WEBVTT - Bengals Booth Podcast: Twilight Zone 0:00:03.720 --> 0:00:06.519 Hi, get everybody. I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:10.559 the Bengals Booth podcast The Hell If I'm Stepping into 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:15.560 the Twilight Zone addition, as we look back at a 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:18.439 twenty seven to nineteen loss in Cleveland where the red 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:22.920 zone became the twilight zone for the Bengals offense. Coming up, 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:26.160 you'll hear radio replays, one on one, locker room interviews, 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:30.040 and Dave Lapham will join me for postgame analysis. Plus 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:34.199 in this week's fun Facts Conversation, it's rookie offensive lineman 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:37.880 Michael Jordan who reveals that he almost went to Notre 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:43.040 Dame instead of Ohio State because of the Macaronian cheese 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:46.560 that he was served on his recruiting trip. And yes, 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:50.400 the discussion of that topic is as entertaining as it sounds. 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:52.880 All of that is straight ahead. But first, here's a 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:55.520 quick reminder that you can have the latest edition of 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:59.000 this podcast delivered right to your phone, tablet, or computer 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:03.600 by subscribe d on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:09.600 pod Bean. It's the greatest thing since maps or apps 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:13.480 that calculate driving time. On Sunday afternoon, we learned that 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:16.479 the UC football team is headed to the Birmingham Bowl 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:19.720 on January second. I have a basketball game to do 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:24.080 the night before, so I plugged Cincinnati and Birmingham into 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:27.840 the Ways app and instantaneously learned that it's a six 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:31.080 and a half hour drive from my house. Not bad. 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:34.280 Two days later, I have a basketball game to do 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:38.080 at two Lane, so I plugged Birmingham and New Orleans 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:41.760 into Google Maps and that's a five hour drive. Again 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:46.039 not bad. If like me, you're old enough to remember 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:48.680 when you had to get out an actual map and 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:52.600 try to guestimate driving time, you can appreciate just how 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:56.760 convenient it is to have technology available that calculates that 0:01:57.280 --> 0:01:59.920 with a touch of a button. Now, let's get to 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:04.400 the opening drive of Sunday's game in Cleveland. The Bengals 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:08.560 have not scored an opening drive touchdown in twenty games. 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:11.520 They did run the opening kickoff back for a score 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:14.720 at Baltimore this year, but the last time the offense 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:17.080 marched down the field and reached the end zone on 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:23.360 its opening drive was Game nine last year against the Saints. Yesterday, 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:25.480 the Bengals first play of the game was a twenty 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:28.760 one yard pass the Tyler Boyd. Their second play was 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:32.640 a twenty six yard run by Joe Mixon. Eventually the 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:36.040 Bengals reached the Cleveland six yard line, but that's where 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:39.200 the drive stalled. It becomes a thirty four yard field 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:41.880 goal attempt for Randy Bullock to snap to put down 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:44.480 the kick. It is high enough, it is long enough, 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.519 and it is good. So an excellent start for Cincinnati 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.360 as the Bengals drive down the field and take a 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:53.400 three nothing lead on a thirty four yard field goal 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:56.280 by Randy Bullock. When Cleveland got the ball for the 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:59.799 first time, the Bengals picked off Baker Mayfield, former High 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.640 Trophy winner, takes the snap, looks to throw guns it 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:06.600 over the middle. Najoku bobbled it, but he pulled it 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:10.440 in its taken away by Cincinnati. The Bengals are running 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:14.000 it back, Nick Vigil running up the far sideline, and 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:18.320 Vigil is taken down near midfield. So Vigil peeled the 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:21.880 ball away from David Najoku. Not sure it'll if it'll 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:24.240 be ruled a fumble or an interception, but it is 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:27.240 a takeaway if it stands, and the Bengals will have 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.079 the ball at their own forty nine yard lone. He 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:31.120 just took it away from like they're gonna they're gonna 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:34.239 say he's down before it got taken away. On the field, 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:37.120 there is a fumble recovered by the defense, but first 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:41.720 down Cincinnati. That's officially an interception because Vigil ripped the 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:45.240 ball out of Najoku's hands before the Cleveland tight end 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:49.800 hit the ground, but the Bengals failed to capitalize. Joe 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:53.520 Mixon was called for unnecessary roughness when he scuffled with 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:57.400 Brown's cornerback Greedy Williams after a two yard