WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Closer To The Prize 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:06.560 Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:11.520 The Bengals Booth Podcast. Uh, nothing satisfies, but I'm getting 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:16.280 close closer to the prize at the end of the room. Addition, 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:20.400 as the Bengals advanced to an AFC Championship game rematch 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:24.319 in Kansas City by knocking off the Buffalo Bills on 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:28.440 their home field twenty seven to ten. Coming up, you'll 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:31.440 hear radio replays, one on one locker room interviews and 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:35.680 analysis from my broadcast partner Dave Lapham. 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On Sunday in Buffalo, the 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:11.840 Bengals were missing three starting offensive linemen and were a 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:16.760 six point underdog to the Buffalo Bills, the overwhelming preseason 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:20.919 favorite this year in the NFL. According to Caesar's Sportsbook, 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:24.040 more than twice as much money was bet on Buffalo 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.760 to win the Super Bowl than any other team. Those 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.840 Buffalo betting slips can now be ripped up and tossed 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:34.480 in the trash. Here are the radio calls from a 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:38.919 dominant performance that ended the Bill season. This afternoon here 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:42.520 in wintry Orchard Park, New York. One of the NFL's 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:45.720 best teams will stay alive on the road to the 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:49.920 Super Bowl. Will it be Joe Burrow and the Bengals 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:53.960 or Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills. Te Higgins out 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:56.639 why to the left? Shotgun staff short dropped by Burrow. 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:59.440 The pressure comes from the left. He throws. They caught 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:03.799 at the game, Chase straight ahead into the end zone. Touchdown. 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:08.160 On the opening drive for Cincinnati, a twenty eight yard 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:11.519 throw lofted down the middle of the field by Joe Burrow, 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:14.120 just a touch throw. Chase reached up at the eight, 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:16.720 caught it and raced straight ahead into the end zone 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.280 for the score. Joe waits for the shotgun snap. He 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:21.600 catches pump fakes to the right. Well gut crows to 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:27.639 get m zone. It is caught by hayden Hurst. Touchdown Bengals. 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.880 Burrow sucked the Bills in with the pump fake and 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:34.880 hayden Hurst was wide open at the goal line. Blown 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:39.400 coverage period. Alan is under center Buffalo trying to get 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:42.480 on the scoreboard. Receiver goes in motion. That's Gabe Davis. 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.640 Alan runs left and the big quarterback takes it into 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:49.840 the end zone for Buffalo's first score. Empty backfield shotgun 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:53.800 snap burrow over the middle, a leaping cat chase. He 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:57.920 has the ball touchdown right on the back line of 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:01.960 the end zone. He went airborne, two defenders nearby, and 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:05.680 he made the catch for the ten yard Cincinnati touchdown. 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:09.840 And the footwork was extraordinary. Left right, tap tap, get 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.400 him both down. The official took his time to make 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:14.680 the call because he knew he made the catch. Did 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:17.479 he get both feet down and bounds? The receiver lost 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:22.480 control of the ball. They're saying, I was just about 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.080 to say, as Chase is a ten yard line he 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:28.840 said the game back for one has Chase went to 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:32.040 the ground out of bounds. After getting both feet down, 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:36.039 the ball bobbles just a bit. Matt Milano had a 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:39.920 hand in there, and as he's landing on his backside, 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:43.360 the ball moves just a little bit. So this will 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.560 be a twenty eight yard field goal attempt for Evan McPherson. 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.719 Chrisman puts it down, the kick is up, and it 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:54.160 is good. The Bengals thought they had seven, They wind 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:59.360 up with three. After a lengthy replay review goes in 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:03.760 Buffalo favor. Burrow be under center, first in goal, about 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:06.320 an inch maybe a half an inch away from the 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:10.120 goal line. Te Higgins motions lines up to the right, 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:13.640 right next to the right tackle's Burrow hands it off. 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:18.479 Mixon goes airborne, waiting for the signal. The officials walking 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:23.520 toward the pile come. No signal yet. Nope, be short. 