WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Sledgehammer 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:06.640 Higain everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading The 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:14.680 Bengals Booth Podcast. The I Wanna Be Your sledge Hammer addition, 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:18.119 as the Bengals rally from a seventeen nothing deficit to 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:22.840 pulverize Tom Brady and the Buccaneers, scoring thirty four unanswered 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:26.560 points in a thirty four to twenty three win. Coming up, 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:30.160 you'll hear radio replays, one on one locker room interviews 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:33.800 and analysis from my broadcast partner Dave Lapham. 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It's the greatest thing since my friend and 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:13.959 mentor Sean mcdonnaughh I was in Boston to broadcast the 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:16.680 Fenway Bowl over the weekend and had the opportunity to 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:19.560 have dinner with one of my closest friends dating back 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:24.600 to our days as students at Syracuse University ESPN, Sean mcdonnaugh. 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:28.680 If you conducted a poll of working play by play announcers, 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:30.960 the people that do it for a living, and ask 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:34.199 them to name the best in the business, Sean would 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:37.520 be at or near the top of the list. Nobody 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:40.720 in the industry combines humor and information better than Sean. 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:44.680 My wife Peg describes him as the funniest person in 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:48.000 any room that he's in, and that quick wit is 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:51.440 on full display whenever he's behind the mic. But Sean 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:54.600 has all the skills that make up a great broadcaster. 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:59.480 He's an outstanding storyteller, understand strategy and can explain it 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:02.560 to the view has a flair for the dramatic, and 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:06.800 always nails the big moments. I had some great professors 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:10.040 at Syracuse, but I learned more from Sean than any 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:13.960 of them. He's been a great mentor and an amazing friend. 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:18.840 Now let's get to the highlights from Sunday's epic comeback 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:22.919 in Tampa. The official name for a baby goat is 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:26.720 a kid, and that seems appropriate today here in Tampa, 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:31.960 where the NFL's forty five year old gat faces a 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.920 twenty seven year old prodigy whose career is off to 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:40.040 a remarkable start. It's Brady versus Burrow, the goat versus 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:42.880 the kid, and it's time for the pigskin to fly 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:46.120 here in Tampa. Bengals have it first and ten at 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.760 the forty of Tampa Bay, first drive of the game 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:52.560 for either team. Play action fake in AATs deflected and 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:57.120 it is he intercepted by Davis at the thirty yard 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:59.880 line of Tampa Bay. The Buccaneers will go for it 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:03.400 on fourth and goal from the one. Brady in the shotgun, 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:06.240 four net motions from the kibi's right to his left. 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:09.200 Brady catches the ball he's back to throw he's looking, 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:12.640 throws toward the end zone. Talk for the touchdown in 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:16.320 the back left corner of the end zone by Russell 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:19.040 Gage burst and goal from the five. As the Bucks 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:22.840 look to add to their ten nothing lead, Brady takes 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:25.040 the snap, throws a screen out to the left, Godwin 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:29.720 to the goal line, touchdown Tampa Bay. Three seconds left, 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:32.600 so the half will end on this forty one yard 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:37.080 field goal try by Evan McPherson. The snap Crispin puts 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:42.960 it down. McPherson's kick very high. It is good. So 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:46.040 the half comes to an end with the Bengals picking 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:50.320 up some momentum. Trent Taylor Bactor return at the twenty three. 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:53.800 It's a fake and it blows up the Buccaneers as 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:58.360 the punt protector Chiovanni Bernard had trouble fielding the snap. 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:01.160 I think he was confused by it and had to 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:03.920 fall on the ball. The Bengals are going to take 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:07.400 over in the red zone and the Tip Bay Buccaneers 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.640 punt team is looking at each Chuggle like, what are 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:13.960 you kidding me? Brady bouncing in the pocket his throw 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:17.800 hen steff dead after thirty one nice picked up by 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:20.960 three flowers. He gets up and starts running it back. 