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Speaker 1: part of bitterly disappointing season opening loss to the LA
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Speaker 1: was a joy to be back in the Booth with
Speaker 1: Dave Lapham and our great crew on Sunday and we
Speaker 1: can't wait to do it again on Thursday night. Now,
Speaker 1: let's get to this week's three point loss to the Chargers.
Speaker 1: The highly anticipated start of the Joe Burrow era got
Speaker 1: off to a bit of a shaky start offensively, as
Speaker 1: the Bengals had to punt on their first three drives,
Speaker 1: but the fourth ended with Joe's first NFL touchdown empty
Speaker 1: backfield five wides. As Burrow waits for the shotgun snap
Speaker 1: on second and ten from the Chargers twenty three, he
Speaker 1: runs a narterback drawn Hopkins with a great native touchdown
Speaker 1: as Joe burrows first NFL touchdown comes out of twenty
Speaker 1: three yard run on a beautifully called quarterback draw and
Speaker 1: Burrow made the call. He looked at the Chargers defense
Speaker 1: and audible to the QB draw to give the Bengals
Speaker 1: a seven nothing lead, But they weren't able to add
Speaker 1: to the athlete in the first half despite consistently having
Speaker 1: great field position. Their average drive start on six first
Speaker 1: half possessions was the thirty seven and a half, and
Speaker 1: yet they only came away with seven points. Here's Zach Taylor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the most disappointed part of the game. As our
Speaker 1: defensive special teams, we're winning the field position battle for us.
Speaker 1: We didn't capitalize on In an offense, we had some
Speaker 1: opportunities again in the third quarter that we didn't hit,
Speaker 1: and you know, that's just what it comes down to.
Speaker 1: The Chargers kicked a pair of field goals in the
Speaker 1: second quarter, and at the half the Bengals led seven six.
Speaker 1: Burrow was sacked three times and hit six times in
Speaker 1: the first half, but he wasn't hit at all over
Speaker 1: the final two quarters. Here's Jonah Williams. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: we settled down. Obviously, you know, we weren't protecting like
Speaker 1: we need to and like we should have in the
Speaker 1: first half. You know, obviously they have great rushers, but
Speaker 1: it really comes down to us just not doing our jobs.
Speaker 1: And so I think, you know, as a game we're on,
Speaker 1: we kind of settled in and started to understand, you know,
Speaker 1: how to beat this specific front. And you know, it
Speaker 1: wasn't perfect the whole game, but I did get a
Speaker 1: little bit better as we got, you know, more comfortable
Speaker 1: with better protection. Burrow had two shots at long touchdown
Speaker 1: passes in a span of three snaps in the third quarter,
Speaker 1: barely overthrowing John Ross in the back of the end
Speaker 1: zone from thirty five yards out and then missing a
Speaker 1: wide open aj Green at the goal line from thirty
Speaker 1: one yards out still fifty and forty three yard field
Speaker 1: goals by Randy Bullock allowed the Bengals to take a
Speaker 1: thirteen sixth lead to the fourth quarter. It didn't last,
Speaker 1: as the Chargers pulled even early in the fourth. Virgil
Speaker 1: Green checks and is a blocking tight end and the
Speaker 1: pounding running back Joshua Kelly is into the game out
Speaker 1: of a pistol formation. Second and goal from the five,
Speaker 1: Taylor gives it to Kelly and he'll run it into
Speaker 1: the end zone for the Chargers first touchdown of the day.