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:25.320 They are not going to give it to Joe Mixon. 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:29.760 The Bengals replay challenge is successful. It's a one yard 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:33.960 touchdown run for Joe Mixon. Fourth and six at the 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:37.640 Cincinnati sixteen, the clock running with seven thirty seven to go. 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:41.159 The Bills go with an empty backfield again. Three receivers left, 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:44.239 two out to the right, including digs Hallen back to throw, 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:47.159 scrambling right, who's back toward the middle of the field, 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:50.240 jestering toward the end zone. Throws toward the end zone. 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:55.880 It is batted away, knocked away by Eli Apple a 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:59.479 pass intended for Gabe Davis, and the Bengals have the 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:03.240 ball with a seventeen point lead and seven twenty three 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:05.920 to go. Allen back to throw on second in five 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:10.080 pump fakes. Now he's gonna launch a deep downfield scepta 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:15.640 by Cam Taylor Brett and that his officially coffin now 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:20.560 bam bam courtesy Cam Britt. Get the takeaway, why don't 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:24.440 you snow angels in the end zone for Cam Taylor 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:28.599 Britt and his defensive teammates. With one h two to go, 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:33.039 the Bengals are heading to Kansas City. And I'll tell you, Dan, 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:37.680 this is surprising to me. Not that the Bengals won 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:42.000 the football game, but the fashion twenty seven to ten. 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:46.000 One more snap will do it. Burrow behind Carris takes 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:50.560 the snap takes any Trent Taylor does a fine backflip 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:55.480 behind the line, Joe Mixon begins celebrating, and the Cincinnati 0:06:55.520 --> 0:07:00.280 Bengals are headed to Kansas City for the AFC champion 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:05.800 Chip Game. Neither snow nor cold, nor an injury ravaged 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:10.200 offensive line can keep the Cincinnati Bengals from going to 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:13.640 the AFC Championship Game. The final score was twenty seven 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:16.360 to ten, and the game didn't even feel that close. 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:20.120 The Bengals had thirty first downs, They're most ever in 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:23.080 a playoff game. They ran for one hundred and seventy 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:27.240 two yards, averaging five point one per carry, and Joe 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:30.720 burrow through for two forty with a passer rating of 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:34.440 one oh one point nine. And they did it with 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:38.480 Hakimadenage making his third start at right tackle, Max Sharping 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:41.800 making his second start at right guard, and Jackson Carmen 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:46.360 making his first start at left tackle. Joe Mixon finished 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.480 with one hundred five yards on twenty carries, his first 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:53.120 one hundred yard rushing performance in a playoff game. And 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:57.440 Joe had this five letter description for his offensive line. 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:03.920 Some damn dogs, d A w DS dolls. Dave Lapham 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:06.880 talked to all five of those dogs after the game. 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:11.560 I just want to talk to the offensive line, because 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:15.880 the offensive line got it done today. We got Ted Carress. 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:18.200 How are you doing, by the way, man doing good day, 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:21.440 big Win. I hope, I hope they refund all the 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:26.560 tickets to Atlanta. I hear that? So all right? I 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:30.680 got I got Ted Carross, I got Cordell Wilson, I 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:34.480 get Max Sharping, Jackson Carmen over here who came at 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:38.280 damage right? These five guys right here, one in the 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:42.720 football game period. It was one in the trenches. Rushed 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.800 for over one hundred and fifty yards. Joe Mixon twenty carries, 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:48.800 one hundred and five yards, two penalties on the whole day, 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:51.880 six for ten on third down, there were only two 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:56.240 plays out of sixty nine that went for negative yards 0:08:56.280 --> 0:09:00.280 sixteen plays of ten yards awards ass kicking up run. 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:03.280 What do you think? Well, I think I'm so proud 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:06.439 of these guys. I mean, we got three guys coming in. 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:08.680 You know, I've been the biggest game of our lives, 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:12.880 performing well with a dominating victory. So couldn't be happier. 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:16.040 So what about it? Everybody's saying, oh, man, the offensive line, 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:18.240 the offensive line, what's going to happen? I mean, oh Jesus, 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:21.520 what happened to you? M man? We just trusted in 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:24.280 our work. We've been working for this since we came in. 