WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Hold On 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.240 Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:10.440 The Bengals Booths Podcast. The Hold On for One More 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:14.640 Day addition, as the Bengals fail to hold on to 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:18.319 the football against the Dallas Cowboys, coughing up fumbles on 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:22.880 their first three possessions in a disheartening thirty to seven loss. 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:26.800 Coming up, you'll hear radio replays, postgame comments from players 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:30.720 and coaches, and in depth analysis from Dave Lapham. And 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:32.839 in this week's fun fact segment, you'll get to know 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:35.000 the person under the pads as I go one on 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:39.199 one with linebacker Logan Wilson. The Bengals Booth Podcast is 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:43.440 presented by bud Light Seltzer. 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Now, let's get to Sunday's game. Andy 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:29.319 Dalton started the day one for one against his former 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:33.440 team by correctly calling the coin toss. The Cowboys elected 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.759 to defer, meaning the Bengals got the ball first. They 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:40.160 kept it for all of two plays. Now, Tyler Boyd 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:42.160 goes in motion as they handed off up the middle 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:46.480 of Giovanni Bernard bounced off at tackles the ball our 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:50.400 rarity for Giovanni Bernard. We'll see who has it. At 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:54.360 the thirty two yard line, DeMarcus Lawrence forced the fumble. 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:58.960 Giovanni Bernard had carried eight hundred twenty nine consecutive times 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:03.320 without a fall. Dallas recovers, so the Cowboys first drive 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:07.120 started at the Cincinnati thirty two, but the Bengals defense 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:10.080 kept Dallas out of the end zone. Dalton ready for 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.919 the shotgun snap. He has the ball three step drop 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:16.520 bouncing in the pocket and Dalton will be pulled down. 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:20.239 He's gonna be sacked. Marcus Hunt polishes him off Sam 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:23.800 Sam Hubbard got to Andy Dalton first he did. The 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:26.720 Cowboys settled for a field goal in a three nothing lead. 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:30.520 After fumbling on the Bengals first drive, Giovanni Bernard was 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:34.079 replaced on their second by Trey Theon Williams. He had 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:37.320 three carries in one catch to help Cincinnati drive to 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:39.799 the edge of the red zone. Second down and fourth 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:42.640 at the twenty one of Dallas Alan and the gun 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:46.360 turns left, hands it off to Williams, goes Low loses 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:49.200 the ball scooped up by Dallas and the Cowboys are 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:52.680 racing it back the other way the thirty the twenty 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:58.800 the ten touchdown Dallas wow Alden Smith with a seventy 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:01.720 eight yards scooping score to give the Cowboys at ten 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:05.680 nothing lead without having to do anything on offense. How 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:08.720 did Zach Taylor feel about it? Stunned? I rate. I mean, 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:12.040 that's you give to team ten points right out the gate, 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:15.359 thought didn't even really have to take the field. Is 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.200 a disappointing start to the game. I couldn't feel better 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:21.720 at going into this game, and you know, to give 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:24.000 them ten points before they even have to do anything 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:26.639 is a disappointing way to start. On their third possession, 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:29.880 the Bengals tried a third running back, Samaj p Ryan, 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:34.120 but Taylor says that wasn't a response to the two fumbles. No, 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:36.400 we were pointing on rotating the running backs before the game, 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:40.440 so that that wasn't necessarily a product. Obviously, like you said, 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:43.360 Geo is very, very great with this ball security over 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:45.960 the course of his career. But our plan was to 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:48.240 rotate all three of those backs and with p Ryan in. 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:51.720 On drive number three, the Bengals drove to the Dallas 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:55.280 fifteen before deciding to go for it. On fourth down 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:59.320 and one, Alex Ericson, motioning toward the formation, lines up 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:01.320 as a wing to the left. Now he goes in 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:04.040 jet motion. They give it to Alex Rickson. He has 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:08.920 the first he fumbles the ball. Third fumble already for Cincinnati. 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:12.640 There's a pile at the thirteen yard line. The Cowboys 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:16.760 are celebrating. No signal from the officials, yet there it is. 