WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Can't Tell You Why 0:00:03.720 --> 0:00:06.519 Hi, gain everybody. I'm Dan Hord and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:13.600 the Bengals Booth Podcast. The I Can't Tell You addition, 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:16.639 as the Bengals fall to three and five overall and 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:19.440 zero and four at home with a thirty seven to 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:23.799 seventeen loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, coming up radio replays, 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:28.520 locker room comments and postgame analysis from Dave Lapham. Then 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:32.519 in this week's fun Facts Conversation, you'll learn why Dejon 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:36.640 Anthony is a very easy player to root for. 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I am incredibly fortunate to broadcast 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:16.920 NFL and college football games on a weekly basis, but 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:21.039 the schedule makers aren't always kind. This weekend, the University 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:25.160 of Cincinnati's game at Colorado kicked off at ten fifteen 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:28.440 Eastern on Saturday night, and the Bengals game the next 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:32.080 day was moved up from four point fifteen to one PM. 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:33.240 That meant a. 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:37.280 Quick turnaround for yours, truly. The UC team plane landed 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:41.920 back in Cincinnati just before seven am, and unfortunately, I'm 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:47.560 not great at sleeping on planes. The solution coffee, lots 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:52.320 of it. Caffeine is definitely my drug of choice. Now, 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:56.120 let's get to football and the radio replays from Sunday's 0:01:56.160 --> 0:02:00.640 game in the Jungle this afternoon here in Since the 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:04.120 sky is blue, the field is green, and the Bengals 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:07.800 and their fans are wearing white, it is White Bengal 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:11.280 Day in the Jungle. The Bengals are a perfect four 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:14.840 and oh when wearing their icy cool white helmets, and 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:17.840 they will look to remain perfect today as they host 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:23.320 the Philadelphia Eagles. Burrow catches, drops back to throw, begins 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:25.600 rolling to the right. He's at the twelve yard line, 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.639 throws into the end zone on leaping catch and a 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:34.239 touchdown by Jamar Chase, and the Bengals take more than 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:38.080 nine minutes off the clock and score a touchdown to 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:38.959 begin the game. 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.680 Oh about it, man, They go five for five On 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:43.760 third down. 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:47.560 This will be a fifty four yard attempt for Evan McPherson. 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.240 He's missed three field goals this year. Two of the 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:54.079 three have been from fifty plus from the right. Hash 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:58.079 Adam Midas ready to snap it back to Rico. The snap, 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:01.679 the placement and the right footed it is blasted by 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:06.320 McPherson and it is wide left. Burrow hands it to 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.080 night Brown. Night flying up the middle of the field. 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:11.400 Had the search takes him. 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:12.239 Into the end zone. 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:18.520 Touchdown. Bengals on second down and eight Hurts fakes to Barkley, 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:22.800 rolls right, wants to launch it deep downfield toward the 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:27.280 end zone. Caught by Devonte Smith, touchdown Philly. 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:31.040 Jordan Battle in coverage. 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:34.960 That's a uh, that's a matchup that that right there. 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:39.720 Jalen Hurt says, I've got one of my speed receivers 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.640 on a safety in Battle did not have terrible coverage. 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:45.520 It's just an outstanding throw by Jalen Hurt. 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:47.480 Now the Bengals are probably going to have to throw 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:51.800 it on fourth and one. Philadelphia is showing pressure. Chase 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:54.720 goes in motion. Burrow will look to pass, throws it 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:58.600 for Chase makes the catch, loses a yard, tackled by 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:02.600 Cooper de Gene. The Bengals failed to convert on third 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.800 and half a yard, then fourth in a full yard, 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:09.960 and Philadelphia takes over at the Cincinnati thirty eight with 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:13.400 a chance to really put Cincinnati in a bind. On 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:16.680 first and ten from the forty six, Burrow fires deep 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:21.400 down the right sideline incomplete. Was it picked off or incomplete? 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:27.160 It is intercepted. It got deflected into the hands of C. J. 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:32.520 Gardner Johnson by Isaiah Rodgers. Here comes the brotherly shove 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:36.119 as Hurtz looking for his third touchdown run of the game. 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:40.360 He charges forward. It's a touchdown and the fans can 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.960 stream for the exits. Philadelphia is going to hand Cincinnati 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:47.400 it's fourth consecutive home loss. Burrow to throw on first 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:50.440 and ten. His pass caught about four yards up the field. 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:55.520 The ball comes out. Philadelphia is celebrating, Wow, Kaziki fumbled. 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.719 The Eagles recover. They'll take over at the thirty two 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:02.960 of Cincinnati thirty seconds to go. Another handoff to Chase 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:07.000 Brown looks like he picked up enough for the first down. 