NBA and
Speaker 1: uh you know, maybe something that somehow incorporated a little
Speaker 1: bit of history as well. But I just I hadn't
Speaker 1: thought a ton into it. I obviously my plan A
Speaker 1: was football and it's still been working out so far,
Speaker 1: so I'm all in with that right now. Plan A
Speaker 1: is definitely working out. What was the highlight of your
Speaker 1: Pitt experience, whether it was football or just school in general.
Speaker 1: I'd certainly say winning the ACC championship with that group
Speaker 1: of seniors we had last year, and it was a
Speaker 1: it was a pretty old team, um, just a lot
Speaker 1: of guys who had been there for a lot of
Speaker 1: years and you know, just fell in love with the school.
Speaker 1: You know, had a great relationship with coaching Ardusi and
Speaker 1: his staff, and just a lot of guys that you know,
Speaker 1: genuinely genuinely cared about Pitt and Pitt football and wanted
Speaker 1: to you know, bring some glory back to to the
Speaker 1: pit script And you know, guys that always knew about
Speaker 1: or heard about the teams from the seventies and eighties
Speaker 1: that were winning national championships and wanted to kind of
Speaker 1: rekindle that flame a little bit, and we certainly, you know,
Speaker 1: did a little bit of that and hoping the trajectory
Speaker 1: keeps it that way at Pitt. Were you a big
Speaker 1: fan growing up? Yeah, so this is a funny story.
Speaker 1: I my dad went to Penn State, and that's kind
Speaker 1: of a no no in the in the Pit community,
Speaker 1: but um no, basically grew up kind of rooting for
Speaker 1: both teams, obviously because my dad was a Penn Stater
Speaker 1: and you know, spent some time in the Happy Valley
Speaker 1: and some time at the North Shore at pit football games.
Speaker 1: And and then it wasn't untill my recruiting process when
Speaker 1: you know, my older brother and I both kind of
Speaker 1: felt a little bit snubbed by by Penn State, and
Speaker 1: you know, I got a chance to play at Pitt
Speaker 1: and you know, things just went great and so then
Speaker 1: you know, as a full one eighty and we just
Speaker 1: were became a Blue and Gold family after that. We're
Speaker 1: chatting with cal Adamidas. You were the top ranked long
Speaker 1: snapper in last year's draft class, but didn't get selected.
Speaker 1: You said afterward though, that your relationship with Darren Simmons,
Speaker 1: the bengals longtime special team's coordinator, was a key to
Speaker 1: winding up here. How did that relationship start and what
Speaker 1: was it about Darren that made such a strong impression
Speaker 1: even from the jump at the combine. Um, that was
Speaker 1: I think the first time I interacted with him, just
Speaker 1: because he wasn't able to be there for the Senior
Speaker 1: Bowl obviously since you know, the Bengals were in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, which is you know, a good reason to
Speaker 1: miss it, um, But you know, being at the combine,
Speaker 1: just kind of the way that he took over the drills,
Speaker 1: and UM, I almost was like confused at for us.
Speaker 1: I was like, wait, is this guy like a coach
Speaker 1: or is he like running the like running the show?
Speaker 1: But he, uh, you know, he just kind of took
Speaker 1: control of things and you know, just seemed very sharp
Speaker 1: and you know, continue to have zoom calls with him
Speaker 1: and then his assistant cooled Anderson as well, and just
Speaker 1: started to build that relationship and just saw their track
Speaker 1: record and you know, the sense of the stability that
Speaker 1: he has within this pro this organization. UM, and just
Speaker 1: there's a reason why you know, he's been here for
Speaker 1: as long as he has, and and then also saw
Speaker 1: just the track record with Clark and Kevin as well.
Speaker 1: You know, as a specialist, like there can be a
Speaker 1: a lot of turnaround, but you hope to find yourself
Speaker 1: in a position where you find a system and a
Speaker 1: coach that works and you stay there your whole career basically,
Speaker 1: and that's that's the dream and that's what that's what
Speaker 1: his track record has been. So um it was like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, that's that's what I want. Why why settle
Speaker 1: for anything less? Basically? All right, A few wildcard categories.