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:23.320 Dallas recovers three drives, three lost fumbles. Here's linebacker Josh 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:27.000 Bynes on the Bengals error prone ways. It just sucks 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:29.240 because we're such We know for a fact we're a 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:33.000 better team than we played and put on film and 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:37.920 it just I mean it really it really no. You 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.520 put the work in. You got great guys in locker room. 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:46.479 I mean everybody's working, working so hard to just win, 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:51.320 and it's frustrating. You know, it's really really really really 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:54.919 really really frustrating. I counted seven reelis in front of 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:59.440 the word frustrated. After Alex Rickson's fumble, Dallas put together 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:03.359 an eight the eight yard drive that included four third 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:07.080 down conversions. The Cowboys habit at the Cincinnati eleven. Dalton 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:10.279 drops back to throw fires a pass toward the end zone. 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:14.160 Amari Cooper comes up with a football for a Cowboys 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:18.400 touchdown that made it seventeen nothing. Midway through the second quarter, 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:21.640 on their fourth drive of the day, the Bengals finally 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:25.000 didn't fumble. In fact, they held down to the ball 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:28.359 for sixteen plays and found the end zone. Brandon Allen 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:31.839 drops back to throw fires a pass spot by j Green. 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:36.120 He ran a slant. It was a bullet a frozen 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:40.200 rope by Brandon Allen, and aj Green hauls in his 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:44.240 second touchdown catch up the season. It comes with eight 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:47.839 seconds left in the half that made it seventeen seven. 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.360 At the half as aj Green caught passes for the 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:53.919 first time in three weeks. He finished with six grabs 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:58.400 for sixty two yards, including his sixty fifth career touchdown 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:04.080 that leaves AJJ one behind Chad Johnson's franchise record. AJ 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:09.840 what means more to records or wins? Man winnings? You know, 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:12.120 I already had the records. I had big years and 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:14.680 you know, I think twenty fifteen when we were winning, 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:18.599 it wasn't my best year, Stat's wife, But we're winning. Um, 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:22.360 I think that makes everything much easier. Um when you win, 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:24.760 and I'm at a point in my career where you know, 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.120 it's not about the money, it's not about you know, 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:29.520 with all the stats, and it's just about having fun again, 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.000 you know, playing football and that's the only thing you 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:35.840 can do for that is to win. And it's stuff. 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.040 But like I said, man, I'm the guy that stays 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:41.360 level and keep working each week. What it's going to 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:43.400 be the number one factor when it comes down to 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.360 deciding if you want to stay in Cincinnati moving forward. 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:49.240 I don't know, man, I, like I said, I got 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:53.680 a small circle. Um, so you know, my wife, my family, UM, 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:57.960 my boys, we don't sit down and make the best decision. 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:02.240 That's school, you know, best for my career, and right 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:03.680 now we don't know what that looked like right now, 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:06.800 but we prepared for anything. The Bengals hadn't scored in 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:10.400 the third quarter in their previous five games, and that 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:14.440 street continued against Dallas. A Cowboys field goal made it 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:18.160 twenty to seven going to the fourth quarter. A thirteen 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:21.679 point deaf is it obviously isn't insurmountable, and the Bengals 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:24.280 scored a touchdown on a thirteen yard run by p 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:28.520 Rhyme with eight forty six to go. Unfortunately, it was 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:32.520 wiped out by a holding penalty on Quentin Spain, a 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:35.960 penalty the Bengals were not able to overcome. So this 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:38.600 could be the game right here. Fourth down in seven 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:42.080 at the Dallas ten, with the Bengals trailing by thirteen 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:45.720 points seven twenty nine on the clock. Three receivers left 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:48.960 aj Green alone out to the right. Brandon Allen extends 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:51.680 the hands, catches the shotgun, snap throws it into the 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:54.520 back left corner of the end zone and almost threw 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:59.120 it into the stands. That's how badly he overthrew Tyler 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:01.600 Boyd in the act left corner of the end zone 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:05.000 and the Cowboys will take over on downs. Brandon Allen 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:07.440 played well, throwing for two hundred and seventeen yards with 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:10.560 a passer rating of ninety nine, but on that drive 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:14.280 he bruised his knee on a scramble and was limping 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:17.000 pretty badly on the final ten plays of the drive. 