WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Dream On 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.359 Hi again, everybody on Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:12.520 the Bengals Booths Podcast, the Dream on Dream On, Dream 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:17.560 On Dream until your dream Come True. Addition, as the 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:21.439 Cincinnati Bengals are headed to the Super Bowl, let me 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:24.880 say that again, the Cincinnati Bengals are headed to the 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:29.040 Super Bowl. Coming up, you'll hear radio replays, postgame comments 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:32.559 and analysis from my broadcast partner Dave Lapham after a 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:37.400 thrilling overtime win over the Chiefs in Kansas City. Then, 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:39.440 in this week's fun Fact segment, you'll hear from a 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:42.239 guy who just joined the team last week and has 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:44.960 made an impact in the first two road playoff wins 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:48.680 in team history. The Bengals Booth Podcast is presented by 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:52.320 Ultimate Bengals, the free to play Next Level Fantasy Football game, 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:55.720 downloaded now from the App Store and Google Play, and 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:59.960 by on Location, the official hospitality partner of the NFL. 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:05.080 Fell Visit on location exp dot com for exclusive access 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:08.119 to the biggest events in the NFL all season long, 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:12.560 including Super Bowl fifty six. And here's a quick reminder 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:15.120 that you can have the latest edition of this podcast 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:18.400 delivered write to your phone, tablet, or computer by subscribing 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:22.120 wherever you get your podcasts. It's the greatest thing since 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:28.560 burnt ends. Burnt ends are a barbecue specialty in Kansas City. 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:31.880 Here's a description that I found on the internet. The 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:34.559 ends of a brisket are thinner than the middle part 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:38.440 and therefore cook faster, and after long hours in the smoker, 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:44.559 the ends get well burnt. These crunchy, heavily caramelized, intensely 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:48.800 smokey endpieces are delicious and I had them at lunch 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:53.120 and dinner the day before the AFC Championship game. It 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:56.600 was the second best part of my trip to Kansas City, 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:01.640 a very distant second best. If you listen regularly to 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:04.240 this podcast, you know that I usually do a very 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:07.920 detailed recap of the game, mixing highlights with postgame interviews. 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:11.079 With a six am flight to catch on Monday, I'm 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:13.840 going to make it a little less time consuming this week. 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:17.320 You'll get all of the radio replays first, followed by 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:21.080 some of the postgame comments. After that, it's analysis from 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:24.200 Dave Lapham, and then a really good edition of fun 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:29.120 Facts with Bengals newcomer Zach Kerr. First, the highlights of 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:34.160 the Bengals' biggest win in thirty three years. Today, for 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:37.360 the first time in thirty three years, the Cincinnati Bengals 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:40.880 are one win from going to the Super Bowl. But 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:43.400 to get there, they will have to beat one of 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:47.160 the game's all time greatest coaches and a twenty six 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:51.480 year old quarterback with supernatural talent, and they'll have to 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:56.440 do it in the world's loudest outdoor stadium. It's the 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:59.840 AFC Championship Game and it's time for the pigskin to 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:04.760 lie here at Arrowhead Stadium. Mahomes drops back to throw, 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:07.760 looking over the middle, scans left, scans right, takes off 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:10.760 running toward the sideline, chucks it into the end zone, 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:16.200 caught near the back pylon by Tyree Hill. Touchdown Kansas City. 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:19.000 A thirty two yard try from the right hash for 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:23.200 Evan Almighty Evan McPherson. He has been perfect in the postseason. 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:26.360 Kevin Huber ready for the snap, catches, puts it down. 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:30.320 Evan McPherson's kick launched high and true. It is good 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:33.840 and the Bengals are on the scoreboard. With thirty six 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:36.920 seconds left in the first quarter, third down in two 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:39.280 from the five, Mahomes back to throw, does a little 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:43.320 shoulder shake a hunder pressure running backward. He's at the nineteen, 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:48.440 now charges forward, throws into the end zone. Touchdown. Travis Kelsey. 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:53.160 That's just backyard ball. That's out of the schoollyard in 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:56.880 the plate ground. Mahomes under Summer Clyde Edwards Hilaires the 0:03:56.960 --> 0:04:00.200 running back. They fake to him. Mahomes throws it, is 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:04.320 caught and it's a touchdown. McCall Hardman racing toward the 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:08.160 forward right pylon, caught it at the one and ran 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:10.320 it in for the three yard score. You know the 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:13.480 thing about this Kansas City Chiefs offense talk about speed. 