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:24.760 That's just to celebrate, though I believe he was touched 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:28.320 on the ground after the pick. Burrow catches the shotgun snap, 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:32.920 forced to scramble right running backward. Penalty flagged down. Burrow 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:37.400 way back and he gets sacked from a twenty six 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:41.240 yard sack all the way back to the fifty. Devin 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:45.240 White and Anthony Nelson bring down Joe Burrow. Let's see 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:53.200 what the flag is? Yeah? Wow? Billow? Who major League Billow? 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:57.560 An automatic first down instead of a twenty six yards sack. 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:01.320 Burrow waiting for the snap from Carrot, Joe has the ball, 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:05.520 fakes to Mixon from the pocket, throws into the ends. Higgins, 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:09.360 running along the back line, makes the catch for the 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:13.480 Bengals touchdown. Brady, tapping both sides of his helmet, points 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:16.480 out where the middle linebacker is Logan Wilson right over 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.360 the center started to come. Brady looking to throw. He's 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:22.400 a tables. Wilson's got him. The ball comes out and 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:26.400 the Bengals, grabbing at the thirteen yard n yes third 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:29.159 down and goal from the three, trailing by five points 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:31.480 to forty eight left in the third quarter. Burrel ready 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:34.479 for the shotgun snap. Joe catches the ball from the ten, 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:37.200 throws to the end zone. Boy goes to the ground. 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:41.400 He's got it. Touch down the Bengals. Boyd with an 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:45.800 emphatic spike as Joe Burrow delivers the touchdown pass. I'm 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:48.960 third down and goal from the three. He takes the snap, 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.760 He'll hand it out for that bumbles the football. It 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.200 bounces into the middle of a scrum at the forty 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:57.440 yard Bob Logan Wilson says they've got it. Von Bell 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:02.159 says they've got it. The Bengal real Burrow in the gun, 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:05.400 mixing to his right, Chase out to the left, Boyd 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:08.040 out to the right. Burrow, looking his throw put by, 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:14.839 Chase heads for the end zone touchdown. Bengals Choe Burrow 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:19.120 with his third touchdown pass of the second half, and 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:21.960 the Bengals have a chance to go up by ten 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:26.080 and they in Jamar. Chase ran right through Keyan O'Neil. 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.120 I mean just ran right through him. Hooked up. Neil 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:31.360 went to hit him and Chase his now baby nah 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:35.320 empty backfield for the butt shotgun snap. Brady retreats looking left, 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:38.880 gets crushed as he floats it down field. The Bengals 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:42.400 think it might be an interception. Get hit the grow 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.279 HiT's an interception. Lap they're rulling it an interception? Really, 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:49.200 is that your main Pratt? Yeah, it's Pratt hit the ground. 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:51.320 Oh no it didn't. I thought he hit the ground 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:53.719 to hit his arms. That's an interception. But he's touched 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:56.440 right there. Burrow stomps his left foot or receiver goes 0:06:56.440 --> 0:07:00.839 in jet motion. They fake it to Mix and Wilcox 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:05.080 to the five to the goal line, hit his hometown Betchell. 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:09.560 Wilcox stores a touchdown have the Bengals put it away 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.960 with two twenty one to go. Tom Brady threw a 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:15.600 touchdown pass with forty nine seconds to go to make 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.760 the final score look a little more respectable for Tampa Bay, 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:23.040 as the Bengals won by eleven thirty four to twenty three. 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:26.280 Prior to that game, when Brady had a lead of 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:30.520 seventeen or more points at home, his team's record was 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:34.400 eighty nine and zero. You can update that to eighty 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:39.080 nine and one. It was a remarkable turnaround. On their 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:41.120 first four drives of the game, the Bengals had a 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:45.320 tip ball interception, followed by three straight three and outs. 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:47.920 After each team had had the ball four times, the 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:52.320 Bucks had outgained the Bengals two sixty one to thirty six, 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:54.960 but beginning with her two minute drill at the end 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:58.760 of the half, the Bengals next seven possessions went field goal, 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:03.880 field goal, touch down, touchdown, touchdown, hunt, and then touchdown. 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.480 Te Higgins scored the first of those touchdowns, and I 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:11.160 talked to him after the game. See, you want to 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:15.360 come back from seventeen nothing to thirty four consecutive points. 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:17.559 What was it like for you guys out there today? 