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:28.120 We know our goals. We got great guys, we're deep, 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:30.760 we we trust each other. We went out there and 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:34.000 we did what we had to do. Cordell Volson, you know, 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:37.240 you supposedly you're a rookie, but you've already played a 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:39.600 full season. You're not a rookie anymore, and now you've 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.600 got two wins in the playoffs. What's you feel like 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:44.280 to be on this kind of a football team your 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:47.160 rookie season. Yeah, It's great. You know, I couldn't couldn't 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:50.600 ask be in a better situation, on a better team. Um, 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.920 just the vets in this in this uh organization that 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.680 have that have helped me from day one and forever. 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:59.400 Thankful for those guys, and and uh, you know, we're 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:01.679 we're just getting started though. We got we got two 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:04.280 more games games ahead of us, and we're just gonna 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:09.760 keep getting better. Second AFC Championship game in a row, 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:12.640 and you're playing a team that's going to their fifth 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:15.480 in a row, their fifth home AFC Championship game, the 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:19.040 Keenness City Chiefs. Max sharping here all right, So you've 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:20.839 already played in three playoff games, you won two of 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:22.760 the assists old had, you know, I mean, you get 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:24.960 another playoff victory, though, what does it mean to you? 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:27.840 Anytime you can win a game in NFL? It's gonna 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:30.440 be hard one, you know. So proud of these guys 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:33.480 for how hard we worked all week, came out executed. 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.200 And I just want to say, also, happy birthday mister 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:39.600 Jackson Carmen. Yeah, what can you? Can you think of 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:43.880 a better birthday present? I cannot? So what was it 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.520 like out there today? I mean the crowd, noise handling, 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:48.960 the silent napcount all that stuff. What what was it like? 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:52.959 Jackson the Blast? It was fun. Cordell the off favorite 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:54.920 Viole ever played with in my life. And you know 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:56.880 what I'm saying, were out there together in the trenches, 0:10:57.320 --> 0:10:59.120 and I could really conn have did it without him. Man, 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:02.319 everything is gonna have the quarter professional. You know what 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:05.040 I'm saying. I hear you, I hear you on the road. 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:07.480 I mean, you got the running game going. That was 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:09.439 so big. I mean, Joe one over one hundred yards 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:11.560 twenty carries one hundred and five yards. You had well 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:14.160 over one hundred and fifty. As a as a football team, 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:17.199 When you're running the ball like that, pass protection becomes 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:19.320 like it's like night and day, isn't it trying to 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:21.400 if you're if you don't, you don't running game going, 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:23.200 they can tee off. When you got the running game going, 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:25.920 you got them, don't you. You know it was it 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:28.679 was just great to get the running game going early, 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:31.320 you know, because then it then it kept you know, 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:34.960 us unpredictable. Um you know, it allowed us to run 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:38.280 the ball and some get back on track situations and 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:41.320 and Joe ran the ball extremely hard today and and uh, 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:43.199 you know, our coaches did a great job of getting 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:46.480 us into the right looks. So Joe Burrow starts the 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:50.480 game nine for nine, I mean, unbelievable in this weather, 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:52.880 on the road, crowd noise, all that stuff. You guys 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:55.560 were giving a great protection. Did you guys realize that 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:57.360 he was on that kind of a role to start 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:00.480 the game. We could just feel the energy on you 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:03.400 know what I'm saying. We from Cincinnati were practicing every 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:05.760 single weather. It gets cold as a cold and it 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:07.640 gets hot as a hot. You know what I'm saying. 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:09.360 We always tell ourselves you played best in the most 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:11.560 of explaining conditions. You went out there and do what 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:14.400 we do every day at practice. Execute. So when you 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:17.280 when you have a field like that, do you do anything? 