WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: I, Believe 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.400 Hi, get everybody on Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:11.160 The Bengals Booth Podcast. The I believe, I believe, I believe, Hey, 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:14.360 I believe, I believe, I believe Hey, I believe, I believe, 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:21.360 I believe hey. Addition, as the Bengals climb into first 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:24.640 place in the AFC North with a stunningly dominant win 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:28.680 in Baltimore, coming up, you'll hear radio replays from the victory, 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:32.559 postgame comments from players and coaches, and analysis from my 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:36.440 broadcast partner Dave Lapham. And in this week's fun fact segment, 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:39.360 you'll get to know a Bengals veteran who I truly 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:44.839 believe will eventually be an NFL head coach, safety Ricardo Allen. 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:48.760 The Bengals Booth Podcast is presented by Ultimate Bengals, the 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:52.760 free to play Next Level Fantasy Football game downloaded now 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:55.400 from the App Store and Google Play. And here's a 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:57.800 quick reminder that you can have the latest edition of 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:01.280 this podcast delivered right to your phone, tablet, or computer 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:05.880 by subscribing wherever you get your podcasts. It's the greatest 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:11.960 thing since bold lettering on Hotel beauty care products. If 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:15.319 you wear glasses, you know what I'm talking about. There 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:18.720 are few things more annoying than climbing into a hotel 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:21.960 shower and not being able to read which bottle is 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:25.640 the shampoo, which one's the conditioner, and which one is 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:29.319 the body lotion. So kudos to the Baltimore Marriott for 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:33.320 big bold lettering on the various beauty products, and thanks 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:38.360 for respecting your four eyed guests like me. Now let's 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:42.360 get to Sunday's Baltimore beat down. Heading into the game, 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.560 there were four quarterbacks in history who had started at 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:49.520 least four games against the Bengals without ever losing. Listen 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:53.720 to this list. John Elway went seven and o. Joe 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:56.760 Montana six and oh, including a pair of Super Bowls. 0:01:57.120 --> 0:02:00.520 Dan Marino also went six and o, and to Sunday, 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:04.240 Lamar Jackson was five and zero. That list has been 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:08.320 whittled to three. The Bengals and Ravens traded early field 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:12.000 goals before Cincinnati ended a streak of two games against 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:16.239 Baltimore without scoring a touchdown. Burrow under center mix and 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:18.919 lined up seven yards behind. They fake a hand off 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:20.720 to the laft, Burrow rolls to the right guts that 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:22.799 deep down the middle of the field. Usama makes the 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:26.160 canoe twenty five escapes a hit running between the hand 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:33.520 barks touchdown. Bengals burrow deep to Uzama and Cincinnati takes 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:38.240 the lead on a fifty five yard touchdown strike. Man, 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:41.040 you talked about making the play down the football field 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:44.400 to catch and then making Marlin Humphrey miss in space. 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:47.760 Usama's long TD grab gave the Bengals a ten three 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:51.440 lead and came on his favorite holiday. It's national side. Indo, 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:53.560 you gotta make something happen right like you can't just 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:56.360 can't let anybody else have all the fun. And I 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:58.760 gotta say this too, even though I caught the touchdown, 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:01.440 if you look at the play, Drew had to block 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:05.200 Calias Campbell one on one and did a hell of 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:06.960 a job. I mean, I gotta give it to him 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.079 because that was if he didn't block him the way 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.400 he did, then Joe would have not been able to 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:14.000 get the ball off. So that touchdowns for Drew for sure, 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:16.639 because that one on one that he had with Clias, 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:19.320 that's that's what allowed me to get open and Drew, 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:23.280 of course, being Uzama's fellow tight end, Drew sample. The 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:26.480 Bengals lead didn't last, as the Ravens answered with a 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.239 t D drive of their own. Lamar Jackson will move 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:31.360 under center. We'll see if he keeps the ball on 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.960 a run high formation backfield behind him. Second and goal 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:38.480 from the one. Lamar hands it off and the Ravens 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:42.080 run it into the end zone for the touchdown. DeVante 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:45.040 Freeman scored tied the game at ten, but left one 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:49.240 fifty one on the clock, abundant time for Joe Burrow 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:52.680 and Jamar Chase to work their end of half magic 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:55.760 very very noisy here at M ANDT Bank