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:21.520 First half was tough, especially offensively. UM. Defense, they they 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.400 was moved a ball on our defense. Um, you know, 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:27.720 the first and the first turnover and then the was 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:30.360 it three or four three and outs? That hurt? That 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:32.160 hurt bad. That's not who we are. UM. And then 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:34.959 you know, we came in a halftime, you know, talked 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:38.080 it over, see what we had to do to execute 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:39.720 the game plan. We came out in the second half. 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:41.880 He was able to do it. This team is really 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:45.319 battle tested and it show you had a touchdown catch, 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:48.400 Tyler had a touchdown catch, Jamar had a touchdown catch. 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:52.920 Mitchell Wilcox had a touchdown catch. Just a great example 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.280 of all of the weapons this team has. And Joe 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:57.600 uses I want to say, that's the first time I 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:01.040 know all three of us had a touchdown in one game. UM. 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:04.319 Then Mitch coming home to his hometown is scoring. Man, 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:07.200 That's that's amazing. UM. But yeah, man, Joe was able 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:09.040 to find us all and you know, put us in 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:11.960 a great position to the score was it amazing to 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:14.320 be on the sideline when the defense was taking the 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:17.400 ball away from Tom Brady in that offense four straight 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:21.080 times in the second half. Yeah, man, it was crazy. Um, 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:23.280 you know, I'm sitting on the sideline like trying to 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:24.960 you know, trying to catch my breath and stuff, you 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:26.840 know from the previous drive. And the next thing, you know, 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:29.440 we're back on the film like all right, they gotta 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:31.520 go back out there. But you know, Hans out to 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:34.200 the defense man going out there and get four turnovers, 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:36.120 you know on you know, one of the best quarterbacks, 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:38.880 if not the best quarterback to do it. Um, it's 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:42.160 you know, it's amazing. Brady was hot early. Could you 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:45.040 just figure we just have to stick with it eventually 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.040 we'll get going. Yeah. Man, we just had to stick 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:50.440 to our plan who we are, and man, it all 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:53.120 played out perfectly for us. You know, defense came in, 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:56.080 came came big, um, and you know our offense was 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:58.280 able to go out there and um, you know score 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:00.199 and we played kind of merry football. That's you have 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:03.960 initial six straight wins, solo possession of first place in 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:07.000 the AFC North. How does that sound? It sounds good, man, 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:09.560 But it's still still a lot, a lot more work 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:11.760 to do. We've got a tough team coming up there 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:14.560 in Foxborough, so we gotta gou out there and you know, 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:17.440 do we do in execute the game plan next week. 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:21.360 Appreciate your time. It's always thanks to Thank you. Joe 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:24.640 Burrow finished twenty seven for thirty nine. That's seventy four 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:28.120 percent for two hundred yards, with four touchdowns, one pick, 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:31.040 and a passer rating of one oh four point six. 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:35.120 Brady through for three hundred twelve yards and three touchdowns, 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:39.440 but he had two interceptions and lost two fumbles, with 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:43.360 a passer rating of ninety two point two. One of 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:47.000 his interceptions came after he got leveled by Joseph Osay. 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:52.679 Dave Lapham caught up with him in the locker room. Defensively, 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:54.760 what did you guys talk about at halftime? Was it 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:58.199 just cleaning a couple things up? Do you make big adjustments? 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:00.240 What was the deal at halftime? You came out in 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:02.840 the second half and suffocated them. We did exactly where 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:06.280 we talked about turnovers wins games, and at the end 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:07.839 of the half there our offense was rolling, so we 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:09.760 knew they're finally you know when they get their rhythm going. 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:13.360 They're unstoppable. So our goal was to get them the ball, 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.319 whether it's with stops, turnovers, and um, it just so happened. 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:20.240 It was turnovers. Five possessions in the second of first 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:24.679 five possessions, two interceptions, two fumber recoveries. They botch a 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:27.319 punt um where you know it goes down as a 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:30.240 fourth down stop. But that's another possession that doesn't end 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:33.640 with a kick. Five straight possessions. Have you ever been 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:35.760 part of that? I've never seen that. I never have 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:39.560 and that is great. Um, that's that's kudos to coach 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:42.040 lou the coaches figuring out what we need to get adjusted. 