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Now let's get to Sunday's game. 0:01:57.640 --> 0:01:59.680 When the Bengals got off to Team Bus in Denver, 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.760 the following words were painted in giant letters outside of 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:07.480 the visitors locker room elevation five thousand, two hundred eighty 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:13.120 feet altitude. Sickness is real. You can't blame the Broncos 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:15.960 for trying to put that thought into the Bengals heads. 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:19.560 But thin air also has benefits when you have a 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:23.720 kicker like Evan McPherson. In the pregame warmups, He hit 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:26.480 a sixty one yard field goal in one direction and 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:29.920 a sixty two yarder in the other direction, so it 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:32.760 was no big deal when the Bengals called on him 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:36.560 from fifty three yards out on their second possession. Evan 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:39.240 has been great from fifty plus. He's made seven of 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:42.400 them this year, tied for the NFL lead. Snap was 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:45.160 a little bit high, but handled by Huber. The kick 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:49.520 has enough distance and it is good. So money Mac 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:53.120 delivers from fifty three and the Bengals are on the 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:56.600 scoreboard first as they take a three nothing lead here 0:02:56.680 --> 0:03:01.560 in Denver. Here's McPherson on kicking aisle above sea levels. 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:04.160 I've never kicked an altitude before, and so I was 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:06.720 pretty I guess curious, you could say, and how much 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.519 of a difference would actually making, you know, I'd say 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:13.680 I noticed a pretty good difference, you know, on field 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:16.760 goals and kickoffs. Ball is flying kind of both ways 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:20.400 into the wind, and definitely would the wind it was flying, 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.120 and so I was excited, honestly for this game to 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:25.040 kind of come up here and you know, try kicking 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:27.880 an altitude. Those are the only points in the first quarter. 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:31.000 Is the two teams had as many punts as first downs. 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:35.000 In the second quarter, Broncos quarterback Teddy Bridgewater through a 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.840 short pass the tight end Noah Fat that he turned 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.960 into a twenty eight yard game that led to a 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:44.560 fifty four yard field goal by Brandon McManus that tied 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:47.720 the score at three. The Bengals failed to get a 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:50.160 first down on their next two drives in late behalf. 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:52.480 It looked like the Broncos would take the lead when 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:55.280 McManus lined up for a fifty one yard field goal 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:58.760 attempt with fourteen second tremaining. He's already made a fifty 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.480 four yarder in this game. The snap, the putdown, and 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:05.920 the kick. It's on its way and it is wide right. 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:10.480 He missed it wide right. Bengals dodge a bullet as 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:14.320 McManus fails from fifty one. There were only nine seconds 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:16.760 left and a half, but the Bengals were not content 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:19.160 to run out the clock from their own forty one 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:21.640 yard line. Here's Joe Burrow. No. I knew we were 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:23.200 gonna be aggressive. I knew we weren't just gonna take 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:25.120 a knee. We were close field goal ranging. With the 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:27.200 kicker that we have, you have to take a chance 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:30.640 there with the Broncos secondary playing way down field to 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:34.120 prevent a hail. Mary Burrow through a nineteen yard strike 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:37.120 over the middle to Tyler Boyd, who immediately went to 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:39.520 the ground, allowing the Bengals to call the time out 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:43.840 with four seconds left. That set up a fifty eight 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:47.960 yard attempt for McPherson. The franchise record for longest field 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:51.400 goal was fifty seven yards, shared by Randy Bullock in 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:56.200 a regular season game and Mike Nugent in a playoff game. McPherson, 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:58.560 trying to give the Bengals the lead and set a 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:01.839 team record in the process, s Cark Harris will snap 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:04.359 it back. Hubert is ready as he looks back at 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:08.479 mcfierson turns his head toward Harris, catches the snap to kick, 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:11.120 is on its way. It appears to have the distance. 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:18.640 It is good. Franchise record fifty eight yard field goal, 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:24.799 Evan McPherson, giving the Bengals a six three lead. After 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.359 the game, I asked Evan the following question when the 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.200 Broncos lined up for their field goal attempt with fourteen 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:33.760 seconds left, was the possibility that you might get a 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:35.839 chance to kick one before the end of the half, 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:38.680 even on your mind. It's in the back of my mind. 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:40.479 But you know, honestly, at the at the time, I 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:45.000 had to, I had to be really bad, and so 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:48.680 I would say, um, you know it's I'm not gonna 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:50.200 say I want him to make the field goal. You know, 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:53.320 I want our defense get a good stop. But I 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:56.039 was ready to go in the going at halftime, use 0:05:56.080 --> 0:06:00.840 the bathroom, come back out. Thankfully, Evan can wait. Prior 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:03.640 to this year, no Bengals kicker had made more than 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:07.479 four fifty plus field goals in a season. Mc pherson 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:11.560 has made nine of them in ten attempts. Here's Zach Taylor. 