Speaker 1: Legendary Cincinnati Reds broadcast or Marty Brennaman had his head
Speaker 1: shaved for charity a few years ago. He raised a
Speaker 1: ton of money for the Dragonfly Foundation. You did something
Speaker 1: similar at pitt for Cal's kids. Describe what you did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we did a fundraiser. UM with some of the
Speaker 1: new NIL policies m in college, we were able to
Speaker 1: work with Children's Hospital Pittsburgh and just basically started a
Speaker 1: fundraiser for pediatric cancer care. And um, you know, with
Speaker 1: the success our team was having, things kind of just
Speaker 1: took off and you know, ended up getting um talked
Speaker 1: about on like college game Day and on a lot
Speaker 1: of our bigger games and the big broadcasts, and it
Speaker 1: was just really cool. You know. I had a ton
Speaker 1: of great help from some awesome people at PITT EJ. Borghetti,
Speaker 1: Celeste Welsh, Chryslasala, all people who you know, helped out
Speaker 1: a ton along with coaching, our doozy coach Powell, all
Speaker 1: the coaches and and uh, you know, just you know
Speaker 1: are the the wins. The big wins were helping too.
Speaker 1: You know, I can't go without noticing just the excitement
Speaker 1: around the program really helped channel that as well into
Speaker 1: the charitable cause as well, and uh, it was cool.
Speaker 1: Like I remember when we played VTech Um we had
Speaker 1: a big win at their place, and there was like
Speaker 1: a twenty five thousand dollars increase in donations just because
Speaker 1: like people were fired up about pit football and then
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, like this is a way to like
Speaker 1: put my energy in love for pit into like charity
Speaker 1: as well. And so it just worked out like the
Speaker 1: season and the fundraiser just kind of took off together
Speaker 1: and end up raising over one hundred thousand dollars for
Speaker 1: Children's Children's Pediatric Cancer Care and then after we reached
Speaker 1: the goal. Um it was what the week after the
Speaker 1: AC Championship, we shaved my head and uh yeah, so
Speaker 1: my hair went went bye bye, but it was for
Speaker 1: a great cause you had the long, flowing, shoulder length
Speaker 1: locks before that. Do you ever miss it? Absolutely? And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm kind of in the process of, uh
Speaker 1: you know, growing it back out again. I just miss
Speaker 1: having a little little lettuce coming out of my helmet. Um,
Speaker 1: but I'm doing a little something with the beard as
Speaker 1: well right now too, so we might who knows, we
Speaker 1: might be able to do something uh you know in
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati community with that, right and in this season,
Speaker 1: so we'll see where that goes. And yeah, definitely do
Speaker 1: miss it though. So as we've noted you're from Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: is there Promantee Brothers sandwich with the meat, cheese, cole slaw, tomatoes,
Speaker 1: French fries, everything else? I'll jam between two pieces of
Speaker 1: Italian bread disgusting or delicious? Well, um, you know it's
Speaker 1: it's sure not Skyline chili. Have to I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I'm from Pittsburgh. I have to
Speaker 1: admit it's Uh, I definitely grew up eating a number
Speaker 1: of those, you know, in just different like after sporting
Speaker 1: events or you know, at at sporting events, and um,
Speaker 1: you know, I thought it's pretty yummy, but I'm definitely
Speaker 1: getting pretty acclimated to Greater's ice cream and Skyline Chili
Speaker 1: as well, so you know, it's definitely haven't haven't really
Speaker 1: had a Promanny sandwich. And while to be honest, all right,
Speaker 1: well played, very well played. Final question for cal Adamidas.
Speaker 1: This is kind of a deep one. If you could
Speaker 1: meet anybody in history, athlete, actor, statesman, a religious figure,
Speaker 1: whoever that person might be, who would it be. M
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I come from a Catholic family,
Speaker 1: so I'd obviously have to say Jesus, like, I'd love
Speaker 1: to just pick his brain. I guess I don't know
Speaker 1: that's the right thing, but you know, a little easier,
Speaker 1: maybe more fun to answer. I don't know, I'd probably say,
Speaker 1: just being a history guy, I would love to meet
Speaker 1: like George Washington or any like the founding fathers because
Speaker 1: just the way they thought and you know, created this
Speaker 1: country is uh, it's kind of mind blowing and just
Speaker 1: how ahead of the time and the thought processes of
Speaker 1: that time they were to you know, write the Declaration
Speaker 1: of independence and you know, establish a system a republic,
Speaker 1: you know, of government and h yeah, I definitely say
Speaker 1: one of the one of the founding follows, maybe Ben Franklin,
Speaker 1: because he's a very fascinating character as well. So that'd
Speaker 1: be my probably Benjamin Franklin, Jesus, George Washington and Ben Franklin.
Speaker 1: It would be a great trio with a long snapper
Speaker 1: thrown in there for good measure. Hey, I appreciate your time,
Speaker 1: Congratulations on your success, and best of luck the rest
Speaker 1: of the year. Thank you so much. Day that's going
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