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:44.720 That's the that's kudos to the players listening to that 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:46.920 and executing it because you know, I'm just you can 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.080 call whatever you want, but if the players don't go execute, 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:51.960 it's nothing. So that's Uh, that's the whole team defense 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:54.480 and goods up to us bunkering down and settling down 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:58.000 as a family once again. Um, next man up. You 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:01.240 guys have done it all year long. Uh, there were guys. 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:04.680 Sam had an injured injured calf. You got Hendrickson, you 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:07.600 know that has the broken wrist from the back end 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:10.880 defensive players are going down to injury, and Kim Taylor 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:13.840 Brick goes down with the shoulder problem. You know, everybody 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:17.000 just steps up and assumes an additional role, expands the role. 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:20.360 What is it about this football team where everybody just 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:23.920 has that mindset. It's it's because we care about each 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:27.560 other so much. And when you see a guy go down, um, 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:29.880 you don't want that guy to be down, So you 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.200 want to play for him. You want to step up 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:34.160 for him, you want to make him have peace of 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:36.240 mind that you know, just because he's out, he's not 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:38.640 letting a team down. So UM, that's just what it 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:40.520 what it speaks to just um, the love we have 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:42.480 for each other, winning to play for each other. The 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:44.640 next guy knows that, and if a guy goes down, 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:47.320 he knows, um that he has that peace of mind 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:49.880 that we have his back. This defensive football team and 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:54.400 team in general, is it the closest you've ever been around. Absolutely, 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.320 And we just keep getting closer every day through um. 0:12:57.360 --> 0:12:59.280 And it happens through battles like this. You know, I mean, 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:01.920 things and things aren't it was going to go away, 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:04.040 and obviously things are gonna go away. And we were 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:07.280 able to gel together and that just you know, adversely, 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:10.400 Bill's bonds and that's exactly what it's done today. Heck 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:12.079 of a job out there, man, And I know it's 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:14.800 not easy playing with what you're playing with, and a 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:16.400 bunch of you guys are toughening it out. I mean, 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:18.720 it's that time of year, December football. Everybody's beating up 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:21.520 a little bit, right, Zamba football. But you gotta buckle down, yes, sir. 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:25.280 The Bengals Booth podcast is brought to you by pay Corps. 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:28.680 More than twenty nine thousand customers trust pay Corps to 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:33.680 help them recruit, pay, engage, and retain employees. Learn more 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:37.439 at paycorps dot com. As you heard in the highlights, 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:42.319 the Bengals final touchdown was scored by Tampa native Mitch Wilcox, 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.880 who also played college ball in Tampa at the University 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:49.960 of South Florida. How awesome was it to score your 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:53.360 first NFL touchdown in your hometown where you played your 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:56.760 college football. That's pretty dank cool. You know, this great moment, 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.200 you know, try to spike it as absolute hard as 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:02.040 I could. Um, I think it went in the stands 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:05.120 and we're not getting back bets all right, when did 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:06.400 you know you were going to be one of the 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:10.600 coin toss captains today? Uh, you know, Zach told us 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:13.320 shortly before the game, and Kappa and you know, just 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:17.200 really really cool for as a gesture for me to 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:19.160 walk out there, you know, just being a type of 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:22.880 a native and you know, and it was awesome, awesome moment. 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:28.040 Who is here to watch? Uh, sixty plus sixty seventy plus, 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:31.320 so a lot of people friends and family and great 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:35.720 great support. Um, you know, just unbelievably thankful for them. 