Speaker 1: Joshua Kelly's five yard run tied the game, and when
Speaker 1: the Bengals got the ball back, they promptly caught it
Speaker 1: up double tight ends on second and ten, the Bengals
Speaker 1: at their own twenty five in a tie game. Twelve
Speaker 1: twenty left in regulation. It's a run to the right,
Speaker 1: Mixon fumbles the football and the Chargers recover at the
Speaker 1: Cincinnati twenty four yard line, the first turnover of the
Speaker 1: day for either team. Denzel Perryman forcing a fumble out
Speaker 1: of Joe Mixon, who never fumbles the football. Coming into
Speaker 1: this game, Joe Mixon had carried more than five hundred
Speaker 1: times without a fumble and he gives it up in
Speaker 1: his own territory. In the fourth quarter, the defense held
Speaker 1: the Chargers to a field goal, but that gave LA
Speaker 1: a sixteen thirteen lead. Joe Burrow promptly drove the offense
Speaker 1: to the Chargers twenty three yard line before he made
Speaker 1: a critical mistake. Burrow drops back to pass again. Here
Speaker 1: comes bosup Burrow moving to his left, intercepted by Melvin Ingram.
Speaker 1: There's a penalty flag down as burrows shovel pass intended
Speaker 1: for Giovanni Bernard was picked off by defensive end Melvin
Speaker 1: and Ingram ineligible receiver down the football field. There's Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow tried to throw it, so that's what the penalty
Speaker 1: flag is. That's not going to help the Bengals cause
Speaker 1: it's a turnover. Two turnovers for the Bengals on back
Speaker 1: to back drives in the fourth quarter, zero turnovers for
Speaker 1: the Chargers in the game. And that was the bottom line,
Speaker 1: according to Zach Taylor, killed us. I mean, we you know,
Speaker 1: we went into the second half and if we're gonna
Speaker 1: win the turnover battle, we're gonna win the game. And
Speaker 1: it certainly didn't work out that way. And the Chargers
Speaker 1: got him, so hats off to them, but that port's disappointing,
Speaker 1: and yet the Bengals were still in position to win.
Speaker 1: Burrow got the ball back at his own eighteen yard
Speaker 1: line with three o eight to go and no timeouts
Speaker 1: and executed a near perfect drive, going eight for eleven
Speaker 1: for seventy yards and throwing what could have been a
Speaker 1: dramatic game winning touchdown. Three receivers left AJ Green out
Speaker 1: to the right, shotgun snap Burrow from the ten yard line,
Speaker 1: throws for Green, penalty flag down if he AJ comes
Speaker 1: down with the ball, there's no touchdown. Six pennies for
Speaker 1: offensive pass in appearance. Oh man, that is a tough
Speaker 1: call at the top of the route, unbelievable. A J
Speaker 1: Green they called him. They're they're doing hand to hand
Speaker 1: combat at the top of the route. If they both
Speaker 1: have their hands on each other, they call a J
Speaker 1: Green for a push off. And it was sold big
Speaker 1: time by the defensive back. That's Casey Hayward. Here are
Speaker 1: AJ Green and Joe Burrow on the call. Well, when
Speaker 1: he h clamping me the whole time coming off the ball,
Speaker 1: so within five yards, So if you can call that,
Speaker 1: we can call that. Both ways, but they made the
Speaker 1: call bang bang plays. At the end of the day,
Speaker 1: you know, I made too many, too many mistakes to
Speaker 1: win the game, and we just didn't make enough plays.
Speaker 1: So you know, whether that call goes our way or not,
Speaker 1: a lot of calls are going to go on a
Speaker 1: lot of different ways throughout the game. And then you know,
Speaker 1: I made miss miss aj on a deep bombs John
Speaker 1: on a deep bond and through the interception that that
Speaker 1: just can't happen. The penalty moved the ball back to
Speaker 1: the thirteen yard line, and with seven seconds to go,
Speaker 1: Taylor called on Bullock to attempt a thirty one yard
Speaker 1: field goal to force overtime. Bullock two for two so
Speaker 1: far today. The snap is good, the kick is wide right,
Speaker 1: he missed it. Oh, the Chargers hold onto the lead
Speaker 1: with two seconds to go, and Pollock is hurt. Bullock
Speaker 1: immediately grabbed his lower leg after missing the kick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: on the last play, for whatever reason, during the kicking motion,
Speaker 1: my left calf just grabbed real hard. So obviously that's
Speaker 1: not not an excuse. That's a kick that I make
Speaker 1: ninety nine times out of one hundred. It was a
Speaker 1: freak deal. I wish I had a better answer for
Speaker 1: what transpired. It seems like just for whatever reason, a
Speaker 1: calf grabbed and it it affected the play. Instead of
Speaker 1: a thrilling last second victory, Joe Burrow's debut ended in
Speaker 1: a three point loss. How did he grate his performance?