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:20.520 Alan did not finish the game. You know, just one 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:22.480 of those sames. Things just got hit right in the 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:25.000 right spot, and you know a lot of times you 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:27.320 just walk it off. It gets better, it gets better, 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:29.600 and so I tried to stay out there and walk 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:32.160 it off and kind of just kept getting tighter and 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:37.560 tighter instead. So now it's obviously affecting me a little 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:39.840 bit on some of the throws. It's hard to really 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:42.800 get any weight into the throws. And you know, we 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.280 checked it out. Didn't want to. I don't want to 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:49.560 hinder our offense. Um if I wasn't able to perform 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:53.840 the lagging perform. So was that part of the situation 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.360 on the fourth down play when when the ball sailed 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:57.760 on you a little bit, was it you just couldn't 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:01.320 transfer your weight. Right now, I'm not gonna blame it 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:05.960 on that obviously, you know, just a poor, poor decision, 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:09.520 poor throw. You know, I knew it was fourth down, 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:11.599 trying to give TV a chance in the back the 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.560 end zone, but yeah, bald definitely just got away from me, 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:17.720 and the game quickly got away from the Bengals. A 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.760 fifty five yard field goal by Greg the leg zerline 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:23.600 made a twenty three to seven, and a five yard 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:27.360 touchdown pass from Andy Dalton to Tony Pollard on fourth 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:30.200 and one with two minutes to go made the final 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:33.920 score thirty to seven. It was a memorable day for 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:36.920 the Red Rifle. He went sixteen for twenty three for 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:40.440 one hundred and eighty five yards, with two touchdowns, no picks, 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:43.560 and a passer rating of one twenty two point six. 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:47.520 After each touchdown, he looked toward his wife JJ in 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.320 a luxury suite and they gave each other the sign 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:55.160 language symbol for I love you. Here's AJ green. It 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:58.320 was so you're just to see him in that uniform 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:02.439 with those colors. You know, Andy and my relationship are 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:05.839 just bigger than is bigger than football. So just watching 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.000 them what they're you know, watching them have to sussiest 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:10.960 study having um, you know, you know, our wife set 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:14.520 together in the boxes the day, so, um, I was 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:17.000 especially it's weird, but I was happy for him that 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:20.440 he's he's he's getting a starting job and show people 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:22.600 what you can do. The Cowboys improved to four and 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:25.880 nine with the win. They're two games behind Washington in 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:29.040 the NFC East, as the football team followed up a 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:32.120 win over the Steelers by beating the forty nine ers 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:36.720 on Sunday. Washington is one four straight. The Bengals, out 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:39.400 of the other hand, have lost five straight to fall 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:42.920 to two ten and one, their third straight season with 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:47.200 double digit losses. Here are Sam Hubbard and Zach Taylor 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:50.760 just exhausting. You know, you do, uh everything right during 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:54.319 the week, practice hard, and uh you know, no reward 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.120 and uh, you know, just weighs on you. And it's 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:00.000 been going on for a while now. It's just pretty pretty. 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.000 When you lose, it's frustrating, you know, and it's it's 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:07.000 hard to get rid of this feeling, um that we feel, 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:08.559 you know, at the end of every week. Right now, 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:12.280 it's frustrating because um, we feel good about the position 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:14.240 we're about to put ourselves in. And then you know, 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:16.960 it's a myriad of reasons that or why we lose 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:20.200 and ultimately one hundred percent falls on me, one hundred percent, 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:24.520 you know, and it's Um, it's just frustrating. It's really frustrating. 