Stadium. With 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:58.000 thirty two seconds left and the half, Burrow back to 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:01.320 throw from the pocket, fires line drive over little by 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:04.120 Chase running to the twenty five here sideline to the 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:06.960 twenty hurdles a defender and goes out of bounds to 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:10.280 stop the clock. With twenty four seconds left at the 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:13.720 nineteen yard line, Chase, in the final two minutes of 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:17.360 the half, strikes again. That twenty six yard catch led 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:19.719 to a field goal by Evan McPherson that gave the 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:23.640 Bengals a thirteen ten halftime lead. It's the fifth time 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:26.400 in seven games that Cincinnati has scored in the final 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:29.760 thirty seven seconds of the half, and Chase has either 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:32.599 caught a touchdown pass or made a big catch to 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:36.200 set up a field goal. Every time. Here's Joe Burrow 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:39.120 and we were talking about it two minute before the half. 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:42.720 Kids is going again. So we're playing all right. Up 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:44.839 to that point, you know, we weren't playing great, and 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:47.080 then you know that two minute drive really propelled us 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:48.880 going into the end of the half. And after that, 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:50.680 you know, we came into the locker room it's like, 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:52.680 you know, we got him now, but before Burrow in 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:55.960 the offense could get him. Baltimore opened the third quarter 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.880 with back to back passes of thirty five and thirty 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:01.240 nine yards to take the lead. As he's back to 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.560 throw on first and ten, he's gonna fire for the 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:07.720 end zone and Brown he calls it in and it 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:10.200 is a touchdown. He got his feet down in the 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:13.640 back of the end zone as LaVar Jackson floats won 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.600 over the Bengals defense for a thirty nine yard TV. 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:20.000 The Ravens were up seventeen thirteen, and while Lamar Jackson 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:22.200 passed for two hundred and fifty seven yards and ran 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:26.080 for eighty eight more, Baltimore did not score on its 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:30.320 final seven drives. Here's Zach Taylor. He's so dangerous. You know, 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.680 every time he extends a play, you know, he's capable 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:35.880 of running for an exposive player, throwing it down the 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:38.960 field from explosive play, and he's just such a tremendous player. 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:40.440 But I'm really proud of the way that our whole 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:44.120 defense responded, and you know, that was that was a big, big, 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:46.240 big deal for them to play like that today. After 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:49.440 Baltimore pulled ahead, Joe Burrow threw a seventeen yard passed 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:52.400 to Chase, handed off to Joe Mixon for five yards, 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.960 found Chase again for twenty one, and then gave the 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:59.440 Bengals the lead for good. Three receivers right Chase out 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:03.120 to the left. Burrow catches the shotgun snap, fires bound field, 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:07.080 caught at the fifteen to tackle. Yeah, runs it into 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:10.960 the end zone. Second touchdown of the game. U Zama 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.520 fires the football against the wall in the end zone 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:17.360 and the Bengals take the lead on a thirty two 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:21.159 yards strike up the seam to cj Uzama. He said, 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:23.320 you know what, you didn't stop it the first time, 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:25.960 You're not gonna stop it the second time. The Bengals 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:28.840 were up twenty to seventeen. The Ravens quickly drove into 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:32.080 field goal range before Trey Hendrickson knocked them out of it. 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:35.280 Jackson and the shotgun bell off his right hip. Lamar 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.279 looking left now looks back toward the middle. He's running. 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:42.000 He gets sacked from behind by Trey Hendrickson. The Bengals 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:46.240 sacked Lamar Jackson five times. Burrow was only sacked once, 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:49.240 and Hendrickson is up to six and a half sacks 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:52.560 in his first seven games with Cincinnati. That's one thing, 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:54.400 like you see five sacks, But I mean, I can't 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:57.599 say enough about the guys in the back end. Mike Vaughan, 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:01.400 Jesse cheeto elis stepping up. I mean, those guys are 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:04.279 making opportunities for us to rush. And that's what complete 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:07.400 defense is. It's we're one of these games, it's going 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:09.240 to be we're hitting the quarterback and they're picking the 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:11.160 ball off. So that's what you that's what you strive 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:13.480 for as a defense. We're playing like a unit. Like 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:17.000 I said for weeks now, this is special. We're building 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:19.280 something that's special and h like I said, this is 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.280 a stepping stone to where we want to go as 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:23.560 a defense, and a team. The Bengals got the ball 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:27.440 back and only needed three plays to score again. Bengals 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:29.400 have three receivers left and went out to the right, 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:31.520 burrowing the gun on third and two. He'll look to 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:35.120 pass quick thrown slant caught by Chase, runs to the 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:37.840 third breaks out the power jam, spreading down the middle 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:42.960 of the filling away at the thirty twenty ten touchdown. 