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Some have big audiences, others don't, but 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:27.560 since hardly anybody makes money off of it, who cares. 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:30.280 It's another way to share your passion for the team 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:33.039 with fellow Bengals fans, and based on some of the 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:37.920 podcasts I've sampled, there are a lot of really smart, funny, 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:42.360 and dedicated fans out there, So keep those who Day 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:47.800 podcasts coming. You never know who's listening. Now Here are 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:51.919 the radio calls from the fourth three point game between 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:56.720 the Bengals and Chiefs in the last thirteen months. On 0:01:56.800 --> 0:02:00.720 a worldwide calendar, this is the year twenty twenty three 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:04.480 a d but for the Cincinnati Bengals and their fans, 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:09.240 it is the year three JB and Joe Burrows. Three seasons, 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:12.040 the Bengals have quickly become one of the NFL's best teams, 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:15.960 and tonight in Kansas City, they are one win away 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:19.680 from a second straight trip to the Super Bowl. Burrow 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:23.280 catches the shotgun snap from the pocket. In trouble, Joe 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:25.880 gets away from a hit, but now he gets tomahawk 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:31.239 down to the ground by Clark, his thirteenth career postseason sack, 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:33.360 and the Bengals will have to punt it away a 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:37.480 loss of nine from forty three yards out. The snap, 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:39.799 the placement, the swing of the right leg. The kick 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:43.760 has plenty of distance and it is oh good, and 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:46.600 the Chiefs are on the scoreboard. Max sharping the right 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:49.000 guard gives a hand signal. That's how they're doing a 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:54.480 silent snapcount. Burrow gets trilled from behind, Joe had time, 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:58.600 couldn't find an open target, and Willie Gay hammers Joe 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:01.880 Burrow from behind back to thirty four a six yard sack. 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:04.520 This will be a twenty four yard attempt for Harrison, 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:07.720 Butker from the right hash on a sharp angle. His 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:11.720 kick is up and it is good. So the Chiefs 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:15.800 have field goals on their first two possessions and they've 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:18.880 taken a six nothing lead. Two deep safeties for the Chiefs. 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:22.400 They fake uplitz up the middle. Burrow with time comes 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:25.079 over the middle, caught at the twenty yard line, running 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:28.480 toward the fifteen and getting tackled there is Tyler Boyd. 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:31.680 He spikes the ball at the fifteen yard line. Justin 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:35.000 Reid made the stop. A twenty four yard throw. This 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.600 will be a thirty yard field goal attempt from the left. 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:42.160 Hash for Evan McPherson, whose field goal in this direction 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:45.200 sent the Bengals to the Super Bowl in overtime a 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:49.520 year ago. True Chris beIN ready for the snap from Ademitas. 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:51.880 He places the ball down. The kick is on the 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.800 way and it is right down the middle for Evan McPherson, 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:59.760 who has never missed a postseason field goal attempt. Mahomes 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:03.200 in the gun. Three receivers right, one left. Mahomes rolling 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:06.760 to the right looking looking throws into the end zone. 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:12.440 Caught Travis Kelsey, boxed out Jesse Bates and caught the 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:15.400 touchdown pass. This will be a twenty three yard field 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:19.040 goal try for McPherson from the left. Hash the put 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:23.240 down the right footed kick. It is good and money. 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:28.640 Mac is now nineteen for nineteen on postseason field goal attempts. 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:32.280 Two deep safeties for Ksey, shotgun snap to Joe. He 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:36.680 throws it down the left sideline, open catching for a touchdown. 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:42.719 Te Hagans full grown man, leaps at the goal line 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:47.160 and reels it in for a potential tying touchdown, a 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:51.040 twenty seven yard thing of beauty. On the throw from 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:54.320 Joe Burrow. Mahomes waits for the shotgun snap. He catches 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:57.120 the ball, he's looking left now scrambling, throws it over 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:03.400 the middle, caught for the touchdown. Man Faldez scantling one 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:06.560 yard deep in the end zone between the hash marks, 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:10.720 made the catch, a nineteen yard touchdown on third and ten, 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.599 first and ten at the Cincinnati forty six. We're down 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:15.440 to one h three to go in the third quarter. 