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.240 He's a weapon. That's the best way to put it. 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.120 You know, he's a weapon. My son asked for his 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:20.200 jersey for Christmas, if that tells you anything. So you know, 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.799 that's usually a pretty good indicator that we like our kicker. 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.960 When yet yet eleven year old boys asking for their jersey. 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:28.720 So just proud of the consistency he's brought to us. 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:32.680 I certainly hope Zach's son gets his wish. The Bengals 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:35.640 first drive of the second half was their longest drive 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.960 of the day. P Ryan is the running back. Burrow 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:42.160 hands it to Somage breaks into the secondary. He's at 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:45.520 the twenty, down to the fifteen and tackled at the 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:49.200 Denver thirteen yard line. The Bengals drove seventy two yards 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:53.120 out eleven plays before stalling at the Broncos eight. This time, 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:56.680 Evan Almighty kicked a short field goal to give Cincinnati 0:06:56.800 --> 0:07:00.560 a nine three lead to that point, been a tough 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:03.960 day for Teddy Bridgewater, and it became a frightening one 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:07.359 on the Broncos next possession when Teddy landed on his 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:10.080 head while diving for a first down and had to 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:12.960 be immobilized and taken off the field on a cart. 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:16.040 The Broncos quarterback was taken to the hospital to be 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:21.560 evaluated and thankfully had movement in all extremities. Bridgewater was 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:25.360 replaced by Denver's starting quarterback from last season, Drew Locke, 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:29.600 and his second throw gave Denver its first lead. Locke 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:32.640 will drop back to throw looking left, throwing deep left, 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:37.400 good coverage, but it's caught for a touchdown. Patrick just 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:41.760 abused the Bengals defender and coverage. I believe that was 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:45.800 Wayne's There's a penalty flag in the end zone. Could 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:49.760 it possibly be offensive interference? No such luck. It was 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:53.000 taunting on Tim Patrick after his twenty five yard touchdown 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:57.160 catch to put Denver on top ten nine. The penalty 0:07:57.320 --> 0:08:00.360 was assessed on the kickoff, helping the Bengals art from 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:03.120 their own thirty two yard line. Their first play was 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:05.960 a twelve yard run by Joe Mixon and after it 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:09.880 they rushed to the line quickly. Bengals don't huddle. They 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:12.280 snap it to Burrow, throw us down field for a 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:14.840 wide up. Boyd catch us at the thirty great jump 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:16.600 cut back towards the middle of the field of the 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:23.440 ten the five touchdown. Bengals a fifty six yard answer 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:27.320 Joe Burrow to Tyler Boyd and the Bengals are back 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:30.600 in front. In just two plays, the Bengals were back 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:33.000 in the lead. Here's Burrow. Yeah. I mean, that's a 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:35.280 great call by Zach. No. That's a play that we've 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:39.120 wrapped in practice all week, and you know, really credit 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:41.000 to him. You know, he saw, he saw what they 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:42.480 were doing to us when we got on the ball 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:44.160 and kind of hurried up and so we got to 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.640 that play and that's a that's credit to Zach. Great call. 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:50.720 A two point conversion attempt failed and the Bengals took 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:53.520 a fifteen to ten lead to the fourth quarter, but 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:56.280 with Lock in the game at quarterback, the Broncos started 0:08:56.360 --> 0:09:00.360 moving the ball and drove inside the Cincinnati ten Gordon 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:03.280 out Williams in second goal from the nine. Ten minutes 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:07.200 forty seven seconds left Cincinnati clinging to a five point lead. 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.040 Now Fant goes in motion out to the right. Lock 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.400 faked to hand drop and ran the balls take it away, 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:17.800 called Kareem. Lifted out of his hands, called Kareem. Running 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.520 down field to the thirty the thirty five, The ball 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:23.880 gets knocked out of his hands. Denver recovers at the 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:28.920 forty two yard line. Unbelievable, recovered by Garrett Bulls, the 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:32.640 left tackle. All right, My question is was he down? 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:37.120 Was he touched when he was down? Not exactly but close. 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.920 After reviewing the play, the officials ruled that Kareem briefly 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:44.040 went to the ground after forcing the fumble because of 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:48.520 contact initiated by Denver's quarterback, so the run back and 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:53.120 his subsequent fumble were nullified. Here's Zach Taylor on a 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:57.199 possible game saving play by kalled Kareem. Oh, yes, you 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:00.520 know it's game ballworthy. No. Question about that, but you know, 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:04.440 fifteen to ten, they're driving there on that situation, and 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:07.839 you know, a touchdown puts us in a tough spot. 