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:50.240 Wow great his jamar Chase eighty two yards two fuh pous. 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:54.520 Chase finished with eight catches for two hundred one yards, 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:58.160 both career highs. His seven hundred and fifty four receiving 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:01.200 yards after his first seven NFL FELL games are the 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.840 most by any player in history. I can say today 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:06.920 I surprise myself, you know, putting up those stats two 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:09.440 hundred and one yards something you dream of, but you 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:11.480 don't go into the game actually telling yourself you're about 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:13.120 to do it, you know what I'm saying. So I 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:14.480 just came out of hand, played the best bot I 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.320 can today and try to make plays. Burrow finished with 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:20.400 a career high four hundred and sixteen passing yards and 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.960 didn't have any in the fourth quarter. His timing in 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:28.200 chemistry with Chase is simply ridiculous. We've been together for 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:31.840 a long time. I've been thrown with him on Saturday 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:36.120 since I was twenty one years old. So that's that's 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:38.280 what happens. When you get all those reps accumulated, you 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:42.000 understand the kinds of throws against leverage. You know, they 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:45.160 were playing on top and press, and so that's what 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:47.160 opened up the back shoulder balls today. And we've we've 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:50.240 thrown back shoulders for three years and throwing them over 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:52.679 and over and over again. And that's what it takes 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:56.439 to feel confident in those kind of throws is just 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:59.120 reps and reps and reps. The Bengals turned the game 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:02.800 into a route and send Baltimore fans streaming toward the 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:05.680 exits with more than seven minutes to go with a 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:09.400 pair of long touchdown runs. Second down in three on 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:11.440 the verge of the red zone at the twenty one 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:14.760 of Baltimore mixing back in a running back, Burrow hands 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:16.719 it to Joe Starts left joy to hold up the 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:27.840 middle of five full line hand touchdown, Chow Mixing racing 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:30.160 up the middle of the field for a twenty one 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:33.320 yard t D and the Bengals are on the verge 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:38.160 of a seventeen point fourth quarter lead in Baltimore. Burrow 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:40.840 hands it off, pe Ryan finds a hold off the middle, 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:49.200 Smaa streaking into the forget about it, coffin nailam bam. 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:51.560 And I'm telling you what, Dan, that was the most 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:55.720 unbelievable double team I've ever seen. Trey Hopkins in Quentin, 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.880 Spain took a defensive line in ten yards down the 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:02.680 field and planted on. I mean, the cutback lane was 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:07.600 humongous for samaj p Ryan. They dominated the interior the 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:11.199 Baltimore Ravens defensive line, which I did not think was 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:15.760 going to happen on any snap today. And holy Macarlandy, 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:20.160 who what do you like more? Raven route or Baltimore 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:26.400 butt kicking? They both apply. It is forty to seventeen unbelievable. 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.560 Cincinnati ended his street because five straight losses to Lamar 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.319 Jackson and the Ravens by the final score of forty 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:38.640 one to seventeen. Let that sink in forty one to seventeen. 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:42.280 Did that make a statement? Here are Joe Burrow, c 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:44.800 j Uzama and Sam Hubbard. I think it was a 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:47.320 big statement and we're two and owned the division. For 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:51.080 the first time that I can remember, and you know, 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:55.280 I was, you know, the most exciting thing were two 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:57.520 of the last three drives were you know, they knew 0:10:57.520 --> 0:10:59.319 we were going to run the ball and the old 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:01.600 Line really you know, took it to him. I was 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:03.920 exciting to see. I know, those guys were fired up 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:07.160 about that. So that's that's how you should finish a game. 