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.680 The Chiefs up by a touchdown. Mahomes had the ball 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:21.360 pop out of his hand, get the Bengals fall on it. 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:26.560 Sam Hubbard bounces on the ball as Patrick Mahomes cocked 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.960 his arm and the ball just fluttered out and Sam 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:33.800 Hubbard falls on it on the Kansas City forty three 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:37.200 yard line. Who else? Who else? The local legend, Sam 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:40.800 Hubbard burrow in the gun on fourth and six. He 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:43.599 catches the shotgun snap, he's back to throw. He flings 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:48.239 it deep downfield. Chase makes the touch left the six 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:52.720 yard line. He'd beat Brian Cook leaping for the football 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:56.320 at the six and it's first in goal. A thirty 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:59.760 five yard gain on fourth and six, and he's double 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:03.080 Everard and he jumps between both of them. I mean 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:05.799 it's fourth and six. They say, Chase, you're not getting 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:09.120 the ball. We got you bracketed deep and Joe Burrow says, 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:12.040 now that's Jamar Chase. I'm putting it up. And Jamar 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:15.240 Chase says, I'm out jumping everybody and I'm gonna go 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:17.480 get the football. What a player. P Ryan in it 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:20.000 running back lines up to the right of Joe Burrow. 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:23.320 T Higgins motions from right to left. Joins Chase on 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:28.000 that side. Burrow hands it off. P Ryan fighting struggling forward. 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:33.520 There's the signal touchdown Bengals on a two yard run 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:37.120 by some mad j p Ryan. Third down and three, 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:40.360 the Bengals at their own thirty six shotgun snap back 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:43.159 to Burrow. Joe standing in the pocket, throws it deep 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:46.880 four Higgins broken up and then he accept it picked 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:50.240 off by Williams. He gets tackled by Higgins at the 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.719 fourteen yard line. Didn't believe he caught that reflection. Third 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:55.800 down to eight, the Bengals at their own thirty five 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:59.520 shotgun snap back to Joe. It's a deep drop under pressure. 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:03.359 Chris Jones nails him for a sack at the twenty 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:06.920 seven yard line. Forty one seconds left in regulation. Tied 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:10.200 at twenty Drew Chrisman waits back at the thirteen for 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:14.720 the snap from Adamitas. Punt protector Michael Thomas directing traffic 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:18.360 the snap and the right footed punt, not much hang time, 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:22.000 skymore backpedaling catches at the twenty. His momentum takes him 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.640 back to the eighteen. Comes to the thirty thirty five 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:28.760 forty sideline forty five and knocked out of bounds near midfield. 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:33.200 Stanley Morgan made the stop. Drew Crispin did not get 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:36.040 that put high enough into the air. Two receivers out 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:39.119 to each side. Mahomes with a deep drop now moving 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:41.560 in the pocket, running to the right and running well, 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:43.760 he's at the fifty. He's trying to run for the 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:48.040 first down. He goes, I'm the Bengal push him after 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:51.480 he was out of bounds. Multiple flags are going to 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:56.560 tack fifteen yards onto this play eight seconds left in regulation, 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:59.600 and with that penalty, the Chiefs will be in field 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:02.680 goal range. Man, you have to be more aware. This 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:05.480 football team has got a lot of awareness. Not on 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:09.119 that play eight seconds left in regulation. Harrison Butker trying 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:13.400 to give Kansas City the lead from forty five yards away. 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:16.720 Towns in the punter is. The holder looks back at Butcker, 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:20.360 Butcker is ready. Now, the snap, the placement, the kick 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:26.960 is up and it is good. Three seconds from eting 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:30.640 and the Kansas City Chiefs have a three point lead, 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:39.920 twenty three to twenty. Boiled boy, that's that's just that's devastating, devastating. 