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:10.080 So really big play by him to step up and 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.160 take that ball away on a fumble or an interception 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:15.080 or whatever they're gonna call that, but really tremendous effer 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:18.160 by him. After the team's traded punts, the Bengals got 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:20.480 the ball back with slightly less than four minutes to 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.960 go and made a huge play that forced the Broncos 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:26.640 to burn their time outs three twenty eight left in 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.400 the game. It's third and ten Cincinnati, the Bengals at 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.640 their own twenty two, leading by five. Burrow drops back 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:35.840 to throw, steps up in the pocket, Brows caught up 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.520 in the middle for a first down by Tyler Boyd. 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:42.600 Want a clutch throw by Joe Burrow, and Boyd reels 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:46.040 it in for a fifteen yard gain. On third down 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:50.480 and ten, Patrick's certain with a stop, yes and the 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:54.960 veteran working against the rookie, and the veteran wins the battle. 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:58.559 Boyd finished with five catches for ninety six yards, more 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:01.920 than sixty percent of burrows one hundred and fifty seven 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:04.440 passing yards in the game. You know, I knew, I 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:06.360 knew one of my game was gonna come like this. 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:08.360 You know, I gotta sit back and be patient. You know, 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:10.280 I'm a leader, and whatever they want me to do, 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:11.839 that's what I'm gonna do, no matter how the game 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:14.000 go for me, you know, because I'm at this point, 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:16.960 I'm all about winning. And we got so much firepower 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.480 in the offense that I mean, once we got one 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:22.520 guy going, that's that's what we're gonna continue to feat 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:26.240 you know. And just just whenever our name was called, 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:29.240 we we make plays every game and game out, you know. 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:32.120 So it was a long time coming. With two minutes left, 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:35.120 Zach Taylor faced a big decision on third and eight. 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:38.920 Let Burrow throw, knowing that an incomplete pass would stop 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:42.320 the clock, or run the ball to eat up time. 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:46.160 Knowing that a first down was unlikely, he elected to 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:49.480 run the ball and trust his defense, and that decision 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:53.640 paid off. Final play of the game, Lock throws it 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:57.480 deep down field, throws it out a bounds four seconds 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.640 on the clock. The Bengals will take over on downs 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:03.840 and they are going to win the game here in Denver. 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:09.520 That is coffin nails bam, bam, bam, And I'll tell 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:14.200 you what it took the entire football game. This was 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:18.920 a slobber knocker. Now, this was a defensive battle. Both 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:23.440 football teams gave everything that they've got. They all left 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:26.160 every bit of energy that they have out on the 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:29.600 football field here at Mile High. The Bengals only had 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:32.800 two hundred forty nine yards of offense and went four 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:36.800 for thirteen on third down, but they didn't commit a 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.680 turnover and got out of Denver with a fifteen to 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:44.040 ten win. Here are Joe Burrow and Larry Ogan JOEBI. 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:46.760 It's like that sometimes not every game is going to 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:51.160 be thrown for three touchdown passes and three hundred yards 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:53.400 and and all that. They're really really good defense that 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:56.760 has invested a lot in their secondary and linebackers. They're 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:59.360 very well coached and you got to give them credit. 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:01.600 But you know, I was proud of our guys that 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.959 we made the plays when when they counted no critical 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:08.760 third downs down the stretch. UM exciting win. UM. Like 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.320 I said before, this is a very unselfish team. I mean, 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:12.959 there's a lot of guys who just work hard. It's 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:14.680 come to work every day and you know, want to 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:16.520 win and want to play together. And it doesn't matter 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:18.679 who gets this line light, who gets the spotlight. He's 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:20.960 just guys coming in and every inn and every day, 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:22.679 um just trying to make plays and find a way 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:24.560 to make the team win. So it's really exciting to 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:26.600 be a part of something special. We're trying to build 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:28.320 something here, something that hasn't been done in a while, 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:31.480 and we're just moving forward, staying focus. After the game, 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:34.439 Dave Lapham spent three and a half minutes with Zach Taylor. 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:39.520 That was some physical football out there, Coach, you are 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:42.839 beating up in the secondary, beating up in the offensive line. 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:44.920 I mean, a lot of players stepped up for you today. 