Speaker 1: D Like, I can't, Yeah, D I can't. I mean,
Speaker 1: I can't miss that one too. Aj. That's you know,
Speaker 1: high schooler can make the throw and then I can't
Speaker 1: throw the ball right to Meld and Ingram and give
Speaker 1: them the ball back when we were in scoring ring.
Speaker 1: So um tough way to lose. But his coaches and
Speaker 1: teammates had a much different opinion, as Zach Taylor and
Speaker 1: AJ Green marveled at burrows poise under pressure in the
Speaker 1: final three minutes. That's what we expect, you know. That's
Speaker 1: he just moves on to the next boy. And I'm
Speaker 1: sure he's disappointed that you have to turnover. But again,
Speaker 1: you don't since that at all from him. On the sidelines.
Speaker 1: He's focused on what he's going to get done. And
Speaker 1: he went out there and put us some position to
Speaker 1: go there and winner tie the game. Is unbelievable. Man,
Speaker 1: that guy. Don't flinch. Um. I was very the way
Speaker 1: he handled itself when the last right was unbelievable. No
Speaker 1: rookie I have seen, you know, the way he handled
Speaker 1: it after advertually. Um, so you know, we got a
Speaker 1: special one in Joe. We're gonna be better next week
Speaker 1: and we're gonna build his thing brick by brick and
Speaker 1: uh get better each week. Jonah Williams gets the last
Speaker 1: word on the bengals first loss. It's tough because you know,
Speaker 1: in this league, like, there's no you know, you just
Speaker 1: have to own it. There's no like you can't feel
Speaker 1: sorry for yourself. You can't sit there and say, oh, well,
Speaker 1: we should have won, even though you know, I would
Speaker 1: agree that it was definitely a game we could have won,
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, it religious comes
Speaker 1: down to we didn't execute like we needed to on offense.
Speaker 1: You know, the defense played well, but there are obviously
Speaker 1: things that could have done better. You know. So it's
Speaker 1: definitely something where you can look and say that we
Speaker 1: could have won, we should have won, whatever you want
Speaker 1: to say, but at the end of the day, we
Speaker 1: just didn't, you know, do what it took to win.
Speaker 1: Last season began with a one point loss in Seattle,
Speaker 1: and that's where I began my postgame chat with Dave Lapham.
Speaker 1: All Right, Lap. For the second straight year, it felt
Speaker 1: to me like the Bengals lost an opening game that
Speaker 1: they should have won. Last year in Seattle, they outplayed
Speaker 1: the Seahawks, did not come away with a w in
Speaker 1: this game. Two fourth quarter to fourth quarter turnovers absolutely
Speaker 1: killed them, and then all that happened in the final
Speaker 1: ten seconds of the game. Yeah. I mean, when you
Speaker 1: look back at last year for this the LA Chargers,
Speaker 1: they were mine seventeen in the turnover department, they had
Speaker 1: thirty one giveaways none tonight. Tyrod Taylor is known as
Speaker 1: a guy that takes care of the football. His mantras
Speaker 1: just don't screw it up at the quarterback position, and
Speaker 1: ultimately that won the football game for them. Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: had a very unusual interception on a backhanded shovel pass
Speaker 1: on a screen that he was trying to accomplish, and
Speaker 1: England made a great play. I mean Pro Bowl player
Speaker 1: made a great play. And Joe Mixon had the fumble
Speaker 1: a game a short field and a touchdown on that
Speaker 1: short field. So yeah, I mean, those those two turnovers,
Speaker 1: the Bengals are going in to put points on the
Speaker 1: board and they turn it over and then gave short
Speaker 1: field for you know, touchdown. That's a minimum of a
Speaker 1: ten point swing, maybe more. Joe Burrow graded himself a D.