run. That 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:00.680 fifteen yard penalty put the Bengals in to a bad 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:04.160 down and distance dilemma. Third and twenty three, the Bengals 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:07.920 at their own forty eight. Dalton throws a short pass accepted, 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:10.840 and it's being run back down the near sideline by 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:14.560 Denzel Ward. He's at the twenty. Andy Dalton gives at 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:17.560 him at the ten, can't make the tackle, and it's 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:20.159 a pick six for the Cleveland brown He's throw it 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:24.159 behind d take, bad throw by Andy. Dalton throws behind 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:27.960 on and take and the deflection the play by Ward 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:30.960 and it's a pick six. Employ What a change of 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:34.880 momentum that was. The Browns were up seven three, and 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:38.559 here's mixing on his penalty on the previous play early 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:41.280 on in the game, emotions is running high. And uh, 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:43.800 you know even when my penalty, who came back apologize 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:46.680 on my teammates. You know, I gotta know better than that. 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:49.320 They they want to take me out the game, and 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.360 they tried, but you know, didn't work. At the end 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:54.920 of the day, Man, we just gotta keep on grinding, 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:57.520 controlling mo we can control and we can't hide the 0:04:57.640 --> 0:04:59.720 penalties like that. I mean, it hurts the team and 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.200 potentially that went right there at least from one. I 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:05.960 mean it hurts. So like I said, man, it's got 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:09.239 to do better and key control the control. The Bengals 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:11.880 responded with another drive into the red zone, but for 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:15.280 the second straight time, couldn't reach the end zone. Third 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:17.359 down in seven at the eighteen yard line of the 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:20.320 Cleveland Browns, the Bengals trailing seven three in the first quarter. 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:23.040 Dalton catches a shot gun snap, sets up the throw, 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:27.320 and gets sacked. An inside bull rush topples him back 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:30.760 at the twenty nine yard line. Sheldon Richardson with his 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.839 second tackle in the backfield on this drive. A Randy 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:37.279 Bullock field goal made it seven six and One minute later, 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:40.560 Cincinnati picked off Mayfield for the second time in the 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:44.200 first quarter. Mayfield ready for the shotgun snap and the 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.559 first pick in last year's draft has the ball sets 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.360 up in the pocket, guns it down field and it 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:53.039 isn't accepted by Jesse Bates at the forty of Cleveland 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:55.480 running down the far sideline to the thirty, the twenty 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:59.000 five stays in bounds, runs to the twenty and gets 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:02.000 tackled at the twenty yard line. It was a ricochet. 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:05.279 It floated into the hands of Jesse Bates and the 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:08.599 Bengals have their second takeaway here in the first quarter. 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:10.800 It's gonna come back dark Quest and Art had an 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:14.560 illegal block appeal back block on the return. The interception 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:17.200 is gonna stand, but on the return that's gonna be 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:21.920 decated by another penalty. This time the Bengals overcame the penalty. 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:25.480 Bengals go hurry up so that Cleveland cannot change personnel. 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:27.920 On first down in goal, Dalton hands it off to 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:30.880 Mixon and he runs it right up the gut and 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:35.000 into the end zone far up Bengals touchdown. The Bengals 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:38.280 had a thirteen seven lead and Nixon had an incredible day. 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:40.600 Rushing for a career high one hundred and forty six 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:44.919 yards and adding forty more on three pass receptions. Here's Joe. 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:47.120 I think Coase did a grid job dealing him up, 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:50.440 and our linement did a grid job ceiling and kicking 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:52.400 out and doing what you know, it was tough to do. 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:56.080 And I was just going in or finding him on 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.120 the lot of host today and you know, I was 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.719 just trying to explode through and finished my run strong. 