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:10.240 You start out throwing the ball, getting out up on top, 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:11.880 and then the old Line finishes it off. On the 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:13.959 side that I was, I was honestly a little emotional 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:16.040 with how with how I connected we were. You know, 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:19.400 you see everyone just I mean everyone's juiced for every 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:21.600 single person out there, and I mean that's what it's 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:24.760 all about, having fun, being with the boys and playing ball. 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.600 So I think it's the start of something new, something good. 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:30.440 We had a long period of time where we couldn't 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:32.040 figure out how to win on the road, and we 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:34.800 kind of got over that hump, and um, you know, 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:38.079 these divisional games they're huge. You know. To to finish 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.719 the way we did and not allow them to come 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:43.080 back into it and have that killer instinct is just 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:46.199 so huge for us as a team of what we've 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:49.280 come from how we've progressed and you know where we've 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:52.640 always envisioned ourselves getting and finally seeing it happened today. 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:55.520 After the game, Dave Lapham spent five minutes with Zach 0:11:55.600 --> 0:12:02.240 Taylor coach forty one. It's twenty eight unanswered. I mean, 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:06.360 your football team came to Baltimore and just made a 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:09.160 huge statement, didn't you. They believe in each other, They 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:10.640 believe that they can go on the road and beat 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:13.320 really good football teams, and now this is just more 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.240 evidence of that. And uh so again, I'm really proud 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:18.480 of the collective effort of our entire team today because 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:20.760 we were gonna need it and we got it from them. 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:23.920 So your your LSU connection. Your quarterback throws for four 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:27.040 hundred and sixteen and his receiver catches the ball for 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:30.080 two hundred and one yards. Eight catches for two oh one. 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:32.680 Joe's twenty three for thirty eight after starting like two 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:36.920 for seven, He's twenty three for thirty eight. Unbelievable. What 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:39.800 do you think about their their performance out there? Yeah, 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.240 I'm glad we have them, you know, because they are 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:44.400 They're one of the best connections in the in this 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:47.160 league and they're just getting started. You know, and so 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:51.120 again to be able to rely on that receiving corps 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.360 in that running game and our quarterback who's who's as 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:55.960 accurate as they call him, as really fun for a 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:58.960 play caller to be able to enjoy those weapons. CJ. 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:02.119 Yzama three catches for ninety one yards and two touchdowns. 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:04.040 I know it wasn't the same play, but he did 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:05.719 the same thing, you know, choke and a guy and 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:08.120 taking it to the house. How well is he playing 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:10.719 right now? You know, he's just misfreliable. His number is 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:12.520 not always called. He doesn't have ten catches in the 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:14.800 game or any of that. But he just does all 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:17.200 the dirty work and then when his name's called, he 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:19.960 makes the play. That's awesome to see. So they start 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:21.920 the game with seven and eight guys in the box 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:23.959 and they're bringing every you don't know which ones they're bringing, 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.480 how many they're bringing, and all that stuff. But you 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:29.280 over time got him out of that and then you 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:31.640 somehow got the middle of the field wide open. You 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:33.840 guys started abusing the middle of the football field. Take 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:37.120 me through that progression. Well, we just had some miscommunication early. 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:39.480 You know, some things that we know we're gonna be challenging, 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:41.240 and they got us on the first drive there. But 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:43.880 you know, we got a lot of weapons and so 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:46.520 we can stay in attack mode and forced teams to 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:49.080 have to respond to what we're doing. And that's what 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:51.000 our guys just allow us to do. And we kind 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:52.960 of stayed in that mode and our guys responded. Well. 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.120 How about in a huge game, a division rival on 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:58.400 the road, who's five and one and in first place. 