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:39.000 Describe the touchdown. It looked like a very well conceived 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:41.840 play for that situation. Yeah, I know, kind of a 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:45.360 late league. Um. You know, we've been running running a 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:46.920 lot of run plays where I stick out on the 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:50.480 defensive end and you know, um late league designed lake 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:53.840 lead and uh, Joe put it on me and ran 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:56.360 ran for the rest. So is there a ball in 0:14:56.400 --> 0:15:00.360 that locker somewhere there is? Yeah, definitely congratulation, Thank you 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:04.680 very much, appreciate it. Just to clarify, Mitch didn't get 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:08.360 the ball after his touchdown catch because his spike bounced 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:11.440 into the stands, but he was given a game ball 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:15.200 by Zach Taylor. Speaking of Zach. He spent four minutes 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:19.480 with Lap after the game. I've never seen anything like that. 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:24.520 Five turnovers and well, two interceptions, two fumble recoveries, and 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:28.200 then the box which goes blowing fourth down but doesn't 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:31.480 end them a kick. Five possessions in a row. Crazy, Yeah, 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:33.880 great job by our defense, special teams, Great job by 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:37.040 our offense finishing off those drives. It's really you know, 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:39.960 at halftime we're done, seventeen to three. There's no panic. 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:41.600 There's a sense of calum knowing that we're gonna have 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:44.040 plenty of opportunities and we just went out there and 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:46.960 created them. Really and really proud of the job that 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:48.640 the coaches and the players did there in the second half. 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:51.640 I think thirty one points on about one hundred and 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:54.360 fifty yards offense because, like you said, the short fields, 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:56.200 but you finished it, you know, you took advantage of 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:59.880 it and just flipped it, flipped that football game. Yeah, 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:03.120 that's just take advantage the opportunities you're given. And it's 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:05.240 not always going to be pretty. It's a team that 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:07.280 that won a Super Bowl, you know, two years ago, 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:10.080 and they've still got a lot of those players. They 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:12.280 know how to win their tough team. They could very 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.080 well win their division to make a running the playoffs 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.320 on their side, and so for us to come down 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:19.440 here and handle some adversity on the road. Really proud 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:23.360 of the effort of our guys. December Football. Sam injures 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.440 that calf during the course of the game. Cam Taylor 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:27.720 Britt was some sort of a shoulder injury during the 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:29.800 course of the game. But guys, as they've done all 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:33.000 year for you, next man up, guys step up, expand 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.520 their role. Yeah, that's the effectation. Nobody wants to be 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:39.120 the week link. When guys opportunities are called upon, they 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:42.840 take advantage of them. Are rosters really strong right now? 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:45.120 From top to bottom. We got belief in everybody, and 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:46.480 so I was really proud of those guys had to 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:50.120 step up so offensively, what I mean, Joe Burrow throws 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:53.320 four touchdown passes in the second half. What are you 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:55.880 most proud of though about your football team? Like, like 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:58.120 you said, there was no panic, it was all poised, 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:02.000 all composure. Is that a contain interesting? I think our 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:04.720 defensive special teams made some great plays to put us 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:07.840 in position. Offensively, we stayed calm, They threw a lot 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:10.160 at us. We solved the problems as it came to us, 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:12.080 and when the receivers got the balls in their hands, 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:13.960 they made the plays that we need him to make, 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:15.679 and that was that was critical to get a win 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:17.800 like this on the road. What did you say to 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:21.359 your football team at halftime? It was it poised composure 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.240 comm at halftime as well that we had not played 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:26.200 up to our standards and we're gonna get plenty of 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:27.920 opportunities in the second half, and it was going to 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:30.199 start with our defense coming out strong to get us 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:32.760 some momentum. And that's exactly what they did. How big 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:34.879 was that field goal drive that you went on right 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.040 before halftime to go in with a little bit of momentum. 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:38.520 It was good. We just hadn't had a first down 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:41.800 and seemingly forever and since the first drive really, and 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:43.880 so we just needed to feel that momentum a little bit. 