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:18.360 Speed can stretch you vertically, it can also stretch you horizontally. 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:21.520 I mean they are so fast you burrow back to 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:24.560 throw short pass caught by p Rhyan p Rhyne down 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:29.960 to the thirty sideline. Twenty fifty and ten five touchdown 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:36.200 Bengals some Maj p Rhyne taking a short pass forty 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:40.560 one yards to the house from the one yard line 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:44.520 with five seconds left and a half. Mahomes throws Hill, 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:48.039 catches at the six and gets tackled thin bounds and 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:53.400 the cock rights out. A very questionable decision by the 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:57.479 Kansas City Chiefs. They threw it sideways to Tyree Hill 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:01.240 and the Cheetah could not get in or get out 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:04.520 of bounds. Eli Apple with a tackle at the one 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:08.440 and the Bengals dodge a bullet as Kansas City drives 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:11.920 to the one, runs two plays and fails to score. 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.520 This will be a thirty one yard attempt from the left. 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:18.400 Hash mc pherson one for one in this game, nine 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:21.240 for nine in the postseason. Clark Harris snaps it to 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:23.640 Kevin Huber. The kick is on its way from mc 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:27.480 pherson and it is good and the Bengals have pulled 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:33.040 within eight. Shotgun snap Mahomes passes defected and ticked off 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:36.600 the Bengals half the ball half the twenty seven b J. 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:40.599 Hill comes away with a football and the Bengals get 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:45.200 a takeaway, down by eight. With two eighteen left in 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:47.920 the third quarter, third down in goal, the ball just 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:51.520 inside the Kansas City three. Shotgun snap to Burrow, throws 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:54.159 it into the end zone for Chase. He leaps, He's 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:59.760 got it, touchdown down Bengals with fourteen seconds left in 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:02.720 the third quarter, and now the Bengals can go for 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:06.320 two to try to tie this game. Trent Taylor goes 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:08.800 in motion from right to left. He's in the game. 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:13.080 Shotgun snap, Burrow throws the Taylor might open. He's got 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:16.320 it now the forward left pylon. It's a two point 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:20.800 conversion and the Bengals have climbed back from a twenty 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:24.040 one to three deficit to tie this game. I'll tell 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:27.200 you what, just the simple out route and they lost him. 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:30.080 They lost track or Trent Taylor. Third down and seven 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:32.440 for the Bengals at their own twenty three. Burrow waiting 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:35.640 for a shotgun snap. Samaj A p Rhyme lines up 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.120 to his left. Two receivers left, two out to the right. 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:41.160 Burrow back to throw. Burrow grab gets away from a sack, 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:45.200 scrambling left, being chased, gets away again, hunting up the sideline, 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:48.119 sticks out the ball with his right hand and gets 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:51.520 the first down. Just passed the line to gain. Chris 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:54.880 Jones had him dead to rights. Jones gets to his 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:57.920 feet and he can't believe he did not get Joe 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:01.160 Burrow to the ground. Sneaky. This is a fifty two 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.840 yard try for the twenty two year old kid from 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:06.920 Fort Payne, Alabama. The snap, the put down, the kick, 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:11.840 It has the distance. Baby it is good God. The 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:15.239 Bengals have the lead for the first time with six 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:18.760 minutes and four seconds to go. On third and goal 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:22.160 from the nile. Mahomes catches the shotgun snap, retreats back 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:25.000 to the eighteen, looking around in the end zone. Nobody 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:28.160 opened yet no pressure at all. Now here comes the rush. 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:30.840 Mahomes way back at the twenty five. It loses the ball. 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:34.400 The Chiefs fall on it at the twenty six, two 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.960 seconds on the clock and regulation. Butcker is ready the snap, 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:41.240 the put down. The kick is on its way. It 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:46.840 is good and we are headed overtime. Tied at twenty four, 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:51.640 the Bengals send three cover with eight Mahomes deep down 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:55.280 field for the Cheetah. It's deflected and intercepted by von Bell. 