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:09.719 He did, but that's going to be the final play 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:13.400 of the game. A long frustrating walk toward the center 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:16.719 of the field for Zach Taylor as his team gets 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:20.400 outscored twenty nothing in the final twenty minutes of the 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:25.120 game and loses at home to the Philadelphia Eagles. The 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:30.279 final score today thirty seven to seventeen Philly. After scoring 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.240 thirty three or more points in three straight games, the 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:38.840 Bengals have managed seventeen, fourteen and seventeen on offense in 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:41.960 their last three. I didn't count the kick return touchdown 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:45.599 by Charlie Jones against Cleveland. The offense was good for 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:48.279 two and a half quarters on Sunday. On their first 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:51.800 four drives, the Bengals scored two touchdowns, made a field goal, 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:55.120 and missed a field goal. But the game turned late 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:58.960 in the third quarter. Down by seven points. On third 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.080 and less than a yard their own thirty nine, the 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.000 Bengals handed the ball to Zach Moss, who lost to 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:07.280 half a yard. They went for it on fourth and one, 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:10.920 and a swing pass to Jamar Chase lost two more 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:14.320 yards that led to a Philly field goal and the 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:18.479 Bengals never threatened. Again, here are Zach Taylor and Ted 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:20.240 Karris on that sequence. 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:22.039 Yeah, I felt like we needed to be aggressive there. 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:25.400 It didn't work out, So that's frustrating, you know. And 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:29.080 so again I put that on myself situation where I 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:30.640 felt like we need to be aggressive and go score 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:33.599 in that possession, given we were down seven, and anytime 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:36.280 it doesn't go well, obviously you're gonna think a long 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:37.279 and hard about that decision. 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:39.080 He used to being about to play call on fourth 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:41.760 and one, other screening to Marls the idea. 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:44.560 There, Yeah, he's one of the options. And you know, again, 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:47.960 the point didn't work, and that's one hundred percent on me. 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:49.760 We got to get on third and one, so I'm 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:52.080 not even worried about the pass. I think the the 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:53.039 run on third and one. 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:54.599 You know, we gotta have that. 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:58.359 It's gonna gonna eat at me for twenty four hours, 0:06:58.400 --> 0:06:59.559 and then we got to get onto Vegas. 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:01.920 The Bengal entered the game tied for twenty eighth in 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:04.720 the NFL and rushing yards per game and tied for 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:08.200 twentieth and rushing yards per attempt. They are not going 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:10.960 to climb in the rankings after averaging two point nine 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:14.800 yards against Philly. Their longest run by a running back 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:19.080 and seventeen attempts was five yards. I spoke to Ted 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:22.000 Karris after the game, who says, it's not time to 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:23.160 panic yet. 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:27.960 I don't think three and five is a panic mode. 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:32.840 You know, two games back with nine to play, you 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:34.320 know that's a that's a lot of time. There's a 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:36.000 lot of football to be played. You know, season not 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:39.480 even halfway over. Again, hate having to keep saying that, 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:43.080 but you know, no one's panicking. And we have you know, 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.920 credit to the to the organization for the quality of 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:47.920 young men that we have in this locker room. And 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:49.800 guys are gonna come tomorrow ready to go, and then 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:51.760 Wednesday ready to go. We got to get our first 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:53.680 home win, and that's what we're focused on. You know, 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:55.440 we can we can talk about January. 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:56.880 All we want. What we need to do is win 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:57.640 in Paycorps. 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:01.320 You know, right after Halloween, even with Joe and as 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:02.960 good as the passing game is, do you feel like 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:05.239 you need a dependable running game? Is that a must 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:06.000 going forward? 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:07.559 It is a must. I mean, it's always a must. 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:09.960 I mean I would like to give that to Joe. 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:13.400 One time in his career, it'd be nice, you know, 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:15.480 and we got to execute up front, and that's we 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.280 didn't today. I don't think we ran the ball very 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.960 well at all, but a few, but not enough to 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:25.200 spark any confidence in increasing the value. 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:28.600 I think you converted your first eight third down conversion 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:30.880 something like that, which is great obviously, But is that 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:34.439 also what Philadelphia does. They force you to convert third 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:37.080 after third after third by you know, kind of taking 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:39.319 away the deep ball and forcing you to nickel and 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:40.400 dime your way down the field. 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:42.360 I guess that's what they did today. 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.040 But we were converting and you know, sustaining drives mean 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:46.480 to open up the game with a ten minute drive, 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.480 I thought that was pretty encouraging and it was gonna 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.800 be one of those games where you know, we had 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:55.160 to get get ourselves down there and score on possessions 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:56.640 because they're doing the same thing. You know, they had 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:58.280 I think they had a ten minute drive as well. 