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:47.439 They did. We're using our full roster har right now, 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:49.440 you know, and but we've got faith and every guy 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:52.640 on this team, practice squad, active roster. Uh. No moment 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:54.360 has been too big for these guys. The coaches have 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:56.079 done a heck of a job getting these guys ready 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:57.760 to where we don't have to cover up any of 0:13:58.040 --> 0:13:59.920 these guys playing. You know, they're just going out there 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.240 doing what the starters have done and making all the 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:04.600 place for us at the end of the football game, 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:08.280 No hesitation whatsoever. It's like this deep our defense is 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:09.720 going to win this football game for us. You know, 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:12.840 they'll they'll be able to hang, tighten, and then hold 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:15.360 hold Denver at the end of the football game. I mean, 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:17.600 did you even think about throwing it on third and eight? No, 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:20.600 not really. You know, it's it's it's their job to 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:22.280 step up like they had all game. And I felt 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:23.920 like they'd done a great job control in the game, 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:26.320 and and we had full faith that they were going 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:27.640 to be able to tee off, get pressure on the 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:29.840 quarterback and make the place we needed to. So the 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.520 fifty whatever y'ard touchdown passed to Tyler Boyd. That was 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:36.560 such a thing of beauty. I was trying to when 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:38.400 I saw it live. I saw the cut block. I mean, 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:40.920 I can't I couldn't tell if it was CJ or 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:42.800 who it was that they had the great cut block 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:45.040 that kind of sprung Joe where he bought a little 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:46.960 bit more time and then threw it to Tyler Boyd 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.240 and Tyler, you know, took off for the fifty plush 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:50.920 yard touchdown. Do you know who that was that through 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:53.200 that cut block? It was it CJ. Drew. It was CJ. 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:55.920 CJ camer crowd. They can both do it. Drew. We've 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:57.760 asked Drew to do that against Claiss Campbell. You know, 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:00.640 it's similar deal. But CJ. Camer Cross got him on 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:02.120 the ground. Joe did a good job pushing up in 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:05.600 the pocket, and TB was patient to I'm anxious to 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:07.760 see if he slipped behind those linebackers, what the safety did, 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:09.800 because they were in some three week there. But it 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.760 played out like we hoped it would. Coach this defensive 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:15.360 football team, they make you earn everything. They don't give 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:17.360 anything to you. They don't make any mistakes. I mean 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:20.560 to watch him, it's like, oh, they're so sound. Got 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:22.560 so much respect for them, you know, because they've they've 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:24.680 not only got really high end talent, character, but a 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:26.720 really good coaching staff. And and we knew it was 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:30.040 gonna be a dogfight. We knew it. It doesn't shot me. 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:31.520 If you told me, hey, this might be six to 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:33.200 three at half time, it might be fifteen to ten 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:35.560 at the end of the game. I would have understood that. 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:37.720 And I thought our guys did a great job playing 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:39.600 with pois or defense and special teams did a great 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:41.720 job control in the game. To allow the offense to 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:43.960 play how we needed to play, and you get to win, 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:47.480 and you get win that way. Joe Burrow his pocket manipulation. 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:51.200 I mean he was Houdini the way he escaped some things. 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:53.440 And a couple of big runs on third down. Third 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:56.040 down was tough sledding third down. Red zones always tough 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:59.760 with these guys. But Joe made a couple of plays 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:01.880 with feed on third down on top of the pass, 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:04.320 and he made to Tyler Boyd, what does that do 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:07.120 when you have a quarterback that can create like Joe does. Oh, 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:09.520 it takes a win out of them. You know. That's 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:12.200 what great quarterbacks do in December and in January. They 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.000 step up and they make the plays when when there's 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:15.840 maybe not a play to be made. And that's what 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:17.960 Joe did for us a couple of times there. So 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:21.920 the Baltimore Ravens go for two again, they're unsuccessful and 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:24.960 they lose the football game. So now as you're flying 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.360 home from Denver, you're at first place. You got the 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:29.880 tiebreaker against the Ravens, the same record, but you guys 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:33.600 beat them in Baltimore. So this football team has done 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:36.320 such a great job that you with your leadership of 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:40.680 compartmentalizing after it didn't go well and compartmentalizing after it 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:43.840 did go well. Yeah, it's good to be where we're at. 