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:57.080 Bell running in the middle of the field of the 0:07:57.080 --> 0:08:01.000 forty forty five, taken down with a high tackle by 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:04.600 Kelsey at the forty five yard line. No penalty flag, 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:08.480 but the Bengals come up with an overtime interception and 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:11.520 now could win the game on a field goal. Four 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:14.200 years ago, he was a senior in high school in 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:18.360 tiny Fort Payne, Alabama. Now the Bengal Super Bowl chances 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:21.320 rest on his right foot, the kick is up. Yeah, 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:33.000 if good Coffin nails, bam bam. That is unblievable. The 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:38.880 Cincinnati Bengals come from behind on the road, unbelievable. Dan, 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:44.559 it is no fluke, It is a fact. The Cincinnati 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:49.680 Bengals are headed to Super Bowl fifty six. They just 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:55.840 redefined the word resilient. The Bengals Booth podcast is presented 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:59.360 by Ultimate Bengals, the free to play fantasy football game. 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:02.960 This year, Ultimate Bengals awarded a weekly winner during the 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:07.200 course of the season, with tickets, autograph merchandise, and money 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:11.360 can't buy experiences all up for grabs. Find Ultimate Bengals 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:14.960 in the App Store and Google Play. Now time to 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:19.000 hear from several Bengals, beginning with Cincinnati native Sam Hubbard. 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:21.360 The Chiefs had the ball at the four yard line 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:24.280 with one twenty six to go before Hubbard came up 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:27.800 with back to back sacks that knocked Kansas City backward 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.560 and forced the Chiefs to settle for a game tying 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:33.760 field goal. I mean, we're going to the Super Bowl, 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:36.760 and it sounds crazy to say that. I think when 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:40.840 you say that, it's just hard to believe. And we're here, 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:44.520 you know. I love this team, I love this city, 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:48.560 and we got one more to get to get it all, 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:52.199 and I'm just on cloud nine right now. The Chiefs 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:54.880 won the coin toss in overtime, but unlike last week 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:59.439 against Buffalo, did not drive for a game ending touchdown. Instead, 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:04.920 Patrick Mahomes was intercepted by Von Bell. They're gonna make plays. 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:07.280 You know, they're here for a reason. You know, they've 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:08.880 been in the Super Bowls, They've been in the big games. 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:10.920 They know how to win. They're gonna find a guy. 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.120 They're gonna make plays. But we're gonna make plays too. 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:14.800 And when you have the opportunity to go out there 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:17.040 and make them and seize the moment. And like I said, 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:19.360 it's calmed down, make the plays that come to you, 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:22.599 and everything else go unfold. High posts unfold. And we 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:25.000 just stuck to it. Man. We never batted eye, never 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.559 had doubt, lean on one another, just going out there, 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:30.040 just having fun playing with each other. For the fifth 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:32.040 time this year and the second week in a row, 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:35.360 the game ended on a game winning walk off field 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:39.520 goal by Mick Fearless Evan McPherson, who has made all 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:43.480 four of his field goal attempts in three straight playoff wins. 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:46.240 I didn't say anything this week, but you know, it's 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:47.960 going through my head that there's probably a good chance 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:50.840 that we're going to go into the super Bowl, And 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:52.960 you know, it's just it's so surreal that, you know, 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:55.320 this game came down to a field goal. And obviously 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.840 it wasn't just me. You know, our defense put us 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:00.720 in a great position with the interception, and then our 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.520 offense obviously I had a lot of commidants in them 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:05.240 that they were going to drive it down, and you know, 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:07.640 either I thought we were gonna score. You know, that's 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:08.800 what I was telling a lot of people, you know, 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:10.800 were this game You're gonna do on a on a touchdown, 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:14.199 not a field goal. Joe Burrow completed twenty three of 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:17.040 thirty eight passes for two hundred and fifty yards, with 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:21.520 two touchdowns and one interception. He was only sacked once 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:26.319 and hit four times. But here's the stat that really matters. 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:30.000 Burrow has already led the Bengals to three playoff wins 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:34.240 that ties Boomer as Siason's team record, and like Boomer 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:37.880 and Kenny Anderson, Burrow is taking the Bengals to the 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:41.320 super Bowl. I wouldn't call it surreal. I would say 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.360 it's exciting. You know. I think if you would have 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:46.680 told me before the season that we'd be going to 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:48.400 the super Bowl, I probably would have called you crazy. 