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:43.360 There's no other way to look at it. Kansas City 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:47.960 is likely to try a bouncing squib type kick in 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:50.319 hopes of getting the final three seconds to run off 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:53.840 the clock. Butcker, who just made the go ahead field 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:58.160 goal from forty five yards away, has the ball upon 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:00.800 the tea at the thirty five. He approached it and 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:04.000 bounces it down the middle of the field. The Bengals 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:06.520 pick it up, they will run it back. At the twenty, 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:09.240 Irwin throws it back where it caught. At the sixteen, 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:14.560 Trent Taylor trying to stay alive. He is tackled, and 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:17.640 the Kansas City Chiefs are going to the Super Bowl. 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:24.280 It will be Andy Reid's current team versus his former team. 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:28.240 As the Chiefs faced the Philadelphia Eagles, it looked like 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:31.720 the stage was set for another dramatic Bengals win over 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:35.680 Kansas City. Cincinnati forced the Chiefs to punt and got 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:37.800 the ball at their own six yard line with two 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:41.000 thirty to go, and when Joe Burrow found Hayden Hurst 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.840 for a twenty three yard gain on third and sixteen, 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:46.480 the Bengals had a first down at their own thirty 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:50.400 three with about a minute remaining, but the drive stalled 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:54.199 there and a twenty nine yard punt return by sky 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:57.760 Moore gave the Chiefs the ball near midfield with thirty 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:01.720 seconds to go. I asked through Christman about the punt 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:04.120 on your last punt, what are you hoping to do 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:08.400 there in terms of direction whatever. Certainly you'd love that 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:11.480 out of bounds. I mean not deally, either hang it 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:13.120 up high where they don't get a return at all, 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:16.200 or get out of bounds. And fortunately we got too 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:20.079 many on that return for sure. And yeah, I mean 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:21.680 five yards further back, I don't know if that field 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:25.440 goes in. So certainly you'd love to get a better 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:28.760 net on that last punt there. And so yeah, there's 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:32.040 there's certainly some some too correct there. And two plays 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:36.000 after that, with seventeen seconds to go, Patrick Mahomes scrambled 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:39.360 for five on third down in four and got hit 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:43.440 after going out of bounds by Joseph Osi. The fifteen 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:47.520 yard penalty set up Harrison Butker's game winning field goal. 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:51.679 Now time to take you inside the locker room. We 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:55.440 start with Tyler Boyd on the Bengals first scoring drive. 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:58.640 He had two catches for forty yards, but shortly after that, 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:02.600 Tyler suffered a fig injury and did not return to 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:08.679 the game. For me, it's devastating because I didn't get 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:10.520 a chance to just ride out there and stay out 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.080 there my brothers. Unfortunately, you know, I had an injury 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:17.760 late in the second first half, and but I got 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:19.440 faith in the guys that we had, you know, Yeah, 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:22.000 I came in, did a great job of feeling the void, 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:25.680 and we have a lot of confidence in him to 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:27.400 go in and do that, you know. But just just 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:30.560 managing the fall short man, it sucks. You know, it's tough, 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.360 sou At the end of the day, we know how 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:36.520 we're built, and we know our legacy, and I'm pretty 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:38.360 sure and I know that we'll be back here. You 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:40.680 had a sixteen yard catch on third and fourteen, and 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:43.680 then immediately after that at twenty four yard catch. Did 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:45.920 you feel like the way the Chiefs were playing that 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:47.560 there were going to be a lot of opportunities for 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:50.480 you today. Absolutely. You know, they played a lot, they 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:52.760 played a lot of too high. So that mean that 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.439 if they're gonna take out the boundary receiver, whether it's 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:58.800 tea or a chase at the time, then us front side, 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:00.760 we gotta we gotta produce. And I felt like it 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:02.320 was going to be a game for me because I 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.560 was finding the right voice for jodah uh find me. 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:08.319 And man, it just sucks because I couldn't finish and 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:10.440 I couldn't stay out there and around my guys. But 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.120 like I said, man, we got we got so much talent, 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:15.240 so much guys. I could come in and feel and 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:18.800 feel the void. Man, But it's just unfortunate. On the 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:22.280 one hand, you're one game shorter than last year. On 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:24.600 the other hand, you had a ten game winning streak. 