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:03.440 So you know, like I said, man, he's gotta keep 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:05.680 getting better each and every week. And I felt like 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:07.479 we had it in the right direction, but he's got 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.080 to come out and finish. In the first half, Cincinnati 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:13.560 outgained Cleveland two forty two to one thirty nine, and 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.440 yet the Browns went to the locker room with a 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:18.840 one point lead. Third down in goal from the seven 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:22.840 shotgun snap blitz coming, Mayfield steps up. He's scrambling, laughed, 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:28.440 Mayfield will tie for the pylon? Did he step out first? No, 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:32.400 it's a touchdown for the Cleveland Browns. It was fourteen 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:36.239 thirteen Cleveland at the half. I talked to Tyler Boyd 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:39.720 about dominating the stat sheet but not the scoreboard. He 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:41.800 went up and down the field all day. Were there 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:44.000 times that you almost looked up at the scoreboard and wondered, 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:47.600 how are we not winning? Fox? Absolutely because like I mentioned, Man, 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:49.840 we outplayed them guys. You know, we just just the 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.600 little plays that happened throughout the game that didn't go 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:54.440 our way and we didn't execute. And a raise on 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.080 both times, man heard us. You know, you've got to 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:59.000 score in Uni raise on three point thin going win 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:02.040 you games, you know, So we just gotta we just 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:04.000 gotta do a better job of it, executing whatever the 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.520 play calls. In the second half, the Browns did a 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:09.800 better job of using the NFL's leading rusher, Nick Chubb. 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:13.160 He had three carries for seven yards in the first half. 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:17.360 He finished the game with fifteen carries for one hundred 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:20.360 six yards. Looked like we had early movement. There's the 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:22.880 penalty flag, gets a handoff to Chubb. He breaks through 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:25.800 ankle tackles. He's sprinting down the middle of the field. 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:29.239 He's going to take it inside the twenty fifteen, cuts 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:32.560 back to the ten five. He gets tackled by Will 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:35.720 Jackson at the three yard line. Will it come back 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:38.840 or was it on Cincinnati? Well? The Bengals were definitely 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.920 in the nutro zone. Will they drawn number ninety three 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:46.720 defense tenets defined he's all for the play. First found 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:50.080 Andrew Brown jumped offside. They called him on ninety three. 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:52.280 He went in the nutro zone and all of a 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:56.120 sudd down anemic running game looks great. All you do 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:59.400 is need to break one like Chubb broke and he 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:02.560 is something and else. Boy, he finishes every run as 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.679 hard as he possibly can. From there, Kareem Hunt ran 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:08.520 it in to give Cleveland a twenty one to thirteen lead. 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:12.319 The Bengals answered with a sixteen play drive that included 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:16.839 runs of six, eight, nineteen, and six by mixing, but 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:19.760 on first and goal from the two, Joe did not 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:23.120 get the ball. They trailed by eight. Dalton the shotgun 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.920 drops back to throw looking and he gets hit from behind. 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:29.840 Did he hold down to the ball. Yeah, he managed 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:31.240 to hold on to the ball. I thought he was 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:34.000 going to get stripped from behind. He goes down They'll 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:37.240 say at the nine yard line. That's a bad place 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:40.400 to take a sack. But the protection was horrible and 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:43.520 everything just collapsed on him on the back side. Two 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:46.880 incomplete passes later, the Bengals settled for another field goal 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:49.520 after having a first down at the two yard line. 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:51.959 The Browns didn't have to get close to the red 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:55.160 zone to get the same results. From fifty three yards 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:58.440 away with Cleveland up by five, the snap to put 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:02.440 down the kick. It is long enough and it is good. 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:07.520 The Bengals get to the two yard line and get 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:10.880 three points. The Browns get to the forty yard line 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:14.160 and get three points. Technically, the Browns made it to 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:17.360 the thirty five, but you get the point. On their 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:20.680 first four red zone drives, the Bengals scored one touchdown 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:24.199 and kicked three field goals. On their final red zone drive, 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:27.560 they didn't score at all. Fourth and goal from the four, 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:30.480 Dalton waits for a shotgun snap, three receivers and a 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:33.079 bunch out to the right. Two receivers go out to 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:36.200 the left. Dalton stomps the right foot and he catches 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:39.480 the shotgun snap looks to run. Talton, trying to find 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:42.760 a running lane, tackled at the two and the Bengals 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.559 get nothing that came with seven fourteen to go, the 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:48.200 Bengals passing up a chip shot field goal that could 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.360 have pulled them within five to go for it on 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:53.920 fourth and goal from the four. Zach Taylor explained after 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:56.160 the game that part of his thinking was that if 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:58.640 the Bengals didn't get a touchdown, the Browns would be 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.640 backed up deep in their own territory, and if the 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:04.440 defense that played so well in the first half got 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:07.520 another stop, the offense would get the ball back in 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:12.200 good field position. That's almost how it played out. Mayfield 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.000 waiting for a shotgun snap, Landry motions to the right. 