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:00.960 So it's just it's just a show game. You know, 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.120 we only have three possessions in the first half. Usually 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:07.360 you get about six, I would say, So you know, 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:09.880 the game is shorter, so points are at a premium, 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:12.120 and we got to end in touchdowns. They did and 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:14.560 we didn't, and that's ultimately the difference in the game. 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:17.840 Maybe a stupid question, I'll ask it anyway, Why doesn't 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:21.200 every team do the tush push? 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:23.360 They don't have a quarterback and squad six hundred pounds, 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:29.080 I'd say is probably the most obvious answer. You know, 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:31.959 I don't think we've seen other teams do it to 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:35.160 no success. I think a lot of teams have tried 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:38.360 it and got out of it right away. Again, who 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:40.520 their quarterback is. You know, they have a quarterback who's 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:41.360 built like a running back. 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:43.880 So not to say he's running, but he's a good quarterback. 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:47.040 But I think that just you know, and they had 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:51.120 Jason Kelcey very you know, smaller center, good leverage athlete, 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:54.679 you know, the Cam Jurgens. Now, obviously they've studied it, 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:57.600 they practice it a lot, they know what they're doing. 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:00.960 And again, it doesn't it's not one hundred percent, but 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.800 you know, it's a war of Yeah, it's. 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:04.760 A war of attrition in there. 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:09.040 And I just think that personnel wise, we've seen other 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:10.120 teams try it and fail. 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:11.800 So I think it's you know. 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:15.040 That's a that's a unique Philly thing that they do. 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.280 You feel like you keep reaching a point where you're 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:20.280 just kind of like on the verge of flipping things 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:23.000 five hundred or whatever, and then it's a step backward. 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:25.560 I mean it's the NFL. 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:27.880 I mean, this is uh, you know, this is this 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:30.000 is the big, big boys league. So you know you 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:31.720 better be ready to go and come out, you know, 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:34.520 come out in the second half, you know, traded touchdowns 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:37.000 and then didn't convert a fourth down and the game. 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:38.760 Got busted open. So that's that's what it is. 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:40.160 I mean, I don't even know how many positions we 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:42.800 had in the second half by four, maybe five if 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:46.400 you count the last one. So again, points started a premium, 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.280 especially in a shortened game, you know, playing against a 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:54.520 rushing team like Philly. So no, I don't feel it's 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:57.080 a step back. We're three and five, Thank you Cleveland. 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:01.640 My goodness, two games back with nine ago. Oh, we 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:03.960 better get a home win against We gotta give the 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:06.079 fans a pay course something because they keep showing out 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:07.520 for us and we're not putting on a great show. 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.000 Thank you Cleveland was a reference to the Browns beating 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:15.840 the Ravens twenty nine fourteen with Deshaun Watson out for 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:18.520 the rest of the year with an achilles injury. Cleveland 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.559 turned to Jamis Winston at quarterback, and in his first 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:24.560 start in more than two years, the former Tampa Bay 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:27.880 QB threw for three hundred and thirty four yards and 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:32.280 three touchdowns. Deshaun Watson has not passed for three hundred 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:36.280 yards in any of his nineteen starts with the Browns. 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:39.680 Baltimore fell to five and three with the loss. The 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.240 Browns are two and six with the win, and the 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:45.080 five and two Steelers host the two and five New 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:49.240 York Giants on Monday night. Now, let's hear from Zach Taylor. 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:53.280 Dave Lapham began their postgame conversation by mentioning how the 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:57.760 Bengals converted nearly eighty percent of their third down opportunities 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:02.319 and still didn't score any points against the Vic Fangio 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:03.599 coached defense. 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:07.920 Coach tough one out there. I mean, you guys go 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.920 ten for thirteen. That's mind boggling to me. You convert 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:15.400 on third and twenty two and it just doesn't work out. 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:16.959 They make you earn everything, don't. 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:19.480 They They do, you know, And I felt like we 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:22.360 had a good performance and then second half it wasn't 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:24.480 good enough. You know, we had a fourth down call 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:27.240 that certainly when it doesn't go that way, I regret. 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:29.280 I got to put us in a better position and 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:32.360 then two consecutive turnovers after that. So that's the story 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:35.199 of the second half there and stuff to swallow. 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:38.600 So the running game, I mean they got their running 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:41.080 game on track, particularly in the second half. Sa Quon 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:43.760 Barkley to finish the game was very strong run in 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:46.160 the football. What's your assessment. I know you've got tape 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:48.079 to watching all that. What's your knee jerk reaction? How 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:48.640 you ran the ball? 