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:28.400 A lot of positive things obviously happened this year. Did 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:31.360 you feel like this was another building block type season? 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:34.400 You know, I feel like I still feel like we're 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:36.199 the best team in football, you know, but it's hard 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:37.679 to say that if we didn't win, you know, and 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:40.000 it was one play away, you know. And then and 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:42.160 that's the part where it come in where I feel 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:44.679 kind of down, you know, because I didn't get to finish, 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:47.040 you know, but I knew I had a serious injury. 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:49.720 But at the end of the day, we'll be back. 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:53.200 We're we're we're we're built ready for these moments, man, 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:56.160 and oh every year we fight the most adversity and 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:59.520 we overcome it and we continue to strive. We're gonna 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:01.160 keep doing it and next year it's going to be 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:03.800 even better. When the team had the ball with two 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:05.200 and a half minutes to go in a tie game, 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:07.880 did you figure we're headed to the super Bowl? Absolutely? 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.600 It wasn't even close. You know, Joe Burrow, the whole 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:13.760 world felt that, and I believe that the whole world 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:16.680 everybody's watching when we got the ball in two minutes 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:19.160 that were going to win. You know, that's just how 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:21.600 good we are, how good Joe is as a leader 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.920 and leading us. But um, we just got one play man. 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:27.679 Just just sucks that we didn't capitalize when we should have. 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:30.080 But we know what kind of team we have. We'll 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:33.920 be back. The Bengals Booth Podcast just presented by all 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:38.320 Ta Fiber future Proof fiber Internet capable of delivering multi 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:41.760 gigabit speeds, designed to take your home, business and community 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:45.679 to a new level. Elevate your connection with all to Fiber. 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:49.000 Joe Burrow through for two hundred and seventy yards with 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:53.560 one touchdown and two picks. He was sacked five times 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:57.520 and hit twelve. The old line not only struggled to 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:01.400 protect Joe, but couldn't get Joe Mixon going either. He 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:07.360 finished with eight carries for nineteen yards. Here's mixing, dude. 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:09.640 We thought he was gonna come out with the dub. 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:13.320 I mean, our guys got a big, big stop. We 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:15.920 had an opportunity and just you know, somebody on their 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:17.760 defense made a play and then they had a cused 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:22.120 kick return and obviously the end was it was crazy. 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:25.560 But you know, my guys, like I said, they fought 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:28.160 they ass off for four quarters and I'm just, you know, 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:30.720 so proud of how we battled. We just gotta do 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:36.400 whatever we can to, like I said, bounce back anyway possible. 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:39.280 And that's pretty much what it is. Do you take 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:42.440 some solace or good feeling out of knowing that the 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:45.320 Cincinnati Bengals have clearly established themselves as one of the 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:47.640 best teams in the NFL. Yeah, know, for sure. I 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:50.800 mean our guys. You know them guys. They fought hard 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:55.040 and rightfully. I felt like we earned the right to, 0:14:55.800 --> 0:15:00.000 you know, hang our hats on. We are the Cincinnati Bengals, 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.640 and I feel like, you know, that was a great 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:06.200 Chiefs team that we lost to, and hopefully, you know, 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:08.440 to do whatever they can to win the Super Bowl. 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:11.920 I mean, all my hats my hostess tilted off to him. 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:15.040 I mean, they deserve it, they earned it, and you know, 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:16.800 with my teammates, I just got to try to do 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:19.760 whatever I can to keep their spirits alive and um, 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:22.800 you know, try to get over this hunt. Chris Jones 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:26.000 is a load. He Uh he was obviously very difficult 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:29.520 to handle today. Yeah, for sure he was. I mean 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:34.120 he's one of the best detacles in this NFL league. 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:38.200 He's a grown ass man, and um he proved that today. Um. 