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:28.400 A lot of effort goes into this, Um, guys pulling together. Um, 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:30.679 it's still a very close team. I think you can 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:32.840 see that as you see them out there playing. We 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:34.599 just haven't made the plays that that put us in 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.000 a position to win the game. And and it just 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:39.000 it makes you sick to start the way that we 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:41.600 started today. You know, as good as you feel walking 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:43.880 out of that locker room at pre game, UM, you're 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:46.400 sick to your stomach when you start with three straight 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.880 fumbles to start the game. It's just it's a it's 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:52.400 a very difficult way to play football. Zach. You mentioned 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:55.560 frustrating a lot. Um just when when you look at 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:59.400 your record on paper as a head coach, that did 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:01.240 you start to worry about job security when you get 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:03.320 near the end of the season. No, I just want 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:05.760 to win a football game. That's it. And I love 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:08.080 going to work with these guys every day and that's 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:10.240 that's all that matters to me. Is how do we 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:12.040 get ready in seven days to go win a game. 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:16.040 That is one hundred percent our focus. Don't worry about 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:18.680 anything else. It's this is too important for us. We 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:21.040 want to win so badly, and we're just going to 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:24.360 continue to work and find ways to great those wins. 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:27.480 Sunday's loss did make it more likely that the Bengals 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:30.600 will have a top three draft pick next year. They 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:32.920 would have to win two of their final three games 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:36.440 to fall in the draft order. Now time for postgame 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:40.719 analysis with my broadcast partner Dave Lapham Lap. That was 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:44.040 rough and it started early. Second play from scrimmage, Giovanni 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.120 Bernard fumbled on a running play for the first time 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:48.960 since his rookie year. Game five of his rookie year. 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:52.040 He had carried nearly eight hundred and thirty times on 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:55.319 running plays without fumbling. I guess when that happens, did 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:58.240 Giovanni Bernard? You know, you know you might be in 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:00.880 for a long day. I'll tell you, you know. I think, 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:03.760 as they say, it comes in bunches. I think what 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:07.120 had happened to Geo? It was the fumble virus instead 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:10.560 of the coronavirus. I mean it infected the team, and uh, 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:14.240 you know then then guys, Alex Rickson's a sure handed guy. 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:16.199 But I give Dallas credit. Put the helmet right on 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:18.040 the football. That's a tough deal. A guy made a 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.840 good play. He made a good play. Alex Rickson fumbles 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:24.080 the football. I feel sorry for Williams. I mean, I 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:27.080 don't know what Hakima Denergy was thinking. Pulls around and 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:29.440 he stops, stops in the hole. I mean, if you're 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:31.920 you don't block air, if there's nothing there, get through 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:33.720 the hole and get up to the next level and 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:38.360 block something. And Williams, basically a Dentergy forced that fumble, 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:40.320 and a dnergy never played the rest of the game, 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:44.400 and Williams was running hard. It's unfortunate that that took place. 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:47.480 So that just tells you the football gods today we're saying, 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.520 not happening. You're gonna You're gonna fumble three times on 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:56.000 your first three possessions. I do not recall ever seeing 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.600 that happen before. I think that's the first and I've 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.480 seen a lot of games, high school, college and pro games, 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:08.040 and I can't remember it. Three straight possessions. Basically, they 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:11.120 went a whole quarter and ten seconds into another quarter 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.319 and said we don't really want to keep the football, 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:15.400 you know, the other team can have it. And with 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:19.040 a team like this that's struggling offensively, that has little 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:21.520 or no margin for error, are you kidding me to 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:26.280 do that? That's self destruction and its utmost I know, 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:29.240 I've seen turnovers on the first three possessions, but it's 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:31.960 a mix, an interception of fumble, maybe you know, two 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:33.640 of one one or the other. I've never seen three 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:36.600 fumbles in a row on the first three possessions. That 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:40.280 was awful. My gut instinct is, you know, when I 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.640 see that happen, I think, well, like fumbles, that's a 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:46.840 discipline thing, it's bad coaching. And then I look up 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:50.280 