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:02.240 Your first penalty occurs in the fourth quarter, one penalty 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:05.160 for five yards. Your first sack occurs in the fourth quarter, 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.600 The first turnover occurs in the fourth quarter. You guys 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:11.880 are playing like ever free football. That's what it takes, 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:13.640 isn't it It is? You know, I get we get 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:16.439 a smart, disciplined football team, and that's the kind of 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:18.640 men we want in this locker room. And they've they've 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:21.480 played that way and it helps you win games because 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:23.080 there's those little moments during the course of the game 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.280 when a penalty kills you or turnover, a sack kills you, 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:29.120 and our guys stay away from that stuff and it's awesome. 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:33.520 Twenty eight unanswered points. You know, when when you started 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:35.880 getting on that role as a play caller, does your 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:38.000 your sheet get huge. I mean it's like you can 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:41.680 almost close your eyes and pick one out. Our guys 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.280 were just playing with such confidence that it gets that way. 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:46.160 We don't have to call some things we haven't called. 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:48.600 We can just stick with what's working. But our guys 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:50.840 at that point just have confidence that everything's gonna work 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:53.040 and they know how to execute it and they have 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:55.840 that confidence. And uh so that's a scary thing when 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:59.160 you've got that. The one red zone drive, Joe took 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.280 a sack and then he had the turnover. But the 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.080 defense said, Joe, you've carried us the whole game. I 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:06.960 got your back. And the fourth down stops they had 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:10.040 like three of them down the stretch. I think they 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:12.200 want one for four and fourth down and like three 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:16.239 three turnovers. You actually lose the turnover battle minus one. 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:18.840 But those three fourth down stops more than negate that. 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:21.400 But how about your defense. The way they responded tremendous 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:23.600 hold them in the seventeen points five sacks, I think 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:25.160 that's the most tied for the most of themar has 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:28.160 ever been sacked. So again, they just and that's top down, 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:30.880 that's coverage all the way down to the front. That's coaching, 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:34.160 putting those guys in a great plan and uh really 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:36.080 going over the details all week, and our guys believe 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:37.560 in it. And it's a special thing to watch when 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.640 that happens, you know, it's interesting to watch watch the 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:44.640 guys on the plane, on the buses, in the hotel, 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:49.080 honestly going to take care of business. We're gonna go 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:52.080 take care of this football game, every single guy just 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:54.040 and I'm not I'm not saying it was like, you know, 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:57.440 arrogance or anything. That's just we believe. Yeah, they believe, 0:15:57.640 --> 0:15:59.960 you know, and there's enough evidence that they should believe, 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:03.360 you know, because they put in the work. They keep 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:05.280 raising the standard each week on what it should have 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:08.280 looked like and and we got much bigger days ahead. 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:10.120 This is not We're gonna reflect back on this, and 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:12.240 this is something we needed to do beat Baltimore on 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.480 the road, but we know that we got to continue 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:16.080 to win and put ourselves in position to do some 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.520 really big things later on. If the playoffs were to 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:20.840 start tomorrow and they're not going to, you have seven 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:24.960 games in though, you guys, first place in NFC North, 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:28.840 the number one seed in the AFC for the playoffs, 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:32.240 tracking in the right direction, Coach, we put ourselves in 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:35.480 a really good position through eight whatever how many games 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:38.280 we've played. Seven games. We have to keep this up 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:40.640 because plenty of teams have not handled this position the 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:43.160 right way. We've seen them over the past couple of years, 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:45.359 and we just got to make sure that we respond appropriately. 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:50.400 Appreciate your time, Appreciate what you're doing. I know the 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:53.400 fans of Cincinnati are jacked up, to say the least. 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:56.280 That's awesome. We're happy for him, and again, we just 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:59.520 got to keep it up. Thanks. Thanks. Up next the 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.280 road game against the struggling New York Jets, who fell 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:05.399 to one in five on Sunday with a fifty four 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:09.480 to thirteen loss to the Patriots. The Bengals are an 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:13.199 early nine and a half point favorite next weekend. The 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:16.760 Bengals Booth podcast is presented by Ultimate Bengals, the free 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:20.400 to play fantasy football game. Ultimate Bengals will be awarding 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.560 a weekly winner during the course of the season, with tickets, 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:29.160 autographed merchandise, and money can't buy experiences all up for grabs. 