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:19.120 Do you stay over your feet a little bit more? 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:20.960 Do you're not getting on your toes as much? I mean, 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:23.280 do you have to change the way your approached to 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:25.440 keep your footing? Was it really not that bad out there? 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:27.240 What was the like out there on the field? You 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:28.880 just got to do a great job of keeping your 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:31.680 feet under you, keeping a good bass and and running 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:35.200 your feet. Um, you know it. It affects both us 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:37.160 and the defense. So you know it's no excuse. You 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:39.160 just got to do a great job of keeping your 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:41.240 feet going and playing with a great bass. I was 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:42.960 gonna say, you just got a channel your inner song. 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:47.840 White just snowboard on the ice. There you go. You 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:50.199 know it looked it looked to me like Joe Mixon 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:53.480 was possessed. Man. The dude was playing at such a 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:55.640 high level energy. It was like the kid in the 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:57.520 neighborhood that loves to play in the snow. You know 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.120 what I mean, Joe is just getting after it. Did 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.760 you guys feel that? Man, When Joe is having a 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:05.040 great day, we're having a great day. Bo's been playing 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:07.480 at the highest level because he started playing football, so 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:09.760 it's back nothing different from Zult, That's who he is. 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.839 He showed it to night. Congratulations, man, you played a 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:14.960 hell of a football game. All you guys up front. 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.360 I'll tell you as a as a former linement, when 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:19.920 I was watching Joe run, I'm like, man, I just 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:22.200 want I'll take one snap and not be able to 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:23.520 get out of bed for a week, but I just 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:25.440 want to take one. I mean, it was fun to 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:27.439 watch you guys do your thing out to today. I 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:31.800 appreciate you day, Thanks Dave. The Bengals Booth podcast is 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.880 brought to you by Kettering Health, the official healthcare provider 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:37.600 of the Bengals. With more than one hundred twenty care 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:42.160 facilities and fifteen hundred care providers. Kettering Health is committed 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:46.120 to guiding you to your best health. Visit Kettering health 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:50.280 dot org to learn more. Joe Burrow is now five 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:53.120 and one in playoff games, including three and oz in 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:56.360 true road games. I'm not counting the Super Bowl even 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:59.240 though it was at the Rams Stadium because the crowd 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:02.839 was closer to a fifty fifty split under steady snow 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:06.520 showers that fell for the entire game. Burrow went nine 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:09.280 for nine with a pair of touchdowns on the bengals 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:13.000 first two drives to give Cincinnati a fourteen nothing lead, 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:17.280 and the Bills never got closer than seven points. Here's 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:22.640 Joe Mixon on his quarterback unbelievable. I mean, to come 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:25.720 through in the snow and delivered dots the way he 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:29.200 was doing it, I mean, that's that's crazy. I'm gonna 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:31.360 be out it. That's crazy. And I thought he did 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:34.520 a hell of a job just facilitating the way he'd do. Um, 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:37.320 I've never seen nothing like it, to be real. I mean, 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:39.400 y'all could call it bias whatever y'all want to, but 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.320 I've never seen nothing like it. I'm just so happy 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:44.400 for him, and I'm happy for my teammates to be 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:46.960 able to reaping the benefits the way with that we are. 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.440 I mean, we will come to work, work our asses off, 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:51.840 and everybody just stay ready for the big moment and 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:55.320 everybody come through. And you know, the lineman, I mean, 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:57.880 we had three linemen down and for them guys to 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:01.600 come through in a major way battle and compete and 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:04.280 to play all four quarters the way they did. You know, 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:06.480 nobody gave us a shot and we went out there 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:08.960 to go take it. And I'm just like I said, 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:11.920 I'm so happy for them guys and everybody deserving it. 