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:50.400 Well, we got to take the pressure off our team 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:53.360 by by not being two scores down and being able 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:55.960 to get more runs off in the second half, and 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:57.839 so eventually you break one cat's kind of what happened 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:00.080 to them a little bit. So we didn't get four 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:01.719 shelves of that opportunity. I thought we were doing well 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:03.360 in the pass game in the first half, so leaned 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:05.720 more into that because it felt like we were doing 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:07.959 a nice job there and didn't give ourselves as many 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:09.000 opportunities in the run game. 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:14.120 From an explosive standpoint, had you had three pass plays 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:17.400 of fifteen yards and more, no runs of ten yards 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:21.200 and more. And when they on their explosives, they had 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:25.800 five runs of ten yards and more and eight passes 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.120 of fifteen yards and more. So that's a big part 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:31.000 of their game. And then just getting those explosives. 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:32.240 And those explosives came when they were up you know, 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:34.079 two scores, and that's where the runs come, and that's 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:37.160 typically what happens. And again that's on us to fin 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:38.920 that off in the second half and not put ourselves 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:40.560 in that position where they can just lean on their 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:42.360 run game, which is traditionally pretty strong. 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:46.560 It's amazing to me ten for thirteen on third down, 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.800 don't punt the football and the score is way I mean, 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:53.200 football continues to just boggle my mind. I mean I can't. 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:54.400 It's hard to figure out sometimes. 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:56.959 Yeah, turnovers, you know, we essentially lost three to nothing. 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.080 The failed fourth down and then the two turnovers back 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:01.360 to back. That's the that's how it turns into a 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.319 from a seventeen all game or twenty four seventeen game 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:07.160 to thirty seven to seventeen and you're sitting there looking 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:10.320 at what went wrong and again those three straight possessions 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:11.880 and not being able to get the stops on the 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:12.439 other side of the ball. 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:13.480 It was difficult for us. 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:15.640 I think it was thirteen straight games going back to 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.120 last year, they had not won the turnover battle, the 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:20.760 turnover ratio, and they did get that done today. In 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:24.119 a game like this year, right, I mean two possessions 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:26.880 where you know, give them them extras and taking them 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:28.800 away from you. That's that's huge in a game like this. 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:30.360 Yeah, it's not good enough. You know, we got a 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.960 better job protecting the ball, better call on a fourth 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.080 down to get us in a better spot. And you 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:36.560 know we all gonna taken ownership for that. 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:39.880 So now you've got to put this one, this one 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:45.800 to bed and the income the Raiders, I mean, what 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:47.280 are your thoughts at this jonture. 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:49.760 We put ourselves a hole that we can dig out of, 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:51.280 you know. And so again we're not even at the 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:54.120 halfway point of this season yet, play eight, we got 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:56.440 nine and left. There's going to be opportunity for us. 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.920 We stick together, we take ownership, ignore the noise, find 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.920 ways to start pulling out wins, and we'll still be 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:03.680 in this thing at the end. 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:05.360 Appreciate your time as always. 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:06.880 Thanks siv Up. 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.560 Next a home game against the two and six Las 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:13.560 Vegas Raiders, who lost to the undefeated Chiefs twenty seven 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:16.560 to twenty. Gardner Minshew might have held down to the 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:19.440 starting quarterback job for another week by throwing a pair 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:22.800 of touchdown passes with a passer rating of one seventeen 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:26.160 point nine in the loss to KC. The Bengals Booth 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.600 Podcast is brought to you by pay Corps, proud to 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:33.000 be the Bengals official HR software provider, by Alta Fiber 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:36.760 future proof Fiber Internet designed to elevate your home, business 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:40.000 and community to a new level, and by Kettering Health 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:43.480 the best care for the best fans. Kettering Health is 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:47.400 the official healthcare provider of the Bengals. Now time for 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:51.720 the radio guys recap. Let's start with the running game. 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:54.640 Twenty carries fifty eight yards for the Bengals today two 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:58.120 point nine yards per carry, one sixty one for Philly 0:15:58.160 --> 0:15:59.920 on the ground. A lot of that came late as 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.920 they put the game away. But can the Bengals be 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:05.440 the team that we thought that they were going to 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:07.920 be if they can't get some sort of consistent running 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:08.400 game going. 