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:33.560 Find Ultimate Bengals in the app stores Now. Now time 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:38.439 for postgame analysis with lap La. Words are the tools 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:42.080 of our profession. But I find myself not quite sure 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:45.080 what to say. Have the Bengals arrived after winning by 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:50.919 twenty four points in Baltimore? Boy, if they haven't, they're 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:53.760 well into the journey. They're on the way to arrival. 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:58.680 I mean, they shook up a fifty five gallon drum, 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:02.639 a butt whipping spring over the Baltimore Ravens. It was unbelievable. 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:06.800 It was entertaining to watch them take a part to Ravens. 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:09.920 The way they did offensively and defensively. I mean, they 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:14.199 played complimentary football. They supported each other's efforts to the 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:18.520 end degree. They played smart football. They didn't make mistakes. 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:21.080 One penalty for five yards. The penalty occurs in the 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:24.400 fourth quarter, first sack and the first they only turnover 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:26.560 the game occurs in the fourth quarter when the games 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:30.320 in hand. I mean they played they played really, really 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:34.600 sound football. I think the date was December twenty second, 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:37.800 twenty eighteen, destined to go down as one of the 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:41.400 most important days in franchise history. The Bengals losing overtime 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:43.879 in Miami, they wrap up the number one pick in 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:47.720 the NFL Draft, and they secure Joe Burrow. He is 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:51.120 special in so many ways he is. I mean it's 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:56.000 almost like it's almost impossible to say how important he 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:59.320 is to what's going on here. I mean, his tentacles 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:04.560 reach everything, everything. The ripple effect that he has on 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:08.720 everybody in the organization, not just on his teammates, but 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:15.640 everybody in the organization is astounding. I mean he's I've heard, 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:18.720 you know, many times Mike Brown referred to Kenny Emerson 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:21.080 is the most important player in franchise history, which is 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:25.600 a very, very worthy designation. But this dude, after where 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:29.840 they were, is most most important player Part two. I mean, 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:35.160 he is the guy and he means everything to everything 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:38.040 they're doing. He really does. They hold the Ravens to 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:41.800 seventeen points. They were fifth in the NFL and scoring 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:44.240 defense going in. They'll probably climb a spot or two 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:46.399 after doing that. They haven't given up more than twenty 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:49.159 five in a game this year. I think at this point, 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:52.119 even though they haven't faced a bunch of prolific offenses, 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:54.480 that we can safely say this is one of the 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:58.440 better defenses in the NFL. Right, Yeah, I mean they 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:02.239 even when they there was that little stretch where they 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:04.399 gave up back to back thirty plus yard passes and 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:07.080 a twenty five yard play a boot in there. You know, 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:09.840 they recover from that. It's not like they don't collapse, 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:12.239 they don't fall apart, they don't panic, you know, they 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:15.920 stay they stay patient. I mean, I think it's, uh, 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:19.800 there's so much trust and belief that's going on that 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:22.520 that the players know what they're supposed to do. They 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:25.159 know that, they feel like they know their teammates know 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:27.760 what they're supposed to do. They feel like they know 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:29.520 their coaches are going to give them a game plan 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:32.120 that's going to put them in the best possible situation 0:20:32.480 --> 0:20:35.200 to win football games. I mean, the trust and belief 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:38.240 is going at all levels back and forth, and that's 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:41.240 that's what it That's really what it takes. Um And 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:45.800 you know, when when teammates care about each other, that's 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:48.399 when you can have special seasons, you know, and it 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:51.040 seems like that's the case these guys. You know, if 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:53.800 when a big play is given up, they're they're not Matt, 0:20:53.800 --> 0:20:55.800 They're just communicating to each other, you know, what do 0:20:55.840 --> 0:20:58.000 I need to do. Nobody's like, you know, chewing on 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:01.399 anybody or anything like that. It's like, how do we 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:03.560 prevent this from happening again, you know, And it's like, 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:06.800