Speaker 1: Is he too harsh tough grader? You know, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think he's all about wins and losses. You know.
Speaker 1: The fact is, I think he's obviously disappointed with himself.
Speaker 1: Overthrown AJ Green, who beat the linebacker like a drum.
Speaker 1: He was opened by ten yards or more and he
Speaker 1: didn't make that throw. He felt like he overthrew John Ross.
Speaker 1: I didn't think John found the football. I thought the
Speaker 1: ball was like right through his hands. It looked like
Speaker 1: that was a catchable ball. But he said he's going
Speaker 1: to put the ball in John Ross's chest. A good
Speaker 1: quarterback does that. He deflects all the credit, takes all
Speaker 1: the plane, and that's what he's doing. So he understands
Speaker 1: that part of it for sure. But in my mind,
Speaker 1: very positive thing after that, you know, bone headed shovel
Speaker 1: pass interception. He goes down the field with no timeouts
Speaker 1: and almost wins the football game. AJ Green catches a
Speaker 1: touchdown pass that's nullified by offensive pass interference that would
Speaker 1: have won the football game tells me a lot about
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow. Compartmentalized. Move on, forget about that, try to
Speaker 1: make plays, can't do anything about the mistakes. Go make
Speaker 1: up for him. If he does that, he's gonna have
Speaker 1: a long, successful career. Well, let's talk about the final drive.
Speaker 1: The Bengals got the ball back with three O eight
Speaker 1: to go, no timeouts at their own eighteen yard line.
Speaker 1: Burrow went eight for eleven for seventy yards. He also
Speaker 1: had a seven yard scramble I think on the first
Speaker 1: play of the drive. Of the three incompletions, one was
Speaker 1: a spike, one was a kind of a deep ball
Speaker 1: for aj Green that was incomplete. The other was a
Speaker 1: great pass to John Ross that he bobbled going out
Speaker 1: a bound should have been a nine yard game. So basically,
Speaker 1: three O eight no time outs to go, He drives
Speaker 1: down the field, throws a game winning touchdown pass that
Speaker 1: gets wiped out. But even taking that into consideration, he
Speaker 1: sets up his kicker for a thirty one yard field
Speaker 1: goal that you know, ninety eight percent of the time
Speaker 1: is supposed to fours overtime. Yeah, and then the kicker
Speaker 1: ends up injuring his kicking calf hopefully. I'm hoping it's
Speaker 1: a cramp because during COVID nineteen, where the hell you're
Speaker 1: going to find a kicker on a short week go
Speaker 1: to Cleveland. It's gonna be interesting. I mean, if he
Speaker 1: can't go, that's a tough, tough deal. I mean, very
Speaker 1: tough deal. What's out there, I really don't know. Hopefully
Speaker 1: there's something out there, but that's a that's a huge factor,
Speaker 1: I think in that football game coming up less than
Speaker 1: a hundred hours from now. So yeah, I mean Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow to me is so poker faced, so cool, calm
Speaker 1: and collected. He is definitely cool hand Joe. I mean nothing.
Speaker 1: I remember the forty nine players talking about Joe Montana
Speaker 1: in the huddle in Super Bowl twenty three when he
Speaker 1: went down for the game winning touchdown drive. He's saying,
Speaker 1: other guys and hey, look there's John Candy over in
Speaker 1: the sideline just loosening guys up. You know that's Joe Burrows.
Speaker 1: I think he has a lot of Joe Montana makeup
Speaker 1: to him, which I know is saying a lot and
Speaker 1: he's getting a lot of praise and he's generational player
Speaker 1: in all this net. But the guy has something to him.