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:17.920 He's back to throw, He's looking left. His pass is 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:22.480 intercepted a ricochet. The Bengals have it in the red zone, 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:27.280 as that pass intended for Odell Beckham Junior was patted 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:29.880 up in the air and intercepted, and the Bengals will 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:32.920 have it at the sixteen yard line. Jessie Bates comes 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:36.760 away with a pick. Half a review, there was pass 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:42.559 interference hunder twenty two defense ball will replace at the 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:45.839 start of the foul first out. A year ago, that 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:48.679 would have been an interception, but the rule change that 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:52.880 resulted from last year's Saints Ram's playoff game allows the 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:56.839 officials to look for pass interference on replays even if 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:00.679 there was no call on the field called on Will 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:04.199 Jackson and gave the ball back to the Browns. Here's 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:08.480 Tyler Boyd. Man today, I felt like that nothing was 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:10.000 going our way. You know. I didn't feel a lot 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:13.840 of cars that they made was bullcrap. Man. It wasn't 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:15.880 the right calls. And I feel like they played with 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:17.240 the rest was on their side. You know, I think 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:19.160 that's the first game actually I felt that the rest 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:20.599 was on their side. You know. But the end of 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:22.640 the days that came in. Can't worry about that, you know, 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:24.599 we got to continue to play our game and just 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:27.760 make place. Following that call, each team kicked the field 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:32.559 goal to make the final score. Cleveland twenty seven, Cincinnati nineteen. 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:35.960 Here's Joe Mixon. You know, we had our opportunities out there. 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:40.120 We could we couldn't capitalize on some and you know, 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:42.800 some we just couldn't control. Man. So at the end 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:44.199 of the day, like I said, we just got to 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:48.080 come out and play better and hopefully, you know, come 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:50.280 out and win them close. Once we got three more 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:52.199 weeks to put it on tape, and I was, like 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:54.640 I said, we just got to keep progressing and getting 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.240 better with each other, EASi and every week. Now time 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:00.720 for a pair of one on one locker room conversation. First, 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:05.640 I spoke to Jesse Bates, who had two interceptions. Unfortunately 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:08.760 only one of them counted. This is one of those games, 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:12.800 Jesse were Statistically you'd think the Bengals won easily, but 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.240 between the inability to score in some of the red 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:18.040 zone and some really costly penalties, you wind up with 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:22.520 the loss. Yeah, I think do we win the turnover battle? 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:25.160 You did? Yeah, So, um, anytime you do that and 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:28.599 you know you out gain them, Um, it sucks. But 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:33.520 I think we played well enough to win, but it 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:37.520 wasn't consistently enough to win today. So um, you know 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:40.880 it sucks obviously, but um, we got another opportunity next 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:44.240 week to gain some more momentum as a team going forward. 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:46.240 We're there times where he almost looked up at the 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:50.719 scoreboard and said, how are we not winning? Yeah, even 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:52.559 when we're down on going into halftime, I felt like 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:55.319 we were winning. Um. I don't know what it was. 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:59.160 Maybe that's a good thing. We're having good vibes around here, 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:02.200 so um, yeah, I mean we felt I felt confident 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:04.000 that we're gonna win that game whole the whole time, 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:08.000 start start from the beginning. So you didn't ultimately, you know, 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:10.880 keep the street going of seventeen points or fewer. They 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:13.160 had to pick six that contributed. But did you feel 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:17.080 this was another solid performance by the defense? Yeah. Um, 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:19.040 obviously there's a lot of good things that we did, 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:22.160 a lot of things I can get better. UM. Think 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:24.520 in the third quarter they rushed the ball pretty well 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:28.160 on us. UM. But you know, you gotta go into 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:30.800 film tomorrow and you know make the corrections on the 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:33.800 long run by Chubb. There was an offside on that play. 