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:15.400 Or eight different receivers caught passes for the Bengals, led 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:18.760 by Jamar Chase, who finished with five grabs for sixty 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.920 one yards and a touchdown. I caught up with him 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:26.440 after the game. Jamar, this is unbelievable. I don't think 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:29.000 anybody thought you not only would come here but dominate 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:31.440 this game. What can you say about how well, the 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:35.280 team played in every possible phase. You know, both sides 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:37.360 of the ball and special teams did a great job today. 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:39.720 We did an outstanding job running the ball and give 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:41.560 us opportunities it passed the ball or any down we 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:44.280 wanted to. Defense given us opportunities to get the ball 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:46.640 back and you know, make plays an offense. You know 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:48.480 what I'm saying. Defense been doing anything in this whole year. 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:50.920 How about that and opening drive? What kind of a 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:54.000 tone setter was that here? To go down the field 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:57.280 and score that touchdown? Yeah, I honestly think the defense 0:15:57.400 --> 0:15:59.000 messed up. You know what I'm saying. I think they 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:01.600 little covering whatever they was trying to do. Nickel blessed 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:03.960 safety came down over and you know, nobody's in the 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:05.760 middle of field, and I sat I've seen that and 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:07.600 I just sat there in the zone. Joke bucking on me. 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.440 That was it. You had an offensive line missing three 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:12.640 starters and ran for more than one hundred and seventy 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:15.600 yards more than four hundred total yards of offense. What 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:17.640 can you say about the guys? A good job those 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:20.360 guys did. Yeah, the old line incredible. Man, they're doing 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:22.400 a good job. So doing a good job, pointing the 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:24.640 right direction for those guys and lead them, you know 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:28.200 what I'm saying, and then you go maybe like two 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:30.040 young guys on the line. You know what I'm saying. 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:31.400 They stepped up today, so a hell of a job 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:33.400 at him. You guys have said we're the big dogs 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:35.880 if the AFC. Is this another step where you proved it. 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:38.080 I mean, we know who we are, already had the 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:39.760 whole lead, knows where we're killed. Beloved, It's not a 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.520 surprise for nobody. I mean, they keep talking us down. 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:44.720 We're just gonna keep showing them. That's all Kansas City, 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:48.560 fourth time in less than thirteen months, here you go again. Yeah, 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:50.000 it should be a good game. It should be funny. 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:53.440 Welcome to that touchdown. Man, they kind of took it 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:56.320 when they took away from me. Yeah, shook hark from that. 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:00.880 I caught it clean. It's just that when you're falling, 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:03.400 gotta make sure you all the way contest, I mean 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:04.960 all the way grab But you know what I'm saying, 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:06.720 It's slipped on my hand a little bit. When I fail. 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:09.440 It's snowy all day happens, you know what I'm saying. 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:11.760 I know there's a lot of hype about this Atlantic game. 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:13.960 We'll just throw someone. We're gonna be an overlooked man. 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:15.720 I wouldn't say we overlooked, you know what I'm saying. 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:17.240 It's just the disrespect they gave us. You know what 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:19.560 I'm saying. We don't really care how he treating nothing, 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:21.440 how he gonna do us. We had the hardest schedule 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:23.040 all year, and ain't nothing's gonna be easy for us, 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:24.960 you know what I'm saying. We know what. We kipple 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:26.800 a lout. That's why we came out here, not making 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:28.359 a fuss with nobody, just putting on the show for 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:29.840 a while to see what was it like for you 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:32.280 as the Louisiana kid to play on that snow Hey man, 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:34.840 that was fun as hell. That was funny to say, 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:36.560 I ain't gonna lie. I'll do it again. That's better 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:40.760 than the rain. I do it again. That's Jamar Chase. 