Speaker 1: Now he's got some fiber, and I think I think
Speaker 1: he made a very very favorable impression on his teammates
Speaker 1: once again offensively, defensively, special teams by what he did
Speaker 1: on that last drive with no timeouts. Your point about
Speaker 1: the kickers really interesting to me. If the injury to
Speaker 1: Bullock is significant, you've probably got to grab somebody off
Speaker 1: another team's practice squad and somebody that can get here
Speaker 1: quickly to start going through the protocol in order to
Speaker 1: be available on Thursday. You probably will not be able
Speaker 1: to practice with him. You're just going to have to
Speaker 1: hope that he can clear protocol because he will already
Speaker 1: be in the system, so there shouldn't be any problems there.
Speaker 1: But it does take a few days when you change
Speaker 1: teams and then he'll get his first opportunities to practice
Speaker 1: with your snapper and holder on game day. Maybe unbelievable.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think COVID nineteen with a short week
Speaker 1: a Thursday night game, hilacious problem massive. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't know Kevin Huber lining up from forty three yards
Speaker 1: out to field goal instead of hold for the field
Speaker 1: goal that would be That would be just absolutely crazy.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's you know, hopefully, hopefully it's something that
Speaker 1: Randy Bullock can recover from. Maybe he just landed awkwardly
Speaker 1: and cramped. I don't know. You know, if he wasn't
Speaker 1: taking fluids it was human tonight. Maybe he lost more
Speaker 1: fluids than he thought. Maybe he ended up just cramping.
Speaker 1: I don't know. One can only hope. But if it
Speaker 1: is a pull, that it's a very very minor pull.
Speaker 1: But if you're a place kicker and you have calf
Speaker 1: pull in your kicking leg, that ain't good. It's not
Speaker 1: a good deal. I don't care how minor the pull is.
Speaker 1: And you know there's a bunch of muscles in the calf.
Speaker 1: You know, there's big ones, little ones. It's you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a complex area to have have
Speaker 1: an issue if you're trying to, you know, blast kickoffs
Speaker 1: and field goals. There's no doubt. Let's talk about the
Speaker 1: O line. You haven't seen any tape yet. We're talking
Speaker 1: about this game immediately in the press box after broadcasting it.
Speaker 1: But what do you think about Jonah Williams. Obviously, Joey
Speaker 1: Bosa gave Bobby Heart fits. That's why he's making twenty
Speaker 1: seven million dollars a year as the highest paid defensive
Speaker 1: player in the NFL, and then Billy Price wound up
Speaker 1: playing right guard toward the tail end of the game
Speaker 1: when Xavier sue Filo went out. Yeah, and I thought,
Speaker 1: I thought, in the second half, the offensive line played
Speaker 1: much better than they did in the first half. And
Speaker 1: that's when Billy was, you know, in the football game
Speaker 1: in the second half. So there wasn't any glaring thing there.
Speaker 1: But there's no doubt. I mean when we played the Raiders,
Speaker 1: how he Long back in the day would go up
Speaker 1: and down the offensive line and see what everybody had
Speaker 1: in terms of past protection and then settled in. And
Speaker 1: if you were the guy who settled in out it
Speaker 1: was like you were the fish man. So he got
Speaker 1: to pick which guy he wanted to rush out because
Speaker 1: he could rush from anywhere. How he Long was the man.
Speaker 1: And it looks like Joey Bosa, you know, he can
Speaker 1: rush from both end positions and looks like you know,
Speaker 1: they said, you know, give it a feel him out
Speaker 1: and see where, see where you feel like you might
Speaker 1: have your best opportunity. And he ended up settling over
Speaker 1: Bobby Hart more than Jonah Williams for sure. So and honestly,
Speaker 1: you know, I'd have to look to see how much
Speaker 1: help he got. But I would have given Bobby Hart
Speaker 1: more because when I see an offensive lineman what Bobby
Speaker 1: did in the first half, duck. When I see an
Speaker 1: offensive lineman duck his head and take his eyes off
Speaker 1: targets and everything else, I see a guy that's in
Speaker 1: a panic mode. That's just you can't pass protect anybody.