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:36.400 Was there a brief hesitation on the defense where you 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:39.720 wondered whether the play was going to go? Yeah? I 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:44.320 actually missed that TAFA. Yeah, so un sucks. But I 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:48.200 mean this, we can't control what the rest do. We 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:51.280 got to control what we can make place. I think 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:54.920 Joe Mixon had one hundred and eighty plus rushing receiving 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:58.920 yards combined. U does it bum you out when he 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:01.240 as an individual moments like that and it doesn't end 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:04.520 didn't win. Um. You don't really think about it in individually. 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:08.000 Who has a good game? UM? All that matters is, UM, 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:10.960 what if it's a w or L at the end 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:14.680 of the game. UM. And unfortunately we lost again. UM. 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:18.200 But Yeah, it's exciting for Joe. I mean, he works hard, um, 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:20.800 and he deserves all the success that he's having, So 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:23.320 I'm not surprised at all for the season. You guys 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:25.280 are one of the least penalized teams in the NFL. 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:27.240 This is really the only time I can remember where 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:31.840 penalty is really played a huge role in costing a game. Yeah, 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:34.640 we talked about it. Honestly, we talked about in the 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.000 team meeting room that we knew that they were gonna 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:40.000 be chirping a lot um, that they're gonna get penalized 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:42.960 a lot um, and unfortunately that we were. We were 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.560 kind of the same the same team today. Um on 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:48.440 the on the penalty side. And now time to hear 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:50.840 from head coach Zach Taylor, who spent four minutes with 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:54.120 lap right after the game. Has to be a frustrating one, coach. 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:57.280 I mean, you get four hundred yards offense, but in 0:15:57.360 --> 0:15:59.600 the red zone five times in the red zone one 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:03.280 touchdown down, three field goals and no points on on 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:05.120 downs one time that that was a big factor in 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:07.680 the football game. Yeah, on the road, Uh, those are 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:10.600 those four point players are critical. Um, we just didn't 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:12.720 do enough, good enough job. You know, it's the first 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:14.240 and second down. I thought we were efficient, did a 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:16.000 nice job all game, but third down, the low red 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.560 zone killed us. You win the turnover battle for the 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:20.320 first time all year, you have two, they have one, 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:22.040 but they get it. They get points. They get seven 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:25.119 points on the pick six, So that that was an unfortunate, 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:29.800 unfortunate deal when they get you know, unscripted points like that. Yeah. Otherwise, 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:31.600 I thought in the first half our defense had played well, 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:33.400 you know, held them seven points and gave us a 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:37.000 good good um put us in a good situation there, 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:39.440 and unfortunately the second half they came out and took 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:41.640 it to us and we we just weren't good enough. 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:45.840 Third down was another area where Bengals three for twelve. 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:49.040 They are seven for twelve. Baker Mayfields tried to touchdown 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:51.080 runs on third down they made. They had a third 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:54.120 and nineteen they converted and you know, the pick six 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:56.080 was on a third and twenty whatever it was. So, 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:59.480 I mean, good happened for them on third down. Tough 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:01.160 happened for the Cincinnati and third then that was a 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:02.800 big factor as well. It's what it boils down to, 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:05.800 you know, we've got to be better situationally, and today 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:07.640 on both sides of the ball, we were not good enough. 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:10.679 And then penalties was the other thing. I jotted down 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:12.879 eight penalties for ninety nine yards. They had six for 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:17.920 thirty and pretty frustrating when they look at an interception 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:20.639 on replay to see if there's a penalty involved, and 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:22.399 you know, maybe there was. I don't know, I just 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:24.240 I just feel like in the NFL, these games are 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:26.680 gonna take seven hours if they if they start looking 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:28.280 at every play and trying to determine if there's a 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:32.160 penalty anywhere, it's difficult to know what they're what they're thinking. 