the numbers. The Rams have fumbled ten times this year, 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:53.400 the Saints have fumbled nine times, or the eight times 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.640 the Bills have fumbled nine times this year. Three of 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:59.520 the best teams in the NFL they've fumbled. So I 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:04.360 don't blame it on the coaching staff. It's impossible to 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:07.920 do that with Giovanni Bernard. Unfortunately. That's the kind of 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:11.440 stuff that happens when you are struggling and have no 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.440 margin of error. That's the big thing. No margin fair 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:18.800 and you can't score, you know, I mean, you you 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:22.720 just can't give teams opportunities like that, and it falls 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:26.800 into that fine line before of playing not to lose 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:29.120 or plan to win, you know, and it's like do 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:32.240 I do I overprotect? And sometimes when you overprotect, it 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:34.360 can be a problem with the football. But I mean 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:36.680 that that ball security issue, I thought I thought it 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:39.160 was going to be a factor in the bengals favor. 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:42.680 Coming into the game, Dallas had lost lost thirteen fumbles, 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:45.920 had fumbled it nineteen times, and it lost thirteen of them. 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:50.280 Thirteen lost fumbles led the league. Now the Cincinnati Bengals 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:53.200 have thirteen. They're right there with them, and they've only 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:57.720 gotten three. That minus ten funnel ratio worse than the 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:01.960 National Football League. They've thrown interceptions and they've gotten nine interceptions. 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:07.120 They're even in interceptions, minus ten in fumbles. I mean, 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:10.800 that's that speaks volumes. I'm looking at that and then 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:14.080 the other stat that is, you know significant, they're at 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.440 least minus eleven. They came into the game minus ten 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:18.920 and touchdowns in the red zone and I think Dallas 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:21.040 scored two when they scored one. So now I think 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:24.520 they're minus eleven in touchdowns in the red zone. That's 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:26.720 at the bottom of the league, when you have fumble 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:31.000 ratio differential at the bottom of the league, touchdowns in 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:33.680 the red zone, when the field compresses near the bottom 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:36.040 of the league, and now you're starting to get trends 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.680 of they're just not good enough, they're just not getting 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:41.680 it done. Andy Dalton had to feel like it was 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:45.200 twenty and fifteen all over again. He played well, but 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:47.680 didn't have to do that much through for one hundred 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.120 and eighty five yards, two touchdowns, no picks, one of 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:53.120 the touchdown passes with a terrific throw pass, the rating 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:55.280 of one twenty two point six. But this was like 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:58.880 that twenty fifteen season he broke his thumb when the 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:01.400 Bengals had at ten and two record. At that point, 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:04.840 the Bengals led the NFL in scoring defense. They were 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.639 averaging nearly twenty eight points a game. He had a 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:10.760 passer rating of one oh six. This was just like 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:15.800 twenty fifteen, except he is standing on the opposite sideline. Yeah, 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:18.040 it was. I admit it was odd to see him 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.760 in Dallas colors, you know, it really was. I think 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:23.560 it accentuated the red hair even more because with the 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:25.960 orange uniform and the Bengals unity kind of like mutes it. 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:29.240 But man, when you're you're wearing blue and silver and 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:31.720 all of a sudden there's that big old swats of 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:36.399 orange red hair as such, and even accentuates more. But 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.680 I think obviously he's got a receiving core that's pretty 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:43.720 darn good. He really does. And I do think that, 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:47.479 like we're talking about earlier in the day, AJ and 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:51.040 Andy made each other better, and I think AJ appreciates 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:54.119 Andy for that, and I think Andy appreciates AJ for that. 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:56.160 That was like, you know, the old peanut butter and jelly. 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:58.840 They're good apart, they're better together. And that's what those 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:01.720 two guys were like. And I hope, you know, Joe 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:04.400 Burrow and t Higgins start to form the same type 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:06.399 of thing. I mean, they're good at part, they're better together. 