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:50.280 But then you know, we played a whole season and 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:52.880 you know, nothing surprises me. Now I know the kind 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:54.679 of guys that we have and the team that we have, 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:57.559 so you know, there's there's still one left. We're excited 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.920 about this one, but you know, we'll celebrate to nine 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:03.040 and then move on. The final word comes from head 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:06.640 coach Zach Taylor. First of all, I'm happy for this 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.360 team and everyone in an organization. But you can't help 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:12.000 but think about all the people back in Cincinnati celebrating 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:14.439 right now, and all the people that were here. It 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:16.000 felt like half the stadium, you know, at the end 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:17.160 of the game, when the game was over and all 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:19.200 of our fans got down there. Uh, it was. It 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:22.400 was a special moment. So happy for the city of Cincinnati. 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:25.920 They've waited for this moment, they've supported us waiting for 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:30.040 this Momentum couldn't be happier that that. Hopefully we can 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:31.800 get them all out to LA We can figure that out, 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:34.240 get the planes, the shuttles, the trains. Whatever we gotta do. 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:36.000 We gotta get all this people out to LA because 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:38.400 we know we're gonna be playing a California team. And 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:40.240 I know the fans were all probably hoping for the 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:42.719 forty nine Ers, because what better way to go than 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:45.720 than the most recent one that they had um But 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:47.800 either way, it's it's gonna be fun and we're gonna 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:49.439 have to have our best on that Sunday in the 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:52.640 Super Bowl. So appreciate the fans. Couldn't wouldn't be here 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:55.800 without them. The Bengal Super Bowl opponent will be the 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:59.400 Los Angeles Rams on the Rams home field, the second 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:01.600 year in a row that the NFC champion his host 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.960 did the Super Bowl. The Rams advanced with a twenty 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:08.520 to seventeen win over the forty nine Ers. That means 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:12.560 Zach Taylor will be coaching against his former boss Sean McVeigh. 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:17.240 Now time for postgame analysis with my broadcast partner Dave Lapham. 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:20.440 Lap I got the impression that at the end of 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:23.400 the game, you're feeling was the same as mine. I 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:25.880 can't believe that this team is going to the Super Bowl. 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:28.559 I really can't either, Dan. I mean, you look at it. 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:32.520 Two years ago, the Drugs of the NFL two wins, 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:37.079 I'm going eleven to begin with. Yeah, I mean, it's 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:39.440 as dramatic a turnaround as in the NFL has ever seen. 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:44.400 It really is. It's indescribable. Hat's off to all of them. 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.400 Hat's off to everybody. The thing, the thing that they've 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:51.600 done so well is when they had when they got 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:57.960 the opportunity, they enjoyed it, had fun, maximized it, played loose, 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:01.160 were resilient. All the things you needed to do they did. 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.920 It's it's just it's mind boggling. And when you think 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:08.600 about how young they are at key positions, at key spots, 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:12.760 the coaches too. I mean, it's really wild, it really is. 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:17.400 It's a It's a heck of a story. Hollywood and 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:20.680 could Hollywood could not write a better script than what happened. 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:23.680 It's it's amazing. So in the first half, the Chief's 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.360 offense was a hot knife through butter. First drive eighty 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:30.160 four yards touchdown, Second drive seventy five yards touchdown, Third 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:34.240 drive seventy two yards touchdown. Fourth drive, long drive down 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:36.760 to the one yard line, and they get nothing. How 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:40.800 much did that play and that decision change the momentum 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:43.280 of this game. I think it was the determining factor. 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.200 I think it was the turning point in the football 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:49.120 game for them to uh, you know, three touchdown passes 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:51.040 in the red zone from a home bone bone bone 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:55.040 and then get in the red zone and trying to 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:57.320 kind of outthink himself be a little bit too cute? 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:01.240 Did Andy Reid and that play? The design of that play, 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:03.960 it's all or nothing and they got nothing out of it. 