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:45.520 We put ourselves in a really good position by doing 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:47.800 some really good things this year. But everything is still 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:50.280 in front of us and first place really doesn't matter 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:51.920 at the moment because we still got a couple of 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:54.760 divisional games left. But it starts with Baltimore. This is 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:56.880 a big home game. We need our fans to be 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.160 laud and proud and cheer us on because this is 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:01.440 a monster of a game in the Sunday Coach, appreciate 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:05.000 your time as always. Big win. Congratulations, that's flight home. 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:07.600 Won't take us long now. Yeah, it'll feel good. Thanks. 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:11.480 At the moment, the Bengals are the number four playoff 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:15.520 seed in the AFC. 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Now time for 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:55.280 postgame analysis with my broadcast partner Dave Lapham lap I 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:58.040 will use one of your terms. That was a slobber knocker. 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:01.920 Two defensive teams throwing a makers and the Bengals made 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:03.600 just enough plays to get out of here with a win. 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.000 I'm telling you it was like Survival of the fitish, 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:08.840 you know, and uh, they're they're tired. I mean that 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:10.920 was that was a very all of them kept saying. 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:13.879 It was a physical football game. That's a good football team, 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:16.000 you know. It was. It was a game, damn where 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:18.280 both teams had to earn everything. You know, neither team 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:23.159 really gave gave the game away other than you know, 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:26.160 a turnover here and there that end up being huge. Um. 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:29.760 But for the most part, it was like, man, no, 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:33.440 not a bunch of explosive plays. It was just I 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:36.920 think it was something that defense or coaches at any 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:39.160 level can throw tape on and say, this is how 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:41.719 you play defense. You know, everybody does what they're supposed 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:43.680 to do, how they're supposed to do it, be there, 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:45.760 be where they're supposed to be when they're supposed to 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:49.159 be there, and man, it was, it was. It was 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:52.879 well earned, to say the least, fifteen tackles for Jermaine Pratt. 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:54.960 I know, that's a guy you respect because he doesn't 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:58.000 say much, but it does a lot of homework to 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:00.639 be mentally ready for the game. And obviously he was 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:02.959 physically ready for the game as well. He was. I mean, 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:06.000 that's that's one that was definitely tired in the locker 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:08.040 room after the game, and I saw him a couple 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:11.040 of times out in the football field, you know, taking 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:13.399 extra deep breath trying to you know, get get the 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:16.359 oxygen that he needed to get. And everybody talked to 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:20.920 about how impressed they were with you know, Trey Wayne 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:25.399 stepping up and Fred Johnson stepping up and Carmen Jackson, 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:28.479 Carmen stepping up and doing things when they needed him 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:34.800 to be done. Obviously, this aesthetically wasn't a pretty football game, 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:39.120 but the outcomes beautiful. Well, how about the offensive line, 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:41.439 because as you mentioned, Fred Johnson went the distance at 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:44.760 right tackle. That's your third stringer right tackle. Jackson Carmen 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:46.760 played most of the game at right guard. He's a 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:49.840 backup now. He started earlier this year. I thought the 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:53.359 protection was actually pretty good. Now Joe Burrow had to 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:55.240 scramble a lot because it was hard for guys to 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:58.080 get open against that great secondary. Yeah. Yeah, that's the thing. 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:01.560 I mean, even even when he scrambled, they plastered and 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:04.840 they weren't given an inch. I mean, that group, those 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:07.440 guys are so on the same page. And Jesse Bates 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:10.359 made a point about how when I talked to him 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:15.320 about how everybody, not just starters, everybody goes and watches 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:17.960 that extra Tuesday tape, he said, we haven't have backup 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:20.959 quarterback in there with us talking about concepts and just 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:24.880 football in general. So I thought, you know, I think 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:27.359 that that's starting to show by their play on the 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:31.160 football field. And you know that the Denver defensive football team, 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:33.399 they spend a lot of time together, you know, study 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:36.919 and tape together and communicating making sure that everybody's on 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:39.199 the same page. I can't tell you how hard it is. 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:43.600 I asked, you know, both Fred, and I asked Fred basically, 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:47.640 what was it like communicating in that crowd noise down 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:50.520 the stretch when you and Jackson haven't played a whole 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:52.920 lot of snaps side by side, and he's like, yeah, 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:55.399