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:42.800 But at the same time, I said, our our team, 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:46.040 try to do whatever we can to stick together and 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:49.200 keep our heads up. Three years into the Joe and 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:52.560 Joe era with Joe Mixon and Joe Burrow, two AFC 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.920 championship trips and a Super Bowl trip, how excited are 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:58.480 you of what stile to come? All hopes was alive 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:02.000 for you know, to keep continuing to be a dynasty. 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:04.600 And I feel like, you know, with the court, with 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:06.560 the guys that we have in this here at locker room, 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:08.920 I mean, we're just gonna do whatever we can try 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:11.360 to go ahead and keep repeating. That's pretty much about it. 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:14.720 On the other side of the ball, it was a 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:19.480 heroic performance by Patrick Mahomes. Playing with that high ankle sprain. 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:23.520 He threw for three hundred twenty six yards with two touchdowns, 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:26.520 no picks, and a passer rating of one oh five 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:30.840 point four. The Bengals were only able to sack him twice. 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:36.040 Here's DJ Reader, what can you say about Patrick Mahomes. 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.720 I mean he looked normal. Yeah, man, hats out there 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:40.480 and he's a hell of a player coming what I said, 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:42.840 you know, throughout the week, he's gonna be out there 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:44.680 and play ball. Get out there, and he did a 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:47.440 great job. Man, They all did a great job just 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:50.680 coming out there fighting for a wind. Put this into 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:53.320 perspective for us. I know it's hard in the immediate 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:55.640 aftermath of coming this close and coming up just a 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.200 little bit short, But what emotions are going through your 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:02.640 mind right now? A lot um just ready trying to 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:06.560 comfort the guys make him understand. I don't even know 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:08.000 what to give you, to be honest, right now, I 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:12.760 can't tell you that emotion. You wouldn't understand unless you played, 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:14.720 Unless you've been out there and you've been in those 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:17.200 shoes like you. You don't understand that emotion. You don't 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:21.040 understand fighting that hard, blood, sweat and tears all the time, 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:23.920 and you know, just just become up short. Somebody's got 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:26.080 to do it. You know, it's not just us. There's 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:29.520 another team. He felt like us today, and that's what happens, man, 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:32.080 there's thirty other teams. You feel like us at home. 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.040 It's part of this league, and you know you wish 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:37.720 you did enough to get it done, and they gotta 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:40.679 go back out there and next year you gotta go 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:44.040 do your thing. They only scored twenty three. It's hard 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:45.960 to say this after a loss, but did you feel 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:49.040 good about how the defense played overall? You know, I 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:51.240 felt like we could have tightened up in some situations 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:54.840 or they made some places. I don't want to say 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:56.840 we gave him anything, but they made some plays, and 0:17:57.640 --> 0:17:59.960 you know, some places we should have been on we weren't. 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:02.960 It happens as a football game man, and they made 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:04.640 a couple more plays than we did. I think they 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:07.639 won the turnover margin, right, they want what they do 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:10.280 win two one two. Yeah, So we got to do 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:13.680 better on defense and get that done. But this is 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:15.760 a game, man, It's a hard, funt battle. You know, 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:17.400 do you want to come out on the winner side 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:19.240 of it? But if you got to watch conference championship, 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:20.840 I can't say we didn't get a people a show, 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:23.800 you know, just we got to do better. Back to 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:26.119 back trips to the FC Championship, it's a heck of 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:28.920 a ride for Bengals fans. We appreciate it. Thank you, Yes, 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:32.919 we appreciate y'all. Thank you. The Bengals Booth podcast is 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:35.359 brought to you by pay Corps. More than twenty nine 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:40.080 thousand customers trust pay Corps to help them recruit, pay, engage, 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:44.879 and retain employees. Learn more at paycorps dot com. The 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:48.040 Bengals set a team record by winning ten straight games 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:52.000 and won playoff games and consecutive seasons for the first 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:56.359 time in franchise history. It was a fantastic season for 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:59.960 Zach Taylor's team, and Dave Lapham spent a few minutes 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:03.760 with him after the game. I don't know where to begin. 