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:07.200 And honestly, you can question a lot of things. You 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:09.760 can question the decision to do it, the play selection, 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:14.640 and it's amazing that Eli Apple made the play they 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:19.360 made in space on a guy that's is incredibly athletic, 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:22.320 is Tyreek Hill. I mean, I don't know, if you 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:25.720 throw it out there a hundred times, you think Tyreek 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:28.000 Hill would probably make the play a high high percentage 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:31.160 of it of the time. But Eli Apple, when it counted, 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:34.200 you step it up and made the play. And really 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:37.160 in the playoffs, he's been a big playmaker. I mean 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:39.920 he has made he's he's flashed, I mean, he's he's 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:42.480 jumped off the tape, There's no question about it. It 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:44.920 was also his past interference penalty to put the ball 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:46.720 at the one yard line. So you talk about making 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:50.360 up for your mistake, Holy cow, no question, no question. 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:54.000 And that's that's the epitome of resiliency. You know, it's 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:58.240 like compartmentalizing, all right. You know, I've can't do anything 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:00.360 about what I've done. All I can do is what 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:03.720 I'm about to do and try to make restitution. All 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:06.120 I can control is the future. The past is done, 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:12.680 no more control of that anymore. And man, to think 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:15.160 of all the guys that made how about Sam Hubbard 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:17.880 back to back sacks at the most crucial time of 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:22.080 the football game. That's just amazing. When they rushed through 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:25.600 and drop eight, I mean, plastering the receivers, Holmes having 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:28.360 nowhere to go at the football. They really must have 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:31.880 disguised things a lot differently in the second half, because 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:34.600 it looked like it was a puzzle that he couldn't 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:36.880 even come close to solving, whereas in the first half 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:40.080 he was just decisive and ripping it. In the second half, 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:43.120 he never felt good about anything that he was looking 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:45.680 at down the football field. So hats off to lou 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:49.440 Anna Rumo the defensive staff for tweaking things, making the 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:53.360 adjustments that they made. And making life tough on Mahomes 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:56.560 and for the players for executing it all. But man 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:01.600 twenty one to three close to the end of the 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.560 half and to score, you know, to make it an 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:06.760 eleven point game at halftime. You thought, well, you know, 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:09.560 they get the ball to start the third quarter. If 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:11.960 you can stop, make a stop there and cut it 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:13.480 to a one score game, you have a shot. And 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:17.639 that's exactly what happened. Crazy. So in the first meeting, 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:19.480 twenty eight points in the first half, three in the 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:21.600 second half, and this one twenty one points in the 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:23.720 first half, three in the second half. But the difference 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:27.679 is in that first game, the Bengals offense held the 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:30.560 ball for almost the entire second half. The Chiefs only 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:33.280 had three possessions. This time, the Chiefs got the ball 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:40.480 plenty of times. Punt, punt, interception, punt, punt, field goal interception, 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:46.120 seven drives, three points, two turnovers with Mahomes, Kelsey Hill, etc. 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:49.680 It really is incredible. Uh, you know, you look at 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:52.480 the turnovers and then the play at the at the 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:54.000 end of the first half that we talked about with 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:57.080 Andy Reid's decision where no points in the red zone. 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:01.200 I mean that's three takeaways. You talk about three possessions 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:04.240 that you that you steal without allowing any points to 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:06.480 the Kansas City Chiefs. That's what you had to have 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:09.000 happened that that was one of the pieces of the 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:13.880 formula I think for success. And I was absolutely stunned though. 