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:12.840 No, they have to pose some sort of a threat 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:15.840 in the running game at least has to be respected. 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:18.200 In the last couple of weeks, I don't think you 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:20.880 know either of those defenses of Cleveland Browns or the 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:23.880 Philadelphia was really respected what the Bengals were trying to 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:27.840 get done. Twenty carries for fifty eight yards. They had 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.840 thirty nine carries for one sixty one. They threw it 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:33.000 twenty times. Last week, he threw at fourteen. 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:33.600 This week he. 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:34.400 Throws at twenty. 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:35.560 Wow, he's the twenty mark. 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:39.320 Sixteen for twenty two hundred thirty six yards, one thirty 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:42.560 two point five quarterback rating. With that one touchdown pass 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:45.320 of forty five yards, I mean the Bengals ran it 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:49.440 twenty times for fifty eight they throw it thirty seven times. 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:52.360 It's just a reverse once two to one run and 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:56.320 once two to one pass the football. And at the 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:58.200 end of the particularly, like you said, in the second 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:00.840 half and the fourth quarter in particular, the Eagles said, 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:03.480 you know, we're gonna Saquon Barkley you to death, and 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:06.760 you're gonna have to stop him. And the Bengals weren't 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:09.200 up to the up to the challenge. He had four 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:11.080 point nine a rush in this football game. He came 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:14.399 in averaging six point one. I mean, they are They 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:17.360 are ridiculous. To me, Dan, It's like you go ten 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:21.600 for thirteen on third down, ten for thirteen, don't pump 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:26.159 the football and lose by twenty points. Turnovers, you know, 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:28.879 they get stuffed on fourth down, that's a turnover. They 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:30.720 have an interception of the funnels, so they went across 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:33.320 the smorgas board, you know, one of each. So in 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:35.080 my mind, they're minus three in a game like this, 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:37.840 that's gonna be coffin nails for the Bengals. 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:41.960 And a missfield goal near midfield that's like a turnover realistically. 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:42.560 Very true. 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:44.680 You know, it's a you give them that kind of 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:48.879 field position, you know, the way they can handle things offensively, 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:52.119 it's a that's a that's a solid football team. I 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:55.960 mean they just the Bengals. That's seventeen play drive to 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:59.080 start the game, five straight third down conversions. I'm like, 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:01.440 oh man, this this is encourageble. They just make it 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:05.160 work so hard. I think the biggest thing in the game, 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:07.159 and one of the keys that we talked about, you know, 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:11.399 start the football game, explosives. I mean they had the 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:15.080 Bengals had three chunks or explosives Bengals had no running 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:17.560 plays of ten yards or more. They had three passing 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:20.440 plays of fifteen yards and more twenty eight yard, twenty 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:22.440 yards and more twenty eight yard or twenty four yarder, 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:27.320 forty one yarder Philadelphia. They had five chunk running plays, 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:30.280 five plays rushing players of ten yards of more twelve eleven, 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:35.920 nineteen seventeen, and eleven. They had three seven plays pass 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:39.760 players of fifteen yards and more twenty nine, nineteen seventeen, fifteen, 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:43.760 twenty eight, forty five, twenty three. So they chunked us, 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:47.280 They exploded us to death, and we couldn't meet the 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:47.960 mustard there. 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:50.840 The Bengals are a passing team, and that's understandable with 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:54.040 Joe Burrow, but when t Higgins is out, they're owing 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:57.159 three this year. They're so reliant on the combination of 0:18:57.320 --> 0:18:59.840 Chase and Higgins that when one of those guys isn't 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:04.000 the field, as we said earlier, they don't have a 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:07.359 reliable running game that they can go to that offsets 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:08.920 the loss of one of those great receivers. 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:11.200 Yeah, and I think, you know, Gaziki seemed to be 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:15.080 the guy. You know, Te's six five, you know, two 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:18.360 hundred and twenty pounds whatever. Well, Gaziki's he's six six 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:21.560 and two hundred and forty five pounds, eight targets, seven catches, 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:24.080 seventy three yards, heather a twenty four yard long. You know, 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:27.040 he was very very bemoaning the fact that you know, 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:29.280 he turned it over. That was something that was a 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:34.640 tough pill for him to swallow. But yeah, T Higgins 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:38.760 and Jamar Chase, it's like peanut butter and jelly man. 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:41.360 They're good at part that they're better together, and when 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:44.120 they're not together, you know, it's just peanut butter. It's 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:46.000 a different kind of sandwich. It's a little drier. 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:49.200 So the Bengals defense played well the last couple of weeks, 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:51.159 but it was against the Giants and the Browns with 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:53.480 Deshaun Watson and quarterback for most of that game. For 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:57.080 the Browns. The last three times they played really good offenses. 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:00.280