Speaker 1: Duck in your head, bringing your shoulders and everything closer
Speaker 1: to the defender who's got unbelievable hands and strength and
Speaker 1: strengthen his hands and everything else. I mean, you just
Speaker 1: you're you're beating yourself as well as him beating you.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that But it seems like from what people
Speaker 1: were saying after the game in the offensive line, that
Speaker 1: the Charges came out with a wrinkle with a nuance
Speaker 1: in their in their defensive front that caused some assignment
Speaker 1: errors assignment problems for the Bengals offensive line, and they
Speaker 1: definitely ran the ball better, pass protected better in the
Speaker 1: second half when they made they made adjustments, I guess
Speaker 1: they couldn't make them as quickly as they needed to
Speaker 1: or wanted to. When they came off after every series
Speaker 1: in the first half when they had time to get
Speaker 1: on a board at halftime and make some solid adjustments.
Speaker 1: It seems like they did that. So I thought the
Speaker 1: performance was better in the second half for sure. I
Speaker 1: think the secondary was good. Will Jackson was very solid.
Speaker 1: Darius Phillips gave up that one deep ball to Mike Williams,
Speaker 1: but that's a tough matchup for him. Big guy, good downfield,
Speaker 1: a lot of tackles for von Bell, Jesse Bates made
Speaker 1: a couple of plays. Kenzie Alexander was really solid. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought so too. That there was a Hunter Henry.
Speaker 1: There was an assignment era between the second level and
Speaker 1: third level linebacker secondary where Hunter Henry gould open like
Speaker 1: five yards when you know that's the only glaring mental
Speaker 1: mistake ground and say WHOA, I mean, where is everybody
Speaker 1: or anybody other than that? I thought. I thought overall
Speaker 1: it was pretty solid as well, And I thought the
Speaker 1: tackling wasn't atrocious, you know. I mean, these are NFL
Speaker 1: running backs and NFL receivers are a good run after catch.
Speaker 1: I mean, they get paid a lot of money to
Speaker 1: make you miss as much as you get paid to
Speaker 1: tackle him. So you're gonna win some you're gonna lose them.
Speaker 1: But I didn't think that tackling was like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just that's horrible. I thought I thought
Speaker 1: they got people to the ground. How can it improve? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it can definitely improve. And I think, you know, in October,
Speaker 1: it's going to be a heck of a lot better
Speaker 1: than this here in the middle stages of September. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what does bother me about this loss? Though?
Speaker 1: From a Bengals perspective, I don't think the Chargers are
Speaker 1: any good. I mean, Tyrod Taylor is somewhere between the
Speaker 1: twenty eighth and thirty second best starting quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 1: He's carved out a long career, God bless him, but
Speaker 1: he's just not a good enough downfield thrower on a
Speaker 1: consistent basis to elevate a team. He is a I
Speaker 1: won't screw it up guy, and that was enough to
Speaker 1: get the job done, no doubt. They ran the ball
Speaker 1: well enough and they played good enough defense. I mean,
Speaker 1: Bradley didn't turn it over and didn't turn it over.
Speaker 1: He took care of the football. That's his mantra. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna make sure that I don't give the
Speaker 1: other team extra opportunity, these extra possessions. So defense, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to betray you. You do your thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a good defense. Gus Bradley puts together good defense.
Speaker 1: As you know, last year they were, you know, top five,
Speaker 1: fourth in the NFL and against the past and scoring
Speaker 1: pretty good defense and with a rookie quarterback and the
Speaker 1: offensive line dealing with the adjustments they needed to deal
Speaker 1: with with the defense or front, it took them a
Speaker 1: half to kind of fall into a little bit of rhythm.