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:18.840 You know, Bengals come from behind fourteen nothing, twenty one seven, 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:22.639 twenty eight, fourteen in Cincinnati, that's one thing. But to 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:25.359 go on the road at Arrowhead and be down twenty 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:28.159 one three in that place and to come back and 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:33.200 uh and win the football game. It's it's just it's 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:37.359 incomprehensible and describable. It's in everything. I mean, it's it 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:40.480 is as wild a script as I've ever seen written, 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:43.879 that's for sure. What can you say about Joe Burrow, 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:46.840 I mean, for what he's done for the city, for 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:50.000 the franchise, for the future of the franchise, It's really 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:52.240 hard to put into words it is. I mean, I 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:55.520 don't think i've ever seen well I shouldn't say, because 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:58.840 you know, I haven't been in Bengals history anyway, but 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:01.199 I'm sure it was that way with Peyton Manning. But 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:04.240 Peyton Manning's rookie year, he led the NFL in interceptions, 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:06.359 you know, and they won two games. But you know, 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:08.320 you could see what you might have in Peyton Manning. 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:11.080 Joe Burrow. I mean, in the ten games he played, 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:14.320 he was he was making noise, as he would put 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:16.920 it at that time. Right away, he just jumped right 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:21.480 in and was he was getting it done. Yeah. I 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:27.720 don't think I've ever seen one piece as impressive and 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:30.840 as important as what Joe Burrow has done. I mean, 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:37.560 he believes, so they all believe, you know, as as 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:41.119 the great Paul Brown said, winning makes believers of us all, 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:44.879 and Joe Burrows a winner. Joe Burrow, you know he 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:47.200 got to the state championship game, lost in the shootout, 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:49.720 to put up crazy numbers. What he did at LSU, 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:53.280 what he's doing here. This guy. The bigger the game, 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:57.879 the more he steps up, the more he believes, and 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:00.640 it's contagious and teammates believe at that point in time. 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:04.960 You've known Mike Brown for nearly fifty years. What do 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:08.920 you think's going through his mind? Yeah? I think he's 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:13.320 He's desperately wanted this to happen, I think for a 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:19.840 long time, and I think he's just his mind's probably blown. 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:25.360 I mean, it is mind boggling to think that this 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:27.960 year that they took it as far as they did. 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:30.320 I mean, I think he was expecting improvement, like all 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:32.760 of us. But I don't think that in his wildest 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:35.600 dreams he could think could have thought that back in 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:38.080 August and September that this team was going to the 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:40.000 Super Bowl. I just you know, it's I don't know 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:41.720 how you can go there, how you can get there. 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:44.720 You can hope, but to actually, you know, have a 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:46.720 true feeling, true belief that that was going to be 0:20:46.760 --> 0:20:50.480 the case. So, I mean, I would think at the 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:53.280 stage of his life that he's at, there could not 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:56.480 be a better gift from Mike Brown than what he's 0:20:56.520 --> 0:20:59.560 experiencing right now. I mean, he probably feels like a 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:02.280 kid again. And it was pretty cool to see him 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:05.399 up on that stage hugging Zach Taylor, hugging Icky Wood, 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:08.919 saying what a moment for Mike Brown and h and 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:12.680 everybody in his family. And then there's Zach Taylor six 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:16.399 twenty five and one in his first two years that 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:20.159 ranks with among the worst records of any coach in 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:23.400 history in their first two years, and now in year three, 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:25.800 he's taken this team to the super Bowl, and these 0:21:25.840 --> 0:21:30.600 guys love them. You know, It's it's amazing. Like Zach 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:34.400 has said, if you were with almost any other organization 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:36.000 in the NFL, he wouldn't have gotten a third body 0:21:36.000 --> 0:21:38.560 of the Apple, wouldn't have gotten a third year. But 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:42.800 Mike Brown believed, and Mike Brown is patient and persistent 0:21:43.040 --> 0:21:48.000 in his belief. So you look at what kind of 0:21:48.000 --> 0:21:51.760 a feeling must there be between Zach Taylor and Mike 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:54.879 Brown right now? I mean that's you talk about bonds 0:21:54.920 --> 0:21:58.920 that are made. That's that's a bond that is unique. 0:22:00.600 --> 0:22:04.479 It'll it'll never be broken. They'll never forget any of it. Uh. 0:22:04.600 --> 0:22:09.960 It's it's life changing, to say the least. Just to 0:22:10.119 --> 0:22:16.679 imagine the resiliency and the determination that it took to 0:22:16.800 --> 0:22:19.399 get from where they were to where they've gotten to 0:22:19.480 --> 0:22:22.119 in such a short period of time. I mean, the 0:22:22.200 --> 0:22:25.720 perfect storm had to happen. It was the perfect year 0:22:25.760 --> 0:22:27.840 to go too and fourteen because you got Joe Barrow 0:22:28.440 --> 0:22:31.119 and then you know, make some improvements and you can 0:22:30.800 --> 0:22:33.720 get a guy like Jamar Chase and it's like wow. 0:22:33.840 --> 0:22:36.360 But then all the other stuff they did in free 0:22:36.359 --> 0:22:39.600 agency and the draft, they just made a lot of 0:22:39.960 --> 0:22:44.000 really good decisions in a short period of time here 0:22:44.240 --> 0:22:47.680 to turn this thing around. It's almost it's almost impossible 0:22:48.240 --> 0:22:52.240 to you know, predetermined or track of course that they took. 0:22:52.480 --> 0:22:55.840