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:35.520 So we just got to go with it. So obviously 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:37.600 that coming into the football game, you were the least 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:40.240 penalized team by yards, a totally yards in the National 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:42.720 Football League, and they were they were worst. And then 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:45.159 today that you know, to have it be unbalanced by 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:48.360 my sixty nine yards, that that's not something you obviously expected. 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:50.640 Especially in the first half. There were two there. First 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:53.239 one on the drive right before the interception that, um, 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:54.960 we got to do better job control in our emotions. 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:57.080 We had a good drive there set us back, and 0:17:57.200 --> 0:17:58.920 then we had another one right there before the half 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:01.320 and we were moving pretty well. We had the blindside 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:02.800 block that really hurt us. So we just gotta do 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:06.359 better job controlling our emotions and those situations. So I 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:10.560 mean in the red zone, Um, I guess once you 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:13.480 do have an issue with in the red zone possession, 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:16.240 does it almost like putting more pressure on the next 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:17.680 one to make up for the problems you had on 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:20.000 the one priority to just try to treat everyone individually, 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:22.840 treat each one individually. You know. That's we had a 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:24.200 first and goal from the two and we take a 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:26.520 sack and you're not normally anticipating that, but it happens, 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:28.359 you know, And uh so we just gotta be able 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:30.840 to recover from it. Ended up kicking field goal there, 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:32.239 and then we went four on the fourth down there 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:34.119 a couple of possessions later and felt like we had 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:36.600 a good look. We just got to execute it. So 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:39.840 this is the is it seventh game or is it 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:42.560 eighth game? I've lost track now that have been decided 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:44.600 by a score or less, you know, eight points or less, 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:46.880 then another one by ten points or less. SA again, 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:50.120 you know, it's like you're in all these football games. 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:52.320 It's just a matter of not allowing them to make 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:54.760 one explosive, you make in one more explosive. I mean, 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:57.440 it's such a fine line in the National Football League, 0:18:57.520 --> 0:18:59.080 it is, you know, and we got we gotta find 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:00.760 a way to make those plays and felt like they're 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:03.040 in the late fourth quarter. We created an interception, felt 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:05.080 good about it. I know they took it away from 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:07.639 us and called a penalty on us, but those are 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:09.280 the plays we're looking to create. We gotta be the 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:11.200 team that makes those plays in the fourth quarter that 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:13.640 let's just go win the games. So I know when 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:16.560 you when you asked for them to take a look 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:19.200 at the middle screen that Landry had, I thought maybe 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:22.080 initially Petonio was downfield. He wasn't when I saw the replay, 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:24.040 but man, it wasn't the tight end. It was a 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:26.280 little looked like a little pick action going on there. 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:28.000 Is that what you guys saw, Is that what you 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:30.119 were looking at to see if that's what sprung the 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:32.200 Landry in that middle screen? Yeah, they can't be walking 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:34.120 down field before the ball scot And it's as simple 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:37.399 as that. So what was their explanation? I saw that. 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:39.240 I saw you out there, you know, leading the case 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:41.000 to them, and it was it just deaf ears by them, 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:42.639 or what kind of an answer did he give you 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:45.680 if any couldn't see it, couldn't see it. I can't 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:49.560 even see it on the tape man. When it rains, 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:53.800 it pours. Huh, Thank Zach. The Bengals finished with a 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:56.800 season high four hundred and fifty one yards of offense, 0:19:57.080 --> 0:20:00.280 one seventy nine rushing and two seventy two pat sing. 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:05.280 Baker Mayfield, who had seven touchdown passes and no interceptions 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:08.680 and two wins over the Bengals last year, finished eleven 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:11.639 for twenty four for one hundred ninety two yards, with 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:15.560 no touchdowns, two picks, and a passer rating of thirty 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:20.679 eight point nine. And yet my only scoring sixteen points 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:24.119