Speaker 1: And you know, while all that was going on, I mean,
Speaker 1: the Bengals had big average drive start field position advantages
Speaker 1: in the first half and two fourth down stops and
Speaker 1: they didn't turn it over in the first half. They
Speaker 1: had a lead, but it was nowhere near what the
Speaker 1: lead should have been. Why Chargers defense charges defense bailed
Speaker 1: them out and Tyrod Taylor did not betray the defense
Speaker 1: and put them in a very very bad situation where
Speaker 1: you know, like what happened with Joe's fumble that short
Speaker 1: field that the Chargers took advantage and scored their touchdown.
Speaker 1: I mean they jumped on that opportunity and said we
Speaker 1: can't let this go by touchdown and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: different different ballgame at that point in time. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think they're you know, let's put it this way.
Speaker 1: They ain't gonna threaten the Chiefs in the AFC West.
Speaker 1: I know that. I mean the Kansas City, A City
Speaker 1: Chiefs are gonna have. You know, that's a different offensive
Speaker 1: club than what the Chargers face tonight. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean Cleveland gets smoked by Baltimore. I don't know what
Speaker 1: their injury status is. The Bengal sustained some injuries tonight,
Speaker 1: you know, kicker, offensive lineman, defensive lineman. A short week,
Speaker 1: how many of them they gonna have. How many injuries
Speaker 1: does Cleveland have? And if they have injuries, where are
Speaker 1: those injuries? And all that stuff to be determined at
Speaker 1: this point. A thirty one yard field goal to force
Speaker 1: over time, you gotta make that freaking kick unbelievable. Any
Speaker 1: drilled fifty yard or they miss one from fifty. He
Speaker 1: makes one from fifty. So he miss hit a kickoff
Speaker 1: and they brought it back out for big field position
Speaker 1: and then he miss hit the field goal. He had
Speaker 1: two miss hits, both of them were critical. One of
Speaker 1: them points should have been on the board and the
Speaker 1: other one allowed points to get on the board in
Speaker 1: a hotly contested football game, whereas otherwise, I mean, Darren
Speaker 1: Simmons and his group did their thing. You know, the
Speaker 1: special teams won for the most part that phase of
Speaker 1: the game in terms of dictating field position. And yeah,
Speaker 1: it came down to turnovers and miss kicks and the
Speaker 1: penalty situation. I mean, the the aj Green thing. Now,
Speaker 1: did he push off the top of the route. Yeah?
Speaker 1: Was there a chicken fighting going on earlier? Yeah? Could
Speaker 1: they have done an offset like they did when Jesse
Speaker 1: Bates and which receiver was it? Was it Williams, I
Speaker 1: can't remember who was? They both lowered their head. Keenan Allen,
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen, Yeah, Keenan Allen and Jesse Bates and they
Speaker 1: throw the penalty flag. Then they talk about it, and
Speaker 1: then they do over an offset do the down over
Speaker 1: that play which should could have been a touchdown, a
Speaker 1: game winning touchdown. Okay, I can see not allowing that
Speaker 1: to be a game winning touchdown, but to penalize the
Speaker 1: Bengals when you know, I just do it, just offset it,
Speaker 1: just like they did on the other one and and
Speaker 1: do over see what happens now maybe now final thought,
Speaker 1: the Bengals are now oh and nine in one score
Speaker 1: games under Zach Taylor. That's amazing. Yeah, game games decided
Speaker 1: by eight points or less last year on eight and
Speaker 1: this one, Like you said, the Seattle game could have
Speaker 1: gotten off to a you know, like every I'm not
Speaker 1: saying it would have shocked the world, but it would
Speaker 1: have been like, WHOA, that's a big win the Bengals
Speaker 1: going to Seattle. And then if they could have pulled
Speaker 1: this one off today, but oh for two unopeners. We
Speaker 1: get to do this again though in four days. Looking
Speaker 1: forward to it we go. Here's a quick reminder to
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Speaker 1: we look ahead to Thursday night football in Cleveland. That's
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