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:07.600 All I can say is, you have to be so 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:11.000 proud of this football team because you talk about a 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:16.320 physically and mentally tough group. They redefined it. Yeah, it's 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:20.280 it's a special group. I'm proud to have the opportunity 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:22.280 to coach these guys. They fought tooth and nail to 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:24.640 the very last second. We lost for a great football 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.680 team today, and you know, it's just it's unfortunate this 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:30.080 season came to an end. But it's been a special run. 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:31.520 It's been a great run, and I appreciate all these 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:33.920 guys have been a part of it. Can you tell 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:37.640 us what you were told about the clock? SNAPf foo 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:39.840 or whatever, whatever the heck you want to call it. 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:41.960 They obviously weren't on the same page down there in 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:44.439 the field. But you guys suffer, you know, I mean, 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:47.280 they take a play away that's never gonna appear anywhere 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:49.800 in NFL history, and you know, replay it down. Well, 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:52.960 what did they tell you something about we wanted the 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:54.960 seven seconds back, so they're replaying it down so we 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:57.160 don't lose the seven seconds. It was a little bit confusing, 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:01.200 but it's we had play it down again, and that's 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:03.960 just the way it goes. But again, you guys, all right, 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:06.199 well one, two, three, we'll do it again. Make him 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:08.520 punt it again. I mean you overcame that as well. 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:12.320 I mean that that was a an unsettling situation, and 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:15.399 you got everybody handles all that stuff so well. I 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:18.760 mean it, how do you get your team to be 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:22.879 so poised and methodical about everything when a hurdles on 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:24.480 your way, they don't blink, you know, and they just 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:25.919 they knock it down and they move on to the 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:29.040 next one. And just unfortunately we weren't able to finish 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:31.760 it off the right way today, Patrick Gohomes. I mean, 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:36.560 they had forty two yards and twenty carries and they said, okay, Patrick, 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:38.960 you're gonna do it. And the guy with the with 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:41.160 the messed up ankle and everything else goes out there 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:43.760 and throws for over three hundred yards and you know, 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:45.879 plays the way he plays. I mean, his legend grows, 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:47.600 doesn't it. He's a great player. You know, we got 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:48.879 a lot of respect for him and the rest of 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:51.480 their team. And again they just made one more play 0:20:51.520 --> 0:20:52.960 than we did today, and they get to hear the 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:57.040 Super Bowl and we gotta wrap it up, Coach. I 0:20:57.119 --> 0:21:00.359 just want to say that this football team was so 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:03.760 much fun to watch. I mean, gave this city a 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:07.679 lot of thrills. The pride I think that the city 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:11.600 and the community and the region feels for this football 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:14.399 team is obvious to everybody, and you're obviously the biggest 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:18.040 part of that. So there's a lot to be thankful 0:21:18.080 --> 0:21:20.600 for and a lot to be proud about. And these 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:23.160 guys later all on the line for you. We take 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:29.040 great pride representing the Cincinnati fan base and love being there, 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:32.080 love representing our fans, love interacting with our fans. Sorry, 0:21:32.119 --> 0:21:34.920 we couldn't get it done, but we're gonna fly to 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:38.240 get that done in the future. Now, time for some 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:43.520 postgame analysis in the radio, guys, recap after such a 0:21:43.600 --> 0:21:47.960 strange finality. After that, you've got so much anticipation about 0:21:48.000 --> 0:21:50.119 the possibility of a return trip to the super Bowl 0:21:50.160 --> 0:21:53.399 and wham it's over. What did you think was the 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:57.760 bottom line in this game? I thought it was protection 0:21:57.800 --> 0:22:01.320 pressure issues with the over writing thing. I mean, they're good. 0:22:01.359 --> 0:22:03.480 They get fifty five sacks during the course of the 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:08.120 season led the AFC, and you know they only give 0:22:08.160 --> 0:22:10.760