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:46.040 So that was good to get this points on the 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:48.880 board before halftime. The first drive, you wouldn't faced third 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:51.080 down you're moving the ball, and first down the tip 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:54.200 of damn thing and another tip ball interception. It's crazy 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:56.439 how many of those have occurred. But I mean, you 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:58.840 were slicing and dicing and pretty good there in that 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:00.320 first drive. Yeah, we had a good of them, and 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:01.920 that's just going back to getting the first first down. 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:04.560 Once we get that first first down, we're rolling. We 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:06.560 went four straight three and outs after that, and that 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:08.480 causes a little bit of problems for the offense and 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:10.080 then the defense has got to go right back out there, 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:11.800 you know, and that that probably aided in some of 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:15.399 the struggles that they had. And coach finally, uh, first place, 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:17.040 you have a you have a game lead now with 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:20.840 three games to play, doesn't change the way you approach anything. 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:22.359 It's one and all. As many times you can go 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:25.040 one and all. Right, Yeah, we're just gonna worry about 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:27.000 putting together right plan going on the road in a 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:29.200 tough environment, and so we'll take a quick nap on 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:31.440 the plane and get ready for a short week here. 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:34.840 The Raiders ended up coming back and beating the Patriots. Uh, 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:38.679 that's that's that's that's pretty interesting. But as we know 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:42.480 Bill Belichick, that's an opportunistic football team. I think they 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:45.200 have I think they've scored on five returns or something. 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:48.240 I mean, typical of what they're about up there, I guess. Yeah, 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:51.640 they play really good team complimentary football, and I've seen 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:53.199 them went on a punt return. I've seen him one 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:56.480 on defensive touchdown. So played him enough times. Know that 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:58.520 you got to be at your best and be ready 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:01.280 to go on a tough environment. All that matters is 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:03.160 what we do next. We don't have to worry about 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:05.480 anybody else. We just got to focus on ourselves and 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:08.479 have a chance to put this one quickly behind us 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:10.920 and refocus on again a tough road opponent next week. 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:15.280 As Lab mentioned, next week's opponent, New England, lost to 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:18.040 the Raiders, and it was on one of the craziest 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:22.160 final plays in NFL history. Here's how Bob Socy called 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:25.120 it on the Patriots Radio network. Now, at a third 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:27.399 and ten three seconds left, Jones will give it to 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:29.360 Steven Sandy started Rod. He runs it up the middle, 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:31.440 hippy Chandler Jones slips and hit across the forty five. 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:33.640 We're a stiff arm off at tackle of the forty 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:36.199 he lost the football and Jacob me Meyers picks it up. 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:38.400 He circles back and he throws it across the field. Trip. 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:40.600 Oh my god, just picked up my Chandler Jones. He 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:43.439 breaks away to the thirty he runs to the twenty, 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:46.840 he runs to the ten, He run to the aude 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:56.720 th touchdown. Raiders night. This might be one of the 0:19:56.840 --> 0:20:00.399 dumbest teams I've ever seen. That final dig came from 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:05.280 former Patriots quarterback Scott Zolak. A Boston Globe headline called 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:08.760 it the dumbest play in the history of the Patriots, 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:12.000 who are now seven and seven. New England is the 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:14.720 eighth playoff seat in the AFC, and keep in mind, 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:17.879 only seven teams get in, so the Bengals will be 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:22.440 facing a desperate opponent in Foxborough. The Bengals Booth podcast 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:26.920 is presented by Alta Fiber, future proof fiber Internet capable 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:30.680 of delivering multi gigabit speeds designed to take your home, business, 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:34.200 and community to a new level. Elevate your connection with 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:40.000 Alta Fiber. Now, time for the radio guys recap lap. 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:42.280 I don't know it for a fact, but I'm thinking 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:45.040 that is the first time in Tom Brady's twenty three 0:20:45.240 --> 0:20:48.320 NFL seasons that a defense took the ball away from 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:52.760 his offense four straight times. An unbelievable performance by the 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:56.320 Bengals defense. I don't think I don't remember ever seeing 0:20:57.200 --> 0:21:01.280 four consecutive possessions at any level turn the ball over. 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:04.480 I really can't remember seeing that. Maybe I have, maybe 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:08.359 it's happened, but particularly with an offense that's being led 0:21:08.440 --> 0:21:11.040 by that guy, I mean, you don't expect that. And 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:14.480