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:09.320 And hopefully they're going to have big seasons like Andy 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:11.760 Dalton AJ Green did. Obviously they're not going to go 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:13.760 to the playoffs in their rookie years like those two 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:16.040 guys did, but might as well start in year two, 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:18.920 you know, and start to build on something and see 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:20.840 if it works out that way. But you know, and 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:24.960 Andy Dalton is a guy that that you can win 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:27.800 football games with you really can win a lot of 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:30.440 football games with Andy Dalton. You mentioned it more than once, 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:34.760 you know, during during the broadcast, and that, you know, 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:38.159 fifty and twenty five, fifty twenty five and one, he 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:41.680 had won two games for every loss before breaking his 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:45.520 thumb before breaking stumb, seventy six games played before breaking stump, 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:49.520 fifty wins, twenty five losses in the tie with today's loss, 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:54.080 the Bengals now since that period, they're almost two losses 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:56.919 for every win. It's exactly that. Fifty four losses, twenty 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.520 seven wins and a couple of times just turns it around. 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:02.840 I mean, you know, you just turn the whole scenario around. 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:05.639 So they're a five hundred football team in that span, 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:10.840 and it's like before fracture after fracture. And that tells 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:15.040 you that when you have a healthy Andy Dalton who 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:19.640 can execute your offense, you can win football games if 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:22.800 you have any kind of a defensive football team and 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:26.159 special teams that aren't killing you. But the Bengals right 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:31.800 now offensively, with with you know, Brandon at quarterback, it's like, 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:35.040 just don't screw it up. What he didn't screw it up? 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:39.239 Three straight fumbles three straight possessions. I mean, you know, 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:43.679 you give up short field sixteen yards. Field goal defense 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:46.280 is a good job, you know, they minimize the damage. 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:49.679 Then you're going you're approaching the red zone fumbling and 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:51.760 they take it back seventy plus for a touchdown. Are 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:55.240 you kidding me? I mean, down down ten, nothing and 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:58.359 they've got sixteen yards and you've got over one hundred 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:01.359 yards offense. You have no points and they've got sixteen. 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:03.280 They got ten on the board. That that kind of 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:06.760 stuff is just you just it makes you. It makes 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:10.520 you queasy, makes you football sick. Really, it's a dream 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:12.840 come true kind of day for Andy Dalton, and at 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:16.240 least statistically, it was a pretty good day for aj Green. 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:18.720 He can't be happy with a thirty to seven loss, 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:22.240 but targeted seven times, six catches, sixty two yards and 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:24.920 a touchdown, his second touchdown catch of the year. He's 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:28.320 now one shy of Chad Johnson's all time franchise record. 0:20:28.359 --> 0:20:32.119 But it was interesting listening to aj Green after the game. 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:35.919 Asked numerous questions about his future, and while he didn't 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:38.600 come right out and say this is the end of 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:42.240 my time in Cincinnati, it's certainly felt like that's what 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:45.120 he was implying. Yeah, I mean I think that that 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:49.160 he's thinking, Okay, they'll give me eighteen million dollars almost 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:51.480 this year, you know, and or maybe you've sent a 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:54.680 little more on camera. It's seventeen point whatever or eighteen 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:58.200 point whatever. But it's a lot as a franchise tagged receiver. 0:20:58.880 --> 0:21:02.359 So at that point, unless the Bengals tag him again, 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:04.639 which I don't think they're going to do, no question, 0:21:04.840 --> 0:21:08.199 they're not going to do that, I think at that 0:21:08.240 --> 0:21:10.800 point in time, he'll be testing the market and it 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:13.800 might be back here in Cincinnati, it might be elsewhere. 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:17.159 He realizes that. So I don't think he's gonna, you know, 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:19.960 no skin is gonna come off his nose about it 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:22.200 until he has to start to go through that process. 0:21:22.680 --> 0:21:26.000 But I do think that part part if you can't 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:29.280 help but start to reflect back because it could be 0:21:29.400 --> 0:21:32.120 coming close to the very end of his career here 0:21:32.119 --> 0:21:36.080 in Cincinnati. And I do think, you know, watching him 0:21:36.080 --> 0:21:39.560 in the early stages of some football games here when 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:43.200 he was shut out no targets or one target, no catch, 0:21:43.920 --> 0:21:47.400 he would win early, and then when he didn't get 0:21:47.400 --> 0:21:49.400 the football, he get really frustrated about it. You could 0:21:49.400 --> 0:21:51.119