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:44.879 The Bengals defense was phenomenal, holding the Bills to a 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:49.360 season low ten points. During the regular year, Buffalo average 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:53.760 twenty eight point four, second best in the NFL. The 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:57.160 Bengals hit Josh Allen eight times, including a sack by 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:01.520 Von Bell, and deflected eight pass is The game's only 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:05.240 turnover was the coffin Nail's interception with about a minute 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:07.800 to go by a second round draft pick out of 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:11.360 Nebraska who has started every game of the ten game 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:16.760 winning streak. Following an injury to Chittabey a woogie. We're 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:19.720 in the locker room with Cam Taylor Brett Cigar resting 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:22.760 in his right hand. Not let up yet, but you 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:25.320 helped put it away with that interception late in the game. 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:29.520 Describe your emotions and advancing to the AFC Championship game 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:31.960 as a rookie. I feel a great man. You know 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:33.840 that I could have contribute in a major way to 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:36.800 the team. Uh help get to win. Uh. You know, 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:39.080 just that last play, man, I was trying to tell 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:41.440 the team I was gonna get one. Now he has 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:43.560 to throw one, and I like him to not throw one. 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:45.440 So you know, I was just trying to tell the 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:47.399 team next time, I'm trying to go ahead, end it. 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:49.240 He took the chance and throw it, and you know 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:51.080 I just with me and myself would go get the wall. 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:54.000 It's a pretty good time to get your first NFLI 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:57.760 how does the snow man with the guy h and 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:00.680 he was winning and for the team, the organization cam. 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:03.360 What was it like out there under those conditions today? 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:05.639 Obviously the team played well, what did you think of it? 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:09.399 I'm played in the Brownston. It was fine other than 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:11.760 you know, the ice getting stuck under the clicks. But 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:14.200 other than that, man, I feel like you know, every 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:17.000 team we played good man, we were prepared for whatever 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:18.680 it was to come, and you know we went to mall. 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:21.880 That's a great offense. You held him to ten points. 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:25.280 What was the biggest key to this great defensive performance? 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:28.919 I was locking up, man, I was on the back end. 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:31.119 You know, I'm locking up, working around with the D 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:33.800 line everything. You know, everybody working together on defense. Man. 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:35.960 You had some cover sacks and he has also you know, 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:38.200 uh he cut through the ball because the line was 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:40.479 getting back there so fast. So everybody, you know, we're 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:43.280 together on the defense. Man, you know, to stop those 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:45.560 guys in there and supposed to office. I know it's 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:47.320 the opposite side of the ball. But what did you 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:49.800 think of the job the offensive line yet missing three 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:53.240 starters today? Man, that was great. I don't think anybody 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:55.000 kind of expected it. Not on his team, but you know, 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:57.400 just everybody on the house. I don't think everybody expected 0:19:57.440 --> 0:19:58.680 those We got to step up and play the way 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:01.520 that it did. Man, then no, it's always Nick man 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:03.800 up and anybody could do it. So you're seeing for yourself. 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:06.080 They did it out right. Be honest with me. I'm 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:09.040 sure everybody in here expected to win this game. Could 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:12.200 you expect to dominate the Buffalo Bills like that? Yeah? 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:14.920 We did. Yeah, I want to say we had a 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:18.280 ship man we dispected most definitely. So we just wear 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:21.359 our ball to the you know, to the fullest. Whoever's 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:24.480 every fund. I've got to get it off to Kansas City, 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:27.560 fourth meeting against the Chiefs in slightly more than a year, 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:30.480 trying to beat him for a fourth straight time. We 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:32.640 gotta do it. Like I said it last week, they 0:20:32.640 --> 0:20:39.320 gotta play. Congratulations. That's Cam Taylor Brady. The Bengals Booth 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:41.880 podcast is brought to you by pay Corps. More than 0:20:41.960 --> 0:20:47.119 twenty nine thousand customers trust paycres to help them recruit, pay, engage, 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:52.080 and retain employees. Learn more at paycor dot com. 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